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Kitty, the blog animal
November 20, 2007
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I've been trying my best to explain to Kitty that George W. Bush wants to drop bombs on Iran,
not Kittyland -- but I'm having a hard time coming up with a rational explanation of how
bombing Iran is going to make Kittyland any safer...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 19, 2007
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Kitty and I got a note from her old friend --
Shadow the Tuxedo Cat --
and now Kitty is green with envy
over Shadow's posh accomodations...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 18, 2007
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I'm pretty sure Kitty thinks
the next best thing to being on my lap is being within a forest of green
weeds...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 17, 2007
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And although we only see one ear in this photo, I guarantee that when conditions are right, Kitty receives a high-fidelity signal, in stereo...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 16, 2007
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Hang on... Don't forget the sunscreen... Kitty is our navigator, and she has
set our course in a direction towards cosmic consciousness...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 15, 2007
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Long range predictions for the world are dire -- but for right now, Kitty and I have
the safety of each-other and redwood trees...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 14, 2007
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Finding a u.f.o.
is the easy part... --Explaining a u.f.o. is the hard part...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 13, 2007
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And yes, on top of all her other duties and extensive nap schedule, Kitty still has time
to be a top-notch student of nature...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 12, 2007
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Someday I should catalog all of Kitty's mugs, but this one with the
big round eyes
is one of her most effective -- never fails to win my heart...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 11, 2007
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Kitty and I went out yesterday afternoon for a bit of
birdwatching...
These Mallards will be fine -- if they stay right where they are now...
You may have heard about our 58,000 gallon fuel-oil spill
from a ship bumping the Bay Bridge... The slick extends out the Golden Gate,
fouling all my favorite beaches, north and south... It's a genuine mess...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 10, 2007
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Most living beings have similar features no matter which side they're on,
but Kitty has disproven that theory -- recombine Kitty and you're likely to get a
whole 'nother animal...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 9, 2007
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Getting a
new photo
of Kitty can be challenging... Probably the most difficult thing is getting her to
stay-on-her-mark -- about four feet away --
instead of moving in closer to collect more pats-and-pets...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 8, 2007
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Kitty is no slouch, but sometimes I have to marvel at what a huge project she has taken on
-- she is our local weed inspector...
The task might seem overwhelming at first glance, but she has a system --
she makes random spot checks... Watch out weeds -- Kitty is on the job...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 7, 2007
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Kitty has high hopes of being the next cat on the bag...
After all, she has experience -- she poses with that yummy bag every chance she gets...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 6, 2007
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Kitty isn't very big, but she still manages to commandeer all of the covers
and most of the bed-space... --But I probably wouldn't do much better with a soggy
sea lion...
I'll keep the cat and count my blessings...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 5, 2007
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I was surfing my friend Helene's site -- PHOTOS REFLEXIONS CREATIONS
http://princessemerlin.blogspot.com
and immediately fell in love with her peaceful
mosaic of Merlin and Princesse...
I like how she has made a pattern of one soft, and another softer...
Very creative...
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Now, I guess I need to go ask Helene for permission to use her artwork
(I put the image on my server) before Kitty and I end up in jail...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 4, 2007
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Here's a postcard for Kitty...
--Yesterday, about 200 miles north of Kittyland in the little town of
Miranda,
I met this friendly Siamese...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 3, 2007
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 2, 2007
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Kitty's m.o. is to sit around until I give her a friendly
pat on the head...
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Kitty, the blog animal
November 1, 2007
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I'm not exactly sure who Kitty was trying to emulate -- perhaps C3po or somebody -- but now the only question now is
how we're going to get all that chrome off of her...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 31, 2007
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While up on Mount Tamalpais yesterday afternoon I spotted a
bobcat hunting for something tasty...
Of course I'm sure Kitty still remembers how to catch mice and the occasional lizzard --
but now she just sends me to the supermarket for her grub...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 30, 2007
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Kitty is the ultimate
observer...
It's just what she does... And she does a fine job of it too...
Some days she observes familiar and quiet things, and other days she enjoys soaking-up
exciting abstracts...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 29, 2007
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Well, it's always a tough choice for the photographer -- not knowing which to
focus on -- the clover or the cat...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 28, 2007
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Kitty has spent most of her life demonstrating the benefits of being the coolest cat
on the block... But yes Kitty -- some creatures just don't get it -- we still have
way too many un-cool hot dogs in this world...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 27, 2007
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For recreation
Kitty curls up, closes her eyes, and trots off to a totally different world
-- perhaps some sort of twilight-zone for cats...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 26, 2007
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Kitty will only tolerate a little bit of playful
ear-pulling
but I enjoy tugging on her ears at every opportunity...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 25, 2007
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So, I ask you -- with a cat this cute -- who do you think is the
boss around here???
