Thursday Thirteen

So this Thursday, I'm going to list all the things we did while Mom was home:

1. Destroyed the first of what will be many catnip ravioli (hey we made it last two days!)

2. Destroyed a red feather boa (we're working on the pink one still)

3. Napped on the new quilt while Mom worked in her craft room

4. Checked out all the stuff the refrigerator repairman brought when he looked at the refrigerator today.

5. Ran around outside in the rain everytime we could get out the door.

6. Cha-Ching got neutered!

7. Helped Mom with loads of laundry by re-furring them as soon as they came out of the dryer

8. Played with the nieces on Christmas

9. Poo'ed on Aunt Kim's bed (well, in his defense, Cha-Ching did get closed in the room and there was no litter box).

10. Brought more bits of wood in from outside (Mom here: Anybody have any info to share on why the furballs like to carry in small bits of wood? Is it bad for them? Is there any way to stop it?)

11. Helped Mom scrapbook pictures of us and make a thank you card for Pat for the kitty photo book

12. Tried ham for the first time - yum yum - now we know why the Meezers like it so much!

and 13. Got lots and lots of loving and tummy scritches from Mom!

Oh and one other, we helped her pick out pictures for scrapbooking, especially this one:

It's the niece carrying Smoke around (which she does whenever she comes over). The Furballs, especially Smoke, are great with kids and other than a few pleaing looks to save them, put up with all the love and attention that the kids lavish on them.

Tribute to Moms and Thursday Thirteen

This Thursday Thirteen is short; it's a list of the thirteen things that the furballs destroyed last night: twelve red long stem roses that Daddy gave Mommy for their anniversary and the bag that Mommy's anniversary gift to the Daddy (an autographed poster of Mark Martin) was in.

That leaves us room to present to you this hilarious video of Anita Renfroe performing "'Cause I am the Mom" which she set to the William Tell Overture. Mommy almost drove off the road this morning laughing so hard when the radio station played it during her drive to work.

Thursday Thirteen

This week we present you with the thirteen reasons why Mommy and Daddy knew we had a party today while they were at work:

1. The garbage can was knocked over and their was garbage clear into the dining room.

2. The video camera was on the floor (we hid the video).

3. The bag with the feather boa materials that auntie Kim left for us was not in the closet anymore.

4. There was an empty Greenies bag with kitty teeth marks in it in the living room.

5. The food dish was almost empty.

6. The litter box was really full.

7. There was a sock left in the kitchen.

8. No one was waiting at the kitty door when Mommy got home.

9. The rug in the foyer was all cattywampuss from kitty races.

10. There were feather boa feathers strewn around the dining room.

11. The dining room table cloth was almost pulled off.

12. There was a long pink furry boa on the kitchen floor.

and 13. We were too tired to go outside to play tonight.

Thursday Thirteen

Mommy has been very tired the last couple of days and has not let me blog. She is a bad mommy. Mommy says that she's going to be busy this weekend too and probably won't be letting me blog much then either. She said that Daddy is going hunting (armed walking really) and she is going to have three whole days to do all the things that she doesn't do because she would rather spend time with Daddy. So I present to you thirteen things that my Mommy will be doing this weekend instead of letting me blog:

1. Laundry, laundry, laundry

2. Finishing the slip covers for the chairs on the porch

3. Mowing the lawn

4. Hacking back the bushy bush out front

5. Filling the bird feeders

6. Figuring out some sort of cat post for the upstairs bedroom

7. Vacuuming

8. Balancing the checkbook

9. Organizing the photos on the computer

10. Installing Photoshop and Microsoft Office (again - they disappeared when the computer was fixed)

11. Sleeping in (ha!)

12. Catching up on all the TV programs she's TIVO'd but hasn't seen yet, and

13. Working on her stained glass

Personally, I don't think any of these are more important than blogging with my friends.

Lucy-Furr, thanks for coming to visit me. I had a great time watching the fishies and playing herd of elephants. I had a great time. Well, I gotta go, the furballs are playing hide and seek in the box our kitty post came in. Come over an

ytime.

