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Photo Friday: Pet

Oh, boy! Our whole blog could qualify for this one! This is Mommy with our now-angel-kitty Sara. Sara Kitty lived to be 17 or 18 years old, and was put to sleep in January (old age and dementia). Our family adopted her for the last year of her life, and she was loved and cared for until the end. You can read more about her time with us on her Catster page.

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13 things that happened yesterday

For this week's Thursday Thirteen, we'd like to present 13 things that happened yesterday at our house (photos are Starla, SpongeBob, and the candles):

1. Mommy went to the doctor's twice. She's getting tested for things that may have caused iritis (inflammation inside her eye). She's ok, though, and over the iritis, but we'll know more when the lab results come back. It's probably just a random thing, but they want to make sure.
   
2. Daddy's dad went home from the hospital. He had a urinary tract infection and a staph infection for a week, but the antibiotics worked well enough that now he's able to be at home again.
3. Starla came inside to visit.
4. Rori hissed at Daddy when he went to lie down in the bed, because it meant she had to move.
5. Smokey treated Mommy like a big squeaky toy, chewing on her hair, climbing up her jeans to get to her belt while she was getting dressed, jumping on her, tracking her fingers for pouncing, and taking the shoelaces away while she was putting on her shoes.
6. Carbon swiped at Starla, thinking she wanted to play.
7. It snowed, but didn't stick.
8. SpongeBob came inside, with disastrous results (see our previous entry).
9. Mommy cleaned up after the disaster.
10. The power went out in the whole neighborhood.
11. Tabby chased flashlight beams and candlelight.
12. Carbon snuggled with Mommy and Daddy on the couch.
13. The power came back on, but we still had the lights off for "cozy effect" for a while and enjoyed the atmosphere.
    
    

Cat fight!

Rori, alpha kitty of the house, writes:

The giant kitty SpongeBob came in this evening, and I went ballistic! I did NOT want him in MY HOUSE! I puffed up, hissed, and slunk all over. He played for a while, then went around saying hi to everyone. When he came toward me, I hid under the couch. He saw me, and walked over by me to say hi. I hissed, so he walked away. I followed him, slinking behind him, with Tabby following me. SpongeBob walked into the office room, with us following right behind him, then tried to turn around. I was all puffy still, and I lashed out at him. He swiped back and hissed, then I lit into him. When Mommy clapped, he ran away but I turned on Tabby and she and I rolled in a furry, hissing fight into the living room. SpongeBob by this time had run up to the window escaping me, then over by the door. Skylar got scared because SpongeBob ran right by him, and Daddy got scratched on the arm. Mommy and Daddy clapped a lot to try to separate me from Tabby, and we separated after a few tries (the first few times we separated, I attacked her right off again). Then I ran by Smokey and swiped at her, while Tabby hissed and growled. Smokey went into fight mode and lashed out, then ran onto the top of the dishwasher.

Mommy let SpongeBob out the door, then put me into the bedroom. Then she cleaned up in the office, because SpongeBob peed in there when I attacked him. He didn't spray; it was obviously because he was scared, not because of territory. He was just so scared he wet.

Everyone's ok physically, just very scaredy at the moment. Mommy let me out, and I slunk around for a bit, but now I'm almost walking again. Everyone's investigated the spot in the office. Carbon came out from under the bed, and Skylar hopped back up with Daddy. I haven't yet apologized to the others, so they are still avoiding me, and Smokey tried to swipe at me. Tabby wanted to sniff me, and I turned like I was going to smack her again, but I didn't.

Update: I went up to Mommy and apologized. Then I went over to Smokey and apologized to her by sniffing her tail. Then I made the rounds to the others and sniffed them too, apologizing to them.

I tricked Smokey! hahahahahaha

Rori says:

Boy, did I have fun! Smokey loves playing with balls, but sometimes it gets tiring just to watch her. Sometimes I join in, but she always hogs the toys when she wants to play. I found a way to defeat her, though! She was playing with a blue puffy ball, and Mommy threw it for her. Well, it landed in a corner right next to our "Bizzy Kitty" puzzle. I ran over to get it, picked it up in my mouth, and promptly put it in the puzzle box! Then, Smokey had to try to get it out of there before she could actually play with it. I sat on top of the box, watching her, and it was a full five minutes before she managed to get it out. Too fun! I kept looking over at Mommy, and she swears I was laughing!

Smokey's Wordless Wednesday

We had fun yesterday :)

We had so much fun yesterday with a toy that we haven't played with in ages! Well, at least for a month or so. It's our beach playmat, and it's too big to have out all the time, so Mommy puts it away. Sometimes one of us will go sit on it when it's put away on the shelf, and it makes a good nap spot. Mommy got it out yesterday for us to really play with, so here is a video of us with it! Well, of Rori and Smokey with it, anyway. The older ones just watched.

Photo Friday: The Team

Just found the "Photo Friday" fun, so sorry my post is late.

Here's the tag team of squirrel watchers, Carbon (on left) and Rori (on right)...






and here's their squirrel friend, totally unconcerned that cats are watching him!

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We found Bizzy!

