Dougy is shameless. Of course, he’s a kitty and has no concept of just how wrong it is that he takes the best seat from the guy with the opposable thumbs.
Yesterday, I showed how he took over the recliner. Today, I show you Dougy lounging in the recliner like it was made to his order at the recliner factory. Maybe it was….!
I spot Dougy on the recliner.
He spots me spotting him!
“Mine!” Go away! Don’t bother me!”
Dougy is unmovable!
Dougy is very excited today!
“Hurry up! Hurry uppppp!”
Dougy’s impatient.
The forecast was for rain, and it drizzled a bit over night. The grass is wet, as with dew.
You bet, Dougy’s nose is out the door the moment I open it!
He smells the rain and he is excited!
A bit anticlimatic, eh, Dougy? Maybe you’ll get some snow, soon!
Dougy and I had fun time earlier this morning. I brought out a wand toy he’d not played with for a few weeks, and it was like a new — and very, very exciting! — toy. Woo hoo! Dougy played so hard, he had to take his morning nap a lot earlier than usual today.
Andy, however, just sat it out. Apparently the old toy wasn’t exciting to him. Or he had other interests at the moment. Regardless, I lost track of him till I sat down at my computer.
I felt a thump on my leg. Andy was beside my chair, trying to get attention.
Or a good scritching.
What a look, Andy! He definitely wasn’t pleased to be left out of the morning’s fun!
Scritched, Andy hopped up on my computer desk to keep track of me from eye level.
OK, kitty, I get your point!
Any other day, Andy would have fits if he spotted Dougy on top of his favorite blue carrier. Not today. Guess it’s too early in the morning to be confrontational!
A new development: a fly got in the house. Boy oh boy! The kitties are in hunt mode now, swatting at the fly when it flies by, performing amazing acrobatic leaps into the air, and generally getting lots of healthy exercise, something inside pampered kitties can always use more of!
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The boys’ favorite people are delivery people, especially those who leave boxes. Such a person visited yesterday, and Dougy quickly claimed his new box!
Woohoo! A new box for Dougy!
Andy is unhappy because he didn’t claim the box first…but there always is the fly!
“Tough stuff, brother! I was here first!”
Dougy dozes in the luxury of his new box: “Life is good!” he thinks, “And it doesn’t have to get better than this!”
What a morning! I decided to update my pc to Windows 10 from the perfectly workable Windows 7 that it came with. What a soul-sucking, tedious, mind-numbing process that turned out to be!
I didn’t see any particular reason to do this other than it is free now and probably will cost something to do later. I haven’t explored Windows 10 yet so have no sense of whether it is an improvement or just something one needs to do before Windows 7 no longer is supported by Microsoft.
I still have my laptop to update to Windows 10. Fewer files, newer operating system (Windows 8), and no urgency to complete the job means I can start the process and walk away from it till it completes its course.
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That noted, let’s get on with the kitty boys update!
Handy Andy!
You know Andy was a very bad boy yesterday. He didn’t coöperate with his tormentor, me, and take his medicine like a big boy. I spent at least two hours trying to catch the little bugger, and he evaded me very effectively each time.
Then, when I headed off to bed, I saw him resting on top of my pc, one of Andy’s favorite perches. I simply walked over to him, picked him up (no struggle!), and walked him over to the chair where I give him his medicine.
Less than five minutes from start to finish, I caught Andy, gave him his medicine, and set him down on the floor for his kitty treat for being a “good enough” kitty. (He wasn’t a really good kitty, after all!)
Andy doesn’t take his medicine with grace…
It wasn’t all tedium this morning, however. The boys and I had lots of fun with their favorite Neko wand toy. I wore them out with play, and they are taking their morning naps now. Of course!
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I stumbled across this photo of Dougy from 2013 while piddling through my photo files today. I found it charming and think it’s worth a replay!
Nothing beats a good nose rub!
Videos of the boys as kittens and young cats were a hit, so I’m posting a few more videos today. It always is fun for me to revisit these videos — Andy and Dougy are my boys! — and they remind me what a good decision I made to adopt those two little kittens back in 2011 so soon after the death of the great Louie the ginger cat.
Hope you enjoyed the show! =(^+^)=
Must be feeding the cat brothers the right vitamins because they really are wound up this morning!
Dougy sets a trap for Andy…!
“Where is that kitty!?” I want to kick kitty butt!”
“…I know he’s in there!”
“Nyah to you, Dougy-boy!”
Andy is a little rascal, eh, Dougy? Didn’t even see him sneak by.
Dougy hops into action…a moment too late!
Quiet here, but what are the boys doing in the other room?
My sister reminded me today, June 4th, is Hug Your Cat Day. I know she hugged her two, especially Sox, who just recently showed up in a shelter after being missing for 10 months!
As for me, if Andy and Dougy get up from their naps any time before 12 tonight, I will give them their HYC Day hugs! 🙂
Dougy mugging for the camera.
I guess I could makes sounds like a box opening. That’d bring the boys at a trot!
Andy can mug, too!
But, more likely, nothing would bring them faster than to open a can of tuna. Actually, just operating a can opener brings them from the farthest corners of the apartment. Dougy just came over at the mention of opening a can. 🙂 Such is the power of that magical tool.
Some people go father than hugs for their cats:
I massage the boys, only with my hands. Happy paws! Purr~purr~purr!
A final Hug Your Cat video: