That looks suspiciously like me at the grocery store trying to reach an item above my head. Except, I can’t just walk through anything to get what I want.
When in college, my housemate and I had a couple of rescue animals, one was a slobbery St. Bernard named Babe who had mild hip displasia and the other was a Siamese cat named Fast'n'bulbous with a very pronounced kink in his tail. That cat, I'm convinced, could merely teleport through closed doors.
When I was introducing new cat Tigger to old cat Sasha, I put up a pet gate so they could see each other. Tigger jumped it. Stacked a second taller pet gate above it, leaving maybe 6 inches at the top. Tigger climbed that too.
My husband fashioned a screen door using a window screen when we got Saffron so we could slowly introduce her to Cooper. Spent two weeks doing it slowly. They aren’t “friends” but they aren’t too antagonistic to one another at least.
My daughter uses a gate to keep her dogs from eating the kitty's food and messing with her litter, but her gate has a small cat door for Luna Belle to use.
We have a gate for the same reason. I cut a rectangle out of it just big enough for Hobbs!! to get through. We feed him in our "office" and it works well, we just lean it up against the door frame.
Our dogs used to sneaky buffet at the litter box and then pretend they didn't even though they'd have litter all over their noses. I wish I would've thought about a gate.
We use a tall gate at the top of the stairs. It’s a cat filter, skinny Upstairs Kitty can jump or slip through it. Chunky Downstairs Kitty can do neither.
I also have two of those gates, although mine have little cat doors in them. But if the doors are closed the cat can still squeeze through the bars so we just leave them open. They're mostly there to keep the dog out of the kitchen and away from the cat's food and litter box.
I have the same set up (two gates). Problem for me is that my cat is twice the size of my dog, so I have a set of stairs at each gate for the cat. For whatever reason, the dog doesn't use them even though he REALLY wants to eat cat poo. When we come home, the first place he runs to is the litter room to see if there's a "snack."
When my husband and I moved in together, well before we were married (gasp! scandal!), he had a dog but I had agreed to take on a couple of young cats from a woman who was allergic to them. So we bought a baby gate to keep them separated. Yeah, that lasted a whole day. Those cats not only were able to easily jump the barrier, they had the poor old dog abiding their every whim in no time.
Hobbs!! turns 16 next month, which is like 80 to a cat. I've watched him go from making his kitten mistakes to fearlessly jumping from the dresser to the door top. Like a great aging athlete, he's been picking his spots the last few years. He loves to jump vertically on to the vanity to get a drink from the faucet and like the kitty featured here, he measures then does a couple of practice wind ups and then leaps. He's still able to make it but the time when he is unable to is coming soon.
The Divine Miss LolaCat is possibly about 20, and now needs me to lift her up on to the sink for her tap water. And of course I do it, I even get out of a lovely warm bath to do it. She may not have opposable thumbs but I am most definitely under them!
We put in kitty steps for the food and water on the dresser for our Lucy and Ethel as they approached old age. Had them both until they were 20. Great kittehs.
I'm glad to see Thornton is on the mend. Knowing cats as I do, however, I'd caution you to nonetheless sleep with one eye open at night in case the little devil decides to wreak revenge. Lmao.
I've said for a long time that wasteland and marginal area are perfect for renewable energy production. The cost benefit long term would outweigh the ramp up investment.
Oh Dok! I am all tearing up over Thornton. You are a good pet friend and owner for taking such good care of Thornton. May his recovery, and yours, proceed smoothly. Thank you for sharing pics of your wonderful cat! I would love to see pictures of Thornton looking at pictures of Larry the Cat at 10 Downing St., too. ;-)
Thank you for the nato speech and sings. Beautiful and excellent news on the environmental progress. Year inflation reduction act again to the rescue! Poor kitty glad he’s on the mend.
So glad to hear of solar panels over aqueducts and irrigation canals! First read of these about 15 years ago in New Scientist, a project in India. It made so much sense and I wondered why we weren't doing this in California instead of proposing tunnels under the Delta to move more water. Preserve what water we've got AND generate electricity? A win-win! Thank you, Biden Administration for funding this project.
That was my kitty 20 years ago this summer. he and I were in and out of the doctor all summer with his multiple surgeries for an infected scratch wound on his tail. They threatened to amputate if I couldn't keep him from licking it. We had a platform for food, an extra-long dog cone so he couldn't rub the edge on any part of his body, a separate mini cone around his tail that was secured with a string to his collar (like a Dr. Seuss contraption), and eventually I didn't have the funds for any more surgeries so I let that tail heal itself under a bandage for awhile longer than is correct, but when I put on my big girl pants and took off the bandage, there was new skin! So he got to keep his tail. One time, he escaped through the kitty door and jumped the fence, but he just wanted to lay under the bush where the birds liked to party. He never caught anything in his life because he would chirp at the birds while he did his pre-pounce booty wiggle, and they'd fly away.
