Tortured with good food

The cats have decided that the new feeding regime is torture.

I am now only putting the food down at certain times of day, and each cat/kitten is in the room that has only its own food available, no way to sneak around and snitch the food it is not supposed to have.

They are determined to torment me back, and have been especially destructive this week. They are even trying to tear up the computer cords, and are literally climbing the furniture, trying to balance on cabinets and get at each other's food. If they had thumbs, they would succeed.

I have found evidence of them attempting to pry closet and cabinet doors open by clawing the edges, had my desk cleared, and find them on the table in a vain search for leftover crumbs every time I turn around.

Poor depraved, uh, that is, deprived, animals. Mama is torturing them, making them eat what is good for them.

We will see who outlasts whom.

Wish me luck.


Today is:

Aurora Borealis Day

Day of Bruma -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Escalade, Switzerland (Scaling Day)

Independence Day, Burkina Faso

International Mountain Day

National Noodle Ring Day

Radio Day

St. Damasus' Day

St. Daniel's Day

St. Gentian's Day


Anniversaries Today:

Indiana becomes the 19th US State, 1816
King Edward VIII marries Mrs. Wallis Simpson, 1936
Jerry Lee Lewis marries Myra Gale Brown, 1957


Birthdays Today:

Rider Strong, 1979
Jermaine Jackson, 1954
Teri Garr, 1949
Brenda Lee, 1944
John Kerry, 1943
Donna Mills, 1942
Rita Moreno, 1931
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918
Carlo Ponti, 1913
Fiorello LaGuardia, 1882


Today in History:

Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office, 359
Llywelyn the Last (born c. 1228) the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cimeri, 1282
The Aurora Borealis is seen from New England by English settlers for the first time, 1719
The first newspaper on Curacao is published, the Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser, 1812
Nitrous oxide is used in dental work for the first time in Hartford, Connecticut, 1844
Boston's Bijou Theatre becomes the first American theater lit exclusively by electricity, premeiring Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" as its first performance, 1882
The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire, 1907
Color moving pictures are demonstrated in Madison Square Garden, 1909
The Boll Weevil Monument is dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama, 1919