Thursday, December 21, 2017

Starbaby



An important distinction in our house is that I'm chair of the dog committee (Teddy) and Dennis is the chair of the cat committee (George, Starbaby).

All of our current pets are, like us, senior citizens.

George is a large white cat.  We don't know how old he is but getting towards 20 years old.  He's not a starter cat, as Dennis says.  But he is very devoted to Dennis, likes to lay on his chest in the evening.  He's not completely tamed.  I just tell everybody "This is George, he bites."  Only who he knows, Dennis maintains; he has some impulse control issues.

Starbaby, pictured above, a long haired tabby is in her mid-teens somewhere.  She is, goes without saying, empress of all she surveys.  As Ilana says, you can't control this cat, you can't tell her, she doesn't even take suggestions.  Only if it's my idea, she harumphs.  She's little with a huge tail which you can't really see in this photo.  Dennis says "Take away the fluff, the tail, the eyes and the attitude, and there's not much else left.

Usually I feature her only as a sunbathing partner for Teddy but she has her own separate important life.  She does like to play with Teddy, to wrestle with him.  Her favorite setup is she is in a desk chair and he's on the ground.  He 'chews her up' and twirls her around.  If he gets to annoying, she whacks him.

She originally was Naomi's cat and she makes sure that she extra nasty ignoring Naomi when she comes around.

My rules with her are 'no rubbing, no drooling."

2 comments:

Matt Asay said...

I really liked this post. Great verbal images and colorful turns of phrase.

We are still alive, but unfortunately we may be continuing our tradition of NOT getting out our holiday missive (at least on time). One of these years…

azure said...

We are also still making it. Just put on a latke chanukah (ok, I know it's over) for nine. We had enough food but just barely. The group gobbled up the potato pancakes, brisket, sour cream and applesauce. Look forward to hearing from you!