Posted in Blog administration, News, Website, tagged blog, new domain, Texas on April 30, 2013|
Hiya Furriends!
How are you all doing?
As promised, here are the exiting news (well at least for me!) for today: I now have my own domain, which means my own, self-hosted place on the Internet.
Please join me by clicking on the link:
There is a brand you blog post with pics of us over there!
Posted in Furry friends, News, tagged cat tree, cats, Kitshka, Milou, Texas on April 28, 2013|
The weekend is over but I think the humans are happy the entire week is over and hope they (and we) can have a less eventful stressful new week. Milou is not completely back to normal but we sure hope he will get better.
Thank you so much again for all your powerful purrs. Here’s a rare family picture of us three to thank you!
Notice the natural born leader in this house is on top ;-) Life is good.
So, with everything that happened, my editorial schedule was all messed up. Here is what is going to take place the coming week: on Tuesday, I will have super great news about my blog; on Thursday, my human and I are going to review the same great book we were supposed to review last Thursday; on next Caturday, we will have another book review (and a giveaway) related to kitties (of course) and poetry and drawings!
Wishing you all a good week to come!
[Comments have been disabled – I will tell you why on Tuesday]
Posted in Box, Furry friends, Playing, tagged box, cats playing, Kitshka, Texas on April 23, 2013| 44 Comments »
The other day I found a super cool box…
Something is telling me I won’t be able to keep it to myself long though…
Posted in Human psychology, News, Playing, tagged book case, bookcat, books, library, Texas on April 22, 2013| 46 Comments »
In French, the word “bookworm” can be translated into the expression “rat de bibliothèque” (library rat). Well, I’m certainly not a rat (!) or a worm (!!) but I’ve always loved books! I guess that makes me a bookcat!
These pics were taken when I was about 9 months old, at my human’s Mom’s home. I was on top the book case. You can click on any picture of the gallery below to biggify and get to the diaporama but first I want to show you something.
Can you see the wallpaper peeling a little near the ceiling? It was me! I wanted to be a home decorator at the time! And can you see my tail? That’s because my human thought I wouldn’t be a good home decorator! The nerve!
You will be able to see that on several pics I am watching my piece of art very proudly!
Speaking of books, my human and I will review a wonderful book on Thursday.
I also learned from Cat Wisdom 101 that April is National Poetry Month. It will finally (I say finally because this has been a project since last December!) be the occasion for a book giveaway linked to poems, drawings and… kitties of course! And this will be on Caturday!
So I wish everyone a great week and hope to see you all on these two days especially!
Posted in Furry friends, Human friends, Life, tagged Chief napper, Kitshka, nap, napping, naps, Texas on April 21, 2013| 46 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but my human has had a busy past week.
Consequently, I have to work today and do my job of Chief Napper. Actually, I even have to hire an assistant!
How was your week and your weekend? Purrs to everyone!
[You can click on any picture to biggify]
Kitshka! Go back to work!
Posted in Box, Furry friends, Life, tagged boxes, Kitshka, nap, Pet Lounge, Texas on April 18, 2013| 28 Comments »
Posted in Box, Life, Playing, tagged box, cats, Kitshka, playing, Texas on April 16, 2013| 48 Comments »
Not so long ago, when my human’s Mom sent me my favorite food for my purrthday, it was packed – you guessed it! – in a box. The box is from the French post office and it can be folded and unfolded.
Of course, it is not enough that the usual suspects would play with MY tunnel… some Mademoiselle has to get MY box too!
I was peacefully napping in my box when…
Who’s this? Is this Kitshka?
Yes, it is Kitshka…
Kitshka: Hiya Texas! Can I come play in your box?
Texas: No!
Kitshka: purrlease…
Texas: Seriously, no!
Kitshka: Come on…
Texas: Get out or I’ll bunny kick you out!
Kitshka: But we can both fit in it!
Texas: Out! Out!
Out out out!
Kitshka: Texas is being mean to me, sniff…
Texas: Awww… well, okay, let’s share the box…
Kitshka: Hooray!!
Texas: I think I’m gonna have to find me another box…
Kitshka: Don’t take so much room, Texas!
