oh no!!

Mum is packing her bags again.......

She says she's off on holiday with her friends. Daddy is looking after us for a week.

Mum needs a nice holiday, but does she really have to go??

charlie

Cousin Tara

Our sortah Auntie Dawnie (mum's Blogsistah) has gone and got herself a new poodin! So we gots a sortah Cousin!

This is Tara wiff one of her fur-avourite toys, the broom.

ands you can read about her and leave her messages here and her new daddy has uploaded some video fur-tage here.

We'd like to go give Tara lotsa furkisses, but she lives a longs way away - in Candy-Daddy.

[mum: Canada, Charlie]

Yup, wot I said - Candy-Daddy. And her new mama says she is helping Tara design a nice new bloggie. And here it is!

charlie

Be still my beatin' 'eart....

Mum, I is dreaming about Ariel.......... she still loves me.........

You still in love, Charlie?

[blushes under ginger fur] Of course! But it's so hard keeping a love alight when we is fur-ousands of miles apart and when my mum is *so* bad at helping me keep in touch......

[looks shame-faced] I'm sorry, Charlie. I know I've not been very helpful lately, have I?

Ariel - I loves you

Charlie

We have Rules, you know!

Auntie Dawnie (mama's blogsistah) posted this very accurate list of cat rules - how refreshing that a human acknowledges we have rules!!

DOORS: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get door opened, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an “outside” door opened, stand halfway in and out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain, snow, or mosquito season. Swinging doors are to be avoided at all costs.

CHAIRS and RUGS: If you have to throw up, get to a chair quickly. If you cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental rug. If there is no Oriental rug, shag is good. When throwing up on the carpet, make sure you back up so that it is as long as the human’s bare foot.

BATHROOMS: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything — just sit and stare.

HAMPERING: If one of your humans is engaged in some close activity and the other is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called “helping”, otherwise known as “hampering”.

WALKING: As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human, especially: on stairs, when they have something in their arms, in the dark, and when they first get up in the morning. This will help their coordination skills.

BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so s/he cannot move around.

PLAY: This is an important part of your life. Get enough sleep in the daytime so you are fresh for your nocturnal games. Below are listed several favorite cat games that you can play. It is important though to maintain one’s Dignity at all times. If you should have an accident during play, such as falling off a chair, immediately wash a part of your body as if to say “I MEANT to do that!” It fools those humans every time.

CAT GAMES:
"Catch Mouse": The humans would have you believe that those lumps under the covers are their feet and hands. They are lying. They are actually Bed Mice, rumored to be the most delicious of all the mice in the world, though no cat has ever been able to catch one. Rumor also has it that only the most ferocious attack can stun them long enough for you to dive under the covers to get them. Maybe YOU can be the first to taste the Bed Mouse!

"King of the Hill": This game must be played with at least one other cat. The more, the merrier! One or both of the sleeping humans is Hill 303 which must be defended at all costs from the other cat(s). Anything goes. This game allows for the development of unusual tactics as one must take the unstable playing theater into account.

WARNING: Playing either of these games to excess will result in expulsion from the bed and possibly from the bedroom. Should the humans grow restless, immediately begin purring and cuddle up to them.
This should buy you some time until they fall asleep again. If one happens to be on a human when this occurs, this cat wins the round of King of the Hill.

This is just the basics. To read the entire list, click here.

Pandora

Our Heads Hurt.......

Wow - what a party!

[yawn]

[snore]

and the Guest of Honour?

I think we can safely say - a good time was had by all!

pandora

Luna's Party!!

It’s time for the Fiesta to celebrate

Luna Bonito

coming home safe to her mama.

Es tiempo para la Fiesta para celebrar

Bonito de Luna

La volviendo a casa segura a su madre.

All fluffies, woofies

rats, buns and uffer aminals

are invited!

We got nip......

an' running water.....

an' shrimptinis.....

an' a ballpit (I killeded the bouncy castle)

It's past 1am here in the UK and Mum is starting to look at her time thingy on her arm.

But the party will go on for the American kitties........plenty food and toys :-)

charlie

and

pandora

PARTY DAY!!

This is the countdown clock to party time!

Groom your fur, clean your claws and come on over!

Luna's Party

Guys! Guys!

Mum says we can holds Luna's Welcome Home purr-tay here (if she likes) next Friday! (It was going to be tonight but Mum is gonna have her hands full at the Palace)!

We'll tell you all about it in plenty of time......

charlie

Woo Hoo!!!

Luna is home!!

Safe and Sound with her very, very happy mama.

We is glad Luna is safe, it's not nice outside wiff no mama to looks after you.

She's a bit skinny, got fleasies and got into a scrape or two, but seems fine.

And she missed my purrtay! perhaps we'd better frow her a speshul purrtay?? A Welcome Home purrtay?

charlie and pandora

Crash Bang

We had a BIG fumber-litening storm last night. It crashed, it flashed, it banged and it poured with rain.....It went on for ages 'n' ages.......

So while Pandy was hiding in her usual hidey-hole (she's ascareded of fumber-litening) I went and snuggled wiff Mum and Daddy who were awake 'cos of the noisy fumber.

charlie

[gulp]

noooooooooo!!!!!!!!

V.E.T.?

Fluffie jail?

[hides under sofa]

Update: It was the V.E.T........... we both wented to see Uncle Tim.......

