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Pumpkin’s Peripatetic Poop

Posted on February 23, 2016 | 2 comments

I usually scoop the poop out of Pumpkin’s litter box into a baggie people use to clean up after their dogs. Then, if I’m not interested in checking to make sure he’s not in the garage before I open the door, I put the baggie atop the spare tire on the back of the CRV. Planning to take it out when I take the car out.

Forgot it (of course) this afternoon, so when I took Mr. Boy for his haircut, I noticed as we were cruising through the neighborhood the baggie was still there atop the tire. I figured it would blow off. Brisk wind today. It didn’t. Entering the freeway, I was sure it would blow off. It slid in between the tire and the back window and stayed put.

I forgot about it at the barbershop and didn’t notice until the CRV was back in the garage that the poop bag was still there. Finally disposed of it properly. A little amazed at how persistent Pumpkin’s peripatetic poop can be. Heh.

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“Parachuting” cats

Posted on February 22, 2016 | 2 comments

British anthrozoologist John Bradshaw in his 2014 feline science book Cat Sense reports how cats can survive falls from tall buildings and trees by performing an intricate midair ballet. Their “gravity-detecting” bio systems cause the forelegs and hind legs to rotate to point downward as they fall.

Then “…forming a ‘parachute’ by spreading all four legs out sideways, before adopting the landing position at the last minute. Laboratory simulations suggest that this limits the falling speed to a maximum of fifty-three miles per hour. This tactic apparently allows some cats to survive falls from high buildings with only minor injuries.”

Some cats also counter-rotate their tails fast, like a helicoptor, to stabilize their fall “…while the back is arched to cushion the landing.” Pretty clever, those cats.

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Kitty superiority

Posted on February 19, 2016 | Comments Off on Kitty superiority

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As our orange male tabby Pumpkin would be the first to acknowledge.

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Pumpkin more appreciative of home

Posted on February 13, 2016 | 3 comments

Our orange male tabby Pumpkin shot out the front door last night as I stood paying the pizza man. The escape artist ran down the slope of the front lawn. I hurried after him pleading for him to come back.

He slowed to a walk as he got to the sidewalk and kept walking south tentatively, ears twitching at the outdoor sounds only animals can hear. He waited for me to catch up and didn’t protest when I picked him up and took him back inside.

He has to be too smart to want to return to the constant danger and hunger he knew as a stray for at least the past two years. I can’t imagine how he ever got any sleep, which house cats do for an average of sixteen hours a day. I expect he is more appreciative now of his new home of almost seven weeks.

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Litter Kwitter

Posted on February 9, 2016 | 3 comments

“…a unique, patented and proven device that helps people train their cats to use the regular household toilet.”

Only takes eight weeks.

Anyone ever seen this work? Other than on television?

Our Pumpkin would only have to fall in once and it’d be back to the litter in a heartbeat.

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Pumpkin’s nose boops

Posted on January 31, 2016 | 2 comments

Always fun to be nose-booped by Pumpkin, especially in the morning. For a while I thought it meant he merely wanted me to get up and feed him, but now I know it’s more generally affectionate than a specific concern. At such times he even likes me booping him back, touching his nose with my index finger.

Cats are mysterious creatures. Seemingly indifferent. Actually very affectionate.

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Cat food carnival

Posted on January 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Cat food carnival

Senor Gato turns his nose up at Simply Nourish brand venison and duck cat foods. So far seems to like Meow Mix brand beef and chicken and tuna. Any seafood, maybe. Or maybe not. Finicky eaters, cats.

I can see why they’d get bored with the same old chow day after day, though I tend to like being stuck in food ruts, myself, but I’m not a furry critter. I wouldn’t sleep sixteen hours a day if I could. Well, maybe if I could.

So the search for a reliable wet food Pumpkin will eat goes on. I’m going to try and hold him to 50-50 wet and Friskies dry. Not only for the expense of wet but the really stinky poop it produces. Any cat lovers out there have a suggestion?

UPDATE:  No suggestions coming, I moved on to two new brands Senor Gato actually likes: Purina and HEB’s house brand. The latter seems to hit the spot every time and it’s cheaper than the former.

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