Humans: Ruining Everything Faster Than We Ever Thought Possible!
Well this is horrific.
I don’t even have anything else to say about it, except to mention that this is not the first discussion of this kind of thing; I blogged about another bird-and-plastics article more than ten years ago.
Pepper is a Weird Girl
I love her, hahaha.
I saw someone’s dog die today.
It was sad.
That’s all I’m going to say.
Want to see how flat Pepper can get?
Observe!
That cup is about six inches tall.
Pretty sure she doesn’t have hips, haha.
Pictures of Pepper Just Because
It’s been a while since I’ve bombarded you with Pepper pics, so here we go!
Sitting proudly with her canvas mouse.
Sink time.
She likes to lay on her back.
Being dramatic in the hall.
So pretty!
Hahahaha.
Sitting on the broken down spaghetti box.
Sitting on the oven mitts.
This Is Your Pepper on Drugs
So this all happened yesterday, but it’s worth blogging about because it’s hilarious.
Pepper had to get some teeth pulled. She’s a very smart cat and you can just look at her and tell that she’s thinking, learning, scheming, or planning.
But when we brought her back from the vet yesterday, she was so doped out on the drugs that there wasn’t a thought in her head.
She also somehow managed to get in the sink, but then proceeded to be confused about how she got in the sink.
RIP Reznor
So one of my favorite cats on TikTok unfortunately just passed away. He was a big orange polydactyl cat named Reznor. Even though he was obviously not my kitty, it’s always sad to see them go.
Edit: sounds like his mom is going to keep his account up so that she can still share old videos of him. Here he is if you want to see the sweet boy (and the other sweet cats she’s got).
Think of the Pets
This is a depressing but important article.
I’m glad they discussed the consequences people face when not complying with evacuation orders due to not wanting to leave their pets and that it stressed the importance of having plans and provisions for evacuating and rescuing pets for the sake of not only the pets (of course) but of people who don’t want to leave their animals and the evacuation crews put at risk.
I couldn’t imagine leaving Pepper behind in an emergency. Before Nate started working from home, I’d always worry that an unforeseeable incident (like a fire in our condo building) would happen and we’d both be too far away from home to get the animals to safety.
Scary stuff.
I’m gonna need 74 cats STAT!
Remember my cat name list?
Since I’m sure every single one of you cares, here’s the updated list as of today:
(Edit: I’ve added a few names since today, so they’re on here now too)
- Potato Bun Sidekick
- Mr. Goodbutt
- Zesty Cheese
- Jabberwocky
- Stubblety-Cook
- Beany Meat Stew for You
- Senator Nice Rear
- Douglas Fatbacks
- Captain Fatberg
- Kiwiberry Ruckus
- Disproportionate Fisk
- No Name Pepperoni Chub
- Poofy Crust
- Sticky Colander
- Cracker McSwatt
- Wax Technician
- Sticky Butter
- Indefinitely Numerous
- Automobili Lamborghini
- Snoozopolis
- Fatty Vegetable
- Bumpus “The Cat Man” Jones
- Harry Capp the Mossman (the Cat)
- Rotunda
- Cavity Sam
- Honey Fitz
- Big Gig Roam Extra
- Impossible Nacho Burrito
- Dazzle Basket
- Cheese Whizholm
- Otto von Bisquick
- Phoebe B. Beebe
- Ice Box Chamberlain
- Nash Rambler
- Big Ass Chicken Leg
- Spicy Dracula
- Sauce Mousseline
- Spooky Bomber
- Hot Baby Genoa
- Kevin Lasagna
- Old Dutch Chip
- Sweet Nothings
- Ball-of-Fat
- Mushroom Gorge
- Fuzzy Battery
- Umami Bomb
- Jumbo Ozaki
- Piddly Bits
- Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons
- Jumbo Luno
- Daddy Yankee
- Pounce de Leon
- Brief Beard
- Toastmobile
- Hefty Hiney
- Bjornslaughter
- Boomtown Rat (The Cat)
- General Spaghetti
- Manifest Hamburger
- Jimmy Hut, CEO
- Le Slim Cow
- Mr. Spook
- Sweetest Grandpa
- Hearty Truffle
- Big Turk
- Black Thunder
- Polly Waffle
- Exotic Melon
- Hefty Tolstoy
- Stud Gummy
- Tropicana Plop
- Industrial Control Beef
- Touch-Me-Not
- Sharples
The end.
Fish
Got a little fisheye lens for my phone. So of course I had to test it with Pepper.
She’s a cutie.
That is all.
UGH
Everything hurts.
Have a butterfly pic.
HAWK IT UP
Y’all, I got swooped by a hawk FIVE TIMES on my walk this afternoon.
Story time: I’m in the ‘Scow, so basically the only walk I ever do is to Pullman and back because it’s exactly 18 miles round trip from my mom’s house. I’ve done this walk (and run) every day since I’ve been here now and haven’t had any issues.
But this afternoon, coming home along the Guy Wicks’ Field stretch of the path, I felt a bonk in the back of my head and looked up to see a giant hawk ascending back into the sky.
Weird, thought I. He must have been diving for something and misjudged his timing/aim. No big deal.
Then it happened again.
So I looked up and saw this hawk make a deliberate turn followed by a SUPER FAST dive right back at me. I had to duck to get away from his talons.
