Wordless Wednesday : Balancing Act

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A little Tummy on Tuesday

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Man Cat Monday with Stripe

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

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?

Weekend Cat Blogging

Max & Sebastian NOT drinking out of their water bowl

Our momma's very busy this weekend cleaning up after the storm. Gosh these storm things really are messy and leave a lot of work behind for others to clean up! I sure hope we don't see anymore of them this year!

Stripe

But even though she's pretty busy she still found time to get us ready to board the Friday Ark # 153 over at the Modulator and she's still gonna sign us up for this week's Weekend Cat Blogging! Yeah! This Weekend Cat Blogging is being hosted by BellyTimber.

Tuesday Thought : for Megan & Biscuit

Megan over at Bad Kitty Cats has been hurting this week.

Her precious, precious Biscuit Sinatra has been missing now for a week.

Megan has had a very rough year.

We just wanted to take Time Out this Tuesday and

offer her & her family our support & kind thoughts and wishes.

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.

A Tail for Thursday

Stripe is very protective of his tail. He doesn't like it touched, interfered with, admired, praised, spoken about or meddled with in any way by anybody, no matter who you may THINK you are. He doesn't like it when other cats get too close to it. He loathes it when humans think they are allowed to touch it. If you get too close he will warn you by growling. If you do not immediately retreat from the tail he will growl a little louder. If you still decide to be obstinate (whether consciously or not) he WILL slap you very, very hard. If necessary he will draw blood.

As I snapped this picture he was giving me the second warning : the growl. I snapped the photo very quickly and then beat a hasty retreat.

Home Again!

Stripe is back home and quite glad to be so. He is healing nicely and is on his absolute best behaviour. Indeed, although his first point of order was to push his face right into BJ's food bowl...while BJ was still eating from the said bowl, Stripe hasn't wandered far away from the front door since he has been back. I wonder how long this will last :-D

Do you notice that nick in his left ear? He left one morning with his two ears quite perfectly whole and came back with this...er...ear piercing. You can see that nicked ear here as well.

All truth be told, the little guy had me worried and I am glad to have him back home. :o)

Stripe was also quite happy and grateful to see the kind comments and good wishes for him these past few days and wanted to thank you ever so much.

Wordy Wednesday

I'm happy to say that my little busybody boy Stripe is healing nicely and will be home before the weekend. He will get to eat only soft canned food for now until his jaw heals, so he'll be happy about that. He's still at the vet and will stay there until maybe Thursday evening.

He is, of course, most definitely not happy with this arrangement and vocally expressed it when I went to visit him today. He promised all kinds of good behaviour from now on. Hmmm...knowing Stripe he probably will break these promises on the first day he gets home!

:-/

Man Cat Monday

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. :-(

Some Tummy for Tuesday

Every Tuesday the kitties over at lisaviolet's diary invite all of the cat blogging world to show off their most prized possession: their tummies!

This week Daniece has sent out the invitation to all of us and Stripe decided he wanted to show off his...well...striped tummy.

Remember to enter the cutest kitty contest over at Astrid, Kashim and Othello's blog! The deadline is June 20, 2007.

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? :)

Weekend Cat Blogging # 102 & Friday Ark # 139

AAAHHHH!!! It's that darn camera again!!

At least give me ample warning so that I can come up with a handsome pose for my fans.

Like this :

Alright. Enough with the pictures now.

My beauty sleep calls for me.

Oh. By the way, before I drift off on my 24 hour nap, let me remind you that the "Weekend Cat Blogging" Event this week is being hosted by Kashim & Othello over at Paulchen's Food Blog. Be sure to check out the line up!

Also, be sure to board the Friday Ark!

Seven Random Things

We've been tagged by Aloysius to present seven random things about us.

Here are the rules : Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Cats who are tagged need to write on their own blog about the seven things and the rules. You need to choose seven cats to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment that they have been tagged and ask them to read your blog!

Here are seven random facts about us :

1. Stripe : I loooooove Roger Federer! I sit and look at my autographed picture of Roger Federer every now and then and say to myself, "Self, in a few more months you will play just like Roger Federer used to play before he got into this silly losing funk."

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2. Sasha : I am a picky eater. I refuse to eat the same thing two days in a row. I will not eat dry food in the morning. I must, MUST, have my gravy in the morning and my dry at night. No, I will not have any gravy in the evenings. That's preposterous. This drives my mom crazy as she has been trying to get us all to eat dry food only, mornings and evenings. I guess she doesn't understand that I am a cat and I must have everything exactly the way I like it. Especially when it inconveniences every human in my life.

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3. BJ : I'm the only kitten who got to stay with my cat-mom Sasha. All my other brothers went to other homes. I'm eight years old and still have not warmed up to humans as yet. I am very suspicious of and do not trust anything that walks on two legs as I truly believe that all humans work for the government and are out to get all of us cats. In fact I'm not so sure I want to be a part of this "meme"...who do you work for? Why do you want to know this information about us? Hmmm...I smell something fishy here...there is a conspiracy afoot! I will not divulge any more about myself as I don't trust your motives! Good bye.

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4. Max : I like drinking water out of every container (toilet bowl water tastes the best actually) other than my designated drinking bowl. I also like to surprise mom by going outside and bringing her all kinds of goodies that I hunt and catch. I especially like catching small mice, and lizards late at night after Mom goes in to bed. I bring them inside to her alive. Once I get them inside though, I quickly lose interest in them, let them go and then usually will try to get some sleep. But Mom gets so excited when she sees the goodies, especially the mice! She jumps onto things and screams and runs around with the broom! I'm usually too tired to join in the fun though so I'll just lay there watching her...happy in the knowledge that I brought her so much joy!

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5. KC : I was not abandoned. I just got thoroughly bored with my previous home and so decided to discard those humans about six years ago. I went in search of a new palace and new subjects who would serve me humbly and eagerly. I ran into BJ and his cat-mom Sasha and decided to check out their subjects and their palace. I liked it so much I decided to stay. No, it never did occur to me to ask the humans if they minded. Their opinion never counts anyway. I do not like to be petted...wait...I do not like to be touched and will growl at you if you insist on that "petting" nonsense. If I like you, and am confident that you will not touch me at all, I will voluntarily jump/climb into your lap and take a nap.

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6. Sebastian : I'm the youngest of them all and have an enormous amount of energy and like to direct most of that energy in chasing...well...just about anything. It doesn't even have to move. I specialise in tails, however. Especially Max's tail. He doesn't like anybody (not even Mom) playing with his tail, so I chase it just to annoy the heck out of him! He's sooooo funny when he's annoyed. Hahahahahahahah!

7. We live with three of these stupid, stupid creatures called 'dawgs' who we all really, really despise.

We will try to tag seven other cat bloggers later as we must go get our cat naps now.

Weekend Cat Blogging

Cats find the weirdest places to curl up...don't they?

We've boarded the Friday Ark and can't wait to see all the beautiful Kitties this weekend!

Weekend Cat blogging is being hosted this week by the lovely Puddy at It's a Byootaful Life.

The Line Up

First there's Sasha, who hates having her picture taken.



Then there's BJ who, I swear, sits around concocting conspiracy theories all day :



KC (she's most definitely "the Boss"!):


Mr. Cool, Max:



Stripe. Yep. That's his permanent, " Get that damn camera outta ma face!" scowl:



And last, but most definitely not least, the baby of the family, Sebastian :