It’s Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat.
I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is:
I need to stop her before that fourth beer every night. Otherwise she steals the remote and changes the channel to blue-collar comedy.
Related posts:
- Caturday rib licking
- Canis Minor shoots for the sky
- A foxy Caturday
- Owl be seeing you
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August 7th, 2010 at 7:30 am
That is astonishingly cute.
August 7th, 2010 at 7:49 am
Strangely, she looks just like you. Or is it the position?
August 7th, 2010 at 7:52 am
“Lady-like” is NOT the first word that springs to mind! LOL!
August 7th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Phil, sending email marked “Important” pls read asap. BTW you’re inked on DK with a blurb for Bad Universe.
August 7th, 2010 at 7:53 am
hil, sending email marked “Important” pls read asap. BTW you’re inked on DK with a blurb for Bad Universe.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Nice crotch shot Phil. Next BA pin-up calendar.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:09 am
LOL @ cat.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:32 am
And not a single frak was given that day.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Classic photo.
Your fourth beer or hers?
I imagine after four beers she’d be either *very* hard or very easy to catch depending on which one of you has been drinking!
I’ll also admit that – even when I’m sober – if my cat* (Zosma named after Delta Leonis) manages to get outside when she’s supposed to be indoors at night then shes uncatchable for me. I try & keep her in for her safety and the wildlife’s sake – & she doesn’t always like it! She’s just too fast, too agile and too hard to spot being a mostly black cat for me to do any more than wait for her to come back when she so chooses.
I would’ve thought she’d prefer something screening a mouse!
My family once had a tortoiseshell cat – named Katrina – that loved to watch the cricket. Seriously, she’d recognise the start of broadcast music and turn around on your lap to watch the screen whenever it came on.
Also funny pet-TV interaction~wise is the fact that it took quite a while for my Jack Russell cross-fox terrier** Harry to catch on that barking coming from the TV was coming from the TV and to be ignored NOT a passing dog to be barked back at. ‘Inspector Rex’ was guaranteed comedy for quite a few months before he realised!
—–
* Actually I’m *her* human a lot more than shes “my” cat. Zosma is top
doganimal in our hosuehold out-ranking the dog and me alike!** Dog breeds are, I think pretty much already separate species – as I’ve seen argued in (I think ’twas) an article in New Scientist Can we really say a Chihuaha and a Great Dane are still the same species – do we really think they could cross-breed?
August 7th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Can we really say a Chihuaha and a Great Dane are still the same species – do we really think they could cross-breed?
Well only if someone put the Chihuahua up to it!
August 7th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Why has Richard Wiseman stolen your cat?
August 7th, 2010 at 9:34 am
AHHAHAHAHAHAH awwwww!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥
Nice pussy, Phil.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:35 am
lol awww xx
August 7th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Aw, such a cute kitty.
I love the fluffy tail.
Brushing her sure must be fun though.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:46 am
D’aww, kitty!
Does she have any Maine Coon ancestry? One of my cats has a similarly floofy coat (when she’s not shaved down for the summer), and I suspect she’s got some.
August 7th, 2010 at 9:49 am
It´s almost puurrrrrrrnography.
August 7th, 2010 at 10:11 am
*looks at game cabinet*
Can we all come over and play Balderdash, Phil? I’ll bring chips!
(I’d suggest Scrabble, Phil, but there’s rather a lot of us and quite frankly you don’t want to be on the other side of a Scrabble board from me.
)
August 7th, 2010 at 10:30 am
All hail our feline overlords!
To quote a local cognitively-impaired, creationist, Utah State Senator (triple redundancy, I know), “We get different types of dogs and different types of cats, but you have never seen a ‘dat’…”.
Dat’s a good-looking cat!
August 7th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Gorgeous.
August 7th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Yeah, well Maine Coons (which she almost certainly is at least in part) aren’t the most ladylike/graceful breed. Mine sits on furniture draped over it like a drunken frat boy most of the time. I’m not sure how they got the grace bred out of them, but somehow it happened!
August 7th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Awww!
She looks just like my cat. Mine looks a little smaller though, she’s more of a three beer cat.
August 7th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Of course she would change to blue collar comedy.
She sees your socks and try to find some TV to go with them…
August 7th, 2010 at 11:57 am
I recall a similar pose by the old “Mister Q” (‘my’ cat from the 1960′s-70′s), but with a problem. He was black, only white on front paws and chest, so the photo I took showed no more than a ‘blob’, with a cat head poking up out of it.
I am also apparently ‘attractive’ to cats, there were recently three (at least?) cats who made my open storage and under a tree and very large bush their favorite places. They were initially ‘scared’, running off when I would open the back door, etc… but now they just give me ‘the cat look’ and head to their favorite rest/play spots.
J/P=?
August 7th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
So I guess you’re only accepting comments from America hating, left-wing, anti-Christian bigots, huh? Typical liberals– you have freedom of speech, no one else does. November is going to be loads of fun. Impeach the filthy marxist Kenyan.
August 7th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
cgray (24): Just out of curiosity, what are you talking about and why are you posting it on this particular blog post? I’ll note that the very fact that your comment appears shows you’re wrong.
