I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
We're cute kittens who hate fags!
Hope them ain't two boy cats.
Awwww.
Hey Stuart, two pussies waiting for you big guy. rawr.......
By the Way, Our names are Friedman and Hayek. We hate solcialists and communists as well as fags.
awwwwwww...
Here's mine; they too pile up:
http://esotericaofleesburg.com/j...ne/
twocats3.jpg
Looks like two lazy Welfare Queens to me. I'll bet Atrios cropped out the Cadillac.
I love it when their little pink feet hang out. Rosa sprawls like a champ, Eddie is one of those cats whose feet are always properly tucked. It is a funny household.
Here is something for those of you who are more into bears.
Atrios, are you really going to do this every Friday? I've really missed Friday Cat Blogging and your masters look quite photogenic.
Dogs have masters. Cats have staffs.
they're both male...and...brothers! If someone could lend me a dog to get in the picture we could get ricky santorum really excited.
Cats, ferrets.
That's it, next Friday at Rising Hegemon it will be Friday Slugblogging
Meanwhile, OT: Apparently, not satisfied outing their own operatives, to cover their asses from criticism from terror alerts the Bushies pulled off a Pakistani version of Valerie Plame!
SCOOTER!!
Cute. Though I'm not a cat person.
I have two dogs and they sometimes blog when my back is turned, but never on Fridays. One of them is a Republican and the other one hatches revolutions against all humans, so I try to keep them off the keyboard. And also because of the hair and the drooling.
Who can feel nasty about two cuddling pussy's? Perverts.
Doesn't this sound like the birth of a super hero (ie Spiderman via the "radioactive/geneticaly enhanced" spider:
Lightning jolts teen working on computer
Its a bird! Its a plane! Its Super Geek!
Who's got ferrets? I wanna see me some ferret-bloggin'.
Atrios,
You got me with this one. If I sell the house, I might actually contribute $ to the candidate of your choice. All fisking aside. I have no problem shooting people, but I love dogs and cats!
And, yeah, shoot me: the link above was via Drudge.
ATRIKITTIES ROCK
-Katie Couric
Who says same-sex relationships aren't what nature intended?
nice touch Atrios, you rule the blogosphere!!!!!!!
A Chartreu?
I sm half sick of shadows.
Arachne,
Do you own the store? I shop there whenever I can!
I am half sick of shadows.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, them is sweeeet katrioids. We got six includin a couple of brothers. They're on the clock - you just don't know how difficult it is to slip in 16-20hrs of sleep in a day.
Atrios- do yours have to do chores?
George and Laura abandoned their cat on 9/11 -
That was enough to turn my cats (please-don't-move-our-food-dishes- conseratives) into (sort of)liberals/demotratics...
Is this an instapundit ripoff?
Kitties!
I knew Atrios had kitties.
I have three....
want some?
Kitties! They are soooo cute.
At least yours get along. Mine don't care much for each other.
So damn innocent looking. Not a care in the world, eyes wide open and no mischief in their souls.
Right ... we know they are plotting world domination as they snooze.
Luckily a few cat treats and doomsday is put off for a few more hours.
Look at that, they are so immoral!!
Kevin is probably envious
Have to add my own AWWW. I lost my 18 yr. old cat early this year and I miss her a lot -- cats are such great company. These two guys look really fat and happy.
I confess that I sort of lost interest in Kevin Drum after he stopped the Friday Cat Blogging. Seems dopey, but I felt like some of the heart went out of his work when he got too big time for that little Friday "moment of zen".
Here's my addition to Friday's catblogging.
I'd like you all to meet: Sonny
Don't let the looks deceive you. He's a real killer....
... but only Republican mice... and rabbits.. squirrels... lizards... banana slugs... etc..
I bet them cats been at the Catnip. I knew they was trouble the first time I seen 'em.
Atrios, the name-stealing troll is out tonight...
Is this an instapundit ripoff?
Cheese, get your pundits in a row. This is a Calpundit ripoff. Cats and other sentient creatures hate instapundit!
Cool. Hide those wires or someday they may chew through them.
Right ... we know they are plotting world domination as they snooze.
Just don't tell them about opposible thumbs, it they figure that one out, it's all over.