Texas: Yep, I need another box…
Hey, Texas!
Are you leaving?
I guess that means the box is mine then, right?
Posted in Life, tagged kitten, sun puddle, Texas on April 15, 2013| 38 Comments »
Posted in Furry friends, Playing, Toys, tagged cats, Kitshka, Milou, playing, Texas, tunnel on April 14, 2013| 43 Comments »
My tunnel is super cool and super fun to play with, in, around! I haven’t used it to teleport yet but K and I had lots of fun chasing each over through it.
Needless to say that everyone here, except the humans – Thank Ceiling Cat! – wants to play with it!
Here are the usual suspects, waiting for their turn.
Of course, you’ve seen Kitshka already. Look at Milou.
If only he would stop hissing at me all the time, we could play together!
Have a great, playful Sunday, everyone!
Posted in Bloggers, Human friends, tagged bloggers, cats, kitties, links, Monthly caturday kitty links, Texas on April 13, 2013| 41 Comments »
I don’t know if you have noticed, but lately, my human has seized any occasion to post a link to her bloggie on MY BLOG. What can I say? I have way more followers than she has. Ah!
Nevertheless, she came up with an idea she came up with some links from bloggies she was following and I came up with an idea!
Some of the blogs she is following – cooking or other blogs but not cat blogs per se – sometimes post stories about the kitties in the bloggers’ lives. Sometimes I post the links of some posts on my Facebook profile because I think you might enjoy checking them.
So I came up with an idea: Why not post the links in a post here? This could be a monthly post. We think anything kitty-related is interesting, don’t you think?
Please, check the links below and at the bottom of this post, I added a quick survey for you to tell me if you like the idea and would like me to try a monthly edition. Be honest! These are links I have selected because I think you might enjoy checking them, but you are the best able to tell me ;-)
Thank you in advance and enjoy!
This first link is just so you can see cute Norma Jean!
Here are pictures of Flyball, eating baby spinach leaves! I think I’ll stick with chicken though =^.^=
Want to visit the Agora in Athens? What about a kitty as a guide?
The kitties at Love & Olive Oil have trained their humans well!
And finally for the March edition, how to make a cardboard cat condo! That’s a nice project for your humans, I think.
Hope you liked the links! Don’t forget to vote. I already have 5 links for April – and we can never get enough kitties, can we? – but I want to know if you are interested! Thank you!
Posted in Bloggers, Furry friends, Life, Public announcement, tagged idioms, Jet, Savannah, Texas, VBP, VBP blog hop, words on April 11, 2013| 32 Comments »
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
Dear Furriends,
Today, we have a special announcement regarding the VBP Blog Hop.
On January 17 of this year, Jet, Savannah, and I started a blog hop called VBP – Vocab Building Project (Check above link for more information).
We had lots of fun using new words, and I loved looking for French/English idioms (VBP) that were similar or not and which included the word cat. Unfortunately, life being life, we cannot get the energy needed to continue it right now. So we have decided to stop it, at least momentarily.
I would like to thank all the furriends who collaborated in this project:
Jet and his human, for coming up with the original idea for the blog hop! We’re sending you lots of purrs and hugs!
Savannah and her human, for their perseverance (VBP) and patience, and for posting when we couldn’t. We send you hugs and purrs too!
Miss Ann from Zoolatry for creating all the graphics that you see on this post, as well as the badges. Again, hugs and purrs!
Last but not least, thank you to all the furriends who pawticipated! We hope you had fun in the process. We certainly loved reading your posts! Lots of purrs!
A special shout-out to The Tabbies O Trout Towne for participating to all but 2 of the total of 11 hops! Thank you! Lots of purrs! And salmon!
So, for now, we are closing the VBP dictionary and stopping the hop. But one day maybe…
P.S.: If you had planned a VBP post and plan to post it, please post the link in the comment and I will post a link in a post next week. Thank you furry much for your understanding!
Posted in Furry friends, Human friends, Life, Toys, tagged birthday, catnip, pawty, purrthday, shrimps, Texas, Texas' birthday, toys, treats, tuna on April 4, 2013| 77 Comments »
Hiya everyone!
