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She got a new camera and it inspired her!

2012-01-22T21:08:00.000-05:00

Birds!

Bird Hunting

Snap will be going to the Rainbow Bridge soon.

Chase the Hungry

2011-07-24T21:53:00.001-04:00

We've been silent while the Woman finished up her summer class. She's done. Whoopie!

I have been eating eating eating eating and eating. Thank you Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers! It is sooooooo good, all I want to do is eat wet food. So I've been gaining my weight back pretty quickly and I'm going in for a blood test and check up this week so I will be sure to let you all know how that goes.

In other news, Rufus is F.A.T. The Woman needs to get on that.

Old School photobook thought we'd share

2011-07-24T21:50:00.002-04:00

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Rock Star

2011-07-08T12:01:00.001-04:00

I mean, you all KNOW I'm a rock star, but the Woman and the Vet specialist are shocked and amazed that I am eating so well. My lab results came back as 100% hepatic lipidosis. I've already gained weight back (you can feel my bones less) and I'm encouraged to eat eat eat eat eat. Which I love. So for now, I'm hanging in there and being spoiled rotten and they are going to put me on a liver antioxidant and as long as I keep eating all should be fine.

A really great link about hepatic lipidosis. The Woman has a friend (who is a vet in another state) who sent this to her.

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-07-06T09:06:00.000-04:00

Since there were so many loving purrs for me to eat.................I STARTED TO EAT ON MY OWN!!!!!!!!!! No feeding tube!!!! I love you all so much from the bottom of my heart (and the Woman too). You all make us cry with your love and support. We are sorry we can't get around to thank everyone personally, but know that each and every comment was lovingly read and cherished.

Even before the appetite stimulant I started to eat on my own. Then I kept on rolling to the point where the specialist VET said I should go home. She said I would start eating when I heard her voice and called me a "social eater" which is funny since I'm not at home. She told the Woman and Awesome Man to spoil me rotten and pet me while I ate.

I yelled and screamed on the car ride home (in a new car!!) and looked right at the Woman and told her how horrible it was. When I got home I got out bright and alert and went around to all of the liter boxes and left some extremely LARGE and voluminous poos. I don't like to poo at the vet. Then I got to have dinner served in the sleeping room with the Awesome Man petting me and I got to sleep in there too. In the morning I got breakfast in bed again while the Woman pet me. I purred and chowed down. She cried, it was pathetic.

So as of now I'm home and doing great! I even ate a lot of treats and played. Now we're just waiting on the liver biopsy results and thyroid test. But all in all I'm really doing well and I'm so happy to be home.

Feline Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver Syndrome)

2011-07-04T18:11:00.000-04:00

The verdict is in and I've got exactly what the Woman was scared I have. She is currently blaming herself for not getting me to the vet sooner, the Awesome Man for telling her he didn't think i was getting thin, and the stupid VET who on her last night at the practice didn't happen to think (from my very evident blood test results) there was much of a problem and "suggested" an ultrasound. But, we have to move forward and stop the blame game right? We seem to have caught it early and I've been hanging out with the techs at the hospital so I'm hanging.

My vet specialist is super smart and super nice and for once she was happy the Woman was educated in what was going on and what she is going to expect. We don't have the details yet, and they are trying an appetite stimulant tonight, but this means I'm likely going to have a feeding tube inserted. The humans will have to feed me 4x a day and it could be a few weeks, it could be up to a few months, I just have to decide when I want to eat again. The humans are encouraged that I was eating yesterday but just haven't eaten since I've been at the vet.

The cause is unknown. They do know I don't have cancer (YEAH!!!) and the rest of my insides were good looking. The humans really suspect it is Rufus. Rufus has attached himself to the Tall Man even more than Kaze is attached to the Woman. Rufus thinks the Awesome Man is his mother. So we don't think we can kick him out of the house and I very well may have just gotten depressed and I'll get over it. All of this is unknown and just guessing.

So thank you all for your continued purrs, it helps us all so much knowing we aren't alone.

Chase Face

2011-07-03T22:59:00.000-04:00

Hi all! Perfect time for a long awaited update right? You all I'm sure want to hear about the Orinch Menis (he is SUCH a MENIS) or the meezers, or how handsome I am. Unfortunately I can't give you what you want. I'm sick. Very sick. I've lost 3 lbs. in the past few weeks, I'm lethargic, throwing up bile, and have had dire-rear.

Last Wednesday the Woman (who I can't hate because she does keep pretty good tabs on me even though she's NEVER here anymore) notice I'm really skinny. Well, she noticed even a week before that but the Awesome Man told her I'm fine. Anyhow, she took me to the vet and we both disliked the vet we saw AND it was her last day in the practice....but they kept me overnight and gave me fluids and ran my blood and made sure I was eating. They discharged me the next day without seeing anything really wrong (aparently...but I'll get to that). The big-cheese vet man said if I wasn't better in a couple of days to get an ultrasound.

We live next to, arguably, the best Vet School in the country: University of Pennsylvania. All of our vets actually went there too. They have 24/7 care and the Woman and Awesome man have been really busy so they planned on going tonight. So the Woman calls and gets a rude lady who says they don't have any radioligists around and they can't do an ultrasound. She calls the other hospital (that she despises from the Latte kitten fiasco) and they were friendly but also said no dice on the radiologist, they could admit me and have the radioligist appointment on WENDESDAY. No dice. She calls the local 24/7 clinic and they tell her about North Star which just opened about a month ago. She called, and they said no problem on the ultrasound just bring me in.

There were a couple of real woofie emergencies ahead of me that made the Woman cry seeing them so we waited a bit but not too long. The vet man was really nice and was concerned with my blood results. Oh yeah, knowing I'd be going to a specialist the Woman had asked the regular vet to send her my records. It was a silly PITA because she PAID for them, she should get them and last we checked there were no HIPPA requirements for cats. Anyhow, they were faxed along to her which made the most sense since we ended up at a completely different vet hospital than we thought. My liver values are 3x the high range. When she looked at that she got P.I.S.S.E.D. that the vets hadn't pushed her as more of an emergency.

So, where we stand is I'm in Central NJ getting fluids and awaiting the morning where the internist vet will be in and give me an ultrasound. There are lots and lots of options of what is going wrong with me so we aren't freaking out yet. I am just not myself, I feel really sleepy and uncomfortable and have very little interest in eating or drinking. I weigh meezer weight 10 lbs. Me!! 10 lbs!! Things are not good with me and I can't wait to feel better. Everyone's purrs from Facebook have been so wonderful and they remind the Woman that I'm not just her cat, I belong to all of my friends here, I have such a wonderful extended family even though we don't blog much anymore. We love you all!

Finally, all of this is made so much less stressful to my humans because of my pet insurance. We've said it all along, but this is the first time we've really needed it in 3 years of having it. Pet Plan is such a blessing. My bill is already $2,600 and all but $200 of that is covered under my policy; up to $8,000 (and I only have "bronze" coverage Kaze has gold for $12,000) per year. Please everyone, have your humans consider insurance!! It is only a couple hundred a year per cat. The Awesome Man did the math and it would ake 250 months of payments to get to the point where it would be cheaper to have just paid for it yourself. The hospital lady said only 10% of animals who come in have insurance, I hope I can inspire even just one of my friends to be covered.

Thank you all for the purrs and keep them coming!

Oringe Menice!!!

2011-05-25T10:13:00.000-04:00

I am the ORinch meenisss, aka Rufus. If you can believe it there are no recent pictures of me. The other cats say you should be able to believe it since you all know how lazy the hooman woman is. The Tall Man keeps telling her the world needs to hear about me and she needs to teach me to blog but she keeps sighing and falling asleep. Something about working 2 jobs and going to school at night. I don't know what any of that is, I just know I rarely see her.

So you all know I weaseled my way into the house right? They call me "Rufus the Dufus" but I'm smart, really I am! I knew to attach myself to the Tall Man and that would mean I wasn't going anywhere. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE my Tall Man. His neck is juicy and tender and lickable. He hugs really tight too! My favorite thing to do is to nurse on his neck and purr (even louder than Kaze!).

I'm having trouble understanding this word, so I'm hoping you other cats can help me out. "NO"?! Sometimes it is "Rufus NO!" I really don't get it? I mean, it is when I scratch my clawrs on the carpet, or the sofa, or when I mowl at the door. Worst is when I look at the screen door (I've bolted outside it is fun!!!!). Sometimes it is followed by a squirt of water! I'm smart though, I've found if I get out of range of the water squirt it can't get me :).

I'm officially a 'charachter' and my antics get me quite laughed at. I've taught Latte some pouncing tricks from my days living on the street and he practices them on Kaze. Kaze is a little witch, huh? She won't let me near the Food Woman. She's very possessive and sensitive BUT she's fun target practice. She thinks there is a "safe zone" around the Woman....hahah NO. I don't respect this word called "boundaries". I play rough, and I play hard, but it is fun! Hey, I'm the baby and I want to play play play!!

Chase taught me to get on top of the cabinets to hide from the hoomans to freak them out. That's fun. Latte likes to play tag with me, and I've even licked him once! Kaze is learning to tolerate me as long as I stay away from "her" woman.

The Woman is sad and frustrated because I won't lick and nuzzle and love her like I do the Tall Man. She says all of the animals end up loving him more even though she brought us all in, feeds us, and scoops our poop. So last night I nursed on her fingers for her. She seemed to like that.

As a baby kitten I must have been taken from my mama-cat really young because I seriously full on nurse on fingers. I create a suction with my front teeth on the finger pad of the human and I knead on his shoulder at the same time. Oh, and PURR. I'm a really loud purrer. I'm a really loud talker too! I "Mowl". I chirp and coo and make loud noises all of the time. They say I talk more than Kaze!!!!

So we'll have to get some more pictures of me but I'm certainly loving my family!!

Pictures!

2011-04-03T21:00:00.000-04:00

Mostly Rufus, but there is Kaze looking at Rufus, and Chase the day of his teeth being pulled. We are shameful there are no Latte pics (And Chey will probably not be too thrilled). We'll work on it.

And I thought meezers were crazy....

2011-03-31T09:28:00.000-04:00

Chase:

1. Yes she took pictures. No she hasn't taken them off the camera yet.

2. My teeth hurt and the Woman ran out of wet food so now I'm starving to death. She tried to tempt me with crunchy food soaked in water. Not buying it. Latte however thought it was the best thing since the bag of Temptations he hunted down and ate the entire contents of (this was last week).

3. Orange Meniss. I'm not one to listen to meezers but Sammy & Miles are really smart and I have to hand it to them....Rufus IS an orange meniss. I mean he's cool and stuff, we hang next to each other and he jumps really high on stuff and knocks things off which I used to do when I was younger. However, this thing BOUNCES OFF THE WALLS. I'm quite serious. He starts with his trill of a meow.....BOLTS out from behind a couch, leaps and pushes off of a wall, meows again, and BOLTS up the stairs. He's brain crazy psycho. There is a short circuit or something in there. The Awesome Man thought he was being attacked.

4. Kaze has been the most curious about Rufus but still if she's startled by him she'll hiss. She's the only one hissing though, he just ignores her. Latte has started to play with him, they will play bat-bat paws and a little bit of tag. He's in the house full time and everyone is coexisting really really well. The Woman just wants to see us playing more and hoping to see snuggling soon. Rufus really wants to play and wants us to be his friend.

