Cats

[lizkat]

Skitty in blanket is best skitty.

Bandit likes blankets, pull toys, upside down cardboard boxes, tents... even flat cardboard.

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[Runs For Fun]

Yah that cat looks like knows how to maintain law and order for sure. Here are some happy cats for Monday.

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Man is this app a perfect storm of a time-waster. The app is KittyCollectors+ and I got the Arcade version at Apple's app store. Terminally cute, slightly klutzy interface but of course I got over that.

I might have to set up an iOS "focus" to prohibit my use of the app during what I regard as normal working hours.

Spoiler: You know you want to try it

The regular app store's version of the app has in-app purchases but the Arcade version it's all just play money (well, fish) of which you're given an opening supply. All you have to do is shop for goodies and then set those out in the yard to amuse or comfort any kitties who show up to eat and play and sleep... and they leave you gifts (fish or goldfish) with which you purchase more goodies and replenish their food dish.

If they really like the stuff you leave out for them, one or another of them will eventually leave you special gifts called mementos. Just check back every so often and fill up their food bowl, accept the gifts they've left, buy more goodies or swap out the arrangement of the ones you've put into the yard.

You can snap photos of them to stick in their in-game albums, or take group photos of the yard at a given time that will download to your Photos.

Each kitty has a name, some are very elusive, all have different personalities and goodie preferences you learn over time by consulting their individual photo albums, where their three most favored toys or comforting objects are recorded. So this being October baseball season, I am quite fond of the kitty named Joe Dimeowgio. Yeah, really there's one named that.

OMG I didn't know there was an Apple Arcade version on that game! I kind of got annoyed by all the microtransactions. I might keep Apple Arcade for this game alone!

 

[lizkat]

OMG I didn't know there was an Apple Arcade version on that game! I kind of got annoyed by all the microtransactions. I might keep Apple Arcade for this game alone!

Yah I ran into the Arcade version of KittyCollector+ after finally switching to Apple One plan since I already had Music and TV plans separately. Had never even looked at the arcade games, picked that one up and havn't gone back for more yet --- since getting hooked on that one is bad enough!

 

[Alli]

Mama (Runty) and Bobtail Kitty. I’m going to have to rig up something a little better for cooler weather.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Last week as I was sitting down to lunch, my mom texts me to say that she can't find her cat and she thinks he's dead. It's true, he's pretty old, so that's not an unreasonable surmise.

So I skip lunch and drive over to her place with a flashlight. I play detective and ask her when was the last time she saw him. She says yesterday morning. So he's been missing for maybe a day and a half.

I start looking around. Behind furniture. Under furniture. The living room. The kitchen. The bathroom. Her bedroom. Some of these places she's already looked, but I want to be sure.

When I can't find him there, I start in the basement. Again, behind and under stuff with the flashlight. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

I ask her about the spare bedrooms. She tells me she never goes in there, so he can't be in there. You know where this is going, don't you? So I take another look around with no results.

At this point I decide to follow the advice of Hercule Poirot and sit and let the little grey cells do the work. Where could he be, where I haven't already looked? I come up with nothing. It's not that big a house. I've looked all the places I could think of. So then I follow another bit of advice (Sherlock Holmes?): when you have eliminated all other possibilities, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

So I ask her about the spare bedrooms again. She insists she never opens those doors. I tell her barring that, the only thing she can do is wait until his body starts to, er, smell, and trace that. I'm about to leave when I tell her I'm gonna look in the spare bedrooms anyway, just to be positive.

Sure enough, I open the door and immediately the cat runs out and bawls me out with a loud, crabby meow. Then my mom tells me she was only in there to get an envelope from the dresser.

*Sigh.*

 

[DT]

FFS ...

 

[SuperMatt]

FFS ...

Is that from the movie ET?

 

[lizkat]

Don't know where my bro got this. Looks like an extrajudicial settlement was up next.

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[Scepticalscribe]

Last week as I was sitting down to lunch, my mom texts me to say that she can't find her cat and she thinks he's dead. It's true, he's pretty old, so that's not an unreasonable surmise.

So I skip lunch and drive over to her place with a flashlight. I play detective and ask her when was the last time she saw him. She says yesterday morning. So he's been missing for maybe a day and a half.

I start looking around. Behind furniture. Under furniture. The living room. The kitchen. The bathroom. Her bedroom. Some of these places she's already looked, but I want to be sure.

When I can't find him there, I start in the basement. Again, behind and under stuff with the flashlight. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

I ask her about the spare bedrooms. She tells me she never goes in there, so he can't be in there. You know where this is going, don't you? So I take another look around with no results.