Guess what??!!!???!!!! That's right, kitties of the blogosphere! We found Bizzy! And.........it's not a kitty, it's a TOY! No wonder our mommies and daddies like it. We tried it out, too, and it is fun, but it got boring after a while. Why do the beans play with it a lot longer than we do? Don't they get bored with it too?

Carbon's Sleepy Saturday

I was awfully tired after running around playing with Tabby, Rori, and Smokey, so I took a good, long nap on the bag of mail that needs to be shredded. It made a comfy pillow. *yawns*

PhotoHunt: Bridge(s)

This moss-covered walkway is in Bellingham, Washington, USA. The picture was taken a few years ago when I was there for my mother's retirement party.

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Skeezix the Cat's 3rd Annual VD Contest: Tabby's Valentine to Tuck

Tabby has entered a Valentine's contest. This is her entry: Skeezix the Cat's 3rd Annual VD Contest: Tabby's Valentine to Tuck

She says: "Little Tuck, I didn't want you to not have a sweetie on your first Valentine's Day. So here's a valentine for you, from a friend."

Please click on the entry to vote. Thanks!

Friends Friday

Skylar's best human friend is his "Mommy Erin". She lived with us for almost a year, and comes over to visit often still. He hadn't seen her for a few months because of the holidays and because her 1-year-old son threw the cell phone in the tub and she lost our number (!), but the second he heard her voice he perked right up! They spent some time snuggling and posed for photos with both Mommy's camera and Erin's camera.

Around the Cat Blogosphere, we'd like to recognize our new friends Milo & Alfie over at The Cat's Meow! They have the same office chair we do, and we mentioned them in our Fashion Friday post about it.

See other Friends Friday posts at Kiddo's page.

News from the Food Bowl

Feral Friday food bowl rollcall at the green house:

Outdoor Fluffy Buddy, Big-headed black tom kitty, orange-headed kitty, Boo-Boo, Little Bit, the raccoon, Starla, SpongeBob, Shadow, and the orange cat from down the street. Everyone came this week again, even the raccoon.

No females are in heat anymore, so the yowling has gone away for the moment. Starla and Smokey will be spayed on March 4th, and we have a vet for the big-headed black tom kitty to be neutered as well (but not a date set yet). All their "fixes" will be done through the Tom & Mom Special. Many, many thanks to organizations like these who provide low-cost spaying and neutering!

It's a cat chair!

We have a grey chair that we absolutely love. Our humans think it's their office chair, but it's really OUR chair. We just let them use it.

Skylar and his sister Lydia chilling on the chair

Carbon playing underneath the chair

Rori relaxing on the chair

They make great scratching posts, climbing toys, and (of course) snuggle places. We've found some other cats around the internet who also have one of these purrfect chairs!

Milo and Alfie
Clyde
Scout
Stripes
Mingka

There is even a how-to for a kitty tree from a dead grey chair!

If you have a chair like this, please tell us so we can add you to the list. >^..^<

Thirteen of us! (part 2)

Big-headed black stray tom kitty

Shadow, spayed & eartipped feral

Dot, eartipped and neutered feral (not around since last year)

Boo-Boo Kitty (Little Bit's & Smokey's mom cat), neighbor's cat

Little Bit, neighbor's kitten

Orange-headed kitty, unfixed stray tom

Starla, outside foster kitty and the kittens' cousin

Outdoor fluffy buddy, unfixed feral tom

Click here for part 1

Thirteen of us! (part 1)

Rori (alpha kitty/big kitty of the house)

Carbon, perennial kitten

Skylar, 9-year-old "old man" and chief snuggler

Tabby, "class clown" and working therapy cat at nursing homes

Smokey, foster kitten

Click here for part 2

Rori & Tabby's Wordless Wednesday

From when Rori was a teeny kitten:

Name poems

Skylar

Suave
Kinda crazy
Yowler
Loving
Adult
Retiring

Tabby

Trippy
Adult
Belly
Beautiful
Young

Rori

Rowdy
Outdoor-born
Ready for anything
Intelligent

Carbon

Caring
Able-bodied
Raring to go
Brilliant
Onyx
Nervous

Smokey

Sweet
Maniac
Ornery
Kitten
Easy to love
Yours to adopt

Starla

Shy
Terrified at loud sounds
Articulate
Racing around the yard
Loving
Adoptable

Fluffy Buddy

Funny
Living outside
Under the trailer
Feral
Friend
Youthful

Bashful
Unsure of humans
Dashing
Daddy
Yeowling

Shadow

Sweet
Human-wary
Audible
Daily visitor
Outside
Watcher

SpongeBob

Silly
People-friendly
Outdoor/indoor
Neighbor
Gregarious
Eating
Buddy
Orator
Bully

Boo-Boo

Beautiful
Outdoor/indoor
Obvious

Birthed three kittens
Our neighbor
Often around

Little Bit

Leader
Intelligent
Tiny
Troublemaker
Lives at our neighbor's
Eats constantly

Brat
Indifferent to the other cats
Tabby

Tabby's Tummy Tuesday

What?! It's my favorite sleeping position!