Practice makes perfect! ~ Graham Kitty
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Category Archives: Cats
You Know When… ~ Gus Kitty
You know when it’s really loud and you are looking for a quiet place? Yeah that. ~ Gus Kitty
Do You Know…!?! ~ Gus Kitty
Do you know how much fun tissue paper is!?! Even more when you can hide in plain sight in it. Well almost. ~ Gus Kitty
🎶 Brothers, Brothers 🎶 ~ Graham and Gus Kitties
With a nod to White Christmas – 🎶 Brothers, brothers there were never such devoted brothers. 🎶 ~ Graham and Gus Kitties
My Security Blanket ~ Graham Kitty
It doesn’t matter if it’s one, two, or three paws, when napping my “security blanket” is to always be touching who I’m snuggled next to. Sometimes Gus tries to sneak in his paw too! ~ Graham Kitty
I’m Telling You… ~ Graham Kitty
I’m telling you sisters make great foot rests. ~ Graham Kitty
My Job ~ Graham Kitty
My job is to hold the page down while My Margret types the slides for the power point. The fact that I’m laying on the page she needs to see is immaterial. ~ Graham Kitty
I’M BORED!!!!!
I’m bored.
I have an owie on my tummy. It doesn’t really hurt but it’s starting to itch, my Margret says it’s because my fur is starting to grow back. I hope it grows fast because my tummy is cold!
I don’t understand why I can’t do what I want to do! I can’t roughhouse with my sisters, I can’t sleep upstairs with everyone else, and I can’t go out in the pup pen with my sisters. *Humph!*
My Margret says I can do all of that again as soon as my stitches, whatever they are, come out next week, whenever that is. I just know it’s not right now, and I want it to be!
I do get to see my Greg who comes home from work in the middle of the day to let me out of my crate and play with me. When he goes back to work after our playtime, I get to stay in the house by myself, well not really by myself because Linus kitty is with me. My Margret and my Greg tell me I’m a good girl because when they come home from work at the end of the day I haven’t done anything I wasn’t supposed to. As if I would, if they only knew that I’m the one who keeps Linus under control… well,I would if he did anything.
Napping
I was a good girl! They told me so.
My sisters and I did get to have our peanut butter Kongs last night and mine tasted really good, although I couldn’t get it to stay still. Then I watched my sisters and saw they were holding their Kong with their paws so I tried that and it went much better.
I discovered last night that if I bark when I’m in my crate my Margret and sisters will come down to see if I’m ok. I like that! At midnight I got to go get a drink and run out to the pup pen. My Margret told me we weren’t going to make it a habit. I tried it again this morning at 4:00am but she didn’t come down until 5:00am I’m not sure what a habit is, maybe 5:00am is a habit?
Is it morning? Can I get up yet?
I don’t mind my crate, I have a snuggly blanket, usually at least 2 stuffies and a chewie toy in my crate to keep me company. I actually go in my crate to snuggle even when I don’t have to. That is when there’s room.
I though this was my crate!
Is there room for me?
All in all I guess it’s going ok. I mean I am feeling better and my Margret says it won’t be much longer and all will go back to normal. Now if I can just figure out what a normal is…
This is Bess, signing off for the Pups and Kitties.
*some of the photos were used in previous blog posts, but totally represent the feeling expressed in this blog. m.a.
Christmas Day and Polite Greeting
“We did it!” After years, simply years, (well at least it felt like it) of practicing polite greeting we were able to come in and join the party!
There were so many people someone was always petting us, which was just fine with us!
Bess, getting all kinds of attention Abby and Barb
The pups sitting pretty for Aunt Marge. “We just know she’s going to give us a treat!”
Belle hanging out with Jim
Bonnie having some one on one time with Aunt Marge.
Having fun with Nancy, Jim, Mike and Abby
The surprise of the day came when we heard a quiet meow and my Margret went out to the kitchen to find Mike talking to “I love living in the basement where it’s quiet” Lucy kitty. Then a short time later Lucy was back in the kitchen talking to Jim. To hear my Margret and my Greg talk about it that was awesome and huge even bigger than all of us joining the party and let me tell you that was pretty big in itself!
Mike, the Lucy whisperer
Jim also the Lucy whisperer.
We still have some practicing to do. We, especially Bess, what are you going to do she’s still pretty young, were a bit bouncy when we first met people but it didn’t last long. Then there was that time that I really needed to have some quiet time, my Margret noticed and opened the door so I could go out in our pup pen. People get pretty noisy sometimes, I didn’t know that before. All in all though we had a really fun day. That night my Margret said to my Greg, ” I bet they’ll sleep good tonight!” I wonder what gave her that idea?
Bess and Linus
Bonnie
Belle
Oh well *yawn* I’ll figure it out later. Until next time, this is Belle signing off for the Pups and Kitties.
Lucy and Bess Update
After several days of not much happening u’m I mean transitioning I decided to cuddle Lucy and stand at the doorway between the front room where Lucy likes to hang out (when she isn’t upstairs) and the living room. There is a child gate in the doorway which the pups could just about step over but they don’t seem to realize that and frankly I hope they never do.
Anyway, Lucy and I hung out in the doorway while Bess barked and barked and barked and barked and …. Lucy cuddled into me, wasn’t frightened and actually was purring. I wish I had an extra hand so I could have taken photos of Bess while she play bowed, barked to the left, barked to the right, cocked her head ect. it was quite the show. She occasionally would turn to look at her sisters for backup while they pretended they weren’t there, in fact Belle went to the kitchen to ring the “gotta go chime” so she could go outside. Needless to say that summons went unanswered. so we now had the twinkling of a wind chime mixed in with the barking.
After several minutes of this Lucy and I stepped over the child gate and into the living room. Lucy became agitated at that point so I quickly stepped back into the front room where she jumped down and ran to the back of the room. I took Bess out to the pup pen and went back to get Lucy to bring her back into the living room but Bonnie and Belle who know much better decided that they wanted to play and Lucy clearly didn’t. Back to the front room she went. After letting Bonnie and Belle out to the pup pen I went back got Lucy and brought her into the dining room. After some cuddling and soft talking she said “thank you very much but I want to go back to my space” so that’s what we did
All in all I think it went great. Lucy gave Bess the “I am the head of the 4 footed family members and you will respect me.” look and Bess is starting to understand what her sisters learned a long time ago. We will give it another try later this weekend but we are making headway!
Three Pups and a Couple of Kitties 