Laugh. Learn. Love cats.
Cupcake: When we go out and I seem bored, I get to play with my toys.
Cupcake: Over the weekend, I got to play with the pink worm.
Cupcake: Where do you think you’re going, worm?
Cupcake: If I grab the worm’s tail, maybe it can’t get away.
Cupcake: Can you bring the worm back, please?
When Cupcake has an outing, she often gets a little recreation time in our garden beforehand. She checks out our flowering shrubs, which are confused about whether it’s time for spring already.
Cupcake doesn’t look in the shrubs because she wants to become a horticultural kitty. She is looking for the lizards she often sees from inside the house. When she sees one, she dives in after it.
She emerged with some clover and a lizard. Lizards can carry parasites, so it isn’t a good idea to encourage your cat to eat them. I tried to get her to drop it.
She used her paw to stuff it back in, and the lizard was never seen again.
Cupcake! How could you?
She caught another a few minutes later we managed to get loose from her jaws. The lizard then crawled up her face. I wished I had video of that and her surprised and frustrated expression at that moment.
After that, Cupcake was all worn out for our visit with her buddy, Rocco, at the coffee shop patio. Too much excitement for one cat’s morning.
Cupcake isn’t a growing kitten any more. Aub she has decided that two meals a day aren’t enough. Weekly snacks at the cofffee shop patio aren’t enough.
She is more inclined to look for unattended food and make it her own, as she did with a donut hole recently.
She cruises the countertop, looking for food being prepared, too. I caught her licking the top of a lasagna and put the dish in the oven to warm, and this is the disapproving look she gave me.
I have been puzzled at how much Cupcake has been helping herself to other people’s food recently, and then on Facebook, a memory appeared in my timeline to remind me I had shared this photo last January 15:
Cupcake was busily stealing food a year ago! It seems like it’s this time of year she thinks she isn’t being fed enough. Maybe it’s winter? Florida winter isn’t like winter in colder climates, but seems to have instincts to take in extra calories to compensate for the season.
Do your cats eat more this time of year, too?
