Tag: cats

So, I go to get a hot steamy shower because my lungs cooperate so much better after one at the moment because crud. Jess follows me in and has nothing to say about being in the room until the shower is starting to steam things up. And then she had many things to say and they all were “out! out now!”

I let her out, and close the door again. And the door starts rattling. And when I am done my shower and open the door, she bolts from it to go sprawl elsewhere in the kitchen like she was there all along. And at the same time, is very loving and demanding of comforting scritches when I come over.

Apparently what she meant by out was “we get out!” not “let me out!”

(So now I know adorable squeaking noises while opening her mouth very wide to make sure I can see she is making the noises is “time to get out now, human!” I’m not sure if she wanted to save me from rain that was way too warm for rain, or she thought getting very warm + air getting hazy = probably fire, but either way. It’s adorable, even if there was nothing to save me from this time.)

closet-keys:

Everyone should aspire to a cat’s understanding of healthy relationships

-they are vocal about their emotional as well as physical needs (alerting you when they need affection or entertainment in addition to when they need food), demonstrating an excellent example of self care and open communication

– they can enjoy being in a space with you while you’re each doing your own thing, demonstrating the healthy boundaries and separate interests

– they also like learning about what you’re doing and being involved in your hobbies (e.g. sitting on your laptop, cuddling while you read a book or knit a scarf or play a game) 

-they consistently enforce their boundaries. first with nonverbal communication, then verbal (hissing/growling), then violence (scratching/biting) when needed, demonstrating that it’s 100% appropriate to defend your bodily autonomy by any means necessary, even against those you love and depend on. 

-they demonstrate the importance of ongoing consent by respecting their ability to change their mind during physical affection and stop at any point

divineninee:

wolfhero28:

thespectacularspider-girl:

excessively-english-jd:

djn-001-kunai-man:

excessively-english-little-b:

valentineart89:

whoreablejewess:

babyanimalgifs:

I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie

Ok but the other one is purring so hard

If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) – they are still classified as Lesser Cats.

Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.

YOU CANNOT JUST SAY THAT AND NOT PROVIDE A VIDEO

I HAVE REALISED MY MISTAKE AND SHALL RECTIFY IT:

Cheeps.

Oh my god

I’m dead now

I turned on the sound, because I enjoy this video, and my cat’s head came up from where she was napping, she turned around, and she went looking for the other cat. And is now looking at me offended because I’m giggling at her reaction. 🙂

copperbadge:

graywardenbrosca
replied to your post “The trash can and the dishwasher are both empty. AND WAITING. …”

Oooh, enjoy! I just baked my first challah last night!

Congratulations! I’ve made many loaves of challah over the years but I’ve never done a round braid before, I’m excited to try it. 

morgynleri
replied to your post “The trash can and the dishwasher are both empty. AND WAITING. …”

Ooh! *makes a note* I keep meaning to look up what vegetables might be safe to add to the gooshy food for Jessamine, since right now it’s chicken thighs + whatever meat that is not beef that I would like some of too. (Or, in the case of the shrimp, the freezer-burnt ones dad forgot existed, and she thinks are still food.) And your post reminds me I still need to do that.

FWIW, the only recipe I’ve ever found that wasn’t featured on what I would consider a pretty wackadoo petcare site was here (scroll to cooked diet). The sweet potato is actually more for fiber than anything; the “Veggie” portion is actually grains/carbs. There’s still a rampaging debate about whether cats need grains or veggies and if so how much, but I will say I do mine with sweet potato and rice and they have the SOFTEST, silkiest coats, omg. (Don’t forget the vitamins tho!) 

auressea
replied to your post “The trash can and the dishwasher are both empty. AND WAITING. …”

Can you feed your egg left overs to the Kitties???

Nah, they’ve gone off and I don’t want to feed bad eggs to the babies. Plus they tend to know – I made them a big batch of kitten chow with beef that had gone off without my realizing it, and they refused to eat it (I figured it out the next morning and threw the whole batch out). 

@copperbadge – Thank you for the link!

Right now, I’m making sure to rotate what meat other than chicken she gets, because cats don’t have a strictly one-kind-of-meat diet outside, and she originally was a neighborhood cat, so she gets very bored if I don’t rotate it every day or couple of days. (Which means there are little ziplocs of gooshy food in the freezer so it doesn’t go off before I feed it to her.)

The hope to add a little bit of fiber/veg to the mix is more to stretch out the meat just a little bit more, as she also gets kibble to supplement the gooshy food – I can’t afford to feed her all gooshy food, even if I stuck to the cheapest meats I can get. (I’m spoiling her as much as I can afford to. She gets catfish and lamb and shrimp to supplement her chicken, and if I can find it again in one of the niche grocery stores, rabbit. Might also get her some salt-water fish at the one with a proper fish market as part of the store. Possibly duck as an occassional treat, because omnomnom duck. No beef, because beef and her do not get along at all.)

I do have taurine supplement for her, and the vet has had her on lysine chews before I swapped out to home-cooked. I haven’t supplemented any vitamins, but I’ll talk with the vet about what I might need to add back in with the change in diet. (Which has in fact helped the reason I was doing this in the first place – her gut and the commercial gooshy food, even as recommended by the vet as it was, don’t get along.)

mrdistracted:

gigi-tastic:

malocclusive:

foxy-filly:

So I need y’all to understand, it’s not just the treadmill, life with this cat is all yelling all day.

That’s a familiar and I am INFINITELY JEALOUS

SHE I SINGING YOU FOOLS. LET HER SING YOU HER SONGS

Is that Qui Gon Jinn?

*watches the video again because the cat is adorable*

*idly reads the comments in the reblogs, and goes to close the tab*

*brain does a credible imitation of a cartoonish screeching to a halt and scrabbling backward*

Plot bunny fodder. Right. *adds to notes on things that would be fun to add to stories*