Comments on: Upholding the First Law of Cat Lounging

By: Jon H

Jon H — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:54:51 +0000

I look forward to the filmed version, “Requiem For A Nap”.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:34:50 +0000

Sorry, Randy. Linking to images on Flickr is just easier for me. But now you have something to look forward to when you get home!

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:30:37 +0000

This blog was so much better before my employer started blocking all images on flickr.

By: Essaytch

Essaytch — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:53:13 +0000

In conjunction with spreading out and taking up as much space as possible comes another rule: always lay ON TOP of something. Even if there is plenty of empty space on which to sprawl, the cat must lay on top of whatever is in the direct vicinity–books, laptops, magazines, stacks of mail, laundry (dirty or clean), gift wrapping, DVDs, remote controlls…you get the picture.

By: Paula Helm Murray

Paula Helm Murray — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:31 +0000

yep, she’d be missing in action before anyone can tip her. In fact most visitors, unless they spend the night or come over for watching TV catch any kind of glimpse of Yum.

On the other hand Sigfried always comes down to the door with me, like I always trained the dogs I had. (Well, when my folks had the BIG dogs – Great Danes – I taught both of them to step in front of mom, between a visitor and her, when she would go to the front door

By: Terry Weyna

Terry Weyna — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:30:20 +0000

In addition to the desk lounging, however, there is also the inverse law: when a cat is in her own space, she folds up into the smallest possible configuration, a tiny cylinder-like shape for sleep that exposes the least vulnerable amount of cat to the world. Of course, explosion to maximum cat-size is possible at the slightest disturbance.

By: Tully

Tully — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:59:05 +0000

Tully can attest that I do have one cat that, well, looks like she’s a holstein cat.

Coloration, yes. Size and tippability, no.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:18:32 +0000

To understand the beast you need to know just one thing; a cat is a practice baby.

By: AntiChang who is NOT Not Chang, nor Chang

AntiChang who is NOT Not Chang, nor Chang — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:42:53 +0000

CaseyL: LC is a boy, but neither of them is Scalzi’s first male cat. There was Rex who passed on a few years ago. Search the site for his name and learn how he now reposes in a real sarcophagus! (Plus, the kibble thing is just a running joke here. Scalzi has an encyclopedic knowledge of cat well-being. He and Rex were even name-checked in Cats for Dummies. Seriously.)

By: Paula Helm Murray

Paula Helm Murray — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0000

I love the kitty’s face, like mine, he’s got his own muckledy face (well except Angelina, she’s all gray, but has silver highlights in her fur, especially around her face).

Tully can attest that I do have one cat that, well, looks like she’s a holstein cat. She’s black and white, but the blotches are shaped like the cattle breed.

I fear you, like I, are pwned by our felines.