My cats - and me

  Felix in 2025 Felix in 2007 Hachi in 2023 Mama-cat in 2018 more to come

  It doesn't show but I am already 19. Don't you think that I am looking much younger? Another 7 years and I will make it in the list of longest-living cats on Wikipedia, another 19 and I will be at the top. Knock on wood. From the time, Felix was younger - just a little bit, he was already 14 or 15.

 I am daydreaming... zzzzzZZZZ. (I hope Felix has pleasant dreams.)

I h ave never seen him doing this. Anybody knows about this penomenon?

Worshiping the winds because t he Kanto area of Japan is under a heat wave at the moment. (Update: what did we know that it even got more intense later in the summer.) And the gods sent fans for each of our cats.

I tend to keep old stuff. found in 2006, no upgrades:  Felix bought in 2007, HDD -> SSD, Win -> Ubuntu:  Dell Inspiron 530s So, what should I do? Keep or replace? Update June 2025, I decided to keep them. Felix is 19 now, he would need some replacement parts (joints, kidney). The Dell is now updated with an Ubuntu Pro license which provides security updates until 2028.

Our grey eminence.  Portrait of an old man. Update 2025: Still thriving but visibly older now.

 On October 20 in 2018, life took a wrong turn - according to our cat Felix. We got another cat: Lisa, also called The Bear. Lisa is blind, one eye is now completely missing, the other does not work. She came from the cat place near my former office. In this photo she is still confined to her quarters. However, after a few days we started letting her roam freely around our flat. It works well, she has quickly memorized the location of most things and has developed a "flexible bumping" technique to avoid getting hurt.  The remains of the missing eye are still visible in this photo. She was a lap-top kitten in her early days - she doesn't do that anymore. She likes to sunbathe.

 After a rain pour in May 2006, we went out for a stroll - and found a kitten in front of the apartment building. It wasn't wet at all so we assumed that someone had just dumped it here some minutes ago. Not unusual in Japan. Before the visit to the vet. The vet had cleaned it up a bit. She said he would be around 3 months.  He needed a lot of rest. My wife wanted to tell her parents the size of Felix. That was VERY difficult, he was wriggling all the time. Finally, with the help of my foot, we found out. He was very active and, fortunately, had no problems with locating the toilet - apart from the first time when he tried to pee behind the curtain. He is 19 meanwhile, more pictures will follow.