Shiny!

[merimask]

Ok, what is pretty and white in this picture?  Besides my dog.

That's right!  That would be my NEW garage door!  A guy installed it today and I did not think to take a "before" picture (so you have no idea how pathetically ugly & sad our old door was).

Kiba actually posed for me, by the way.  I was so proud of him.  He sat on command and even stayed for a few seconds...which is a real accomplishment for that brat.  I hugged him and said "Good dog!  This is as good as you get!"  The secret to being happy with your Siberian husky's attempts at obedience is not to expect too much.  That way, sometimes you get a nice surprise.

Of course once I backed up to get a better pic of the door, he had to move too.

Oh well.  Now I REALLY have to paint that trim...it looks miserable next to my shiny new door.

Oh.  You HAVE to see this.  This picture is not staged in any way, and it's not the first time I've caught him doing this.  Kumo likes it under the kitty mat.

He is the WEIRDEST cat.  Those are boogie mats...they have a thin layer of padding & they unzip so you can put catnip in 'em.  Coolest kitty accessories ever.  Kumo likes to rearrange them, however.  He stacks them on top of eachother to make an extra soft bed, he crawls under them (as you see), he even uses them to hide the food in his bowl, so he can save it for later.  I've seen him do it; he drags the pads over there with his teeth & nudges them into place, atop the food bowls.  Funny, funny cat.

In other news; I'm drinking this new super-special Chinese "diet" tea (it's just amped up oolong tea, really).  It's working in the strangest way.  I am not shakey or sweaty or revved up at all, but I AM awake and aware.  Also, every two hours I'm STARVING...but I just eat a tiny bit & then I'm utterly fine.  It seems to be boosting my metabolism somehow, perhaps?  That's what it's supposed to do.  I know when I was pregnant that's exactly how I felt (awake & hungry every few hours, but I didn't stuff myself & I actually LOST weight...I weighed less on the day I gave birth than I did when I got pregnant & I was totally healthy) & I know for a fact that my metabolism was all amped up then too.  

Hmm!  This could work, maybe...  ;-)

Comments

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

I think our cats are related somehow. Becket prefers to be *under* the throw rugs. I've got a photo of him under the kitchen rug peering out - and he had to work pretty hard to get there! He also likes to put his toys in the empty wet-food dish during the day. Except the catnip mice. He puts those in his water dish to steep like tea bags.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

You know, Kumo is very Siamese-ish. He has a tiny build, he is very "funny" & full of personality, and he talks a LOT...all things I've heard about Siamese cats. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out he had one somewhere in his genetic makeup.

I think it's very cute that Becket makes his own catnip tea. :-)

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't surprise me. Siamese have been crossed out a *lot* and it's in the general pet population where you see the old style colorpoint cats. Cat's that look like *cats* not some weird rodent space-alien creature. The CFA has a lot to answer for with what they've done to the breed.

He does seem to have a lot of the personality traits. Siamese tend to be very dog-like (for cats) with their attachment to people. And they do talk! I've met some that just howl, but mine tend to have conversations with me - I truly believe that it's not just meaningless noise. Becket in particular wants to interact vocally with you. It's very cute.

The catnip tea was one of those "moments." At first I was mad, and then I just had to sit down and giggle maniacally. The water was green. The mouse was a loss, but they're cheap at PetSmart.

Eight hours here, then on the road to Syracuse. No house projects this weekend.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

And he could even be half-Siamese and not look it at all -- I once met a mother and son pair of cats, mom was a purebred old-timey applehead siamese, her son was an IMMENSE dark tortoiseshell tom with bright green eyes; you'd never have thought they were related.

[kls-eloise.livejournal.com]

Definitely! The purebred pedigreed Siamese that was my childhood cat had a litter of kittens with the neighborhood mongrel tomcat before we had her spayed. In that litter, two kittens were perfect colorpoint Siamese, and two kittens were black with not-blue eyes. We kept one of the black kittens, ended up with a litter from HER (okay, we were careless. It was the early '70's, and we didn't know much better) of which two were black and two were "Siamese." Needless to say, both times it was MUCH easier to find homes for the Siamese-looking kittens.

I currently have two. Siamese are like potato chips - you can't have just one. And they're addictive.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Siamese are like potato chips - you can't have just one. And they're addictive.

Hee, that's also the conventional wisdom about huskies on Sibernet-L...and people always say they're very cat-like for dogs, much like Siamese are supposed to be a bit more dog-like. So maybe Meri's fallen for the Potato Chip Syndrome already, she's just collecting different flavors! ;)