Unfortunately, Kitty doesn't do treats

Ah, so you have a strict observation Puritan cat.

I know the real reason the Miracleborns are moving. There are too many contenders for Evil Overlord in LA and the good minions are taken and the real estate prices for Lair O' Evil are just impossible. Michigan has greatly superior opportunities for a future of "You must bow down before me, mwah ha!"

Well, in a town with studio execs the whole Evil Overlord rat race can get pretty thick. And the prices for a subterranean Doom Lair in a half-way decent neighborhood are...shit, I thought *I* was evil.

Michigan, on the other hand has loads of out of work potential minions, much cheaper lairs and snow. Snow adds a certain...romance...to the whole evil lair.

And there is that whole Cleveland Hellmouth thing.

Snow adds a certain...romance...to the whole evil lair

The "Build a Demonic Snowman" contests are always a morale booster.

The "Build a Demonic Snowman" contests are always a morale booster.

And the whole "Pelt the Prisoners with Snowblower" contests.

Not even remotely interested in human food, or catnip, or kitty treats.

I had a cat like that. She wasn't interested in anything but catfood, preferably crunchy, and was a vastly suspicious eater, so there was no sneaking pills into her. I used something like this [link] and a trick someone taught me: use your thumb and forefinger to slide what would be the cat's lips, if cats had lips, over his top teeth to open his mouth, so that if he tries to bite down, he bites himself. Then push the pill pretty far down his throat. (That's way easier to show than tell.) I mainly used a combination of speed and sneakiness.

And the whole "Pelt the Prisoners with Snowblower" contests.

Good times, good times.

Sean, you probably already know this, but wrap the kitty in a towel, so they can't get you with the paws.

Everyone always says that about the towel, but to my cats, the towel was a dead giveaway that I was about to do something unpleasant.

Blankets. Grab 'em when they snoozing.

(When we went out to the car this morning, I looked at the ground and Saw Something, which meant I was able to give him the first four-leaf clover of the season on his birthday. I'm very pleased about that.)

That's wonderful. Happy birthday, Pete!

Much MiracleMove~ma. I know you've been considering this for a long time, and the timing does seem pretty right.

Good call on not cutting the vaca, javachik! I hope that you are able to arrange to come home to a good job.

Tough break on the cat, Sean. I have no advice, every way I have tried has ended up just me pitting my will to force the, to take the pill against their determination not to. Fortunately, I am extremely stubborn and my cats are mostly healthy.

It's a real shame that as my "customer contact" lists get longer, my "big piles of money" plan is not getting any clearer. This is how pyramid schemes get started, isn't it?