The black and white one reminds me of a cat from way back. We called him Comet Cat, because he had that white going up between his eyes, but farther. He also had a black spot right beside his nose, so we also called him booger.
Cats are wonderful pets, but somewhat confusing. Dogs are much more direct, and so, easier the undestand, from my experience.
My cats won't even hang out in the same room together, let alone get close enough to touch other.
Abba and Dharma, go figure.
My cat is a freeper. She likes to put bugs under the covers in the middle of the night.
it should be if, damn my thumbs!
Well, why not?
A common sight in the office
Actually, she's on me as I type.
The loves of my life
OT, just got back from a banquet honoring Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia. Interesting speech - maybe more tomorrow.
I've missed catblogging sooo much. Somehow Drum's blog just isn't the same.
Can we know their real names, or are they still classified?
I was about to write: "Even trolls love kitties!"
But I was wrong.
Still,
awww, Atri-kitties!
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Hey Guy,
Sonny is an awesome looking cat. Looks like a cynical bastard, which all the really great cats are, IMO.
Too damn late to be posting links:
Peaches again
Peaches, Rick and Mrs. jac
Why, they look simply DELICIOUS!
I'm kidding. My cat Mehitabel says I'm not funny.
My two cats parents are also their aunt and uncle. (that's what happens when you get opposite sex kittens and don't neuter them in time...)
wiley and gizmo
Goddamn am I allergic to cats. Dogs. Horses. Anything with fur.
If you're going to be cat blogging, I will have to counter:
http://tinyurl.com/3jbfo
Ugh. Catblogging. I'd almost prefer reading the 101st Fighting Keyboardists. Almost.
The other morning opened up the front door to get the newspapers. Staring at me was a cat. It took one look and trotted towards me like I was an old friend. I was about to be adopted.
Alas, my mom is horribly allergic to felines. So when I shut the door the sad eyes bored into me.
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jac, your links don't work.
Atrios, I hope this will be a permanent feature. In fact I think we all demand it!
What's life without kitties? thank god you're out so we can see the kitty's faces. They're awful cute for a couple of incestous gay blades. (freepers are hyperventilating as we speak)
As for the dog, maybe you can borrow Ntodd's. Cairo likes cats and is always up for a photo session. My cat doesn't tolerate dogs- he chases them. Doesn't matter how big, he charges them like a lion. Since he only weighs about 7 lbs it's pretty funny.
And the dogs always run. Bunch of wussies if you ask me.
you should check out mycathatesyou.com
i don't know how to make links and refuse to learn, so just google it.
Look at the good kitties. Meditating, that's what they're doing, meditating. We have two -- I mean, we are servants to two -- and life would be incomplete without them.
Cat-ums!!!! I *wub* kittycat-ums.
my two sister-littermate-cats are off on another computer ordering stuff right now...
because they've finished throwing up dinner.
no bare feet in this household.
Yeah,
All cats are neo-conservatives. They seem to almost know how to cover things up from birth.
Of course you've seen the infinite cats. Click "homepage."
(since kevin drum isn't allowed to anymore)
Sure, horn in on the one thing we little bloggers had left that you didn't do. Now I'll need to get a ferret--oh wait, Athenae already has Arthur. Maybe I'll get a chinchilla...
AWWWWWW! The black&white looks like my cat, Chopper. He snugs up to my dogs in the most lovey positions.
And we also had ferrit (sp?) day and Woot Booby day. A very feast for animal lovers.
Here is something for those of you who are more into bears.
Faggot!
great picture. go with this - and other bloggers, too -
we need stuff like this to offset
things like the previous
post (and the one before that,... etc.)
Do the Kerrys have kitties?
I am half sick of shadows.
My mother has a cat who goes out. He brings rats back, still alive, and drops them on the computer keyboard or on the hands of anyone who happens to be using the keyboard.
Echidne
You might want to lock the cat door and make them knock.
Jac, love that second picture. What's better than a nap with a cat?
I nap with mine every chance I get. I think it's the least I can do since he enjoys it so much.
EkCenTrik,
My mother does lock him out, but he's very smart and he waits until she's off her guard. Also, her balcony (where the cat door goes) is full of dead things, so she's been successful once and a while.
