Tag: cat

Not My Tree, Not My Cats

On By CarynIn Cats
Big Orange Tom is being a jerk

I took our dog for a walk and heard a terrible ruckus: cats yelling at the top of a tree. Not my tree, not my cats, but the Big Orange Tom is known to us. He is the king of the neighborhood and father to probably half the local cat population. We don’t know if anyone has given him a name other than Big Orange Tom, or if he has people he cuddles (he won’t let us near him). There is plenty of food to be had all along the street, so it is hard to tell if he has a permanent home.

He cornered a neighbor tortie and she was letting him know that she was not interested. He sauntered halfway down the tree and laid on a branch in a total jerk move of cat chess. We checked on them again on the return leg of the walk and they had both scampered, so no rescues needed.

In case you needed to know…

On By CarynIn meme

I found the cat.

Cat tail

No she isn’t floating. There is a window behind those curtains. The curtains go down to the floor to help block the cold from the open window. The window is open because that is her access to the catio. She jumped up there because she heard something outside. I guess this is a failed tail wrap, but it is awfully cute.

Aw

On By CarynIn Uncategorized

When I bought the basket for Sophie, the outside cat, it came as a two set. Our inside cat Izzy enjoys the larger basket as it fits her perfectly. She has a towel instead of a hand made mat because she likes laying on towels.

Cats are liquid, but it helps when the basket is cat shaped

Cat bowls

On By CarynIn Life Hack
Sophie enjoying dinner from a salsa bowl

I thought today I would share my cat bowl hack. Our grocery store carries plastic salsa bowls for $1 each (this may be a southern thing). These make awesome cat food bowls because the feet raise up the food a little for the cats, they are dishwasher safe, and if they drop, they don’t shatter. They are heavier than regular plastic bowls, so don’t move as much as the cats lick the last bits from the bottom. And the cats love them. So much so that Izzy (the inside calico), refuses to eat from the other bowls we have.

Fiber experiment

On By CarynIn Craft

Sophie likes to sit in my plant pots.

Cute, but irritating

Although she is cute pretending to be a plant, I don’t want to encourage the behavior so eventually I can actually have green plants in there. I bought a cute woven hyacinth basket and filled it with straw, but she was unimpressed.

Straw filled round basket

I have a large amount of “big yarn” which is really just roving.

“Big yarn”

There are many posts and videos about arm knitting using this kind of fiber, the problem is, we spin fiber to make it more resilient and give it strength. Fiber that is only combed has neither quality. So to do a first-hand test, I crocheted up a round mat of the fiber using a P crochet hook.

Crocheted round with “big yarn”, wrong cat interested

Although I was able to crochet it (the P hook was on the small size for comfortably crocheting), it was already shedding fiber before I even finished.

Fiber separating from the body of the work

My hypothesis is that, although the stitching looks beautiful now, and it went together quickly, it won’t take much for it to look like a matted mess.

Crocheted round set on a layer of straw in the hyacinth basket

However, Sophie thoroughly approves. So she will be my tester and we’ll see what condition the matt is in a few months.

This is much better than just straw