We went through so much gauze and tape and ointment that summer because I also got a tail booboo and needed to treat that booty ouchie with the same stuff I was using on the cat. It was my first experience with a HSA and it kicked ass. Or, saved both our asses, actually.
Turns out having a big bandage on the cute bottom butt curve will keep people from chasing after cute booty. Did not catch any birds, and I believe it may have been the least active stretch of time in cute booty’s era of catching companions.
Here's the Casa Blanca webpage.. https://tectonicus.com/casablanca-pilot. There's 8,000 miles of canals and waterways managed by the Bureau of Reclamation, that' a lotta solar power.
"It doesn’t appear the shithead was targeting Sotomayor, or that he was even particularly sentient."
Yesterday I spelled "sentient" in Scrabble and got almost the lowest possible score for a bingo (using all seven tiles) - 57 points. The only way it could have been lower was if I'd had two blank tiles instead of only one.
It's your hed gif source linky: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/finding-a-path-forward
𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥!
Cats is cats...
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LOVE THAT! Sorry for shouting, but I just couldn't help it.
That looks suspiciously like me at the grocery store trying to reach an item above my head. Except, I can’t just walk through anything to get what I want.
"Except, I can’t just walk through anything to get what I want."
I can, but you wouldn't BELIEVE the downside to it...Trust me you're better off going AROUND stuff
As they say, "Don't step on something if you can step over it. Don't step over something if you can walk around it." Words to live by.
Wish I'd known that BEFORE I learned I coukd walk through things
You ever just like LEANING on something? A lamp post' a wall, the hood of a car?
I can't do that. Trust me, Leaning is WAY underrated
Well, now you know the possibilities and the traditional hierarchy. Go forth and don't break stuff, including yourself.
Oh, I almost forgot. One of my favorite stories is Le passe-muraille (The Walker-Through-Walls) by Marcel Aymé. You think you have problems.
I’ll check that out!
When in college, my housemate and I had a couple of rescue animals, one was a slobbery St. Bernard named Babe who had mild hip displasia and the other was a Siamese cat named Fast'n'bulbous with a very pronounced kink in his tail. That cat, I'm convinced, could merely teleport through closed doors.
Did Fast'n'bulbous hang with the Mascara Snake?
You seem to be implying that Fast'n'bulbous' skill was somehow unique. Psshaw.
Point well taken.
Back in the day, a housemate had a rescue Rottweiler mix. Total chick magnet, anyone sitting on the couch had a lapdog laying on them.
Got me?
When I was introducing new cat Tigger to old cat Sasha, I put up a pet gate so they could see each other. Tigger jumped it. Stacked a second taller pet gate above it, leaving maybe 6 inches at the top. Tigger climbed that too.
My husband fashioned a screen door using a window screen when we got Saffron so we could slowly introduce her to Cooper. Spent two weeks doing it slowly. They aren’t “friends” but they aren’t too antagonistic to one another at least.
My daughter uses a gate to keep her dogs from eating the kitty's food and messing with her litter, but her gate has a small cat door for Luna Belle to use.
We have a gate for the same reason. I cut a rectangle out of it just big enough for Hobbs!! to get through. We feed him in our "office" and it works well, we just lean it up against the door frame.
Our dogs used to sneaky buffet at the litter box and then pretend they didn't even though they'd have litter all over their noses. I wish I would've thought about a gate.
God, Termite will eat it then sit on my lap and BELCH!
Yep. We decided in my home that cat turds are the dog equivalent of smack. They cannot stop once they get a taste. It's all so gross.
Smack and snack. We’d hoped that getting an “enclosed” litter box would help. HA! He won’t use it, and she doesn’t care that she has to climb in.
Gross!
We use a tall gate at the top of the stairs. It’s a cat filter, skinny Upstairs Kitty can jump or slip through it. Chunky Downstairs Kitty can do neither.
I also have two of those gates, although mine have little cat doors in them. But if the doors are closed the cat can still squeeze through the bars so we just leave them open. They're mostly there to keep the dog out of the kitchen and away from the cat's food and litter box.
I have the same set up (two gates). Problem for me is that my cat is twice the size of my dog, so I have a set of stairs at each gate for the cat. For whatever reason, the dog doesn't use them even though he REALLY wants to eat cat poo. When we come home, the first place he runs to is the litter room to see if there's a "snack."
Termite's a danged gourmand!
The stinker the better!
When my husband and I moved in together, well before we were married (gasp! scandal!), he had a dog but I had agreed to take on a couple of young cats from a woman who was allergic to them. So we bought a baby gate to keep them separated. Yeah, that lasted a whole day. Those cats not only were able to easily jump the barrier, they had the poor old dog abiding their every whim in no time.
Cats are always alpha...
The dog never had a chance in that scenario.
I have two of those gates. Nobody show Termite that video!
TABS gif, le sigh....
