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Cat Blogging

by John Cole|  July 26, 20059:18 pm| 32 Comments

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My sister thinks she has found the perfect kitten for me:

If I don’t adopt him, she says the terrorists win:

I think I just might.

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  1. 1.

    Mr.Ortiz

    July 26, 2005 at 9:27 pm

    I violently disagree and am outraged by this post!

  2. 2.

    Stormy70

    July 26, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    Let the Plame Flame war begin.

    You, sir, are a cad!

  3. 3.

    Stormy70

    July 26, 2005 at 9:33 pm

    Ok, Big Brother 6: anyone watching? Kayser rocks, and is hot to boot.

  4. 4.

    Marx Marvelous

    July 26, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Brilliant!

    Post of the year.

  5. 5.

    Mr.Ortiz

    July 26, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Stormy… we got some ‘splainin to do.

  6. 6.

    Stormy70

    July 26, 2005 at 9:36 pm

    Where did that kitty come from? She wasn’t here before I posted above, I thought we were actually getting an open thread. What is her name? Pepe? Rino? Psycho?

  7. 7.

    Mr.Ortiz

    July 26, 2005 at 9:37 pm

    ‘splained!

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    July 26, 2005 at 9:41 pm

    I was trying to figure out how to post pictures.

    I had no idea there would be seven comments up before I figured out how to do it.

  9. 9.

    Laurence Simon

    July 26, 2005 at 9:41 pm

    Piper was a feisty kitty like that.

    Now she’s a skinky pain in the ass.

  10. 10.

    Stormy70

    July 26, 2005 at 9:43 pm

    Stormy… we got some ‘splainin to do.

    It’s a trap! Abort, abort!

    Now there is another picture with two kitties. Well played, John, well played. You need to keep both kitties. The expressions are priceless. Definitely a Pepe Le Pew (sp?!) type of boy cat. The eyes they say so much, no?

  11. 11.

    Mr.Ortiz

    July 26, 2005 at 9:45 pm

    If I don’t adopt him, she says the terrorists win

    I can see why she would say that. Look at the box, poor things have already been labeled “infadels”.

  12. 12.

    ppGaz

    July 26, 2005 at 9:49 pm

    My life revolves around the whims of four very spoiled cats.

    You will be in my prayers.

    (Take them all).

  13. 13.

    Mike S

    July 26, 2005 at 9:51 pm

    Yikes! That second shot brought the Talking Heads “Psycho Kitty” out of my mouth before I knew what was happening.

  14. 14.

    Geek, Esq.

    July 26, 2005 at 10:15 pm

    Your sister’s right.

    Besides, then you can catblog on a regular basis.

  15. 15.

    Sojourner

    July 26, 2005 at 10:19 pm

    John:

    By far the smartest thing you’ve ever written.

  16. 16.

    Shalimar

    July 26, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    If it hissed at you then you pretty much have to take it. Those usually end up being the most loyal and friendly cats after they grow up, almost like dogs (they hiss because they’re skittish and scared, so they tend to lean on you for protection later).

  17. 17.

    katinula

    July 26, 2005 at 10:45 pm

    I’m a firm believe in ‘if you see a kitten without a home, you must give the kitten a home’. That goes for multiple kittens as well! I mean, who could turn them away?

  18. 18.

    CaseyL

    July 26, 2005 at 11:41 pm

    They’re both adorable, of course; but I quite like the other one, actually; the one peering up from inside the box with a hungry-for-affection look.

    You can’t break up a family, John! Take them both – and then be prepared to protect Tunch from two hyperactive, hypercurious, furry superballs :)

  19. 19.

    Grotesqueticle

    July 26, 2005 at 11:42 pm

    Wynona had a big brown beaver, er… good on you, showing concern for your fellow critters like that.

  20. 20.

    Stormy70

    July 26, 2005 at 11:57 pm

    You do need to keep both kitties.

    My 2yr old cat was a parking lot kitty, she looked like a baby rabbit from my car. I had to chase her up the side of a hill, in a skirt and heels to catch her. It took ten minutes (in the dark), and I only caught her because she was pouncing on all the little toads in the leaves.

    Her name is Meadow, and she put a spark in my other three cats, who were all over 10yrs old at the time. She then proceeded to show her gratitude by chewing up everything like a damn puppy. She also buries her toys about 2 feet under the Turkish Kalim rug. It was kind of scary to feel a large lump way under your rug, I thought it might be a dead animal. Instead it was 6 water bottle toppers and 3 old medicine droppers (plastic) all shoved together in the same spot. She is B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

  21. 21.

    CaseyL

    July 27, 2005 at 12:21 am

    Cats hoard the darndest things.

    I had one cat who was nuts about soda bottle twist-off caps. Whenever anyone opened a bottle, she made that chattering-chirping noise hunting cats make. We’d give her the cap and she’d vanish with it somewhere. Fast forward a few months: we had to move the living sofa and there, sitting on the heat register grate, was a pile of soda caps.

    Same house, different cat: this one loved drinking straws. Same thing: she’d demand one whenever she saw anyone using ’em, then grab it and take off at a run. Later, when one of the housemates moved out and the furniture in that room was rearranged, we found a pile of drinking straws under the bed.

  22. 22.

    RSA

    July 27, 2005 at 12:51 am

    Gotta take both cats. It gives you the opportunity to think of matching names. Our last two kittens got the Anglophile treatment: Bubble and Squeak. (Okay, cringe if you like, but kittens demand cute names.)

  23. 23.

    Pan is a non...

    July 27, 2005 at 1:24 am

    These kittens’ heads will look lovely on your silver platter when you offer them as a moonlight sacrifice to the great white galactic band in the sky that all demon-possessed conservatives worship: John Bolton’s vast, bushy and unregulated nuclear mustache.

  24. 24.

    Backword Dave

    July 27, 2005 at 6:04 am

    Split them up and the terrorists win for sure. If your one did hiss though, might be an idea to take photos with the zoom rather than getting close for a while.

  25. 25.

    ET

    July 27, 2005 at 9:08 am

    UM John – you know enough of cats to know that there is a very good chance you will end up with both…. How to resist those cute faces….

  26. 26.

    Tim F

    July 27, 2005 at 9:10 am

    Let the Plame Flame war begin.

    Egads, she’s on to me! We could use a thread to digest the new stuff. (note – the link is for John’s benefit. please don’t derail cat thread!)

    Don’t have much contact with cats, although when I visit they enjoy incapacitating me by claiming my lap and purring. If cats work like dogs (heh) taking one at a time might make it easier for Tunch to teach him or her the rules of the house.

  27. 27.

    Gurney

    July 27, 2005 at 9:55 am

    I gotta agree with RSA–take em both.

    My wife talked me (a long time DOG person) into a cat, and I figured get two so they’d keep each other busy. They’ve been nothing but fun. And I got to name them Lester and Earl. Perfect Pair. You can anme them George and Dick.

  28. 28.

    Tim F

    July 27, 2005 at 10:23 am

    You can anme them George and Dick.

    Not likely. RINO blog.

  29. 29.

    RSA

    July 27, 2005 at 11:51 am

    You can name them George and Dick.

    Excellent. One snarls, the other kind of hides behind him looking scared.

  30. 30.

    war bird

    July 27, 2005 at 9:48 pm

    Looks like one of the kittens is worried that its been saved by PETA and its curtians OOOH NOOO as MR BILL would say

  31. 31.

    Bruce Moomaw

    July 28, 2005 at 1:56 am

    Oh, John, that’s SO cliched. Why don’t you do what my mother did as a girl, and take on a real challenge by raising a baby skunk?

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