very cool spiral staircase for cats!

Testing pindroid again...

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AWESOME.

Click on the Photos link...but be prepared for TEH CUTE!

"Many of you who have known me all the many years I've had a weblog of some form or another, also know Zoe. I thought you might want to know." Go hug yr kitties, everybody.

"Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a "soliciting purr" to overpower their owners and garner attention and food." Oh goodness, I know that sound. Not all of our cats use it, though.

next time we've got a bunch of boxes handy, I totally want to do this.

(kitten not actually welsh)

very cool-looking. will have to do something similar for the gang.

"Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The software on the laptop is written in Delphi and for each "cat door event" is sending a Twitter message" I think the twitter bit is optional. in our neighborhood, something like this could be REALLY handy

for Gus, among others.

"My cat, Simba, agrees instead of me. As he is not a legal entity, I don't really know how kitty's agreements would stand up in court, but I like to think he would be responsible for any breaches of contract, assuming the agreement is even enforceable." Teh hawesome.

"I would submit that cats and kittens might outnumber porn at this point." ha! and yes, probably true.

this is what I worry about. ;)

heh.

"The ginormous cat’s sole purpose in life is to eat children (and adults, some say) that do not get a new piece of clothing before Christmas." whoa. that is some craaaaazy folklore.

found in a Seattle antique store.

awesome silliness. (also, exceptionally weird viral marketing, I think.) via mkelley.

"first puppy" poll. (shelter pup is currently #1, followed by "kitteh, b***ches!"

awwwww.

this one just makes me giggle.

cool japanese apt with kitty walkways, etc.

some fun ideas for pet furniture

"The following case study shows that lotcat literacy is a situated social practice." :)

I know the feeling. (also, kitty kinda looks like pica!)

I TOTALLY want to do this with our little gang.

omg so cute. :) dig the 2nd picture; that could totally be our Pica. I imagine this would work with non-Ikea baskets, btw.

"However, unlike loiseau, I am fully prepared to speculate that my cat is more sensitive than yours." awesomely, awesomely silly. go have a giggle.

hm. I fear that this may be far too true in our house.

apparently annual vaccinations may not be necessary? that makes me feel like a much better person.

"This was a sorrow of details, of minor rhythms and assumptions that I hadn’t really been aware of until, suddenly, they were disrupted or unmet." -- a year later and I still find myself expecting Maddy to be there. :(

our vet.

lolcats + edward gorey = teh awesome! (via Dorothea.)

"by the time I have finished analyzing it in my head it has turned into the Worst Case Scenario" -- this I can identify with. also, I am still missing Maddy. :(

good ideas here.

those would be the raccoons of the Westside, not on our side of town. ;) but interesting to note the possibility that it's coyotes instead. (I've heard of people spotting coyotes in Oly before.)

LOTS of good suggestions. (someday we'll get a nice couch/chairs....)

stylish stuff for the posse. no prices right now because she's moving.

OMFG.

one of the stranger things I've seen: Sasha & Pico sitting in the window, watching Boingo as he killed a bird.

I really should give our neighbor some cayenne pepper and lemons as a gift....