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Portrait of the Lion as a Marmalade Cat

Roar!

Julio DeCat is a spoiled chipmunk. He's not fit enough to climb the wall with his siblings, not fast enough to outrun Peter-the-Ugly Cat, and gets furious over nothing.
Ergo, he's a baby who needs to learn to tame his inner lion, and stop:
a) stealing his brother's food from under his nose
b) terrorizing his little sisters (and stealing their food too)
c) biting his mommy's fingers
d) eating Peter's leftovers (he's doing better in this since Peter was effectively banned from the garden and surrounding areas)
e) feuding with Peter in the alley (which led to his eye scratch)
f) ruining his diet by crying at the neighbors' (each and every one's) door for extra food
g) bringing dead squirrels, birds, and mice at the doorstep as a bribe for more catfood
h) being terrified of staying indoors and bawling when his mom closes the door behind him
i) screaming murder at the sight and smell of his eye drop medication
j) going to the bathroom in the back yard because he's too lazy to walk (and unfit to climb the wall) towards the jungle
k) turning wild every time he's being picked up and held

Julio stealing Smores' milk right from under his nose

this is standard practice, whether it's milk, crackers or other food, Julio just grabs food from the other cats while they're eating

Who Spilled the Milk ?

right before the hissing & scratching begins

Julio, a true lion that he is, barely tolerates being petted

Branch climbing (Julio the 1st, 1995)

Julio the 1st is about 5 months old in this picture.
The "branch" is actually part of an improvised seesaw that's made of branches

Collaborative Hunting

When the birds are chirping and the squirrels are squirreling, or simply when the hunger pangs grow unbearable, Smores goes hunting, in collaboration with Julio.
How does the collaboration work? Smores does the hunting, and Julio does the eating. Whatever Smores brings back home, Julio sniffs it out and snatches it away from Smores who lets Julio do whatever he wants because he's his little (spoiled) brother.
Squirrels and birds get eaten, but not mice. Carcasses and parts of carcasses (half birds, squirrel tails, mice) are deposited by the doorsteps as a bribe to me for more food.

The Clan (Julio and his siblings)

(from left to right) Stubbly, Marbles, Julio (aka the Lion), Smores.



below: Julio's girlfriend from Chile, Catalina Avril-Princess.



Julio in the snow, Jan 2009



Julio's favorite hangout: the doorsteps by the back door, first in line for food, he can wait there all day and night, after all the other cats have left, in case there's more food coming out the door.




"Where's my dinner?"

Thanksgiving Full House

All cats (and petercats) are here today, including Panther and Peter who both made an appearance for 2 seconds before I chased them away.
There's no way to get rid of Peter, is there? He's still staying in the neighborhood trash cans, his natural habitat, dives in them when the lids are open, and sits on the lids when they're down.

Smores ate so much turkey he's ready to fall in a coma.
The lion (Julio) had to be tricked with milk to stick to his diet (which Ben managed to ruin with huge pieces of meat yesterday).

Ben, stop feeding my cats!

[Julio the 1st, 1995]

Rare footage of Julio the 1st, circa 1995.

Friday night, Slow Internet, WTF?

is EVERYBODY logged in right now or is our freaking router slow again? And MUST this always happen on weekends???

Julio just got his first collar

After much pleading and prodding (which was met with hissing and growling), Julio got his reflective, breakaway, flea collar on.
"reflective" won't reflect much because his fur covers the collar completely
"breakaway" isn't really break-away-able because of poor design (bad usability)
I'm hoping the "fleas" part will work.

For future purchases, stay way from "Hartz Ultra Guard Reflecting Flea & Tick Collar for Cats & Kittens" (Julio's collar).
Smores' collar (Zodiac Flea & Tick Breakaway Collar for Cats)also from petco is much better designed

Julio's friends dressed up for halloween too:




from : http://i-love-cartoons.com/

Brought to you by BCC news:
A cat (who looks very much like Julio the I) is an accredited hypnotherapist

http://bit.ly/3SNLmd

Julio's friend Nermal has a wiki:
(which makes me think Julio should get one too:-)

http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Nermal

PS: I thought Nermal was Garfield's cat toy/stuffed animal, not a 'real' cat, and his cousin at that. It turns out that's Pookie/Pooky, Garfield's teddy bear.

Peter's revenge

It was a bright and sunny day. The rain had stopped, the birds were chirping, the breeze was breezing...and then I heard it. Meowwwwwowwwww....A screeching, piercing, decibel-busting scream that cut through the woods in the jungle, rolled in the air, reached the building across the dry cleaner's, gathering momentum along the way, then bounced off in the opposite direction to create a horrendous echo that rippled across the sound waves over the back yard, the jungle, and half of Squirrel Hill I bet.

I thought the building where our stalker lives had gotten new cats that were flighting.

But no, a look out the window and sure enough, Julio was running for his life, faster than the speed of light, chased by Peter who had reached him and started punching him already.

Peter, GO!

He turned around and kept running in the opposite direction, towards the neighborhood trash cans, his latest habitat.

