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Caturday: No No No No CAT!

by 1389AD ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Open thread at October 8th, 2011 - 12:00 pm

Uploaded by MrDron059 on Sep 28, 2011

My Cat of “Marchionesses” the first time has seen a daughter of my friend and so has cried.
It is more so never shouted for all 11 years of his life.

When my cat makes noises like that, he’s suffering from hairballs and is trying to cough them up.

Either that, or he’s thinking: “Obama is stammering his way through that same speech AGAIN?”

More cats here:


Caturday Visits Japan: Custom Cat-Friendly Home

by 1389AD ( 24 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Japan, Open thread at September 24th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

A Purrfect House for Cats

Taishido House, interior views

Does it make sense to design homes to cater to the enjoyment of cat and dog pet owners? Several design firms are grabbing the pet-friendly home idea by the tail and running with it.

The demand is there, at least in Japan, claims Fauna Plus DeSIGN and its director, Keiji Hirose, a firm known for designing a custom home for 16 cats. The heart of the home features a cat-climbing tree that serves as a spiral staircase leading up to a catwalk on the second floor of the unit.

The catwalk forms a zigzag design and can also be accessed via steps that protrude from the wall, similar to House Taishido’s shelves. Several of the steps are next to small holes in the walls that lead to other rooms.

Does it make sense to design homes to cater to the enjoyment of cat and dog pet owners? Several design firms are grabbing the pet-friendly home idea by the tail and running with it.

The demand is there, at least in Japan, claims Fauna Plus DeSIGN and its director, Keiji Hirose, a firm known for designing a custom home for 16 cats. The heart of the home features a cat-climbing tree that serves as a spiral staircase leading up to a catwalk on the second floor of the unit.

The catwalk forms a zigzag design and can also be accessed via steps that protrude from the wall, similar to House Taishido’s shelves. Several of the steps are next to small holes in the walls that lead to other rooms.

Other cat-friendly features of that home include:

  • a cat-accessible loft that features skylights and windows;
  • a multistage cube of shelves with cat beds; and
  • a floor-to-ceiling scratching post column, wrapped in hemp rope.

According to Fauna Plus DeSIGN estimates, the cost to design a two-story, detached wooden home built to cat specifications ranges from 3.2 million yen (about $42,000 in U.S. dollars) for a 20-square-meter space (about 215 square feet) — on up to 13 percent of the total construction costs for a space measuring more than 50 square meters (about 538 square feet), the company reports.

Cats on stairs in Taishido House

If 16 cats weren’t enough, the residence also houses five dogs, which are separated from the cats via a glass door. To house the dogs and allow them outside access, Fauna designed a rooftop garden.

Read the rest.

More details and photos at InmanNEWS.

Taishido House, exterior view


Every Day Is Caturday

by 1389AD ( 85 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Open thread at September 3rd, 2011 - 3:14 pm

The good people at Blogmocracy have run into some scheduling issues from time to time, such that last week’s Caturday post ran on Sunday evening. No problem. El Gato and La Gata have decreed, by imperial edict, that henceforth, every day shall be Caturday.

Every Day Is Caturday

Because cats are always right and every day is Caturday

Whoah!! it Caturday?

Because Every Day Needs to be Caturday

a public defender says:

If you don’t enjoy this, g**dammit, you have no heart. Monster.

Herding Cats


From the YouTube description:

Uploaded by IKEAcats on Sep 9, 2010
A look behind the experiment of IKEA UK’s release of 100 house cats into its Wembley store in the UK. Join us on Facebook http://facebook.com/ikeacats
Look at the finished advert/commercial here http://youtu.be/Z7vXP3tHzhA
To celebrate the new IKEA catalogue IKEA have released a feline friendly Cat-alogue, which can be seen at http://ikeacat-alogue.co.uk/

Also see:


Caturday Sunday Evening Edition: Cats in Motion

by 1389AD ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Open thread, Russia at August 28th, 2011 - 7:30 pm

Caturday: cat under blanketIt’s that day again…

The 1389 Blog team, myself included, has been putting up some grim fare on the blog lately, on the topic of man’s inhumanity to man. Some of it is too over-the-top horrifying to re-post on Blogmocracy. It has to be fully documented with photos, videos and eyewitness narratives, because nobody would believe it otherwise.

The dog ate my homeworkSuffice it to say that this effort has not put me into much of a mindset to do the usual Caturday post. I know what kind of nightmares I can expect to have tonight. I was tempted to claim that the dog ate my homework, and just let Caturday go for the week, but thought better of it on the grounds that we really need to lighten things up a bit.

This cat must have heard the can opener

At least I did tear myself away from the computer long enough to feed El Gato and La Gata. No, unlike the white cat gracefully rolling off the table, they don’t come running at the sound of an electric can opener, mainly because we live in a motorhome and have no room for such things. There’s no point in spending money on bulky motorized tools for tasks I can perform just as easily by hand. And nearly all cat food cans these days have pull-tab tops anyway.

How to put your cat in reverseThis animated .gif shows flagrant misuse of office supplies to torment an unfortunate kitty. This kitty may start looking for ways to make the human’s office supplies disappear.

Just sayin’.
 
 

Dog pounces on cat, cat chases dog
 
In this B&W .gif, the dog pounces on the cat, and the cat chases him down the road. It’s just some harmless play-fighting; good exercise for feline and canine friends. This is a mother dog who is feeding a nest of puppies somewhere; maybe she needs a break!
 
Orange cat runs on hind legs
 
From a Russian site:

Watch this fluffy orange cat run on his hind legs!
 
Cat runs between sheet and mattress

Have you ever changed your bed linens, only to find that your cat has gotten between your mattress and your fitted sheet? This is how it looks like from the cat’s perspective!