Tails of Two Kitties

Thanks Efurryone

2011-10-29T10:29:00.002-05:00

We want to thank you all for the purrs, headbutts, woofs, hugs and purrayers. Someday (hopefully not too much longer) Mom's gonna help us get around to thank efurryone individually. Her eyes still leak lots though, so it's hard for her to see to help us type. We still miss Smeagol all the time but we're doing okay. Mom's startin' to get ready to visit kitties who need homes 'cos she said eventually we're gonna have a new brofur or sisfur. We know Smeagol would want us to give another kitty a home - Mom says she just hopes one picks us as clearly as the rest of us did.

~Strider & Gizmo

Smeagol

2011-09-25T10:43:00.005-05:00

Smeagol
June 15, 2002 - September 20, 2011

We haven't posted for a really long time and were just recently tryin' to get the mom to help us post again soon, but before we could, Smeagol suddenly and unexpectedly ran off to the Bridge.
We are all so sad and in shock. He hadn't been sick or anything... He and I were at home while the mom and dad were at works, we were sleepin' on the couch as usual ...and then he was gone.

Mom can't stop cryin' and Dad... well, Smeagol was his purrecious - they'd have cuddle time efurry morning and night, and Smeagol would keep him company in the kitchen on Stir Fry Night and help him with his exercises and... they just did all kinds of stuff together.

He was my bestest furriend and I'm lost without him. He's the reason I picked this place to live - I saw him in the window and knew this was the right place for me. We played Thundering Herd of Elephants efurry day (including that day - he also ate his food and treats, didn't say anything 'bout not feelin' good or anything) and cuddled on the couch or on our tree in the front window. Gizmo is confused - they always talked at the back door and she keeps askin' where he is. I try to tell her that he went to the Bridge but she doesn't want to believe me.

We're all tryin' to help each other through this - I'm cuddlin' extra on the mom and dad, and they're playin' with me extra long, and I spend more time talkin' to Gizmo. It's just so strange and lonely no matter what we do. Our hearts are broken.

Okay, it's been a really long time...

2009-07-16T23:47:00.003-05:00

But we're still here. It's kinda boring though that our only posts are about this. Busy beans...
They even missed our purrthdays (June 15)!! Well, we celebrated, but Mom didn't help us post or anything. They're gonna have to make it up to us somehow!! Anyway, we just wanted to say (AGAIN) that we try to keep up with the news and efurrything on the CB, and we miss efurryone!!

We have not disappeared!!

2009-06-02T23:02:00.004-05:00

It only seems like it... Mom's work is slowin' down a little bit, but she and Dad have also been trainin' (and helpin' their students train) for a big kara-tay tournament they have comin' up.
We have missed our furriends so much, and there's also lots that happened in the CB that we've missed. We don't know when we're gonna get caught up!! Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of us, one is kind of blurry, but it's of Smeagol glarin' at Mom and tellin' her that she better help us visit our furriends OR ELSE!!

Award and Updates

2009-03-26T08:12:00.000-05:00

Hi Efurryone!! Sorry we haven't been around much lately. This is Mom's busiest time of year at work, plus she and Dad have lots of that Karate stuff goin' on too. She's also been mumblin' somethin' about taxes. So we'll prob'ly be postin' even less than usual - if that's even possible...

We're furry excited - The Cat Realm gave us an award!! Thank you!!

The Lemonade Award is given to sites which the giver show either great attitude and or gratitude.
The rules for this award are:
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 10 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

We're gonna give this award to efurryone in the CB who hasn't gotten it yet, 'cause we thinks efurryone deserves it!!

Thank You and Blogiversary

2009-02-16T21:18:00.003-05:00

First, we wants to thank efurryone for their kindness when Mystery went to the Bridge. We are all still sad, but all of your purrs, purrayers and love have really helped. We don't want to take her name off the blog yet - we're still tryin' to figure out how to change it but still include her.

Also, we missed our 3rd Blogiversary, it was on 2/5. We forgive Mom this time, 'cause we were all a little preoccupied with bein' sad 'bout Mystery and didn't feel like celebratin' anyway.

We're so glad to have met all of you over the years, and we keep meetin' new furriends all the time!! We love you all and are glad to be a small part of the wonderful Cat Blogosphere community!!

Mystery, the Giant Green Iguana 6/1994-2/2009

2009-02-02T20:53:00.004-05:00

Mystery went to the Bridge today. We are all so very sad. She only posted a couple times here 'cause she liked to stay in her nice warm house most of the time. This is a picture of her last day outside, this past summer when it was still warm. She's been with Mom and Dad since before they even got married, and she moved with them a bunch of times and even went to Kentucky with them to visit our Grandpa. Now she can be in the warm sun all the time.

Thanks to KC for the beautiful graphic.

Smeagol's Gotcha Day and Happy New Year!!

2008-12-31T23:56:00.003-05:00

Today (Dec. 31) is Smeagol's Gotcha Day, and Mom just barely got this post up in time!!
Happy New Year, efurryone!!

Added Jan. 1: Mom was typin' the post as the ball was droppin', so she was in a big hurry.
She was gonna post a picture of Smeagol that was taken not long after his Gotcha Day, but she has a different computer and still has to get all of the pictures switched over. Anyway, we celebrated with yummy salmon!!

Some of you prob'ly already know this story, but we'll tell it again for those who don't.
The One Who Came Before, Smokey, had gone to the Bridge on Dec. 28, 2002 (he'd been sick and the beans were expectin' it, but they were still so furry sad) and they were lonely without a kitty, so they decided to see if the shelter was open on New Year's Eve. It was, and there was a black kitty that kept reachin' out through his cage and meowin' at them. It was hard for them to leave the other kitties there, but this kitty definitely wanted to come home with the beans!! Before they could leave with him, they had to call the v-e-t to schedule his hoohaectomy, and luckily the v-e-t was still open (it bein' New Year's Eve, they were a little worried that it would be closed). And Smeagol got to come home!!

Santa Claws is Watchin'

2008-12-24T01:06:00.002-05:00

Strider escaped twice recently - doesn't he know that Santa Claws is watchin' and that if he gets in trouble he won't get any purresents? This better not mean that Santa Claws doesn't come here at all, 'cause I (Smeagol) have been furry good!!

Strider picked one of the coldest days to run out the back door (he hadn't done it for over a year, so Mom had let her guard down some - but only a little bit, she's always careful. She was shuttin' the door and it almost shut on him). Mom had to go get the flashlight and walk around in the neighbors' yards followin' him around. She was afraid someone was gonna call the police or somethin'!! Then he went up by the road (Mom gets really upset when he does that) and he CROSSED THE STREET!! He went across and rolled around on the ground, then when Mom went after him, he crossed back and stopped at the edge of the road to roll around again. Luckily it's not a big street, but sometimes it is kinda busy. There were no cars at the time, though. Then Mom was able to grab him. When she got home she realized it probably wasn't a good idea to be carryin' a big, metal flashlight in the cold around without gloves. Her hand hurt really bad!!

A couple days later, Mom was still asleep and Dad opened the back door and Strider shot out and off the edge of the deck!! It's kinda high, maybe 10 feets or somethin'. Dad ran out and saw Strider look up at him and then he came right back up and into the house. He doesn't do that for Mom!!

Mom purromised that she'd get our Secret Paws package sent out today. She'd better, or maybe Santa Claws won't visit her, either!!

We wants to wish efurryone a Merry Chrissy-mouse and Happy Hollydays and all that kinda stuff!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2008-11-27T11:22:00.003-05:00

We want to wish all of our furriends a Happy Thanksgiving!!

We're thankful for all of you and the whole Cat Blogosphere community!!

Fierce Fighter Friday

2008-11-20T23:40:00.003-05:00

Today we remember The One Who Came Before, Smokey. He was rescued by Dad's cousin, and then he and his sister Bunny came to live with Mom and Dad. Mom says he loved to follow them around the house and just be wherever they were. Sadly, he was only here for a few years (he was older when he was rescued) when he got sick. He fought hard, but eventually went to the Bridge on 12/28/02. Mom and Dad still miss him, but they say that we both do things that remind them of him, so they feel like he's still here in a way.

Missin' Our Furriends

2008-10-15T21:04:00.003-05:00

Sigh... This is what we've been doin' lately, waitin' for the beans to come home. Mom keeps promisin' us that she's gonna have more time to help us post and visit, but it never seems to happen. What's been keepin' her so busy? Karate. We're so tired of hearin' about this Karate thing that keeps makin' her and Dad stay away so much, and givin' them paperwork and tests to grade and all kinds of stress 'bout how their students are doin' and if the other people who are supposed to be helpin' are doin' what they're supposed to be doin' and and and...

Last Saturday, they were away all day at a tournament, (their team came in 2nd place out of over 20 teams!!) they came home for two minutes and six seconds, then left again to go fix Grandma's computer. (That was okay though, 'cause Grandma always takes good care of us, so we don't mind them helpin' her out.) When they are home, they're too tired to do much of anything, so we've been purrin' on them and enjoyin' the open windows while the weather's still nice.

Meme, Finally

2008-09-17T21:25:00.003-05:00

Okay, we decided to sit on Mom until she helped us with the meme that Grrreta tagged us with furrrrever ago. We also made her feel guilty because: 1. I (Strider) had to go to the v-e-t (regular check up, but I might have to have a tooth pulled sometime!!) and 2. They left us AGAIN and didn't tell us ahead of time!! We thinks we're gonna hafta have a house-trashin' party sometime just because, even if they're home - we don't care!!

Okay, so here's the meme:

Meme:Rules:* Link to the one who tagged you.* List the rules on your blog.* Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.

We're each gonna do three!!

Smeagol:
1. My favorite way to drink water is out of a water bottle (like a hampster/guinea pig water bottle)
2. When I'm annoyed with something, I blow air out of my nose like a sigh/snort.
3. I don't really mind ridin' in the car, but sometimes I get sick. When I do, it's almost always about 5 minutes away from where we're goin'.

Strider:
4. I have to check the shower efurry morning before the beans get in.
5. I like to roll around and rub on and bite Mom's feet after she gets out of the shower, no matter what time of day it is.
6. I purr almost all the time, even when I'm at the v-e-t.

We really hopes that Mom will help us post and comment more in the future. We do try to keep up with efurryone's news, even if we don't comment or post much.

Sneaky Beans!!

2008-08-24T13:05:00.002-05:00

They went away and left us and didn't tell us what they were doin'!! One day last week we saw them rushin' around and packin' things and the next thing we knew, they were leavin' us!! (Of course Grandma came to take care of us, and we always like that). We thinks they were bein' so sneaky 'cause they were afraid we'd have a house-trashin' party...

Anyway, they're back now, and today is their 12th Anniversary!!

We haven't furgotten 'bout the meme that Grrreta tagged us for, it's just that Mom is soooo slow with helpin' us blog. We're gonna haves to sit on her until she helps us do our meme!!

Violette Noelle

2008-08-16T05:50:00.002-05:00

Our love and purrayers are with her family...

Award and (Pre)Meme

2008-08-06T20:57:00.004-05:00

*Okay, we started this post a looong time ago, but Mom has been furry busy and stressed and stuff, so we had to wait for her to calm down a little before we asked her to help us finish this post.

We were one of the winners of Texas' Funny Picture Friday (like two weeks ago...)!! Here's the picture we sent in

All of the pictures were really funny and we always enjoy seein' efurryone's pictures on Fridays!!

And Grrreta tagged us for the Six Unspectacular Quirks Meme (also a looong time ago)!! We're workin' on it, but we thinks we're gonna hafta do a separate post for that 'cause Mom's gettin' tired and can't keep her eyes open much longer...

