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‘Gimley 1, Diet 0’: Overweight cat brings stray and injured kittens home so he can eat kitten food,

Posted by Elna McHilderson

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It's not easy being a fat cat on a diet, just ask Gimley! This big boy has been put on a diet. For a cat, this is basically torture. He likes to eat, so sue him! Unfortunately, he has no say in the matter… Or does he? Turns out this guy is a smart one! Instead of trying to sneak into the cat food or go to the neighbors for extra treats, he has found a better technique that seems to make everyone happy! He has realized when he brings home a kitten with him, he then gets to get the delicious kitten food! So, he has started finding stray and injured kittens to bring home. His mom knows that he's simply doing this to get the good food, but in the meantime, it is also helping out the stray kitties in the area. So though she is frustrated it is messing up his diet, she is happy to help all these little kitties. Gimely, however, is just doing the good deeds for the good, baby! And you know what? Heck yeah! He deserves the treats.

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'I didn't think we'd get 3 months together, but here we are a year later': Cat lover picks the crust

Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

https://cheezburger.com/42452741/i-didnt-think-wed-get-3-months-together-but-here-we-are-a-year-later-cat-lover-picks-the-crustiest

Shelters go through an insane number of kittens every year, with kitties flying off the shelves and leaving nothing but milk bottles and shredded feather dusters in their wake. However, some shelter cats don't get selected by prospective families, and those are the seniors. Old, crusty, and forgotten, senior cats rarely get a second glance from the perusers at the animal shelter.

But this old crusty cat, a 16-year-old orange cat named Nuji, must have tugged on the heartstrings of a particularly empathetic rescuer. Although her friends were telling her to get a kitten and help them enter a world full of love, she decided instead to give an old guy a second chance at a beautiful life, turning this senior cat's life expectancy from 3 months to infinity. Turns out, love goes a long way when an elderly cat realizes they've got a chance to touch grass and wander in the public park, living the life they always dreamed of from behind the bars of the rescue cage.

https://cheezburger.com/42452741/i-didnt-think-wed-get-3-months-together-but-here-we-are-a-year-later-cat-lover-picks-the-crustiest

RIP Robert Redford

I have to admit that when all the hubbub of him being cast in Winter Soldier happened, I was entirely out of the loop. He didn't have much presence in my life growing up, despite me devouring movies. But it's been nice to read about his life since yesterday. I never knew about all his activism.

Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made by Dave Leviton is a good write-up.

I may look into a few of his movies when I get home. Meanwhile, here's a All The Predident's Men vid: Me and Bernstein down by the schoolyard by

findmeinthealps.

eta Sneakers is a movie that's being mentioned a lot, I may seek that one out. Here's a writeup at PC Mag (makes sense, as it's about cyber security, I believe?)

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Wednesday Reading Meme

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

I was so charmed by The Fairy Circus that I decided to see if the university archives had any of Lathrop’s other books, and indeed, they have The Colt from Moon Mountain... and the colt is a unicorn colt!!!!!!! Sorry, maybe I shouldn’t have spoiled that, I went into the archive not knowing and nearly squeaked with delight when I saw the cover, but as it IS on the cover it’s probably not a serious spoiler. Unicorn befriends farmgirl! Delightful.

The archive people know me, by the way. I was rooting through my purse for my ID and the desk clerk was like, “Don’t worry, I’ve seen you before.”

I also read Dick Francis’s Whip Hand, the sequel to Odds Against. In Odds Against, iron woobie Sid Halley had been forced out of his jockey career by a tragic accident that resulted in a horrifyingly deformed left hand, which led to him becoming a private investigator, which over the course of the book led to him losing said left hand entirely.

About three chapters into Whip Hand, the baddie trains a shotgun on Sid’s right hand at point-blank range and threatens to shoot it off. Sid endures in stoic (but deeply terrified) silence; I the reader screamed like a tea kettle. “IS HE GOING TO LOSE ONE APPENDAGE EACH BOOK?” I shrieked with horrified delight at this new horizon of whumpiness.

