Zooey managed to open the door to the linen closet and pull out towels to make a nest for himself the other day.
I’ve just come in from the cats’ outing, the first in four days. I mentioned this incident in a thread, but I doubt everyone saw it. The cats talked me into going out earlier than usual, and it was overcast. Ric was watching birds. Suddenly he was alert, and ran toward something. I saw a flash of brown fur and figured it was a rabbit, but then it came closer and I could see it was a coyote, fortunately on the other side of a chain link fence. But they can jump. I shouted, which scared both Ric and the coyote, and scooped up Ric and brought him in. I’ve decided to go out with the cats later in the day, and maybe not every day. The cats were tentative today, and Ric wouldn’t go back to that bird feeder. Fortunately, there’s one in the front yard.
What close calls have you had lately?
schrodingers_cat
Kitteh FTW!
Corner Stone
You go walking without handy access to your ACME dynamite or anvil? How about a nearby cliff?
JCJ
@Corner Stone:
I think she said earlier she has some steel shot to put in bird seed and a gigantic magnet.
Corner Stone
@JCJ: Maybe two large balloons and a big rubber band?
rikyrah
That picture is so cute :)
Betty Cracker
Yikes, scary! May I ask why you let the cats out at all? Do they feel deprived when confined indoors?
Regarding close calls, we’re still in the process of repairing the fence that Hurricane Irma wrecked, so we have to be very careful about letting the dogs and chickens out. Our yard is fenced off in two sections, and it used to be possible to let the dogs out in one section and the chickens out in the other. But now they have to “share” the space until repairs are complete — and by “share,” I mean use it at different times. Pretty sure Daisy would eat a chicken if she caught one.
It’ll probably be a month or so before the fence is fixed. My husband regards it as an art project. Le sigh.
eclare
That is scary, so glad it had a happy ending!
eclare
@Betty Cracker: Ugh, that is a lot of animal management.
Cheryl Rofer
@Betty Cracker: The cats have vests and leashes. I take them out one at a time. I’ve always had indoor-outdoor cats, but many things (including coyotes) have convinced me that these two should be primarily indoor cats. But they seem to enjoy some time outdoors. This may say more about me and my expectations than it does about them.
Mary G
My cats came when I was having the kitchen cabinets refaced, so the doors were off and they were empty. They loved to climb in and hide in the dark deep corners and were highly offended when I insisted on putting the food and pots and pans back and new doors put on. Shiloh has accepted the linen closet as a poor replacement and has the bottom shelf with some old towels and a raggedy quilt to nest in. He manages to close the door behind himself, I have no idea how.
Major Major Major Major
That picture is totes adorbs! We need more pet threads. Of the living variety. Look, I’m worn out from politics for the week already, alright?
Work continues to have very little to do. Pushing the button to migrate some stuff late tonight so will probably have bugs to fix tomorrow. Big meeting today with the foundation president to green-light the next project. But for now… still working on my novel :)
Yutsano
When I was in high school we had a viszla named Hika. She survived getting hit by cars twice with no damage. How that happened is a mystery beyond words.
CaseyL
Oh, that is cute! My kitties occasionally sleep/hide in my linen closet. It’s one of their hidey-holes I know to check if I’m trying to figure out where they are.
No close calls I can think of right now. Thank FSM!
Major Major Major Major
Samwise’s current favorite hiding spot is the box his kibble was shipped in. I assume it smells like kibble.
HeleninEire
Everyone go back to me at 209 last thread. I am sure I know what happened with Rand Paul. Is it irresponsible to speculate..argle bargle COKIE. You do not hit your neighbor with a baseball bat or a pipe over tax policy. Especially if you are a liberal. Everyone is saying this is about adultery. Really? So why are they hiding the motive? Here’s why. Rand was fucking the daughter. And she is underage. ALLEGEDLY. They are protecting the victim by not naming the motive. Back to you Cokie.
trollhattan
Fox lady, gettin’ it rong:
I could spend a day compiling my list of other better places but I shall limit it to Scarlett Johannsonn’s bedroom.
trollhattan
@HeleninEire:
Wow, you mean randy Rand and Donny the Slut may share something in common besides bad topiary?
debit
KITTEHS. And my new kitten. May I present Daniel? He is such a little love bug and everyone in the house is utterly infatuated with him. And as you can see, he is starting as he means to go on. On my keyboard.
