I see 2 kitties in the back… a black one and a grey one.

Nelson Tiger Tummy is too cute!

Morning all !

Where’s the grey one?

I think that it’s a cat that I’m seeing… maybe too many Mimosas! Look at the black cat, then the green towel and at the other end of the green towel, against the wall.

I see it too!!!

I see it now!

Where’s Waldo?

Where is Missy?

Summer break with a dial-up connection at home and buried in paperwork the past couple of weeks back!

Only 175 1/2 days to go til summer break! Yippeeee!!

Don’t forget the coffee for Gread Dane!!!!!! Dark Chocolate Orange Latte to keep with the theme!

…and save one for me, please!

Yay, ppearson, I need coffee! Work is still nuts and the dogs I’m dogsitting woke me up at four, six and six thirty - arrrgh! Coffee!
I was just about to embark on a half hour bike ride to take the dogs out and a half hour back in 90 degree heat and humidity that’s just nuts, when boos said to take his car - yay! I may just get through this day after all!
Leaving now, will be back - got Bob stories to tell

Can’t wait to hear Bob stories!

Anncetera, the Bob went NUTS over the Cat Dancer. It wasn’t even totally out of the package before he came running! Little guy was chasing, back-flipping and meowing at the thing for 45 minutes straight! He got so worn out he was sitting and panting with his mouth open! When I had to leave I had to hide the thing so he wouldn’t kill himself “dancing”! I was happy to have worn him out before I left for the dogsitting house. He was ready for one LONG nap!

As for getting him a new collar, there is BAD news to report: PetsMart was out of the pink collars I like!!!!! Needless to say, Great Dane came home to the BOb without a new collar! The little guy will have to wait until I can hit PetCo or Pet SuperMarket to search for a pink collar!

And more bad news for the Bob: his Mama went and bought adult dry food (same flavor as the kitten food) to mix in with his dry kitten food, so I won’t have an enormous kitty. Well, it was a good thing I brought home the Cat Dancer for distraction, because little guy was extremely miffed to find this stuff mixed in with his favorite food in his foodbowl. Mama is in BIG trouble! Tried to be nice and bought a bag of Greenies for him. Got in trouble over that, too - apparently the only treat he will sometimes is not just Greenies - but only chicken-flavored greenies! Salmon Greenies, no thank you!

Glad to hear he liked the Cat Dancer! I have the same problem; the cats will keep playing with it until they’re panting and exhausted. I’ll only let them do a little more, at that point, and then I have to put it away (out of reach and out of sight).

I’m not surprised by the cat food. Kitten food is higher in fat (tastes better to cats), so adult food won’t be appreciated as much. He’ll eventually get over it, though he may never like the adult food as much as the kitten food.

(My cats forgive me because I feed gooshyfood daily, mixed with a little yogurt, brewer’s yeast, and ground turkey. The rest of the time, it’s dry food only.)

–anncetera–

What’s with the brewers yeast? What is it for & how much do you put into the food…if you don’t mind me asking?

The brewer’s yeast is for several reasons. The biggest one is as a nutritional supplement that may or may not help ward off fleas. In addition, I figured it might not be a bad addition to the diet of my cat Even (who appears to be a bit hyperthyroid). He and the kittens are why I started feeding wet food in the first place. The kittens would lick it off my fingers; when Even developed a cold and wouldn’t eat much of anything, he would still eat a bit of wet food.

The brewer’s yeast I purchase is from my local health food store, and is sold in bulk as “nutritional yeast.” I figure it’s probably fresher than what I might get at the pet store. I add maybe a heaping tablespoon for an entire 15-16 oz can of wet cat food. (For a 6 oz can, I’d go with a teaspoon.)

Susie:

It is used for flea control, I have read. Evidently, once it metabolizes in the cats, fleas are repelled by it. I have added it to the wet food of my kitties when they were young, as well as a tincture of garlic in soy sauce. Just a little garlic, as it can be toxic, steeped in soy sauce and then sprinkled over the regular food, can be very helpful in controlling fleas.

Hi Ginny and boyzandme. We missed you! Happy Friday everyone!! Here is to a nice three day weekend. The only bad thing about it is they are closing the San Francisco Bay Bridge to do replace some roadwork and so the traffic will be a mess out there. My mom just invited my husband and I out to the coastal area of Bolinas for Sunday but my husband may have to work and I really don’t want to be out in the horrible traffic. Now I do want to see my parents though so I may ask them if I could early in the morning.

TGIF!!!!! Yipppeeee, just need to make it to 3:45pm.

Scrambled eggs with gruyere cheese, whole wheat toast with your choice of orange marmalade or raspberry jam, fresh fruit compote, lemon poppy seed muffins, bacon or apple sundried tomato sausages, mango mimosas and fresh coffee, mochas and lattes. How’s that all sound?

