My life with cats.
Whiskered Chronicles is where I'll add stories, pictures and videos of my Rexes, with or without their approval.
These photos capture their many talents whether it's supervision from inconvenient locations, dramatic lounging, perfecting the silent art of judgment, causing mayhem, or mastering the art of cuteness.
Meet Annie named after Oliva Twist's best friend...
...This is Annie
My cats will always try to get into my closet. Here's Annie on the top shelf. Razzle is actually in there, too, but she's hard to see in this picture.
...One morning I heard meowing
And I looked in the closet, but there was no cat inside. I closed the closet and heard meowing again. It sounded like it came from the closet.
Then I realized it was coming from my dresser beside the closet and opened the top drawer.
And there was Annie!
(A huge mystery because I hadn't yet opened that drawer that day. )
Later, I walked into my bedroom and saw the drawer open, and Annie sitting in it again. (Which is when I snapped this picture.)
Somehow she had figured out how to open the drawer. But how had she closed it before?
...Then I figured it out
My first attempt to stop Annie from opening the drawer again was by inserting a slim metal pole into the dresser drawer handles.
Although she couldn’t open it, the plan still went awry—as seen in this picture. This picture also explains how I previously found Annie in that closed drawer.
Can you guess how? (The second cat in the picture is Shadow.)
I now have child proof locks on these drawers.
My previous Rex named Neo...
...Neo on my bed one night before I went out.
Neo was the inspiration for my fictional cat Shadow, whom Olivia and Annie find in Book 1, Murder Calls at Shadow Falls.
My bed when I got home a few hours later.
And my friends wonder why I now make my bed haphazardly.
On another day, catching Neo wreaking havoc in my bed. Can you spot him?
He loved to burrow.