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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Cat Blogging / As Requested, A Brain Bleach Open Thread

As Requested, A Brain Bleach Open Thread

by John Cole|  August 14, 201212:58 am| 64 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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Sorry for the Ryan picture below, I ripped it off from this website. At any rate, you all requested pet pics, and since I am Dr. Doolittle and my animals are around me whatever room I am in (except Rosie, who is hiding behind the chair guarding and gnawing on the chew toy I gave her earlier), it was a rather simple request to fulfill:

BTW- while I was out of town, my mom and dad watched the animals, and my dad fell in love with Tunch. He just loves the fact that he is a very deliberate cat, and every move is completely calculated, unlike many schizo cats that just berserk around. Dad said he had fun watching him stealth through the yard, and would yell at him “Tunch, I see you,” and Tunch would glare at him as if to say “Hey- quit ruining my game!”

Also, here is a youtube video of Tunch and Lily playing (talk about Cute Overload!), but for some reason I can’t get it to embed.

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  1. 1.

    Biscuits

    August 14, 2012 at 1:00 am

    She’s an angel. He’ s adorbs.

  2. 2.

    Comrade Mary

    August 14, 2012 at 1:02 am

    I was about to thank you for the gorgeous pictures, then I clicked on that video link.

    You magnificent, heartless bastard. Well played. Well played.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    August 14, 2012 at 1:08 am

    LILYPUPPEH!! TUNCHKITTEH!!

    I shall raise the proper alarms, although I think wifey is eating.

  4. 4.

    Joseph Nobles

    August 14, 2012 at 1:09 am

    You know what’s sad? Ads in front of that Lilly/Tunch video. Totally spoils the effect.

  5. 5.

    JBerardi

    August 14, 2012 at 1:10 am

    Thank Jeebus for Click to Flash.

  6. 6.

    jl

    August 14, 2012 at 1:11 am

    thnx fer pet pix. I can feel my blood pressure drop a few points.

    You may have saved me from a stroke, Cole. What can I say? No good deed goes unpunished.

  7. 7.

    suzanne

    August 14, 2012 at 1:11 am

    That cat is gorgeous. The dog ain’t bad, either.

    But I wanna snuggle that boy.

  8. 8.

    goblue72

    August 14, 2012 at 1:12 am

    Rickrolling? Seriously?

  9. 9.

    Arclite

    August 14, 2012 at 1:12 am

    Cole, you bastard.

  10. 10.

    sfinny

    August 14, 2012 at 1:13 am

    Dammit, I had never been rick rolled. Just another thing to get over.

  11. 11.

    Ash Can

    August 14, 2012 at 1:13 am

    Also, here is a youtube video of Tunch and Lily playing (talk about Cute Overload!), but for some reason I can’t get it to embed.

    You suck the farts out of dead pigeons.

  12. 12.

    freelancer

    August 14, 2012 at 1:18 am

    I alt + clicked. Fuck you.

    But I love your animals.

  13. 13.

    TheMightyTrowel

    August 14, 2012 at 1:18 am

    I spent last tuesday night explaining rick-rolling to two colleagues who don’t much like technology. Now they think I’m an internet genius.

  14. 14.

    Elizabelle

    August 14, 2012 at 1:21 am

    Sweet little mugs.

    Tunch looks touchable.

  15. 15.

    handy

    August 14, 2012 at 1:29 am

    Cole you’re an ass. Lily’s adorable.

  16. 16.

    Rathskeller

    August 14, 2012 at 1:29 am

    Tease.

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 14, 2012 at 1:29 am

    TUUUUUUUNCHIE! Oh my god I love that cat to bits. That second pic of him is so fucking adorable, I could just cry. And, yeah, Lily is cute and sweet, too.

    But the vid? DIAF, Cole. Good thing I saw the tag before the video actually started. ::throatpunches you::

    @Yutsano: Thanks for sounding the alarm, Yutsy! Totally made my night.

  18. 18.

    Citizen_X

    August 14, 2012 at 1:30 am

    @goblue72: Thanks for taking one for the team. I was this close to clicking.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    August 14, 2012 at 1:32 am

    I know all good Democrats are supposed to be avoiding Marriott hotels right now because of their connections to Romney, but goddamn are their mattresses comfortable. For once, I’m not waking up with a sore lower back from a crappy hotel mattress.

    ETA: I must be hanging around here too much, because I knew it was Rick Astley even though it wouldn’t load on the iPhone.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    August 14, 2012 at 1:33 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Cole may not get out of this blog alive tonight hon. I highly suggest getting the Italian tuna and the crystal bowls ready. Tunch may be up for adoption…

  21. 21.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 14, 2012 at 1:34 am

    @Yutsano: I’m on it! ::hustles to find best china and high qwality tuna::

  22. 22.

    scav

    August 14, 2012 at 1:37 am

    Tunch!

    (like the little halo-ish auea bit he’s got going on the back there)

  23. 23.

    suzanne

    August 14, 2012 at 1:38 am

    Video wouldn’t load on my iPad. Muahahaahaaaaaaaa.

