Just learned that we're becoming a blended family...........

They steal the straws out of my water glass at night. The ceiling is in the "where to play" category. They can fly. Lego pieces are transformers or something to them. The dog can't sleep because they do naughty shit to get her to wake up and bark at them so they can then bite her leg feathers. Even the rabbit is terrorized. The bathtub is the "cage fighting" zone. You will NEVER sleep again. NEVER! But they're soooooo cute.

Love it!

I have ten. None younger than three years, but ten?! Ten are a handful. (And a scooper-ful.)

I fully own my bad decisions and my inability to say "no." "Oh, we'll call this one Rat Face until she's adopted; an ugly name will make us not want to keep her." Littermates O'Malley and Rat Face are the youngest of our menagerie, and the last to join.

Sad attrition is the only way we'll ever have fewer than ten cats. We can't give any of them up, although we've discussed it from time to time.

I got him when he was 20" and the thickness of a pencil. He grew to almost 5' and 3" in diameter and was starting to look at the cat funny. Fortunately, my biology teacher had a daughter who loved snakes. She had a big apartment and said she'd let him have the run of the place. And, being the daughter of a biology teacher, she had good access to food. I had to drive 30 miles to find a place that would sell me rodents.

Other than that, every other creature I've adopted has stayed with me for life. That's how it should be. They're family. In Lucifer's case, it was what was best for him.

And when the kids wake up I have to break the news to them about Clouseau and ask them to dig his burial pit. I'm not looking forward to that.

Watching the behavior of the human in its natural element...

I hope you get to spend a little time with this kitten. You'll fall in love.

Will you please let us know what she names it?

Boo in "To Kill A Mockingbird". She is a voracious reader (niece not Radley)and has a Masters in Library Science and is Asst. Head Librarian at the Library in an adjacent community. So I knew the name would have literary meaning.

strange critters

but cats have humans. Treat the cat with the proper deference due your feline overlord and you'll do fine (unless the cat decides to claw you on general principle but you get used to that).

a tragic wood chipper accident.

Oh wait, that's a fish!! Oops.