Cat Tails: Murphy Update

His Highness would like you to know that he is very well but he asks for you to stop disturbing his rest:

He fusses wanting to go outside a little in the morning and again in the evening.  It is evenings that he wants to get outside the most.  I found opening windows distracts him as he likes to watch and smell the world going by.  Additionally, letting him into the garage appeases some of his outdoor desires.  He definitely sprays in there - such a pleasant aroma - and so may other cats when the garage door is open when I’m in the garden.

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Photos: Copyright © 2008 cdavies

Cat Tails: A day in the life of…

This is a composite series of photos taken over several days. As Murphy spends lots of time on my lap it is hard to take pictures of him.

Morning Murphy!

Cat Tales: Murphy’s Day

Recently I’ve shown you pictures of Murphy frantically trying to get outside. Today, the true picture emerges. As the photo above shows like all cats Murphy spends lots of his time sleeping.

Cat Gets In

Simon’s Cat ‘Let Me In!’

First seen at William the Coroner’s site

You could almost do the opposite of this for Murphy when he is in his desperate “let me out” mood.  I shall keep heavy objects away from him at this time.  At least he is not as able as Simon’s Cat at picking up objects.

Murphy is still mad

Sigh. It is hard for me not to just let him out.  He seems all right about being indoors now after over an hour of moaning and moping near the doors.  I probably didn’t help by going outside myself and leaving him indoors.  Around about sunset was his favorite time for going out.  I like to be out then too.

I wish he could be an outdoor cat but he gets beaten up.  Unfortunately, you cannot reason with a cat:

“I’ll let you out if you promise to stay away from the nasty cat that clawed you last month and back in November.”

Yeah, right.  He is a CAT.

Cat Tales: Still Behind Glass

He is not as desperate as he was last week. Partly because it is warm enough for me to open windows and he gets to look out and smell, which seems to be important for him.

He spends a lot of the time running from window to window trying to follow whatever it is outside.

Update:

Since I wrote this Thursday afternoon, Murphy escaped into the big wide world.  Imagine my surprise when I saw him outside when I was taking my last thing at night walk around the garden.  Apparently, I forgot to latch the back door, when he pushed against it the door opened.  He did not get very far and seemed mostly (if you ignore all the mews and yowls and leaps at the door) to be back indoors.

If I catch him thinking about his next escapade

Cat Tales: Let Me OUT!

About a month ago, Murphy came home from a raucous evening limping and looking generally sorry for himself. Not wanting to go through this again, I rushed him to the vet. Fortunately he did not need stitches this time but he had claw marks all over his front and did had to have antibiotics. This is more painful for me than for him.

He has recovered but I no longer feel comfortable letting him outside as there is obviously a big cat out there beating him up. So I now have an indoor cat. Who does not quite realize or appreciate this at the moment. Here is a series of photos taken when I was outside and he was not.

Hey, can I come and play?

Open this door NOW, I tell you, NOW. Dammit. I’ll scratch it down if you don’t open it NOW.

I am seriously pissed off about this:

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Copyright © 2008 cdavies

Cat Tails: Murphy Sunbathing

Aaah.

Murphy Watching the Sky

Here’s someone you haven’t seen for a while. Not that he has not been around. Just he is on me or in my space and acting a little camera shy.

He has had things to look at. First off, we have had a couple of really good sunsets:

and then it snowed a little:

Cat Tails : Yawn

Murphy tells me precisely what he thinks of the camera and my photography. He then turns his back to study the garden some more.

 

You cannot see it, but he is flicking his tail in disgust.