Category: Talore

The most terrifying thing in my apartment…

is apparently this:

It’s been a week since the terrible experience of being put in the cat carrier, so I figured I’d see if I could get Talore a bit more relaxed around it (not out of any need to put her in it, but I’d rather she not run and hide at the sight of it).  I put it in the middle of the living room to start with.  Talore didn’t take her eyes off it so long as she was in line of sight of it, and when she went off to hide in the bedroom she walked way around it.

She will let me pick her up and carry her past it, but she tenses as we approach it.  For now I put a bit of cat nip in the carrier and left it near the door to my bedroom so she’ll walk past it sometimes if she maintains her usual habits.  It appears to be working somewhat – she has gone and sniffed at it and she will walk past it calmly, though I was sitting on the other side of the room for both of those.

Earlier today Talore found a rather good hiding spot (except now I know to look there).  I was getting lunch when I realized I hadn’t seen her in a while and she usually spends all her time in the same room I’m in when I’m home.  Upon looking around, I discovered that she wasn’t even in any of the likely hiding spots (under the bed, sitting at the glass door to the balcony, etc).  It turns out she was sitting in the window of my bedroom, between the glass and the blinds, and she didn’t make enough of a lump in the curtain that I have to block what light gets through the blinds to be obvious.  I didn’t spot her till she poked her head out to look at me when she heard me moving around in my bedroom.  I don’t know if she just wanted to see out or wanted to sit in the sunlight, but she wasn’t inclined to leave that window (too bad I forgot to get a picture of it).

And now since I’ve written a post about Talore, here’s a new picture:

My desk is nearly clean!

This is the pile of things no longer on my desk.  It’s been slowly getting removed, but until tonight I still had the cup full of pens and stuff on the corner of the desk.  Now I’m down to my bowl of candy and the puzzle Allison gave me for Christmas.  It’s a bad picture but it’s the only one that I managed to get Talore to sit still for.

I’ve been leaving the feathery toy on top of things with just the edge poking off so that Talore would jump and attack it, though she doesn’t do so very often.  I suspect she grabbed it and it fell on her head, because I was sitting at my desk and I heard a sudden meow, then she ran across the room and jumped on the end of my desk.  She would have slid right off the other side of it because she was moving fast and had no traction, but she hit my cup of pens and it went flying and stopped her.

Robot Uprising!

I came home today to discover that my roomba wasn’t back on it’s charging dock waiting to be cleaned like usual. Further investigation revealed that instead of cleaning my apartment it locked itself in my bedroom and hid in the corner.  More an act of rebellion than an uprising I suppose.

Well, maybe not actual rebellion, more stupidity.  The reason that it did that was because it goes along the walls and when it went along my bedroom wall and hit the door it bounced the door off the door-stopper mounted on the wall. That caused the door to swing away from the wall and the next pass pushed the door closed. Then it cleaned my bedroom till it ran out of battery (and it picked up a surprising amount of dust considering the first night I had it I ran it in my bedroom till it asked to be charged).  I wasn’t home when it happened, but that was one of the first things it did when I ran it the first time (besides the cleaning till out of battery part).  I should probably find something to use to prop the door open.

I went to see Inception today with a group of people from work.  I thought it was really good and well was worth taking 3 hours out of the middle of a work day to go see it, though that may change if I end up working 10 hours on Friday to finish making up the time.

Also trimmed Talore’s claws when I got home.  She did not enjoy the experience, but after I finished with her front paws she was willing to tolerate it for the back ones.  She woke me up this morning by attacking my feet through the sheet, and her claws were sharp enough I was worried she’d managed to draw blood (not quite apparently).

I need to get a new laser pointer or find something else she’ll chase to try to wear her out a bit.  She finally started eating all the food I give her (she took just over a week to get settled in I guess), and now she’s very energetic and the laser pointer is about dead.

I also need to be more careful about my food when I’m eating supper.  Monday night I noticed Talore was somewhat interested in my plate with hot dogs on it, so I had it in my lap.  My attempting to keep her off my plate meant she decided to stalk it, so while I was reading my book I suddenly saw a paw, with claws outstretched, reach through the side of my chair and swipe at the second hot dog.  Last night I had shrimp, but I kept that plate on the edge of my desk so it was very obvious when she was going for it.  I let her have the last one.  I don’t think she really appreciated the breading on it, but she ate it all and licked clean the spot on the desk where she ate it.