Uh, dude...

[moominmolly]

This evening, as dilletante and I came home, I opened the door to the bedroom to see Rory lounging on the bed, fully alert, with his paw on my credit card. As the door opened, he glanced at me, retracted his paw under his chest, and yawned a GIGANTIC FAKE YAWN.

"No, I totally wasn't buying things on the internet! Whoooo, I'm tired. Look at the time."

We looked over a few minutes later and he'd stretched his front paws waaaaay out, the picture of stretchy cat laziness.

I'm not buying it. I think he's building a rocket again.

Comments

this really has nothing to do with your post whatsoever

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

...and yet, it is still necessary.

Re: this really has nothing to do with your post whatsoever

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

i can see the need, yes.

Oh really?

[spike.livejournal.com]

You really think that's more necessary than either of these?

   

From piratedan:

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Beasties!

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

I love this game. :)

Re: Beasties!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

that -- those things in his mouth -- he -- *dies*

Re: Tarsiers and lemurs and monkeys -- oh my!

[spike.livejournal.com]

Er...

Re: Tarsiers and lemurs and monkeys -- oh my!

[catling.livejournal.com]

Re: Tarsiers and lemurs and monkeys -- oh my!

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Aye Aye Cap'n

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Re: Aye Aye Cap'n

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. :)

Re: this really has nothing to do with your post whatsoever

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

OMG so cute!

Is that from the new penguin movie that's coming out? Or is there just gratuitouslycutepenguins.com out there and I'm missing it?

Re: this really has nothing to do with your post whatsoever

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's a production still from the movie.

FUZZY

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I like the one in the middle with the hands-on-hips gesture, looking up at the tall "LOOK AT MY BELLY!" penguin with mild disgust.

[rosefox]

We set up new bookshelves today. They're a bit wobbly, and when the cats went to investigate them, they looked exactly like a couple dubiously exploring an apartment that their realtor has assured them is Just What They Want. Sam in particular was clearly thinking "And why exactly did the previous occupants move out?", sitting right in the middle of the shelf and looking around as Java sniffed suspiciously at a bracket. It's amazing how much expression you can get on a face covered with fur.

[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

Obviously, Spooky isn't the only naughty kitten trying to buy WMD on the internet.

You have *no* idea how surprised I was when a box of yellow cake showed up from Amazon. I didn't even know you could get Uranium from Amazon.

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

"My little brother? He's building a spaceship out of household parts. You know, vacuum cleaners and blenders and stuff. That thing's probably going to work; I can't get that out of the driveway."--John Cusack, in Better Off Dead

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Marty: You don't know my cat. It's very demanding.
Debi: "It"? You don't know if it's a boy or a girl?
Marty: I respect its privacy.
- Grosse Pointe Blank

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

two of my favorite maggiecat expressions:

1) the "guilty cat" look -- a variant on the "who, me?" that it sounds like rory gave you...

2) "velociraptoring" -- the sort of slight head tilt to the right... followed by a slight head tilt to the left... followed by an experimental paw reaching out to gently bat at the item in question while the nose sniffs the air lightly, considering all of the possibilities available before settling on any single one...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm not buying it. I think he's building a rocket again.

BWAH-HAH-HAHAHAHA!!!

That's great. I had to show this post to Jonathan...

Secret photos of the cat-rocket conspiracy in "action"!

[spike.livejournal.com]

     

Re: Secret photos of the cat-rocket conspiracy in "action"!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

Re: Secret photos of the cat-rocket conspiracy in "action"!

[spike.livejournal.com]

   

Re: Secret photos of the cat-rocket conspiracy in "action"!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

The cats need rockets to defend the earth against the Invisible Space Ghosts.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

That explains SO MUCH.

[nacht_musik]

Are you sure it's not just so they can go to the moon?

I mean, Mars has Burroughs' unchaste princesses, so with all that cheese on the moon, you just know there have got to be unchased mice there!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I always figured it was somewhere between boredom and spite. He leads a secret inner life. I know it.

Rory's not much for chasing mice, even when they're twitching in the kitchen with injured legs squeaking for help. Apparently.

[nitouche.livejournal.com]

Although Rory does get mentioned on Doby's Body Count Page (http://www.wiznet.ca/~ambedian/bodycount.html) (ok, I've been *really bad* about updating this...).

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is the cutest thing. :)

Rory's definitely caught many a mouse in his day -- he just had the aforementioned run-in with a mouse in the past year, followed by looking me in the face and meowing for food, since his dry food wasn't properly heaped into a little mound in his dish. Oh! You poor dear!

How are you doing these days?

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

But the invisible space ghosts are between the cats and the moon, you see. Thus the eternal enmity.

[spike.livejournal.com]

or maybe... (http://www.bangingtunes.com/tellafriend/cd/tipwcd036/)

[vimnelius.livejournal.com]

The cats need rockets to defend the earth against the Invisible Space Ghosts.

Exactly! They've finally figured out that jumping 3 feet up the wall and then scurrying down the hallway doesn't do a ThING against invisible space ghosts!

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

i love you XD

and i love rory. my kitty is just a lazy lump. i don't think he even considers rocket-building as a viable career option.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

I used to own a cat that I was convinced was attempting to learn to use the can opener. I came home one day to find the cat up on the kitchen counter. He'd managed to paw one of the cabinets open, knock down the can opener, and a can of cat food. He appeared to be studying them! As is, "Well I know this plus this equals food. I just need to figure out how to make them work for me."

[rule30.livejournal.com]

oh man.

the onslaught of baby animal pictures has cracked my resolve.

it may finally be time to adopt a pair of kittens.

can anyone recommend a good, responsible kitten source (can these be ordered from Amazon, too)? non-starter: an agency that stipulates cats will be kept indoors-only as a requirement for adoption approval.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

kitten source! I want to stand under that faucet and photograph them as they drip out.

I don't know of any, but I will ask around for you.

[catling.livejournal.com]

You absolutely can not trust a cat with a credit card. Check your statement!