Thursday Thirteen

Now that Smoke, Chewie and Gandalf have just past the six-month milestone yesterday and Cha-Ching is only two days away, we present you thirteen things about getting older:

1. We can climb nine feet off the floor to the plant shelf dividing the living room and the dining room.

2. We can't get toys out from under the baker's rack anymore.

3. We can leap the fence in the backyard and visit the neighbors.

4. We can't sit on top of our tent anymore without it collapsing.

5. We don't have "accidents" in the middle of the night anymore.

6. We've learned that Zoey can open the back door when it's shut but not locked (Mommy and Daddy keep it locked all the times now).

7. We're pretty close to learning how to unlock the kitty door all by ourselves (even though Mommy and Daddy tell us to stop when we try).

8. We've got being underfoot down to a science.

9. Chewie can hunt and catch birds (and olives).

10. We don't have to go the vet every two weeks for shots anymore.

11. We don't have a cat nursery anymore.

12. We're alot faster (and smarter).

and 13. Chewie doesn't really fit in the basket in Mommy and Daddy's headboard anymore (but she thinks she does!).

Oh, and here's a secret. The furballs have been teasing Cha-Ching mercilessly about a certain young girl whose blog he's been secretly reading (and re-reading).

Thursday Thirteen #8

This week we present the thirteen naughty things the furballs did this week (I, of course, was an angel):

1. Smoke jumped on top of Mommy's grandfather clock.
2. Gandalf went over the fence into the neighbor's yard and Mommy had to go rescue him.
3. Chewie scared Mommy by hiding then crying like she was trapped in the neighbor's yard too (but she really was still in our back yard).
4. Smoke tried to steal popcorn out of Daddy's bowl (Daddy gave him some anyway).
5. Gandalf made biscuits on Daddy's face at O'dark'thirty.
6. All the furballs ate my special diet crunchies.
7. The furballs stood outside the door to Cha-Ching nursery and hissed and growed at him.
8. The furballs got on the kitchen counters at least a gazillion times.
9. Smoke chewed his way into my food bag in the pantry.
10. Gandalf got closed in the pantry and tried to pass my food out to Smoke under the door.
11. Smoke tried to climb in Mommy's cereal box when there was still cereal in it!
12. One of them (not sure who) stole garbage from the garbage can and made a mess in the dining room.
13. One of them (not sure who) took the door off the litter box and got litter all over the floor.
14. Chewie got in the litter box and tried to "play" with Mommy while she was cleaning it.
15. All of the furballs played with the tape backing when Mommy was trying to tape the glass.
16. Chewie ate my stinky-goodness! (Okay so I was done but that's beside the point!)
17. All the furballs slept on the clean laundry in the basket.

Oh my, I guess that's more than 13 and I'm not done yet. As you can see, they are not angels.

Thursday Thirteen #6

Some of you already know this, but for those that haven't heard yet: Mommy and Daddy are off to visit a meezer kitten this weekend and see about bringing it home. Now, some of us think they are crazy, but overall beans and kitties have been very supportive. Given the event, I thought the furballs and I would list the thirteen reasons why Mommy is getting a meezer:

1. None of us are "talkers." The furballs disagree with this one and claim to be talkers, but I've heard them. They don't hardly say a peep except for when Mommy is dishing up food, they are stalking a fly, they have control of the infamous ratty pink boa (and then it's more growl than talk) or they have gotten "lost" in another room and need to find where everyone is.
2. Daddy can't say "no" to her (except, strangely enough, about getting a stroller).
3. There's still two square inches of space left on the bed at night.
4. There are still some things left on the shelves that haven't been knocked over and/or broken.
5. The people who make Science Diet, Temptations and Fancy Feast need her to single-handedly keep them in business.
6. There is still at least one night each week that she doesn't wake up to the sound of yaking, crying or fighting.
7. She is still able to navigate the stairs even though we have tried everything in our power to be underfoot when she goes down them.
8. There's still one finger left to count with when she tries to keep track of us when we get to venture outside.
9. She's having a mid-life crisis and is trying to relive her youth when she had a meezer named Bogie.
10. Daddy got a raise at work and Mommy needs to spend the extra money before he realizes that he could get something.
11. Daddy wanted to name something "cha-ching" and we all had names.
12. The V-E-T needs a vacation home and someone has to pay for it.
13. Mommy and Daddy still have room in their heart to love another kitty.

