There’s a jealous boy in our town….

Watch as jealousy runs rampant during our latest outdoor photo shoot.

  

 

Oh kitties, there’s enough love and film for you both!  Be nice Stryder.

Mancat Monday

Rule # 3.  Always be sure to ruin good photo ops.  Do your best to always look away from the flashy box right as your person snaps the picture.  Or even just close your eyes. Here are some prime examples.

Brofurs

This is a picture of me and my brofurs. We was all borned together on April 1st, 2004. Sugar was our momma. We had two other brofurs, but they moved to a farm. The big man named us all after the Lord of the Rings movie characters. The gray guy above me is Frodo. He could be kind of a meany sometimes so we didn't snuggle often. Meowmy was happy to get a picture of it for prosperity. The other fluffy guy is Gandalf. He was my best buddy.
Gandalf, or Gandy as we called him, was a gorgeous mancat in training. He spent a lot of his time with the next door neighbor cat named Lucky. Lucky was a feral cat who found a home but never seemed to give up his love of the wild outdoors. One day Gandy went off catting with Lucky and he never came home. We hope that he found a new place to live where he could be happy and loved.

The same thing happened to Frodo, aka Frodie. Its like once Gandy left Frodie took over the job of Lucky's sidekick. They hung out together like best friends and then again one day, he just never came home. It broke everyone's hearts to loose another beloved kitty.

Soon after Frodie left, I started to spend time with Lucky. This really worried my people. They thought that I would be the next one to go. And I was! I left for two whole weeks! Meowmy was worried sick. When I finally decided to come home I was scooped up and taken to the V-E-T! They said if I got new turd then I wouldn't wander from home anymore. They were right. I love my home and my people. They give me everything I could possibly need and more. But sometimes I sit outside and wait. I wait to see if my brofurs will come back. Meowmy doesn't like it when I stay out like that but she just doesn't understand. I can't give up hope. Maybe one day I will see them again. Til then I'll be waiting.

Many Thanks

Thank you all for coming to my 5th birthday party. I had a blast! We wore Meowmy out really good, she has been recovering for the past few days. Ha ha! Mancats don't fool around when it comes to birthdays. lol. She took some pictures during the party so hopefully I can get her to post them sometime soon. But guess what!?! We've got another birthday to celebrate! Tomorrow is Holmie's 16th birthday. Sweet 16! In case you don't remember, Holmie is our almost older brofur that lives with Meowmy's boyfreind Bob. So we will be partying again tomorrow, be sure to stop by and help us celebrate a very special mancat.

Mancat Mond...err, uh Tuesday

Mancat Rule #2: When your Meowmy misses a blog deadline, make sure to let her know YOU were ready and waiting so it was all HER fault.

Mancat Monday

Tip #1. Always blend into your surroundings.

WW

Wordless Wednesday

King Stryder

I know this may look a little feminine but my Meowmy assured me that this is truly my Mancat crown. I like all the sparkles, don't you?

Wordless Wednesday

Guest Spot for Mancat Monday

This is CJ or Holmes as he is better known. He own's Almost Dad. He is 15 years old and still kickin! He recently was chased up a tree by a mean woofy and was stuck up there for hours cause it was too high to get down. He came down as low as he could but ended up falling and scaring efurryone. Although he was sore and a bit weary we are glad to report that he is perfectly fine!
When asked about his encounter with the mean old woofy he replied "no comment". But from the look on his face we could see that there was a lot he wanted to say about it! Back in his younger days he had a reputation for being a woofy smacker. He knocked a tooth right out of the mouth of one!
Holmes is a great mancat. He has been a best friend to Almost Dad since day one. They play games like soccer, guard dog and Can I Take Your Order or Talk into the Mike. This is where Almost Dad picks him up and holds him like a baby but then holds his back paw like a microphone at a fast food place. Because they are such good friends you can see that he doesn't want Almost Dad to leave for the weekend. He tried to pack himself in the bottom of the backpack twice before settling on top of the knapsack. It's hard to say goodbye to such a great mancat but he's always there to say hello when he comes back.

