The Pets Thread

My daughter is partial to cephalopods

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I think it was someone around here who pointed out that if the octopodes rise up and take over, we could call it the cephalopocalypse.

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The boys were making an excellent point about today being a good day to stay in bed and cuddle. Unfortunately I had to get up and leave at the house anyway.

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Can’t see the picture, but :heart: anyway because every day is a good day to stay in bed and cuddle.
At least in principle.

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Hmm. Looks like it got stuck in “processing” for the upload. Thank you for mentioning that so I could fix it! :smiley:

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Such cute voids! It must have been sad to leave them.

I can WFH today. One cat in the warming cat bed, the Floof on the couch, and the youngest enjoying the wildlife program. It’s apparently really good today, we’ve had at least 4 species of birds. He’ll go snuggle in the warming bed until he gets hot and then return to the window

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As well she should!

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um…welllll…
I was raised by…er, WITH cats from infanity (yes I just made that up, what of it, lol?), Siamese to begin with.

So yeah, I know. It’s weird, though: Her gramma and mom both were just more affectionate when they were in heat. So far, the only noises she’d made are those little pert/prut noises. No yowls or screeching or trying to get outside.

I dunno if you’ve seen this or not, but it’s very informative. “Prut” was a cat word coined by my son, as that’s what he’d heard from cats when he was a little one.
b-kliban-cat-words

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I had rescued a tiny pregnant cat, who went into heat barely after the kittens were weaned. I had 3 neutered male cats at the time, and she went all out in her performances; yowling, stamping her feet and presenting her hind end. Two of the boys looked at her like she was insane, but one, even though he was neutered, knew kind of what to do. Not productively of course. But she was cycling in and out of heat so fast that it was difficult to find a good time to do it.

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We had a cat years ago who made the weirdest noises over her water bowl. We called it sonar because we imagined she was echolocating the water surface.

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Love the snapped collar.

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That expression is priceless!

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The look of (demure) betrayal

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Not much impressed…

Ponkan, our ginger cat, in his favorite bed of the week. He’s still a little sick, but a little better. He has a little more energy, but he seems to have become more contemplative, he seems to meditate on life, the universe and everything else.

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My mistake: I’ve slept through her yowls, amazingly enough. Well, at least until last night.

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The favorite bed of the week…

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