Mnemosyne
Our linen closet is more of a cabinet than a closet, and all three cats have figured out how to paw open the door. Sometimes we hear the thumping in the middle of the night as one of them decides they need some alone time.
Also, you gotta love when you specifically ask someone several months ahead of time if they can run a Keynote presentation, they say yes, and then you get an email from them the day before your boss gets on a plane to give the presentation saying, “LOL just kidding we only have a PC and we need the presentation by the end of the day.” ?
Luckily, I have a sensible boss, and she told them they’re getting a PDF and she’ll present from that. Still, annoying.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: My Oliver doesn’t hide much, his favorite place is on my treadmill. I don’t know if it’s because the surface has “give” or what.
Betty Cracker
@Cheryl Rofer: I’ve seen your pictures of the cats in vests and on leashes — always makes me smile! I think it would be hilarious if walking cats on leashes became a thing.
Mnemosyne
@debit:
So cute! ?
eclare
@debit: Oh what a cutie! Hopefully he has mad keyboarding skills.
Major Major Major Major
@eclare: Cats sure do love texture.
Cheryl Rofer
@Betty Cracker: Well, walking a cat on a leash is not at all like walking a dog. You go where the cat wants to. There is no concept of “heel” in the cat mind.
Major Major Major Major
@debit: So moody, lol. Did you wake him up or something?
debit
@eclare: He did several interesting things to my Firefox settings.
debit
@Major Major Major Major: I caught him between butt licks.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: Gretchen Carlson had to pretend to be dumb as a stump to play her role at the Ministry of Propaganda. I don’t think Earhardt has to pretend.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Keaton’s two favorite places to nap are on top of our shoes and on top of a pile of hand weights.
Cats are weird.
Major Major Major Major
@debit: That’ll do it.
Cheryl Rofer
@debit: Zooey has been known to open several browsers, a dozen Word windows, and invert the display simply by plunking his butt down on the keyboard.
narya
Here’s a close call that you may want to share somehow: I discovered that Cuisinart blades are cracking, and my model is one of the (many) affected. Here’s a link to the recall/replacement instructions: https://recall.cuisinart.com/
Given that a lot of people will be gearing up for holiday cooking, I thought I’d spread the word in case others had missed this the way I did.
WaterGirl
@debit: Adorable!
WaterGirl
@Cheryl Rofer: They need to have a function key for cat owners that temporarily turns off all keyboard shortcuts. Mine likes to somehow engage the settings for the sight-impaired that blows things up so big that I can only see about 1/3 of what should be on the screen. A restart cures it, thankfully.
debit
@Cheryl Rofer: My fondest cat butt on keyboard memory is when Oliver deleted several movies I’d ripped from my desktop. Too big for the recycle bin so just…gone like tears in the rain.
rikyrah
@HeleninEire:
There’s a story there, Helen….
We do not know even 20% of what happened.
This was PERSONAL
rikyrah
@debit:
Awe…..so cute
Miss Bianca
@debit: Kittie-boo! Is that one of the bleg kitties from last week? I fell in love with the little grey fuzzbutt at the top of the post.
satby
@HeleninEire: holy sh*t!
debit
@Miss Bianca: Yep! He was the last one. If I recall correctly, Draco adopted Mama and 2 kittens. I hope he comments and lets us know how everyone is settling in.
Ann Marie
@WaterGirl: A friend’s cat used to engage the text-to-voice setting. She would wake up to strange voices in the night and panic, then find out it was her computer and the cat walking all over it.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@HeleninEire: I have heard speculation along those lines here in Nashville; sometimes with the morally flexible Dr. Paul as the culprit, and sometimes with his son. Bowling Green is only about an hour’s drive away, so it may be that people saying this have access to local information, or they could just be considering what sort of thing would lead them to beat the tee-totaling hell out of a neighbor they didn’t like much to begin with but had managed to live next to for a while without eruptions.
Going back on topic, I too have linen closet cats; although they prefer the top shelf for some reason.
Miss Bianca
@debit: oh, me too! And with photos, because the Internet does *not* have enough cute cat photos.
WaterGirl
@Ann Marie: Note to self: If you live alone, be sure to close the lid to the laptop before you go to bed!
peej01
I had a laptop with a power button conveniently placed so that a cat could turn it off just by walking on the keyboard, which one of them frequently did.