First of all your cats are beautiful!! Second, that's hysterical! My cat left me a present on my windowsill this morning -- fur and food! Lovely!

aww - my cat has left similar gestures of love and appreciation for me.

Third?

Just this morning I received a heart-shaped pee clump. Gotta love the tangible love tokens!

I've been a lurker for a couple months, but I just wanted to say that your cat pics make my day! Since I'm in a college dorm, I'm not allowed to have pets, and I miss my kitties at home. Seeing your cats makes me happy, and your captions are so hilarious! I don't even mind that it's not technically a post. ;-)

Which, of course, begs the question - when he's happy, is he gruntled?!

Good thing you didn't get those fancee new shoes!

Oh Bob! Hope you're gruntled again soon. :)

hee hee
you know it would have been the new shoes.

Cat slaves - I mean owners - no, I don't - everywhere bow down before your perfect slices-of-life. That picture and its caption are worth several thousand words.

BTW, I've been meaning to tell you - Sobakowa has an innocent-looking double out in the blogosphere. Check out Kitten Nutmeg (http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/dec06.htm#31dec) over on Panabasis - doesn't that look like someone who wants to be Sobakowa when she grows up?

I love Roy! (Don't tell Soba!)

I love Bob, too! (Don't tell Soba!)

hahaha...my cats DO NOT like the healthy-good-for-them food either. I thought that was odd till I realized, I prefer junk to healthy food too.

Beautiful Bob! *smooch*

Once back in December my Teddy left me a particularly drawn out hurl-deposit stretching from the dining room table, skipping the carpet below, thankfully, and from where he obviously jumped to the kitchen counter and left further deposits on some Christmas cards I had received in the mail and where I had thoughtlessly left them out. So that was MY fault.

The cards were not totally destroyed - I wiped them off enough that I could still display them but there were stains. I wasn't going to throw those Christmas cards in the trash! They were too pretty! Other than that, the counters and table were an easy cleanup! And that's when I thank my CAT for his consideration in his deposit locations. Christmas cards, notwithstanding.

Of course, most of the time he prefers to be INconsiderate so he can watch mommy get on her hands and knees and scrub the carpet...just so I don't get a big head and remember who's boss...

I choked on the coffee I was drinking; my cat has so said the very same words to me :-)

ROFLOL - way to go Bob! I will get on the junk food band wagon with you!

BUT the bonus with the all naturals is no dyes. We spent years trying to get the Meow-Mix colors out of our carpet before wising up. Its worth the extra $ or three.

It must be a seasonal thing, because my Man Cat (Thomas O'Malley) left me regurged grass and other Things twice this week. Perhaps the shedding must be starting.

Or (more Likely) The Feline Manifesto has been distributed via the internets at night and now all the cats have begun to Unite. (which is a tricky thing for the cats)

Dear Bob T. Cat,
I do hope that you understand that your faithful human is doing what she can to ensure your long and continued reign of terror on defenseless knitting implements. In doing so she must provide you the healthiest meals she can on a regular basis. I hope that the food you left her was in its original form and not ina form some of us would call poop or puke. That would be most unfortunate for your humans foot wear and may result in a banning of all things treat like.
Sincerely,
The Human Servant of Jack McPoopsalot & Benny Von Poopypants

Some new catfood. S'posed to be good for you.

Did you try it?

I'm not gonna try it. You try it!

I'm not gonna try it.

I Know! Let's get Roy to try it!

LOL!

Bob totally chose the angelic, I'm-on-a-fluffy-cloud setting at Glamour Shots, knowing full well it would heighten the power of the "sinister and cunning" pose he's been perfecting. He's a genius with the juxtaposition, that one.

I've had similar reactions to organic cat food. When I tried to give some to Prana he refused to eat it and then killed a bird and I pressume try to eat but got distracted by the joy of feathers. Cute or a stern warning to the human? Either way, I went back to the Iams.

You lookin' good Bobby Baby. Must have been a good night.

Now aren't you happy you didn't buy those tempting $78 shoes?

That sounds like what would happen if I dared bring home the organic kibble!

