Here is a very freshly groomed Steve, relaxing on the top perch of the cat tree. And when I say groomed, I mean we spent the day at the kitty spa getting the works. Why? Why I shall tell you.
Last night at around ten o’clock, Steve decided to have diarrhea on Shawn’s floor and got it all over his entire ass end and tail, and then proceeded to do the doggy butt scooch (you know how they drag their ass across the floor with their front legs because their anal glands are full) from Shawn’s room, down the hallway, all the way through my office until he was underneath my desk, leaving a foul smelling brown streak across half the house. It was seriously the most disgusting thing I have ever seen an animal do, and I have been puked on, stepped barefoot in vomit and dog shit, pulled a dessicated cat turd out of Rosie’s mouth, and so on. This episode seriously tested my gag reflex.
I got him somewhat cleaned up, steam cleaned the carpet, and then in the middle of the night he had it again in front of Shawn’s door and got himself all messy again. Between the clumps that we could not get near his butt, and the new scented addition to the clumps, it was time for professional help.
When I got back to the groomer, I expected a blood bath, but Steve was just lying on his back letting the guy do the finishing touches. I was shocked he was letting him do that, and the guy said that he basically gave up after the bath. I did a “Say what?” because I didn’t know they were going to bathe him, I thought they would just shave him. According to the groomers, it took three of them to get the bath done, and after that, his will was just broken.
Pets. He does look absolutely glamorous, though, and it was worth the 60 bucks.
Hawes
Pets. Children.
The first step is breaking their will. Crushing their soul.
It’s what we call education.
rk
This is the reason why I don’t have pets. I love animals but the idea of dealing with animal hygiene issues terrifies me. Dealing with kids was bad enough! If it had been me I’d have been throwing up all the way to the groomer.
The Fat Kate Middleton
So beautiful. But did you need to ask the vet what might be wrong?
Violet
What a gorgeous boy! Hope he doesn’t decide to do it all over again tonight.
PhoenixRising
I bathe my kid’s kitten (now 12 pounds & growing) wearing Romex gauntlets (firefighter gloves past elbows) and an apron–every 3 weeks or so. It seems to clarify that, no matter how much Great Dane ass he is kicking, I’m still the biggest cat on the block.
The main purpose is allergen and odor control, but there seems to be a behavioral effect as well. So the groomers aren’t whistling here.
Steve looks like he’s ready for his close-up, Mr. DeMille.
Eljai
That is one fine $60 haircut. Hope Steve is feeling better now.
kc
Aw, poor Steve! Hope he feels better.
Also, I hope they shaved his butt while he was at the groomer’s.
Jay C
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
What FKM said: even though Steve (from that pic) look extraordinarily proud of having plumbed new depths for his humans’ disgust reflex(es) – there might be something untoward going on in his kitty innards which could stand a professional looking-at. Though of course, being a cat, it could just be a fluke,,,
Grumpy Code Monkey
Any idea what caused the trots?
SarahT
And after all that you remain John Cole +0 ? Mazel Tov !
Suffern ACE
Thanks to LGM, today I learned that Mexican Music was once popular in Yugoslavia, and that this actually once happened in Czechoslovakia.
Corner Stone
I just don’t get this. Little story. My parents are Republicans. Not the crazy kind. The kind that know having their butt hair clipped makes sense. It was just a thing. Kind of a given. Not even spoken about really. I’d say butt grooming? And they’d just acknowledge it. I wish everyone could have it the way I did. And the things they said about having their butt hairs clipped. I mean you just would not believe. But they had their butt clipped.
Suffern ACE
@Jay C: I hope it’s not a fluke. That’s expensive to treat.
Violet
Were your pets happy to see you when you returned? Or did they punish you for leaving them? Or did they barely notice because Shawn is so awesome?
hitchhiker
OT, sorry. The site crashes when I enter from Chrome . . . anybody else having this problem? I’m in Safari now & it seems to be working.
Okay, as you were.
Frankensteinbeck
Perhaps he felt less need to argue with the world after he was no longer covered in his own feces.
cmm
@Corner Stone: wait, what? Your parents had their butt hair clipped? What would being republicans have to do with it?
The day someone brought in a shit covered cat to bathe and shave would be the day I quit my job at the groomer. dead human, 3 weeks into decomp? No problem. What’s for dinner after we finish? Squalling creatures covered in excrement? Where’s the door.
In completely unrelated news, I also have no children.
