The Cat in My Yard

Several days ago, I heard meowing coming from my backyard. My first thought was that one of the cats had gotten out and was crying for it’s mama (me). I went and looked, but no, it was a beefy grey cat. Yay! I’ve been wanting a yard cat for a while now. Why, you might [...]

December 25, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , , , , • Posted in: Cats • No Comments

That horrible smell coming from the bathroom

Friday, as I was walking passed the kid’s upstair’s bathroom, I caught a whiff of something rancid. I went in to inspect further, looking all around, I was unable to find anything. I began to suspect that maybe the kids had disregarded a bologna sandwich or worse, something had died in there.

There’s a Moose Loose in the Hoose!

Last night as I lay sleeping, I hear the familiar cat cry of, “Mommy, I’m stuck somewhere, come get me out” from Matilda – which is generally a meek sounding mew that is more akin to a whimper. Or at least that’s what I thought I heard.
Sometimes the cats just mew because they’re looking [...]

September 28, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Cats, Cool • 2 Comments

Cats decide their own nicknames

I’ll never forget the scene in Logan’s Run where Peter Ustinov tells Logan that cats have more than one name. He does, in fact, quote T.S. Eliot:
You know, they’ve each got three names. Yes. The naming of cats is a difficult matter, It’s just not one of your holiday games; You may think at [...]

What My Cats Teach Me About Perseverance

Several months ago, ex-boyfriend Todd and his girlfriend moved to Morocco. They needed to re-home their cats, one of which came from the same litter as Matilda. Despite being sisters, Eva and Matilda did not like each other immediately – as you would imagine they might. That’s just us humans thinking wishfully.
We now had [...]

May 31, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: Cats • 3 Comments

Can I Blog Now?

I hate not blogging in a long while because so many things occur during the gaps and it all slips away from my memory…which is the whole point of keeping a blog: Not letting things slip away from my memory.
I guess, all I can do is sum up, really. I’ve been making an [...]

February 2, 2009 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Cats, Personal, Photo • 1 Comment