…did I ever expect to see Hopper (bottom) and Angelo (top) not only lying next to each other, but touching! These 2 never liked each other. The problem is that they’re both alpha cats. After Angelo lived with us a few weeks and we let him explore outside the bedroom, Hopper stopped burying her poop. So he wouldn’t bury his. Poor Basil was the one who buried everyone’s poop!

To this day, Hopper and Angelo have “showdowns.” We have a long hallway, and one will be at one end, the other will be at the other end, and it looks like there’s gonna be a shootout at the OK Corral. She can’t even stand for him to look at her; she hisses and they try to scratch each other. This is nothing like the playful fighting Angelo and Hee Seop indulge in before every meal. This is serious shit. So for them to be sleeping together like this…. If they start licking each other, we’ll know hell finally froze over!

featuring Hee Seop

Somebody has to go to the vet tomorrow! Nothing serious, just his annual check-up, rabies shots, etc. Hee Seop still tries to hide under things, even though there aren’t many places for him to hide anymore. We got rid of our old box spring in which he tore a hole and just loved to climb into. But this would have been awful if there were an emergency.

We needed a new mattress anyway, so we replaced the whole thing with a platform bed. No more “under the bed”! And extra storage space for us. It was kind of funny watching him try to hide “under the bed,” a space that no longer existed. He was like, “What happened?”

Since then, Hee Seop’s doing remarkably well sleeping out in the open, which is huge progress for him. There’s still a box of old files under the kitchen table where he can retreat, though.

featuring Basil (l) and Hopper (r)

We finally bought a new comforter last December. It’s spread over our futon because it had just come out of the dryer but wasn’t completely dry yet. So of course, our fur kids got to use it before we did.

I tried fixing Basil’s “laser eyes” with Paint Shop Pro, but couldn’t quite get it right.