21Aug21: a video potpourri…

Furtive kitty boy attacks mousie…!

Dougy has different plans for his time.

A strip of paper is all it takes to amuse Andy!

After watching a kitty video, Andy weighs his options for fun.

20Aug21: kitty food time…

Andy scratched on the arm of my chair to let me know he wanted something from me. I ignored him for a moment till I finished an email, then looked up to find Andy giving me a big judgmental stare. Uh oh! Kitty food time!

I prepared the kitty food, but Andy now acts like it was something else he wanted when I said, “Andy, there’s kitty food over here. Eat it before the flies do! KITTY FOOD!”

I go over to Andy to “skritch” him. His eyes glaze over in that pre-“zoomies” look. Maybe he will go after the food now!

Nope! “Andy, it’s time for your kitty food. You have some waiting at the kitty food place.” I plead, but he just stays there on the recliner footrest. Shortly after I put my smart phone/camera down, he initiates a “zoomie” that ends up at the kitty food place. All this drama from a kitty boy who usually runs ahead of me when I just say the words “kitty food”!

19Aug21: happy times and not so happy times…

Just like me, I mess with Andy and he messes my hand up!

Yeah, another expensive cat toy that the kitties figured out in no time, then stopped playing with it.

How to make Dougy really happy!

Poor kitties! Lawn day is never a happy time for kitties.

18Aug21: cats are a pleasure…

Another of my favorite videos of the kitty boys!

He was a wonderful part of my life for such a short time. Louie.

Cats are amazing athletes.

Andy let me know it’s time for kitty food!

17Aug21: a bit of home life with the kitty boys…

Andy still likes this cat tree best.

The kitty boys always behaved at the groomer’s, but Dougy always whined all the way to and the way back. He hated the carrier!

Always nice to have a kitty boy or two greet you at the door!

16Aug21: ‘kitty tears”…

Poor Andy! Everything is in turmoil during the family visit. He can’t even look out his favorite windows in the guest bedroom. (“People sleep at night???” Andy is confused.)

Andy runs over to the recliner. “What? The footrest is down?” How frustrating. Kitty tears tell Doug the human that poor Andy’s favorite places are off limits or, at least, unavailable during family visits. What’s a kitty to do?!

“Hint! Hint! Maybe Doug the human will put the footrest up. I’m his kitty boy! And I’m a good kitty boy. Always!”

Sorry, Andy. The footrest is in the way when there are others in the house. They have to go to the airport for home in a few minutes. I know you can hold out!

“I counted on you, Doug the human!”

Dear me! Line’em up for the traditional “leaving for home” photo no one in the Thomas family wants to line up for! “I’ll edit it so you look good,” I promise, though the part I edited out was the cluttered computer table and another mess behind sister Kathy and friend Sid. You know, things that edited out make me look good. Oh well, she got one of me, too – damn those smart phones! everyone has them, and everyone takes tons of photos! It, Kathy’s photo of me, shows Jabba the Hutt post Star Wars. Or maybe it was me…. (Of course you can’t see it! LOL!)

After I drive Kathy and Sid down to the airport in Scottsbluff, I return home in time for sun up. The visit was a good one. Andy mostly enjoyed the visitors, though “zoomies” the first night and kitty boy visits to both windows in the guest bedroom meant my visitors got to experience Andy in an unpleasant way at night, hence the closed door today!

Wipe away your kitty tears, Andrew. Thanks to the visit, not only is the apartment cleaner, there is almost no clutter on the dining room table. You know what that means! [It means a kitty boy will spend lots of time on the dining room table, snoozing, taking care of his “precious”, and snooping out interesting kitty things Doug the human usually hides from him. Also, Doug the human thinks he might find it interesting to keeping it cleared and returning to eating meals on it instead of in front of the television. What a novel thought!]