Skeezix's Scratching Post: November 2006

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 10

The thirteen things I liked most abowt my Thanksgiving rode trip:

I got to vizit my faverit Ant Joanne. (She sed I lookt like a wippit, but I think she ment it in a nice way.)
I got to drive the red masheen, and it was so eezy, I cood do it with my eyes clozed!
Win I drove the red masheen, I didn't drive it over a kliff.
I got to meet a gerl cat in persun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got to smell all kinds of neet smells at Ant Joanne's howse.
I got to smell all kinds of neet smells at the HO-tell.
I got to use the fameus PET AREA at the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop on Eyes 5. Thare were all kinds of neet smells thare, too!
36 strate howrs withowt Mao being kranky with me.
TURKEY!!!!
I got up close to a dawg and snifft it! (This made me feel brave, and it impowerd me to be more advencherus.)
I got to see Eyes 5, wich is the rode trip street, and vary many things wint by the windoze win I lookt owt inklooding masheens on weels that were as big a howses!
The homemade beef jerkey that Ant Joanne gave us for the trip home. Beef Jerkey, in case yoo didn't know, is offishul rode trip food. It is deelishus if a bit chewey.
Win I got home, after the Food Lady and Mr Tasty Face reskyood Mao frum the roof of a far-away naybur's howse, Mao told me he mist me.

Vishus Deer Siting

My frend 'Kaika sent me this pikchur of vishus deer in thare yard. Notis how they preetend to be eeting the yard win in fakt they are feeverishly sniffing to pik up the trale of tender yung joosy cats. DON'T LET YER GARD DOWN!!! Have yer vishus deer repelunt reddy at all times!

=============URJINT UPDATE=============

IKAIKA PROVIDED THIS UPDATE:

Guess what??? Not even five minutes after our mom took that picture, one of those two deer (the big one) came up on our deck and LOOKED INTO OUR LIVING ROOM WINDOW!!! Our mom froze in fear even though I was jumping up and down saying, "Shoot the picture! Shoot the picture!" It was the most exciting thing to happen around here since the bear got into the trash cans.

The Tales of Devoshun Sponserd Cats

Smudge's Dad jenerusly sugjested that I give the secund-place cat a Best Frends sponsership becuz he cood not use the Honeybaked Ham or Great Harvest Bred gift sertifikits since they live in Canada and Canada is a ham-free zone or sumthing. So, I deesided to give Best Friends cat sponserships to the three runners-up since the voting between them was so close. Heer are the FOUR cats hoo are being sponserd becuz of my Thanksgiving Tales of Devoshun Kontest:

Smudge is sponsering Ash.

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OC will sponser Rascal since they've both had to deel with stomatitis.

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Libby Marie will sponser Abby since they both have Felive Lookeemeeyuh and Abby is Libby's persun's name and Abby is a Tuff-A** Tortie.

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Kismet will sponser Dribbles and has invited Dribbles over to pee on his cowch anytime he wunts.

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Yoo can sponser a cat for just $25... chek owt Best Friends and find owt how!

Congrats agin to Smudge and all the runners-up. Yer next chance to win the sponsership of a Best Frends cat will be annownst on Friday December 1st!

I lended Rocky my Hat

My frend Rocky is a littul sensitiv abowt his new set of vishus deer horns, so I lended him my Yankees cap that my best frend Jeter Harris gave me so that he can cover them up.

One big happy famly

Last nite, for the ferst time in my entire life, owr hole famly got to sleep in the same bed together. Rocky NEVER sleeps in the peepul bed, but last nite, he was feeling a littul clingey after gitting home frum the Bulevard Torchur Chamber, and maybe a littul self-conshus becuz of his vishus deer horn implant, so he climed up on the peepul bed and wint to sleep. And Mr Tasty Face didn't have the hart to make him go sleep in the cat bedroom. And then he didn't wunt to shut the door so that Rocky woodn't have aksess to the big drinking fowntin, wich ment that me and my big bruther Mao got to go into the peepul bedroom and sleep thare, too. Rocky slept reel close to Mr TF --- maybe becuz Mr TF was the one hoo brot him home frum the torchur chamber. I don't have a pikchur of this event becuz with evrywun in bed together, thare was nobuddy left to take the pikchur!!!

Rocky had plastik serjery

I don't know whut's goin' on. I notist that I hadn't seen Rocky arownd, and my big bruther Mao told me that they put him in a kardbord prizzin box and drove away, and that we wood never see him agin. So I was werried. Espeshully with his pee problims. And sad. But I coodn't find owt whut had happend to him. Well, he came home today, and the man at Bullevard Pet Hospital put horns on his hed so he looks like a vishus deer! Whut am I to make of that? I don't think it was elektiv serjery becuz Rocky hates the hospitul. I don't think he did it as a promoshunul stunt for Mao & Rocky's Vishus Deer Repelunt^(tm) becuz thare is inkredibul deemand for it withowt Rocky having to do a stunt. Is the vet man in kahoots with the vishus deer, and trying to git bak at Rocky for inventing his revolooshunary repelunt? I can't think of any other explanayshun....

Kontests!

Time to have sum fun and win stuff!!!

Zeus is hosting a "101 Reasons to Dump Your Man and Git a Cat" Kontest.

Eclair's ladey is sponsering an artsy kontest for yer hyoomans. Yoo can see all the deetales heer.

OH NO!

Now thare carrying nets to help ketch us before they skewer us!!!

Runners-up Git Prizes!

I have vary ixsiting nooz.

Since Smudge and his persun are Canadians, they cannot take advantage of the $50 gift sertifikit to eether Honeybaked Ham or Great Harvest Bread, so Smudge's persun asked that insted, I give Best Frends cat sponserships to the secund place winner.

Well, spurred by Smudge's persun's jenerosity, I have desided to award Best Frends cat sponserships to the THREE runners-up, since they were so close in the voting. So ---- drumrole, pleeze ----- the three runners-up are:

Libby Marie
OC
Kismet

Go to Best Frends, and let me know whut cat yoo wunt to sponser!

My Rode Trip to Bakersfeeld for Thanksgiving

I will continyoo to add to this post over the next fyoo daze. And I need to make my moovey, too. But at leest yoo can git a hed start becuz I know evrywun is vary intristed in whut my rode trip was like.

PACKING UP

I was vary surprized that we didn't go on owr rode trip in the bloo masheen. They got a ginormus red masheen for the trip. It matched my stroler! Win they ferst put me in the red masheen, they put me in my prizzin box. I didn't think that wood be a vary fun place to spend my rode trip. But after they pakt evrything in the car, they opend the prizzin box so I cood moove arownd and look owt the windows. Yoo can see they pakt my heeted cat burrito bed, a new litterbox espeshully deezined for the rode, and behind the cat bed is my Whirly*Pop Klubhowse box. They wood NOT let me take my stroler or the tunnul box becuz the Food Lady sed, "Skeezix! Yoo alreddy have too much krap alreddy; we don't have room! We're only going for ONE DAY!" So I had to make do with the bare essenchuls. She did let me take many of my kyoot owtfits, tho -- not ALL of them, but I did git to take my faverits. I must note that they thotfully got a speshul thingie to plug into the sigerette liter that alowd them to plug in my heeted cat burrito bed so it wood be warm and toastey on the rode trip. I thot that was a vary nice thing to do.

MCDONALDS (WESTLEY)

Owr ferst stop was the McDonald's in Westley. The Food Lady was driving wich meens we don't git to stop the red masheen unless yer bladder is abowt to berst. I didn't have to werry becuz I had my litter box, but Mr Tasty Face did not bring his litter box or the portubul Jonny he keeps in his bloo masheen. Mr TF also wunted to eet brekfist and git koffey to "moove the werks thru my dijestiv trak". Frankly, I think the Food Lady cood have used sum koffey becuz she hadn't gottin much sleep and she was a littul kranky. (Mr Tasty Face duzn't hardly ever git kranky or snappish.) Also, Mr Tasty Face wunted to eet AT McDonald's at one of thare nice tabuls, not in the red masheen as we were driving down the rode --- becuz then he mite need to use the litter box, and thare woodn't be one for many miles. The Food Lady wunted to git bak on the Eyes 5 as qwikly as possibul. Mr Tasty Face wun, so they stade in McDonald's for a wile wile we stade in the red masheen. My cuzzin Eric, hoo came with us, was past owt in the bak seet. He only waked up win I climed down on this face, or jumped down on top of him. Anyway, this is a pikchur of Mr Tasty Face chekking up on me thru the bak window at the McDonald's in Westley:

THE RODE

I don't have pikchurs of owr next stop --- the fameus Chuck Erreca Rest Stop --- becuz I took videeyo of it for owr rode trip moovey. And I have fotos of the northbownd stop that I took on owr way home. Anyway, heer is whut a rode trip look like on Eyes 5:

As yoo can planely see, thare are masheens AS BIG AS HOWSES on the rode trip street. And all the masheens go vary vary vary fast, not slow like they do by my howse. It is vary thrilling to go so fast. Whut is NOT so fun is win all the masheens stop and the Food Lady says sum of the werds frum my bad werds list. Thare were many many many masheens, and we had to go slow or stop a lot. The Food Lady duzn't like stopping and going slow. I gess evrybuddy was going to Oildale, the Center of Sivilizayshun, for Thanksgiving, and since we were going to Bakersfeeld, wich is NEER Oildale, we got stuk in the Oildale traffik.