5. Cat nip. We've never known a cat to go so nipped out as Rufus. Druggie.

Orange Cat is staying & Chase looses teeth

2011-03-28T10:39:00.000-04:00

Kaze Reports:

Rufus is staying in our house. He's apparently the biggest teddy bear cat ever and really cute and blah blah blah. I am very interested in him BUT he's big so that scares me. We all get closer to each other and turn our backs and do lots of blinking but I still hiss if he scares me. Last night I was snuggling with the Lap Lady under her scarf and Rufus jumped up to snuggle and didn't know I was there. I flipped out and we both took off in different directions. Today he's spending the morning in the house with me and Latte with no human supervision.....we'll see how this goes. He spent an hour while the Lap Lady was taking Chase to the vet and it is really cold out on the front porch so she wanted him to stay inside. Latte is terrified of him but is getting more used to having him around. He really is Rufus the Dufus though he just does so many weird silly things that make us all laugh.

Chase is at the vet this morning having his teeth cleaned. He hasn't had a dental done in 9 years (he didn't need one) and they just called the LL and he has to have 2 teeth pulled :(. They are going to do x-rays to make sure the other teeths are OK but it makes everyone sad he has to loose some teeths. I guess this really hit home that he is a senior kitty now. He doesn't act like it at all, and even Latte & I are 5 years old- we aren't kittens anymore. Rufus is now the baby at 1 1/2 years old. Time really flies.

Where the Orange goes to the vet

2011-03-25T09:45:00.000-04:00

Rufus:
I've been getting really comfy with my new front porch home! I can sit right behind the people's heads (through a window) and coo-scream at them when I get lonely and want attention. They're pretty big suckers....I'm a people cat since I just don't know I can trust those other creatures in the house yet. The big one looks a lot like the local tom-cat and that long-skinny one? What IS that exactly??

I was really good for the Office Lady to put me in the carrier. We went out to this big moving machine and I was good but askeered. I was shaking in fear!! The OL pet me and told me it was OK and I love her so I settled down. I vaguely remembered trips like this in the past but it has been a long time.

So we went inside and eventually went to a room where she took me out of the carrier. I just wanted to curl up and didn't know what was going on. The first thing they did was verfiy I am indeed a boy and I do not have boy-bits. So I was definately someone's cat since they neutered me. Then they took my temperature which was no biggie. They kept telling me how very good and sweet I am.

I made the vet lady's day because I ate treats from her hand. I like treats. I don't know what the big deal is eating it from a person's hand but apprently most cats don't at the vet. I should have known it was a bribe because they put 2 shots in me and then she stole my blood!! Can you believe she stole my blood???? And then she swabbed my ears. NEXT (as if this wasn't enough) I got dewormer pills shoved down my throat. At least they gave me a big bowl of wet food after that. That was nommy. Mmmmmmm

While we were waiting for results I decided I wanted to jump up on the scale/table. I like high places- they make me feel safe. The OL had to get a chair to get me down hehehe. Next came an ear cleaning (I have a lot of yeast and bacteria in my ears, but no mites). Then my blood results came back that I'm negative to everything (which apparently is a good thing?). Then the OL suggested scanning me for a microchip (which I didn't have). And finally......the worst part.........CLIPPY CLAWS.

I had put up with a lot really nicely. There was no way they were taking my clawrs without a fight! I screamed and yowled and faught back for this part. It was over pretty quickly though.

The OL dropped me back at home on my porch and went right to lawschool. The Office Guy came home and let me into the house since I'm disease free. I did not like that....there are 3 cats in there and they are EVIL and trying to KILL me. When the OL came home she tried again but this time she (the smart one) just opened the door and let me come in on my own terms. That lanky one with big ears......she's CRAZY. Like BAT crazy. She runs at me and purrs! Like, just runs at me like she knows me???!! She must have brain problems. Luckily the OL has caught her from just terrifying the poo out of me.

The big one seems pretty laid back, if I hiss at him he backs away. The little one that is brown is terrified of me. I don't know why? The humans have been petting him to make him feel special. We'll see where all of this goes.....

Front Porch Cat

2011-03-21T10:57:00.000-04:00

It was raining and freezing cold this morning so when the Office Woman came out to meet me I was in my house curled up but very wet. She picked me up and we went right inside where she had the Tall Man help get me in the carrier. I started purring when I was put in the carrier! Then the Office Lady waked me back to her house and put me on the Front Porch. It smelled funny and stuff but I wasn't scared because I'm very brave.

She got me a litter box and foods and water (I was very hungry!). Then she pet me a lot and I liked that but she said she had to get back to the office so she left me.

We have a couple of people interested in being my mom but whoever wants me is going to have to be super duper special because I don't think these people want to part with me. I have my vet check set for Thursday afternoon to get dewormed/deearmited/blood tests/etc. I don't think I'm going to like that but oh well aparently I have to have it done if I ever want my own family since everyone who wants me already has kitties.

Office Cat Needs a full time mom

2011-03-18T12:08:00.005-04:00

Hi everyone! You remember me, right? I'm Office Cat (I don't respond to my "name"). Office Lady is my favorite animal and I wait for her every morning to feed me and give me love. She has been really sad this week because she says she loves me so much that she needs to find me a forever mom. Someone that can take me inside and I can snuggle and knead and drool and nuzzle as much as I want to. I don't know what this means because all I want to do is come in the office and be with her but she says this is for the best.

So if anyone is looking for a golden-nuget-of-love please remember me! I purr all of the time and I make little cooing noises when I meow. I am really friendly and would get along with other animals, you would never know I'm a "stray". The Office Lady thinks my family moved away without me because I'm neutered and I must be pretty young as that was my first winter outside and it was hard. Now that spring is here I'm hanging around the office full time.

Oh for statistics sake: I am about a 1 or 2 years old, neutered, and about 9 lbs. I have a pink nose (with black speckles- my lips are speckly too!) and pink paw pads which are apparently "ADORABLE". I have white & black whiskers too! I have golden eyes that match my orange fur. I am in South Jersey, about 10 minutes from Philadelphia.

Meezer Meets Horse

2011-03-06T23:19:00.000-05:00

They tried to take me to the barn.....and I told them no.

They wouldn't dare risk Chase's good will....

But Latte....oh poor little Latte.....

First they brought out the harness, then they brought out the carrier. I was a little perturbed to be riding in the big metal machine but Meowmy was holding me and I sat in her lap and looked outside a lot. It was OK. It was a dark rainy night and I didn't know what was going on but I'm a good kitty and took it all in stride.

Eventually the car stopped and Meowmy wrapped me in her coat and we went in the rain until we got to a big door. Inside the door smelled familiar, like when Meowmy comes home from the barn. We walked into the dark and turned some lights on and it was very weird but I was safe in Meowmy's coat.

Then I saw her.....it was my GIANT sister Snap. She was very horselike and she snuffed my head. I snuffed her back because I recognized her smell from Meowmy's riding clothes. I was a brave meezer and I let her nuzzle me and she was really very nice. She likes kitties but I had never seen such a big animal before! I was askeered......VERY askeered.

Meowmy made me ride her. See how nice Snappy is being? Even though I wanted to dig my clawrs into her back she listened to Meowmy to be a good horses (see her ears?) and she let me sit on her. I appropriately gave laser meezer eyes.

This is her snuffing me and me snuffing her. Her nostril is the size of my head!!!!!! Thankfully Meowmy kept me safe in her coat. So safe that when Snap shook her head..........I peed all over Meowmy. I couldn't help it! That big head scared me and while I was being really big and tough, I had to pee really bad. Meowmy did not get mad at me at all (even though I really let it out....she was soaking wet). We said goodbye to Snappy and I got to ride in the carrier on the way home.

After my very exciting journey Meowmy said I could blog about it so I'm sitting her in her lap and purring happily. I was an askeery trip but certainly one none of us will ever forget. Meowmy was so happy her babies knew each other and aside from the peeing incident, all went really well. I'm still her big brave meezer man.

Long time no blog.

2011-02-24T14:54:00.000-05:00

Update brought to you by Chase:

Yeah yeah pictures.......we are going to start charging the Woman for her lack of photography. The camera is out.....she's just not snapping.

It's snowing!!
Or....it could just be Latte's dander. Little meezer-rat is so flaky it makes me rather gaggy to look at him. He's always all up in my schiz, rubbing under my chin, lying on top of me, getting under paw. He is so annoying! He's also tenatious and doesn't give up until I hiss at him.

I think we're all hard of hearing from poo-bottom-princess-rat-face. Aka Kaze.
I have to hand it to her, she does NOT give up. Ever. Trash.Trash.Plastic.Thing.Receipt.PLAY.PLAY.!!!!!!! I'm totally exhausted from dealing with her. She had that horrible long bout of poo leaking after they changed that room around. That was so disgusting. Now she spends her time either in the heat box, lying under the study blanket with the woman, or lying on top of me. It is winter, it is cold- I get it. But really? BOTH meezers can be kind of lung crushing.

Mr. Perfect
Of course I am perfect. And I do not snore. I certainly don't grunt-snore so loudly the humans pause the TV and laugh hysterically at me. Nope. In good news the sun spots are more frequent so I can get a nice fur-tan. The Woman sucks, as per usual, but I do take pitty on her now and then. The Awesome Man still fends me off from violent snuggle-rubs. I LOVE to get him hairy....it gets under his skin and makes me laugh. And tail poof.

We hope all are well in the Cat Blogosphere!! We shall attempt some photos soon. The Woman has Evidence/UCC/Family Mediation this semester and interview and such mixed in. She's wishing she never went down this silly law school path but she has to finish it now!

New Year...new room?

2011-01-11T20:20:00.001-05:00

First of all thanks to everyone's birthday wishes for Kaze! We are going to let her tell this story because she had her usual Kaze-niption about the situation. (Side note, the Lap Lady deleted ALL of her 2010 pictures...brilliant, huh? Luckily the Tall Man recovered a lot of them.)

Just as I was getting used to having my Lap Lady around all of the time after work she packed that rolling bag and went out the door again and came home smelling like The Law. This made me rather depressed because we were getting some serious couch/blanket snuggle afternoons and I was really loving it. Especially since I didn't have to share her lap with the law books.

One day the Tall Man came up with a wild idea that they should take the Cat Room (he called it a guest room?) and make it into an office for the Lap Lady. I have no idea why since the Lap Lady can just sit on the couch with us on top of her with the TV going for the Tall Man....but aparently that is not condusive to learning?

So the humans removed the mattress/boxspring and removed all of the furniture and locked us cats out of the room. This was terrifying for me because this is MY room....it has always been my room. We had spent a lot of time tearing off the fabric from the bottom of the boxspring and I hid my plastic things in there and also myself when the Purple Menace was making noise. Still, I handled the paint smells fine, and even was OK with them tearing up the carpet that I have marked with my poo spots over the past 4 years.

However, then the Lap Lady started to paint the trim work. And I noticed the door was off of the hinges. So I yelled at her to see what she was up to. You know what happened??? My voice came back to me and yelled even louder! So I had to keep yelling. And yelling. And yelling. The Tall Man finally came up to see what was wrong. I was so upset, it gave me liquipoos that night (very stanky).

