Friday, May 23, 2008

WE ARE NOT ALONE!

Click here to see more Nancy Sinatra tributes.

(With a mighty 23 views on youtube, Z is beginning to rival Hugo!)

Should I be worried that, along with the above link, the other videos listed as "related" to Z's boots flick all have headings like "Fat Cat'?

Bathing beauty


Bathing beauty
Originally uploaded by OblioZen

Of the many and various drawbacks to being obese, one is the inability to properly clean one's own undercarriage. Combine this unfortunate circumstance with a whole lotta fur, and Z's hind end occasionally (though not AS occasionally as I'd like....) gets to a sorry state which necessitates EVERYONE'S favourite sport: Giving Z a Bath. This extravaganza involves both M and I, the locking of the bathroom door and a military strike-style, guerilla bathing tactical manoeuvre. All the while, O paces and yowls outside the door, imitating someone being MURDERED, in accompaniment to Z's piteous mewling and squeekling from the bathtub, where he is pinned in place by those of us in the room blessed with opposable thumbs. M and I attempt to put those thumbs to good use, holding Z IN the tub, while scooping pitchersful of increasingly murky water over him, following haphazard attempts to rub shampoo into those areas that are the most offensive. Use your imagination...

It is a merry, merry game and everyone is VERY HAPPY when it is all over. Well, okay, maybe we are just happy that it IS over. The reality is, once it all ends, Z smells slightly better (or slightly less bad) than before it all began, M is off to post the cat on Freecycle and Craig's List and I am busy pacifiying the hysterical O while Z slinks pathetically off to nurse his wounded pride. All in a day's work.

And you people wonder why we don't have kids.