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I have a feeling that Zaz is a bit fed up with Ping Pong getting all the attention for the past couple of weeks, so she's showing off her athletic prowess.

I think she's hoping to bring a smile to anyone who needs one right now.

Have a happy #Caturday everyone! If you don't celebrate, have a great day!

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They were just sitting looking at each other.

A little #Caturday story about Ping.

Picture this:

Two or three days a week, I have a video chat of about an hour with my father-in-law 3000 miles away in England, who is soon 95, unable to move from his chair or wheelchair without assistance and with no friends or relatives to speak to. His only real contact is us, and his carers who come in four times a day to look after his needs. Sometimes I arrange his grocery shopping for him, sometimes I order him other things he needs, but mostly we just sit and talk and he reminisces. He struggles a little with the technology, but somehow we manage.

When it's my days to talk to him, I sit on a sofa with my tea and it's become a habit for Ping Pong to sit on my lap while I chat and stroke her. When I finish talking, she goes off. On the days when I don't speak to him, and Steven has taken the call somewhere else, she'll come meowing and meowing after me to get me to go and sit there with her. In the end, usually I have to give in, and take my tea and we sit on the sofa together. She doesn't often ask for cuddles, so this is a special time for her.

On Thursday this week, I was talking to my father-in-law when I realized that my bed cover that I had washed was ready to be hung up to dry in front of the fire, to be put back on the bed that night. As this was rather urgent, I asked him to wait and said I'd be right back after I'd hung the cover up. I lifted Ping up and went and got that sorted. After a few minutes when I came back, I was met with the scene of Ping, sitting upright, very proper, in my place on the sofa, just as you see her in this photo unblinking, looking at the phone screen at my father-in-law who was looking back at her. Neither was saying a word. They were just looking at each other. The two of them looked so funny.

It was as if she felt she was taking over from me. My father-in-law said "she's been looking after me". And that's just what it seemed like. She wouldn't move on her own to give me my place, so I had to lift her aside so I could sit down. My father-in-law is not a cat person, so obviously he didn't know what to say to her. And she didn't feel the need to say anything either.

Cats. Who can fathom them?

Have a happy Caturday, everyone! If you don't celebrate, have a great day!

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Happy Caturday to all our Fediverse cat loving friends (which must surely be most of you).

Badger and Ping Pong (formerly - and still occasionally - known as Pangolin) know where the warmest place in the house is, during the winter wood stove season.

They (and we) hope you are able to stay warm and as relaxed as they are.

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Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

Zaz will make you an excellent espresso or cappuccino with oat barista milk, if you would like one. (Yes, she seems to have settled in before Badger even knows what's going on.)

I think I'll get her to make me one soon as I'm finding it a slow start today.

Have a good #Caturday friends!

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