Mike in NC
We drove about 8 hours today to go to Virginia Beach to visit with friends. Had dinner at one of the area’s premiere restaurants (Steinhilber’s), but then the GPS sent us on a wild goose chase through the back streets of Norfolk and Ocean View for half an hour to get to our motel in Hampton. What a fucking dump! No toilet paper in the bathroom, two hangers in the closet, wet carpeting and A/C that barely works. Looking forward to my next review in Trip Advisor…
ruemara
There are times when I don’t miss my cats. Fortunately, they grew out of any trotsky. Really, it sounds like Steve needs to be checked if he’s having the runs. No human food, JC.
Comrade Mary
@Corner Stone: Your parents clip their own butt hair or the butt hair of their pets or the butt hair of random pets or the butt hair of other random Republicans?
Mnemosyne
@hitchhiker:
Chrome seems to be having issues — people I work with (who do not read B-J) are having a lot of trouble accessing our web-based forms. I don’t know what got broken, but something seems to be.
jheartney
Disappointed to see there’s no “Doesn’t that shave the cat’s ass” keyword on this post.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
We’re watching Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster.
I feel like it’s a commercial for something. A really long one. Nike?
Rain?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Corner Stone: Missing a “stunned” and a “gosh” or “heck.”
lamh36
ok, did y’all hear about the couple who were married and had a 6 year old child together and found out that they were brother and sister!!!!! WTF !!!
What would you do if you found out your S.O. and you were actual siblings or what if just “blood” relatives ??
the couple is Brazilian. the woman went on a search for her long lost mother and what she found was not only info about the mother, but that she and her husband of a number of years SHARED THE SAME MOTHER!!!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-goes-search-long-lost-mum-4002167
ETA: apparently they aren’t “legally” married, but still they have been together for about 10 years!
ruemara
@lamh36: ew and I am so very sorry for them.
Meg
@hitchhiker: It does the same with me on Chrome. I am using Fire Fox to write this.
lamh36
@ruemara: IKR. from the article, they say they plan to stay together.
do they still do blood test before one gets married now a days? wasn’t the blood tests required for just this reason?
Corner Stone
@lamh36:
They mandated blood testing to make sure you weren’t marrying your blood relative?
Where the F are you from?
ruemara
@lamh36: Brasil, my dear. Brazil. They’re also common law, or whatever passes for it in that country.
trollhattan
Holy moly, this is cool.
TaMara (BHF)
For those worried about Steve, all my long haired cats would get bouts of diarrhea when they had fur balls. Diarrhea one day, a few days later, throw up a small cat. It didn’t happen often, but it did happen.
I also have another cat who for some reason after my last couple of trips away came down with diarrhea each time. Vet visit, she’s fine, just emotional. Steve may just be adjusting to all the changes going on in John’s house.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
oddly enough this main character kinda looks like Obama, from certain angles
Violet
@lamh36: This issue is actually a hot discussion topic among parents who use donor eggs/sp3rm/embryos to have their kids. What do you tell the kids about their biological origins? When do you tell them? What about issues like meeting their full or half sibling and getting married and having kids, but not knowing about their biological relationship.
Some parents don’t tell the kids when they are younger due to wanting to protect the kids (like from grandparents or aunts and uncles who won’t treat the kids as “real relatives”). Some countries have different laws regarding the issue. All sorts of moral and ethical questions and issues arise.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
@Violet: One of my friends met her long-lost half-brother last year based on a similar relationship. Turns out he’s a forensic crime scene investigator focusing on blood spatters, so basically Dexter, but also not a serial killer.
kindness
60 bucks is cheap considering the bloody wreck you were after trying to bath him. Who knew all you really needed was 2 other friends to hold him (and I suspect one of those fancy ass short leashes to a post over the sink).
lamh36
@Corner Stone: I’m from the South ya know, but I meant it mostly as a joke. but since incest is illegal in US doesn’t seem like a bad reason to still require the testing.
although I’d hope one tries to clear up the whole possible siblings thing before marriage.
lamh36
ugh comment in moderation!!!
lamh36
@Violet: now see I get the moral implications in this situation you describe. that would be something that can be reasonably addressed.
in the Brazil case it is one of abandonment by the mother then the mother “remarrying” and having another bio child and then abandoning that one.
it’s interesting that they seem to still want a relationship with “their” mother, rather than placing the blame solely at her feet
scav
@lamh36: I thought the tests were for syphilis and other charming diseases, they wouldn’t have had the tech to test for consanguinity in the 30s and 40s..
