Where the Orange goes to the vet

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

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

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

 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.

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?

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!

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!!