With cold temperatures over the last few days, The Lovers, Grendel and Kako, took advantage of whatever sunlight they could find when they could find it. In this case, Kako got to it first and took the best spot, but Grendel wasn’t going to let his woman enjoy all that warmth by herself. That’s why you can see him hidden behind that JLo booty of hers (I hadn’t realized she could hide a whole cat back there!):
And for a slightly different perspective showing that the comfy spots miraculously were found only where the sun was shining through the windows:
As I’m wont to do, I crawled down on the floor and visited with The Kids. In fact, I do it that often if you hadn’t already noticed. But that’s not the point. I got on the floor the other day and tried snapping a few photos.
Oh, and I was playing with the camera settings again, although that seems terribly unwise with cats given their meandering ways and incessant desire to do the opposite of what I’d like them to do.
Anyway, I had the camera in macro mode while Kako sat beside me. She had been sitting still for a minute or more. I mean, is it odd that I thought she’d sit still for the second or two I needed to snap a photo?
Ha! What was I thinking…
I remained knelt on the floor and targeted the picture without actually seeing what I was looking at. I steadied the camera right in front of her thinking I would surely get a fantastic photograph to share with the world.
Right as I pressed the button, she leaned forward. Toward the camera.
She’s going to hurt me terribly for posting this. Oh well…
I found it rather entertaining that she came out looking like a wombat—or something.
Honestly, she doesn’t look like a wombat. She does, however, look like her head is made from a balloon.
Oh, darn. She’s soooo going to kick my butt for that remark. She checks up on my blogging, you know, to be sure I’ve not insulted her or sullied her pristine reputation.
Well, allow me to preemptively offer a slightly different macro photo of her where she leaned in toward the camera but didn’t come out looking like some bizarre genetic experiment gone awry (oh, mercy me! she’s already here and giving me the “you’re gonna pay for that” look… I’m doomed, I say…).
And one final shot from yet a different angle. I’m trying to win favors by making her look good. I don’t think it’s working.
I have to go now, poppets. I’m being told I must be tortured for my insolence. Like that ever works…
Remember this photo of Kako as a kitten attacking the camera strap while I tried to take a photo? Now it’s more than eight years later and she hasn’t changed one bit.
I sat on the bedroom floor the other day snapping photos of The Kids while we played and enjoyed lots of affection. At some point, I knelt down to get a picture of her while she stood right beside me. Ah, but did I think about the camera strap dangling like bait in front of her? Nope.
But she thought about it.
Just look at the predatory intent oozing from those eyes. And she’s trying to act all innocent like… as though she wasn’t thinking about doing precisely what I knew she was thinking about doing.
Then she struck with lightning speed and feline reflexes. Before I knew what had happened, she put the bitey on the strap while holding it ferociously with her claws.
That was the end of the photography session. She yanked the camera all over the place and made it impossible to get any more pictures.
Both Kako and Kazon had terrible infestations of ear mites when I first adopted them (among several other problems). The damage to their ears was so extensive at an early age that they now have sensitive ears. But Kako’s are more sensitive than Kazon’s. In fact, she often cries out in pain when she scratches her own ears, and watching her try to address an itch in either of them is akin to watching the torture of a defenseless animal. It just hurts.
The most I can do to alleviate that suffering is to keep them as clean as possible through regular douses with OtiCalm, an ear cleaning solution that gently breaks up buildup. This, as you can guess, is not a popular activity, but I know it’s best for them and helps circumvent unnecessary pain and discomfort.
One of the interesting things about their delicate ears is Kako’s eargasms. Although sticking her hind foot in them to scratch an itch is a sure way to elicit painful cries, the same is not true when it comes time to bathe. It feels sickly voyeuristic to watch her hit that just right position that rubs an ear in heavenly ways.
This is never more true than when she lies on the ground and starts bathing with her front paws. If you’ve ever seen a cat cleaning in this manner, you know they lick their paw before using it to clean their face, ears, and other body parts. With Kako, however, the truest joy comes from her head resting on the ground against one of her ears. Each time she licks her paw, she moves her head, and that in turn rubs her ear into the floor. That, poppets, is obviously one of the greater joys she can experience.
The funny thing is this: very little bathing takes place except for the paw she’s trying to use to clean herself. You see, she becomes so entranced with the eargasm that she ends up licking the paw ad infinitum without accomplishing much with it. Instead, she just keeps moving her head back and forth to work her ear against the ground.
I suppose she has the cleanest paws in town because of this. They get a good working over no matter what pieces and parts are skipped in favor of the eargasm.
And when she finally gets that paw working against an ear? Well, bliss ensues. Usually, her entire body gets into the writhing caused by her ecstasy.
That is what you will see in this video. I caught her lying in front of the fireplace as she began to take a bath. I simply turned the camera on and let it record what actually happened. I did stop it right at the end when she stood up to scratch the ear she’d been grinding into the ground. Knowing what that would cause, I saw no reason to record it.
Note that Loki makes a brief drive-by in the background near the beginning of the video as he makes his way to the cat castle off-screen to the left.
Kako‘s a poser. She likes lookin’ fine and sittin’ pretty, mainly because she knows she’s all that and a bag of catnip.
Sometimes, however, she’s not in the mood to pose. Like the photo below… I saw her sitting atop the kitchen cabinets, so I grabbed the camera and aimed. She saw me and immediately decided she didn’t want her picture taken.