First of all, the VBP post will be posted exceptionally (VBP) by Kitshka tomorrow.
Now to really impawtant things.
How are you doing today? I’m glad that you came because my human has been preparing some treats for my purrthday just for me and I want to share them with my furriends! That’s you!
First things first: look at the beautiful cards I received from my furriends!
My very good furriend, Sammy!
Thank you Sammy! I love your hat!
My sweetest furriend, Savannah!
It’s an honor to have such a beautiful Ladycat sending me a card!
My human’s mother – the best cat sitter EVER! – sent me this yummy cupcake on Facebook!
Doesn’t it look yummy? I bet it’s tuna!
And I also received chicken from Vincent, one of my Facebook fans!
Oh! I almost forgot: my vet sent me a cool ecard too!
Thank you all so furry much! And thank you to all of you who left wishes on my Facebook profile!
Look what I got!
4 different bags of treats, catnip puffs, a catnip pepper and… a tunnel! I love my catnip pepper already!
The tunnel is amazing! It sounds like crinkly paper and there are lights!
I received my best favorite ever food from Europe, thanks to Janina!
And as a cake, my human wanted to make me a tuna cake BUT since I had received all this wonderful food from France, I had my favorite: Tuna & Shrimps!
There is some for everyone, so help yourself! There are treats too! Go ahead! You can taste them all!
Then we can go play in my new tunnel!
Finally, the human had this weird idea to bake something for your humans too. When she told me what she baked, I was shocked! SHOCKED!
Wanna know what it is?
This could be part of our VBP post… take notes Kitshka.
Okay I tell you…
Cat’s tongues! Yes, in French, des langues de chat!
Have no fear! Those are just biscuits that have the shape of our tongues. Ah! Humans really!
You can throw some to your humans, and let’s have fun!
I want to pawty!
Posted in Furry friends, Holidays, Human friends, tagged cats, Easter, happiness, Kitshka, Texas on March 31, 2013| 42 Comments »
Texas & Kitshka: The female human is preparing something in the kitchen
Texas: What are you doing human?
Kitshka: Is there cream involved?
The human: Chocolate eggs
Texas & Kitshka: Ah…
Texas: We want to wish everyone who is celebrating a
Happy Easter!
Texas: And to those who do not celebrate, we just wish them Happiness!
Kitshka: And cream cheese!
Posted in Bloggers, Life, News, tagged Texas, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Magazine Pet Contest, Westchester Magazine Pet of the Year Contest on March 30, 2013| 52 Comments »
The Human: Texas, it’s the American dream.
Texas: Yes, that’s what I said, the Americat dream. Move over, human! This is my fame here!
Hiya everyone! Today is not Thankful Thursday but it can certainly be – expect a French accent here – Sankful Saturday (Because the French sometimes say “sank you” instead of “thank you”. . . ok whatever!).
So, it’s Thankful Saturday.
Remember back in January when I asked you if you would kindly vote for me in Westchester Magazine’s 2013 Pet of the Year Contest?
You kindly answered and voted for me and I could announce in February that I was among the ten cutest pets (out of 144) of the year in Westchester Magazine.
THANK YOU to all of you who voted for me!
Thank you!
The results of the 2013 Pet Contest is in Westchester Magazine’s April issue.
I am famous.
This is me on the right (don’t pay attention to the doggie on the left)
Texas is my brother!
The Human: Well, Texas you are famous in Westchester County, NY.
Texas: human, drop the capital H please. I am a star and you are jealous, that’s it.
The human: No Texas, I am really happy for you!
Texas: Here is the page on Westchester Magazine’s website. Wesley has been chosen as the top pet. My page is here (you can like it if you wish ;-).
Here’s what the humans at the magazine have to say about me:
The Bilingual Blogger
Have you read his blog? Yes, this cat is an ambitious one. When he’s not typing away, you can find Texas snuggled up in the recycling bin, listening to classical music or playing with his sister.
The human: The recycle bin? I wrote “a bag full of other plastic bags we keep for recycling.” That’s not the recycle bin!
