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Nov 13, 2006

MMMMMMMM, grasshopper-y

Mmmmm, fresh local grasshoppèrrrrre...

[Paw up to face, thinking] I shall enjoy heem weeth a white wine sauce...

[Licks whiskers] weeth a leetle salt and peppères...

Right, chef Nathan M.? ;)

Posted by Meg on November 13, 2006 in Interspecies Snorgling , Kittens | Permalink

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My cat Boj loved grasshoppers! They're nice and crunchy.: BlueFairy; | Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57 AM

Pink Paw Pads!!: flamencomama; | Nov 13, 2006 at 10:59 AM

Yumm, grasshopper under glass. My cat eats moths. I wish she'd eat spiders.: shanchan; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:00 AM

cutest paws everrrr!: anon; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:01 AM

Thank goodness the title was a warning about this post. I can't look at a grasshopper, no matter how cute the cat next to it might be! *squinches eyes tight and scrolls down to comment safe-haven*: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:03 AM

That one claw--he's ready to use it like a can opener.: EliottM; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:03 AM

Jahari loves flies... but not to eat. She just catches and releases until it dies. I love it when she puts them in her mouth then takes them into a different room to chase him in there. Heehee Cutie pie watching the grasshopper!: Renee; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:04 AM

Kitty looks so pensive in the second pic - I love it! I used to have a cat who would capture bugs under his paws, and then veeerrry carefully lift said paws to examine the bug - thereby allowing it to escape, much to his chagrin. It didn't matter how many times he did this, he never learned. He was such a good cat - I miss him. *sniff*: AlbertaGirl; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:06 AM

Totally gonna try this at home. [ glances around looking for empty jar ]: Nora; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:09 AM

OMG I LOVE TUXEDO CATS! This totally reminds me of my two little guys.: tina; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:17 AM

This looks like at least an hour's worth of good amusement for a cat. Simple pleasures.: A thinker; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:20 AM

This reminds me of my kitty at home... She captures them, and drags them to her water dish and drowns them.: Diana; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:27 AM

THe second picture really cracks me up. The kat looks like s/he's pondering the best method of getting that hopping thing out of the invisible barrier.: Pat; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:27 AM

In Florida my cats ate giant palmetto bugs and then promptly puked them back up. Glad they just eat crickets now. With some fava beans and a nice chianti.: Redzilla; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:31 AM

Maybe the kitty's a grasshopper mint fiend.: ShelleyTambo; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:51 AM

Maybe the kitty's a grasshopper mint fiend.: ShelleyTambo; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:52 AM

Dang. It told me there was an error posting the first time. Liar!!: ShelleyTambo; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:53 AM

Heh. Woe to teh flying critter in this house. Nala is indifferent to crawling bugs, PUck was terrified of them! I once drew his and my husband's attention to this cool bug. PUck gave it a look, realised it moved, and ESCAPED! by teh nearest route- dh's back! ONyx loves crawly critters- the toy that moves itself.: Cat; | Nov 13, 2006 at 11:53 AM

In Florida my cats ate giant palmetto bugs and then promptly puked them back up. Glad they just eat crickets now. With some fava beans and a nice chianti. Posted by: Redzilla Great "Silence of the Lambs" line! You're such a pro. I live in SC where we have those nasty Palmetto Bugs that just freak me out worse than any snake or spider could even dream of doing - I love it when my kitties catch 'em but I try to get the struggling half-dead buggers out the door before they have a chance to eat them. I can imagine nothing more disgusting than a puked-up cockroach. Eeeeeuugghh!!! (sorry, harshed the cute again, but I couldn't help me self): carolina; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:01 PM

Oh wow, in second pic he looks like a pensive William F. Buckley poised to say something really "brilliant"!: carolina; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:05 PM

EEewwwww, RedZ!!!! [wipes mouf fervently wif hand]: jaypo; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:12 PM

I love how cats all share some common traits and habits, even though they're all individuals, you know? &:o) My normally laid-back kitteh ZAPS! into immediate action if there's a fly in our apartment --- She can go from honk-shuing to INSTANTLY JUMPING up FEET into the air & uses both of her little paws to grab flies in mid-flight. We get those centipedes too (thousand leggers? with all the hair-thin legs?) Kitteh chases those long-leggetty things like a kitteh possessed!! &:o): you guys r silly; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:21 PM