Heer is anuther pikchur of a ginormus masheen on weels that I saw on the Eyes 5:
THE DIRT and MOWNTINS

Thare is also a lot to look at on eether side of the rode trip street. Thare are NO forests ware the vishus deer can live. Just lots of dirt and mowntins. And sumtimes, cows that look qwite a bit like cowcats, only with funny faces and BIG flab purses with fingers stikking owt of them. Anyway, heer's a pikchur of the dirt:

And here is a pikchur of Oildale, the center of Sivilizayshun:

THE VISHUS DEER in BAKERSFEELD

Win we were just a few short bloks frum my Ant Joanne's howse, we SAW A FAMLY OF VISHUS DEER! I neerly pooped my pants! They were holding vary vary still so that we woodn't see them.... but I'm up to thare triks, and I spotted them and took a pikchur. It givs me the shakes just to think abowt it.

MY FAMLY in BAKERSFEELD

Forchewnitly, we made it to Ant Joanne's withowt insident, and I got to meet my cuzzins hoo I had never in my life met before! Heer they are:

PERL

Perl used to live with the Food Lady. Now she lives with Ant Joanne and kills rats for a livving.

EDDIEEddie is a vary cool cat. He used to liv with thare naybers, but he liked it better at Ant Joanne's, so now he livs thare. Last week, he brot home a haff-cooked teebone stake, and he gave it to Fred (see below) to eet. Nobuddy knows ware he got it, and evrybuddy wisht they seen him jumping over the bak fense with a big ol' stake in his mouth. He immediutely took a liking to Mr TF:

I only got to meet Perl and Eddie thru the skreen door. Perl was kinda hissy, but I think me and Eddie cood be good frends.

SALEM

Salem is an indoor cat, and she's a munchkin with vary vary short legs. I got to meet her and sniff her and she was nice. SHE IS THE FERST GERL CAT I EVER MET!!!!! She smelld reely good. I wooda trided to git to know her better, but I kinda got tung-tide and didn't know whut to say.

FRED

As yoo can planely see, Fred is a dawg. Fred shode up on my faverit ant Joanne's doorstep one rainey nite, with his feet all bloody frum walking many miles. He had gottin old and sumwun had dumpt him -- they probly wunted a kyoot puppey insted of an old dawg with vet-man bills. Poor Fred is deff and arthuritik and he duzn't moove too fast, but evrywun luvs him. I don't ixzaktly love him, but I give him a pass bekuz his storey is so sad. He wares booteez on his feet so he won't slip on the hardwood floor.

Anyway, win I wuzn't looking, Fred wint in and lade down in the teevee room, so he was shorter than I was. I didn't know whut that wuz, so I wint up and snifft, and all of a sudden I realized it was the dawg! And I jumped and ran away as fast as I cood. Evrywun lafft at that.

I don't have pikchurs frum the turkey dinner or of me in my turkey swetter becuz things got kinda hektik once we got to Ant Joanne's howse. Thare were sum old peepul thare hoo were driving Ant Joanne crazy, asking how much longer till we cood eet, and it wasn't even lunchtime, yet. Win I ferst got thare, I stade in my cuzzin Eric's room until I got aklimayted, and then I started doing patrols just like I do at home. It's a lot of werk doing a patrol in a place yoo've never bin before, espeshully win thare are stranje cats and a dog and abowt a millyun smells to process. We stade at Ant Joanne's a long time. The old peepul left, and then we had fun. And later, we left to go to A NEW PLACE! We wint to a HO-tell.

THE HO-TELL

A HO-tell is like a small howse with not as many rooms as owr reguler howse in Castro Valley by the big forest. I ixplord evry sqware inch of the HO-tell. It didn't have dawg and cat smells like Ant Joanne's howse had. It had diffrint smells -- most of them I'd never smelld beefore. Win I got thare I realized thare wood be a lot of ixploring to do. Ferst, I chekd owt a littul room that I thot mite be my bedroom becuz it was just my size, but it was the fireplace:
They put my new litter box in the kichin, and gave me sum dinner, wile Mr Tasty Face flost his teeth to git all the turkey owt (he has good high-jeen that way):

They put my cozey burrito bed on thare bed so I had all the cumferts of home:

And then it was time for me to chek evrything owt and do my patrols:
And win it apeerd that the premisis were safe and seekyoor and thare was no disernubul vishus deer thret, me and Mr TF played the tinsel wand game with me with my Whirly*Pop Klubhowse:
But win playtime was over, I had to sit down to do my blogging, becuz I had to annownse that Smudge wun the Tales of Devoshun Kontest. The Food Lady was vary thotfull in finding a HO-tell that alowd pets AND had hi speed innernet aksess. Ferst, I had to dubbul chek that thare were no vishus deer under the desk.....
... and then I sat down to rite my blog:

I stade up praktikly all nite, ixploring and patroling the HO-tell room. Thare were creechurs in the seeling that I cood heer but not see. I thot they mite be vishus deer, but I'm not shoor they can git inside seelings. I also pooped and walked acrost the bed abowt 500 times. I had a littul problim with sqwishy poop between my toze wich got Mr Tasty Face awake. In the morning, there was evidinse left behind that I had trakt my poop acrost the sheets on the bed:

That may be more informayshun than yoo need to know, but I'm trying not to leeve anything owt of my storey.

THE NEXT MORNING

In the morning, Mr Tasty Face wint to git the Food Lady some koffey, becuz it was vary erly and he didn't want her to be kranky like she was the preeveeyus morning. She was vary vary happy that the koffey was good AND they provided the French Vuniluh kreemer that she likes so much. After she drank her ferst cup, they went owt of the HO-tell room and left me by myself wile they ate brekfist at the HO-tell. I wated for them frum under the peepul bed. It was a nice hidey place. The Food Lady must have had many more cups of koffey at brekfist becuz she wasn't that kranky win they came bak to the room.

Then they took all the stuff owt of the room wile I watcht them. They put it bak in the red masheen. Then they lookt evryware in the room to make shoor they didn't leeve anything behind... like ME! They took me owt and put me in the red masheen, rite in my heeted burrito bed:

Some ladey owtside saw us and sed, "Whut IS that??? Is that a CAT? Yoo have a CAT in the CAR?" Well, duh. The Food Lady and Mr TF were nice to her even tho she obveeusly wuzn't too brite.

JUST LIKE TOONCES....!

We wint bak to Ant Joanne's for like a minit, and then before we wint bak to the Eyes 5 rode, they let me drive the red masheen! It was EEEZEY!! It was so eezy, I cood do it with my eyes clozd:

But then I almost drove the red masheen over a ginormus kliff, so they made me stop and git bak in my cat burrito bed.

THE RIDE HOME

Then we hit the rode. We drove bak thru Oildale, the center of sivilizayshun, wich is on the way to the Eyes5. This is anuther vyoo of the oil feelds:

Win we were on owr way to the Eyes 5 rode, I saw a green feeld FULL of vishus sheep:

Vishus sheep have 4 stumiks just like vishus deer --- oveeyusly so they can eet lots and lots of tender joosy cats at one time. I felt safe looking at the sheep frum the safety of the red masheen, but win they started smakking thare lips and saying, "Ataaaaaaaaaak the Caaaaaaaat," I knew it was time to leeve. Whut is intristing abowt the red masheen is that it has a reer vyoo mirrer, wich allows yoo to see the butts of whutever yer looking at. Wich is how I can be both looking at the frunts of the vishus sheep AND thare butts at the same time in the reer vyoo mirrer.

Not too far frum ware we saw the vishus sheeps, we past the Bakersfeeld Harley Davidsun store. I took this pikchur for Rocky, hoo reely likes Harleys. (Hmm... I wunder ware he is? I haven't seen him sinse yesterday....)

Once we were bak on the Eyes 5, thare was a lot to see, and I made shur I got to see all of it:

The ferst stop we made was at the Coalinga-Avenal Rest Stop so that Mr Tasty Face cood use thare litter box:

And then we got bak on the Eyes 5 rode and we saw lots more big veehikuls. This is like a howse on weels. That's whut the Food Lady wood like to git to take me on anuther rode trip:

THE CHUCK ERRECA REST STOP

But the most ixsiting part abowt the trip bak home was the stop at the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop wich is the most fameus rest stop on Eyes 5. Win I saw the sine, I knew we were close!

And abowt 30 secunds later, we got thare. As yoo can planely see, the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop is vary byootiful, with trees and grass and a PET AREA.

Littul did I know that THIS time, they were going to let me owt of the red masheen to "do my bizniss" and ixplore the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop Pet Area. Mr TF took me owt on my leesh and I got to smell abowt a MILLYUN dog smells. I cooda stade thare all day just smellin' stuff! Wow, I think the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop was the hilite of my rode trip, ixsept for win I got to drive the red masheen. The hole way home I kept trying to git bak in the driver's seet so I cood drive agin, but they woodn't let me, even tho thare are NO CLIFS TO DRIVE OVER ON THE EYES 5 and it wood have bin pritty safe. So I had to be content watching owt the window.

GITTING GAS

After we left the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop, we wint to git gas. Win yoo git gas on a rode trip, it's a diffrint kind of gas than the kind of gas Mr Tasty Face has win they call him "Captin Mercaptan." It stays in big tanks until yoo put it in yer masheen with a hoze:

And yoo cood see many miles frum the gas place becuz yoo didn't have a forest or seenery to git in the way:

Win we got closer to home, Mr TF finely reelented and let me help him drive:

And I was so ixsited abowt gitting to help him drive that I didn't realize we were alreddy home!

