Ace of Spades Pet Thread, May 30

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Beautiful https://t.co/Is042Kw1Xj
— NiedermeyersDeadHorse aka NDH (@NiedsG) May 17, 2026

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Pet Science - there is quite a bit of detail if you follow the thread:

The research behind this is wild. A cat has about 470 taste buds. You have 9,000. A dog has 1,700. So the cat in this video can barely taste that pancake, and that is the whole reason it sniffs the thing like it might be poison while the dog just bites straight in.

Taste barely… https://t.co/INhVRWbekK
— Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) May 30, 2026

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Mother cat introduces her kittens to friendly Golden Retriever friend.. when they realized dog's mama's friend..🐕🐾🐈❤️ pic.twitter.com/o1DuzhGjNV
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 29, 2026

Mama trusts her dog friend. And perhaps would appreciate a kitten sitter.

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Awwwww. . .

Dog meets baby for the first time.. 😊

© Newsflare pic.twitter.com/nOtN7Nyf1Q
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 30, 2026

Meet The PetMorons

All of our PetMorons this week are actually PetMoron Adjascent Animals!

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

This bobcat not really a pet but we see him regularly on the game cam.
- fd

WOW

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My wife watered her tomatoes this week, and noticed a few leaves were missing. We figured maybe the groundhog that lives under the shed may have munched on them, and put a little caging up to keep it out.
A few trail cam checks later...the groundhog had 6 babies. First time that's happened, and she's lived here for 4-5 years. Good thing I didn't plant much in the garden this year...they've demolished weeds around the raised beds, and are kinda cute and fun to watch (but not as cool as the fox babies we had last year).
Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar

So long tomatoes, hello groundhogs!

Might as well enjoy watching them!

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Guess who's back at By-Tor's house?

Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

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Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, May 23

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:32 PM

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1 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Dinosaur Face aka Mr Senegal says hi!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 30, 2026 03:36 PM (Kt19C)

3 Hard to type. Large black cat on lap. Send lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 03:40 PM (wzUl9)

4 Nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 30, 2026 03:42 PM (n5IFC)

5 the groundhog had 6 babies. First time that's happened, and she's lived here for 4-5 years. Good thing I didn't plant much in the garden this year...they've demolished weeds around the raised beds, and are kinda cute and fun to watch (but not as cool as the fox babies we had last year).

I bet fox babies are the reason for a lack of groundhog babies in prior years.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2026 03:43 PM (VHUov)

6 Wolfus,

And catnip

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 30, 2026 03:43 PM (n5IFC)

7 Haha! Cat sniffs disdainfully, dog inhales food paper and all! Classic.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 03:46 PM (kpS4V)

8 Happy pet day! I am missing my animals right now. My dad doesn’t have any pets and there is something missing.

Posted by: Piper at May 30, 2026 03:46 PM (+sfcU)

9 Well, a meteor just smacked into Cape Cod Bay. My dog used to love chasing the waves there. Now she is more of a creek dog.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 30, 2026 03:46 PM (vV6n9)

10 You shall not pass

That's totally a D&D setup.

"You see a grand staircase. Halfway up sits a single fluffy kitten."

"I cast detect magic."

"I cast detect evil."

"Yeah, that's totally a polymorphed dragon. I draw my sword and charge up the stairs."

"Roll for initiative."

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2026 03:46 PM (VHUov)

11 Meow!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, greetings from Amish Country at May 30, 2026 03:52 PM (bfy6w)

12 Knights of Camelot, "fluffy kitten or fluffy rabbit?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 30, 2026 03:52 PM (n5IFC)

13 Never saw a porcupine, but seen videos they are fun to see around, and appear to be friendly. Guess wearing a pin cushion helps.

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 03:52 PM (Ia/+0)

14 Stirling the big black cat has left my lap. He would pick the most inconvenient times to sit on me --!

The cat on the stairs looks something like Linda's late Angelique the Siberian Psycho. When she growled -- which was her habit when, atop your lap, she'd detect your leg moviing. She'd growl on a rising note, a la, "I'm about to explode --!" And then . . . she wouldn't leave your lap. She just didn't want you moving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 03:54 PM (wzUl9)

15 Hey all,

Small update on our cat Astrid.

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

Posted by: Joyenz at May 30, 2026 03:56 PM (2F0/Y)

16 If you watch the bluebird nest video on X, there will be music to go with it.

Posted by: KT at May 30, 2026 03:56 PM (rdeQO)

17 Yay pets …and pet-adjacents!

Daisy the Malinois with a whopping two brain cells has new habits all of a sudden. Going out the door to play fetch, she used to just run in circles and bark like crazy; "throw it! throw it!" Now she runs off to the north to search for squirrels. Little baby tree rat barely got away the other day.

