Category Archives: pets

I have an idea for an automatic cat-teaser. (Too bad I haven’t tried to build anything since childhood.) It consists of a double pendulum driven by two perpendicular oscillators.

Choose your own joke! Pillow is fixed, and I’m still broke. variable. floating. (He’s hiding under my bed.)

We have reluctantly concluded that Pillow brings more chaos into our household than we need.

Pillow has a new trick: when he wants me to play with him, he approaches my chair and taps at my waist or elbow. A bit of laser-chasing satisfies him for a little while.

Pillow spends much of a typical day on my bed; when I find him there, I tussle with him. Now I have clear evidence that he enjoys these little skirmishes: whenever I go to that room (except at bedtime), he … Continue reading →

Pillow has taken up hunting the human ankles that pass by. He’s quite the ankle tom.

Fluffie (age 12 years) continues to snub Pillow (age 5 months). Last evening Pillow sneaked up behind where Fluffie was sitting, reached out and tapped her on the head. Fluffie merely got up and walked away.