I went someplace!

Smokey the foster kitten here, to tell you about my great adventure last evening! I've been begging and begging to go outside, and finally Foster Mommy said I could! But she wanted to put me in the carrier to go out. I didn't want to go in there, but she said that was the only way she was letting me out, and I was going to go with her to her class. Well, I didn't know what a "class" was, but I knew I wanted to go somewhere, so I let her put me inside the carrier.

First we walked down the street. I thought ok, I've been here before, what's so great about this. We walked by where the bunnies were, and then I started really looking around. I'd never been this far down the road before! We actually crossed the road! We waited a bit, then a big scary monster came and picked us up. Foster Mommy said it's called a "bus". It spit us out after a bit, then we waited for another "bus" to come chomp us.

Waiting for the bus. I want out to explore!

Ewww! Why do humans leave cigarette butts on the sidewalk? Why do they smoke at all?
Those cars are loud, but I want to see them!

Finally we were at "class". It was a big building with carpet and lots of new people. They all spoke a funny language I didn't understand, and Foster Mommy was the leader. She says it's called "Norwegian". She let me out of the carrier, and I walked around on the table then explored the room. A couple times during class, I hopped back on the table for pets from Foster Mommy or to look at all the other people and say hi. I also took a nap on a chair for a while.




After class, I jumped up on the piano to investigate it. Then we went on the "bus" monster again, back home. I knew when we were almost home, and started to get very wiggly inside the carrier. Foster Mommy didn't let me out until we were inside, though. I went right over to the food bowl to eat, because I was hungry from all that adventuring!

P.S. Foster Mommy says she made an appointment for my spay. She says Starla and I are going in on March 4th.

Unusual happenings at the green house

Warning: These pictures not suitable for kittens under the age of 4 months!

These are both female cats. The tabby one is Rori, who just got spayed. She is alpha cat of the house. The grey one is our foster kitten Smokey, who is in heat. This is what happened when Rori got fed up with Smokey's yowling!




Obviously, they are going to be spending time in separate rooms now when the humans are not home, and Smokey will be in with me for sleeping until she gets spayed. I looked it up on the net, and it seems to be a common dominance behavior for females.

Monday Movie

Our Monday movie this week was filmed in 2007 by a friend of the family, Erin, who lived with us for a while. It features Tabby, Carbon, Skylar, and Lydia. Lydia was Skylar's sister, and has since gone to the Bridge.

Easy Like Sunday Morning...in the dark

The man looked out the window, and saw us (Little Bit and Starla) sitting on the porch railing looking in at him! We love sitting here and chilling, saying hi to any of the inside kitties who happen to look out the window at us (and the humans if they do). The man told the lady to come with the camera, and she got this picture of us.






She also looked out the back door and saw our raccoon friend again. He wondered if she was going to run him off, so he watched her the whole time. He even stood up on his hind legs, watching her as he pulled the food from the bowl like someone eating chips and watching the game. Yes, Super Bowl reference, but after all it is today!

PhotoHunt: Furry

Rori says: Oof, brother, you're almost smothering me with your furriness!

This picture was taken when they were about 8 weeks old. Rori's brother Knut was adopted out soon after, not because of his sister-squishing. ;)

PhotoHunt

It's officially mating season here

From the sounds and sights outside, the Trailer Kitties are ready for mating season. Neighbor kitty Boo-Boo is in heat, and Outdoor Fluffy Buddy, the black big-head kitty, and the white and orange big-head kitty are following her. Starla is not in heat yet, as far as we know. Smokey is inside and being put in the bedroom whenever the outside door is opening, because she's in heat as well.

Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon (FCCO) said in its last newsletter that many of the females being brought in now are in heat already. Please, please, people, spay and neuter your cats! We are trying to find places to get everyone but Boo-Boo fixed. Since BB techinically is our neighbor's cat, we have no control over her in that regard. (Mommy wishes we could just scoop her up and fix her too, though.)

Mommy wrote a new article on HubPages with tips for fostering kittens. If it helps even one kitten, she says it's worth it.

Feral Friday by the Trailer Kitties

Food bowl rollcall for this week: Outdoor Fluffy Buddy, Starla, Shadow, white kitty with orange spots, orange kitty from down the street, Little Bit, SpongeBob, the black big-headed kitty, Carbon's lookalike kitty with the red collar.

