Making Mom and Dad work

Well Mom and Dad are wrapped up in theatre stuff right now. It's closing week at Mom's theatre and Dad's been called in to help backstage. So they get home a little later. But we make sure we still get our Mom and Dad time. We make them work hard when they get home, giving us all kinds of pets and brushes. I'm dealing with a bunch of mats right now so that means extra brushes and attention for me. I don't like the mats, but I do like the attention.

Maggie Monday

Maggie loves to perch up on the kitchen stool and snoopervise what's going on in the kitchen. She's always a big helper, whether it's in the kitchen or when Mom or Dad are on the computer. I also think she likes the stool so she can pounce us.


She might be a stinker, but she's my sister, and a pretty cute one at that, if I have to admit it.

Easy Like Sunday

This is how we plan on spending our Sunday -- except hopefully the bed's not made because it's even more comfortable when you can snuggle into the unmade sheets. It's supposed to be rainy, which makes for great napping!

Upload new pictures!

Maybe if I get real close and stare into Dad's eyes he'll upload some new pictures. I know there are some on the camera...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone gets some special treat today (but not green beer -- save that for your beans). I forgot to prepare something for today, so I'll pull out some old favorites -- our St. Patrick's Day picture from a few years ago...









In my Wordless Wednesday yesterday I was on the Wii Fit balance board. Mom and Dad seem to have a lot of fun on this so I figured I should try it out. I could stand to get a little fit anyway.

Wordless Wednesday

Pictures coming

I was being very cute the other night and Dad got a lot of pictures of me, so maybe I'll have some pictures to post soon!

My wound is healing up nicely, and Mom is doing better (good enough to leave us and go back to work -- which is good and bad, because we don't get to snuggle). Thanks for all the great purrs to help us get better. It truly helped.

Lizard watch

Dad went out to water some plants and guess what -- Dad almost touched a lizard. The lizard was right on the hose caddy, and Dad didn't even realize at first. Think about it -- he could have caught us a lizard and brought it in the house for us to play with. But it is right near the garage, so maybe the lizard will sneak under the door and come visit us in there. Let the lizard watch begin!

Cat prints

Check out these cool cat prints...

Are you serious?

I'm not kidding -- as soon as I get feeling better it seemed like Mom got sick! Total bummer, and such a very busy week for her at work. She's been laid up in bed and we've been taking good care of her. Everyone has been so good to send me all their purrs so I could get better, but if you could send some Mom's way too, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm free!

I had a very good weekend so I have been set free in the house. There's still a little uncomfortable hissing at me from Josie, but overall we're doing OK. My abscess isn't oozing so Mom and Dad thought it would be fine for me to wander and do my thing (which is mostly to nap in the bathroom sink anyway, but by choice this time). Thanks again for all the healing purrs. I'm not 100 percent by any means, but I'm definitely on the mend.

Still in the bathroom

Well, I'm still spending my days in the bathroom, hanging out mostly in the sink or in a box, but at least Mom and Dad are letting me sleep in their bedroom at night. They've forced Maggie, Josie and Huggy Bear to hang out with us too, which is helping them get used to me again since they weren't very happy about me smelling like vet and illness.

In the meantime, I've been checking out the Simon's Cat comic strip on the UK Daily Mirror. Nothing like a little Simon's Cat to lift your spirits.

Thanks again for all the purrs and positive thoughts. I'm feeling great, it's just that I have an open sore so I can't be getting on the furniture and stuff like that.

Hanging in my new box

Well, I'm not healed up, but I'm certainly doing better. I'm spending most of my time in the bathroom still, but at night Mom and Dad are letting me hang out with them in their bedroom. Tonight Mom and Dad brought in Huggy Bear, Josie and Maggie so we can all hang out.


Mom and Dad bought a new litter box for us tonight, but before they could put litter in it I claimed it as mine. It is a perfect napping size!

Thanks again for the purrs. I hope to be back out around the house free in the next day or so.

Still locked in the bathroom ... and not happy about it

I spent all day in the bathroom after my visit to the emergency vet yesterday. The abscess is clearing up, but still oozing. The nice vet (Dr. Lindsey) said that it may be two or three days. Yuck. Maggie is all out of sorts because I smell like ooze. She was hissing, purring and meowing at Mom all at the same time. I think she's a little worried and a little confused.

