No More Little Turns on the Catwalk

Since last Sunday, Rudy’s had to go for a walk almost every day. Right around lunchtime, he starts acting like an ass, so I stuff him in the car and take him to the park or walk him around the neighborhood. Monday was a holiday and the weather was nice, so there were tons of […]

I Do My Little Turn on the Catwalk

The last cat story was cut short because of this cat story. I was in the middle of writing when the events in the accompanying video took place. In this particular video, Rudy is the aggressor, but he isn’t always. They take turns ruining all the fun of this stupid cat wall. I don’t care […]

Duck, Duck, Goose

It was nice today and I was angry with work, so I took an hour-long lunch break that accidentally turned into a two-hour lunch break, but it was worth it because I took Rudy to the park. There were lots of geese and ducks and other birds in the pond. There were also plenty of […]

A Puzzling Performance

I love jigsaw puzzles. The last time I put one together was shortly before Rudy showed up. Within a day of his arrival, I knew I’d probably never get to do another jigsaw puzzle ever again. Yesterday, I decided it wasn’t fair, so I bought myself the only 1000-piece puzzle at Target that didn’t have […]

Cat Bed

Newly assembled kid's short loft bed. The cat for whom it was purchased lounges on the floor in front of the bed.

I bought a cat bed today. Well, it’s a bed that will mostly be used by the cats. I found it on Facebook marketplace. It wasn’t super cheap, but it was way cheaper than anything I’d have bought brand new.  The good:  Fits almost perfectly, good height for ceiling-atticky-crawlspace access, and I can store all […]

CatTV II

CatTV vexes Rosie. She’ll see it from across the room and stop what she’s doing to stare at it. Eventually, she’ll jump up on the bookcase to get a closer look, but when the birds fly away or the mice crawl back in their hole, she looks around the room to see where they went. […]

CatTV

These two make me laugh every day.  It’s been a rough couple of weeks for me, but those stories have no place here in a cat diary.  I’ve been trying to get Rudy interested in watching fish or birds or something on the television or computer for years. He’s not interested. Rosie was almost interested, […]

Mount Bozo

A small cardboard barrel hangs from a beam. There's an orange cat inside. Next to the barrel is a shelf, on which a small calico cat sits.

Cat walls are all the rage right now and I jumped right on the bandwagon.  Rosie is a climber, but she’s not good at it. Just this week, she’s knocked over the big ladder (I caught it before it slammed into the wall), the Flexible Flyer that holds up the television antenna in the living […]

Fun with Robo Fish

We’ll log this under “Stupidest Purchases of the Year”. Rosie’s kind of into it. Rudy thought it was cool for the first 15 minutes and he tried to knock over the bowl, but he’s over it now.  I’m resisting this incredible urge to take the stupid fish apart to see how it works and figure […]

Afternoon at the park

Every day, Rudy gets just a little closer to his normal self after his stay at the hospital. The last two mornings, he’s rediscovered that playing with wires will get me out of bed to feed him.  A little before noon today, he was looking for trouble. He went out on the catio for a […]