Skeezix's Scratching Post: March 2007

Now on the Red Carpit: Sabi & Kimo!

I thot today wood rap up owr strole down the red carpit, but sum fabyulus last minit entreez are poring in, so the strole will continyoo for a few more days. Sabi shur knows how to suk up to the kontest organizer! Knowing that Liberace is one of my IDOLS, he pulled owt all the stops to come up with the kyootest pink owtfit ever. And Kimo is looking VARY Shon Konnery. That makes the Food Lady go, "oh baby, oh baby."

SABI

Here is Sabi, stylin' a-la-Liberace. Pink is the new black!

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KIMO

Kimo is sporting the sleek Scottish garb, popularized by Sir Sean Connery, and a tribute to his Mommakitty's Scottish heritage (she will be mentioned in his speech).

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THARE BLOG: http://catbanter.blogspot.com

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: acatemy awards, kimo, sabi

Mao's Playin a Weird Game with Me

Reesintly, Mao has bin playin a weird game with me. He makes me preetend like I am Kaze and then he puts the bitey on my skinny nek and gits on my bak. It duzn't seem to be a vary fun game, and frankly, it makes me feel funny, like I shoodn't be doin' it. Mao makes theeze sownds like he's havin urjes. I don't wanna rat him owt and git him in trubble cuz then he'd call me a ratfink tattletale mama's boy crybaby. But I don't like playin that game. Unless it was with Daisy. Daisy can put the bitey on my nek anytime she wunts!

Labels: daisy, kaze, mao is NOT my speshul frend, my big bruther Mao, putting the bitey on my nek

Frootbat Friday

Thare are a lot of berdies arownd now, and I spend my time between patrols looking owt the window at them. They sownd vary yummy.

Labels: frootbat friday

Fashun Show Friday

Heer is my noo pink mussel shert. Yoo can't reely see my mussels frum this angul, but they're thare! This is my faverite noo shert becuz it has DAISYS on it. And it's pink. And it's kind of a shorty midriff shert wich shows off my 6-pak abs reely nicely.

Labels: fashun show friday

More Red Carpit Fashun

We're neering the end of owr strole down the Red Carpit! Tomorrow we'll wrap up owr review of Red Carpit Fashuns for the aCATemy Awards! Pleeze klik the appropreeyut links to leeve comments on the entries: yer comments will help deetermin the winners!

If yoo haven't yet submitted a red carpit fashun foto, do it rite away! The dedline is Saturday, 3/31. The Prize is a $50 gift sertifikit to Paw Palace or Amazon AND a grab bag of surprises frum the Best Frends Animul Sankchewary store or the Simeeze Reskyoo Store.

ARIEL

LEEVE YER KOMMENTS ON ARIEL'S KLASSY ENSEMBLE HEER

Klik heer for Ariel's Blog

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ABBY NORMAL

Abby caught the attention of the world on Oscar Night, receiving more attention for her stunning red-carpet appearance than she did for the Oscar win. She wore a beautiful Gucci bias-cut champagne silk dress that sparkled with silver paillettes, plus Chopard diamond pieces valued at $118,000. Purfection.

THINK ABBY IS THE CAT'S MEOW? KLIK HEER TO LET THE JUDGES KNOW!

Abby's Catster profile: http://www.catster.com/cats/501099

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CATO

Cato on the red carpet with his gal pal Tracey Edmonds, former wife of Babyface. He was nominated as best supporting actor in Dream Kitties. The tux is bespoke Saville Row by Thomas Mahon, London.

LEEVE A COMMENT HEER ABOWT CATO's DEBUNAIR OWTFIT!

Link to Cato's blog: Creatures of the Earth

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: abby, acatemy awards, ariel, cato

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 27

The top 13 things I love abowt my speshul frend, Daisy.

Her intullekt. She is vary vary smart and took the Milton Bradley Operayshuns Home Study korse to beecome a serjun.

Her huge golden eyes

Her shaved tummy (be rite bak... I hafta take a brake for a few minits. ..... ..... .... .... OK, I'm bak. Is it hot in heer??)

Her soft kerly furs

Her akrobatik skills

Her ambishun. She has 3 jobs: a serjun, reeporter for the Cat Blogosphere and a circus performer. She may even do ALL THREE at the SAME TIME! (Hoo needs a hoohaectomy? Any volunteers?)

Her Awdrey Hepbernesque fashun sense. And she's born to modul clothes... absolootly EVRYTHING looks FAB on her!

She's a born leeder. She's one of the fownders of the Pink Ladies!

I love the way her wiskers go evry wich way. I cood look at them all day!

Her moovey-making skills: Catnip-Reefer Madness is alreddy a Classik Feeline Film!

Her bravery. She has allygaders in her bak yard, and duzn't even hide under the bed win she sees 'em! Nope. Insted she gits owt her camra and takes pikchers for her blog!

She's the Feeline Martha Stewert. Just take a look at the pensil cup she made for her food dude for his berthday!

She is evrybuddy's best frend, and a HUGE kontribyooter to the cat blogosfeer. If yoo haven't notist, she comments on evry singul cat blog evry singul day! I don't know how she duz it!

Uh oh. I got to 13, but I still have things I love abowt my speshul frend Daisy left over!

Labels: my speshul frend Daisy

Wordless Wednesday

Labels: pink toenale

Wallaby Wenzday

I know whut yer probly thinking. "Whut's my best frend Skeezy doin' in that Wallaby powch?" Well, yoo may be amayzed to heer this, but it's not me, it's a baby wallaby hoo looks just ixzaktly like me. It's as if I have a doppelganger. That's a fancy werd for evil twin. But he duzn't look vary evil to me. Maybe I'm the evil one! I WUNT A WALLABY!!!

Labels: doppelganger, doppelganger is a hard werd to spell, i hope daisy duzn't fall in love with the wallaby baby thinkin he is me, wallaby

The Red Carpet Strole Kontinyoos with DaisyMae and Missy!

DaisyMae L. Williams

DaisyMae L. Williams showed up on the red carpet at the 2007 Golden Globes in a Carmen Marc Valvo gown with some very big hair. Meeeoowwww!

KLIK HEER TO LEEVE A COMMENT ON THIS SPICY VIXIN!

Visit her at: DaisyMae Maus and the Feline Americans

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MISSY

MISSY DUNAWAY in J. Mendel by Gilles Mendel and jewels from Van Cleef & Arpels. She is carrying a Daniel Swarovski clutch.

KLIK HEER TO LEEVE A COMMENT ON THIS RED CARPET DAZZLER!

Her blog.

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: acatemy awards, daisymae maus, missy

New Blogger: Rosie (Who Else?)

Thare's a noo blogger frum acrost the pond named Rosie, hoo blogs twice eech week on the topic of song titles. Go thare and see for yerselfs!

Pleeze join me in welcoming Rosie, and add yer to yer blogrolls!

Labels: new blogs, rosie but not the rosie of rosie and cheeto fame

Thare's Skeezy!