But the VARY BEST PART of my rode trip was gitting home and having a reeyoonyun with my big bruther Mao. I wint strate to bed becuz I was tired frum all that driving, and Mao lade on top of me and groomd me till I thot he likt all my hare off:

THARE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

Drop by Kimo & Sabi's blog to reed abowt thare Mommakitty's advenchurs in Bakersfeeld for Thanksgiving .... she stade at a place ware they take defense aginst the vishus deer vary seeriusly!

Say sum purrayers!!!!

... for KC and Libby Marie Riley. KC developt seerius komplikayshuns frum her ladygardenectomy surjery, and Libby's blud werk came bak -- reezults were not good.. she has eether lookeemeeyuh or limfoma. The good nooz is that both are doing better today. Drop by eech of thare blogs and let 'em know yer rooting for them!

The storey of my rode trip ....

... will have to wate until tomorrow. I literully didn't sleep OR nap a wink the entire time, so I am going strate to bed. Chek bak for all the deetales AND the videeyo! In the meentime, heer's one of the akshun shots frum my trip:

Frootbat Friday

Heer is my Frootbat Friday Foto. This is me on my rode trip, in my ferst encownter with vishus sheep. Win encowntering vishus animuls like this, it's importunt to use all yer senses to stay alert. I use my heering the most becuz my ears magnify sownds reel good. For exampul, I cood kleerly heer the vishus sheep saying, "Attaaaaaaak the caaaaaaaaaat!" That's win I knew I needed to beet a hasty retreet!

Other Frootbat Friday Fotos:
>> Luxor

We have a winner!

I am pleezed and ixsited to annownse that the winner of Skeezix the Cat's Thanksgiving Tales of Devoshun Kontest is ........ drumrole pleeze .......... SMUDGE! Smudge puld away frum the pak to win by an impressiv marjin.... not surprizing, givin the number of comments on his post.

I wunt to thank evrywun hoo enterd and evrywun hoo took the time to reed the entreez and vote. It was reely reely hard pikking hoo to vote for becuz the storeys were all so good. In fakt, the Food Lady had to go by more kleenex win she was done!

Smudge, pleeze emale me with yer emale address so that I can send yoo yer loot.

For thoze of yoo hoo wunt to lern more abowt Smudge, he's frum Alberta, Canada and his blog is http://fourfurrycats.blogspot.com/.

Gotta go ..... more on my ixsiting rode trip this weekend!!!!!!

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 9

Thirteen things I have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving:

I have not yet bin skewered and eeten by the marawding band of vishus deer in my nayberhood.
My fabyulus wardrobe.
The Food Lady and Mr Tasty Face are just my best frends ever.
Rocky's pee problims are better.
That psyko stray cat Tripper is now sleeping in the howse at nite. Tripper scares me becuz he is very owtgoing and ginormous and enthooziastik and he wood grab me in a deth grip if he got neer me (The Food Lady and Mr Tasty Face never let him neer me), but it makes me sad that he got dumped heer, and win it's cold I don't like to see him having to stay owtside. So it makes me happy win he's inside, and I can't wate until he lerns to git kalm so he can play with me.
All of my innernet frends, espeshully Kaze and Luxor, hoo have tot me that I'm not a freek for having ginormous frootbat ears, and that, in fakt, ginormous frootbat ears can be reely sexey*.
For being lukkey enuf to have a grate big bruther like Mao. He's the best.
My tunnul box, espeshully now that it duzn't collapse win I jump on it.
My Whirly*Pop Klubhowse box.
The big brown paper bag frum Safeway.
My heeted cat cups.
The prospekt of gitting to eet lots of turkey and taters and pumkin pie for Thanksgiving.
That I git to go on a RODE TRIP for Thanksgiving, and vizit my faverit Ant Joanne!

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* I don't know whut sexey meens, reely, ixsept I think it's whut givs yoo urjes.

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PAKKING HELP NEEDED!!!!

Can anybuddy help me with how many kyoot owtfits I need to take to Bakersfeeld and Oildale (the center of sivilizayshun) for my rode trip? I don't wunt to overpak, but I don't wunt to be cot withowt just the rite thing to ware becuz no one down thare has ever seen me beefore and I wunt to make a good ferst impreshun. So, heer's the things I've pakt so far:

Heeted cat bed
Litter box and litter and liners and skooper
Turkey swetter (for Thanksgiving Dinner)
Cozy pink nit swetter
Bloo Cal Bears swetter
Black lether biker jakkit
Pink polo shert
Pink pokka-dot t-shert
Pink satin bath robe
Stroler
Grey fleese jakkit (so me and Mr TF can be twins)
Tinsel wand
Fancy feest sliced turkey in gravy
Food and water dishes
Leash
Harniss
Yankees cap
Pink Lepperd print fleece hoodie (in case it ranes or my ears git cold)
Moovey-making geer
Camra
Treets and nip as a gift for Perl, my cuzzin, hoo used to live with the Food Lady and Mr TF

Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim!

Me and my big bruther Mao are sending owr Thanksgiving wishes erly, in case yoo wunt to send owr pikchur as an ecard. We hope all of yoo git to injoy LOTS and LOTS of Terkey!!!!!!!!!!

And chek bak in tomorrow to find owt hoo the winner of the Tales of Devoshun Kontest is!

LAST DAY TO VOTE!

Today is the last day to vote in my Tales of Devoshun Kontest. Currently, thare is a 4-WAY TIE for ferst place, so the finul votes will determin the winner. If yer like me, yoo mite not have voted yet becuz it's JUST SO HARD to figyur owt hoo to vote for! I luv evry singul storey!! But go and vote rite now becuz yer vote will make a diffrinse!

Also, if yoo rejisterd but didn't git yer confirmayshun emale, it's probly in yer bulk male or spam folder. So dig it owt and vote! Yoo must have a valid emale adress.

IMPORTUNT! If yer persun rote a tale of devoshun for yoo, yoo get an extra vote, wich yoo must put in the comments feeld of YER ENTRY (not the entry of the cat yoo are voting for). Eech cat in the entry gits an extra vote. Yoo can vote for yerself in yer sekrit ballut, but yoo CANNOT vote for yerself with yer extra vote in the comments feeld.

And, even tho the Food Lady rote tales of devoshun for me, Mao and Rocky, we're not elijibul for voting, so pleeze don't vote fer us!

Lastly, pleeze take sum time to reed all the entreez and leeve comments!

>> REED THE TALES OF DEVOSHUN

Dutchess's Close Call

WARNING!!! THIS MITE BE TOO INTENSE FOR YUNGER KITTIES

My best frend Dutchess, hoo has bin a vijilint member of FOS' Vishus Deer Naberhood Watch Groop, reported today that this feerce creechur was in her yard trying to loor her, her bruther Gordy and her persun owtside so it cood eet them. Thare is probly one of the big horned ones hiding owt of camra ranje, just wating to pownce on Dutchess and Gordy and skewer them.

Look at the vishus gleem in this creechur's eyes. (I think I'm abowt to hyperventulayte!!!)

Forchewnitly, armed with the nolije she gained in the Vishus Deer Naberhood Watch Groop, Dutchess knew not to fall for this rooze, and suksessfully kept her, her bruther and her persun frum harm.

RODE TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so ixsited that if I was waring pants I wooda wet 'em!!!!!!

I git to go on a rode trip!!!!

Yes, yoo herd me rite. On Thanksgiving, I git to go on a rode trip to vizit my faverit ant Joanne (hoo got me my Whirly*Pop box) hoo livs all the way in

BAKERSFEELD! That's a far ways away frum Castro Valley by the big forest, and thare's no telling how many vishus deer we mite incownter along the way. It's by Oildale, wich akording to the innernet, is the center of sivilizayshun. WOW! By this time on Thurzday, I'll be neer the center of sivilizayshun!

And we git to stay in a HO-tell, so I'll probly git to see lots of Hos. And my cuzzin Eric is coming with me. He's in collige. He's sofistikayted and werldly. He just came bak frum a trip to China wich is rite by Siam ware all of my big bruther Mao's relutivs came frum. And Mao and Rocky are NOT coming with me!! That's the most ixsiting part abowt it. Mao's not coming becuz he is vary vary lowd and never shuts up in the bloo masheen, even win it's just to go vizit owr frends at Bullevard Pet Hospitul. Rocky yowls nonstop, too. Not as lowd as Mao, but he gits reely strest win he's put in the bloo masheen wich is not good for his pee problim. But I'm a vary good, qwiet boy in the bloo masheen, so I git to go!!!!!!!!!!!

And the Food Lady sez I'll even git to see the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop on Eyes 5. The Food Lady and Mr Tasty Face have fun saying "Chuck Erreca Rest Stop." They like stopping thare becuz yoo can git kappuchinoze thare frum a masheen. Thare are no Starbucks thare at the Chuck Erreca Rest Stop, wich is why they have to git thare coffeey thare frum a masheen. They are leeving vary erly, wich meens LOTS of coffeey and kappuchinoze, or else the Food Lady will be kranky.

Maybe I can git Mr Tasty Face to bring his lap compyuter so I can blog FRUM THE RODE!!!

(Did I menshun I was ixsited?)

How Scary am I? How Scary are You?

I took this qwiz wich askt "How Scary are You?", and the rezults were eerily on targit:

You Are a Little Scary

You've got a nice edge to you. Use it.

Take the Qwiz: How Scary Are You?

I hate to think of whut the anser mite be for vishus deer hoo take the qwiz!

Purrayers Needed

My best frend Libby needs sum prayers and a miracul. She's bin sik, and now she's not eeting and the prognosis izn't good. Pleeze lite a candul and remember her in yer purrayers.

