Tag: sanity medicine

Sanity Break: Cats Stalking

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If you can watch this video without getting seasick, then you are not my wife. You’ll also enjoy it.

Here are people with hand-held, seasickness-inducing cameras playing peek-a-boo with cats to get them to stalk them. Which they do: they can’t resist it.

Remember the game of “statues”? Cats would be good at it.

Uh, what’s “statues”? It’s a game my mother and my aunts played when they were kids. If you’re It, you turn your back while the other players try to sneak up on you. At any time you can suddenly turn around and face them, and anyone you catch moving is out of the game. It’s called statues because you have to instantly become as still as a statue if you want to keep playing.

Video Treat: Animals Making Rather Odd Noises

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Here are dogs, a few goats, a mule, a monkey, and a cat all making strange noises. I would rather my pet didn’t sound like the climax of an Edgar Allan Poe story, but to each his own.

Video Treat: Cats Bothering Dogs

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Clearly none of these cats has ever heard, “Let sleeping dogs lie.”

Isn’t it amazing, what dogs will put up with?

Sanity Break: Your Cats’ Jobs

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All right, I’ve had enough of the news today. Time for a cat video. These help to keep my head from exploding.

Here are some of the useful things your cats do around the home. It should be added that cats are also masters of the art of making things disappear. Like pens, chessmen, or anything else small enough to bat under the bookcase where you’ll never see it again.

Video Treat: Cats Love You

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Does your cat love you? Here are some cats who really, really love their human beings.

Just another one of those little things that God put into His creation, that we never would’ve thought of.

God’s stuff is just so good.

When You’ve Had Enough of the News…

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When I suddenly find myself screaming as I scan the news, I know it’s time to back off.

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948), a fantasy about a middle-aged Bostonian who falls in love with a mermaid, is an effective dose of sanity, funny, whimsical, and witty: they really don’t make movies like this anymore. For Patty and me it’s long been a favorite. It stars William Powell as Mr. Peabody, Irene Hervey as his baffled wife, and Ann Blyth as the mermaid–and if this movie doesn’t relax, delight, and captivate you, I don’t know what will.

Poor Peabody blunders into one mortifyingly embarrassing situation into another until the whole island (they’re on vacation in the Caribbean) thinks he’s totally popped his cork. These scenes, relying on acutely clever dialogue and marvelous performances, are screamingly funny. I mean, you will just plotz when Peabody goes into the Wee Shop of Intimate Things to buy “half a bathing suit.”

This comedy is gentle, sweet, and in its own quiet and inimitable way, off the wall.

If you’re over 50, like Peabody, and have never thought you’ve heard a mermaid singing in the distance…. you ought to listen harder.

Sanity Break: Pets Taking Baths

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Dogs, cats, monkeys, even a hedgehog–they’re all enjoying bath time. Who would’ve thought it?

The only pet I ever had that seemed to like getting a bath was my iguana. He got lost in our family’s drop-down ceiling once, and when he finally found his way back out, he was black instead of green. As I was away on an out-of-state job interview, my sister bathed him–complete with brush, in places. And he was totally a good boy about it.

Video Treat: Eccentric Cats

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The intriguing thing about cats is, you never know what they’re going to do next. Then again, neither do they.

Now I know how to play ping-pong with a cat. Live and learn.

By the way, some of the things they get up to just might wreck your house.

Music Appreciation for Dogs & Cats

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All right, enough of this heavy stuff. If I write one more word about you-know-who today, my brain will wither.

So… Music hath charms, eh? Let’s see if it charms these dogs and cats. All I know is, when I play my harmonica, my cats run away. It’s rather deflating, if the truth be known.

Grudge Match: Cats vs. Printers

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I have a theory about what happened to the lost Indus Valley civilization. Cats did it. They thought it was a lot of printers.

I don’t know why I laugh at this video. I wouldn’t be laughing if it was my printer. Happily, neither of our cats has ever shown the slightest interest in it. They must be eccentric.