I am vary ixsited. Today, a box came for me in a big truk, and it had 2 gorjus Bizzy for Gizzy Flying Qwilts^tm inside. One (wich yoo can see part of heer) is almost IXZAKTLY like Daisy's!!! But as yoo can planely see, my big bruther Mao took it over.

Darling Millie's mom makes the qwilts to ern munneys to pay for Geezer Gizzy's vet bills. The Food Lady will put more pikchers up win she has time, but tonite she's got a bad hedayke and has to go to bed.

Labels: gizzy, millie, qwilts

On the Red Carpet: Pixie & Daisy!

DAISY

(Isn't her dress just YUMMY??)

Here is Daisy's Red Carpet Fashion. As you can see, she took a fashion risk! To bolster her self confidence, she decided to bring her catnip filled striped mouse with her in lieu of a purse. How daring!

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PIXIE

Here is Pixie's Red Carpet Fashion. As you can see, she is dressed very sensibly since she is no longer a young starlet. Unfortunately, this dress landed her on the Worst-Dressed list.

KLIK HEER TO COMMENT ON PIXIE'S ENTRY

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: acatemy awards, daisy, pixie

Ware's Skeezy?

Labels: pink toenales

Next on the Red Carpet... Monte!

Monte Sheen in a tuxedo by Giorgio Armani. Go to his entry and comment on it: comments will be used by the panel of judges to help pik the winners.

Chek owt Monte's Blog!

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: acatemy awards, monte

Kanguroo Boy

This morning it was KOLD! So on kold mornings, Mr TF lets me sleep inside his swetter like a kanguroo baby. Don't werry, even tho it's called a swetter, Mr TF duzn't swet so it's not like it's stinky in thare or anything. It just has his nice man-smell, wich I like. I uzhully don't stik my face owt, but I had to for the foto so yoo'd know it was me inside thare.

Labels: kangaroo boy, kold wether, there's room enuf for 2 daisy

Next on the Red Carpet.... Meezers!

Stella, Kaia and Nicholas strut thare Meezer stuff! (The Pink Ladies are well-reprezented heer!)

Nicholas Dicaprio

Kaia Blanchet

Stella Paltrow

Leeve 'em sum comments! (Comments will be considerd by owr panel of judges in selekting a winner, so let us know whut yoo think!)

Heer's thare blog: http://themeezermirror.blogspot.com/

ABOWT THE ACATEMY AWARDS: Noting how no cat mooveys got nominaytid for the Academy Awards, I started the aCATemy Awards to showcase exsellense in Feline Films. All cats can submit entreez, and yoo don't even need a video to enter --- still fotos are aksepted for entries in "Red Carpit Fashun." Hundrids of dollers in prizes will be awarded. ENTRY DEDLINE: March 31st. Deetales at: www.acatemyAwards.com

Labels: kaia, meezer mirror, nicholas, stella

The aCATemy Awards: Red Carpet Strole

The Skeezix the Cat Film Festival is abowt to begin, and in the coming days, attendees will be strutting thare stuffs down the red carpit on my blog. Tenshuns mownt as last minit alterayshuns are made to form-fitting dresses --- sum cats are even going so far as to not eet Temptayshuns beeforehand so that they can sqweeze into thare kyoot owtfits! Talk abowt dedikayshun! The Film Festival will kulminate in the 1st Annual aCATemy Awards, wich feechers hundrids of dollars in fabyulus prizes!

Ferst on the red carpit are sensayshunul sisters Eclair and Tiramisu. Like Joan and Jackie Collins, theeze sweet siblings continue to wow Hollywood with thare speshul brand of glitz and glamour! For all the deetales, see the entreez for Eclair and Tiramisu. Yer comments will help pik the winner, so drop by and tell them whut yoo think!

ENTREEZ CLOSE MARCH 31ST! Enter a Red Carpit foto and/or yer moovey today! Hundrids of dollars in prizes will be given away to the lucky winners: it cood be yoo!

Labels: acatemy awards, eclair, tiramisu

More strolin'...

Theeze are ~~missulayn~~ ~~misulaneuss~~ assortid fotos frum sum of my reesint stroles:

My ferst solo ride. In a werd: THRILLING!

Nice pink flowers. I like to stop and smell the flowers, espeshully win thare pink. But do yoo know whut duzn't smell so good? Fire High-drunts. They reek. Do not even sniff a fire high-drunt to see if I am rite or not, cuz yoo'll be sorry.

The porch on this howse wint away, so they mooved one of the peepul litter boxes to the frunt yard next to the other wite fernicher. I don't know ware the other peepul litter box is.

Heer's a berdie with a dawg. They holded vary vary still win they saw me becuz my repyootayshun as a mitey hunter preeseeds me.

Mr. TF likes to take me off-rode in my Jeep Rubicon pet stroler. As yoo can planely see, it has NO PROBLIM herling itself over ginormous bolders that we encownter. And the ride is still vary smooth.

This is sum cat's ginormous pet stroler... and the cat must be vary rich becuz he had the stroler persunalized. It's weels were bigger than my Jeep Rubicon pet stroler! I bet it's reely good at off-roding!

Heer we are abowt to go into the big forest. I have my paws fermly on my can of Mao & Rocky's Vishus Deer Repelunt!

Win we git home, Rocky is uzhully wating on his bench to greet us. He always sez the same thing, "Ware've yoo guys bin? I'm starving!"

Labels: strolling

Dreeming of Daisy...

Yoo mite wunder whut I'm doing in this foto. Well, the anser is, I'm dreeming of my speshul frend, Daisy. In this part of the dreem, I'm dreeming that I'm likking her vary vary soft kerly wiskers. I'm kind of kneading my claws (knead on, Calvin!) as I'm doing it, and my big bruther Mao has that, "What did I do to deezerve this?" look on his face. One of my faverit songs, "Urjes," by Foreigner, is playing in the bakgrownd wile I'm likking Daisy's wiskers. It was a vary vary good dreem.

Labels: daisy, daisy's kerly wiskers

Frootbat Friday

Heer I am with a good frend of mine, Teddy. I wun Teddy in Catster's "Men in Pink" kontest. I wuzn't akshully the ferst prize winner, I was a runner up... so yoo can imajine how fabyulus the winners were! The competishun was FIERCE! Teddy is NOT a frootbat: he barely has any ears at all. I'm the one on the rite with the pink toenales.

Labels: catster, frootbat friday, i love catster, men in pink

Are yoo crafty? Yoo cood be on TeeVee!

HGTV is going to showcase pet photos and critter crafts in an upcoming feecher. YOO COOD BE A TV STAR!!!

Heer's the info frum HGTV's website:

How do you pamper your pooch?

If it's with homemade treats and custom couture, we want to hear about it!

Your pet is special and let's face it...adorable. Of course, they deserve only the best! So, how do you pamper your pooch and coddle your kitty? If it's with homemade treats and custom couture, we want to hear about it! Selected pet photos and critter crafts will be showcased in an upcoming feature on HGTV.com.

