Filed under cats

storms! storms!

warnings and touchdowns and hails and winds and tornadoes and counties being listed off and my cat’s watching a mosquito killer making circles on the ceiling

This one’s for the calendar…

Every year, I get the Cat Lovers Against the Bomb calendar. It’s a side arm of Nebraskans for Peace, and it’s got 8″x10″ photos of cats, cat-head-shaped moon phase icons, and important dates in both cat and peace history. This story will almost definitely be in next year’s calendar. Not the cat in question, just … Continue reading »

Friday Cat Post

Robbie’s back stateside, and in honor of that, one amazing Friday cat. Science Times examines the first domestication of wild cats. Those smarty-pants meowsers went ahead and domesticated themselves when they figured out that humans were beginning to store grain, which in turn was beginning to make mice available. Meow!

As if I weren’t already afraid enough…

First thing this morning, I read about parasites that make rats and possibly humans do really crazy things to get nearer to cats. Thanks for the creep-fest, Science Times. If that was not enough, I later found this site, thanks to another link from …this recording. Their link led to finger-sized animals, in one of … Continue reading »

on this weekend

a lovely precursor-to-spring weekend, indeed. in reverse order: i just came home on my bike, and it was too warm for my hat and my bare feet are fine. at the sun mart parking lot, i got chased down by some dangerous looking kids squeaking their newly purchased squeaky toys at me, then complaining that … Continue reading »