I helped the humans move the sleeper couch up the stairs by running underneath it and taking rides as it surfed up the stairs. They were cranky though, not sure why. Something about it only eeking by. The couch is great though because now I have my Lap Lady snuggle time back! I have to share with law books again but at least it is quiet and I can tempt her into napping.

Then today a new prize arrived!!! It is a tall custom designed scratching post and built to my specifications. I don't like sisal but the boys do so the bottom is sisal and the top is carpet for my petal paws. I lept at it (like a lemur aparently) and Latte shimmied up to the top. It is really beautiful and fun!!! It is modular so it fit in a normal box and assembled really nicely. Our new friends at Cats Love Us picked out the perfect carpet and he was just the BEST guy ever. We HIGHLY recommend these posts and the best part is....they are reasonably priced! You know how scratching posts are usually ridiculously over priced? These are totally fair and worth every penny.

Man Cat Update:
I'm handsome and very happy. I find extreme joy in rubbing on the Awesome Man, especially when he doesn't want hair on him. Also, I've decided there is no point in fighting Kaze's snuggles. She's pretty snuggly and seriously fun to chase so I've decided she's OK.

We're still here!

2010-12-09T12:35:00.001-05:00

First of all I apologize in advance for the iPhone pictures, it is all the pathetic Woman can handle these days. ~ Chase

Hi everyone, sorry we haven't posted since October, we know that is pathetic. 2L year is pretty busy for the Woman and right now she is in the middle of her finals. Taking exams and studying makes her useless at work so Rufus (we'll get to that in a minute) convinced her to update our blog.

First of all, how cool is this? Remember our professional photoshoot? Well we are the February picture for the Pet Plan 2011 calendar! Our Vet even called the Woman because he saw it and thought it was super cool.

The three of are all doing really well. Kaze is enjoying the heatbox and Latte is doing his manipulative stuff and pushing her out of the warm corner. I (Chase) am being really frisky and playful and even snuggling withe the Woman on occasion. Nothing really too much to write about in our lives because we're totally neglected by the Woman because she is either at work or at school. The Awesome Man does his best to keep us happy.

So Rufus......well I'll let him tell his own story.

Hi everyone!! I am Rufus!! I have a name!!!! One day I was outside and I walked into this big yard and this really nice lady came outside and gave me fuds. Good fuds. So I let her pet me and then I decided I really liked her petting me so I kept on coming back and asking for fuds and luvs. I stand on the trash cans outside her windows and look at her and meow and purr and that guilts her into coming out to play with me and snuggle me. Really I'm intent on coming insides to that office place but the lady says she doesn't have the final say in that.

So for about a month or so I kept on coming back and getting fuds and luvs and naps in a safe place. Last week something so cool happened!!! A little cat house showed up just for me! The lady said she and the "Awesome Man" built it and put insulation inside and even an outdoor cat heater pad. I LUVS IT!!!! I can nap in it and stay warm and cozy and escape the bitter windy colds. I hate the colds.

This is what I did for a bed before my "roof for rufus"

This is my rain barrel sunning spot.

So I'm a happy kitty and the lady says she's a happy lady because she gets to have an office kitty. She named me after her grandparent's cat from when she was a little girl. She checked to make sure I have a lack of "boy bits" (i don't have them) and put flea meds on me and says sometime soon I'm going to have to visit the VET man to get shots. This does not sound fun. But she says I'm also going to get a cool collar with my name on it. So I guess I'm now an honorary "Cat's P".

There is a nice kitty heater in the floor!

They all seem to think I'm really cool.

I'm so cute!!

Adventures!

2010-10-07T14:04:00.000-04:00

First of all, our Auntie E had her little blurpy and Meowmy was with her for all 26 hours of labor so Meowmy is really tired but has to go to class tonight. She was editing blurpy pictures and came across pictures of us last weekend out-of-doors. She can't find more of Latte (she knows she took them) but here are some actual photos of us for once!

Mini-Meeze!

2010-09-30T10:50:00.002-04:00

Straight from the Meezer's Mouth:

You know how my Auntie E is going to have a blurpy? He was due to come into the world on Monday and he's not taking the hint that we all want to meet him. I really love little boys and I can't wait to meet him. As a welcome and happy birthday present we had this custom made for him Meezer Lovey ! So cute right??

~Love,

Latte

P.S. Meowmy has FLEAS in her office. Not to worry though, she gave us some Frontline to guard against us getting them.

P.P.S. We miss you all soooooooo much.

Cool video and how Latte rules the house

2010-09-23T08:59:00.001-04:00

We love our Poang chair, but what a cool idea to let 100 cats explore an IKEA store and do a video about it! We wish this was in the US (it was in the UK- we often get confused for UK bloggers not sure why). Anyhow, cool video!

And your resident house meezer would like to mention that after a very long time of being locked out of the sleeping room (all cats, not just me!) we were allowed in last night. Kaze took her snuggle spot, Chase grabbed a neck to nuzzle and I hung for a bit but then got so extremely jealous that I had to start munching on a bag to make noise and annoy everyone. Meowmy said I ruined it for everyone....but....I'm the meezer, I'm supposed to get all of the attention!
~Latte

Photoshoot Pictures!!

2010-09-11T15:29:00.000-04:00

Here is the link to the photos from our Photoshoot last week with Amanda Jones! She really is a super duper famous pet photographer and she was really nice to work with The Cats P. The shoot was paid for by out pet insurance company- Pet Plan. They are going to put us in their magazine Fetch! and probably use us in marketing materials too.

The Lap Lady did a really good job cat wrangling us and the last set of photos she was holding all 3 of us!

5 Years Ago...

2010-09-10T10:52:00.000-04:00

Wasn't I just the cutest little thing ever??? Meowmy was going through old photos and she found me as a baby kitten (just 9 weeks old in this picture).

Happy 5th Birthday Latte!!

2010-09-08T08:53:00.001-04:00

It's my 5th birthday today! Meowmy says I get to go on a really special trip with the other cats and get our pictures taken. We are so excited because a toy bag was packed and treats too! She keeps saying "you guys have no idea what is coming...." but we just want the toys. We will report back after our adventure!!

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes!

Update:
Whew, what an adventure!!! We went to the place with the big mechanical bird things that carry lots of people, I was really askeered that she was going to put me on one and ship me away for ever. But we turned into a parking lot and went into a building. We sat for a while while another kitty got his shoot done (we were much better behaved than he was apparently).

Kaze got to go first and was such a freaking busy body she wouldn't hold still. It wasn't ideal for a cat shoot because there were all sorts of chairs and such we could hide behind. Meowmy got a workout running after us.

It was hard because while we're used to cameras in our faces all of the time, this was a new place and there were lights and a big backdrop and stuff. After we checked it out for a while all seemed OK. I (Latte) was perfection of course. My cute little self looked adorable and we can't wait to see the final photos. Chase got the most attention because he's so big and mancatly. At the end we got to do some shots with all three of us and some with Meowmy too!

Then we came home and got treats and petting and scritches for being such good kitties. I'll tell you what, it was better than a trip to the VET!!

Our Vet is a famous Philles Fan!!!

2010-09-01T10:37:00.004-04:00

This is our miracle vet :). Look at him catch that ball so easily.....plus that is the hand he has had surgery on numerous times. I love my Dr. Ian!!!!
~Latte

P.S. He is taller than the Tall Man!!

Goodbye to My Gorgeous Girl- Jasmine

2010-08-31T09:35:00.002-04:00

My first girl, my sweet little Jasmine has passed over to the Rainbow Bridge this morning. She lived a long life (16 years) and was rescued from the Animal Shelter after someone had dropped her off on the side of the road. She weighed 4 lbs. and was skin and bones and didn't trust anyone. She never became a lap cat but she did enjoy snuggling at the end of my bed and purred happily. This is actually the first cat I have lost in my life because I didn't get my first cat until I was 12 years old.
I have to tell you the worst story about "Miss Min" because she had a bit of an improper peeing problem. The worst instance of this was when I went to take my SAT early one Saturday morning and I was standing in the lobby of my high school when I noticed a distinct odor......cat urine. She had peed on my coat and I hadn't noticed until then so it had soaked through my sweatshirt too. I spent the entire SAT smelling that horrible smell (and everyone else around me too).

She wasn't perfect, but she was beautiful and I loved her. She was the first of my girl animals and for that she will always be remembered because the girls are truly my loves (Kaze, Snap, etc.). I will miss you Jasmine, I wish I could have been with you at the end- I would have kissed you as you drifted away.

We're getting a REAL photoshoot!

2010-08-25T15:50:00.002-04:00

Our Pet Insurance company thinks we're pretty photogenic and since we live w/n 15 minutes from their corporate headquarters....we get to have a photo shoot with their super duper expensive professional photographer!!!!! AND it is going to be next week on Latte's birthday. We're making the Lap Lady take off work for it (but not school....she refused to do that). Now she gets to cat wrangle all 3 of us into their corporate office hehe....should be interesting!

Photo tease

2010-08-18T21:29:00.000-04:00

We know we suck at blogging. We figured you might like to see how adorable we all still are so we dug up a few from the Lap Lady's camera. We added a few of her "other" photos which she has found more time to do than be our personal picture slave??!!

P.S. Chase seems to be doing a lot better and is hanging out with us instead of being in the sick room.

Farewell to our very Dear Friends

2010-08-18T14:23:00.001-04:00

Today we lost two of the original cat bloggers: Fat Eric & Luxor. Their loss makes us very sad but reminds us of the good times as well. Lux hosted one of our most favorite competitions ever and he was a dear friend and kindred spirit of Kaze. He and Kaze were the original Frootbats!

As for us we're chugging along, getting ready for The Woman's fall semester to start on Monday. We never wanted to officially announce us leaving the Cat Blogosphere but by now it is pretty obvious we just don't have the time to put into everyone that is deserved. We'll post from time to time though! And if you could spare any purrs for me (Chase) I've been very sick for the past day vomitting and dire-rear pretty nasty but I seem to be getting better today.

Long time no see! Took matters into our own paws!

2010-08-01T18:53:00.000-04:00

Wow, 3 months since our last post! Summer session struck Meowmy and she was totally useless. She hasn't taken a picture of anything since May and that makes her sad, but it makes us cats MAD. I decided to take matters into my own paws and take my own pictures to show you how thrilling our lives are.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis Episode). I was sitting on Meowy's lap for this one getting some nice scritches.

The Toy Man is cooking (shocking I know) and Kaze is being nosy. That is the rug sucking monster on the right there.

Sitting in the warm laundry. Mmmm warm.

This is the "cat room" aka guest room. Meowmy stripped the bed because Kaze just had a bout of the squirts and they got everywhere. It was a long squirts fest and she spent a lot of time in this room alone.

The green thing is Meowmy's shoulder, the rug eating monster is in the back ground. Meowmy was eating people food.


Hi Toy Man!! That is his head; and my chin.

Meomy promises to take some pictures of us this week because she has THREE whole weeks off from school. Sort of.... We've missed everything that has been going on including our 4 year Blogoversary.

3 Years! Happy Anniversary Cheysuli & Latte!

2010-05-05T09:40:00.002-04:00

Three years ago today Chey was making me the happiest meezer alive by becoming my wife. I can't believe it has been that long, it has been such a joy to be married to the prettiest, smartest, most lovely meezer I know. As a super special treat, since I've been rather neglectful, I am sweeping her off her paws and taking her to Thailand! We will go visit the temples of our ancestors and be treated with the proper revere a meezer deserves!