I did it!!

2008-07-16T22:19:00.002-05:00

Mom and Dad were eatin' fish for dinner, and I (Strider) kept askin' nicely if I could have some. After awhile, I got tired of waitin' and I just took some right off of Mom's plate!! I had heard 'bout some of our furriends who have done that, but I never thought that I would try somethin' like that!! Now that I have, the beans better be careful!! And I'm gonna teach Smeagol how to do it too!! (Of course he got some after I stole my piece 'cause the beans felt bad...)

Happy 4th!!

2008-07-04T15:59:00.002-05:00

Happy 4th of July to efurryone!! Today is also our Grandad's Purrthday, so... Happy Purrthday, Grandad!! We're gonna hide (well, at least Smeagol is) during all the loud booms tonight.

Oh, Mom said that when she was out drivin' the other day, she saw lotsa signs that say, "Fear the Deer"!! We wonder what that means? Are there lotsa vishus deer out lately? We haven't seen any... She said she'd try to get a picture so maybe we could figure it out.

Anyway, we hopes efurryone enjoys the holiday and that the loud noises don't scare anyone too much!!

Celebratin'!!

2008-06-15T13:14:00.003-05:00

Today's a big celebratin' day, 'cause it's Father's Day AND our Purrthday!! Well, Mom doesn't know when our REAL purrthdays are, so we just have them both today. We were nice to Dad today and let him sleep in, and then we got SALMON!! Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's!!

We loves you, Stormie

2008-06-13T09:00:00.001-05:00

We will hold you in our hearts furrever, strong, beautiful Storm.

Now it's HOT!!

2008-06-08T10:29:00.003-05:00

We can't believe that less than a month ago we had snow, and now it's 95 degrees!! We're just layin' around tryin' to stay cool. We don't haves those air coolin' things 'cause it usually only gets this hot a few times a year. This is early for it to be so hot though. The beans have lotsa fans blowin', so that helps a little.

Those nasty Gypsy Moth things are still around, and they are like spiders, floatin' down on their strings. But - a plane came one day and flew really low and sprayed stuff on the trees, and now there aren't as many of them. Mom made sure the windows were closed when they were sprayin' even though they said it would only hurt the Gypsy things and not beans or animals.

AND, one night Mom and Dad left us home alone ALL NIGHT. Guess where they were... They stayed overnight at Grandma's 'cause there's a new puppy there and the Grandbeans had to go out of town and they didn't want to leave the puppy all alone. We guess it's okay... we're glad 'bout the new puppy (her name is Carley) 'cause when our Uncle Rocky went to the Bridge back in July, we weren't sure if the Grandbeans were gonna get another woofie.

Here's a picture of Carley with our Uncle Rusty. Mom says it's hard to get pictures of her 'cause she's always movin' around!!

SNOW?!?

2008-05-17T11:45:00.002-05:00

We woke up the other morning and there was SNOW on the ground!! It's not supposed to snow here now, it's supposed to be warm!! We've been enjoyin' open windows and fresh air (but not that day, brrr). Mom said that some places nearby had 4 inches of the stuff!! She said that she was hopin' that maybe since it was so cold, it would get rid of the nasty Gypsy Moths that are all over the place, but it didn't seem to help. We don't know why they call them moths, 'cause all we see are little black caterpillar things that eat the leaves off the trees. Oh, Mom says later they turn into moths, after they ruin all the trees. Mom doesn't even like to be outside 'cause they float around (on strings) and get on her and in her hair, and they make some beans really itchy. They aren't nice at all!!

We love Spring, but...

2008-04-21T21:22:00.002-05:00

It's also Mom's most busiest time of year, so we have even less time than normal to visit our furriends' blogs and to post and stuff. We just want efurryone to know that we're thinkin' of you all. Mom's so tired after she gets home that she can barely keeps her eyes open. Oh, and a couple of weeks ago, she and Dad were promoted to Full Instructor in their karate style. We don't really know what that means, but they were gone all day and when they came home they were furry tired but happy too. So we were happy when they got here, but mostly 'cause they finally came home. We were startin' to worry that we'd run out of food... (even though they left us with dishes full of crunchies).

Purrin' and Purrayin' for Furriends

2008-04-12T21:53:00.005-05:00

Yay!! They're okay and back with Mom Laura!!

We've been purrin' our furry hardest that Lilly Lu, Mu Shue and Iris escaped the fire and are safe somewhere, and also for Mom Laura, during this difficult time.

Strider: I need to 'pologize to Mom for scarin' her so bad early this mornin'. I'm just so worried 'bout our furriends that I felt like yellin' as loud as I could at the top of the stairs, furry early in the morning. (Something I've never ever done before). She came runnin' out of the room to see what was wrong (she said she wasn't sleepin' well 'cause she's worryin' too) and I was just sittin' there. She thought there was somethin' really wrong with me or Smeagol, or somethin', but she checked efurryone and efurrything out and all was fine.

HA HA HA!!

2008-03-28T20:36:00.001-05:00

We needed somethin' to laugh at, and Mom helped us out. The other day, she left to go to werk and not long after, she was back... She came runnin' into the house and we saw that her pants were wet all over the front!! She was drivin' and spilled her coffee ALL OVER her pants!! She said she was almost at werk when it happened, and there was no way she could have gone in lookin' the way she did, so she had to come home and get new pants to wear!! Oh, she said she didn't get burned, she was just mad at herself. We thought it was furry funny!!

Smudge Saturday

2008-03-22T10:56:00.002-05:00

Thanks to Not the Mama for this beautiful portrait of Smudge.

Please keep his family in your purrs during this very sad time.

'Til We Meet Again

2008-03-21T10:42:00.002-05:00

Our hearts are broken...

Our purrs, purrayers and love are with sweet Smudge's family.

Spring?

2008-03-17T21:03:00.004-05:00

We thinks Spring is close, 'cause we've been seein' lotsa robins outside, and that big pile of snow is gettin' smaller, but Mom just said we're supposed to get more snow tomorrow. We got to haves the window open for a little while over the weekend, and it smelled a little bit like Spring.
Smeagol's feelin' kinda yucky again today, so Mom and Dad are keepin' an eye on him, but it seems like maybe a hairball (again). We were playin' Thunderin' Herd of Elephants last night, so he was fine then. Maybe he just had too much St. Patrick's Day partyin'!!
We just realized that we started a post 'bout an adventure we had a looong time ago, so we haves to remember to finish it!!
Also, we've been purrin' and purrayin' for a bunch of our furriends who aren't feelin' well or had surgeries and stuff. Diamond Emerald-Eyes made this nice badge for Smudge, who's been fightin' a nasty bug that's makin' him anemic.

It's been awhile...

2008-03-05T21:36:00.002-05:00

...since we last posted. The beans got rid of their colds, finally, and we still seem to be feelin' okay/good. 'Cept Smeagol puked up a hairball and his food today, so of course Mom's worryin' that he's gonna get sick again. He seems fine otherwise, and he ate tonight and hasn't puked, so hopefully it was just a yucky hairball. Thanks efurryone for the thoughts 'bout Dad's Grandma and the get well wishes for us all.

We know that lotsa our furriends have had more snow than we have, but we're gettin' tired of it!! There's a big pile of it outside and if we get any more, the beans won't be able to get the car out. (The plow keeps pilin' it up behind the car efurrytime it snows). Hmmm, then they'd be here with us all the time... Maybe we do want more snow!! We have a picture of the big snow pile, but Mom doesn't have it on the 'puter yet, so hopefully we'll get to post it later.

Busy Beans

2008-02-16T11:45:00.003-05:00

Mom and Dad have both had bad colds (well, Dad's gettin' over his and Mom's just gettin' it), and they've still been workin' lots. Now this weekend they're havin' a memorial service for Dad's Grandma, who passed away in December, (she was 94 and had been out Christmas shopping, so was active right up till the end), so they're gonna be busy with family stuff all weekend.

We seem to be still feelin' better, so Mom says she's got her fingers crossed that we're all better. We haven't had much time to visit at all with our furriends, but we want efurryone to know that we're so thankful for all the get well wishes and blogiversary wishes and stuff!!

Belated Blogiversary

2008-02-06T22:28:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was our 2nd Blogiversary, and Mom made us miss it 'cause she's been busy (so she says...) We're so glad to have met so many wonderful furriends, and we're meetin' new ones all the time, too!!

Mom says she's "cautiously optimistic" that we're feelin' better, and we're finished with the yucky medicines, but we still haves to eat the special food for awhile. It's not too bad, really. Thank you to efurryone for the concern, thoughts, purrs, purrayers and efurrything else, they really help!!

We were furry excited today to learn that Miss Karen Jo wrote wonderful limericks for Mystery and Smeagol!! (We missed Mystery's yesterday, again 'cause Mom was busy...) Added 2/7/08 - And Strider's is up today!! Added 2/8/08 - And Gizmo's!! Thank you so much, Karen Jo, we all loves our limericks!!

We're hopin' that Mom will help us update our links this weekend, we have so many to add!! And we want to get around to commentin', too. Usually we just have time to pop in and read to keep caught up with efurryone, but not to say anything. We've been tryin' to do a few at a time. We just want our furriends to know we're thinkin' of them even if we don't say much most of the time!!

Quick Update

2008-01-26T12:34:00.000-05:00

We're feelin' better, but again, Mom's hesitatin' to say that we're totally better, 'specially after the last time... We have been takin' yucky pink stuff AND pills (Mom says it's half a pill) two times a day for the last ten days. Today is our last day of it, we hopes for good this time!! Mom says she hopes so too.

We have not been makin' it easy for Mom and Dad to give us our medicine, even though we do want to get better. The first few times, they tried givin' us the pill first, then the pink stuff. Guess what we discovered? If we don't swallow the pill, it makes us foam at the mouth. If they give us the pink stuff after the pill, it turns into pink sticky foam (that gets all over the place)!! HA HA HA!! Well, that didn't last long. Now we get the pink stuff first. Oh, and to even be able to get us to take our medicines, they haves to roll us up in a blanket so just our heads are stickin' out.

Thanks again efurryone for the thoughts, purrs, purrayers and efurrything!! We're gonna try to get Mom to help us get around to comment soon. Maybe we should roll her legs up in a blanket so she can't go anywhere...

I'm Home!!

2008-01-16T20:54:00.000-05:00

Hi efurryone, I'm home and feelin' better so far!! Thank you all so much for the purrs and purrayers and headbutts and efurrything!! I could feel them while I was at the v-e-t. She let me come home today even though I wasn't cooperatin' in givin' her that sample she wanted. Now Mom has to collect it and take it in sometime (that's what she gets for takin' me to the v-e-t and leavin' me there!!)

We both haves to take more medicine (Strider didn't get sick like me but his poop is still not totally normal) and we got special food we haves to eat for awhile. I was starvin' when I got home today (even though they did feed me at the v-e-t) and I ate some and am still feelin' okay. All my tests were pretty much normal (some things were a little high 'cause I was so stressed) so hopefully the medicines will really work this time. (The v-e-t said since we were doin' better after takin' the yucky pink stuff, but then I got sick again, that it worked a little bit, but now we haves to take more of it plus half a pill).

Uh oh, Mom says it's medicine time, gotta go hide... No, I don't want to go back to the v-e-t, so I guess I'll take it. Thanks again, efurryone, we all really appreciate efurrything!!

