Life In 19x19

Zember (pronounce “tsember”), usually called “Zemi” (“tsemmy”), and some dude.


She has lived with me for almost half a year now (but I’ve known her for much longer, see below) while her human is in a clinic. She’ll leave me again in about two weeks. Can you tell that I’ll miss her?

Zember’s human is a dear friend of mine who has had to stay in a clinic for a longer time, and so Zemi* has been living with me for about half a year and will stay for two more weeks until her human will take her back. Zember was found by the mentioned friend (who lived at my place at the time) at perhaps half a year’s age in December five years ago (German “Dezember”, and now you know how what inspired her name). She was feral, starving, soaked wet, cold, traumatized (her tail was broken and necrotized, had to be amputated partially; it is possible that she had been tortured, but perhaps it was just a loop or something which had caught her). And she gave both my cats a hard time then (both my cats were still alive then). Oh, and not only the cats but also both humans suffered quite a lot of surprise attacks by her, there was blood and there were shards, and I had never before heard a cat ROAR … once she even gave me a black eye. Then my big tomcat Plietsch (RIP) impregnated her (I saw a four-legged animal walk out of my garage ) … and later I was Zemi’s midwife, which changed EVERYTHING (I’ll omit the long and touching story of a delivery of two healthy kittens that took over eight hours and of Zember’s after-birth thank-you for now), after that she apparently accepted me as a senior cat.

The scars she gave me I carry with pride and love. We have tamed each other.

An at that time untamed cat "Knut" (a male name), turned out to be a girl, not amused @ dog here, but already pretty cool. That was 2014, now she lives in my house as well. In the winter she used to live in that wooden garden house, I started feeding her and she bace tame.

Bonobo wrote:. . . and I had never before heard a cat ROAR … once she even gave me a black eye.

What, by hitting your eye with her head, like in the picture?

Anzu wrote:

Bonobo wrote:. . . and I had never before heard a cat ROAR … once she even gave me a black eye.

What, by hitting your eye with her head, like in the picture?

LOL, no, it was like this:

There was some reason why we had to handle her, I don't remember what it was … anyway, her human was passing her over to me, and when I took her she quickly turned around and lashed out towards my face with both paws, claws extended … I had three scratches on each cheek, right under the eyes (looked like some weird kind of war painting), and next day one eye was black (IIRC the right one).

Just a doodle of a cat playing Go.

Anzu wrote:Just a doodle of a cat playing Go.

Cool =^..^= <3

Did you make that? What does the text say?

This is Griffin, unwinding after a hard day of pulling stuff out of the trashcan in my office.

Bonobo wrote:

Anzu wrote:Just a doodle of a cat playing Go.

Cool =^..^= <3

Did you make that? What does the text say?

Just some drawing I found on Japanese Google

Here's another -

Somebody doesn’t want me to work. her name is Zember, I’ve posted photos before, I think.

No, she’s not my cat, she just lives with me as long as her human is navigating through dire straits. But — I’m _hers_ just as well, and she knows it =^..^=

And no, She! Is! Not! Fat!
Zemi is just a little bit short, so to speak, small-ish and compact, plus the fact that half of her tail was amputated makes her look somewhat odd. And then that iPhone perspective. She ain’t fat. Dare you say she’s fat. We will kill you.

Bonobo wrote:Dare you say she’s fat.

Maybe her catsuit is one size too small?

fireproof wrote:

Bonobo wrote:Dare you say she’s fat.

Maybe her catsuit is one size too small?

nope nope nope

Everything is purrfect

Everybody getting enough sleep these days? I've been up for 28 hours

Now, I'm quite sure some of you are rather tired of seeing this thread at the top, but I simply can't abandon it yet These are, however, the last of what I have gathered over the years.

and some more

A lizard has taken to sunning itself regularly on the ledge just outside of our living room window.
Griffin, our other cat, freaks out when he does it. I don't know if the lizard is too dumb to recognize a remorseless predator just inches away, or smart enough to realize that the glass protects him.


Large pic:

If you look past the cat, you can see a black table with numerous claw marks on it - from Griffin trying to get enough traction to push though the window. ( It is safety glass. He can't hurt himself )