Thursday Thirteen #5

We are some very spooooiiillllleeeddd kitties. Mommy's been collecting stuff to send our Summer Secret Paws, but we're the ones that made out like bandits (no, the picture yesterday was not a package from our Summer Secret Paws but rather was a lovely cat pillow from DaisyMae Maus). Everytime Mommy goes to look at stuff we want to send off, she finds "a little something" for us. So here are thirteen new things we got while Mommy was shopping for our Summer Secret Paws (no, the picture yesterday was not our Secret Paws surprise, but rather was a lovely cat pillow from DMM):

1. A catnip carrot

2. Two fluffy soft balls

3. Two catnip mice

4. Five catnip puffs

5. Three bottles of worm medicine (okay so we didn't so much care about this one)

6. A round track with a flashy lighted ball in it

7. An orange collar for Smoke since Tony Stewart's car colors are orange and black

8. A plastic mousie that dispenses catnip

9. A Zoom Groom

10. Beef Temptations (of course and thank you DMM for the coupons)

11. Delibites (a kitty treat)

12. Pounce meaty morsels treats

13. A pink Barbie feather boa wand!

I highly recommend the pink Barbie feather boa wand. Mommy found it at PetSmart and the furballs go ape over it. Mommy has video but she couldn't figure out how to upload it. Maybe someday she'll get stuff like videos and auto-linkies figured out.

Also as mentioned yesterday, here is the press release on Tuesday's sentencing. Phyllis got 51 months as was agreed in the plea agreement and has been ordered to pay over $13 million in restitution. Mommy's just okay about it. It wasn't the satisfying event that she thought it would be. In fact, it was rather sad (pitiful sad, not crying sad she says). She has another sentencing tomorrow in a much smaller case and she hopes that will go well too.

Thursday Thirteen #4

In honor of Father's Day this weekend, we decided to devote this Thursday Thirteen to our Daddy and list thirteen reasons why we love Daddy:

1. All: He pets us.

2. the furballs: He doesn't step on us as much as Mommy does.

Zoey: Purrsonally, neither of them step on me. I think it's your fault if you get stepped on. You shouldn't be so annoying as to run under their feet.

3. Zoey: He cooks good food.

the furballs: Food? There's something to eat other than stinky goodness and crunchies? We're missing out!

4. the furballs: He lets us out of our room.

Zoey: Hey! I don't like that. I like the fact that they lock you up during the day when they aren't here. Come to think of it, I think they should keep you locked up all the time.

5. Zoey: He fills my food bowl when he gets home from work so I can have a snack before the furballs invade.

6. the furballs: He lets us go outside in the backyard.

Zoey: Ha! I can go outside anytime I want!

7. Zoey: He's better at giving me my sub-q fluids.

8. All: He plays the red dot game with us more than Mommy.

9. Zoey: He didn't get mad when I peed in his truck on the way to the v-e-t.

10. Gandalf: He hinted to Mommy that they should keep me instead of having another family take me away from my brother and sister.

11. All: He's good to cuddle with.

12. All: He keeps Mommy sane.

13. All and Mommy: He loves us very much!

Thursday Thirteen #3

Celeste tagged me for a meme (thank you Celeste!), so I thought I would combine it with my Thursday Thirteen.

The rules: Each player starts with seven random facts about himself. Cats who are tagged need to write on their own blog about the seven things and the rules. You need to choose seven cats to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment/pawmail that they have been tagged and to read your blog.

