Before our own entries, head on over to Scalzi’s place and check out Bacon Cat.
Ok- I got a lot more responses than I expected (we are at around 90 and counting), so I just picked two a few (math is HARD):
Ollie strikes a pose.
I just love the coloring on Pati.
This is Honey, who looks like she belongs at Cute Overload.
And finally, video. The sound here is rough.
I am busy saving all the other pictures.
Comrade Incertus
I told you we were going to make your inbox essplode with pics. Heh. You’ll be begging for old WordPress before this is all over.
South of I-10
Yeah for Pati, who is the best little dumpster cat I ever picked up.
fledermaus
Hooray iPhone commenting. The redesign is great!
gbear
Oh, you mean they have to be good pictures? Ollie looks like a bit of an elitist. I’ll bet he’s never finished an entire six-pak.
harlana pepper
I love, love, luurve teh kitteh pics! That is all.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
That Honey is one unusual looking kitteh, but she’s damn cute anyway.
HumboldtBlue
Ollie’s gotta be Mr. Cool. You just know he knows how to chat up the ladies. Pati is gorgeous and honey looks like a chewer.
ninerdave
Ninja Cat
kommrade jakevich
Church Kitteh – Good. Church Laydee – Bad.
Polish the Guillotines
@ ninerdave:
That’s awesome.
I see that and raise you an OK, Meow.
Stuck in the Fun House
Pati’s coloring is oddly beautiful. Looks like glob of orange got splashed on her face. And Honey breaks the cute-o-meter.
BIiiiiiG DADDY
I leave the obvious dumbass jokes alone because I have a mother, wife, sister, and daughter (AND they are not all the same person) and try to say something nice. Here: Cats don’t suck.
Do any of you people own a fucking dog? Good grief who retrieves your dead birds after a day of hunting? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Alan
I found my cat drinking from a puddle of water left in the tub. Since he never seemed to drink from the bowl in the kitchen I decided to put a bowl in the tub. Now I have to to fill the bowl in the tub morning and night. It’s amazing just how much a cat will drink from his or her selective source.
Alan
@fledermaus: I recently complained about the new mobile phone design. Your post prompted me to take another look. The designer finally got it right. Good news.
BIiiiiiG DADDY
Comment awaiting moderation? Bitch please! You can’t handle the truth! Now wonder you guys love that muslim, Whitey hating asshole! Its now obvious why so many cats are blogged about here!
Krista
Pet blogging returns, and here I am, sans pet. :(
I really miss having a dog.
BIiiiiiG DADDY
@Krista: Finally a dog lover! At least one girl here loves dogs. Good grief all you liberals are a bunch of sissies! It took a girl to be a man.
Krista
Hey, the guys here are secure enough in their masculinity that they’re not worried about what their preference of pet might say about them. I think that’s pretty cool.
I just prefer dogs (especially scruffy or funny-looking dogs). Besides, I’m horribly allergic to cats, so it all works out rather well.
Mary Jane
Ollie was a flea-ridden kitten I found wandering in the street, whose personality was part border collie, part cat. The "church kitten" had to control the "church mice." ;-) Loved the OK Meow clip.
Stuck in the Fun House
Nah Biiig Duffus, we run all new commenters through the idiot filter. You didn’t make it, but we let you in for the amusement factor from a recent lack of dumbass trolls. Meeeouw!!
Stuck in the Fun House
That’s interesting. Would you mind reading my masculinity — I have a very loud Parakeet.
GeoX
I had a cat who was willing to get water on her head in order to lap from the bathtub. I wonder if it has something to do with preferring "fresh" or running water.
boonagain
I sent a pic of our kids’ goats (4H project). It’s John’s responsibility to keep that image away from myiq-8xu!
Comrade Kevin
boonagain == Mickey Kaus?
Dennis - SGMM
OVEUR
Come on up, Jimmy. Say, that’s some
puppy. What’s his name?
JIMMY
Scraps.
OVEUR
Can I hold him?