Hobbs!! turns 16 next month, which is like 80 to a cat. I've watched him go from making his kitten mistakes to fearlessly jumping from the dresser to the door top. Like a great aging athlete, he's been picking his spots the last few years. He loves to jump vertically on to the vanity to get a drink from the faucet and like the kitty featured here, he measures then does a couple of practice wind ups and then leaps. He's still able to make it but the time when he is unable to is coming soon.
He must make his calculations. It's all laid out in THE BURROW.
The Divine Miss LolaCat is possibly about 20, and now needs me to lift her up on to the sink for her tap water. And of course I do it, I even get out of a lovely warm bath to do it. She may not have opposable thumbs but I am most definitely under them!
We put in kitty steps for the food and water on the dresser for our Lucy and Ethel as they approached old age. Had them both until they were 20. Great kittehs.
oh she has floor level water (and food) as well, but why go for that when you can get your human slave to work for you!
My cat is of a similar age and already gives long thought before making jumps she'd make in a heartbeat when she was a decade younger.
“Minneapolis is about to start one of the nation’s first municipal carbon removal projects, using a “biomass pyrolizer””
Whoot! This is related to my doctoral thesis proposal.
Bio char is worth taking the time to study and understand because it’s implications could be world saving.
All things considered, better than a dipshit with a nine-toed woman.
I'm glad to see Thornton is on the mend. Knowing cats as I do, however, I'd caution you to nonetheless sleep with one eye open at night in case the little devil decides to wreak revenge. Lmao.
I've said for a long time that wasteland and marginal area are perfect for renewable energy production. The cost benefit long term would outweigh the ramp up investment.
Oh Dok! I am all tearing up over Thornton. You are a good pet friend and owner for taking such good care of Thornton. May his recovery, and yours, proceed smoothly. Thank you for sharing pics of your wonderful cat! I would love to see pictures of Thornton looking at pictures of Larry the Cat at 10 Downing St., too. ;-)
go Thornton!
Thank you for the nato speech and sings. Beautiful and excellent news on the environmental progress. Year inflation reduction act again to the rescue! Poor kitty glad he’s on the mend.
So glad to hear of solar panels over aqueducts and irrigation canals! First read of these about 15 years ago in New Scientist, a project in India. It made so much sense and I wondered why we weren't doing this in California instead of proposing tunnels under the Delta to move more water. Preserve what water we've got AND generate electricity? A win-win! Thank you, Biden Administration for funding this project.
Cats do NOT like cones. but they are also forgiving of their Persons
They distrust tori in general, which is why they make piss-poor mathematicians. Well, that's not the only reason, but it's top five.
Here's a handy little guide to throw at people.
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/87e3fb0c-8c58-4585-a13d-3caeeb48380d?target_reply_id=e1d7629e-f2d6-46a2-91a2-32fa387f2dcb&showTarget=true
That was my kitty 20 years ago this summer. he and I were in and out of the doctor all summer with his multiple surgeries for an infected scratch wound on his tail. They threatened to amputate if I couldn't keep him from licking it. We had a platform for food, an extra-long dog cone so he couldn't rub the edge on any part of his body, a separate mini cone around his tail that was secured with a string to his collar (like a Dr. Seuss contraption), and eventually I didn't have the funds for any more surgeries so I let that tail heal itself under a bandage for awhile longer than is correct, but when I put on my big girl pants and took off the bandage, there was new skin! So he got to keep his tail. One time, he escaped through the kitty door and jumped the fence, but he just wanted to lay under the bush where the birds liked to party. He never caught anything in his life because he would chirp at the birds while he did his pre-pounce booty wiggle, and they'd fly away.
We went through so much gauze and tape and ointment that summer because I also got a tail booboo and needed to treat that booty ouchie with the same stuff I was using on the cat. It was my first experience with a HSA and it kicked ass. Or, saved both our asses, actually.
Did you get more birds by not chirping while you revved up your ass?
Turns out having a big bandage on the cute bottom butt curve will keep people from chasing after cute booty. Did not catch any birds, and I believe it may have been the least active stretch of time in cute booty’s era of catching companions.
Here's the Casa Blanca webpage.. https://tectonicus.com/casablanca-pilot. There's 8,000 miles of canals and waterways managed by the Bureau of Reclamation, that' a lotta solar power.
"It doesn’t appear the shithead was targeting Sotomayor, or that he was even particularly sentient."
Yesterday I spelled "sentient" in Scrabble and got almost the lowest possible score for a bingo (using all seven tiles) - 57 points. The only way it could have been lower was if I'd had two blank tiles instead of only one.
That is all.
Fer cryin' out loud! Almost doesn't seem worth it! Tx- I'd forgotten I used to like to play Scrabble on my phone (against the phone).
That's a damn shame.
Let's hear it for Thornton and Joe Biden, both survivors.
Now, do they make cones of shame with ball gags that we could install on Donald Chump?
Yay, Thornton!