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1. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thanks for the update. I hope the treatment for Trouble is simple (and inexpensive) when all is said and done. Our solution over the years for jumping issues (age induced (Mephistopheles) and just a terrible jumper and now aging (Nicodemus)) are multi-step alternatives — so chairs (or boxes) by counters, tables, beds. Sometimes a bench (to get to the chair). Admittedly, the alternatives aren’t always used. Sometimes we get a stink-eye and definite demand when the arrangement isn’t set up (because company or cleaning). We call it the Jackie Chan solution (at one point, as he aged he talked about instead of just doing X stunt (like when he was younger), he needed to do it in 2 (or 3) steps. No longer jump straight up (or down) — but take it by levels. Not one giant leap, but two medium ones. Anyway — may everyone (human and feline) heal!

2. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’ve not had cats spooked for long periods of time without being able to ID the culprit. Tossing marshmallows on the ceiling here – meds, some critter has gotten in (snake, giant spider (ie wolf), skink, chipmunk, mouse (I’ve only experienced the last three in houses with cross cats)). Hope you get to the bottom of it and get Trouble calmed down until you get him checked out. Keep us posted!

3. 3 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Wet dog (but probably wet sheep (goat?)). My brain wanted to skip the critter as the smell is….memorable (but not in a good way)

4. 3 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Hmmm….Nicodemus is a Siamese. MUST be an Olympic sport and the Siamese aim to beat the Persians (or that US team from Maine with a second part that GoComics might not allow) and bring home the gold.

5. 3 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   That said, Nicodemus’ brief period of hurling from on high (microwave and counter) was less fun. Points for hurling on linoleum but deduction for the splatter. Although, perhaps it was viewed as a feline Olympic sport with bonus points for size and distance of splatter.

6. 3 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   There are two small throw rugs at the end of our bed that (for some reason known only to cats) was Mephistopheles’ go to place for late night hurling. For a joke my husband printed out signs with Bill the Cat hairballing and a big red circle/cross over the image. He put them on each of the rugs (which were bigger than the paper). Mephistopheles never hurled on them again. Nor has Nicodemus (yes, the signs remain 2 decades later). However, the new preferred targets became the long hall runner (handmade in Greece and picked up on our first anniversary) which is just barely small enough to get hauled into the bathtub for scrubbing when the inevitable occurs and the huge floor rug in the library (but fortunately the colors are such that cat barf stains blend in. The Greek rug is cream and light blue/grey and smells like wet when hung out to dry).

7. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Masterful! I relinquish the field to far greater talents. :-)

8. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   About 1am-ish (EST) here (fortunately (?) I’m still going until about 3am

9. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thanks for the pointer. Maybe if I’m feeling inspired to continue…. :-) But I know there are Orbsters who do this regularly (and better!)

10. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    Yesterday, @uncle snipe commented – The Maple Syrup Massacre! And while I don’t think I (or Go Comics or anyone) has the stamina for 18+ minutes, the first thing I thought of (…with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that…)

    This song is called Sophie’s Syrup Spill and it’s about Sophie, and Gutter, and the Robber Mice, and a Tidy Woman and a whole bunch of syrup (and glitter) and a glorious piece of art at a Tidy House. Sophie’s Syrup Spill is not the name of the piece of art, although I suppose it could be, or the syrup it’s just the name of the song, and that’s why I called the song Sophie’s Syrup Spill.

    You can do anything you want at the (formerly) Tidy HouseYou can get anything you want at the (formerly) Tidy HouseWalk right in, kitchen’s around the backJust a half a mile from the Big Pink House (we wish)You can get anything you want at the (formerly) Tidy House

    Now it all started around the 4th of July, – just a few days ago around the 4th of July, when Sophie was enjoying her newly installed old window, but Sophie doesn’t live in the Tidy House, she lives in the Big Pink House, on the first floor, with her buddy Tommy and Her Woman. And living in the Big Pink House, there’s a lot of room for a bunch of other cats who live on other floors. And outside there’s a lot of space for a whole bunch of wild critters like raccoons and moles and possums.