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A Tunch Picture For You

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So when I was at the vet the other day, and I told him that Tunch spends a lot of time outside these days and I should probably get him on a flea treatment, he said “Well, he’s lost weight, so I think the fence and the ability for Tunch to go outside is doing him a lot of good.” I just chuckled, because I know how Tunch spends his time outside:

Maybe some of the fat is melting away.

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  1. 1.

    fasteddie9318

    Well, there you go, another failing fail from John Fail on his fail blog of failure. Also too, something something fail.

  5. 5.

    ant

    my kitteh jumps right over the fence, and goes prowling around the neighborhood.

    He is dewclawed, so this is not allowed. He needs to be supervised at all times, especially at dusk when he tries to take off like clockwork.

  12. 12.

    ant

    forgot to mention, there was a baby wabbit out there the other day that was the source of a serious burst of energy. a failed attempt though for the kitteh.

    one day, i caught my kitteh nom nom nom noming on a wasp. I have no idea how he did not get stung, and he still likes to hunt any flying insects he sees.

  15. 15.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Missed the last open thread, so I’ll just say I was in the kitchen tonight while my mom was watching the CBS evening news, and they showed clip of a Romney speech than cut away to critique his claims, notably that Romney was incorrect about how many private sector jobs have been gained under Obama and how far average household income has fallen (6.4% as opposed to Romney’s claim of 10%.)

    I don’t think the word ‘lied’ was used, but ‘wrong’ definitely was. I figure I should give them a pat on the back when they actually do their jobs right.

  17. 17.

    MosesZD

    John, your cat is a liar. NO matter how much he tells you he needs food… He doesn’t…

  18. 18.

    Raven

    @fasteddie9318: My friend that passed away was Professor Fail. One of his students spoke at his service and recalled that when she saw her first class on her first day of college was with Dr Fail! It was a sweet moment.

  20. 20.

    RoonieRoo

    Do y’all not a have a problem with heartworms in WVA? If you don’t, then you are a lucky ducky. Even the cats down here need to be on heartworm preventative if they go outside.

    Cats aren’t at as high of a risk as dogs, but they are still at risk if outdoors. Just a thought to ask your vet about next time you are in.

  22. 22.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @ant:

    One of my many moons ago cats Bailey ate a wasp, his face swelled up to the point that he looked like one of those Chinese Opera masks. The vet told me to give him child strength Benadryl and that did the trick.

  23. 23.

    gaz

    Awwww. Lurv Tunchie! He’s what got my little black kitteh to pay attention to the screen, also too. Now I can’t keep him away from it. =) Your cat is corrupting my cat.

  24. 24.

    Steve in DC

    @David Koch:

    It’s not only in China that they eat cats and dogs! Many of the animals we keep as pets are considered tasty treats in other parts of the world!

  27. 27.

    beltane

    I see no evidence of fat melting away in that picture. My fat cat has the good sense to wear black fur; it makes him look much more svelte, almost like a miniature bear.

  29. 29.

    jl

    Another epic Tunch pic. Thanks.

    Looks like a transit of something or other. Not sure what. And that is good enough for me.

    I nominate this one, and the supertanker Tunch shot we saw a few days to go on some BJ gear.

  31. 31.

    jl

    Just a thought, but maybe your vet is right.

    Is that a pic of Tunch trying to get over the fence?

    Edit: Or if that is Tunch trying to roll over, maybe we could get a time lapse video of the event.
    Edit edit: I think I read there won’t be another one until 2117, though.

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    Every time I see a picture of Tunch I feel a little better about my inability to control my cat’s weight.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: Hi! Saw some posts by stuckinred on an earlier thread and wondered if you had gone back to that, but maybe you were just on a different computer?

  35. 35.

    ruemara

    That is an adorable snowball who’s happy. I’ve 2 of them in that pose right now in my room.

  37. 37.

    catpal

    call sea world?? not nice. good thing Tunch can’t read, but if he can read your mind you are in Big Trouble soon.

  42. 42.

    pragmatism

    @David Koch: i’ll bite. a la ron burgundy? to be used as an actual anchor for an aircraft carrier? his immigrant parents can claim citizenship?

    reminds me of something a sadlyno commenter said: the tough thing about anchor babies is figuring out where to attach the chain.

  43. 43.

    jl

    As long as fat cats are the subject of conversation, Wonkette has a news flash siren alert about the bad kind.

