A Little Eye Candy for the Ladycats

 

There Goes The Neighborhood

Hey, Landlady! Could you please tell my upstairs neighbor to keep it down. It sounds like an elephant with a bunch of pet squirrels moved in up there. And it smells like they probably have a pet chimp too.

The Stink Eye

The stink eye / the hairy eyeball:  the look I give my mom when she is noisy and wakes me from my nap.

...and to make things worse, she always laughs at me when I make this face. If I weren't so comfy in my kitty bed, and full from my dinner of Stinky Goodness, and relaxed from all the brushing, petting and scritches, I would definitely give her the back of disrespect.

Worst Purr-fur-mance Review Ever...and a Give-Away!

UPDATE:

The winner of the Thermo-Kitty Mat is the lovely and talented Danielle of Life of a Spoiled Cat. Congratulations, Danielle!

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Hi Kitties,

As you probably already know, it's that time of year again...annual purr-fur-mance review time for our assistant. It's not going to be pretty. Our assistant helped us post only FIFTEEN times in 2010, and we kitties had to do most of the work ourselves by walking across and sitting on the keyboard. We are very, very, very disappointed by our assistant's (lack of) purr-fur-mance last year.

 

The good news is that in a desperate effort to convince us she deserves a purr-fur-mance review that is not completely comprised of a giant frowny face drawing, our assistant is helping us give away a fabulous prize to one of our friends who stops by and leaves a comment on our blog.

We are giving away a brand new Thermo-Kitty Mat. It is a 12" x 25" electric heated kitty mat to give a lucky kitty a warm and toasty place to nap and snuggle during the cold winter months. Just leave a comment on this post (one comment per family) and make sure we have a way to contact you by email (on blogger account, in your comment, or email us your email address). We will pick the lucky winner using random.org on Monday, January 31st.

Wordless Wednesday - Reporting from a Remote Location

Mancat Monday

I Think I May Be a Hypnotist

Hi Kitties, guess what? I think I've learned how to do hypnosis! Watch closely while I demonstrate by hypnotizing you.

Look deep into my eyeballs...

You are feeling sleepy...very, very sleepy...and a little hungry too...for ham...but mostly sleepy...

Very, ...very...
















...Rats! I can't believe this happens every time...

Wordless Wednesday

Ambrose's Halloween Flashback

Halloween will soon be here, so I need to start thinking about what my Halloween costume will be this year. I'm pretty sure I can do better than last year when my mom just stuck a pumpkin sticker on my forehead. Can you believe what I have to put up with? I had lots of fun last Halloween. Here's a picture of me going spider hunting. And here's a picture of some spiders going Grrreta hunting. * Decorative spiderwebs can be hazardous to kitties. The spider webs in Ambrose's picture were put away out of kitties' reach after the picture was taken. P.S. Be sure to check out The Casbah Kitten's Halloween Costume Contest celebrating Jane's birthday. Entry deadline is October 25th.

Tattletale Tuesday - The Litter Monster

Busted! A few weeks ago, Mommy bought us a new automated self-cleaning litter box. She knew we would resist any change and wanted the transition to go smoothly, so she removed only two of our three old litter boxes. The one remaining box got dirty very quickly, so Mommy hoped we would use the new litter monster as a cleaner alternative. Well, inmate #056195243-5 pictured above had a brilliant plan of his own. The defendant "allegedly" expressed his displeasure of the new litter box situation by kicking a big pile of litter out of our old box into a giant pile on the floor. Mommy noticed it in the morning, but didn't have time to sweep it up before she left for work. When she returned home, she went to clean the old litter box and saw Ambrose squatting on the big pile of litter outside the box with a look of great concentration on his face. Yep, the little genius was relieving himself right on the pile of litter on the floor. After cleaning up the giant clump of litter that was stuck to the floor, Mommy was very close to giving us back all of our old litter boxes, but decided to give it a couple more days. On the next day, she was very pleased to see no messes outside the old litter box...until she went into the bathroom and found a little "gift" for her in the bathtub. Ewwwww, pretty gross. Mommy was definitely ready to surrender then, so she gave us back all of our old litter boxes. She realized that she had been very naive to think we would use a noisy, moving, litter monster. We won! We won! We won! Victory is sweet,... but we couldn't pass up this perfect opportunity to mess with Mommy's head, so guess what we did next? Yep, we started using the new self-cleaning litter monster. Mommy is very happy about that, but is waaaaay too afraid to take away any of our old litter boxes again for quite a while. Inmate #056195243-5 has received a full pardon in exchange for promising to never use the bathtub as a litter box ever, ever, ever again.

Comfier Than It Looks

Ambrose is a giant velcro kitty. He wants to be touching Mommy at all times. Here he is snuggling beside Mommy's legs.

Stinkification

UPDATE: Mommy has been very, very, very busy at work and school, and hasn't been able to help us post or visit our friends' blogs. We will return to posting and commenting after July 1.

MOOOOOOMMMM!!!! Ambrose is touching me!

Kitty Ping Pong

Since Ambrose has lots of energy and can sometimes be a little too rambunctious for the rest of us kitties, Mommy is always on the look-out for toys that will keep him occupied. He loves batting balls around, but they usually end up under furniture. Mommy decided to buy some more balls, so she wouldn't have to retrieve them every day. Well, she really outdid herself this time. She found a great deal on 144 ping pong balls...yup, 144 of them! This is the box they came in. She had already taken out over 100 of them by the time this picture was taken. We love our ping pong balls! We can barely wait for next weekend when Mommy cleans house and has to retrieve all of those balls from under the furniture. ** Also, Parker of Perfectly Parker is entered in the "My Curious Cat Contest" . It would be wonderful if we could help her get lots of votes. Please stop by the My Curious Cat Contest website and vote for Parker. You can vote ONCE EVERY HOUR between now and April 30, so please vote as often as you can.

