Scotchy’s Box Hideout

Happy International Box Day!

We Ain't Foolin Around!

"Happy birthday to one of the most wonderful kitties I have ever known!"-Meowmy

We have a special cat nip cake all baked up nice for your special day.



Guest, please help yourself to the refreshments. We have:

A touch of fresh grass to nibble on?

Get the party started!

There is Tuna Juice Punch for everyone.

Perhaps you little ones would like some milk?

Adults please help yourself to a niptini.

Or perhaps you'll join us in a champagne toast?

For dinner we have homemade macaroni and cheese. Mmmm yummy!

We also have fresh shrimp,

meatloaf,

some wonderful ham,

and of course some tasty chicken.

Thank you all for joining us on this special day. Now everybody dig in!

Happy Holidays

Check out these lovely graphics from the Human at Zoolatry!

We are wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season. We will not be around for a while as you may know cause our typist, Meowmy, is having surgery tomorrow. She asked us to say a great big "thank you" to all the nice kitties and beans who have left her messages of love and encouragement, it has meant the world to her to know that so many friends out there care for her. We will be purring for her and taking care of her until she is able to return to her blogging duties. Thanks for coming by, we hope to see you all real soon!

-Stryder, Scotchy and Sugar

Happy Happy Gotcha Day Scotchy!

Hello everyone! Meowmy here, I'm taking over today to give a special message to one of my favorite girl kitties.
It was 3 short years ago that you became a part of our family. You were such an unexpected gift. The cute little foxy kitty who just showed up out of nowhere. You were persistent and you charmed us all. Now you have a special place in our home and our hearts. You bring us so much joy and happiness. We are so lucky to have been chosen by you little girl! We love you and are grateful to be your people. We look forward to celebrating many, many more special days with you.

In honor of Scotchy's special day we would like to give a prize to one of our blogging friends. If you would like to receive your very own copy of "Purry Logic" by Jane Seabrook please leave a comment on this post. A name will be drawn at random and the book will be sent directly to you from the publisher. You have until Thursday evening at 6:00 pm eastern time to leave your request.

Now I'll turn the blog back over to the kitties and go find Miss Scotchy so I can shower her in head scritches, chin rubs, and Party Mix while she showers me in kitty drool, purrs and makes biscuits on my tummy.

P.S. Special thanks to Ann of Zoolatry for the gotcha graphic.

UPDATE: Concatulations to Lorianna of Twilight's Muse. She won the copy of Purry Logic. Thanks to everycat who participated.

We Are So Proud

We are so proud of our Meowmy. She has been working very hard at something for several months now and she is finally close to the finish line. She hasn't wanted us to talk about it because she was afraid it might jinx it but now she says its ok to tell you.

All her life Meowmy has had problems with her weight. She has always been the one to get picked on and made to feel like she was never good enough. No matter how smart, or nice or funny or self sacrificing she is, it is just never good enough to make people forget what she looks like on the outside and just accept her for who she is on the inside. Now we have always loved her for who she is and never cared what she looks like but us cats are far more accepting than most humans out there, right kitties?

She has had to deal with a lot of rejection but she always claimed it made her stronger. But we all know that even so it still hurts a lot inside. She began to think that maybe this is why she has been rejected so much while she's been looking for a new day hunting place too. Not only that but she has begun to have some scary health issues as well because of her weight. That makes us sad cause we want her to be around for a long long time to take care of us and give us scritches and stinky goodness and yes, even shove that darned flashy box thing in our faces too.

Recently her mom and dad bean offered her an opportunity she couldn't turn down. They wanted to use her dad bean's 401K money to pay for her to have gastric bypass surgery. Her mom bean had it done almost 2 years ago and she is looking great and has never felt better. Almost all of her health problems have disappeared and never heard from again. This is what we all want for our Meowmy. So since June of this year she has been actively pursuing this path to healthiness. There have been so many hoops she has had to jump thru to get here but she is finally here. She has a surgery date and time set.

But here is the part that we are especially proud of. For the past several weeks she has been making drastic changes to her diet and eating habits. First it was just cutting down on calories and making healthier choices, and now she is on a special liquid diet to prepare her for the upcoming surgery. Can you imagine a Thanksgiving where you couldn't eat a single bite of all the festive goodies? No turkey, no mashed potatoes, no pumpkin pie? Well she did it! She made it thru with flying colors! She didn't even think about having a bite. We are so proud of her! She is pawsome. She told us that we could help to support her by eating her share of the turkey. We all agreed that it was the least we could do for such a good Meowmy. And all of her hard work has paid off. She found out yesterday that in the past 5 weeks, she has lost 21 lbs!!! Yay Meowmy!!!! Yay!!! We couldn't be more excited for her, she deserves it.

She still has several days to go before her surgery on December 9th. We plan to spend as much time with her as possible supporting her and loving her as only we can. We may not be around much for the next couple of weeks but I'm sure you all will understand and excuse our absence. This is a major surgery and has risks involved with it but we are purring for a positive outcome. So if you have the time please come by and purr with us and wish our Meowmy the best, she needs all the encouragement she can get. Thanks for being such good friends to us all.

-Stryder, Scotchy & Sugar

Dona Nobis Pacem

Toctober

Happy Birthday Derby! We hope you like our tock shots!

Hey! Did ya see it? I was featured on Thursday Thirteen at Diamond's Lair! I'm such a Birds fan. I love this picture!

I'm headed over to Floof and Fur to see what Scotchy is meowing about. See you there!

Meow Like A Pirate Day

Arrr...me am about t' set out on me adventure on the sea. Me be returning soon with me booty. Where can me find a bottle of rum?

Quit your poutin wench. Ye be too little to come along. Ye must stay here and watch over the Meowmy while me be gone Scotchy lass.

WW-Coalition of Cats Against Cameras

Edited to add: Thanks to Zoolatry for the use of their badge. For information about joining click here.

Thursday Thirteen

This is our first time participating in the Thursday Thirteen so we thought that we would show you thirteen pictures of us that you have never seen before. We hope you enjoy.

Hanging out with my Meowmy while she types for me.
Notice my purple stripe after rolling on some berries in the yard.

Efurry girl cat needs a nice long bath.

Guarding my Meowmy while she swings on the love seat.

Spying on that Scotchy monster when she thinks I'm not there. Ha ha!

Sweet dreams Sugar!
I love my feathers. Too bad Scotchy hid them from me the day after I got them.
Just chilling by the pool.

Getting ready to put on my purple "make up".
Camouflage kitty.
Checking out the new black top driveway.
Sugar sneaks in for a quick drink while the Scotchy monster snores.
Meowmy worked really hard on our greeting for Ariel & MaoMao's wedding. Efurry kitty be sure to drop by and leave your concatulations for the bride and groom. The special day is this Saturday!

Not The Mama Monday!

You rock Mo! We need more people like you in the world. Thank you for being such a wonderful friend to all the kitties who need you.