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From commentor Mr. Whipple:
not a rescue, per se’, just a stray we adopted. this is spatz/ mr. zell. he didn’t like his antlers, but maybe bj’ers would.
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Kitteh should count his blessings, compared to these guys:
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From commentor Mr. Whipple:
not a rescue, per se’, just a stray we adopted. this is spatz/ mr. zell. he didn’t like his antlers, but maybe bj’ers would.
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Kitteh should count his blessings, compared to these guys:
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Svensker
Antlers, ha ha ha.
Maru is the cutest — love the secret sleepy kitty at the end.
funluvn
Subjecting a feline to the audacity of not only wearing, but being pictured wearing antlers is without doubt going to get the human subject in question a load in their slippers and a less than lovely smelling rinse on their bedspread….
Brick Oven Bill
I have observed these three cats’ expressions, having been placed in humiliating outfits by White People. At the risk of sounding like a White Person myself, I will list my impression of the probable thoughts of the three cats:
Top Cat: “Get away from me.”
Middle Cat: “Get away from me.”
Bottom Cat: “This White Person has backed me into a corner and I am going to have to either scratch it or make a run for it.”
Comrade Mary
@Brick Oven Bill: So, White Person, you think that Maru can magically see YOU through the computer screen, just like Miss did on Romper Room when she looked into the magic mirror? How oddly endearing.
(Of course, Maru’s owner isn’t white, so I doubt you were talking about him.)
licensed to kill time
Spatz looks like he is plotting revenge.
He has very elegant long white whiskers that are set off beautifully by his black fur. The two white antenna over his eyes are equally stunning and probably receive the signals from his home planet well. Watch for the spaceship of revenge to come silently in the night and fuse antlers to your head and see how you like it. ;-)
mr. whipple
Spatz chewed the hell outta those things. The disgust is palpable.
He’s my shop buddy, a stray that started hanging out and liked the food and the yard. He’s a killer of mice, chipmonks, rabbits and, sadly, birds. He was strictly outdoors, so I made him a condo with glass windows and a heated bed. He started coming into the shop the first day it got cold and is slowly working his way into the house. He especially likes hanging out in the shop on Saturday afternoons, listening to the Met.
One day the neighbor called and said there was a guy out prowling around our house. So I went out and he was trying to get the cat to come up to him. It turns out he lives a street over, and it was his cat that he adopted when it showed up one day. We offered to give him back, but they guy looked at the yard and condo and said, “What’s the point? He’ll just come back.” He comes by every so often to see him.
Brick Oven Bill
Being a White Person has little to do with skin color Comrade Mary. As an example, Michelle Obama with her Arugula garden seems to be more of a White Person than Laura Bush, or at least she promotes that image. We have no method of knowing what Michelle eats when she raids the refrigerator at night, so this is not possible for us to know.
Now, you misunderstood my impression of the bottom cat’s thoughts. The cat in the bottom photograph is not scared of me. That cat and me would probably get along great, as I have mice in my garage, and occasional rattle-snakes. The cat in the bottom photograph is scared of the person who stuck it in the back of a sock, cornered it, shoved a camera into the opening of the sock, and made the camera emit a blinding flash of light.
I am not a White Person, by the way.
General Stuck
Spatz is a doll, and you may end up with kitty shit in your slippers for them antlers.
mr. whipple
@General Stuck:
Nah, he’s my buddy. We had one cat that loved wearing this big bell at Christmas. It would hang down from his neck and when he came up stairs it would hit each one and ring. He was really disappointed when we took it off after the holidays, then come running the next year when we took it out of the box.
Another story about Spatz/Mr. Zell: the guy who originally adopted him has a house with dog doors so they can come and go as they please. One day they came home and found Spatz on top of a bookcase. He just walked in and made himself at home.
General Stuck
Meet the anti – Palin
Hot!!
R-Jud
“I don’t know anything
I never did know anything
But now I know that I don’t know
All on a Christmas morning.
–I must stand on my head. I must stand on my head!”
–Alastair Sim in SCROOGE (1951).
Merry Whatever, Juicers.
R-Jud +1.5 (bottles of champagne)
Litlebritdifrnt
@mr. whipple:
I love that about cats, they just walk in and make themselves at home, here is a very fuzzy photo of Ms. Ellie (my latest stray) tolerating the Santa hat for about three nano seconds…..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Pets%20and%20miscellaneous/DSC01212.jpg
gogol's wife
Merry Christmas, everyone, and everyone’s critters. Spatz and Ms. Ellie are gorgeous. Their dignity shines through.
Steeplejack
@R-Jud:
You reminded me that I have champagne chilling in the freezer. Off to pop the cork.
Merry Christmas, Juicers!
J.
