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Cats behaving badly

I really didn't want this to turn into a cat pee blog. I even stopped writing for a while because, except for the cats being naughty pissers, not much else was going on.

I mean, it was bad. I even used the web cam to surveille the spot on the carpet they were wetting. I wondered, which one is doing it? Hah! They both were. So the rug went to the cleaners and various attempts were made to optimize the litter box.

I think it might be related to the weather. It seems that they don't want to go in their box once the humidity reaches a certain level, regardless of the freshness of the box. The bad behavior stopped once the weather turned cold and dry, but damn if we aren't having another warm, humid spell. Thank you, Global Warming!

[News flash from Japan: The inventor of instant ramen just passed away at the age of 96.]

Anyway, when I stepped onto the upstairs landing this morning, I smelled something whiffy and thought, "Oh no." Down in my office I found a puddle on an old TV Japan schedule that I'd left on a corner of a small wool (note: not machine-washable) rug just for that purpose, actually. The rug went out on the deck so it could do its stinking outside and also for a vague attempt at cleaning. The TV schedule went in the trash (in the bottom of the supercan, the residue of the Guinness-chocolate pie is turning blue). All was well for a while. Then I went for a walk and when I came back, I found a puddle on the floor near a wardrobe.

Way to go, kitties! You finally hit something I could clean.

Then the mail came, bringing with it a gift from my brother in Tokyo. He sent me the two volumes of "Today's Nekomura-san," a comic about a helpful kitty. Nekomura-san (literally, "Cat Town", but it's really a play on Japanese names) cleans, cooks, and does dishes! I want Nekomura-san to come live in my house. Maybe Nekomura-san could make my cats shape up.