Cats love levels. The more the better. In our house one cat is always higher. Doesn’t matter which cat. They mix it up but one is always higher.
None of these pictures are recent. Hazel wants you to know that the bottom right is from when she was tubby. She’s all slimmed down now. All were taken with my old camera. Everyone wishes you a great weekend!
Oh, Goody!! I have two cats and I love kitties!! You have inspired me to consider a blog for my cats! Lord knows I talk about them so much on Facebook. They do tend to get a lot of responses too! I can’t wait to read more about your four!! Thanks!!!
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Sadly it’s only three. Jake passed on last September but I keep writing about him. He was bigger than life. I considered a separate cat blog. Some of my regular readers aren’t cat people but I ended up doing cat posts on Fridays, titling them Sassy Cats. Much easier than managing two blogs. Animal people are the most loyal people around. I thought my Friday posts would get minimal hits but sometimes it’s even greater than my other posts. Good luck to you.
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Good advice! Thank you! I know what you mean by bigger than life. Norie, my black cat is a character!! Your cats are beautiful!
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Jake was a black cat too. They are characters.
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Aww. I know you must miss him!! I will be a basket case when Norie and Sister get old.
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Assigned seats! (And copying ladies who lunch who leave a purse or napkin on the seat to show it’s occupied by a particular individual, cats leave hair samples.)
Always love to see the portraits
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Today Hazel left a small turd on the hassock. Most likely hung on the fur after her morning doo. Even she was appalled. Had to clean it immediately. I’m thinking of getting her a purse. So much simpler.
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Spring cleaning of cats has a new meaning here until the long fur of the rear is clipped….and the process isn’t pretty. Purse is much simpler…although RC keeps mumbling that if the Europeans have bidets, there’s bound to be a fluff blow option available among the continental sophisticats…
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Surprisingly Hazel is the shorthair cat but she has too much undercoat. She could be Siberian. Yes, Mollie the long hair got clipped last week. It’s done with a scissors because she doesn’t like motors by her butt so blow-dries are out too. Used to have vet do it as a courtesy with visit but now there is a charge for that. She lets the vet do all sorts of things that are forbidden at home.
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Our cats love their house because we have a loft so they can be upstairs and see everything going on below. Just like up in a tree. By the way, Kate, all my furniture cushions and pillows have a “feline dip” too!
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So funny about cats putting dips in cushions!
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Love Mollie super-dignified pose! 😉
And her floof too
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She is very floofy. She only weighs 7 lbs but it’s all fur.
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The fur is the best part! Well, the fur AND the purr.
Okay, and probably all the rest too. The CAT is the best part. 🙂
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Absolutely!
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My daughter has two cats. One likes the heights more than the other. I don’t think she’s giving in to him. She just seems to prefer the middle-heights.
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My cats all take turns on who gets the top billing. I don’t think it’s about control. If someone has a spot, another cat will not chase it but choose somewhere else. That is unless it’s Mollie’s spot on the king bed. She will push someone out of her spot but they can sleep at another spot on the bed.
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My furniture and bed pillows all have dips, too. That doesn’t bother me but the hair Jack leaves behind is awful.
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Hazel is our star shedder. She has short hair with a very heavy undercoat. She’s like a Siberian Husky and she sheds a ton.
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What great memories you brought back with his post, Kate. Years ago we had a feisty, adorable pair of cats–Solomon, a red Persian, and Calla Lily, a Siamese–and they ripped around and jumped on their “condo” levels of pads. This was great!
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Thanks for stopping by to share your cat story!
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I’m sure it has something to do with their inner tiger. So funny that all of your top cushions have a dip in them.
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No, it’s not funny. I have a hard time fluffing them out!
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Just think of them as love dips.
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I think of them as chubby cat dips. It’s a style.
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I bought one of these multi-level and cushy cat stands years ago and it was vehemently and unanimously rejected by all four. They all preferred scratching and sleeping and shedding on human furniture. What is your secret?
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I tried the short one — just one jump up but a hidey hole in the bottom. That one was universally rejected. We bought this with great trepidation. It was expensive. My husband put 2 2×4’s on the backside to make it very sturdy (they don’t like if it’s wobbly). We originally put it together so we could take it apart and return but it was a huge hit with some fighting issues until they settled down. Still…it runs in spurts. Haven’t seen anyone on it the last week. Next week they will all be on it.
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So cute! Don’t worry Hazel, no judgment here!
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Hazel sends hugs. She loves non-judgmental people!
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This looks ver familiar! Sometimes one of my cats will squeeze themselves onto the top and try to take it back. Interesting kitty politics. All my furniture has dips too…
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Only Mollie will do that. She’s a very small cat (7 lbs.) and will wiggle enough that someone else falls off. Usually she does that on the king bed (don’t ask me how she manages to get someone off a bed that big but I’ve seen it happen).
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This looks ver familiar! Sometimes one of my cats will squeeze themselves onto the top and try to take it back. Interesting kitty politics. All my furniture has dips too…
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Ah, height! The better to survey the terrain. And pounce.
I’ve heard that there are cats who are “tree cats” that love to be up high, and those that are “bush cats” that prefer to hide down low. I’ve had both. One jumps off the fridge and destroys your carefully arranged plate of Christmas cookies, the other attacks your ankle from under the slipcover and makes you drop the plate.
Equally deadly. To the cookies.
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My current crop are all height pouncers. Not refrigerator height but they wouldn’t be dead sleeping on the floor. Too plebian. Even my chubster Hazel can jump on chairs. Morgan loves the bookshelves. She says I make funny faces when she’s up there, especially when an object is smashing on the floor. Fortunately no one likes people food especially cookies. They do like to trip me though.
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Have a great weekend!!!!
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Thanks!
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Morgan is a huge cat, Or is cat tree just small?
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If you are looking at the picture of her back end out of the hidey hole, that cube is small with a side shelf (where her butt is resting). Morgan is tall and long and very lean. She towers over the other two but is thin. That cube is one of her favorites (next to the guest bed of course).
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At one point we moved from a one-floor ranch home to a three-level traditional house, and our two cats went bonkers. Absolutely nuts running up and down the stairs, looking out the windows. It was hilarious. Had forgotten all about that. Thanks for reminding me.
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At one time I had a very small two bedroom ranch house at the beach. It had a pulldown stairs for the attic and one cat used to sit under the pulldown and cry to go up there (she was used to a 2-story). However the back yard was all sand and she loved that.
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Happy Weekend!
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To you and Tigger too.
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I’m happy to hear Hazel is ready for swimsuit season, Kate. 🙂
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Yes, she has been working hard (trying to avoid any diet). Still has flabby skin but she lost 3 chins.
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