Dougy knows he is a pretty kitty boy!
“But can you do this!?” Andy’s known Dougy all his life, so he doesn’t put up with that nonsense from his brother!
Post 1652: Proud Dougy…
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Post 1651: Andy’s video reviews…
Andy’s pestered me all morning to watch videos for kitties. Soooo… we watched this bird video. It held his attraction for a moment, as you can see from his viewing position. He rates it: 3 paws.
It’s 4:32:00 long, so you bet Andy got up and had some kitty treats and a rest stop several times during the play. I kept turning it off, but Andy came back and whined because it wasn’t still playing.
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Andy really, really, really loves these string game videos. Very interactive, keeps his attention like nothing else. Andy rates it: 6 paws! He knows he has only four paws, but Dougy said he could use two of his for this high rating.
His tummy and kidneys lasted the whole video.
[Sorry for the poor exposure but this is what you get when you make a GIF of a black cat in a low lit place!]
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We also watched a fun video (for me) of a squirrel family in a tree box. It lasts about 55 minutes, but Andy love, love, loved this video and wanted me to include it in this post.
He had to borrow all four of Dougy’s paws to give this video: 8 paws!
If you are a cat or a dog or if you have cats or dogs, watch or let them watch a bit of these videos and see if you agree with Andy’s review rating.
Post 1650: more Andy and Dougy from the memory stick archive…
Proof that Andy isn’t always the “nice” kitty boy…!
Clockwise from left: Andy tends to his “precious”; Andy is a pretty kitty; Andy finds the catnip.
Dougy poses nicely; Dougy enjoys the sun while lounging in his – well, Andy’s – grey plastic tub. Yeah, Dougy took the first one for himself. I bought a second one for Andy, and Dougy claimed that one, too!
Taking photos of black cats in low light is difficult, yet it is possible to make purses out of those sow’s ears. Here is an impressionistic portrait of Andy with the framed Captain Me-Ow (the late Louie the ginger cat) picture behind him.
Yet another fake poster! This time, it’s Andy. Yes, he is very adamant and inflexible about his kitty treat time~!
Dougy in a box, of course. No box too small, tall, thin, large for this kitty boy! This is the box my laptop came in.
RAWR! People might try to rub his tummy to get their way in Congress, but he’d kill their hand! Feed him kitty treats, though, he might cave in. Catnip? Forget about it! He’d sell his own brother for it!
Not a kitty photo, but one of the coolest postage stamps I’ve ever seen.
Of course, this Dutch postage stamp with the leaping cow with outlines of EU countries for spots, flying wooden shoes, tulips, and ribbons in the Dutch national colors is pretty cool, too!
Post 1649: passive resistance…
I tried! Dougy caught the lure and would not let it go. We had a very short wand toy session today.
So I decided to try Andy out for a blog story…
…and this was his contribution: a GIF where there is virtually no movement.
Maybe they’ll co-operate tomorrow.
Post 1648: more “memory stick” kitty photos
Long before he destroyed the ottoman, it was Dougy’s domain.
Poor Andy! He was terrified at the veterinarian’s, even though the technicians treated him with gentleness and concern!
I don’t make the kitty boys wear collars since they are inside cats, but I do get them vaccinated for all diseases their veterinarian recommends. I think these were their second tags for rabies. They’ve had another shot since then. I think they get another one this year. (I get postcard notifications when the kitty boys are due!) As for what happens if they were to get loose, they are microchipped.
Dougy always liked to hang out with me when I was on the PC. His “horns” are up in the last photo…! He usually put his paw over my arm, even as a kitten.
Look at that insolent expression on Dougy’s face while he is a naughty kitty destroying the settee!
Andy in stripes!
Andy is the good kitty boy! You have to work hard to catch him being bad.
Post 1647: they call them memory sticks…
I decided to take a look at the files saved on the PC memory stick Andy always wants to take off the PC. Today’s post features some of the things I found when I put it on my laptop, the tool I’ve come to prefer. First found: the “fake poster” above! That’s Dougy trying to play innocent. LOL! Yeah, sure!
Of these four Dougy photos, only the last one is a good kitty photo of Dougy. Top left – Dougy takes on camera strap; top right – Dougy takes unauthorized excursion outside; bottom left – Dougy caught after he knocked over wastepaper basket; bottom right – good kitty! Dougy uses little red chair to watch critters out the back door…
…while getting his kitty on to deny Andy a chance to watch critters out the same back door. Look how he deploys “The Glance” in the last photo as Andy walks toward the pot he eventually claimed for his perch. Dougy then found critters more interesting than denying Andy a chance to watch them, too.
Of course, Andy isn’t all about cuteness! On the left, he considers what he can wipe out on the computer desk. Then, well, cuteness!
Of course, the time Dougy discovered a slightly open drawer on the little desk, he encouraged his brother to join him because Andy is the master of opening drawers and doors! That was when I had to intervene. [See last photo!]
That was fun taking a look at the files on the memory stick. I’ll continue this in future.
Post 1646: day of rest…
The kitty boys woke me up an hour earlier this morning – 11:30 PM! – so they are exhausted.
Yeah, we had kitty food, kitty videos, kitty treats, and kitty wand toy time till 3:20 AM, so I guess it stands to reason they just want me to leave them alone now that I’m wide awake. (I’ll catch a nap later.)
Post 1645: Dougy’s morning routine…
Of course, Nr. 1 is wake up the human so kitties can eat the kitty food!
Then Dougy stops by his ottoman to lounge. He hints at what he needs from me: “scritches”, a brushing, to ignore him while he gives himself a kitty bath. This is Dougy’s favorite happy place, except for…
…the recliner, where he loves to play wand toy!
Andy watches from his happy place on the computer desk. As soon as Dougy leaves Andy will take over his other happy place, the same recliner. The kitty boys get along because they respect each other’s routines…most of the time!
Post 1644: Andy adjusts…
Andy stops by for videos, but Dougy comes into the room and perches on the ottoman. (Dougy gives Andy “The Eye”…) Andy leaves the recliner for a brief time till Dougy leaves the ottoman for the guest bedroom.
Dougley gone, Andy returns to the icky-box-the-kitty-boys-never-stop-using. Checking with me (“Will you start the video already???”), then the doorway to the guest bedroom (“Good! No Dougy!”), then the laptop…
…where the video is playing, Andy settles in for the show.
Whew! It’s tough being a kitty boy here! And the human doesn’t even put out kitty treats for the show.
Post 1643: What do you think…?
This has been the heading for this blog for years now. It is a screen print from a video of Andy and Dougy as kittens wrestling on a settee that Dougy eventually destroyed. I like it because it shows both kitty boys when they were innocent kittens.
I’ve been thinking about changing to this photo for the heading of this blog though it shows only one kitty boy – Andy. I like it because it suggests the tension between cat and human, part of the surviving retirement with two cats.
What do you think? Leave good enough alone or use the new photo?