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Miki Ravioli (an me, sTuffin!🐾)
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Cat herder. Old lady. Nerd. Be who you are and let others do the same. Everything isn't about what you want, and louder doesn't equal right-er. The best good deeds are the ones performed with no reward but the knowledge that you helped.
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It's 2F (-17C)outside,so my poor, frozen, skinny garage kitties are forced to cuddle up together to stay warm. (Not really...their heat is on and it's 59F (16C) in there, and they're big ol' chonkers, too.)
Stevie Cookie the tuxedo and Backpack the bicolour tabby are curled up together in a faux sheepskin cat bed (that could definitely use a wash) on top of a blue storage container in their garage. There are six in The Herd, and every time I go in there, I see cat piles in various beds as if they're half-frozen, but they're not; the garage is insulated, their heat is on, and they have all of food, water, and cat bathrooms in there, so they need not go outside unless they choose. They have an RFID cat door so they can come and go as they please.
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Miki keeps going out to do her regular morning patrol, but as soon as she's outside the door, she realizes it's still cold and snowing, and goes back into the Cat Cave. 😹
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Outside temperature: 6F (-14C). Stephanie: I must go out into my catio!
January 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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"No, you stay in the box." --Beans🐾
Beans the tabby cat stands guard over a much the worse for wear corrugated box that Stephanie has been systematically destroying all over my floor. There is a tiny black triangle peeping out from the opening of the box; that is Stephanie's ear. Beans is looking down at it as if to tell Stephanie to stay in the box...all of her parts in the box. Will Stephanie do it?
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Oh, Stephanie.
January 11, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Mine. All mine. Alla things. --sTuffin🐾
An almost silhouette of Stephanie the tuxedo cat, sitting on the back of her recliner, looking out a window. The recliner is pretty ratty-looking, and I was actually going to trash it, but she loves to sit up there because it's cat-width and sift, and the view is good, so instead, I just got a cover for it, and it's her very own.
January 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Beans' beans.
A close up of the underside of a tabby cat's front foot, laying atop the cat's rear foot. The pad and the toe beans are all black, and her Freddy Kruger claws are retracted. The cat is sleeping; her face is visible in the background, out of focus. Beans is a classic tabby, and the bottoms of all her feet are black, as are all of her beans. I love cats' feet. 🐾
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Miki is yet again on the garage roof. She can get down; she just wants to make me walk over to the back of the garage and stand beside the tree she uses to get up there. All five boys are milling around on the patio, meowing piteously for me to go, and they won't stop until she's down. I love cats?
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, did you make dAde all better? Sanna Claws is gonna come tonight so I hope dAde ain't sick no more! --sTuffin🐾
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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@larrymilly.bsky.social Hi Lahr-why! Mum said Astralia is real strik about bugs that ain't from there comin in. So I can't send none to your mum. An anyways it's cold here. But Mum let me use her tablit an I made her a pitcher of bugs. An I put on a cricky cause she likes to watch them. --sTuffin🐾
A very badly drawn image of a bee, a cricket, a Monarch butterfly, and a ladybird beetle, with equally badly drawn flowers. The title says, "Bugs for Lahr-why's Mum", and at the bottom, "by: sTuffin" is written in hot pink on the right, and "Hi Lahr-why" in turquoise on the left, surrounded by red hearts. The drawings are labelled with, "bee", "criky", "monark" and "ladybug. The overall effect is that of a child's drawing, though Stephanie is actually a cat. Rather a talented artist for a cat, I think. 😉
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra! Guess what? One-a Mum's cussamers gave her a great big plate thinga Crismess cookies! Lotsa kinds. There's gonna be so many new smells! I oney got to smell 1 cause that's all she ate. Please tell Mum to eat alla cookies so I can collec the smells. --sTuffin🐾
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Baby Stephanie, six months old, dumped in the woods behind my garage. I took out some trash, returned with an Insane Oreo Gremlin. Hard to believe it's been a whole year. Harder to believe that my house and my sanity are still (largely) intact!
A six month old mask and mantle tuxedo kitten who would be named Stephanie, and become sTuffin. I took out some trash, and heard her crying in the woods, so I called, and she came running. My other cats were all feral and semi-feral adults, an established colony, and would *not* have appreciated a small interloper invading their garage, and she had no thick winter fur anyway, so I took her in the house. What else could I do? She was well-socialized, and knew what a litterbox was for, so she'd been living indoors somewhere. I think she was just too destructive, and got dumped (God knows she destroyed enough stuff in my house!). I hadn't had a kitten in 30 years, and she was a handful and a half, but we figured it out, and while she's definitely still an adventure every day, I'm glad I decided to take out the trash that night, even though I was already late getting to bed, and had almost left it until morning.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I've finished my garage kitty chores. Food, fresh water, clean bathrooms. It's dark, cold, and snowing, and I just watched the last chonky butt wriggle through the cat door. The Herd are in for the night, safe and warm. ♥️
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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We're bein share-y. ♥️
Beans the tabby cat and Stephanie the tuxedo cat are lying together on a fuzzy blue blanket, folded atop a quilted white bedspread. Beans is in side-loaf formation, facing the camera, and (predictably) Stephanie is flopped over with her cat arms stuck out and her head hanging off the side. This is Beanie's favourite spot to sleep during the day--she's actually the reason I fold the blanket and leave it there--but Stephanie was there earlier this morning, so I'll assume she moved over to make room for Beans. Grudgingly moved, but moved. They get along well, but Stephanie can be a little dramatic. Beans just wants her fuzzy blanket; Stephanie wants to make a point. 😸
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra! Mum got the big not robot vacuum an it goes RRRRRR real loud an she got alla rugs roll up an alla our stuff is inna wrong places an she's gotta buckita smelly water an she's onna floor wipin it all over stuff so it don't smell like me no more! 🙀 --sTuffin🐾
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I went to bed with two slippers beside the bedroom vanity. I woke up to one. I know Stephanie took it; I just don't know where she put it.