    Who Will Rescue the Banks From these Anti-American Assaults on Their Freedom?
    by Kris E. Benson
    http://wonkette.com/474792/who-will-rescue-the-banks-from-these-anti-american-assaults-on-their-freedom

    Nobel prize winning economist Robert Engle calculates that US banks are $500 billion short of capital requirements needed if another financial crisis hits, only about $40 billion short of the shortfall before the 2008 panic.

    So, Robert Engle was one of the economists running around with his hair on fire before the panic warning the financial wizards that their math models were falling apart. He did this in the quiet back rooms and in nerd seminars so made less of splash than Krugman’s warning about the housing bust, but he called it pretty much in real time like Stiglitz did.

    So, what could he know about it?

    Edit: specifically, he developed a way to measure the stability of the statistical relationships that went into the wizards’ models, and noticed in the year before the crash that they were becoming very unstable. But what they hey? He ain’t rich.

  44. 44.

    The Dangerman

    @cathyx:

    A caption for that picture…

    Looks more like “You want me to go on a diet? I’ve got your diet right HERE, buddy.”

  46. 46.

    slag

    @jl:

    Edit: Or if that is Tunch trying to roll over, maybe we could get a time lapse video of the event.

    Actually, that’s Tunch trying show John the dark side of the moon.

  47. 47.

    quannlace

    Ahoy, Matey. That is one cat-flotilla!
    ********

    But it made me smile, thinking of my dog, Kate, on the really first warm day of Spring.
    Aaaah, gotta bake that belly!

  48. 48.

    jnfr

    Some of us were talking about Maine Coon-type cats the other day. We got Jamey his summer lion cut. It’s always sad to trim his beautiful coat, but he’s so much more comfortable without it, and his velvet back and belly are delicious to pet.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @John Cole: that is my favourite picture of Tunch you have ever posted. I loooooove him.

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    His fur is burned out in that photograph; you need to dial in a bit of negative exposure compensation when you’re photographing him in direct sunlight. Other than that, though, it’s great to see Our Feline Overlord large and in charge.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Too white, fat beyond belief and perpetually grumpy. Apples don’t fall too far from the tree.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jnfr:

    Beautiful beautiful cat. Do you have any photos of him in his pre-lion, uh, foliage?

  58. 58.

    Hill Dweller

    OT: Apple is rumored to be introducing a new line of laptops next week that are a hybrid of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. They will purportedly be lighter and slimmer than the MacBook Pro, but have roughly the same computing power, retina display, no optical drive, better battery life and the choice of SSD or regular hard disk.

  59. 59.

    slag

    @jnfr: Wow. My Maine Coonish would never go for that. The last time he had buzzers held in his vicinity he whapped them across the room where they were never to be heard from again. He’s got a long paw. I believe Ichiro would refer to it as soft muscle.

    Yours looks great, though.

  60. 60.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Tunchie is my beloved. We adopt him into our fake-family, yes?!? I saw pic of wiener dog on the Book of Faces. O.O

    @jnfr: So cute! I bet he loves feeling lighter in the summer.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just turned on the TV in time to catch a commercial for this week’s This Week. To discuss Obama’s Terrible Week, the have a “powerhouse panel”: Ed Rendell, Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter.

  65. 65.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: There’s explanation on Book of Faces as well. But for the folks here: parents are dogsitting two wienerhounds. They are both very sweet.

    Tunch is patriarch of our clan. FH #1 won’t dispute this.

  68. 68.

    Valdivia

    OT but that guy covering for Kilgore at Washington Monthly. Oh boy. I think I may just have to stay away from it until Kilgore gets back. Publishes a letter from Nader and asks why Obama is not at Netroots. Yeah. That’s what Obama needs.

  74. 74.

    slag

    @Valdivia:

    Publishes a letter from Nader and asks why Obama is not at Netroots. Yeah. That’s what Obama needs.

    Unless Obama gets called Uncle Tom at least once every four years, we’re not doing our job as Liberal Americans.

  75. 75.

    Patricia Kayden

    Uh uh. That is the fattest cat I’ve ever seen. Is there a Slimfast for cats? She’s cute as hell though.

  76. 76.

    Schlemizel

    We have a pair of rescues. One must have been hungry at some time as she will eat anything & everything. She can’t stand us eating unless she is too. She goes nuts when we sit down to dinner. She has a 6 foot vertical leap when I open a can of cat food or of tuna fish. When I split a can of cat food between her the the mellow cat she will eat all of hers and everything the other has left.