Thanks for the picture of those beautiful animals, Atrios! Per cat pictures, I don't visit Kevin much now that he's on WashingtonMonthly - I'm working and I have to get to Josh and Sean Paul and Juan Cole and Eric A - with side stops to American Politics Journal, Buzzflash, Billmon, TBogg - besides the darned emails from American Progress, Information Clearing House, Salon, MediaMatters, etc.
Keep up the great work!!!
My mother has a cat who goes out. He brings rats back, still alive, and drops them on the computer keyboard or on the hands of anyone who happens to be using the keyboard.
Echidne
Just the cat's way of saying "Do something useful, like finding food!"
One of my cats (long since lost to the forest) used to bring me dinner. A rat, mouse, 2/3 of a squirrel. Once he brought me a live rabbit with a broken leg. He set it down, sat back and watched. I, Stupid Human that I am, let it get away. Foof chased it down, et it, and that was the last free meal he ever brought me..
Ntodd, don't be a whiner. I stop by everyday to see Sam and Cairo.
I do think you need to get Sam on the infinite cat project.
Right now, my cat is curled up on my lap, full fetal, hind foot covering the ear. A napping ball of breathing fur.
I'm typing veeery quietly.
Echidne,
Our cat, who I found in the woods and pouring rain (we heard him crying), brings in the biggest roaches I've ever seen. Just moved to SE Texas, and I thought NM had big roaches. The worst part is he consistantly 'looses' them as he's playing with them (yes, even little kitties can be cruel).
So now the routine is to run for a paper towel, get the roach and throw it out the back door. Then watch LC back track his steps to try and find it again. I'll never understand why he doesn't see what we did.
No cats, but I do love my rats, even though they have passed on. Still have the bunnies tho
Shrink the photo so your right column advertisers don't get ticked off.
Cute cats.
I had a maine coon that used to be a hunting fool. Everyday it was an endless parade of voles, mice, chipmunks and birds. He'd put the mice in the bathtub so they couldn't get away while he went to have a snack or take a nap.
He was just too smart for his own good.
Don't let Frist know about them!
KS you made me feel better about the hundreds of cat picks I have taken. Thank the geniuses who came up with recordable CD's.
Looks like two of ours - Oski and Emma.
George and Laura abandoned their cat on 9/11 -
That was enough to turn my cats (please-don't-move-our-food-dishes- conseratives) into (sort of)liberals/demotratics...
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Would you say they are DemoCATS?
You make your cat wear a grey turtleneck?
fourlegsgood,
Too cool!
I guess I'm too new to remember Friday catblogging, but I'm a converted fan. Bring on more catblogging!
McGill, who's partner Rocky passed away a couple years ago, watches from the window sill in interest. Since Rocky's passing, the Beatles theme is officially ended. Now, with Ziti the dog, we've ushered in the Sopranos era. 
Good point, Susan, don't let Frist know that we, the ememy have cats. I'm geting a chip put in my cat tomorrow!
What is it with bloggers and cats?
Vile creatures, really.
"I'll never understand why he doesn't see what we did."
Please. The cat knows full well what you're doing, he's just doing his part to entertain you by backtracking. Cats are smart that way.
Cats, that is.
Not bloggers.
Well, most of 'em, anyway.
I have the best damn cat in the world...Angus Crookshanks McPhee, otherwise known as Shanks, Captain Shanks, You Fat Bastard or Stinkabutt.
He has a charming habit of rubbing his cat ass in my face as soon as I sit down at the computer. In a nice way, of course.
Keep the kitties on Friday. Sure beats the trolls.
Cute, very cute.
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Hugs and kisses 
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Cool, you've got a Russian Blue! Very attractive and even-tempered cats.
A Russian Blue
What did I say about world domination?
huh? huh?
Good, a nice thread! (I hope Atrios is banning and deleting, but I was also hoping to keep the trolls playing merrily in the thread below.)
The DemoCATS Cartoon Pitch
A secret society of felines seeking social equality, justice, and clean kitty litter for all. By day they snooze undercover as everyday house pets, but by night they stalk the baddest super-criminals the world has ever known! WATCH as they battle arch enemies like "Big Time" Dick Chaney and his clumsy sidekick Dubbya "AWOL" Bush. THRILL as they take down scrupulous environmental polluters. CHEER as they fight corporate crime and Fancy Feast in every bowl!
