When two-thirds of the mammals in your household are napping within eyesight, it hardly seems fair that the lone one-third should have to toil away at the toiling. It doesn’t help in the least that Madison is curled up in that one sunny patch. Much like him, I too love to curl up in sunny [...]

There is a very friendly cashier at the SuperT in Savage who really loves cats. Sadly though she is allergic. Or her husband is allergic. Someone in the household is allergic, I just can’t quite remember who it is. You would think I could remember since this is not the first time I’ve had this [...]

When we last left our intrepid interspecies lovers, they were enjoying a lot of togetherness nestled on the bedside table. Since then their love has grown. Now Madison has decided he is in charge of Pinguino’s well-being.
His new trick is to monitor the water that fills Pinguino’s belly. When Madison has determined that the level [...]

Madison is in love. Because he is a cat named after the best dead president, I thought his loves would always be of a more intellectual nature. Like that time he fell in love with Kissing in Manhattan.
But now that I’ve seen Madison with Pinguino, I know that the Kissing in Manhattan incident was [...]

There are lots of things I will tell you about last night, if I ever fully wake up and can completely open my eyes. This time will come, however, it is not right now.
Right now is for grunting at co-workers and listening to Lloyd Cole’s “Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?” on repeat. But [...]

Okay, so that sucked. After waiting the longest 30 minutes to ever happen and then adding an additional 25 minutes just to make the wait extra excruciating, Sister #4 had to put little Murphy to sleep. It sucked. It super sucked. Being in the room and trying to say goodbye, it took all my energy [...]

when i relocated supergenius headquarters to a quaint townhouse in shakopee, i kind of knew what i was getting into. i knew living with sister #4 would be tough. i knew i’d have to give up my habit of dropping my pants and bra at the door. so far that transition is going well.
but [...]

this is simon. we lived together for about a month. he was sister #4’s kitty for about three months. tonight she had to put him to sleep because he had kitty leukemia.
sister #4 just called with the news. she was sobbing and sobbing and i just feel so bad for her. i am glad [...]

sister #4 and her friend D, who is in town visiting from Idaho, have taken Simon to the emergency vet. the poor little guy is not getting any better. just looking at him breaks my heart right in two. about an hour ago, Simon peed allover D. which is weird, because he’s never had an [...]

sister #4 just called. she took simon to the vet. they don’t know what the hell was wrong with him, but he is dehydrated. they pumped him full of electrolytes, gave her a syringe and told her to force feed him, and he has to take antibiotics. allegedly it could be some sort of infection, [...]

simon, one of sister #4’s kittens, is not well. i don’t know what’s wrong with him, but i’m worried sick about it. he hasn’t been himself the past two days. all he does is sleep, his eyes are gunky and he looks like he’s lost weight. i think sister #4 is going to take him [...]

the biggest change with buying the house and moving in with sister #4 has to be the cats. we are two single women with four cats between us. that’s just so damn wrong. SO WRONG. i told her to get rid of her two, she’d only had them for a few months she couldn’t be [...]

so i’m sitting here breaking the cardinal rule of jodi (no computers in bed) and paco’s here with me. he was rubbing himself against me, like he always does, because he’s he neediest cat in the world, when i noticed something new. it looked like a weird extended nipple by his butt. however, there had [...]

“will you stop rubbing your ass against me.”
“must you lick yourself while laying on my feet.”
“can’t we live in harmony?”
“she asked me if we could be friends and i said oh honeybaby that’s a dead end, you know it.”

you know, after you’ve had a bad weekend that involved serious head trauma and lumps. a weekend that included thrown hammers, sweaty frustration, and bruises on both arms and both legs. when you’ve had that kind of weekend, well everything can be made all better by a cat that curls up on your kind of [...]