Okay, so it’s not caturday, but here’s a Top Cat mural anyway. I don’t know, maybe this was advertising for the movie — it’s been around a couple years now, and Top Cat was released in the US in 2013 — but it’s still pretty good.
And no, I’m not old enough to remember Top Cat in its original broadcast, but I definitely caught a fair amount of it in syndication, lo these many years ago. It had a very catchy theme song, as I recall.
This is just a few steps from Hipmunk HQ.
I dragged my brother down to the Union Square area while he was in town this week to see the Macy’s Window Kittens and Puppies (OMG there’s a live stream this year!), thus displaying that I am a bit over-fond of watching kittens in windows and that he is much more tolerant of my goofy behavior than he was when we were kids. (I was the older brother, so of course I didn’t actually care at the time, but still.)
These two were lying there semi-comatose when we walked up, and then, after maybe 10 or 15 seconds, they suddenly decided that playing was the most important thing ever.
Wait for it…
SPOTTY KITTEN BELLY!
Didn’t get a name or address of this gorgeous gal, but I ran into her right outside the puppies and kittens Macy’s display. Apparently she was a little freaked out by the kittens.
They are SO POI?NTY.
I get the feeling that if she looked straight upward, you could use her for a lawn dart.
Autumn and my brother and I went out to eat at a place recommended by a friend for Thanksgiving dinner, ‘Hs. Lordships‘. It’s in the middle of the Berkeley marina, stuck way out in the bay. Gorgeous view. Humongous buffet. The food was… fine. Some of it was quite good, some of it was okay, some of it was… not. And it was insanely busy. Meh. For $25 each it would have been a great deal. For $50 each, there are literally a hundred restaurants within walking distance of my apartment that would have done a better job, though admittedly not with a buffet.
Ah well. The view was pretty spectacular (even if we weren’t anywhere near the windows).
In other news, here we have some very relieved fowl. Autumn and I ran into them while doing a tour of Vasco Caves, which is a kind of neat wildlife reserve (it has kit foxes!) with some Native American cave paintings that aren’t actually in caves. (Actually, they barely have one cave and it only goes in ten feet and is like fifty feet wider than it is deep. The name is suspect.) It’s really hard to get on the tour list, they only do a couple a month, but a last-minute spot opened up. And we saw a bunch of wildlife, including these turkeys, a bunch of other birds, a couple of coyotes, etc, but alas did not see any kit foxes.
Happy Turkey Day, to you and to these fowl, and to everyone else who lived to peck and squawk at least a little longer.
Turkey photos by Autumn, who was the one with the camera that day.
Apparently they can fly well enough to perch in the tops of trees. After I heard that, I kept my eyes upward whenever we were near trees. Being pooped on by a songbird is one thing…
Kona is nine months old and may well actually be a basenji German shepherd mix, despite the fact that (as referenced in a comment on this post) rather a wide variety of things get labeled ‘basenji mix’. Well, whatever she is, she’s very photogenic.
Happy almost-turkey day! What’re you having for Thanksgiving?
She has gorgeous brown eyes.
This is the classic ‘parent trying to get dog to look at photographer’ shot. It NEVER works.
There are the pseudo-basenji concerned forehead wrinkles.
September in November! I could use a little more of that… specifically, I could use a little more daylight. This time of year I walk out of work at 6 PM and … it feels like I’m leaving work at 8. Which was never a favorite thing of mine to do. (And yes, San Francisco sunsets are preeeeetty early this time of year.)
So happy September! September is a 10-year-old salt and pepper miniature schnauzer, which as we all know are wont to schnauze at any opportunity. She prefers to wear her fur long, and although she is brushed quite frequently, she is still enough of a puppy that she tends to go all helter-skelter within a few hours. Doesn’t bother me: I’ve always liked that natural, wind-blown look.
Happy little-dog face. She was hard to photograph because every time she looked at me she wanted to give me kisses.
Bodie may also be Bodhi (we’ve seen a couple of Bodhis before), or some other variation on the name. I didn’t ask for a spelling, because I was too busy admiring his utterly magnificent tail. I have never seen anything like it, neither in my many years of dog-blogging nor before. It is glorious. I did ask his mom what he was, and she said he was a Belgian shepherd Aussie mix. I was a little dubious, because I don’t think I’ve seen an Australian shepherd that was black with tan points, but google sez they’re out there.
He reminds me a bit of Trucker, except the tail is… well, you’ll see.
Look at that tail. Yes, it requires daily brushing. So? It is totally worth it.
And this is what happens when he wags. (Which he does rather a lot.)
So I went to a pet fair in Golden Gate Park a few weeks ago, and this happened. Apparently they are highly educated and eminently employable goats. Apparently they used to be hired out to provide constructive criticism on people’s resumes but they kept eating them so now they’re hired out to mow lawns.
No, I have no idea why the goat is dressed as Harry Potter, but I believe that’s who he is dressed as.
Guess what time of year it is? Yes, that’s right, it’s the exhausting and emotionally draining and dark all the time time of year!
Wait, wait, no, that’s not where I was going with this. Um… oh! Right! It’s the first weekend of Macy’s window kittens! And thank goodness for that. I am going to be walking home by Macy’s every evening, and wishing that the windows opened earlier so I could stop in on my way to work too.
This is my reaction to this time of year, too. But I don’t have the ‘just spent two hours in a frenzy of play’ excuse.
This is one of those ‘only a cat could find this comfortable’ poses.
I have no idea. I just know she’s a puppy, she’s adorable, and I want one of whatever she is. Or maybe two.
When I saw her, she was surrounded by four kids and three adults. Not hard to see why.
Yes, the ‘mascara’ is on both eyes.