Fangs for the Memories

Some of you may not realize it but I am missing a tooth.  Notice in the picture above you can only see one.  The story behind its removal is still my secret but don’t worry, I don’t miss it, much.  Meowmy still gets upset about it when she sees my remaining one but I just remind her that it doesn’t hurt.  Are there any furry friends out there that has the same issue?

A little help please….

Hi!  Its me, Scotchy.  My brofur Stryder has been hogging the blog lately so today I’m taking over.  Ya see, I have a little problem and I was hoping all you kitties or kitty moms out there might be able to help me.

In the past few weeks I have been developing mats in my long floofy fur.  They are big and bad and knotted right up to the skin.  They are all along my tummy and thighs and my girl can not brush them out.  Now whenever someone pets me all they feel are those darn mats and they seem to be growing!  Do any of you know how to deal with them?  My girl is considering taking me to a groomer but I’m afraid they will try to shave me!  Please help, I don’t want to loose all of my beautiful fur for the sake of these silly mats.

Thanks in advance!

Guess Who's Sixteen Today?

Happy happy purrfday to a very special kitty, CJ "Holmes" Hickman!

Ok, now everycat pick out a purrfday hat to wear.

We have a special treat today in honor of the purrfday boy.

We have his favorite meal, Captain D's fish dinner.

We have shrimp dinners too, if you'd prefer.

Mmmm....that was soooo good!

Now its time for Ferrari cake! Would you like a wheel or some of the trunk?

While we are enjoying some cake, let's get to the presents.

Holmes is very much into music so we thought he might enjoy this:

And also this:

Now you can jam with the best of them Holmes!

But the best present of all didn't cost a thing.

Purrfday chin scritches from his boy.

Thank you all for coming to help Holmes celebrate his special day! Hope you got enough to eat and had as much fun as we did. We have posted a special slide show presentation above this post, be sure to check it out!

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.

Hello again!

It's been so long since you have seen any of us the typist thought it would be a good idea to refresh your memories. We are still as cute as ever, you can plainly see. Lots has been going on here at our house.

Christmas came and went. We really enjoyed ourselves under that tree. Scotchy especially liked to hang out under there but she would constantly test her limits by chewing on all the colorful lights. She would be quickly evicted but she always came back for more. Aunt Josey sent us some lovely presents that involved nip, of course. She really knows how to pick 'em! Sugar tried to bring home her own present for everyone, but she let it go as soon as she got in the house and forgot to make it dead first. We all tried to help get it back under paw but we just couldn't get the job done. We were too busy being shy because Meowmy's Gramma was visiting. The Food Lady finally captured it and let it out the back door. Sugar was quite insulted but she got over it when the Party Mix came out.

New Years was a bit lonely. Meowmy left us alone for the first time after her surgery. We didn't know what to do with ourselves without her here. Lucky for us she hurried home the next morning, unlucky for her it was because she was in pain cause she tried to celebrate a bit too much. She thought she was healed enough to get back to her social life, turns out she really wasn't. It took her way longer to get better than she had ever anticipated. She's only just now strong enough to get back into the swing of things.

Which brings us to Valentine's Day. We sure had a nice one! As reward for being such good nurse kitties the Food Lady got us a great present! We got a CAT TREE!! It's fantastic! It has three levels you can sit on, and you can scratch the whole thing and never get in trouble! Even when you put a BIG hole in it the first week you have it --Scotchy. Plus Meowmy got sprayable nip to put on it to help it smell nice and yummy. We also get prizes in the form of Temptations when you climb all the way up to all the platforms. Scotchy has created a maneuver that allows her to circle the main pole while lying on her side. It's truly an inspired move. Anyways, it stands in the kitchen in front of the huge windows that over look our back porch and the woods behind the house, so you know there is plenty of eye candy. It goes all the way to the ceiling! We also got our very own lazer mouse toy and have created several games the have us climbing up and down that tree. It's the best time we've had in a long time!

Oh, yeah, Meowmy said that she had a nice time on Valentine's Day with Almost Dad, Bob. He made her a seafood dinner and brought her sugar free candies and pretty rose petals. He asked her what she would like such as a teddy bear or knick knack. She asked for a 6 pack of Aquafina raspberry water instead! Weird isn't she? Actually we're quite proud of her because that was a healthy request. She has been working really hard on getting healthy. On Friday she got weighed at the doctor's office and she has lost 82lbs! Woo hoo! Way to go Meowmy! Headbonks for everyone!

We would like to sincerely thank each and every one of you who have been stopping by to continue to show your support. We have missed you all too! Your encouragement has really helped us keep Meowmy's spirits up. We hope to soon be back on a more normal blogging schedule but until then we will still be keeping up with you, our friends.

A Note From Kellykat

I just wanted to thank all the wonderful furry friends and beans who have been leaving me messages of encouragement and support. I feel special everyday that I discover one waiting for me. It means a great deal to know that there are so many fabulous friends that have me in their hearts.

I also have received many Christmas and Get Well cards from you. They are all beautiful and I have surrounded myself with them to remind me that I need to hurry up and get better so I can resume my place in the blogosphere!

While I have been away from the keyboard I have been well taken care of. We do A LOT of this:

The kitties take turns keeping me company and its just what the doctor ordered!