Smeagol is at the v-e-t

2008-01-15T13:24:00.001-05:00

Update: The v-e-t is keepin' him overnight 'cause she wants to get a "sample". She said the blood tests were okay with some slight elevations but she didn't seem too concerned 'bout them, and his uri-nalysis was okay too. Oh, and his x-rays were okay and he's gained a little weight since he was in last. Right now she thinks it might be a bug called heli-co-bacter, but she's waitin' for that "sample" first, to see if it's somethin' else. Thank you all for all the purrs and purrayers, they definitely help!! I just wish he could come home tonight instead of havin' to stay there...

Smeagol was feelin' better for 'bout a week (efurrything was back to normal), but he started feelin' worse again today. His appetite was fine last night, but not this morning. The v-e-t has a busy day, so they made Mom take Smeagol in and drop him off for the day or maybe even overnight. Mom is upset not only 'cause she wants him to be okay but also she knows how stressed he gets 'cause he hates goin' to the v-e-t so much. And I miss my brofur. I really hopes he gets to come home tonight. Please send purrs and purrayers that they can figure out why he's gettin' sick (and also that he doesn't have to stay at the v-e-t overnight).

Mao and Annie - Please Come Home!!

2008-01-12T10:59:00.000-05:00

UPDATE - They're both home safe!! Yay!!

Your families and furriends miss you. We're purrin' our hardest that you both come home NOW!!

Feelin' Better (?)

2008-01-05T11:12:00.000-05:00

We're feelin' better, but we put the question mark there 'cause Mom's still worried that we're not totally better yet. We've been runnin' around and playin', tryin' to show her that we feel much better, but she's still not totally convinced. (She says it's 'cause of what she sees in our litterboxes that she's still a little worried, but also she knows that since we're on anti-biotics, that can cause some, um, runniness too.) We don't get it, if that was the problem in the first place, why do we haves to take medicine that causes that? And the medicine, it's this pink yucky stuff that they shoot down our throats!! We like to try to make them get it all over themselves instead of down our throats 'cause it's bright pink and sticky, hee hee!!

We want to thank efurryone for the get well, Gotcha Day and New Year purrs, purrayers and wishes!! We're gonna try to get around to leave comments this weekend, but now Mom's sick (she says it's just a cold) and she's tryin' to get lotsa sleep to make it go away. WE think we should pry her mouth open and pour pink sticky stuff down it!!

Gotcha Day

2007-12-31T16:10:00.000-05:00

Today is Smeagol's Gotcha Day, but he's not feelin' so good. We both went to the the v-e-t today 'cause we're havin' stomach problems (Smeagol had it comin' out both ends and I just have kinda loose poop - sorry 'bout the TMI). The v-e-t gave us both anti-biotics and Smeagol got stabbed and had to get fluids. He's just been kinda layin' around, but I'm mostly my normal hyper self. I know Smeagol's not feelin' great 'cause he let the v-e-t clip his nails, look at his teeth AND take his temperature. He did put up a fuss, but not like he usually does. We're not allowed to eat or drink for the rest of the day (how are we supposed to celebrate?) We might try to stop by the parties tonight, we'll see how we're feelin'. Thanks for the purrs and purrayers efurryone left on our other post (before we could get this one written). We wish efurryone a Happy New Year!!

Secret Paws Pictures!!

2007-12-24T21:53:00.000-05:00

Okay, we finally got Mom to sit down and help us with this. She still has to go decorate the tree, so this is gonna be quick. (Um, yeah, she and Dad are runnin' a little behind schedule...)

Look, Tyler sent us so much fun stuff and yummy Temptations!!
(And "Temptations" for Mom, too. She really enjoyed those!!)

I'm gonna play with this crinkly ball for awhile!!

Hey Smeagol, if you don't come back here, I'm keepin' this all for myself!!

Mom, can you open the Temptations now?

Wow, Tyler sent us two of each toy (and Temptations too) so that we don't have to share!! We're usually (oh, okay Mom, sometimes) pretty good 'bout sharin', but it's so furry nice to each have our own stuff!!

Thank you sooo much, Tyler, we're havin' lotsa fun with efurrything!! And Mom says thank you for the Turtles again, too!!

Merry Christmas/Happy Holly-Days to efurryone!!

Secret Paws!!

2007-12-21T11:35:00.000-05:00

We got our Secret Paws package, and it's from Tyler!! We got it last weekend and Mom let us open it on Sunday, so we're sorry we're late postin' about it. We hopes Mom can help us post some of the pictures this weekend. Anyway, we loves efurrything in it!! We got all kinds of mousies and balls and toys, and two packages of Temptations, and Mom got Turtle Temptations... What Mom? Oh, they're not really turtle flavored Temptations? They're chocolate turtles? Okay, we don't get it, but whatever they were, she loved them!! Thank you sooo much, Tyler!! (We're gonna go back to playin' with all of our pawsome Secret Paw toys now...)

Vishus Deer Sighting!!

2007-12-09T14:14:00.001-05:00

We were workin' on a post 'bout our adventure, but we thought we should post 'bout this first. The other morning Dad came downstairs and wanted to know what we were all excited 'bout. We finally got him to look out the back door and he saw it - a vishus deer in the trees behind our house!! (The same trees Strider likes to run around in when he escapes - maybe he'll think twice 'bout escapin' now!!) Dad was helpin' us watch it for awhile, then he went to get Mom. While he was showin' it to her, we saw ANOTHER one. TWO vishus deer right behind our house!! And look at that one, watchin' us and layin' in wait!!

We're still here...

2007-11-16T13:24:00.000-05:00

Thanks efurrybody for your concern and warnings to Strider 'bout goin' outside!! I (Smeagol) have gotten out a few times, mostly when I first came to live here, but I only ran around the side of the house. I realized how scary it was, so I don't try to get out anymore. I still like to smell the nice fresh air when the windows are open, though!! Mom thinks that Strider used to live near here and was abandoned, so when he gets out maybe he's tryin' to go back to where he used to live? No matter how careful the beans are, there are some times that he just zips out the door when they're comin' in. He's really fast and not that big. Mom said she saw some ideas in the comments over at MontyQ's that she's gonna try, but she won't tell us what they are!!

We do have another adventure to tell you 'bout, but we'll have to save that for later. Mom and Dad are takin' their students to a karate tournament. We hopes they all do well!! Sorry for worryin' anyone, Mom's just been furry busy, as usual. ::Sigh::

Strider's Big Adventure

2007-10-13T17:37:00.000-05:00

The other night when Mom and Dad came home, Strider shot out the front door as soon as it opened. (We don't go outside at all, unless we sneak out.) Mom dropped all her stuff and tried to catch him, but he was too fast, so she ran back inside, got our treats and a flashlight and went back out. There are lotsa trees right next to our house, but there's also a bad road. Guess which way Strider headed? Yep, right to the sidewalk next to the road. In the meantime, Dad was lookin' for another flashlight and not havin' much luck. Okay, that's all I saw, so I'm gonna let Strider take over...

Even though Mom and Dad know to be careful 'cause I like to sneak out, I saw my chance and I took it!! It's been a long time since I've been outside, and I've been smellin' the nice outside smells all summer, so I just couldn't help myself. Mom was tryin' to get me to come to her by offerin' treats, but we get treats every day, so I wasn't interested in them at all. Plus, me runnin' and Mom chasin' me was too much fun, so efurrytime I let her get about two feet away from me, I'd run off again. Once, she turned around and said she was goin' home and started to walk away, but I didn't fall for that trick!! I just ran into the woods where she really couldn't see me. That bell on my collar, though, that was the giveaway. She could hear it, so she could kinda tell where I was. She came into the woods and tried to get me to go away from the road and back toward our house, but I wasn't done explorin' yet (these are the same woods that I lived in when I was homeless, before I found Mom and Dad, so I know my way around).

There's a big parking lot on the other side of the woods, so I thought it would be fun to run around there for awhile, too. Mom came crashin' out of the trees after me, and I just kept playin' my game of lettin' her get close then takin' off again. After awhile, though, I noticed that Mom didn't seem to be enjoyin' the game as much as I was, and the next time she got close, I saw that she was cryin'. I decided to let her catch me, so I pretended that I didn't hear her sneakin' up on me. She grabbed me and carried me home, and I purred all the way!!

Weekend at Home

2007-09-23T14:39:00.000-05:00

Finally Mom and Dad stayed home with us for a weekend!! What we were supposed to do was go to visit Mom's aunt and uncle who live a few hours away (all of us - we don't mind travelin'), but plans got changed, so we had a nice weekend all to ourselves at home. We took turns layin' on Mom and Dad so they couldn't get up and go out, 'cause we know that once we're layin' on them, they can't get up until we do, no matter what they have to do!! It was good stress-relief for them too, 'cause they had problems with both of the monsters with wheels a few days ago and we could tell what they really needed was to just relax for once!! We also entertained them by runnin' through the house at top speed, chasin' each other and wrestlin'. Now we're tired and just hangin' out in front of the open windows. It's still warm here, but it's cool at night sometimes and we know that soon (too soon for us!) we won't be able to have the windows open 'cause it'll be cold (but good snugglin' weather). Oh, Mom told us that we don't haves to worry 'bout those woofies (in our last post) comin' to our house, she said her dad has someone who takes care of them when he travels. Phew, we're relieved to hear that!!

They left us again!!

2007-09-09T11:04:00.000-05:00

We're really gettin' tired of the beans goin' away and leavin' us here. But Grandma comes over to be with us and we have fun with her, so it's not all that bad, but still... This was the 7th time in 4 months that they left us!! This is not normal for them at all. Mom said she didn't like leavin' us so much either, but they had friends gettin' married, and karate stuff and this last time they went to see Mom's Dad. We've never met him and she hadn't seen him in two years, so she wanted to visit with him for awhile. She thinks she convinced him and her stepmom to come visit us next year, so we'll get to meet them then! When they came back, though, everything they brought in the house smelled like woofies. Big woofies. We're hopin' they don't come to visit, 'cause even though Mom said they were nice, we could tell that they hadn't ever been around kitties and we're afraid they might think we're toys or somethin'!! Do they look scary to you?

Thanks!!

2007-08-19T00:20:00.000-05:00

Thanks efurryone for your ideas/suggestions/thoughts 'bout the cholesterol deposits!! Right now, Mom's just gonna monitor it, and it really doesn't bother me, so she's gonna try not to worry (but she still will, anyway). And Smeagol wants me to tell you all that it was his evil alter ego Gollum who was there at the v-e-t's office actin' so crazy.

We want to wish our Dad and our Grandma Happy Belated Purrthdays, and also early Happy Annifursarys to our Mom and Dad and our Grandma and Granddad!!

It's been rainy and cold here, but Mom and Dad are still openin' the windows for us. Mom says it's supposed to warm up again soon, and we hope so, 'cause we're not ready for it to be cold yet!!

Oh, we almost furrgot! Mom's been furry busy at work and not able to help us type much (what else is new?), but we do get around to visit efurryone. BUT she's busy at work right now 'cause the local (no-kill) shelter just got to build a brand new HUGE building and she's makin' all the signs for the different rooms and stuff! They have Sun Rooms and Quiet Rooms and Meet and Greet Rooms and ALL kinds of nice things for the kitties and woofies who are there!!

Ambushed

2007-08-06T13:05:00.000-05:00

First, we want to thank efurryone for all of the kindness shown for our Uncle Rocky and Grandma and Granddad (and Mom and Dad too). Mom and Dad had to go out of town unexpectedly, so Mom hasn't had a chance to scan pictures of Rocky, but she purromises she will, it just won't be as soon as we hoped. Grandma and Granddad are doin' okay, they're tryin' to keep busy. It must have somethin' to do with the name, 'cause Grandma said Rocky was the CEO of the house, he kept efurryone on a schedule and made sure they stuck to it!!