The Blogging Cat Calendars are Heer!!!

As most of yoo know, Boni and the HOT(m)BC's persun has taken on a BIG projekt: kreating a Blogging Cats Kalender. (THANK YOO!) The proceeds frum this kalender will go to help Blogging Cat's peepul in need --- persuns hoo have lost thare jobs or have big peepul vet bills, and stuff like that. Yoo can hop over to HOT(m)BC for deetales.

Anyway, me and Mao and Rocky are all on the kalender, and a lot of yoo are, too! And, for the 1st four cats hoo emale me with thare emale adresses, I'll have CafePress send you a $5 OFF KOOPON!!! Plus, HOT(m)BC is offering 20% off thru 12/03. So how can yoo aford NOT to buy a kalinder?

Thare are two kinds -- a 12-month (12-page) kalender and a 2007 one-page kalender: git one of eech!

Frunt or Back?

The Food Lady surprized me with a reely kyoot Thanksgiving Swetter. It has a turkey on the frunt of it. Uzhully, I don't go for green cuz it's not my color, but I like this swetter and I look forwerd to waring it on Thursday.

BUT!
I've kinda got whut yoo wood call a dilemma. It's deezined to be wared with the turkey on the frunt --- but if I do that, yoo can't see the turkey win I'm running arownd, unless sumwun holds me up, as Mr TF is doing heer:

So I think insted, I'll ware it on the bak:

Whut do yoo think???

I'm in the Dawghowse

I got in big trubble this morning frum the Food Lady over dissing Rocky to git more votes in the Werld's Coolest Cat Kontest. She ixplaynd to me that Rocky is the "Eldur Staytsmun" of the famly, and that I needed to show him respekt. And that if I sed any more meen things on my blog that she woodn't let me blog ever agin.

Boy, did I feel bad. My face got all warm, and I felt like water was going to leek owt of my eyes. I tride to ixplane to her that Rocky started it by saying in his blog that he mite not be arownd for next yeer's kontest, but she sed she'd have a talk with Rocky, too, abowt milking peepul for simputhy, whutever that meens. She also reminded me that the fotos will win or not win on thare own merits and it was bad karma to diss sumwun just to git more votes.

So, even tho Rocky started it, I have to apolojize for my last post, and may the best cat win.

I can't wate until I'm old enuf to be a geezer cat.

Rocky's pathetik plee for votes

It's bin brot to my attenshun that my good "friend", Rocky the Gutter Cat, is using using a "queen for a day" sob storey to git evrywun to vote for HIM as the World's Coolest Cat insted of me.

I can't beleeve it. Ferst of all, Rocky is NOT as he wood sugjest, on his last legs. He may be a geezer cat, but he is frisky. Good greef --- win he's all nipped up, he literully klimes the walls playing with his felt mowse. He runs up and down the halls with me, and we rassle for at leest an howr or 2 evry singul nite. He will live to be 40. Just wate and see.

And the prizes won't even do him any good! Yoo shood see the ginormous briks he pees! They way like ten pownds! They wood brake the litter skooper arm on the ottomayted litter box if he wun it.

So heer are the reezins yoo shood vote for ME insted of Rocky:

I am cool. Just look at the lether jakkit and shades. It duzn't git any cooler than that.
I'm yung and lively enuf to injoy the prizes. Rocky naps all day.
My poop is stinky like toxik waste sludge, and I have not yet mastered the cuvvering up part of the litter box proseedjur. So the ottomayted litter box that I wood win is essenshul to keeping my stink partikuls owt of owr howse, and in partikuler, owt of Mr Tasty Face's noze. Hoo knows, maybe one day they'll ship me off the the sausage faktery for stinking so bad. Rocky's pee duzn't stink anyware neer as bad as my sqwirty poop. If yoo don't beeleeve me, I can male yoo sum of my sqwerty poop and yoo can smell for yerself.
Has Rocky ever held even one singul kontest on his blog and given away fabulus prizes to his frends?
A foto of Rocky once wun onerubul menshun in the Marin Humane Society's cat foto competishun. So he's alreddy had his place in the sun. It's my tern. MY TERN!

So go vote for me, now!

VOTING IS OPEN!

Voting is open in the Tales of Devoshun Kontest. Click the big orange VOTE NOW button in the banner at the top of the skreen to take yoo to ware yoo can rejister, and an explanayshun of how to vote. Frankly, I have no kloo hoo I'm gonna vote for... whut an amazingly grate bunch of entreez!

And YOO CAN STILL ENTER! Voting has started, and the ballut will only be updated once a day, but yoo can still submit yer entry!

BADGES FOR YER BLOG!

Heer are sum badges yoo can put on yer blog to git evrywun to vote for yoo:

This wun is for a wite or lite bakgrownd:

This wun is for a dark bakgrownd:

Heer are thare paths:

http://skeezixthecat.com/images/tod/badge_whiteBG.gif

http://skeezixthecat.com/images/tod/badge_darkBG.gif

HEER ARE INSTRUKSHUNS ON HOW TO LINK YER BADGE WITH IXZAMPULS. Once yoo clik the link, yoo'll need to right-clik on the skreen and selekt "View Source" to reed the instrukshuns.

I'm a Finulist in the Werld's Coolest Cat Kontest!

I'm a finulist in Catster's Werld's Coolest Cat Kontest, and I NEED YER VOTES to win the title!

CLIK HEER to vote. Even if yoo don't wunt to vote, thare are a bunch of grate cat fotos to see! They rotate the pozishun of all the fotos, so I can't tell yoo ware my foto apeers in the list, but look for the foto on the rite, and thare I am. For the finuls, yoo can only vote for ONE cat, so make shur it's ME!

Yoo'll need to rejister for Catster to vote. If yer not a member, yoo reely need to be: it's free and it's FUN! And if yer a member, yoo can belong to the Frends of Skeezix (FOS) Groop, wich also has a Vishus Deer Nayberhood Watch groop in it, with all the latest info on vishus deer sitings, and tips on staying safe. (FOS members git free FOS buttuns and stuff, so join today!)

My Tale of Devoshun!

The Food Lady rote a Tail of Devotion to me. I'm not elijibul for voting, but it's still werth reeding! I'm so ixsited!

Puppycats!

I am not making this up.

I think this was publisht by Roiterz:

A Brazilian couple claim that Mimi here mated with a neighbor's dog, and three months later gave birth to a litter of six puppycats.

Unfortunately, three born with cat traits soon died, they say. The survivors, including these two, have distinctly doggie-like features. We'll wait for the bloodwork results before alerting the Weekly World News.

Just between yoo and me, have any of yoo owt thare mated with dawgs???

Frootbat Friday

So heer's a pikchur of me and Mr Tasty Face. Mr TF puts me inside his jakkits and swetters win it's cold becuz I'm a hareliss runt and I git kold. I spend a lot of time in thare!

Other Frootbat Friday Fotos:

>> Kaze
>> Luxor (Lux is reekuvering frum serjery -- drop by and wish him well.)

By the way, Mr Tasty Face is NOT past owt drunk in this foto; it just looks that way.

DEDLINE FRIDAY, but extended, too!

The offishul dedline for the Tales of Devoshun Kontest is Friday and voting will start at 12:01 am on Saterday, but sevrul of yoo have askt for more time becuz yer hyoomans can only rite thare tales on the weekends becuz of werk.

So, heer's the deel. Yoo can continue to post entreez until the voting clozes. HOWEVER, only thoze entreez that are in by the dedline are garunteed to be on the ballot win voting begins. We will update the ballot at leest once a day with eech day's new entreez ... so yoo'll git on the ballot evenchewully, but not immeediyutly. (Since it's a manuel prosess, late entreez don't ottomatikly show up on the ballot.) In short, if yoo enter late, yoo'll git on the ballot late.

I don't want to postpone the start of voting, becuz some of yoo are leeving town or will be reely bizzy with Thanksgiving stuff, and I want to annownse the winner on Thanksgiving (sinse this is kind of a thank-goodness-for-my-cats kontest).

ALL CATS HOO ENTER GIT ONE EXTRA VOTE EECH.

Heer are ansers to qweschuns that have come up:

Q. I'd like to reed the entreez. What's the URL?
A. http://novcontest.blogspot.com/

Q. Can I use my same Catster Tale of Devoshun?
A. Absolootly

Q. I'm not much of a riter. How long duz it have to be?
A. Just long enuf to express yer luv for yer cat.

Q. Can I submit sevrul entreez -- one for eech of my cats?
A. Whutever yoo like. Yoo can enter eech cat seprutly, or all cats in one entry. In sum cases, if thare storeys are intertwined, it makes sense to have them all in one entry. But it's all up to you. The only restrikshun is that yoo can't have the same cat in more than one entry.

Q. All of theeze entreez are so good, why shood I even bother with my own entrey, since I don't stand a chanse of winning?
A. Yoo'll be a winner with yer cat, and that's all that cownts, rite? And by entering, yoo'll git a secund vote!

Q. How many fotos can I inklood in my entrey?
A. No more than five hundred fotos can be inklooded in a singul entrey.

Chase Finely Got a Blog!!!!

THIS IS A GRATE DAY!!!! Owr pal, Chase, hoo is Latte and Kaze's geezer big bruther, has finely got a blog! Rocky is espeshully happy abowt this becuz Chase is his cownterpart in New Jersey. As yoo mite know, owr 2 howseholds have a lot in commun. Eech has three cats: thare's the geezer mixed breed older wizer bruther (Chase/Rocky), the Simeeze in the middul (Latte/Mao), and the baby frootbat (Kaze/Me). And owr food ladeez are both Scorpios hoo were born in the yeer of the Rooster. And I think the Chip Man and Mr Tasty Face are both Tauruses, but I mite be confyoozed abowt that. I think that's the last of the coinsidenses. But anyway, welcome to the Blogosfeer, Chase!

