Photos of our pets

COMaestro · 15 December 2022 20:36

I think your buddy has had enough of your studying, and instead wants treats or scratches.

Phil · 5 January 2023 10:59

Maximal ignoring at minimal distance (with the cushion blocking line of sight if they actually looked).

Augustus Marlowus accepts no responsibility for the Fall of Rome…

RogerBW · 5 January 2023 12:08

“What, that spending the entire military budget on pilchards? Must have been the late Tribune’s peculation.”

Chewy77 · 5 January 2023 19:57

I can see him quoting Cicero “Pecunia sine nervos belli format”

Griffster77 · 21 January 2023 09:17

Enjoying the morning light, looking out over Harlyn Bay

Whistle_Pig · 4 February 2023 11:09

The unsatisfactory box: a story in three parts

Phil · 21 February 2023 10:28

I don’t have photos, but I didn’t know where else to put this.

Morse, the larger of our two cats, is a pretty solid boy, weighing around about 6kg. He is also frightened of everything. The following events, which took place while I was at the office today, were related to me when I got home…

Morse had been investigating a paper bag in the kitchen, which contained a 2kg bag of potatoes that I’d bought the day before. We don’t know exactly what gave Morse a fright at this juncture, but I’m imagining that it was his usual “sniff something and then jolt back with alarm for absolutely no obvious reason” routine. Unfortunately he’d put his head through the handle of the paper bag (I don’t know whether he did this at the outset, or in the process of getting a fright), and got himself stuck.

In a panic, he then took off “at speed” – dragging a third of his own body weight in potatoes along with him. Not only was he running, but he dragged the potato bag up and down multiple flights of stairs. I’m still not sure how this is possible (the uphill parts at any rate), but I guess the adrenaline was pumping.

His brother was apparently terrified by all the noise.

Eventually the paper bag ripped open (I found the inner potato bag some distance from the kitchen at the top of one of the staircases, but apparently not the one that he’d first gone down) and he then ran to the bedroom – still entangled in the torn paper bag – and hid under the bed, refusing to be cajoled out for rescue purposes, and not even coming down for dinner (which is absolutely unheard of).

At some point he freed himself and made his own way back down to join everyone.

I only wish I had video footage of all of this…

Marx · 21 February 2023 13:18

I love my cats (LOVE my cats), but I do frequently have to remind myself that they have brains the size of walnuts.

I’m glad Morse is okay!

Chewy77 · 21 February 2023 20:58

Here’s Luna yesterday, feeling very stressed about the aftermath of cyclone Gabrielle, obviously

Captbnut · 2 March 2023 18:24

The dog walker is earning their money

Phil · 15 March 2023 10:50

They don’t usually spend much time in close proximity, but I had this behind my head for a few hours last night, until I bid them both goodnight. I guess the two-seater is really a four-seater!

Edit: Marlowe is currently snoring quite loudly. It’s adorable.