Cat news [cats]
Apr. 19th, 2026 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterBecause Cat News is the Best News.
Here's a carpenter bee that got stuck on the front porch on Thursday:
The cats were quite interested in it.
I released the bee back outside shortly after this video, and it flew off.
Part of the reason George is keen for Catio time is that he loves hunting and chasing things out there. Here he is with his favorite stick:
This video can give you a sense about how much he LOVES to chase this stick, except imagine this video is about 10 times as long and the chasing and pouncing are even more ferociously cute:
In fact, he loves his stick so much that when I tossed it into the basement to try and get him to go back indoors, he jumped back through the catio door into the basement, and, well, see for yourself:
Hilariously, if I keep George out of the catio and just let Martha out, she loves the exact same stick game. I think they like being able to chase and pounce on the grass since it's softer than many of our indoor surfaces.
Meanwhile, here's the part of the catio where George has been making his more recent escapes:
I tried wedging those pieces of wood between the pole and the side of the house, but (a) they're going to fall out, and (b) George just climbed up onto that window ledge on the side of the porch and then climbed over all my handiwork.
So that whole corner is just going to need to get redone, but that isn't something I'm going to manage to get to right now. But clearly it's something that needs to get done, based on how much the cats appreciate their outdoors time.
Here's a carpenter bee that got stuck on the front porch on Thursday:
The cats were quite interested in it.
I released the bee back outside shortly after this video, and it flew off.
Part of the reason George is keen for Catio time is that he loves hunting and chasing things out there. Here he is with his favorite stick:
This video can give you a sense about how much he LOVES to chase this stick, except imagine this video is about 10 times as long and the chasing and pouncing are even more ferociously cute:
In fact, he loves his stick so much that when I tossed it into the basement to try and get him to go back indoors, he jumped back through the catio door into the basement, and, well, see for yourself:
Hilariously, if I keep George out of the catio and just let Martha out, she loves the exact same stick game. I think they like being able to chase and pounce on the grass since it's softer than many of our indoor surfaces.
Meanwhile, here's the part of the catio where George has been making his more recent escapes:
I tried wedging those pieces of wood between the pole and the side of the house, but (a) they're going to fall out, and (b) George just climbed up onto that window ledge on the side of the porch and then climbed over all my handiwork.
So that whole corner is just going to need to get redone, but that isn't something I'm going to manage to get to right now. But clearly it's something that needs to get done, based on how much the cats appreciate their outdoors time.
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Date: 2026-04-20 12:20 am (UTC)Carpenter bees are so funny and big. As kids we had one take up residence in one of the 2x4s in our treehouse, and my friend and I carefully wrote on the wood next to its den BEE HOLE.
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