This happened twice more before I could get under the cover of the trees by the parking lot across the street.
It was super wild. If I hadn’t been wearing my hat I’m sure the back of my head would be all scratched up. He must have thought I was a rabbit or something based on the color of my hat, which I think he was wanting to snatch. Now I’ve got talon marks in the back of it.
Evidence:
(Okay, they’re hard to see on camera, so I put circles around them. I also put circles around the little threads that got pulled out.)
FUN!
Look at this destructive baby
She loves to murder rolls of paper towels.
(Don’t worry, we don’t let the towels go to waste; we save them and use them to clean up her pukes and other gross things.)
Pepp to Vet
We took Pepper to her first vet visit (well, first one she’s had with us) today, and the poor girl was SO scared. Like, Jazzy got scared too, but she would just kind of freeze up, turn into a brick, and let the vet do whatever they needed to her.
Pepper was mashed as small as she could get into the corner of her carrier and was just terrified. She kept emitting this very low growl and would occasionally his VERY softly. These growls and hisses were very different than the “play growls” and “play hisses” she uses with me when we’re fighting (big loud growls, big intimidating hisses).
Poor sweetie! Hopefully she’s just scared because this is the first time we’ve taken her anywhere; we’ll see how she does next year.
Pepper!
We’ve had our sweet Pepper cat for a year now!
She’s calmed down a little bit, haha, but she’s still a wild child most of the time. She’s so smart. She’s probably the smartest cat I’ve ever seen. I hope she is able to stay curious and playful and healthy for a long, long time!
A Year Without Jazzy
It’s been a year since we lost our sweetest little Jazz.
It’s been very hard.
I still have a lot of trouble going into our bedroom just because I always expect her to be on the bed. She LOVED bed.
She was such a wonderful little girl. I suspect all the health problems she had, including the cancer that eventually killed her, were due at least in part to living in that hoarding house. It’s not fair that she had to live like that and that those conditions probably shortened her life, but at least we were able to give her several years of happiness.
We miss you, Jazzy!
Pepper Play
As you’ve seen from many of my pictures and videos, Pepper is a very active, playful cat. One of her more recent favorite things to do is to take one of her favorite toys (either her new froggy or a particular mouse she loves), tuck it between her front paws, and then get wild when I try to take it from her.
I walk up behind her and start tip-toeing really loudly as I get closer and she starts flipping her tail and putting her ears back and getting that wild, playful look in her eyes. I reach down around her neck from the back to try and get the toy and she tries to shove it further beneath her as she growls (playfully) and hisses (also playfully…trust me, she could demolish me if she didn’t like what I was doing).
One of her favorite toys is a frog that ribbits. She destroys one of these per three/four weeks on average, so we’d just given her a new one. Here’s a video of her being super protective of it while we play. I love that dirty look she gives me at the end, haha.
So tough!
Catter Scatter
CHECK IT OUT THERE IS A CAT IN MY MOM’S BACKYARD:
My mom said she’s never seen her before but there she sits. She’s acting like she wants to come into the house.
I’ve named her Petal. I love her.
Edit: she chomped some mice my mom had in the backyard and we haven’t seen her since, haha. Must have just wanted the mice.
Pepper Pictures: March Edition!
Here’s another set of bi-monthly (-ish) pictures of Pepper, because she’s always posing and I’ve always got my phone ready to take her picture.
Big yawn!
She’s so beautiful.
Sink time!
Hahahaha.
HAHAHAHA.
Beauty queen.
She can basically flatten her hips completely down, haha.
Floor time!
Bi-Monthly Pepper Pictures
Because you know you want them.
Watching me opening packs in OOTP.
She is Pepper Towel.
Lounging.
More lounging.
Tub time (please ignore how gross our bathtub is).
YAY!
PRING
Whenever I’m sad (which is like all the time now), I take a look at the list of potential cat names that I’m saving for potential cats. The current list consists of the following:
- Potato Bun Sidekick
- Mr. Goodbutt
- Zesty Cheese
- Jabberwocky
- Beany Meat Stew for You
- Senator Nice Rear
- Douglas Fatbanks
- Captain Fatberg
- Kiwiberry Ruckus
- Disproportionate Fisk
- No Name Pepperoni Chub
- Poofy Crust
- Sticky Colander
- Cracker McSwatt
I’m sure Nate will try to veto some all of these names, but I shall prevail!
Puff Daddy
Pepper very readily puffs her tail if she’s startled, more so than any other cat I’ve seen. Sometimes she puffs at us when she’s in play mode and sometimes she puffs at us if we’re down the hall and she doesn’t know who we are.
Example: here she is after seeing Nate at the end of the hallway and not knowing who he was immediately.
Look at how fat that tail is! She’s such a sweetie.
Some Pepp
Have some more pictures of Pepper, because she’s always either a) in a gorgeous pose or b) in a weird pose and both are equally great.
That thing on the left is her tail, not her other leg.
Where’s Pepper??
Aww.
She’s so pretty.
She’s so weird.
Up on the fridge.
More posing.
Is it time for more Pepper pictures?
Yes.
Yes it is.
Enjoy.
Big yawn!
Snooze time.
Sneaking in my laundry pile, haha.
Hiding.
Pretty girl!
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