Now, on to our ambush story... We hadn't heard any mention of the v-e-t and suddenly we were both scooped up and put in our carriers. We thought we were goin' on a trip or somethin', 'cause we've never gone to the v-e-t together, EVER. Mom and Dad decided to try it this way 'cause they thought it might keep Smeagol a little calmer, which it did until the v-e-t's helper came into the room. (Usually he starts growlin' and hissin' in the waitin' room). Then he started walkin' around the room hissin' at random things!!

I (Strider) let them weigh me and check me out while Smeagol sat under the chair Dad was in. I wanted to show him that it's not so bad if you just let them get it all over with really quick, 'cause I don't really mind goin'. 'Course I didn't have to get stabbed this time... Then it was Smeagol's turn, and I couldn't believe that was MY brofur makin' so much noise!! I went back into my crate, and since they had closed Smeagol's, he came runnin' over to mine and squished me to the back so he could get in too!! Now, my crate is a comfortable size for me (I weigh 9.5 pounds), but it's NOT big enough for us both, 'specially since Smeagol weighs 16.9 pounds!! And it can't be taken apart anymore 'cause a piece of it broke, so now it's permanently attached. So, the beans had to try to dump Smeagol out, which took awhile, and they didn't want to pull him out, since he was tryin' to bite them.

Finally, they got him up on the table (he was wrapped in a towel at this point) and managed to stab him once, but then he really freaked out, so they had to get the fish net out. I'd never seen that before, 'cause I'm always so good, but Smeagol recognized it from the last time he was there (3 years ago). They wrapped him up in it and then were able to stab him with his other shot. There was no way the v-e-t was gonna get to examine him, so they unwrapped him and while they were doin' that, he PEED!! The whole time, I was tryin' to tell him it was okay and to calm down, but he wouldn't listen to me.

When we went out to where the beans pay, Petey, the resident Sphynx came over to see us and to ask what the heck was goin' on in there!! He talked to us for awhile and helped me try to calm Smeagol down, and Mom got to pet him lots. (We think she would have liked to bring him home with us). We told him 'bout our furriend Dragonheart, too!

We have a question, though. Mom had noticed some small spots or somethin' on my eyes, so she asked the v-e-t 'bout them, and she said they looked like cholesterol deposits. They don't hurt or bother me, and I can still see just fine, but the v-e-t was gonna give Mom some info 'bout it until Smeagol distracted efurryone. Do any of you or your beans know anything 'bout it? Mom's gonna get back in touch with the v-e-t, but we thought we'd ask our furriends, too.

Uncle Rocky

2007-07-30T10:35:00.000-05:00

Our Grandma thinks our Uncle Rocky (13 year old woofie) might have had a stroke (weak on one side and very uncomfortable) and might have to go to the Bridge today. Mom went to see him and said he looked alert and all, but he was layin’ down and she didn’t see him try to walk or anything. Grandma was takin’ him to the v-e-t to see what she thinks. Please send purrs and purrayers for sweet Rocky and our Grandma and Granddad. (They’re the ones who had our Aunt Tippy who just went to the Bridge a few months ago).

Update:
Thanks for the purrs and purrayers. Sadly, the v-e-t thought it was best for Uncle Rocky to go to the Bridge, where he won't be in any more pain. Mom, Dad, Grandma and Granddad are so furry sad. We're hopin' to be able to get some pictures of him up, but Mom will have to scan them in first.
Maybe tomorrow, and we'll post his story then too. Thanks again, efurryone, we're gonna go do some snugglin' now.

Tagged!!

2007-07-23T22:25:00.000-05:00

We got tagged awhile ago by Zoey and the Furballs, but Mom and Dad have been away efurry weekend for furrever, so we haven't been able to get Mom to help us with it until now. (Oh, Mom says it was just the past three weekends, but that it seems like furrever to her too!) Before we get to our answers, here's where they've been spendin' their time that they coulda been spendin' with us:

First weekend: They went to a tournament and seminars with the head of their style of karate. Dad won second place in his division, yay! This is just a picture from before the tournament started.

Second weekend: They went to the wedding of two of their karate students. The bride is a Sikh and had always wanted a traditional wedding.

Third weekend: They went to this place for the wedding of a friend of Mom's that she has known since Nursery School but hadn't seen for ten years.

We don't think any of that sounds better than hangin' around with us! (But Grandma came over to take care of us, so we can't complain too much).

Okay, here are our answers:

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Waitin' another four years to be born!

What were you doing 1 year ago?
Roastin' in the heat and worryin' about the next door neighbor cats who almost came to live with us. (Nasty neighbors abandoned them, but they went to a nice shelter and found their furrever home -together- a few months later.)

Five snacks you enjoy:
ANY treats
Salmon
Chicken
Tuna
Ham

Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
What's New Pussycat
Lollipop
Little Red Caboose
Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Time Warp

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
Help out our Cat Blogosphere furriends and other furriends who need it
Help out shelters (local and elsewhere)
Buy Mom and Dad a bigger house so they can rescue/adopt more kitties
Get Mom's Mustang all fixed up
Buy Mom and Dad's work equipment so they could stay home with us all the time!!

Five bad habits:
Tryin' to escape any chance I get (Strider)
Clawin' the carpet even though there are lotsa places to scratch (Smeagol)
Bitin' Mom's feet when she's brushin' her teeth (Strider)
Eatin' Strider's food even if he's not finished (Smeagol)
Fightin' over the windows even though there's plenty of room for both of us

Five things you like doing:
Sittin' in the open windows
Watchin' fev-vers and squirrels
Chasin' each other through the house
Talkin' to Gizmo through the window/door
Wrestlin' each other

Five things you would never wear again:
Halloween Hats (Bad enough to count as five things!)

Five favorite toys:
We can't possibly pick just five, we love ALL of our toys!!

Since it's taken us so long to answer this, we're pretty sure efurryone has already been tagged, but if not and you want to play, you're tagged!!

Secret Paw Pictures!!

2007-07-11T13:55:00.000-05:00

Here they are, finally! Like we said, we weren't bein' all that cooperative (we wanted to play with all of our cool stuff, not pose for pictures!)

Pleeeease can we open our SP package now?

It's from The Crew! Lookit all the fun stuff!

There's a mousie under there, I know it!

A flyin' feather!

I'll just take this over here...

If Strider's takin' the nip, then I'm keepin' the Temptations and this sparkly toy for myself!

(We really are sharin' efurrything, contrary to what it looks like in the pictures). Thanks again, George, Tipper, Max and Misty! We're havin' so much fun with it all!

Secret Paws!!

2007-07-05T21:57:00.000-05:00

Our package (from The Crew!) came last week, but Mom and Dad were away (more 'bout that later) and Grandma was stayin' with us. Mom wanted to be here when we opened our package, so she made us wait! We FINALLY got to open it tonight, and we LOVE efurrything!

Thank you for the nip, George (Strider ran off with the whole container in his mouth, but then he shared it with me)! Tipper, we ran all around chasin' the glitter balls and ate lotsa Temptations (as soon as we got Mom to open them)! Max, we've been buggin' Mom to get us a flyin' feather for a long time, and she kept tellin' us to wait and see what we got for Secret Paws - it's as much fun as efurryone said it would be! And Misty, the pink mousie is sooo much fun! We had one like it awhile ago and we loved it lots, but then it got lost. Thank you, thank you, thank you all again!! Mom got some pictures (we weren't bein' too cooperative, as usual), but we'll have to post them later.

For Buzzerbee and His Family

2007-06-28T07:06:00.000-05:00

Purrs and purrayers for a peaceful journey for Buzzerbee and peace for his family.
'Til we meet again, sweet furriend...

JP Buzzerbee

2007-06-27T14:14:00.000-05:00

Our sweet furriend (and fellow House Panther) JP Buzzerbee is goin' to the Bridge tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM. Our hearts are breakin' for his family. He got sick and he was very brave and fought very hard (along with his beans and his v-e-t) but the treatments aren't workin' too well, so his beans have made the difficult but loving decision to help him go to the Bridge. He'll be happy and free of pain and will watch over his family from there. All of Those Who Came Before will be there to meet him and show him around. We're sendin' purrs and purrayers for his family in this difficult time. Sweet Buzzy - we love you, we'll miss you, we'll see you again someday.

Chatham

2007-06-25T09:59:00.000-05:00

Our dear furriend Chatham went to the Bridge on Friday at 4:30 PM. He was 20 years and 9 days old. We got to know him during the 2006 Catolympics, where he did a great job as an announcer. We will miss him. We are glad we were able to celebrate his 20th purrthday with him, but wish that he could have had many more. We've been purrin' for his family all weekend and will continue to do so. We know he's havin' fun now, runnin' and playin' with all of Those Who Came Before.

Happy Purrthday to Us!!

2007-06-15T16:09:00.000-05:00

Today is our celebrated purrthday 'cause Mom doesn't really know when either of us was born. And we say we're both 5 'cause that's definitely how old Smeagol is and the v-e-t thought I (Strider) was about the same age. Mom says she has surprises for us later tonight, we can't wait!

7 Things (Well, 14, Really)

2007-05-30T22:01:00.000-05:00

First, thanks again from the beans (and us) for all the kind thoughts 'bout Tippy. Now, we got tagged a loooong time ago by Tiger Lily for the 7 Random Facts Meme, and we finally got Mom to sit down and help us type it out!

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 to read your blog!

Smeagol: I'll go first, since I came to live here first!

1. My name used to be Peppy (before I came to live here). It really fit my purrsonality, but so does Smeagol (plus I get called Gollum when I go to the v-e-t!)
2. My favorite way to drink water is out of a bottle (like the ones hamsters use), and Mom has to hold it for me. I'm furry insistent when I want my water! (I do drink out of the bowl though, if I'm thirsty and Mom's not around).
3. The kind of fev-ver I like best is a crow 'cause it's big and black like me.
4. I don't like loud noises, and before Dad grinds the coffee, he says "Ready, set..." to warn me so I can leave the room if I want.
5. I'm a big man cat, but I have a tiny meow.
6. BUT I don't have a tiny meow when I go to the v-e-t. Efurry time I go, they think there are two cats in the room fighting, I make so much noise!
7. I'll sit on Mom or Dad's lap, but not by myself (they have to come get me).

Strider: My turn!

1. I have to check the shower out efurry morning before Dad or Mom get in.
2. My favorite way to drink is out of the faucet, but only if Mom gets it to drip just right.
3. When I see the neighbor woofies outside (I've never met them) I growl at them.
4. I'm a little man cat, but I have a big meow.
5. I'm not afraid of thunder or most other loud noises. Mom thinks maybe it's 'cause I lived outside for awhile before I came to live here.
6. I love to rub on Mom's feet, especially when she's brushin' her teeth. Sometimes I get carried away and claw or bite them, and she makes loud noises.
7. I think the only laptop Mom should have is me (at least in the winter, when it's cold).

Since we're so late in doin' this, we're purrty sure efurryone else has already done this meme. If not and you want to, you're tagged!

This was fun! We seem to be opposites in a lot of things. Oh, we did get to go to the drive-in, but we didn't really watch the movies much. There was lotsa other different stuff to look at and people walkin' by. We liked the popcorn, but Mom and Dad didn't let us have much of it.

