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Lizard Watch 2018

Newton: What are you looking at, Pierre? 

Pierre: Shh, there’s a lizard!

orange tabby cat and gray tabby cat look out window at lizard

Newton: Inside? Where?

Pierre: No, it’s on the window. Your hunting instincts are about as sharp as that fluffy tail of yours. 

lizard through the window

Newton: Oh, THAT. I could hardly see it because of all of the nose prints on the glass. 

Pierre: That would be more lizard for me to chase, then. 

orange tabby cat and gray tabby cat look out window at lizard

Newton: I don’t think it works that way. If I go away, you still have the same number of lizards to chase: one. 

Pierre: But then I’m not sharing that lizard with you. And it’s quieter that way, too. 

Cupcake: Hi Mr. Newton. Mr. Pierre. What is quieter? 

orange tabby ca, gray tabby cat, and black-and-white tuxedo cat look out window at lizard

Pierre: Not this lizard hunt. 

Cupcake: There’s a lizard? WERE?

Newton: Calm your tail, kid. I’m going to grab it.  

orange tabby ca, gray tabby cat, and black-and-white tuxedo cat look out window at lizard

Newton: Where did it go? 

Cupcake: You can’t see better from up there? 

orange tabby ca, gray tabby cat, and black-and-white tuxedo cat look out window at lizard

Pierre: You scared it away, Newt.

Newton: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare it away.

orange tabby cat by window

Cupcake: It might come back.

Newton: Cupcake is right. Maybe if we wait it’ll come back.

orange tabby ca, gray tabby cat, and black-and-white tuxedo cat look out window at lizard

Pierre: You wait. When the lizard comes back, call me.

orange tabby cat looks away from window

Newton: What do you think, should I call him if I see the lizard again? 

Bag Outtakes

You may remember earlier this month we had some fun with an oversized bag our friends gifted us. Big thanks to Miss Sue and Mister Steve for the thoughtful gift when they visited Cupcake! What you didn’t see was the last thing that happened during our photo shoot.

Cupcake went to scratch on the cat tree, so Pierre went exploring behind the bag. Seeing this, Cupcake came racing back across the room, and you’ll see what happened next in this series of photos.

black and white tuxedo cat leaps over bag

black and white tuxedo cat leaps over bag as gray tabby cat retreats

black and white tuxedo cat leaps over bag as gray tabby cat retreats

black and white tuxedo cat stands behind bag

Let’s just say that Pierre isn’t Cupcake’s biggest fan.

Bag Follies Return

Pierre: Newt, come quick, you have to see this! 

gray tabby cat looks at black and white tuxedo cat legs sticking out of bag

Newton: What is it?

Pierre: I think she thinks she’s hiding in there.

orange tabby cat and gray tabby cat look at black and white tuxedo cat legs sticking out of bag

Cupcake: I can hear you out there. Isn’t this what you did, Mr. Newton?

Newton: Not really. My paws were inside, not waving around for the world to see. That looks a little embarrassing. 

orange tabby cat looks at black and white tuxedo cat legs sticking out of bag

Cupcake: Like this? 

black and white tuxedo cat looks at bag

Newton: That’s more like it. Now you try to see how long you can stay in there. All the way until you need to visit the litter box.  

orange tabby cat looks at bag

Cupcake: Thanks! I like knowing how to use the bag like the big cats do.

orange tabby cat

Newton: Aah, the sweet feeling of an afternoon without being pounced on by a tuxedo terror! 

Outtake Friday

We have some random photos from recent photo shoots we thought you would enjoy even though they didn’t really fit into the blog posts with the rest of the photos taken at the time.

Ashton and the Cat Window Chair

Ashton’s standoff with Newton at the cat window included a photo of her peeking over the corner of the chair back.

one-eyed brown tabby cat

When we moved to this house, we knew the cat window would be a popular hangout. The problem turned out to be that it is right next to the kitchen table and chairs, and when the chairs were pushed in, there was a very narrow space for cats to jump up. Cats can’t jump straight up and then magically change directions to go forward in the air, so they would scramble at the windowsill to make it up there. The solution was simple, pulling the chair nearest the window out at an angle so the cats can use it as a step to get into the window. Ashton is peeking over the back of that chair in the photo.

Pierre At Atention

Pierre looks so interested in something in this photo. This was part of the photos taken when he was hunting the hedgehog toy.

gray tabby cat looks attentive

This entire photo shoot took place much earlier than it was published. We took the photos on a Saturday, and the next day was when he got so sick with what we didn’t know at the time was a pancreatitis attack. That scary week when he was so sick, we kept looking at these photos thinking how healthy and playful he was less than a day earlier, and we used them to explain to the vet how suddenly it had come on.

We didn’t publish any of them until he was feeling better because they all felt like they were part of that event. Thankfully, Pierre has been doing really well, and you would never know he’s a senior kitty. He is still crazy about that hedgehog toy, too!

Cupcake Dives In

The story about celebrating National Fried Chicken Day needed to be about Ashton, because she still hopes to open her Chicken Emporium someday. But we have to admit, Cupcake’s photo took the cake. Or is that took the chicken?

black and white tuxedo cat leaps into chicken bucket

It really looks like she’s diving right into that KFC bucket, doesn’t it? She was actually backing out of it when the shutter snapped.

Diving in or climbing back out, she really did get some crumbles left over from Ashton’s part of the photo shoot, and that snack was what she thought was the important part!

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