It’s a quiet afternoon at Casa Maru. Hana and Kitten Miri play between naps, and all Maru wants is to sit in his plastic bowl. But when Hana gets close, things take a turn.
As the Maru Turns
Kittens
Weekend Open Thread
Let’s start our Caturday by wishing a happy birthday to Storm, who turned four years old yesterday, says reader Georgiana Y.
Not to be upstaged, Storm’s sister Skye got into some mischief:
I had just come in from hanging out clothes and I left the empty basket on the kitchen stools to get a drink of water and when I turned back Skye had claimed the basket as her own. I guess it’s Skye’s basket now!
Links: Let Sleeping Cats Lie
Some things are best LEFT unstudied.
Scientists Reveal Why Cats Always Sleep on Their Left Side
SciTechDaily, via A9
If someone doesn’t play “Flight of the Bumblebee” on this thing it’ll be a massive disappointment.
Bees have set up a hive inside this cello
Classic FM, via Elizabeth G.
Who are these people and why are they in my bookstore?
The event of the year? A ‘diva’ bookstore cat’s 10th birthday party
Los Angeles Times, via NTMTOM
This bandit will steal your heart! (And silverware.)
Wild Raccoon Acts Like A Puppy And Plays With Children
Cuddle Buddies / YouTube, via Karen F.
And finally: Jump Scare
Elizabeth G. found a cat who looks, then leaps.
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Itchy and Scratchy
(How on earth do the humans manage to scratch themselves with these things? Can’t they use their back legs like nature intended?)
