Modern Vespa

The ones that escape might ...

Just lounging on the chair or caught doing something?

Planning their attack on the Christmas tree

We had a water leak under the slab in our living room, and had a plumber out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to find & fix it. The crew wasn't going to be able to backfill the hole until the Monday after Thanksgiving, so we had a massive pile of dirt in the room, along with a significant hole. They'd put up a plastic sheet barrier to keep the cats away, and I thought I'd done a decent job of anchoring it.

The wife and I were unwinding on the couch Sunday night (actually Monday morning at this point), and were about to go to bed. It was 1am, and I heard a cat crying. I looked around and couldn't find Toby, but could hear his cries coming from behind the plastic sheet.

The little bastard found a way through the sheet and had jumped down into the hole. Due to the steel rod in his left front leg he was unable to climb or jump out, so he was stuck. I had to climb down and rescue him. Then my wife had to spend an hour bathing and drying him to get all the mud off his paws and belly.

Filed a claim with my homeowner's insurance for the repairs. I included the pic of Toby "inspecting" the work.

The adjuster approved the claim, and referenced the "inspection" as part of the reason for approval.

Looking

#Bruno3121 thinking

My cats at their favorite place in the world.

Gram, behind the $200+ kitty exercise wheel....that we bought six months ago, and nether of the little hairy shits will use...not once.

I've turned blue trying to explain to them how much fun this thing is, but to no avail.

You need to get in there yourself and demonstrate it to them.

We've tried to convince them that this could be a fun thing, usually by holding one of them onto the track and rocking it gently back and forth, but as soon as it moves even a little, he panics, so then he's afraid of it. Then we tried tossing cat treats onto it and hoped they would go for them and get used to it's movement and view it as a positive thing.....but NO, wasn't going to happen.

Now, it just sits by the wall in the living room as a monument to wasted money.

I think that what's going to eventually happen to it is that we may donate it to our local animal shelter.

We bought a couple of nice cat trees that they ignored for months before finally using.

We also bought a Litter Robot litter box a while back, and it took a bit for them to start using it. Now we have two of them, and they like them. (Yes, the Litter Robot 4 retails for $650. Yes, we do actually have two of them. No, we didn't pay full price, we bought refurbished models on sale.)

Put it in a cardboard box.

I never knew a cat to think. They are always scheming.

A cold, rainy, day...

Extreme drooling…

do we all wake up like this?

Did a break and enter through a neighbours front window (unlocked) to rescue #Bruno3121. It was a partially burnt out house so didn't disturb anyone but did have to dodge temporary supports holding the ceiling up. He had got stuck in the rear courtyard with high walls. He'd been stuck all night.

Did he knock those plants over?

He's a big boy but not quite that big. Presumably the fireys did when putting out the fire

The cats got the first part of their stocking today... Kitty chaos lol 😆😆😆

enjoying

We're watching our kids' Golden this week (Oliver) while they're on holiday. Fortunately he and June Bug get along, as long as he does what she says. In this pic, you can almost hear what he's thinking:

ABSOLUTELY STUFFED!!! Charlie has had his turkey as well!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Looking a bit round when crashed out after dinner

It's sad when they let themselves go.

Is this worse?

Yuna loves her Christmas present!

Bruno also got a new cat bed for Christmas 😺

Would love to see a photo

It's been a bit warm weather so he 's just been lazing on the couch. Here's one from a few months ago (same type of bed)

These two…

We finally got some snow in Devon... That's the strongest NOPE I have ever seen lol 🤣🤣🤣

#Bruno3121

This box came all the way from Germany a couple of weeks ago.

The monster was not included.

Did it come from sombody named Schrödinger?

Often pretends to be dead while being alive

This is Bumper, he is blind. But don't try to tell him that, he lives his best cat life and gives no f—is about a lack of eyeballs. If you're wondering he had surgery as a kitten because a common cat upper respiratory infection caused one eye to rupture and the other one was on its way to rupture. He's called Bumper not because he runs into things but because when I first picked him up he immediately started purring and tried to stuff his head up my nose. He's 5 years old and pretty much a perma- kitten size.

These are the rest of my kitty crew aka feline overlords:
Pooka is so spicy that the vets have to fully sedate her to examine her. I mean out with anesthesia, gabapentin just makes her slightly buzzed.
The calico is Calliope. She's deaf now at 15 years old so she can stop pretending she doesn't hear me.
Lastly is Kurokaiju aka Kurochan, 16lbs of giant baby cat with a tiny meow.

Fred in his favourite spot again... sat in the bathroom sink lol