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Catsuit

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Sweater Yeti

Boo: [Rounding a corner and catching site of Yeti] Bwaaaahahaha! Check you out!

Yeti: [Pouting] Stop it! I didn’t get any choice in this! It’s another confounded photo shoot. I didn’t realize at first that this one involved costuming.

Boo: Aw, now, it isn’t all that bad. The sweater really brings out your eyes. And it shows that your figure is slimmer than most folks assume. I admit it’s actually flattering.

Yeti: It’s unnatural! Ugh, it’s revolting being dressed like this. I can barely move. How can our people stand doing this all the time?

Boo: I thought you said it was because of their furlessness.

Yeti: Yes on that – but I have fur!!!

Boo: She only puts it on you if she’s letting you play in the snow, and you love that.

Yeti: But I’ve done that fine without clothes on.

Boo: [Teasing] Exhibitionist!

Yeti: I’m hardly immodest with all this flowing fur! Stop antagonizing me!

Boo: But…it’s so much fun. [Mischievous grin]

Yeti Sweater Girl

I “Heart” Kitties <3

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YetiHeartGlasses

Boo: Wow, you’re stylin’ there.

Yeti: I trust you aren’t being sarcastic.

Boo: Shows what you know. Now, why would you think that I would be sarcastic?

Yeti: Because you find it to be fun.

Boo: And you don’t?

Yeti: Of course I do.

Boo: So we understand each other.

Yeti: [Shrugs] Cats are cats. It’s what we do.

Boo: It’s so hard to ruffle your fur when you’re in these moods.

Yeti: What moods?

Boo: Your Pollyanna-Zen-life-is-great-as-seen-through-rose-colored-glasses moods.

Yeti: Well, you make it sound like a bad thing.

Boo: Only mildly annoying. Then you get me caught up in it.

Yeti: Well, you should try it.

Boo: Try what?

Yeti: Looking at life through rose-colored glasses.

Boo: Those must be some really RED roses, by the way.

Yeti: Indeed, it actually is a little challenging to see that way.

Boo: [trying on the heart-shaped, intensely red sunglasses] Ooh! It looks angry to me.

Yeti: Red is a color that is symbolic of many different feelings; I suppose it’s up to individual interpretation.

Boo: These things make me dizzy. I can’t focus. [Gives the shades back to Yeti] Here. These clash with my fur anyway.

Yeti: But they go perfectly with my little pink-heart nose.

Boo: And my little pink-heart tongue – oh blecch already. [Sticks her tongue out at Yeti]

Yeti: Your tongue looks quite red to me. Perhaps you have strep throat.

Boo: That’s not seeing life very rosy – oh, take those fool red things off!

 

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Cats in Captivity

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Boo: Oh, my goodness! Finally! I thought Missus would never come back.

Yeti: I didn’t even realize she was leaving.

Boo: You didn’t notice two weeks of packing before she left? I knew something was up. You practically slept through it all anyway.

Yeti: Oh, you know sometimes she just rearranges stuff; I don’t make assumptions. However, I would like to know why Mister didn’t go with her. They never cease making me nauseous with all their cuddling. It must have been hard for them to stop so long.

Boo: At least when they do that with each other, they ignore you. Anyway, I heard he didn’t have some paper he needed.

Yeti: Humans and their stupid papers! They make life so complicated.

Boo: I’ll never understand why some papers are so important when they throw so much of it away. Well, we were all lost without her. So much time between meals….

Yeti: I was lost without the laptop. I couldn’t even post anything while she was gone.

Boo: But I thought you were magic.

Yeti: Not without limitation!

Boo: OooOOooh.

Yeti: [Squinting] What?

Boo: [Smugly] Nothing.

Yeti: Frankly I’m a little miffed. She didn’t consider taking us, and hasn’t even told us what she was doing in this “Israel” place. I want to know what’s so much more important than we are.

Boo: You wanted to go??? Poor Mister acted like she went to the moon. I’m just as glad she didn’t take us – and doesn’t tell us. I wouldn’t want her to know what we were doing here.

Yeti: You wouldn’t. And what’s this “we”? Keep me out of it.

Boo: [Frowning] I wonder if she was lonely without us….

Yeti: She wasn’t alone; she went with MamaMister and some others.

Boo: She’s the one who watches us when Mister and Missus go away! [Furrows her brow in thought, then shrugs] I guess one of them has to stay home. Maybe it was Mister’s turn.

Yeti: Then I guess Missus will have a turn sometime soon…meh.

Boo: ‘Meh‘? Aren’t you going to forgive her?

Yeti: [Sighs] I guess I already have…I just like making her grovel.

Boo: Isn’t that a tad bit vindictive?

Yeti: I like to think of it as ‘poetic justice’.

Boo: How’s that?

Yeti: She’s always mauling me, then she leaves me alone, giving me what I want; she comes home and mauls me again and I snub her….