THE DEMOCATS!!!!!
Olaf, don't be a jerk.
One of the regulars here learned to embed and italicize and boldface in less than an hour. All I had to do was offer some sincere encouragement, and this individual "got it" right away.
And yet, you refuse to learn.
What's your problem with learning something new?
Or are you just another neocon PNAC kool-ade gulper?
And the dogs always run. Bunch of wussies if you ask me.
fourlegsgood
Dogs musta learnt they lesson the hard way. Couple nights ago, a dog came onto the property, stuck his head under the house, looking for who knows what. What he found was, I think, Whitley. All 19 lbs of him. With a vicious right cross, and very sharp claws. All cats know instinctively just where to slash a dog. Poor guy was still yelping most piteously 15 minutes later. (Sound travels well in the woods at night. He was a ways off, and I could still hear him.) Hey, that's life in the big forest, doggy.
Ntodd, don't be a whiner.
It's still my birthday for another hour, and I'm going to whine as much as I want!
I stop by everyday to see Sam and Cairo.
Yeah, I know, and I appreciate your faithful patronage!
I do think you need to get Sam on the infinite cat project.
I've been meaning to, but I've got to time it when the little shit, er...darling will sit still for more than 30 femtoseconds. Plus right now he's kind of in the doghouse: he completed the work he started on the screen door yesterday. There won't be any pictures of Sam until I can look at him without being pissed (like, until tomorrow).
Ok..so it needs work.
Cats are smart that way.
Humanitarian Do-Gooder
I love my cats, but the one thing I'll never say about a cat is how smart it is. Cats, Ghawd love 'em, can be the most preternaturally stupid aminals sometimes. OK, most of the time. When they're not being lovable, that is.
"My mother has a cat who goes out. He brings rats back, still alive, and drops them on the computer keyboard or on the hands of anyone who happens to be using the keyboard.
Echidne"
Well, it is a sign of respect. The cat's bringing tribute to his alpha. One of ours does the same thing with roaches, cicadas, all kinds of creepy crawlies...she bites the heads off though...there's only so much tribute she can tolerate.
G. Goober
I think they fake it. I have seen my guys do some wild stuff. One thing I believe in is the view the more you play with a cat and challenge a cat when young the smarter they are. I tend to be very interactive with mine, we rough house like folks do with their dogs. I also bleed a lot.
Cats aren't stupid.
They just don't much of a point in entertaining humans, when they will get stroked and fed anyway.
I also bleed a lot.
EkCenTrik
Amen, brother.
Also remember, when they get uppity, waggle your thumbs at them and look knowingly at the treat cans. It shames them everytime. When I think about it, maybe we should waggle our thumbs at the freeper set.
And the dogs always run. Bunch of wussies if you ask me.
fourlegsgood
Ummm, actually my cat is 18 years old, declawed and his little teeth are worn down to nubs. And he's little. He's also grey and white with a pink nose and paws- he looks like a bunny rabbit.
They run anyway. I guess he just confuses them into a state of terror.
Ntodd, now you know Sam is just creating kitty art for you. It was your birthday present, didn't you know? Try to be more appreciative, will ya?
Lady of Shallot - Yeah, Esoterica is my store... I'm the Silver Fox. My biz partner, Lilly, is the Red-Haired Wench. Hollar for Jane next time you're in. (I'm Jane in -that- reality.)
I tend to be very interactive with mine, we rough house like folks do with their dogs. I also bleed a lot.
You dumbass. Didn't anyone teach you the oven mitt trick? I put those big fat mitts on and he can bite me to his hearts content. Cats love it.
Also my cat is too smart to bite on those nasty roaches.
Ntodd, now you know Sam is just creating kitty art for you. It was your birthday present, didn't you know? Try to be more appreciative, will ya?
Now I feel like such a heel...
Mmmm kitties...
Also remember, when they get uppity, waggle your thumbs at them and look knowingly at the treat cans. It shames them everytime. When I think about it, maybe we should waggle our thumbs at the freeper set.