Wedding Photos
Invite
Tail Fiasco

I know I will never forget the date because that morning I woke up with what we thought was a broken tail, it was just limp, swollen, and hanging. Luckily it recovered in time for the wedding and it still gives the purrfect curl.

~Latte

Man Cat Checkin' In

2010-04-28T22:45:00.000-04:00

Here you go ladies....try to keep your mom's from swooning at my handsomeness. I've been so frisky and fun lately, keeping everyone on their toes. My favorite time of the day is lunch time when the people come home and I get some petting/purring time. I'll have to get the Woman to get a picture of my beef-cake arm bands from when I was at the vet. I've been really working on my man cat swagger and I have to expect the ladies will swoon if they see it. Kaze doesn't, but she doesn't count as a girl cat. She's just target practice that likes to sap my warmth.

The Woman's been OK, I haven't had to dislike her greatly in a while. The Awesome Man is still awesome, of course.

Meezer Monday

2010-04-26T00:19:00.001-04:00

I'm so cute, aren't I? I mean really, look at how adorable I am. We hand bunches of humans at our house over the weekend for the Toy Man's 30th birthday. Of course, as the social host of the family, I had to put my adorableness to work. I took it all in and just sat and watched for a while. The I decided that the herd of blond sticky people was actually quite ripe to adore my gorgeous self. I impressed everyone with my handsome friendly self and made a bunch of new friends. Chase eventually played with the sticky people too but Kaze didn't join in the fun.

Happy Birthday Auntie E!

2010-04-25T02:25:00.000-04:00

This is my Auntie E's grad school bag, this is how I learned the only way to get a grad student's attention is to climb in their bag and look really cute. I love my Auntie E, she is MY person and I want to go live with her. However she has exciting news that she will be having a Blurpy in September (just in time for my birthday!). I love you Auntie E!

Happy 30th Birthday Tall Man/Toy Man/Awesome Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-04-24T00:19:00.002-04:00

We all love you very very very very much. You keep us happy and feeling loved and played with while the Lap Lady has foresaken us for law school. Without you we would be bored and miserable and feel unloved. Thank you for being THE BEST cat dad ever. For your birthday, I have given you a "plastic thing". Please hide it for me ASAP so we can interact.

Love,
Kaze & the Boys

Frootbat Friday

2010-04-22T23:07:00.001-04:00

Did you miss my ginormous frootbats? I know, they really are spectacularly huge. Guess what, the Lap Lady just completed her last day of her first year of law school, she made it an entire year! She has an exam left to go but she came home tonight, sat on the couch, and thought....hmmm....time to blog! Yeah!!

The Tall Man turns 30 on Saturday and he is super displeased. I hear we are having a party with all sorts of people coming over to visit and I'm not so sure how I feel about that. We've never had a "party" here before.

Hopefully the Lap Lady will catch up on photos and then we can do some better blogging. For now, we're all happy and healthy (and we don't consider ourself 'chattel' no matter what the LL says).

P.S.
Hi everyone, Latte here!! I've been working hard being SUPER CUTE and prepping for my wedding anniversary with Chey on the 5th (I know I'm a man but I didn't forget!!). I have a favor to ask of you friends. You know how my "special person" is my Auntie E? Well Auntie E is going to have a Blurpy in September!! She started a new blog to track her exploits and if anyone is interested she has caught the blogger bug and really wants some new friends. Auntie E's Blog

Photos

2010-04-09T20:50:00.001-04:00

I'm feeling good! I have a couple of arm bands and a shaved tummy but other than that all worked out just fine for me. Kaze got it next and Latte never did. Viruses are not fun but they are better than other things. Look! She downloaded some photos!

Where the Man Cat tells you I AM NOT A PANSY MEEZER!

2010-04-02T09:25:00.000-04:00

Dudes (And ladies). Thanks for the purrs, they've really helped me while I've been in this miserable steel hell-hole. They knocked me out. They x-rayed my insides, ultrasounded me, stuck far too many needles in me, and stole way too much blood.

What can I say, I'm a rock. All test came back inconclusive. Just as the vet was about to scratch his head and move on to the next horrific torture the humans figured something out.

Kaze now has the runs. And Latte's poos is heading there. Yeah, can you say VIRUS? You know, not something worth subjecting me to the hell of the vet for so long. No idea how it got in the house or why but generally everyone is jumping up and down and doing happy dances.

Yet still I sit in my prison cell while they "monitor" me and starve me to death. I need an escape plan, who's in with busting me out? Apparently I get to go home this evening.

(The Woman:)
Hi all, thank you SO much for all of your kind thoughts and worries about Chase, they have been such a comfort. I found Kaze's case of the runs last night and just about screamed for joy (though I'm sure she's less than thrilled). Called the vet first thing this morning and he was quite relieved as well. We'll be getting our big teddy bear back this evening and I fully expect to be shunned for a while. Though I did make the Awesome Man come with me when we dropped him off so maybe I won't get all of the blame?

Getting worse

2010-04-01T09:44:00.002-04:00

(The Woman here)
Chase's blood work came back all normal but he actually is getting worse. He can't keep food down and he is still having very loose poo and frequently. Last night he was in so much pain he sucked his side in and was just staring into space.

I would have taken him to the vet last night but I was moving my horse to a new farm, and she needed me, so I could not make it back in time to get him to the vet. We took him in first thing this morning and they kept him to take some more x-rays (sedated this time) and then we'll see. ~~The vet and I both think blockage of some sort right now.~~ Not sure what it is as the x-rays don't look too bad. The ultra-sound lady will be out between 3-4 to get a better idea of what is going on. In the meantime Chase is being good for them and they are giving him fluids and some pain meds to make him feel better.

So keep the purrs coming!! Thanks everyone!

Sick Man Cat....need Purrs

2010-03-30T09:46:00.002-04:00

Update:
Well that downright was rude. They made me wait forEVER and subjected me to sitting on the exam table with the Woman and her law school book while she furiously crammed reading into MY TIME.

Growl report: Loud and Fierce with some hisses thrown in.
Of course they love me anyway.

Hissed of like no other report: They stole my blood. Never take my blood, I get HISSED off and will getcha!!

And an x-ray....really?? An x-ray?

(The Woman gives you a REAL update:)
X-ray showed a rather large gas area, nothing too concerning, but on the edge of concern that he may have ingested something but is working on passing it.

He did drop a pound since December which is not normal for him, and I have noticed one of the cats is eating less the past few weeks.

Blood results come back tomorrow.

I will keep everyone posted! I do have some awesome Chase photos to post, just so little time right now with law school. I miss everyone so much :(

My vet is "perplexed". I always have the perplexing cases.....

Yes, that was me sleeping over the tub drain.
Yes, I fell off the couch in my sleep causing you to laugh.
Yup....me again with the yaking on the stairs.
Also me with the eating less food.
And finally....the runny poo with the blood in it, and the rest of the runny stinky poo....me also.

(*&%$. Now the Woman is taking me to the vet. Great........ The only saving factor for me is the Woman has -5,000 hours of "free time" right now so this is further eating into it. Muwhahaha!!!!

Chase
(I'll let you know how many times I poo on them at the vet's office)

Cat- FAIL

2010-03-15T09:44:00.000-04:00

Shh....

Kaze can't get on the windowsill to get her plastic thing. The Awesome man put it in the shade assuming it would be a fun yet easy challenge for her. It is H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S. to watch her. She can put both front paws on the sill, but then stretches so just the tips of her hind claws are on the couch (we're calling it "tripoding"). She just can't do it. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Mind you, she is like 6" wide in general but she can't get on a windowsill that I can very easily chillax on. (Lets not talk about my width.)

Yours in Man Catliness,
Chase

P.S. I'm softening to the Woman, I purr for her a lot now. I even request snuggling.

The plastic thing

2010-03-12T10:18:00.000-05:00

Apparently the Lap Lady was able to figure something out with her law school fried brain. She can upload videos from her iPhone!! That means when she has a few seconds here and there maybe we can show you guys what we're up to. This is my MOST PRIZED POSESSION!!!!!!!! It is the plastic from the top of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. We call it "the plastic thing" and on weekends the Tall Man tries new and challenging ways for me to fetch it.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

2010-02-14T11:05:00.004-05:00

We had to make our Woman/Meowmy/Lap Lady take a break from being a busy law student today and tell you all how much we MISS YOU!!! We love you all so much, and you bring us such joy in our lives- it makes us all sad to not be able to blog very much. Kaze's boyfriend cat Mao sent her a fabulous V-Day treat (the only one in the house- the Tall Man is bad at this holiday). We made the camera come out and voila....actual pictures of us!!

Eyeball Bruise

2010-02-01T13:54:00.001-05:00

Hi all, I have an eyeball bruise. No scratches, or anything icky under my 3rd eyelid, just bumped into something playing most likely. I am however the King of perfect VET behavior. I only meezed 2 times on the way to the vet, and when I was there I let Meowmy hold me and the vet even pick up my 3rd eyelid with tweezers (I didn't even flinch!).

~Latte

I'm kind of in the dog house

2010-01-30T16:39:00.001-05:00

~Kaze:

So, the poo problem didn't go away and I had to go back to the VET. She's still not sure what is going on with me but it is kind of a wait and see sort of thing. My blood values were slightly off in a few things (pancreatic, kidney, white blood cells) but nothing she was too concerned about. The Tall Man started playing with me and my plastic thing a lot more and now I'm acting fit as a fiddle!

However....the Lap Lady is pretty convinced it was an icky bacteria. Probably because she suddenly came down with a horrible outer ear infection that is killing her big time. She's on hefy antibiotic drops for her ear.

And....um....Latte's right eye is pink and squinty and now he as to go to the vet on Monday.

So.....I'm not really anyone's favorite at the moment.

Tales of Poo....

2010-01-22T10:46:00.002-05:00

~Kaze:
So I know I've been MIA but this semester promises to be worse than last for the Lap Lady! You know how I'm showing her my discontent? I have loose VERY stinky poos. Very. Stinky. My feelings finally translated to me putting a poo-star (a-la-Skeezix style) right on her Massachusetts Dog Bite Statute. Yup, take that!

Well, I took that apparently as I was taken to the vet (who thought the dog bite statute-poo incident was rather hilarious). I'm a perfectly healthy cat but with very loose poo. So now I have a nasty antibiotic but some super tasty wet foods! Latte isn't allowed to eat my tasty wet foods and this angers him greatly.

~Latte:
Why does she get the GOOD medicines???

~Chase:
Wanted: Non-smelly house mates that don't attack you when you sleep. Preferably no females what-so-ever.

The Woman and the Man Cat

2010-01-11T10:40:00.002-05:00

The Woman's grades have been rolling in.....she hasn't been all that thrilled BUT she's determined to just work harder next semester. The biggest change in our house is that I have decided she is worthy of Chase attention, and lots of it. I purr for her, I even *gasp* SIT IN HER LAP. I know, I know, you are all wondering what is wrong with me but I have to say she is just more fun as a student and I know she needs me more. She's a good Woman, I love her.

Looking for some inspiration she picked up a Meezer book she bought last year, Yo Meow Ma which is an ancient Chinesse guide (who of course happens to be a meezer). She purchased the book with blogging in mind but it kind of sat around. The other day she picked up the book and turned to this entry (the link above) about the bird bound cat versus the mouse bound cat. (Latte and I are more mouse bound while Kaze and the Woman are bird bound). So she read the entry (quick read) and turned her attitude around.

