It's the Cats' World...

FINALLY!!

2008-10-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since we have written on our blog. A lot has happened. We have done a bunch of shows, and we have titles in TICA which I guess is another place to go and get ribbons. Maddie is a Double Grand Champion Alter and I an a Champion Alter. But I got a 2nd Allbreed final and Maddie doesn't have ANY of those!

There was a big birthday party in July for the DOGS and we weren't invited! So we did not invite any DOGs to OUR birthday party! We turned one year old on July 24, which means we are not kittens anymore, but we don't care. We figure we'll act like children anyway.

We have been to New York, Maryland and Delaware for shows. At one of the shows in Maryland, we saw our brother! I don't think he knew who we were but Mommy did. UBN was there, too. None of us finaled, though.

Now for the REALLY BIG NEWS. The Phillies won the National League Penant! Everybody on the TV seems excited about that so I guess it's a good thing.

The REAL REALLY BIG NEWS is, I have been getting POINTS! I got some points in New York and some more in Pennsylvania and last week even more in Pennsylvania, and that guy Herman that Mommy met online says I am a GRAND PREMIER, too! I don't feel any different but Mommy is excited. One of the judges who gave me TWO ribbons asked if I was going to stay home. I think I should keep going to shows just to annoy people. HAHAHA!

-GP EvilTrixie

How Maddie got her name

2008-07-16T09:49:00.000-07:00

What's in a name?

2008-06-22T14:09:00.000-07:00

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

I don't think anybody's reading the girls' blog. Maybe if there was more....adult...content, people might be interested. I mean, probably nobody besides me cares that even though she wasn't in Lititz last weekend, Maddie didn't lose her place in the region, or that the cat known as UBN WAS in Lititz so is now 12th and only 17 points behind her. Maddie is 9th, and she needs to get to more shows. That's all there is to it.

Been having an E-mail dialog with a man named Bob, who had a Somali names Ramses, to whom he was totally devoted. Ramses passed away about a year and a half ago, maybe? so Bob is Somaliless, but in his love for the breed, he has taken on the task of creating a large breed booth which will be displayed at the bigger CFA shows. He's making huge posters for the back of the thing, of all candid images of Somalis being silly. He sought me out because he was short on images of blues.

The conversation rolled around to Maddie's un-Photoshopped green eyes.

"I'm flashing on an old popular song, where there's a line: 'Gwenevere had green eyes'... That goes back to the British Arthurian legend..."

He continued, "Eglantine goes back to Chaucer's Canturbury Tales, but I know that wasn't where you got the name (rather from some popular music! :-) "

Eglantine...Chaucer.....how did I not KNOW this? How in the world did I escape Mrs. DiJoseph's English class without that bit of wisdom? How did that never come up in conversation with the intellectual "signifcant others" of some relatives? Clearly, I am not smarter than a 12th grader!

So now, here I sit, with no wine, all alone, face to face with the stark reality of having unwittingly saddled a pink princess cat with a name Chaucer felt befitted....

A NUN!!! Madame Eglantine was the Prioress, and I remember reading part of her tale in the aforementioned English class! UGH!!! She must have been sort of anti-nun really, faking propriety and speaking bad French, and seemingly eschewing all kinds of nunly beliefs. In a way I guess it's funny that Chaucer named his nun after a French wildflower.

So, what's in a name? Gigi by any other name would be as pink.

But, a nun? Seriously? Sister Gigi?

June is busting out all over

2008-06-09T18:50:00.001-07:00

Actually "grandmom" thinks Maddie is! She told Mommy this morning that Maddie was getting fat!

Saturday was a big show called the "North Atlantic Region Awards Banquet" in Hudson, wherever that is. It took a while to get there Friday night. It was a nice show. The room was crowded but they put Mommy and Kathy in a good spot (well, they thought it was a good spot) and things went as usual except there was some big news.

I actually got some POINTS! HA!! There was one judge, I think she's new, who gave ME a ribbon and then gave Maddie one! So I have 21 points now! Woo hoo!