Pleeze drop by Chase's blog to say hello, and add him to yer blogroll!

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 8

This week: Thirteen Things I can't live withowt and yoo shoodn't, eether:

1. Heeted Cat Cup

This is a GRATE bed! The surface stays 12 - 15 degreez above the ambient temp, and win yoo git in it, it rizes to 102 degreez, wich I can varify is ixzaktly the rite heet for yoo to nap by. And the wall of the bed is the purrfikt hite for resting yer chin. And it's masheen washubul! And the high walls make it good for kerling up tite and feeling kozy.

2. Petmate Water Fowntin

Fresh filterd water, 24 howrs a day. Like me, most cats prefer drinking running water to still, and the pet fowntin provides running filterd water. Always fresh-tasting! Only problim is that Rocky can praktikly drink it dry in one sitting, and then he goze to the litter box and depozits the water thare in big ole' briks of seemented cat litter.

3. Think Pink Swetter

OK, is this not the kyootest outfit ever? I got one of theeze as a berthday gift, and I LOVE it!!! It's vary snuggly and warm, not to menshun KYOOT! And pink. Mezhure nek-to-tale to figyur owt yer size. I'm a small. It also has loops for the bak legs to keep it frum riding up on ya, but I'm not wild abowt that, so we klipt thoze off.

4. Toy Shoppe Ticklers

Theeze are all pretty grate, but I rekommend the ferst one and the last one: the "streamers" and the "feather boa." Kaze the Cat (no relayshun) is nuts abowt the streamers. For just $3, yoo can have a millyun dollers werth of fun.

5. Laser Pet Toy

All I can say is FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's a good weppin to have arownd in case the vishus deer brake into yer howse and try to blind yoo with thare lazer beem eyes: yoo can blind 'em rite bak!!

6. Catnip Bouquet

I'm not much of a nip-hed, but Rocky always rekummends that if yoo are trying to woo a sweethart, yoo shood send a Catnip Bookay. Or just git one for yerself if yoo find yerself alone on a Saterday nite.

7. Cal Bears Swetter

One of many things I like abowt this swetter is that win I git all warmd up, I can eezily take it off withowt the Food Lady's help. It keeps me vary toasty warm and the bloo color goze vary nice with my bloo eyes. It fits reely good, too, with a nice range of moshun, wich many of yoo know izn't always the case with clothes deezined for dawgs. (BTW, Stanferd duzn't make dog swetters; the Food Lady alreddy chekt, but that's fine becuz I like the bloo better than red.)

Heer are sum other kolleejit swetters:

Notre Dame
USC Trojans (we don't like USC, but the swetters are kyoot)
University of Mishigin
Miami Hurrycanes

8. Planche à Griffe - Cosmic Kardbord Skracher (dubbul wide)

If yoo git one of theeze, yer in for a reely good skratch. The Food Lady and Mr TF started gitting theeze (a long time ago before I was borned) for Rocky, hoo woodn't use a tradishunul skraching post. He tore the posts on the dek to shreds until they got the kardbord skrachers. See, yoo can put nip on 'em, and it falls into the kraks, wich makes for a grate skraching and halloosinating ixpeerience. Rocky wasn't the only one hoo loves theeze skrachers: we all do! And I highly rekommend the dubbul wide so yoo can reely dig into it withowt falling off.

Thare was a time win Rocky used the skracher as a bed. He'd never leeve it, ixsept to eet and poop and pee.

9. My Pink Bathrobe

If a pikchur's werth a thowsund werds, this pikchur is werth a millyun dollars or werds or whutever. Win Kismet got his Hugh Hefner smoking jakkit for the grotto, it occurrd to me that I reely reely needed a ROBE! So I wint shopping on the innernet, and fownd the purrfikt one. I keep bugging the Food Lady to take a pikchur of me in it, but she hasn't yet, so yoo'll just have to imajin my face thare insted of that stoopid dawg. It looks MUCH better on me, becuz, as yoo know, PINK is my color.

9. Wysong Daily Dream Treats

Theeze are a mirakul food. My best frend Lux gave me sum for my berthday, and WOW! They are GRATE! And I never eet treets! Not only that, evry singul cat we've fed theeze to have LOVED them beyond reezun. But that's not all: theeze are natchurul, HELTHY treets, so thare good for yoo, and thare made of 100% chikkin (other flaverz are avaylubul, but we stik with the chikkin). I cood eet them all day. Since we all LOVE them, the Food Lady izn't stuk buying 3 or 4 diffrint kinds of treets to keep us all happy: we all LOVE Wysong's Daily Dreem Treets. I wish they'd hire me as thare spokescat. (Do yoo think I cood start a letter-riting campane?)

10. Jeep Rubicon Pet Stroler

If yer an indoor cat hoo pines for the grate owtdoors, strolers are grate. Thare not for evry cat (ask Kaze), but I just adore mine. I wish we cood go stroling evry nite. Refer to sum of my reesint blogs for deetales on my stroling advencherz. And the most popyooler strolers are all in one place heer. If yer seerius abowt buying one, chek owt Ebay.

11. My Whirly*Pop Klubhowse

For only abowt $25, yoo can buy a Whirly*Pop Klubhowse just like mine! It's kind of a pane becuz thare's sum stuff inside the box win it comes that yoo have to take owt, but once it's emty, it's the best darn klubhowse on erth!!!!

12. Whirlybird Cat Toy

I lernd erly on that if sumthing sez "Whirly" on it, it's bownd to be fun! The Whirlybird cat toy is a fishing pole that has a fethery berd attached to it. Yoo git yer persun to make it go and it makes flittery sownds like bird wings. As yoo can planely see in this moovey, it is a pritty grate toy. The minit I heer the distinktiv fluttery sownds, I run as fast as I can to play with it. Yoo can buy it at whirly-bird.com.(The web site looks kinda iffy, but it's lejit.)

13. Totully Deevoted Peepul
I'm lukky to have the best peepul on erth. Even if they didn't have a singul penney to buy me all this neet stuff, they'd still be the best becuz they absolootly adore me and treet me like royalty, and they tot me how to blog, and they akt like I'm the senter of thare yooniverse. I'm vary vary lukky.

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Atop the Compyooter TeeVee

Heer's me and my big bruther Mao atop the compyooter teevee in the office (ware Mr Tasty Face livs abowt 20 howrs a day). I'm waring my Cal Bears swetter (go Bears!), wich is just a nokking-arownd-the-howse-swetter, not a nice showing-off-my-pritty-owtfits swetter. The krappy kardbord thing is a frame dealio that Mr TF made for arownd the compyooter teevee so that we don't fall off. They akshully don't even yooze that teevee for a compyooter anymore, but they leeve it on becuz it's a warm place for me and Mao to sleep. Wich is vary importint in the freeeeezing winter wether like we're having now. But even tho it's ginormous, thare used to be a problim with my big bruther Mao and Joonyer slipping off (this was before I was borned) cuz it kinda slopes, so Mr TF made it so the frame makes like a littul fense arownd the edges that holds the cats in. It looks takkey, but it werks good. Since nobuddy comes in the office, it's okay to have takkey stuff thare, and with all of the Food Lady's piles, Mr TF has givven up being anal abowt keeping the office as tidey as he'd like anyway.

Hmm. I don't know if I'm spost to say that or not.

New Blog! Welcome Sig Bartholomew!

My best frend, Icon Baxter-Bentley, has a frend, Sigmond Bartholomew, how just launched a new website and blog. He clames it his site is the "greatest new CAT site on the Internet." Yoo'll just have to see for yerself! And just in time for Widebody Wenzday, yoo shood note that Sig ways in at 17 pownds!

Vizit Sigmond's Blog and add 'im to yer blogroll!

This Week's Berthdays

Today is the berthday of Victor Tabbycat and Bonnie Underfoot's mom. Drop by and wish her a happy day!

And Sunday was the berthday of Kaze, Latte and Chase's mom. If yoo haven't dun so alreddy, drop by and wish her belated greetings.

If yoo'd like me to send a berthday card to yer persun(s), emale me yer adress (ware the man in the bloo shorts puts yer male) and the berthdate (just the munth and day is fine; hyoomans git reel funny abowt yeers!).

Miss Glamourpuss

Yoo know, thare are sum daze I wish I wuz a gerl cat, and this is one of thoze daze. Chek owt MissGlamourpuss.com! They sell vary kyoot dresses for gerl cats, and thare site is PINK!!!!!

Farewell, Mika

This is a candle lit for my frend Mika, hoo wint to the Ranebow Brije today. Mika was my age. He got sik vary vary suddenly. The dokters cood not figyur owt whut was rong with him. They had to put a hole in his throte so he cood breethe, and a short time later, he left us.

Mika luvved to play with skruncheez, and we played together at one of owr Catster parteez. Mika LUVVED to play!! Yoo can watch a videeyo of him, running all arownd the howse and playing with his sister, Holly. He was just a grate cat, and a reel clown.

We all send owr kondolinses to Mika's famly. We can feel yer loss like it's owr own.

