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Oscar Wilde Cat
Posted on January 17, 2004 by Ching under Babies.
For those of you haven’t met Oscar (the little turd monster I mentioned in the previous post), here are a couple of pictures of him.
These pictures were taken right before Christmas. I was trying to wrap a present for Brian. As all of you know, our cats are very curious. Sometimes they’ll try to help me wrap presents but most of the time they just hinder the process. I don’t know why our cats love getting in boxes but as I was trying to put the top on the box, Oscar got in and would not leave. It would’ve ticked me off, if he didn’t look so adorable.
Anyway, if you ever get any gifts from us that have cat hair all over them you’ll know why. It’s because of our little helpers.
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Rude Cats
Posted on January 16, 2004 by Ching under Babies.
I couldn’t sleep so instead of just tossing and turning in bed, I decided to do something more productive. I decided to clean out the cat litter boxes. It’s one less thing for me to do tomorrow. I guess it is tomorrow right now but it’s like four in the morning and it’s not officially tomorrow to me until I actually get up around noonish.
Anyway, enough of the today-tomorrow technicalities. As usual Oscar was watching me like a hawk the whole time I was cleaning the cat box (read: scooping out the stinky little poopies and grody balls of pee). This gave me added incentive to work faster because Oscar is the rudest little shit in the world (I will explain below, brace yourself for a really long digression).
You see, having three cats, our current setup consists of two litter boxes. We’ve been through everything you can imagine, including LitterMaid, but we’ve found our current setup to be the best and least expensive solution. The automatic litter scooper thing would be best for someone with only one cat. We had it when we were living at the townhouse and even though we only had Hobbie back then it wasn’t working out too well. (1) Hobbie liked to annoy us by playing with the sensor and so you would hear the mechanical scooping sound every two seconds, (2) Brian wasn’t keeping up with tossing the poop trays so well that by the time he got around to replacing it the original tray would be overflowing and (3) as a result of this he would have to clean the thing completely by washing it out and somehow the shit always gets wet and it won’t work for a day or two until it was completely dry inside. It’s really a great invention and, I guess, it would work if we just weren’t so lazy. I suppose this is more of a “user” issue.
The next thing we tried, in our utter laziness and desperation, was the disposable cat litter box with clay (this is the non-scoopable kind) cat litter. They sell them individually at Dillon’s and Wal-Mart stores but I can’t find them on the internet to show you. I’m not very good at describing things but I’ll do my best. It’s a disposable cat litter box (in the form of either cardboard for around $2 each or hard plastic for around $3 each) with the litter already in it. The litter is sealed so it doesn’t spill or anything when you’re transporting it from the supermarket to your car to your house. All you have to do is punch out the paper that’s covering the litter and you’re good to go. It’s great because there is no scooping involved. When it gets full, you just throw it away and use another. Really excellent for lazy people. Its main downfall is the cost. Having three cats, you can only imagine how expensive this gets. Brian was perfectly happy paying the price because he loathes cleaning the cat boxes but I finally broke down and said, “We’re going to have to think of something different.”
Which brings us to our current setup: just a basic litter pan like this one and then we’ve converted a large Rubbermaid container like this one into a second litter box. Usually we buy the sifting litter pan liners and use that in conjunction with the scoopable cat litter for quick and easy clean ups but Brian bought a couple of boxes of regular cat box liners so we have to use those up. In the meantime, I’m stuck with scooping duty.
Now back to why Oscar is the rudest little shit in the world (wow, I really got sidetracked there — aren’t you glad I went back up and warned you before posting this blog). The other day when I was cleaning out the cat boxes, he just could not wait as I combed meticulously through both cat boxes with my sifter-scooper thing. As soon as I got done with the small cat box and started working on the ghetto-ass Rubbermaid one, he got in the first cat box and started pooping. I didn’t realize this at first because I was preoccupied and I didn’t really think anything of it when he got in the cat box because he had done it (gotten in there and not pooped) before. Oscar, being the newest of the three cats, is a bit territorial so in past he’s peed in both boxes right after I’ve cleaned them. This time, however, he decided to drop a load. I didn’t even realize it (because I had been so busy scooping the other box) until the putrid stench of his poop reached my nose (trust me it didn’t take long). The smell was so awful and being at such close proximity to it, I almost cried. It was almost like tear gas (not that I would know what tear gas is like, but that’s how I felt and this is my story so deal with it). Naturally, I cussed up a storm while Brian laughed as he watched me from the hallway. He could smell it from the hallway too, I’m sure, but the stench isn’t as lethal at that distance.
I was like, “What the hell? Why didn’t you warn me?” He kept laughing but I was dead serious! Had I known what Oscar was about to do, I would’ve shoo’d him before touchdown. Surely the disrespectful, impatient, little bastard could hold it for another two seconds! Ngyek!
So just now I worked extra fast at the scooping to prevent an encore performance. I was really worried when he got in the first cat box but he just peed. Cat pee is still stinky to most people but it’s nothing compared to the way Oscar’s poop smells so I was pretty relieved. I wish someday we’ll be able to teach Oscar some etiquette (none of the other cats bother me when I’m cleaning the cat box, Hobbie and Felix always patiently wait until I’m finished) but I suppose I should be content that at least we’re not finding little suprises around the house.
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Backup Plan
Posted on May 24, 2003 by Ching under Babies, Games.
Thunderstorms have been forecasted for today. We may not be able to go swimming. Our backup plan is playing video games in Ashley’s apartment. Brian and I have been commissioned to bring our DDR game and dancepads, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Tekken — just in case we are stuck indoors due to inclement weather. Ashley loves Galaga too just like me (she has the game) so I now have someone to play Galaga with. It’s kind of boring playing by yourself. I just keep trying to outdo myself, to get beyond the highest level that I can reach, but after a while that just gets frustrating. When you take turns it’s better. More fun.
Anyhow, I made a video clip of Felix. I had to store it at our family’s website because they have 500 MBs of storage and this file by itself is 3 MB. I didn’t want Jen (my host Jen, not my sister) to get mad at me for using too much space because I use a lot already. So you dial-up users have been warned. Give it time to load (or if you’re on dial up, you may want to skip this video altogether). But broadband users :must: check it out because it’s cute. LOL! I should take him to Stupid Pet Tricks!
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Felix and Hobbie
Posted on March 22, 2003 by Ching under Babies.
Not much going on today.. Just staying home, washing dishes, doing laundry, working on daddy’s birthday present, working out and just being bumming around the house (not necessarily in that order). It’s about six o’clock and I’ve barely begun laundry, I haven’t done the dishes and I’m still trying to get motivated to work out. The only thing I’ve accomplished today is bumming around the house and tweaking dad’s suprise. Two out of four ain’t bad. I’m performing at 50% productivity today. It’s so weird because now that we’ve got a working furnace and it’s not so cold inside the house I can’t get myself to work out when during the week that our furnace was broke I woke up at seven everyday and worked out for an hour — I even had to work out in a turtleneck because it was so cold. Now that conditions are more conducive to working out I can’t get myself to do it. Isn’t that something?
Anyway, I took a break earlier. I played with the cats and took some pictures. Felix and Hobbie were helping me procrastinate. Now Blogger is my distraction. I better quit this procrastinating crap already, otherwise I won’t be able to cross off the things on my to-do list. Here are some pictures of Felix and Hobbie to keep you company. I may not be back for a few days because I have to relocate Golden Sushi to a more reliable server (as soon as Fateback’s servers are back up) and work on the new webzine.
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