Slacker Bob

Since Mommy has been too lazy...um, I mean "busy"...to help us blog much, Ambrose decided to take things into his own paws and make a blog post with the help of Bob the Teddy Bear. Unfortunately, Bob insisted on sleeping on the job. We're pretty sure he was under the influence of catnip, because he reeked of it. Since this was not Bob's first infraction, Ambrose decided to have a little "talk" with Bob.

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Happy Easter!

********* Cat Yoga: Abby and Stygia at T'Abby Normal have challenged kitties to post their best yoga poses. This is Ambrose's. The name of the yoga position is called "downward facing dog". That sounds like woofie yoga rather than cat yoga. I think Ambrose may be having an identity crisis. Be sure to stop by T'Abby Normal later this week when they will feature more cat yoga poses on their blog.

Mouse!

We Got a New Box !

Oh yeah, this is the stuff that was delivered in the box. (Not Ambrose...the other stuff)

We heard about the Bergan Turbo Track Cat Toy on The Psychokitty Speaks , and just had to have one...or three. We finally found some for sale on Amazon.com, and since our gotcha days are coming up in the next month, Mommy got three sets for an early gotcha day gift. We used all three sets to make this configuration. We've all sniffed it, but so far Ambrose is the only one who has played with it. We have played with the box a lot though.

Awards!

. We got awards!!! Luckily Mommy has been a major slacker lately, so we have enough to pass on to a lot of our favorite blogs. Yay! . We received this great award from the lovely and talented Cliff and Olivia and The Cat Realm. Thank you so much! . This is the quote that goes with the award: This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award. You should/could give it to eight more - or just enjoy it. . We would like to pass it on to: Huffle Mawson Housecat Confidential Daisy the Curly Cat Forever Foster Peanut Butter and Jenny The Poupounette Three Country Cats Our Life by Eric and Flynn . And since we received the award twice, and we love giving awards, we are giving it to eight more amazing blogs: Sweet Praline Pablog The Ballicus Blog Sumac Stories Perfectly Parker Black Cat Mommys Little Fat Boy Mickey's Musings . We received this pretty award from the charming and delightful Cliff and Olivia. Thank you! . The rules say to list six things that makes us happy, so here goes: 1. sunbeams 2. tuna 3. squirrels and birdies 4. Mommy 5. catnip! 6. sniffing stuff . We pass on the award to: Aoise Curlz and Swirlz Adan's Everyday and Lego Gandalf and Grayson of Will Think 4 Wine We Have Staff Whippy Curly Tails The St. Louis Meezers The ZOO Corey Cat Blog Whimpurr's Whim Willow's Cat Blog 3 Cat Blog Angus Mhor PoppyQ Skeezix's Scratching Post The Psychokitty Speaks Out We are kitties...we can't count...we're pretty sure that was six though. . We got this very cool award from Karen Jo of Kitty Limericks. Thank you, Karen Jo! . Here are the rules:"When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to said person so everyone knows he or she is. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including some who have no idea who you are because you don’t have 7 friends. Show the 7 random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Weblog.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. List at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on! " . Here are our 10 honest things: . Grrreta: 1. My mommy has no idea how old I am. (She adopted me when I was full grown from someone who didn’t know my age.) 2. I have three little nicks on my left ear. (Mommy thinks I may have fought Mike Tyson in my past). 3. I love to help Mommy put on her make-up in the morning. I sit on her make-up table and try to lick her make-up brushes and rub my face on them. 4. I love to snuggle up beside Mommy and have her rub my tummy. 5. I'm very good at telling Mommy exactly what I want. When I sit a few feet away and stare intently at Mommy, she'll get up to pet me, but I walk away and lead her to what I need. I usually lead her to my food bowl for snacks, or to my scratching post where I love to play, or to the litterbox when she needs a little friendly reminder to clean it. 6. I make quite a racket in the litterbox. When I finish, I scratch the interior walls of the covered litter box for a very, very, very, very, very long time. . Ambrose: 7. Mommy says I am the sweetest, most gentle kitty she's ever met. 8. Mommy is a vegetarian, and I never like any of her food, but I insist on tasting everything she eats. Then I play with it and hide it under the bed or coffee table. 9. I love to be near Mommy. I follow her everywhere, and I demand constant attention. 10. I love to hide in the shower. Somehow Mommy always finds me hiding behind the TRANSPARENT shower curtain. . We would like to pass it on to: Friends Forever The Island Cats Rosey Cat Derby the Sassy Cat Furry Paws Little Cat Feet Laila and Minchie . We received this award from the amazing and talented Forever Foster . Thank you! . It comes with some nice words, too: LOVE YA "award winner... These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award. . We would like to pass this on to: Cliff and Olivia Luxor Kodak, 3Perf, and Blossom Kitty Limericks JB's Big World and JB's Small World I Is Beethoven Bwog of the Genius Cat Everycat

It's Embarrassing Picture Saturday

Busted! ...Mugshot

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Ambrose had a very busy night...booked for disturbing the peace, speeding, possession of catnip, semi-public urination, assault with the paw of doom, whapping his bungee critter toy against the door repeatedly in the middle of the night, and grand theft mousie...he claims that he was framed.

. The defendant has reached a deal with the prosecutor. In exchange for all charges being dropped, he has agreed to enter a catnip rehab program and refrain from having a kitty party while Mommy is trying to sleep.