Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 1

Courtesy Donald Sensing

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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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Scroll down in the thread for more exacting information about color sensitivities in various species. But this gives you an idea why hunters often wear orange.

This might be the craziest animal fact i’ve ever learned https://t.co/ua8O9Wfq5q
— Today Years Old (@todayyearsold) July 27, 2026

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QOUTE OF THE DAY

How we behave toward cats here below determines our place in heaven. . . Robert Heinlein

Courtesy Bluebird of Bitterness

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Meet The PetMorons

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Lurkers and their dogs

Hi K.T,
Very long time lurker from Australia here.
Here are my two Frenchies, Peggy and her little brother Louis. Louis is the guy with the beer and he, sadly, really is a moron. They love cuddling up together when it's cold down here in Australia.

Peggy and Louis are wonderful.

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These two are ying and yang. Tory, the white one is a pure breed husky. Chill and calm. Moon, the black one is a 4 time returned to a shelter adoption because he's kind of a lot to handle. Loves to eat drywall. Best buddies and no class envy here.
TheAlabamaGang

Wow. Great to hear about buddies with different personalities getting along so well with each other. About the drywall eating: could there be an iron deficiency?

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Here are some recent RtC pics in case folks are starving for images. I know his fans are this close to being infected with rabies. So I do my part.
1. Here he is looking imperial.
2. Here he is looking tired of all this.
3. Here is where I discovered that, behind my back, he decided to go into business as a contractor. I've blurred the phone number in case some naughty types wanted to do mischief.
4. Here he is Giving the Look.
Thank you for the weekend threads!
BeckoningChasm

A cat of many moods . . .

And going into business, too!

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We got a Pup Sundae! pic.twitter.com/QCDH0XX2Ed
— Piper (@piper_moves) August 1, 2026

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

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

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, July 25

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 03:42 PM

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1 Hello Down Under moron. Your doggies looked spoiled as it should be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 03:51 PM (KC5Lt)

2 Woof!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 03:52 PM (r87wJ)

3 Meow!

RtC looks like a demon spawn of despair!!

Pretty kittuh! Give him a pet. Wear chain metal.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at August 01, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv)

4 Afternoon, Pet Folken,

I love the black cat. What's his full name? And perhaps I am a dichromat, but I don't see his image anywhere on the pic with the contractor truck. The "CAT-erpillar" on the truck body, maybe? Or his nickname being RtC? Okay, I get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 03:58 PM (wzUl9)

5 Yay! Pet Thread!

Chloe the Bengal Kitty is still adjusting. As is Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all).

Chloe is a bit of a klutz. Not very coordinated for a kitty cat.

Still adorable, though. I love her tail, which reminds me of a lemur's tail.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 03:58 PM (FZ29D)

6 Robert the Cat is all business.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 04:03 PM (LHPAg)

7 Tory and Moon are impressive.

We went to a dog show at a local convention center this morning. French bulldogs were there, at least one Siberian husky, and a Kuvasz (an ancient Hungarian animal-guard dog breed, something like a golden retriever but taller and all white).

Plus they had 30-some-odd Shelties/miniature collies. All colors, from sable (like Lassie) to merle (gray and white) and jet, or mostly black. They are beautiful animals. If I thought I could live with and train a dog, that would be my choice. There were also a couple of Schipperkes -- such alert-looking dogs, like miniature black wolves! -- and others we didn't know.

My other observation is that the dog show people, at least the judges and the ones who get in the rings to show off what their dogs look like and how they perform, tend to be younger and in better shape -- and universally better dressed! -- than cat show people or the outside population at large. That alone was refreshing and worth the trip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:06 PM (wzUl9)

8 RtC looks like a demon spawn of despair!!

Pretty kittuh! Give him a pet. Wear chain metal.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at August 01, 2026

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Much like my Stirling, once known as the Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence . . . only because he was annoyingly and devastatingly playful, not because he was mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

9 Sitting here with new kitten "Jet". Just got back from PetSmart , although the adoption organization is a third party that uses PetSmart space. He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible. Will probably be officially named Hematite and called Tidy by the kids, Hemi by me, and Dodge by Inspector.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:11 PM (lFFaq)

10 Wow you get great pictures of Robert the Cat BC. I don't have any good pictures of black cats I've had over the years.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2026 04:12 PM (PV+Zw)

11 Wow you get great pictures of Robert the Cat BC. I don't have any good pictures of black cats I've had over the years.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2026

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Yes. Almost invariably my pics of black cats come out as simple silhouettes, like a Halloween decoration.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

12 Little Dagny Sophia, La Siberienne, has suddenly taken to sleeping on the bed with me in the afternoons along with Stirling. She's done it off and on in her time with me -- next month will be four years -- but at random times. Mostly when the weather is chilly, which it is far from being now.