New behavior today: it's turtle season. There's a big flat mud turtle wandering around which she hunts down, but doesn't know what to do with, and there's a box turtle she had to pick up both going out and coming back on her morning walk. Forced to put it down - quite a trick - she does it no harm.

At least she isn't running out to the pasture to chase cows; she comes back expecting to still chase a ball, which she doesn't get to do because we don't want to reward her running off.

On a positive note, the control collar, which we thought had died, works again after we installed alkaline batteries. Now if we can just get her to respond to it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - well, dog my catz at May 30, 2026 03:57 PM (kU8xu)

18 The three little kittens in the dog + Mama video are very good-looking, and some of them may be medium-hairs. Mama picked a good male to mate with!

Or more than one male. As I understand it, each kitten in a litter can have a different sire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 03:58 PM (wzUl9)

19 Mr. TiFW had to go scare off the squirrel who has been eating all of the bird feed he put out. Darn thing wasn't intimidated by him just tapping on the window.

After he was chased off, about a dozen birds came around to munch on goodies and partake of the birdbath. It was quite busy out there for a few minutes, but I guess they all went back to their trees for an afternoon nap.

The cat had fun watching them (and imagining a delicious dinner, no doubt! She is an indoor kitty, but still has dreams of adventure)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 30, 2026 03:59 PM (SRRAx)

20 I did not know that about a cat's ability to taste. Thanks for the info!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 30, 2026 03:59 PM (CHHv1)

21 13 Never saw a porcupine, but seen videos they are fun to see around, and appear to be friendly. Guess wearing a pin cushion helps.
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 03:52 PM (Ia/+0)
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Two years ago one of my son's dogs met a porcupine that killed her. She was a rescue pup and did not give up the fight.

Son took her to the vet asap after removing as many quills as he could. What we did not know was that quills continue to go inward and keep moving until they puncture lungs, etc. Doggie was in ICU for a couple of days and on a vent with her little lungs not able to fight this. It was horrible for son and his girl friend (now wife).

It was the middle of the night and he'd let her out to pee in his brother's mountain yard, which is fenced in.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026 04:01 PM (WONhk)

22 I didn't realize cats had so few taste buds compared to dogs or humans. Makes sense: Cats are solely carnivores, with a narrower range of things they can eat; while dogs and people are omnivores, and need to be able to taste more things to see if they are bitter or whatever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:03 PM (wzUl9)

23 That Golden and Cat Family video is throwing off some serious Marc Antony and Cleo vibes at the end. So sweet.

Is there anything more precious than a fuzzy little kitten arching its back trying to look badass?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 04:05 PM (kpS4V)

24
Christy,

I'm happy to see you.

We all as responsible pet owners do the best we can to protect our pets. It is heartbreaking when something bad happens.

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2026 04:05 PM (3ek7K)

25 22 I didn't realize cats had so few taste buds compared to dogs or humans. Makes sense: Cats are solely carnivores, with a narrower range of things they can eat; while dogs and people are omnivores, and need to be able to taste more things to see if they are bitter or whatever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:03 PM (wzUl9)
Our cats eat grass. They demand grass. The younger cat Minnifer learned to eat grass from the older cat Madison.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2026 04:06 PM (LHPAg)

26 If cats have fewer taste buds, why are they so damn finicky?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 04:06 PM (kpS4V)

27 The cat had fun watching them (and imagining a delicious dinner, no doubt! She is an indoor kitty, but still has dreams of adventure)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 30, 2026

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Once I get settled in the new house, one thing I want to buy and install is a cat window seat, you know the kind. You hook it onto the window sill and prop supports against the wall underneath. It'll need to be a window that looks out onto the front or back yard; not much point in putting one in a window that just looks out at a neighbor's house or yard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:07 PM (wzUl9)

28 My little girl kitty must have a taste receptor for duck fat. I had roasted some potatoes in duck fat and set the dish down to get a container for the leftovers. I turned back and found her licking and eating the potatoes.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 30, 2026 04:07 PM (5P5DO)

29 scare off the squirrel who has been eating all of the bird feed he put out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AGdftfBhEE

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Kt19C)

30
Robert The Cat must like how Beckoning Chasm tastes, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2026 04:09 PM (3ek7K)

31 I didn't realize cats had so few taste buds compared to dogs or humans. Makes sense: Cats are solely carnivores, with a narrower range of things they can eat; while dogs and people are omnivores, and need to be able to taste more things to see if they are bitter or whatever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

And humans need more than dogs, because we're not scavengers, and our immune systems can handle fewer things than theirs can.