KLIK HEER for deetales on how to enter!

Labels: hgtv, kontest

Happy Blogoversary, Kat's Cat of the Day!

Labels: kat's cat of the day

Just LOOK at THIS!!!!

Rocky is always going on abowt how he loves Harleys, and I never reely understood why he loves them so much until tonite on my strole I SAW MY VARY FERST HARLEY!!! Just down the street frum my howse, a small persun was driving a hot pink Harley, and I gotta tell yoo, I WUNT ONE!!! I can just see myself driving, with Daisy on the bak with her arms arownd my waste, and we cood have matching kyoot pink lether biker jakkits and maybe we cood join the Hellz Anjels and go biking acrost the country viziting all owr innernet frends!

Labels: daisy, hellz anjels, pink biker jakkits, pink harley, Rocky loves Harleys

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 25

Since my speshul frend Daisy shode herself eeting a PEEPS^® beek yesterday, I deesided to do my T13 on PEEPS^® Fun Fakts:

If yoo took all the PEEPS^® eeten at Eester and laid them end-to-end, they wood more than circle Earth's sircumfrinse.
The number of PEEPS^® made eech day cood lay a path frum the faktery door in Bethlehem, PA to the state of Maryland.
The PEEPS masheens at the Just Born faktery can add 3800 PEEPS eyes per minit.
It wood take approximitly 172 millyun PEEPS bunnies end-to-end to circle the moon.

PEEPS have beecome gormay faverits as fondues, krem broolay ingreedients and capoochino toppings.

In 2002, a guy named Jason consoomed 72 PEEPS in 1/2 howr.

Yellow chiks are the most popyuler, followed by PINK, lavender, bloo and wite.
Lavender was added in 1995, and bloo was added in 1998.
PEEPS' eyes are made of carnauba wax.

How many PEEPS wood yoo need lined up beek-to-tale to reech frum Noo York to Los Anjelus? Over 70 millyun.
PEEPS have bin arownd since 1953. In 1953, the Just Born compunny hoo now makes PEEPS bot the Rodda Candy Cumpunny hoo made marshmello chiks. In 1954, Just Born developt speshul masheens that cood make sqwillyuns of chiks at one time. Just Born evenchully became the biggest marshmello candy maker in the hole entire werld.

In the 1960s, Just Born began to make marshmello CATS! They also made Krissmiss trees and Halloween pumkins.

Noo PEEPS introdoost reesintly inklood Green PEEPS Chiks, Coco Bunnies and Sugar-Free PEEPS chiks (sugar-free???? Whut's the point???)

Reed importunt Reeserch kondukted by PEEPS heer.

The PEEPS JEEP:

Labels: easter, peeps, thursday thirteen, why isn't pink thare most popyuler color?, yummy candy

Gess the X00th Post Kontest

The Ms: Gess thare 100th Post

Kaze: Gess her 200th Post

And don't ferget to enter my 800th post kontest --- with prizes for both yoo and yer persun!

Labels: kaze, the Ms

Stroling Stuff

Now that stroling seezin is open, I've bin doing a lot more stroling, and it's bin grate! Heer are sum fotos frum sum of my stroles of the last week or two.

We almost always start owr strole by going by Mr Tinydik's howse. Heer it is. Yoo can just barely see one of his Hummers beehind the wite gate.

Heer's Tripper following us. We had to go bak and put him in the howse becuz he's too much of a porker to follow us all the way anymore and we don't wunt him to freek and git rund over by a big masheen.

And heer's my nice kyoot stroling vest -- most of yoo have seen it beefore. It's made of microfiber wich is vary soft, and it's qwilted so it's warm. This pikcher is taken in the garaje, ware my stroler lives win I'm not strolin:

The garaje duz this thing ware a big noise happens, and one of the walls comes up! And I go owt in my stroler thru ware the wall used to be. It's a littul bit terryfying, but I'm brave.

Now, the amazing thing was that, on this strole, I notist a kyoot pink masheen wich was IXZAKTLY the same color as my jakkit! How cool is that? This masheen lives at the junkyard howse. The junkyard howse has like, ten or thirteen speshul masheens called junkers in the driveway all the time. The Food Lady is happy they don't live rite next door ware they wood make sumthing called property valyooze go down. But I wood love to have the pink masheen next door ware I cood look at it all the time. As yoo can see, it's vary stylish and byootiful:

We wint by a place ware they cut down a bunch of trees. This makes the Food Lady do sumthing called "rant and rave." She duzn't like trees being cut down becuz berdies and sqwerls live in them, and they are the lungs of owr planit. So I hafta kinda close my ears win the "rant and rave" starts becuz it gits kinda lowd. I prefer a qwieter strole than that.

Heer is the howse of many palm trees. I think this is close to my speshul frend Daisy's howse becuz she livs ware thare are lots of palm trees. I never see Daisy win we go stroling, but I always look.

Sumtimes we go to the park. It is ware all the green grass is. I saw sumthing I'd never seen beefore at the park: the vary vary smallest persun I had ever seen! Have any of yoo ever seen a persun this small? My TF told me this tiny persun was on a swing, wich is a fun thing ware yoo sit on a thing that goze bak and forth. I wunted to ride on it, but we fergot my leesh. So maybe next time I'll swing.

I think the reel reezin I didn't git to swing was that Mr TF wunted to frolik. Win he froliks, he pushes the stroler reely fast and zoomy and he kiks he feet way up in the air frum side to side. Win he duz that, yoo can see the big mussells in his legs. I reely like going fast and zoomy. It is thrilling.

This is a cat we saw on a strole. He looks vary much like Tripper. In fakt, maybe he's Tripper's bruther. We coodn't tell if he was psyko like Trip or not. But yoo can see the wildniss in his eyes, so I bet he is psyko:

Heer are sum berdies we saw on the walk. They were vary vary qwiet and they holded vary vary still becuz they cood sense that I am a mitey hunter with big mussells. I wooda chaste after them and put the bitey on them if I hadn't bin lokt in the stroler. The Food Lady sed that theeze berdies are called swons:

We saw sumthing called a Male Box that had a horsie's shoo on it. This made no sense to me. And I didn't even know horsies wore shoos. Maybe the horsie kikt the Male Box and his shoo got stuk. I'll have to ask my frend Kaze if she understands why the horsie's shoo is on the Male Box.

This howse is being kinda torn down. Theeze peeple keep thare inside wite furnicher stuff owt in thare yard. Isn't that weerd? And the peepul litterboxes are ON THE FRUNT PORCH! I wunted to stop and wate to see the peepul use the litterboxes on the frunt porch, but Mr TF keeps up a brisk pace and duzn't let us stop vary much. So I don't have a pikcher of the peepul using the frunt porch litterboxes.

We saw a sine that the Food Lady reely liked and wunted to git one just like it for owr yard. She duzn't mind Rocky krapping in the mulch, but we have noo naybers hoo let thare dawg owt off-leesh and the dawg comes over to owr lawn and leeves grate big steeming piles of dawg krap on owr lawn, and then Mr TF has to kleen it all up and it leeves yellow stanes on the lawn. The Food Ladey is plotting reevenje.

