When Jacoby was a kitten, he and Angel used to playfight together tirelessly…
They used to be so much fun to watch…they would just chase each other for hours. I even managed to capture it on video…this is when Jake’s a bit older than the photos above, however.
They need to start playing like that more; Angel’s becoming a bit of a butterball lately! A little workout with a ruddy sparring partner might be just the thing.
On one of the Aby lists, Hinka Chapman shared the following quote, said to her by one of her pet owners:
“Where there is no fun, Abys will create their own fun!”
Yep…sounds about right!
Jacoby has always had a fascination with plastic shopping bags.
He doesn’t seem to be outgrowing it, either. We have to hide bags from him because he chews the handles apart and he also gnaws holes in them, making them pretty useless for scooping the cat box (which is the reason we don’t always use more “green” shopping bags – if we did, we’d have nowhere to put the poop).
You may recall this documentary on what happens when Jake gets a hold of a bag…
This video greeting card sent to one of the Aby lists…it’s silly, but it really cracked me up!
Enjoy!
Our friend Sparkle posted a heads-up in her blog today about the Fresh Step video contest on YouTube. I think I missed the earlier post on this, because…a video contest? Sign me up! Or rather, sign Jacoby up…if ever a cat was born to be in front of a camera, it’s him.
Basically, all you need is a cat, at least one video longer than 10 seconds and shorter than 3 minutes, and a YouTube account. Entering is done through Fresh Step’s YouTube channel. The rules are fairly simple; the toughest one for me is that there can’t be any music. Still, I managed to come up with a few entries: I submitted “Jacoby’s Christmas Crazies,” “Acrobatic Jacoby,” “Jake and the Meat Tray,” “Stop! Thief!” and “Jacoby Helps With the Laundry,” and I can still enter 20 more videos before the contest closes on May 16. And of course, now I know not to add music 
I guess this has become a sort of defacto New Year’s resolution for 2011, entering Jake’s photos and videos in contests…but why not, right?
This morning, I Can Has Cheezburger featured a very sleepy Aby kitten watching the end of Memento.
Everybody’s a critic! I’ll bet he’d rather be watching The Cat From Outer Space!
Last night, my husband gave me a bunch of photos he’d taken with his iPhone, and this video was among them. I don’t know when he took it, and I’d never seen it before. It’s priceless, though: It’s Jacoby and Angel playing with the light reflecting off Dave’s watch onto the floor. Jake’s tail, especially, is of particular interest.
Like the video of Jake running in the 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.
We built the new litter boxes today, and put down a moving blanket to protect the floors during assembly. Little did we know that the pad would make such an awesome arena for an Aby battle!
Watch for Jacoby getting distracted by the camera. It’s my favourite part.
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?
As I said in yesterday’s post, Jacoby and I had an encounter with an irresponsible Dachshund owner. She drove up with her two overweight, unneutered, unleashed dogs Leo and Wolfie. We’d had a run-in with her once before back in August, and knew she was one of those dog owners, so we packed up and started to walk away.
It did no good, because the dogs ran after us, barking like mad. I happened to have my video camera running at the time, though…
For the record, Dave never kicked her dog. He did yell at her to get her dogs away from Angel (who was panicking), though.
Despite all the stupid, I can’t help but point out what an awesome little cat Jacoby is. Watch him during the whole dachshund debacle; his ears are back, but he’s calm and not puffed up, hissing, or nervous at all, despite these dogs surrounding him and barking at him. He even continued to walk on home:
(Pardon my editorial comments…I was a pretty proud momma!)
Here’s Jake and those two dogs back in August when we first encountered them:
And here he is on Saturday, once again fearless in the face of canines:
Right now, I’m looking into what I can do about her (that park is not a dog park; the nearest one to our part of Boston is in the South End).
I will say this, though: It bodes well for Jake becoming a therapy cat.
Sunday afternoon, Angel noticed dust floating in a particularly bright winter sunbeam. With her one eye, she notices things other cats either don’t notice, or do notice but don’t pay attention to.
Angel played with the dust in the sunbeam for much, much longer than this short video.
As I posted on Tuesday, we got a new cat tree last weekend.
Here’s a short, rather silly little video of Jacoby trying out the new furniture.
On New Year’s Eve, we had a Pixar movie marathon. Angel, who always loves to watch TV from as close as she possibly can, unsurprisingly was as into the movies as we were.
She also loves to play with the images onscreen. Baseball games are a particular favourite, but animated features are good too (she’s also had an interesting interaction with the EmeryCat commercial).
Here’s Angel playing with the fish in Finding Nemo.
I have no idea, because I can read Korean, but not Japanese…
One of Gun-Hee’s videos got a comment this morning, and when I went to read it, YouTube had a list of “related” videos for me to watch. These were some of them…
Here, Gun-Hee plays with a wand toy until he’s so tired he can’t stand up.
Just a little video made while testing out the new camera:
So I finally succumbed and bought myself a pair of Crocs. I know, they’re ugly; they’re also awesome shoes to wear in the rainy summer Boston weather.
There’s just one thing…for whatever reason, Gun-Hee is scared of them.
Gun-Hee rides the T from Park Street to Central Square…
As often happens with cameras and kittens, an attempt to capture an everyday occurrence doesn’t exactly go as planned…
This was this morning when he woke me I woke up…
