Man Cat Monday with Stripe

Ain't I the most handsome fellow you've ever laid eyes on? :-D

Max on Man Cat Monday

Man Cat Monday and a Tummy for Tuesday

I love this shot of these two slackers! :) Life must be grand when all you have to do is eat, sleep and look cute!

For more adorable kitties showing off their Tummies for Tuesday, make sure to stop by LisaViolet's Diary. And don't forget to pay a visit to Gattina and the other Cats blogging on Tuesday!

Man Cat Monday with Max

It's so relaxing to just sit and watch Max do what he does most and does best : SLEEP! He's an expert at it. He does it anywhere, anytime, and it doesn't matter how noisy or how quiet it is. He sleeps curled up in a ball or straight out, on his back or on his tummy or on his side. He doesn't care that Sebastian will sometimes come and sleep right on top of him. He doesn't care. I'm sure if he absolutely had to, he'd sleep up side down or standing up! :-D

Of course he gets very angry when, while he's enjoying his favourite...er...activity, Sebastian comes along and decides to start ...uuhhhmm..attacking his tail!

Man Cat Monday

What? You think I can't lift that? Ha! I scoff at you. Those weights are so light that I won't even bother lifting them...but rest assured that I could lift them with an elephant atop them.

Just look at this body. How did you think I accomplished such a toned, chiseled...manly body?

BJ on Man Cat Monday

Such an elusive little boy this one is. I hardly can get a shot of him. As soon as he sees or hears the camera he freezes, turns around and jets out of there.

I'm too sexy...

When I looked at this picture of Stripe, I immediately thought of this song by Right Said Fred ? Anybody remember it? :o)

"...I'm too sexy for my shirt

too sexy for my shirt

So sexy it hurts

And I'm too sexy for Milan

too sexy for Milan, New York and Japan

I'm a model you know what I mean

And I do my little turn on the catwalk

Yeah on the catwalk, on the catwalk

yeah, I do my little turn on the catwalk..."

Man Cat Monday

When I saw this picture of Stripe's paw, I immediately thought of the words to the Hokey Pokey song! :-)

"Put your left paw in

Put your left paw out

Put your left paw in and

Then you shake it all about..."

Ha!

Man Cat Monday

This is the longest period of time that Stripe has kept his flea collar on. Needless to say he hates it. He usually manages to get it off within half an hour of it being put on him.

It's always so funny to see him for the first five minutes after he gets his collar. He does this little dance and backwards shuffle. Then he goes around in a circle - backwards, pulling his head back. :-D

Then he runs outside and about half an hour later he's back. Without the collar.

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I had a plant in this basket. Over the weekend I put the plant outside so it could get some sunshine. I get back inside and hear a shuffling sound coming from the basket and this is the sight that greeted me: Sebastian.

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After this Weekend's Cat Blogging and the fun party on the Friday Ark, BJ was completely worn out. I caught him napping yesterday behind a couple of flower pots. BJ normally likes to sleep under trees outside in the open. When I saw the curled up ball of fur here behind the flower pots I thought at first that it was KC as this is normally her favourite place to snooze. I somehow suspect KC would not have been pleased to know BJ was in her spot as they cannot stand even the very sight of each other and have never, ever gotten along with each other for even one second!

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Stripe.

He came in Friday, had his dinner and then didn't show up on Saturday morning. At first I thought nothing of it. He has been neutered but still has the travel bug and goes wandering off every now and then. He usually makes his re-appearance later on in the day. He never stays away longer than a day.

So when Sunday morning rolled around and he still didn't show up I started to worry a bit. By Sunday evening I knew something had happened to him.
He finally showed up this morning (Monday) and his face looked a little funny. On closer examination he looks like he's been in a really serious fight. His mouth wouldn't close and his face looked swollen. He doesn't show any interest in food or water. He won't allow me to take a closer look in his mouth (growls, scratches and hisses) or face but I do get close enough to notice that his mouth smells really...I mean really bad. Oh oh...

This is where it gets kind of gross so be warned.

Well...it turns out that Stripe has a broken jaw and a really nasty cut in the back of his mouth. The smell? Well most of you pet owners might know that smell. The cut in his mouth was infected with...maggots (Jamaica has a really serious screw worm problem). :-(

So my poor baby is in the kitty hospital tonight for the first time in his life.

How he got that jaw broken and that cut all the way in the back of his mouth (toward his throat) is completely baffling to us all. But then again, Stripe is the most curious cat I know. He probably stuck his head somewhere it didn't belong, as he usually does. :-(

A contest and Man Cat Monday!

Ooooh Ooooh ! Have you heard ? Have you heard? Have you heard the exciting news?

Astrid, Kashim and Othello have their own website now! Isn't that cool? And what is even cooler is that they're hosting the bestest contest ever! The prize is totally top secret. In fact it's so top secret that I doubt even paulchen knows what it is! Ha!

The contest is a fundraising effort for Elijah’s Rescue and the last date of entry is June 20, 2007 so be sure to enter!

The pictures above from top to bottom :

Max : I had just got my new printer, had just taken it out of the box and was in the middle of setting it up. I saw a flash of black in the corner of my eye and heard some scuffling. When I glanced over, there was Max sitting proudly in his box looking up at me with that oh so surprised look! He does it every single time. :)

BJ : I think this is his cutest picture yet because it's the only one I have that shows up his blue eyes! :-) He was actually staring at a lizard that was perched right below me. I don't think he was pleased when I snapped this picture and scared the lizard away!

Sebastian: Ahh...there are so many pictures of Sebastian that are THE cutest! Ha! How do I choose just one?! I don't know why I chose this one...I just love how his paw is sticking out. ;-)

Sasha : I love this one because I think her colours are so pretty against the green lawn.

Stripe: I just adore this picture of Stripe. He was a kitten at the time and loved playing in this grass.

KC : Doesn't she just look like a perfect little lady? :)

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My house is being painted. The window sills were painted a bright, crisp, white yesterday. They looked so nice and clean and it really freshened up the place a bit.

I had to go out yesterday evening, but, because of the humidity, the paint wasn't dry when I was ready to leave so I had to leave the windows open.

Of late, my precious white baby Sebastian has started this new thing where he sits on these window sills and looks out. He'll actually walk from window sill to window sill admiring the view - mainly Dawg Lu. The other cats prefer to go outside to admire the view.

Well, when I got home I noticed something funny on my very dark brown coffee table. There were little white paw prints making a semi straight line right across the table. And the clean freshly painted window sills? Well, there were little brown paw prints all across those. I examined everybody's paws and saw no traces of white paint, but Sebastian's paws fit just perfectly to the marks on the table so talk about caught red handed...or white pawed as the case may be! :-)

So if anyone knows a way to get white oil based paint off a dark brown stained teak coffee table, I would greatly appreciate it! :-D

Man Cat Monday

This is what BJ does. He sits and stares at you from afar. And stares. And stares. If you're in a room with him and move around, his eyes never leave you. If you move towards him he gets up and runs under a chair or bed or table.

He doesn't like it when people come by for a visit. In fact, BJ doesn't really like anybody...except when he's hungry. Then, then he is the friendliest cat you could ever meet. :) He's been this way ever since he was a kitten. He's never been through any trauma, except the trauma of birth!

Cute little man he is :D

It's Man Cat Monday!