We have an all-video Caturday felid post today. The first one, in which a cat steals a plush tiger, seems familiar, and I may have posted it before. Well, you can’t see it too often. This cat, named Timmy, has his own Facebook Page; he was recently very ill but seems to be recovering.
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This very polite cat has learned to knock on the door using a lock:
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What is it about Maru that compels him to enter any box or vessel he sees? I know of no other cat like this, and of course that is why he’s famous. After his recent failure to enter a “too small box,” Maru redeems himself here by entering (with only his legs) a glass vase. This cannot be comfortable, and I am baffled. Perhaps he has some kind of feline compulsive disorder?
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Lagniappe: reader Michael calls our attention to a Japanese video by the Ohkawa Furniture Craft collective showing off their skills by producing tiny furniture for cats. Note the miniature alarm clock! Reader Stephen also found a link giving more information.
Caturday is always a treat! 😀
A very entertaining Caturday. The cat size furniture in Japan is very natural as they are already really good at crafting small size furniture for the much smaller size living conditions. If one has not been there and experienced this size difference it is really something to see. The normal question when booking hotels is to ask the question – Western or not? I have stayed in rooms where you had to go out into the hallway to change your mind.
“I have stayed in rooms where you had to go out into the hallway to change your mind.”
Worthy of inclusion in a book of quotations about frustration.
hehhehheh ! = both of you … …
Randy and Ms Haniver.
And so t r u e: I was last June a week’s guest in an ordinary household: a mama, a daddy, two teenage kiddos, a girl and a boy, two kitty cats and one hound, as a delegate to my municipality’s partnership city of Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture. So true. Everything. So tiny. There inside their home and out. Even the Tezuka family’s two cats, full grown for years, were tiny.
The furniture is darling and perceptably, without the kitties reclining upon them at the first, of trickery to one’s eyeballs size – wise !
Blue
Even the 18 – wheelers alongside the wee cars
traversing at h i g h speeds ( the speeds
there in Japan upon their also tiny – width
freeways being about the only ‘thing’ as
‘big’ as elsewhere !) … … even the
18 – wheelers were actually only … …
10 – whee;ers !
Blue
Exactly right. The tractors pulling the trailers could only be single axle due to length restrictions. I remember when the containers on the cargo ships went up to 45 footers from 40 feet. That was a big problem in Japan for a while.
For when you, Randy, next hafta go out in to
any hallway — — or to anywhere else —
— in order just “to change your mind !”
thus: Darling Mr Cooke’s first line – lyric
within “Bring It On Home To Me !”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB4jcPmFGo,
“If you ever change your mind … … ”
Blue
That’s what I needed…a little Sam Cooke.
Oh, Maru, that can’t be comfortable.
Can it?
Reading the above comments about the size of things in Japan, I think that Maru, a Scottish Fold with a great big beautiful head (and those baleful, “I know you’re watching me to see what ridiculous thing I’ll do now, and I won’t disappoint, but fuck you anyway” eyes), is just attempting to activate his Scottish foldability in order to become more Japanese by trying to stuff himself into impossibly tiny containers.
I had to guffaw, Ms Haniver ! I am going to (try to) in future cultivate my own gaze as one done with those ” but fuck you anyway ” – eyeballs ” of Moggie Maru’s ! … …
cuz there are within my life’s pathways … … .now. a bagazillion trails upon where ‘to use’ such rolling of said balls ! What is that meme nowadays online ? ” My eyeballs roll so far back in my head now … … that I can see my tonsils !”
Blue
I’ve got that first part down pat; it’s the “fuck you anyway” part of the gaze that I must work on. But then, I don’t want someone in the vicinity to walk by and sniff my butt like his long-suffering female pal Hana did — what a non-verbal expression that was! Nuff said, she sniffed.
He always looks P***ed off to me.
The cat carrying the tiger is adorable. Especially when it starts playing with the tiger at the end.
I really liked that polite cat. Hope they opened the door in the end.
The door can’t be opened from the inside. (Look at how the padlock is fitted.) The cat is just using the lock and metal door as a sounding board.