Category Archives: animals & pets

the cat’s in the bag

24 Saturday Nov 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, health & happiness, home, life stuff, nablopomo

≈ 11 Comments

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If only it were this easy . . .

Been trying to get Sunny to the vet’s for his annual check up and blood test, etc since about September. But with our new work schedules, my inability to lug around 7 kilos of lurve in a large plastic cage ( for fear of putting my back out) and the new pedestrian streets in the centre of Sevilla (making taxi access quite difficult) it’s been proving to be a bit of a challenge. Especially as Sunny’s blood test requires that he doesn’t eat from about 9pm until the test, which means getting to the vet’s first thing in the morning, which basically means this can only be done on a Saturday. Except Nog now has a new class on Saturday mornings and I seriously cannot carry the massive beast on my own, not even as far as the nearest taxi stand.

So we started looking at other options from the practical (buying a new ‘back friendly’ cat carrier) to the ridiculous (stuffing Sunny into our little old lady shopping trolley). No luck finding a cat carrier with shoulder straps that Sunny would fit into, and when I tried him out in the shopping trolley, wheeling him around the apartment, it turned out as expected – no way no day!

Then we got a message from Nog’s Saturday morning student saying there had been a sudden death in the family, so no class. And so, we’re off to the vet’s sometime just after 10 o’clock.

Going to bed without feeding the boys their evening meal hasn’t been too much of a problem so far, as we’ve been out for most of the evening. Now it’s just after midnight and Nog’s gone to bed leaving me with two very sad pointy-eared angels pathetically moaning here beside me as I type. And so I am also off to sleep … and really dreading the 7am wake-up call from los gatos. I think Nog & I are both going to have to feign sleep until at least 9.30 in order to keep our sanity – wish us luck!

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role reversal

04 Sunday Nov 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, home, nablopomo, psychology

≈ 7 Comments

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There’s been odd cat behaviour going on at casa az lately.

Some of you may recall the cat fights that resulted from playing a video of fighting cats on my computer – gosh, almost a year ago now. This ended up with my two boys – previously best mates – becoming territorial enemies and not being able to be in the same room together for almost six months. Since then they seem to have calmed down and have accepted each other again, though they still don’t snuggle up together like they used to.

During the cat fight period Sunny was the aggressive one, though most of the time he seemed as scared as Azar when he would suddenly attack – almost as if a button had been pushed and he was doing it against his will. So I was very relieved to see them finally getting along together again and even play-fighting from time to time (without a horrible battle ensuing).

But about two weeks ago this started changing again. I noticed Azar starting to pick more serious fights with Sunny, approaching him while he was asleep and behaving in an ‘in-yer-face’ threatening manner, and I thought … wtf?

I really don’t get it. I mean, Azar seemed like the ‘victim’ all throughout the ‘pee wars’ and so appeared to be quite content later on when things settled down again. But it’s like there’s a role reversal happening, which is really stupid on Azar’s part because Sunny outweighs him by almost 2 kilos and also has the use of both his front paws and claws (Azar’s left front leg looks like this). In fact, the other day Azar had a huge gash over his left eye from one of these spats (that he’d started!) so I honestly don’t know why he has started behaving like this.

Any ideas?

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what kind of cat blogger are you?

22 Saturday Sep 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, blogging, humour, quizzes

≈ 18 Comments

A possible sequel to this and that …

House CAT – Your average, “blogging about my life” blogger. May seem boring, but some people’s lives are strangely entertaining.

CAT-alyst – Blogs for change.

CAT-astrophe – Writes one of those god-awful blogs that you can’t believe anyone actually reads. I’m sure you’ve run across a few. Usually has more ads than content.

Copy CAT – The scraper and the splogger, who gets all of their content from other hard working bloggers. May not know what they’re doing is wrong.

CAT Burglar – Same as above, but most definitely DOES know what they’re doing is wrong.

Alley CAT – One who is teetering on the brink of becoming one of the two above. Hangs out is some poorly chosen back alley’s of the intertubez.

CAT-acomb – Has created a deep and winding archive that can cause one to get lost while exploring. Some interesting things may be found during the excursion.

CAT-apult – Constantly launching their blog to the next level. Sometimes stratospheric shots, sometimes short range hits.

CAT-echism – Religious blogger.

Scaredy-CAT – Afraid of offending anyone or saying anything that anyone would disagree with. In trying to please everyone, doesn’t please anyone.

CAT-aract – Writes so well that they cloud your own viewpoint. Tends to have raving fans, whether or not what they write actually has any clarity.

CAT scan – Posts aren’t really worth reading all the way through.

CAT-tle – Doesn’t have their own opinion about anything, and just follows what the crowd or the blogging cowboys say.

CAT-amaran – Currently riding a big wave of success.

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How do you CAT-egorize yourself? Can you think of any more CAT-egories?

~ from Lorelle via letters ~

virtual cat

16 Sunday Sep 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, blogging, fun stuff

≈ 9 Comments

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Isn’t she adorable? G’wan, give her a click under the chin …

Maukie is the fiercest, cutest cat ever to terrorize your mouse pointer. Move your cursor and Maukie will follow. Scratch her head, and she’ll meow. Rub her tummy, and she’ll purr. All the while, she’s breathing in and out, and watch the tail. She may even try to swat the cursor. The creator of this entertaining feline is unknown.

It’s almost enough to make me switch to Blogspot … gaaaa! did I actually say that??? But it’s okay because I’ve now got her on my Netvibes page, across ‘the room’ from the groovy cool fishtank (thanks again Lori for turning me on to that site – I totally love it).

~ from Widgetbox ~