My Life in a Post: books, lack of sleep, and animals

[lagilman]

W00t! Curse the Dark and Bring it On are now available as audio downloads from audible.com
/PSA


And under the "bah, cats" heading -- I woke up at 5:45 this morning with Boomer making noises like a smoke detector (small, high pitched meows) that normally indicate that he wants attention but Big Bad Pandora won't let him in the bedrooom (he sits just outside the door and waits until I invite him in, thereby supporting my contention that he's actually a Labrador in a cat suit). But when I did tell him to come in, Pandora got into the act and there was Noise and I decided whatthehell, it's almost time, I'll feed them. So I hauled out, fed them in their separate corners (because Boomer is convinced Pandora's Getting Something Better and will stare at her until she abandons her food so he can go eat it). I, still being wiped out, go back to bed for an hour. I wake up two hours later (oops) with Pandora under the covers sleeeping on my thigh, and Boomer above the covers sleeping at my knee, both perfectly content and happy and why no mom, we neeeeeever fight! That would be wrong. Uh-huh, says momma twolegs, not at all convinced but soothed by happy purring snores anyway.


Off today [after word war] to work in the Park (it's gorgeous out today) and spend time with Mei-mei, whose main Thing is wanting to eat dried leaves and be BFF with dogs seven times her size.....

Y'know, I talk all the time here about my critters. Tell me about yours! Past, present, it's all good....

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

HA! You know my current feelings and they are dark, violent feelings, circling around the need to have a better lock on the fridge door.

Bear is very prone to MYBESTFRIENDEVER! when she sees another dog. 'I'm a Rottweiler and I bloody love you!'

Sometimes this goes down better than others.

[lagilman]

Yeah. Um. Oh dear, she said again helplessly. Have you thought about a combination lock? (I'm not laughing. I'm really not. Okay, maybe a little. Ruefully. We used to have a poodle that did similar, but she didn't have a Rottie's heft to aid her in opening doors...)

[varkat.livejournal.com]

Adorable story about the cats. Probably not so adorable at the time. We're now the proud owners of two gerbils Ty won in a raffle. They're very cute. Also, speedy little buggers. They look like someone took a shrink-ray to chincillas.

[lagilman]

less tasty to eat, though. And their coats don't make as nice a coat.

(what? you think they were all bred as pets? au contraire...)

What are their names?

[varkat.livejournal.com]

Originally he named them both Raffle, because we couldn't tell them apart, but now that we can, they're Smoky and Charcoal. Not terribly original but descriptive anyway.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

latest tale (ha!) from Yellow Lab Central is that Pickles was asleep and Patton padded over to sleep next to her. He lay down with his head on top of hers but a few moments later, Miss Pickles rolled over and his chin went "thunk" on the floor. Pickles, it was reported, then opened her eyes while still in the upside-down prone position, sniffed and went back to sleep.

[egret17.livejournal.com]

Plenty o' kitty WWF smackdown action here in the evenings these days - Chaos is having some agression issues and alternates between holding poor Mayhem down by the throat and chasing her to pull tufts of fur off her butt.

Furkids. *sigh* Right now they're all happy and sun-stoned.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Well, Shadow (pictured in my icon)is still wildly jealous of the strays that I feed and won't eat her own breakfast/supper until they have all gone away. She sits in the upper window and bats at it til they go away. (After eating of course. They are hungry strays!)

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

Manny was a scaredycat when we adopted him from the shelter a few years ago. He's still a scaredycat now. Some things he doesn't like: children, vacuum, jackhammers and other mechanical noisiness, the wheelie garbage bins, storms, strangers in his territory (and totally freaks when they're IN HIS HOUSE)...

He's a loud purrer. If he's not purring, he's either dead asleep or NOT HAPPY. Yet he tolerates being photographed with books. And he treats them fairly - he doesn't love them, but he doesn't push them away or try to chew on them, either.

Manny's never had catnip, so he's never experienced the joys of kitteh drugs ;-)