On Friday she was sitting in her office when she saw out of the corner of her eye, a black smudge. Turns out a little bird was caught in the office! All of the men-folk there were scared of it, but the Woman was patient and eventually picked up the little bird and placed him outside. He was a bit stunned from hitting the windows so she placed him in the hose housing while he recovered and then he eventually flew off to join his friends. (All of this means nothing to me...EAT the darned thing!!).

The universe talks and we all have to listen. Thankfully we are cats and therefore rule the universe. Hope you are all well, you are all VERY missed by us but we have to help out the Woman and not pressure her to take our pictures or blog.

~Chase

Happy Birthday to Kaze!!

2010-01-01T00:00:00.001-05:00

Happy 4th Birthday Beautiful Girl!!!!

On New Years Day 3 years ago I was brought into the world with my brothers and sisters.

At first my frootbat ears were pretty tiny. That didn't last too long.

I was quite the frootbat even back then!

I loved my family very very much. My mother is a Chestnut and I look just like my Daddy. I am the one snuggled closet to their heads.

I have been blogging pretty much ever since I moved into my forever home 3.5 years ago. You have all been with me through my good times and bad and I love you all very much! I never get to talk about my fun and games anymore and that makes me sad. The Lap Lady says I have to be willing to give up some stuff to help her get through law school. I do my very best to make her happy, she is VERY important to me and I will not let other kitties get love from her without being involved. However, since it is the holidays the three of us decided to involve her in a cat pile. That's right, all three of us on top of her!

Here is to a Happy and Fresh New Year!!!!

Yearly Exams

2009-12-29T18:50:00.003-05:00

Tell me the truth...I don't look overweight to you do I? I mean, the VET wants me to loose 2 lbs and I was supposed to loose it last year but I didn't. I think I'm fluffy and well formed. However, my report card was "A-" and the comment was "Chase needs to chase more!" Then they stole my blood and my pee. I growled a lot at them and even put my teeth on the Woman but I didn't sink in. I don't even have to get a dental!! But now I'm old and have to visit them 2x a year. Boo.
I am a "Rock Star" and got an "A++"!! The tall vet man says I'm very healthy!
It was a rough trip to the vet though, the Toy Man couldn't go so Meowmy had to take me and Chase on her own. She is borrowing Gamma's car this week and Gamma doesn't mind cat fur and such (unlike the Toy Man) so Meowmy let me sit in the front with her on my harness. At first I was upset and she let me get in the carrier with Chase. Then we had to wait in the car for a few minutes while she took care of Gamma's kitties. At the end of the VET experience I wanted to get back in the carrier with Chase but he was growly and wanted to be alone. I spent the ride home on Meowmy's lap with the hot air blowing on me.

Blizzard 2009

2009-12-21T21:38:00.010-05:00

Yes, it snows in New Jersey. 24" fell on us this weekend. The humans were getting a bit crazy stuck inside....

Up the street...
This is the reason our car can't get out and I don't have to go to the vet for my yearly check up!
~Chase

Our backyard. The Woman thought it would be really cool to take Latte & Kaze outside at the start of the storm. I wish she left Kaze out there.....
~Chase

Meowmy made Chick-hen soup and gave me so real live fresh chick-hen! Aren't my fangs super cool??
~Latte
Plastic thing.....oh plastic thing....I will find you. You can't hide for long!
~Kaze

I can't even look at that shamless white rat. The snow is good because it means my and Latte's yearly vet check up is rescheduled to next week. Sweet!
~Chase
I have to just sit here and look regal because Kaze is just out of her mind.
~Latte
Ben and Jerry- Why do you even bother putting anything in those containers? Or making containers for that matter. Just gimmie the plastic top!!!!!
~Kaze

I was ASKEERED this morning. Terrifieried really. I couldn't walk down the stairs, the Lap Lady had to coax me down. There was a monster on the steps- and that monster is called "Civil Procedure". They are law school books and they are scary!!!! The Lap Lady though something was wrong with my tiny little brain.
~Kaze

I know what you are thinking, "Why are there SO MANY Kaze pictures?" Well, apparently I'm the only one who does interesting things that warrant picture taking. Not really, I just think the Lap Lady is obsessed with catching all of my expressions. Never gonna happen Lap Lady!
~Kaze

Don't you DARE even think about stealing my trash/treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Kaze
Back away from the plastic wrapper....
~Kaze
I'm even taking over the "Awesome Man". Kaze love can win anyone over to my team.
~Kaze

Wow...we know. Bad human who is supposed to be "on break". Well we had a LOT of human time over the weekend due to 24" of snow!!! We NEVER get snow like that in NJ. The humans spent a lot of time living in New England so they were happy to see it...for now.
~Chase

Ice at the office, thankfully the humans just walk 2 minutes to work so they didn't have to worry about driving anywhere.

This one is the view from the Woman's work window. The evil crazy squirrels trudged through the pristine snow. No really, they are evil- they throw themselves at the windows of the office! There is no telling why but suddenly there will be a whack and a squirrel hurling through the air.

Tummy Tuesday

2009-12-07T19:51:00.002-05:00

Stretch......

So what's up everyone?? It has been so long since we've ventured into the world of blogging! We wanted to give the Lap Lady her yearly assessment but she was in the middle of a memo and then had that 12 hour final. Now she took one day to herself and has to memorize like crazy for next Tuesday. Then 3 glorious weeks of Lap Lady and NO LAW SCHOOL. We don't have any clean laundry, the house is a mess, there are no holiday decorations, and NO FOOD!!!!

Um Kaze....on the way home I picked up BOTH kinds of cat food. I would never let you starve for a day. ~LL

Welcome to the World!

2009-12-07T10:53:00.003-05:00

Our very lovely and sweet friend Tama Chan just gave birth to 4 gorgeous little kittens! She had quite the experience but all are fine now. We are so excited for them all and #1!!

(The Lap Lady had a 12 hour long final exam yesterday. She's cranky....we're avoiding her.)

We're so excited!

2009-12-01T22:41:00.003-05:00

As you can see, I'm thrilled.

Well I am really excited!!!!

The Lap Lady finished her last class of the semester! Perfect attendance. Now she moves on to finals....after December 15th we should have a school break and be able to blog for a bit.

Special Holiday Contest for NJ Cats!

2009-11-24T13:44:00.003-05:00

We got an e-mail from Alex letting us know about a photo contest that is just open to pets (humans too) who live in the Garden State! But even if you don't live here, you can still enter to win prizes just by voting! We've submitted our pictures and there really aren't that many submissions yet so chances are pretty good you might win a prize if you enter!

Who couldn’t use an extra $1,000 shopping spree, a $250 gift certificate, or a metal machine with wheels (aka car)? Alex assures us that should a human win, the money would go straight to catnip for cats (of course)!

Palisades Insurance What Drives Your Smile Holiday Contest
(We will let you know we truly scan, read, and check anything we recommend to our readers as something you may actually be interested in!)

Here are our entries:

For all of you Snap lovers out there

2009-11-19T09:16:00.001-05:00

The Lap Lady had a really bad and really good week so far. Monday she cried and cried through class and came home and got my fur really wet some more. Apparently this is totally normal and is "memo week break down". So, she got over that and yesterday she went and did something FUN for once. Check it out....these photos are super duper AMAZING!!!

http://kamharrisphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/lauren-and-snap/

November

2009-11-10T11:22:00.002-05:00

Wow, its pretty disgraceful that we haven't posted in so long. It got really busy for the Lap Lady with school & work, but that is no excuse!

The Updates:

Chase:
We have some tasty new food mixed in with our "healthy" food and it is really really yummy and makes my fur extra soft and shiny AND there is less stink in the house! It is Eukanuba and we're pretty darn impressed.

I'm really frisky this fall, I've even done some back flips while playing.

The worst part of it all was the flea meds....icky, I got some in my mouth and I foamed up and it was horrible. And then we got baths and I was FREEZING cold and wet, I actually let the Woman snuggle me and dry me and keep me warm.

Latte:
Meowmy is trying to starve me. She offers me yummy foods and then never feeds me on time. It is getting ridiculous, I'm practically wasting away.

The bath wasn't so bad, the Toy Man snuggled me dry and then I smelled really fresh.

Kaze:
There was a FLEA on my nose!! The LL freaked, bathed all of us (found no more fleas) and then put that flea stuff on our shoulders the next day. So yeah...all of that for ONE flea. It was pretty darn annoying.

I would fire the Lap Lady if I could. She never helps us blog, she doesn't even snuggle as much as she used to! I have to give her pathetic eyes and cry to make her feel bad.

Snap:
I don't want to talk about my life right now, it sucks. After the ovarian issues (which a hormone shot seems to have fixed), I ended up with a horrific abscess in my hoof. I've been in my stall for 3 weeks. My foot gets soaked, treated, wrapped, and duct tapped. Have I mentioned I haven't been outside in that long? The Human tried to give me a nice little walk the other day and I just reared up, bucked, and tried to bolt. I want to PLAY!!!

Plus, that Human is useless, she is never around. Oh, and I hear my entire home and herd is moving to a new farm soon. Well, if they can find a suitable farm.

The human:
Guys, I'm really sorry. I really thought I would be able to keep up at least weekly updates but it just hasn't worked out. With all of the animal health issues, school, and work- I am so exhausted I barely have time to eat. I've been keeping up with what is going on but haven't had time to comment. I don't want to "retire" but I think I might have to take an extended "leave of absence".

Some Random Updates

2009-10-25T16:53:00.004-04:00

Update 1: Snap (aka The horse). Um yeah....STILL no results on her feminine issues. Oh, and the farrier (shoe salesman) pricked her hoof when he put nails in and now she is "3 legged" lame and has an abscess.

Update 2: The Lap Lady. The Lap Lady is a cranky law student. She has spent every waking moment not at work or school researching and writing her graded memo assignment. I'm not eve kidding, she barely takes food and sleeping breaks.

First Important Update:

Kaze. OMC. Did you see I went Out of Doors. There is a problem I think you all should check out, one that frankly set every fur on my body on end (my expression is above). There might be a roundish monster with feed-horns on the roof!!!! I swear the thing was going to swoop down and eat me. The Lap Lady says it is just our TV dish (which incidentally is broken right now).

The Tall Man and I have a very interesting game going. He likes Ben and Jerry's ice cream, while I really enjoy the plastic piece that goes around the lid. He hides it in the couch, and I find it. He makes me "critically think" and I have to search all around to figure out the best way to find it. So to get back at him I hid the plastic strip in my Hepper Pod bed!! Then I led him there. Hehe....payback.

P.S. No more UTI!!! No more icky meds!!

Second important update:

Latte. I went out of doors. It was nice. I am cute and I purr. And I eat. And I use the clean litterbox right away.

And the one you all really care about:

Chase. Chillaxin', snacking, sleeping and playing bite games with the Awesome Man. Life for a Big Man Cat is good!

Lady cats be thankful for your lack of lady parts!

2009-10-16T12:51:00.004-04:00

Our horse is having ovarian issues, her right ovary is so hurty you can't touch her on that side. The VET drew some blood on her and is doing to give her a shot tomorrow. We are purring that she will be OK but it is possible this could go a bad direction but we aren't going there yet. So any purrs would be appreciated!

