Spinning Cats

Introducing, the fine and noble sport of cat-spinning. It is a performance-oriented team sport, consisting of the cat, who spins, and the facilitator, who assists in the spinning motion.

There are multiple subsets of rules. The two main versions are known as the "chair" version, and the "floor" version.

Zayna as the cat and a human of her choice as the facilitator are demonstrating these two versions in the video below.

Zayna has all the features of a champion cat for cat-spinning. Two of those enviable qualities are long fur to reduce floor friction for the floor type of cat-spinning and the ability to attract a qualified facilitator.

As not one of the top cat-spinning players myself, I am hardly qualified to judge the performance, but from my humble view, I would give this team an 8. They do very well at keeping the spin, but the motions are somewhat jerky. More fluidity could catapult this team straight to the pinnacle of the cat-spinning world.


---Muon

Visitors

Aunt E is away for a while, so the kitties that live with her came to stay with me and my humans.

Turns out they're not so bad after all. They get in trouble too! They've been eating a plant and throwing it up. I never do that.

Here are the kitties:

Bestest friends... to each other

The one on the left is Zayna and the one on the right is Samira. They get fed on the table. I am not allowed to eat their food.

They brought some beds with them, but since they prefer to sleep on chairs, I get to use the bed

just the right size!

I like the kitty bed because it is poofy and soft and has nice edges to keep me cuddled in during my naps. I think I'll have my humans get me one of these for my own.

They'll be visiting for a little while, so I hope to have more pictures to show you.


--- Muon

Hunter extraordinaire

As you might recall, I like squirrels. For chasing.

As you also might recall, I am not allowed to chase squirrels, and instead I have squirrel toys to play with inside.

I am very good at catching the toy squirrels, and I am very thorough about killing them and ripping them limb from limb.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. Rawwrrrrgh. 

I make sure every single piece of squirrel inside is out of its skin. And that none of those squirrel insides have anything inside them either. 

Call me a reverse-taxidermist.

What's that? Fluff you say?

And, since I am such a mighty hunter, I will go rampaging about the house with entrails dripping from my mouth.

Let this be a warning to all squirrels, toy or otherwise who might invade my territory!


---Muon

A day in the life

Sometimes, life doesn't go as you plan.
Sometimes, bad things happen.

I stepped in some poop yesterday. Some dogs just don't teach their humans how to clean up properly. It's not that hard! Have them bring a plastic bag. They have opposable thumbs, they shouldn't have much trouble.

So I was in the house with stinky stinky poo on my foot. My humans were NOT happy. They said that it needed to be cleaned off ASAP.

Cleaned?  I don't like the sound of that.

As you may know, this cleaning thing involves water. And not water for drinking. Water you intentionally put on the outside of your body. Not a good idea.

The humans took me into the evil room and I was not happy. The evil room is where the shower is and I get all wet. I do not like the shower and I do not like the evil room.

Fortunately though, they didn't get me all wet. Just my foot. That's not so bad. And cleaned it and cleaned it and cleaned it so it stopped smelling. It looked just like when I lick my feet. I don't really understand why I'm not supposed to lick my feet when they do the same thing.

I suppose my humans are not too bad. They pick up after me and feed me, as well as putting me in the evil room. And they didn't even give me a shower this time.

Be sure to tell all of your humans to do their job of cleaning! Remember, they have thumbs.

---Muon

Squirrels and toys

I really like squirrels. They are fluffy and speedy and bouncy. Unfortunately, they often run up trees where I can't get them. I can only get my front paws on a tree. Someday I'll catch a squirrel.

In the meantime, I have some squirrel-like toys.

Caught this one!

It's fun to play with my humans with the squirrel toys. I can catch them and pretend they are real squirrels. And eat them.

Mmm. Fake squirrel guts.

Well, I don't really eat them. But I can pretend to kill them and rip them apart. Then I can play tug with the fake squirrel skin!

I hope you have some toys you like!

---Muon

P.S. I noticed that many people were looking at information about Japan or rocks and came over here to check out my blog. And a few stayed.

Hi everybody! Yes, I'm a dog. I'm glad some of you are both humanitarians and dog lovers.

Sweater

Human #1 made me a sweater.

While I can make ANYTHING look good, this may not be the best.

She's very silly. I never get cold. I have my own sweater. But she made it, so I wore it to show you.

Here is the front:

I appreciate the thought, but  not the product.

And here is the back:

Aunt E is trying to pet me.

Not only is the sweater silly-looking, I can't get petted very well, because it gets in the way. Aunt E was nice, eventually, and helped me get it off.

Awkward!

I hope my human appreciates how much I love her. I let her put on the sweater, and even take pictures to show you. And I still cuddle her.

I don't know how humans can stand to wear clothing!

---Muon

Wrestling

More puppy playdate update!

Pika turned into a zombie and started to try to eat my brains.

So I had to fight her off so she wouldn't harm my humans.

I am very fast and strong.

And my ears look funny.

Eventually, I subdued her. We continued wresting, but dit it while lying down.

Don't worry! Pika stopped being a zombie and my humans were safe.

No puppies were harmed in the making of this message.

---Muon