This Is Drivel

Tag: cats

  • stretched

    Sparky struggles to get comfortable on the sofa, poor fella. Read.

  • It’s lap time

    Sparky doesn’t sit in laps. He just doesn’t. Or he didn’t. Well, he used to. It’s complicated. When he was a kitten, he sat in our laps occasionally. Not very often, but he did. Then he stopped. Not entirely sure why, but it may have something to do with his extreme sensitivity to sudden movement Read.

  • prozac cat

    Our cat’s on Prozac. Never ever in my life did I think I would have to medicate a cat with something like Prozac, but the vet said it might stop him from peeing everywhere and it did, so now he gets 5 mg of crushed Prozac in his wet food every afternoon. Whoda thunk? We Read.

  • the cat’s ass

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    My mother once described a certain person’s defining characteristic this way: “He thinks he’s the cat’s ass.” I’ve always been especially fond of this phrase as a way of describing a person who was a little too full of himself, even though I was never quite sure what vanity had to do with a cat’s Read.

  • what passes for excitement

    Scooter the cat is back home after a three-day stay at the emergency veterinary hospital. We don’t get up to a lot of exciting things during our self-imposed lockdown, so this is what passes for exciting around here nowadays. I had to take Scooter to our regular vet on Tuesday morning because he looked like Read.

  • who’s a good boy

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    Sparky went to the vet yesterday. Did. Not. Like. It. Or at least I thought he didn’t, because he howled all the way there. He was fine when I put him in the cat carrier, but as soon as I put the carrier in the car he started to howl like he’d been stuck, and Read.

  • sheddingest cat ever

    We have two cats: the youngest, Sparky, is a standard tabby cat, and the oldest is a mutt, if that word applies to cats as well as dogs. The vet says he’s got a lot of Siamese in him, judging by his rat tail and the shape of his snout, and the rest is probably Read.

  • So long Boo

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    So long, Boo. I miss your crooked little tail already. Read.

  • cat nap

    He purred me to sleep. Read.

  • boxed

    “I don’t care how flat the box is, I’m getting in it!” Read.

photo of the author and the author's best friend