EkCenTrik
I tells ya, don't cue them in to opposable thumbs, they are very smart and will start exercising that weak little thumb on their paw and then take over the world in thirty years.
I'm talking about cats, not freepers, freepers are incapable of understanding the concept behind opposable thumbs, that's why they don't have any.
Please. The cat knows full well what you're doing, he's just doing his part to entertain you by backtracking. Cats are smart that way.
Humanitarian Do-Gooder
Not a chance. A cat with prey is not going to not notice were it went if it understood, just to entertain us.
I've had more cats than i'd like to admit to, not always by choice. They all have thier own personalities. My favorite cat of all time was more like a dog, and a Siamese, at that. He woud fetch and go for walks with me in the Ohio corn fields. He'd run off by his self, but when I would call him, he'd come running, making a rustling sound, coming closer and closer. Then he would lead me home, running ahead and then waiting for me to catch up.
The point being, you can't 'stereotype' a cat.
fourlegsgood
Slows me down. Besides I wear my wounds like a Heidelburg (sp?) scar.
Folks in the office see me come in laced and I explain. The looks of horror on their faces are great.
fourlegs (and probably your other cat people) - you'll appreciate this Rhymes with Orange strip from a few weeks ago...
The B/W one looks like my bigfat Farley, who used to knock on the front door with his head. Alas, he was driven to an early end by the current King of the Neighborhood, Peter the One-Eyed Pirate. Main Coons are the most incredible creatures..period.
Go to My Cat Hates You and check out Britney - she's one of Bigtime's evil spawn.
I wear my wounds like a Heidelburg (sp?) scar.
If we're talking about cats, shouldn't that be a Schroedinger Scar?
"I'm talking about cats, not freepers, freepers are incapable of understanding the concept behind opposable thumbs, that's why they don't have any."
And hence in the privacy of their own home, they have to appeal to the wife to open the pickle jar.
NTodd
I'm not sure... I mean like look at Puss in Boots... master swordscat, never see a master swordsmutt right?
Hopefully, your cats never think outside the box
Stinky...
I am not that lucky.
Fourlegsgood,
I ws going to ask earlier, you said you had a maine coon cat. What do they come in at weight?
Holy crap, Atrios! I thought you were in Boston last week. Turns out you snuck into my house in the midwest and photographed my cats! You rat-bastard! Luckily, you seem to have missed the hamster. Too bad - he bites!
Somehow Drum's blog just isn't the same.
Cynical
Yeah, but it's still good. It had to change, I think. On Calpundit Kevin had 100% of the visitors going there because it was his site. He now has those people going there plus a bunch of others who go there because it's The Washington Monthly, and who may not think catblogging adds anything to their user experience.
he B/W one looks like my bigfat Farley
I tried to get the Vet to change the breed on Whitley's sheet from DSH to "Bigfat". They laughed, but said no dice.
Goodie catblogging. If I ever get my act together maybe I can fishblog. I just got a watermelon wrasse that I named Swiftboat. Anyway, I have 2 Siamese cats, Gidget and Gordo. I'm trying to find a Lance Armstrong bracelet to turn into a collar for Gidget. Poor kitty is fighting cancer. We think we've got it all, but she had half her body shaved and lost most of her tail. 
Stinky...
I am not that lucky.
EkCenTrik
Me either, unfortunately. I have a really, really ancient cat (who resembles the black and white one pictured) who often "misses". We bought a house a couple of years ago and discovered evidence that the previous owner let her little dog piss and shit everywhere (I am sure she was Republican, but I digress).
We tore up the mainfloor carpet and refinished the floors, and had the downstairs carpets cleaned - twice. But tell that to our big fella, who still assumes the carpeted area by the back basement door is just one big litterbox.
We hope to have new carpet installed this fall - it can be our little present for when Kerry wins the election.
Sorry to ask a techie question here but is anyone else having a problem getting to washingtonmonthly.com (kevin)? It's been real hit and miss for me for the past 2 or 3 weeks... I get a lot of DNS lookup timeouts.... I haven't had this problem with any other blog...
just wondering...
jim
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I can't get to washingtonmonthly most days
Stinky, if you're going to cover the subfloor, you could try soaking it with bleach and drying thoroughly before you recarpet. That's worked for me in the past in old houses.