Late last night Dad cleaned me us and let me wander in their room for a few minutes just to get out of the bathroom. I think that was a little bit of a mistake for them, because when they put me back in the bathroom I decided to fuss at them for not leaving me out. And boy did I fuss. I talked and yelled and meowed ALL NIGHT LONG. Dad tried to comfort me in the bathroom and even thought about sleeping on the bathroom floor, but I kept talking even with him lying down in there. Mom ended up going to another bedroom to sleep. A little while later Dad ended up on the couch downstairs.

Mom will be home with me today so I'll probably get some supervised bedroom time. Hopefully the abscess will be mostly dried up by the end of today so I can rejoin everyone. Thanks everyone for your purrs. It really means so much.

Back from the vet

I'm home from the vet. No cone, thankfully. The shaved hind quarters is humiliating enough. I am isolated in the master bathroom while I drain and heal. It'll keep me (and the house) clean, and allow Mom and Dad to monitor me. It'll also keep my sister from biting me again. I don't like being stuck in the bathroom. I keep trying to turn the doorknob, but I don't have thumbs. Dad has been brushing me and giving me extra treats. This is the first abscess that Mom and Dad have had to deal with from us. Mom's old cat Fluffy used to get him, but he was an indoor/outdoor cat, so he'd get in fights. But then after it was drained he'd just go outside to ooze. I get to ooze in the bathroom -- much less fun.

Thanks for the purrs. It really makes me feel better.

At the emergency vet

UPDATE: Apparently I have a ruptured abscess on my hind leg. The vet said she just needs to clean it up. I blame Maggie -- she's a rough-houser and a butt biter. But the vet said I was being good. That's before she really started messing with me. She's hearing me fuss now!

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Please send me some purrs. I'm at the emergency pet clinic. I had some spotting in Mom and Dad's bathroom where the food bowl is -- almost like I was having bloody stool -- and it really stinks. Dad tried to clean me like I had messed myself but I cried like it hurt (as opposed to me being mad). My mood was fine though, until they put me in the carrier and then in the car. I talked the whole ride over (fortunately a short one). So now I'm with the vet lady. Ugh! I'll update soon. Thanks for the purrs.

Referral links

I don't check my stats all too often, but I did today and found out that my blog was linked to from the About.com Cats post about cats celebrating St. Patrick's Day. It was a 2009 post linking to pictures of Maggie, as well as posts by Daisy and two other cat bloggers. I'm not the celebrity that some of my cat blogging friends are so I'm always tickled to have been noticed. Now maybe I can leverage this into more treats.

Extra floofy

So maybe it's the winter coat, maybe I'm just extra floofy. But I heard Mom and Dad saying that Huggy Bear and I need to lose a pound. We can't help that we're big boys. It's in our genes. And some of it is in our tummies. The big issue is this -- how do you get two big boys to, ahem, diet, without limiting what the two "just right, perfect specimen of a cat" girls eat? We won't eat by ourselves, so if we get isolated in the bathroom we'll just sit at the door wondering what excitement is happening on the other side. We're funny that way. We also eat dry food because some of us (Maggie) are little piggies and chase their nice older brother (me) away from my food. It's quite a challenge.

Maybe Mom and Dad need to clean up the garage, then create a cricket arena for us. Then, in the cricket arena, they can put us, and a cricket, and let us chase it. That'll be good exercise and we can still eat.

Still no pictures ... prepare for the bite

So Dad got distracted this weekend and didn't upload pictures -- big surprise. He forgot about my threat until this morning when I started sharking around his legs. I was all prepared to dish out my vengeance until he gave me treats and I forgot why I was supposed to bite him. But he promises pictures will be uploaded to Flickr tonight (or at least tomorrow).

It was a nice weekend and we had the windows open a lot, so I'll give him credit for that, at least. Mom's back was bothering her all weekend so we got extra snuggle time with her, too. (OK, go ahead and point out the irony of the chiropractor's wife having back pain...) I hope everyone else is having better weather too, or soon at least.

We need pictures!

OK, Dad is in trouble now. I was looking at our Flickr and he hasn't uploaded pictures in over a month. I know there are good pictures of us on the camera, too. So I told him if he doesn't upload pictures this weekend I'll bite his ankle while he's shaving. Expect new pictures soon...