Been a shitty couple of days (except for that big win last night), so I think we all need a mid-day bit of kitty porn: I’ve never met another cat who makes relaxing look so natural. He wasn’t born to hunt and prey, he was born to laze.
Cat Blogging
Open Thread: Merry Xmas, Monkeythumbs
From commentor BD in MN: Guinness is the latest in the BD household menagerie, currently down to one dog; Bruno, and two cats; Guinness and Tigger. All of our dogs have been Humane Society rescues, and all of the cats just sort of found their way to our house. Guinness just showed up meowing at …
Balloon Juice 2012 Calendar
I just got word from Beth S. that she has completed the Balloon Juice 2012 calendar, and it is now available for purchase. I hope each and every one of you takes a moment to than Beth S. for all the hard work she did putting this together for us, as she picked up where …
‘Tis the Season of Giving
I was sitting here in the lazyboy, enjoying the solace, and my guilty conscience kicked in. You’ve been begging for pics for days, so I got up and took some: Speak and Whisper are hiding in the basement, and Rosie is guarding/chewing a chew toy underneath the spare bedroom bed and won’t come out.
Monday Morning Open Thread
__ More calendar pics. From commentor Teemu (Turku, Finland): These two Sphynx brothers, Bounty and Boss, belong to my wife. She first got the Bounty (the fat pink one) six years ago, when he was just a tiny little kitten. Boss (grey-pink) came a couple of years later, and me soon thereafter. I’ve always wanted …
Cat Rescue Bleg (Baltimore Area)
From commentor Starfish: This is Casey. He has been living with me and my husband for the past 7.5 years. The trouble is that my son has been living with me, my husband, and the cat for the past 14 months. __ When my son was seven months old, the allergist told us that the …
Thursday Morning Open Thread
__ I have, to the best of my meagre ability, sent a one-line “Received – thanks!” reply to every pet-pic emailed to me or the Calendar 2012 address. Some of you probably got thanked twice, because there’s a total of more than 160 messages, many of them with multiple images. Beth is going to be …