Sugar
Sugar is eight weeks old here and was adopted from the SPCA. He’s a loving, incredibly energetic and grateful little being who’s being cared for by his new Mommie, and his initially reluctant, but now accepting, older brother, Pooh Kitty. Sugar could not be more loved. http://sugarbabykitty.blogspot.com.
Awwww! I love his markings! And the blog photo is cute. I like the black kitty bed he’s relaxing on.
What a cutie pie. He looks like he’s been into some chocolate. My kind of kitty.
what lovely blue eyes you have - so enchanting! the name is 100% suitable, too sweet!
Hi Meegle! Are you the one that has a finicky cat? My cats sometimes cover their food too, only after they’ve had their fill. Makes me think they are trying to save it for later. I have a 1 yr. old who is picky also. She used to eat canned food some as a kitten but had to change flavors every few days. Now, she will only eat dry food, no treats and hardly any canned food. I don’t know if this will help but I have an address to a site where you can make homemade cat treats. You can check it out, if you want. Some of the recipes look good enough to eat for ourselves! Scroll down to the lower part of the page and it will have some more recipes. I found one for” Turkey Delight “and “Almost Spot’s Stew”. Good luck.
http://cats.about.com/od/recipes/Recipes-for-Kitty-Treats.htm
Hershey’s Hugs FUZZ!! Too adorable!
A sweet faced kitten to greet me on a rainy winter day. So I get a bit of sunshine! Thank you Sugar!
Hope you have a very long and happy life :))
Mr. Sugar looks like he nosed around in an ink well. Was he writing his letter to Sandy Claws and he used he tail as the pen?!? Get it? Sandy Claus = Santa Clause, Hahaha…hehe.. groan.
Part Siamese or other Oriental breed, that one. Does Sugar have an expressive Siamese voice as well? He certainly has Siamese eyes.
Sugar has a CUTE little meow that doesn’t sound like the traditional Siamese sound, as I grew up with Siamese kitties. He’s the cutest and SUCH a joy!!
what pretty eyes!! He’s got his claws into that mat!!
Hershey’s Hug!
I love his brown nose. it looks almost like he doesnt have one!
FUZZZZZZZZZZ!
Looks like he dipped his nose in a puddle of chocolate. How precious!
He’s so very adorable! I love the smudge on his face and those blue eyes! The pink mouse is just like the one my Trixie has. She played with it until there’s nothing but shreds left.
What a little Sugar
Precious FUZZ!!
Makes one want to sing…. Awww SUGAR! HONEY HONEY!
I am so glad to see that I am not the only one who sings to cats! I made up a march for my Scratch and adapted “Santa Baby” to “Tiger Baby” for Tiger.
OMG, I’m not alone, then! I make up special songs for my kitties all the time. I’d love to hear your lyrics — c’mon, don’t be embarrassed, LOL! Here’s one of my less embarrassing ones — it was for my last cat, Chumley, who recently went to the Rainbow Bridge. He was taken in as a stray out of the snow, and he knew how lucky he was, he always appreciated what we did for him:
Chum-chummely,
Chum-chummely,
Chum-chum-cheree,
This cat is as lucky, as lucky can be;
Chum-chummely,
Chum-chummely,
Chum-chum-cheroo,
Good luck will rub off when he biscuits on you,
Or feed him some food,
And that’s lucky tooooooooooo.
Oh, how cute! That’s much more creative than my “meowing” the Jeopardy theme music to my cats!
I agree! I had a cat that I would scratch his hauches and he would twitch his tail while I hummed the Masterpiece Theatre song.
This was back when i first adopted Scratch and we lived in a studio with a loft. Every night she would climb the ladder with her “baby” which was a stuffed raccoon. And when i came home from work i would find that she brought it downstairs.
Here comes my kitty
i call her Scratcher
She likes to lick me
and climb the ladder
She always wakes me
Up in the mornin’
Is she trying to tell me
that I am snoring?
Tger’s changes lyrics all the time. when we were having litterbox problems it went like this
Tiger baby
just use the litterbox to pee
for me
You’re an awfully good boy
Tiger baby
and snuggle on the sofa tonight
What creative people!!
The love for your kits shows!! Our favorite is the classic Meow Mix theme. Meow meow meow meow…We got Mittens just before Christmas 1998 and her song was Here Comes Mittykins.
I am literally *CRYING* with laughter over this sub-thread! I may have to fire up a website exclusively for kitty songs and music, whaddaya think? I just eat this stuff up.
