Category: Pets and other friends

Monday Meows

I cutes, I sleeps with fisses.

I like fisses!

Yeah, but they make your furs stink, and that’s gross!

I sleeps with my stoned buddy.

I sleeps with reckless abandon!

I sleeps, perchance to dream.

Spare cats courtesy of Kim and Jonny and Matt and Mandy

Monday Meows

Hallooo, I are a cat, plz show me yr fud bowls!

I’m dubious.

Don mak me laze you wit my deth eye!

That is SERIOUSLY not okay.

I got dis. I deths it from above!

Y’all knock yourselves, I’m going stay here on the nice warm X-Box.

Monday Meows

Ah, my salad days, when I was green in judgement, cold in blood…

Cats DO NOT eat salad.

But sometimes you just have to stop and sniff the…cat? ???

What’s black and white and dumb all over?

Look, I’ve got sunscreen, a pair of shades, and some…test strips? The hell?

Spare cats courtesy of Kim and Jonny and Matt and Mandy

Monday Meows

Jeeves “Dignity and Grace” McCullough, why do you ask?

Nobody asked.

My middle name is Mischief!

Nobody asked?

Also, Poise and Good Judgment!

Um, I seem to have misplaced my forelegs, can we focus on that?

 

 

Monday Meows

I command the banning of all kittens from this space!

So let it be written, so let it be done.

Finally.

Our long national nightmare is over…zzzzzzzzzzz

I second that zzzzzzz, and call the question. Zzzzzzzzz

JAWS theme

 

Monday Meows

Is that ‘nip?!

The best ‘nip, dudes, the best

I know what I want to nip!

Chill, man, take another shot of catnip and—

EXTREME KITTEN FLASHBACK!

Holy catballs, that’s not okay.

Bad trip, man, bad trip.

Monday Meows

I’m from the past and I’m here to warn you about the kitten!

I thought time travelers came from the future to issue warnings…

Please, just make it stop.

Chill, it’s long gone. This is just an echo of the past.

Monkey, you know I can make you regret all this kitten shit, right?

 

 

Monday Meows

I live up here until the kitten is gone.

Relax, it left weeks ago.

But I’m going to be making guest appearances for ages. …Heh.

No. I put my paw down on this one. …or, is it up?

It’s gone. Ima look at squirrels.

We need to have a commission to investigate how it got here.

I reiterate, I live up here now.

Coconut Cat RIP

We have reached the end of an era with the passing of Coconut, the last of the cats of Castle Gaiman. Back in 2010, when I first became friends with Neil, I absolutely fell in love with the menagerie that lived at his house and spent many hours walking borrowed dogs, petting the resident cats, or simply writing in corners with feline companionship. Portions of ten novels were written in the castle, and whenever I worked there Coconut always found me and curled up on or near me. He was an incredibly social and loving cat; I am going to miss him enormously. He was a frequent guest on Friday Cat Blogging and I ended up with a lot of pictures of him over the years. As is my tradition when I lose a pet friend, I’m going to share a portion of them as a farewell.

My last shot of him. Old and thin but still himself to the end

And, this was my first.

Sitting with me while I was writing last fall.

Cuddling with Laura back around 2012.

He was often waiting at the door when I showed up.

Writing in the tower.

And in the kitchen.

He could be a goof.

Or the picture of dignity.

He kept the magnificent Princess close company in her final days.

Here they are sometime in that first year I made friends with them.

He was a but dubious about this interloper.

But he really loved people.

With Laura last winter.

And me that fall.

Here he is helping me with another book in the library.

My most common view was of him waiting for me to put the laptop down.

I just love this.

A champion sleeper.

Even when balancing precariously.

This is not a trap. He liked belly rubs.

And sun.

So much sun.

If I didn’t pick him up fast enough he got quite demanding.

Verbally too.

This is usually how he said goodbye.

He liked drinking from the sink while Princess was alive.

But mostly he liked people.

Damn, but I am going to miss this little guy.

Such a charmer.

And so sweet.

I’m going to end with this shot because I find it haunting.