When we lived in Alaska, I had a rabbit fur hat (yeah, I felt guilty, but it was so soft and warm…) I had to keep it away from Taz or else he would bathe it within an inch of its life. Well, now Taz finally has his own fur cuddle toy.

You can’t see it too well, but note Taz’s spiffy new collar.

Mickie does her best Elvis.

Taz and Suzie are snoozing companionably on the bed. Ah, but this peaceful situation can’t last… here comes Mickie.

A skirmish ensues.

Suzie observes with some alarm, or maybe complete boredom, I dunno. Exit Suzie, stage left.

Mickie manages to break Taz’s collar. After he leaves, she enjoys her prize.

Mickie likes to make sure Lucy’s face is clean and shiny bright…

...including way down deep in her ears, which you would think would tickle like fury, but Lucy seems to be perfectly fine with it.

Taz and Mickie keeping me company on the sofa.

To anyone who hasn’t given up on me, I offer profuse apologies and gratitude. Back in January I got that extremely persistent upper respiratory whatever that was going around, and I really wasn’t 100% again till mid-March, at which time I was so far behind on everything that catblogging took a backseat—or may have even been consigned to riding around in the trunk. But at least this means I have a few goodies saved up, such as this picture of Taz in the cat tree.

Chris has been fighting what now appears to be a succession of bugs for the last several weeks, and last night she—who never gets fevers—had a pretty significant fever. She’s going to the doctor this afternoon.

“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their “evil” look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.”

Camille Paglia

This is Mickie looming down over me as I sit at my computer desk. She arrives way up there via the shelf on top of my CRT monitor, where the speakers are.  Generally, said speakers go flying.  The shelf is supposed to be secured with adhesive tape, but it also gets knocked askew.

Well, it’s a huge sacrifice to make, but what else can I do? {sigh}

Gots to get me a flat-panel monitor with speakers built in.