As I’ve mentioned in the past, our building has a cart that residents can use to carry groceries and the like up to their apartments.
And as I’ve also mentioned, Jacoby loves to ride on this cart when I take it back to the storage closet after unloading it.
He gets on the cart when it’s still inside our place and just waits so he won’t miss his ride accidentally.
The faster I push it, the more he enjoys it.
He’s purring in this photo, just so you know.
“Faster, Mom! Faster!”
I just thought it would be fun to draw Jacoby running (and flopping!) in the hallway.
As you may recall, he does this…
(Click cartoon to embiggen, or you can view all cartoons in Slideshow mode on Flickr.)
Last Monday, I posted some photos of Jacoby running in the hallways of our building. But I left out the funniest part.
As I illustrated in last week’s cartoon, even better than running in the hallway, Jake loves to roll around in the hallway.
Just like I drew, he’ll be running along and then just suddenly flop onto his side.
I have to be careful if I’m running along with him; he actually stops so suddenly sometimes that I almost trip over him!
(This is actually a shot of him as he’s just about to flop)
And yes, sometimes he does that silly thing cats do on carpet: he pulls himself along on his side.
I have a theory as to why he does this. The house he was born in has carpeting. Our place has hardwood floors.
So I think that, for Jake, rolling around on the carpet is kind of like kneading; it reminds him of when he was a kitten.
Angel really does chase her tail on the top of the cat tree; I Tweeted a couple of these photos when it happened, but since I took them from a distance in poor light with my phone, they were pretty bad. So I drew them instead.
(Click cartoon to embiggen, or you can view all cartoons in Slideshow mode on Flickr.)
This is why I laugh every day…Jacoby is just so entertaining…and silly.
This was back before Christmas. Somehow, Jake got entangled in a plastic shopping bag while scouting the kitchen counter.
To add to the hilarity, Angel and Kylie were sitting on the cat tree, just watching his dilemma.
“Uh, guys…?”
“…A little help, here?”
“Fine. FINE. I’ll manage, thanks anyway.”
It finally dawned on me to get some video of this. I switched my camera over and let it run…for almost 12 minutes. This video is edited down, but as you watch it, remember that, in total, Jake was walking around wearing this silly bag for at least 15 minutes!
He’s such a goofball. Pardon the messy floor; this happened right in the midst of wrapping Xmas presents (which is probably fairly obvious). And if you’re curious about that catchy song, it’s a Korean pop song, 피크닉 (Picnic), sung by Cha Tae Hyun.
It was decided that the red-and-white pawprint bandanna and the Santa hat that were included in the Santa Exchange package should belong to Jacoby.
This was mostly decided by the other cats.
He wasn’t nearly as put out as this photo makes him look.
As always, Jake was a good sport about it all. He was actually purring.
Especially when it was Tessie’s turn to try on the bandanna!
This photo really makes me laugh. It looks like Jacoby’s just clocked out and he’s off duty and headed home (perhaps with a stop at the catnip bar along the way).
It inexplicably reminds me of those old Warner Brothers “Sheepdog and Wolf” cartoons: “Good night Ralph,” “Good night Sam, see you tomorrow…”
This photo of Angel confronting Jacoby and the mistletoe hat makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Jake’s face just looks so demented and Angel’s body language is so disturbed. Comedy gold.
I had lunch in Faneuil Hall yesterday, and saw this in the Build-a-Bear shop’s window display.
So of course I had to buy one for Jacoby.
It never ceases to amaze me how good natured he is. He really doesn’t mind being dressed up…his only problem with this one was the arm holes. He doesn’t like sleeves or armholes.
However, even armholes can be forgiven with a little turkey.
When we went to Petco last week, I couldn’t resist buying Jacoby a red fleece snowflake hoodie.
Jake is the most tolerant cats on the planet.
Also one of the most goofy.
These are some photos I’d completely forgotten, from the first time I brought Jacoby to the office with me. It happened to be on his four-month birthday, August 14, last year. I wanted to see what he’d do when he met my Flat Cat…
Back off, you threatening stranger!
But then, of course, he goes to make friends…so much for Mr. Tough Guy!
Because it has 5 megapixels and a flash, I find myself using my iPhone 4 camera more often than I used the iPhone 3G camera. It is often easier to access and more convenient than my Nikon. And, as I said in my other post earlier today, the only really bad shot is the one you missed, so I don’t mind including cellphone photos in my portfolio.
This photo absolutely cracks me up. It was meant to be a photo of Angel on the cat tree, but you know Jacoby can’t stay out of the spotlight…he has to be the spotlight!
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
So, here be a photograph of arrrre…own wee pirate lass, Angel.
As promised, here is what it looks like when Jacoby runs in our hallway…
I linked to it rather than posting it via YouTube because iPhone videos can film vertically, but YouTube can only show horizontal videos properly.
So, as I was saying yesterday, Abys’ brains are wired differently from other cats.
Maybe it’s all the inbreeding, I don’t know, but even Tessie seems to be baffled by Jacoby’s antics.
I was packing something up to mail, and had a Priority Mail envelope out on the floor…which of course Jake just had to investigate…
…while Tessie and I looked on.
He did this all by himself, I assure you. It really wouldn’t have occurred to me to put that thing on his head like that.
And he did manage to get it off all by himself, too.
But…
…he couldn’t leave well enough alone, of course.
Aaaaannnddd…promptly got it right back on his head.
See what I mean? He’s a goofball!
The fun thing about living with Abyssinians is…well, they’re nuts. I save the green shipping bags from LL Bean because they make the best scooped-litter-disposal bags I’ve ever found. I had just gotten something I’d ordered from them and was planning on using this bag for that evening’s scoop, when Jacoby crept inside…
…and started biting it.
I can’t remember exactly what was in there, but whatever it was, it wasn’t anything that could possibly have smelled that good to a cat.
There definitely wasn’t anything in that bag that was worth licking!
Yeah…I have no idea what the attraction was.
He seriously perforated the edge of the bag, though.
And he seemed to be really proud of himself, too. As well he might – I mean, just look at all those bite holes!
Nom nom nom…
This is just so typically Abyssinian (and particulary boy Abyssinian!) I just had to share it with you.
Nysidra’s Aby CJ loves boxes: CJ loves boxes, Misty, not at all.
He needs to shelter in them, so I made him a roof. He waited patiently inside till I was done. He’s waiting on me to take him on a train ride through the house.
I just hope Jake doesn’t see this…it’s bad enough he likes me to “zoom zoom” him really fast in his stroller!
After posting the photos of Red Aby Desher yesterday, I emailed her person, Edyta Szyszlo to let her know about the post.
She responded with this hilarious video of Desher and her love for the vacuum cleaner. I laughed and responded that her body language and reaction reminded me of Jacoby when confronted with something he really loves, like when we make the bed.
“I think J and Desh should be cyber gf and bf 
” she replied. Hee! This is made even more amusing by the fact that Desher lives in San Francisco, my old hometown. What are the odds?
Jacoby can be such a little goof sometimes. Like most boycats, he’s affable and easygoing…
I found a 99¢ sticker on the ground and capriciously stuck it on his back.
If he noticed, he didn’t let on.
He’s just like, doo doo doo, walking in the hallway…la la la…I love boycats.
…I had to make Jake in his fighter plane v. 2.0.