Heer's sumthing I saw on a strole. This is called a honeycomb. It's ware BEEZ live! Win I herd that, I wunted to git away fast becuz a bee bited me on the noze once and I had to go to Bulevard Pet Hospitul.

I hope yoo enjoyed all of the pikchers frum my reesint stroling advenchers!

Labels: jeep rubicon pet stroler, looking for daisy by the palm tree howse, mr tinydik

FSA: Beware of peepul preetending to be cats

IMPORTUNT FEELINE SERVICE ANNOWNSMINT:

I was a bit horryfide tonite to reed this artikul by Christie Keith in SFGATE abowt PEEPUL online hoo pretend to be CATS!!!

Heer's how the artikul starts:

In a sea of the über-hip at Austin's South by Southwest Festival last week, I was talking to SXSW panelist and blogger Liz Henry and mentioned MeowChatters, people who role-play online as their cats.

So did she laugh scornfully and make fun of the crazy cat ladies? She did not. She nodded, her eyes lighting up, and encouraged me to add information about the phenomenon to her wiki on fictional blogging.

Her curiosity made me think back to its beginnings. I first became aware of the existence of MeowChat in the mid-90s, when I was running the Pet Care Forum on America Online, but the exact moment a cat first learned to use a computer is not known.

I'm kidding, of course.
MeowChatters are people who create online identities in the names of their cats, and interact on Internet forums and e-mail lists and in chat rooms. The humans behind the cats are a surprising mix, mostly women and a few men. They include college students and retired grandparents, high-tech workers and humane society directors and even a doctor or two -- and, of course, more than a few crazy cat ladies. ... read more

I shur hope nobuddy I know is reely a hyooman preetending to be a cat. I wood feel so VIOLAYTID!

KLIK HEER to leeve comments on Christie Keith's blog.

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ref: SFGate.com: "Your Whole Pet - MeowChat: It's not just for crazy cat ladies", by Christie Keith, Special to SF Gate, March 20, 2007

Labels: I hope Daisy is reel, peepul hoo fake being cats

New(ish) Cat Bloggers

I am vary vary far beehind in introdoosing new cat bloggers to evrywun, and I apolujize. (The Food Lady hasn't had as much time lately to help me with my blog as I like becuz she's in the middul of getting a noo place to go hunting during the day.) If yoo are noo to cat blogging and yer not listed, pleeze let me know in the comments and I'll add yoo to the list, I promiss! Remember, if yer new to blogging, chek owt the Cat Blog Help Center!!!

Most of theeze are vary familyer to yoo by now, but for the ones hoo arn't, pleeze drop by, say hello, and add 'em to yer blogroll.... thare mite even be sumwun heer yoo can introdoose yerself to for Rosie and Cheeto's "Thrilled to Meet Yoo Tuesday"!

Perfectly Parker
Parker is indeed purrfikt, and she tells us all abowt herself in today's post!
http://perfectlyparker.blog.com/

Tiramisu
As sweet as her sister Eclair!
http://sweettiramisu.blogspot.com/

Oreo the Cat
Libby Marie's lady has a noo cat, Oreo. (Oreo is kurrintly holding a Charity awkshun. Her ladey is helping poor kids arownd the werld, and is trying to raise munneys to ship supplies to them.)
http://oreothecat.blogspot.com/

Furry Kids
Tazo and Earl Grey's blog
http://thefurrykids.blogspot.com/

The Mirror
Meow Memoirs of Mouthy Felines of Mass Destruction
(This is one big meezer gang!)
http://themeezermirror.blogspot.com/

The Morning Scratch (Bogdan, editor-in-cheef)
Living Large in Ataskadero CA
http://themorningscratch.blogspot.com/

Kitty Limericks
AWESUM kitty limeriks evry day by Karen Jo. Yoo may be next!
http://kittylimericks.blogspot.com/

Artsy Catsy
Follow the trials and tribulations of fifteen formerly feral cats training their four humans to start a new e-commerce business
http://artsycatsy.blogspot.com/

Chairman Mao: the Ballicus Blog
Been arownd a wile, but I only reesintly discuvverd this one. He has a grate name, dontcha think?
http://ballicus.blogspot.com/

Yao-lin's Yawnings
Yao-lin also has a meezer bruther named Mao!! They live in the Yoo-Kay, so yoo'll enjoy thare neet aksents!
http://www.yao-lin-yao-lin.blogspot.com/

Rosemary's Happy Place
Two sweet Cornish Rexies: Caesar and Princess, and thare nice ladey.
http://rosierazzlemary.blogspot.com/

Lily's Pad
Tiger Lily is a gorjus yung ladey hoo livs in Noo Meksiko.
http://thetigerlilypad.blogspot.com

Riley & Tiki
Sumtimes Kesey the Dawg blogs, too, but other than that, it's a good blog.
http://rileytiki.wordpress.com/

Buddy Love
How cood yoo not love a cat named Buddy Love?
http://buddylovekitty.blogspot.com/

Oscar the Puppycat
Brand new! The advenchers of Oscar hoo was razed by a Grate Dane.
http://humbleoscar.blogspot.com/

Tanj & Uschi
Thanks, Chase for introdoosing us to this grate Bengal pare. We LOVE bengals!
http://tanj-uschi.blogspot.com/

Labels: new blogs

Gess my 800th Post Kontest

PRIZE:

DEDLINE: March 31st

ELIJIBILITY:
Only cats with Blogger or Catster IDs may enter.
Limit: 4 entries per howsehold.
Limit one entry per cat.

HOW TO ENTER:
In the comments feeld of this post, enter a DATE and TIME of the 800th post. Time will be PST, so do not add a time zone. If yoo do not have a Blogger ID, pleeze add a link to yer Catster profile.

I can change the rules anytime I wunt becuz it's my kontest.

Labels: 800th post

Toze Toozday

Labels: pink toenales, toes tuesday

My Grate Noo Box

Heer is my grate noo box that my best frends Rosie and Cheeto sended me. Isn't it FAB? It's MOOVE IN REDDY with walls that have alreddy bin painted, and as yoo can planely see, it has a vaulted seeling wich meens my ears won't keep hitting the top of the box (yoo frootbats know how annoying THAT can be!) I can't wate for Mr TF to make a nice entrinse for me.

Thare is one problim. This morning, win I wint to play in it, I notist IT SMELLED LIKE ROCKY PEE. The Food Lady has sum pee-smell-killer spray that I hope she'll let me borrow, otherwize, they mite not let me keep my box. Sumtimes, Rocky reely tiks me off.

