little miss speedy

On 07 Jun 2010 04:11:18 GMT, wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

Sonya's nickname "speedy" has nothing to do with speed. It is short
for "speedbump" and has to do with her tendancy to lie on her back in
high traffic areas, such as the doorway into the kitchen.

http://pets.webshots.com/album/577870541xMutsU

This one kills me:

http://pets.webshots.com/photo/24682...00494391wXjcVX

If I didn't already know that was a cat, I wouldn't be completely sure
what kind of animal it was.

But as the other photos show, she's a really pretty cat!

It's like kliban's comic "how to tell a cat from a meatloaf".
You have to turn it around.

http://www.webpak.net/~heartctr/cats/meatloaf.gif

AZ Nomad wrote:

On 07 Jun 2010 04:11:18 GMT, wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

Sonya's nickname "speedy" has nothing to do with speed. It is short
for "speedbump" and has to do with her tendancy to lie on her back in
high traffic areas, such as the doorway into the kitchen.

http://pets.webshots.com/album/577870541xMutsU

This one kills me:

http://pets.webshots.com/photo/24682...00494391wXjcVX

If I didn't already know that was a cat, I wouldn't be completely sure
what kind of animal it was.

But as the other photos show, she's a really pretty cat!

It's like kliban's comic "how to tell a cat from a meatloaf".
You have to turn it around.

http://www.webpak.net/~heartctr/cats/meatloaf.gif

Well, you can tell that she's a living animal, and a mammal at that.
But she could be a number of small mammals - hard to see from that
position.

Actually, I guess she could be a really strange-looking bedroom slipper.

--
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in
the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr

On 07 Jun 2010 05:51:05 GMT, wrote:
Well, you can tell that she's a living animal, and a mammal at that.
But she could be a number of small mammals - hard to see from that
position.

Actually, I guess she could be a really strange-looking bedroom slipper.

She's a funny one. She spends much of her days on her back, flat to the ground
with her paws tucked in, at each corner. Around the master bathroom area
she'll hide behind some curtains that cordon off a sunken bathtub, laying in
wait for any toes that go by close enough for her to teach out and touch. She
thinks she's hiding, but 80% of her body is visible; just her head is hiding
behind the curtains.

By night, she gets into a basket we have full of cat toys and brushes and drags
them all over the house. She chews on the handles of some of the bushes like
a dogbone.

One time there wasn't a single thing scattered over the house. I knew something
was wrong, that she got herself locked in a closet or something. Sure enough,
she had snuck out when the dog was taken for his final evening walk and spent
the night locked in the front entrance patio area.

wrote:
This one kills me:

http://pets.webshots.com/photo/24682...00494391wXjcVX

If I didn't already know that was a cat, I wouldn't be completely sure
what kind of animal it was.

OMG, the poor thing - what happened to it?

Aside from having apparently been cruelly relocated to the equator
from its home range in the arctic circle.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:08:22 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
This one kills me:
http://pets.webshots.com/photo/24682...00494391wXjcVX
If I didn't already know that was a cat, I wouldn't be completely
sure what kind of animal it was.
OMG, the poor thing - what happened to it?
Aside from having apparently been cruelly relocated to the equator
from its home range in the arctic circle.

Antarctic, surely - it's a furry penguin with the bare patch
meant to hatch its egg.

Meanwhile mongo, the desert rat siamese cat is back to coming in just
for 5-10 minute visits. Temps went over 105 this week and on his
visit last night I must have scritched off 25% of his fur as he is
shedding like mad. It'll probably be bath time next time he visits.
He seems to tolerate that if I use fairly hot water.

On Jun 7, 7:30*pm, "Kelly Greene" wrote:
"AZ Nomad" wrote in message

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Sonya's nickname "speedy" has nothing to do with speed. *It is short
for "speedbump" and has to do with her tendancy to lie on her back in
high traffic areas, such as the doorway into the kitchen.

http://pets.webshots.com/album/577870541xMutsU

Nothing ever downloaded. *?!?!?!

Wow, downloaded instantly for me, from the above link. Did you try
again?

On Jun 4, 9:40*pm, AZ Nomad wrote:
Sonya's nickname "speedy" has nothing to do with speed. *It is short
for "speedbump" and has to do with her tendancy to lie on her back in
high traffic areas, such as the doorway into the kitchen.

http://pets.webshots.com/album/577870541xMutsU

Pandora does that, dead center in the hallway, right underneath the
swamp cooler. Then she whines and complains when the dog (blind and
deaf now) tries to get around her (and she lies "lengthwise", so there
is about an inch or two on either side of her to wall). Adorable.

Sonya is a beautimeous kitty. Have to agree with Yowie... makes one
just want to nom on that tummy.

Smokie Darling (Annie)

AZ Nomad wrote:

Meanwhile mongo, the desert rat siamese cat is back to coming in just
for 5-10 minute visits. Temps went over 105 this week and on his
visit last night I must have scritched off 25% of his fur as he is
shedding like mad. It'll probably be bath time next time he visits.
He seems to tolerate that if I use fairly hot water.

I thought he was happier at home now - I guess he really just prefers to
be outside?

Joyce

--
Basically, I feel like the food industry is making us fat so the diet
industry can make us thin. -- Janet

On 08 Jun 2010 22:14:02 GMT, wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

Meanwhile mongo, the desert rat siamese cat is back to coming in just
for 5-10 minute visits. Temps went over 105 this week and on his
visit last night I must have scritched off 25% of his fur as he is
shedding like mad. It'll probably be bath time next time he visits.
He seems to tolerate that if I use fairly hot water.

I thought he was happier at home now - I guess he really just prefers to
be outside?

He's happier, but still prefers to live outside. He's a strange critter. He
used to hate the phoenix summer and come inside more when it was really hot.
Lately, he's acclimated and comes inside a lot more when it gets chilly
(relatively) outside.