Aby-a-Day – April 28: Jake the therapy cat

It’s been a while since Jacoby and I have done any Pet Partners visits, and that’s mainly due to my having surgery last August. But that doesn’t mean Jake isn’t therapeutic!

I stayed home sick one day this week with an attack of vertigo, and when I woke up from a nap, this was the first thing I saw.

Jake had cuddled up against my stomach to help me feel better! I had to carefully reach for my iPhone to get a photo without disturbing him, so this is a very close close-up shot!

To orient yourself in the photo, the burgundy and blue-and-white-flowered comforters are to the left. I’m on top of the comforters, and the black at the upper right is what would be my lap if I were sitting up.

The one thing I wish I’d been able to capture is the cute little stretch/hugging his back legs thing he did when I woke up and petted him.

Aby-a-Day – April 26: Sound asleep

Angel’s most favourite place to sleep, as I’ve mentioned many times before, is in front of our large flat-screen TV.

Which I get. I mean, it makes total sense: it’s warm, it’s right where we’re always looking so she feels safe from sneak Tessie attacks, and she’s literally basking in our attention.

But, depending on what we’re watching, it’s loud. I’m always impressed that she can crash out so completely in such a noisy place!

Aby-a-Day – April 25: Wordless Wednesday (Draw Something!)

Aby-a-Day – April 21: King of the bed

This big leopard-print bed was a Christmas present for all the cats. And it’s big enough to fit two, if not three, cats.

And on his birthday, Jacoby got the bed all to himself.

Although, he didn’t seem to like me taking photos of him in it.

He bore the attention well…

…although, clearly, I was keeping him awake.

And…dismissed!

Aby-a-Day – April 16: Go me, it’s my birthday (Hipstamatic Monday)

Jacoby spent a lot of his birthday on Saturday parked in the big cat bed.

The cat bed, of course, happened to be in a really great sunbeam.

And Jake’s pretty sure that that sunbeam was just for him.

I’m the birthday boy, and this is all for me!

Aby-a-Day – February 6: Stuck in the middle (Hipstamatic Monday)

Jacoby, as the youngest cat in our household and the only boycat in a house full of girlcats, is just a tiny bit spoiled.

For example, he tends to command the best sleeping places.

And he gets mothered a bit, especially by Tessie, who’s the oldest (as well as the only cat who has had kittens of her own).

Carol at the post office always says that, in her next life, she wants to come back as Jake. I’d have to agree with her on that one!

Aby-a-Day – February 3: Sleep, that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care (Friday Flashback)

The post I made last week reminded me of the first weekend I had Jacoby. Even though he’d only just met me, and we didn’t choose each other, he crashed out next to me for a nap.

Considering his brother, Gun-Hee, seemed to never sleep at all, it was a wonderful and precious thing to me that Jake felt happy enough to nap with me like that.

And it’s even nicer when he does it today. Not only did Gun-Hee never sleep (we think it’s because he knew, somehow, he would have a short life and he wanted to make the most of the time he had), but, until he got sick at the end, he never slept on the bed with us. Jake, however, is always there when I wake up in the morning.

I love it. I’m not, by any stretch of the most imaginative imaginations, a morning person…but he helps.

Aby-a-Day – January 4: Wordless Wednesday (Strange Bedfellows)

Aby-a-Day – January 1: We’ll get right on those resolutions… tomorrow.

The tree is not long for our living room. I thought about taking it down today actually.

I think Jacoby knew what I had in mind. He camped out in the red Christmas box I’ve been using for storage (and he’s been using as a fort/Santa trap).

All day.

And I do mean all day.

He stayed in that box from early afternoon until dinner time.

And I even had to wake him up to eat!

Kylie was also camping out under the tree today, in the new leopard bed the cats got for Christmas

(When I saw the patch with the grey, golden and white kitties on it…well, I had to get it for them)

So, okay. We’ll take down Mr. Tree and put him back in the tree bag…tomorrow.

Aby-a-Day – December 15: The days are getting shorter, and the nights are getting colder…

…and Jacoby is starting to steal my Snuggie…

Lucky for me he’s (usually) happy to share!

Aby-a-Day – December 5: Who says Abys aren’t lap cats? (Hipstamatic Monday)

Almost every description you read about the Abyssinian breed says Abyssinians “love people and want to be involved in everything they do, but they are not lap cats.”

Jacoby wishes to dispute this.

He also wishes to inform the world that Abys cannot be catagorised.

There’s absolutely no shame in being a lap cat, he maintains.

Especially if the lap in question has recently had a laptop computer on it, and is subsequently nice and warm.

Aby-a-Day – October 16: Napping spots is srs bsns

We have two identical black wooden cat trees from Petco. Being, as I said, identical, they each have an identical little cubbyhole at the bottom for kitties to nap in.

Or perhaps I should say apparently identical cubbyholes, because for whatever reason, the cats only want to sleep in the cat tree cubby on the left-hand side.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in the cubby on the right-hand side.

Even though they are, as I have said, identical.

I guess identical is in the eye of the beholder.

Aby-a-Day – October 1: Bunny paws!

Angel’s most favourite place to sleep is on the pillow nearest the lamp in the bedroom.

Look! Bunny paws!

You think she’s asleep…but she’s got her eye on me.

“Okay, Mom…what?”

Nothing earthshattering, just a little dose of kitteh bunny paws today.

Aby-a-Day – August 29: A Summer Nap (Hipstamatic Monday)

I happened to catch Jacoby in a nap one afternoon.

He wasn’t exactly thrilled with my snapping photos of him while he was trying to sleep.

Hrmph…

“Trying to nap, here, Mom! At least put the thing on ‘Silent,’ okay?”

Now with twice the cranky face!

Aby-a-Day – July 5: There’s nothing like kicking back under a tree on a summer afternoon…

There’s nothing quite like kicking back under a tree on a summer afternoon…

…or, in Angel’s case, there’s nothing quite like using a tree as a pillow on a summer afternoon.

Aby-a-Day – June 25: I enjoy being a boy

One problem with being the only boycat in a house full of females is…there’s a lot of pink kitty things about the place.

Somehow, Jacoby manages to cope.

Aby-a-Day – June 12: The lamp of luxury

Angel and Kylie eat their dinner in the bedroom behind a closed door to prevent Jacoby from eating their food. This also gives Angel a chance to use the litterbox without having to worry that Tessie is lurking just outside waiting to pounce on her.

However, she also loves napping on the bed in the spot warmed by the bedside lamp. It’s a halogen light, so it’s small, but it’s toasty!

Aby-a-Day – May 23: Basking in the sun (Hipstamatic Monday)

This photo was taken at the same time as this Wordless Wednesday photo from a few weeks ago. I love the way Hipstamatic magnifies the sunbeams!

I like to think this is how cats see sunbeams, which is why they’re so good at finding them.

Aby-a-Day – May 9: Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care…(Hipstamatic Monday)

Jacoby and Tessie are the two cats who sleep cuddled together the most.

Kylie and Angel both tend to sleep on their own, Angel especially. Jake and Tessie are also the two who sleep with us on the bed or the sofa, often touching us with a paw to make sure we’re there.

You can’t get more relaxed than this!

Aby-a-Day – April 13: Wordless Wednesday (Sunny girl)