My calico Gracie used to sit in the hall and gripe when no one was paying attention to her. I’d sing this to the tune of “Crazy”:
Gracie, Gracie is feelin’ so lonely,
Gracie, Gracie is feelin’ so bluuuuuue.
LOL
I love Patsy Cline….you should do it… it would be so funny!
Oh, goodie, you might like my Patsy Cline site at http://www.patsified.com! LOL
I’m seriously going to think of a way to have a site for music and kitties. You’d all have to promise to let me use these wonderful items you’ve posted today!
Yeah thank you so much for confirming that me and my husband have not totally lost it……..we make up songs for the cats when we feed them, pet them ect………..
like…….your just a fluff machine and you wont purr for nobody but me ahh baby…….my favorite of course is Stinky cat LOL ……Mabey we should all get together and make a CD for cat lovers ?
Oh goodness…Now I’m singing “Fluff Machine”
heh heh
ok here we go
tinker fluff tinker fluff lovey all the way …..how much fun to run run run and play play play play play…….
Geez…I wasn’t TDK’n much today and I come back and to CAT SONGS…. I love it! I sing to my big boy Freddy around this time of year… “here comes fatty-paws, here comes fatty-paws, right down fatty-paws lane…”
I have one for my boy kitty. Apologies to Evangeline and our other french friends if my spelling and grammer are bad.
Thierry Henry
Mon bon ami
Thierry Henry
Mon beau chatton
Its not sung to any recognizable musicm just a sing song little tune that I made up.
Emma’s nickname is “lump” so we adapted the lyrics to the song Lump by the band The Presidents of the United States.
Gracie didn’t have a song but I am going to borrow the one above by Lisa in Anna Arbor.
Guys, this stuff is priceless. I really am going to have to figure out a way to have a website exclusively for kitty songs and also music that kitties love. Don’t laugh, but my ginger cat Chumley *loved* acoustic guitar. We have a Christmas CD that we call “Chumley’s CD.” He also adored classical harp. Chum used to get harp and guitar CDs in his kitty stocking, I kid you not! He’d come out from hiding if you put one of his CDs on, and he’d cuddle up next to the speakers and stay for hours in a sort of a trance.
Yes, please sing the Gracie song to your Gracie! It’s nice to imagine my Gracie living on that way!:)
My little Joshua is a Tonkinese. His song, with apologies to Elton John, is “Get Back, Tonky Cat”.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who rewrites songs for my cats. I love Mary Poppins and I love your rendition of the song for your cat!
My cats get seranaded a little differently…but I have found the love REM and even the Ramones (”Gromit is a punk kitty, Gromit is a punk kitty, Gromit is a punk kitty no-o-o-w).
Wow man, I wish I was a producer….LETS CUT AN ALBUM!
A nice scratching pad, lots of toys, a loving mommy and a big brother to play with. Kitty life doen’t get any better than this! Lots of kisses to Sugar.
Aww what a precious little face!! My cat Reesy is just the opposite - black with a white nose!!
How interesting! I’ve never seen that pattern, if you ever get a chance, please consider posting a photo! I’m always so interested in patterns, I guess it’s because I’m a calico nut. LOL
What a sweet baby! That must be why you named him Sugar! I love the chocolate smudge on his nose. Vanilla colored with Chocolate accents…I’m getting hungry for ice cream….hmmmm..
haha! We are always thinking about food, CatRancher!
You think he looks yummy now, if you check out his blog you will see that as he aged, he developed beautiful latte colored spots on his back
I did go to his blog….ymmmm!
Sweet as Sugar FUZZ
Candy coated Sugar Fuzz
absolutely adorable…..love the eyes:)
Sugar is an absolutely fabulous sweetie, what amazing coloring! There are no words, I love this kitty.
Now > is one adorabobble puddy tat!
not sure what happened, but my posting was meant to say “Now THAT is one adorabobble puddy tat”
Oh My Goodness! What a beautiful baby! I would guess some kind of Siamese in the background there. Sugar is so unique. Those blue eyes are enchanting. Love those splattered markings too.
What a face! he has great markings! His baby blue eyes say ” I’m all mischief!”
Love those eyes and the little chocolate nose!
Oooh, I’m having a Sugar rush!
Thanks for the link yesterday, Ginny… I did not know you were from Tampa!
Yep–lived in Pinellas (Countryside) for 7 years. My daughter attended the swim camps @ Tampa Prep. in the summers. Do you know if they ever finished the overpass @ Drew St. and Useless 19 (by the “Virgin Mary” Bldg)? What a boondoggle!
Not sure if that’s finished—don’t drive through Pinellas very often. I know that it takes a ridiculously long time to finish any road work in the area…
I loved Sugar’s blog. It gets me all misty to see how many people adore their pets.
