Poking fun at a television that pokes fun at hipster pop culture is so meta that it will soon be cool (but don’t over do it man).
Do you do that new thing that nobody else is doing but everyone will be talking about soon? Did you start a movement of any kind? Do you know about cats? If you answered any of these questions with any kind of answer at all then this video is for you. Continue reading
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And now, a few words from the Official Crasstalk Day Of MonkeyBiz Things Feline, Leonardo Da Catsi. Continue reading
Don’t think I wasn’t listening to your requests in the QOTD over the weekend. Oh yes. I planned this before I read it, but now it’s happening.
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Imagine you’re in Tokyo, where it’s overcrowded and overpriced and the stress is overwhelming and they won’t even let you keep a small pet in your minuscule apartment for crying out loud. Continue reading
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The apartment felt like a box, an old shoebox shoved under a bed and forgotten.
It was in a house that back in the day must have been a showpiece, long ago when the Merrimack River powered the mills that employed thousands, and when the mill owners lived on the hills, like this one, looking down on their anthills. Lawrence, Massachusetts, was never an easy town. It was always a city of blue collars and dive bars and shady, desperate characters. But now the mills were closed, the river was choked with pollution, and Lawrence was known as the arson capitol of the nation. Continue reading
Your pets. They have names. If yours do not, name them immediately, because it’s really demoralizing not to have one. There’s a lot of armchair analysis of what your pets’ names say about you out there; in fact, Jezebel had an article on this topic just a couple days ago.
It made me think: Who are you to speculate on what pets’ names mean? Being “an unmarried lady who is heading full steam ahead toward age 30” as our intrepid Jez author is, doesn’t convince me of your bona fides. More to the point, the article itself really cemented my snap judgement of said qualifications.
The Reading Eagle reports that former nurse Claire Nelson was not feeling well one day last week when her normally quiet kitty, Rusty, became agitated and verbal. Nelson thought little of her discomfort and moved to lie down, but Rusty persisted and got his message through to her that all was not well. Nelson says she figured Rusty must know something she didn’t and so she called her doctor. While waiting for the bus, her pain worsened and she was forced to dial 9-1-1.
Now, a week later, the doctors tell her she suffered a heart attack while at home and has since undergone surgery to install two coronary stents. Nelson rescued Rusty in 2009 from The Humane Society, and this year Rusty returned the favor. Continue reading
Cat scratch fever! It’s a Motor City Madman song, a real disease (I’ve had it!), and a cliche way to start an article about cats and their scratching habits. Whether you have an adult cat that you would someday like to wean off your 15-year-old couch in hopes of getting a new one, or you’re adding a kitten to the family, knowing why they scratch and what you can do to ensure they use what you want them to use is a big issue. One option that isn’t on the table: Declawing. And we’ll talk about that too. Continue reading