12 posts tagged “buggies”

Hi everybuggy this is Lotus Batcat!

The other morning I trotted to the door to say bye-bye to Papa Miao because he was going to work.  He leaned down to pat my head, and then he asked: "What's that on your ruff?"

The rest of my brekkies!  I told him.

"It looks like part of a sow bug!"  So he tossed it outside and gave me my pat.

I call them roly-polys and they make a good breakfast snack.

Mighty Batcat vanquishes a little bitty beetle.  He's such a mighty hunter that he doesn't even need to lift a paw.  The beetle simply falls off his foot and drowns in his interdigital floof.

When Lotus Batcat sees a buggy, his eyes glow bright blue.

This little crawlie was particularly creepy.  A centipede?  It was skittering around my desk a couple days ago.  I don't enjoy sharing my room with centipedes, or millipedes, but I just photograph them and then try to pretend that they're not here.

Today, I found it dead near the same place.  Did Lotus Batcat pay me a visit?

Hi everybuggy!  I'm back!  Little Miao is still studying but she told me she likes the Laugh-Out-Loud cats comics and so do I, so I went on a batcat quest and found this stuff from Zazzle.  I think it's really cool.

Pip likes chasing leaves.  I like chasing buggies, which is kind of the same except leaves don't have legs but they can fly just like buggies.  Except squashed buggies can't fly and centipedes can't fly either.

OK, so you can get the leaf-chasing shirt here:

and the key chain here:

... buggies.

Hi, Lotus here!

I don't want anyone to be confused.  My tail isn't a silverfish, even though when I was little I thought it was.

I think Big Brother Tantra was confused too.

Hi, it's me, Lotus Batcat!

little miao is going to bed early tonight and she asked me to write a post for her because she said her other posts today were "too floofy" for NaBloPoMo.

So here's a less floofier subject: millipedes.

I thought they were Chinese herbs, but they're actually not Chinese herbs.  Centipedes are Chinese herbs.  They can help migraines and spasms and convulsions and seizures and migraines.  Which is why I'm letting them live in little miao's basement because I know they'll come in handy.

I'm also letting the millipedes live with her because the millipede/centipede thing is hard to remember and maybe millipedes are herbs after all.

I think this is a millipede.  I saw it in her apartment last night when I was batcatting and I let it go because she can use it when she gets another headache.

I have a theory about millipedes and centipedes that can help you tell them apart.

Big Brother Tashi is like a millipede.  He's sleek and smooth and he kind of moves wave-like, just like a millipede.  I've never seen a catnapping millipede before, but I bet they curl up just like Tashi with their chins tucked over their tails.

Big Brother Tantra is like a centipede.  Centipedes are floofy because they have hairy legs all over.  Tantra also has floof all over and he can move kind of fast but he whooshes from all his floof.  Centipedes can whoosh right over your bare foot if you're standing in the kitchen.  That's what it feels like just before Tantroll ambushes you.  Tantra's also more hissy-grumpy than Tashi, just like centipedes hiss and bite more than millipedes.

So when I see a long buggy that reminds me of Tashi, I know it's a millipede.  When I see a long buggy that reminds me of Tantra, I know it's a centipede.

If you see any centipedes, send them to little miao so she can make headache medicine.  Send her all the millipedes you see too, just to be on the safe side.

Maybe I should rename this the Creepy Crawlie Chronicles for the time being?

I spent the last while on What's That Spider trying unsuccessfully to identify the spider that I just evicted.  Sorry peeps, but I managed to get some closeups this time.  So brace yourselves!  If you get a tingling spine, just think of Batcat watching over your shoulder waiting to pounce on any spidey that threatens you.  Batcat was bit by a spider when he was a youngster, conferring on him immunity to spider venom.  His story might not sound original, but it's true. He was lounging on the floor one afternoon, and I knelt down by him to give him a kiss.  Then I noticed something not quite right about one of his mittens.  I think it was the right one.  I lifted his wrist, and his paw was limp and swollen to twice its normal size.  The spider venom transformed the chemical content of Batcat's blood and genes, making him a Super Bug-hunter.  Of course, he was already a Batcat.  His spidey powers just make him an Extra Extra Special Batcat.