Ivan loves to climb inside anything. Cubby holes, empty boxes, bags… if it’ll fit him and it doesn’t look immediately dangerous, he’ll give it a whirl. (Which explains why he slunk so happily, immediately, into his new cat carrier before he realized what it entailed. I set it down, I unlatched the gate… I trapped [...]

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Yes, I DO love doing stuff like this to my cat, as a matter of fact.

When I’m not dropping him into random containers, he resides on my beanbag, or as he thinks of it, his THRONE:

He certainly has the “why are you disturbing me with that bright light??” look. ^^;

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Feline humiliation, just one of the things Johan and I specialize in. ^^;;

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Spent the weekend around the house, working on the yard and cleaning up the garage (somewhat.) I finally hung my Japanese summer bell (fish-shaped) and our birdfeeder — between those two, Ivan should have plenty to observe (and twitch his tail over) in the front yard. I unpacked one of “those” boxes, the ones that [...]

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My husband will be particularly interested in this blog post — following a series of (assumably) funny videos of cats opening doors (haven’t watched them, on dialup today), the author explains at length how to train cats to a) not open doors and/or b) [...]

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Post-before-last was broken by an errant, unescaped > in the cd title, which has now been fixed. Said error ate about four sentences; no wonder I got no comments. You people must think I dun learned no English in school. (Huked on Foniks werked fur me.)
I’m taking Ivan back to the vet, as he’s started [...]

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Yesterday I stayed home with Ivan, who hates-hates-hates his antibiotics, but stops pouting a few hours afterwards and seems fine for the rest of the day. It’s going to be a long 17 more days of treatment, that’s for sure. I finally had a day somewhat smacking of “routine”, walk and all. (Not walking for [...]

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