Our cat Peep likes to sleep face-down, just like the first cat in this video. How do they breathe, when they do that?
Cats have elevated sleeping to a form of art. Each year the Acatemy gives an award for the most outlandish sleeping posture. Some of these cats were undoubtably contenders for it.
These baby gates may stymie crawling babies, but if you think they’re going to keep and cat in or out of anywhere, you’ve got another think coming. Over it, under it, through it, or around it–the cat will find a way.
Unless it’s too fat.
Want to drive yourself absolutely bonkers? Take a little four-year-old girl and give her one of those toy accordions that wheeze out random notes bearing no resemblance to any known form of music, and add a howling dog. Guaranteed to freak you out.
And then we’ve got the Corgi packing for vacation, and the cat operating the water cooler (without a cup), and the bunny enthusiastically unrolling the toilet paper–
Welcome to our world.
Why do snow-white dogs always want to dig in thick, soupy, black mud?
Why do cats want to stop you from drawing or writing?
And what rules of etiquette govern how you ought to feed your giraffes if you’re feeding them indoors?
Inquiring minds want to know.
This video mystifies me. The cat’s trying to take a nap. The parakeet seems intent on bugging him and just won’t stop. At this point it seems that the bird ought to get eaten. That’s what would happen in nature, right? When the cat finally gets riled enough to take an occasional swipe at the parakeet, the bird just dodges, retreats for a moment, and then goes right back to picking at the cat’s ears or back feet.
What is this bird so totally unafraid of the cat?
Note: Some cats, at least most of the cats I’ve ever had, really hate to have their back feet molested.
All right, I’m a softy. I can afford to be. It can’t be all swordfights, all the time. Somewhere in there, you’re going to need kittens.
My cats, when they were kittens, had these huge bat-ears. If those ears had kept growing with the rest of them, I could charge admission. But the ears just stayed the same as their owners caught up with them.
Watch in admiration as three huskies show you a sure-fire way to get evicted from your apartment! Plus the cat who wants to be a mobile on the ceiling, the two ferrets fighting over one water dish (not shown: the genius who gave them only one dish), and a cast of dozens. By popular demand, we do not have the chameleons’ Thanksgiving dinner.
I know, I know–it sounds like the title of a painting by Dali. But I’m serious, I really want to know–what is that thing? I’ve never seen one before. Should I get one for my cats? Nah, they’ll just play with the box it came in. But the kitten in this video sure seems to get a bang out of it.
Cats and dogs know a lot of ways to undermine human authority without, say, biting us or scratching us or chasing us into the bathroom. Dogs rub it in by sometimes pretending to feel guilty about it.
Shredding a roll of paper towels or eviscerating a cushion–that’s not subtle. But packing oneself into a goldfish bowl–that deserves a merit badge of something.
Let’s face it, you can’t do this with your goldfish. But cats are ideal for cuddling up and snoozing with. Even babies think so.
Our cat Peep excels at putting her humans to sleep. Her sister, Robbie, doesn’t bother. Well, nobody ever said they’re all alike.
Come to think of it, I do know someone who cuddles with his fish. But that is all I want to know about it.