02/21/2025 – On the Hunt

Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com
Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com

. . . and you know what I don’t appreciate? Being called Anteater. You’d think I was doing this household a favor by hunting down and ridding this place of pesky and insistent ants. And what do I get for it? Called names.

Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com
Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com

Beside that upset stomach I get from eating ants, beside all that unpleasantness, I search high and low for those wee small teensy tiny crawling things. Do you remember when my Mom used to praise me for being the best bug hunter ever? I remember that. Of course, I whapped the bugs back then. I didn’t know some were soooo tasty.

Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com
Pia looking for ants © Colehauscats.com

I’m not any more inclined to give up hunting for and eating ants than my Mom and Dad are in labeling me Anteater. Maybe it’s a title I should carry proudly. I’ll be sure to tell the next ant I find that I’m only doing what my title insists I do.

Now that I’m doing two jobs as a cat AND as an Anteater, let’s talk about a raise . . .

A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024Four Word Wednesday
2023 – No post
2022Miscellaneous Monday
2021 – No post
2020A Different Friday
2019 – No post
2018Little Viola, Big Eyes
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014A Big Girl!
2013 – No post
2012 – No post

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02/19/2025 – Four Word Wednesday

Viola's watching © Colehauscats.com
Viola’s watching © Colehauscats.com
Tessa watching © Colehauscats.com
Tessa watching © Colehauscats.com

We swear they moved!

The toys © Colehauscats.com
The toys © Colehauscats.com

Those toys didn’t move.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024Miscellaneous Monday
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021Friday Fun
2020Things on Cats, The Fish Episode
2019 – No post
2018A Day Off
2017 – No post
2016Itty and her Special Features
2015 – No post
2014One Word Wednesday – Sun
2013Ruby Tuesdays
2012 – No post

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02/17/2025 – MultiCat Monday

Quint and Pia © Colehauscats.com
Quint and Pia © Colehauscats.com

The gingers side-by-side. Maybe Quint was hoping Pia would sniff him or better yet, lick his forehead, something the usually aloof Pia’s been doing on and off over the past couple of months. She’s not at any point downright grooming Quint yet, but in the rare moments Mom actually sits on the couch, both Pia and Quint join her and Pia almost always straightens Quint’s forehead furs. One could muse that Quint, who’s always a neat and tidy gentleman, may be messing up his furs in hopes Pia will take notice and do something about that.

Or maybe tolerance really does come with age?

Viola and Tessa © Colehauscats.com
Viola and Tessa © Colehauscats.com

And this is about as close as we’re ever going to see Viola and Tessa together. Unless they ever prove the above question – Will an aging Tessa ever tolerate Viola? Is she doing that now? We think Tessa’s turned back shows she’s just not acknowledging Viola is on the next chair over, though one could argue a turned back shows a certain amount of trust. Or confidence, that Tessa has an over abundance of.

Viola, on the other hand, looks somewhat bewildered. Maybe looking for an escape route? Truth be told, both napped in these spots for over two hours. Would that be tolerance? Or was this whole thing just luck of the draw and Mom with a handy camera?

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023Finally Friday
2022 – No post
2021Eating the Props
2020MultiCat Monday
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017Friday Fun
2016Welcome Itty!
2015Ruby Tuesday
2014MultiCat Monday
2013 – No post
2012Some Habits are Hard to Break

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