Garfield
Location: Montreal-West, Québec, Canada
This is Garfield at ten weeks of age. I was asked to foster her mom, Brandy, and her litter of six kittens. We found homes for Brandy and three of the kits, but then - nothing. So Garfield, Stardust and Spot now live with me, along with their Manx pal, Amber and a big husky-shepherd cross, who comes from the same animal shelter. As you can see, Garfield has made it clear that she is a permanent “fixture”.
adorable! I wish I had fixtures like that at my place
Oh how cute is he i have the same little Fixtures at my house and wish i could get the same pic but im missing a cute kitten
i hope he does doesn’t do that when they are let
You light up my life kitten!
Look at that FACE! She knows she’s cute. Little bit of shyness there and a huge dose of cute and you have the Star of Saturday Kitten.
Beyond adorable!!
I agree that this little kitten is beyond adorable!!
Oh yeah beyond adorable
I agree… so incredibly cute… my cat knocked over my candle fixture like this today and broke some candles… I think I should steal this one and take it with me today!
Garfield looks cute as a permanent fixture. I think a grey fuzz would go nice with my decor.
Is this the new candle snuffer model? I’ll take two please! (Careful, Garfield, that flame will burn you!)
Hey, photo is up earlier than usual today, isn’t it? But, I’m not complaining! (And, yes, I’m at work today–thus the posts…)
Are we finished here? It is time for my nap FUZZ.
This site is so cute/goofy–check out your cat’s daily “CatScope”…
http://horoscopes.astrology.com/index/dailycatscopeindex.html
Thanks, Dee!
I’m going to check it out as soon as I get home.
Look at those mischievous eyes! They have some plan to light up something or at least lighten up TDK members stress!
Hey, Dee -
Something you might like
http://www.craveyourcalcium.com/
Cool! Thanks, Susan!
She looks like she’s trying to make it dark so that she can get into some naughty behavior & not get caught. It was great of you to keep Garfield & her siblings. Many happy years with “all” your family members
Another lemon and booze dessert! Looks great!
http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=138358&hbx=vbbmar07
Dee are you working today? I thought you only posted Monday - Friday…
Hey, Cathi! Yes, working for a few hours–leaving shortly. How is your kitty?
Gali is great and Max is so funny…he’s definitely keeping us both on our toes! I’m so glad I got Gali a playmate. They just adore each other.
Joke for today:
Things Found Only In America
1. Only in America……can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America……do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America……do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America……do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America……do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America……do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America……do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America……do we use the word “politics” to describe the process so well: “poli” in Latin meaning “many” and “tics” meaning “bloodsucking creatures.”
10. Only in America……do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Nice one, read first time!
11. Only in America … do we pay gardeners to pour fertilizer onto our lawns to grow grass that we then pay the gardeners to cut.
Ha Ha HA love it so true only in america
It’s the paw, plus the look in her eyes, that makes this an ultra hilarious and classic photo (on top of the customary cuteness). Garfield is a doll!!
Hello Dee,
Thanks for all the links you share with us. I am so addicted to this site. So much info here, and such nice friends! I’ve read all comments this past week, but it is so late by the time I get home from work, I figure, Why bother posting anything.
Happy Saturday to all!!!
You’re welcome, BB–have you been receiving any freebies, lately?
Well, I got a lot of coupons for items we use that were really good ones. Thanks to your suggestion to call the companies, which I did. I’ve told a few people at work about it. Li2ke $3 off, $2 off, etc. I did call for a free dog kit/cat kit, but haven’t heard anything, unless it was the 2 coupons I got. I ordered the Nutro free coupon, although after hearing about how they keep using cheaper and cheaper ingredients, don’t know if I want to use it now…… I worry about feeding my cats anything now. They get dry Iams. I had cans of the wet food, but it was from a year ago or so, so I guess was okay. I won’t give them the last can though.
When a cuatomer told me about the rat poison in the catfood, I said to the cashier next to me, that if I was home and on my “cat site” I would have found out right away!
I believe my old neighbor’s old 16 yr. old dog died from that bad dogfood. I was reading on the internet that someone lost their dog back in Oct. after eating Old Roy dogfood. Rocky, the neighbor dog, ate Old Roy in Dec. He died the Monday before Christmas. I was thinking of this the other day while riding home from work. Rocky was the old man’s only companion. I used to walk this dog and we went on really long walks in the woods, etc. Broke my heart to lose him.
