Jennifur spent a lot of time curled up with me today, all soft and furry and stuff. So I was very happy.

Later on, I was working on my computer and today was cool enough again that she jumped up onto her monitor shelf and slept there while I worked (and people ask me why I don’t “upgrade” to a flat panel…hah!).

So even though I had to leave a while later, I snuck out so I wouldn’t wake her. I always love to have her with me, but I thought it was more important for her to have uninterrupted rest.

That’s true love.

Tags: cat love

Today we received the new Harry Potter book from Amazon, and Steven immediately shut himself in his room to read it.

So far, so good. The only “gotcha” is that we’ve been trying to capture a feral cat in the backyard, and Steven has been bringing the trap inside at around 5 PM so we wouldn’t get any skunks by mistake. Late this afternoon, I saw some activity in the cage (which we covered with towels so it wouldn’t look like a cage to the cat), and called Steven to calm the cat down and give it some water. About 45 seconds later, I see him in the back with the towels off the cage and staring at a very surprised baby skunk! Sure enough, it was around 7 PM and he had gotten so engrossed in Harry Potter that he had forgotten about the cage.

You can see what happened next on YouTube.

Tags: skunked

Damn system crash…

Sorry, just grousing about losing some time to technical nonsense when it’s so much nicer just to talk about cats.

Especially Jennifur.

Especially Jennifur when she sits down in Sphinx pose between our pillows (that’s Susan’s pillow and my pillow, just to keep things straight) so I can feel so much love while watching them both (that’s Susan and Jennifur).

Or especially Jennifur when she sits next to me in bed with her long beautiful tail curled up around the top of her hind leg in that particularly fetching way that some cats have.

Or even Jennifur when she sits behind me on my desk chair like she’s doing now, making sure I don’t go anywhere without her knowing about it first.

Sigh…such perfect love is hard to find.

Tags: cat love

A new shinkansen (bullet train) is being tested in Japan that aims to be not only the world’s fastest, but the first with cat ears, according to The Japan Times.

At 360 km/hour (sounds faster than 222 mph), the new Fastech train will be 20% faster than current shinkansen and the French TGV. And the cat ears aren’t just for good looks, but they pop out to act as air brakes to slow the train down quickly and safely.

Any fan of My Neighbor Totoro will understand the real reason, though: they wanted to outdo the cat bus! :-)

P.S. Thanks to the Self Help for Cats blog for alerting us to this.

Today Yang was lounging on a chair when Jennifur sauntered by. He lazily stuck his paw out and managed to pet Jennifur while she passed underneath. Luckily, she didn’t notice because she doesn’t like Yang much anyway and she would have started a fight, so it ended up just one of those magic moments that us humans can only share with other humans.

Tags: kittens