( Spoilers )

What I’m Reading Now

Another quote from A Sand County Almanac: “Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”

What I Plan to Read Next

Jostein Gaarder’s The Solitaire Mystery! Which comes with a side mystery: Gaarder has published a number of books since the 1990s, most of which have indeed been translated into English, and yet most of them are not available through any of the various libraries to which I have access. Why not? Where are they? A mystery worthy of Gaarder himself.

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Quick Rec Wednesday

Rec time! Did you read/watch/listen to something you really liked and would love other people to know about, too? Don't have the time or energy to make a full promo post, or think such a small thing doesn't merit a separate entry?

Here's your chance to share with the class! Just drop a comment with a link and maybe a couple of words in description. No need to overthink things, it can be as simple as Loved this! or OMG, look at that!. (You don't need to keep it short, though, write as much as you want.)

Check out the previous entries, too!

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The Day in Spikedluv (Tuesday, Sept 16)

I hit Walmart while I was downtown and Stewart’s on the way home. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I stopped by the library on the way home from mom’s to pick up some books. I grilled steak for Pip’s supper.

I started the next Duncan Kincaid book and watched an HGTV program.

Temps started out at 48.7(F) and reached 77.2. I wore shorts and a tank top out of the house in the morning despite the cool temps because I was determined to enjoy the later warm temps. (With a sweatshirt, naturally. *g*)

Mom Update:

Mom was on the porch when I arrived, but still complained about having too little energy. ( more back here )

A Ray of Sunshine in the Form of 23 Fuzzy Feline Funnies (September 17, 2025)

Posted by Lana DeGaetano

https://cheezburger.com/42449157/a-ray-of-sunshine-in-the-form-of-23-fuzzy-feline-funnies-september-17-2025

Is it rainy where you pet parents are? It is where I am, and I'm in dire need of some feline funnies to brighten up my mood and stave off the damp weather—I know you are, too!

The cold weather is coming quicker than we expected, but it's essential to remember that with the changing of the seasons come different experiences. For instance, our cats are growing a thicker coat of fur, and we may consider putting sweaters on them for our Christmas cards… Maybe even Halloween costumes. Who knows? See, we have to look on the bright side. If we don't, we'll all be hissterical until the time comes for the sun to set after 8 PM again.

Feline funnies will get you feeling fuzzy in no time, especially ones that feel like a warm hug or that one spot of sunlight your cat finds come midday. We can never be cats, but we can sure admire them (and try to find our own little spots of sun on the floor).

For now, all we can supply you cat parents with is a selection of curated cat memes, ready to make you smile for the rest of the day!

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Current Music: Donald Swann, "Say Who You Are"

If I press button A, all my pennies will go

I just had my first opportunity to shower in four nights, even without washing my hair, so I just had the same opportunity to free-associate in the shower.

I have no explanation for why I was singing the blessedly abridged setting of Kipling's "The Ladies" (1896) that I learned from the singing of John Clements in Ships with Wings (1941) except that it's been in my head ever since it displaced Cordelia's Dad's "Delia" (1992).

As a person who does think all the time about the Roman Empire, I am incapable of not associating Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Girl I Kissed at Clusium" (1954) with Sydney Carter's "Take Me Back to Byker" (1963)—as performed by Donald Swann, the only way I have ever heard it—even though Sutcliff was obviously drawing on Kipling's "On the Great Wall" (1906) with her long march and songs that run in and out of fashion with the Legions and the common ancestor of all of them anyway is almost certainly "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (17th-whatever).

Somehow I remain less over the fact that Donald Swann was the first person to record Carter's "Lord of the Dance" (1964) than the fact that he did a song cycle of Middle-Earth (1967) and an opera of Perelandra (1964).

Oh, shoot, Swann would have made a great Campion. You register the horn-rims and immediately tune out the face behind them.

Ignoring the appealingly transitive properties of Wimsey, Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter, I am not going to rewatch the episode of Granada Holmes starring Clive Francis, I am going to lie down before someone wakes me.

