Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

Content warning:mh-; cat aggression & injury Update: The vet gave us gabapentin for both Minnaloushe and Cosmo. The boys are currently having some nice relaxed drug naps on separate floors of the house. Hopefully being doped up for a little while addresses Cosmo's trauma and mellows out Minnaloushe's rampage to interrupt the cycle. Also, Feliway diffusers are deployed in several rooms. We may get anti-anxiety meds for Minnaloushe. I'm half wondering if Minna got keyed up seeing critters on the deck yesterday?

Content warning:mh-; cat aggression & injury We've got Minnaloushe separated in a bedroom right now. He jumped directly into my lap, flopped, started purring. I'm like, bud, this is great, can you just stop trying to murder your roommate?

Content warning:mh-; cat aggression & injury And I know there's not necessarily human logic in what cats do, but I'm trying to figure it out anyway. Far as i can tell, Cosmo is not an aggressor, he just wants out of the situation. Minnaloushe keeps stalking him and chattering at him before attacking. And it's definitely not play fighting I'm like, did Cosmo do something yesterday that set this off? Is Minnaloushe suddenly feeling sick or in pain that's triggering him? Wish they could speak

Content warning:mh-; cat aggression & injury I'm a bit worried that Minnaloushe may need to be the sole pet in a quiet home. He's lovely to us humans. We're his third adoptive home and I'd hate to push him on to his fourth, but drawing blood is a good way to get voted off the island. Talking to the vet, getting feliway and anti-anxiety meds, going to try to get him smoothed out. But, very worried about all this. We've been lucky to have never dealt with this before in 7 cats that we've had at various points

Content warning:mh-; cat aggression & injury Ugh. We adopted Minnaloushe about 2 1/2 months ago. He's been settling well, though we can tell he's had some trauma at some point. Not aggressive, but hair trigger to throw paws if he gets his boundaries disrespected. Miss Biscuits and Cosmo have mostly respected this, though they both keep making overtures to be friendly. Then, yesterday, he rather abruptly decided that Cosmo needed his ass kicked. Claws out, blood drawn, won't stop stalking him. Cosmo's terrified

I am having lunch on my deck. I am not alone.

That my first impulse is to sign each and every one of these randos up for a subscription to hourly cat facts in response is an indicator of my unsuitability for this sort of hustle work

A thing I'm working at work got posted to Product Hunt. Now my inbox is filling up with emails with subject line "Quick thought on {product name}" from randos - and usually the quick thought is "have you thought about using my product?"

It's like Neko Atsume up in here #cats

me: "Huh, I'm getting very cranky." my office: *is 90ºF / 32ºC* me: "I wonder what's up?" my water bottle: *is full of undrunk ice water* me: "I guess I'll never know. Grr."

One of the things that the bandit really like messing with is the floating skimmer I threw in there. I could imagine that thing collects a bunch of edible tasty goodies, must be like a buffet bucket