  24. 24.

    Narcissus

    August 14, 2012 at 1:38 am

    Cole you should ask Tunch about that deliberate thing

    I bet he hasn’t broken any bones

  25. 25.

    karen marie

    August 14, 2012 at 1:38 am

    I was saying to my brother just yesterday that I was feeling sad because it’s been so long since I’d been rickrolled in quite a while. Thanks, John, for restoring my confidence in the interwebs.

  26. 26.

    kamalokitty

    August 14, 2012 at 1:42 am

    Frickin’ rickrolled. Heartless. Cruel.

  27. 27.

    Pen

    August 14, 2012 at 1:49 am

    Boy, am I glad I saw Cole’s twitter update before coming to this post. Well played John, but next time wait a few minutes before announcing the Roll to the world ;-)

  28. 28.

    sfinny

    August 14, 2012 at 1:53 am

    Not just rick rolled, but waited through an ad for it. Darn it. At least I saw happy pet pictures.

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2012 at 1:56 am

    Thread needs two moar kittehs, so here is a pic of Laettner and Hurley when they were itteh bitteh kittehs.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/twofer.jpg

  30. 30.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 14, 2012 at 1:59 am

    Aw. My Tunch-esque cat died a week ago, so we’re down to one old tortie who can’t walk or hear very well, and doing the best we can to keep her on her various meds as long as possible.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    August 14, 2012 at 1:59 am

    McKayla is not impressed with Cole’s rickroll.

    Thread also needs more dog.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/dogpile08nov09.jpg

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2012 at 2:00 am

    Tried on earlier threads to post this, but disappeared into FYWP aether. One more time.

    Banks and credit companies are up to the same crap, yet again.

    The same problems that plagued the foreclosure process — and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks — are now emerging in the debt collection practices of credit card companies.
    __
    As they work through a glut of bad loans, companies … are going to court to recoup their money. But many of the lawsuits rely on erroneous documents, incomplete records and generic testimony from witnesses, according to judges who oversee the cases.
    __
    Lenders, the judges said, are churning out lawsuits without regard for accuracy, and improperly collecting debts from consumers. The concerns echo a recent abuse in the foreclosure system, a practice known as robo-signing in which banks produced similar documents for different homeowners and did not review them.
    __
    “I would say that roughly 90 percent of the credit card lawsuits are flawed and can’t prove the person owes the debt,” said Noach Dear, a civil court judge in Brooklyn, who said he presided over as many as 100 such cases a day.  Source

  33. 33.

    ShadeTail

    August 14, 2012 at 2:01 am

    How Rick rolls

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    August 14, 2012 at 2:04 am

    FYWP to infinity. Try one last time, sans snippet. Go read.

    Problems Riddle Moves to Collect Credit Card Debt

  35. 35.

    xian

    August 14, 2012 at 2:08 am

    cats definitely hate it when you spoil the mood when they’re a-stalking.

  36. 36.

    gex

    August 14, 2012 at 2:12 am

    I would really like some reporter to ask Mr. Sex Club how he can come out against birth control. Seeing as he is Mr. Sex Club.

  37. 37.

    Geoduck

    August 14, 2012 at 2:13 am

    Times like this I’m glad I have Flashblock installed on my copy of Firefox. Have to click an extra button to actually hear anything.

  38. 38.

    Thoughtcrime

    August 14, 2012 at 2:18 am

    GO BEARS!

    Oh, they had a little party down in Norway;
    There was Harry, there was Mary, there was Grace.
    Oh, they had a little party down in Norway,
    And they had to carry Harry from the place.

    Oh, they had to carry Harry to the ferry,
    And the ferry carried Harry to the shore;
    And the reason that they had to carry Harry to the ferry
    Was that Harry couldn’t carry any more…

    http://news.sky.com/story/971920/bears-break-into-cabin-and-drink-100-beers

  39. 39.

    MikeJ

    August 14, 2012 at 2:18 am

    @gex: You’re thinking of Jack Ryan of Illinois.

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    August 14, 2012 at 2:20 am

    Lily and Tunch… Yay, go pets. Thanks JC.

  41. 41.

    R Johnston

    August 14, 2012 at 2:25 am

    Rafi is not amused at being Rickrolled.

  42. 42.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 14, 2012 at 2:27 am

    I wonder if this thing with vampire boy is the most boring daily show segment ever. Yup, I think it is.

  43. 43.

    DPS

    August 14, 2012 at 2:28 am

    Somehow the effect isn’t the same when you click on the link and get a fifteen second contact lens commercial before the video starts. Your victims should at least have to listen to that familiar couple of seconds of synth and drum machine before they kill the tab.

  44. 44.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 14, 2012 at 2:30 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: That was terrible. There was one time Judah Friedlander was on, and it was either entirely inside jokes, entirely stoned, or both. Not boring necessarily, but painful to watch. Pattinson was similarly painful but for different reasons. I guess we’re supposed to care deeply about him?