It snowed on Tuesday, but melted by the afternoon.

Fluffy Buddy sniffed outstretched hands from both the humans this week, at different times. The lady thought she'd try touching him, and got hissed at. Fluffy Buddy ran to the safety of the shelf on the porch and turned his back on her. He came right back to eat from the bowl, though.

Smokey is outside at the moment. She escaped out the door when the man went to do laundry, and is playing a game with the people. She says hi, then runs off to play with her cousin Starla. When she wants in again, she'll let the people know by jumping at the door. She's going to be in trouble, though! We heard them talking about a bath for her once she gets back inside!

Updated: 1:03 am
Our raccoon friend is back! We just looked out the door and there he was! He's a nice raccoon, though. He doesn't pick fights, and he eats out of the bowl and takes his turn with the kitties.

Updated: 1:55 am
Smokey's back inside now. She went running up to the man when he went to check on the laundry, so she got scooped up and put back in the house. The lady washed her paws, and she screamed about it, but is very happy to be inside again.

Friends Friday

Wow! So many new friends welcoming us to our new blog! Cory and Jonesie, other Portland cats and got hit with more of the storm than we do by the looks of their yard. Ours got a lot of snow and wind, though. It's all melted now, at least until we get another storm. Here's what the weather's like right now in Portland, OR.



Visit other friends at Kiddo's Friends Friday.

Tabby's Fashion Friday

Tabby the model here to tell you about the latest in my series: "Love Bug". I wouldn't wear the wings, but the dress is so cute by itself. I thought it should have a head hole, and kept lowering my head for one, but Mommy told me it just had straps for my arms.



I told Mommy it's ok to use my picture on her Valentine's Day cards at Zazzle this year. She's sending them to our Catster friends at the Pen Paws group, too!

Thankful Thursday

Today we're thankful for humans who care for foster kittens. Our own foster kitten is Smokey, who we're trying to find a home for. Please check out her profile here.

If you are a foster family, we're thankful for you! Feel free to add your fosters or links to them in the comments so we can see the cuties in your care. We'll add the links here as they are posted.

Skeezix's Food Lady clued us in to this cute live video feed of foster kittens in the Los Angeles, CA, USA, area. They're too cute!

Pet Products reviews

Our T13 this week is a review on HubPages of our favorite essential pet products. Most of them are for cats, but some are for dogs as well. You can read it here. We are also taking requests for HubPages articles that we can write (we'll hijack Mommy's account on there and write our own). You can request them from us on the sidebar of the one we wrote this week.

Updated Catster diaries

Rori had her post-spay vet visit, and Tabby joined her for moral support. You can read about it in Rori's and Tabby's diaries.

Foster kitten Smokey also wrote in her diary about adjusting (or not) to inside life.

Carbon's Wordless Wednesday

Wordy Wednesday with wordles from our Catster blogs!

Tabby's words

Skylar's words

Rori's words

Carbon's words

These word clouds were created with the Wordle website. We're now collecting "kitty-theme" words, and are going to make a design with them as a banner for this blog when we get enough. If you have suggestions for words, you can leave them in the comments. Don't worry if some are duplicates of others' suggestions. That just makes the word bigger on the Wordle.

Tummy Tuesday

Rori's post-spay belly
January 21, 2009

Carbon in catnip tissue paper bliss
Christmas 2007

Welcome to our new blog!

Welcome to the new blog home of the PDX pride! We are Rori, Carbon, Skylar, and Tabby. We live in Portland, OR, USA, in the green house. We also have a foster kitten friend named Smokey who lives inside, and feral friends who live outside. Our outside friends, the Trailer Kitties, currently are Outdoor Fluffy Buddy (feral), Shadow (feral), SpongeBob (neighbor cat from across the street), Starla (tame cat being fostered outside/Smokey's cousin), Little Bit (neighbor kitten/Smokey's littermate), Boo-Boo Kitty (neighbor cat/Smokey & Little Bit's mom/Starla's aunt), and the black big-head kitty (stray cat). Sometimes there are other trailer kitties, but those are the regulars who come and eat out of the porch food bowl.