My kitteh, the evil Riley, chases bugs with disastrous results....on my apartment. He is the Godzilla to my apartment's Tokyo. And he never catches a damn thing.: NebraskaErin; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:23 PM

LC - I feel your pain. Evil. Just plain evil. Pix #1: "No more shall you terrorize and create mass panic, my little hopper of horror - BEHOLD: The paw of mayhem!" Pix #2: "No more shall you eat crops, and destroy a city's agricultural base. LOOK UPON: The hooked claw of calamity!" Pix #3: "No more shall you jump at people, spreading disgust and political unrest. WITNESS: The whiskers of...oh look - who's finger is that?": Aubrey; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:26 PM

Aubrey, not just evil, but crazy to boot. See one on a sidewalk, and it's just as likely to jump *toward* you as *away* from you. Oh, and my third-grade teacher didn't help my phobia any by making us dissect them with our school scissors and TAPE THE PIECES INTO OUR LITTLE LINED NOTEBOOKS. *IN SEPTEMBER*!!! SO I HAD TO WRITE ACROSS THE LUMPS ALL THE REST OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!! Sorry, flashback over.: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:34 PM

What a handsome kitty! Love the second picture...ponderous!: Holly; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:39 PM

LC, when I was in Santa Fe - a grasshopper landed on me. Want to know what it's like to turn into a pillar of salt? Talk to me. And you've hit on the head one of the fundamental problems with insects. Outside of their inherent wickedness, of course. Sorry. I'll try to stop the hatin'.: Aubrey; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:45 PM

That cat looks just like Sylvester. As in Tweety and -: happy_bunny; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:46 PM

"when I was in Santa Fe - a grasshopper landed on me" When I was in kindergarten, same thing. Pillar of shrieking salt, though, in my case.: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:51 PM

"Hooked claw of calamity" You kill, Aubrey. Like Carolina, I used to be so proud of mighty huntresses when they disabled a palmetto bug, but then I had to get it away before dining commenced.: Redzilla; | Nov 13, 2006 at 12:54 PM

LC, there are some botanical gardens down here in SC that have grasshoppers that are probably 3-4 inches long....or more...those suckers are HUGE. I usually am not afraid of insects...but if they fly or jump they are usually fairly unpredictable and that scares the bejeezus outta me. :): daisycat; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:02 PM

Can I just say-not being an entomolgist or anything-but that bug looks like a Katydid to me. Anybody else think so? I love to listen to Katydids and am sad when they die. That said...I love the pics. Cute kittie, lovely bug.: Martha in Washington; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:10 PM

in grade three? mit snizzers? and tape 'em in yer book? lumpity lump-like? eeewwwwwww!!!: arbed; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:14 PM

REDZILLA! There are some things you can't un-read! The rest of you Peeps: Buzz off! Cringe, grimmace, GAH, hack-hack, sthpit! I have no appetite.: pyrit; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:14 PM

Sthylvester Kitty: Oh Waiter, sthere's a katydidth in my thoop.: pyrit; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:16 PM

