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splendid isolation, i don't need no-one

  • Apr. 24th, 2007 at 9:10 AM
comics invisibles king mob
Monkey: Cat, where are you?
Cat: I don't hear you.
Monkey: Cat, are you under the bed?
Cat: I don't know you.
Monkey: Cat? Are you in the closet?
Cat: Help me! This alien monkey is stalking me!
Monkey: I put out food.
Cat: I don't want your filthy bribes. Primate.
Monkey: *returns to chair*
Cat: I still don't know you.

*time passes*

Monkey: There's still food.
Cat: I'm not speaking with you, Primate.
Monkey: Aha! But at least you acknowledge my existence! Wiktory!
Cat: ...

*time passes*

Cat: Primate, you are blocking my access to the window with the birds behind it.
Monkey: This chair is big enough for the both of us.
Cat: No, it ain't.
Monkey: Suit yourself.
Cat: Oh, look. Kibble. A good thing this wasn't provided by a perfidous Monkey, or I would have to spurn it.
Monkey: ...

*time passes*

Monkey: Cat? Where are you?
Cat: I've been on the chair beside you for the last fifteen minutes. You were too busy watching Doctor Who to notice.
Monkey: ...
Cat: If I were a tiger, I would have eaten you.
Monkey: Lucky for me, you're not a tiger.
Cat: Indeed. Instead, I have to wait for you to die.
Monkey: Well, you may have to wait a while.
Cat: *looks shifty*
Monkey: Cat? Are you contemplating something I should know about?
Cat: Um. No?
Monkey: Good. Keep it that way.
Cat: It would just be sad if anything were to happen to you, is all.
Monkey: Good. I agree.
Cat: Then the replacement monkeys might have to take me back. And pay attention to me. And not make fun of me on the internets. And feed me treats. And I might get... spoiled.
Cat: *looks shifty again*
Monkey: *sleeps with one eye open*

*time passes*

Monkey: Cat, get off my copy of Archaelogy, please.
Cat: It's a stupid magazine anyway. What is that, written on a third grade level?
Monkey: Fifth.
Cat: I rest my case. Turn off the light, Monkey. I'm sleepy.
Monkey: Are you going to sleep in the bed? Because I thought you hated me.
Cat: Well, the other monkeys are better.
Monkey: *reads*
Cat: You're getting sleeeeepy, Monkey. Very, very sleeepy. Sleeeeeepier and sleeeepier....
Monkey: *yawns*
Cat: Sleeepier and sleeeeeeeeeeepier.....
Monkey: *turns off light*
Cat: Oh, and move your head. It's on my pillow.

*time passes*

Cat: Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!
Monkey: *snork* ....Wha?
Cat: THE GARBAGE TRUCK IS GOING TO EAT US ALL! RUN! RUN!
Monkey: ...okay, I'm up now. Would you like some breakfast?
Cat: Is the monster gone?
Monkey: Down the block already.
Cat: In that case, yes please. Caviar and ham?
Monkey: Friskies?
Cat: If we're on hardship rations, I suppose. Oh, and Monkey?
Monkey: Yes, Cat?
Cat: ...I'm glad you're not dead after all. I think the mimosa might be, though.
Monkey: Alas, I think you're right. I knew I should have repotted it right away.
Cat: Lazy Monkey. Move over on that chair.

Comments

[info]fidelioscabinet wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:26 pm (UTC)
This is what you get for being a responsible and caring pet owner who makes sure the cat has a sitter when you leave town for a weekend. When I go away for a weekend, mine get a large full water dish and several bowls full of kibble stashed around the house, and the furry little demons are thrilled to see me when I come back.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:37 pm (UTC)
I will leave her overnight, but I have this horror of coming home and finding her strangled on a lamp cord or something if I go away longer than that....
[info]stillsostrange wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:44 pm (UTC)
Don't worry, you get over that. :P Especially when there are more than three of them bitching.
[info]fidelioscabinet wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:11 pm (UTC)
Yup, it's that responsible and caring thing.

You're not a callous, abusive thug like me. I mean, last night, I was guilty of the abusive detention of a cat, and combined that with forced claw-trimming, to her eternal disgust. You'd have thought SOMEONE would have cared enough to call the Humane Society, but no, she suffered unavenged.
[info]triciasullivan wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:26 pm (UTC)
I loved this. Thanks.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:38 pm (UTC)
my pleasure.

*loff*
[info]silme wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:53 pm (UTC)
You ever think of teaming with an illustrator and making books of Cat/Monkey coversations? :)
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:58 pm (UTC)
That would make it work.
[info]silme wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:00 pm (UTC)
However, it would bring in cash. ;)

Btw, I really identify with the cat stealing the pillow bit.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:10 pm (UTC)
Cash is not really a primary motivating force right now.

Maybe later, when I am starving... or underworked....

[info]silme wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:21 pm (UTC)
I'm also imagining the pictures and laughing at them, particularly at the cat. :)
[info]pearlformance wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:37 pm (UTC)
Don't make it into work. That would be so Monkey.

Love the things that come up by being pets to these cats. I"m not sure how mine finagled her way to my pillow when she wasn't allowed in the bedroom.
[info]stillnotbored wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:55 pm (UTC)
Scritch Mistress Medb behind the ears from me.

Tell her Morgan and Gillian say she is strong and brave for standing up so well in her time of troubles and abandonment. They also want her to know they are taking notes on how to act when I get back from WisCon.
[info]mevennen wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:59 pm (UTC)
We've just had the opposite, where Prodigal Cat has gone away for a month and now she's back, I'm not speaking to her.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 01:59 pm (UTC)
LOL!

