Category: Cats

Angry cat

I came home today and Talore hissed at me!

Today was when they did apartment inspections, which involved checking the smoke detector and installing a carbon monoxide detector, as well as a general check to make sure I hadn’t torn up the apartment (I assume). The notice had requested that any non-friendly animals be contained, and while Talore is friendly but shy (based on the only time I’ve had people over), she has been known to rush the door to the outside. I shut her in the bedroom (with food, water, and a litter box) and put a note on the door saying she was friendly but that I didn’t want to risk her getting out.

Whoever did the inspection apparently made sure she stayed shut in the bedroom, but installed the carbon monoxide detector there. Considering how jumpy Talore was when my smoke detector was chirping (low battery warning) I think she really didn’t like having both detectors tested, especially with her in the room for one of them. I’m guessing that she hissed at me because the previous person had made loud noises at her, but as soon as she saw it was me she jumped off the bed and started rubbing against my legs.

She probably didn’t appreciate it that I almost immediately left to go play Rock Band 3 and left her alone again (though free to roam the entire apartment) for another 7+ hours. I was pretty bad at the keyboard, but I wasn’t too bad at drums (on medium) or some of the vocal parts and by the end of the night I was doing half-decent at bass on hard. I played mostly guitar last time I played guitar hero, and it was obvious that I needed to learn the buttons better before I try to keep up with that on any difficulty above easy, but the bass was alot nicer for learning on.

Filthy Roomba

The roomba managed to make a bit of a mess on Sunday.

Apparently I had a bit of ice fall out of the freezer before I left for church and by the time the roomba ran the ice had turned into a puddle. The roomba ran over that spot multiple times and seems to have cleaned the dust off it’s brushes. That wouldn’t be so bad, but it has no way to pick up the water so it was smearing the now dusty water all over the kitchen floor. It now really needs to be mopped, but I don’t have one so I’ll get to it later.

The bigger problem is that I get scoopable litter for Talore, which is the stuff that clumps together when it gets wet. Since one of the primary benefits of the roomba is that it cleans up the litter Talore scoops out of the box it wasn’t surprising that it got to the litter, but the result of that was pretty bad: the damp litter stuck to the plastic around the brushes, then everything else that the brushes got stuck to the litter. I’ve made one pass at scraping all the dried stuff out of the brush area of the roomba, but it needs more work before that part will be ready to go again. The vacuum section also was picking up a little water and making mud, hopefully the filter will still work now that it’s dried out, but I need to clean that too. The bin that it sweeps stuff into is actually worse than the brush area for things stuck to it, but it’s harder to get into so I’ll probably be trying to take it apart soon.

Since the roomba has been out of action since Sunday I’ve been leaving Talore’s toys and tissue paper out. Talore has further perforated the tissue paper, but the funniest thing is that she’s managed to build up enough static charge for it to stick to her several times. Watching her walk around with half a sheet of tissue paper stuck to her side was pretty funny, as was watching her try to prowl over the corner of one and having it bend up and stick to her face. The one that got her face got smacked back to the floor pretty quickly, but the other one was tolerated.

“Letting the cat out of the bag”

I have a new appreciation for that phrase since the cat really doesn’t want to be in the bag.

Talore was playing with a plastic grocery bag on the floor yesterday and was half-way inside it, so I attempted to scoop her into it and pick it up by the handles. Considering she’d been clawing at it the bag wasn’t in perfect condition, but as I pushed her into it she clawed her way straight out the other side without even slowing down. I managed to drop a bag over her today (just seeing if I could get it around her, not trying to pick her up) and she got out through one of the handles and took off with the handle still caught around her middle.

That’s Talore lying in the middle of a sheet of tissue paper that she was attacking. When I first noticed her lying there she was curled up at least partially asleep in the middle of it, but when I started to take the picture she noticed I was paying attention to her and rolled over so I could rub her belly.

There’s Talore in my chair. She doesn’t often lie down in my chair, and almost never when I’ve been sitting in it recently, but yesterday she took my spot while I was taking a load of clothes out of the dryer. I was kind of surprised she wasn’t trying to sneak past me into my closet while I was folding clothes.