Garfield and company eat Nutro; I haven’t heard anything about them using cheaper ingredients. Do you have a website or other reference you could point me to?
Garfield is so cute! What a sweet little face.
Bless you for keeping these kitties and giving them a forever home!
Enjoy them!!
How heartwarming!
**Lost Lab brothers meet at dog daycare **
Fri Mar 23, 7:59 PM ET
LA CROSSE, Wis. - They were called Wallace and Gromit, a couple of abandoned yellow Labrador retriever siblings who wound up at the Coulee Region Humane Society. The pups were 5 months old last June when they were adopted out, but to separate homes. Months later, Pat Kucera at Diggity Dog Daycare noticed two yellow Labs named Levi and Cooper would “play like crazy” every time they got the chance during visits to his facility.
“They love playing chase, ring around the picnic table and face wrestling on the couches,” Kucera said.
When he mentioned their behavior to their respective owners, Cyndy Lamb remembered the other pup she never forgot — the one that was with Cooper when she took him home from the humane society.
She asked Denice Mack, owner of Levi, about her dog’s past and found out she too adopted her dog last June.
“When she said he was 5 months old when she got him, my heart stopped,” Lamb said.
“I was so excited,” Mack said, “because when we adopted (Levi), we knew there was another yellow Lab out there, and we wanted to find him and get together with him.”
Mack and her husband Curt said they’re hoping to set up play dates outside the daycare for the two long-lost Labs.
“I’m definitely going to take them up on that,” Lamb said.
That’s a great story Dee
I thought you were usually not here on weekends??
What a great story!!!
God works in mysterious ways, and so
do animals …
Garfield is just so sweet!
**Hungry horse freed from caravan**
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6491013.stm
OMG!
**Housewife convicted of frying husband**
By STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Mar 23, 10:38 PM ET
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his body into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman Idmar Bonfim.
She then hacked Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos’ body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding in plastic bags beneath a staircase in her house, Bonfim said. He said police discovered the body parts after receiving an anonymous phone call.
Bonfim said the killing was either part of a black magic ritual or an attempt by the wife to collect life insurance worth about $34,000.
Citing testimony from the woman’s relatives, he said she may also have committed the crime “to avenge many years of humiliation from her husband.” He did not provide further details.
Santos denied killing her husband but said she chopped up his body, Bonfim said.
“She claims masked assailants entered her house, killed her husband and then forced her to cut up the body and fry it because that would prevent the stench of a decomposing body from alerting neighbors,” he said.
YUK!!!!
Just for the record, I don’t think this should be considered one of the recipes I post on this site!
Sing it with me now. . .”I can kill the ‘ole husband, fry him up in a pan. . .Cause I’m a woman, W-O-M-A-N” Sorry, couldn’t resist! >;->
I would have to agree with you Dee. Besides, it doesn’t say if she cooked the liver with onions or not.
I think I’ll pass on this one–I’m a vegetarian!
or added a nice chainti (wine ) (sp???) ???
This morning, despite my reminding him, my husbands alarm went off at $$#%@@(*&&% o’clock. He taps it and rolls over, but I’m jolted awake and can’t go back to sleep.When I read the story to him later, he wondered what happened to set the wife off. I said ‘he didn’t reset his alarm for Saturday’. thanks for the laughter Dee.
haha! I think the “quirk” that irritated me the most about past boyfriends (I promise I’m not male-bashing–I love men!) was the CONSTANT inability to retain anything I said to them for longer than 30 seconds! The guy I’m quasi-dating right now will ask me the same question twice within a 10 minute car ride! I’ve heard many women complain about this, as well!Instinct–I expect a “manly” explanation regarding this phenomenon from you!
Dee it is the same with kids all they hear is blah, blah, blah.
Or as I used to say it goes in one ear and out the other cause there is nothing in the middle to stop it!
Yeah! Some have nothing to stop incoming traffic others imediately scan incoming messanges and filters out anything that doesn’t trigger an immediate response.
Or so my best male body told me. Shhh! It’s supposed to be a secret.
Sorry best makle BUDDY! Sorry mind in the gutter! Seems like it’s always there these days. LOL
Uh, what did you say, Dee. I was thinking about football and changing the oil in my car
ahhhh….so typical…..just NOT paying attention. Selective hearing! LOL
Bobbie Boo, the new addition to the family has a catster site now. I’m not finished with it, but at least you can see how pretty she is.
http://www.catster.com/cats/505335
MerD she is so cute. Been checking off and on to see her. I’m so happy you were able to take this sweet girl.