Pictures of Tippy

2007-05-19T15:36:00.000-05:00

First, we (and Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and Dad) want to say thank you for all of the kind thoughts, purrayers, purrs, hugs, headbutts and nuzzles. They really mean so much and help a lot.

Tippy (about 3 years old) and Koby (her woofie furriend who went to the Bridge in 1994).

She was mostly black with a light brown spot on her head, some white above her right eye (like an eyebrow) and some "freckles" (more brown spots) on her face. Also, the very tip of her tail was white (guess how she got her name!)

She loved to play in bags and her favorite way to eat her crunchy food was to chase it across the floor - Mom or Grandma had to flick it for her so that she could chase it. If she didn't like the way it was flicked, she might still go after it but wouldn't eat it! She was furry good at catchin' it (she prob'ly would have been good at tub hockey/soccer!) She didn't mind bein' picked up, but she had to climb up on the beans' shoulders so she could see efurrything that was goin' on.

Aunt Tippy

2007-05-15T14:37:00.000-05:00

Our Aunt Tippy wented to the Bridge this morning. She just turned 17 and wasn't doin' so great lately (kidney problems and dislocated hip, but that was healin'). She went to bed with Grandma last night and just didn't wake up this morning. She's the kitty who taught our Dad how great it is to have us cats around, 'cause until he met her, he wasn't too sure. We mentioned this before, but Mom brought her home just after she started school and told our Grandma that she found this little kitten all alone on the side of the road (but she really drove to a nearby town to get her 'cause she saw an ad for free kittens in the paper). We want to post a picture of her, but Mom says she's gonna have to find one and scan it, so we might not get it up 'til this weekend.

Spring's Here... We Think

2007-05-02T20:09:00.000-05:00

Well, it seems like Spring is finally here, but we're not sure we trust it, 'cause it did this to us before and then it got really cold again and snowed. Mom put the shovel away, so that's gotta be a good sign, right? (Though we did hear her mumble somethin' about as soon as she puts the shovel away it'll snow again.) It got HOT the other day (81 degrees!), but now it's just kinda not as cold as before.

Mom and Dad got their new belts, and they said thanks for all the good wishes! We still think it's kinda silly though, 'cause they didn't even get actual new belts, Mom said they keep the same ones they already had, but their rank changes. They were really excited though, and they were also happy 'cause all of their students got new belts too (and they really did get new belts)!

Mom's still furry busy with work, and when she comes home she's too tired to do much of anything, so it looks like we're gonna have to wait longer for her to help us much with postin' or commentin'. Thanks to efurryone for visitin' us, though! Oh, and the Drive-In is openin' this weekend, so we might be goin' for a ride to see some movies (we don't mind bein' in the car as long as it's not takin' us to the v-e-t)!

Spring?

2007-04-18T11:51:00.000-05:00

We're gettin' tired of lookin' for Spring. Mom says it should be here by now. Spring means open windows, so we really wish it would hurry up and get here!

Mom's been furry busy with work lately, but we're still tryin' to keep up with visitin' efurryone's blogs, (even though we've been commentin' even less than usual.) We told her that she needs to help us comment more AND post more than once efurry two or three weeks! We've also been purrin' on her 'cause we know that she's tired from workin' so much... Oh, she and Dad have also been practicin' and teachin' kara-tay lots 'cause they're testin' for their third degree black belts this weekend, and their students are testin' for belts too. We don't get it. Can't they just go out and hunt for belts? We don't even know why beans wear belts in the first place. They kinda look like collars, but around their stomachs? We don't like our collars around our necks, but it would be worse if they were around our stomachs!

New Things Freak Us Out

2007-04-02T22:49:00.000-05:00

Awhile ago, Mom put a new rug thing on the floor in the human litterbox room. It has penguins on it (like Pingu!). There used to just be a plain blue rug there, and when we first saw the penguin rug, we were 'fraid of it. We were just doin' our normal routine, followin' the beans around, but when we tried to go into the human litterbox room, there was this weird new thing on the floor! We had to creep around and go into the room really really slowly, to make sure it was safe. Also, if Mom or Dad is wearin' a hat or looks different for some reason, we get all puffy-tailed and scared 'til we realize it's them. We were just wonderin' if this happens to any of you too?

Snow is meltin' & Thanks Kat!

2007-03-22T21:59:00.000-05:00

The snow almost went away last week, then we got lots more. Now it's goin' away again, and we hopes it stays away this time. Mom was excited 'cause she saw a robin the other day, and there are green things growin' up out of the ground! Gizmo is happy 'cause now she doesn't haves to walk through the snow to go out in the trees!

Last weekend we were furry excited to get a package from Finny & Buddy! It was the frames that they made to help Mu Shue, and they're great! We're still decidin' on what pictures we're gonna put in them. We're gonna put some on our fridgerator thing and give a couple to our Grandma so she can put them up too!

We want to say thank you and Happy Blogaversary to Kat's Cat of the Day!

Hmmm...

2007-03-11T16:37:00.000-05:00

We just noticed that it's kinda been a long time since we last posted, so we made Mom sit down right away and help us. Mom and Dad opened up the windows for us today, so we have been enjoyin' the nice fresh air and sun! Our Grandma and Grandpa are away, so Mom and Dad hvae been goin' over to their house to spend some time with our Uncles Rocky (Woofie), Foster (Woofie), Rusty (BIG Ginger Kitty) and our Aunt Tippy (17 year old Kitty that Mom brought home when she was in school and said that she found her on the side of the road but she really saw an ad in the paper for free kittens and went to get her! Our Grandma didn't know the real story until years later when one of Mom's friends told her. She wasn't mad though 'cause she loves Tippy!) Anyway, they had to give Tippy nose drops 'cause her nose gets really stuffy sometimes and the v-e-t said that drops would help, and Grandma and Mom say that they really do help, but we hopes we never haves to get drops in our nose! Yuck! Poor Tippy, but if it helps her, we guess it's okay.

HUGS to efurryone!!

Our Cousin Willy

2007-02-26T22:06:00.000-05:00

We just found out that our cousin, a tuxie named Willy, gotted himself into a little bit of um... trouble last weekend. Our aunt was upstairs at her house when she heard this loud CRASH downstairs! She went runnin' down to see what happened, and saw Willy sittin' on a chair that he never sits on, actin' like nothin' happened. Then... she saw the big broken window! Willy had taken a flyin' leap onto his cat tree and sent it right through the window. And it wasn't even all that close to the window! He's okay, no cuts or anything, and the window's gettin' fixed soon.
Our mom and dad double-checked our trees to make sure nothin' like that will happen here! Other than that, we've just been hangin' out and keepin' warm. It hasn't been as cold outside so Gizmo is happy 'bout that, and there was another visitin' kitty (not Moses or Who) outside the last two nights. At first, Mom only saw its tail, and she thought it was a raccoon and got worried 'cause Gizmo was sittin' right there, but then she saw its face, and it was just a hungry kitty (who got a good dinner)!

Answers

2007-02-12T22:07:00.000-05:00

Icon Baxter Bentley asked what the Snuggle Safe Disc is that Mom uses to help Gizmo stay warm when it gets so furry cold outside. It's a disc that Mom heats in the microwave, then she puts it in Gizmo's bed and it stays warm for 12 hours! So it works really well to help keep Gizmo extra-warm! Ours came from Drs. Foster & Smith, but we thinks other places have them too. We're tryin' to talk Mom into gettin' us our own Discs, 'cause it sounds like they'd be nice to sleep on.

Mrs. Sniffles asked if we get snow. Usually we do, and it's not usually as cold as it's been lately, but this winter (up until now) we haven't had much snow. We've gotten dustings or a few inches, but it's mostly gone. BUT we are expectin' lotsa snow over the next few days (not as much as those places in NY got, though!) We're hopin' Mom and Dad get snowed in with us for a day...

Fat Eric asked if we've heard whether the Mini-Moes have found their forever homes. When Mom went in to see them 'bout two months ago, there were still two who hadn't been 'dopted, but Mom checked a little while ago, and... now they have! We were actually gonna post 'bout them when we got the last few pictures we have of them from Dad, but he's still takin' forever to send them to Mom's computer.

Mom's still gettin' better from her cold, so we've been spendin' lotsa time snugglin' on her and makin' her rest. She says it's kinda weird that she's gotten so many colds over the past few months. She used to work where she was in contact with lotsa different beans all the time, and she hardly ever caught the stuff that was goin' around. Ever since the company moved her to a different location last summer (where she's not around nearly as many beans), she's been catchin' lotsa stuff. Hmmm...

Robyn Appreciation Day!!

2007-02-09T10:35:00.000-05:00

We luvs you, Mom Robyn!
Thanks you so furry much for all that you do!

One Year Blogoversary!

2007-02-05T11:04:00.000-05:00

Wow, we can't believe we haves been bloggin' for a year now! First we were readin' The Mows efurry day (we still do, too), then we found Max, then Timmy, then Beau, Oreo and Derby, then efurryone else! Beau & Oreo helped us convince our mom to get us our very own blog, and that's how we started. We have met so many wonderful furriends over the past year!

(We know we said in our last post that we would answer some of your questions in our next post, but we'll do it in our next post, we purromise!)

Questions

2007-02-02T22:24:00.000-05:00

First of all, when we tried to sign in to write this post, DPBlogger MADE us switch to the new version, so we hopes efurrything is still workin' right! (Hmm, looks like it turned a bunch of comments into anony-mouse, like it did to a bunch of our furriends blogs.)

Okay, I (Strider) haves a question for efurryone. Is there something that you really loves to do, but it makes your mom and/or dad furry upset, but sometimes you just can't help yourself? I'm just wonderin', 'cause the other night I ran outside again (Mom was goin' in and out takin' care of Gizmo, and she was bein' careful to keep me in, but I jumped over her). Sometimes I just REALLY want to go out there, but it makes the beans all worried and upset. Mom was chasin' after me with a can of tuna, but I wouldn't let her catch me. Finally I realized it was furry cold and I didn't like the snow on my feets, so I let her pick me up and take me back inside. She was happy to have me back inside, but I could tell that she wasn't happy WITH me. So... it's hard for me to decide between havin' some fun and makin' Mom upset, or just stayin' in and Mom NOT bein' upset.

Some of you had some questions after our last post, and we're gonna answer them in our next post. Also, we just realized that our one-year Blogoversary is gonna be on Monday. Wow, we can't believe it's been a year!

Cold

2007-01-26T12:47:00.000-05:00

Mom says it was only 8 degrees last night! That's purrty cold for us, it doesn't usually get THAT cold (we knows it gets even lots colder for some of our furriends, though!) And Gizmo is like Mistrie over at the Calico Girls', she won't come inside even when it's furry cold. She has a nice place to go, though, and Mom heated up her Snuggle Safe disc thing for extra warmth, so she was okay. We wonder where Moses and Who (the two boy cats who visit sometimes but not always) spend the cold nights, 'cause Mom has warm places set up for them to go, but they don't use them. We hopes they have somewhere warm! Gizmo lets Mom pet her sometimes (the other night she rolled over on her back and showed Mom her tummy! But only for a second, then she got back up), but Moses and Who are still kinda scared and they run away if Mom goes outside. So we don't know where they go when they're not visitin'. Mom got some pictures of them awhile ago, but of course they're with all of the other missin' pictures...

Workin' Backwards

2007-01-15T20:39:00.000-05:00

Looks like we're gonna have to post our pictures in reverse order, 'cause Dad said he had to, um... FIND all the other ones (like going back to OCTOBER - Mini Moes, the stuff Derby sent for bein' #10,000, Smeagol's tummy pics...)! We're all tryin' not to bug him 'bout it too much, since he did send the most recent ones, from our Secret Paws!

