Mancat Monday Yoga With Merlin, Domino, Odin & Grumpy Cat

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Hey cat lover friends. It’s another Mancat Monday and I don’t know about you but we put on some winter weight. We usually love yoga (human included) but this winter our yoga practice went to the dogs. What about you? How do you stay fit?

Odin is our most fit member, tree climbing, snow hiking and traversing our new indoor elevated superhighway. But even he is looking a tad plump. Domino is surprisingly agile considering he looks like a groundhog. This is Odin in sllimmer days.

Only Merlin is losing weight in a valiant battle against kidney disease. His favorite yoga pose is reverse shivasana.

No, there isn’t really such a thing but the other name for the shivasana pose is the corpse pose and that’s too morbid a way to kick off the week. We’d rather be Zen about the whole life, death and suffering thing. Who better than Grumpy Cat to address the issue of suffering? Oops, maybe not.

23 Comments

easy rider

April 13, 2015 at 9:37 AM Reply

oh that’s true… cats are yoga masters, because they have that inner balance … what dogs always miss :o) I think I go with my momma to that pt-crib, I saw they have balls there :o)

Pawesome Cats

April 7, 2015 at 3:39 AM Reply

You guys are masters of yoga! At age 3, our kitties are having more fun with ‘cat agility’ down the hallway right now.

Angel Ms. Phoebe's Mum & Fur sibs

April 4, 2015 at 6:22 AM Reply

Odin has amazing contortionist abilities, those bunny feets are amazing! Merlin is the perfect model of a Zen look on his yoga mat. Kaspars and Clove both practice yoga daily, their flexibility never ceasing to amaze me. I do not practice yoga do to my own limitations, but I have seen yoga DVDs that have routines adapted for people with physical limitations that I have thought of trying. The furries always look so relaxed and content when they are doing their yoga, perhaps I should take a lesson from them.

Layla Morgan Wilde

April 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM Reply

I can’t do some poses anymore either but even 100-years-olds can do yoga stretches :-0

Elaine Hutzelman

March 31, 2015 at 3:36 AM Reply

My mom throws a small rubber ball so it bounces and I catch it in mid air. I then return it to her-within a foot- and she throws it again. If it doesn’t bounce I am not interested. Sometimes when she is sleeping, I place the ball on her chest, but she continues to sleep, so I don’t disturb her. I know that scratching one of my favorite chairs will always wake her up yelling.

meowmeowmans

March 30, 2015 at 11:01 PM Reply

We’re pretty good about the yoga here, too. Zoe likes to add in a lot of sprints and cardio. 🙂

Sometimes Cats Herd You

March 30, 2015 at 7:03 PM Reply

Cats are naturally masters of yoga! Our human probably should take a hint from us and try it more often.

Flynn

March 30, 2015 at 5:13 PM Reply

I practise my yoga daily. Mum says she doesn’t know how I get into my positions. I used to take long walks around the fields with her, but now I only go for short walks on warmer days. She carries me up the hill so I don’t over tire myself and that is her exercise.

Skeeter and Izzy

March 30, 2015 at 1:43 PM Reply

We know cats invented Yoga, hence the downward dog…MOL
We just run thru the house like crazy cats and play and chase and climb our cat trees.
Happy Monday to all!
Luvs
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo >^..^<

Austin Towers

March 30, 2015 at 1:39 PM Reply

Sometimes even I don’t know how I get the positions I do! AND, apparently, I am getting a bit ya know girthful according to the human!

Annabelle

March 30, 2015 at 1:16 PM Reply

You know there is truth in the “root” of attachment but I can think of nothing more important than that attachment and to shoulder the suffering it brings than in the love of a cat.

Angel Ms. Phoebe's Mum & Fur sibs

April 4, 2015 at 6:14 AM Reply

Well said Annabelle, this is very deep. You definitely have the concentration for mindfulness, you must be pawesome at yoga.

Brian Frum

March 30, 2015 at 12:57 PM Reply

I’ve not been too good at that yoga thing. I always seem to hurt my butt!

Tamago

March 30, 2015 at 11:33 AM Reply

Great yoga pictures! I learn yoga from my boys 🙂

da tabbies o trout towne

March 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM Reply

yogurt !! ??? we dunno if we like yogurt…less it tastez like mice creem and…

huh ???

oh…yo GA

🙂

♥♥♥

Susan C. Willett

March 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM Reply

So true: cats invented yoga. My kitties come up with some pretty awesome new positions all the time.
–Purrs (and wags) from Life with Dogs and Cats

Sammy

March 30, 2015 at 10:12 AM Reply

I’m more of a walker/stretcher than a runner/leaping about/exercise machine type girl. Between my lymphedema and arthritis I’m probably lucky to be able to do what I do! BUT indeed I added a pound or ten (haha) over the winter – THAT I am going to address soon. Sam isn’t as active as he used to be but certainly could win a gold medal in napping………. Your boys look good no matter what!

Hugs, Pam

Bev Green

March 30, 2015 at 9:12 AM Reply

I agree the most elasticised members of the animal world 🙂 have a very Zen week guys! and love the pics 🙂 loves Fozziemum xxx

The Island Cats

March 30, 2015 at 8:25 AM Reply

The mom is always amazed at some of the positions we can get into. 🙂

easy rider

March 30, 2015 at 5:16 AM Reply

I agree cats are yoga masters :o) I’m more with Grumpy Cat that way dogs haven’t this special zen-mode, they have no CATtitude :o)

Summer

March 30, 2015 at 3:57 AM Reply

We are lucky we have such nice weather here in the winter – my human goes on power walks when the weather is warm but not too hot and exercises inside otherwise. I race around the house for my exercise – and when I’m in hotel rooms, I have to work twice as hard because it’s a smaller space! My human wondered why I had to do that at 5 AM in Palm Springs Sunday morning… she just doesn’t have my initiative!

P.S. I do yoga every day. My human does it once every couple of weeks.