Hi! Is this the same kitty you dreamed of and then heard about at a pet store?
Either way she is absolutely gorgoues. Congrats on the new family memeber.
Yes, it is the same kitty.
The pet store only sold supplies for pets, not pets. It is a strange place to take a lost cat. She was runnig around a neighborhood for a couple of days, and this guy saw her hanging around and then almost hit by a car. She was friendly, so he took her to this store. Instead of the (no kill) buddy center (affiliate of Denver Dumb Friends League).
She’s such a gorgeous kitty! Best wishes and prayers for a long and lasting friendship between the two of you.
She is lovely, MerD. I left her a treat.
What a lucky kitten, what a lucky you. I think sibling three packs are always a wonderful idea. We’ve had two or three batches over the years and they stay such good friends. Bravo for keeping them!
Thanks, Karin!
**Farm sues Taco Bell for libel over E. coli link**
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17752406/
Check out the bunch of pics of baby Knut! Talk about cute overload!
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/lf/022504polarbears/im:/070324/photos_us_rank_afp/9fc7fd4d0fb7ac9e2038ed0913a748dc;_ylt=ArmK9_zIJEElHkCAIM4kNgiaK8MA
Dee, 79 of the cutest pictures ever. Most definitely cute overload. What a doll. I just hope Knut has a good life ahead of him.
My, what big ears you have Garfield!
The better to hear you with.
My, what a cute face you have Garfield!
The better to steal your heart with.
My, what dexterous paws you have Garfield!
The better to explore with.
Thanks for the poem, MerD. I’ll be sure to read it to Garfield when I get home.
Funny!
Why Men Are Proud of Themselves
1. We know stuff about tanks
2. A 5-day trip requires only one suitcase
3. We can open all our own jars
4. We can go to the bathroom without a support group
5. We don’t have to learn to spell a new last name
6. We can leave a motel bed unmade
7. We can kill our own food
8. We get extra credit for the slightest act of
thoughtfulness
9. Wedding plans take care of themselves
10. If someone forgets to invite us to something they can
still be our friend
11. Underwear is $10 a three-pack
12. If you are 34 and single nobody notices
13. Everything on our faces stays the original color
14. Three pair of shoes are more than enough
15. We don’t have to clean the house if the meter reader is
coming
16. Car mechanics tell us the truth
17. We can sit quietly and watch a game with a friend for
hours without thinking “He must be mad at me.”
18. Same work-more pay
19. Gray hair and wrinkles only add character
20. We can drop by to see a friend without having to bring a
little gift
21. If another guy shows up at a party in the same outfit
you just might become lifelong friends
22. Your pals will never trap you with: “So, notice anything
different?”
23. We are not expected to know the names of more than 5
colors
24. We almost never have a “strap problem” in public
25. We are totally unable to see wrinkles in our clothes
26. The same hairstyle lasts for years-maybe decades
27. We don’t have to shave below the neck
28. A few belches are expected and tolerated
29. Our belly usually hides our big hips
30. One wallet, one pair of shoes, one color, all seasons
31. We can do our nails with a pocketknife
32. We have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache
33. Christmas shopping can be accomplished for 25 people on
the day before Christmas and in 45 minutes
Yes, funny and so true.
let’s see…. yes, yes… yeah, yep….hmmmm.
Yep, that’s me allright
Are you bragging or seeking forgivness?
Just counting my blessings, Susan
Good answer!
Well when you’re 33 and single, sometimes you yourself notice……
A 5 day trip only requires one suitcase for me unless it’s England in February.
Off to work I go……
See ya later, Bumblebee. Have a good day and be careful of your back (well, I say I’m a mom…)
I’ve made this a few times–just a few ingredients–very easy and fantastic!
http://walmart.triaddigital.com/Recipe.aspx?c=Easy+Cheesy+Artichoke+Bread&s=Unilever
Major yum Dee, Thanks.
Garfield is precious. Just love the pose. At 10 weeks it really is hard to capture a kitten sitting still, usually they are moving or sleeping. It is great that you have Stardust and Spot too. I have many siblings from different rescued litters, and they have maintained a close relationship throughout these past 2 years.
Ok, Kittenmaster, since you posted a picture yesterday of Bela & Boris, how about posting Stardust & Spot today.