At this point I decide to follow the advice of Hercule Poirot and sit and let the little grey cells do the work. Where could he be, where I haven't already looked? I come up with nothing. It's not that big a house. I've looked all the places I could think of. So then I follow another bit of advice (Sherlock Holmes?): when you have eliminated all other possibilities, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

So I ask her about the spare bedrooms again. She insists she never opens those doors. I tell her barring that, the only thing she can do is wait until his body starts to, er, smell, and trace that. I'm about to leave when I tell her I'm gonna look in the spare bedrooms anyway, just to be positive.

Sure enough, I open the door and immediately the cat runs out and bawls me out with a loud, crabby meow. Then my mom tells me she was only in there to get an envelope from the dresser.

*Sigh.*

Not Sherlock Holmes, but, I think that could be Occam's Razor (after Roger of Occam).

 

[ericwn]

FFS ...

What is that even useful for?

 

[DT]

What is that even useful for?

Kitty on the deck / outside, who's 100% indoor only

 

[DT]

So I've been saying "hello!" to this kitty and now she walks around purring what sounds like, HELLOOO?

Then over the weekend, she was sitting at the rear screen door, making squirrel sounds - back at the squirrels. It's __trippy__

 

[lizkat]

So I've been saying "hello!" to this kitty and now she walks around purring what sounds like, HELLOOO?

Then over the weekend, she was sitting at the rear screen door, making squirrel sounds - back at the squirrels. It's __trippy__

Hah that cat has you in her pocket for life. Didn't take long, did it?

Make sure she doesn't get outside during Halloween. Kids can be stupidly cruel to kitties in this season.

 

[DT]

Hah that cat has you in her pocket for life. Didn't take long, did it?

Make sure she doesn't get outside during Halloween. Kids can be stupidly cruel to kitties in this season.

Hahaha, the screaming sort of drives me nuts, so I do have to occasionally chase her upstairs.

Yeah, we have a rule to always have two doors closed for coming/going, unless she's specifically locked up (in Daughter's room).

Our laundry room has two doors, and that leads into the garage, so we go in, confirm no kitty, open the second door. It's like leaving a space station ...

 

[Herdfan]

Hahaha, the screaming sort of drives me nuts, so I do have to occasionally chase her upstairs.

Our Gizmo rarely shuts up. The irony is my wife wanted to keep him because as a kitten, he had almost no meow. The vet guessed he had gotten his vocal chords damaged in the womb. She was afraid someone would let him outside and if he got into trouble, he wouldn't be able to call for help.

Well, that didn't last long as he found his voice at about a year and hasn't been quiet since.

 

[lizkat]

I used to have to worry about an indoor cat getting out; it was after I first moved up here full time and still had a cat that was accustomed to life in my city apartment. He was old though, and quickly became content to snooze in the sunny places he picked out as his own inside the house.

No problem with the last two cats I had acquired here in the boondocks, since both were winter rescues... and one of them would actually flee to the living room whenever I opened the back door and there was so much as a cool breeze coming in, even during summer.

 

[Thomas Veil]

Not Sherlock Holmes, but, I think that could be Occam's Razor (after Roger of Occam).

Occam's razor is similar, though it deals with explanations of various complexity, insisting that the simplest one is usually correct.

I had a moment to check it out, and it is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, although I didn't exactly quote it correctly, hence the confusion.

FFS ...

That's what Brian Laundrie's cat uses when it goes camping.





....What? Too soon?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Occam's razor is similar, though it deals with explanations of various complexity, insisting that the simplest one is usually correct.

I had a moment to check it out, and it is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, although I didn't exactly quote it correctly, hence the confusion.

Given the respective dates, I'd wager that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle elaborated on principles first enunciated by Roger of Occam (not that this may have been attributed, needless to say) in that elegantly nonchalant manner perfected by educated aristocrats.

 

[Alli]

Our laundry room has two doors, and that leads into the garage, so we go in, confirm no kitty, open the second door. It's like leaving a space station ...

No problem with the last two cats I had acquired here in the boondocks, since both were winter rescues... and one of them would actually flee to the living room whenever I opened the back door and there was so much as a cool breeze coming in, even during summer.

Two of my three won’t go near the doors when they’re open. The third will race past your feet at every opportunity. Fortunately, once he gets out he usually just lies down on the cement and waits for you to bring him back in. He’s currently on house arrest though, because the last time he went out he decided he needed to follow the ferals under the house. He wouldn’t come out when I called him. Of course, when his daddy got down on all fours and hollered at him to come out, he came right away. Typical.

 

[Runs For Fun]

The third will race past your feet at every opportunity. Fortunately, once he gets out he usually just lies down on the cement and waits for you to bring him back in.

Typical cat.