    The other will never eat human food. Not even fish or meat, raw or cooked. She is not particularly interested in cat food & rarely eats half of her half of a can of food.

    All that I understand at some level. What I don’t understand is why the ravenous kitty weight maybe 6 lbs & you can see all her ribs while the one that does not eat is bigger than Tunch. Life is not fair.

  77. 77.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Tunchie rules. Period. I can haz picture of border collies? And, LEXIE!

    @jl: They can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, damn it! What am I, a milk machine?!? Tunchie needs his tuna – that’s the most important thing.

    @Schlemizel: My boys, brothers, eat roughly the same amount of food. One weighs three pounds more than the other. I don’t get it, either.

  78. 78.

    muddy

    @Keith:

    Seems like all cats LOVE scratching their backs on concrete.

    When I didn’t used to let them out, the skinny black cat DIarmuid would dash out and down the steps, but was easily recaptured because he would stop instantly on the concrete at the bottom, to roll about and get dust in his fur.

    Is that to get more fiber in the diet while grooming?

  79. 79.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @asiangrrlMN: Thank goodness you were here early to defend our Tunch’s honor. I can’t believe the alt-text. Shame on John, succumbing to the negative Tunch ads. Next thing we know he’ll be asking for the birth certificate.

  86. 86.

    Hill Dweller

    @cathyx:

    That sounds like my macbook, which they discontinued.

    The rumor is they’re going to call it a MacBook. If it sells well, they’re going to discontinue the MacBook Pro line.

  88. 88.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @TaMara (BHF):

    I’ve had a crappy day and that comment made me smile for the first time.

    There’s only so much happiness to go around in the world. By saying something hurtful to John, I was able to free up some happiness for you.

  89. 89.

    p.a.

    thank god. The last Tunch pic, he looked like Cole turned him into a slipper for one of his pedicured hoofs. I was imagining neighborhood notes about a missing black cat, for the other foot.

    is that a ground platform or a raised deck? If deck, get some extra bracing.

  91. 91.

    muddy

    Since I have been letting mine out, their fur has been amazing. Really super shiny. The black one has blue highlights like Superman in a cartoon.

    That Tunch is a fine figure of a cat. I’m always amused that he and Lily are of similar size.

  92. 92.

    The Red Pen

    Sorry to break it to you, but Tunch has a severe case of ridonkulitis. Rub his belly until he bites you. That should take care of him.

  95. 95.

    Schlemizel

    @bemused:
    No we had both looked at pretty well. The skinny one walks like something is wrong but there is no problem despite us spending way too much on tests & x-rays etc. The tub (daughter named her “muffin” which I have edited to “muffin top” or “topper” for short) had a thing we needed to fix & testing showed everything else was OK.

    I think its just natures way of letting us know we are not in control of anything.

  96. 96.

    cathyx

    @Hill Dweller: Seriously? From 2006 to 2011 they made a macbook. I bought mine in 2010. To make it again, call it the same thing and act like it’s new is ridiculous. That’s just a way to up the price for the same product. They could at least call it something different.

  102. 102.

    TaMara (BHF)

    All right, between the Tunch photo and all your comments I think I’m revived and can now face the rest of the evening. You guys rock.

  105. 105.

    gwangung

    Unless Obama gets called Uncle Tom at least once every four years, we’re not doing our job as Liberal Americans.

    You know, I never figured out why nobody ever realized how damn offensive, presumptuous and flat out racist Nader was when he said this.

    Dude. You DON’T do that.

  110. 110.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @asiangrrlMN:

    As does Cole’s mom and this blog. ::waves at Cole’s mom:

    No, she has the blog read to her. By John, over the phone. And he only reads her DougJ’s stuff. She thinks DougJ is delightful and will go on and on for hours about the time he pwned Jeffrey Goldstein.

  112. 112.

    Hill Dweller

    @cathyx: From what I understand, it is a MacBook Pro(same computing power), but in a MacBook Air-like body. There will be no optic drive, but 20% more battery capacity than the MacBook Pro.

    They’re also rumored to be refreshing the 13 and 15 inch MacBook Pro with optical drives and regular hard drives, but discontinuing the 17 inch model. However, they’re keeping the MacBook Pro around as an insurance policy in the event of poor sales of the new MacBook. If the new MacBook sells, the MacBook Pro will be discontinued.