Charlie: I'm fine. Uncle Tim sticked me wiff a needle. He says I'm a gorgeous colour and ruffled my coat lots. He also says now I am growed he finks I am part Maine Coon. My underbite is less pernounced (they fink 'cos I'm older now). And then he clipped my clawsies.

Pandora: I am very well, apparently. Uncle Tim calls me 'gorgeous'! My bladder is fine, although the Horrible One made me poorly yesterday. My eyes are ok, but they have a blue caste with age. I don't have the bad hips my Mum was worried about, but Uncle Tim says I have a bad back 'cos of my advanced age. He spent a long time looking in my eyes, and clipped my claws. Uncle Tim likes me! :-) Oh, and I'm NOT 18 - I'm 17!! I can't believe Mum made such a mistake with my age!

And we got pressies from Uncle Tim - 'cos it is Pet Smile Month.

the bags had bikkits for us to help cleans our teefs

and information for Mum.

Killer!!

I'm a lean, mean, killing machine!!

There are corpses all over the house now where I'm showing off my killing skills to Mum and Daddy........

Mum says she isn't helping me post the pictures of my victims, as that may be disturbing for ickle fluffies......

charlie

Mama and Daddy went away and left me with the Horrible One. I got all stressed out and now I'm sick, and it's ALL their fault - so I'm peeing on their carpet!!

pandora

Purrtay on.......

Mum and Daddy are going to a weeding today.

Don't know why they don't just stay here, we haff lotsa weeds!

[cq: Wedding, charlie - a Wedding!]

But Mum says the party is still going, she's left out all the toys and made lotsa sticky goodness and crunchie sammiches.

charlie

It's Purrtay Time!!

Fluffies 'n' dudes 'n' aminals!

Hippo gotcha day to me....
Hippo gotcha day to me....
Hippo gotcha day to charlie....
Hippo gotcha day to me.........!!!



Finally, I'm getting my purrtay.......what wiff Luna missing and Mama goin' away - a boy has to fit his purrtay in where he can!

we gots the pool again..........

and the tramamapoline


Mum gots me a purrfec' cake like a fluffie

Mum said no niptinis, but we've got rainbow catnip.........

The water is still on.......

And my special treat is - Mum gots a bouncy castle, shaped like a wild fluffie! She says, though, please no clawsies..........

Mum says the party can go on as long as people want - if we're in bed, help yourselves to nip and a dip in the pool.......

Pandora is over at Ayla's place helping her to sellybrate her burpday......

ooh look! I gots a present from the Mostly Black Cats!

charlie

It's Party Day

Mama says when this says 0 it will be my party time!

charlie

Tree-boots

Mama has posted her Tree-boot to 9/11. It's dedicated to a man called Khang Nguyen who seemed like a jolly nice bean, who lived with a lady bean called Tu and a blurpy bean called An.

Khang worked at the Penty-gone when it went boom. Khang has gone to Heaven now (like Rainbow Bridge but for beans) and his lady bean and blurpy bean miss him so much.

pandora

Mum says her Tree-boot made her cry. She's reading uffer Tree-boots and getting froo lots of tishues.

Khang sounds like a cool bean, I wish we'd known him.

Wouldn't Khang be a cool name for a fluffie.......?

Mum??? Are we getsing a new kitten? I wants to call him Khang!

charlie

Party Time!

Mum has agreed, my Gotcha Party will be on Saturday 9 September at 10pm UK time.

Nope - scratch that!! Mum has double booked herself again and I can't type without her yet.....

My Party is now on Friday 15th September at 10pm UK time.

(That's about 3-4pm depending where you are in Mericky).
We is hoping that Luna will be safely home by then and will be able to teleport over.

Mum says here's the World Clock so your beans can check times.

Everyone is welcome; fluffies, beans, woofies, buns, rats and any uffer aminals.

More later :-)

charlie

Party Purrsponed

'cos our Spanish fluffie furriend Luna is still missing, we are purrsponing my gotcha party until next weekend.

In the meantime, go and join the purrayer vigil for Luna.......we wants Luna to come home safe.......

From Beau's email:

They put a notice in a local magazine of sort. Also, a group (guessing friends/family) are going to go look for her Sunday. They are ahead of us in timeby approx 6 hours. (That would be Saturday evening & night our time.) I think we need to hold a major prayer vigil through Saturday afternoon-night. My suggestion is to offer prayers throughout the day and evening that they find her during their search, and have a power vigil at 9 PM EST Saturday night. This is a chance for us to really pray Luna home.

We are...
Praying Luna home!
Cathy and Beau

charlie

Trixie

Tonight is Trixie's night.

We were very sorry to hear Trixie went to the Rainbow Bridge to be with her brothers Norton and Ralphie on the 28 Aug at the grand age of 18.

There is a blog tribute at 6pm PST at The Big Piney Woods (ie the Calico Girls' blog).

If blogger is playing up (and it is at the moment!) there is an alternate site here for leaving a comment hosted by the House of the (Mostly) Black Cats

Purrs and headbuts to The Meezers Mom and sandpaper kisses to Miles and Sammy.

Pandora and Charlie

Happy Gotcha Day to Me!

It's my Gotcha day today. I know Mum told Ms Mia the 16th, but Mum got her dates wrong.......!! Silly Mum - but hey, she feeds us, so who's complaining!

No party this weekend, 'cos my Mum is going away - AGAIN! She says she's going to The Fourteenth Cen-choory - whatever that means! There's probably more on her blog, but we poodins can't read!

So my party is gonna be next weekend - watch this space!

Gotta go sooper-vise the packing now!

charlie