The box came stuft with stuff so that it woodn't cave in during its ride in the big truk to my howse. As yoo can planely see, they also gave me some reely grate ribbin to play with, and paper grass, and a nice baskit for Mao to sit in INSTED OF MY HEETID CAT CUP THAT HE STOLE. The Food Lady and Mr TF grabbed most of the rest of the stuff, and thare were 2 big bottuls of happy juice that they took and woodn't even let me taste (altho frankly, if it duzn't taste like Fancy Feest, I'm not much intristed.)

THANK YOO,
ROSIE and CHEETO!!!!!!

Labels: my grate noo box, rocky pee, rosie and cheeto

Sine my gestbook!

Klik the orange "Add Me" buttun on the teevee above to add yer pikcher to my gestbook. And heer's a privasy hint: they ask for yer emale adress, but yoo can just put sumthing like yerfrend@yahoo.com if yoo wunt.

Labels: gestbook

Sik Cats Update: GOOD NOOZ!

EARL GREY
Earl Grey's serjery was suksessful: Go to his blog to find owt whut the vet reemoved, leeve sum git well wishes, and reed all the deetales!

Thanks so much to evrywun hoo partisipaytid in the suksessful Git Well Blog Blast for Earl Grey. Tazo sed it made Earl Grey's mom's eyes leek!

NINNA
Luxor's sister, Ninna, is bak home frum the vet and seems to be doing much better. Sownds just like the problim I had last weekend. Chek owt Lux's blog for all the deetales.

Labels: earl grey, luxor, ninna, tazo

YIKES!!!

We wint stroling yesterday, and not far frum the howse ware I saw that ginormous fetherd creecher, I saw A VISHUS DEER!!!! He was hiding in the bushes, holding vary vary still so I woodn't notiss him. Boy, am I ever happy I take my Mao & Rocky's Vishus Deer Repelunt with me win I go strolling! But even tho I had the VDR in hand, I still had Mr TF pik up the pace ... just in case!

Labels: I hope this make me look brave to daisy and that she maybe will menshun my big mussells in her comments, stroling is an Xtreme sport, vishus deer

That Psyko Stray Cat Tripper Overdid St Pat's

That psyko stray cat Tripper had a few too many Bushmills and Greenies tonite, and he past owt kold. AND HE'S NOT EVEN IRISH!!! Mao dubbul-dared me to stik Trip's paw in a glass of warm water so he'd wet himself, but I'm a-scared to git close to Trip becuz he'll eet me -- or bunnykik me so hard that all my skin comes off. Boy, I bet he'll be up in a few howrs blowin' chunks!

Labels: bushmills, st. patrick's day, that psyko stray cat tripper

URGENT: Purrayers needed for Earl Grey

This frum Earl Grey's Mom:

"Earl started throwing up again last night. We went back to the V-E-T this morning and they ended up sending him to a specialty clinic for an abdominal ultrasound. The ultrasound showed something in his intestinal tract that shouldn’t be there and that “wasn’t making his intestines very happy.” They’re going to do exploratory surgery at 6:30 pm EST. Please say a little purrayer for us or think a pawsitive thought. Thank you all so much. We're really worried about our little guy."

Pleeze take a few minits to send pawzitiv vibes his way wile he's in serjery this afternoon, and drop by his blog and leeve him a messije to let him know yoo care. (I meen it! Go rite now!!) And send sum purrs and purrayers to his famly, hoo has had a vary diffikult time wile owr frend Earl's bin sik.

GET WELL WISH BLAST

And pleeze, if yoo can, enter the Get Well Qwik image above on yer blog (or use an image of yer own). Then, add yer link beelow (pleeze only enter links for Git-Well-Earl Grey-relayted posts). The code for this image and link is:

<a
href="http://thefurrykids.blogspot.com/2007/03/
earl-mcgrey-very-urgent-saturday.html"><img
src="http://www.skeezixthecat.com/scratchingpost/
uploaded_images/earlgrey-703848.jpg"
border="0"></a>

Just copy and paste into yer blog entry in the "Edit HTML" mode and reemove the line brakes. If yer having trubble, copy the code frum heer.

Labels: earl grey

Send a free St Patrick's Day E-Card

Hed over to my ecards page and send a free St Patrick's Day ecard feechering me in one of my funny green owtfits!

Labels: free e-cards, st patrick's day

Sqwished like a bug Saterday

Labels: mao duzn't fit but daisy wood fit just fine, mao is a bed hog

Fashun Show Friday

This is my St. Patrick's Day owtfit. As yoo can see, it duzn't reely flatter my figyer, and it's not pink, but I coodn't find any pink St. Patrick's Day owtfits. And it has a clover on the frunt insted of a fler-duh-lee, so I don't think it's klassy. But Mao told me if I don't ware it tomorrow, I'll git pincht. So, I gess I can stand waring an unstylish non-pink unflattering unklassy owtfit one day a yeer if it keeps me frum gitting pincht. (I wunder whut Pixie has in mind for Daisy....??)

Labels: fashun show friday, it wood be okay if daisy pincht me though, st patrick's day

Frootbat Friday

Since I had my pawdicure, I like to sleep with my toenales up on the rim of my heetid cat cup so that anybuddy hoo walks by can see how kyoot my nales look. See? Kyoot nales!

Sevrul of yoo have askt abowt how the SoftPaws are werkin owt for me. In a werd: Grate! I have not chewd them off. It's bin a cuppul of weeks, and thare all still on. Rocky loves them becuz I don't skratch him anymore win we play. (Beefore, I skratcht him and he got an absess wich cawzed him to have to have the antlers installed on his hed.) They are GRATE for rok kliming! They are sheek and fashunubul. I don't skratch the peepul win they have to feed me my barfy medisins. The Food Lady sed it is way better if yoo have a pink toenale purrfeshunul put them on yer cat becuz she's tride it beefore and got super gloo in her hed fur. I'm glad I wuzn't born yet win that happened.

Labels: dreeming of daisy's shaved tummy, frootbat friday, pink toenales, softpaws, urjes

Ninna is under the wether

Luxie's sister, Ninna, is not feeling so hot. Boy, I know whut that's like! It sownds like she has the same problim I had last week, but she's not gitting over it.

Anyway, pleeze keep yer paws crost that she'll git better vary soon. Lux's mom has a vary nice story abowt Ninna on Luxie's blog. Drop by and let her know we're all rooting for Ninna to git well qwik!

Labels: luxor, ninna, sikniss

Thursday Thirteen Edishun 25

The past cuppul of weeks I did Lion and Tiger fakts. I was going to do Bear fakts this week, but coodn't find vary many. So insted, I'm doing the mitey Cheetah. Cheetahs are listed as an endanjerd species.