And the reverse. Cats have weaker immune systems because they don't eat week-old carrion, so they avoid disease-ridden things like "standing water." To the point that they make "cat fountain" dishes for pet kittehs to drink from.

I'm not sure the video proves anything about taste buds because, as you said, cats are carnivores. The cat didn't want the pancake at all, until after the dog inhaled it. Then it was mad that it didn't get a treat too. But it probably still didn't want a pancake.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2026 04:09 PM (VHUov)

32 28 My little girl kitty must have a taste receptor for duck fat. I had roasted some potatoes in duck fat and set the dish down to get a container for the leftovers. I turned back and found her licking and eating the potatoes.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 30, 2026 04:07 PM (5P5DO)
'Skat! Dang tater-lickin' cat!'

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2026 04:10 PM (LHPAg)

33 If cats have fewer taste buds, why are they so damn finicky?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Mostly because they're cats, I think.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2026 04:10 PM (VHUov)

34 Our cats eat grass. They demand grass. The younger cat Minnifer learned to eat grass from the older cat Madison.
Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2026

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My boyhood cat, big red tabby Rusty, loved olives! Green ones, just slivers cut from the flesh. He'd nuzzle them in the plate we put down, then scarf them up. Something about them must have tasted good to him.

Perhaps he, and your cats, are responding to some instinct that says grass or olives are good for their digestion?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)

35 A lot of nice pet items at Aldi's this week

https://tinyurl.com/bdhxr7t2

Posted by: Joyenz at May 30, 2026 04:13 PM (2F0/Y)

36 Perhaps he, and your cats, are responding to some instinct that says grass or olives are good for their digestion?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)
They last saw outside as tiny kittens, and they won't eat people food, you could leave any kind of meat out and they turn up their noses.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2026 04:15 PM (LHPAg)

37 We all as responsible pet owners do the best we can to protect our pets. It is heartbreaking when something bad happens.

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2026 04:05 PM (3ek7K)
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Hey! Back from our trip to NOLA and MS and worn out. Of course, with the pre-trip appendectomy of grandson (he's fine), and my virus (I'm getting fine) the second we landed, more doom. Got a text from my brother that the power was out again at both houses on the farm.

He found a hotel and the grands loved it as it had a "lazy river." We spent two nights there and two nights on the farm. Son and DIL came from FL, so we were all there and I'm glad.

The power keeps going out because a farmer up the road from them refuses to let the power company cut some dead pines (from beetles and drought). They both have propane generators for fridge and lights but not AC. I cannot survive without AC.

We came, we saw, we lived, we were glad to be home again.

My 95yr old mother is always glad to see us and got to meet her newest 9mo old great-granddaughter.

It is not a real vacation, however, but a must do trip for us for now. I might be normal in a few days.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026 04:16 PM (WONhk)

38 26 If cats have fewer taste buds, why are they so damn finicky?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 04:06 PM (kpS4V)

They have the worst organ function. Dogs can eat poop; we're in the middle; and cats are at the opposite extreme. So I think it's like how for humans, once you get throwing-up sick off a particular liquor -- be it tequila, or peach schnapps, or wine coolers, or what have you -- just the thought of it (let alone the smell) will make you queasy, cats are turned off by any food that they associate with digestive upset.

Posted by: SciVo at May 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Sy6m/)

39
We came, we saw, we lived, we were glad to be home again. . . .

It is not a real vacation, however, but a must do trip for us for now. I might be normal in a few days.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026

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Christy, you survived Da Swamp. And in May. That is the important thing!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:18 PM (wzUl9)

40 Manyvtimes when our cats were alive, eating something they climed all over trying to get what I was eating. Give them a piece and acted like it was a rock and wanted no part of it.

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

41 Did y'all see the cat podcast?
https://youtu.be/HRbk70OryVA

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at May 30, 2026 04:22 PM (/enuJ)

42 A lot of nice pet items at Aldi's this week

https://tinyurl.com/bdhxr7t2
Posted by: Joyenz at May 30, 2026

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The cat scratching house sounds like something my cats would be interested in. Not sure they would want a cooling bed; they seek out warmth. Dagny sits in the bedroom window, which faces west, and snoozes in the hot sun.

