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This week in Maliboo Kitty

Kitty, bunny, bear.

This week in Maliboo Kitty

 

This week in Maiboo Kitty

Maliboo Kitty, who still chases her own tail at 6 years old, likes to go to sleep on top of my Blackberry. When I'm looking for the thing, the first place I look is under the cat. Sometimes I don't need to look, I just hear her belly ring, and I know that's where the phone is. Naturally, she hisses at me when I shoo her off.

 

This week in Maliboo Kitty

Maliboo Kitty, who purrs so hard she makes herself sneeze, has love attacks. These include purring/sneezing, putting her feet on my face, and nibbling on my hand.

 

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday morning.

This week in Maliboo Kitty

Maliboo Kitty is ready for the long, dark, cold, inhospitable Southern California winter. When every winter could be your last, when you just don't know how many of your little kitty toes will fall off from frostbite, when you don't know how quickly the air will freeze in your nose when you waddle from the bed to your bowl, you do everything you can to prepare. You can never cover every possible scenario, but you have no choice: you must try.

 

This week in Maliboo Kitty

This week we have kitties in their favorite places. Here, Cricket curls up on a stuffed bunny rabbit.

And here, Max and Herbie enjoy the morning air on the patio.

 
[Photo credit: Adam "Danger"]

Join us next week, for an exciting discussion about how many pieces of clothing Maliboo Kitty can drag into the living room at once, and can your children's lives be in danger?

Cat Congress Mired In Sunbeam - The Onion

The sunbeam marked the fourth event to suspend congressional activity this week. According to sources, other disruptions included a thunderclap on Monday that instantly adjourned proceedings; Wednesday's chaotic introduction of a laser pointer; and the discovery of a large cardboard box in the Capitol Rotunda Thursday that prompted minority whip Sen. Tiddles (R-TN) to call a recess so that he could sit inside of it.

Read the entire hilarious article here. Thanks to Deirdre for the heads up.

This week in Maliboo Kitty

Maliboo Kitty, notorious pajama pant stealer, has now taken to bringing me towels from the bathroom. So helpful.

This week in Maliboo Kitty...

...some middle-aged kitties learn new tricks.

First, our recurring guest, Herbie. Today Willow returned home to find him in the sink. At that point, he peed in the hole in the sink. We decided that he waited for her to show her how good he was at peeing in the people potty. Nevermind that the people potty is not the sink, I think it's close enough.

Our own not too bright but very cute Cricket has figured out a way to get more treats out of me. I often leave my front door open if I'm in the living room - it keeps the air moving and cool. When I shut the door, I always do a cat count. Cricket has figured out that if she hides in the closet quietly and doesn't come out if I call her repeatedly, I will take out the treats to entice her to come out. Works like a charm. For whom, that's undecided.

I learned a new word today,

unfortunately.

I click on the FreeKibble.com daily, a website that donates free Kibble to shelter animals whenever you go to their website and answer a doggie or kitty trivia. Today's trivia question:

Dogs that eat poop is more of a learned habit than medical problem. The term for this is...C. Coprophagia.

There. Now you learned it too. This is what happens when you just read whatever.