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Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka)

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I hate every GOP fettering gob these days. And DiFi can kiss a stoat–or rather did, in that embrace with Lindsey Graham. I’m ecstatic that Twitter is down: let tech-failure save me from myself.  This XKCD cartoon from a couple of days ago completely speaks for me:

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka)

 

So yeah. I need a respite. How about you?

And I realize I’ve been remiss in updating the Champ saga. She’s ridiculously cute (as kittens kind of are on their default settings), and, with very occasional exceptions, she’s managed to avoid the shoals and hidden rocks as she navigates the Tikka-verse.

To lead off, perhaps the single most squee picture I’ve ever taken (sorry son!):

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka) 1

 

Then there’s the glamor pose…

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka) 2

And here’s Tikka and Champ, socially distancing…

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka) 5

This may not end well (it didn’t):

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka) 6

And last–here’s a couple of portraits.

First, me and the little one, and my man Oppie, keeping the morning watch. (Edited to add…this one’s for Cheryl):

Respite: More Champ (With Bonus Tikka) 4

And here is the once and future King, Tikka, first of his name, in all his glory. Long may he reign!


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Soundtrack for this post?

“FEEEEEEEELINES…NOTHING BUT FEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINES…”

#SorryNotSorry

This thread…it is open for anything but Republicans.

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  3. 3.

    Blackcatsrule

    That fourth picture of Tikka! If a picture is worth a thousand words, that one speaks volumes! Bless all of you, two foot and four foot.

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    Great pictures. I love it when a little one thinks they can get away with the old paw-on-end-of-tail gambit.

  8. 8.

    LuciaMia

    I LOVE Tikka’s schnozz!

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    Champ default setting: Squee. (That glamor pose!!)

    Tikka default setting: Sinister. (Face half-shadowed, only one eye visible.)

  12. 12.

    pat

    So the little one has the temerity to put a paw (claw?) on the tail of He Who Must Be Obeyed and what happened next?

    Blood or just a bit of hissing and establishing the heirarchy.  Would love to see how this ends up.  I predict, eventually, two black bodies curled up together….. eventually….

  16. 16.

    Tom Levenson

    @pat: Mostly Tikka just chivvies Champ off the bed when he’s had enough of her antics. Very occasionally he sits on her.

  19. 19.

    Alison Rose

    Thank you for the kitty pics. I had to help my Zoe, also a tux, over the rainbow bridge last weekend. I knew it was time, she’d been getting worse for a while and then had gone really downhill the couple days before…but damn, it’s still such a hard decision to make. She’d been my little companion for so long and was with me through a whole lot of shit. It was just the two of us here and it’s so weird without her. It’s both difficult and helpful to see other kitties, oddly enough. It makes me miss her even more, but cats are my favorite thing and alongside her memories, it’s just nice to see other people getting joy from their kitties.

    I told John I’d have to wait a while before adopting another one, and he of course tried to be a bad influence on me by telling me he’d adopted Steve three days after Tunch died. I understand the inclination but I need a little more mourning time than that, heh.

    Some pics here.

  27. 27.

    Raven

    It’s strange, Lil Bit has been gone almost two weeks and I feel guilty because I don’t feel bad enough.  Part of it is that there was no question about her condition and, as my bride points out, the little squirt didn’t have much of a life outside eating and getting her eye  meds. We have a gravesite prepared and a headstone coming tomorrow so she’ll rest next to Raven in the garden. It really is true that letting them go is a gift to them.

  28. 28.

    Alison Rose

    @Raven: A Grateful Dead guy, more specifically – was their business manager in the 70s, when that amazing photo was taken :P

    And just to brag about him a little more, scroll down to the personnel listing – Dave Parker is my Dad. Thanks to the family connections, my first job starting in 1997 was working for the Dead’s merchandising sector.

    He’s still a cool dude, just with a lot less hair :P

  33. 33.

    pinacacci

    This post was perfect in every way. All hail Tikka the Austere and Magnificent! Thank you, sir.

  35. 35.

    Catherine D.

    @Alison Rose: So sorry! My mare died in 2017, my dog in 2018, and my father in 2019. I am glaring at my 87 yo mother and 16 yo cat (tuxedo!) saying “nobody die in 2020”

  37. 37.

    Central Planning

    My wife, daughter, and I dropped our ballots off today at the board of elections. “Vote blue all the way through!” It’s a great feeling to get the early vote in.

    Since this is a cat thread, I have a friend that got some “cat furniture” from Catastrophic Creations. I’m seriously considering getting something for our cats.

  39. 39.

    Blackcatsrule

    @Raven: Yeah I’ve come to realize this is a good thing.  The pets I feel the worst about are the ones where I keep thinking I should have done something different, seen what I was missing, let them go sooner, etc etc.  As you said, it is a gift to them.

  40. 40.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Tom Levenson:

    Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts prevented me from attending your two book talk events that you mentioned a few weeks ago.

    Do you know if either event was recorded and posted online?

  43. 43.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Alison Rose:

    Wonderful photos!

    My first job starting in 1997 was working for the Dead’s merchandising sector.

    Was that as much of a blast as I’m imagining? I always loved the iconography associated with the Grateful Dead in addition to their wonderful music.

  51. 51.

    Alison Rose

    @Wyatt Salamanca: It was pretty damn cool for a 17 year old, that’s for sure…I mean, getting high out back during the work day made it immediately the coolest job ever.

    (Teenage me would find it hard to believe 40-year-old me hasn’t smoked weed in over a decade.)

    But seriously, it was pretty great. I worked in the shipping department so it wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was a great company and I got to meet a lot of cool people.

  53. 53.

    Raven

    @Alison Rose:

     

    Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
    A time of innocence, A time of confidences
    Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
    Preserve your memories; They’re all that’s left you

  56. 56.

    Kim Walker

    I finished reading your new book last night and loved it. How clever of you to pace out the chapters – each one just long enough for bedtime reading.

  58. 58.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Alison Rose:

    I think I belong to one of the smallest minority groups:

    I’m a passionate fan of psychedelic and reggae music who has never once used a mind altering substance of any kind.

  62. 62.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @Raven:

    For whatever reason, I never had the urge, desire, or curiosity to try any of these substances.  I don’t have anything close to a perfect memory, so I’m glad I didn’t do anything to worsen it.

    For any Deadheads who haven’t seen Long Strange Trip, it’s time well spent!

  64. 64.

    Blackcatsrule

    @Just One More Canuck: 😀 I think Tikka is a deep thinker, realizing that the adorable Champ is not to blame but the human…but then the human is the one who can open cans…oh the dilemma!

  65. 65.

    ThresherK

    The kitten paw on the cat’s tail “will not end well”? Sometimes the oft-told tales are the best.

  66. 66.

    Ihop

    Ok hmmmm, how to say this…

     

    That little kitty is such a near carbon copy of my dear little princess psychopath, sophie, it’s far too much for just this comment to contain.

    I refuse to believe that there is another. God be with you.

  71. 71.

    randy khan

    We have a new kitten, too, and she is endlessly entertaining, although not to all of the other cats.  That said, our difficult cat has taken to her, and clearly thinks of her as his kitten.

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