Mitch Harding ([info]mitcharf) wrote,
@ 2008-07-26 17:01:00
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Assorted cat news
No protective mouse cut needed today. I took more photos this morning, but I think my last two posts have really shown all there is to see when it comes to cats eating dead mice.

Felix did not want his extra large mouse this morning, although he happily licked all of the meat snack off it. Matilda also did not want her large mouse. I ended up giving Matilda some meat snack instead, and Felix ended up eating Matilda's mouse. Wilbur and Dusty both ate their extra large mice, and Wilbur also ate Felix's spurned extra large mouse. So, all mice were consumed, all cats were fed, but still only three cats have eaten the mice. I will keep working on Matilda. Even if only those three cats eat them, I can live with that. It'll be a treat for them, and the other cats can just have the raw meat diet.

In other cat news, I recently agreed to house [info]phaballa's cat Max temporarily, as her current living situation is not very cat friendly. The plan is for Max to stay here until around October. Max was brought over here today, and he is fitting in very well so far. For the most part he and the other cats are just giving each other wide berths. There's been a small amount of growling and hissing, but no fighting.

I was given to understand that Max is not an expert at navigating cat furniture, but I have photographic evidence to the contrary:

Max on the top floor

He seems to be enjoying himself up there. In this shot you can see the Soft Paws he has over his claws:

Max shows off his fancy paws

After I took this shot I went to take a shower. When I returned downstairs, this was the scene:

How did it get down there?

I'm not sure how the fabric cave ended up on the floor, but Max appears to be intact, so all is well. He seems quite serene up there:

Calm Max

So it's been a cat-tastic day so far. Unfortunately I am watching the Yankees beat the Red Sox right now, but no day is perfect, right?


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[info]phaballa
2008-07-26 11:01 pm UTC (link)
Max likes to knock things down. He tends to think inanimate objects are out to get him more than actual people or other animals. It's exciting that he figured out how to climb all the way up there, though! Without injuring himself, either. That is a huge accomplishment for Max.

Also, it's funny that Wolves of the Callah is in the background, since that's the book I've been using to prop open the window in my room.

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[info]mitcharf
2008-07-26 11:06 pm UTC (link)
If he likes to knock things over then he will fit right in over here. Also, earlier he was running around the house, chasing and being chased by other cats. So maybe the cats will just consider him a playmate and everyone will be happy! Thus far Max has been an excellent guest.

And like so many books on my bookshelf, I haven't read that book yet. I remember there was a long time gap between books in that series such that I had forgotten much of what had taken place in the series. I need to go back and re-read from the beginning. So far I haven't been ambitious enough to do it. My backlog of books is way too large, and of course just the other day I was thinking I should take a trip over to Half Price.

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[info]phaballa
2008-07-26 11:10 pm UTC (link)
I'm not surprised he's running around. He's been trapped in my room for a week, mostly just lying in front of the fan looking sad.

The Dark Tower books are pretty good. The one after Wolves... not so awesome, but necessary for the last one to make sense. You could probably get away with starting over at the third one, though.

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[info]mitcharf
2008-07-26 11:22 pm UTC (link)
It's a good thing he wasn't over here a couple of weeks ago. My AC was out for a few days. It was a house full of sad cats, and a sweaty Mitch.

In general I haven't liked Stephen King's stuff after, say, Gerald's Game anywhere near as much as the previous stuff. I still read it and for the most part I enjoy it, but the stories just don't seem as good to me. I can't think of any of his recent novels which measure up to The Stand, Pet Sematary, It, Misery, etc. Maybe he was a better author when he had his cocaine problem.

Have you read anything by John Irving? He wrote A Prayer For Owen Meany, The World According To Garp, Cider House Rules, and about 5000 other novels. If you have not, I recommend him. Prayer For Owen Meany is the one I'd most highly recommend, but so far I've enjoyed everything he has written.

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[info]phaballa
2008-07-26 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I started reading Garp, but I was like... 12, and I didn't get it at ALL so I stopped. I've seen Cider House... I would be really interested in reading that one. I didn't realize that was John Irving.

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[info]mitcharf
2008-07-26 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Garp is a weird novel, and probably the least accessible of the three. But I enjoyed all of them. If you want to borrow any of them when you come to visit Max, I can hook you up.

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[info]dazifudo
2008-07-27 12:10 am UTC (link)
I'm glad that Max is settling in! And I second the suggestion that he likes to knock things down. I think it amuses him.

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