Ongoing series about the tribulations of living with pets.

If Pavlov used a Labrador I think his experiments are void.

Well the cats are still at it. Last night Michelle was dishing up dinner and turned her back for a second and one of the cats nipped up onto the bench and tried to take off with a chicken drumstick. Read more »

Ongoing series about the tribulations of living with pets.

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.
Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
        — Groucho Marx

We have a three year old Labrador named Tobius or “Toby” for short. He was supposedly the runt of the litter, but turned out to be a big black doofus with an attention span about as wide as the space between his eyeballs. Read more »

The first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series about the tribulations of living with pets.

“A cat by any other name is still a scheming little fur ball that craps behind the couch.”
        — Unknown

4th June 2010

The two new cats we’ve got are incorrigible. Despite our best efforts to date they will still go on the kitchen benches whenever they can get away with it. Every other cat we’ve had we’ve been able to train to stay off the benches, but not these two. Read more »

I’ve already blogged about a cat named Murray so for today, a simple note to observe that Murray is no longer with us. From his unexpected reappearance in late August, we are grateful to have had the opportunity to share another four months of life with him before arthritis and other maladies of old age finally caught up to him.

We spent our last evening together the same way we spent our first: lying on the couch watching movies with him asleep, purring away on my chest.

Bye Murray.

“Play tricks?” laughed the cat.
“Oh my my! No, no, no!
I just want to go in
To get out of the snow.
Keep your mind on your work.
You just stay there, you two.
I will go in the house
And find something to do.”
Then that cat went right in!
    — The Cat In The Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss

Inspired by projects such as the tweeting cat door and CATaLOG [sic] I’m wanting to add some form of automated access control to our pet door to control who can go in and out, when. Read more »

One of our two kittens, Bazyl, has started exploring my desk while I work.

He was quite intrigued for about ten minutes with the mouse cursor on my screen.

(Insert obligatory lolcat dialogue here)

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