Blogging more, on stupid things...

From Sleeping cat ...

So Loki has been the subject of much photography of late, so mostly when he is asleep, he is less curmudgeonly when asleep. I keep meaning to snap a picture of him in my night table. He can actually open the drawers himself, and frequently does so in the middle of the night. I have started to close the drawer with him curled up inside, but this just makes him purr louder. Weird cat...

Random Cat Picture

Here is Loki being furry, he pretty much does that all the time.

Erin has him trained to 'sit', 'attack', and 'shake', she is working on 'lie down', and if were are lucky 'do the dishes'

Its not a blog without pictures of your cat...

What do they think about?

From the good folks over at The Joy of Tech

Loki and the Fuzz

The dangers of claw clipping

Fear Me

The Amazing Loki

Silly cat got out last night, after devising how to open the front screen door. I should have noticed faster as suddenly it became too quiet. He is safely back in now, but he wants out pretty bad, so door security is paramount. Po isn't an outdoor cat, and I have no intention of letting him become one, especially after a local predator left evidence of its existence in my backyard.


Anyways thats the news from the fort, I'm going to post about my new camera, once I take some images with it, and about our trip to Italy, once I get a breath to do that.

G out

Return of the cat filler

When all else fails, turn on the camera and post whats on it. As tradition holds, those are cat images.

Brave Protector

Well here is a cat who is clearly doesn't get it.

I have something heavy coming, so here is a light appatizer.

Do you sence a growing trend...

I caught Loki on YouTube the other day, I think he was communicating with other cats. While I don't normally agree with the invasion of privacy around snooping through someones browsing history, something about the way he was acting had me nervous. So I'm not proud, but I dug through what he had been up to, and I found this:



I think he wanted me to find it, I think he has plans, dark feline plans.

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Uh Huh, Yup, Yup, and Check Mark

So Erin was showing me images of Pixybob's last night, which is a weird breed of cat, and then we got to looking at the CFA and specifically the breed profile and standard for our Siberian's.

Judging from the standards it looks like Linda, our cat's breeder, has done a good job, not that we didn't know that already.

Then we read the profile and that is where the title for this post comes from. The cats, and especially Loki fit the profile quite well. Possibly the most accurate statement is this:

The Siberian tends to be both a great problem solver and also, rather like dogs, are loyal to their adopted families which is why they are so well suited to the households in which one spouse, usually a husband or significant other, professes to be a "dog person" not a "cat person." Often it is that same "dog person" who is greeted at the door by their Siberian and after being dutifully followed around the house by their Siberian, then decides that one Siberian is simply not enough!

Oh the truth, it burns :)

Now the other thing of note, it is mentioned that the maturation period for these cats is 5 years. I realize its not going to be exponential, or even linear growth, but if Loki keeps growing he is going to be--and you would be kind to excuse the grammar here--huger!

Now if we could only teach them to open there own canned food first thing in the morning we would be set :)

This is just amusing

While screaming at my machine to compile, I came across this on one of my authors sites. For those of you who knew Ben, or those of you have red Jacqueline Carey's novels you will probably be equally amused as I by this superstar combination: Kushiel's Bengals!

So that is what they are doing

Look at the size of this beast!

Az on high