Oh and I forgot to say…this morning’s kitten is so cute. Love the blue eyes on the orangie kitty. I want to pick him up and give him lots of kisses. I did that to Sylvester this morning.

82 degrees in my area yesterday. Yucko. Just a tad cooler today with maybe temps in the more reasonable range of 75 degrees. Saw and felt a touch of fog on the way to work. Nice and cool. Will try to send some to those of you that are sweltering in the awful heat. Keep cool and hydrated.

–Karin–

That’s the best thing about living in your area,is the weather is perfect in summertime. Heck, I’m only about an hour away from you & the temperature is so different. It’s 9:00 a.m. & already 85 in the shade. I don’t know how people in the mid & eastern states put up w/the long, hot summers they have. It might just peak at 108 again today. I could put up w/it if it wasn’t day after day after day.

**With the heat hear,I’m going to need a fan to sit in front of while I snuggle little Tiger Tummy/Nelson’s furry belly

**As for breakfast, I’ll take anything w/ice in it

Good Morning All

Hello Susie and Karin, my fellow Californians:

It is hotter than a mf here in Los Angeles, and the weekend forecast is beastly. Luckily, I do live in Long Beach so I get a wee tiny bit of the marine layer and its benefits.

I have been transferred at work, and since I got that notice, I have done NOTHING!!! Short-timers syndrome, in the extreme. I had hoped to do some major catch-up this weekend, but if the air conditioning is off here in the building, I am going to have to take work home, and attempt to be disciplined enough to actually do it!!

The kitty today is gorgeous, reminds me of my little Rufus when he was a baby.

Susie, hope all is going well with you. Just get a spray bottle and sit in front of the fan to cool yourself off. A hint for keeping the kitties cool (you may already know this one): I freeze water in old water bottles, and set them out on the floor for the kitties to lie up against to get some relief from the heat. I scatter them around the living room and the hallway before I leave for work, and then replace them once I get home. I have frozen about a dozen bottles, so I can keep up a good rotation.

Karin, I am in total sympathy with your aversion to traffic, especially on a holiday weekend. Why not just go down to the Alameda beach and hang out? Or crank up the A.C. and watch some marathons on T.V.? That is what I plan on doing (except I don’t have A.C.).

I am loathe to leave the building here at work, as the air conditioning is so powerful - isn’t that pathetic? Oh well, hope you all have a great weekend, and I will log back in on Tuesday!

Kate

I start back to school on Monday. 3 days INSET and the kids come back on Thursday. I am soo not ready.
You all complain about the heat, here in the England it has been (officially) the wettest, most miserable Summer since records began. It has been so wet here that even though Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland have had wetter Summers in the past, England’s total rainfall this Summer means it has also been the wettest Summer ever in the whole UK! I feel like all my joints have rusted up and the garden’s a total mess because I can’t do anything, because it’s always raining.
Quick pass me Tiger Tummy before I turn into a thoroughly whinging Pom (to quote our Australian friends and relations). I will also share a large glass of Sauvignon Blanc with anyone in need!

Whinge away Polly’s Mum, I think us Poms are more than justified in feeling pretty hacked off by such a lousy summer. Maybe September will be a bit better? Let’s hope for an Indian Summer before a soggy autumn!

Polly’s Mum–what do you teach and what level?

–Sorry Polly’s Mum & MCW–

Wish I could trade some of our weather with you.

–Hello Kate–

Nice to hear from you. I’ve been meaning to e-mail you,but,just been busy & been in a blue funk.

**just too many kittens to tend to

**I’m going w/a neighbor friend tomorrow to Petsmart w/Prettygirls 3 kittens. I hope to God I can find a purrmenant home for them. I’m worried the little black Scorpio won’t be wanted. How can people be so prejudice when it comes to a kitten’s color. It shouldn’t surprise me tho with the kind of world we live in anymore.

**wish me luck on adopting them out

I will be thinking of you, and hoping that little Scorpio finds an exceptional home. When I go to PetsMart, I have to force myself not to go to the kitten adoption station, because it just breaks my heart! I want to take them all home with me, the baby kittens, the adult cats who look so confused at being given up or having had their humans pass away. It is heartbreaking!! I have to do the snatch and grab with the cat food and litter.

Ah well, take care of yourself and your babies (including the man friend). Let me know if you need a little break - maybe you can come down to L.A. for a weekend and let me spoil you (I do this for my sister all the time).

Take care-
Kate

Good luck, Susie!

Kate, if I bring Susie, can I come too? I have had TLC in years.

I meant…I haven’t had. Keyboard gremlins at it again.

Hi Miu!