Corner Stone
@cmm:
Gosh I was told Democrats didn’t get their butt hairs clipped. It was what defined us as better people growing up.
Suffern ACE
@trollhattan: they are pleased to report that they have confirmed once and for all that comets are icy. They also found that infinity stone they were looking for. The yellow one that no one expected to be revealed until The fourth Thor movie.
Violet
@lamh36: They both knew they were abandoned by their mother. They knew their mothers’ names were the same. They were from the same city. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that they could be related. It’s surprising to me that it didn’t occur to them. If youboth don’t know who your mom is, both of you are looking for your mothers, and there are that many similarities, it seems like it might be something to consider. Do they look nothing alike?
Wanting a relationship with their mom is distinct from them being together. It’s not her fault they met and “married”.
Violet
@scav: Yeah I thought they pre-wedding blood tests were for STDs. They couldn’t do DNA tests back then. Technology wasn’t available.
I bet if they did DNA tests pre-marriage these days they’d find a lot of crazy stuff.
SarahT
@trollhattan: SO cool !
amk
Must be something he ate.
#profound
Karen in GA
@lamh36: I’m adopted. In my late teens I started dating a guy who was also adopted, and could have passed for a sibling. At the time I didn’t know I had a brother out there somewhere — but my parents knew. I later found out that the first time they saw the guy they freaked out. (No, we weren’t related.)
(As it happened, though, sometimes in public we would talk to each other like we were brother and sister — then out of nowhere start making out. Just to mess with people’s heads. Good times.)
PhoenixRising
@Violet: Yup. It’s also an issue for adopted children with…ahem…shady paperwork (see my book for the deets) from certain countries.
Basically half the Cambodian kids my kid knows are from her same region, province & in many cases district (county), and all the placing families had to know a guy, so…in DNA tests, 5 sets of cousins so far. And not all of us have been willing to open that box & test our kids’ DNA.
The other half (Happy might be your Birthday Maddox Jolie-Pitt!) are also apparently from a small area. So.
lamh36
@scav: @Violet:
ugh. I had a response but it’s in moderation.
that was meant as a joke really. I know they aren’t for that.
having said that, I am from da dawty South, sooo…lol
opiejeanne
Geez! $60? What a bargain.
Suffern ACE
@Violet: it would have helped if their mother was named Heather or Wendy, but something tells me that women named Maria might not be difficult to find in Brazil.
Steeplejack
@Suffern ACE:
“Music would play and Felina would dance . . .”
lamh36
@Suffern ACE: yeah a commenter elsewhere said the same thing. it’s Brazil, there is bound to be beau coup in less a 5 mile radius, let alone a whole city.
hell here in US, there bound to be beaucoup Marias in certain segments of the country.
the first name is NOT enough.
Patternmaker
I. Read this blog just so my evening can be made complete by reports of John’s pet drama. Happy sigh…
Violet
@PhoenixRising: It might be an issue for adopted kids with non-shady paperwork too. Not all adopted kids can know their birth parents or know if they’ve got half or even full siblings out there.
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
Last time there was 1961, but can anecdotally verify that there were six.
Per block.
opiejeanne
@Corner Stone: You are very bad. Bwahahahaha!
KG
@Violet: my cousin had a slightly similar situation. She has never known her father, being the result of an early 70s. She was dating a girl a few years back and this girl also didn’t know her father. They freaked out because the info they both had was his name (same), location (pretty close), and that he rode a harley. It took calls mom and faded pictures to calm them.
I was a terrible cousin, because I laughed.
Corner Stone
Cole. It’s great and all that you’ve found love after all this time. But, it may not be the best thing for you to enter into, or return to, an amorous relationship.
Violet
@Suffern ACE: True enough and in the article the two comment that their mother(s) had the same name and that it was a common name.
TaMara (BHF)
Not the same as that little Brazilian family drama, but I have relatives who raised other relatives kids. We all knew (and I was just a kid myself) but I found out years later, the kids never knew the couple raising them wasn’t their parents.
I could never understand how anyone kept that a secret, why they kept it a secret and wondered who finally told them. I was just glad it wasn’t me accidentally, since I had no idea it WAS a secret.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Ahem.
“Music would play and Felina would whirl”
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Okay, that was LOL spot on. Kudos, sir.
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
No, I think it was pitch perfect. Anything more would have been just a bit too much.
opiejeanne
@Steeplejack: Still giggling.
