"Mean Little Kitty"

Cuteness with an early rap beat.



Post #994.

Addendum: The Mean Kitty video channel is here. There are videos of Sparta and Loki, both of whom have birthdays celebrated on May 20th.

"Mean Little Kitty"

Awwww, cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

I've been a fan of Cute Overload for and the Daily Squee for pictures of adorable animals (and occasionally human babies).

But Ealasaid pointed something out to me that I have to add to the list: F-Yeah, Baby Animals!, which is pretty cute, too. It's even sorted by type of animal for that perfect cuteness fix.

Awwww, cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

Totally cute

Even though I'm a cat person, this puppy is incredibly cute. It's busy talking in its sleep.

Totally cute

Stinker the porcupine

It looks like it's the week for cute animal videos: here's a porcupine who thinks he's a dog, albeit a leetle pricklier.

Stinker the porcupine

There's a reason I'm diabetic...

...and it has a fair amount to do with really sweet, gloppy stuff like this:

Addendum: You might also check out CuteOverload.com, which defines the rules of cuteness and gives examples.

There's a reason I'm diabetic...

Cute things falling asleep

It has been one long week for many of us, and I'd like to suggest the following timewaster: Cute Things Falling Asleep. The domain name really says it all, but you have to actually look at the site to appreciate the "Awwwwwwww....!" factor. Here's an example:

Cute things falling asleep

My desk is a mess, but it's decorative

Bernie cattywhompus on desk

My desk is currently a colossal mess. There are all kinds of unpleasant stacks of paper from projects, from taxes, from mail that's stacked up while I finish the ms.... just everything! But Bernie makes it look pretty good and, if not cleaner, then certainly a little cuter.

My desk is a mess, but it's decorative

A different kind of computer game

Susan is using the other computer here in the office at the moment and she reminded me of something I want to mention here.  She's playing a game off of Orisinal.com (no, I've no idea what the word means).  Orisinal has a few dozen games that are... nice.  They're sweet.  Nothing gets killed, bashed, splattered, punched, kicked, or even yelled at.  The games are very gentle.  And they're fun!  The games have really good graphics and nice background music.  As an example, a recent addition to the list is "A Daily Cup of Tea," wherein you join two little mice in their quest of making a perfect afternoon tea. 

If you'd like something that's nice without being mawkish or cloying, try

Orisinal.com.

A different kind of computer game

The cats as kittens

I said that I couldn't sleep this morning and here's the proof. I went through a bunch of digital pictures I had in a general directory, sorted them, labeled them, and uploaded some of them to my Flickr photo directories. (BTW, I don't post everything on the blog by a long shot, but I store all the digital photos on Flickr, so if you've a hankering for more cat pix or STC photos or what-have-you, that's the place you should look.)

One of the photo sets that stood out as not having been posted before was a bunch of photos of Yin and Yang as kittens. Here's Susan holding both Yin and Yang together (Yin's the one with the dark paws, although it'd be more true to form by saying that Yang is the one who's asleep). 

Susan with Yin and Yang

Yang, you'll recall, is the one who lies on top of my monitor facing away from me with his tail and part of this gut lapping over the screen. In this picture, he was about 9 or 10 weeks old and could be held in one hand. (Actually, I can do that still, but it's quite a job making sure he doesn't lollop off to one side or another.)

Yang, the small but fierce

Yang has always been a cat who enjoyed sleeping. It's nature, not nurture.

Yang's apparent genetic predisposition

This predilection is in no wise disproved by this shot, either: Yin's the one who's awake. Yang is the one who's asleep.

Both kittens

Yang will wake up when the situation seems to require, but this picture with Susan's friend Marcie shows that he won't bestir himself until absolutely necessary.

Marcie and the kittens

I only found the one shot of either cat as a teenager, although I'm sure there are more somewhere. This is Yang at maybe 10-12 months. Note the firm muscles, the vigorous constitution, the glint in his... oh, screw it, he's lying down in this one, too.

The cats as kittens

Yang and Bo

Yang and Bo have been exceptionally cute lately, or, rather, Bo has been taking an active role in Way-Cute Cat Snuggling and Yang has been doing his level best to ignore everything he doesn't consider important.

Yang's normal place on top of the monitor has been in a little question lately, in large part because the Monsieur Tunabreath comes bounding up onto the desk at a gallop and doesn't really slow down to land on the monitor, resulting in a monitor that wobbles all over the place. Even worse, if there's another cat (such as BC) already there or if I was so silly as to have coffee on my desk, there's no telling what might happen. But even just sitting here typing and so on is completely distracted by 16 or 17 pounds of furry feline shooting across one's field of existence.

Yang has been periodically discouraged from these forays as a result, but he still feels he must be on the desk, so he's found a corner to curl up in. This corner is where all the debris has gotten shoved so it's pretty messy… On the other hand, if it weren't messy (that is, if there weren't paper calling to Yang to come lie down), I rather doubt he'd choose to lie there. (I should also add that, as I write this, Yang is curled up in the same spot and is once again snoring with rich and resonant tone.)

Anyway, Bo continues to follow Yang everywhere and do most of the things Yang is doing. This weekend, Bo's taken to curling up with Yang, something he hasn't done since he was a kitten. I lucked out and had the digicam right nearby when he did it.

Bo hugging Yang

I got off several shots and then Bo looked around to see what was happening.

What's that noise?

There was no giant foot trying to squash him, so Bo went back to sleep.

Must not be important

He stayed that way for quite a while.

Blissed out

Unfortunately, this happy and almost pastoral scene was not to last. Bo decided he'd slept enough and Yang should get up and play. Bo made his case for this rather directly.

"I'm tired of sleeping"

The upshot of Bo's method was that Yang grabbed Bo's head and started chewing on his ears, which is Yang's favorite method of dealing with Bo when he gets too out of hand. However, not too long after, the cats were once again at peace.

Yin-yang Yang Bo

(Note: Except for when he was being hassled by Bo, Yang stayed asleep through all of this, doing his famous "gob of sticky mud on a big, hot rock" imitation.)

Bo got to feeling so peaceful, he stretched out and moved around some.

Stretching just a little

Bo then relaxed and stayed asleep for some time. As you can tell by his posture, he's in REM sleep now. Or at least catatonic.

Now I'm completely comfortable!

Yang and Bo