cat(etc)blogging: October 2005 Archives

I got no pix of my cats today. They know I need to them to be especially fascinating now that I’m catblogging, and so they have been perversely resolute in being wildly dull, or at least only weird and funny in ways that cannot be photographed. Mrs. Kennedy’s penchant for the night crazies, for instance, during which she zooms around the place at 2am like she’s hopped up on speed, does not lend itself to still photography.

Mrs. Kennedy likes to sleep on my pillow. Sometimes that means I get groomed. Sometimes that means I get a poke in the eye with an outstretched paw.

I really worry about poor Sam. He’s so big it can’t be healthy for him, and yet he while he certainly likes his food, he doesn’t seem to eat all that much -- he just doesn’t move to burn it off. He also has this weird thing with his front paws -- his previous owner had him declawed, which I would never do, and he walks funny, which I’m not sure is a result of his weight or the declawing or a combination of the two... or maybe it’s completely unrelated. But he won’t let me look at his feet: he pulls away whenever I try to touch him there.

As if I don’t have enough to worry about, this cat’s health is always on my mind. Cuz he’s so sweet and so full of personality, and he deserves to have a long, healthy life.