Boo: But that’s what you always do!

Yeti: Oh…yeah.

Yeti Vacation by Eilee George

Here Kit-tea Kit-tea

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Yeti: Kitten In A Cup

Boo: Wow, she finally cleaned up all that stuff – it’s nice to be able to get around here again without bumping into untouchables.

Yeti: Into what?

Boo: Missus was so busy with projects for that…thing…um, that…whatever it was. I was shooed off more stuff than I could identify. It was everywhere.

Yeti: That “thing” was a “ladies’ tea”.

Boo: “Ladies’ tea”? I thought tea was for everybody.

Yeti: It was a special get-together for ladies at the church. Didn’t you see the program Missus designed? They had a lot going on!

Boo: Like what?

Yeti: Well, singing, and a speaker, and food, and –

Boo: [Smacking] Food? And she didn’t invite us? Grr.

Yeti: Other people made the meal. And you know how humans are about animals at venues with food.

Boo: [Pouting] Yes. Maybe we should have a tea here.

Yeti: Now, I know that even you don’t like tea.

Boo: [Thinks] Huh…I guess not. Imagine that! But I bet I’d have liked the other goodies. So, what else was there?

Yeti: Well, all those decorations Missus made, of course. The clocks, calendars, flowers; other Victorian decorations – she worked hard for weeks and weeks.

Boo: Yes, lots of giant clocks. Some of them even work! Pretty cool…but…what do those have to do with tea?

Yeti: [Shrugs] That was just the theme they chose this year. Apparently women struggle to balance time with family, God, work, errands, and whatever else they do.

Boo: Hmm. Don’t men struggle with that, too?

Yeti: I suppose. But I guess men don’t like frilly teas, so they deal with it some other way. I can’t imagine Mister liking being around so many flowers and wearing a pretty dress!

Boo: [Giggling] Me either!

Yeti: So anyway, it seems these women need to talk about it, or listen to someone talk about it, and sing about it, and think about it. I wonder if she learned anything from the guest speaker.

Boo: Like what?

Yeti: Like time management skills. She is kind of disorganized, and on top of that, a bit of a hoarder – then again, that part was helpful when it came time to coming up with materials for decor.

Boo: So…is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Yeti: I can’t decide. It might be part of her creative process. At least she’s gotten the giant fake flowers and the clocks she made into the studio, and the real clocks back where they usually live, and all the art supplies put back in the studio, and all the papers are gathered and put away. She’s made progress. Now on to the rest of it. The whole place suffered, between that and the trip and her birthday.

Boo: It took a long time to mess it all up; I guess it’ll take a long time to get it all clean.

Yeti: With time to spare – to dig up an old photo shoot. I guess we’ll wait and see if the rest of it gets better.

Boo: A photo shoot? What now?

Yeti: [Sighing] You’ll see….

 

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Catmosphere

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YetiSaysCatChoo!

Yeti: Ah-choo! Ah-ch-huh-huh-Huh-AH-choooo!

Boo: Wow. Um, bless you. Have you finally become allergic to yourself?

Yeti: [Shaking head] Whew. I-I don’t think so. Although…the catmosphere is a bit thick in here.

Boo: You’re not kidding. You ejected more fur into it with each sneizure.

Yeti: Perhaps I ought to let them vacuum me again.

Boo: Gosh you’re weird. But you are the worst offender. Count me out!

Yeti: Wait a minute. [She catches Boo before she exits, and sniffs her.]

Boo: Hey! What gives?

Yeti: Ah-choo! Ah-yah-AH-choooo! Yeesh! I think I’m allergic to you!

Boo: [Squirms uneasily] Not really….

Yeti: What is that awful musty smell on you?

Boo: I crawled behind the dryer. There, even the dust bunnies have dust bunnies.

Yeti: Mystery solved, then. Go bathe, and pitch your hairballs. Yuk.

Boo: All right. [Starts bathing] Ah-choo! Yih-yeh-AH-choooo! Omigosh I’m allergic to myself.

Yeti: [Smiles] Poetic justice. It’s not always my fault.

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Catnapping

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Yeti the Cat: Boo at Door Looking Sad - by Lin Eilee S. George

Peekaboo (whispering): Is anyone out there?

Yeti (also whispering): I don’t know; I can’t tell…we don’t have cameras on the Internet community, nor do we even have analytics yet. Does it matter? We haven’t been on in a while. I can’t blame people if they gave up. We promised to post more, and (no longer whispering) then look what happened! Life got in the way. Best laid plans of mice and men….

Boo: Mmmmmmice!

Yeti: No – it’s just a saying, Boo. No mice. (sighs while Boo considers this, then…)

Boo: Do you think they’ll forgive us?

Yeti: Probably. We’re pretty cute.

Boo: Well, of course. I know that counts for a lot, but what if someone asks what happened to us?

