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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Cat Clay Plant Pots

I received a gift from my husband's workmate. I was sent a set of cat clay pots - plant pots. There's a set of two, but only one of the set holds a plant.

The plant pot used to hold cat nip, or some cat friendly plant. And that is what I will put in it. It cleaned a corner of my deck, got rid of things, and made room for the new clay cats.

On a nice day, I will take and share a picture of them. :)

Has My Handsome Cat Become Less Naughty?

When everything goes too well, you have no stories.

I am sitting here wondering, has my handsome cat become less naughty?

Well, he has. He does not roam as far. When there's a group of cats in our yard, he clamours for the deck to watch the action, but he is not going out to join them in a brouhaha.

Today, I saw the girl kitten race to her house, and nobody let her in. That happened twice, and what does she do, when boy cats are chasing her?

My kitten Lulu does not wander quite as far as long.

That might be boring. I don't know. He still has a path to the ceiling, but we put a door on that bathroom, so he can't get in.

Maybe we are co-trained into mutual pet-pet-parent life.

The cats still hang out where I do. If I don't work out, they don't work out. If I go work out, they go work out. CatDad is not happy about that. Lulu used to get up with him.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Set on the Table

I serve my cats their soft cat food on the counter, or on the table. I think cat food needs to be up. Cats can jump. It is good exercise.

When Lulu eats his cat food with his CatDad, his CatDad stays nearby with a spoon, and he recollects the food at the centre of the plate, so that Lulu can have another try at it. Cat food tends to spread out, dry, and not be eaten. We want our cats to get that moisture. And CatDad turns the food. And so do I.

Why? Why would a petparent put their soft catfood on the table? Here's why. Look at my 3-4 foot long hair. Who needs that in a cat belly! Yes, it has happened. However, the danger persists for shorter hair too.

Lately, we have been setting up new hygienic practices. One is before we put down fresh water, we either full sweep or hand sweep the area where the water will sit. Both my husband and I pick up every hair I drop. It does not matter the size, however, you could expect a decent size.

And I am rinsing all the dishes. There fewer leftovers. I am pulling the messes up off the floor, to the counter, where I will deal with them right away.

Hard catfood is still on the floor. I have not examined it up close yet. If I find flies in it, it very well could be coming up to, close to my inspection ongoing. I use glass. It is safer on the floor. We will see. I have vitamin powder I would like to try out on my cats. I would like to see if they will eat it on their hard cat food. That would be good to see up close. There are also tooth enzymes you can add to their food.

If you come eat at my table, and I remove cat dishes to a tray to set on the floor temporarily, yes, they get fed on the table. And it is their place. I pet them so easily there. However, while my guest is here, remember, we always wash the table, throw on maybe a tablecloth, set it, and then serve food. If those steps follow through, it's all good.

That is why a cat might interrupt our visit at the table. And based on reaction, we put our cats behind doors of various kinds. Maybe we put them in the basement. That is what is up. We are a family. The table is ours. And we visit there. When a visitor comes, we are in altered practice mode. What you see are regular patterns. Our cats are not being rude. When we receive a visitor, we adapt.

The pitting on my table - my cat loved to tip glasses, and spread water everywhere. He appears to have grown out of it, or we got smarter. We gave them a bowl. He could still tip a glass. Anyway, one of these days, we are sanding it down, and setting it up fresh with a new stain.

Sunday, September 4, 2016

CatMom's Lip Plumper

Yesterday, Lulu had an appointment booked with the vet. And I needed CatDad to help get Lulu in his travel box. And it was a challenge. Yesterday, I had Lulu on the deck, and I tried to get him. Since yesterday, I gave Lulu some space, so he can get his equilibrium on his safety.

However, yesterday, he was a champion fighter, evading two parents like a pro. When he realized his parents meant business, he let himself be moved into the box.

Back to the deck...Lulu clawed my lip. CatDad stepped into action, when he saw CatMom hurt, and he assisted. My lower lip plumped on one side. I need to teach Lulu to claw two sides of CatMom's lips, so her lips are fully plumped, not half plumped.

The vet visit was very nice. We had teaching on little things to do for our cat. Mostly for now, Lulu has shots and dewormer. And love. The vet gave love. He probably gave love to CatMom and CatDad, by how he was nice to their cat.

And we talked about deer. The vet tells me it is instinctual for deer to leave the bottom of the plant, so it regrows as food later. Vets know things about animals. Hmmhmm. And the deer can come back and eat. 

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Cat and Computer

If you leave a laptop open, and go to bed, what happens when your Lulu is left up?

Well, your kitchen makes music sounds in the night.

Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do.

And somebody in the house needs to come down, and shut the laptop, so that cat stops computing.

My cat thinks the computer is an investigation tool. Where are those birds!

Somebody protests. The somebody is here complaining to me.

In a house with no kids, somebody can only be one of two people.

In my husband's home, just like in the silent movies, he was named somebody.

When people talked, there was a: somebody, anybody (his Mom), and nobody, and everybody.

The other people also tied to a name. And everyone seemed to understand. And yes, CatDad is somebody.

Point of Note: CatMom also comes down to settle cat play. One time, Lulu locked the computer. You have got to like that.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

The Feline Belly Pouch

Why do cats have a belly pouch?

That allows them to take long strides when they run.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Complex Thinking Play

CatDad is doing research. Lulu was depressed, because he was not allowed outside. It means he would not eat his soft cat food, even though it should be his favorite. CatDad did cat play research.

What Lulu, our smart cat, is missing is his outdoor complex thinking problems. Lulu likes to pounce mice in the Potentella bush. He coyote pounces a spot, and then, he hunts for his mouse.

CatDad made a new game. He set up a towel folded over on the bed, and he pulls his string through that. Lulu has it down, so CatDad has to change the game every once in a while.

CatDad was using pillowcases, but with CatMom watching them play, he pulled out a big towel.

When Lulu has had play and intellectual challenges, he settles down, and he does less of attention getting behavior which is destructive. Right now, he is on my hip - what I mean is he is laying right beside me while I write. His body lines up with the computer on the right.

When CatDad is done folding a few laundry pieces, they are playing again.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Lulu the Prince and the Pea

In our house, our cats rejected the cat beds. After my elder cats passed away, I had all these cool cat beds, and nobody would use them. So what does a CatMom do?

I was not ready to get rid of them, for sure. I still have one in the office, and once in a while, I am surprised, and there's a cat in the middle of our desks.

It is under my counter, and between my desks.

Okay, so I piled three catbeds up in my bedroom, in my Master. CatDad's harp is placed by the cat bed pile. The other night, CatDad is playing the harp, and Lulu comes, and he jumped up into the top cat bed, three up, and he lays in there for CatDad to play him harp for the evening.

It is pretty funny. He did not use the cat bed on the floor, but piled high, adequately high up there, there he goes. And he plays all cool like to listen to the harp.

It is like Princess and the Pea. What do you think? Do you think that three catbeds is more comfortable for a cat than one? Does your cat need to be higher than a harp to see all the harp music production?

In this story, Lulu is the Prince of the Prince and the Pea. Somehow many beds makes more sense than one.