Guinness Is Good For Health

“Muscled grey with steel green eye
Swishing through the rye grass
And thoughts of Mouse-and-Apple pie
Tail balancing at Half-Mast
And the Mouse Police never sleeps…”

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull from The Mouse Police from the LP Heavy Horses, 1978.

We picked out a new friend to share our house with, and quite frankly, he seems more than comfortable.

Meet Guinness the new cat. I think his name, coming from me, is not too ironic. He is a 14 pound male, front paw declawed, part Maine Coone, tabby cat. He is very comfortable sitting on the sofa or love seat and other areas—sometimes where he is not supposed to sit.

He has a strange habit of squatting on someone’s belly, reaching his arms around the neck, and pawing the neck as if to give a massage. It is very odd.

He, (like I am discovering—all male cats—heck, all males) tends to whine often.

The other cat hisses and growls a bit, but she tolerates him, as we sat on the bed last night watching Survivor—if there was justice, Terry would have won by the way. And even though Guinness outweighs the other cat by seven and a half pounds, he is frightened to death of her. I guess a male being afraid of a woman is not too uncommon either.

This was just a short note to introduce you to our good friend and our newest family member. Have a Guinness for health!