Obie

09/21/2024

I helped the lady by typing some emails for her with my back toes.

06/21/2024

I’m a little late in announcing this, but I have a new dog buddy at my house! The lady calls her Lucy. She is nicer than Puppy. Lucy and I have a lot in common. We are both 9, we are the same height, and we both have the same hobbies: sleeping and eating. She’s a good nap buddy.

05/18/2024

Puppy ruins everything.

03/24/2024

There’s not much of anything better than a nap in the sunny spot. Enjoy the little things today, my furrrends.

01/06/2024

The lady cartooned me with one of those weird robot brain things. Aren’t I handsome enough without being digitally enhanced?

01/01/2024

Sound up for my lion-like ROAR.

12/30/2023

She was coming at me with SHEETS!!

12/27/2023

Today I learned that V-E-T spells “No, thank you.”

I overheard the vet tech tell the lady, “I never said the word ‘fat.’”

12/26/2023

I have now trained the lady to give me catnip every morning. I just make sure to show up before she drinks coffee, when she is still half asleep and is easily influenced. All I have to do is give her this look. First she gives me what she calls “good breath goodies.” They’re kinda meh, but if I eat them then she gives me my catnip. After that, I reward her by flailing around and giving her a good show. That seems to be all the reward she needs to keep the ‘nip coming every day.

I can quit whenever I want, btw.

09/08/2023

I arranged myself on top of the wet clothes machine this morning. My lady puts dry clothes in this machine every morning with the sole purpose of making them wet. She has another machine to make the wet clothes dry again, and this is only one of the many completely pointless things she does. But I digress.

I arranged myself on the wet clothes machine and waited for her to come and behold my adorableness. I knew she wouldn’t be able to resist scratching my chin.

I’m a genius.

07/21/2023

The lady says I should post this picture from eight years ago. Ugh. Naked baby pictures are so embarrassing. I was about 8 weeks old here.

07/11/2023

Now THIS is the kind of art I can get behind! In fact, I realize now that I'm behind in working on this kind of art. Gotta run before the lady gets back home!

CAT ART

The artist stays modestly in the background. The work has been 11 years in the making. Photo posted by Kathy Oberst.

I have had many cats in my life and feel we can't keep them away from everything in the house. We need to sacrifice something -- a couch, a chair, a scratch pole (if we're lucky) -- to let them sharpen their claws. Declawing is no option.

07/10/2023

Someone has been posting compromising photos of me on the internet.

07/04/2023

I was just remembering the time my roommate, Oliver, stood up to Puppy. Ollie is brave. He’s not even scared of the vacuum robot! When it comes towards him, he just lays there and pushes it away with his feet!

07/01/2023

I haven’t felt very good lately. The lady finally took me to the doggy doctor yesterday. I don’t know why she takes me to the same doctor as she takes the dogs. Seems like she should realize by now that we aren’t the same species

The doggy doctor’s assistant put a thermometer somewhere I’d rather not think about and then announced that I had a fever. Then they somehow took pictures of my insides. The lady thought the pictures were cool. She’s so weird.

The doggy doctor doesn’t know what’s going on for sure, but I have to go back to his office if I don’t feel better by Monday. Meanwhile, the lady taught me how to drink water out of a straw since I didn’t feel much like getting up and moving around. She’s being really sweet to me, but if you look in the video, she kisses me at the end. Why did she do that? So embarrassing. 

04/04/2023

The lady called my whisker display “spectacular.” I’m not going to disagree.

03/26/2023

She thinks she can just stop petting me whenever she wants. It’s funny.

03/09/2023

I’m practicing. Gonna see if I can get into a store window at Barney’s. I haven’t told the lady we’re moving to New York yet, though. She’s gonna be so excited.

03/09/2023

This is my Dogbeast. I love him.

02/28/2023

I don’t always killify the lady’s hand. But when I do, it’s because she’s just rubbed ny belly more than twice.

01/21/2023

I’m no therapist, but in my experience with relationships, it’s important to set and enforce healthy boundaries. Example: here I am in photo 1 allowing the lady the joy of having me on her lap. However, I am making it clear (photo 2) that she is not to pet me.

Sadly, as you can see in photo 3, I had to enforce those boundaries today. It was too bad. One day I’m hoping the lady will learn.

12/16/2022

You can’t seeeeeeee meeeeeee!