Cheetahs grow to 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 feet long and way between 75 and 145 pownds.
Males live in small permanent groops called "coalitions" made up of two to four brothers.
In the wild they live 8-10 yeers. In zoos, up to 17 yeers old.
Feemale cheetahs live alone, ixsept win razing cubs.
Cheetahs uzhully hunt on the middle of the day to avoid lions and leperds.
Many cheetahs suffer from jenetik deefekts due to inbreeding, possibly frum a sharp dekline in populayshun as far bak as 10,000 yeers ago.
Only 8,000 - 10,000 wild cheetahs survive.
In Namibia, ranchers may legully shoot cheetahs that pray on livestok.
The werld's fastest mammul, the cheetah can aksellerate from 0-45 miles per howr in abowt 2 sekunds, and in short bursts can go neerly 65 miles per howr.
Cheetahs' tales are abowt 30 inches long and offin have a wite tip.
Cheetahs live in savannas and are not fownd in forest areas or wetlands. (They probly don't live in the forest becuz the vishus deer wood eet them.)
Cheetahs mostly eet hoofed animuls that way less than 90 pownds.
In the 16th sentury, emperers and other royalty hunted gazelles with trayned cheetahs.

Klik heer to find owt whut yoo can do to help save the wild cheetah.

Labels: cheetahs, i wunder if thare are any cheetahs with pink toenales, thursday thirteen

Rosie and Cheeto: Yoo are SUPERSTARS --- and so is yer Gramma!!!!!

Ferst of all, I have to give a big THANK YOO to Rosie and Cheeto's Gramma, hoo kyurd me of my latest sikniss. She has majikul powers that werked all the way frum the mitten state! Thank yoo, R&C's Gramma! Withowt yoo, I wood not have bin abul to reezoom my patrols and git bak to werk!

Next, yoo all may recall a posting of Rosie and Cheeto's, ware they shode a muther tiger with pig babies! Yoo had to see it to beeleeve it. Anyway, in the nooz today, I saw a muther pig with a tiger baby! See? It's KARMA. Karma meens if yoo do sumthing good for sumwun else, sumwun else will do sumthing good for yoo or sumwun yoo love!

Reed more abowt R&C's Majikul Gramma heer.

Labels: confused muther animuls, pigs, rosie and cheeto, rosie and cheeto's majikul gramma, tigers

The aCATemy Awards: there's still time to enter!

Becuz I've bin sik and the Food Lady has bin bizzy finding anuther place to hunt during the day, I'm ixtending my aCatemy Awards Film Fest entry dedline to March 31st. Starting Friday, the red carpet entries will start thare walk down the red carpet, followed by a film festival.

YOO DON'T NEED TO HAVE A VIDEO TO ENTER! The Red Carpit owtfit category can be a still foto --- so glam it up, and yoo cood win big! Heer's a sorse for red carpit bakgrownds and gowns.

PRIZES:

BEST PIKCHUR WINNER will get thare choice of Sony Vegas Movie Studio + DVD* OR Adobe Premiere Elements* and a grab bag of gifts frum the Best Frends Animul Sankchewary Store**.

BEST PERFORMINSE BY A CAT WINNER will get a Heated Cat Cup* and a grab bag of gifts frum the Best Frends Animul Sankchewary Store**.

RED CARPIT FASHUN WINNER will get a $50 gift sertifikit at Paw Palace* and a grab bag of gifts frum the Best Frends Animul Sankchewary Store**.

Addishunul prizes may be awarded at the disgreshun of the prize committey. In fakt, rite now it looks like we mite need to add a workowt video category.

______________________
* or a $50 Amazon gift sertifikit if yoo prefer
** or sponsership of a Best Friends cat if yoo prefer, or a grab bag of gifts frum Simeeze Reskyoo if yoo prefer

Labels: acatemy awards, why won't harry winston let me borrow sum bling?

We will miss yoo, Fudgie

It is with a vary hevvy hart that I share the nooz that owr vary deer frend, Fudge Ripple (one of DaisyMae's Feeline Amerikans) was helped to the Rainbow Bridge yesterday at 2:15pm. Pleeze drop by thare blog to pay yer respekts. Fudgie was a vary gentle, sweet cat and we will miss him vary much. PLEEZE FEEL FREE TO COPY THIS TRIBYOOT AND POST ON YER BLOG.

Labels: daisymae maus, eyes leeking, feline americans, fudge ripple, sad

Look at the Ginormous Vishus Creecher I Saw!

I wint for a short strole last nite becuz the stroling seezin had offishully opened, and Mr TF and the Food Lady thot I mite feel better owt in the fresh air. I did feel better until just a littul ways down the street frum my howse win we encownterd a jigantik creecher hoo wunted to eet me!!!!

We kind of had a showdown. I was pritty shur I was safe in my Professhunul Grade Jeep Rubicon Stroler, but yoo can't be too careful! The creecher gave me a hungry look and peered into my stroler to see if I was werth eeting! As he fixt his steely gaze upon me, I looked bak bravely and I did not waver. Mr TF was so terryfide, that he did not moove!

As yoo can planely see, this creecher has a ginormous stumik, and I think abowt 3 or 4 cats cood fit in thare (well, not Trip, becuz he's a porker, but 3 or 4 reguler sized cats wood fit) !!!

Win the creechur saw how skinny I was frum my reesint illness, he deesided to let me go for now.... but I'm shur he's just wayting until I'm fattend up, and then he'll eet me! He walked away to look for fatter cats to eet for dinner:

Labels: do yoo think daisy notist how brave I was?, scary creecher I saw on my strole

Happy Berthday Sadie and Yao-Lin!

My vary vary deer frend Sadie --- hoo is also one of Rocky's Spicy Vixins --- had a berthday yesterday --- it's not too late to drop by her blog and wish her the best!

It was also Yao-Lin's berthday! Yao-Lin also has a bruther named Mao: talk abowt koinsidenses! Happy Berthday Yao-Lin! Drop by her blog, too and throw sum konfetti!

Labels: rocky's spicy vixins, sadie, yao-lin

My Trip to Bullevard Pet Hospitul

Heer is the door of the ixzaminayshun room I was in at Bullevard Pet Hospitul. Even tho thare were horsies on the door, they still let other animuls like cats and dogs and lizzerds git ixzamind inside it. The horsie on the bottum is small. That kind of horsie is called a poney. He has a big smile to reemind evrywun to git thare teeth kleend. That way, Bullevard Pet Hospital can make more munneys.