How I mezhure up to Merlin

So my best frend Merlin mezhurd himself for a Thursday Thirteen. I fownd it reely intristing how diffrint we are. In sum places he's way bigger, and in other places my mezhurmints are bigger. So heer are a few comperisuns:

WATE
Merlin ways 15 pownds. I way 7.47 pownds. Merlin is almost ixzaktly twice my size!!!

TALE
Merlin's tale is 12 inches long. My tale is 13-1/2 inches long.

NEK
Merlin's nek is 9 inches arownd. My nek is 6-3/4 inches arownd.

TUMMY
Merlin's belly is 19 inches arownd. (HOLY COW!!!) My tummy is 11-1/8 inches arownd.

LENGTH
Win stretched all the way owt, Merlin is 34 inches long. I am 37-1/2 inches long.

EARS
Merlin's ears are 2-1/2 inches long. My ears are 3-5/8 inches long.

Sum cats find it hard to beleeve I'm as small a runt as I am. I am abowt the size of a 9-munth-old kittin. Don't werry - it duzn't bother me. I just had to grow a bigger persunality to make up for my small stachur!

New and improovd tunnel box

This weekend, Mr Tasty Face made sum improovmints to my tunnel box. Yoo see, win the Food Lady cut off the ends to make the tunnel, it "komprimized the strukcherul integrity" of the box, wich ment that win I jumpt on top of it, it wint flat. And I jumpt on top of it a lot. So Mr TF put theeze caps at eech end so that it cood keep its tunnul shape, and he rounded the top so it looks reel nice.

In the top foto, I'm supervizing wile he duz the werk. In the bottom foto, I'm doing sum qwality ashurinse testing. It past! I love it! Thank yoo Mr TF!

Save this Frootbat frum the Sausage Faktery!!

OK, at ferst I thot this wuz a stranje sort of frootbat, but I was rong -- it's sum sort of dawg calld a doxie-chiwawa mix. And he's a geezer dawg -- 11 yeers old. He wuz dumped at June Lake by sum bad peeple, and he's bin livving at the pownd for six munths becuz nobuddy wunts a geezer dawg. He has a speshul talunt: he likes to lie on his bak and sing!

Best Frends Animul Sankchewary is trying to place him. (He can't liv with us becuz my big bruther Mao wood have a stroke, and frankly, I'm neerly as scared of dawgs as I am of vishus deer.) He's going to be fosterd in San Hozay for a cuppul of weeks, and evrywun is werking hard to keep him frum having to go to the sausage faktery. The Food Lady made me post this on my blog becuz win she was born, a dachshund pade her hospitul bill, so she feels indetted to dachshunds even tho they are dawgs. And she also gits reely mad win peeple dump old animuls becuz they aren't kyoot and spry anymore.

Yoo can clik heer to find owt more abowt this sweet littul geezer dawg. And if yoo can help, contact Linda at: 530-836-2704 or at lindasatchwell@earthlink.net.

Catitude Kontest

Rochelle, of Land of Pure Gold blog is having a grate kontest, IMAGES OF CATITUTUDE. Clik heer for deetales on how to enter. Thare are sum amazing valyubul prizes, inklooding an Odor-Free Litterbox System (Valued at $170). Secund prize is a $100 LitterWorks gift sertifikit. And a number of $50 gift sertifikits will be givvin, too. The Top 12 vote getters will appeer in a kalinder.

Weekend Cat Blogging #75

Hey, evrybuddy! It's my tern to host Weekend Cat Blogging, so heer it is.

What IS WCB? It's a compilayshun of what's going on in the werld of catblogging this weekend. Tell me whut yer blogging abowt: leeve a link to yer post in the comments feeld of this post, and I'll add it below!

So heer's whut's up:

URJINT! If yoo've bin following the storey of the homeless kitties in Rode Ilund hoo are abowt to be merderd by an evil man or sent to the sausage faktery, Grr, Midnight and Cocoa have posted info on how yoo can help even if yoo can't adopt one of the cats (hoo are vary vary kyoot). They need donayshuns (even reely small ones) to help relokate the cats to new home.
Bubbles and Mrs B's persun has had a cat crisis to deel with, trying to reskyoo a ferul muther and kittins at a site that is being plowd under (the den in wich the littul famly of cats was livving was destroyed).
On the same day the Food Lady gave me my vary own Tribble, Chris Dolley's WCB entry is "The Last Tribble - And Then There Were None." (They are SO KYOOT!!!)

In honor of Veteran's Day, Miss Ellie saloots American Patriotic Cats, and reminds everyone adopt a homeless kitty from the SPCA. Take a minit to chek owt theeze kyooties hoo need furrever homes.
Thare's anuther Veteran's Day tribyoot over at Cyclone Cats. Thare man in green is in Irak. Best wishes on his safe reetern!
DaisyMae Maus and the Feline Americans are not only honoring owr Veterans on Veteran's Day, but DaisyMae also has a new werd of the day: 'kini! Expand yer vokabyulary horizons and drop by!

Tess at "The Hidden Paw" was so excited about visting me at WCB that she insisted that her persun carry her all the way here...

Missy shows off her Tabbytude.

KC explores a new qwilt that CAME IN A BIG BOX!

At Jelly Pizza, thoze foot/paw festishists amungst yoo can catch a glimpse of some old lady kitty feets. (Not big feets like Kismets, but vary color-full.)

Over at Manx Mews, an adorable ginger male with great sense of humor seeks funny lady for great times.

Yoo can meet catten's newest archenemy, booblemouse, at burekaboy's.

Luxor prowdley shows of his neeses and nefyooz hoo look like a bunch of little Skeezies!

Libby Marie has the howse ALL TO HERSELF this weekend, and she's reddy to Par-tay!!!

Jake (of Jake and Bathsheba fame) made a list of sownds that cats hate.

Bathsheba (of Jake and Bathsheba fame) was inspird by Jelly Pizza to show off her extra toze in a Feetsie Friday blog. (For thoze of yoo hoo don't know, Bathsheba has way more toze than yoo wood think cood fit onto one paw. It's amazing -- thare like boxing gluvs. And Jake reeports that she uses them like boxing gluvs.)

Rosie and Cheeto are doing a Woodward and Bernstein by blogging abowt the elekshun. No werd yet on wich is Woodward and wich is Bernstein.
Eclair attended a post-elekshun party.
Harmon and Bustopher are showcasing sum fotos frum thare arkive. Harmon is vary reegul looking, and Bustopher is a hansum tuxie.

Over at HOT(m)BC, my good frend Mini throze dignity to the wind as she shows a foto of her going after sum treets: outta her way! She'll stop at nuthin'!

Up in Canada, Samcat trize to divert his persun's attenshun frum NaNoWriMo by stretching owt on her desk. He lets his persun think he's posing pritty for a blog foto, but thare's mischif afoot!
And wile yer in Canada, stop by to vizit Jack of all shades and shadows. He must be a math prodijy becuz he's listed 50 names he goze by. (Can anybuddy else cownt that high?)
Over at The Sandwich Life, yoo can see sum vary kyoot fotos of a new littul Manx kitten, Bob, whom they just adopted.
And speeking of sammiches - hed over to Sher's What Did Yoo Eet? and chek owt the yummey looking toona fish sammich that's made with fansey Italyun toona! Plus, grate fotos of 2 sqwirrels named Boo Radley and Hellboy.
And wile we're on the topik of rodentia, my best frend Jeter Harris pays a tribyoot to his best frend, Dilly the Ginny Pig hoo wint to the ranebow brije this summer.
Hed over to Sweden to vizit Aurora, a 13-yeer-old blue tortie. Bak in the day, Aurora was one of Sweden's most suksessful British Shorthares at cat shows.
Wile yer in Sweden, grab sum lutefisk then hed over to Anne's Food, ware yoo can see how Hamlet has conquered the formerly vary scarey wool carpet.
And in Switzerland, take a look at Fridolin's AMAZING hart of gold!
In Belgium, one of Gattina's cats demunstrates that sleep is hard werk!
Then drop by Devon in the UK, ware Eric and Flynn are investigayting sumthing in the tree!
At S'kat and the Food, S'kat rites abowt the rare Transit of Mercury wich happend this week, and Sirius recreates a Transit of Sirius with the help of Fotoshop. (I know the Food Lady will wunt to reed this, cuz she and Mr TF were very ixsited abowt the transit. It makes her sing the Sting song that goze, "There's a littul blak spot on the sun today...")
Tiggy the Tiny Tiger has a new toy with lots and lots of fethers!
And anuther alliterutivly-named tiny cat --- Teeny Tiny Tottie Mctabby --- hoo hales frum New Zeelund, rites abowt being a jungle cat!
Ariel's IN LUV! Drop by her blog to see hoo her sweethart is!
Chatham, the old meezer, reports on his ongoing bladder and arthuritis problems.
Darling Millie is doing sum berd watching.
The Lonestar Purrs trio were all in bed with thare momma withowt hissing!
Go vizit the Calico Gerls to see before-and-after fotos of Precious, hoo thare ladey reskyood frum starvayshun.
Bambi over at Pawpath Cats fownd pinkie, her mousie.
masak-masak reports that boy cat wint on walkabowt this week and reternd on Friday --- thinner, but no werse for ware.
Over at the Meowers frum Missouri blog, Nels reports that his lady is feeling "puny." Drop by and shoot sum git well wishes her way!
Drop by Confessions of a Cardamom Addict to see a touching "Woe is Beanie" scene.
Over at Mu shue Pooh The King Cat's blog, yoo can reed abowt Lilly Lu and why she is giltey!
And jet over to South Korea to the I Got Two Shoes blog see Mr Licky. He, uh ..... licks!
And owr good frend Fat Eric is blogging abowt the latest batch of Evil Introoder Kitties.
Little Cat Zee investigates invizibul treets. She can smell 'em: ware are they????
Thare's a GRATE Cattitude Foto Kontest going on rite now. Absolootly evrywun shood enter it! Yoo can reed abowt it in this blog (and I have a post abowt it below), and the kontest site is heer.
CatSynth has ritten a grate artikul on the Cats of New Orleans.
Over at BellyTimber (werth viziting just to appreesheeyate the grate grafik in the mast!), the walls are being prepped for paynting!
And lastly, this week I'm promoting my new "Tales of Devoshun" thanksgiving kontest with a prize pakije werth over $100.