21 Funny Photos of Fursty Felines Versus the Kitchen or Bathroom Tap

Posted by Laurent Shinar

https://cheezburger.com/42435845/21-funny-photos-of-fursty-felines-versus-the-kitchen-or-bathroom-tap

Cats, we know em, we love em and one of the things that we love so much about them is their interest and intrigue in hooman things and their hilarious attempts to use them. And while their apprehension of how to open door handles is not necessarily the thing we enjoy the most, after all, doors have been put in place for privacy, the point still stands.

But one thing that many cats seriously struggle with is the ability to drink water from a tap. They love it, they are obsessed with it, but when it comes to figuring out how to make it happen in any sort of normal way, our cute cattos are completely incompetent. Which makes for quite the pleasurable viewing when you are feeling a little incompetent yourself. So kick back and enjoy this collection of hilarious cattos that will make you feel cognitively superior.

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‘He chose me as his momma and I will always be his momma’: The emotional story of a cat momma and he

Posted by Laurent Shinar

https://cheezburger.com/42419717/he-chose-me-as-his-momma-and-i-will-always-be-his-momma-the-emotional-story-of-a-cat-momma-and-her

Life is a tough thing. Whether it is the fragility inherent in it that can break at any moment, or it is simply the courage and strength it takes to walk against the rising tide. But the bonds that we make, especially with our cat children are the things that help us keep going and to see us through to the end of our lives.

And today we have a life story of sorts to share with you that centers around a young woman and her cat. Detailing their journey from the day that they met, all the way until the sad sad day that they said their goodbyes, this is a story that displays just how strong, how healing, and how important the love that is shared in a cat-hooman relationship is. This is the story of cat commitment, this is the story that all cat lovers will remember and hold on to in the toughest of times.

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Cat born completely normal suddenly starts changing color, turns out the ginger feline has vitiligo,

Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

https://cheezburger.com/42407429/cat-born-completely-normal-suddenly-starts-changing-color-turns-out-the-ginger-feline-has-vitiligo

When you adopt a cat, whether at the shelter or from the streets, you think you know what you are getting. What you see is what you get, right? Well, not always, not with cats. Sometimes, you adopt a completely normal kitten only for the kitten to stop growing, stay tiny forever. Sometimes, the opposite happens, and the tiny kitten you adopted doesn't stop growing, and suddenly, you realize that for the next 10-25 years, you have signed up to having a little lion in your house.

And sometimes, you adopt the most predictable cat - a silly orange cat, yes, but a regular orange with regular orange proclivities. And then, out of nowhere, right before your eyes, your orange - the one that you trusted to be completely normal - suddenly starts changing colors. And you have to ask yourself what does it mean? What did you actually bring to your home? And will this orange still act like an orange?

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Neighbor finds missing cat after owners put up posters offering $800 reward, neighbor brings the cat

Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

https://cheezburger.com/42437381/neighbor-finds-missing-cat-after-owners-put-up-posters-offering-800-reward-neighbor-brings-the-cat

When a pet goes missing, most owners would do pretty much anything to get their beloved furriend back. We have yet to meet a pet owner who would not sell their own soul to be reunited with their most prized "possession". Love has no price tag.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise when one sees a "missing pet" poster that a reward is offered to whoever finds the pet. If a reward can help speed the recovery process and find the pet faster, that is a small price to pay. And if someone was kind enough to take care of the pet after finding it and while waiting to return it, then they can have all the money in the world, if you ask us.

That is what we would have told the sweet hooman in the story below, after they felt guilty for accepting an $800 reward for finding a neighbor's cat. They did a good deed, and we understand it can be weird to accept a prize for that, but they definitely deserve it.

Keep scrolling to read the full story.

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Happy birthday,

hairyears!

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Happy Anniversary!

Four years ago on this day, I created and opened this comm for business.

I've said it before in past anniversary posts, and it's still true: This comm provided some much needed distraction and fun, and I'm very grateful to all of you who made it so. Comments, discussions, fanworks, resources - thank you for participating and keeping this community active.

I've found new friends here, and lots of interesting things to watch and read and listen to, and I'm hoping this will continue for another year (or longer)!

