Pets' Corner

Hey sweet Lucipurr! How beautiful you are 😻 And how big!

Went to the Brooklyn Cat Café yesterday for the first time in months. Our favorite rat, a brown gentleman named Alexander Hamilton, was recovering from surgery so we held Margo, instead. She was very, very sweet and polite and now I really want to adopt her. Grainy pic.

That’s such a great picture!!!! Meow meow, meow-meow.

now share the photo where he's tied the stem in a knot with his tongue!

Yesterday the spawn and I walked this little doggie, Atticus, at the local no kill shelter. He sure was interesting. When we first took him out any time another dog would pass he would HOWL ad CRY at the TOP of his lungs. There were people seated nearby outside at a restaurant and I wanted to die of embarrassment. He sounded like he was being maimed. The child couldn't take it and walked home. I kept walking him and he calmed down. But then he decided to flop down on the sidewalk many times and refuse to move. I would bribe him with treats to keep him going, and sometimes had to resort to actually picking him up off the sidewalk. I ran out of treats and a nice lady working in her yard figured out the dilemma. She owned dogs and brought me out a HUGE stash of extra treats to get him back to the shelter. 

After I brought him back I peaked through the fence on the side of the shelter and three giant tortoises! This one kept coming up to the fence to say hi to me. It really smelled bad, like there's probably tons of stuff growing in its flesh folds under the shell. It was so cool to see up close, just an inch from my face at the fence. I never realized before they have toenails. 

The cat kept us awake all night by meowing outside the bedroom and jingling the doorknob. It was like having a new baby at home. Sleep for only short stretches. 

At one point, I broke my steadfast rule of not reinforcing her poor behavior by opening the door and giving her a little shove away. She made a noise like I had stepped on her foot. Clearly I terrified her. She thought I was going to lovingly let her in. 

Let's see if I can make it through work without falling asleep on someone. Jerk cat.

Iggy does something like this. I have to leave the bedroom door open anyway so she doesn't scratch the carp out of it.
Then, at around 4am, she will find anything & everything to make a noise with. Bookshelves, boxes, the underside of the bed &, the pièce de résistance, jumping up the walls.
She only does it so I get up & feed her. So I have to resist or she'll see the food as some sort of reward & it'll happen every day.
The way to prevent it or, at least delay the nuisance, is to play with the cat before you go to bed to the point that he/she gets worn out. That seems to work for the most part