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Stephanie is a smart girl! I walk through the door, and Beans is always there, waiting for her pets. If I call, "Stephanie!" she may or may not come, depending upon what she's doing. If I have a shipping box, or a shopping bag I say, "Stephanie! New smells!" she's 0 to 60 in five seconds! 😹
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Outside temperature: 24f (-5C). Garage temperature? 24F? No. 40F? (4C)? No. 60F (16C)? Yes. Number of cat beds? 1? No. 5? No. 11? Yes. Contents of one small bed they've knocked off the shelf? Three skinny cats with thin fur and little insulation? No. The three chonkiest garage kitties I have? Yes.
Stevie Cookie the tuxedo cat, and Backpack and Andy, both tabby and white; all three jammed into one small cat bed that comfortably accommodates one fat cat. It's not at all cold in the garage, and there are lots of other beds of varying sizes, but for reasons know only to them, they've mashed themselves into a very compact cat pile in that one because cat.
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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You know that feeling when you've been lying in one position for too long and just *have* to move your legs?
Beans the tabby cat and Stephanie the tuxedo cat are comfortably ensconced on the bed, upon the fuzzy blue blanket-covered legs of their human, who is too hot with the blanket atop the regular bedclothes (keeps Stephanie's claws from damaging the bedspread) and *really* wants to move her legs. I can slide my hands under Stephanie and get out from beneath her without disturbing her much, but Beans is still learning that I make a good sleeping platform, and that would scare her. I eventually fell asleep, and at some point during the night, they got up, then Beans came back and tucked herself behind my knees while I was lying on my side, so again, I couldn't move. I gave up and hit the button that runs the "I'm awake" automation, turning on various lights and adjusting the heat, which Beans knows means it's time for breakfast. That got her moving! Unfortunately, it meant I also had to get moving. 😸
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I'm cooking a proper Thanksgiving dinner for nine today. One human, and a motley collection of eight furry ingrates. I won't share the vegetables and stuffing, but somehow, I doubt they'll mind. 😸
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I was too tired last night to stay up and wait for Beans' Snack Machine to dispense the last snack so I could wash the dish. I could have set a reminder on my phone to do it in the morning, or even left myself a note, but I just set a can of beans on the counter top instead.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Mm. Comfy box edge. (??)
Beans the tabby cat is loafing in her favourite corrugated scritchie box on a beige rug. Her nose is in a corner, and her face is "pillowed" on the edge of the box. She has plenty of softer and warmer places to sleep, but I think she likes it there because she's strategically placed such that I can't get in or out of the house without waking her up. Then we have to do the routine where she wails for pets, lets me give her exactly one per step as she walks away and I follow her to the kitchen. The kitchen is her scritchie place; she'll make a couple of trips around (it's not that big), and once she's found the least convenient place for me to bend over, she'll flop onto her side and give me her best, "I know you will" look until i give her scritchies. Could she just come and sit beside me on the couch for pets? Yes, and she very occasionally does, but she'd really rather I was uncomfortable. 😸
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Normal cat: I'll just curl up here in this nice, fluffy bed, or perhaps over there in a quiet corner, or even on the comfy couch.

Stephanie: I'm tired. *flop*
Stephanie the tuxedo cat is flopped over on her side on a carpeted floor. While most cats choose a quiet, comfy spot to nap, Stephanie is as likely as not to just stop somewhere random, flop over on her side, and go to sleep. Here, she has cleverly placed herself in such a position that I can't leave the living room without her knowledge. She's not very food-motivated, but she is nosy as hell and doesn't want to miss anything. 😸
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Cats With Jobs: George of Orange, dishwasher.
A poorly-lit photo of an orange cat sitting on a concrete patio, surrounded by three nearly empty dishes. Two white, and one beige. White dishes are for the boys, because I have more of both, and beige for the girls. George showed up late for kitty supper, so he got his own, plus the not insignificant amounts that Andy and Big Steve didn't finish. Dishwasher might not be seen as a glamourous job, but Georgie likes it just fine. 😸
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Stephanie: Mum, look--I gotta bug for you!

Me: Wonderful. Arilus cristatus, common name wheel bug, one of the largest assassin bugs in North America. Not venomous, but bites are very painful and slow to heal. Thank you, Stephanie, for the lovely gift.
A 1.5" (3.8cm) grey assassin bug with a cog-like structure on its dorsal side lays in the palm of my hand. Unfortunately, it was deceased before I got it away from Stephanie, or I'd have released it; I like wheel bugs. It's warm tonight, so she must have caught it in their catio. She usually brings beetles, crickets, and the occasional moth; this is the first time she's brought anything that could have actually hurt her. Wheel bugs are pretty chill and don't bite (actually, they stab) unless you ignore their warnings, or handle them roughly, both of which I'm sure Stephanie did. Fortunately, she didn't get bitten, but I'll be quite content if she never finds another one. Stephanie has the dangerous combination of intense curiosity and no fear. 😄
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM