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Charlie, Dreamer, Buster, Hettie

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Charlie, Dreamer, Buster, Hettie

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Charlie, Dreamer, Buster, Hettie

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Charlie and Dreamer, Guardians of the Universe

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Chow time

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The Fab Four huddle close on a winter night

Clockwise from top: Buster, Hettie, Charlie, Dreamer

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The Fab Four sack out

Dreamer, Charlie, Buster, Hettie

Morty Comix # 2691

Dreamer, Buster, and Hettie seem unconcerned as I toss in Morty Comix # 2691 as an extra bonus as part of an order I got this weekend for original art (from Storm Warnings) and a packet of vintage City Limits Gazette issues. The whole package is headed Back East.

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Miss Hettie refuses to eat like a commoner on the linoleum with the boys.

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I live with 4 cats. Every week I vacuum up enough fur to create a 5th cat.

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Charlie, Dreamer, Hettie, and Buster line crash

They have a combined age of 40

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The Fab Four Flopped Flat

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Charlie got some kind of fight wound on his side which required a cone on his head for two days and nights plus a hideous scar and abcess stent. He was a pretty good sport about it.

His brother Dreamer just sort accepted Charlie's condition with an attitude like, "OK, what have you gotten yourself into now, Brother?" But the classics, Buster and Hettie, regarded Charlie as the Robot Monster and hissed and hid.

I'm happy to report Charlie has healed quickly and life is returning to normal in the House of Morty.

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One of my cats, Dreamer, sure spends a long time in the litter box scratching around after doing some real "downloading."

The other day I heard him in the next room rustling around in there a bit longer than usual. When he finished he entered my room and he was wearing a little beret and looking quite pleased. He meowed and pointed in the direction of the litter box.

So when I went in later to clean the box, here is what I found.

At least it is a happy face!

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November is here. Time to gather 'round the heat registers.

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This mole is sure one busy animal. It is now as close to my back door as it can get. The cats enjoy using the molehills as outdoor litterboxes, but if they see a hill moving which indicates a mole is active they just sort of bat at the rising dirt in a quizzical way.

Back in the 1980s and early 1990s I had a cat named Ahab who was a superb mole catcher and would deliver them on the porch.

But, I'm no lawn nut, obviously. Most of it is moss anyway. I say, let nature take its course and truth to tell, this is pretty interesting. In my 19 years on this place, this is the first mole to venture here.

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Charlie flips while the others think he's a showoff

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The Fab Four

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Just opened a new bag of catfood

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Chow time for the Fab Four