I changed to the Indoor Mix, not for the health aspects (Mean Mommie!), but because it didn't stain the carpets. Like Suzi in NC, Meow Mix stained the bejeezus outta my carpets. Indoor formulas are great for easy removal of little presents!

my cat pukes for three days every time i buy new food. not a new kind of food - same stuff - new bag... she pukes. i cant imagine changing brands. last bag - she puked between the couch cushion and the back of the couch.... gross.

she doesnt play like bob though - she tries the guilt card and looks pittiful the rest of the day. :(

The Life cereal/catfood commercial posted above! I loved Mikey! Brings back memories!

My sister and I repeat it to each other now and then. Um, we're in our 40's. Shut up.

Now, in my house puking up half chewed food is a form of appreciation! When ever it gets to where the cats can see the bottom of the bowl (even a little glimpse) they freak out, think they are gonna starve, gobble down what ever is left, with out chewing of course, and promptly leave it somewhere on the carpet. That's love I tell ya!

My cat isn't that creative, if he doesn't like it, he lets the dog have it!

Has he been talking to my cats? We switched to a new brand of cat litter. ENORMOUS smelly mistake. We've switched back now.

He looks healthier already! And madder, but that's ok.

I had to resort to the good stuff today when the (preferred) kitten chow ran out. I hope I don't come home to the same!

my big bad boy cat, ike, is very vocal about his food. if we try to sneak it by him and give him something new, he follows us around, meowing constantly, until we give him what he wants. he's so demanding, but i don't think i'd have it any other way. ♥
oh, and his two sisters, lacey and mia? queens of the world when it comes to throwing up only on important objects and completely missing the easy-to-clean-up things.

Poor Bob - the gentle misguided soul..!

Shoes, hah! Carl barfed in my underwear drawer.

Laugh out loud funny!

Did I ever tell you the story... I was getting ready for work one morning, packing up my pocketbook which sits on one of the dining room chairs. As I'm getting ready, I realize that my bad stinks of... cat poop. No. Really. I look inside my bag and find one little cat turd. Now, some people may be wondering just how my cat managed to poop in my bag. As a mother, I know. My semi-long haired cat Bubu occasionally gets "hangers-on" around her bum, which for some reason, terrify her. Usually she races around the house like a maniac wondering why her feces are chasing her. This time, however, she was smart enough to jump up on the table and scrape it off herself. Right into my purse. I get no respect from my pets, I swear.

And yes, we clean the table before we sit down to eat dinner.

I really need to get a job... Or more booze.

And it should have been "bag" not "Bad" somewhere up there.

Guess if it had been Sobakowa, it would have just been nice, dry, buckwheat husks, right?

Good kitty!

OMG I really really needed that laugh today.

Thanks.

Niiice! I get presents like that too. I always appreciate them so much.

Now that I've recovered from peeing myself laughing, I can post this comment.....That is both priceless AND hysterical! One of my past kitties PEED in one of my shoes, and the shoe actually held the pool of pee until I found it! Those cheap vinyl shoes really had a good seal! Thanks for the great laugh today!! :)

And OMG... my Catzilla freaks when HE sees the bottom of the dry cat food dish too! I thought I had the only cat that did that...

It's nice to not feel so alone when you own a psychotic cat... sheesh...

feel the love...

Bwaaa haaa haaaa! Too funny!

hah hah...

Maybe Bob has a sensitive tummy. When changing brands of food, my vet says you're supposed to do it gradually to avoid stomach upset. However, I rarely ever do that so I get presents as well

That's one pissed off pussycat!

We just upgraded from Meow Mix to Iams. I expected puking and general unhappiness. Turns out the little porkers love it, and now I can't keep it in the house.

I get dinner served in my shoes sometimes too. sometimes in my slippers. occasionally on my bed.

Lord! What a face!! My best friend calls my cat bulimic. To prove it, Kermit barfed on her sneakers one day, completely whole pieces of the food bought from the vet's office at $15 a bag!

Laurie, you are the limit. Thanks for the laugh!

My three furry monsters LOVE Science Diet Hairball Lite but they were not happy when Science Diet changed their moist food formula. Two have gotten over it, but one is refusing to eat the delicious Adult chicken and liver flavor she used to love.

This is the same kitty who has sadly seen Pounce first retire her favorite moist cat treat flavor, and then change the moist ones entirely to something she will not eat. Frank has purchased every kind of cat treat on the market, trying to find one she likes. What she doesn't like, my downstairs neighbor gets as a present for HER cat.