  45. 45.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 14, 2012 at 2:38 am

    Edit: Bah, that didn’t work.

    Rickrolling deserves a
    ROFLCOPTER.

  46. 46.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 14, 2012 at 2:41 am

    @burnspbesq: SQUEEEEE! Doggeh is cute, too.

    @R Johnston: So cute and so menacing at the same time!

    @FlipYrWhig: So sorry for your loss. It’s hard to lose an animal companion. My condolences.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    August 14, 2012 at 2:41 am

    @R Johnston: Kittehs are very rarely, if ever, amused.

  48. 48.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2012 at 2:49 am

    The Interweb is a hell of a thing. I mean, “Rickrolling” is a thing! WTF?!

  49. 49.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2012 at 2:57 am

    Also too: Fix your blog!

  50. 50.

    dewzke

    August 14, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Rick Rolled? You bastige!

    I expect more from you!:)

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    August 14, 2012 at 3:19 am

    Breeders sometimes call a dark spot on a white animal’s head (or a white spot on a dark animal’s head) an “angel kiss”.

    From the location of his “kiss”, the angel had to sneak up on Tunch from behind.

  52. 52.

    Eljai

    August 14, 2012 at 3:36 am

    This is probably the first time I have enjoyed being rickrolled. I needed to get rid of that image of Paul Ryan bodysculpting with Bart Stupak from the earlier post, and it seems to have done the trick.

  53. 53.

    Uriel

    August 14, 2012 at 4:04 am

    Just an aside, but as someone who is roughly your same age:

    For all of you who are still fortunate enough to have your parents around, take the time to appreciate your luck. I lost both in their late 40”s, and I really envy the ability of so many people I know to complain about dealing with mom and dad. (Not that you’re doing that here, John. Just a general observation.))

  54. 54.

    redshirt

    August 14, 2012 at 4:17 am

    Also too: I find Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir” the ultimate in brain cleaner. Got a Cyndi Lauper song stuck in your head?

    “Da-na-na, tst, da-na-na, tst, da-na-na…”

  55. 55.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 14, 2012 at 6:05 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Many thanks for that.

  56. 56.

    HeartlandLiberal

    August 14, 2012 at 7:51 am

    Be grateful you have these animals and this relationship with them.

    It appears the coyotes have been preying from the woods surrounding our neighborhood, probably driven in because of the severe drought.

    Ten days ago, our beloved 14 year old female cat Josephine did not come in for breakfast. By two days later, while searching for her and talking to neighbors, it became clear that in the past two weeks as many as four or five neighborhood cats had vanished.

    I do not have to explain to many of you who love their animals how deeply distressing and gut wrenching this is.

    This little cat was my pal every night, climbing into my lap while I read or watched TV or a movie, literally melting and draping herself across my lap and thigh. Her favorite game was to take over my office chairs in my upstairs and downstairs study, and taunt me with the fract that she had gotten to the chair first and it was hers now, and I could not have it.

    She was, of all the cats we have had over fifty years, the smartest, most affectionate, and most deeply socialized and bonded cat of them all.

    We are finally coming to grips with the fact she is dead and gone.

    But we are NOT liking it. Not one bit.

  57. 57.

    Jane2

    August 14, 2012 at 8:09 am

    @HeartlandLiberal: How awful for you…my condolences. She sounds like she was a wonderful companion, and she lived the life of Riley with you.

  58. 58.

    AdamK

    August 14, 2012 at 8:43 am

    Lily = good. Tunch = good. Cole = bad.

  59. 59.

    Trinity

    August 14, 2012 at 9:04 am

    That was some bullshit Cole.

    Lily & Tunch WIN!

  60. 60.

    Kristine

    August 14, 2012 at 9:09 am

    Lily is as adorable as ever, but those are the cutest pics of Tunch I have ever seen. Such a softie!

  61. 61.

    asiangrrlMN

    August 14, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: ::hugs::

    @HeartlandLiberal: I’m so sorry for the loss of your beloved, wonderful Josephine. ::hugs to you, too::

  62. 62.

    Triassic Sands

    August 14, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Dad said he had fun watching him stealth through the yard,

    That’s funny. Tunch has quite the camouflage coat — if he lived in the Far Far North. I’ve read that tabbies were the original coat of self-domesticated cats and they do look a lot like some wildcats. Tunch looks a little more like a polar bear who found a patch of exposed dirt and got a little on his head. Pretty? Yes. Stealth? Hardly.

    I wonder what birds and rodents that Tunch stalks think he is — a big old snow ball rolling toward them?

  63. 63.

    Concerned Citizen

    August 14, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    Dude, Rick rolled? That’s bad form. Isn’t that too old to be funny? Rick rolled? I’m still not sure how I feel. It’s like I felt after watching Primer. (Primer is a great movie, but confusing. I don’t mean to elevate this prank with a great movie, just my reaction to it.)

  64. 64.

    Concerned Citizen

    August 14, 2012 at 9:56 pm

    A pox on all your houses! Rick rolling is a bad idea.

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