It was 2:50 a.m. Nathan had just eaten and I had gently tucked him back into bed. I could hear his feet thumping down while he chortled softly with contentment. I walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. My eyes were blurry. My joints were aching because, well, I’m getting old and that’s …
Sometimes when you have pets, they start thinking they’re human after a while. And, embarrassingly enough, sometimes you treat them as if they were human. Sometimes, when you are on the brink of losing your sanity due to lack of adult conversation for the duration of the day, you play pranks on them. Because you …
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Our cats have a few rules. No jumping on the counter tops, tables, the arm chair, or anything baby. That means no sleeping on the baby’s stuff- like the baby himself, his bouncy seat, or his rugs that we lay down in the floor during his playtime. As a result, our cats have become devious. Turbo is …
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Nicknames: Sausage Link, Kayli the Killer Of all four of our cats, Kayli is the strangest. Physically, she’s big and round and has the body of a sausage link with little bitty scrawny legs. She didn’t used to look like a sausage link…. her weight gain has been within the last couple of years. Before …
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Nicknames: Predatory Predator, Creepy Meepy, Creeper The most neurotic of all our cats has to be Meeper. It must be something about rescue kitties; all of our cats are rescue cats and all of them have their own particular neurosis. If Meeper was human, he would need Valium and a prescription for potent anti-psychotics… which would …