Upcoming WCB Skedjul:

November 18- Amar at Catsynth.
November 25- Robyn and Sanjee at Hot(m)Bc
December 2 – D at The Hidden Paw
December 9 – Miz D and the Angry Cat at Belly timber
December 16- Kitchen Mage
December 23- Chef Sarah Jane (Tiggy's mom)
December 30- Lisa at Champaign Taste

Vishus Deer in the News

In owr Caster FOS groop, my best frend, Cally Ann, reported a story abowt a vishus deer with jiant horns invading Targit. Thare's a moovey showing akshul footije of the vishus deer running thru the store looking for tender yung joosy cats to eet. (This is best vyewd by machur awdienses.)

And Luxor has reported a vishus deer hoo got a jacko-lantern stuk on his hed. He was probly trying to ware a disgize to trik some poor innosint tender yung joosy cat into thinking he was a harmliss trikker treeter. (See, I told yoo yoo had to be vijilint win trikker treeters came to yer door, becuz the vishus deer mite use that as a rooze to brake into yer howse and eet yoo!)
UPDATE: This vishus deer got the jacko-lantern off his hed and is once agin free to eet tender joosy yung cats!

The most comprehensiv place on the innernet to trak vishus deer sitings and stratejize on how to combat the vishus deer thret is my "Vishus Deer Nayberhood Watch Groop" on Catster. If yer a Catster member, go heer to join FOS. If yoo don't belong to Catster, yer missing owt -- and membership is free!

Frootbat Friday

Yoo HAVE to see Luxor's frootbat foto this week: yoo'll git a kyoot overlode with a hole bunch of whut look like Baby Skeezies --- ixsept reeeeeely kyoot, and thare's no poop or Fancy Feest on thare faces!

Other Frootbat Friday Fotos:

>> Luxor
>> Kaze

Whut goze on in Vaygus

So Mr Tasty Face took to Food Lady to Lost Vaygus yesterday. I don't know much abowt whut they did, becuz win I asked the Food Lady, she told me whut goze on in Vaygus stays in Vaygus.

Maybe she just duzn't wunt me to blab. Anyway, I do know they didn't go to gambul or see nekkid gerls danse. They wint for Ansel Adams and Star Trek (one of my vary faverit teevee shows). And win they were at the Star Trek bar drinking foamy smoking bloo drinks they got to watch the TNG episode ware Data reesited his "Ode to Spot." Spot is Data's cat. Spot is my faverit karakter. And the Food Lady brot a new kittin home for me! It's calld a Tribble. It makes this little cooing sownds and it vibrates and purrs. Even tho they don't gambul, the Food Lady must've had a vary lukkey day sinse it was her berthday becuz she wun SIX DOLLARS AND 25 CENTS at the penney slots in the airport on a masheen named KISMET before she came home. And she said sumthing abowt seeing Luxor, but my best frend Luxor duzn't live in Vaygus, so I don't know whut she was talking abowt.

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun Seven

Thirteen Reezins I Love the Food Lady

In honor of the Food Lady's berthday, heer are 13 things I love abowt her:

She buys me lots of kyoot owtfits.
If it were left up to her, she wood let me sleep in the peeple bedroom evry nite.
She dishes up a meen dish of Fancy Feest Sliced Turkey in Gravy.
She's very jenerus with the hugs and kisses.
She tot me the importinse of aksesserizing my kyoot owtfits to make them even kyooter.
She helps me blog.
She duzn't treet me like a cat. She treets me like her own flesh and blud.
Sumtimes she wares pink shooz becuz she knows I like pink.
She duzn't mind win I cuddul up with her and suk all the warmth frum her body.
She givs me prizes for my contests.
Win my big bruther Mao is being meen to me, she takes my side.
She duzn't git mad win I step in my sqishy poop in the catbox and then walk all over her kyoot owtfits.
She pikt me insted of one of my byootiful sisters becuz she knows that byootey is only skin deep.

Happy Berthday, Food Lady!

Happy Berthday, Food Lady! Mr Tasty Face is taking her away for the day. She knows she's going sumware, but she duzn't know ware. It's a seekrit. But the compyooter will be off so I won't be able to blog or shop for kyoot owtfits on the innernet the hole entire day.

NEW KONTEST: Tell yer Tale of Devoshun

As Thanksgiving aprochez, it's time to give thanks for the happy homes owr hyoomans have givin us, and heck, it'd be nice for owr hyoomans to aknolije how thankful they are to have us arownd!

So, heer's yer chanse to git yer hyoomans to say why yer importunt to them.

This is a "Tales of Devoshun" contest. For this contest, yer hyooman(s) will rite a storey abowt why YOO are importunt to them. Yoo can inklood text, fotos, video, and anything else yoo can think of. No limits. It can be as long or short as yoo like, and it can be in any format (a story, a poem, a song, a top ten list --- anything!) Yoo can see samples heer. Altho yoo can rite abowt anything, heer are sum things yer persun mite wunt to diskuss if s/he duzn't know ware to start:

How did yer cat come to liv with yoo?
How duz yer cat demonstrate affekshun to yoo?
How has yer cat endeerd him or herself to yoo?
Did an event happen that bonded yoo with yer cat?
What makes yer cat a member of yer famly rather than just a creechur yoo feed Fancy Feest to?

Reed this exserpt frum the introdukshun to the book, "Tails of Devotion," by Emily Scott Pottruck to find owt more. And heer's Catster's Tails of Devotion page, with lots of samples.

As an ixzample, this is whut my Food Lady mite rite abowt me:

My Tale of Devoshun to Skeezix the Cat:
I reely love Skeezix the Cat. I'm lukkey to have a cat hoo dresses as well as Skeezix duz. Skeezix has lots of frends. He's a frendly cat. Even tho he's stinky, we still love him. Evry morning, he can't wate to come into the peeple bedroom and sit on my nek and purr. He's the best cat ever. --- By the Food Lady

PRIZE
Heer's all the stuff the lukkey winner will git:

The book, Tales of Devotion, by Emily Scott Pottruck (all proseeds frum sales of this book go to animul chariteez).
Sponsership of a Best Frends Animul Sankchewery cat in yoo or yer hyooman's name
A $50 gift certificate to either Honeybaked Ham or Great Harvest Bread Company
A Whirlybird cat toy
A can of Mao & Rocky's Vishus Deer Repelunt

HOW TO ENTER:

Go to blogger.com
Sign in with username: frendofskeezix and passwerd: skeezix
Click the "Tell Yer Tale of Devoshun" link
Create yer entry and publish

ROOLZ

Yer Tale of Devoshun must be submitted by yer hyooman(s). Yoo can't rite one abowt yerself and enter it. That wood be cheeting and cheeting izn't nice.
Yoo can enter one cat or a household of cats for each tale. HOWEVER, no cat can appeer in more than one entrey. (For example, Grr, Midnight and Cocoa cood be entered as three entreez: one for Grr, one for Midnight, and one for Cocoa; or they cood be entered as one entrey: Grr, Midnight and Cocoa; or two entreez: one with Grr and Midnight, and one for Cocoa; but they cood NOT be entered as a groop AND indivijually.)
Entreez must be submitted prior to NOON (PST) Friday, November 17th.
Yoo can update, revise and add to yer entry at any time, even after voting has begun.
Winners will be chozen by popyuler vote. Voting will begin at 12:01 pm on Saturday, November 18th and continue through 11:59 pm on Wednesday, November 23rd. Voting instrukshuns will be posted on my blog when voting opens.
In the event of a tie, a panel consisting of Skeezix the Cat, Mao, Rocky the Gutter Cat and Tripper the psyko stray cat will chooze the winner. In that case, the one not chozen the winner will still reeseeve a copy of the book.
I can change the roolz anytime I wunt becuz it's my contest.
Voting is open to anyone. Only one vote allowed per valid emale adress. Yoo are enkerijed to solisit votes frum yer frends and famly.
Eech entrey gits a secund vote. If multiple cats are grooped in a singul entrey, they git one extra vote. If they are in seprit entreez, eech entrey gits a vote. Yoo will post yer extra vote in the comments sekshun of yer entry. For yer extra vote, yoo cannot vote for yerself or a cat in yer howsehold.
The winner will be annownst on Thanksgiving Day.

In case yer wundering why this isn't a contest for YOO to say how importunt yer persun is to yoo, yoo'll git yer chanse with the next contest. The last contest of the yeer will be a "Food Lady/Food Dude of the Yeer Award," in wich yoo'll git to nominate yer persun with yer own tale of devoshun.

HELP theeze kitteys!!!

Grr, Midnight and Cocoa have posted an urjint reqwest to help sum kitteys in need in Rode Ilund. Thare abowt to be sent to the sausage faktery or worse! Transportayshun can be arranjed, so don't let the lokayshun deter yoo frum helping. Even if yoo can't adopt them, if yoo wood be abul to foster them, or if yoo know of a no-kill shelter ware they can be sent, that wood be exsellent.

