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Kate strikes a pose.
Rum keeps an eye on the birds and the rain.
And then he catches and kills a rat!
Kate and Reverb. There’s a feather teaser up there, and you can see the shadow of it in the patch of sun over the flower cave.
Kate’s ready to SMACK! THAT! TEASER! (Or maybe me.)
Uncle Charlie started sniffing around the foster room door on Saturday, so we let him in for a very short visit (I think he was in there for about 2 minutes in total).
Rum floofed his tail, but Reverb and Kate were pretty calm. Kate was ALL ABOUT Uncle Charlie and followed him around, sniffing and sniffing him. It’s too bad that Charlie is such a bullying jerk, especially toward girl cats, because the girls always loooove him so. I always tell them to have some self respect and not fall in love with a bully, but you can’t tell ’em anything.
Rum, floofed. Charlie, all “?”
Rum is almost 5 1/2 pounds (2.49 KG) and Charlie is 19 3/4 pounds (8.96 KG), if you were curious.
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We’ve lived in this house for 4 1/2 years, and recently (FINALLY) we painted the rooms on the end of the house – Fred’s office, the hallway bathroom, and Fred’s bedroom.
Here’s Khal in Fred’s office, before.
I loved that wall color when we first moved in, but after a few years I… did not. (Also didn’t love that the trim was painted a matching color.)
Not the greatest shot, but here’s Khal in Fred’s office after.
That wall color is actually the same color we had in our front room at Crooked Acres, which we painted NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO (!). Fred liked it so much that he asked if they could match it, and they were able to. I keep going into his office, looking around, and saying “It looks SO MUCH BETTER in here!”
Khal is neutral on the whole thing, though.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky) this weekend.
Reverb’s working the kissing/hissing booth for the next little while, so pucker up!
Kate gets her dangle on.
(Confession: every time I see Kate – or any other non-Rum cat – doing the dangle, I am struck with the urge to proclaim “Baby Fish Mouth is sweeping the nation!” It’s a line from “When Harry Met Sally” and it makes no sense at all in this particular situation, and yet.)
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Reverb sure loves that yellow spring. I’m not sure why he felt the need to walk through the spiral tunnel and CatLadyBox with on his way to the big box – that boy just cracks me UP.
Your daily Rumdangle is having some very deep thoughts.
🎉 Former fosters TC (Thunderclap Newman) and Jethro Tull, who we fostered in 2014 (!) Bonnie says: “While TC (Thunderclap Newman) strikes a pose on the stovetop, Brother Jethro Tull takes it easy as he waits for his night time treats. We love these beautiful boys so much and are thankful Challenger’s House and Robyn trusted us to be their Kahu.” (Thanks, Bonnie!)
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Tossing toys for the kittens. Rum is really loving those ping pong balls lately!
A belated happy 10th birthday to 🎉 former fosters Patches (gray & white, formerly Art Vandelay) and Peri (Bert Macklin)! The Cat Distribution System sent them a little orange brother – Wesley – last year, and Kristin reports that “Patches seems to have a second kitten hood due to Wesley. Peri is fueled by spite, but in a loving way.” 🤣 (Thanks Kristin!)
Good night innernets. (Reverb & Rum)
If you were curious, one of those outlet covers will handily hold a 5 pound kitten without breaking. (I mean, it probably wouldn’t hold up FOREVER, but for brief times when the kitten is trying to figure out how to jump from there to the counter top, it holds up just fine.)
Today’s Rumdangle is REAL DANG TIRED of those other monkeys picking on Punch, and he’s THISCLOSE to hopping a plane to Japan and stomping on down to the Ichikawa City Zoo to set matters straight.
Reverb suggests you talk to the paw, and Rum is in full agreement.
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Reverb and Kate playing, while Rum is off eating. I love it when she pounces at him!
Good night innernets. (Kate)
Kate caught that green felted ball all by herself, and she is VERY pleased.
It’s a Rum-Reverb chomperoo pie! (My favorite!) Reverb’s long-suffering “::sighhhhhh:: here we go again” face is cracking me up.
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That felted green ball is VERY popular in the foster room. (Fortunately I have more in case they lose it!)
Your daily Rumdangle. ❤️
These are the trying-very-hard-to-look-innocent faces that Kate and Reverb gave me when I said “Whatcha doin’ over there?” They’re like “Nothin’!”
Good night innernets. (Kate)
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Previously
2025: No entry.
2024: No entry.
2023: Lincoln says “Tsk, tsk. Someone needs to clean these mirrors.”
2022: How did I not notice the size of that noggin before?
2021: Those little legs up in the air back there are killing me.
2020: When the milk bar gets up and walks away but you weren’t done nursing.
2019: No entry.
2018: “Loony Jake” seemed like the perfect nickname!
2017: Throw Back Thursday: Maggie
2016: “Well, I’ll be. You really can hear the ocean!”
2015: “I was NOT bunny-kicking my sister in the back of the head and making her cry. That would be WRONG.”
2014: No entry.
2013: No entry.
2012: Babies at the milk bar.
2011: Corbie Wednesday.
2010: Hoyt goes home.
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.