Texas: True but… yeah, whatever.
And at the bottom of my page, you can also click to see a video of me (that I have posted below).
The human: oh no, Texas! I’m talking in the video, I hate my accent, you know that!
Texas: I’m famous!
Posted in Bloggers, Furry friends, Human friends, Life, News, tagged birthday, Blog Paws, news, Texas, VBP, VBP blog hop on March 28, 2013| 58 Comments »
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
I take a break from my weekly bilingual VBP post to dispatch (VBP) some news.
First, little-no-so-old me is literally (VBP) in the news! Yes I am!
No, not the newspawper! But I’m in a magazine. You know this bundle (VBP) of glossy (VBP) papers the humans (especially female humans) read. Want to know more? Consider visiting me on Saturday (well, yes, today is VBP day, I can’t take all the glory ;-)
Second piece of news is that little-not-so-old me is turning 7 in exactly one week! I don’t feel like I am aging (VBP)! Can you tell this face is almost 7?
Look at this strong body of mine (Hello! Lady Cats!)
Doesn’t this paw look brand new?
Ah! I knew it! So you are all invited to my purrthday next Thursday. Remember, April 4.
Last and least, my human is abandoning me to go to going to the Blog Paws Conference in May. Everything’s booked (VBP) but the transportation. You think there’s still hope she’ll stay with me?
Below are the past week’s pawticipants. As always, click on the bluey badge at the bottom of this post to enter your link for this week. And don’t forget to grab the badge! Thanks to everyone!
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Gizmo @Terrier Torrent
Ann @Pawsitively Pets
Pepi @PepiSmartDog
Savvy @Savannah’s Paw Tracks
Texas @Texas, a Cat in NY
Posted in Furry friends, Life, tagged cats, Kitshka, nap, Texas on March 27, 2013| 52 Comments »
Posted in Life, tagged cats, nap, Texas on March 24, 2013| 37 Comments »
What have you been up to yesterday?
My human was out most of the day yesterday – grocery shopping (there was no more wet food!!) – so I took a little nap.
I was dreaming Spring had finally arrived. It was warm and… my human came home and the cold wind entered the home! I woke up!
Apparently there’s a winter storm coming our way. A WINTER storm. Do we need to elect a new Ceiling Cat or something to finally have Spring?
Meanwhile, if you really don’t know what to do, check what my human has found in the place called Manhattan (click on the picture to go to her blog’s post). She claims this is not raw fish! Hmpf!
Hope you have a great Sunday!
Posted in Bloggers, Furry friends, tagged cat, cats, English idioms, French expressions, Kitshla, Texas, VBP, VBP blog hop on March 21, 2013| 31 Comments »
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
I admit it, and not reluctantly (VBP), I have been having fun finding idioms and expressions related to kitties both in English and in French. This is my third post (first here, second there) and I want to mention all the expressions you shared.
Yes, I think this bi-cultural (VBP) interest is the cat’s meow… or the cat’s pyjamas.
Unfortunately, there is no exact French translation for these expressions, at least none with the word cat. An appropriate translation, depending on the context, could be le fin du fin (the best of the best, or la crème de la crème – nom!).
Now, let me illustrate the cat’s meow according to Kitshka (we hope we get it right).
Would you say my tocks are the cat’s meow for Kitshka?
If you are interested in learning more about French expressions that are about cats, we would like to suggest this page done by our furriends at Autour des Chats. It is very well done!
We will also keep on featuring (VBP) French and English expressions here =^.^=
Below are the past week’s pawticipants. As always, click on the bluey badge at the bottom of this post to enter your link for this week. And don’t forget to grab the badge! Thanks to everyone!
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da tabbies @da tabbies o trout towne
Savvy @Savannah’s Paw Tracks
Texas @Texas, a Cat in NY
We had a post from Ann, of Zoolatry but for some reason the link has disappeared?! I don’t understand what happened. Ann, if you want to resubmit your linkie, we will gladly add it!
Happy VBP week, furriends!