The new house has one bedroom window that faces west and looks out onto the yard. That might be a good place for a window seat. I can put darkening blinds in the window, then run the blinds up a ways so they can have the warmth and a view.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:22 PM (wzUl9)

43 ***
Christy, you survived Da Swamp. And in May. That is the important thing!
Posted by: Wolfus , Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:18 PM (wzUl9)

True. I never left the house to see the lake where the grands fished or did anything outside. Somehow I survived 20yrs in the humidity, bugs and snakes and it is all too much now. I am a sissy redneck.

They have boots and bug spray and carry on with their dad or uncle. I stayed inside and played with the baby.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026 04:23 PM (WONhk)

44 0 Manyvtimes when our cats were alive, eating something they climed all over trying to get what I was eating. Give them a piece and acted like it was a rock and wanted no part of it.
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026

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Many of my felines loved a bit of meat, as long as it wasn't spicy, or a bit of egg or cheese, ditto.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:23 PM (wzUl9)

45 Doggeh likes to do that gandalf impression at the back door when I have to go to work

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 30, 2026 04:27 PM (LmPA0)

46 True. I never left the house to see the lake where the grands fished or did anything outside. Somehow I survived 20yrs in the humidity, bugs and snakes and it is all too much now. I am a sissy redneck.

They have boots and bug spray and carry on with their dad or uncle. I stayed inside and played with the baby.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026

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That is the *only* way to handle this foul climate. I grew up without A/C at home until I was twelve, and at school until I got to college. Damned if I know how I lived through it. When you're small, I guess, you don't care if you're sweaty or your clothes are soaked with perspiration as long as you're having fun.

Lake Pontchartrain, I admit, is pleasant to see from the lakeshore; astonishing to see the horizon be nothing but water and imagine as a kid that it's how the sea looks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wzUl9)

47 The little girl kitty will.mug you for a piece of American cheese. She is worse than any dog about hearing that wrapper.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 30, 2026 04:28 PM (5P5DO)

48 Both Stirling and Dagny love their kitty treats, though. Stirling will eat almost any kind, crunchy or near-liquid. The girl only likes the crunchy ones.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:31 PM (wzUl9)

49 Big black Stirling is curled on the living room carpet near me. Dagny? Probably in her cat sauna, the hot window.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

50 Had two possums and a skunk munching down on bird seed out back the other night. The skunk didn't even acknowledge them, but the possums did their usual impressions of a a live electrical wire arcing (you'd know the sound if you heard it). It was annoying, because I had the windows open, and was trying to watch a Phillies game. So, I shouted (without getting up).

'KNOCK IT OFF!!!"

Those little bastards behaved after that. I swear, it's like the Three Stooges.

Posted by: Orson at May 30, 2026 04:35 PM (dIske)

51 Our black cat. Pynchon, is what I call a "peripatetic puss." . He starts out In the bedroom of FenSpouse and me, migrates to son's room and then ends up in the living room. I frequently go downstairs to the living room at about 2:30 a.m and he's sleeping on the headrest of the couch.
He's about 80 In cat years and our son loves him. ( Well, we all do really.) .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2026 04:36 PM (+hwtP)

52 Thank you for Pet Thread, K. T.

Rarely missed, always enjoyed!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at May 30, 2026 04:36 PM (QGaXH)

53 That is the *only* way to handle this foul climate. I grew up without A/C at home until I was twelve, and at school until I got to college. Damned if I know how I lived through it. When you're small, I guess, you don't care if you're sweaty or your clothes are soaked with perspiration as long as you're having fun.

Lake Pontchartrain, I admit, is pleasant to see from the lakeshore; astonishing to see the horizon be nothing but water and imagine as a kid that it's how the sea looks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
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I've had AC since birth as my grandfather, who died when I was a baby, did not want me to ever be hot. He installed a window unit in my nursery (we had an apt in their big house). He thought I was the best thing in his life and would have made me more "spoiled" than I was anyway.

26yrs later I was pregnant with first son and we lived in an 100yr old house out West with no AC. That summer was horrid and I was only happy in a pool. We got a window unit for the bedroom so I could sleep that summer (baby was a November lad).