Maddie did great. She got four big ribbons and almost missed the bright pink one that Mommy really wanted. So, I guess she is not fat if the judges like her. The judge with the pink ribbons has given Maddie ribbons before and she was the last judge of the day. She judged us and Mommy packed all the stuff up except for us and the cage. Then the final was called and Maddie's number was not up so Mommy stuffed us in the carrier, packed up the cage, and we started to leave. Suddenly the ladies in the ring were yelling "Somali! Don't leave! Come baaaaaaack!" So Mommy walked us backwards, back to where she was, and she opened the carrier and the judge yelled "Make sure you get the right one!" and everybody laughed! So Maddie got the bright pink ribbon.

Then we went back to the hotel and played with the fun toy Mommy bought (with two ends, it is really cool, Fiona got one, too), Mommy got all dressed up, and she and Kathy went to the banquet. They were gone a long time and did not bring us home any food.

Then we stayed another night and drove home yesterday. I got mad at Maddie because she was sleeping in the litterbox! Since she wouldn't move I gave up and went to sleep on the soft mat. Mommy saw the results of the show and Maddie was 5th best which is really good!

It is very hot here but Quinn is so dumb; he spent all day bugging people to let him outside instead of staying in the nice cool house.

-trixie

The Grand Dilution

2008-05-30T09:06:00.001-07:00

Random stuff

2008-05-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

Don't we look great?

Happy Birthday to Us!

2008-05-25T16:53:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-05-18T15:32:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-05T17:46:00.000-07:00

...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.

We demand a recount!

2008-04-24T19:26:00.000-07:00

But mommy says we can't have one because we don't live in Florida.

She just found out that Trixie has eight points, not nine. :(

We live in a blue state!

2008-04-23T17:50:00.000-07:00

The plan for us on Sunday or Monday was to post to this blog and endorse one of the presidential candidates. But then that didn't happen. Mommy was annoyed about stuff that happened at the show on Saturday.

Yesterday Mommy went to vote for the candidate that we all agreed on. She got there and the men told her her name wasn't on the list! That was not good. So she came home and looked all over for a little piece of paper with her name and other stuff on it that we didn't understand. She went back and they still wouldn't let her vote. :(

But HER mom got to vote and we think she voted for the person we want to win. I bet you can all guess who that was.

We are the Premiers!

2008-04-10T13:42:00.001-07:00

It's official!

We are the Premiers!

2008-04-08T16:21:00.000-07:00

I think that's supposed to be "We are the Champions" but CFA won't let us be Champions so we are the Premiers. Yay us. We each had six judges throw little red, white and blue ribbons at us and it takes six to be a premier (or a champion). After the red white and blue ribbons come purple ones. Purple ones come with "grand points" and those are good. Maddie got soem last week, and some rosettes, too. This week it should be my turn but Mommy won't let me finish that sentence and Foxy says we are not supposed to use that kind of language on a blog anyway.

Happy Birthday to Us!

2008-03-25T16:46:00.000-07:00

We turned eight months old yesterday but we were so busy napping or playing or eating that we forgot to update our blog!

We are not kittens anymore at cat shows and we don't know what that is going to be like. We don't understand why we can't be kittens anymore because we are still so very cute!

Today we put mommy to work making us food. She made almost 23 pounds of yummy turkey for us but she had to stop because some of the turkey was frozen. We were not allowed to supervise but Foxy was. She got in the way and mommy kept yelling at her so I guess it was good that we stayed on her bed and slept.

Over the weekend we had company! There was a big party on Friday and we were not invited, but then Saturday a bunch of people came over to see how incredibly cute we were.

Oh wait. You mean....the party, all those people, that was not about us? Well, never mind then. We didn't like the dogs anyway so hmph.

Showtime! (Day 2 even though it's Monday)

2008-03-17T14:47:00.000-07:00

Who is St Patrick and why does he turn everything green???

We are home from Monroeville and have taken a few naps today.

Yesterday's judges were not as smart as Saturday's judges. They were all giving the good ribbons to blue girls, but in most of the rings it was NOT ONE OF US. This made mommy unhappy. One judge gave the little ruddy with the weird fur a couple of the good ribbons too and the humans were all confused. The good ribbons are blue, black and brown. If there are more than two in the ring, orange is OK, too. The other ruddy got some orange ones and Truly got three brown ones. Maddie got the other one. We learned that the yellow ribbon is NOT good.