Violet
@TaMara (BHF): Back in the day it was terribly shameful for the family if a young daughter got pregnant so there were lots of examples of the mother in the family having a “late in life pregnancy” and the child being raised by his or her grandmother but thinking it was his mother, while the real mother was supposedly a sister.
Families are weird and sometimes keeping that sort of secret protects the kids from things. Sometimes it’s the adults who are freaking out and secretive and they don’t need to be. Every family is different.
KG
@TaMara (BHF): when my mom was pregnant with my sister, my dad’s mom kept telling her it would be a boy and my mom insisted it’d be a girl (this was late 70s before everyone had four sonograms). My mom turns and says “what about [my dads sister]?” Grandma responds with “she’s not a g”. Apparently my grandparents met when my grandma was already pregnant and my grandfather did the honorable thing.
Also, to show just how weird my family tree is, that aunt is the mom of the cousin I mentioned in my earlier comment
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Violet: Jack Nicholson came from a family like that… another famous case I can’t remember right now.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Steeplejack: I went back and reread it; I think you are right.
scav
@lamh36: Well, half my code is from the product of cousins marrying (at least it was a few generations removed) so, well, well, it simplifies the genealogy and provides cover for all sorts of personal oddness, such as missing jokes. But I’ve ran access a few things about the sheer prevalence and impacts of syphalis around turnish of the century and so. The scope, the impact it had on women and children and then the repercussions in the medical profession. As I said, odd behaviors, see cover-story for.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
I was back-translating from the Czechoslovakian in the video. Their fault.
And don’t ask me where I learned Czechoslovakian. Trying to stay on the down low from Bob in Portlandgrad. Um, Hodor!
Anne Laurie
@lamh36:
Unless the “blood test” has changed significantly since we got ours, it’s just a test for sexually transmitted diseases (as of 1993, syphillis/gonorrhea/chlamydia/HIV).
It’s a public health issue, like ‘contact tracing’.
opiejeanne
@scav: It was a lot more common a couple of centuries ago when people didn’t move around much. I worked on my mom’s line and was startled at how many double first cousins there were in all the lines except hers back in the 1800s, in the Ozarks. Her family tree twines more than most, I suspect, but thankfully the males in her line had the intelligence to walk five miles down the road and marry a girl that wasn’t already a first cousin. I’ve seen the results in the rest of the family and there are some individuals that just aren’t right, and one distant cousin laughed when she told me that her husband and all of her kids had webbed toes; she and her husband had grandparents who were first cousins on both sides.
Suffern ACE
@Steeplejack: they were doing the best they could. The history of Czech bluegrass on Wikipedia indicates that the greenhorns reversed engineered their banjo based on a photograph from a Pete Seeger concert in Prague in 1964. That is dedication.
Anne Laurie
@TaMara (BHF):
Our beloved first dog had this problem — vet called it “stress gastritis related to separation anxiety.”
Steeplejack
I hope at some point this week one of the front-pagers will note (a) the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, (b) the new HBO documentary Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (next showing at 7:45 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. EDT tomorrow [Thursday]) and/or (c) Colbert’s awesome “Edward R. Murrow meets Tom Snyder” retro special about Nixon on Monday night.
Violet
@TaMara (BHF):
Was thinking the same thing. John left for a significant amoung ot time, returned, is acting differently than before and probably smells quite different too. Steve might be a bit unnerved by it all.
MattR
This thread reminds me that I just learned of the Icelandic app that will determine if/how closely you are related when you bump phones with another person. (EDIT: Designed for use when picking up a “stranger” in a bar)
(EDIT2: When reading John’s post, I momentarily confused Steve and Shawn in my head. Painted a completely different picture)
Helen
@Corner Stone:
Oh heck. I gosh darn love you.
scav
@opiejeanne:And then the larger families keep trooping westward together following the information flows. I can follow them from KY to CA from the 1840s to the 1940s. There are about five counties in five states that I need to strenuously avoid. They’re all effectively named Maria.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Also the Dick Cavett special airing on PBS on the 8th (check local listings).
Anne Laurie
@scav:
The nuns who taught me in high school were absolutely convinced that Henry VIII’s reproductive problems (and Elizabeth I’s life-long virginity) were due to him contracting syphilis, infecting his wives, and crippling his children born & unborn.