C'mon, Mom, help us open it!

Lookit all this fun stuff!

Treats! Stinky Goodness! A Catnip Mousie!

Hmmm, what's this? A secret message?!

Smeagol, get ofur here and help me with this!

I thinks this goes here...

Got it! That was hard work, time to rest now!

Thanks so furry much again to Zeus, Isis and their Human Pet! We're still enjoyin' all our stuff! And thanks to Icon Baxter Bentley, who sneaked ofur to help us put the puzzle together (he was SO sneaky, Mom and the camera didn't even see him! Or maybe he and Strider switched in some of the pictures, since they kinda look alike.)

Oh, and here's a picture for Daisy, 'cause she wanted to see more of Mystery!

Even though we haven't been commentin' much lately, we've still been tryin' to keep up with efurryone's blogs. (Mom says she feels like she's fallin' too far behind with stuff she has to do around the house. We're gonna try to get her to manage her time better so she can help us leave more comments!)

Secret Paws Purresent!

2007-01-06T20:19:00.000-05:00

It came in the mail today, from Zeus, Isis and their Human Pet! Mom made us wait awhile to open it 'cause she wanted to take pictures (yeah, it'll be fur-EFFUR until she helps us post them, but it's not all her fault 'cause Dad has to send them to her. He's VERY far behind in gettin' the pictures to her). Anyway, there was a catnip mousie (refillable!), yummy Stinky Goodness, tasty treats and a puzzle with a secret message (well, it was only secret till we figured out how to put the puzzle together, we had to get Mom to help us a little with it)! We loves it all! Thank you all so furry much!

What we did over the holly-days...

2006-12-31T00:31:00.000-05:00

Mom and Dad taught us karate! (Gizmo didn't pawticipate 'cause she's still healin'. She's doin' just fine, though). We also rode in the car to visit Dad's family and spent a couple nights at our great-grandma's house, (where we had fun keepin' Mom awake at night). We don't mind ridin' in the car as long as we're not goin' to the v-e-t's. Now we're home and it's purrty quiet. Oh, the beans did eventually get efurrything done in time for Chrissymouse, and the neece loved the dollhouse Dad built for her! We're gonna go to the Noo Yeer's party at Hot(M)BC's bloggie, efurryone's invited! More details here: Cat Blogosphere
We hopes efurryone is havin' good holly-days!
Update: We just realized that today is my (Smeagol's) Gotcha Day! We've been so busy with all the holly-day stuff we almost furgotted! Mom says we'll get a special treat to celebrate later, after she and Dad get back from dinner at Grandma's house.

She's Home!

2006-12-24T11:25:00.000-05:00

Gizmo's home! We were so furry excited to see her! 'Cept she smelled like the v-e-t's office so I (Smeagol) was a little confused and I hissed at her... Then I felt bad, but she forgave me! She's doin' fine, but the v-e-t wants her to go back in 2-4 weeks for her second dis-temper booster. We knows she's not gonna be happy 'bout that!

Mom and Dad are havin' trouble with our tree, it's big and kinda wobbly. It's still all wrapped up and Dad built somethin' to keep it stable so that when we run around it like crazy it won't fall over on us! So it's not decorated, they still haves to wrap purresents, Dad's still workin' on the dollhouse for the neece and Mom says she has lotsa cleanin' to do. Silly beans, it's not like they didn't know Chrissymouse was comin'!

We're furry happy to hear that our Secret Paws, Grr, Midnight and Cocoa gotted their package! We tried to play with efurrything before we sent it, but Mom mostly was able to keep us away from it. She said we haves to wait and see what's in our stocking! Last year they had to hide our stocking until it was time for us to look in it 'cause we wouldn't leave it alone!

We hopes all of our furriends and their families enjoy the holly-days!

Gizmo

2006-12-20T11:29:00.000-05:00

The v-e-t just called and they were able to do Gizmo's ladygardenectomy today! She was still asleep but did really well, and also her tests came back fine! Mom says Gizmo will be home tomorrow, yay! We keep forgettin' where she is and are always lookin' outside for her.

Here's the story of gettin' her to the v-e-t:
Mom and Dad were plannin' on takin' her in Monday night 'cause the office is open late that night, (until 7 PM) and that way, Gizmo would be there first thing in the morning ready for her surgery. They had efurrything ready to catch her - the crate and the KFC to lure her into the crate (last time they tried efurrything from tuna to a warm turkey drumstick, but they were also tryin' to use a humane trap, and she wasn't goin' for that! They heard that KFC works sometimes when other things don't). Mom put some KFC outside and some in the crate and waited for Gizmo to come to the deck. She waited and waited, then decided maybe Gizmo wasn't comin' because she could see Mom there. By this time it was gettin' close to 7 PM, too. Mom went in and sat on the couch for two minutes, and when she went back out to check, Gizmo was there and had already eaten the KFC! She had started to eat the regular food that Mom had put out (hopin' Gizmo would hear the sound of the food being poured in the dish), so Mom went outside to figure out what she was gonna do. Gizmo kept scurryin' away from Mom, but she kept headin' back to her food dish too. Sometimes she lets Mom pet her when she's eatin', so Mom decided to try to grab her. She petted her for a little bit then grabbed her (we don't think Gizmo's efur gonna let Mom pet her again)! There was a little trouble gettin' her into the crate, but there were no injuries to either Gizmo or Mom. They tried callin' the v-e-t to tell them they were on the way, but there was no answer. Sometimes they stay later and don't answer the phone, and they were expectin' Gizmo that night, so Mom and Dad loaded her into the car and drove to the v-e-t's office, which was all dark and closed...

At this point, Mom called Grandma, who said she could keep Gizmo for the night and get her to the v-e-t's office furry early in the morning! (She lives lots closer to it than we do). So Gizmo got to spend the night with our Grandma (Mom was furry glad 'cause she wasn't sure where she was gonna keep Gizmo for the night at our house). Thanks Grandma, you're the best!

Oh, for the record, we got to try some of the KFC, but we don't like it! Gizmo loves it though (she didn't really get to eat that much 'cause Mom was worried 'bout her eatin' before her surgery, but they couldn't figure out any other way to get her to go in the crate or stay still enough to be grabbed).

We'll update once we hear more news...

Well...

2006-12-17T22:58:00.000-05:00

Gizmo didn't have her ladygardenectomy last week 'cause the beans couldn't catch her (they were usin' a trap, but she was too smart for that!) Also, it turned out to be a good thing that they didn't catch her 'cause the v-e-t's office called the morning she was supposed to go in and said they had to cancel the appointment. They said they had too many 'mergencies, which made us sad for all those furries and their beans. She has another appointment scheduled for Tuesday, we hopes it works out this time, we'll let you know.
Update 12/19/06: Gizmo is at the v-e-t's (we'll tell you 'bout catchin' her and gettin' her there later), but they just called and said they had lotsa 'mergencies again, so they haven't done anything with her yet and will keep her overnight so that they can do her surgery tomorrow. (There's only one v-e-t in the practice, so we knows she's furry busy and 'mergencies are most important).

We do haves some more pictures of the Mini Moes, and of the stuff Derby sent for bein' his 10,000th visitors, and some tummy pics of Smeagol, and... well, we haves lotsa pictures that Mom needs to get Dad to send from his computer to her computer. We're gonna haves to get after them 'bout that!

We sent Mom out shoppin' for our Secret Paws, and she got the stuff, now we just gotta get her to send it! We're hopin' she'll get it out in the next coupla days. When she came home from shoppin', she smelled like another kitty. The store she went to has kitties there from different shelters so that maybe they can find their furrever homes. Anyway, she said there was a grey kitty there named Smokey who reminded her of One of Those Who Came (Right) Before Us, who was also a grey kitty named Smokey. She said she spent lotsa time pettin' him and he was furry friendly. We could tell she really wanted to bring him home, 'specially since he reminded her so much of her Smokey, who wented to the Bridge on 12/28/02. We're gonna post his story someday, along with his sisfur Bunny's story. We weren't upset that she was pettin' him, and she snuggled us extra when she came home.

The other fun thing we did this weekend was go to Ella and Fitzgerald's party! They were great hosts and we really enjoyed ourselves!

Mini Moes Update

2006-12-10T10:36:00.000-05:00

Well, the Mini Moes have gone to live at the furry nice (no-kill) shelter, where they will be around lots more beans than just Mom and Dad, and will have a better chance of findin' a furrever home! Mom is furry sad about it though, so we are spendin' lotsa time snugglin' her to make her feel better. We thinks she was kinda hopin' they would just end up stayin' with us...
Gizmo is goin' to have her ladygardenectomy on Tuesday (if Mom and Dad can catch her). We hopes she's not too mad about it when she comes back! We'll make sure to tell her that it's only 'cause Mom and Dad want to do what's best for her.

Mom says thanks for the well wishes and suggestions for her to feel better. She's had two weeks straight of not bein' sick! We're all sendin' purrs and purrayers for all the other Moms and also our furriends who are sick or havin' surgeries.

Oh, and no more open windows, it's back to normal and cold outside here. It's nice and sunny here today though, so we're gonna go sit in the sun spots!

Open Windows!

2006-11-26T16:26:00.000-05:00

The past few days and today have been so nice that Mom opened the windows for us! We are happy to be able to enjoy fresh air this late into Novem-brrr 'cause it's usually too cold by Octo-brrr to even think 'bout openin' the windows. We've had a purrty quiet week. We gotted our package from Derby for bein' his 10,000th visitors and we had lotsa fun with all the cool stuff he sent. Thanks, Derby! Mom took pictures and she purromises that she'll help us post them soon.

Mom's been sick again, she only had one week this month that she hasn't been sick and she says she's gettin' tired of it! The only other person who shares her office (part-time, even) keeps comin' in sick and then Mom gets it from her. Mom said she wishes the other lady would just stay home when she's sick!

We also still feel really bad 'bout missin' Ferdinand's party. It was Mom's fault 'cause she thought she had somethin' (a turkey bone) stucked in her throat (she wasn't chokin' though) and she sounded like she was coughin' up hairballs. Anyway, she's fine as far as that goes and we REALLY REALLY hope Ferdinand has another party soon, we'll make sure we get there on time!

More News About Cats That Aren't Us

2006-11-19T13:49:00.000-05:00

The neighbor kitties who were abandoned by their mean people (not the Mini-Moes, sorry for bein' confusin' - too many homeless kitties round here) have been 'dopted!! We were furry excited when Mom told us that they have gone to their real furrever home! She went to visit them last weekend and they had an adoption application pending (the shelter checks out the beans who have applied before they let them take any kitties home). She petted them and wished them luck. Even though she will miss visitin' them, she's happy that they finally got to go home, and together, too! (They are now listed as adopted on the shelter's website, which means everything was approved and they're at their new house).

What have WE been up to lately...? Well, Dad is buildin' a dollhouse for one of the neeces (is that like a meece? 'Cause it looks like the perfect size for some meece) and he's paintin' parts of it white. Smeagol thought he might like to try bein' a tuxie for a little while, so when there was a freshly painted white piece on the floor, he tried to get some of the white paint on him. Dad was quicker though, and grabbed him before he could lay down on it. All he got was a little bit on his left paw, which Dad wiped off right away. I (Strider) have found a new spot to sit when I help Mom use the computer. I sit on the back of the couch and look over her shoulder. She doesn't always notice me right away, so then when she sees me out of the corner of her eye, it scares her! (heehee)

More Mini-Moes Pictures

2006-11-11T13:03:00.000-05:00

Here's a couple pictures from before Mom & Dad caught the Mini-Moes. Mom tried puttin' the bed inside the crate that's outside, but they wouldn't use it when it was in there. So she put it really close to the big glass door (where we could keep watch over them) and they seemed to like that.