Posted in Human psychology, Life, tagged busy, cats, Kitshka, Texas on March 19, 2013| 52 Comments »
The human came to us yesterday evening to tell us that she was ready to help me, Texas, with the typing for my blog. She had a little time.
She thinks we wait for her to get a life. Well, no human. We are busy doing impawtant things most of the time.
So come back later. Thank you.
Posted in Life, Nature, tagged cats, snow, Texas on March 4, 2013| 47 Comments »
Today’s memories are not very old: they date back to January 2012.
My human was certain to have pics of me in France experimenting snow for the very first time on a balcony, but she cannot find them right now.
***Short pause to look at her with airplane ears***
So here is my first encounter with NY snow. Of course, we get a LOT more snow here when it snows than in France. In any case or country, I think it’s cold and has little interest, really.
If you cannot see the video, please click here.
Posted in Life, Playing, tagged cats, naps, New York, Texas, Yankees on February 25, 2013| 53 Comments »
These pictures were taken in March 2007. I was 11 month-old! And living in France with my human.
Go Yankees!
Posted in Bloggers, Food, Furry friends, Human psychology, News, Vet, tagged human, suitcase, Texas, vet, Westchester Magazine, Westchester Magazine Pet of the Year Contest on February 21, 2013| 49 Comments »
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
Posts on my bloggie have been sparse (VBP) again; visiting my furriends’ bloggies has been barely possible. Truth is some things happened in the past 2 weeks that I want to tell you about.
About two weeks ago, on a Saturday morning, I regurgitated (VBP) my food twice or thrice (VBP). My human thought I might have caught a bug (!) or something and rushed me to the vet. Truth is my stomach and I were upset because an evil suitcase had appeared.
Anyway, the visit to the vet was quite a thing. The nice vet had a new assistant which I decided I didn’t like (remember there was the suitcase in my human’s bedroom). So I was not really nice. But I had nothing to do there! I wanted to go home and I wanted the suitcase to disappear!
The vet gave me some fluids and sent me home asking the humans… kitties, hold on to your scratching post… asking the humans not to give me food for 24 hours! 24 HOURS!! I thought I would starve! And I almost did.
The day after, on Sunday, the human gave me my first food in 24 hours of forced starvation… and she took her suitcase and left for 3 days to sunny California, the home of some of my furriends (Sparkle, Savvy, Spitty…) without asking if I wanted to come or send a message for them.
The human: Texas, I went there for work, I was in a delimited area in south Los Angeles, and I didn’t have much time even for myself!
Don’t bother reading the human’s excuses. Excuses, always excuses.
Then she came back on Wednesday morning, very early. I was very happy! Not an hour passed, she caught me, put me in my carrier and took me to a photo shoot!
The human: Texas, it was the Westchester Magazine photo shoot, remember? You asked your furriends to vote for you, and they did, and you were selected.
Texas: And because you have no time for me, I wasn’t yet able to tell them!
The human: We are telling them now.
Texas: Pfft. Back of disrespect. AND airplane ears (I think you like airplanes, don’t you?).
Anyway, it was kind of a dark place with some very bright spots, with HUGE lamps. It was kind of scary. And there were TWO pawpawrazzi! It lasted about 10 hours [The human: less than one actually], and there were dozens of dogs to force me to comply [The human: the next animal to be photographed was a dog, and arrived about 10 minutes before we left].
The human: Am I complaining that they took a picture of the two of us while I was just “fresh” out of the plane, which means not really ready for a photo shoot?
Texas: Who cares? I’m the star, am I not?
The human: You did behave like a little star, yes ;-) I couldn’t even take pictures of the photo shoot to show your furriends, because I had to run after you all the time. Not to mention the photograph had to take pics of you lying on the floor because you were hiding under the couch!
Texas: Hmpf.
I want to seize (VBP) this opportunity to thank again all my furriends who voted for me in the Westchester Magazine Pet of the Year Contest. I am one of the ten pets of the year and I will be featured in the March or April issue! More on this as soon as I have more news.
Here are last week’s pawticipants. As always, click on the bluey badge at the bottom of this post to enter your link for this week. And don’t forget to grab the badge! Thanks to everyone!