Unpredictable, these cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:23 PM (wzUl9)

13 Sitting here with new kitten "Jet". Just got back from PetSmart , although the adoption organization is a third party that uses PetSmart space. He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible. Will probably be officially named Hematite and called Tidy by the kids, Hemi by me, and Dodge by Inspector.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026

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Send pics! By "black tabby," do you mean that at certain angles you can see darker patterning within his black fur?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)

14 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Louis is the guy with the beer and he, sadly, really is a moron.
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I've got a Frenchie and thought he was stupid too, but I think he's just stubborn. Never had a happier, more clownish dog though.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 04:26 PM (XvL8K)

16 Robert the Cat is all business.

He's watching. Thinking. I like that cat. He has his shit together.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:27 PM (Hsef8)

17 Bob The Cat is looking around and thinking two things.

How in the Hell did you people get in charge, as dumb as you are.

And even as dumb as you are, how did even YOU let shit get this far out of hand.

I'm a fan of Bob the Cat.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:29 PM (Hsef8)

18 By "black tabby," do you mean that at certain angles you can see darker patterning within his black fur?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)

Yes! Like a black panther, but with stripes instead of leopard spots.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (lFFaq)

19 Thank you, KT, thank you, folks. Robert the Cat thanks you all as well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (CHHv1)

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Yes! Like a black panther, but with stripes instead of leopard spots.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026

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Right; the "melanistic" leopard and jaguar look smoothly black, but in the right light you can see the spots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:33 PM (wzUl9)

21 Robert the Cat thanks you all as well.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (CHHv1)

You tell Bob ... he and are on a first name basis ... to just try to take it one day at a time. Because, look, Humans are a pain in the ass. As he knows I know he knows.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:34 PM (Hsef8)

22 Robert the Cat does that imperius cat thing, "I suppose I'll indulge your human foolishness". He's literally looking down his nose at us in the first two pics

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (aJQbY)

23 Robert the Cat is all business.

He's watching. Thinking. I like that cat. He has his shit together.
Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026

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All three of my black cats past and present have been just like that. And yet, at the same time, easygoing and adaptable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

24 Pet Thread! *skritches all around*

The nose knows #1

Alas, the barn cat Buttercup was found dead under some heavy equipment in the barn, too hard to get to, so that will be his resting place. Found after a week of smelling death out there. Buttercup was a good old yeller cat, the only one of the ferals that would actually come up to us and let us pet him. Very sad.

The nose knows #2

I kept telling MiladyJo that something smelled foul in the pantry. Since everything seemed to be sealed in cans, bins, or bags, we couldn't figure it out. Then Milady unpacked the case of cat food we'd bought from Amazon and found that one can was open, and bug-infested. Yuck. Pantry smells okay now.

Pets, including ferals, are a trial in the best of times. Wouldn't want to be without them.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hheeeeere kitty kitty kitty at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (0poB+)

25 The opening photos are so funny and true. I have gotten that same look from each of our pups at one time or another over the years.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 04:39 PM (yTvNw)

26 He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:11 PM (lFFaq)
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Penny is a black cat, but if you look at her at just the right angle in just the right light, you can see very slight tabby coloration in her coat with stripes of darker black on her black fur. (Actually, under the right light she also looks like she has very dark *chocolate brown* fur.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

27 The smooth gray shorthair I've been called "Alfred" (Alfred the Gray, ha ha) visited one morning this week. I have a feeling he has a nominal home somewhere in the complex, with people who let him out to run around. He has no fear of people, knows Linda and me and his feeding station (my front step), and apparently is at home with his lifestyle. I worry that a car will get him, or one of the feral hominid spawn who dwell here will do something unpleasant to him. Or a coyote might snap him up -- though I have never seen a coyote inside the complex, just at night, rarely, on the quiet suburban avenue that runs north of us.