JIMMY
(handing over Scraps)
Sure.
OVEUR
(holding him up and looking at
his underbelly)
He’s a boy dog.
JIMMY
Yeah.
OVEUR
Do you like it when Scraps sleeps on his
back, Jimmy?
amorphous
Now introducing Joe Six Cat!
You betcha!*
*Note: Cats are the only demographic McCain can still hope to win, outside of that crazy "An inferior black man?!" lady.
Wait, no images?
Meh.
boonagain
These are female goats-I believe Mickey requires the other gender.
amorphous
Edit function isn’t working for me.
Edit: it is.
kommrade jakevich
More likely that’s a mandatory cat quirk. All cats come with between 5 and 100 pre-installed behaviors that make their owners say WTF?
Our cats prefer water in the following order:
1. Filtered.
2. Toilet.
3. The puddle around the drain after we get out of the shower (people broth?)
4. Tap water.Actually, they make life hell if they find tap water in their bowls. I don’t drink it ‘cos it stinks and I can’t imagine how bad it smells to them.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Hey, I missed OK Meow the first time around — nice reworking!
This is still my favourite cat on a treadmill video. November has a real work ethic.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yes, I have a german shepherd chow mix. He knows about thirty commands, can count to three and can say two words, "bike ride". Every evening we bike around the block so he can survey his kingdom. One evening he flushed 11 rabbits.
And then one day a few weeks ago, the damned cat caught and brought a tiny baby rabbit in the house. The dog saved the rabbit from certain death. I took pictures of the baby rabbit before we let him go. Maybe next time I’ll send John pics of the killer cat, the heroic dog and the little baby rabbit.
gbear
Only if he haz lotza cheezburgers.
Annette
@Alan:
Well, not exactly. The previous iPhone-compatible schema was a plugin, its replacement was a plugin, and the final one is a plugin. The designer didn’t author any of them. It’s just a matter of finding the right fit.
BIiiiiiG DADDY
@Stuck in the Fun House: I can only imagine where the "fun house" is.
At least the blog owner has the guts to not censor me like the rest of you liberals!
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
JSF, he sounds like an awesome dog (two paws up for bunny-saving), but it’s fascinating to me that he’s that specific mix.
Konrad Lorenz talked about those breeds as polar opposites in King Solomon’s Ring. The Lupus type (such as the Chow) is supposed to be incredibly loyal, but never truly submissive. The Aureus type (such as the German Shepherd) is much more tractable, but doesn’t typically form that strong bond with one person. But he found that his accidentally crossbred Chow-Shepherd mix, Stasi, seemed to show the best traits of both types, being both devoted and obedient. And for several decades, people have been developing a breed called the Eurasier that they hope can show these traits consistently.
So was your dog an accidental crossbreed, or was he the results of a deliberate attempt at getting an awesome dog from someone who had read Lorenz?
caleb
Sammy
oh, and for those who have never witnessed….
http://kittenwar.com/
Stuck in the Fun House
@BIiiiiiG DADDY:
The Funhouse is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
RandyH
That cat Pati is a really pretty girl. What beautiful coloring.
Stuck in the Fun House
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Let’s hear it for Doggy Do-Right.
He’s my hero.. sniffle sniffsniff
Brian J
Honey might just be one of the cutest dogs I’ve ever seen. I imagine that if she was my dog, she’d be overweight, like my current dog, Shadow, a Cocker Spaniel who has mastered the "poor me, I haven’t eaten in days" look.
Just Some Fuckhead
I don’t know. The compliance officer at my last company brought him in to work one day. Her husband, an electrician, was working on the Eastern Shore the day before and encountered some folks who had a puppy they’d gotten as a Christmas present for someone else who didn’t want it so they were gonna drop it off in "country" somewhere. Her husband told them not to do that, he’d take the dog. My co-worker was very unhappy about him bringing a puppy home since she already had a whippet. We’d just moved into a large house with a large yard in a "dog neighborhood" so I told her I’d take the dog.
