Belated Caturday! Post

Charming cat courtesy of ICHC, purveyors of fine captioned kitties to all

We missed our usual Caturday post because we were busy cooking up a storm. Jungle Curry with fresh-made red curry paste (VERY time-consuming!), sauteed okra, pork with plums, spicy chicken, stir-fried veges, boiled peanuts (four hours!).

Not that the inhabitants of La Casa de Los Gatos were neglected throughout. Caturday saw a serious bout of clippage for one Zingiber Officinale Kittyburrito (so named because he often has to be rolled in a towel tightly tucked for any kind of Procedure). Clippage and brushage it was. Whatever possessed us to take on two longhaired felines, given our squeamish nature and dislike of cat hair and dander in our food and drink, not to mention the allergy factor?

Blame Hollerith Softail. It's all your fault, Hol.

In the event, the fat fellow is now 20 per cent slimmer (damn, that cat's fluffy!) and has a really embarrassingly bad haircut. Good thing he doesn't venture outdoors much. You know that old saying, "It'd make a cat laugh?" Well, his current crop would have the neighbourhood felines in hysterical fits. Hopefully, it'll keep him cool this summer, although (dammit!) our days of record-breaking heat seem to be over already. It's cool and foggy, now, and the tomatoes won't like that.

Gustav has been Very Bad lately. Does the heat make him cranky? Or is it his wonky back end? He must be in some pain, his back legs seem to tire (although not when he's chasing Gojira or Madu, to our great surprise) easily. At any rate, he's been taking mouthfuls of fur out of the others' tails. Our explanation of this is: Tail Envy. See, Gustav is a Japanese Bobtail (mostly), so instead of a real tail, he has this chrysanthemum-like knob on his butt. And it drives him mad that all the other inhabitants have long, luxurious, twitchy tails. (Especially Madu, whose tail is never still, twitching gently even when he's asleep, which he often is, the lazy little slackarse.)

He's had to be spoken to quite severely (Gustav, not Madu) at least twice this week for yanking a mouthful or more of fur out of one of the others' tails. Hopefully, clipping Zingiber's extra-fluffy tail will reduce the temptation. Although why Zingy doesn't just sling his enormous 20+ pound bulk at the little rat is beyond me. If he sat on Gustav, Gustav would simply expire. He only weighs about 8 lbs. or so.

The foggy weather has convinced everyone that many naps are required to build up their strength for a good nightly sleep. Honestly, given how much they sleep, it's a miracle cats don't get hugely fat and flabby. Yet every one of their muscles is in fine tone (OK, excepting only Zingiber's tummy muscles, which have grown rather flaccid given their job of cradling his immense gut).

In any event, a LOLsome Caturday was had by all and La Casa de Los Gatos hopes yours was lolsome too.

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