The Scamperbeasts

Saja looking at a tablet that has a video of birds eating seeds on it. Saja is very very attentive.

The human may have turned on Bird TV for Saja

Smudge the cat, chewing on a boot lace. Don't worry, he was not allowed to swallow it.

"Everyone knows that eating boot laces provides your body essential fibers and aglets"

Smudge and Saja, on the stairs, looking directly at the camera, whilst Charlie the dog has the decency to look away guiltily

Today in "We Are Absolutely NOT Plotting Something Nefarious, Move Along, Human"

Smudge, on a cabinet, looking down at Spice, who is a conveniently pounceable target

Just before the chaos

Saja the kitten looking very suave as he lounges on the cat tree.

"'Insouciant'? I don't even know what that word means! No, seriously, I'm a cat and also I've only been alive less than a year, so many of your human words are beyond me, can you tell me what it means, please"

30+ Search Following Discover For You More feeds Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help Sugar's ears are back in airplane mode as she mlems. Behind her. Charlie the dog looks on and decides not to mess with her right now.

Sugar is here to provide the most annoyed of mlems

Smudge, looking unconvinced at the wisdom of your current action

Smudge has doubts about whatever the hell it is you are about to do

Saja, looking out the human's office window at, probably, the cardinals who live in the bushes out there.

Saja has spotted the birds in the bushes outside and wants to go hug them with his teeth

Charlie the dog, being eyed critically by Smudge, Saja and Spice, respectively

When you dare the dog to show up in the human's bedroom for an ass-kicking, and she shows up

Smudge, looking quite content on the fresh-from-the-dryer top sheet

Smudge wishes you a happy 2026 and also wants you to cover him with that comforter you're about to put on the bed because he likes him a cozy enclosed space

Sugar the cat at the top landing of the cat stairs, annoyed that Saja is up there with her, UNINVITED

When you have a super cool secret hangout but then your STUPID YOUNGER BROTHER finds it and RUINS IT FOREVER

Smudge, looking genuinely thrilled it is Christmas

"Santa WAS HERE?!?!"

Spice and Saja, sitting on the cat stairs in the living room.

Sometimes they just pose. For no reason!

Smudge, very smugly in the seat the human just occupied

"Yes, the human was sitting in this seat mere seconds before I claimed it, if he wanted to keep it, he should have stayed in it."

Saja the kitten is getting uppity on the cat tree; Smudge is keeping him down.

It's over, Saja! Smudge has the high ground!

Spice doing a full-on swat of Saja, who is, well, surprised.

Saja thought he would surprise a snoozing Spice with a friendly pounce. It did not go as he expected.

(PS: They are both fine now)

Sugar the cat, looking somewhat annoyed

Sugar wishes to know whomst has disturbed her slumber (it was Saja)

The outline of Saja's furry black head barely visible on a black background but his yellow eyes are glowing

Saja denies he is a real chaos demon and lies in wait to ambush all those who would say otherwise

Saja the kitten, eyes VERY wide, with toy.

This just in: for the first time, Saja has discovered the catnip toys.

Saja the kitten, looking like he wants to be anywhere else but in the picture his grinning human is taking

Have you ever seen a kitten more embarrassed to be seen with his human, no, no you have not

In the background, Spice the cat is in the top seat of the office cat tree; in the foreground Smudge looks QUITE put out.

"Damn it, she KNOWS the top bunk is mine! This aggression will not stand, man!"

Saja and Smudge, once again tusslin'!

THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE OF BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER

Saja the kitten looking very very serious and maybe a little bit groggy

"When I woke this up this afternoon I could tell that a couple of very important things of mine were missing. And when I find out who took them... I SHALL HAVE MY VENGEANCE."

(Get your pets fixed, folks)

Spice (in orange) and Sugar (in gray), the day they came home, 10 years ago.

Happy Gotcha Day to Sugar and Spice, who were adopted ten years ago today. Their human gives an appreciation of them (complete with video of the two of them tusslin' as kittens) on his personal site:

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Smudge is laying at the top of the cat tree, Spice is in the middle, and Saja is there at the bottom. It's all coming together now!

NEWS FLASH: We have achieved the rare and coveted Cat Tree Triple Decker

The blackness of Saja's fur is contrasted by the morning sunlight making his ears translucently red

Saja in the morning glow.

Smudge the cat with a direct center mlem, so rare yet so perfect

Give us this day our daily mlem

Sugar the cat, outside on the patio, looking annoyed at Saja the kitten, who is inside the house, looking at her through the patio door.

"Only this thin plane of glass keeps you from being smacked SO HARD"

Saja, who is a black cat, with his little legs all tucked in, cute-like

Hello, Bluesky, it is time for your recommended daily allowance of Void Loaf

Spice, looking very serious, with a black and orange octopus cat toy in her fluffy little paws.

Spice wishes to inform you that she has chosen this yarn octopus as her new favorite toy. Please alert the media.