The Grand Dilution

Random stuff

Yesterday morning I did not feel so great. Not sure what was bugging me; maybe I ate too much of the dry food in the purple bag that Mommy left out the night before. But I didn't eat breakfast.

By yesterday afternoon I was feeling fine. Then Maddie did not feel so great. She was quiet and did not eat dinner. I didn't see her pigging out on the purple-bag food but maybe she did and she had a delayed reaction.

This morning we both felt better but Maddie still did not eat breakfast.

Foxy, Quinn and Gigi all got to go OUTSIDE! This was after the big dog and the little white dog left. Mommy and the others were outside with big tools digging things, and Foxy, Quinn and Gigi all got to go sit in the sun, run in the grass, sit by the pool (not sure I want a bath in THERE) or nap under the big bushes. Usually Foxy goes out to see what she's missing, and then she runs back in. Today she stayed out for a while. Quinn came in with green leaves and bits of flowers all over him.

I decided this was more than I could stand so I ran out the door. Haha, I am so fast! Mommy was playing with the big tools and I am quicker than HER mom, so when she let Gigi in, I took off! I ran around on the porch and hopped up on the wall and felt the wind in my fur...and then mommy came running up to grab me! But She's slow, too, so I ran under the chairs and behind the cabinets and I made Mommy chase me all around. It was so much fun! Mommy was getting annoyed and I was having the greatest time! And her mom was annoyed, and she was yelling, and I was running away.

Then Mommy played a rotten trick on me. She went inside and got the chicken treats! She KNOWS how much I love chicken treats, so I ran in the house. :(

I did get a chicken treat for that. Maddie did not.

-EvilTrixie

Cat Fancy

Don't we look great?

Happy Birthday to Us!

We turned ten months old yesterday! Happy Birthday to Us! Wow, we seem to have a lot of birthdays.

We spent it in a place called Lebanon. Mommy says we have been there before. We did another show in our usual show cage with the dumb hammock and the fleecy bed. We like playing a trick on Mommy; at the end of the day, we switch places and she gets us mixed up.

Yesterday all the humans in the show played a game called Bingo. We didn't get it, but it involved someone yelling out letters and numbers and Mommy circling them on a piece of paper. Kathy had a piece of paper and Mommy circled numbers on hers, too. Mommy and Kathy didn't win, though.

Trixie is not getting any love. It might help if she wouldn't grumble at the judges but she still wants to play with them and she is still really cute. One judge hung a brown ribbon on her but didn't final her. Meanie!!

I got two ribbons.

Then last night Allison came home and she came to visit with a VERY BIG DOG!!! He ran around the yard and came right up to the door where we were watching! We got scared and ran away! But the people said he was a good dog. He was just really BIG!!! His name is Bailey and he is brown.

Today Trixie went into the garage. I didn't get to go because Mommy's daddy told Trixie to go back in the house. I wonder what fun stuff is in the garage!

-Maddie

We Love New York! Or....not.

We went to a show in a place called Freeport yesterday. We drove there in the rain Friday night with Kathy and two cats named Fiona and Fluffernutter, who had good toys that we tried to steal last week in Plymouth Meeting. (Actually, that was just me; maddie had nothing to do with it. Maddie never has anything to do with anything.)

The show was one day so in the morning mommy got up and packed everything in the room and we both hid under the bed because that seemed like a fun thing to do. Mommy left for a few minutes and a strange lady came in! We stayed under the bed and waited for mommy to come back. Suddenly we heard yelling. Mommy was yelling at this lady in the room because she left the door open and mommy was screaming at her to GET OUT, and she told the lady that if we got outside there would be BIG TROUBLE!!!! I guess it's good that we were big weenies and hid under the bed instead of trying to make a break for it. I thought about it for a second but I knew Maddie would be a chicken. Mommy made the lady leave, and went right under the bed, picked me up and I went in the carrier. Then she couldn't find maddie, and that was scary! She got out some food, which wasn't fair because I was already in the carrier, and maddie is so dumb, she went running right over, so mommy picked her up and put her in with me so I was squished.

Then we went to the show in a loud hall. We were in our usual dumb show cage with the hammoc and the fleecy bed. We saw all the judges and nobody got ANY ribbons. I mean NOBODY except Kathy did have one pretty purple one for Fiona.

Now that Maddie is a big deal GRAND PREMIER, she is getting all the brown ribbons. I got all the purple ones but they did not come with any POINTS and I really need POINTS. I think I should borrow some of Maddie's. I remembered the judge in the first ring, he gave me POINTS in Binghamton but this time he gave Maddie the brown ribbon and he finaled her. Then so did the judge in ring 2 and mommy told a funny story about that.

Maddie was in the ring all by herself so mommy went over to keep her company. The judge came back and said "didn't they call a final in another ring" and Mommy said they did, so the judge asked "is this cat in the final" meaning Maddie, and mommy said no. And the juge asked, "AND WHY NOT?" The real answer was "I guess because that judge was dumb" but that isn't what mommy said, she just said she didn't know. So that judge would have given maddie a ribbon too, if they had ribbons.

Then there was the judge in ring 3. It was sunny in his ring and mommy liked that. He took me out first and talked about how pretty I was, and he looked at me all over, moved my fur around, looked at my face and my eyes and I guess I did look just stunning in the nice bright sun. Then he took Maddie out and he didn't say anything about her so I thought maybe he liked me better, and so did Mommy. But then he put the brown ribbon on Maddie's cage. I bet we both looked absolutely beautiful in that sunlight, because we are so pretty, how could anybody resist our glowing blue selves!

Then it was time for his final and the clerk called Maddie's number! So Mommy and all her friends went and sat in the sun and he did his final and Maddie was not 10th, and then she was not 9th, and mommy said ok, maybe she could be 7th, and then she was not that, or 6th, and mommy said wow, well she can be anything in the top 5, and she was 4th! So she got a lot of the other kind of points and maybe someday she will get the ribbons to go with them!

Then we had to go home, and we were tired so we slept, except Maddie must have been in a weird mood because she slept in the litterbox.

Today mommy got the counts from last week and it turned out there were 30 in premiership when Maddie got a ribbon in the last ring so she got more of the other kind of points! I guess that's good. I want some points.

-trixie

Maddie's Swelled Head

It may just be that her head is bigger than mine to begin with, but Mommy just found out from some guy named Herman that she met online, that Maddie is a GRAND PREMIER! Actually she knew on Saturday but I guess she had to wait for this Herman guy to let everybody know for sure.

And then, if that wasn't bad enough, Mommy's friend Kathy called and guess what! WE are a CENTERFOLD in CAT FANCY magazine! Woo hoo, I guess that makes us real pinup girls!

Besides that there is another picture of Maddie, so when she sees that, her head will get even bigger!

Now, I need points so I can be a GRAND PREMIER too, and have cake! Anybody have points for sale? Gigi has some she's not using; maybe she will let me have them.

-trixie

It's not easy being blue

...because nobody reads our blog.

Maybe if we were ruddy, people would pay attention!

We got some exciting news the other nignt and you'll just have to keep checking this blog to find out what it is.