Photo taken: October 10, 2009
I just featured kitten Ody on Wednesday, so here’s some classic kitten Spilly to bring the dose of toxic cuteness at The Nest to lethal levels. I can not possibly state emphatically enough how much of a nutcase Ody’s brother Spilly was. He was so weird that even still photos of him will leave you scratching your head as to what in the hell he’s doing. He appears to be attempting to claw at that soda bottle cap, but missed…. maybe because one of his paws got in the way of the other? Who knows? Spilly Boy’s only about ten weeks old in this picture, but even as a tiny furball he still had a fine and very dangerous set of claws at his disposal. Hopefully he doesn’t poke his own eye out playing with this makeshift cat toy…
he would make a good thimblerigger… maybe it’s wort a try to spend two hours per day in a shopping arcade?
Who needs real cat toys when a kitty can get hours of entertainment from a choking hazard! 😜
Exactly! I quit buying “real” cat toys a long time ago. They seem to prefer playing with the stuff I drop on the floor, or that blows in the front door, or that they knock off the table…
What happened to Spilly?
He began having really bad uncontrollable seizures right before he turned 18 months and eventually had to be put down. The vet diagnosed it as FIP (Can’t remember what it stands for without looking it up). He definitely had something wrong with him because he was weird even for a cat, and his mother tried several times to cast him out of the litter. But he was the most friendly and affectionate of the four kittens I had to choose from, so I was blessed to witness his short but very interesting (and amusing) life…
Thanks for the response, Sorry, I should have known it would be painful for you to revisit it.
What a goofball! His feet are so tangled up it is hard to tell what he’s doing there. I did notice the giant claws though!
I can’t make heads or tails out of his action. It’s like all of his appendages are trying to do something different!
dood….we noe eggz act lee what cha waz doin !!!
ewe waz one handsum hous pantherz buddy….we saw dadz commint above…..we iz sorree bout de FIP…..itz like de werst of de werst N haz noe cure……
FIP izza bass terd………..we R sorree it taked yur life ~~~~~~~~~♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
What a cutie……so very sad he had FIP. I bet he packed a lot of life into his very short 18 months though….bless him. That’s a great photo – and it’s true that cats have more fun with “stuff” than most cat toys which is nice because you can easily spend a small fortune on toys when they really just love stuff.
Pam
He’s a little fluffy black blur.
Just looking at him makes me want to schedule a chiropractor appointment. Wow!
I was sifting through my Spam folder looking for some hilarious gibberish to mock for a post, and lo and behold I found this and two more of your comments there! You must’ve done something to tick Akismet off!
Apparently. They can’t seem to figure it out. 🙄