Yeti (shrugging): Tell the truth: I’ve been ill, and we’ve had a lot of outside projects. So has Missus. She’s been busy.

Boo: Yes, big projects, then more travel, then more projects, then more travel. She seems to be regrouping now.

Yeti: I was glad for the hiatus. I worked hard on all those posts and photo shoots. I deserved a vacation.

Boo: For like, a year? C’mon, nobody is THAT good.

Yeti: You have your opinion; I have mine. It’s over now, so let’s not waste more time on that.

Boo: So, can we commit to more posts, more often? I mean, the bar’s not set real high, right now. (grimaces)

Yeti: Sure…let’s just not get overly optimistic. I was sick for a while. Let’s make sure I stay better. I’m so glad I’m off antibiotics!

Boo: You wouldn’t even share. They smelled good.

Yeti: I’d have gladly shared, if they weren’t the key to breathing, and if it wouldn’t have been bad for you since you weren’t even sick. I don’t know how you didn’t catch it too.

Boo: I think you snotting up everything pretty much built me a stronger immune system. Gross.

Yeti: I couldn’t help it. It was miserable. But, I have to admit…I’m not all against going to the vet anymore. They actually know what they’re doing!

Boo (shudders): What was in that stuff, mind-control drugs???

Yeti: Banana flavoring, if I recall.

Boo: Bananas?! That’s bananas! We’re CATS! What genius thought banana flavoring would be of any interest to any cat – well, any cat but me?

Yeti: Maybe they use the same antibiotics for cats as for dogs. They, like you, will eat anything.

Boo (side-eyeing Yeti): You’re not gonna start…barking, or…something, are you?

Yeti (a sly smile creeping on her face): wwWWWWOOOOFff!

Boo (scuttling away in surprise, then creeping back toward Yeti): Yikes! Hey…that wasn’t…nice. That wasn’t even like you. But…wow, I have to admit it was pretty good!

Yeti: Flattered you’re impressed. Missus always encourages being multi-lingual. Thought I’d give another one a shot.

Boo: How many languages do you speak?

Yeti: Well of course we both speak human and cat. I won’t tell you any more. You’re only getting informed on a need-to-know basis.

Boo: How come your strategery is always against me?

Yeti: You just answered your own question there.

Boo: And are we going to answer our audience’s question about where we’ve been?

Yeti (pointing at screen): We already did.

Boo (face-pawing): You have got to tell me when you’re doing that. I might say something I shouldn’t!

Yeti: You mean there are actually things you think that don’t come out of your mouth? I tremble to imagine what.

Boo: You’re not always the best at filtering your own thoughts, there.

Yeti: But I do it on purpose.

Boo: Aha! See how mean you are?

Yeti: No, it’s for the benefit of your own education. Everything on this site is educational…yes, that’s it.

Boo: Oh boy. The audience is in for a nap.

Yeti: No…we’re just going to have to wake them up now!

Yeti: Boo, maybe someday you’ll need a vet. Hmm. Ah…there’s a hook: I’ll report that VCA is an awesome vet – both of the ones we’ve been to, anyway. Now I can use the “reporting” tag. That’s called SEO. I’ll stick “awesome veterinarian” in the keywords too. Missus would be so proud!

Boo: Ugh, I’m feeling nauseous right now.

 

 

Finding Inspurration

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Yeti’s changing gears. Here’s her update:

It’s been a long while since I posted…there have been changes around here. Boo didn’t want to be online, and I understand that. She’s actually much shyer than I am; she fought hard to hide it, but she was really tired of pretending to be someone she wasn’t. But it’s really shaken me up. We had a really great chemistry, I thought! And it was fun running around trying to keep from getting caught talking and mlogging by Missus. I got used to it. It was comfy. Then she retired, and I didn’t know what to do.

I thought I might not want to mlog anymore.

Who wants to hear, “Yeti goes solo”? I don’t really know. Do you? Maybe?

But eventually I remembered that way back when we started, I kind of resented Boo coming onto the Meow-Blog in the first place. I still have plenty of feline wisdom and observations to share, and now I can tell her secrets without her pouncing! She said she might make some cameo appearances but not as frequent as we started out for certain. She actually said she trusted me with the site! (Don’t tell her but I found that very flattering–coming from her!)

So here I am…and I think I’m liking the idea that…I have TOTAL CONTROL.

Well, maybe I should qualify that: Missus has some control–and was onto us after all–but that’s another mlog for another day.

Speaking of Missus, she has been a good example to me. She doesn’t give up, even when she doesn’t feel like it. The old girl is slowing down, but far from stopping! (Don’t tell her I said that either!) After all, I’m getting older too, and I must admit I don’t play like a kitten as often as I used to. Anyway, I decided to take a page from her playbook and just start mlogging, and then just see what happens. It’s no Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, but it’s something; a new start; something to build on. If you’re going to be creative, you have to put the work in!