@mr. whipple: We tried getting our black cat, Felix, to wear the reindeer antlers I got him. No dice. But we did manage to get him to wear the Santa hat — and capture it on film. (Note: No humans were injured in the making of these images.)
Btw, I would pay money to see Tunch in antlers or a Santa hat.
mr. whipple
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That’s full of awesome!!!!!
Linkmeister
Just to
gloatadvise, if you happen to turn on the Hawai’i Bowl this evening, you’ll notice we’re having a gloriously beautiful day today. We may yet revive our Christmas Day swim tradition.MattR
@Litlebritdifrnt: Was trying to find X-Mas pictures of my Ellie and tracked down the appropriate BJ post from last year. Your pic of Lari in a Santa hat was priceless.
@J.: I can’t give you Tunch, but there is Lily in antlers at the top of the post I linked to.
mr. whipple
@J.: Heh. Cat sure took off! LOL.
Litlebritdifrnt
DH just came home from Christmas Shopping and presented me with pressie #1 an honest to goodness bottle of French Chablis, which is like chickens teeth around here, occasionally we can find a bottle in Myrtle Beach, occasionally. Said bottle in now in the Fridge chilling for consumption for my Christmas Dinner tomorrow, ahhhhhh bliss.
daryljfontaine
Maru never fails to make me smile. Just me and the kitties this Christmas Eve, so that was appreciated.
D
Shade Tail
Aw, it’s FlippyCat. RIP, Flippy.
schrodinger's cat
@mr. whipple: How is Mr Whipple though, your big orange kitteh?
mr. whipple
@schrodinger’s cat:
He’s sitting right over my shoulder, watching the cat videos. He’s in his glory, having claimed all the presents under the tree, as usual.
Litlebritdifrnt
Preview of tomorrows blog post. Happy Christmas from Britty’s boxers……. this took a while, and basically resulted in the dogs resigning themselves to their fate and the resultant “take the f**king picture and be done with it”
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Pets%20and%20miscellaneous/DSC01198.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Pets%20and%20miscellaneous/DSC01211.jpg
New Yorker
I think it’s time for John to dress Tunch up like Santa Claus. We should all pitch in for the skin graft surgery he’ll need afterward.
Mark S.
Legal Insurrection Guy links to some other guy who says:
To which Legal Insurrection Guy gives a big heh indeedy:
LI Guy is not embarrassed to admit that he only heard of past Ice Ages a year ago. Scientists have actually known about them for longer than that.
mr. whipple
@Litlebritdifrnt:
LOL. I can almost hear Ode To Joy playing in the background.
Warren Terra
There’s a pretty good Bankster cartoon here (Stephen Notley’s Bob The Angry Flower).
Mark S.
@Mark S.:
I forgot Jacobson goes by Colonel Mustard. I got tired of typing out Legal Insurrection Guy and could have been calling him that.
J.
@MattR: A dog in antlers ranks low on the difficulty scale. Now a cat… ;-)
@Mr. Whipple: You should have seen the other takes. ;-)
Triassic Sands
Adopting a stray is “rescuing” a cat just as much as adopting one from a shelter. I have one stray and two shelter grads — two faced very grim futures without an adoption — the third came from a no-kill private shelter, so he was safe. The other shelter cat was a couple of days from being euthanized, while the stray was very sick and starving. I think they all prefer their current living arrangement. And I would never put antlers on any of them.
Putting antlers on the cat negates all the good karma gained from adopting the poor thing. I can only hope he has his chance to get even. (Meanwhile, he’s probably very happy not to be a stray anymore and may even forgive the bad taste of his human friend(s), because of their generosity.)
JCT
I think Hyperbole and a half covered this well (as per usual)
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/08/cat-safety-propaganda.html
LOL
asiangrrlMN
Kittehs and puppehs! YAY! I love Maru. I love Maru ALMOST as much as I love Tunchie.
@mr. whipple: Spatz is a good sport, yes he is. I’d sleep with one eye open if I were you. He’s a cutie, though.
Comrade Mary
Have you seen super-slow-mo Maru yet?
Boxes
Miscellaneous
And the best thing you will see today: Super slow-mo Maru and boxes with an ambient Justin Bieber soundtrack.
Comrade Mary
Now Santa won’t let me post three links on Christmas eve? Boo!
Anyway, here’s super-slow-mo Maru and his boxes, accompanied by ambient Justin Bieber.
Comrade Mary
No links for me at all? Bother.
General Stuck
@Comrade Mary:
Merry Christmas Comrade Mary
PeakVT
I’m amazed at the patience of the second cat. Most cats would have shredded the paper after about 10 seconds.
Phoebe
Ho! Cats encroaching upon nativity dioramas.