Category: Cats

Sunlight bait

On By CarynIn Cats, Craft

Put a fuzzy bed in the sunlight and it will sprout a cat. Even if it is an unconventional bed.

Photo description: Izzy the calico cat lying in a light pink fuzzy raised bed in the sunlight.

I was a little concerned yesterday when the cats would have nothing to do with the new bed. I’m glad baiting the bed with sunlight worked.

Fancy cat bed

On By CarynIn Cats, Craft

Ok, so this is probably the silliest I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something. I repaired the broken leg in an old side table that had been used as a bench (yesterday’s post), and rather than tempt fate by putting a solid top back on, I made it into a cat hammock.

Photo description: elegant wood table with curved legs with a light pink fuzzy padded edge cat hammock attached.

I had a pink fuzzy blanket that had already been cut into for another project (we couldn’t find the fabric by the yard, so bought a blanket), and sewed a two sided mat. I stapled the mat down to the table top, over the central opening. I then sewed a long tube of the fabric, stuffed it with polyfil and sewed that down on the mat. It is quite the sight. The cats are not too sure of it, so I put it beneath the front window where it will get some sunlight. I’ve sequentially put all three cats on the bed; all have rejected it. I’ll give it some time.

Photo description: Thor the gray tabby standing on the new fancy cat bed.
Photo description: Sophie the dilute calico standing on the new fancy cat bed.
Photo description: Izzy the calico sitting on the new fancy cat bed. After the photo she moved up to the window sill.

Casting on

On By CarynIn Cats, Craft, dog
Photo description: beginning of a knitted scarf with short rows lying on a calico cat with a small black dog in the background.

I have cast on the Helix scarf from Spin Off magazine! I did make a modification, casting on thirty seemed very narrow, so I ripped out (only a couple rows) and cast on 50 instead. I adjusted the short rows to alternating 20 and 10. It turns out that I really like short rows, and the wrap and turn method. Izzy the cat doesn’t mind being on my lap as I knit, but Thor the cat thinks the yarn smells really good and keeps trying to take off with it, or chew on my circular needle.

Perception

On By CarynIn Cats, dog
Photo description: white metal gate across the end of a hallway, with a small black dog and a large gray tabby staring through the bars. Empty cat dish on the near side.

The ironic thing about this photo is that I have seen both Missy the dog and Thor the cat jump higher than that gate in other situations. Our other two cats can jump over, but Thor doesn’t even try. The gate is there to keep our dogs out of the kitty litter and cat food. Now it also serves as a place for the female cats to have some time away from the playfully annoying young male cat.

Why is the cat teal?

On By CarynIn Cats
Photo description: terrible digital zoom of a tabby cat in a meadow, with large teal colored sections of fur.

I was out brushing Mr Tom the long-haired white cat, when I looked up to see his colony mate, who we call Garfield’s brother, with some very unusual coloring. I thought maybe he somehow tipped a dye pot somewhere, but no, he was sitting in the shadow of my wire deer. The iridescent plastic in the deer’s antlers cast a teal-colored shadow.

Photo description: wire deer showing the teal antler shadow.

The picture is terrible, but was all I could manage. This cat is very skittish.