Callie, the other blue cat that came with us, got a ribbon yesterday, from the same judge who gave Maddie one. So she got points too.

Kathy has a kitten called Fiona who is cute but not as cute as we are, and she got lots of ribbons including some big purple ones. Kathy's cats all got lots of toys too, so she was giving toys to US! So, we came home with 5 new toys! We liked the glitter ball hanging from the long boingy thing.

Showtime! (Day 1)

2008-03-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

We had to wait for mommy to get back from dinner because we can't get the laptop out of the case and type on it. She went to dinner with a bunch of people including our mom (we have so many moms!) but our sister didn't go. Supposedly they had fun.

So here we are in a place called Monroeville and our sister is here, and the blue cat that came with us when mommy first saw us, but she is not in our class, just our sister and two ruddy kittens. One has really weird fur and the other was just ruddy. Mommy and Kathy thought the one with the weird fur was cute but I bet not as cute as we are. She didn't get any points at all because the judges liked the other ruddy better. But all of us blue girls were getting points. YAY US! BLUE POWER!! We are the best and maybe not all judges are dumb because they noticed! So after one day the order is Maddie best and then Trixie and Truly tied for second and then the ruddy with the normal fur.

NEWS FLASH....NEWS FLASH...NEWS FLASH....NEWS FLASH

Maddie got a ribbon! She was 5th best in ring 6 which was worth a lot of points and points are good. If someone gets 100 points they get to be Best Somali in the Region! Foxy has 100 points.

Our sister is in a different region, though. We think maybe her region is better.

EvilTrixie Strikes Again!

2008-03-09T19:44:00.000-07:00

We went to a cat show this weekend. Kathy got these big cages for us so we didn't have to go in a carrier. It was a little scary but we got used to it. Well, then Trixie had to use the litterbox on the way home so it wasn't as cozy after that.

Mommy is happy and EvilTrixie has a big swelled head now because she won TWO ribbons and one judge said she was "stunning".

Kathy was showing her household pets. She had Fiona, Sadie and Sam. There were 11 household pets in the show and they only have 10 ribbons so in each ring one cat got a toy instead of a ribbon. The toys were not worth points but the humans liked them, I think. In one of the rings yesterday, Sam got a toy instead of a ribbon.

I was asleep in the nice soft fleecy bed so they were playing with Trixie on mommy's table and Trixie wondered if Kathy had better toys, so she walked over to Kathy's table and checked them out. She decided she wanted the new toy that Sam got so she took it and wouldn't give it back. So Mommy had to go buy Sam another toy and Trixie got us something fun to play with. Then she wouldn't share but eventually I got a turn. It is a piece of some sort of fur hanging on a curly string. That sounds boring I guess, but we liked it, especially Trixie.

Then today she jumped on the floor because she thought Mommy had baby food there.

So she is still EvilTrixie, I am still tired, and Gigi is such a grouch!

Here We Goo Again...

2008-03-05T13:26:00.000-08:00

Just when we thought it was safe to take a snooze, here comes Mommy to wake us up and rub goo on our bellies! She skipped two days so we thought this silly experiment was over! No such luck. We smell like pina coladas again!

Day 3 of the Goo Experiment

2008-03-02T13:35:00.000-08:00

I have commandeered the girls' blog.

They had ther third rubdown with MegaTek earlier and their little bellies feel sort of soft and velvety, not like a "tacky bald" Sphynx (as opposed to the Sphynxes that feel more like velvet or suede) so maybe there is some growth.

I realized that I blew the experiment. I should have made one kitten be the "control" and rubbed her belly with a placebo (not sure what I'd have used for that...) and had the other get the MegaTek, and then compared the results. Oh, well! It's too late now, and they have a show next weekend so some progress would be very helpful.

More Goo

2008-03-01T12:25:00.000-08:00

We were just rudely roused from one of our many naps to have more goo rubbed on onr bellies and now we smell like pina coladas.

We are no hairier today than we were yesterday.

Hair-Growing Goo?

2008-02-29T19:32:00.000-08:00

Mommy has this black bottle on her desk. Earlier today we found out that it is filled with white goo.

