Cat watch ended: Only 25 examples of sleeping cats

OK. SATISFIED? Titi accepts photos if I change the camera from time to time. Her curiosity is fascinating.

EASILY DISTRACTED: Taking close ups of Isis is based on making her focus of something else.

The cats has returned to their owner and his boss, but luckily I got two pictures of them awake.

On the other hand, I think I've seen most of the following sleeping positions during the visits of these cats.
The 25 Most Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions

I may even be able to ad a few. I don't have the faintest idea of how they do it.

Cat watch day #14: Enjoying life as it is

THE GOOD LIFE: Not exactly dissatisfied.

The last day before I had to deliver the cats back home was pretty much relaxing. At least until I collected the transport cages from the cupboard. Then at least Titi tried to run under my bed. Which I had barricaded discreetly for a couple of days. She did not succeed running for cover. 

ANYTHING WILL DO: Always amazing to see how cats can find places comfortable to sleep at.

Well, they soon settled down again, and gave this show of sleepy show offs only cats can provide.

All in the mood of good useless information shared rapidly during social networks this summer. One was the
15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You're an Extrovert and the other 23 Signs You're Secretly An Introvert. If you read them both, you find yourself you are a little of both. Probably the point as well, and I think cats fits into this profiling as well.

Cat watch day #13: "Seen anything?"

LOOKING FOR MA: Rumor has it that the boss and her husband are close
to arriving back home for the eager awaiting Isis.

We are closing in on the two weeks I was to look after the two charming furballs. The boss and her husband (or the husband and its boss...ok, I am teasing the nine months newlywed's) are close to arriving back home after a successful conquering of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Interesting, cause this year have been the year of getting to know Africa, the great continent with a lot of countries, nations, cultures and nice people. For me nearly ten friends and acquaintances have been visiting Africa this year. I highly recommend anyone to travel and experience the variety of Africa.

Me myself attended a ten day training in international/foreign correspondent work in Malawi, followed by a round trip involving Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. The head of the training was the fantastic photojournalist Otto von Münchow.

I got a lot of memories myself, with the visit to Liwonde National Park in Malawi as one highlight.

Cat watch day #12: Busted!

NO FUN FOR YOU!: "Found your comics and DVD-collection. What do you think this is, Saturday afternoon leisure time for *you*? Cuddle me, pronto!"

From time to time you try to do something else than working (unless one of the cats interrupts). Watch some tv, facebooking and so on. And then you get from the fridge with some snack and mett her catjesty posed and looking like this. You feel almost like a Celebrity Who Blew It.

Cat watch day #11: And this is how I roll

I honestly do not understand everything that goes on in the heads of cats, and especially not in Isis head when she challenges Titi.

She should know by now that she is about to get her tail kicked.

But still...

IS THERE A PROBLEM? Anyone giving you that look issues a kind warning.
Is it some sort of mammal thing, that makes us humans understand it?

It is almost as fun as when the nutters in the extreme religious cult Westboro Baptis Church got a treatment of fun and sarcasm by Ke$ha and her Dancers.

Ke$ha is that sort of music star that actually is talented, smart (IQ >140 for anyone interested in that sort of thing). self driven learner and totally outrageous crazy. I sort of like that, you know how to handle that - like cats. It is the people acting completely normal that worries me most.

Cat watch day #10: The second before it breaks loose

IT'S GONNA HURT: The second just before Isis the big young cat got her tail seriously kicked by Titi the small and experienced cat.

The two lovely cats do have their tryouts and rituals during the day. Sometimes it is exciting, and sometimes it is a routine. For instance when they start a circular run along the walls of my apartment at 04.45, "chasing" each other.

The they just challenge each other, but you know it is going to get rough. It may sometimes be equal to this feeling: Yellow silt load.

Cat watch day #9: The most important being in the room

MINDING ITS CAT BUSINESS: "Excuse me, sir, would you be so kind as to elaborate on this claim that you are busy working and is not to be disturbed?"

We all know this, if the cat is bored it will seek attention and cuddling. Both for the health of human and cat alike, and to underline the point of who is the real boss here.

So, several times a day the cats walk in in front of the screens and keyboard. It is mostly useful, because I sure do need the breaks.

Can't help but noticing the different between cats and dogs. This new research from Switzerland explains how Dogs are 'Kids?' Owner-dog relationships share striking similarities to parent-child relationships.

I am not surprised, not at all.

