Fluffy little black animal

[yakalskovich]

He's allowed to do that, it's the cat chair in the kitchen. Picture taken on Sunday by the Nazgul.-

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[idylchild.livejournal.com]

OMG That looks exactly like my sofa!

[yakalskovich]

It's an older IKEA model that my friends from downstairs spontaneously didn't want any more when we all moved over here.

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I actually wanted mine. *sigh*

I even strategically positioned scratch posts all around it and put two-sided tape on it to deter the activity.

Didn't work. They love the sofa too much.

[yakalskovich]

My cats have that chair and their basket, and the rest of my stuff remains largely undamaged. Lucifer turned a damask counterpane into flannel when he was a kitten, but that's all.-

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Mine is a revolving door that takes in feral kittens, domesticates them and then sends them off to their new families.

Here is my latest project -- Crookshanks (I have had him 4 days <3)

[yakalskovich]

Awwwwww!

The Nazgul says he looks like a used duster...

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

It's funny. The colony is Siamese (I have lived here for years and still the kittens come out Siamese -- must be inbreeding).

But all of the sudden these Persian looking ones showed up. They still have the blue eyes, but they are fluffy like Persians. Crooks came in a litter of 3 (the 4th one died) and two look like him and one is white (Siamese). Go figure.

[yakalskovich]

My you have some posh moggies where you live!

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Sorry that picture is huge. No idea how to reduce it.

[yakalskovich]

After the img tag, you first do src="[URL]"? Before closing the tag, you add width="[[width in pixels]]", then close the brackets.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

The smallest new couch would cost me 1.600,- but upholstering my strong 20yr old one supposedly costs more. No denim fabric covers available. My devil might enjoy playing with yours, she is so alone and bored.

[yakalskovich]

But you used to have two?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Still do. Kendra just sleeps, even snubs my lap now (pointedly walking past). Not much fun playing together these days, and when she brings me the shoelaces, Kobold alrways runs in the way so we can*t play together either *yawn* I should buy them live butterflies.

[yakalskovich]

They might enjoy those. Tried a laser pointer?

Mephisto and Lucifer hunt flies; the other day, I saw Mephi jumping two metres high just like that to swat one on the window. He caught it, and Lucifer ate it.

Life can be unfair if you're a small fluffy black animal.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

They might. The butterflies less so.
Wanted to but read 10000 reviews and decided danger of once hurting their retinas too great. Also they go mostly for small hard sound-making things.

Yep, Kendra is the bestest and I always point her to flies. I kept posting how much I love flies. Sometimes she meows and I lift her to a tricky window. She mostly carries them away to eat them in peace. Kobold sees no reason to bother. I do try to point her at spiders but she *throws hands up*

Nah, I wish I were her so much! She will get what she wants, eventually, by driving me crazy. And I tried since March to slim her back to her healthy and string-chasing weight but noho, only lying on her back. It*s a wonder she walks anywhere ... there I go, cat babbling again, wah.

[yakalskovich]

If you have cats, you'll always babble about them. I know that I do. I love watching mine and working out how they tick and what they think and how they see the world around them.

[e-mily.livejournal.com]

I have a chair like that! Mine is very, very ugly, and upholstered EXACTLY in puke-green tight carpet. Which is why they get to do that to it.

[yakalskovich]

Much better than trying to keep them off all sorts of things, isn't it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Doesn*t Germany have the stand-on-the-right on escelators rule?

[yakalskovich]

Huh?

It's not a rule or law, but sensible people who have been to London or other places where it's more ingrained have brought it. On the long escalators down to the train station here (or up from), people always stand on the right and walk on the left.

But it's not a rule, and there are no signs or anything. Random breeders clogging escalators with their huge baby carriages always happen, too, even though there is a perfectly good elevator. They happen especially often when I have only seconds to catch my train...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I asked in my post but none of my many German friends replied.

Those loitering tourists are always making us miss trains but I ask because I had some German pensioners loudly complaining that people should use the stairs if they want to walk and was flabberghasted. Then looked for signs, if they needed any, and I think there are little pictorials but wtf it is only logical, nobody I know doesn*t know. They might do it if midtalk or assholes but everyone knows you walk on the left. So strange to think it*s not common enough in Germany for staid older couples to know! :)

[yakalskovich]

Especially when they're from some backwater where they have no public transport involving escalators...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*snickers at the thought of them hearing you suggest they come from backwater, what with having sneered at us locals*

This is nearly as big a surprise to me as discovering Berlin wasn*t actually at the border between East and West. I like telling this story to prove I am not well educated!

[yakalskovich]

Ahahahah!

Ah, well, Berlin being divided would make so much more sense if it was on the border, but actually, West Berlin was an enclave.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Yes, thank you! I initially had written it proved that I was not "intelligent" but I maintain that it is intelligent or logical to assume a divided city at a border, hah :)