I thought I would make it a little more challenging by making each fact contain at least one word in common with the previous fact. So, here's my thirteen "random" facts:

1. I am recovering from acute renal failure (ARF).

2. Because I have ARF, I'm supposed to eat KD diet.

3. I don't like KD diet so I will only eat beef Temptations.

4. Mommy saves money on my beef Temptations using coupons from my cousin DaisyMae Maus (thank you DaisyMae).

5. I look like DaisyMae Maus.

6. I do not look like my brother McKenzie.

7. McKenzie would act like he only tolerated me but he really loved me (especially when Mommy went away on vacation and left us alone with the housesitter).

8. I still act like I really only tolerate the furballs.

9. The furballs, particularly Gandalf, like to jump on me when they play.

10. I like to play with my Whirly-bird.

11. My Whirly-bird has seen better days.

12. I have been spoiled all the days of my life.

13. I'm very happy that I get to spend my life with Mommy and Daddy.

Okay so I had to stretch in some places, but that was fun. I think pretty much everyone has been tagged for the meme. If you haven't and you want to play, I tag you!

Thursday Thirteen #2

We've read recently other kitties' nicknames in their Thursday Thirteen lists, so we've decided that we'll share some of ours in this edition of Thursday Thirteen (don't worry Smoke, they're tame).

1. Zoey Bowie

2. Pretty Girl (Zoey)

3. Smokey Robinson

4. Cry-baby (Gandalf)

5. Gus Mus (Gus)

6. Trouble (any of the furballs)

7. Chewy

8. Jealous (McKenzie and Gandalf)

9. Green-eyes (McKenzie)

10. Bubbie (McKenzie)

11. Cutie-pie (all of them)

12. Brat (McKenzie)

and 13. Furball!

After we posted, Mommy and Daddy pointed out a few of the nicknames that we missed, such as Hoover (because the furballs will eat anything on the floor). Our response is - it only asked for thirteen, not every rhyming combination of words that you've ever called us or comment on our behavior. So there!

Thursday Thirteen #1

I thought that for my very first Thursday Thirteen post, I would post thirteen things about Acute Renal Failure (ARF). I thought this was especially timely since Mommy was filling out the claim form from Menu Foods today and talking with Daddy about the letter that Menu Foods sent about the various lawsuits. When I was diagnosed with ARF as a result of the bad kitty food, Mommy and I did some research on the Internet and this is some of what we found:

1. Part of the kidneys' function is to remove waste from the body.

2. Kidney failure is also called renal failure.

3. Kidney failure is either acute or chronic. Acute kidney failure occurs when the kidneys suddenly stop performing their filtering function allowing waste products to build up in the kitty's system. Chronic kidney failure occurs when the kidneys gradually reduce their filtering functions over time.

4. ARF is typically caused by urinary obstructions, infectious diseases, trauma, and the ingestion of toxins.

5. In addition to the bad food, ingestion of items commonly found in homes can cause kidney problems for cats. For instance, antifreeze, lillies (yes the flower that many of us may have in our gardens), acetominophen and ibuprofen, and turpentine are just some of the things that can cause kidney problems.

6. Signs of kidney failure usually don't appear until 70% of the kidneys have stopped functioning.

7. Some of the symptoms of ARF are drinking more water, vomiting, depression, reduction in appetite, lethargy, and increased/decreated urination.

8. If you see symptoms of ARF, you should take your cat to the vet immediately. This cannot be treated at home.

9. Blood tests that are used to diagnosis ARF include measurements of the blood urea nitrogen (BUN), phosphorus and creatinine.

10. ARF is treated by providing fluids (such as through a subcutaneous IV) and through certain medications (a nasty pill I didn't like).

11. Cats with ARF also usually are prescribed a kidney-friendly diet that is low in sodium and encouraged to continue that diet even if their kidney functions return to normal ranges.

12. If ARF is caused by the ingestion of a specific toxin, the vet may try to empty the cat's stomach or use charcoal to try to stop more absorption of the toxin.

13. ARF is often fatal. Early treatment is critical to improve your pet's chance of survival.

Some of the websites that we visited are:
Washington State University, College of Veterinary Medicine
Feline CRF Information Center
Cat World
FamilyVet.com
Lexington Cat Clinic (content appears to be from Lifelearn)
Petplace.com
Love to Know
Balgownie Veterinary Hospital

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