Thanks for not forgetting us and I promise that the kitties and I will be back real soon. We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.

Update on Meowmy!

hello everyone! aunt josey here :)

stryder, scotchy and sugar asked if i would fill in for them to let you know about how their meowmy's doing! they are busy making biscuits on her bed and keeping it warm until she comes home :) they miss her so much but know she is in good hands!

kellykat's surgery went veryvery well yesterday! once the doctors got over some challenges with her IV, everything went smoothly. she was up and walking within hours of leaving the recovery room!

she has been able to keep a good amount of sustenance down and is looking forward to regaining her energy soon :) she is staying at least one more night, as the doctors are still monitoring her kidney function. she is in very little pain and so thankful! she is also extremely grateful that her boy-honey bean and parents have been there to give her strength and encouragement every step of the way!

she also wanted to let you know she is most appreciative of all the purrayers and good thoughts you've been sending her way! they are helping more than you know. THANK YOU!!!

and i have to add one personal note from myself...i have known kellykat IRL for over 20 years and i must express how PROUD i am of her and how COURAGEOUS she has been! she has been very steadfast for several months in preparing herself mentally, physically and spiritually for this change in her life, and i know that with her focused determination, lots of healing laughter and support from family and friends (beans AND furry kritters alike!) she will heal very quickly and be well on her way. i also know that she will be eager to take over the blog reigns soon, but until then i'll be helping out stryder and the crew!

thank you again for your encouragement and we will check back in again soon!

(((HUGS!!))) and lots of purrs,

stryder, scotchy, sugar and aunt josey :)
(and of course, cousins snax, trixie, cadet and cali!)

P.S. thank you to the folks at cat blogosphere for remembering kellykat yesterday!! how thoughtful!

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

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!

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.

Thanks for the Award

Woo hoo!!! We got another award! Can you believe it!?! They like me...they really like me. Ha ha! This award comes from two cuties Niko and Cloud. They gave it to us cause they liked how we wanted to help our family by trying to get a job. Well, we think that it was the right thing to do but if you wanna give us an award for it - we'll take it! Thanks you two! Here are the rules as posted on their blog:

With the Premium Dardos, recognize the values that each blogger shows each day in commitment to transmit cultural values, ethical, literary, personal etc. that, in short, demonstrate their creativity by alive thinking that remains intact from their letters and words. " This label implies two rules: the first, link the blog to which he received the award. The second - pick blogs to deliver the prize."

We would like to pass this onto a few of our many favorite blogs.

• Captain Jack and Sir Dante and of course Fagin
• Daisy and Harley
• Lux
• Maggy and Zoey
• Samantha and Mr. Tigger
• Sock, Scylla and Charybdis

You guys are the best friends a cat could efur wish for. We have been feeling the love that all of you have been showing us since my last post. Many of you had great ideas for my meowmy on how she can make some extra green papers while things are tight. She is looking into all of them.
Most of them involved making some changes to our blog and doing some research on the innernets so she had to get the computer guys to come out and check our connection cause we have been having troubles in that department too. But now that it seems to be back to normal she says she can get started. We wanted to thank you all again, we never knew how many of you there were out there that cared about us and it has meant the world to us to find out. Purrrs to you all!

Tuesday Toesday

I have two different colored toes. Can you see them? They are black and pink. One of my toes couldn't decide which color to be so it is both colors. Meowmy calls it my "black-eyed pea-nk". What would you call it?

See how orange my beautiful white furs look. I try and try to lick them clean but that mean old red Georgia clay just won't leave me alone. I wonder if my good friend Lux efur has problems like this?

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.

Honors and Benefits!

Wally, Ernie and Zoey of The Island Cats gave us more awards!! They gave them to us as a package so that's how we will give them out too. There weren't any rules posted with them so we are gonna go with the standard linking rules and choose 7 blogs to pass them on to. Ready? Here goes!

1. Cat Banter's Kimo & Sabi. We love hearing about their family, they are so sweet with their blurpy sister. Plus Meowmy loves their names.
2. Dr. Tweety and da others catz dat are part of da Fab Five! We know that their mommy has been really busy lately and hasn't been able to help them with their blog as much as they would like but we still love them and haven't forgotten about them.
3. Eric and Flynn. They are the first kitties from another country that we made friends with. We love hearing about their walks around the farm and their pictures are always good.
4. Team Tabby's Moe and Mindy. Meowmy loves how expressive their pictures are and Sugar likes to think that she and Mindy are soul sisters.
5. Gandalf and Grayson. Stryder likes to hear about them cause he used to have a brother named Gandalf and it makes him remember him. Plus they are Georgia neighbors!
6. Gretchen. She was the first kitty to invite us to a party and use our picture we sent for the Garden Party even though Meowmy's photoshopping skills were severly lacking.
7. Tripper the Psyko Stray Cat from Life's A Trip!!! He always makes us laugh. We can't believe he thought he had MANBOOBS! Ha ha!

It was so nice to let some of you know much we enjoy your blogs. There are so many more pawsome ones out there we hope that eventually we will be able to awards to all of them.

Goodbye Sweet Friend

We are so sorry about our friend Roscoe. Please go by and give his family some comfort and support.