Last night I had to get up to go to the bathroom, turned the light on in the hallway, and saw this:
In the decade plus of living with these guys as my roommates, I have learned that sometimes it is just best to not ask questions.
Also please note the litter in the top left, which means that one of the dogs was eating kitty roca again.
MomSense
Couple of old gals having a little fun.
BGinCHI
They’re plotting some shit and you know it.
Currants
But you got a photo of Rosie! She looks sweet, in that one, despite your frequent assertions to the contrary.
WaterGirl
My Lily pic!
John, how do you happen to have your phone with
me[where did that come from?] you to snatch an unexpected photo in the middle of the night?edited
Aleta
They’re beauties. And they look way smart.
WaterGirl
@BGinCHI: Those are not innocent faces. Even Lily, the sweetest girl on earth, looks like something’s going on and they’re not telling.
TaMara (HFG)
They are clearly plotting a takeover…
artem1s
love those ‘what are you looking at, we’re not doing anything’ faces!
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: Cole needs to make sure no dogs have raised his life insurance benefits.
Damned_at_Random
So sorry Rosie is doing poorly.
We lost our outside kitty (she hated being in) last month. She predated us by years – the neighbor, who was her “official owner, put her at well over 20 years. She had lost most of her teeth and most of her kidney function and when we took her to the vet, he said a three year rabies shot was “optimistic”. So we knew what was coming.
Baby lived by her own rules and had exactly the life she wanted – fresh chicken on demand and even fresher mice, though how she managed to gum them down I hate to imagine.
By way of saying, let Rosie make her choices – including kitty roca – so you can say good-bye when necessary without regrets. She is luckier than most.
Amir Khalid
@Currants:
John Cole’s assertions about Rosie’s dislike for him seem as credible as his assertion that Steve habitually bullies him.
WaterGirl
@artem1s: You’re not buying that, are you? I don’t believe it for a second. The girls are definitely up to something. I’m just happy knowing that they are buds.
Elizabelle
Kitty roca. LOL
Good to see the girls. Love them.
Currants
@Amir Khalid: ? They do indeed!
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: The girls are exceedingly well coordinated, color-wise. I had never noticed that until today.
piratedan
come on now, they were engaged in cahooting, a perfectly acceptable after-hours activity.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
On the phone with my buddy today, he exclaimed in obvious frustration at whatever he was doing on his end “What the fuck just happened?”
Not knowing what actually happened, but striving to answer him, I considered the question. There I was faced with a universe of activity, changing from one instant to the next, culminating in that precise moment. So I simply replied “Everything.”
Needless to say he was justified in his response, “I don’t need your Zen bullshit right now.”
MelissaM
Wow! Rosie and her poor weight loss! Glad they are spending time together. Sweet.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I have a guest post up today on a site called No Wasted Ink. It’s on the value of creative play, like what I see at speculative fic cons. The blog host misspelled my name, but she was kind enough to invite me to write for her, so it’s all good. :-)
ETA: Krope @17, Does that count at Zen bullshit? LOL
Krope, the Formerly Dope
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’ll let the Zen masters work out the definition of what counts as Zen bullshit but the frustration was real and I don’t blame him.
Patricia Kayden
raven
Litter?
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Remember what the Dalai Lama said to the hot dog vendor? “Make me one with everything.”
A question for the jackaltariat: We know that cats generally don’t meow to each other; but they do meow to humans because we don’t always catch on quick to their body language. Do cats meow to the family dog(s)?
Another question for the jackaltariat: Should the word jackaltariat have initial cap, as in “Jackaltariat” — or not, as in “jackaltariat”?
rikyrah
Beautiful picture
Krope, the Formerly Dope
Depends on where you draw the line between “slightly acrimonious political blog” and “terrorism cell.”
kindness
That is sure cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtEMkONTh8
(JG Band – They Love Each Other)
Skepticat
True dat
pluky
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: Does bullshit have a Buddha nature?
Joy in FL
They are so sweet. How lucky you were to get that photo : ) and I’m glad you shared it with us.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
@pluky: Hmmm, not sure I understand the question fully.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
@Krope, the Formerly Dope: I will add, though, that my response was definitely informed by my exposure to Buddhist and Wiccan thought.
WereBear
Dogs and cats seem to understand each other’s body language.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I can’t just leave that there without the followup joke.
He gave the vendor some bills and waited a minute, then asked “where is my change?”
The vendor replied, “change must come from within.”
Steeplejack (phone)
@Amir Khalid:
No initial cap.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Thank you! It was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn’t remember it.
John Cole
@WaterGirl: I had to poop, Watergirl. So I brought my phone.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
LMAO. I never heard this part of the joke. That was quite enjoyable.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Amir Khalid: As a member of a dog / cat household, my personal observation is that no, I don’t recall seeing the cat vocalize to the dog.
I’m always trying to figure out whether the cat likes or hates the dog. He is very rambunctious and loves the type of play that consists of leaping at you, and sometimes putting a paw or jaws on the cat. She seems to tolerate it for a short while before leaving in disgust.
But she also is frequently caught leaping at him or taking a swipe at him with a paw as he goes by, so I’m pretty sure she accepts it as play.
geg6
Well, you can’t blame Thurston for this one.
J R in WV
Jackalteriat is a proper noun in a way that the jackalteriat is not a proper group of people.
Does that make any sense at all? Didn’t think so! good!
laura
@Amir Khalid: I’m partial to the lower case ?. I sure hope Laura Too is partial to the upper case.
WaterGirl
@geg6: I appreciate that you stand up for Thurston.
I really did go to bat for your previous comment about Thurston to make it into the rotating tags, but I was not successful. :-(
(As long as we’re already talking about Thurston, pooping, and hallways…)
WaterGirl
@laura: It’s very important to be consistent!
geg6
@WaterGirl:
And I appreciate that. It should be a rotating tag. I’ll bet Cole vetoed it. ;-)
WaterGirl
@geg6: Well, I agree. There were only two of us in the conversation, and Cole is the decider.
ltelf
Coming to this long dead thread to ask if anyone else got a bit of an Aziraphael/Crowley vibe from that picture?