Kaze

Wordless Wednesdsay

2009-10-13T22:29:00.003-04:00

Latte Cam- Day 1

2009-10-08T22:35:00.011-04:00

One of the first images from MY camera. The others can't handle wearing a collar with a special medallion hanging, I love it- makes me feel special! Anyhoo, here I am in Meowmy's lap while we watch TV.
This is me waiting for breakfast. That white blur is the food bag, the trashcan is the metal thing.
Morning nap #1- following the sun spot to the back of the loveseat. That is my Poang chair, I will move there when the sun does.
This is Kaze's butt. We were snuggling.
Sun spot! For a brief time it is on the floor. I follow it everywhere.
Poang chair nap time. About now the humans came home for lunch, downloaded the pictures and I started off fresh.
On the couch, checking out Meowmy's blogging computer. Really I'm enjoying the warm spot from when she was eating lunch.
On the sunny side of the couch on our Gizzy Quilt. You can see the corner of the TV and the sun is really bright.
Checking stuff out. That is Meowmy's umbrella, the spot eater (for yak), and Kaze. The Toy Man just got home because the lights are on.
Sitting in a dining room chair while snuggled in the Toy Man's coat. Look, you can see the Toy Man!!

Nothing too fun after that but Meowmy did come home and tried camera on Kaze who was convinced it was a toy around her neck. She won't even try Chase, he gets rid of collars in less than 30 seconds. Lets see what I do tomorrow!

The Man Cat is Back!

2009-10-08T20:08:00.000-04:00

That's right ladies....a tall drink of Man Cat. Look at my fabulous come hither stare....

Thankful Thursday

2009-10-07T19:21:00.004-04:00

Some glorious Chase for all of my many fans. Nothing spectacular yet but there is more to come....I promise.
I had a really nice time when Kaze was at thet vet yesterday. I enjoyed Meowmy's lap!! I didn't miss Kaze at all!

P.S. Meowmy bought a "pet camera" and put it around my neck. Hopefully it works out well and then you can see what I see!
Hi everyone! I had a rough morning today. I was in quite a bit of pain and doing the many squat things. The Lap Lady had to call the VET place 3 times today to see about the results which the lab didn't fax. Finally at the end of the night the VET lady called and said the lab never faxed it but they did e-mail it. Anyway, long story short the very good news (according to the Lap Lady) is that they were able to take a sterile pee sample and I in fact have a bacterial infection! Now for me, I think this is bad news as I now have 14 days of Clavamox. I hate icky medications. Hate them. The Lap Lady gave me some pain meds too so I would start feeling better fast. The Lap Lady said it could have been a lot worse so this is good news. Plus, she says she's glad she isn't crazy- sometimes the Tall Man thinks she is overly cautious with us kitties. Thanks for all of the purrs! Hopefully I kick this infection fast

The tortures I endure

2009-10-06T22:25:00.002-04:00

Yeah so she left me at 3pm and by 6:30 I had still not peed out my sub-q fluids. I was getting pretty ticked off and the urge to pee was getting really strong. The Lap Lady was nowhere to be seen and I was worried I'd be stuck there all night long. Suddenly, my savior, my hero, my Tall Man showed up to bring me home!! He was going to demand to take me home even if I didn't pee because he didn't want the LL to be mad (she had said no way was I to stay there over night just to wait for me to pee). Since I heard his voice I let the pee go so now they can test it and tell us about it tomorrow.

The doctor things it is probably just a UTInfection but she's smart to test the pee. I'm resting comfortably on my favorite place- the Lap Lady's lap and I am happy to report I can sleep in my own bed tonight with the LL.

Thank you all for purring for me! I was SOOOOO askeered and SOOOOO angry. The LL was illegally texting the TM during her class but she had to know about me. On her 10 minute break in class the TM called her after just picking me up and before she heard his voice she heard mine in the background and that made her very very happy. Then she just about passed out from exhaustion in her class that ends at 10pm.

You know what Latte did while I was gone? Uter betrayal. He claimed MY Lap Lady's lap!! Seriously, he didn't care I was gone- he just claimed her form himself. RUDE.

To the VET I go

2009-10-06T13:09:00.005-04:00

I has a little pee problem. The Lap Lady came home at lunch and I tried to pee 3 times and nothing came out so she called the VET place. Then I tried a few more times and eventually did pee after a long drink. And then I did a Kaze-caugh fest. Still, the Lap Lady is being cautious and is taking me to the vet in a few hours. She might even have to miss a class for me. I'll keep you posted!

~Kaze

4:00pm update:
The ultimate betrayal. The Lap Lady LEFT ME AT THE VET!!!! They said they wanted to give me sub-q fluids so that my bladder could fill and they can take a sample. So I'm screaming my little heart out in a metal cage right now. Alone. This is so horrible. Oh, and the Tall Man will pick me up, she won't even come herself!! Can you believe it? The Tall Man will not make the proper fuss I need after the torture chamber. I'm utterly aghastated at this whole situation.

Good News!

2009-10-05T14:20:00.003-04:00

The Lap Lady is cutting her workie hours to 30 instead of 40! That means she has 10 more hours to do school work in a week plus.....wait for it.....help us blog! We can't promise a schedule yet but it looks like blogging is in our future again. Yeah!

Things we must discuss this week:
1. Awesome new book we were sent to review. Every human in your care should read this!
2. Food to review, we won a contest from DMM to try the new Eukanuba food and boy is it tasty! Plus, DMM sent us some super nip and a nip sardine and it was a huge hit.
3. PICTURES!!!!
4. Loads of fun happenings now that it is fall.

Sup?

2009-09-30T11:21:00.004-04:00

Well we wouldn't know because we are so far out of the loop wer're not even sure where the loop is located! We are all (including the Lap Lady) extraordinarily frustrated by the lack of blogging time. You wouldn't believe what law school is like though, she has these huge books chained to her hands and the lap top glued to her lap. A cat can't even get in there to snuggle most of the time! Latte & I have been fighting for snuggle time with her- yes it is that bad, even Latte is desperate for her attention. She spends about 8 hours each day on Saturday and Sunday doing school work. Then during the week she spends 10 hours in class, 40 hours at work, and squeezes in about 3 hours of class work and her "necessary" 8 hours of sleep. Oh, and some horse time on weekends and maybe one night a week. Does that even add up? I have paw pads, not fingers!

So anyway, on to the MOST important thing- US!

Latte:

Being as adorable as usual. Well I have to say, I'm enjoying attention and being scritched- I purr a lot too. I spend my entire weekend on a pillow on the sun porch next to Meowmy while she works away. I'm very diligent in making sure she does her work!

Kaze:

I am also enjoying this whole LL has to sit in one spot thing. I get lots of lap time, I used to only have Latte snuggle time on the weekends and now I have both! Life is grand. And at night, it is getting chilly so I reside under the covers the whole night. When they try to expel me I have taken on Latte's hide under the bed thing. Hehehe!

Chase:

I don't want to talk about the picture above. It is from the Awesome Man's collection because the woman can't be bothered to pick up the camera and hit the clicky button apparently. As the AM would say "Latte nursing Chase". Um.....I don't want to embelish upon that. Suffice to say, had I had any knowledge of what was occuring I would have been out of there!

What's new?

2009-09-22T09:45:00.006-04:00

Meowmy's camera is trying to tell her something. She took some photos for work and "accidentally" downloaded a few of her favorite fluffy critters. This means she can post at work! Thank you so much to all of our friends who purred for Tinker, she is recovering well and they are just keeping her quiet now so her sutures can heal.

Gosh we have lots to say but so little time to say it anymore! Lets see....

Latte: Cute as ever. Making Meowmy jealous by especially snuggling on Auntie E when she comes over to make Meowmy even more jealous. We're getting new food called B.G. Which means Before Grain (Merrick) which I LOVE!! The Toy Man got cranky about the stench in the house no matter how much the box is cleaned so we're being moved to a different food and back to a house of Breeze Litter Boxes.

Srsly, we really love the World's Best Litter (which our friend Drew sent us a great sample of) but we have to say, the Breeze does a better job of odor control. World's Best Litter is fabulous for being all natural, flushable, clumping litter, AND it is gluten-free litter (Meowmy asked)! The problem is our main box is in the kitchen and the corn just has a bit of a scent that when used offends the Toy Man's nose (he is super sensitive!). Meowmy loves it... I have to say, as the most picky cat of the house- I still prefer the Breeze Box upstairs.

Kaze: I am withering away and DYING here. I have no snuggle time, no play time, no anything good for Kaze time! I am a velcro kitty to the Lap Lady on the off chance I actually see her. I'm shameless with my purrs, I leap onto her shoulders, I dead weight on her arms so she can't type law school stuff.

Has anyone figured out "speaker phone"? I heard my Auntie E in the house the other day and I searched for her high and low and yelled for her but I couldn't find her!! Very disturbing. My favorite toy of the day is a ribbon with a loop knot in it (you can see it behind me). I will fetch it for hours at a time.

Chase: Working on my tolerance of the Woman. She doesn't but me so much right now. Hairing up the couch. Leaving stinky poos in the litter box.

We could use some purrs for our friend

2009-09-21T10:29:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone, our really good woofie friend Tinker is having surgery to remove bladder stones today. She is my Auntie E's woofie and Auntie is my most favoritest human. Poor Thinker is a Jack Russell Terrier and she has been peeing blood so we're hoping she comes out of her surgery just fine!!

Latte

Update: She came out of the surgery OK, now we just have to make sure her little over active self heals properly!

Snagged....from the Tall Man

2009-09-18T09:32:00.002-04:00

Can you believe the Tall Man actually takes more pictures of us these days? I was told I could do my Frootbat Friday but I had to also do a trio because none of us get much blogging time these days.

The Kaze update: I've decided to change my name to PLAY. That way, I can do what I love all of the time. My new bestest buddy is the Tall Man because he plays with me while the Lap Lady is trying to become a book. Though she did play fetch with me for 45 minutes the other morning after she got home from the gym. I have to find all of the snuggle time I can these days and Latte trys to steal it from me.

Latte update: I'm starved to death around here. STARVED. No one feeds me at all. It is also freezing cold and just down right unacceptable according to meezer standards. Ugh...and they touch me....shudder. The only thing I can't complain about is the brushings, those are good now that the Toy Man is in charge.

Chase: Not much to say, just look at my misery.....she's....touching me.

Oldies

2009-09-13T22:38:00.003-04:00

Oh, and here is the one where I am in the ceiling. Hey, I was hunting a red squirrel that actually came in our house one night and escaped through here.
And for the aww factor.....

So we're currently involved in what is going to most likely be a 14 hour day of law school work. And it was beautiful outside and the Woman had no Snappy time and has been typing all day long. She's slightly to majorly crankified.

Anyhoo, as I sit her warming her Torts book pages I compelled her during her weekly backup to dig for some old pictures. And look what she found! This was me as a Massachusetts kitty with my beloved woofie ZuZu. She lives about 5 minutes from us now and is getting to be an old woofie but I just adore her on the rare occassions I see her.

OMG- Something so shocking...

2009-09-03T22:33:00.002-04:00

I'm now going to tell you something that I never ever ever though would happen. EVER. This is so shocking that Meowmy literally fell over when she walked in the door.....are you ready???

The Toy Man CLEANED OUT OUR LITTER BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is not a trick, he actually scooped. Never ever in all of the years of cats in his life has he ever scooped. Seriously.

He must really love Meowmy to take over that job. I guess if he is doing his part we should all be extra nice to Meowmy. I've been helping her by napping in her lap and on her books. I can't wait for studying this weekend on the front porch! She has promised pictures this weeked. And the Toy Man just got a new camera that is even nicer than Meowmy's so maybe he can take some pictures of us too.

Some Radom Photos to Prove we Still Exist

2009-09-02T21:47:00.005-04:00

Kaze got a Gig!

2009-09-01T09:22:00.003-04:00

Did you check out the Cat's Meow today? Kaze is the model for perfect fitness!

Um...Lap Lady....um...TAKE PICTURES OF US OK?????? None of this "but I have 10 hours of work to do on Sunday alone". TAKE PICTURES! Oh, and she claims her skills are improving at photography yet she takes less pictures?? Sheesh.

As for the rest of us....sleep, play, snuggle, etc. The Lap Lady is out of the house from 8:30am-10:30pm doing work and school. Yes, straight, 3 days a week at class. That isn't even scratching the surface of legal research and writing and all of her case briefs. Her legal writing professor teaches animal law so that is super cool!

Caution: Devious Frootbat at Work

2009-08-26T08:58:00.002-04:00

Kaze:[insert evil pur]

Good morning my friends! You all know that while I look rather innocent and naive that is the furthest from the truth, right? I am super demanding and jealous and of course, a thief. I try not to get heavy pawed with the Lap Lady but with her being at class until 10 every night....well I need to get my lap time!

At Latte's usual wake up time (3am) he was busy sitting on the Lap Lady's chest and purring softly. I was in my spot in her arm pit under the covers. The weight of Latte's pointy paws woke up the Lap Lady and she pet us and tried to get back to sleep. We all know that once Latte wakes her up it is all over.

She grabbed Latte and tried to grab me but I stealthily leapt from the bed and hid somewhere she would never find me. Assuming that I ran out the door, she picked up Fat Turkey (aka Chase) and put the boys out.

[more evil purring]

It worked! I hid for 10 minutes and then crept back into her armpit where I promptly purred to my heart's content until she got up this morning.

Never under estimate the frootbat.

Frootbat Friday

2009-08-21T00:16:00.001-04:00

I realized that you haven't seen my beautiful blue eyes recently enough. Here they are!! Along with my frooty ears. I've been velcroed to the Lap Lady as much as possible as this is her last week before she gets back into the law school stuff. I am so so so happy she comes home at lunch time now! She gives me yogurt and snuggles and it is a really nice break mid-day.

We are all behind the Lap Lady! We know you are all behind her too and that gives her such a wonderful feeling. She brings her meezer computer bag and thinks of all of the wonderful friends we have made over the years. Many have come and gone and we miss them so much sometimes. We might not be as visible as we once were but we are a member of the CB through and through!

Thursday Thirteen

2009-08-20T00:18:00.000-04:00

Thirteen Things About My Daily Routine

1. I start the day snuggling in the snuggle room on top of Kaze and Meowmy.

2. Around 3am I decide it is time to annoy everyone else in the house because I am bored. This gets me kicked out of the snuggle room.

3. Around 8am I start waiting outside the snuggle room door. I don't meeze or anything, I just wait patiently until Meowmy comes out.

4. She opens the door and I bolt to the cat room, flatten myself on the ground, and pull my upper body onto the scratching post. Then Meowmy scritches my back.

5. I have to wait until she is done with her human stuff at the top of the stairs where I dart down and wait on the landing.

6. I don't beg for food, I wait until Meowmy feeds us and then I run right over and crunch and munch on my morning snack.

7. After a long morning nap with Kaze on the Poang Chair, Meowmy comes in the front door and wakes us up by kissing us both on the belly. I don't mind so much when I'm really sleepy.

8. Yogurt time!!! Mmmmm.......

9. More snuggling and a lot of watching Kaze and Chase battle in the ongoing THoE war.

10. When the humans come back around 5:45 we have a long discussion about our days. Kaze pretty much dominates the conversation but I throw in little meezes and chirps, and yawns too.

11. On a good day, Meowmy is at home and plops on the couch to help us blog. If she does that I sometimes snuggle up in her lap on top of Kaze. I have to dig dig dig on her to get a comfy spot.

12. On a bad day (ie school work) she sits and types and reads a really heavy book so I sleep in a meezer loaf on the side of the couch.

13. Shower time! I wait outside of the room where they get all wet and brush stuff. When they come out, I leap toward the snuggle room.

Then it all starts again!

Wordless Whisker Wednesday

2009-08-18T23:13:00.000-04:00

Toesday

2009-08-17T22:13:00.003-04:00

We all love sun spots, in fact we often have to share/fight over the nice ones in the living room. I know I look rather vishus here but I was really just trying to roll around enough to bite my own tail. I find that bathing while in the sun leaves my fur extra soft when it dries.

Speaking of vishus, Chase and I have quite the THoE battle going on. I like to add a lot of hissing and growling sound effects to make it even more exicting. I can pack a mean punch with my petal sized paws but Chase is just faster and punches harder. I'm working on it.....

I've been really enjoying the random Kaze toys left around for me (ie receipts). I just can't resist them! Gamma kept wondering where her notes went from her purse, but I thought she just brought them to play with me. I used to just like cash and receipts, but I've branched out to really enjoying 8.5 x 11 folded pieces of paper too.The Lap Lady made an awesome new fetch toy out of just a plain piece of ribbon and I am in love with it!! I fetch fetch fetch fetch until I fall asleep now. She throws it in the snuggle room and I bring it back up onto the bed so she can throw it again.

I missed my Lap Lady so much when she was away. The first night she was home I burrowed under the covers (even my head!) and purred all night long. I purred so loud she couldn't sleep! Then I attached myself to her lap at any moment she was seated. I have to watch her, she isn't allowed to ever leave me! She keeps surprising me and Latte during our mid-day nap by coming home for lunch. We don't mind her waking us because she has YOGURT and we all sit and not so patiently wait for her to share.

Man Cat Monday

2009-08-16T21:19:00.004-04:00

Miss me? Of course, how could you ever get enough of my cute belly? The humans were away last week so it was rather quiet around here. They went up and took their bikes around my home area of Western Massachusetts. I was happier at home. The Woman starts back into classes this week so more unreliability. You know...more of the same.

The meezer-rats caused loads of trouble while they were away. Lots of things stolen by one Kaze the Cat...she really does do a number on stuff when she is bored. Then there was the nip event. I got into the toy closet and pulled out a huge bag of PRIMO nip. Ah....pure bliss!! Latte played Mr. Perfect while Kaze and I took advantage of the sweet deal of no one saying the "N" word.

So what is new?? Can anyone catch us up on the news of the past week?

We know our really good friends Junior and Orion are auctioning a BEAUTIFUL quilt to benefit our friends in need, we can't wait to buy our tickets.

Shhh...proof we all do get along once in a while...

You can lead a horse to water...and other such adventures.

2009-08-05T22:23:00.002-04:00

You can lead a horse to water......AND you CAN make her drink!!! I was looking rather dehydrated after my overheating adventure so the mom person walked me to the water tub and I sipped down a few gallons.

Hi there. It is me, Snap. Remember me? Well I have been having an insane summer and I felt the need to share. First of all the mom-lady-rider-person took me OFF the farm!!! Can you believe it?? We went to Farm Fair and there were amusement rides, cows, goats, crowds of people, and other horses. And yeah, she expected me to "behave". Um....it was askeery!!! I haven't been off the farm in a year. I survived 9 hours of being held in hand- longest day ever.

Next, oh the embarassment.....the fly sheet. Sure it might keep the flies from biting my delicious soft under belly, but I want to get it off so I roll around in the mud. Then, I proceed to sweat until I am overheating myself because the mud blocks the "breathability" of the sheet. Brilliant. The Care Giver had to cold hose me while I was rather peekid and "not looking good". Another long horrible day. Oh, and the entire right side of my body is COVERED in bug bits. Like...can't move .5" without one. Oh, and I'm in heat. Generally; crabilated. But I've been giving mom really big head hugs. She seems to like them and I like head hugs a lot. Then I try to bite her hehe....then I get smacked. Sigh....
In other CAT related news.....sheesh, who wants to hear about the 4 legged brat anyway? Hey, down there, do you see me??? Probably not because I'm really really high. The only way I was discovered was that I knocked some stuff over on my journey up here. The Tall Man thinks I was stuck up there and couldn't get down. I just didn't want to get down yet.....ummhmmm.....Not sure what happened to me, I am blaming old age. I used to leap up and down from the counter to the top of the cabinets all of the time. Even the frootbat can't leap up there. It is 6' straight up, no angle to help you.

Getting Back into the Swing of Things

2009-08-03T21:15:00.003-04:00

Wow, you have all been super busy! We're trying to catch up on everyone's posts and it is exhausting!! As you can see- I need a break. Life is finally settling back to normal with some extra bonuses. Like steak. And yogurt. The Woman attempts to bribe me with lunch and dinner. It kind of sort of works.

Look, she is smiling!! I enjoy resting on her butt. It is round and pillowy. She comes home at lunch time now and doesn't have to drive to work so there is a whole extra 2 hours we get to spend together in a day! Life is good!!

Frootbat Friday and the otherss too

2009-07-30T22:20:00.006-04:00

First we will start you off with your weekly dose of froot. I know, it has been a while for me but my frooty friends have been keeping up very well! That makes me very smiley.

This one is for Cheysuli, here's looking at you kitten!

Yeah I know, I promised a lot of Chase pictures. You know what happened? She came home and found that she really hasn't taken any in about a month. I really dislike her when she ceases to be useful to me. Disgraceful. Ugh, well here is at least one of me having fun!

Looks like I'm a front runner!

2009-07-30T14:16:00.003-04:00

I know, I know- where are the Big Man Cat pictures and stories, right? Well, I have made the Woman promise to post a Chase related mega handsome post this evening.

Also, the contest I entered for the local animal charities extended the deadline until August, 15th. The grand prize is an actual photographer coming to take MY picture. Instead of the craptastic lazy Woman. So if you can, votes are much appreciated!! (Since you have to pay $1 a vote we understand if you can't contribute!)
Fur Butts Contest

And to get you excited.....the rarely ever seen....Chase kitten pictures. These are from before I lived with my humans.

Toesday/Tailsday We're still here!

2009-07-27T22:18:00.002-04:00

I know, we said we would be back to normal....and we lied. It is all because of this silly office move thing that has been pushed back 4 weeks now. FINALLY, tomorrow, the movers come and the stuff goes to the new building once and for all!!

We miss you all so much, we haven't even had a chance to catch up on our reader in a week. We are very sad about that as we miss our friends so much. The Lap Lady had her inevitable breakdown over the weekend and we seem to be fighting our way back to normal....somehow.

I have been a very good trash thief and have taught the LL to play fetch with receipts! I also licked some cheese on the counter which apparently was a "Kaze NOO!" offense. Beats me why? I've had to purr my little purrer to the brink to keep the Lap Lady's nerves in check, boy it is a lot of work. Even Chase has had to step in (which makes me MAD, she is MY Lap Lady!!!!)