And yeah, her nails are sharp and piercing, but she only bites when I misbehave...
Kitty is generally fair with my punishments...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 24, 2007
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And if I listen very closely and carefully, Kitty will sometimes
speak...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 23, 2007
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After a long day of sawing logs indoors on the couch, Kitty sometimes likes to go outside and
soak up the sun...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 22, 2007
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Over the weekend I was out taking pictures with a photographer from Ohio, Jan Bell, who owns
this cute and highly alert black doggie... Well, Jan really loves Brock, so I heard
a plethora of stories of Jan's adventures with his dog...
--Oh, I guess dogs can be just as fun as cats, but I think Kitty would see it from
a different perspective...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 21, 2007
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Kitty is getting anxious about her Halloween costume...
My original idea was to transform her into the spitting image of my old dog Mickey,
but Kitty didn't like the idea one bit, and now wants to go as
Mickey Mouse...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 20, 2007
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I think I should call the eye-doctor and find out how many
eyes Kitty is actually, in reality, supposed to have...
At this point I'm not quite sure if the problem is with me or her...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 19, 2007
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The county jail called... They said Kitty has promised to turn over a
new leaf,
so they're going to let her go...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 18, 2007
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The post office called... They said that yes, they already know that Kitty is
criminally cute, but their policy is to only display
wanted posters of the most dastardly and dispicable law breakers...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 17, 2007
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 16, 2007
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And in these days of electronic wiz-bang super-duper cats, it is reassuring to know that
Kitty still requires an old-fashioned wind-up key...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 15, 2007
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Kitty predicts just a few clouds
interspersed with vast expanses of warm sunlight...
Of course, the downside is that it's definitely Monday again...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 14, 2007
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The bit of nice weather
that we've been having has been interspersed by quite a bit of rain...
Kitty and I had to visit our scrapbook to find this summertime photo...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 13, 2007
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And while humans get rated for their vision, cats are sometimes rated for their
intensity...
--Kitty seems to be way off the scale...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 12, 2007
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Maybe some day I'll teach Kitty the formalities of how to shake hands, but in the mean
time I think she is happy with a simple
pat on the head...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 11, 2007
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Well, I think we've got just abut every type of
plug
that is imaginable... But Kitty seems to have a socket that I am totally
unfamiliar with...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 10, 2007
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Early this morning I made a mental note to "do" KittyBLOG later, but here it is,
noon...
And it is perfectly logical that Kitty is still hanging out in the same exact spot
in our kitchen where she has been since breakfast -- why go anywhere when it's going to
be another meal in a few hours...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 9, 2007
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It's dawn, and I wish I could tell you that Kitty
is on the job, but but until she wakes up, we're pretty much on our own...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 8, 2007
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I'm not exactly sure how she does it, but Kitty definitely
gets around...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 7, 2007
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It seems like the older Kitty gets, the more she just wants to lay around the house
and sleep... But today it was such a nice day that I spotted her on the porch outside
soaking up some warm afternoon sun...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 6, 2007
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When she is
awake and on duty
Kitty pretty much keeps her eyes peeled for all forms of
life, whether they be terrestrial or capable of flight...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 5, 2007
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I've always suspected that Kitty is somewhat on the artistic side, but I would have
never thought she would turn out to be a lover of
abstracts...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 4, 2007
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And while other neighborhood cats probably explore a much wider range, I've never seen
Kitty venture more than about twenty yards from home... And I am glad, because you know --
how you gonna keep em
down on the farm
after they've seen Paris...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 3, 2007
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I still haven't let Kitty know about video tapes and DVD's...
It's always much more romantic going to the
movies...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 2, 2007
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Fur might be a long way away, but here at Kittyland
we have Kitty's shed hair here, there, and all over the place...
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Kitty, the blog animal
October 1, 2007
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If there was anybody who didn't know what a watt was, it would be Kitty...
But here she is, putting out about ten watts...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 30, 2007
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We still love her, but our furry administrative assistant tends to leave a messy trail of shed
hair just about everyplace she goes... I guess shedding is the logical alternative to
visiting the barber... We've got hair just about everywhere, including the innards of our mouse...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 29, 2007
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In some situations Kitty is smart as a whip,
but at other times she just doesn't seem
to have a clue... The concept of arrows escapes her...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 28, 2007
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This blue-eyed
mysterious visitor
has been passing through our yard for quite a while now...
It's a sweet cat, but it won't let me pet it... Kitty really didn't approve
when it first started coming around -- she would hiss and growl -- but I think this pretty
cat's non-assuming manner and stark beauty has finally won Kitty over...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 27, 2007
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If Kitty wants to believe that her eyes are identical to
Joan Crawford's,
I'm just going to let her keep on believing that it's really true...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 26, 2007
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Kitty still has big ambitions, but the circus turned her down...