    I think they’re hoping to streamline their laptop lines into one MacBook model with various sizes, and dump the Air and Pro versions.

  113. 113.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    LOL, from Emptywheel,

    They’ve scheduled DDay’s Netroots Nation foreclosure fraud panel–with Lynn Szymoniak, Malcom Chu, and Neil Barofsky–in a room with no streaming, and President Obama is holding a press conference to conflict with it. Which suggests this is the most dangerous panel in the world.

    DougJ, Dougj, over, DougJ. DO YOU READ ME.

    Keep on your toes and lookouts for ODrones circling above. Be safe. And see if you can’t sneak a peek into the most important panel in the world. Did you bring your Clouseau disguise?

    Sorry, just couldn’t let this one go by without a pinch of mocksnark/

  116. 116.

    Poopyman

    “Well, he’s lost weight, so I think the fence and the ability for Tunch to go outside is doing him a lot of good.” I just chuckled, because I know how Tunch spends his time outside:

    I dunno. We’ve got two indoor/outdoor cats and 3 indoor-only cats, and the indoor-only ones are all pudgy, from mild to 22+ pounds worth. The other two are thin, maybe too much so. I know they spend their time outside much like Tunch, so there’s something else going on.

    When we got the three pudges from the shelter we agreed not to let them out, and after 5 years it just wouldn’t be safe. It’s more rural here than Bethany and we have no fence. But I suspect they’d be at healthier weights if they could have been going out all these years.

  117. 117.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    John is prolly weeping silently into a bag of bonbons right now.

    Well, of course I read that as “bag of bourbon” and I’m thinking, OK, I know you can get wine in a box, but bourbon in a BAG?? Come ON.

  118. 118.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Awwww! That’s so sweet that she thinks of MetrosexualBlackAbeJ as her favorite son!

    You know she doesn’t have any idea he’s going by that nick, right? That would prolly be a bridge too far.

  119. 119.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Are you sure that Tunch is losing weight? He could be collapsing in on himself in preparation for going supernova.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Gotta set the Obama-is-fail theme in place for this summer and fall to appease the wealthy media overlords.

    Villager careers and paychecks matter more than anything else.

  122. 122.

    jnfr

    @slag:

    We have him shaved at his vet’s and they use sedation. When we try to groom him at home, he does his best to gut us. And he’s a total sweetie otherwise, but doesn’t like to be handled that way.

  124. 124.

    jl

    @jnfr:

    Your cat is the most beautiful and distinguished looking house pet I have ever seen. In that second pic. With its full coat.

    But he likes his summer ‘lion’ cut? Is that what you said?

    He puts up with the hair cut, or does he bleed the poor soul who has to trim him?

  126. 126.

    muddy

    @jl: My d-i-l shears her longhaired cat in the summer, but leaves him a mohawk. He loves it.

  127. 127.

    celiadexter

    A vet’s assistant once told me that a cat is too fat if he can’t clean his (euphemism). Tunch looks like he’s doing OK, so there you go.

  128. 128.

    slag

    @jnfr: Interesting. Have you tried the zoom groom? Mine hates to be brushed with anything but the zoom groom.

    ETA Holy shit. Your cat and my cat could be twins. Did you get yours out of the dumpster too?

  131. 131.

    workworkwork

    @jnfr: Great picture! Reminds me of our (sadly late) Maine Coon Scruffy.

    We used to take him into the groomers every quarter or so and have them give him a bath, hair cut and nail trim. It took two groomers to do the job (he was a 24 lb. kitteh) and his patience lasted until about five minutes before they were done.

    The ladies at the groomers loved him to death, though, even as he chased them around the table.

  132. 132.

    Eric S.

    I did not read all 130 posts so I’m probably not the first to point this out to you, John, but the belly will not rub itself. I know because my Ozzie gives me this pose often.

  133. 133.

    Fluke bucket

    First thing I thought of was that dead flying cat I saw somewhere else at some point in time.

  134. 134.

    jnfr

    @slag:

    Not quite a dumpster, but he and his sister, who looks nothing like him, were dumped in a box on a street corner in Denver when they were barely weaned. They were rescued and have been with us ever since.

  138. 138.

    MacKenna

    I worry a little about the screwdriver in the background. John, you don’t want Tunch having weaponry.

  139. 139.

    SFAW

    John –
    I hope you’ll forgive me for this, but all I could think of when viewing the picture was “Damn! Where’s Queequeg when you need him?”

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