Even if there was a problem with the camera or film, the photo at the following link is pretty cool…
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1776.html
Nice aura. Love Shepards. Have a sister that has had several. Wonderful dogs.
Beautiful photo. Beautiful story. Thanks Dee for sharing.
**Mumbai dogs get home-delivered meals**
Wed Dec 13, 7:54 AM ET
MUMBAI, India - Mumbai’s fussy high-society dogs can now feast on gourmet cuisine specially adapted to their individual tastes and delivered to their homes.
More than 500 people have signed up for the Home-Care Dog Food service that caters to canines in Mumbai, India’s booming financial and entertainment capital, said the owner of the business, Wasiff Khan.
“They tell us about their dog’s likes, dislikes, allergies, and we come up with a meal plan for the month,” Khan said.
Owners’ habits are also taken into account, said Khan. On Hindu holidays when people do not eat meat for religious reasons, their dogs go vegetarian too.
Those who can afford the service, which costs from 30 rupees to 120 rupees ($0.66 to $2.60) daily, are attracted by the convenience, said Khan.
Before now, such pet pampering was unheard of in India, where hundreds of millions of people earn less in a day than the cost of these meals and where stray dogs are found on every street corner.
Demand for luxuries has grown however as India’s economic boom generates a large middle class with disposable income, as well as a small group of very wealthy, particularly in Mumbai.
“When you eat well, so should your dogs,” said Khan, now experimenting with meat-based birthday cakes for his clients.
J.C. Khanna, secretary of the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said it was just a case of people trying to do what is best for their pets.
“The poor share meals with dogs, they spend on medicines if their dog falls sick,” he said of shanty-dwellers who care for stray dogs in Mumbai.
“If the rich can afford to feed their dogs like this, so be it, as long as dogs are loved,” he added.
Ooo, a business opportunity!! Doesn’t Liver Cake sound yummy?
Great story, Dee! Speaking of feeding animals, this is one site I have been with for a few years. You just click everyday to provide .6 bowls of food. Doesn’t sound like much, but if enough people do it, animals get fed.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa
Sugar if very sweet. Love the markings. Is anyone else getting their new kitten later than usual. I usally find mine between 12-2pm EST. I leave work at 4:30 but the new kitten isn’t here yet. So I don’t see them til the next day. Maybe it my computer too!
Gimme some Sugar, Honey!!
My JazzCat had markings like that sort of. She was mostly Siamese with patches of white. Sort of the Yeng to his Yang (sp?). I really love his pointy ears! Seeing him makes me miss my Jazzy girl. Give him a scrunch for me.
Purina Naturals coupon at following link…
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Cat Fact
Did you ever wonder why your cat’s teeth are sharper and more pointed than your dog’s? This is due to the fact that cats by nature are strict carnivores (meat eaters), while dogs are omnivores (eat a little of everything). The sharp teeth aid in catching prey and tearing flesh.
Makes sence.
So thats is why the dog goes for anything in the trash cans and the cat goes straight for the Cheetos bag and the Cheez-it box. The cat goes right for the good stuff and doesn’t mess around.
**My scaredy cat is afraid of guests. What can I do?**
Get her to associate people at the door with something nice. When you come home or when a friend arrives, consistently reward her with something meaningful to her (treat, toy, etc.) Start this process early — long before the holidays get under way. And always provide her with a place where she can hide and feel safe.
I have a cat- Kombie- that got stepped on as a kitten and is now traumatized by feet. I can’t wear shoes in the kitchen when he’s eating, and forget my hubby’s work shoes. He will only tolerate a stranger if they are barefoot!
get the mouse
*~Skewbald Fuzz~*
Sugar Bowls me over!
I’ve posted this before, but it’s one of my favorite animal stories—and it’s perfectly fitting for Christmas—don’t forget to view the slideshow…
http://www.king5.com/lifestyles/stories/NW_061306ANBcatand_deerSW.817a5913.html
Hi Dee! Great story. I feel for Sammy’s owner and for Sammy, so sorry he left so soon.
Sugar is such a sweetie. Love his face and cute markings! Too adorable for words.
Did anyone see the ginger cats picture gallery for December? There are 49 pics of ginger cats!
http://cats.about.com/od/catspicturecalendar/ig/December-Red-Cats/ind
Thanks for that, Renee—I’ve never had a ginger cat—it’s so interesting how each breed has such specific personalities. I’ve always heard that ginger’s are full of affection.