We had three links this past week from bloggies that entered their URL but did not pawticipate (we could not find any reference to VBP in any post). It would be unfair to pawticipants to post the links of bloggers who do not do a VBP post. So, if you don’t see the link to your blog, yet have entered one, you can post the link to your VBP post in the comments. If we have missed it, we will add it. Thank you for your furry understanding =^.^=
If you have any question regarding VBP, you can check the simple rules here and don’t hesitate to leave your questions in the comments!
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Amy
@Training Toby
da tabbies @da tabbies of trout towne
Ann
@Zoolatry
Gizmo @Terrier Torrent
Easy
@EasyRider
Ann @Pawsitively Pets
Jet
@Hey It’s Jet Here
Savvy @Savannah’s Paw Tracks
Texas
@Texas, a cat in NY
Posted in Furry friends, Human friends, Human psychology, Life, Uncategorized, tagged cat in a suitcase, cats, kitten, memories, suitcase, suitcases, Texas on February 18, 2013| 61 Comments »
I have a love-hate relationship with suitcases. While they are fun to play in and sometimes comfy to sleep in (especially when the human has already put clothes in one of them), they usually mean that the human is leaving for an undetermined number of days. Sometimes I might travel with her, though.
When I was younger, my human had to travel a lot, and I quickly understood that suitcases were not a good sign: they have the power to steal my human from me!
One day, to show my discontent, I peed in an empty one my human had left opened. You think my human would have thanked me for trying to prevent the suitcase from kidnapping her? Pfft, not even! She was not pleased at all!
So I tried different techniques, but mostly sit-ins. It never deterred my human from leaving :-/
Yes, human. It is your lingerie. Why?
Do you like suitcases and if not, do you have a technique to make them disappear?
Posted in Furry friends, Life, tagged cats, Kitshka, Milou, naps, Sunday, Texas on February 17, 2013| 38 Comments »
Posted in Bloggers, Furry friends, Playing, Playing with your human, tagged bloggers, cats, playing with words, Texas, VBP, VBP blog hop, words on February 7, 2013| 21 Comments »
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
We have not told you yet (I think) but this little project, initiated by Jet and her Mom, was started several months ago. The humans’ lives being what they are, they sometimes got in the way and hampered (VBP) its realization. But everything comes in time, and in the meantime, we have discovered that several other bloggers have a keen (VBP) interest in words.
So today, I thought I would present to all of you a potpourri (VBP) of those we have discovered.
Austin @(CAT)achresis with Dr. Austin Tuxedo’s Word of the Day at the end of each post. Dr. Austin sure knows how to play with words!
Liousha & Tiki @Liousha & Tiki and Graffiti, Zingara & Romeo @La Voix aux Chats-Pitres with Charabia (check here and here) give us French kitty vocabulary lessons!
Saffy, Cosmo, and Phoebe, and their human Angie @Catladyland with Fanglish, or the “the underground feline code of lingo known as Fanglish.”
Nerissa @Nerissa’s Life with My Personal A to Z Challenge (here is the latest post in the series)
I am perplexed (VBP). I think my human is forgetting some bloggers…
If you happen to be regularly playing with words and expressions on your bloggie and you are not on the list, we might either have missed you or the human has forgotten to include you. Leave me a message and I will do a sequel (VBP) next week!
Happy VBP everyone!
And now, please check this past week’s pawticipants:
Easy @EasyRider
Da Tabbies @da tabbies o trout towne
Penelope @The Cat from Hell
@Dogs N Pawz
Gizmo @Terrier Torrent
Ann @Pawsitively Pets
Kirby @Kirbys Dawg Blog
Loy @ Yikes! Loy Turns 60
Austin @(CAT)achresis
Savvy @Savannah’s Paw Tracks
Texas @Texas, a cat in NY
Here is the linkie for next week, to enter the link to your post (permalink).
Posted in Furry friends, Human friends, Life, tagged cats, Kitshka, naps, Texas on February 6, 2013| 56 Comments »
Posted in Food, Life, Playing, Playing with your human, tagged bag, cats, Kitshka, Lickety stick, Milou, Texas, World's Best Cat Litter on February 3, 2013| 43 Comments »
Today I conclude my thanks for the great prezzies we received the past year thanks to Zee & Zoey (check here and here).
