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Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit with Cats
I’ve always enjoyed playing fun racers like Mario Kart 64, Crash Team Racing, or Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. In 2020, Nintendo came up with a new idea—quite convenient since most people were at home due to Corona: a Mario Kart game that you could play right in your living room, “Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.” It was an AR game, Augmented Reality, where the game events are projected into the real world with a camera (or the other way around by bringing the real world into the game). Such features are common on smartphones, but it was something new on a console. Nevertheless, it was foreseeable that it might…
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Cats in the Park
Let’s start from the beginning: A friend of Nathalie’s from Aikido also has two cats. To give them some variety and prevent them from always being indoors (since they are strictly indoor cats), he occasionally takes them to the park. We were eager to see this, so one day we decided to join him and his cats at the park. While one cat comfortably settled in the grass, the other didn’t want to leave its carrier at all. We were curious to see how our cats would behave in the park. Yuri would probably be quite adventurous (even as a little kitten, he was very curious), but Iva could be…
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Cats in the Snow
It was spring 2021 when the first snow finally fell in winter. This enabled the cats to experience their first real snow, because an approx. 5cm high blanket of snow had formed on the blacon. She was always fascinated by looking out of the kitchen window and looking at the snowflakes. When the snowfall had subsided, we decided to open the balcony door for once, so that the cats could see and feel the white wonder from close up. Yuri was the only one who really dared to put a paw out in the snow. After looking around, he made a courageous jump into the snow. Unfortunately, he didn’t like…
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The Cat Vacation in Greiz
During our trips to Peru, Japan or South Africa, our cats Iva and Yuri also had a kind of vacation … they were always with my mother in Greiz during this time and thus also made a small change of location. Iva was always the biggest problem child in this situation. While Yuri is calm when you take him anywhere (be it in a basket or a backpack), Iva is always quite panicked. She always struggles to get into the transport medium and during the transport, she sets new records how often she can empty herself into the basket or backpack. We also tried to give her a sedative, but…
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Towel Day Challenge
Of course, you don’t want to talk about work … but since this is a “nerdy” event and even Iva is involved, I would like to talk about it briefly. Every year on May 25th the Towel Day is organized, which is about pointing out how important it is to always have a towel with you. The network from my work used this opportunity to continue to refer to the topic of “pre-registration”, which could have prevented problems with the answer “42”. For this purpose, a challenge was announced on Twitter, in which I then took part with a photo of Iva (because I did not want to show myself…
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Yuri the Destroyer
We are already used to our cats breaking something here and there. To date, Iva has not completely given up biting small holes in various items of clothing. Nevertheless, we were always quite sure that the cats stay away from the electrical cables – at least we have a lot of devices in our apartment (notebooks, Playstation, TV, etc.) and the cats never went to the cables of the devices. This should change on the extended May 1st weekend when Yuri suddenly felt like not only biting the membrane of my headset, but also nibbling on the cable of my Asus Zenbook power supply. Even after sticking the cable, the…
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First Contact: Iva und Yuri
When we chose the cat Yuri as a playmate for Iva, we were, of course, afraid that the two of them might not understand each other. Nevertheless, it was important to get a second cat, bWhen we chose the cat Yuri as a playmate for Iva, we were naturally afraid that the two might not get along. Nevertheless, it was important to get a second cat, because Iva was just doing nonsense in the apartment (clothes gnawed, things scratched, etc.). After we picked up Yuri from Reichenbach in the Vogtland region over my home town of Greiz, we first had the new cat examined in the apartment while Iva was…
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Iva (Origin)
After we found out at the end of 2018 that Siberian cats (despite the large number of fur) do not produce many allergens, we immediately started looking for a breeder. We originally wanted a dog (to be more precise a Shiba Inu), but with a maisonette apartment on the third floor without garden, this was simply not possible. After some research, we found a breeder near Paderborn, not far from Nathalie’s home town of Hagen. Here, along with many other cats, the little Iva was also offered, which was the last of her litter and had not yet found a new owner. She was born on June 6, 2018 and…
Reisen, Katzen und Essen… nicht zwangsläufig in dieser Reihenfolge.