It's supposed to grow hair. Seems Mommy is in a big hurry for our hair to grow back where they shaved us for surgery.

Mommy held each of us on her lap and rubbed the goo on our bellies. She seemed to think it smelled good but we were not so sure. Didn't hurt, though, maybe because of the good pain meds.

We don't understand humans. They go every so often to get their hair cut off but they want ours to grow. It's a mystery.

Pink! Ugh!

2008-02-29T11:38:00.000-08:00

What is with humans and pink! I'm sitting here watching Mommy change the colors on the blog and offering my advice by pointing at things and trying to show her where to aim the mouse, but it's not working. All the text is pink. What is this, now? Rory's blog? Gigi's blog? What's wrong with a nice shade of blue!

Maddie is playing in a bag. I keep telling her that if we play with everything in the house, the humans will stop buying us our own toys. Gigi says that'll never happen.

We should show you some of our neat toys.

Feeling blue

2008-02-26T20:09:00.001-08:00

The drugs Mommy put into our food seem to be working better for me than for Trixie. I was on the bed licking Mommy before and I was feeling pretty good, but Trixie was really quiet and walkng a little funny.

I discovered something that is a real bummer! The other day I finally made it onto the kitchen counter! The bad news is, there was nothing fun up there, not even Gigi at the time. The REALLY bad news is, when I tried that a little while ago, it hurt. Won't do that again any time soon! Well, maybe tomorrow.

A Visit To The Docktor

2008-02-26T14:31:00.000-08:00

You have to ask Mommy why it has a "k" in it. Quinn says it's wrong and he is pretty smart, probably from sleeping on the laptop so much. But Mommy left it in.

Sometimes we read the other blogs with Mommy. There were things about dogs getting snipped. That did not sound good and we wondered if that would happen to us or if it was just a Dog Thing.

It all started last night after dinner. All the people were watching TV and then it was time to go to bed, and Mommy did a weird thing; she picked up the water fountain and locked it behind a door! Then we went to bed and before it was really light out, mommy woke up, and her daddy woke up, and they got dressed. We were sleeping in a little ball on the bed but since they woke up, we woke up. Then Mommy made us go in a carrier and something was definitely not right. We did not have baths yesterday so we knew it was not a cat show.

We drove for a while and we arrived at a strange place with large dogs in it. We could peek through the carrier cover and we could see them, and one barked! That was so scary. Mommy took us each out and kissed us and handed us to another lady. We went into some cages and Mommy was gone!

What happened next is a mystery. Someone gave us some stuff and we went to sleep. Then we woke up and still no Mommy! Whatever they did hurt and they shaved some hair, which maybe means we can skip some cat shows. After we woke up peopke were coming to see us that we didn't know. They were talking about how CUTE we were, which was a little like a cat show except we had no toys and we were not in our dumb show cage with the nice bed and the fun hammock. We didn't feel like playing anyway.

Finally Mommy came! The people who were with us all day put us in carriers and we drove home. That didn't feel so great. If this is that "snip snip" thing, it's no fun and we don't want to do it ever again.

Now we are tired from the good drugs.

Humans think we are weird!

2008-02-25T10:01:00.000-08:00

For some reason, they find this behavior odd.

EvilTrixie

2008-02-05T12:03:00.000-08:00

Ha ha, boy is she going to be mad, but it's not my fault she's sleeping so I can sneak onto the blog and tell the story of how she got to be called EvilTrixie.

<gasp> She has her PAW on Quinn!

Anyway.

Our dumb show cage with the nice bed and the fun hammock was at the end of a long row of dumb show cages, right in the doorway where people came in. Next to us on the other side was a cat named Arwen who was also blue and a Somali but she didn't want to play with us I don't think.

Mommy's friend Kathy was standing next to us and she opened the cage at the end. Trixie jumped out and climbed on her. She was climbing on everybody and that did look like fun so I started doing it too. So there was Trixie with her back feet on the table and her front feet on Kathy when suddenly she noticed that the lady behind us with the really gigantic hairy cats had a plate of FOOD so Trixie jumped off Kathy's chest and onto the floor and she hopped up on the lady's table and sneaked around the lady's back to get her chicken leg! She didn't get it though because Kathy grabbed her at the last minute and put her back in the cage. So, no chicken for us and that was a bummer. Then we had to go get judged again and Mommy got Trixie out first and she wouldn't stretch right because she still wanted that chicken.

