Ceiling Cat showed up today in the men's bathroom at work. While I won't admit to anything, I'd assume it's related to this papercraft ceiling cat that appeared on BoingBoing today. He watches you. Previously: Meow Cat from Katamari Damacy UPDATE: A few days later it gets stolen.
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Name: Dora
When I first got her, she stole my Oreo cookies off the counter. I wanted to name her something more special but it was too true to pass by. Even still, when you open a bag of Oreo cookies she comes running instantly like most cats would for tuna.
Oreo can be conversational and will verbally respond to you. "Sometimes she gets fussy and meows louder... or quiet depending on what we're talking about," Kendra adds. Oreo also likes batting pencils and paintbrushes around on the floor. Even though she's an indoor cat, Oreo once ate through a screen door and snuck outside with Scooter. One thing Oreo loves is attacking the mouse cursor on a computer. "I'm shocked my laptop is still in tact, to be honest." Kendra is a student and budding photographer. Some of her work can be found on Flickr. She is looking to continue studying photography and further persuing a career in photojournalism. More photos of Oreo can be found searching the "oreo" tag on Kendra's Flickr account. Be sure to click through to the next few pages as there's some really great photos of Oreo.
(Post originally on Minnesota Meow) Name: C. Bac Nickname: Canadian Bacon, Grey Cat Born: June 2003 Lives in: Ericsson, Minneapolis Lives with: Erica and Terry Johnson and another cat, Roni C. Bac, short for "Canadian Bacon," was rescued from the Humane Society when he was a kitten after Erica saw a news story about a large influx of cats that needed to be placed in homes. His original name was Edison but as Erica's sister had a cat named Chovie (short for "Anchovie") and they are all devoted pizza fans, Edison got named Canadian Bacon. Chovie has since run away but C. Bac now lives with another cat, Roni (short for "Pepperoni"). As Erica describes:
C. Bac's the kind of cat that sees you looking at him from across the room and will coming running and beg to be pet. And no minor petting will do -- he needs the full-on attention. It gets so bad that at some point you have to hide your hands so that he can't rub his face on them to encourage you to pet him more!
One of his most bizarre habits involves licking plastic bags around the house. Nobody's sure where he developed this interest but Erica says "it needs to stop."
We've never thought of C. Bac to be very smart. We love him, as the big oaf that he is. When he and Chovie escaped the house we were surprised that C. Bac was the one that found his way home. We were sitting in our family room above our garage and heard a "meow, meow!" coming from outside. We looked out the window and on the hood of TJ's car in the driveway was C. Bac screaming at the window. Unlike Chovie, he knew well enough not to wander far and did everything he could to get our attention and get back in the house. It was very sad when Chovie didn't come home -- and C. Bac roamed around the house crying for his friend.
C. Bac lives with his best friend Roni as well as TJ and Erica who are newlyweds that moved to Minneapolis a year and a half ago. TJ works as a application developer for Four51 and Erica work as a graphic designer and event planner for Public Affairs in Hennepin County. They enjoy playing ultimate frisbee, are avid Minnesota Wild fans, love movies and eating out. They're looking forward to adding to their family soon -- this time with less fur. More photos of C. Bac can be found in Erica's "Kitties" Gallery.
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Name: General Spaz Mauw, Mayor of Mauw Mauw TownOne day, while Spaz was curled up on top of the refrigerator, she presumably dozed off, rolled over and fell! My refrigerator is inside a pantry that is about 6 inches wider than the fridge, but the opening is smaller than the inside, and only about as wide as the fridge. Meaning, she was now stuck between it and the wall. Thankfully, she was totally okay and not hurt! She really knows how to get herself into trouble.Spaz lives with Ang who is a Project Coordinator in Provider Relations at MN Department of Human Services by day and runs Overheard in Minneapolis after hours. More photos of Spaz can be found in Ang's Spaz photo set as well as Aaron's Spaz photo set.
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Name: MookiHe likes to make up games and stuff. He loves to ride around in 12 can pop boxes - it's a lot like the kleenex box thing, except he runs into it on the floor and then sits there whipping his tail back and forth waiting for us to either pick it up by the handle and zoom him around like an airplane, or scoot him around on the floor like he's in a car. He just purrs and purrs when we do that! We've been thinking of getting him a child's skateboard and rigging him up a little car on that. Then again, maybe he'll just like to ride on the skateboard. Boxes are definitely his favorite thing, I think it's part of the Bengal breed though, 'cause other Bengal owner's have said the same thing. It really doesn't matter how small the box is, he'll at least stick his head in it. I even have footage of him trying to get into an regular envelope and scooting around on the floor with his two front paws in it. He also love to put toys and stuff in the water bowl. He just seems to find it so fun to play with a toy around the bowl and slosh some water out then, sometimes he'll kind of come running and slip around in the water on the tile floor on purpose. I pretty much have to change the water and wash out the bowl everyday because he gets it so dirty! He also still likes to climb the curtains. Luckily, we have sturdy cotton canvass type curtains, or they'd be all ripped to shreds. He got it in his head one time that he was going to make it up to the top of the curtain rod, and it took him maybe about a week or less and he did it. He got all the way up to the top of the rod and was standing on top of it, but then he didn't know where to go or what to do. I think Chuck had to get a chair to get him down. After he made it up there, though, he pretty much was done with that. Now he just climbs them (or threatens to) to force us to pay attention to him, you know, when we're watching TV or having dinner. He likes to also climb our slatted bedroom door in the morning if we've overslept according to him. Sometimes though, he seems to do it just because he needs to burn off some energy. Come to think of it, Mooki likes to climb things a lot like a Monkey too. Perhaps he's part monkey?Chuck adds:
We're thinking of getting a baby sister kitten to play with, because he's so incredibly active and we can't keep him entertained. He's very dog-like in a lot of ways and gets really crazy, enough that I half-worry he might inflict some harm on a little kitten. So I like to ask Mooki in a little baby voice, "Did you kill your sister? Huh? Did you kill your sister?"
"A family with a broken heart till she comes home."
Dave and I noticed this sign last weekend across the street from my house. Since, he's had a couple similar cats show up to meow at him. He's called the number and they're not a match. I also saw a gray cat yesterday run across the street in front of my car, sit down and meow at me but I don't think it was it either. I haven't usually taken these kinds of signs with that much thought but it is posted right across the street and I keep thinking of what I would do if I lost Nadia.This is the Meow Cat from Katamari Damacy. I was first introduced to this crazy PS2 game by friends in New York. Basically the game makes sense if you are not sober: The king of all cosmos gets drunk and screws up the stars. He sends his little 5cm tall prince to fix everything. To do this, the prince takes a Katamari (which is like a sticky ball) and rolls over everything to pwn it. The ball gets larger as you pwn more things, which means you can then pwn larger things, such as this Meow Cat. It’s a game devoted to ownage. It is very addictive and has a soundtrack that sticks in your head for days. Check out one of the original commercials for the game at waxy.org or see a gameplay video. You can even make your own papercraft Meow Cat like I did. [UPDATE 04 Sep 2011: Yes the links broken, if you have this, please comment!]