And what a dog.
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@BIiiiiiG DADDY:
I own a dog, BliiiiiG DADDY. Maybe I should send a video for John to post. She really projects through the screen – when she cocks her head in that confused way, any dog owner would sit up a little straighter on the couch and think "Hey, I think she just cocked her head at me." And her smile. She has one of those doggy smiles that’s so sparkling it’s almost mesmerizing. It sends little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the room. This is a quality that can’t be learned, even with a mixture of positive reinforcement and firm correction; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.
Shinobi
I might send in some pictures of my dog Comrade Vlad. He’s much more at home in America now that we have begun socializing. (He’s Siberian….)
John Cole
@BIiiiiiG DADDY: Your troll-fu is weak.
Г-жа demimondian
Yeah, Bilge Daddy, I’m a sissy. Masculinity is a symptom of incipient testosterone poisoning.
Comrade Kevin
Here’s a cat:
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2858655286_622e0b0f82.jpg!
The Moar You Know
Shooting birds is the faggiest of the shooting sports, suitable for young girls and the elderly and infirm – witness our decrepit, oxygen-deprived vice president, incapable of moving more than 300 feet at a time without supplemental oxygen. Bird shooter, of course. You can do it from a wheelchair, even. Just shoot and get your dogs to do all the work.
Man up, Big Dildo. Get yourself a real gun, a nice big-bore revolver, and go out hunting for some javelina out here in our lovely eastern deserts.
Just Some Fuckhead
Here is a pic of the baby rabbit the dog saved from the cat. I understand wild rabbits go into some sort of shock when traumatized which would explain why he wouldn’t leave my hand when we tried to free him. I had to roll him over on his back in the grass and tickle his belly to get him kicking and running.
Just Some Fuckhead
Shit, I forgot I could just embed it. No, I won’t become that which I despise.
Comrade Kevin
@Comrade Kevin:
That tiger lives at the San Francisco Zoo (pictures by me).
Polish the Guillotines
@the ironically named BIiiiiiG DADDY:
Cats are highly evolved killing machines. You rate as more of a low-status monkey.
Starburst Pantload
Eeeeeee! Bunny!! Wookit da wittle bunny!! Awww…
Looks around for Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig Daddy
Er, I mean, say there, pardner, that’s a fine, faggy diminutive rabbit, there. Yep. Whaddya say we eat it alive, then engage in impudently drilling for oil, just cuz we can.
Conservatively Liberal
If GoatBoy catches a view of the pic you know he is going to ruin his monitor, especially if they are young goats. Mikey likes his ‘kids’. ;)
Sounds like she should run for vice president!
I will have to upload a pic of our Mama Kitty (to be). She is a tuxedo kitty and really cute. Now we have a young orange (Maine Coon) tom hanging around here lately. I think Mama Kitty is telling her friends that we are softies here. The young tom is really cute and about as silly as a cat can get. He is really affectionate, rubs against everything he can and loves to get petted, but he never purrs. He plays on the carpeted stairs all of the time, rolling down them a step at a time and clawing his way across each one. If he sees his tail, he will jump at it and flip over then jump up on his paws like someone attacked him.
Freaking strange cat, but it is a funny strange. He will not eat or drink out of a bowl. We noticed that he likes to fish out any cat food that Mama Kitty knocks under a cabinet by her food, and only then will he eat it. So one night I put a small handful of food under the cabinet and sure enough a bit later he came along, found it and then fished it out and ate it, one piece at a time.
So that is how we feed him whenever he drops by (which is just about every evening lately). For drinking, he prefers the toilet or the shower for water. Odd cat…lol
Comrade Kevin
OT:
This evening I have discovered just how much I loathe the Boston Red Sox. They have managed to get me to root for the (ick!) Angels. This is from an A’s fan.
Eric D
OT, but that scalzi page linked to reddit, where I found the Sarah Palin flow chart, which is brilliant:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2909496470_d751e8a3dc.jpg?v=0
The Easter Bunny
You’re a true American hero, Fuckhead. I guess I can forgive you for being a baby-killing dude-marrying terrorist-loving pinko. Just this once, though.