I keep suggesting Linda take him in, but no dice so far.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

28 Dunno if this good doggy vid is legit, but funny

https://tinyurl.com/dde3hz5v

"Moroccan migrant trespassed into a private yard in Ceuta, Spain, and received a "special welcome."

He got out a lot faster than he got in."

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (znREB)

29 Our mascot is currently squeaking his ball incessantly.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:43 PM (p4NUW)

30 Moon, the black one is a 4 time returned to a shelter adoption because he's kind of a lot to handle. Loves to eat drywall. Best buddies and no class envy here.
TheAlabamaGang

He's just living up to the legacy of his namesake Moon-moon

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 04:44 PM (znREB)

31 Dunno if this good doggy vid is legit, but funny

Did you watch it close ?

And it may be all AI bullshit, as you say.

That dog is one chill cue from "Hey, how the fuck you doing ? My name is Infidel, how about we bust open the back door and grab a steak to put on the grill" ?

That dog is NOT a guard dog. Which is a fine idea, when you live in town. A fine idea even if you don't.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:46 PM (Hsef8)

32 Hey all,

Here's an update on our cats

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer. He was our last uncle and the last child of our American grandparents.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2F0/Y)

33 Penny and Chloe have become closer than I would have thought--literally.

Right now they are both snoozing away a mere 18" or so from each other, which I never believed would happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (FZ29D)

34 I love everyone’s creatures! RtC is awesome.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:49 PM (p4NUW)

35 I am sorry for your loss, Joyenz.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:49 PM (p4NUW)

36 In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer.

Hey. My condolences. Its a thing, or you would not have mentioned it.

Remember the good times as best you can.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:50 PM (Hsef8)

37 I'm sorry to hear that, Joyenz.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

38 Sorry for your loss, Joyenz.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 04:56 PM (/k3in)

39 Penny and Chloe have become closer than I would have thought--literally.

Right now they are both snoozing away a mere 18" or so from each other, which I never believed would happen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026

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Dagny and Stirling rarely sleep touching each other. I've seen her groom his head with her tongue now and then, and the reverse, but they don't have the buddy closeness Wolf and Chekov did. I'd come out from a nap and find those two curled up together on the couch. Kind of like the scene in Friends where two of the girls come in and find Joey and Ross asleep together on the couch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:57 PM (wzUl9)

40 (Actually, under the right light she also looks like she has very dark *chocolate brown* fur.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

That's the case with this kitten as well, although he looks black in most lights.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:58 PM (lFFaq)

41 Over at my estate, we have a guest who is a standard poodle. Let me give you an idea of what he's like.

"Man, I woke up feeling down and thinking it was going to be a bad day. But then I remembered I'M A POODLE!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (/k3in)

42 And Stirling has taken to curling or sprawling on my desk to the left of my keyboard when I'm at the computer. That bushy tail keeps flicking over the left-side keys and I have to keep pushing it away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (wzUl9)

43 I am afraid of Robert. Contractors are known underworld types.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (JvZF+)

44 Over at my estate, we have a guest who is a standard poodle. Let me give you an idea of what he's like.

"Man, I woke up feeling down and thinking it was going to be a bad day. But then I remembered I'M A POODLE!"
Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026

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To quote the great philosopher Lorelai Gilmore:

"Oy with the poodles already! As a catch phrase it's right up there with 'Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?' "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

45 I was a bad cat owner this morning. My roly-poly Scout couldn't be pleased. She's a cuddler, but it has to be on her terms. She kept trying to lead me around the house, and I kept following but nothing satisfied her.

It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.

Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (7m/2p)

46 I am between pets now. We had a brindle pit bitch that I adopted. She was the sweetest thing. Very protective of the family.

We took in a neighbor's kitten 15 years ago. "Mittens" wanted to live the indoor-outdoor life. Neighbor bought the wrong cat to sit inside all day and all night. Wifey renamed her Buffy.

