Where the punks be!
Here are some pictures of Tulip’s new presents from Jan. Kitty is enjoying some fresh catnip and her catnip-filled chicken and ball. She has been batting these all over the house for the past couple of days. I’d say they’re a hit. Thanks, Jan!
I especially like this one. I can’t believe I caught her at a full gallop down the hallway after her ball. She chases this thing at top speed at all times. So far there haven’t been any crashing-into-the-wall incidents.
Here’s Tulip kitty telling Evie what to post on her blog. All posts must be approved by Miss Tulip before submission.
Here’s Tulip kitty having a taste of her tiger toy. I’m not the only thing she likes to bite.
On a side note, Ray and Jan arrived last night. They stopped by for a quick visit before heading off to the next county for a hotel room (long story). Tulip actually decided to come out and investigate soon after they arrived. I was quite surprised. She ended up hiding under the bed after that, but she’s definitely getting braver. We’ll see how things go when they come back.
Just for fun, I decided to find out what the American Sign Language sign for tiger is. Judging from this picture, I guess this guy has heard about Tulip kitty.
The picture came from ASL University.
Tulip kitty has quite a knack for kicking up a sandstorm in the bathroom. She’s really quite clean, but gets a little overzealous when covering up the business in her litterbox. Here’s a bit of her handiwork that I woke up to the other morning:
The area in our bathroom where the litterbox will fit is quite small. We actually bought a larger litterbox with higher walls, but it doesn’t fit in there next to the toilet. Eve had the brilliat idea of using an old kitchen dish pan instead:
As you can see, Tulip aproves! There’s considerably less sweeping going on these days.
Here’s the picture of Tulip kitty snuggling with Wyatt Bear from the other morning.
Too bad this one’s a little blurry. It’s next to impossible to take a good photo of Tulip because she doesn’t hold still for one second. I still thought it was pretty cute though.
This is one of her favorite spots to sit, in between the couch and the wall. She sits there and peeks out when there’s a lot of commotion going on. I think she thinks that she’s hiding there. Often when we come home she’ll sit there until she’s sure who’s coming into the house. We see you, kitty!
Tulip loves her new string-on-a-stick toy so much, that’s all she wants to do! I’ll walk around the house with it dragging behind me and she follows me all around chasing after it. In fact, I’m apparently known as the String Lady now. Even when I don’t have the string she still follows me around, running around my legs looking for it. Invisible string! At least she’s getting some exercise.
It’s become the new routine to play this game right before bed. She’s so interested in playing with it that she’ll chase it up onto the bed. Eventually she’ll get tired and flop over and go to sleep. Everybody wins!
When I left for work yesterday I left the string on top of the kitchen table. I purposely left all the chairs pushed in all the way so she wouldn’t get up there and get the string. When I came home, the string was next to her scratching post. Are you sure she’s blind?
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out “tiger hunting”. Tiger hunting was really just taking a walk out in the woods behind our house. But when I was 5 I thought we might actually catch a tiger one day. It was one of my favorite things to do with my dad. I even drew a picture of us tiger hunting and brought it to show-and-tell when I was in the first grade. I told my teacher that we went tiger hunting almost every weekend. My teacher told me she didn’t believe that my dad really took me tiger hunting. I was SO upset I went home and told my dad about it. He told me to tell my teacher to “go flap her ears”. Amazingly, I never did! 
Well, dad, it took me 39 years, but I finally caught a tiger. Yeah and, Miss Cassidy? Go flap your ears.