They told her she needed a lot more
flash in her act...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 25, 2007
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Kitty and I opened up our big
photo album... I like this one a lot...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 24, 2007
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Oh, you know how cats are -- they want to try every strange fad that comes along...
Kitty must think that chrome
is cool, but of course I prefer the softness and warmth of her regular fur...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 23, 2007
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Kitty is usually a pretty contented little individual, but occasionally, when she starts
complaining about the job of being a cat, I remind her that she is lucky to have turned
out as a cat -- she should be glad she didn't arrive in this world equipped with
webbed feet...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 22, 2007
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The Stinker (on the left)...
The Thinker (on the right)...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 21, 2007
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Oh, that Kitty and her ideas...
She thinks she can charge cat lovers 25 cents each to look deeply into her eyes,
but I suggested she work on her business plan a little bit before investing in more
telescopes...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 20, 2007
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They still haven't let me know why she is in hot water, but yes, the post office called...
They need a better set of Kitty's mug shots
-- she moved in the first one, and she's looking off into space in the second...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 19, 2007
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They're pretty basic rules, but having a meaningful conversation with Kitty requires
two basic qualities --
kindness and understanding...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 18, 2007
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According to our resident scientist:
(1) If it blows in the wind it's
probably a weed...
and (2) if it's small and moving it's probably a bug...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 17, 2007
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Even while resting, Kitty is no slacker... She usually takes a rather vigilant
approach to the honorable task of just hanging out...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 16, 2007
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Decyphering time from the face of a clock has always been a challenge for Kitty...
You see, in her world it's much simpler --
one sweet moment
just sort of turns into another, and another, and so on...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 15, 2007
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And for those who still refuse to believe --
here is actual proof that Kitty has the ability to change the
color of her eyes...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 14, 2007
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Somehow KittyBLOG slipped through the cracks today, so this is going out about six or seven hours late...
Fortunately, there has been absolutely nothing to report...
We'll keep you posted...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 13, 2007
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I guess there is a point in everybody's life when they stop to evaluate the benefits
of going off alone to live with egrets
somewhere by a pond...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 12, 2007
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Every parent knows they will eventually have to deal with those embarrasing little
questions -- and I guess with Kitty it's no different...
Questions like -- why some creatures, notably birds, have feathers -- and
why she, a feline, just has hair...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 11, 2007
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And there are times when Kitty is a
blend
of whatever is around her... She always gives
softness a run for it's money...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 10, 2007
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Kitty and I have been mulling around my recent pilgrimage to Sacramento, and we're trying to assess whether or not I was able to pull all of the right strings -- the ones that Kitty wanted me to pull for her... So far, one string is already working --
the sun is coming up...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 9, 2007
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Yes Kitty, believe it or not, those are roses from Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger's
own personal rose garden...
Actually, they're on the public side of the Capitol
Building fence... And even though I didn't see any signs prohibiting the public
from picking them, I don't think I would ever do that for fear of being run off or arested...
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I stopped at a produce stand on my way home from Sacramento and bought Kitty five ears of
good looking fresh sweet corn...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 8, 2007
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Oh, it's not that Kitty doesn't like dogs -- that really isn't the point...
After all, she spent the first three years of her life living with two rambunctious
hounds... But you know how dogs are -- just too loud and much too
uncouth -- fine for amusement and a run through the park -- but without much capacity
for achieving inner peace...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 7, 2007
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It seems like the older Kitty gets, the less time she spends outdoors where I have the
opportunity to take pictures of her... But yesterday, I finally managed to
snag one...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 6, 2007
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I've been trying to reassure Kitty that, for the moment, she is pretty safe right here
with me... But Yes Kitty, these are indeed
troublesome times we live in...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 5, 2007
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Believe it or not, Kitty does do some talking -- usually about food...
But for love she
tends to use her eyes to get her point across...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 4, 2007
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And yes, fur might be a long way away --
but closer to home, there is no shortage of Kitty's shed hairs all over the place...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 3, 2007
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Kitty is going to have to rely heavily on her
charm if she wants to work downtown...
Begging for food and managing our weeds is about all she has listed on her resume...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 2, 2007
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Occasionally I will hold Kitty in front of the mirror
expecting some reaction, but for some reason she never seems interested...
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Kitty, the blog animal
September 1, 2007
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I thought this joke
would get a laugh out of Kitty, but apparently not...
A dog went to a telegram office, took out a blank form and wrote: "Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." The clerk examined the paper and politely told the dog, "There are only nine words here. You could send another 'Woof' for the same price." The dog replied, "But that would make no sense at all!"
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