We received a Lickety Stick, Salmon flavor. Of course, Milou and Kitshka loved it! They wouldn’t stop! Me? Hmmm, I have to say, not really. But Milou and Kitshka had no problem making up for me!
On the other hand, we all liked the World’s Best Cat Litter, which also came with a scooper and… a bag!!! A BAG!!!
Bags. The bestest human invention. After boxes.
Posted in Bloggers, Human friends, Playing, Toys, tagged cats playing, Kitshka, Moderncat, Texas, toys, Zee & Zoey on February 1, 2013| 36 Comments »
Remember when I had won this fabulous toy that is the cat-a-pole?
Well, the prize also included some great toys from Moderncat (now Hauspanther.com), as well as litter (World’s best cat litter) and a lickety stick (but we’ll have a post about those last two tomorrow or on Sunday).
We really wanted to post pictures because we love these toys, AND I think it is the least we can do to say thank you. But that was a period when the human was super busy (huh-oh, looks like more busy-ness is to come) and we never did.
So here are some pictures… and a video of Kitshka!
[You can click on any picture to get a bigger version in the slideshow.]
My preference went to the ModKicker, which smelled good catnip! Kitshka and I both like the Felt Rollers, but Kitshka is playing with them more than I do. She is also having fun with the Junk Food Flyer but her favorite one, actually really one of her favorite toys EVER (she takes it everywhere in the house), is the Lynks Felted Wool Toy! She loves it!
So, we want to say THANK YOU to Zee & Zoey and Moderncat for the fun!
[If you cannot see the video on this blog, check it here]
Posted in Bloggers, Box, Furry friends, Playing, tagged boxes, cats, cats playing in boxes, Kitshka, Texas, Thankful Thursday, VBP, VBP blog hop, Vocab building project on January 31, 2013| 25 Comments »
Today, I am emulating (VBP) Savannah’s post last week: I am posting our VBP post and I am pawticipating in the Thankful Thursday blog hop!
[Still not sure what VBP is? Check here.]
Killing two birds with one stone (VBP) click.
I have good news for all my furriends who were concerned about my welfare because the humans had killed the boxes. We I got brand new ones!
And guess who was determined (VBP) to play with my tail?
[you can click on any pic to biggify it]
So, what are we thankful for, this week?
Me, for my boxes. Kitshka, for my tail. Jet, Savvy and I, for your pawticipation in our blog hop.
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Here are this past week’s pawticipants. You will find the little blue badge to enter the linkie to your post for next week at the end of the post.
Thank you & Happy VBP!
da tabbies o trout towne
Roxy @ Roxy, the Traveling Dog
Penelope @ The Cat from Hell
Loy @ Yikes! Loy Turns 60
Dash Kitten @ Dash Kitten’s Mewsings
Austin @ CATachresis
Gizmo @ Terrier Torrent
Moses @ Lily Pad Quilting
Ann @ Pawsitively Paws
Jodi @ Heart Like a Dog
Spitty @ Spitty Speaks
Misaki @ The Misadventures of Misaki
Savvy @ Savannah’s Paw Tracks
Jet @ Hey… It’s Jet Here
Texas @ Texas, a cat in NY
Posted in Life, tagged cats, king, memories, nap, Texas on January 28, 2013| 40 Comments »
Posted in Box, Furry friends, Giveaway, tagged calendar, giveaway, Kitshka, organization, Texas on January 26, 2013| 30 Comments »
Humans!
Look how organized us kitties can be? Doesn’t it look great? Wouldn’t you want to be as organized as us?
Kitshka: Let me tell you how you can try to master kitty organization, the human way…
Have you entered our giveaway to win one of two beautiful kitty calendars designed by Bernadette from The Creative Cat? No?!
Then click on the picture below to enter now. You have until tonight, 9 pm EST.
If you’ve already entered, well, practice kitty patience. The winner will be announced tomorrow =^.^=
Have a great weekend y’all!