This is the wall of the ixzaminayshun room. As yoo can planely see, they have many pikchers of me on the wall. The Food Lady sez this is becuz I keep them in bizness by being sikly. I just think it's becuz I'm a sellebrity:

This is the man in the bloo shert, Dokter Shukmin. He's the V-E-T, but I like him. This was a pikcher of him that was put up on the wall of the ixzaminayshun room I was in. The oranje things on his hed are pigtales, wich makes him look like he has more hed fur. I gess he got 'em off one of his pig payshunts hoo didn't make it. As yoo can see, he has a vary vary exsellint sense of stile, so we have a lot in commun. He looks just like one of my iduls, Elton Jon:

This is my frend Shon at Bullevard Pet Hospitul. He's abowt to chek me in to the hospitul. Yoo mite remember than Shon was the one hoo put on my pink toenales. Shon's "DA MAN" if yoo wunt a good pawdicure:

I took this pikcher for my speshul frend Daisy, hoo LOVES lizzerds. This lizzerd has a boyfrend: Monte the snake. I'm not sertin it's Monte, becuz his name is not on the owtside of his howse, I'm just gessing. The lizzerd is kerld up with the ginormous snake, and smiling becuz she is in love:

This is Mark. He's anuther one of my grate frends at Bullevard Pet Hospitul. He helped me brake owt so I cood go home:

Win I started feeling better, the ferst thing I did was lik Mr Tasty Face's tasty face. This made evrybuddy vary happy:

Heer is a pikchur of me in my catcup. As yoo can planely see, I'm still vary pale. This is win I'm eether praktissing to have Dr Daisy ixzamin me or dreeming of Dr Daisy ixzamining me:

Labels: Bullevard Pet Hospitul, dreeming of dr daisy ixzamining me, mark, Shon

Much Better This Morning

GOOD NOOZ: I didn't have to go to the hospitul this morning. I'm perkier and I not only ate a good dinner last nite, but I was hungry agin this morning. I sure it was all of yer purrs and purrayers that kyurd me.

Labels: if daisy knows i'm well she mite not come to vizit in her hot nurses yoonyform, sik

Nite-time update

I ate almost a full meel tonite beefore I wint to bed. If I can keep it down, I mite not have to go bak to the hospitul tomorrow.... paws krost!

Labels: blowing chunks, even tho i'm feeling better i still think daisy needs to come over agin in her nurse's owtfit

Qweezy Skeezy

I haven't bin feeling too good, and I've blowing chunks and having bad sqwerts and my tummy's bin reely qweezy and I haven't bin purring AT ALL or even eeting, and all I wunt to do is kerl up in a dark korner and sleep. So the Food Lady put me in the prizzin box and took me to Bullevard Pet Hospitul and they torcherd me and I came home yesterday afternoon, but I mite have to go bak in on Munday. They give me flooids and wunt to make shur they keep me going wile I shake off whutever bug I have. All my bludwerk was okay, ixsept for my wite cownt, wich was high. So I'm also gitting antey biotix wich is a fansy werd for barfy medisin. I felt a littul better this morning. I kerld up with the Food Lady and purred, and I ate a littul tiny bit of toona. So thare is progress!

Thank yoo all for yer good wishes and purrs and purrayers. It makes me feel a lot better! I mite not be blogging tomorrow if I'm bak in the hospitul, but I made Mao promiss to keep evrywun updated on his blog. I thank my lukky stars that my speshul frend Daisy is a dokter in trayning. She mite have to make a howse call! UPDATE!!! Daisy sed she's gonna put on her speshul dokter unnyform and come rite over!

Labels: blowing chunks, Bullevard Pet Hospitul, feeling krappy, Rocky sez I shood git Daisy to play dokter with me

Fashun Show Friday

This is a noo Spring Owtfit. It's purrfikt for strolling becuz it is kinda qwilted so it keeps me warm. It's kind of a sammun color, wich sownds yummy. The insignia on the side has a fler-duh-lee, and it sez "Country Club" wich meen this is a sheek owtfit. This coordinates with my brown polo shert and argile vest, wich meens yoo can ware them together and they look snappy.

Thare is one problem: it duzn't match my pink toenales.

Labels: fashun show friday, this is a grate color for Daisy to wear

Frootbat Friday

I like profile shots of me becuz frum that angul, my ears don't look ginormous.

Labels: frootbat friday

Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 24

Since last week was Lion Trivia, I'm doing Tiger Trivia this week becuz my big bruther Mao sed that the tigers hoo reed my blog mite feel slited and come to my howse and eet me if I don't rite abowt them, too. So heer we go:

A group of tigers is called a 'streak'.

‘Tigons’ have a tiger father and lioness mother, but ‘ligers’ are fathered by lions with a tiger mother. Just ask Napoleon Dynamite.

In the last century, tiger numbers have declined by a 95 per cent. Its only predator is man.
Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, but also on their skin.
Stripe patterns often differ between the two sides of the tiger’s body.
Tiger night-vision is more than five times better than that of humans.
Adult tigers are solitary hunters.
Adult tigers can eat up to 60 lbs of food at one sitting. After a big kill, they may not eat again for a week or two.
When hunting, tigers only manage to catch prey in one out of 10-20 attempts. (Compare this to my speshul frend Daisy's hunting suksess: she gits her lizzerd at leest 50% of the time.)
Tigers love water and are great swimmers.
A tiger's roar can be heard two or three kilometres away.
Total length ranges from seven to 12 feet.
It is estimated that well over 10,000 tigers live in captivity around the world, which means there are currently more tigers in captivity than in the wild.

Labels: daisy is the werld's best lizzerd hunter, thursday thirteen, tiger trivia

Wall-Kliming Wenzday

Mr Tasty Face tot me a new extreeme sport: Rock Kliming. Since he's a rok klimer, he thot it wood be good to teech me rok kliming, ixsept that we don't have any big roks or mowntins inside owr howse, so he deesided to teech me how to klime up the chimney.

He lays my faverit toy -- my string -- in one of the lines of morter, wich is the groovd gray part of the chimney. Then he tells me to klime up to git the string. I have to find littul footholds and fingerholds to werk my way up the string. No one is beelaying me and I'm not waring a safetey harniss. It's whut yoo call "free-kliming." It is vary danjerus becuz I cood plummet to the floor beelow with just the slitest misstep. I'm lukky becuz my SoftPaws make it eezier to klime than my naked toenales do.

Next stop: El Kapitan, in Yosemittey.

Labels: el kapitan, extreeme sports, i wunder if Daisy will notiss how manly and strong I am, rok kliming, yosemittey

Earl Grey Update

GO TO THE FURRY KIDS BLOG for an update on Earl Grey.

Labels: earl grey, tazo

Toze Toozday

Labels: pink toenails, toes, toze toozday, tuesday

Earl Grey Update

UPDATE (Monday Afternoon) Heer's the afternoon update on Earl Grey:

Earl Grey's Mom here:

I just talked to the vet. He has to stay another night. His ALT value (a liver enzyme) is down to 481 (from 1076). It's still high (it should only be 120 max), but it's improving. He won't eat on his own yet, so they're still syringe feeding him every 3-4 hours. They're going to recheck his liver stuff tomorrow at 4 to make sure everything is still headed in the right direction. We're still praying hard that he starts eating and his liver goes back to normal. Thank you all for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. This kitty community is just so super. I'm going to visit him tonight and will make sure to tell him that you all are pulling for him. Thanks again!

I posted the above on our blog, but just wanted to let you know what was going on. Thank you, Skeezix, Mr. TF, and the Food Lady for getting the word out about our boy.
All these positive thoughts and purrayers are doing the trick and you have no idea how much it means to us.

