This is NOT Mephi!

[yakalskovich]

Thanks to the Nazgul for the link!

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[paceisthetrick]

Of course for Jews it is a lucky day.

We are all looking forward to it.

[yakalskovich]

I read that it was something to do with the Celtic moon calendar, in western tradition, where the 13th day of a moon-month was always dedicated to some fertility goddess (what Friday is -- named after Freya/Frigga in Germanic languages, and after Venus as 'Vendredi' etc. in Latin-based languages), and the mid-early Christians (think the time when Christianity became mainstream and the state religion etc.) went 'Ick!' at its heathen AND Jewish meaning, and declared it was terribly bad luck.-

[paceisthetrick]

Looks like Mephi!

[yakalskovich]

Yep so the Nazgul said, too -- that is why I wrote that it isn't!

**grins**

[paceisthetrick]

Keep an eye on him today. I am certain he will be up to absolutely no good.

[yakalskovich]

At the moment, he is peacefully dozing in the kitchen. Lucifer had come for extended cuddles a while ago, though...

[paceisthetrick]

Yeah that's how they lull you into that relaxed state.

Shortly befor all hell breaks loose. :D

[yakalskovich]

To distract them, I just shook the treat box and got them to come here. Also, what point is there in cats if you don't get to cuddle them and/or take pictures of them?

Well, pictures of Mephi are now possible, with the Pentax.

[paceisthetrick]

LOLOLOL at the treat box. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Even the hissing spitting cobra/psycho feral Siamese cat is putty in my hands when I whip out the rotissiere chicken.

[yakalskovich]

Also, even the hissing spitting cobra or psycho feral cat makes for good cat content for one's blogs.

My cats are my live-in cat content models, so to speak...

**grins**

[paceisthetrick]

Almost everything cats do make for good content on one's blogs. :)

[yakalskovich]

Oh, absolutely. Isn't that why one has them? **innocent**

And Mephi is being all emo now -- he denies there being room on my divan for both my cats to be with me (which there is) and sits a bit away, giving Lucifer and me those NOBODY LOVES ME emo looks.

[paceisthetrick]

Jakob does this new thing (this is the rabidly feral kitten I picked up at a Wallflowers concert on 6th St under an a/c unit starving to death and nursed to health. He then disappeared for a year, came back, I neutered him, and now he is all mamma's boy): I'm lying trying to sleep and he will perch on the headboard and wait. Just when I least expect it, there it is! A paw on my cheek. It would be one thing if there was not a daily occurence! I will push his paw away -- God knows where it has been -- and roll over huffily. He'll wait another few minutes and then -- there it is! A paw on my cheek.

[yakalskovich]

That sort of behaviour is why my cats get banished at night. I can ignore them rioting in the kitchen, but not rioting all over me.

[paceisthetrick]

I don't have the heart! He never had a mamma. She got hit by a car. And there's this neediness to him. I keep thinking if I just love and cuddle him enough he'll get over it and be a normal aloof cat. I mean, he's a tank! He weighs in at 21 pounds!

[yakalskovich]

He sounds amazing! Do you have pictures?

[paceisthetrick]

I even have his baby pictures! From the very first night we brought him home (the bouncers in the bar gave me a cardboard box for him. The noise in the place was deafening and I didn't want him to stay there so I took him to the car.)

He was so tiny he fit in one hand -- very malnourished though the vets thought he was about 5 weeks old. I bought a bottle and kitten formula and HE CHEWED THE NIPPLE OFF. I was like, right, let's go straight to wet food. He would growl and sit on the food while he ate it - I rather imagine that is what he did when he was in the wild, sitting on the bird or rat he was eating. He slept on my chest that night and the next morning we went to the vet's to get checked out (cuz feline AIDS and distemper is our harsh reality here :(((( ).

He was incredibly healthy for being so dehydrated and malnourished so home we came. It was hot that summer and he has allergies so I remember putting him on ice packs.

[yakalskovich]

Do you have pictures of him you could post or link?

[paceisthetrick]

I think they are on photoucket but if not my daughter will have them. She keeps all that stuff. (Technologically inept, remember? I scream in frustration when I can't get my laptop to work).

I'll check!

[yakalskovich]

kk!

[paceisthetrick]

This is my absolute favorite gif!



Totes my cats can do this!

[yakalskovich]

I should get my cats to do that, too.

[paceisthetrick]

Give those boys some exercise! Make 'em work for the treat can. ;)

[paceisthetrick]

I have an email in to my daughter. She's on LJ and she can post pics there.

[yakalskovich]

Great! Then you can give me a link, and I can look at the cat.

Thanks!

[paceisthetrick]

Oh I forgot to tell you! Last night I came home late from the barn so it was pitch black. My dog had rolled in something unpleasant so I decided to enter through the back (so I would leave her out until I got her bathed). I switched on the light -- and nearly stepped on newborn kittens! One of them was white (Siamese). The mother was nowhere to be seen so I picked them up and wrapped them in towels.

But when I came back she had moved them. :(

Still, it's always exciting to see them when they are first born -- all covered with blood and eyes shut and what have you. I hope I can find them! The Siamese ones have a waiting list for adoption.

[yakalskovich]

Awww! I hope you'll find them again.

[paceisthetrick]

Unfortunately between the coyotes and the owls, they don't stand much of a chance. :(

Only if I find them and lock them up in the house are they likely to survive. But I never want to do that if the mother is alive. Since these were just born, I left them and sure enough she took them.

[yakalskovich]

I guess that is supposed to be 'nature red in tooth and claw'?

[paceisthetrick]

I know. Everything has to eat. *sigh*

[yakalskovich]

**hugs**

[paceisthetrick]

Kittens should be exempt from the food chain.

js

[yakalskovich]

Yes. But they're not.

**sigh**

[paceisthetrick]

Hmmmm can't find him there. Must be on her phone.

But I did find this! This is my next toilet bowl to keep the cats entertained!

[paceisthetrick]

You can't see but it is a fish tank! The cats can sit and watch them for hours.

[yakalskovich]

The fish are in the tank, and the actual flushing mechanism is in the wall behind it, I would guess?

Fun idea! Especially if one has cats and/or blokes in one's household.

[paceisthetrick]

I hadn't thought about that, but yeah you're right. Guys would love that.

Yes, the toilet tank sits inside of the fish tank -- it's very water efficient. The fish don't get flushed down! That would rather defeat the purpose. LOL

Have you tried toilet-training Mephi and Lucifer?

[yakalskovich]

I heard about it, but I didn't. They use their litter box fine, why upset that? Never fix a running system.

[paceisthetrick]

So you never have to clean the litter box again???

Apparently they get addicted to flushing. They will spend hours flushing the toilet just to watch the water go down.

That can get expensive in drought-stricken Texas....

[yakalskovich]

I actually don't trust my cats with an open toilet -- they might slam down the lids on their own heads while being rambunctious.

[paceisthetrick]

Worse, Mephi may decide to decapitate Lucifer so as to up his treat portion and eliminate the shared affection ratio.

*gulp*

Murderous cat!

[yakalskovich]

And then, he'd be dreadfully bereft because my cats love each other very much. Even though they sometimes fight like, well, alley cats...

[paceisthetrick]

They really do love one another! Last night there must have been five cats hanging around looking at the babies. I actually knew a Siamese cat (she was psycho) who would adopt kittens. I kid you not. One day I saw her trying to carry off one who was a full two months old!

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes, cats do have feelings, just like dogs.