made myself comfortable.
Now buy me some toys!
Are any of you wondering what happened to the cat that broke in through our cat door early this month?
I sent out email to a vast network of neighbors. Judy who lives near here reported that she visits her house too. (In fact, Judy was worried that with the coming winter, Grizelda/Plomo would be cold.) No one claims ownership.
So, we think she’s ours now!!!
I’m going to be making an appointment at the vet; asking them to check to see if she’s been chipped. If we can’t find an owner, we will be checking for worms. I strongly suspect she has them. At 7 am and 5pm, this cat becomes a bottomless pit for food. At 6 pm she goes a-roamin’. She returns round 10pm, once again demanding food.
Currently, she is very thin, but we don’t want her to get as fat as Cosmos, who we nicknamed “Fat-mo”.
The place is becoming a farmhouse. Now you’re getting ads for cherry trees and pets. Keep discussing parasites and we can see how many biology ads show up. So far I haven’t seen mail-order yucky alternative fuel ads.
I’m seeing ads for something relatd to carbon offsets. (I’m going to click it. Google can now tell when the blogger clicks their own ads, so I should be ok.)
Whoops, I think I’m being self-fulfilling. Maybe my mention of a farmhouse is why I saw an ad for a utility all-terrain vehicle, which is handy for hauling small loads for farm chores. Although I also see several things on the site which carry different meanings in web context and in agricultural and pet contexts: toy, feed, post.
And I also notice “Paperst”, which you probably didn’t intend to have on your site.
Scooter–
Yes. That’s the way the Adsense targetted ads work. Google “reads” the page to try to discover the topic. After reading the page, it shows ads deems topical. It also tries to keep track of history a bit.
So, google sort of “knows” this page is about climate change. By the way, I shoved the PetSmart ad in. I’m hunting arond for affiliate ads that make sense. You would chuckle if you saw what products claim to be “green” or “environmental” at various affiliate sites.
Looks like the recent comment widget doesn’t know about edited comments, so you might not notice my “Paperst” addition to the above.
Scooter– Some of that has to do with the cache plugin. The cache plugin helps reduce CPU. A new copy of the page is saved when you submit a comment– but editing doesn’t trigger a new cache. Usually, it all catches up when the nextperson comments. But it makes the editing experience a bit odd.
Hmmmmm sounds familiar.
We have “the stomach that walks like a cat” at our place only it is 5:00am and 7:00pm in our place
She looks VERY comfortable, Lucia; congratulations. Hopefully she’s not chipped and you can take full ownership. Or rather, she can claim ownership of you.
This is one of my 4 month old boys eating broccoli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpK9z6h_tpk
He’s not a bottomlss pit, he just… likes broccoli.
Douggerell–
That’s hilarious! We had a cat who loved carrots. He went wild when we brought carrots home.
Lucia: His brother prefers potato chips and salty snacks; if you open up a bag you have to pay a “kitten tax.” I’m just glad neither one is a finicky eater!
It wasn’t the General who was teh carrot eater, was it?
Yes. The General was wild about carrots. In fact, the neighbors soon decided to plant carrots (for heaven knows what reason). The general used to go roll in the carrot patch. Everyone– including the neighbors soon laughed at that.
As somebody said, cats are willing to tolerate humans until someone invents a cat food tin they can open themselves.
Cats don’t have owners, they have STAFF.
No cat I ever had liked toys. Except when they shredded anything Nerf that I had.
On a side note, after being allergic to cats for well over 20 years, I am apparently not allergic to cats anymore. Weird.
Boris: After you inhaled enough dander, you became immune. Congratulations! Lucia: watching The General roll around in a carrot patch would have been a YouTube classic, I’d bet. Well, I’d wager quatloos…
How does your other cat handle the new one? Our cat would redefine the term “hiss-y-fit” if another cat came into the house.
SteveF–
Strangely enough, all three cats are doing ok. Fat-mo is always friend. But the amazing thing is that Pyewacket is accepting Grizelda!
Lucia,
“So, we think she’s ours now!!!”
As Terry mentioned, I think you have that backwards!!
Lucia, is the spelling correct in “Donations for Peer Review Paperst”?
Scooter– No…. Where is that?
Terry–
Yes. I think she adopted us because she new anyone with a working cat door must be a patsy.
“Scooter– No…. Where is that?”
Under “pages” in the righthand sidebar.
Cat breakfastz time
Easy open can pop topz
Many mewlingz
So vry hungryz.
Can I haz a chezebrgr?
Medyum rarr, plz.
Andrew and Garry–
Funny. I encouraged her to entertain herself chasing and not catching squirrels this morning.
Spirit of great leonine predator
hidden behind purrs and difidence
watch out, native birds
Totally unrelated:
When some warming realists bring up the Medieval Warm period to cast doubt on the AGW hypothesis, the true believers claim that MWP was regional, was intermittent etc, while implying that the current hot phase is global. I do not think this is the case since there is a wealth of evidence documented at CO2science.com which shows that MWP was worldwide. However, that raises the question “is the current hot phase world wide or is a particular region driving it?”
