It’s the end of a long day for me; I’ve written much of my chidren’s book, worked on my talk for Monday, finished a blurb for a book, wrote posts here, pulled weeds, and raked rotten apples. So forgive me if all I have to offer is a kitten who’s not yet mastered the Big Kitten Litter Box:
Litter box fail
August 4, 2016 • 2:30 pm
I love the music! Such kitten music!
Is that the HVAC inlet right next to the litter box? FAIL!
Trump trying to come up with a coherent policy.
Naawww, what am I doing? It’s cute.
She looked as if she was going to poop right on her leg at first. Poor kitty.
I’ve been there…
Oh my gosh, I can’t stop smiling especially when she is starting to stand! I have a cat too and I feel blessed everyday.
Hi Dr Coyne
Sorry for the OT….and I’m sorry to have missed it prior…but you’re writing a children’s book?!?!
How excellent! What a great idea and you seem to have the kind of “voice” for a book for children. Or is it more for “young people”? I hope it’s on evolution! I have just the nieces and nephews in mind.
If you’ve already explained it, my apologies; I’ll try a more thorough search of WEIT tonight for the background on the book. But I was excited to see the mention just now. I look forward to it.
Thus, Mr mikeyc:
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/thursday-hili-dialogue-109
Blue
Thanks! So it’s to be about Mr Das and his Forty Cats. Very nice.
Yes. With > here, Mr mikeyc, re Mr Das and his cooking of various foods, particularly confections, for both humans and his kaboodle of kitty cats: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/noms-bangalore
Blue
Sorry but I watched this twice to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. All I saw was a dumb animal doing nothing in particular. No smarter than a finch. What did I miss?
You should probably watch it again. Maybe the dumb animal isn’t in the box.
BTW, if you are in loco parentis of a young kitten, you should rub it under the tail with a wet piece of cotton (imitating the mother’s tongue) to help the process.
An excellent suggestion!
Very cute. Poor kitty, constipation sucks. Glad it was only a few times before the kitty acclimated to the hard food. I can relate – I’m lucky no video exists of the positions I’ve adopted trying to expedite matters. Let’s just say I once had to clean footprints off the bathroom wall…
It did appear to be an existential experience, one that requires a beer and a rubdown after.
🙂
Another tale of the tail: http://www.facebook.com/mike.dungan.3 with Doc actually able to reach and scratch that itch o’his !
Blue
As always, it’s all about leverage.
Wull, that’s it !
That’s exactly it !
Blue
It’s funny; while I watched it, I could swear I smelled cat poop, and I don’t even HAVE a cat. They say that smell is the sense that’s the most evocative of memory; perhaps the opposite is true, too?
How do cats learn to scratch up the sand behind them? Do their mothers show them? It’s been 50 years since one of mine had kittens and I don’t remember it.
I’m pretty sure it’s instinctive (i.e. hard wired).
Way many years ago we took in a stray tiny baby kitteh that we found covering up her poop… with snow.
We called her “Critter” so we wouldn’t get so attached to her as we looked for a new home for her. We had her for the next 15 years.
Poor little baby cat. So pretty too.
Our (adult) tabby had a problem with constipation on one occasion, and the vet gave us a tube of Katalax as a remedy. It’s a laxative based on petroleum jelly. The instructions said to place a small amount on the cat’s paw, and the cat would then lick it off. Well, we did that, and the tabby sat there for a moment with a look of utter disgust on her face, then she shook her paw vigorously, and the Katalax went everywhere, including halfway up the living room wall.
It still makes me smile to remember it.
(We had to resort to smearing the stuff around the sides of her mouth to get the Katalax into her. She didn’t much like that, either, but she over her constipation very quickly.)
Typical kitteh🙀