Sandra Boynton has a new video out called Sandra Boynton’s C.A.T. Yup. It’s all about cats and what they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJENHesgQP0
Anyone else pondering the philosophical question of what, exactly, the smell of pain is? Is this a modern koan? Is Ms. Dunn secretly a Zen master on top of everything else?
Good morning, and happy Bluesday, orbsters and orbabies. Well, Elvis is nothing if not persistent in his quest to figure out what the plant smells like.
As much as I hate to feed the addiction, those of you who must can Google something called “cats on glass”-a gallery exhibit opening Jan 17 sponsored by Fresh Step which promises to provide plentiful paw prints with that " glass bottom boat" experience- you look up at adoptable kitties walking on a glass coffee table or perhaps a “cat walk”.
It works the other way round, too. I once saw a farm puppy investigating a barn cat for the first time by thrusting his nose at it. What he learned is that cats are sharp, ouch.
Ok, Orbsters, here we go. Please keep all available fingers and paws crossed for me, today it gets real. Colonoscopy tomorrow, to get a feel for what sort of lumps, bumps, and masses are in the neighborhood, then a total abdominal remodel on Thursday. Possible all this fuss is for nothing and I will just have a fun weekend hanging out in the hospital bed and playing with the morphine drip-so there is a bright side :). Will know more by this time next week. I am eligible for retirement (56) so that may be the next chapter. Any good wishes, purrs, etc. gratefully accepted.
I have already received help from kind orbsters yesterday, but was told it was a good idea to repost this message this morning, so here goes: I need the orb’s help again. I literally cannot afford cat food right now. This is what happens when there’s no work due to the holidays. Work is back on, but I won’t be paid until next week. There is money on the way, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
http://www.paypal.me/IloraGarden – ANYTHING (even $5) you can send would help now. If you can’t, purr for me, please (it DOES help!). My family is trying to help, but it’s the bills and everyday expenses that mess things up.
Food is much less of a problem than bills are, and I found that our local shelter gives out free cat food if you can show records of spay/neuter, shots & chip. (Check this out if you are ever in trouble, your local shelters may have this. Bet Freddie Quinn’s place does!)
Thank you for your great kindnesses and uplifting thoughts — they do make a difference. May Bast bless and keep you all.
I read somewhere that hermit crabs have no problem with cacti. Stick a cactus in a cage full of hermit crabs and the’ll pull the needles out with their claws and eat the cactus. (Crabs will eat anything.)
Jungle Empress almost 6 years ago
Cat logic at its finest, folks. “Maybe I’ll have a different result if I keep doing it!”
CrazyPri almost 6 years ago
Finally a green house plant to survive catzilla attack?!
Sue Ellen almost 6 years ago
Elvis, there are times when persistence does not pay off. What makes you think if you just keep on sniffing it will finally stop biting you?
Megan.naughton Premium Member almost 6 years ago
If Elvis keeps this up Burt will have to implement a 5 second delay to deal with salty language.
McColl34 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Ironically, it’s the reckless Cat of Adventure who is the first to realize that if you leave it alone, it will leave you alone.
almost 6 years ago
The new plant is invincible!
zorak950 almost 6 years ago
Sometimes giving up really is the best course.
Dirty Dragon almost 6 years ago
If the saying in this universe is “Oh My Cat!”…
shouldn’t the expression here be “Son of a Dog!”?
SKYKEY2 almost 6 years ago
At least the cactus can defend itself, my poor bamboo lives in fear!
Cleementine almost 6 years ago
“It smells like pain!” hahahahahaha!
Cleementine almost 6 years ago
Lupin delivers the news earnestly, but it is hard to take him very seriously with his nose band-aid making him look so adorable.
Robin Harwood almost 6 years ago
How can you live with the thing if you don’t know what it smells like?
Robin Harwood almost 6 years ago
Reply to Slappy Squirrel:Some of the sheep and one of our pot plants.
ikini Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Sandra Boynton has a new video out called Sandra Boynton’s C.A.T. Yup. It’s all about cats and what they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJENHesgQP0
ikini Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Puck’s eyebrows, first and last panels, make me smile.
Lady Bri almost 6 years ago
dadoctah almost 6 years ago
Good news: the new plant only attacks when provoked.Bad news: it can be provoked merely by looking at it.
cat19632001 almost 6 years ago
It fights back. Plantzilla!
Kim Metzger Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“Just for that, we WON’T eat you!”
wolfiiig almost 6 years ago
Has Elvis met his match?!
cat19632001 almost 6 years ago
Well, journalism has been named as one of the most dangerous professions.
asrialfeeple almost 6 years ago
They seem to be in a prickly situation.
