Tue 30 May 2006
Manflesh
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Scary
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Oh my God! Don’t put your hand in there!
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Tue 25 Apr 2006
Here Kitty Kitty Kitty…
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Scary, Spooky
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I have fewer Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking at the door these days.
(I swear – I just snap the shots and this is the way they turn out).
Sun 5 Mar 2006
Spawn of Satan
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Scary, Spooky
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Unretouched image.
Wed 1 Mar 2006
I am loathe to just pinch articles from boingboing but I’m afraid I had no choice but to make sure you all knew about The Cat Piano.
Yes, it’s exactly what you think: the keyboard is connected to a mechanism that jabs a sharp spike into the bum of the appropriate cat, each of whom has been selected for the pitch and tone of its meow. Oh the cruel mirth.
I am obliged to recount that the brother of a certain reader of this blog has a variation of this instrument, called The Cat Bagpipes, in which the cat is held splayed in the arms in a manner that resembles bagpipes. The cat’s tail is held in the mouth and upon the ‘player’ biting it, the cat then utters sounds not unlike the tones of a bagpipe.
Now before I get spammed by animal rights activists, I just want to say I don’t condone this behaviour.
But it sure is funny.
Sun 19 Feb 2006
The Mini Panther
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Spooky
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I know you’re all wanting to know how Glitch is getting along. Well, I feed him a small child every few days and that seems to do the trick. I now have a chair and a whip and a nice red coat with gold buttons. We’ll be touring the show as soon as I finish welding the bars on his cage.
Wed 11 Jan 2006
Complemented by a Crisp Chardonnay
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Signs
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OK, now the last time I had a cat was about twenty years ago, I admit. And I want the best for my new little guy. But people, I’m telling you, somewhere during the last twenty years the pet world HAS GONE INSANE.
I’m giving Glitch a nice mix of all the catty foods – he gets raw kangaroo meat*, chicken wings, tinned fish and Science Diet for kittens. He likes all these things. And because I aim to be a good cat father, I also scan the supermarket shelves for other possibilities to keep his diet varied.
Today I found ‘Fancy Feast® Royale‘ Natural Whitemeat Seafood in Tuna Jus. This is what it says on the back:
A delicious delicacy for fish connoisseurs: we start by hand selecting the ocean’s finest filets of Tuna, then we mix the filets with Seabream and Whitebait and baste in a Tuna Jus.
Solely in the interests of blogging, I had to buy a packet so I could show you all. (He is seriously not getting this stuff in the normal course of events). Hand selected filets? Basted in a Tuna Jus? I haven’t opened the little foil sachet yet, but I’m betting that when I do, what I’m actually going to be squeezing out is a big blob of fish mush.
And if mealtime goes anything like last night, it will be a case of him gobbling it all down as fast as he can, licking his bum and then snacking on a nice crunchy black cockroach for dessert.
My cat is is pure class.
*People from other countries please don’t freak out; kangaroos are culled here for a number of reasons and the meat is not wasted. There are a lot of kangaroos. The meat is good lean meat, and sensible people will eat it. It tastes good. However, because the meat eaters of the world (including Australians) for some reason are obsessed with beef, instead of most kangaroo meat being used on the barbecue, it ends up as pet food. This is insane because one of the very worst agricultural things that ever happened to this country was the introduction of beef cattle.
UPDATE:Well, I have to confess that when I opened the sachet of Fancy Feast Royale, it didn’t look nearly as puke-making as I expected. There were obvious chunks of different kinds of fish, and even whitebait. The tuna ‘jus’ looked suspiciously like… aspic. In fact, wait a minute, the whole thing looked just like the tinned fish I’ve been feeding him anyway…
And I’m sure you are all dying with anticipation… yes, he did like it. A lot. He ate it all up. And then licked his bum and tried to eat a piece of uncooked spaghetti that I dropped on the kitchen floor.
