who stole the warm?

Christ - I leave Portland's late summer warmth and arrive back to one of the coldest days in my memory in Melbourne. My little weather applet says that at the moment it "feels like" 0.8C outside.

What the hell?!

stupid cat tricks

Obviously when you (as a cat) have been away for a week or two, the first thing you must do is exhaustively investigate every corner of the house. Presumably just to check that the big pink non-cat that buys the food hasn't gone and bought new replacement cats or something in the meantime.

And while I was in Oregon, I picked up a cat body pillow. This is a fluffy sausage shaped cushion (about 8-10 inches long) with catnip in it. Sam is now attempted to wrestle it into submission. At the moment, the cushion is winning about 2 fights out of 3. This is because Sam is The World's Worst Combat Kitten.

It turns out that it is in fact legal to bring catnip toys (but not catnip plants) into the country, although the customs officers had to go and look up their big boffo book of Naughty or Nice to determine this.