There’s also a theory among Mary Todd Lincoln’s defenders that Honest Abe passed on “a shameful infection” (as his early biographer Hendon called it), which would lead to his younger sons’ early deaths & MTL’s eventual dementia.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
All three of them?
ruemara
Is there a reason why people are mocking Tommy? I mean, it’s one thing to mock people who are jerks, but a someone who seems to be a decent sort, who isn’t out there picking fights for no reason, you’re mocking him? A little surprised at this level of mean girls-itis.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Nope — blood tests were originally required to make sure you didn’t have syphilis. This was back in the days when they could detect it but didn’t have antibiotics yet, so it was incurable. Some states extended that out to other diseases as well, but the original purpose was to check for syphilis.
Only a few states still require them nowadays.
Roger Moore
@lamh36:
AFAIK, the blood test is an Rh thing. If a Rh- woman is pregnant with a Rh+ fetus, she will develop anti-Rh antibodies. They won’t interfere with the first pregnancy, but they will cause a miscarriage of any subsequent Rh+ baby. So a Rh-/- woman and an Rh+/+ man can have at most one baby together. That most states no longer bother to require blood tests is evidence that procreation is no longer the primary purpose of marriage.
Steeplejack
@ruemara:
He has a very distinctive writing voice, and people are making (gentle) fun of that, as well as his stock of well-worn tropes. I don’t see that as mean-spirited. But YMMV, of course.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
See above — the tests were for syphilis. But incompatible Rh factors is one of the theories about why Anne Boleyn only carried one child to term.
(Edited!)
opiejeanne
@scav: Mine arrived in one little corner of the Ozarks around 1820, near Macks Creek, and stayed about 100 years. Around 1917 my mother’s maternal grandfather got itchy feet and went to homestead in Montana, then he got all ten of his children to move there too. I’ve seen the farm he homesteaded in Missouri and it was gorgeous land, so I can’t think why he thought Montana would be better.
My grandfather lost his shirt and his farm in Montana(tI think they all did eventually) and he moved the wife and kids to Independence, MO in 1926; went to work for Standard Oil. He did much better than his relatives, who all stayed put in the Ozarks. One of the Montana clan told me that the first time they visited Missouri when she was a little kid she cried because the trees were so big.
Nobody from the family moved West until after WWII, if you don’t count Montana, and the ones in the Ozarks mostly stayed there. There is one town of about 300 people and I’m related to all but one of them. It’s a bit sobering.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
I looked in more detail, and it turns out that one state does require Rh testing: Colorado. That’s where I grew up, which is probably why I assumed that was the general reason.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
It looks like it became a bit of a fad for a while after the general principle was established and states started testing for additional things. Since they were trying to prevent congenital syphilis, I think there may be some truth to what you said about the production of children no longer being a primary purpose of marriage.
(Well, that and penicillin cutting the number of congenital syphilis cases way down.)
opiejeanne
@Roger Moore: That came later, I think.
I am Rh-, and I married an Rh+ man, and all three of my kids are Rh+. I was given the RhoGam shot after each pregnancy, which gives you a temporary set of antibodies and tricks the body into not making its own permanent ones. if I understand correctly.
If the child’s blood crosses to the mother by accident, it can cause problems in a first pregnancy but this is not too common. We witnessed a young woman on the phone with her mother, weeping that her sister’s baby had died of this and the doctors were afraid they might lose her sister as well. I don’t know the outcome, but that stuff is scary. .
ruemara
@Steeplejack: The last thing I would call certain people mocking him is gentle. YMMV indeed. It seems to be in very poor jest.
opiejeanne
@ruemara: You’re right. I am sorry I laughed.
*hangs head*
And our previous cat was named Tommy, a Maine Coon who needed to have his butt shaved. It’s called a “panty trim”.
YellowJournalism
Oh, John, I’m laughing my butt off reading that, but I seriously I hope you gave the groomer a huge tip.
And because I was retrieving my kidlets from their summer grandparent visit, I didn’t get to include my own well-wishes and musings on how good it is you’re back for the time being.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Violet: No different than an adopted child. I’m adopted, my parents told me early. I’m sure that I didn’t marry into my biological family since my wife was born outside of the US.
Mike E
@cmm: Shit happens.
Steeplejack
@ruemara:
I disagree. Corner Stone’s piece above is funny because it’s not about Tommy at all. It is a comment about Cole’s original post written in the style of Tommy. And capturing his “voice” perfectly, I think.
Corner Stone
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you,
Say baby I love you
If you ain’t runnin’ game
Say my name, say my name
You actin’ kinda shady,
Ain’t callin’ me baby
Why the sudden change?
Mister Papercut
@Mike in NC:
But you repeat yourself.