Both Wifey and Buffy are deceased.

I will get a dog, maybe from the shelter. But not until my traveling days are over. For the time being, I am free to move about the country (or the world for that matter).

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (qFwJc)

47 Dagny and Stirling rarely sleep touching each other. I've seen her groom his head with her tongue now and then, and the reverse, but they don't have the buddy closeness Wolf and Chekov did. I'd come out from a nap and find those two curled up together on the couch. Kind of like the scene in Friends where two of the girls come in and find Joey and Ross asleep together on the couch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
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So far, only Jasmine and Penny ever had that kind of closeness. I'd sometimes find them both snoozing in my office chair. Although Penny and Allie will sleep with me in my bedroom, Allie keeps her distance from Penny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:03 PM (FZ29D)

48 It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.
Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (7m/2p)
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But good kitty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:04 PM (FZ29D)

49 In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer. He was our last uncle and the last child of our American grandparents.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2F0/Y)
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May his memory be a blessing
Che il suo ricordo sia benedizione

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 05:04 PM (JvZF+)

50 Be grateful you can go to his funeral. My beloved uncle died in June of 2020. I was forbidden.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:05 PM (qFwJc)

51 There were several standard poodles in the dog show today. A gray one who had been clipped into that "tufts on the legs and tail" style, and a couple of black ones who had not been clipped like that and just looked as if they had thick curly Sicilian hair.

Years ago a co-worker of mine said that the standard poodle was supposed to be one of the smartest breeds of them all. (No, she did not have a poodle.)

I noticed too that the old saw about "People come to resemble their dogs" was frequently true. The male bulldog owners looked much like their animals, and the most attractive ladies were all pretty much in the group showing the miniature collies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)

52 I was a bad cat owner this morning. My roly-poly Scout couldn't be pleased. She's a cuddler, but it has to be on her terms. She kept trying to lead me around the house, and I kept following but nothing satisfied her.

It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.
Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026

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Once in a while I'll see that Stirling is pawing at the lower edge of the pantry door. I open it, and Dagny bounces out. (They both love to go into closets and don't seem to mind being shut in there by accident.)

Oddly, Dagny does not seem to care whether Stirling is locked up or not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

53 Time I went to shave. Not that a dinner trip to Chik-Fil-A is an occasion to dress, or that anybody there will care much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

54 You get to go inside at a Chick-Fil-A? The height of gracious living indeed.

They built one here near my house. Drive-thru and walk-up window only.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:16 PM (qFwJc)

55 I love the Spicy Deluxe with pepper jack. Peach shakes are in season.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:17 PM (qFwJc)

56 I am afraid of Robert. Contractors are known underworld types.

Bob the Cat ? That Cat, literally, knows things.

I think he's solid. As in "here's my house key" solid.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:20 PM (swwNP)

57 I didn't want to. They made me.

Posted by: Robert the Cat at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (JvZF+)

58
How we behave toward cats here below determines our place in heaven. . . Robert Heinlein

I find this quote confusing.

Since cats are creatures from the lowest depths of hell, it would seem the heavenly rewarded thing to do would be to give them a swift kick in the keister when met.

Which seems to be an odd thing to post on a pet thread.

Ah, well. Tis' a mystery.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (iJfKG)

59
I love the Spicy Deluxe with pepper jack. Peach shakes are in season.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:17 PM (qFwJc)

Whataburger's Hot Honey Whatachicken Crisp is now available, I assume to be in direct competition with Spicy Deluxe.

I haven't tried either so I have no recommendation but to say that the picture of the Whataburger item looks yummier.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 05:27 PM (iJfKG)

60 I didn't want to. They made me.
Posted by: Robert the Cat at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (JvZF+)

Bullshit Bob. They made the circumstances that left you logical choices. Which you made.

Don't apologize, My Catter.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:28 PM (swwNP)

61 "Since cats are creatures from the lowest depths of hell, "

No creature comes from hell. Only demons, fallen angels.

Sheesh, where did you go to Sunday School?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:29 PM (qFwJc)

62 Chloe's only been here a couple of weeks and she's already figured out where she needs to be when it's feeding time.

Good kitty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (FZ29D)

63 WE HAZ A HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

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