>> GO TO Grr, Midnight and Cocoa's blog for deetales or to help.

FINELY!!!!

Well, it took long enuf, but my filmmaking efferts were finely rewarded with my own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's times like theeze win the fether boas, my tiara and the regal robe (frum my frends Shabby and Kalin) reely come in handy!

New Cat Blogger: Libby Marie Riley

My good frend and FOS member, Libby Marie, has started a brand new blog. Drop by, give her a big mraw and add her to yer blogroll!

And if yer a Catster Member, she's sponsering a Thanksgiving contest. Take a foto of yoo with a kornykopia and uplode it and tag it "Thankgiving Contest 2006". She's giving away lots of treets and maybe even sum Fancy Feest Turkey (my faverite!) More deetales heer.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Daphne's Bean has a big list of many Dona Nobis Pacem sites heer.

But wait! There's more!

I tride to git more informayshun on vishus deer killing and eeting dawgs, and I ran acrost this terryfying artikul frum last yeer as reported by ABC News:

Nov. 1, 2005 — A rash of attacks by male deer has prompted California wildlife officials to warn people to try and keep their distance from the wild animals.

The attacks, two against people and three against neighborhood pets, are most likely fluke incidents, officials say. However, the gorings could also be a sign that as residential areas expand, wild deer are becoming more accustomed to people and less fearful of them.

"What happens is these animals get more comfortable around people and people start to think of them like Bambi and often don't realize they can be dangerous," said Steve Martarano of the California Department of Fish and Game.

The male deer that attacked Ron Dudek, 73, on Sept. 25 as he was picking tomatoes in his garden was likely caught by surprise, says Martarano. The 6-foot-tall buck charged out of a patch of shrubbery and gored Dudek in the face before running off. Dudek was rushed to the hospital where he received 220 stitches for the wounds. Three weeks later he died from a pulmonary blood clot resulting from the encounter.

In another attack further north in the state, a couple in Covelo were attacked while watering a friend's vegetable garden. Martarano says the woman was gored in the arm after the animal had pinned the man to the ground with its antlers. When the woman tried to scare off the animal with a piece of plywood, she was gored in the arm. The man was shaken, but not hurt.

And in Orinda, male deer have attacked neighborhood dogs, killing one and seriously wounding another.

"We've never had any problems with our many local deer before," said Dee Pearce, whose 10-year-old dog Kermit, an afghan-golden mix, was killed by a buck that gored the dog in the head. "This seems to be an odd year around here."

Pearce says her dog did not bark before or during the encounter with the deer. And three hours after the deer gored her dog, it gored another dog, an elderly black Labrador retriever that lives across the street from Pearce. That dog survived. Later, the buck faced off with a third dog in the neighborhood, a Jack Russell terrier.

"I saw the buck put its head down like he was about to attack him," said Louis Pimentel, owner of the terrier, Willie. "So I put my camera down and took my dog inside."

>> REED THE HOLE ARTIKUL

I used the Google to pull up a map and fownd owt that Orinda is just on the other side of the big forest frum me. I think we need to move! Yoo can clik the map at the left to biggify it and see how close those killer vishus deer are to me!!!

Vishus Deer Alert!!!!!!!!!

In the noozpaper yesterday, thare was a report of vishus deers attaking and trying to eet DAWGS. And not just littul dawgs like chiwahwahz, but GINORMOUS dawgs! Here's the report frum the San Fransisko Kronikul:

"Aptos deer attacks: In Aptos on Monterey Bay, two dogs survived attacks last week by large bucks, reports a local veterinarian. Marty Hoenisch, owner of one of the dogs, said his female yellow lab had its shoulder and chest pierced 'by the biggest buck I have ever seen in these parts.'"

Heer's the link to ware it was menshund -- it's neer the bottum of the artikul.
http://tinyurl.com/yjd933

Toozday: Dona Nobis Pacem Blogcast

At the top of my right sidebar yoo'll notis a "Dona Nobis Pacem*" badge. On Toozday, November 7th, thare's going to be a Dona Nobis Pacem blogcast. If yoo wunt to pawtisipate, clik heer to find owt more abowt it.

*Grant us Peace.

Pre-annownsmint: Thanksgiving Kontest

Deetales arnt finul, but becuz this kontest will need to involve yer peeple, I'm sending this pre-annownsmint so that yoo can start werking on them to git them to pawtisipate.

This will be a Tales of Devoshun kontest. Thoze of yoo hoo belong to Catster mite be aware of whut a tale of devoshun is: the storey peeples tell abowt why they are devoted to thare pet(s) and vicey versa. It's a consept frum the book, "Tales of Devoshun," by Emily Scott Pottruck, and the proseeds frum the sale of the TOD books go to animul chariteez.

So, for my next kontest, yer persun or peeple are invited to tell thare tales of devoshun, abowt why yoo make a diffrinse in thare lives. No limits on length or tipe of kontent: text, videeyo, myoosik and fotos (and anything else yoo can dreem up) are allowd. Entreez will be posted on a blog, similur to the way the Halloween and Berthday Party Hat kontests werked.

Prizes will inklood a copy of the book and a Best Frends Sponsership and other fabyulus prizes.

All the deetales will be annownst sumtime this week along with all the roolz.

My Long Tunnul Box

Heer I am in my long tunnul box (yoo mite remember that the Food Lady bot it frum the innernets for me). The Food Lady cut holes in the sides so I can peekaboo owt, and stik my arms owt and surprize Rocky. Rocky and I play with it a lot. He likes to stik his arm in and play with the tinsel thing hanging down frum the seeling of the box. Heer we are, just restin' before we start playin' agin.

Winever I run down the upstares hall (wich is like 1,963 times a day), I run thru the tunnul box.

Heer we are, playing thru the hole in the side. As yoo can planely see, it's vary fun:

Happy Berthday, Mr Hendrix!

Happy Berthday, Mr Hendrix!!!!!

Any of yoo hoo haven't wished him a Happy Berthday shood drop by his blog and send sum Happy Berthday wishes his way.

Frootbat Friday

Heer it is. One of my faverit pikchurs of me.

Other Frootbat Friday Fotos:

>> Luxor
>> Kaze

Vote Before Sunday!!!

So, if yoo haven't kast yer vote in the I Love the 2Bs Competishun, now wood be a good time to do it. And it's a way funner voting thing than the upcoming elekshuns. Voting is vary close, and YER vote cood determin the winner.

To vote, GO TO THE COMPETISHUN BLOG and see all the entreez. Pik the one yoo like, and then send an emale to the 2 Bs with yer vote.

It's werth looking at the entreez just to see Cheeto's, becuz it's obveeyus that Cheeto bin gitting sum tootering frum Kismet on how to woo the ladeez!!!

Mr Tinydik's Ginormous Pumkin

I keep fergitting to post the pikchur of Mr Tinydik's blowup pumkin that he put in his frunt yard for Halloween. The Food Lady sed it was ubnokshusly big, wich wuz to be ixpekted. It was way way taller than Mr Tasty Face, and it made noize frum the blower. The Food Lady took the pikchur for me, but she had to hide in the bushes win the gates opend and one of his ubnokshus Hummers came owt and drove down the street by ware she wuz hiding.

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 6

Thirteen Weird Serch Frazes Used to Git to my Website

My server logs provide infermayshun on what serch frazes peeple tipe in to Google and Yahoo and other serch enjins to find my website. Some of them make sense (vishus deer, froot bat, ugly cat), others are just like, "say whut?". Heer is a list of the latter (a verbatim list):

how to rid of stinky farts
free e-cards about ears
pugs dressed as Hugh Hefner
tape fetish
how to do stunts like in the moovey
trampoleen safety
lady squirts
big black hairy ladeys
big lady's pumkin butt
men catheater fetish gallery
appaloosa deer
pooper hole
smart little skeezix

OOOOOOH, Macarena!

Heer I am trying to teech Rocky how to danse. We herd abowt this show calld "Dansing with the Stars", and I thot maybe me and Rocky cood go on that show if he lernd how to danse (he's alreddy waring a tukseedo for the formul dansing numbers). But as yoo can planely see, I've got a long way to go before he's reddy to cha cha in frunt of a crowd of cheering fans. I can't use Mao as a partner becuz he has too left feet. (Wate a minit. So do I!)

Git well, Gimme and Luxor!

My deer frend and diehard FOS member Gimme (he and his sister Ele' were the ones hoo gave my that inkredibul berthday cake with my pikchur on it) has bin taken to the vet man becuz he hasn't eetin or pooped or peed in 24 hrs. He mite have injestid one of the dawg's pills (yet anuther reezin not to liv with a dawg.)

And in Noo Meksiko, my deer frend Lux has bin having pee problims. He's home recooperayting --- if yoo haven't alreddy, pleeze drop by his blog and send sum git well wishes his way.

UPDATE ON GIMME! Gimme is home frum the vet-man. Still not owt of the woods becuz the vet-man duzn't know whut ixaktly is rong with him -- his bladder is vary distended. His bloodwerk will come bak tomorrow. If yer a Catster member, yoo can leeve yer good wishes by going to this forum, and yoo can reed updates in his diary with all the deetales.

Vote for Tiggy!

Hey, evrybuddy, owr frend Tiggy is compeeting in StuffOnMyCat.com's Halloween Kontest, and she needs evrybuddy's votes! So drop whut yer doing and hed over thare and vote for her! Voting ends tonite!

>> Vote for Tiggy!