P.S.: Furriends, you can enter your humans, of course, if they refuse to admit they need a calendar to keep organized
P.S.S.: we are late visiting your bloggies again. We hope to resume tonight or tomorrow. Sorry furriends.
Posted in Bloggers, Furry friends, Playing, tagged blog hop, Mark Twain, Texas, VBP, Vocab building project on January 24, 2013| 29 Comments »
Today is VBP (Vocab Building Project) Thursday!
What am I talking about? One cool, versatile (VBP), and funny blog hop for those who love to learn new words.
You can enter a new entry each week. The hosts, Jet, Savvy, and me post every Thursday but YOU, my furriends, can post anytime you want from Thursday to Wednesday each week, and then all you have to do is enter your permalink (VBP) to the collection of participants by clicking on the little blue badge at the bottom of our Thursday post. All the details can be found here.
Mark Twain is supposed to have said that
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Well, our furriends did just that this past week: their posts (action) were loud as often as their words… if that makes any sense! (No I didn’t have nip. Yet.)
Here is this first week’s collection of pawticipants: 9 PAWTICIPANTS! (If I take away Savvy and I, as well as Spitty, which I believe said he mistakenly entered his post? Spitty, easy on the nip, pal)
Here they are (click on the image to visit the VBP post, on the name of the blog to visit their blog):
Bama from Shat Cast
Fenris from Alasandra, the Cats and Dogs
Ann from Pawsitively Pets
Loy from Yikes! Loy Turns 60
Easy from Easyrider
Misaki from The Misadventures of Misaki
Mollie and Alfie from Mollie and Alfie
Gizmo from Terrier Torrent
Dogs N Pawz (I am not sure about your name, furriends, sorry)
Isn’t that dazzling (VBP)? THANK YOU so much for your pawticipation!
Now, since I had to input each furriend one by one (because wordpress.com doesn’t allow script – whatever that means!), I think I need a little nap.
Before that I would just like to remind you that I have a giveaway for two pawsome 2013 created by The Creative Cat. Check it out here and don’t hesitate to pawticipate (wherever you are)!
We are looking forward to your next VBP entry! Purrs y’all!
[Blue badge I was talking about]
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Posted in Food, Furry friends, Human friends, Life, tagged cats, cats questions, Kitshka, Milou, National Answer Your Cat's Questions Day, Texas on January 22, 2013| 41 Comments »
Yesterday, I was reading Daisy’s post at PetMeds Blog and I learned that today is National Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day!
Needless to say, all three of us – Milou, Kitshka, and I – have questions for our humans! So there you go!
Milou
How come I cannot eat Texas’ and Kitshka’s yummiest food?
Because it makes you seriously sick, then I have to get you to the V-E-T and he performs outrageous things on your business end to fix you.
Why are you feeding me only 18 times a day when I’m hungry 28 times?
Because I actually have to work so I can afford your diet food among others, and get a little sleep (I don’t require 18h a day but still).
I’m hungry. Can I have food now?
You had food 10 minutes ago!
Kitshka
Can the birdies outside be invited inside the house?
No sweetie, they are meant to live outside. Inside, they could not fly.
How come I cannot eat Texas’ and Milou’s yummiest food?
Because you have your special kitten food, so that you can healthily grow into a beautiful Ladycat. Texas is currently on diet food* and Milou has a special urinary diet.
Why don’t you let the cream cheese on the table, ever?
I don’t want it to turn sour.**
Me, Texas
Why don’t you eat fresh shrimps more often?
Because we don’t want to eat shrimps everyday.
Why can’t we keep all the boxes you receive?
I know you love boxes, Texas. And there will always be boxes for you to play with. We cannot have boxes everywhere though. We, humans, live here too, you know (not in boxes though).
How come I cannot eat Milou’s yummiest food?
Because Milou has a special urinary diet, he cannot eat*** anything else, and this type of food is very high in calories.
* Texas: Human! You didn’t have to tell!
** Kitshka: Yeah, right. Just because I am a kitten doesn’t mean I am stupid. You just don’t want to share!
*** Milou: Speaking of eating…
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Texas, a cat in New York 