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glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

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hong kong (and transit through Istanbul)

( mostly architecture and cats )

Current Music: Antler Joe and the Accidents, "Words"

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Afghanistan banana stand

When I heard tonight about Robert Redford, I did not think first of the immortal freeze-frame of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) or the righteous paranoia of All the President's Men (1976) or even the perfectly anachronistic jazz of The Sting (1973) where I almost certainly first saw him, effortlessly beautiful even before he shines up from street-level short cons to the spectacular wire of the title grift. I thought of The Hot Rock (1972), a freewheelingly dumb-assed caper film of which I am deeply fond in no small part because of Redford. Specifically, his casting makes it look at first like the inevitable Hollywood misrepresentation of its 1970 Donald E. Westlake source novel, a cool jazz glow-up of the canonically, lankily nondescript Dortmunder whose heists always look completely reasonable on paper and in practice like a Rube Goldberg machine whose springs just sprang off. Only as the setbacks of the plot mount past aggravation into absurdity approaching Dada, of which the attempt to sneak into a precinct house via helicopter must rate highly even before the crew land on the wrong roof and the siege-minded lieutenant mistakes their break-in for the revolution, does the audience realize that this Dortmunder has the face of a screen idol and the flop sweat of a shlimazl, a man whose charisma is not an asset when it makes people think he knows what he's doing. "I've got no choice," he says doggedly of the eponymous diamond which he did at least once successfully steal, whence all their troubles began. "I'm not superstitious and I don't believe in jinxes, but that stone's jinxed me and it won't let go. I've been damn near bitten, shot at, peed on, and robbed, and worse is going to happen before it's done. So I'm taking my stand. I'm going all the way. Either I get it, or it gets me." When he acquires an incipient ulcer at the top of the second act, who's surprised? He glumly chews antacids as one of his meticulously premeditated schemes trips over its own shoelaces yet again. It may be the only time Redford played so far against his stardom, but he makes such a gorgeous loser with that tousle of coin-gold hair and an ever more disbelieving look in the matinée blue of his eyes, the Zeppo of his quartet of thieves who only looks like the normal one and no slouch in a stack of character actors from Moses Gunn and Zero Mostel through Lee Wallace and even a bit-part Christopher Guest, not to mention George Segal by whom he is characteristically almost run into a chain-link fence, trying to collect him from his latest stint upstate in a hot car with too many accessories. "Not that you're not the best, but a layman might wonder why you're all the time in jail." Harry Bellaver figured in so many noirs of the '40's and '50's, why should he not have retired to run a dive bar on Amsterdam Avenue patronized by exactly the kind of never-the-luck lowlifes he might once have played? The photography by Ed Brown goes on the list of great snapshots of New York, the screenplay by William Goldman is motor-mouthed quotable, the score by Quincy Jones never sounds cooler than when the characters it accompanies are failing their wisdom checks at land speed. Watching it as part of a Peter Yates crime trilogy between Bullitt (1968) and The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) may induce whiplash. It may not be major Redford, but it is beloved Redford of mine, and worthwhile weirdness to watch in his memory. This stand brought to you by my jinxed backers at Patreon.

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Community Challenge & Signup Reminder!

Hello, sweet and spooky Trick or Treaters! Signups close in just under two days (September 18 at 7:59 PM EDT/23:59 UTC). Here is the signup information post!

And for this year's Community Challenge, we're going retro again. Your collective goal is to treat every participant.

*except for the ones who opt out of treats. do not treat them!

This will be managed in a similar style to the 2021 community challenge (see here) with percentage tiers of success. I'll post the exact tier targets after signups close and we have the numbers.

Get excited, and good luck!

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Daily Happiness

1. My knee is sore today but the other aches and pains I had last night when trying to get to sleep seem to have gone away in the morning.

2. I had two meetings today and both were cancelled!

3. I made an appointment to get my covid shot next Monday, which was the soonest I could get an appointment, though I might drop in tomorrow on the way to work and see if they have any walk-in availability (it said limited walk-ins online), as there is a location offering them close to work.

4. Ollie has such impressive eyebrows.