Entropy, the older cat, gets these CET enzyme-laden dental treats - $15 for 30 - from the vet that work wonders on the tartar on her teeth. Problem? Ganache, the big fat one, has now decided that if Entropy gets one, she gets one, too. Sigh.

omg, i love it.

i got dinner served in bed the other day and didn't know until i woke up and walked around the house with the blanket wrapped around me with dinner still stuck on it. fun times!

Laurie,

I have a knitting quandry. I just figured out how to use a circular needle and I am making my son a very scary hat! My pattern tells me to switch to dpns when the number of stitches is too small for the circular needles. since I have never used the dreaded DPNs, (they look like little harpoons!)how do I know when that time has come and how do I transfer my stitches to the dpns?? Do I have to use three needles!!!??? Because I only have two handS!!!!

BTW, Love Bob, he reminds me of my husband, Bob. Although my Bob does have more than one fang.

Annie

I want to call my lawyer. I've been framed I tell ya', framed!

Annie! Knitting with dpns looks super scary but it's not that hard once you get a few stitches knitted up.

First off, here is some info on knitting with circular needles:
http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/archives/2006/02/may_the_circle.php

You need to switch to dpns when the stitches are getting stretched out by the cord on your circulars. You'll know it when you see it, and it will feel tight and awkward knitting.

For the first time of ever using dpns, I find this works best:

1) TRANSFER your stitches onto the dpns instead of knitting them on. Just slowly slip a third of your stitches onto dpn #1, another third onto dpn #2 and so on. To keep your stitch marker from falling off, make sure it has one stitch on either side of it.

2) Then take a free needle, with no stitches on it, and start knitting almost like you were just using straight needles. You can read "Step 16" of my easy "10 Step" pattern (hehehehe) for more info and a picture!
http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/archives/2005/06/easy_rollbrim_k_1.php

3) You may have to try this out before it makes any sense. But trust me if I can do it you can do it!!

and hey to everyone!

Bob, get off the computer dammit!!!

Can't believe that Soba's twin has a brother who looks like Roy:

http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/oct06.htm#21oct

OMGoodness that does look like Roy! Aw man, makes me all sniffly. Roy used to be all filled out and healthy like that too. Roy, he's my favorite. Don't tell the other cats. They will kill me in my sleep.

Yeah, but General Tso isn't actually Nutmeg's brother - just a neighbor. He DOES llok like Roy, though, now you mention it. I thought he seemed kinda familiar....

Oops. Also looks like him. Ooops.

mental note: do NOT change Super Chunky cat to low fat food.....thanks for the FYI....I actually could feel the hairball in shoe in my future!

Annie, Laurie is right in all she says about dpn's -- but if you really really hate them you can use either 2 circs
http://somecallthemsticks.blogspot.com/2005/06/knitting-in-round-on-two-circular.html
(where it says "sock" read "hat that has been decreased so it's too small for one circ")
or 1 really really long circ
http://www.az.com/~andrade/knit/mloop.html
aka magic loop.

In all three methods the idea is the same: at any one time you will be working with some fraction (at most half) of the sts, and each needle (or needle section) functions as a needle when you're working with it and as a stitch holder when you're not.

Be warned by me: fun fur does not play well with circs.

My cats prefer to leave their presents in the middle of the floor so I can step on them/slip on them. I have a lovely purple and green foot right now from slipping and falling on the floor, twisting my foot and ending up immobile for a day. So, to try and solve this problem I just went out and bought a case of "healthy" food for them. I'm a little worried about it now!

Thank you for providing me with another much needed laugh. And is that Bob? He's gorgeous.

Awwww! Marlowe just leaves me crumpled pieces of paper in my shoe. So far.

Jeez, reminds me of when I worked for a crazy woman who fed her dog vegetarian dog food. Guess who had to take the dogs for walkies? Guess who bore the brunt? Aaarrggghhhhhh....

The Favorite (also known as Cleo) leaves samples of her digested food on the comforter on our bed - as well as other places. But she's still The Favorite.

That looks frighteningly similar to the "Bouvier Glare of Death" that my dog TinyMonsters used to give me when he was hungry and I wasnt getting his food ready for him fast enough.

At least your cats dont weigh 100+ pounds (or do they?) and they're not capable of ripping your arms from their sockets when they're annoyed with you.