They're doin' really well now, and Mom's gotten into a routine of takin' care of them, so it's not as hard for her as it was, but they still keep her busy. We might have mentioned this before; there's a shelter that will probably be ready to take them soon. Mom wishes she could just find homes for them (well, she really wishes she could keep them all), but she hasn't had any luck with that. The (no-kill) shelter will be good for them 'cause they can be around more people than just Mom & Dad (and the occasional visitor). Mom just got the voucher for Gizmo's ladygardenectomy, so she's gonna make that appointment soon, then they gotta catch her!

We hafta get Mom to post more (new) pictures of us. The Mini-Moes are takin' over the blog. Maybe it has somethin' to do with us bein' difficult when the beans try to take our picture...

Thanks!

2006-11-06T12:20:00.000-05:00

We just want to thank efurryone who came to the party and made it a success! We hope you all had as much fun as we did. For those of you who couldn't make it or missed it, we missed you! Happy Purrthday/Gotcha Day to all the November celebrants; we were honored to host the party for you!

Party Part 3

2006-11-05T12:09:00.000-05:00

Special thanks to Hot(M)BC's Mom for the cool graphic!

If anyone wants to continue the party today, we've still got efurrything set up and lotsa food left over! Mom says she's got lots to do today so she won't be able to type for us much, but you're all welcome to come on over and have fun!

Party Part 2

2006-11-04T16:05:00.000-05:00

Special thanks to Hot(M)BC's Mom for the cool graphic!

Hi efurryone! Those who were already here, continue on with what you were doin'. We were just hopin' that a fresh post might speed up the comment loading a little. For those of you who haven't been here yet, welcome! Check out the previous post to see all the different kinds of fun stuff and food we have!

UPDATE: If you're here on Sunday, we've continued with a new post above!

It's Party Time!!

2006-11-04T11:00:00.000-05:00

Special thanks to Hot(M)BC's Mom for the cool graphic!

Welcome efurryone! We are honored to be hostin' the November Purrthday/Gotcha Day party! The ones we know of who have a Purrthday/Gotcha Day are Beau, Ping, Jinx, Mrs. Sniffles, Alberta, Petey, Nitro, Mr. Hendrix, Beezer and Latte. If we missed anyone, please let us know and we will add you to the list as soon as we can!

Mom and Dad were furry busy puttin' together this cool castle thing for us to play on!

We have all kinds of different beds to nap and rest in.

This thing (Mom says it's a jukebox) has any kinda music you want to hear!

We can chase each other through this and pounce on Mom and Dad when they walk by!

A cool treat machine! (No coins required!)

When you get thirsty you can drink outta this running faucet (we really have this and we LOVE it!) Also there will be cool water placed all around the house and outside.

If you're feelin' energetic you can test your skills outside! It's a beautiful fall day here today!

In addition to all that stuff, Mom and Dad are openin' the whole house up for us to use. That means we get to go into all the bedrooms, the attic AND the basement! Mystery's house is in the basement, so we can visit with her down there. The boxes will be in the basement too, in a private area.

Of course we'll have salmon, tuna, hamm, turkey, papaya and all kinds of fresh produce (for the Buns!) plus birthday cake and ice cream. If we forgot anything, just ask for it and we'll send Mom or Dad out to get it right away! So efurryone come on over and have lotsa fun!

The Feline Oligarchy (including Alberta) will be here but will have to be "quiet" (their beans won't be home to help them type), but Alberta would love to visit with some of the older kitties. And we got a note from Hot(M)BC's Mom that Sanjee, Boni, Mini, Gree and Pepi will be here but will also have to be "quiet" for most of the time 'cause they gots a visitor this weekend.

UPDATE: New post above to (hopefully) speed up comment loading!

PARTY!!

2006-10-27T15:28:00.000-05:00

We just want to let efurryone know that we're gonna be hostin' the November Purrthday/Gotcha Day party next Saturday, Nov. 4, starting at 11 AM EST and goin' till whenever. We are furry excited!

We haven't been postin' or commentin' much at all lately 'cause the Mini-Moes are still livin' here. They take up lotsa Mom's time, so she hasn't been able to help us visit efurryone's bloggies or post. She is makin' sure to pay extra-special attention to us, though. We do hopes the cat rescue lady can take them soon, 'cause it's makin' Mom furry tired! (They're still cute, though...) She's able to pet a couple of them, but the other two are still furry skittish.

Update on the Mini-Moes

2006-10-15T12:14:00.000-05:00

Mom and Dad caught all four of them last night with Hav-a-Hart traps the cat rescue lady loaned them. They're probably gonna go live with her, Mom has to call her to see if/when she can take them. Right now they're hangin' out in a big cage with nice padding, blankets, food, water and a litter box, (which they've already used). Mom is sad that they won't be around anymore, but we reminded her that she'd be sadder if somethin' happened to them. Plus it's gettin' colder out, and this way they'll be in a nice warm place for the winter. She can visit them at the cat rescue lady's house, too. We have some more cute pictures of them to post, sometime...

The other weird thing is that Mom and Dad went to sleep last night, then got up only a few hours later, got dressed in their strange clothes that they wear when they go to kar-a-tay and left! They came back a couple hours later and went to sleep and didn't get up to go work! They said they took off work today, so it's okay. We wanna know where they went, though. That was way too early 'cause they woke us up makin' noise when they were gettin' ready! Oh, Mom said we don't haves to worry 'bout it happenin' again (not for awhile anyway). It was a special thing where they went to teach the Air Force ROTC cadets some self de-fence. Is that like hissin', scratchin' and bitin'?

We are furry excited that we're gonna be hostin' our good furriend Beau's Purrthday Party! It's gonna be on Saturday, Nov. 4 (most likely) and we don't have specific times yet but it'll probably go on for most of the day. We'll let efurryone know more details when they're finalized.

Introducing...

2006-10-01T10:12:00.000-05:00

Here are the Mini-Moes, finally! Mom hasn't had any luck catchin' them, but they'll let her get pretty close, so she's hopin' soon she'll at least be able to pet them.

This is our favoritest picture of them, even though you can't see the third one up as well as the others.

Gizmo (the mom) hangin' out with the kittens. She's startin' to let them be on their own a little now, like last night they spent the whole night on our deck but she wasn't around. She was there to eat earlier, though. Oh, Mom wanted us to mention that she will be gettin' Gizmo fixed when she can catch her so that there aren't more kittens, (even though they're really cute).

We think Dad has more pictures of them all piled up together in the bed Mom put out for them, so we'll bug him to send those to Mom's computer soon so that we can post them.

In other news, the water situation seems to be fine, no more indoor rain! We didn't like that, and neither did Mom and Dad!

Um, Dad...

2006-09-23T12:38:00.000-05:00

Is it supposed to be rainin' on the dining room table?

Mom was takin' a shower this morning and there was a wall of water pourin' through the ceiling. Dad came downstairs and I (Smeagol) asked him why it was rainin' inside. (Strider likes to hang out in the bathroom while the beans get their showers, don't ask me why). So... they spent all day runnin' to hardware stores and bangin' around in the walls, and they think they have it fixed now. I hopes so, it made me tired just watchin' them! And the ceiling actually seems to be fine, which is good too.

Thanks for all the well wishes for Mom, she's feelin' a little better today (it's a good thing too, with the stupid leak thing needin' to be fixed)!

We knew it!

2006-09-21T22:11:00.000-05:00

Even though we tried our best to make her rest, Mom got a cold. We don't understand that, 'cause she feels warm to us. Anyway, she's hopin' she'll feel better by the weekend (oh yeah, she's been going to work while she's sick, too) so that she can help us post kitten pictures. We've been bein' good uncles by watchin' over them through the big glass door, 'specially when Gizmo leaves them alone. Dad calls them "Mini-Moes" 'cause Gizmo is their mom and we're pretty sure Moses (we named him that in honor of our bloggin' furriend Mad Moses Kitty) is their dad.

Pictures, Finally!

2006-09-17T22:50:00.000-05:00

Okay, we know it's been furrever, but we finally have the pictures of when Gigi and Ginny first came to live with us AND our Secret Paws purresents!

Strider says hello!

Smeagol greets the girls!

Hey Smeagol, our Secret Paws package is here!

Look at all the goodies! Of course we'll share with you, Gigi and Ginny!
Hey, there's even a picture of our Secret Paw, Indigo!

There's so much fun stuff, we can't decide what to play with first!
And lotsa purple stuff, our favorite color!

C'mon Mom, open the mousie for me!

Thanks again to our Secret Paw Indigo! We have been havin' lotsa fun playin' with efurrything, and eatin' the yummy Temptations! Gigi and Ginny are doin' really well, too, but they're lots quieter and eat a lot less than we do. We all get along great with each other!

P.S. Pictures of Gizmo's kittens coming soon...

Mom's Furry Tired

2006-09-13T20:09:00.000-05:00

BUT she promised she'll help us put pictures up and do a longer post this weekend. Right now she just needs to rest 'cause of all the runnin' around and workin' late she's been doin', so she doesn't get sick or something. She and Dad say thanks to efurryone for the annifursary wishes! Oh, and she told us that they did miss us the whole time they were on vay-cay-shun. So why did they go, then, we want to know?

We do want to let you all know that we stopped givin' the beans purrs and stuff for awhile AND Strider threw up a couple times right before their friend came to visit last weekend. Oh, and their friend - Dad asked if she liked cats before she got here and she said yes. Then when she got here, she expected us to have a room that we got put in or somethin'! HA!

They explained to us where they went, but we still don't really get it. They went to see somethin' called the Space Shuttle get launched and while they were waitin' to see if it would go, they visited a mouse called Mickey at his world. Why does a mouse have his own world? Anyway, in that world is a place called Ep-cot and it has lots of different "countries", that's how they got to all those places in a few days. Beans are weird!

Just Because...

2006-09-04T21:12:00.000-05:00

We forgot to mention your annifursary, Mom and Dad, doesn't mean that it's okay for you to go away and leave us for a week! Okay, we know Grandma was here to take care of us, and yes, she took good care of us, but that still doesn't make it okay. We thought you were just runnin' around like crazy 'cause you were busy, and then you left us! We were hopin' we'd escape that vacayshun thing that all of our furriends had to deal with recently, but we didn't. And why would you go visit a mouse?! Also, we're confused 'cause we heard you sayin' that you wented to places like England, Mexico, Japan, Norway, Canada and other places. Now, we have furriends in some of those countries and we KNOW you can't go to all of those places in a day or two like you said you did. We are sorry that Ernesto guy delayed the launch of that spaceship thing you were so excited 'bout seein', though. And we are furry glad you're back! We couldn't pretend to be mad even though we wanted to, our purring gave us away!

We missed a lot while the beans were away, and even though we weren't able to check blogs, we were purrayin' (and continue to) for all of our furriends.

We hope to get pictures of Gigi and Ginny and our Secret Paws stuff posted soon, but Mom and Dad said that one of their friends might be visitin' this weekend, so now they're rushin' around tryin' to get the house ready and we might not be able to post pictures 'til next week.

Gigi & Ginny, a Visit and Secret Paws

2006-08-22T22:17:00.000-05:00

There's been lots goin' on around here lately and Mom and Dad have been furry busy too! We've been tryin' to get around to read efurryone's blogs but haven't been able to comment much lately. Hopefully things will slow down and be back to normal in a couple of weeks!