Hi Great Dane! Hi Bob!

GD: Try to convince Bobsie on that the World really needs a blog by him. How does Bob’s Mob sound?

Come on! Spit them out. You are teasing us now!

You know how some cats come running at the whirr of the can opener or the crinkle of the Cat Chow bag? With the Pocket Rocket, it’s the ice dispenser in the fridge.

It all started when one of us dropped an ice cube on the floor. On impulse it was then dropped into Sally’s water dish, in plain view of her. She just about went nuts trying to bat that cube floating so teasingly in front of her without getting her paw wet!

Now she INSISTS on having ice in her water dish whenever someone goes to the fridge! She will get between you and the freezer door and STARE at you. If she doesn’t get satisfaction, she will me-YOW that Meezer Meow at you until she gets her ice.

One cube used to suffice, but no more. Right now, she’s worked her way up to three. Before too long, we may have to put her on Methadone!

Ginny, that is too funny. I love cat stories!

What a handsome little guy this morning. I have never been a servant to an orange cat before. Maybe someday an orange one will pick me. Right now I have Zoom and Pat, 2 of Savannah kittens that are orange. They are such a stitch.

Emerson does the same thing! He will come running from anywhere in the house when he hears the ice dispenser. I thought he was the only one that did that!
And he loves having ice in his water and gets quite upset when Ferrule steeps his sock in it.

Maybe it’s a Meezer thing?

–That’s funny Ginny–

I found something new that our kitties like to play w/besides paper wads. They love the little oyster crackers you put in soup. At least I don’t have to worry about them eating those.

We’re missing one Bank holiday - there are 8 days I’m sure but I can only think of 7, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day(1st Monday in May), Spring Bank Holiday (last Monday in May) and August Bank Holiday.

Is Boxing Day a bank holiday too?

We don’t get Whit Monday (Pentecost) any more because it moves each year - it’s date is dependent on Easter, Easter depends on Passover and Passover depends on the phases of the moon …… “They” are talking about making a fixed date for Easer too, it’s not always convenient to celebrate it at the proper time!!!!

Thanks Polly’s Mum, I think you’re right about Boxing Day being a Bank Holiday. 8’s still not a lot though is it?! Roll on Christmas…

Thanks, madcatwoman for the update on your holidays, although I will admit, I don’t know what some of them are! I am familiar with Boxing Day though! Hope your mum is ok and doing well. Sending prayers for good health for her and you as well. Thanks Polly’s Mom for adding your input. I hear ya, come on Christmas. Glad to hear you share some of the same holidays as we do. Love having friends across the ocean!

Hugs and purrs, Lynn

It’s them goblins I tell you - ‘have’.

That’s so cool! I’m glad he’s having a good time. Wish I could bring mine in, but they haven’t seen the inside of a carrier in 12 years, so that’s a no brainer! Enjoy your day with him. Hugs and Purrs, Lynn

I wish I could bring a cat to work. Even if I could they wouldn’t like it though. I’m not a social person so my cats aren’t particularly social either. They are O.K. with my occasional visitors but they wouldn’t enjoy being in an office enviornment. You and Huddy are so blessed to have each other. have a great day at work.

Many thanks Lynn and KITTYPAW

Huddy is by far the friendliest/most laid back cat I’ve ever had. He’ll just to go anybody as long as they’ll pick him up. Maybe it’s from me carrying him around when he was a kitten.

Anybody that comes to the house he just goes right up to them and sits there begging to be held.

I love him so much.

HM, you are very lucky to have a kitty who loves to be held. My first cat liked to be held and was the type of kitty that if I sat down, she wanted to come and sit on my chest (no lap for her). Sylvester doesn’t like being held and is not a lap cat at all. He prefers to go sit on the floor somewhere. He use to come sit with me on the couch but since we moved the couches around, he won’t do it now. Makes me sad sometimes as I loved it when he would come up on the couch and sit with me and was always making sure he had a foot or a paw touching me. Oh well.

–Karin–

Runt started this new thing w/following me everywhere I go. She loves to play in the bathtub. Got in trouble a couple of times,tho, starting her antics at 5:00 a.m.. And guess what??????

Her kitty Thumper has the exact kind of purr as his mom! I couldn’t believe my ears when he started doing it.
Now I can have stereo Purring/Singing going on when they’re together. It makes it harder for me tho,since I’m trying to gradually seperate them. I’m not trying as much anymore since I don’t see her kittens ever getting adopted now. The old”I don’t want a black kitten syndrome” they suffer from.

That’s sad nobody wants the black kittens. I’d take them in a heartbeat if I could.

Susie, what Petsmart are you going to this weekend? I am interested in coming out to your place sometime convenient for you.

I would love to meet Mama Runt.