When the man's away, the cats will play

Nardo (left) pussyfoots forward with turned-back ears taking the measure of Edloe's displeasure in a still from "Mews and Whispers" from the studio at TBIFOC.

"Nardo came out and Edloe sassed him," reports Laurence Simon re the Fab Four's PsyOps at the homestead while Simon was off looking at art. We recommend you visit the site for the full sequence of how the cats play when the man of the house is away:

After hitting Randall's for two other Gefilte fish brands, I got back to discover that Piper was shredding paper towels.

And Nardo left a message to the population of Wisconsin in the den.

Yet more proof that Ann Althouse got it right when she said to the birds "You're prey!  Get used to it."

Update:  For relief from this dog-eat-dog debate, head on over to the Friday Ark at Modulator, where the cat lies down with the canary, not to mention a variety of other vertebrates and invertebrates in a virtual Peaceable Kingdom of the blogosphere.