I didn't mean it last week when I implied that nobody cares about Rudy. I love that bastard! He has more spunk than people!
Seriously, he's nuts. He's like a million annoying family members in one: nervous like a mom, aggressive like a misunderstood brother, complain-y like a grandfather, dainty like an entitled toddler.
He's also cracked-out like the twentysomething brother who lives in the basement. That's my favorite side of Rudy. He gets high from catnip and then even higher when around Liv-a-Littles Whole Chicken Treats. Seriously, he's feenin' like Jodeci.
Because he loves dehydrated chicken far more than he could ever love a living thing, I use those treats in an attempt to combat his autism (note him pushing away in the first picture above -- for Rudy, that is the default position). To get him to associate yumminess with love, I hold him when I feed them to him. Check the video to see how successful I am in teaching him how to love me (make sure you have your sound on and listen hard -- sorry about the background noise!):
Doesn't he sound like a Gremlin?
Contrast that with how Rudy reacts around the treats when left to his own devices (sorry for the weird camera angle, the bf's a little dyslexic):
He hits them out of my hand! But that's not even him at his worst: one time, while feeding him, he bit the bf's finger so hard, he went through the nail!
Rudy is the crackiest. He is darksided.
Obligatory Winston shot:
He's in the air (if you couldn't tell). That's how he gets high.
Are you feeding him popcorn? lol
Posted by: Leah | November 17, 2005 at 03:24 PM
Chile you and that cat, LOL.
Posted by: Fresh | November 17, 2005 at 03:31 PM
I love little Winnie's cry in the background. Rudy is a little grabby-paws!!!
Posted by: Veronica Vinegar | November 17, 2005 at 03:33 PM
I've got to order those chicken things!
BTW-Winston looks like Winston Churchill in that pic!
Posted by: nic | November 17, 2005 at 03:56 PM
Darksided!!!!!!
Posted by: Bill | November 17, 2005 at 04:17 PM
OK, I'm watching the 'Rudy Eats' video. It's ravenously cute and crunchy. I look down for a second to fork some spinach into my salad hole and when I look back up, Winston is STARING RIGHT AT ME. Crap. That little feline/garbage pail hybrid actually gave me goosebumps. If you missed it, watch it again, cuz it's chilling, y'all.
Posted by: Michael | November 17, 2005 at 07:10 PM
Please make that pic of Winston into a wallpaper. His expression is hilarious. He also seems to have a lazy eye a la Paris.
Posted by: Chaka_Kahn | November 17, 2005 at 08:14 PM
Winston looks like a pissed-off Mr. Tinkles. Classic!
Posted by: don't call me Ma'am | November 17, 2005 at 10:14 PM
Winston looks like he has something very important to say. Was he about to make a speech?
Posted by: anonyme | November 17, 2005 at 10:55 PM
http://www6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/images/winston_churchill.jpg
I agree with nic, definite resemblance to the W.C.
Posted by: | November 17, 2005 at 11:01 PM
Gods bless gay men who dote on their cats.
Posted by: Talix18 | November 18, 2005 at 09:06 AM
I like how Winston manages to get in the background of the Rudy footage.
Posted by: Don | November 18, 2005 at 02:02 PM
awww poor Winnie meeping in the background...
Posted by: skeeze | November 18, 2005 at 02:25 PM
Adorable!
And your cats are cute too.
Posted by: spazmo | November 19, 2005 at 08:08 AM
My cat Cate smacks food out of my hands like that too. She does the possessive grabby paws too when you try to feed her.
Maybe it's a tabby thing?
Posted by: Jade | November 20, 2005 at 12:59 AM
Thanks for giving Rudy the props he deserves. I was a little concerned there that he was gettin' his love.
Posted by: Kerria | November 20, 2005 at 01:52 PM
I want to fuck your cat as much as I want to fuck you!....like a lot!
Posted by: Rocco | November 21, 2005 at 10:06 AM
Best Rudy post ever! Poor Winston is obviously jealous.
Posted by: Amy | November 21, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Thanks for giving Rudy his due. It seems like Winston doesn't like being out of the spotlight though, based on how he was slinking in the background.
Posted by: Lucycat | November 21, 2005 at 03:54 PM
i love your inclusion of your cats on your blog. i now deem both rudy and winston celebs in their own right! i have two boys--gizmo and tobey. if your boys ever need red-carpet dates, give my kitties a holla.
Posted by: karie | November 21, 2005 at 04:55 PM
I'm totally weirded out by Rudy's girly little meow. I figured him for a squaller. Instead he's all "check me out! I'm three-and-a-half feet long! I have huge paws and manly 'classic tabby' markings! Massive mandibles! ..... mew?"
Posted by: Sarcasma | December 01, 2005 at 12:00 PM
I LOVE Rudy!! I glad he's not neglected.
Posted by: Melissa | December 09, 2005 at 08:28 PM
I'm going to have to try those treats for my cats...thanks for the link!
Posted by: Melissa | December 09, 2005 at 08:30 PM
Y'all, I think I hooked a rug in high school just like the one in your kitchen (made mine into a floor pillow). Ooh, I'm freakin!
God bless rudy & winnie. I love this blog.
Posted by: tracey | December 13, 2005 at 04:15 PM
And your friends over here on the west edge are the happy recipients of your cross-country cookbook-writing adventure. Reinvention is your gig, Patricia. Writing about that will one day happen, I have no doubt at all. Terrific post, woman.
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