Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for August 16, 2016

On the past days notes about coyotes, we’ve had a brown bear (caught and relocated) and cougar sited near residential areas. Best to keep cats, dogs, and kids inside.

Wow, that’s one clever parrot!

Good morning. Bev, great ATM pics this morning.

Today’s gleanings from the interwebs that I can share with you.catitude.

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Closing with four cute pics:

You guys and gals should add your photos to the comments at “BREAKING CAT NEWS”. It is a great strip if you haven’t seen it!

What good cats – helping the dogs out. “Bonehead account” – cute. Beviek – love the ATM pictures. The cat – typical cat. The parrot says ‘never mind, I will buy my own crackers’. bbear – lov’n all of them today. I especially like the guitar player – so cute!

Eldo suggested I share this. I don’t know what I would do without my kids.

About 4 to 5 months ago I got a cheap treat ball thinking it would interest Buster. It has to be rolled quite a bit as it only has one hole for the treats to drop out of. It has a tower in the center with a small hole that the treats come out of into the main part of the ball. That way it takes a lot of rolling in the right directions to get treats to fall completely out. I showed it to him. He thought the treats were great. I even took his paw and showed him he could roll it and get treats. Nothing! I would end up kicking it every now and then because it would be in the way and if treats fell out, he was happy. I could fill it and it would be weeks before it would need filling again. Well, I don’t know what happened, but the first of this week he figured out he could roll it by himself and treats would fall out. FINALLY!! He emptied it almost immediately!The first day, I filled it again. Put it on the floor and figured he would get to it later. He emptied it immediately. Now I only fill it once of a morning and when he empties it, it goes up on the counter waiting until the next morning. He ignores it once it stops making noise with treats inside anyway, so there is no point in it being on the floor to get stepped on.I had wondered why he couldn’t figure it out. He lost his left eye due to trauma, his left shoulder bothers him and I have wondered it he might have been hit or something and had some mild brain damage. Maybe he does, but HE CAN LEARN!!! YEA!I use cheap dry food instead of expensive treats, but he thinks they are special. It is funny to watch him roll and wallow it to death all in the space of about 5 minutes every morning. I was hoping he would get more exercise from it, but as it is there isn’t much floor space so he couldn’t do much anyway.At least, it is finally doing what I bought it for.

@bbear picture of “could not find the cat” – a couple of my cats have hiding places I have yet to discover, I start to worry “where is that darn cat?”. I search the house thoroughly (or so I feel I am) and I just can’t find them. Then they reappear a couple hours later. I have no idea where they were all that time. It would help if they would come when I called their names, but nooooo, they won’t do that!

Cute pics today … and the last few days in general :-) The facial expression shots are oh so true

Dusty’s appetite has been ravenous for the past few weeks and yet she remains rail-thin. Sunday I met her kittens and it is clear what has been happening. She has been scarfing down whatever I give her and she has been regurgitating it for her kittens. I estimate that they are between 12 and 14 weeks old. They are already too wild and fearful of people to make good pets. And since the old tom was hanging around last week, I suspect that Dusty is pregnant again.I took this picture at the extreme limit of the camera’s zoom.