I just finished a crocheting a sweater! (I cant knit well enough to knit a sweater yet) I used Red Heart (cause I'm poor, and I'm also too cheap to go blow $26/skein on Noro anyways)

It turned out great...(it fit me!! yay!) It's from a 1960s pattern...it's very groovy.

My cats somehow lured a squirrel into the house for Valentine's Day. There is nothing like hearing your four-year-old daughter screech "Momma! Skanky is eating a squirrel!"

I feed the Creature Iams, hairball formula. It's all she's ever had from the first day she came to live with me 7 years ago. She won't eat anything else, not even people food. (Well okay, she loves her Pounce treats and does go for a spoonfull of blueberry yogart on occasion.) I'm kinda's upset that she's an Iams girl because of the pet cruelty issue with that company, but Creature has done so well with that food. She's got a beautiful silky coat, good energy level, and has only had 3-4 hairballs in all the time I've been owned by her. I'm not sure what the best brand is to feed her, nor how well she will react to a change in diet. What's a "mom" to do? Any suggestions?

LOVE IT! I'm so glad I found this blog - you're great - thank you! Don't tell, but you may be my new favorite ;)

Btw, I wish I could take pics of my cats like this. Mine always look like they are drunk rockers on stage at a dark concert and I've got upper-tier seats... or I get too much shiny-eye.

Beau has never puked in my shoes but he has almost everywhere else. And he has a charming habit of puking in the living room and then going into the bedroom, grabbing an article of clothing (usually something I was planning to wear later in the day) and hauling it back to the living room so he can use it to cover the puke. I don't know if this is some misguided instinct to bury it but all I know is that it means carpet cleaning AND laundry. Yay.

mmmmmm - hot cereal.

LOL - that's about how I think of my dog thinking of most of the food I get her - but somehow it's so much more appropriate coming from your cats. Your cat quotes are always so spot on for what I think it is cats are thinking when they look at us like we're idiots.

Has Bob given up on bamboo needles now? Or is he rejecting kibble in favour of needles?

Yesterday when I left for work, I was so out of it that I forgot to put more food in the bowls. Imagine the looks I got when I returned home 12 hours later. Today one of the cats left me a gift -- next to the litter box. 'Nuff said.

Silly kitty!

Has Bob been taking lessons on world domination from Soba? That looks eerily like a Soba pose.

And how the hell did he type that entry??!!?? If cats have developed opposable thumbs we're all in deep doo-doo. New cat food or not.

Just thought I'd say Hi!

Found your website one night, whilst having a self pitying moment, typed in the search engine "crazy lady with cats" in an attempt to locate someone similar in the world like myself, and up this site popped. Been hooked ever since.

Alas I am not alone!

The Bobinator! I saw his comment (and his blog) and it seems, Laurie, that he may be moving slightly over to the dark side.

I had a bulimic cat once--that was really FUN (his name was Falstaff for good reason--obviously, he ate like a pig. But he maintained a svelte profile.) Every night when I came home from work, my first task after opening the door was mopping the kitchen floor.

Poor kitty. I don't like eating cardboard either. But if my dog's hiney doesn't shape up soon, she's going to be on some kind of natural food too.

"The darker side of Bob"n (The bobside?)
Oh DEAR-
I forgot about those little "presents" when I talked my hubby into a kitten last month. And lemme tell you, there's NOTHING more horrified by the queasier side of cat ownership than a fastidious human male who hasn't had a pet since he was 7!
Talk about your incentive to keep things put away (and buy a bissell carpet cleaner!)

Hi Laurie,

I would (really) like to start attending Stich'n'Bitch meetings but (and this is stupid because I am not outwardly a shy person) I feel very shy about it. Is it really OK just to turn up? The reason I ask because I have not had the greatest experience with groups knitting in LYS. I figure the reason they completely ignore me is because, for the most part, the people sitting around knitting are paying to be taught to knit, and thus they don't need to deal with me (who alas can not afford to be a regular at any LYS), but it has left me weirdly anxious that it all seems very cliquey. That or I really am just invisible.

Our cat just pulls the back door rug over her food when she doesn't like it. She managed to eat a spider today then redeposited it. Luckly she was kind enough to do this on the kitchen floor.

Could be worse, I have a friend whose cat would would unconsume if she didn't get up quickly enough to feed her in the morning. Talk about incentive.