🐈⬛ Cats, Spiders & Other Creatures From The Cardamom Mountains 🏞️
Here in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia, native species outnumber ChairWoman Meow greatly, but she still finds ways to relax each day.
🌬️ Winter Blue Skies Have Returned 🌞
Cambodia isn't near of far from the equator, still technically tropical I think, but with a little altitude the weather gets chilly here. It's often below 16°C at night during winter here in our tiny little village near the mountain tops. The winter time is the dry season here, so the river goes from a chocolate milk torrent of destruction to a knee-deep crystal clear creek. In the morning the reptiles try to heat up, and the boulders along the river are often good places for action.
👀 Water Monitor Sighting 🦎
While taking the above photo, I looked at the boulders and saw what I thought was an abnormally large lizard. I watched it for several minutes until it began to move, then I knew it was not an iguana, gecko, or any of the common ground lizards we have here. When it began swimming in the water like a crocodile, I thought it might actually be one, but when it reached dry land it was clearly a water monitor, something I've never seen before. If I had made a ruckus about it, the little guy would've been dinner for my neighbors, so I just enjoyed the moment and snapped a pic from a distance.
After capturing some wildlife activity, I decided to keep with the spirit and take some shots of spiders, specifically the one above my head every day where I prepare food. The spiders don't bother me for the most part, they keep to themselves, but I don't care for the roaming spiders without webs that wander around at night and surprise you while you're taking a late night pee.
🐈⬛ Yo Meow, Wake Up 💤
My in-law construction crew is returning slowly one member at a time, and with these meat-eaters comes an easier life for Meow. She now lives on their scraps, has forgotten how to hunt, sleeps all day, and doesn't even finish her mice or gecko meals. It's okay though, I trained her to be a killer, so when the in-laws are gone she'll quickly return to her gecko-based diet and regain her lightning fast instincts.
🧗♂️ Mt. Homework ✍️
Monkey-B didn't like her homework today at all, and after switching locations multiple times and suffering multiple wrist-aches, she finally summitted Mt. Homework, but not without giving me a dirty look first. She recently made her a post on Hive via her @sakana profile, but failed to follow up with the comments or continue posting, so her re-entry was a short-lived one. I don't put too much pressure on her, and trust she'll become more active on Hive when/if she's ready.
I leave you all with another image of ChairWoman Meow, my communist cat, doing what she does best, taking comrade naps. This time she got cozy with a pair of my dirty proletariat sweatpants. She's got a thing for smells, and if something is both fluffy and slightly smelly, that's a good place for a day nap. She recently invented a special meow and look that lets me know she'd like to drink freshly poured water from the bathroom dipper instead of her water bowl, a real diva.
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All great pictures, the one of Mt homework and the Chairman are my favorites. I too don't mind spiders but if they are huge and wander around too much, I will have to first attempt to usher them outdoors and if they do not comply death will be involved. I live in a condo so this isn't really much of an issue for me but before I lived in a ground floor apartment and bigger spiders were a regular part of my life. I have learned over the years of living here in the tropics that spiders really do not want to hurt you or really have anything to do with you at all. Also, most of the spiders here are incapable of biting you and very few are poisonous.
Ms. Meow is certainly full of character, and luckily she's a spider eater, well at least the wandering variety of spiders. I do prefer spiders over roaches though, reminds me of an apartment I used to rent in a disgusting alleyway. No matter how clean I kept the places, when I would wake up in the middle of the night for a pee, as soon as I turned my phone light on I would see about 40 roaches scatter and hide, absolutely unnerving. I guess I need to be thankful for Meow and all the creepy crawlies she likely disposes of in the middle of the night, never allowing us to even know of their existence.
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in the mountains the place is very beautiful, lots of animals roam there like you said lizards, actually I'm afraid of them, if it's a spider I'm not afraid, and your cat is very cute, the days are very pleasant just sleep and eat😀😀
Beautiful here indeed, and we are lucky to have such a useful kitty among us.
It looks like Meow has been domesticated she is all spoiled 😅, I don't know much about cats but do you think Meow will go back out hunting or will she get used to waiting for food?
She is the perfect mix between feral and domestic, the window is always open so she can come and go as she pleases. The only food we have that she likes is potato chips and seaweed, so any protein she wants comes from her hunting. We recently took a roadtrip for several days, and my in-laws said she still hunted for food and craved potato chips while we were gone. The only meat she will eat other than small prey is fish, completely uninterested in pork, chicken, beef.