Okay, warning, this is true but kind of gross- if you really can't stand the idea of grasshoppers, skip to the next comment: One summer when I was a kid and living in Montana, we had a plague of grasshoppers. The yard and fields around our house were inundated with them, and it was a chore just walking across the yard because grasshoppers would fly out in front of you like the parting of the Red Sea. They would get in your hair, eyes, clothes, and even down your socks. They destroyed my mother’s tomatoes the afternoon she planted them, eating them down to the stalks in under four hours. Unfortunately, my dad read in one of his many organic gardening books that the solution was to collect a bunch of grasshoppers, grind them up, and spread them around outside. The object was to create a grasshopper “plague,” which would kill them all off. My twin sister and I were assigned to collect the specimens, and were each given a plastic freezer bag and told to fill them up before we could go play. My sister had the bright idea of putting Glad sandwich bags over our hands, which made the job somewhat less disgusting, but it was still one of the worst jobs I’ve ever done, which with my father is saying a lot. She and I triumphantly brought the bags back to our dad, who was waiting in the kitchen with my mother’s blender. He proceeded to stuff the grasshoppers, mostly still living, through the swing-up lid. He then hit purée. It was one of the weirdest sounds I’ve ever heard, not as sharp as crushing ice, but a kind of clipped chopping and gushy smearing. The blender’s sides were a greenish red. The result, a mass of wings, legs, antennae, and grasshopper guts, was put into a garden sprayer and spread across the lawn. As far as I could tell, there was no appreciable lessening of the grasshopper population (although my dad still claims it worked wonders.) When my mom found out what he had done to her blender, she made him go and get a new one. The other blender, with “GRASSHOPPER” written in huge letters across the plastic, in permanent black marker, was relegated to the garage, where it sat as a constant threat that my sister and I would once again be given that hideous chore. Fortunately for us it went unused, and for some strange reason when we moved to Oregon, it didn’t make it to the new house.: shanchan; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:18 PM

Whew. Shanchan, that is a...memorable experience. And Laurie C, I LOL'd at your school-grasshopper-notebook story--but I think it's even outdone by shanchan.: A thinker; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:22 PM

shanchan, all I can say is YAY! for your mom.: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:23 PM

Is it a cricket, a grasshopper or a katydid? Don't jump to conclusions.: pyrit; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:24 PM

thinkie, yes, at least I didn't have to catch any myself. Grade 3 teacher told us all to leave our little Pink Pearl erasers on our desk one night, and we came in the next a.m. to find one straight-pinned, still wiggling onto our erasers on our desks. She had a couple of the boys catch 'em.: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:25 PM

Sorry, that looks way longer than I was thinking. :) I forgot to say, re: the picture- the whiskers! The whiskers! (/soylent green voice): shanchan; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:25 PM

EWWW Shan... And you probably didn't need the grasshopper blender in Oregon. I lived there for roughly 30 years and never saw a plague of grasshoppers, nor heard of one in the state elsewhere, either.: Mary; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:26 PM

GAH Laurie C!!! I am not very squeamish, but the idea of live grasshoppers pinned wiggling to erasers...it's a wonder you were not traumatized for life. Or maybe you were.: A thinker; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:26 PM

Shanchan, I shudder to think what your parents would do a with bass. (whirring noise pours into glass, takes a swig) "Mmmmmmmmm - that's good bass!": Aubrey; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:27 PM

Shachan-that is soooo funny! Disgusting but funny! Has anybody else ever been to The Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado in the summer? They have infestations of Mormon crickets where MILLIONS of the bugs swarm on the roads and you have to run over them to get anywhere. It is very unsettling to hear them pop as the tires roll over them. And they eat their dead! I'm not squeamish about bugs but this was one of the worst experiences ever!!: Martha in Washington; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:28 PM

"Or maybe you were." When I was a library page, putting books away as a high-schooler, just having to handle a book with bugs on the cover gave me the willies.: Laurie C; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:29 PM

Pyrit - It was just a leap of faith. Still, they're all so similar, it's almost insect-uous.: Aubrey; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:30 PM

Aubrey- hee hee!! I can't tell you how happy I am that the whole "organic gardening" phase with my dad pretty much ended after the move.: shanchan; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:30 PM

Definitely a katydid, I'd say. ;) Doesn't detract from the cuteness, though! My cats back home love to munch on buggies from the yard...I miss them so much! *wishes she could have brought her supah-smooshy kittehs to college*: Perosha; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:31 PM

Oh me oh my! Great stories, all! I really feel for your insect phobias. The only ones I fear are the eight hairy legged doobers that scuttle out quickly and scare the shite out of me....wolf spiders!!! That truly is awful, LC, having to cute up grasshoppers and write over their widdle corpses for the whole year! Yeeeech! And, that's pretty sick for third graders to find wriggling hoppers on their erasers. My kids would have been upset cuz they were taught to respect all living things. (Alright, except hamburger) And, shanchan....what can I say? Grossest story ever??? But, very interesting! Something I had never heard of before!: Lauri; | Nov 13, 2006 at 01:34 PM

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