Thank you so much.
Love,
Earl Grey's Mom

UPDATE frum Earl Grey's Mom:

This is Earl Grey's Mom. They x-rayed him yesterday and didn't see any obstruction. He is still in the hospital, but is doing a lot better. We visited him last night and cuddled a little. I talked to the V-E-T this morning and she said he's alert and curious about everything that's going on in the room. He has been getting stinky goodness by syringe and it's staying down, so we're very happy about that. They also started giving him his medication by mouth and that's staying down, too. *thumbs up* They're going to re-check his liver values at 4 pm, so hopefully they'll be better. If all goes well, he can come home tonight.

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. We really need his liver values to improve.

Please keep Titus and Tazo in your thoughts, too. They really miss their brother.
Thank you again.
Love,
Earl Grey's Mom

Labels: earl grey, tazo

Supervizin Sunday

Next to doing my patrols to keep the howse safe, my other importunt job is supervizing Mr TF and the Food Lady win they werk in thare compyooters. Heer, I'm sitting on top of one of Mr TF's compyooter teevees making shur he werks hard. An importunt benefit of this pozishun is that it keeps yer underparts warm at the same time.

Labels: supervising, why won't mr tf go to daisy's site so I can see sum shaved tummy fotos?

More Purrayers Needed: Earl Grey is Sik!

UPDATE!!! Go the The Furry Kids Blog for the update on Earl Grey (he's at the emerjinsy vet) --- and leeve him sum git well comments!

I got this messije tonite frum my frends at the Furry Kids blog:

Skeezix,

Earl Grey got really sick this morning. He's throwing up a lot. The V-E-T doesn't know what's wrong. He got some barfy medicine, but he's still throwing up. Our Momma and Daddy are really worried. Could you please say a purrayer for him? It would really mean a lot.

Thank you.
Love, The Furry Kids and their parents

Pleeze drop by thare blog to offer yer support, and if yer an FOS member, drop by owr PURRAYERS FORUM to send sum purrs thare way. This is vary scary!

Labels: earl grey, furry kids, tazo

Happy Berthday, Jeter Harris!!!!

Today is the berthday of my grate frend, Jeter Harris. Happy Berthday, Jete!!!!! Pleeze drop by his blog and wish him da best!

And if yer a Catster member, yoo are corjully invited to drop by Jete's berthday party at 4pm EST today! (Not a Catster member? Whut better reezin to join? It's free!

Labels: jeter harris

Kalin is reekuvering....

UPDATE: Kalin is home!!!!

Shabby is vary vary happy that so many git well wishes were sent to Kalin and thare famly. He gave me an update on Kalin's rekuvvery. We all have owr paws krost!!!!

Thank you for all your prayers and good wishes. Kalin had exploratory surgery today and Dr. Ashley Weinberg, DVM, found and dissected out a large tumor in Kalin's intestine. She also found that the intestine had wrapped around itself and was causing further bowel obstruction. Dr. Weinberg removed some fluids from an enlarged lymph node for later biopsy.

Kalin will spend one evening at the Vet after her operation to ensure her well-being. This is Kalin's first class accommodations inside the Vet clinic. We later posted all her Catster email/well wishes on the walls of her suite!

This is Dr. Ashley Weinberg, DVM who operated on Kalin.

Thanks again for supporting us through this period!

Your friend,
Shabby

(Pleeze note that even tho Kalin is sporting a shaved tummy, heer, I didn't look, Daisy, becuz yer shaved tummy is the only tummy for me!) I will be sending Kalin a card with all the names frum the blog comments and frum the FOS Git Well Forum, so if yoo wunt yer name to be inklooded and yoo haven't alreddy dun so, leeve a comment and I'll add yoo!

Thank yoo, Dr Ashley Weinberg for helping owr frend Kalin!

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Purrayers needed for Kalin

UPDATE: Shabby just sent this messije. Me and the Food Lady's faces leeked win we herd this, becuz it's GOOD NOOZ!!!!

My family and me have been overwhelmed with all the good wishes and purryers for Kalin. And it has worked; she is out of surgery and doing well! A tumor was found, but it was small and removed and should be easily treated. She is still very sleepy but should be home tomorrow. I love all of you soo much and am sure it was the purryers which did the trick. I want to thank each and everyone of you. My heart is full!
Rubbs and Purrs,
Shabby (and our Mom and Dad)

Today is Kalin's Surjery - and if yer on Catster, pleeze drop by her page and let her know yer thinking abowt her and sending lots of purrs her way.

PURRAYER ALERT!

My best frends Shabby and Kalin are like my oldest and deerest innernet frends. Kalin has bin sik lately, and she's gotten a lot werse, so pleeze keep her in yer purrayers, espeshully this Friday win she's going to have serjery. I'm vary vary upset abowt this. Heer is her pikchur, and the note frum Shabby:

Skeezix,

Please say a little prayer for my (almost 17-year old) sister kitty cat, Kalin, this Friday (3/2/07); she is not doing well right now, and she will be undergoing surgery to remove a (possible cancerous) mass in her intestines. She has been losing a lot of weight over the months, and recently she has been throwing up almost every other day. We want to know what's going on with her and it's too expensive to do a CAT scan so they have to open her up. My mommy and daddy are trying to prepare for the possibility that they may have to put her down if things don't go well that day. Wish us luck, and keep my sister in your thoughts. Thanks.

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We JUST had an erthqwake!

The hole howse wint BOOM BOOM BOOM. But I was brave. The Food Lady needs the compyooter now so she can reeport it.

UPDATE: It was only 4.41, but it was vary vary close to us.

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Today is Cat in the Hat's 50th Berthday!!!

Jeter Harris isn't the only one sellubrating a berthday this week: today, the Cat in the Hat terns 50! That's like a sqwillion yeers old!

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Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 23

Thirteen Fakts Abowt Lions

Since they say March goze in like a lion, I thot I'd run thru a few fasinayting lion fakts for my Thursday Thirteen:

The hunting grounds for a pride of lions can range from 8 to 150 square miles.
A male lion weighs from 330 to 420 pounds. The largest lion on record was almost 11 feet long and weighed nearly 700 pounds.
A lion's average life span is 13 years but a lion named "Nero" once lived to the ripe old age of 29 in a West German zoo.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats.
There are only one fourth the number of lions in Africa as there were just 40 years ago.
A lion's eyesight is five times better than a human's, and it can hear prey that is more then a mile away.
A male lion eats first, even though the females actually catch the prey.
A captive lion eats about 15 pounds of meat each day, but a wild lion usually eats only twice a week.
Lions are the most social of all the cats, living in groups called "prides." There can be up to 40 members in a pride with over half of them being cubs and young adults.
Lions hunt by ambush. Their main prey includes medium to large-sized mammals such as antelope, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, warthog and vishus deer, but they will also scavenge for food.
African lions are listed as Vulnerable by the 2000 IUCN red list. The Asiatic lion (P.l.persica) is classed as Critically Endangered. Threats include hunting, loss of habitat and human encroachment.
One of the few animals that will attack lions are hyenas, which will kill an injured lion, or if food is scarce, will occasionally attack a healthy one.
"Singapore" means "City of Lions".

Yer Bonus Faktoid: Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.

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