We're gettin' acquainted with Gigi and Ginny. (We have pictures but won't be able to post them for a little while, plus Smeagol's kinda embarrassed 'cause he was kissin' them!) We were thinkin' about doin' the kitty hazing thing like Zeus suggested, but then Mom reminded us that they are girls and that we should be on our best behavior. We are furry happy to have them here, but the kitty hazing did sound like fun... We've been pretty busy with showin' them all the fun places to hide and good spots to look out the windows. We took them around to meet Mystery and Gizmo, and one day our good furriend Beau came to visit. They already knew him 'cause they had been stayin' at his house for awhile before comin' to live with us! Oh, and the day Beau was here was sooo much fun 'cause we all snuck down to the basement (where we're normally not allowed to go) and we made lotsa noise runnin' and jumpin' all over the place. (Mystery and Gizmo made us do it, really!)

Last but most definitely not least, we got our Secret Paws package!! Thank you sooo much, Indigo (and your mommy, too)! We loooves efurrything! There are lotsa purple things ('cause purple is our favoritest color) like mousies and and a feathery thing that we fly through the air after, and balls and jingly things to chase and yummy treats! We were a little camera shy while Dad was takin' pictures, plus we like to tease him. We'd start to play with somethin', then as soon as he tried to take a picture, we'd stop. He got tired of that game, so we're not sure how the pictures are gonna turn out, but we'll post them as soon as we can (it might be a little while 'cause of all the busy-ness 'round here). We're gonna go post on the SP site now that we got our package, then we gotta get back to playin' with all the fun stuff!

They're here!!

2006-08-15T21:41:00.000-05:00

Gigi and Ginny are here! We are all way excited and have been showin' them around. They're kinda tired from travellin', so we've been lettin' them rest some, too. They asked us to thank Beau and his mom for makin' sure they'd be safe and comfortable on their way here! We'll post some pictures soon, once they get used to all the new surroundings!

5 Weird Things...

2006-08-10T21:31:00.000-05:00

We've been tagged by Beau & Eric and Flynn!

Here are the rules: The player starts with "5 weird things/habits about yourself ". Then you need to choose 5 kitties/people to be tagged and list their names. The kitties/people who get tagged need to write a blog about their 5 weird things/habits, as well as state this rule clearly, then tag 5 more victims. Don't forget to leave your victim a comment that says "you're tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

Smeagol's Weird Things/Habits:

1) I like to drink out of a bottle (like the kind that hang in cages)
2) I don't like turkey
3) I like spinach (but I'm not supposed to eat it)
4) I get freaked out by the remote when it's upside down (it looks like it has two beady eyes)
5) I "talk" like the cat at the end of this video

Strider's Weird Things/Habits

1) I have to check the shower before Mom or Dad get in in (but after they turn the water on)
2)While they're in the shower, I walk back and forth between the curtains and reach in and grab them
3) I like Stinky Goodness, but I like crunchies better
4) Loud noises don't bother me at all, but I don't like it when people come to our house
5) I let the v-e-t clean my teeth while I was wide awake

We tag Charlie & Pandora, Chatham, The Feline Oligarchy, Meeko & Kiara and Salem

We're workin' on addin' to our links. There are so many new bloggin' kitties, and we were already behind on the ones that have been around for awhile!

Happy Purrthday Beandad!!

2006-08-06T19:59:00.000-05:00

We're a little late, but Mom was busy makin' a cake and couldn't help us blog sooner. We wants to say thank you for makin' such a good home for us, feedin' & playin' with us, cleanin' our box and just makin' sure we're happy healthy cats! We promise to be good (for today, anyway)!

There's lotsa other news goin' on, we're sure we'll forget somethin'! Let's see... Mom has visited the kitties who used to live next door a few times now, and they are doin' really well (yes, she is attached to them). She's sad efurry time she has to leave them, but they're in a good place and we know they're gonna find their furrever home (together!) soon! They get lots of attention there, which was somethin' they weren't gettin' when they lived with the bad neighbors. What else? Oh, Gizmo let Mom pet her for the first time the other day, a little on her head, but more on her back! And this next thing we are furry excited 'bout! Two of the 'ramic kitties are comin' to live with us! Gigi and Ginny are at Beau's house right now, but they're gonna make the trip here soon. We'll keep efurryone updated so that the litter of squillions can keep in touch.

Almost...

2006-07-27T09:41:00.000-05:00

The other day, our neighbors abandoned their two kitties and left them outside. Mom found them hangin' around in front of our place and spent lotsa time pettin' and talkin' to them, and they were furry nice. (We watched from the window). We won't get into lotsa detail, (we really don't know much anyway) but the police were involved with the reason the neighbors left, so it's prob'ly better that they didn't take the kitties along, but they still shouldn't have just left them. Anyway, the police knew they left the kitties, so they called a nice local rescue lady who came to get them.

Mom told us later that we almost had two new bruddies, but that they're goin' to a good place where they're gonna find a great furrever home! Mom is sad though 'cause she wanted their furrever home to be with us, but Dad thinks our place is just too small for 4 big ('cept for Strider) indoor-only male cats. We're not sure how we feel 'bout it. It might have been fun to have two more kitties to play with, but we also have all our favorite spaces figured out and stuff like that. We are sendin' purrs to them that they find their furrever home soon! We haves to go snuggle Mom now so she's not so sad.

DaisyMae Maus

2006-07-21T20:37:00.000-05:00

Poor DaisyMae thinks that no one is readin' her blog 'cause comment moderation is on, so the comments aren't showin' up. Lots of us are readin' her blog and leavin' comments, and we don't want her to get discouraged and stop bloggin'!

DaisyMae, if you read this, here's how to change it so that comment moderation is turned off:
Sign in to your blog, go to Change Settings, click on Comments and about halfway down the page it says Enable comment moderation?, change that to No. Then go down to the bottom and click on Save Settings. If you entered an email address before, all of the comments you've gotten may be there, or if you didn't, they should be on the "Moderate Comments" page, which is under the Posting tab. There you should find all of the comments that have been left but have not been approved or rejected.

If anycat readin' this doesn't already know about DaisyMae, please post this on your blog. We don't know whose blogs she reads, so the more cats who post this, the better the chance is that she will find out what's going on and will realize that we are readin' & commentin'!

Hot

2006-07-17T21:41:00.000-05:00

Hi efurryone! Sorry we haven't posted lately, it's just been hot, so we haven't been doin' much other than tryin' to keep cool. The ghost has been quiet lately, hmmm - maybe they get hot too...

There is one of us who LOVES the heat, so we're gonna let Mystery talk a little 'bout goin' outside. (We bet she won't tell you that she tried to get away by doin' alligator rolls and that she clawed Mom and whipped her with her tail!)

Hi, Mystery here. It's been sooo nice outside, and I love to bask in the sun, so the Mom and Dad took me out a few days ago. I have to wear a silly harness thing, though, because I'm very fast when I want to be and I'd be out in those trees in a second. I'd love it, but then the Mom and Dad might not be able to find me (or get me out of a tree) and I'd get cold at night, so I put up with the harness. (I did try to escape, though. I couldn't help myself; those trees look like too much fun!)

Here I am plotting my escape attempt...

What happened was that I started to roll to get away from Mom and when she grabbed me, I was all squirmy. My claws aren't retractable, and when you have a tail as long as mine, if you're squirmy, it acts like a whip. (That is one of my defenses, but I didn't mean to get Mom, I just wanted to climb the trees!)

I hope you all keep cool while I enjoy the heat!

Strange Things Goin' On...

2006-06-30T19:42:00.000-05:00

Over the last few weeks, there have been some weird things happenin' around here! First, the mirror in the bafroom in the basement fell off the wall (it didn't break, luckily!) It happened at night, and Mom & Dad heard the noise, but they thought it was just us knockin' a pizza box over. Of course, blame the kitties for the strange noises... (We don't go into the basement dungeon place, so they couldn't blame the mirror fallin' on us).

The next thing was that a planter on the deck fell off the railing and broked. It wasn't on a night that we had storms or anything, and once again, we don't go out on the deck, so we didn't do it! (It could have been Gizmo, though, but we didn't see anything!)

The last (and probably worst) thing is that the floor-ess-ent light above the laundry machines fell out of the ceiling! Not just the bulb, the whole thing! Dad stepped in the glass before he realized what happened, but he didn't cut himself. This was also in the basement, and Mom was glad that it's not somewhere that we could have gotten hurt by the glass, 'cause the glass was efurrywhere! Mom & Dad spent hours tryin' to clean it all up, and they're still findin' pieces. The other good things were that it wasn't plugged in and nobody was doin' laundry when it happened. Anyway, this all makes Mom wonder if we have a pole ter... what? Oh, a ghost. A GHOST?! We're goin' to hide now...

Thanks!

2006-06-23T20:53:00.000-05:00

We want to thank efurryone for the nice purrthday wishes! We had a great day and just have been furry tired from the big party and then the Catolympics the weekend after. We know this is kinda late, but we want to say how great the Catolympics were, (even though we didn't compete) and what a great job efurryone did, the Torch Runners, the Competitors, the Commentators and the Judges! Efurryone should be way proud! Special thanks to Beau and his mom (for comin' up with the idea and then doin' sooo much hard work organizing all of it), to Timmy and his mom (for the logos, website, store and other stuff that needed to be done) and the Calico Girls and their mom (for hostin' the whole thing and makin' it such a memorable event for all of us)!

Smeagol: Last night we had loud boomin' noises and weird stuff that came out of the sky that wasn't rain but wasn't snow, either. It made loud noises on the roof and all I wanted to do was hide under the bed. Strider acted like nothin' was goin' on, 'cause he's crazy!

Strider: Those loud noises don't bother me much 'cause I used to be outside during them and I got used to it. I am afraid of strange people in my house, though (and Smeagol isn't, so I think he's crazy for that). One time there were lotsa strange people, and Mom was lookin' for me in my usual hidin' spots and couldn't find me. She got furry upset 'cause she thought I sneaked outside when all the beans were comin' in the door. She was outside lookin' for me when Dad told her that he found me hidin' behind the toilet! (I figured out that wasn't the best place to be when the first bean came in to use it!)

Happy Purrthday/Gotcha Day?!

2006-06-15T12:25:00.000-05:00

We're really not sure what to call today... Mom doesn't know when our real purrthdays are, and our Gotcha Days are in December and April, but we didn't know 'bout celebratin' them back in December. Anyway, a few years ago when we were at the v-e-t, she asked Mom when our purrthdays were and since Mom didn't know, the v-e-t told her to make up a day. Mom picked June 15 for both of us, 'cause she was pretty sure Smeagol was born sometime in June. We think she picked the same day for both of us 'cause it's easier for her to remember! We also say we're the same age, (4 today) even though nobody really knows how old Strider is, even him! (The v-e-t estimated his age when he first went to see her).

Since we already celebrated so much and had so much fun visitin' with efurryone at Oreo's last weekend (Thanks, Oreo and Happy Purrthday to you!) we're just gonna have a quiet day today with some purresents and cake and (we hope) salmon!

Mom keeps promisin' she's gonna help us add more links and post more often, but she's been furry busy with lots of stuff lately. Even if we don't comment, we are readin' your blogs and tryin' to keep up with what's goin' on! We hope she'll have more time to help us soon!

Mom: Happy Purrthday (or whatever) you sweet guys! Someone else wants to say something...

Mystery: HAPPY PURRTHDAY SMEAGOL & STRIDER!