Nathan’s girlfriend, Katie, submitted this picture of her adorable kitten (Bowie) and her adorable boyfriend (Nathan). Katie says that at first, Bowie wasn’t too sure about Nathan – but now Bowie is very fond of Nathan, and Katie reports that the two are best friends. Bowie is an 18 month-old orange tabby – my love for orange tabbies has already been well documented on this site – and Nathan is a college student. They both have “medium length hair.”
I think it’s fairly common for people to do “cat voices” for their feline friends. My husband and I do it all the time, and I will often have an entire “conversation” with my cats, with me talking and then doing “cat voice” for the cat (“Hey mom! Fill my bowl! Fill it now!”) Yes, I know. So wrong. Ahem. Anyway… we think Charley is really smart. He is so smart that rather than just saying “fill my bowl!” he also talks about things like U.S. foreign policy, the subprime mortgage crisis, etc. Today Charley was acting really busy, like he had a lot to do, so he “said” (well, my husband said) “OK, I have to fix Citibank now. First order of business, I’m going to re-name it Kittybank.” He’s a genius, that cat (ok, husband) of mine.
No one loves cats more than I do – but let’s face it, nobody loves cat barf. If you have one cat, and you wake up to a small pile of vomit on your floor, you know who the responsible party is. If you have more than one cat – well, as the infamous line from Spinal Tap says, “You can’t dust for vomit.”
Since we have two cats, one can never really be sure exactly which cat did the barfing. My husband, however, claims he always knows, based on psychological profiling. I’ve started to call him a “CVSI” or “Cat Vomit Scene Investigator.” Last night, I was awakened at 4 AM by my husband, who proclaimed that a cat had barfed all over our trunk and sofa. “It was Thurston!” he told me. “How do you know? Did you see him do it?” I asked. “No, but Thurston ALWAYS sits there. I KNOW it was him. Thurston will barf on furniture, Charley only does it on the floor.” Well, I can’t say he didn’t nail their feline psychological profiles purr-fectly. And that concludes another exciting episode of “CVSI: Cat Vomit Scene Investigator.”
For all the talk about how this blog is evidence of an increase in “straight men who love cats” – I’d like to point out that menandcats.com is not just about straight men. This is a gay-friendly blog! In fact, there is a category – and there always has been since the very beginning – called “Men Who Love Men Who Love Cats.” Whether you’re male, female, straight, gay, or bi, and love cats, dogs, or any other animal: Menandcats.com loves that you love pets! Keep adopting pets and taking good care of them, and loving the humans in your life. It may sound cheesy, but that is what menandcats.com is all about: love.
Love,
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