Comments on: Cat Screen Saver

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:07:07 +0000

Hey there! – Great photos of your cat on the desk. I was wondering, if you don’t mind, if I could post one of your photos on my web site http://www.catonmydesk.com – the site is new, and I am in the process of sourcing photos, videos, whatever I can find at the moment!

Let me know,

Cheers,

Mike

By: Eric Nolan

Eric Nolan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:22:04 +0000

Kris,
I guess either you or Madhurima got a PhD since you qualified to get a cat. Congrats.
I’m glad you’re still doing the blog thing since you were doing it years before it got invented.
Just saw the darjeeling limited, and thought of you and the wedding I never went to. At least I got to mobile–which’ll probably be the next wes anderson movie. I hope you get this comment and email me back. Say hi to Maddy for me.
Eric

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:02:37 +0000

Hank and Billy MUST come from the same litter. Besides looking a lot like Hank, Billy also sees it as his job to protect me from sights that stress me out. Only he defines stressful sights more broadly than Hank does–instead of “laptop screen,” it’s “anything that’s not Billy.”

Allergy-wise, the stuff that makes it possible for me to have Billy in the same zip code as my sinuses is Simple Solution’s Allergy Relief – Cat formula. Once a week, I soak a rag in the stuff, rub Billy down, dry him off, and I’m good to go. I’ve found it at both PetsMart (or whatever the hell their capitalization is) and PetCo. It’s like ten bucks for a bottle, which lasts a few months. Not a bad deal.

By: karah

karah — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:30:35 +0000

RE: Allergies — There’s a great thing called allerpet that is some kind of homeopathic I think substance that you sponge all over the cat or dog and it seemed to reduce allergic reactions for me [allerpet.com] I no longer have to use it as I seem to be less allergic to our cats’ fur.

RE: Cat fur — I discovered the Furminator [furminator.com], a novel kind of curry comb that removes more hair from the cat than you would think possible, thus less on your furniture and in cat’s belly, in theory. I use it on my cats and am not sure whether it helps the hairball problem, but their fur is silkier than ever now. Cats didn’t like it at first, but now are getting used to it and liking it better.

I receive no kickbacks from the makers of either of these products.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:53:32 +0000

I think it looks like he’s being very helpful.
Good kitty.

By: Aakaash

Aakaash — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:57:34 +0000

Where are you citing these stats from Pulao? Maybe I need to get me a couple of cats. That way, as I grow up, I will gradually de-allergize myself. May take a couple of years, but hey, anything to prove Zach Fordham (a doctor who told me allergies can never be cured) wrong.

By: Pulao

Pulao — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:22:20 +0000

I want a furry anti-glare coating on MY life! Wait…

I actually wish you’d gotten a shot of Hank in one of his favorite positions: he has his front paws on one side of the laptop, his back paws on the other, and just stands there. I think he’s discovered that his ever-expanding belly perfectly covers the laptop screen.

Also, I’d heard that people who have two or more pets (especially when growing up) tend to be 77% less likely to have allergic reactions. Given the way Hank sheds, this should mean that he has singlehandedly ensured that I will never sneeze again.

By: karah

karah — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:46:06 +0000

PS — tell Mr Bitey I said Hi.

By: karah

karah — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:44:56 +0000

Laughing my ass off. I’m going to use that pic of Hank’s ass as the wallpaper to my work computer, so the view will look just like the view at my home computer with a different colored cat ass. Thanks!!