I Need A Job

Does anyone need some rodent control? Territory guarded? How about a dish licker or laundry sorter? Do you need a furry paperweight? How about a fill in for a round of THoE with your annoying sibling or a hissing partner? I need to make some green papers to help my family.

As some of you may know my meowmy was laid off from her job last October. Things have been pretty hard on us since then but we have had help from friends and family. The biggest help was that the very same day that she was laid off her boyfriend was offered a great job. It was his first job with steady pay and benefits. Well today, we found out that he was laid off too! He is signing his separation papers as we type. We are very sad about the whole thing, especially Meowmy.

So the only thing to do as the man cat of the house is to help out! If you have a job that only a man cat can do I'm available. I'm willing to do anything I can to make things better for my family, so don't hesitate to ask.

Mancat Monday

When your a mancat, the whole world is your kingdom. I don't care that this happens to be "in the neighbor's yard", it is still mine.

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.

Mancat Monday

We are all very sad to hear about sweet Pixie going to the Rainbow Bridge. She was a beautiful girl who had to deal with such a terrible illness but she did so with grace. We will think of her everytime we see a banana. Everyone eat one in her memory.
Not only am I sad about loosing another friend, I am still upset about the previous post. I am humiliated and still punishing Meowmy for this. I don't know how she will ever redeem herself for this one. Well, maybe a truckload of those new Party Mix treats would help.
Kellykat here...I just purchased 3 new bags of Party Mix in all the new flavors. I hope this will get me back in his good graces. I'm sorry Stryder, I will try to keep my makeover to myself from now on.

Mancat Monday Fill In

Being the gracious Gentle Mancat that I am, I decided to let my mom post today. Since she was nice enough to spend some time with me on Sunday I figured it was the least I could do. While I'm enjoying my feathers, check out her addition to the Needs Meme.
Sugar Needs:

1. a drummer. A drummer? I must be in a band. Better get to practicing my keyboards and vocals. Maybe Kellykat can help me out with this, she's very musical.
2. release from control. Amen! Leave me alone, I know what I want to do.
3. more dough! Hmm...wonder if they mean dough like green papers or dough like the stuff around the center of my Temptation treats before they get baked? Either way more would be good.
4. your help. Well we could always use some help. Uhm, could you help me scratch my lower back...been having some trouble getting the right spot. Ahhh...that's nice. Thanks!
5. more time to pay debt. So that's why I need more dough. I must still owe money to my nip dealer. I sure wish we could start growing our own around here.
6. to be controlled all the time. No I don't! I already told you I know what I want to do and I don't need to be told.
7. build up her own sales force. Well, that would help me to get more dough. And I would be able to pay my debts quicker. Thanks for the tip!
8. to be a fried egg. What!?! A fried egg? I'll stick with being a cat thank you.
9. to be refridgerated. I do like to stay cool but I don't want to get in that big old box. I just like to sleep in front of it so I can see what's coming out of it. I might need a taste if it looks good.
10. to be recognized. True! Its about time I was recognized for the Queen that I am. That darned Scotchy thinks this is her house. Well, its not, its MINE. Recognize!

That was fun. I think thats the most I've had to say on this blog, EVER! It felt good to speak up for a change. I found 37,300,000 hits when I typed in my search for this meme. That's more than the other two got. That proves that I am better than them. Ha! Take that intruders!

Scotchy Needs Meme

Hi! Scotchy here. Its my turn to play the Needs Meme. Here's what I came up with (with a little help from my girl). I found 13,500 results and here are my top 10.

Scotchy Needs:

1. some love too! Isn't that cool!?! The very first thing that appeared was my own blog! It comes from the bottom of the page for all of you who are using a reader thingy. My girl posted a kissing booth down there for all you handsome man cats and silly mommy's who want to show me some love. Go on, ya know you want to.
2. to know that I did the right thing. Who did the right thing? You? My girl? Well, I'll just have to trust that you did.
3. a little help now and then. This is so true. But all the wonderful beans and kitties in the Catblogosphere are always there to give a hand when we need it most. Thanks effuryone! You rock!
4. to do is run the zip line to the top. Zip line? I don't need no stinking zip line! When I climb up on top of the roof on the sun porch I just wait til my girl comes and gets me down. But it would be kinda cool to zip down and surprise attack my stupid brofur Stryder. Ha ha ha! He'll never know what hit him.
5. to keep me company. Sure! I'll be right over. Where you at?
6. needs a miracle for 500 Alex. I sure would if I really were on Jeopardy. They are soo smart. I might do better on Wheel of Furtune. I could whap that wheel really good.
7. to learn to play. Play? There is no learning in play. You just do it. My girl says I need to learn to play nice. Now that on the other paw I could use some lessons.
8. to think on it some more. Thinking is overrated. Like if I thought about attacking Stryder too long, I might not do it cause I know I will get in trouble, but then life would be sooo boring.
9. to spend the extra money. Do they mean green papers? I don't have any right now so there aren't any extra to spend. But if there were I'd buy some more party mix kitty treats and feather butt toys.
10. to settle down before she gets tasered. That doesn't sound too good! Ok, I'm settling! Back away from the kitty.

Well that was purrty fun. I'm glad it was my turn to play. I think Sugar is gonna play next. She needs to play, she is so uptight. Whenever I try to get her to play she just growls or whaps me on the head. Sheesh!

Salon Day

Some of you might of noticed that I didn't get to post yesterday. I wasn't very happy about it as you can see. Meowmy was gone all afternoon and all evening. I couldn't believe it! What could be so important that it had to interrupt my blogging schedule? She said that she had some things to do, errands and a birthday cookout at her boyfriend's house and also some self pampering. It seems that she spent the afternoon at the hair salon!
Can you believe that? I've got more furs than her and I don't go to the salon! Well I didn't think that this was fair so I let her hear about it. I mean if I'm not getting pampered no one else deserves to be pampered. She said that she needed to look nice for her job hunting. Why does she have to look nice while she's hunting? Well, to make it up to me she said that we could do a salon day at home for me! Don't tell Mr. Tigger about it though...he might wanna revoke my M-cat Club membership.

We started off with a full body petting/massage to get me all relaxed and purry. She's got good hands. Knows right were to scritch ya. I especially enjoy the arm pits and between the shoulder blades. Very nice. Then we moved on to the Furminator.

I enjoyed a little catalog shopping while she worked on my furs. They had the coolest shoes, just right for chewing on. On sale $22.95!
Once she was done with the brushing and petting I gave myself the once over. Looks like she missed a spot on my leg, I had to slick it down in place.
After all my pampering was done I had to check out the final product. I took a look in the mirror. She did a good job. Don't I look handsome?
I enjoyed my salon day so much that I told Meowmy that this should become a regular appointment. She agreed as long as I keep tipping her with headbutts and sweet snuggles. I think I can afford that.

Mancat Monday--by Stryder

Being a mancat is hard work. Like in this picture I am still on the job.



First I checked out my food situation. It was OK, plenty of cheerios to get me through til my morning stinky goodness. But I decided that my water bowl was not fresh enough. I poured it out onto the carpet so that Meowmy would freshen it up.



Then I went into the dark cave of the closet to make sure there were no evil monsters hiding in there. It seemed to be all clear. I was expecting a Scotchy monster. Only thing evil in there were some dirty socks.



When I came out she still hadn't gotten me my water. What gives lady!?! Just cause your watching Iron Chef America does not mean that I should have to wait til a commercial. Cat Cora would definitely not approve!



After a few more disapproving looks she finally got up and did my bidding. It was just a coincidence that a commercial was on. She knows how things work around this mancat's house.

Mancat Monday--by Stryder

Something terrible happened while the typist was away. We are so sorry to hear about Forest. She was a beautiful kitty that we were just beginning to get to know. We will miss her.

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Today's Mancat Monday post is about hunting.

Whenever your Meowmy gets out the mousy on a stick, its your job to hunt it down. But don't forget to smile for the camera!

Be sure to lick it really good, sometimes it has catnip in it.

Oh and always be sure to get your claw stuck in it so that she has to repeatedly remove the toy from your grasp. This makes it easier to get in some pets or chin scritches since she's down there anyway.

See ya next time!