I am going back to school this week. (Please note: “back to school”, not “back to work”. I have been at work this whole time.) Although I am looking forward to a little normality, I will to have to relearn the following:
– Driving
– Wearing shoes
– Using a pen and paper (teachers and students: remember pens and paper?)
– Talking to people without yelling at them to mute
– Styling my whole hair, as opposed to just styling the front bits that people see during video calls
Speaking of hair (kind of), Louis Catorze’s fur cracks are becoming more and more pronounced. I love cats’ fur cracks. Explaining what they are is absolutely impossible, so I have attached a photo of the ones that Catorze has always had on his weird tail:
Nobody quite knows what makes some cats’ fur crack and others’ not but it seems to be a plushy cat phenomenon, rather than one affecting sleek cats. I had always believed that fur cracks, like energy in Physics, could not be created or destroyed – a cat either had them or didn’t – but not so anymore: Louis Catorze used to only have fur cracks on his tail, but now he has them on his body, too, and his fur appears to become much thicker when he is on the steroids. It’s all very strange, but then we have come to expect “strange” as far as he’s concerned.
Here are Catorze’s drug-induced bodily fur cracks, looking more peculiar than ever as they pulse up and down with his breathing and making him look like some Vernian monster from the deep. As with the above photo, please excuse the dust; either he had rolled in crud, or he was shedding crud, or possibly both:
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We would LIKE to look but just have the counter line moving and a blank white screen.
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Oh no, really? The U.K. gang seem to have been able to view it. 😥
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That’s probably the key – we are in the former colonies.
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I love watching cats breathe. Is that creepy? 👀
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No, I think it’s cute! Breathing fur cracks are very creepy though. Were you able to view the video?
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I was indeed! I’m a Brit, though, since that seems to be making a difference.
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Ah, it seems to be our friends across the pond who aren’t able to view. 😐
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That’s strange. 🤔
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I couldn’t see the video either 😦
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Noooo! Really? How weird that some people can and some can’t!
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Oh non! Video doesn’t play for us. Still, the photo is exquisite. Now I am looking at my Cats’ tail fur uncomfortably closely. The Cats are annoyed with me, with winter, with the fact that they don’t possess the effortless je-ne-sais-quoi tail cracks of le roi.
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Oh dear! Not you as well? How strange that some can and some can’t! I’ll have to post a photo, which obviously won’t give the breathing, pulsing effect but it’s better than nothing.
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Snoops only has fur cracks in her winter coat, but Kommando has them year-round (she is a much fluffier cat, although her fur is shorter)
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Ah, winter coat and summer coat! Hadn’t thought of that!
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