Cat watch day #8: Cat People vs Dog People

NO SUCH THING AS CAT PEOPLE?: The double skeptics Titi and Isis agree:
if you are a dog-person, you just *have to* say that.

A friend from high school, now a trained psychologist, claims that there is no such thing as "cat-people" and "dog-people" as a way of saying anything about human behavior and archetypes.

I do find this hard to accept, but found some clarifying facts in this article on Cat People Are More Distinctive Than Dog People from Psychology Today.

On the other hand, my good friend mr. Google did return some other results when it comes to Cat People in Norway. Here is another example. A classic one is this one, but I do not recommend this.

Exciting, isn't it? Finally, just one more thing:

Cat watch day #7: Hidden in the shadows

PERSPECTIVE AND FOCUS: It ain't easy focusing on Titi when Isis consider herself the largest queen in this cathive.

The difference between the two cats I am looking after these days are a bit like looking after an extrovert and introvert child - one gets more attention and ends up in the spotlight even if the other one should get her equal share.

In the news this week I found an other example on animals fallen out of focus for a time - in Oz, this time: Night Parrot, Nocturnal Bird In Australia, Seen Alive For First Time In Over A Century

Enjoy!

Cat watch day #6: No correlations whatsoever

FIGHTING ANY RUMOURS: Rejecting all rumours that we are able to do anything coordinated - like this important Cat-Scan.

As the day goes by the two cats obviously got an agreement sorted out, along the lines "dizz iz an offr you can't meow "NO" to". And they do agree to disagree on certain points.

In the human world it would be pretty much along the lines of att driva ett sjukhus som en bilfabrik.(running a hospital like it was a car factory)

Cat Watch day #5: Fat cat business

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ISIS: Keeping herself clean and pretty.

Todays question: "Be honest. Does this bed cover make my a** look fat?"

An then in totally other news: Edward Snowden Reveals UFO Secrets? ~ ADG (UK)

Cat Watch day 4: Hakuna Matata

When I see Titi the cat watching out the window, fascinated, I sit beside her and say,
'Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.'

Yes, I still think this is one of the best animated movies - these two figures especially: Hakuna Matata. 

Here is a summary video with the highlights, BTW.

Cat watch day 3: Not always a winner

MANOUVERING: Isis id enjoying the perfect spot on top of my freezer.

These two cats have changed some over the years - the younger, Isis, is a larger cat than Titi, and far more agressiv. In earlier years it often led to Titi being denied to be cuddled if Isis was around.

Not anymore. The older versions of both are more even, and Titi is able to be more frenziec fighting back. So, now they chase each other around a couple of times a day, and it is not always Isis who wins these small fights (my flats inventory, on the other hand...).

No pain, no gain

But after all, Isis is a cat, and heartily denies any allegations of loosing the battle for the sunny spot on the window sill, claiming only to have taken a strategic regrouping position on top of the freezer.

Thereby she has proven that if you got one paw in the the sun and the other paw at the freezer, on average you're doing fine.

More, nearly completely unrelated read

I do like the phrase "strategic regrouping position". It is such a nice way of sayng "OK, I lost the battle, not the war". Here are a list of other words and phrases as good as that, but sadly obsolete, at least in English.

Cat Watch day 2: Awful news

Titi the Cat found that if she wanted cuddling, it had to take matter into her own paws. That meant to jump onto my desk and force herself between me and the keyboard.

When I thought I could pause and do some news search, she laid down on the keyboard and typed 'åækg;BOtgm,æogm bøa-igithghh in respons o the news on mr. Snowden and his whereabouts - Edward Snowden and asylum: He is a terrible candidate

After ten minutes her grace was finish cuddling and went for some food, leaving behind a thin layer of fur. They are molting for the summer that's finally arriving here in Oslo, the little rascals cuties.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins...*)

Titi the Cat

Isis the Cat 

Will be spending the next two weeks looking after the cats Titi and Isis

Their owners are of to "climb"/walk/capture Kilimanjaro. They are only the third couple I know travelling to East Africa this year.

Pleasant East Africa

Been to Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia myself this spring, and will highly recommend anyone to visit this great continent in the South.

When posting these pictures on my facebook page (dag-rune.info), this video was one of the responses- the Sad Cat Diary.

I would never treat any cat like this, of course...

*) The title for this post - I was inspired by George R.R. Martins and the "Game of Thrones"-series.

It is the Night Watch oath of duty, and is like this in full - ambitious, but WTH:

Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all nights to come.