You are welcome Dee. I have a ginger cat who is 5yrs old. He is a little love bug, always wants me to hold him or sit in my lap. He constantly flops down at my feet and rolls around, wanting me to give him all the attention! When he was a kitten, he used to fling himself into my arms, while I was standing up! At times, he did this when you least expected it! Nothing like having a cat hanging from your shirt! ouch! He did this until he was a year old.
Mine is 6 years old and quite a big boy, and he STILL does this! Usually when I’m at the computer, typing away, then suddenly *poof* cat on my shoulder - or hanging from my shirt if he miscalculated his jump…
You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
__Christopher Robin to Pooh
Did anyone see the 40th anniversary of How The Grinch Stole Christmas last night? Am I the only person who did not know that the voice of Tony the Tiger sang the songs in the Grinch? And that one of the professors from “Fame” (I forget his name) wrote all the songs?
Totally! I thought he was dead! (Tony the Tiger guy)I know that’s a terrible thing but I did. It was great seeing all those originals. And the part where the host (Tom Bursheron?) did all those different voices for the Grinch, that was funny!
There was an exibition of Dr. Seuss’ art work at a local gallery a few months ago. It was pretty amazing. Huge wow factor. Here is the official website.
http://www.drseussart.com/
I’ve seen this before. He was a talented man in the Dali sence of art. Where Dali was darkness, he was light.
So cute, looks like a snowshoe, with extra snow
I thought he was way too cute, then I saw the black pooh kitty and my heart melted. I LOVED the black kitty beanbag chair, and despite their hatred of it, where did you get it? Do I have to sew it myself? Both kitties are THEE cutest! Very jealous.
The Bearcam is finally working!
http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Wildlife&sh=grizzlybears
The Hummingbird camera is working too.
http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Wildlife&sh=hummingbirds
** 7-foot python is found in toilet bowl **
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian wildlife worker pulled a 7-foot python out of a septic tank Wednesday after a plumber found it hiding in a woman’s toilet, officials said.
Peter Phillips, a wildlife officer for the Northern Territory’s Parks and Wildlife Service, was called to remove the snake after a plumber who was fixing the blocked toilet discovered it curled in the pipes.
“The … resident originally called a plumber because her toilet was blocked,” Phillips said in a statement released by the Northern Territory government. “I arrived to see a large python head peering out of the toilet bowl.”
Phillips removed the snake from the septic tank because he said it had grown too big to be pulled straight out of the toilet. The mostly nocturnal Carpet Python had probably taken up temporary residence in the septic tank because it was a good place to hide during the day and hunt for frogs.
“The tank was obviously a great home, because the snake was so fat and healthy it was it difficult to retrieve,” he said, adding that the nonpoisonous snake will be released.
this is when I would start using the kids potty chair LOL
Rosie in SA—are you checking out the bears?
They are sleeping. Not much to check.
Did you guys hear Peter Boyle died? I loved him in Everybody Loves Raymond–just saw it last night–and in Young Frankenstein.
Here’s info on the meteor shower tonight…
ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16110109/?GT1=8816
Sugar is so very sweet. Love his blue eyes. Yes, very enchanting. Sugarkittys blog was great. I enjoyed watching him grow up and I love his rescue story. Bless you for taking him in. Glad to hear Pooh Kitty is accepting his big brother responsibilities. Hugs and smoochies all around!
Teresa,
Where is LO??
Will do another survey after the holidays as to where we all post from. If you would please post your state or city or where ever you call home.
I did hear about Peter Boyle…so sad…ONLY 71 years old! I may very well go out and see the meteor showers tonight if it’s not too cold. I am certifiable when it comes to trying to catch the showers. When my daughter was little we used to go out to the country away from the city lights and park along a country road — throw a blanket on the hood and lay back to watch the show… Now I can’t get anyone to go with me
In a year or two I’ll be taking my granddaughter! HA!
She is so cute. She looks like a backwards skunk. (Actleast her nose does!)
Very cute kitty.
But my first thought was that either he was following to close or he’s a real brown noser!!!
How do you put the smiley faces??
Chester,
I think that if you type colon “:” and dash “-” and either of the parenthesis “(” or “)” the site will change it to a smiley or frowney face.
type the colon : then the parentheses ) next to each other, you should get a smiley.
Chester,
Never mind. It didn’t work.
Maybe somebody else knows?
Hmmm, it didn’t read the codes either.
He is sooooooooo cute!! I love his unique markings! How precious!! I hope you have a happy life with your new kitty!
omg toooo cute for words! seriously adorable!
What an ADORABLE KITTY!!!!!!!!!!! he looks like hw would be trouble! ADORABLE!