As for the rest of you filthy hippies: lay off Sarah. She’s cute, she’s bubbly, she’s great in the sack, and if it weren’t for her bold leadership of the Alaska National Guard, all of you fuckers would be suffering under the yoke of the vicious Canuckistani caliphate.
You have a choice this November, bitches. When Zombie Santa rears his head in a jar over your border, President Obama will wave the white flag of surrender and allow all of you to be hauled off to camps where you’ll be syrupboarded by Canucki jihadists.
President Palin, on the other hand, will protect you so you can keep having perverted sex while sipping lattes, smoking reefer and hating America. At least until she has enough political capital to round you up and haul you off to camps.
Choose wisely.
Peeps, bitches!
nicethugbert
Paulson is privatizing the Bailout.
Conservatively Liberal
As long as it is real maple syrup, that is fine with me. I will willingly submit to our sticky sweet Canucki jihadist overlords, just keep the maple syrup coming!
If it is artificial maple syrup, I will fight them to the death.
My wife took a break from her jihadist Rachel Ray cookbook to make some home made commie tomato soup. Our daughter got the tomatoes from a Russian girlfriend of hers.
Commie tomato soup is pretty good stuff. It’s a hell of a lot better than that capitalistic Campbell’s soup.
harlana pepper
Ach! Just had to run through the ‘momma I MUST drink from sink tap, NOWNOWNOW’ routine this morning. Story of my life.
greynoldsct00
MOAR you kill me (wiping coffee off monitor) that’s why I love this blog
Krista
We’d never waste the good stuff like that. Instead, we’re planning on using it as an incentive to lure American immigrants in order to increase our population. It also helps to make up for the fact that we’ll force you to gay marry as part of your citizenship requirement.
Krista
Hm. The blockquotes are still working funny if there is a line break between paragraphs in the quote.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Polish the Guillotines:
FTW!
Ladybeams
The video’s pretty cool. I can’t believe that cat acted like there was absolutely nothing unusual going on. I have a "psychocat" that showers herself as she’s trying to drink out of her water dish (she’s very near-sighted so she splashes the water to see at what level it is) but I don’t think she would ever go for something like that. LOL
Comrade The Other Steve
The DSCC has got a new ad for Al Franken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Xls4B-lps
Al Franken Sank This Ship
Al Franken Crashed these Trains
And Al Franken HATES PUPPIES!
S.G.E.W.
So much goodness. In order, now:
J.S.F.:
Why do bunnies make me turn into a 7 year old girl shrieking out vowels? Eeeee!
cough cough
Ahem. I mean, good for you and your canine companion for rescuing that valuable member of the biodiversity in your local ecology. Yes.
Comrade Kevin:
Great shot. You might be interested, if you’re not familiar, in the story of Antoine Yates, a sort of local folk hero for tiger lovers.
Krista:
If John McCain is elected, you will need no further incentives for us to come to your blessed northern paradise of actual maple syrup, suspiciously tasty "bacon," hot gay marriage, and appalling "free speech" laws. I can haz refugee status?
. . .
(btw, so when is my kitty going to appear on the immortal pages of Balloon-Juice? I wants to see mai kitteh!)
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Hey, Scalzi and Bacon Cat get mentioned (but not pictured) in the NY Times today. Dog people, don’t take his remarks personally. He has a dog, too, and I’m sure he talked about Kodi. Damned feline MSM, slanting the story again.
ambboogie
Yay! My Honey was posted!
I’m sorry guys, I saw ‘Pet’ and I didn’t know it was only referring to cats.
btw, Honey is a beagle mix. She has gotten confused for a pit however.
harlana pepper
Honey has ear-flappage!
DorothyT
Honey lives in my apartment bldg. on the Upper West Side in NY. She’s captured everyone’s heart around here. What a surprise to see her here! Good dog, Honey!