Weekend Open Thread

Welcome to the Caturday open thread! Today’s visitor is Squirt, a stray cat getting love and care from reader Tara O., who adds: “He has been a stray in my yard for a few weeks now. He’s a little scared but very friendly, food motivated, and knows I will feed him and give him skritches.”

a tuxedo cat, black with white chest, looks at you.
To be clear, I am also skritches motivated.
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Orange, Make it a Double

It’s two-for-one day at The Girl with the Dogs as a pair of orange sisters come in for a bath and comb-out, in this video found by reader Sharon G.

orange cat meows
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Yawning for Puppies

While it may appear simple and spontaneous, yawning is a complex skill that requires practice to achieve mastery. In this guide you will learn the three steps of the basic puppy yawn:

Step One: Preparation — Allow your body to become limp and sleepy. Clear your mind of thoughts, if you happen to have any.

puppy with cream colored fur sits in the grass, looking sleepy. A fly is underneath its left eye
Pay no attention to that fly.

Step Two: Initiate the Yawn — Extend tongue forward. Take care at this step that tongue does not trail onto ground.

puppy with cream colored fur sits in the grass, extending its tongue at the start of a yawn
AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Step Three: Follow Through — While withdrawing your tongue, open your mouth wide as if about to eat a giant cheeseburger. Curling the tongue at this step adds an extra flourish.

puppy with cream colored fur sits in the grass, yawning
And now you’re yawning just looking at this.

30095: Puppy yawn part 3, by Panegyrics of Granovetter, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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Links: They Grow Up So Fast

Side by side photographs of cat as kitten and full grown cat

And finally: Monkey Business

Dana D. found this funny forest meeting.

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