So I can now add pears to the list of odd things this cat likes.

I mean, he went to town on this pear.

(No, she's not all un-coned. This is prior to the coning)

The cat from Japan waves a big blue fan
The cat from Berlin plays the violin
The cat from Brazil catches a very bad chill
The cat from Greece joins the police
The cat from Norway gets stuck in the doorway
The cat from Spain flies an aeroplane
The cat from France likes to sing and dance
BUT
MY cat likes to hide in boxes

So, Kira got fixed on Tuesday and bit her own stitches out on Wednesday.

Now, she has staples, glue and a Cone of Shame. For a week. Until the staples come out.

That’s the official medical term – Cone of Shame. The vet even used it.

And for the perfect end to a Monday, I get home and the little terrorist is in heat. Sigh. Guess I mistimed the spaying. Poor little thing. Hopefully she’ll got to sleep soon.

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Lemurs at San Francisco Zoo got a feast!

Cute, right? It's all an act.

She’s a money hoarding, box eating, string chewing, computer cord perforating little sneak thief.

She has stolen dollar bills from the kitchen table, chewed holes in them and stashed them away in her little kitty huts (no clue what she’s saving up for). She’s punched holes in one of her kitty huts. She knocks pen and pencils off of any surface and chews on them. She tears boxes into shreds. Anything you don’t want her to chew on, she instantly finds and chews on. Woe be unto unattended computer cords or phone cords, magazines or jewelry. Put something down on the table, turn your back, it’s on the floor – soon to be bitten.

If you could only name pets about 6 months in. That’s when their true personalities come out.

She'd have been named Gozer the Destructor. No question.

Funny. I don’t remember thinking of a cute little kitten when told to choose the form of The Destructor.

More pictures after the jump

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Kira has a stuffed fish that used to be on a string. It also used to have a tail. Such are the travails of toys that belong to beings with sharp teeth, I suppose.

She carries it all over the house. Thus far, aside from the stuffed Domo, the fish seems to be her favorite toy.

She’s also fond of carrying things to the arm of the sofa, dropping them off, fetching them and then doing it all over. She has the fish in this vid, but she did it with a ball of yarn forever the other night. The yarn was about 1/3 the size of her body so sometimes she had trouble jumping to the couch with it in her mouth but she persevered and by the time I got up the next morning there was yarn up and down the stairs, wrapped around the couch legs and the cat tree… And to think I buy her toys. Yarn will apparently do just fine.

It’s like the princess and the pea. Except that this prince doesn’t care if there is a pea under him.

Note the cat fur that is a part of my life. I’m pretty sure I’d stop breathing if I wasn’t inhaling fur with every breath.

(Check the tiny foot sticking out from the other side of the horse cat)

At least she’s warm, I guess.

Caliban planted an elbow in Kira’s tummy tonight, gave her a couple of good licks and then they both fell asleep.