Thanks to all of our very faithful friends and readers for sticking this out with us. We truly love you all!

3rd Blogoversary!!

2009-07-15T21:02:00.004-04:00

The Lap Lady is taking a break from her "hectic" life, or whatever her excuse is this week. (LL: Kaze dear, I'm finishing up my first law school class with an exam on Monday, and the company is finishing up construction and moving the business and I'm in charge). Whatever. Anyhow.....it is our Third Blogoversary!!! I get to go first because I was the first one of us to blog.

I've been helping out the Lap Lady learn her contracts stuff. I would like some "off the contract" restitutionary damages for her repudiation on her contract of blogging with us. See that, I'm learning by osmosis!! I never let her far from my sight. The Tall Man went out and bought Ben & Jerry's ice cream just for me the other night. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the game we play- he takes the plastic top piece off and then plays keep away for about 20 minutes while I yell at him. Eventually I am able to hunt it and steal it and run away with it.

I found my shmousie! Minutes after this photo was taken, it felled apart and I had a very big sad. I could not be tempted with other toys, nothing is like a pink shmousie. In the meezer trouble making realm I made Meowmy bleed on her toe the other night when she was zoom-grooming me. We all got clippy claws after that. I know I haven't posted pictures of my 4th of July Pet Parade but that's because we don't actually have any. Meowmy was Latte wrangling the whole time and Auntie E took some pictures on her phone but we don't have them. I'm doing my meezerly thing, causing trouble, looking cute, etc.
Ah.....you know you saved the best for last. The Woman, while sucking at blogging, is really on my good side. The other day I felt she was deserving of purrs. I made her give me consideration of course (scritches), but I was feeling like she was worthy. This morning I ran out onto the sun porch and made the Awesome Man annoyed. He threatened to leave me out there all day but gave in after 5 minutes. Don't worry, I didn't learn any lessons, I would happily do it again.

We've been told that after Monday we will be back to normal blogging until the end of August!! Apparently with at least some break in there for the humans to get away from the world for a bit. The poor Awesome Man works day and night at the new building....he's a computer wrangler and he's trying to make them a nice home but the contractors don't really "get it".

Thank you to all of our friends who have made these past three years some of the best in our lives. We love you all like family and while we've not been around commenting or posting, we have been keeping up with everyone. We're sad to be missing out but we know this law school thing is good in the long run.....or so we've been told....

Frootbat Friday

2009-07-09T21:31:00.003-04:00

It is my new jellyfish!!! It has legs and is fun to play with. The LL is trying to upload some of her "new and improved" photos but she has to figure out the formatting on the Mac since she took them in RAW and she can't upload that straight to blogger, she has to go through the jpg step first (we think she's got it now).

Now we're in for it....

2009-07-09T10:06:00.002-04:00

The Lap Lady found a new law school and photography friend. They were out snap-snapping all evening last night.....she taught the LL how to really use her camera and we can sense that we are now really in for it......

P.S. I REALLY liked the new friend, I even let her pet my head right away! I'm not exactly into new people that quickly usually.

~Kaze

300th Post!

2009-07-08T11:25:00.003-04:00

We figured we should give an update and found out that in the past year we've posted 300 times together! We're coming up on our 3 year blogoversary next week too.

Kaze update:
Thank you all for your worried thoughts about my trauma. About 10 minutes after being home I was 100% normal. My duties this week have included checking out the new food bowls, new litter we're comparing (trying World's Best against the Breeze Boxes since the Breeze pad search is killing the LL), playing with my new jelly-fish toy, and sleeping in sun spots or on the Lap Lady while she figures out Contract stuffs for her exam on the 20th.

Latte update:
Nightly brushings have been very well executed. I found my pink shmousy yesterday and was having great fun playing with it unitl.....it BROKED. The inside thingy fell out and I was very very very sad. So sad the Toy Man hunted for another one. I DID enter the Pet Pageant on the 4th of July and won 3 blue ribbons! Most regal, Most Talented (I was trying to wriggle out of my harness and get back in my stroller), and Most Beautiful. I was up against 2 kittens and another cat so I think I did pretty well. Meowmy says I need to get out more, 2 years ago I was much more relaxed than this year. She says with me and Kaze becoming more introverted and home bound that is not a good thing, she likes us to be adventurous (as long as we are happy of course)

Chase update:
Chillaxin'. Yup..... Not too many big booms so I didn't have to hide a lot. I've been doing a lot of sleeping on my back complete with paw stretches and self-hugs. These sorts of things make everyone announce how I've "still got IT". Well yeah!! I'm me!

Not too happy on Frootbat Friday

2009-07-03T13:47:00.003-04:00

So yeah, that was probably the worst "adventure" I could have imagined!! First of all, the PTU was involved- in a major way- which I shall get to later. So I got in the black box w/ wheels. That sucked so I screamed at my Lap Lady with a tone of absolute annoyance the entire trip.

We ended up at the STABBY PLACE. I shall now not call it the VET because it is officially the STABBY PLACE. I did some trips between the LL's lap and the PTU while waiting so that was OKish and then everyone ooohed and awwed over me because they had never seen a cat like me.

At first all went pretty well, I even got a short temperature taking because I was being so good. The really nice VET lady said I'm very healthy and maybe next year I'll need a dental but I'm good otherwise.

Then came the STABBS. I don't get pokey things, I get these things called "titers" which are soooo much worse. They have to steal your blood for them. Well.....I am not letting them steal my blood!!!!! I made them hold me down and stabby at me for 10 whole minutes before they got enough blood. The Lap Lady held my front have, a tech held the back half, and another to take my blood. I purred the whole entire time but it was absoutely horrible. They said I have the veins of a snake!!! So I gotted stabbed numerous times in both back legs. You might think that is bad enough, but it gets much worse.

While the LL went to give them all of her green papers for torturing me she set me on the counter as she does to all of us when we go to pay. That way we're way up high from woofies and the ladies can oooh and awww over us. The LL stopped looking at me so I tried to make a break for home. I pushed the PTU over the counter and went THUD on the ground!!! The LL freaked out....like FREAKED. OUT. Luckily I was in there with my "kaze snuggle" from DKM so my fall was cushioned and it is a big PTU so I landed on my paws. After a full check over I finally got to go home.

I was shaking with anger through my meezes as we returned home. I had to enlist Latte's help to get the stank off of me. I'm traumitized. I need some nip!!!!!!

Yearly Adventure!

2009-07-02T09:53:00.004-04:00

The Lap Lady says I get to go on my yearly adventure tomorrow. I'm skeptical......the only time she says that I generally end up on a cold metal table purring as hard as I can so they can't hear my heart beat.

~kaze

P.S. It was my Gotcha-Day yesterday! 3 years

Sleepy time & brushing

2009-07-01T13:49:00.003-04:00

Interesting fact: as of this post this blog and Simply Siamese both have 297 posts each!

So she figured it out...FINALLY. Meowmy, how many times do I have to tell you that if you brush me nicely with the zoom groom (and not just a cursory once over) before bed time I will not wake you up at 3am. See?

It worked out nicely last night and I even ended up being the last snuggling cat standing. Kaze woke her with purring, I hid under the bed, she said "whatever Latte, deal!" (I that translates to "Latte my favorite little darling I want to sunggle with just you alone!").

Lets keep this up and see if I enjoy it. If not, normalcy will return to 3am wake ups and the hunt for the "sugar beatle". I'm too tiny, she will never catch me!!

~Latte

The Bite Game....a Video

2009-06-29T13:14:00.006-04:00

Here is some serious bite-game action. You can see how fast the Awesome Man thinks he is.

Play special attention to his death defying "single finger through the jaw of death" move.

P.S. I am a very well behaved kitty and ONLY play this game with the Awesome Man. I would never ever hurt him, he is just a fast target for me to play with. I would never bite the Woman, a vet tech, a vet, a visitor, etc.-, I don't even bite the AM- just try to. I admit I am abnormal in my ability to recognize the difference between play/bite and respect that boundary sacredly. So young kitties, please understand it is not OK to bite humans generally (Kaze and Latte would never effur play this game effur). Oh yeah....and it is FUN!!!!

Did we forget to mention?

2009-06-29T10:33:00.002-04:00

That along with the Woman's wrapping up of the summer semester the she is in charge of coordination the company move to the new location on the same day she finishes class? Yeah well....she says she's too busy to think right now. Yeah right. I have a video of me playing the bite game with the Awesome Man! Post it Woman!!

Quick Poll....Saturday is crazy 4th of July fun in our town. Should I enter the pet pageant again this year? I skipped last year.
~Latte

The iPhone 3G S finally benefits us!

2009-06-25T10:16:00.002-04:00

Quick video of Kaze and me helping Moewmy study.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-24T08:55:00.001-04:00

P.S. We entered a contest for local charities in our area. Votes cost $1 so we understand if you can't swing it, but if you can, we would love your help! Our entry

Toesday

2009-06-23T00:00:00.000-04:00

These have been getting me into trouble....apparently the Lap Lady dislikes when I leap up on her shoulders and sit there while she works. I just like to be near her and up high!

Man Cat Monday & Meezer Monday

2009-06-22T00:00:00.000-04:00

I'm a big fan of gnawing on strings that are attached to bags. My absolute favorite strings are the JCrew bags because they are cotton and feel nice on my teefs.
I continue to be me. Chillaxing up a storm, it is quite exhausting, you know? I've been rather vocal with my cooing noises. They always tell me that for such a huge Man Cat I sound rather feminine.

Box Day (with a frootbat twist)

2009-06-19T09:37:00.002-04:00

As you may very well guess a trip to the archives was in order for our post today. We take you back in time to 2007!

Here we have some "sneaky froot". I'm sure he has no idea I'm here....

Lalalalalala.............BAM! Whack!! Whack!!!

Here we have proof that at one time the Economy was better not so long ago. This was for Christmas 2007. Wow. I can't believe how many boxes there were!!! Of course, the priceless meezer was not for gift giving. I could only be a Christmas kitten gift once after all.

Happy Box Day!

Slacking

2009-06-16T10:40:00.002-04:00

Yup, our law student is slacking on our duties. She took off work today so she could go to SCHOOL to work on an outline....she is crazy and annoying and we're just quite sick of her.

Latte update: I have usurped Kaze's armpit snuggle spot. While I don't go under the covers, I still stole the spot. Hahahahah

Kaze update: Tall Man torture report: he's mean. I hate him. OK, I love him but he tortures me with enticing bits of trash and I get really frustrated (video, can't promise when I'll post it)

Chase update: Chillaxing as usual my friends. I just don't let the world bother me too much. I now have an entire seat cushion on the couch as mine because I haired it up.

Snap update: The wound has been named "Mr. Nasty". Mr Nasty is looking better but still really ugly. The good news: riding has resumed and she is sound and happy to be back to work!

Miss you all sooooo much! We do keep up with what you are all doing and try to comment when we can.

Frootbat Friday

2009-06-11T21:58:00.004-04:00

Super Froot! There is a lot of buzz about how good super froot is for you and....well....here I am to save the day!!! I love to spread my wings and puuuuurrrrrr!

Bonus Meezer Colors belated picture: Meowmy's law school computer bag. She seems to think it may be pigeon holing her with her fellow students, but you know what? She's happier feeling close to us than caring about what they think. It has meezers all over it!!!

P.S. Today is 5 years since our humans tied the knot!