MONKEY!
[info]mevennen wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:05 pm (UTC)
Whereas Sid only speaks if he actually has something to day ("HUNGRY!!!") Prodigal Cat, aka Cobweb, is one of those stream-of-consciousness cats who comments ("WAH!") on her every move.

"WAH! I'm going up the stairs! WAH! I saw a beetle! WAH WAH WAH! I'm on the bed!"

This drives T to near-psychosis.
[info]mevennen wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:07 pm (UTC)
PS: OTOH, unlike Sidney, Cobweb doesn't squeak and throw both her arms around my leg if I shown signs of leaving the kitchen ("NOOOOOOOOOOO! DON'T GOOOOOOO!")
[info]stillsostrange wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:48 pm (UTC)
I have one of those cat. "Murp! I'm in the bedroom. Murp! I'm in the corner. Murp! I will kill this laundry monster for you. Murp! Bathroom is clear. Oooh, nice accoustics in here! MURP! MURP! MRRRROWP!"
[info]mevennen wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:56 pm (UTC)
Yes - "What do you MEAN, you're not interested in my every move?"
[info]morning_glory wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)
We have two that do some of the same thing. We have one who grumble-mrowps whenever we touch him. Mrowp! Scratch my head. Mrowp. Your petting me. Mrowp. I don't want to move off this chair.

And we have one who is deaf, who runs around proclaiming to world he has a mighty Prreeeep (as he was born deaf, he never learned to speak proper cat, and purrrmeeps; it's all cat sounds rolled into one). He is also crazy. Preeeep! There is a jellyfish after me. Preeeeep. I am moving the water dish. PREEEEP! Make the bathtub faucet drip. PREEEEEP! These vibrations in the bathtub are fun. PREEEEP!
[info]kelliem wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:31 pm (UTC)
Cat: You're getting sleeeeepy, Monkey. Very, very sleeepy. Sleeeeeepier and sleeeepier....

Riku does that to me, too. (see icon for evidence...)
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:36 pm (UTC)
Cats.

*g*

Now we are at war for the chair again.
[info]faithhopetricks wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:38 pm (UTC)
I do love these. This is Queen Medb, right?
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:42 pm (UTC)
That's her.
[info]kayselkiemoon wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:56 pm (UTC)
*giggles* the adventures of Cat and Monkey really brighten up my day. most excellent. ^_^
[info]morning_glory wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:05 pm (UTC)
I do so love your Cat and Monkey adventures. Medb is so entirely different from my three boys; I love reading about her. They definitely brighten up an otherwise dull and dreary day.
[info]coffeeem wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:22 pm (UTC)
I think even if I hadn't known from previous posts that you'd been gone for the weekend, I'd have been able to tell it from the way you were treated by the cat.

I'm glad you've been forgiven.
[info]jasra wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 03:29 pm (UTC)
I picked up my cat last night and he snubbed his food as well. When it was bed time, it took some coaxing before he'd jump up on the bed, but I woke up sometime and he was curled up next to me, as usual.

Wonderful post, as usual.
[info]fairestcat wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 04:32 pm (UTC)
I never remember to comment on them, but I just wanted to let you know that I am always happy to see new Monkey vs Cat conversations on my flist and they never fail to make me cackle with glee and sympathy.
[info]olivia_cochrane wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 04:32 pm (UTC)
Yay, more Cat and Monkey! I'd check Cat's pockets for switchblades if I were Monkey. I didn't know that cats could be so neurotic :D
[info]liret wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 04:49 pm (UTC)
My bird used to have that reaction to the garbage truck. Complete birdie freakout. Then, after I was irreparably awake, she'd forget that the noise was scary and start singing a duet with it.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 05:21 pm (UTC)
Oh, just brilliant.

In Cat's defense, it *is* loud.
[info]anghara wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 05:44 pm (UTC)
I know that cat. I KNOW it. [snort]

These are wonderful, Bear. Keep them coming.
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 05:54 pm (UTC)
As long as the cat keeps harrassing me.
[info]slash_girl wrote:
Apr. 24th, 2007 10:06 pm (UTC)
Hee. I love Cat vs. Monkey.

Cat: THE GARBAGE TRUCK IS GOING TO EAT US ALL! RUN! RUN!

That's how my cats react, although I only get to witness it during the summer and am usually awake when the garbage truck comes. My younger cat is worse--as soon as he hears it starting up from the next house, he's pretty much on guard, then when it stops outside our house? He is gone! Of course, he's an odd little cat--he's terrified of plastic bags--or at least the noise they make. Shake a bag at him and he runs, like it's going to chase him down and attack.

Although both of my cats are always glad to see me when I come home from being away--but that may have to do with the fact that my sis is usually home if I'm away. But even the few times we've both been gone and it's just been our parents come up to feed them, all four cats are quite happy when we get home.

Hmm, I really need to make an icon with my boys in it...

[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 25th, 2007 01:09 am (UTC)
You know, those garbage trucks are killer.

She ignores them in the winter, but this time of year the windows are open....
[info]xanath wrote:
Apr. 25th, 2007 04:22 am (UTC)
::chuckle::

Your "Monkey and Cat" entries are wonderful, and make me itch to try something like it myself. Thanks!

--Kris
[info]matociquala wrote:
Apr. 25th, 2007 10:49 am (UTC)
the cat gloats. *g*

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