How do you visit Virginia Beach but end up staying in Hampton? I’m guessing something along the lines of a bet being lost.
Villago Delenda Est
The blood tests, IIRC, were for syphilis
And Steve is one very handsome cat, with an improving photographer who is figuring out lighting, in addition to making us all proud with that +0 status of his. We’re all behind you, John, in a Leslie Nielsen sort of way, as you deal with all those Macho Grande demons.
Schlemizel
@Meg:
Late to the party but I am using chrome on my chromebook to write this & have not had any issues.
@lamh36:
If they have been together happily for 10 years & the kid is OK why get ookie about it now?
Schlemizel
@KG:
That whole pregnant before marriage thing is mostly a 20th century invention. From at least colonial times families practice what was knows as bundling. The boy would sleep over at the girls place & in the same bed (families often shared the bed so it is ookier than you think!) with nothing but a board between them. If the girl became pregnant it was a sign from God that they should be married immediately.
satby
@Corner Stone: spot on.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): and I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed.
satby
@Steeplejack: exactly
Jamey
Monorail Cat is in the station…
Another Holocene Human (now with new computer)
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): What if “T****” is just a beta version of an AI spam robot he’s testing for his SEO empire?
Another Holocene Human (now with new computer)
@lamh36: Knocking up a sibling? It’s more likely than you think.
Another Holocene Human (now with new computer)
@Karen in GA: I have a friend who was adopted in the same city and yeah, in high school nearly dated a very close blood relative but the old folks stepped in.
There’s actually a push and pull here genetically. Humans are pretty motivated to date someone with a different blood type (which is an immune profile) but blood types vary even among siblings. But going past that, humans are actually very attracted to people with high degrees of consanguinuity if they weren’t raised together as siblings. It isn’t unusual at all for people who have been adopted to meet parents, first cousins, siblings as strangers and feel an intense mutual attraction.
Another Holocene Human (now with new computer)
@lamh36: Heh, for all tha dirty Souf’ jokes, as a white Yankee moving down to the South with no experience with Southern African American culture, one thing that really amazed me was how much families were invested in making sure that close relatives did not date or marry each other. A lot of white ethnic groups including English and French came from Europe with the notion that middle class people marrying cousins was a perfectly good strategy for keeping land in the family. And incest and rape was unfortunately a not uncommon hazard of life on the homestead for adolescent girls.
gogol's wife
@lamh36:
I saw that on Inspector Lewis the other night. They tried to bury the coroner alive but Hathaway showed up to save her. Then the brother-husband killed himself by jumping through a window.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
I think it’s extremely mean-spirited. But that’s not unexpected, considering the source.
rikyrah
Steve doesn’t freak me out the way that Tunch used to, but he’s still a fierce cat.
Soprano2
@opiejeanne:
I come from Billings in SWMO, a town of less than 1,000, so I know what you mean. My family moved there when I was 2, so I’m not related to anyone else there, but I’ve got a friend whose father grew up there; he had 13 brothers and sisters so she was related to half the people in town. When her college-aged son stayed with his grandpa a couple of summers ago she told him he needed a family tree before he asked anyone out on a date, and she wasn’t kidding.
Mustang Bobby
The only thing worse than cleaning up scoochy-butt tracks on the carpet is having to be the one to evacuate the scent glands that caused the problem in the first place. Sam finally got to the point that he’d come over to me, plop his ass on my foot, and whine. I knew my next duty.
Angela
@Corner Stone: LOL.
shelley
Well, hey, if it was good enough for Hawaiian royalty…
Jay C
@Schlemizel:
Or that you needed a bigger board…
opiejeanne
@Soprano2: I think their little slice of Montana was Nashua, and their descendants still live in the area. I have photos. It was not an idyllic life: the tractor had a nicer building than what my great grandparents lived in.
merrinc
Wow, I’m tempted to make a road trip home just to visit that groomer! Noelle, my Maine Coon who looks very much like your Steve, is prone to mats around her rear because she HATES being brushed back there. It would be well worth $60 to have her bathed and groomed…
jame
Ah, yes, the cat bath. My beloved Big White Cat would struggle, then sort of go into shock when I bathed him.
And he would look at me with soul-deep hurt that I would ever do this to him.
Trinity
Steve is King!
…Not to be confused with Steve King (R-Asshole) who is the worst…
Sondra
@Grumpy Code Monkey:
Ofter when they drag their butts like that it means they have worms. I have seen the worms coming out and it’s gross.
Maybe a Vet check would be good.