Too late to get in on this?
This is Zoey. AKA w00t, in honor of you-know-who.
Our Russian Blue who's almost 12 years old would never pose that way with our 2 year old gray and orange Tabby, unless it was in some "Vulcan Death grip".
OT-esque, but does does anyone else get the impression that Eschaton has more trolls since the convention?
The answer is TILE, great thick slabs of glazed piss proof TILE, oh and a 50 gallon drum on lemon fresh formula 409, and, and, - a warehouse full of paper towels!
UprootBush, slaves of Leonardo, Ziggy Stardust, Lucinda Piranah, Lilith, Emma, Pheffa, Sneaky Pie- and Binkle.
My fifteen year old, Lulu, is a Democat,too and a Catlick.
Good luck to Gidget.
Stinky,
Try cleaning the spot with vinegar.
I have about the same difficulty accessing The Washington Monthly and Eschaton. Every now and then I get a spate of 404s from Blogger, or TWM drops off the net for a spell.
I don't visit any other sites as frequently except the ones I work on and the big boys like Google, so I don't know if this is typical.
man, a legion of fellow-travelers who dropped Kevin Drum like a hot potato once he became a corporate whore and renounced catblogging.
Susan, keeper of Zoe, whose life is proud defiance of Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. "Dr." Frist.
Damn I wish I had pictures of my cat - Guess I'm going to have to get the wherewithal so that Athenae doesn't dominate the cute animal stuff with her ferrets.
My cat is damn good looking.
Awwwww Guy, Sonny is adorable. I love orange cats.
You can buy an enzyme solution called "Nature's Remedy" at the pet store that oughta take care of that nasty smell in the floorboards. Might take a few applications, though.
Stinky
We have ex-cat-ly the same issue. We have been in here a few months and same deal, previous owner had a dog. Fortunately the area involved is confined and only one cat is involved. And we will be pulling up the carpet in a short bit. Meanwhile I steam clean the area every couple of weeks and it reduces the frequency.
Screw politics
Sometimes ya just need a kitty-fix
OT-esque, but does does anyone else get the impression that Eschaton has more trolls since the convention?
Molly, NYC
I think our one to three trolls are more active and crazier, but I really don't believe there are too many more than that here.
I think our one to three trolls are more active and crazier, but I really don't believe there are too many more than that here.
But they do have heavier and smellier fur. That would seem to indicate a harsh wingnut winter.
I myself plan to dip copies of the National Review in honey, coat 'em in birdseed, and hang 'em from low hanging limbs on our property, for sustenance over the harsh cold months.
Ah, shit. Maybe I'll just trap 'em and sell their flaky hides to the Canadiens, who will pay well for "many, many Armani!"
"Alouette, gentile Alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai."
While we're still cattin' around -- anybody know a safe way to mildly sedate a cat, like with valerian root or something? I've got a 15-pounder (solid black, looks like one of the Atrikitties) who HATES having her claws clipped. I'm always tempted to drop a Xanax in her food on clipping day.
Cat vet here..............love to see all the kitty owners who are also good Dems!! Nice boys ya got there Atrios. The one on the right looks like my baby Eddie.
http://www.tinternet.me.uk/animals/cats.htm
AWWWWWWW!!!!!! KITTIES!!!!!
Wish I had a pic of my kitty on the net.
Silleigh
Don't hold me accountable or anything, but I've used diazepam on my cat with success when she was flipping out.
We moved her twice in six months and I was pregnant and had a baby.
Cats are not a big a fan of change as I thought. Hmm, go figure.
A half a valium works well on a cat that size. Getting it down is.. well, up to you.
The thing I find amusing about cats is the weird things they will eat. I have had cats who eat refried beans, baby corn, chocolate, olives, and green peppers while others would only eat one certain kind of cat food. A friend's cat would only eat canned tuna fish and it had to be room temperature. God help us if they developed oppositional thumbs. We would be carrying them around in litters, tossing tuna fish into their mouths, and fanning them with catnip fans.
Finally, some sanity back in the blogosphere...