If you look at the UAH data for the last 30 years compiled by Christy and Spencer, there seems to be a significant regional difference. The trends are identified at the bottom, and the trend for the Southern Hemisphere is different from the trend for the northern hemisphere, and the trend for land is different from the trend for oceans. The highest trend is for the NH Land (UHI anyone? ).
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt
Could Lucia (or someone else), competent in statistics calculate and post the regional trends, taking into account the auto-correlations and the spikes caused by the volcanoes. I am sure that this would be of great interest to many people. If it has already been done, could I pls have some references.
Thanks
I think the cats are cherry picking you.
I’m a dog person, currently with a five year old red minature dachsund. A little over a year ago, a stray Tom cat decided to adopt us. We live in rural Indiana, and I fixed a heated place in an outbuilding so the cat could survive the Indiana winter. He also discovered our small dog door, and made himself at home in our house while we made a day trip to Chicago for a Cubs game. The cat and dachsund got along fairly well, with the cat joining us on our twice-daily walks. He would occasionaly disappear on weekends, but would usually return the following Monday.
Unfortunately, he disappeared a couple of months ago, didn’t return, and I suspect he was the victim of coyotes or free-running dogs which are plentiful where I live. As I say, I’m a dog person, but It’s surprising how I miss that cat!
I have conquered without violence
I rule firmly with love
You may bow down and worship me
Now bring the tuna!!!
lucia, she’s not yours. No one owns cats. They chose those who will serve them. Poor service? They’re gone. So far, you must have a four star rating.
the right purple collar would be stunning
For Terry, the quote is from Rush Limbaugh: “Dogs have masters; cats have staff.”
I agree that no cat we’ve ever had liked cat toys. But toilet paper rolls, Bounty (never the cheap recycled stuff), throw rugs, socks–delightfu.
By the way, cats are clearly the dominant species on the planet. Submit!
Duane,
Daschunds are my favorite! When I was little, we had one in El Salvador but had to leave him behind. (We left him with a good home who owned another daschund. He’s fathered 7 puppies with that Daschund, so as kids we considered her his “wife”. Heh.)
Sorry for your loss.
Robert– The cat has filled out a little and stopped eating voraciously. She now wants to be petted and snuggled all the time.
Bob Sykes– We had a cat who liked cosmetic (i.e. make up) sponges. We discoveredt this because he would find one, carry it drop it in a show and then “pounce” on it. We started tossing them and he would play catch and return them. (This was our first cat, Whiskers.) The general (the orange rabbit catcher) liked plastic rings, which he also fetched and returned. But he only played fetch in winter. In summer, spring and fall, he went out ‘e-rabbit-tatin’.
“Dogs look up to men, cats look down on them, but pigs just treat us as equals”, Winston S. Churchill….
We had a mottled black and tan cat at the toxic waste remediation site where I once worked. Every shift thought that they were the ones that were supposed to feed the cat. I eventually named it “Brunswick” because of its increasing similarity in shape and color to a bowling ball. Its favorite napping spot was a patch of sunlight right inside the door where it would be stepped on every time someone entered. It never learned. I think it had the same IQ as a jar of mayonnaise. I’d trade 20 Brunswicks for a dachshund any time.
Jorge: You never learned to get out of Brunswick’s sunbeam ..good line about mayo jar though ..
Lucia: our cat is crazy about those plastic rings that come off of 1/2 gallon milk containers .. also, will only consume water if it is running at some optimal flow rate (empirical study still in progress) from the kitchen sink faucet..
Well, someone’s gotta do it.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/21/sustainable-living-now-includes-edible-pets-to-curb-global-warming/
Lucia,
New climate research shows that you are going to have to eat that cat if we are going to have any chance of saving the planet.
Cover by Anthony Watts.
My strategy for turning the Cat-From-Hell into a snuggly fur-ball was to leave her alone in the house for a week. Plenty of food, running water… but when we got back, Hsiao-Mao (formal name: Mao Mei-ling) was a changed cat. She still hissed and then hid when strangers were in the house, but when Ethel and I went to bed, in less than a minute she was there squirming in between us.
I lost Hsiao-Mao, recently. E.M. Smith at chiefio
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/
has some thoughts that cat hosts need to consider.
I now have . . . three cats! Oh the humanity!
Tea Party Update:
We marched around the headquarters of our district representative in the house today. It has come to this because he said some things during the campaign to get elected and now he appears to be changing his mind about these things. Worse, he is no longer communicating with all of the people he is supposed be representing. Yes, he has a (D) in front of his name and no, I did not vote for him.
We had one counter-protester that I saw, who was complaining about his medical bills. I wonder what illness he had that prevented him from not coming to the protest? 😉 Everybody has bills, dude. Well, not everybody.
I did have a happy moment during the protest. I saw up towards the front for the crowd, a disabled young girl being held by her mother. She was attempting to say the Pledge of Allegiance along with the rest of us. She was not successful in the sense she got all the words configured correctly… But I could see she was obviously enjoying the moment, being a part of our gathering. In the sense that her “family”, and especially her, were still exercising their voices as free people, it was a heartening display of Life. 🙂
Andrew