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Lisa Cuddy, Abbey Cat 3651, originally uploaded by monado.
The mother of the adorable kittens has retired from kitten-rearing. She is quiet, well-behaved, and good-tempered–and you can adopt her from Abbey Cats cat rescue society in Toronto.
The kittens have all been adopted to good homes.
Last night one of the cats caught a mouse or a small rat and brought it in. I heard the cat shuffling and jumping in the kitchen as he darted around, batting, “surrounding,” “losing,” and pouncing. His brother was attracted by the noise but he wasn’t inclined to share. So I opened the back door and he left with his prey.
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A few minutes later he was back, thumping around. This time, when I looked, he had a large, dead rat. It was not only dead, but cold. So either he killed it earlier or something else did. I took this one away before he could lose interest and leave it on the kitchen floor for someone to step on in the morning. The cat was disappointed until I gave him some cat treats as reward and compensation. Before I dropped the rat into the garbage, I weighed it. It massed 132 grams, or just over 4 ounces. I would have said it was at least six.
Hildy is my son’s room-mate’s cat.
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This is the first cute, high-tech, electronic Cat Door System I’ve seen since the Flo Control Project.
Flo Control took an image of the cat’s head and analyzed it to see if the programmer’s cat Flo was carrying prey. If she was, the cat door would not open. Voila! No more feathers and mouse bits or lizards or snakes in the house. It was quite a clever bit of programming that found its way into some image-recognition systems.
The Twitter Cat Door uses RFID tags in the cats’ collars, servomotors, and a camera to keep strange cats out of the house, but also snap pictures of the cats entering and leaving. The system keeps a log of the cats’ movements and combines it with randomly selected reasons to post the cats’ comings and goings on Twitter (as GusAndPenny) and Twitpic.
The cats do a lot of going in and out.
At night and on dim days, the reflection of a clock shows up:
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I don’t know about cats coming out of nowhere, but dust balls seem to.
Remember Kliban with his Tomcats and Momcats? Here’s another kind of Mom.
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Do you ever wonder why cats put their foreheads on the floor and look at you upside-down?
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If you live near Toronto and you can adopt or foster a cat, look at Abbey Cat cat rescue.
You can also volunteer to drive or to help out in other ways. And, of course, you can donate.
This is one relaxed cat! And such a pretty colour.
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