Just hours before #catureday ends, I finally got the first picture of our two cats snuggling. They've been living with us for a few years already, yet they never snuggle like that. I present to you, Hobbes (ginger) and Whiskey.
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Cat is all like let me rub your very expensive laptop. I saw on a reel this ladys cat cracked the screen of her Mac shrugging snugging? Where they run face on everything marking it xD
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It’s a rainy night in Tehachapi. and these two rascals are getting a little stir crazy in the motor home. They both love this chair (which is also my favorite) and for a moment I thought they were going to snuggle up together on it, which would have been a first. The love fest didn’t last long, however. Fortunately the little guy left before it came to blows. We’ll be home in a couple days and I think it can’t come too soon for these two.
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This lovely cuddly couple is a pair of shingleback skinks. And yes, these two are in fact a couple, and they are in fact cuddling.
Closely related to the blue-tongue skink, shinglebacks form lifelong monogamous pairs. They don't live together all year, but in the spring a bonded couple will track each other down (sometimes over very long distances), mate and raise a young or two, and then part ways until the next year. After they meet up and before they start mating, they usually have a 6-8 week long period of the most absurdly cute behaviour - they nuzzle and nudge each other, lick each other's faces, and snuggle up next to each other.
Their newborn are *enormous* (roughly equivalent to giving birth to a four-year-old), and the father is on guard duty while the mother recovers. While he doesn't help his young forage (no reptile does), he does watch over them and will defend them against predators. In the period where he's guarding first his mate and then his kids, he doesn't usually eat anything himself ... for about 2-3 months.
The mother is unable to eat near the end of the pregnancy (due to the enormous embryos), and has to focus on recovering and feeding afterwards.
They live for 50+ years, and if a shingleback dies, its mate will often sit vigil over the dead body for up to a week, and will often refuse to eat for months afterwards.
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Wind is getting up; folks are hunkering down; weather warnings have been heeded; fire is lit; pasta sauce is cooking; bottle of red is open.
Storm #Austen is coming now and it feels good to be snuggly and warm tonight - thinking as always of those who are not.