Oh, and she thinks she's so cool because she can jump onto the counter in the kitchen now, and annoy Gigi. I need to figure out how to do that. There might be fun things up there (besides Gigi).

She still has her paw on Quinn. Should I be worried?

Cat Shows

2008-02-04T19:04:00.000-08:00

Yes, some humans really do get worked up about cat shows. Mommy was very unhappy all weekend at the cat show. Seems we were not winning enough ribbons even though we tried our best and were the cutest cats in the place. Mommy said judges don't know anything. The older cats said other things and told us not to repeat them here. Mommy keeps taling about showing us in "hhp".

People come to visit cat shows. We guess they like to see all the cats and buy stuff from other people called "vendors". The "vendors" sell nice toys and beds and we got a couple of new toys. Anyway, lots of the people who came to visit were looking at how cute we were and asking to pet us. They must be smarter than the judges.

Then on the way home SOMEONE made a mess in the carrier so we BOTH got dirty and that made Mommy even more unhappy. We had baths again.

Then all day Mommy didn't feel good so we all took naps on her bed.

Then she said something to her friend about how we should go back to our own region. We need to ask Quinn what a region is. Not now, though, because Gigi walked away from her bowl again and we are still hungry.

Bath Time

2008-01-31T18:50:00.000-08:00

Next time we have baths, someone should take pictures. Or maybe not, since we don't look our best when wet. But we are all clean now and ready for another cat show. Humans, some of them, really get worked up about cat shows. To us they are just places to sleep and eat and sometimes play with different people. We have to be in a dumb cage, but ours has a nice bed and a fun hammock in it. Then at night we go to a place called a "hotel" and we get to run around a big room and annoy mommy while she sleeps.

Ribbons are good. The humans love them. We never get to play with them so we don't see what the big deal is. They are worth points, whatever those are.

That's all for now. Gigi walked away from her food bowl which means more for us.

Living with Humans

2008-01-27T17:04:00.000-08:00

Sometimes we can learn things from the older cats. Quinn (who left before this pic was taken) and Foxy showed us how much fun we can have on an unmade bed. It's even better when they try to put the sheets on. Getting in their way is good fun and good exercise.

Serious Stuff

2008-01-26T18:07:00.000-08:00

Today's topic was supposed to be Cat Shows, because Mommy thinks people who read our blog want to know how we do at cat shows and what ribbons we win. But yesterday we found out that a really hairy handsome guy we met last weekend isn't doing so well, and his mom is really worried about him. And mom's other friend is worried about her cat too, but we didn't meet him. We did see pictures, though. So as you enjoy our blog, think good thoughts for Harley and Leo and their moms.

Our Birthday Present

2008-01-24T12:14:00.001-08:00

This is me, Maddie, showing off the new tree which the humans bought for us at the last show. We didn't get to pick the color but I guess this one is OK. It has nice perches and two different kinds of posts for us to climb on. We can look out the window when the curtains are open and there is something worth looking at, like the sun or some birds.

Meanwhile, Trixie is so lame! She is getting her "beauty sleep" (yeah, she needs it too, LOL, just kidding) on the OLD tree.

Happy Birthday to Us!

2008-01-24T11:29:00.000-08:00

We are six months old today. Woo-hoo! This means we are old enough to have our own blog. The older cats probably think it's THEIR blog, and it is easier to just let them go on thinking that.

We are celebrating our half birthday by sleeping and eating and occasionally playing. We have found that humans don't like playing when it's dark out; they think that is nap time, which is really so backwards! So, we were stupid enough to fall for that toy thing, we both ran after some dumb feather, all the way downstairs, and someone shut the bedroom door behind us, and Foxy got to stay. That wasn't fair!

We have also found that some humans don't like playing Queen of the Mountain with us. We cannot figure out why they wrap themselves in nice fuzzy stuff that we like to climb on, but get annoyed when we do. Basically humans are not much fun, but since they have thumbs, we have to keep them around to type our blog for us.