Caturday: hostage cats

January 3, 2015 • 8:30 am

by Grania

First off, here’s a disconsolate cat being bathed and registering its disapproval with the most plaintive underwater meows. This is not a cat in distress, it is very clear from the accompanying human noises that it is a well-loved and cared-for moggie.

And here’s the return of Theo, the coffee-loving cat! (You might remember his prize-winning entry in the Cat Confessions Contest.) Staff Laurie tells us that although it was believed that His Nibs only drank espresso, it appears he will take black coffee when it is available too. Caught in the act!

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And last, and worst; Russian debt collectors seized four kittens as hostage to an underpaid tax debt.

Itar-TASS news agency

Debt collectors are clearly on race to the bottom of low-down dirty malcreants. The BBC reports that even a rabbit has been lagomorph-napped in this way. Such types will burn in a special level of hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

 

28 thoughts on “Caturday: hostage cats”

  1. Awww the poor kitty mewing underwater! He/she looked rather tired; perhaps a struggle had already taken place.

    I think Grania was channelling Shepherd Book in the theatre reference. 🙂

    1. Our Border Collie used to put on a similar show at her annual bath-time. The happiest dog in the universe instantly morphed into most helpless, pitiful and traumatised mammal in all of space and time while she was being soaped and rinsed. It was hilarious.

  2. According to google, Grania is the only person ever to have written the word “lagomorph-napped”. (I still haven’t – that was copy-pasted.)

  3. Kittens and Legos (looks around expectantly).
    There can be no possessions more precious.

      1. As long as we agree the s is silent as concluded by brother Mark after careful studies of the legology, balance is preserved.

        The bricks have fallen into place and we can once again build in peace.

  5. I have a rookie question regarding cats, btw.

    How often do you guys give ’em baths?

    I’ve had Monty for a year and a half know and except for some instances with a wet washing cloth, I’ve never given him a proper bath.

    He spends a lot of time cleaning himself so maybe I lucked out, or am I doing it wrong?

    1. The only time a cat needs a tub bath is if it has gotten into something messy, stinky, etc. A cat can handle 99% of its bathing by itself. A wet wash cloth, as you mentioned, is ok. Tub baths can remove skin oils, leaving the poor cat with a bad case of itches. You and Monty are doing it right.

    2. I’ve only once had to bathe a cat, one I had years ago, who literally had the poop scared out of him by a neighbor cat. It was a messy job…

      1. The Lord of the Manor is a bully towards most other cats, but there was one occasion where a nugget had attached itself. 🙂

  7. I’ve yet to have need to attempt to bathe Baihu, and I don’t think he’d like it.

    However…when we’re out on the trail and the temperature is an hundred and ridiculous, he does rather like getting soaked with ice water from the Camelbak….

    b&

  8. Water cat sounded like he had his meow hooked up to a wah-wah pedal, or a golden throat (maybe working on his own version of “Do you feel the way we do”).

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