Ratty's Cat House

27/03/2025

Just an update on Ratty. Nothing funny or even interesting about this video. I just wake him up from his nap to remind him that he's a good boy...

Ratty's popcorn box used to lay directly atop the power center for my computers. But I changed it.

His Mom was real gentle with the box when she used it, but Ratty sometimes jumps into it from the nearby cat tree. And I was just imagining that one day he would cause it to break open and cause it to explode or maybe get himself electrocuted.

So I bought a cheap metal stand (meant for computer monitors) for his popcorn box to sit on. Now there won't be an explosion.

27/03/2025

Nothing really funny or exciting about this video. Just wanted to post updates on my cats. Here's Spunky relaxing after last night's dinner. He's a little distracted by Ratty (to the side of the bed) finishing-off his food.

I thought Spunky looked extra-cute with his front paws tucked-in like this. Was gonna take a photo, but hit the video button instead and just went with it...

05/11/2024

Ratty calls the race early. Though I think he just wants to pry me away from the TV and fix him some food...

22/10/2024

Bought a rug for my living room last June. Since the flooring is dark brown, I thought I'd get a brown rug to match.

Never occurred to me that my cats' hairballs would be IMPOSSIBLE to detect on that dark brown rug.

Luckily I never stepped in one with my bare feet. Only 2 or 3 times while wearing shoes. But that was enough to make a change.

New white rug arrived the other day. Stands out like a sore thumb, but that's okay. I know the hairballs will stick out like a sore thumb as well. And that's what's important.

Seen here is Ratty, attempting to claim the rug as his personal territory by rubbing his scent all over it. Eventually it will smell like Resolve carpet cleaner, but I don't have the heart to tell him...

03/10/2024

Waiting to be poked and prodded. Fun.

01/10/2024

These covid boosters always make me feel lethargic the next day. Body aches, fatigue, chills, and just a general sense of wooziness.

Took a nap around 10:30am. It lasted until 5pm. Although I had to get up around 2 to visit the bathroom and feed my cats.

Around 4:30, Spunky jumped up on the bed and stared right in my face:

"Hi, Spunky," I said. "I'm feeling real crappy right now, but I will probably be better tomorrow."

No reaction.

"I love you," I continued, "And I'd love it if you stayed here with me right now."

And with that, Spunky turned around, jumped down off the bed and trotted into the other room to be with Ratty. Leaving me all alone to die...

30/09/2024

Got flu and covid shots today. Covid in the right arm, flu shot in the left.

Covid injection site started to hurt 2 hours later.

Ratty was on my desk just now, giving me kisses (which is really just him begging for food). He starts to sniff the bandage hiding the covid injection site. Then he starts touching it with his paw.

"How about this one," I asked, showing him the bandage on my left arm. He seemed not to notice the flu shot injection site (which doesn't hurt). I moved over to put my shoulder right in front of him so that he could not miss it, but he paid no attention and continued to ignore it.

Just kinda odd. Did he know there was pain coming only from the right arm? I dunno. I don't subscribe to the notion that animals can predict earthquakes or see ghosts, or anything like that. Still, though, kinda odd...

02/09/2024

Ratty keeps begging me for food tonight. Keeps jumping up in front of my computer screen to push his big sad eyes in my face.

Okay, so yeah, I took a nap. And yeah, he seems to expect me to feed him whenever I get out of bed. But I gave him dinner right before I took my nap, so he is claiming that meal didn't count, and he deserves yet another since I crawled out of bed.

Or maybe he actually thinks it is tomorrow morning already?

Spunky, on the other hand, is so blase about food. "Oh, are you going to feed me now? Well, okay, if you insist. I'll gobble down a little bit to make you happy."

In either case, I should be thankful that Ratty is pushing his big sad eyes in my face rather than he tiny smelly butt...

09/06/2024

20/05/2024

Poor Ratty. Not sure if it was intentional or just horseplay, but Spunky gave Ratty a small puncture wound on the bridge of his nose.

Spunky got his nails trimmed for that.

I usually don't trim his nails because he hates it and puts up a fight, but I trimmed them after this, cause that wasn't nice.

BTW, this page is pretty dead because I've been cutting way down on facebook. One day last September, I realized that I had wasted the ENTIRE day on facebook. So since then, I've been keeping my distance -- only checking in occasionally and writing next to nothing.

I have nothing against social media. It offers a lot of benefits, but spending an entire day on facebook -- that was getting out of hand.

Just wanted to make this quick post showing that both Ratty and Spunky are still alive and doing well. And despite this "claw to the nose" incident, they both get along very well. Nothing "lovey-dovey," but they co-exist rather nicely, with each having their preferred territory.

I mean, yeah, Spunky is off sulking at the moment due to having his nails cut, but he'll get over it. Probably when meal time comes around.

No pic of Ratty's nose (it was just a tiny dot of red which dried up long ago and is now impossible to see), but here's a pic of them together back on May 8th. They look sad because I took this just as I was leaving for the day.

That's a heated kitty pad Ratty is laying on. They got it last Christmas. It gets a lot of use. More than I thought. And they don't seem to have an issue taking turns...

04/09/2023

Ratty makes a friend...

28/08/2023

Ugh. Ratty trying to tan his balls (or what's left of them). This is the last time I let him talk me into watching Tucker Carlson...