Hmm - I’ll have to rummage through my photos and see if I have one of Spot and Stardust together.
Maybe it’s exhaustion, but this comic cracked me up!
http://www.unitedmedia.com/creators/speedbump/index.html
Garfield is such a handsome guy, you are lucky you got to keep him. I would of adopted him in a heartbeat, just like If I would of realized Bo still needed a home when I was in Tenn could of made my household an even half dozen. But I thought he had been adopted. I really love the Kitten pics but i was going to add to my household it would be an adult cat. Finally got a chance to listen to Kittenmasters interview, nice program. Kittenmaster you said you have been to the states often and you like to visit places nobody else goes then you should come to Nebraska Ha Ha HA. Greek independence day this sunday party tonight OPA!!!!!
Kittenmaster interview? Qu’est-ce que c’est ?
the link for it is in the comments from the 19th. i had to go searching for it myslef last night cause i hadn’t listened to it yet.
Thanks! Think I’ll go poking around now and try to find it.
**Taiwan offers ‘freeway’ for butterflies**
Sat Mar 24, 6:16 AM ET
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan will cordon off part of a highway to create a safe passage for a massive seasonal butterfly migration in the coming days, an official said Saturday.
The milkweed butterflies — which are indigenous to the island off China and have distinct white dots on purple brown wings — migrate in late March from southern Taiwan to the north, where they lay eggs and die.
The young butterflies then fly south every November to a warm mountain valley near the southern city of Kaohsiung to escape the winter cold in the north.
Conservationists say Taiwan has about 2 million milkweed butterflies.
To protect the migrating butterflies, a 600-yard stretch of highway in southern Taiwan’s Yunlin County will be sealed off in the coming days as the migration peaks, said Lee Tai-ming, head of the National Freeway Bureau.
Authorities will set up nets to make the butterflies fly higher and avoid passing cars, Lee said.
He said they will also install ultraviolet lights to guide the insects across a highway overpass.
Taiwan began the laborious task of tracking down the butterflies’ 180-mile migration paths in recent years.
Taiwan originally had more types of milkweed butterflies, but the largest became extinct decades ago when they were routinely caught and made into specimens for sale, the newspaper said.
What a wonderful jesture on their part. Good to know they were so inventive and caring.
Garfield is an absolute cutie pie ! I am partial to grey kittes…
I just received this in my email… thought it definitely worth sharing here.
From Snopes.com
To whom it all concerns:
Just a word to the wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or
any other municipality. To be acceptable petitions must have a signed
signature and full address. Same with “prayer chains” -be wary.
Almost all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others
are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business
cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of
Records for the most cards All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is
to get names and “cookie” tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to
validate active e-mail accounts for their own purposes.
Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to “10″ of your
friends, sign this petition, or you’ll get good luck, or whatever, it has
either an ! e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and
e-mails of those folks you forward to, or the host sender is getting a copy
each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of “active”
e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do.
Please forward this notice to others and you will be providing a good
service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam
e-mails in the future.
(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know why you
get so much spam!)
Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm
Thank you Debby. Gee, I just sent one yesterday and before I did it I felt uneasy. Should have listened to my “instinct”.
What about HSUS and HSI??? Are they involved in such a blatant hoax?
Not all email petitions are hoaxes. Organizations like HSUS and other non-profits do deliver petitions collected by email to Congress (I know; I work for a non-profit in DC). These organizations collect the required identifying information (name, city, state) from people when they initially register as email activists on their websites. Reputable organizations send email petition requests only to people who have agreed to receive them. The petitions are perfectly valid when delivered to elected officials or government agencies.
The problem is with chain emails from shady people who pretend to be speaking for some non-existent group who are only collecting email addresses for spam. I personally sign email petitions only if I have registered with the organization to receive their emails and I know they are legitimate.
One great thing about snopes is that you can always check it out! Oh, what a beautiful kitten we have today!
Haha…the look on her face
Garfield is a pretty boy! How nice that he lives with a little animal family.
I love lasagna FUZZ
Lights out FUZZ
he’s not really look like the real Garfield
Just checked out your web site! Good Job, I enjoyed it.
Great work!! Saw a lot of it but I don’t have MIME downloaded so most I could not see. Have no idea what MIME is. Can it be downloaded on a I-Mac?
Hum I don’t know… I use a Mac and it’s work. Can you send me the error (or the information) message ?
Thanks