Peter, it seems, is taking a revenge on my cats. I expelled him from the jungle, so now he won't let anybody, definitely not Julio, approach the trash cans, his residence of choice.
Which is all the best by me, this might turn Julio off from the trash cans once and for all. Peter, do me a favor, and chase my cats away from your stinky habitat, but if you hurt them in the process, you'll have to deal with me.

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Where's Julio?

I havent seen him in 2 days and I'm worried, he never misses meals / eating opportunities, and never lets the other cats eat without joining them.
Smores is hanging out by himself, without his best friend...

-he emerged from the garage 2-3 days later, still having lint from my pink blanket and clothes on his fur. I guess he didnt move or scratch himself for 3 days, just slept in a single place without moving until the rain stopped. Julio...

Internet slowness persists. On/Off all the time,back and forth...I'm losing patience with this situation.

Julio seems to be pretty mad at me lately (see his Twitters on the right), even skipped his dinner. I bet he's over-eating someplace else, this morning he ONLY WATCHED Stubbly eat her own food without even getting close to it, let alone grab some for himself. Something is going on here...

Julio is making progress with his domestication, only scratched me twice in the past few days. Then once he sees me carrying food he forgets about his fears and acts as if nothing happened. I can't have him declawed, he won't be able to defend himself against the petercats of the jungle. Speaking of which, Peter is STILL in the trash, in it, on top of it, and proud of it, while the 3 others cats are looking on.

Rant!

freaking Internet is slow again, switching from 24mb to 54 to 36 from 'good' to low to excellent, WTF! We've tried 3 freaking routers in the past yrs and still the slowness persists.

Peter IN the trash

A look in the far corner of the back yard and, sure enough, who jumps out of a trash can but Peter! then casually sits on top of it while Julio looks on.

I thought that damn petercat had moved his yellow ass away from here, but no, he's back and full of it.

Way to go, Ben, petting trashy petercats like there's no tomorrow.

If I ever catch Peter I'll throw him in the trash can and close the lid on top. Then the garbage pick up people can give him a ride to his proper habitus, the wasteland.

Julio pics

On TV


Oil painting


On Multiple Planes


Impressionistic


Warhol-style


Magazine


Van Gogh-style

Of cats and mice

I was wondering why Julio was being so nice today and let me pet him for a long time, then I remembered I hadn't fed him last night, and I look around and sure enough, two dead -but completely intact- mice are lying next to the door steps. Is that what it takes to end up with mice? 1 missed dinner? What would happen if I left town for 5 days?

Marbles is back and acting exactly like Panther, even in the way she walks. Unbelievable what a few months away can do to a cat.

Habitus Demystified

Sharon and I concur: Bourdieu's "habitus" is just a fancy made-up word for culture, which I'm guessing he preferred not to use as such because it's an overloaded term and would have had to contest with the anthropologists' use of it. Better to coin a new term.
Btw, "hysteresis of the habitus"? That's traditional Freudian psychoanalysis straight up, not really a distinct "practice" process. If the habitus effects its influence through hysteresis, what's uniquely practical about it? And how does the practice theory account for individual choice/will, the way that individuals deal with the habitus-induced hysteresis/hysteria? Shouldn't that also be part of a theory of practice? The theoretical/explanatory mechanism behind the theory of practice seems to be a psychological one. Which might be just as well, since what "practice theory" seems to counteract is ideological and structural accounts of social behavior.

On to the "archeology of knowledge"... another psychoanalytic-heavy social theory text.
A lot of social theory seems to be psychological accounts dressing up as sociology. What is sociology anyway? How is it different from social theory?

Somebody called "ThePublicZoo" is following Julio in Twitter, ha ha :)

First time in a long long time that Julio missed his dinner tonight. Stubbly and Smores were eating slowly and noisily, yet Julio didn't show up, he normally rushes to the door,seemingly starved for food, the moment he detects any sounds by the door/windows/other cats' munching their food.

it's Dejavu all over again

The garlic nebula, the animal print slippers, the empty water pitcher...
I would add to the list PeterCat except that he's disappeared lately.
Grace's new slippers are exactly like Peter's : animal print fluff. Now, if you can combine those with red sweatpants (or orange cutoffs) that would complete the experience.

eating, petting, smacking

Julio doesn't mind petting after all...as long as he's not eating at the same time. That must remind him of Panther's smacking him while eating. Panther is gone but the memory remains, and, sure enough, Marbles, who is back full-time, has adopted Panther's habit of slapping other cats while they're eating.

Julio is twittering

@JulioTheCat

eat like you're not hungry

Julio is pretending he's not hungry to avoid me petting him while eating. Apparently he didn't like my stroking his tail the other day after all...
He looks sideways at the food in my hand, looks at Stubbly eating it from my hand (which is a first for her), then pretends he doesn't care, then comes back to shove Stubbly out the way and get a bite, then moves away and keeps pretending he's waaayyy uninterested.
1-2 hrs later I look out the door and he's crying for more food like he's starved for days. Typical cat of mine.

shoe record

This is somewhat old news but needs to be recorded: Grace broke Anita's (and mine) record of multiple shoe orders, with 9 PAIRS ! Anita's was 5.

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