Who needs an iPhone when you can have a Cat Phone?
Very silly but lots of fun.
Thanks to David Hampton for sending me this link.
First the Cat Bus, Then the Cat Train, Now the Cat Phone!
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Forget the Cluetrain; Get On the Cat Train!
A new shinkansen (bullet train) is being tested in Japan that aims to be not only the world’s fastest, but the first with cat ears, according to The Japan Times.
At 360 km/hour (sounds faster than 222 mph), the new Fastech train will be 20% faster than current shinkansen and the French TGV. And the cat ears aren’t just for good looks, but they pop out to act as air brakes to slow the train down quickly and safely.
Any fan of My Neighbor Totoro will understand the real reason, though: they wanted to outdo the cat bus! 
P.S. Thanks to the Self Help for Cats blog for alerting us to this.
Yang’s Pet Cat
Today Yang was lounging on a chair when Jennifur sauntered by. He lazily stuck his paw out and managed to pet Jennifur while she passed underneath. Luckily, she didn’t notice because she doesn’t like Yang much anyway and she would have started a fight, so it ended up just one of those magic moments that us humans can only share with other humans.
Mornings with Agile
Agile was trapped by us last summer when he was about 5 months old. His parents were feral cats that people had dumped in our area. We fed them in the hope of taming these two, but it never happened. So when White Paws (as we named her) came with two kittens, we decided to try catching them with a humane trap we bought from Harbor Freight. Several days later we caught Agile. His sibling vanished soon afterwards.
Agile is over a year old now. Every morning when I walk into the kitchen, he immediately approaches, loudly meowing for attention. He is not satisfied until I follow him into the living room where he lies down to be rubbed, petted and scratched.
First I scratch his rump, then rub his ears and cheeks. If he is really calm, he will roll on his side and purr happily while I rub his belly and chest. His eyes half-close in delight. All the while I praise him and say how handsome and wonderful he is and how grateful we are that he came to live with us.
By the way, if you want to know the whole story of his early life with us, you can read Birds, Mice and Apple Pie.
Cats and Crickets
I brought home crickets to feed my lizards. As usual, all the cats wanted to paw at the bag, and then watch me release them into the lizard homes. More than once I have “accidentally” let a cricket loose on the floor. Naturally, a crowd appears, tails waving and whiskers smiling. They almost never eat the cricket, mostly watch it hop around. I later recapture the wayward cricket.
My friend’s cats like to eat the crickets she releases. Yin ate one once, but then he threw up so now he just watches.
Jennifur and Aurum are both transfixed by the lizards hunting inside their cages. Occasionally, Jennifur likes to “help” the geckos by batting at the crickets inside the terrarium. The lizards respond by running and hiding.
I just realized that all of our pets are predators…