August 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
…maybe cgray is just hinting at that all Republicans are dog lovers. >.>
August 7th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Well, you know who else was a dog lover? Hitler! Need I say more?
August 7th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Still not the recommended method for keeping your pants warm in the winter.
August 7th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
cgray’s comment doesn’t pass the Turing test. Probably a script kiddie who is posting that on any blog that doesn’t have a spam filter that catches it.
Missed you last week in Boulder…that’ll teach you to work on your show during the ASP meeting!
August 7th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Well I guess I was not off base about thinking she was part Maine Coon since two others think so as well. @Benny, I agree about the grace being bred out of them. Mine can go from the top of kitty grace to falling off of a big box with plenty of room for him. Having a kitten around lately has just made his gracefulness even worse! I love this picture Phil, it made my caturday!
August 7th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
In that second picture she looks like she’s thinking “Serious Cat Thoughts”.
I wonder what weighty cat issues she’s pondering.
August 7th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I think cgray is a script kitty.
August 7th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Hilariously typical of our feline friends to also know it’s the weekend. BTW, does your shirt also list who Darwin’s running-mate was? Would it have been Palin, the moose Palin shot or the Pope? jk, jk! Have a wonderful weekend all.
August 7th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
such a cute cat!
August 7th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
The cat looks rather bored…You have not been reading one of your books to her!
August 7th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Thou Shalt Not Shareth Thy Weed With Thy Cath. Saidth The Lordth.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@30 CaptXpendable – She’s thinking “Just a foot or two closer puny human, that’s right, try for a third shot…”
@20 Benny “I’m not sure how they got the grace bred out of them, but somehow it happened!” – When the first one realised ‘Hey I’m big enough I don’t have to rely on cute anymore – Yo human, Kitty treats NOW!…what you looking at dog, you want a face full of this {wolverine blade noises}? I did not think so!’
August 7th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Cats Rule! (Unforeseen evolution may one day hand civilization over to the cats.) Here’s proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dcUcIAqWBA
August 7th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
More caturday galore here.
August 8th, 2010 at 3:45 am
@38. Chip Says:
Want more proof? Just check out this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipm9xe5HXNU
Give it a few more million years and this is how cat evolution will finally end up!
August 8th, 2010 at 5:56 am
For where the evolved cat orginally came from see :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKF2qd0-iQ&feature=related
&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Red_Dwarf)
August 8th, 2010 at 7:04 am
— Mark Twain.
August 8th, 2010 at 10:03 am
42. IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE
Mark Twain seems to have anticipated everything.
What a guy.
My favorite cats have usually been semi wild,ie, they like me but adjure strangers with facility. My most favored was a Manx cat. He was an amazing athlete and loved playing soccer with ping pong balls. Pele had nothing on him.
Gary 7
August 8th, 2010 at 10:51 am
@33. caprica six. Darwin’s running mate would be Alfred Russell Wallace. It was Wallace throwing his hat in the ring that forced Darwin to do the same.
August 8th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Excellent pic. This is what life is all about. I am forced to share the link to this page around via Facebook (and email to the non-FBers).
August 8th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Well, the good news is that neither PZ Myers nor the Skepchicks have linked to this… yet. That won’t last long…
August 9th, 2010 at 2:26 am
@31… that’s not the serious cat thoughts look, that’s the “srsly, put the camera down & get the noms hooman, *sigh* d’ya see what I put up with? ” look. Or as my hubby says, it’s the ‘p*ssed off kitty” look.
Cats… they always know the most comfortable, warmest place in the house. Which is not meant in any way, shape of form to cast aspersions on Phil! What it illustrates instead, is that cat comfort is conversely related to human comfort
August 9th, 2010 at 3:44 am
@27
Do you mean Adolf Hitler, or Bing Hitler?
August 9th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Dignity. Your cat has it.
August 9th, 2010 at 9:17 am
@47. ausduck Says:
I like the way James Herriot* (Famous English vet) put it :
August 9th, 2010 at 9:18 am
* See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot
& also :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connoisseurs
August 9th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I am concerned that Mr. Plait supports a non American for president. Especially one that is from England.
I like the cat though.
August 10th, 2010 at 6:37 am
Phil, don’t let the RiffTrax (formely MST3K*) guys get a hold of this pic. They were notorious for riffing on these sort of shots in their day. Bwa ha ha!
Granted, this one is a lot more innocent and it’s not coming from a bad movie; it’s coming from The Bad Astronomer!
I slay me.
* Rifftrax are only part of the MST3k crew, actually. Joel, Trace, Mary Jo and Frank went on to do Cinematic Titanic I do believe. Mike, Kevin and Bill are the Riffers.
August 11th, 2010 at 9:17 am
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August 11th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Do we HAFTA keep our comments clean? Coz I totally want to write some semi-raunchy stuff right now!
August 14th, 2010 at 11:21 am
this photo gives me TWO more reasons to think you are the coolest guy I *know*…
1. your shirt rocks.
2. your cat rocks even more.
And by the way, girls can have a few and relax just anyway they want. Ladylike, if done at all, is simply for public outings.
August 15th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
http://s609.photobucket.com/albums/tt177/iggles/?action=view¤t=sits-1.png
August 17th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I want that shirt.