Sekmet,
I once had a giant, lanky, black, half-siamese named Larrabee, who loved butter lettuce and avocados. He was a proud weirdo, through and through.
Chris Tucker:
Olaf is ok, just a little stubborn, like his namesake, but in a good way.
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Chris Tucker:
Olaf is ok, just a little stubborn, like his namesake, but in a good way.
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Ah dear lord, WHY do you have to be so stereotypically liberal?
Shorter Mimiru: ATRIOS! GET A DOG!
I ws going to ask earlier, you said you had a maine coon cat. What do they come in at weight?
Zach came in at 18 pounds at his biggest. I've seen them get into the 20 lb range.
My coon died of sarcoma a year and a half ago. It about broke my heart. I still miss him everyday. Maine coons are the most amazing creatures ever.
Sigh. We lost our kitty a couple of weeks ago -- he was only three years old, but had congenital heart trouble that there was no way of detecting. I'm not a cat person (Mrs Anon is) but we miss the little guy.
IIRC, Drum stopped catblogging in Feb., but didn't move to Washington Monthly till mid March. Maybe the move was already in the works when he did, and that's why he did it, but I had the impression that there was not a connection (at least not overtly). I think he'd run out of cat pictures and didn't feel like taking more.
Tena, I'll lend you pictures of my cat.
Cats are Democrats! They refuse to follow orders, you can't organize them (as in the phrase "herding cats"), and they like fighting each other as much as or more than fighting anything else.
My kittie loves cantaloupe. He goes crazy whenever I cut one up.
fourlegsgood: agreed. Our cat was Maine Coon (or at least, a Maine Coon-a-like, since he didn't have breeding papers). My wife got him from a mall pet store (grr) from breeders that obviously didn't screen for cardiomyopathy (grr).
He was big but skinny, which may have had something to do with the heart trouble. Sigh. Such a shock to lose an animal -- in a matter of hours -- that's shown no sign of any sickness beforehand.
hey anonymous in nc- sorry about your kitty. It is a shock- my guy went in about 3 weeks, it was devastating.
Coons just have the best personalities. They can turn you into a cat lover- even my friends that hated cats loved mine. He was just so big and bumbling and sweet. (I loved his huge paws) And friendly! he was just a charmer (all the girls fawned over him). I'd love to get another kitten, but I'm waiting until I relocate.
If you ever get another, make sure you go to a reputable breeder that screens for the myocardiopathy.
Wow. The same thing happened to my Maine Coon eight years ago. Congenital heart failure at three years old. Interesting to hear of other cases.
UN-F***ING-BELIEVABLE! This is a collossal screw-up:
The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week’s terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location.
...
A Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters on Friday that Khan, who was arrested in Lahore secretly last month, had been actively cooperating with intelligence agents to help catch al-Qaida operatives when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers.
Blowing covers of counter-terrorist operatives simply for political expediency seems to have become part of the ho-hum routine for this administration.
Cats for Kerry!
Dogs for Nader!
MEOW
dang! Scooped again by attaturk...
fourlegsgood: that's what we're doing. Fortunately, there are some good, conscientious breeders in this corner of the Carolinas, who are just as careful in screening future owners as they are their cats. My wife's already been to meet one breeder (with some very lovely kittens) but we're going to give it a little more time so that a new arrival isn't subject to unfair comparisons to the very lovely curmudgeon we lost.
top o' the morning to black Irish catlicks everywhere!
Dogs for Nader!
MEOW
Whoa! Back off, Mittens! Our pupster resents such an uncalled-for remark, grrr.
We got her from the county pound, saved her from death row, the sweetie. And she's a mutt, a.k.a. a "Heinz 57." An innocent thing, wrongfully on death row, is bound to take a leak on the Shrub, don'cha think? And the Heinz 57 pedigree, proves she's voting for Kerry. So there.
Eventually, I'll get some pictures of my Dudley posted. He's a 18lb pachyderm of a tiger cat, very similar to a Maine Coon.
Great photos, everyone.
fourlegsgood, amen - one of the greatest feelings in the world was waking up in the miidle of the night to feel both cats sleeping on top of or next to us, perhaps purring. God in his heaven, all right with the world. (We lost the tabby to a tumor last summer, thus the past tense. The Siberian is here on the porch with me this am.)
