Archive for the 'Kitty!' Category

Chaos in the Cat House

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

We’d both agreed, before going to the creepy wood-paneled house with six cat cages, twenty humans, three dogs and four kittens in the living room that we would only take a cat home if it was the perfect second cat. I was pushing for an elderly, marmalade-colored female.

Pipsqueak, or, name TBD
“So . . . what [...]

How To React In an Emergency

Monday, January 21st, 2008

We were just sitting around the living room, staring into computer screens and absently eating from aluminum take-out boxes — in short: minding our own business — when the cat brushed his tail into a candle and promptly burst into flames.
“Jack’s on fire!” Jurvis shouted.
I sat on the couch, a forkful of drunken noodles frozen [...]

First Snow

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

omg.

Official Cat Update

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

In case you were wondering whether or not Jurvis and I still have a kitten: yes. Yes we do. Or rather, we have a massive wild lynx that eats, behaves and snuggles like a kitten, and we’re assuming it’s the same creature we brought into our home two months ago.

The one place he’s not supposed [...]

Nom Nom Nom

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

“I thought you said you were going to put his entire head in your mouth.” “What? No way, that’d be disgusting!” “That’s what you said — I thought you could do that.” “No, no, I just put part of his head in my mouth.” “Can you try this time, for the picture?” “Uh, I don’t [...]