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Us: What was that on your neck?
Mat: What?
Us: A black dot, like an insect. Was that a louse?
Mat: I do not have lice.
Us: It hid in your fur! (Fur inspection)
Mat: I do not have lice.
Us: How can you have lice? We applied the spot-on treatment to all you cats a month ago. And you didn’t have lice then.
Mat: I do not have lice. You are imagining things.
Us: It could be sucking your blood! Do you feel ill?
Mat: Well I am hungry.
Us: No, you’re not. You ate five minutes ago.
Mat: Maybe the lice consumed all the nutrients so I need more food.
Us: You’re not hungry.
Mat: I am if I have lice.
(Unscheduled grooming of all feline residents follows. No lice detected.)

Reminder: It’s summer, time to give the animals their anti-tick thingies.

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Our cats are generally well-behaved (lazy) unless they know we’re bringing them to the vet, whereupon they howl and act like they’re being kidnapped. But sometimes we’re awakened at 5am by a massive ball of fluff landing on us. Wild rumpus! They’re chasing each other across the house, screeching and air-fighting (where they make like they’re scratching each other but don’t make actual contact). Our house turns into Where The Wild Things Are. (Not to be confused with Lord of the Flies, which they do sometimes when we’re away for more than a week.)

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Brilliant site: Des Hommes et des Chatons. Male models vs. Cats!

Verdict: The cat has the more intellectual expression. Also, he’s reading words and the guy is looking at pictures.

As described. via Boingboing.

From our friend Tina:

There will be a Glimpse into Zen seminar from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, at the Full Circle zen meditation center in the Good Shepherd Convent compound in Quezon City, near the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Katipunan Avenue.

The green entrance gate of the Good Shepherd compound at 1043 Aurora Boulevard is between the LRT-Katipunan underground station and the multi-story Aurora Milestone. Glimpse Into Zen will be held on the second floor of the building just inside the Good Shepherd gate. There is a secure parking lot located further within the grounds.

For more information or to register for the seminar, leave your name and number in Comments (it won’t be published) and we’ll forward the information to the organizers.

Read Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss and What It Means To Be Human. Thanks, Ige!

On this day fourteen years ago, we were adopted by a skinny ginger cat. Her feline name being unpronounceable to humans, we named her after the imaginary friend of Deedee from Dexter’s Laboratory, a regal Tolkien character, our favorite tennis player at the time, and our favorite late-night show host: Koosi Galadriel Ivanisevic-O’Brien. Today she rules our household with an iron paw. You think the Lannisters are imperious? Happy Birthday, Koosi!

When she is not busy opening presents, Her Mightiness Koosi will deign to answer your questions about your future. (Not the nation’s future or the world’s, just yours.) Post them in Comments and check back after a few hours.

Mat says, “Please don’t throw out the cats. I was a stray cat and we don’t just walk up to humans and bite them. Yucch, humans are full of diseases, gross.”

Update on the Polo Club cats story:

The Manila Polo Club has declared a two-week moratorium on rounding up cats and taking them to the city pound.

Club president Roman Azanza met with concerned club members on the cat situation last Friday. The members proposed a feeding and vaccination program for the cats, which will be implemented in the next two weeks and presented to the club board on April 18.

The members will set up secluded feeding stations and water spray bottles for the cats, and put up “No Feeding of Cats” signs in the cogon. The cats living in the stables have their mothers looking after them.

We hope everything turns out well; we’ll have another update in two weeks.