Grace Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Son of a Cat! LOL <3
keltii almost 6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRieqQw5tc
YatInExile almost 6 years ago
Now there’s a house plant the cats will never eat.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I’m loving the little band-aid. :)
christineracine77 almost 6 years ago
Anyone else pondering the philosophical question of what, exactly, the smell of pain is? Is this a modern koan? Is Ms. Dunn secretly a Zen master on top of everything else?
Gloria Fleming almost 6 years ago
looks like Elvis finally has a use for the band-aids that Natasha gave him for Christmas!
jonesbeltone almost 6 years ago
Yikes! That hurts Mr. Bill!
cat19632001 almost 6 years ago
Stay back, Puck! Stay back!
WelshRat Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Is that Lupin’s impression of Angora’s father from ‘Our IX lives’?
diskus Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Have you ever tried to put a bandage in a cats nose?
ladykat almost 6 years ago
Good morning, and happy Bluesday, orbsters and orbabies. Well, Elvis is nothing if not persistent in his quest to figure out what the plant smells like.
rorie almost 6 years ago
It’s a good thing they received bandaids for Christmas. Gotta say, this made me LOL.
sarah413 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“It smells like pain” sounds like a Clubber Lang line from Rocky III
anomalous4 almost 6 years ago
First stabby mice, & now stabby plants…the world has suddenly become a dangerous place. The Boys are DOOMED!
NWdryad almost 6 years ago
Cactus never stopped my Siamese.
Brein43 almost 6 years ago
Toe Bean Alert !
As much as I hate to feed the addiction, those of you who must can Google something called “cats on glass”-a gallery exhibit opening Jan 17 sponsored by Fresh Step which promises to provide plentiful paw prints with that " glass bottom boat" experience- you look up at adoptable kitties walking on a glass coffee table or perhaps a “cat walk”.
mistercatworks almost 6 years ago
It works the other way round, too. I once saw a farm puppy investigating a barn cat for the first time by thrusting his nose at it. What he learned is that cats are sharp, ouch.
Brein43 almost 6 years ago
Ok, Orbsters, here we go. Please keep all available fingers and paws crossed for me, today it gets real. Colonoscopy tomorrow, to get a feel for what sort of lumps, bumps, and masses are in the neighborhood, then a total abdominal remodel on Thursday. Possible all this fuss is for nothing and I will just have a fun weekend hanging out in the hospital bed and playing with the morphine drip-so there is a bright side :). Will know more by this time next week. I am eligible for retirement (56) so that may be the next chapter. Any good wishes, purrs, etc. gratefully accepted.
Aspen_Bell almost 6 years ago
I have already received help from kind orbsters yesterday, but was told it was a good idea to repost this message this morning, so here goes: I need the orb’s help again. I literally cannot afford cat food right now. This is what happens when there’s no work due to the holidays. Work is back on, but I won’t be paid until next week. There is money on the way, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
http://www.paypal.me/IloraGarden – ANYTHING (even $5) you can send would help now. If you can’t, purr for me, please (it DOES help!). My family is trying to help, but it’s the bills and everyday expenses that mess things up.
Food is much less of a problem than bills are, and I found that our local shelter gives out free cat food if you can show records of spay/neuter, shots & chip. (Check this out if you are ever in trouble, your local shelters may have this. Bet Freddie Quinn’s place does!)
Thank you for your great kindnesses and uplifting thoughts — they do make a difference. May Bast bless and keep you all.
rs0204 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
“Son of a Cat!”??
Burt this is Legal Dept., please switch to 5 second delay.
tad1 almost 6 years ago
I read somewhere that hermit crabs have no problem with cacti. Stick a cactus in a cage full of hermit crabs and the’ll pull the needles out with their claws and eat the cactus. (Crabs will eat anything.)
Erin Pierce almost 6 years ago
“It smells like pain!” …just like my gym
ikini Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Ooo, did anyone notice Elvis’s last sniff is truncated?
Chris Sherlock almost 6 years ago
Curiosity injured the cat, Elvis.
Kitty Katz almost 6 years ago
I am strong!
I’m invincible!
I am cactus!
besuper almost 6 years ago
Orbsters alert! More Love and Healing Purrs are needed! Here it comes!
miscreant almost 6 years ago
Elvis his own worst enemy.
rgcviper almost 5 years ago
“Son of a cat” and “It smells like pain” … two fun lines.
Sorry for your troubles, though, Elvis.
A_Dilophosaurus over 3 years ago
I just found out that zooming in to 300% makes the strips look better.