A spate of readers’ contributions are forming a big backlog, but that’s good as I’ll be in California most of next week, unable to contribute much beyond stored posts. But let me put up two items now. The first is a report on the famous rescue cat Butter, whose awesome technical skills (exercised under the name of “Anonypuss,” helped bring victory to the cat token in Monopoly, and allow kittens to triumph over puppies and human infants in the old Cuteness Contest).
Butter’s staff, Stephen Q. Muth, sent two photos of the fluffy puss accompanied by some commentary. Let me first add that Butter got a “lion cut” yesterday, and I’ve asked for before-and-after pictures of his summer furcut. Those will be up within the next few days. Stephen writes:
Butter’s operation was a success, after one false start… where he got a squirrel cut instead of a lion cut. (it all in the tail) I did also get some vid of Butter doing his fire safety maneuver in the dirt (stop, drop and roll) shortly after he got outside. So also sending this post-bath pic, where he is looking especially unamused. (note the ample cat detritus in the hallway).
This is one affronted cat!
Apparently Butter was taken back to the groomer to have his “squirrel cut” (no shaving on tail) converted to a “lion cut” (a puffball shaved on the tip of his tail). Here he is about to get his yearly cut:
I took him back to get the puff ball. 🙂 And there’s before and after pics. Liz (groomer) said she hadn’t seen him quite that fuzzy before. Now he’s pint-sized. (and very comfy and lovey)
Finally, reader Su, who has awesome artistic skills, sent a cartoon she made featuring not only the famous Snowball, the Famous Dancing Cockatoo, with whom she is associated, but an importuning moggie:
Very funny post!
I never did quite understand that particular feline behavior. At least they only do it in dry dust, and not, as d*gs do, in the nastiest, smelliest, most unspeakable thing they can find.
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That’s my kitty! Hillary Rotten Kitten. Can provide any number of videos of her walking around with Kleenex boxes on her head. I suspect she’s trying to get an endorsement. I wouldn’t mind that – would be about time she stopped freeloading.
Post a video on YouTube and let me know about it!
I dunno, he definitely looks like the name Schnozzle is more fitting than Butter in that photo!
I used to live with a face like that. His name was Puff, a redpoint.