Bren - I got Plum at the animal shelter. I'm sure she's mixed breed, but she does have a lot of Russian Blue characteristics. Her eyes are more yellow-green, though, and she has some ghost striping here and there - mostly on her tail.
- Katy S
Today I accidentally let the kittehs onto the enclosed porch. Normally, this would not be a big deal, but since the weather has turned cold, it's where their catnip plant resides. They found the plant very quickly. Sophie's been good, but since I brought them back inside Plum has been trying to break through the door to the porch. Bad Kitteh!!!
I love that last one: OPEN.THE.DAMN.DOOR. NOW.
- holly
but she looks so cute and innocent you should let her at it :)
- Sir Shuping
"cute and innocent"? Did you notice that her fangs are showing in that second photo? This is my cat on drugs.
- Katy S
I love that last photo. So regal! I'm telling you!
- Anika
I know she is, really, I just see all of the silly things she does all of the time. Her fur is really amazingly plush and it's all silver-tipped, which accounts for why it can look different from picture to picture depending on the lighting.
- Katy S
I have considered growing catnip for Stormy, but she is already demented enough.
- Mellissa Jane
I'm definitely not bringing it inside. Once the porch is too cold, it gets to die. Growing it outside was fine, because I could control their intake. I don't think I could handle it if they had constant access to the 'nip.
- Katy S
Picture 2 is totally that of a cat going through "nip" withdrawal! LOVE!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
Three Days Later: This morning, after I crawled out of bed, I found both cats sitting in front of the door to the porch, mewing, and desperate for their morning dose of 'nip. This is sooooooooooooo not good.
- Katy S
Plum seems to like sprawling across me, partially suspended, just like that.
- Katy S
My cats do too, Katy, but as they fall asleep they fall through the crevass. Horrible scratches ensue...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yeah, that happens here, too, only there isn't very much scratching - but that's just because there's normally a soft upholstered piece of furniture there to catch them.
- Katy S
sometimes Indy falls, but usually I'm too fidgety to stay in one exact position for long enough for her to get to the falling stage. Brian however sleeps very very still.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Once upon a time, Sophie was a shy cat who would look up at me from the floor and give a little chirp to ask if she could jump up and sit on my lap. Now, she jumps up and tries to sit on my chest before she chirps. Oh, how things have changed.
You know trouble is afoot when you enter a room and both of your cats freeze and stare at you with that "We didn't do it" look. I have no idea what they've done, but they sure looked guilty.
do all kitties sleep like this? they are so so so Qt
- Ying
It just makes me want to grab him up and cradle him under my chin!!!
- edythe
from iPhone
Ying, one of mine does sleep like that and the other doesn't. And I've only seen a few of the foster kittens sleep like this. It is super cute when they do it though!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I use to have a cat who would burrow when I was under the comforter, but this is new. I've seen Plum do something similar with a loosely knit throw blanket, but never anything this heavy.
- Katy S
i've had mischief actually drag a twin size comforter down a hallway, plop it in the bedroom, and go to sleep (she decided she wanted her own bed)
- Sir Shuping
That's hilarious! What kind/color of cat is mischief?
- Katy S
In winter, Mouser will burrow under the blankets between us, cuddling up to whichever of us has the more inviting cuddle-place.
- D0r0th34
Cutie! Looks like a tabby to me. A gray/silver or brown mackerel tabby?
- Katy S
she's gray/silver....her brother has the same patterns. could be a tabby, they were both stays from a coworker
- Sir Shuping
Tabby isn't a type/breed - it's a color pattern. There are a couple of varieties of tabby - ticked, mackerel, bullseye, etc. (Yes, I have a problem in which I retain all sorts of useless facts in my brain)
- Katy S
i always heard it used as a breed, so i learning something new cool :) and i've got a bunch of random facts stuck in my brain as well..
- Sir Shuping
Adorable. My Ranchera kitty meow yells at me to let her under the covers. She has a bad eye and can't see well and she likes for me to do her bidding
- Laughingcloud Voiceliketh
from BuddyFeed
Actually I think most cats would get under the covers. Both of mine do at least, as has ever cat I've ever owned. Then again I prefer cuddly cats so maybe I just have an eye for picking out the ones who are apt to burrow under for a snuggle! :D
- Soup
Soup - I'm not surprised that she gets under covers. I'm just surprised that she does it when the humans aren't under the aforementioned covers. I've had cats who liked to sleep with me and would get under the covers. This is the first one to do it without a human. I've woken up in the morning to find her under a throw blanket at the end of the bed, but not under the blanket/comforter with me.
- Katy S
My Boots will sometimes crawl under the covers with me but she always leaves again within a few minutes - I think it's too hot for her. Instead she likes sleeping on the covers against my legs. (The colder/sicker she is, the further up my legs she goes.)
- Deborah Fitchett
Our psycho cat, Cricket, likes to sneak under the covers of one perfectly made bed (complete with layers of blankets and pillows) and sit in the middle of it without disturbing the rest of the bed. We have yet to figure out how she does it, but every so often there is a suspicious looking lump in the unoccupied bed ;p
- Kelly
I thought that was a standard cat skill. Our older (and more paranoid) cat now automatically appears as a lump at 10-10:30 a.m., 'cause he figures that's when contractors or others will show up. Or, if the doorbell rings, he's suddenly under the covers... The way they burrow leaves the bed largely undisturbed.
- Walt Crawford
Oh, and the paranoid cat is largely Maine Coon; I don't have any idea whether it's breed-related. I know it's *very much" related to when he was very young, hiding behind my desk as roofers were overhead, and one roofer stepped in the wrong place, causing a chunk of the ceiling to fall on/near the cat. Thus, "other people" constitute a hot stove.
- Walt Crawford
Walt - I think part of what made this instance of burrowing seem strange is that she had a nice warm sunbeam on top of that warm comforter pile, yet she chose to not sprawl in it. Most cats I've been around will go for the sunbeam action first. Plus, Plum is just an all around strange cat (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos... ), so this was just one more thing.
- Katy S
btw, I love seeing what people have named their cats and the adjectives they use to describe those cats!
- Katy S
It is strange when a cat prefers hiding to direct sun... For the record, the paranoid cat's named Sam (short for Samwise); our other cat, almost past the kitten stage (and certainly past that stage in size and girth) is Oz.. less fearful, more curious, not quite as clever. (If Sam had opposable thumbs and a little more forward-limb strength, there's no way we could keep him in or out of anything at all...)
- Walt Crawford
Plum is short for Plummer - she's named after Mary Wright Plummer, 2nd female president of ALA. She's a very smart little cat. Sophie (my tabby - named after Sophie Hatter from Howl's Moving Castle) is smart too, but a little older, wiser, and cautious.
- Katy S
@Katy: great stories behind your cats' names. :)
- Cheryl Jones
from email
@Soup, the lump thing is so weird! Cricket likes to hide there for hours. I learned the hard lesson of poking random lumps in the bed to listen for a squeal BEFORE jumping on it.
- Kelly
+1 Cheryl, I like hearing the name stories too!
- Kelly
Mouser is from Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser. Kelly, if I poke random lumps in the bed, they'll try to eat me. ;)
- D0r0th34
The bed skirt piled on top of the laundry machine is currently moving, it's either big rats or our cat is following your precedent
- Steve C
R.O.U.S? And "Mouser" is an awesome name, esp for a kitteh, D0r0th34!
- Kelly
@Kelly. R.O.U.S. = Rodents Of Unusual Size. It's from The Princess Bride.
- Katy S
Ooooooooh yes i remember! If it is Snakey, however, it's an icky eel!! eew
- Kelly
Boots is for Puss in Boots because her feet are white. When she adopted me (left behind by a previous resident) I decided on Boots if male, Jenny (for Paul Gallico's book) if female; but when the vet said she was female I realised it was Boots that had stuck. --And when people are on the roof or thunder rolls, she hides under the couch.
- Deborah Fitchett
Deborah, I like how you put "when she adopted me" because that's exactly how cats think; they choose who serves them ;)
- Kelly
wonder from where all the innovation in the filesystem subsystem of the linux kernel keeps coming from
- Arvind
@Arvind from necessity to deal with new types of media -- NAND flash is so different from casual hard drives that even with little nuisances you start to *feel it* very soon... motivation causes action.
- A.T.