Good morning to Wiley and Gizmo!
fourlegsgood
A bit late for the thread but sorry to hear that.
they're both male...and...brothers!
Ohmigod -- homosexual incestuous bestiality!
the 3 girls (Gabor sisters) Jolie,Zsa-Zsa,and Eva,love cheesecake!..Harry is strictly a canned salmon addict,well indulged...Our night visitor Maximus (max) gets the same in a dish outside as the indoor brood.,they would love to meet him..I think?
OT -
all that speculation about the 3-year-old terror data? Wondering if the surveillance also including data on other buildings?
Yep. The World Trade Center.
"We don't do politics in the Homeland Security Department"? They sure don't do 'em well . . .
David:
But does your cat actually type?
jac - awwwwww. he/she's so pretty!
I.
Like.
Cats.
Kuro's pretty too. All cats love all computers, apparently. This may explain the high percentage of bloggers with cats?
Well, the house I'm in in DC has a cat called "Chip" - very sweet, and has a nice way of stepping very elegantly around the keyboard rather than on it. Also likes to go to sleep on tables.
Very sweet kitties A - but how many other bloggers have cats?
February 27, 2004
Posted by KEVIN DRUM at 10:27 AM
"Anyway, as you can see Inkblot and Jasmine are both in fine health and are happily frolicking in the backyard as I type this. So with that I have some bad news: I've been faithfully doing catblogging every Friday for a year now (here's the post that started the whole thing) and I'm afraid I need a rest. My bottomless supply of pictures has turned out to have a bottom after all, and taking new pictures on schedule has become a bit of a chore. So this is the final edition of catblogging Friday."
What is it about you effete libs and cats? Now you take a rottweiler or a pit
bull, thairs a real man's animal.
i wish i could post pics. my dearly departed Cosmo was maine coon/norwegan forest and had a awsome personality.
but with his loss, i discovered the joy of 3 cats and my 'spares' are a few days to being 1. and 2 from the same litter is the best.
ah kitty porn. i really must do some cat paintings and there will be a sonny.
My cat eats pit bulls for lunch.
"What is it about you effete libs and cats? Now you take a rottweiler or a pit
bull, thairs a real man's animal."
My former neighbor had a rottweiler named Lulu, who licked a lot and wagged her tail stump in delight. If ever there was a dog I could picture wearing a tutu, it is she.
She's the girliest dog I've ever met!
The most macho dog I ever met was a miniature poodle named Pepsi. She embodied Lynda Barry's "poodle with a mohawk!" No one touched her family-- a playful slap would elicit a blood curdling growl, and an instant later she would be at your jugular.
Lynda Barry-- now there's a political fellow-traveller and an adamant dog lover!
There is room for all of us, cat lover and dog lovers, on eschaton.
"What is it about you effete libs and cats? Now you take a rottweiler or a pit
bull, thairs a real man's animal."
Yeah, you effete Eastern (and Western!)
liberals. You and your cats.
An awful lot like my boys. My black and white, Gypsy, is chunkier, has black heel pads (pink nose and toes), and a short crooked tail. Also have a little spotted tabby girl, with tiny paws. She is up on the bookcase squeeking at me as I type.
EkCentric, thanks.
David, your pictures cracked me up. My coon used to perch on my monitor (which was funny since he didn't really fit, being so large) until the day I brought home my new Mac complete with a flat screen monitor. I hooked it up, sat down to play and here come's Zach, charging through the house, ready to spring up on the monitor to assist me.
Alas, he went flying over the top and crashed into the wall while I tried to hide my laughing fit. After that he had to content himself with wrapping around the base of the monitor.
Coon kittens are surely the cutest kittens ever.
Here's the site with video of the EDS commercial (Quicktime required):
Herding Cats
The ad company is Fallon Worldwide, and they did at least a trilogy of commercials for EDS.
My cat masters, Isis, Muffin, Roca, and Goldielocks like all the EDS commercials ...
Trios, I almost named my oldest cat Gizmo after the Mogweis on Gremlins. My sister suggested I name him Mogwei, instead. So I did
Hi Kevin?
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