Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for April 28, 2019

Especially on Sunday!

Glad my cats wait patiently for me to wake up.

Since George went home a couple weeks ago Twig is finally liking me again. I’ve been setting my clock for 6am and getting up and feeding her. Before George she would sit in the hall and holler and whoever she woke up first would do it. This morning her alarm went off before mine at 5:20. I feel like I have to make up for the six months George was here and totally monopolized me. :D

She’s not dumb!

Ah a kitty wake up call! I remember Toshie staring at me from about 2 inches away!

I put an offer in on a townhome in Sun City today. My house in the PNW is on the market ( in case any of you want to move!).

This townhome is on the golf course and I’m going to take down walls and do a complete remodel on it!

The first thing I’m going to do when I finally move in is get two senior cats!

We were pretty lucky, all of the cats we had in the past were patient and didn’t disturb us early which is good because hubby is a night shift worker.

Burma Shave.

I like it, Annie. You and Graham should offer that on a poster.

Oh! What a wonderful comic with a really fitting poem! ☺

Well my Tigger bounces on the bed, jumps on my dresser, then back on the bed, MEOWS, jumps on the nightstand and sits and stares…if I don’t move he goes away briefly, then returns with the same routine. This is between 5-6 every morning! He’s only 9 so he still has a way to go to settle down…OY!

I laughed myself silly when I read this. A woman I knew many years ago told me that her cat would start the morning by pulling out her husband’s ear plugs.

BTW, the ‘m’ is upside down. I don’t think the artist meant “grabs we…”.

I didn’t know Annie was acquainted with Yum Yum.

That’s a great furr baby poem.

Best kitty cat poem ever!!!

I think I never had one that was that rude! All 6 were dreams come true!

Great poem and perfect description!

Alpha Cat Update

Well, even here spring is well under way and AC is very active.

He’s busy training one of his underlings at the moment. A young orange tomcat has sworn fealty to AC and AC has undertaken to make him into a better hunter.

Orange tomcat was out with AC undergoing basic training, Pat was watching them. OT was brought a mouse (alive) by AC. AC drops said mouse in front of OT, OT has no real idea of what to do with it and lets it escape.

AC recaptures the mouse, brings it back and repeats the routine with the same results.

Third repeat and AC bats OT across the nose and bites his ear.

AC sits and waits after this little bit of discipline. OT has vanished.

We wait.

OT reappears with a mouse. He drops it in front of AC.

AC is delighted.

We’ve seen this kind of behavior demonstrated by AC before. People normally tend not to think that toms take much interest in raising the young – that isn’t so. When his lieutenant – Felix – got to a certain age and size AC spent many hours training him in all aspects of feline combat. He’d practice certain moves (just practicing, not actually hurting him) over and over with Felix until Felix got the idea AC was trying to convey. AC has one move in particular that’s very effective, he spent hours on that one with Felix.

Felix is still nowhere near AC’s level of effectiveness in fighting but we know that what he has been taught has helped him stay alive in the situations that a cocky young cat with a bad attitude will get into.

Great poem. :)

I once had a cat that stretched out on my pillow, leaving no room for my head. I had to add another pillow to my bed.

Composed by a TRUE cat person! Ah, the things we put up with for the love of Cats!

I love this poem. You have hidden talents, Annie (and Graham) ; )