I am no pioneer woman.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026 04:40 PM (WONhk)

54 I forget, is there typically a Music Thread on Saturday or Sunday?

Posted by: SciVo at May 30, 2026 04:40 PM (Sy6m/)

55 Fen, my late Arizona the red tabby part-Coon would usually be in whatever room I was in. At night he'd be on the bed when I came in to sleep. Over the years, more than 16, he shifted his position periodically: next to my head on the pillow, then down in the lower left corner of the bed, then the lower right. If my bed had been the continental US, and I were sleeping along the Miss. River, he drifted from Minnesota to Seattle to southern California, and back again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

56 Lily can hear a yogurt container being unopened from three counties away. I look up and there she is. Of course she gets her tithe; one doesn't want to upset Dona Corleone.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 04:41 PM (kpS4V)

57 Lily can hear a yogurt container being unopened from three counties away. I look up and there she is. Of course she gets her tithe; one doesn't want to upset Dona Corleone.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026

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The late smart black cat Marie-Antoinette loved yogurt too. Miss Linda would give her the almost empty cup and Marie would stick her muzzle into it to lap up the dregs. One time she got the cup stuck on her muzzle for a few moments and looked pretty funny until she realized a paw would flip it off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)

58 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:41 PM

And imagine, some people think cats are very standoffish.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2026 04:44 PM (m6Eem)

59 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:41 PM

And imagine, some people think cats are very standoffish.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2026

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None of mine have ever been aloof, until little Dagny now. She's getting better though. In the evening I walk into the bedroom and call her name. She'll come trotting out. I scoop her up and put her on a cushion on my lap, and she dozes and rolls over for petting -- sometimes for as much as half an hour.

Arizona was not a lap cat. I didn't even think he liked me all that much -- until he got sick late in his life and was very glad to see me visit him at the vet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

60 Reading of the loud BOOM in MA.

With strange people crawling out of the sewer in NYC is this end times?

If it is I need to buy some Rocky Road Ice Cream and to heck with calories. I want a warning to drink the good gin as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 30, 2026 04:47 PM (WONhk)

61 Lucy has been introduced to Churu.

She’s addicted.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026 04:49 PM (WXuyH)

62 Mostly our cats loved yogurt, meat, simple grain like bread, as said chocolate might as well be a rock to them

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Time for me soon to shower. Tonight we may have some homemade tacos with good ground beef from Aldi, and may go out for a bit of ice cream

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:49 PM (wzUl9)

64 [i[ Lucy has been introduced to Churu.

She’s addicted.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026

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Aside from being $20, the same as in town, what in the world is Churu? It sounds like a 1960s Western starring Rod Taylor and Clint Eastwood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)

65
The story about people emerging from the sewer is interesting.

Maybe they were looking for their lost pets.

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2026 04:52 PM (3ek7K)

66 Just had a short nap with Patsyonmy lap. She's accepted being an inside cat. My old cat gets a trip to the vets on Monday. I noticed one ear is swollen, so likely mites.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 30, 2026 04:55 PM (7T8ei)

67 nurse, I'm not sure about thanking you for the information about Churu but looks like my cats will.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 30, 2026 04:58 PM (5P5DO)

68 61 Lucy has been introduced to Churu.

She’s addicted.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2026 04:49 PM (WXuyH)
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Lily loves Churus and Temptations tubes. It's kitty krack.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 05:00 PM (kpS4V)

69 I called the crunchy temptations kitty crack. Think I'll avoid Churu snacks and Temptations tube if I get another cat. I never thought I'd want to have neither a dog or a cat, we've had both my whole life, but it never feels like the right time when I think about going to shelter to look at what they have. My housemate has a dog, if I didn't have her and her dog I'd probably have gotten another dog right away after I had to help Toby across the rainbow bridge.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 30, 2026 05:08 PM (AOl+5)

70 The porcupine in American mythology is always connected with sunlight, so far as my researches go - Jeremiah Curtin.

Book - Creation Myths of Primitive America: in relation to the religious history and mental development of mankind by Jeremiah Curtin and Alma Cardell Curtin.

Posted by: 13times at May 30, 2026 05:10 PM (2FQpt)

71 My kitties get wet food only but they get a starter of Temptation treats.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 30, 2026 05:11 PM (5P5DO)

72 54 I forget, is there typically a Music Thread on Saturday or Sunday?
Posted by: SciVo at May 30, 2026 04:40 PM (Sy6m/)

I answered my own question by finding the archives, and it looks like about once a month, on a random Saturday, there will be a Music open thread instead of a Movie thread, between the Hobby thread and the ONT.

Posted by: SciVo at May 30, 2026 05:28 PM (Sy6m/)

73 If cats have fewer taste buds, why are they so damn finicky?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 30, 2026 04:06 PM (kpS4V)

They have incredibly good sense of smell

Posted by: Kindltot at May 30, 2026 05:28 PM (rbvCR)

74 This is about the seasons when squirrels get into loud bitchy arguments with each other about who gets to have the best branch on the tree.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 30, 2026 05:29 PM (gKWVE)

75 HOBBY NOOD IS UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

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