{"id":7102,"date":"2011-06-26T04:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2011-06-29T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:04:19","slug":"cat-crash-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=7102","title":{"rendered":"Cat Crash Fever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;re about to have a problem&#8230; A BIG one. As in, Cat on a Stick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7103\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?attachment_id=7103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7103\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"cat on a stick!black copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cat-on-a-stickblack-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a>As most of you know, we tend to rescue animals. Cats, in particular. Now, while we haven&#8217;t been taking any in for several years now, we recently ended up in a situation where we DID take in a half-drowned, flea-bitten, six-week old, somewhat feral kitten rescued from a highway post flash-flood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">E K and I wanted to call him ARK (Almost Road Kill) because the person who picked him up actually saw him nearly get hit by a car. When I say nearly, I mean the kitten was literally pummeled by the rush of air from the vehicle&#8217;s tires as it screamed by on the highway. In fact, the person picking him up thought that he actually HAD been hit. As it turned out, he hadn&#8217;t. Good thing too, because there wasn&#8217;t much of him there to hit&#8230; As it turns out, the o-spring sort of adopted him for her own, so she named him Tiger. Me, I just call him &#8220;Nachos El Tigre&#8221; or, more recently, &#8220;You #$@@^&amp;* SH*THEAD!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why? Because the little bastage has taken to playing under my desk. Now, it&#8217;s already bad enough that I&#8217;m getting kitten needle claws stuck in my legs, but that&#8217;s not the BIG issue. The BIG issue is that he has discovered the cords on the back of my computer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7104\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?attachment_id=7104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7104\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7104  \" title=\"eltigre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eltigre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eltigre.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eltigre-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actual pic of Sh*thead &quot;killing&quot; the feather on a stick...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And he plays with them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he unplugs them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or he jumps up and down on the UPS until he lands on the button&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Know what happens?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My system shuts down. Unceremoniously. Without warning. WITH extreme prejudice. Killing and corrupting files that I have open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fortunately, he hasn&#8217;t destroyed a manuscript yet. Besides, I keep those backed up all over the place so we should be safe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But I&#8217;m here to tell you, if the little sh*t messes up any of my &#8220;pR0N&#8221;, he&#8217;s toast&#8230; Just kidding. I back that up too&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murv<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pitter-patter of tiny feet and the sudden loss of power. Observations on life with pets from author M. R. 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