Busy Body

Oh kitties... I am so busy these days....!!!

My humans are home these days- and there's so much to do!!!

I'm playing playing playing like there's no tomorrow....

Also, 

1. I am now the humans' official alarm clock. 

2. I am also their lap warmer. 

3. And their groomer. 

I guess I'm just very happy that they decided to stay at home with me in this holiday... instead of taking a stupid vacation! 

Now they know how much better this option actually is! About time too. 

It's my Gotcha Day!

So... it has now been two whole years that I have been with my humans; impressive.

Now two years may not seem long but I am a two-year-old kitty, so basically that's my WHOLE life! Hey, that's the longest time I have ever seen!

Anyway- it's been a quiet day at our house. Much like my humans, I also like celebrating special days without too much fuss- just acknowledging and doing something special in the family...

... and I sure am glad that some kitties remembered. Thank you.

I sure am a lucky kitty to have kitty buddies like you!

The Great Cackler

Cackle Cackle Cackle!!!!!

Meeemwah! Meeemwah! Meemwah!!!

Come little Bugsy.... Come to me! 

Nap Talk

What's wrong with napping a lot?

Nothing, I say. 

After all, I'm not a human that I need to have a 'day-job' for some useless green papers that does not even taste good! 

When I hunt, I hunt for pleasure- because that is what life is all about after all... PLEASURE!

Well, we cats know what is REALLY important in life... and those smelly green papers are not in that list. 

Tell that to a human though, and they'll smile smugly... like we cats don't know a thing about real life! 

So... they get to go hunting and we get to have our 'pleasures' served to us on a grand silver tray. 

Who do you reckon is smarter? Cats or Humans? 

It is not even a 'trick' question! 

Now, if you'll excuse me- I'll get back to what I was doing. 

Happy Nap! 

Wordless Wednesday: The Hunter and the Hunting

Mamarazzi Questioned

So the human has been watching me ALL THIS TIME?

Interesting... perhaps it is time I asked her why then did she pretend to be so busy that she did not help me make EVEN ONE BLOG POST in the last one month!!! 

She does not have an answer here now, does she? 

Yup, thought so. 

Birthday Boy...

It is my purthhhday today! I am now 2 years old... I am a BIG BOY now!!

The humans say I still look like a kitten... and I say I don’t.... ‘cause kittens don’t look like I do now, kittens look like I did when this video was made... on my FIRST day with the humans!

Do you see how LITTLE I was! THAT is how a kitten looks like.

I now look like this:

This is how a CAT looks like.

I’m a big boy now. A cat, not a kitten. Period.

How where did that little mousie go, I wonder?

And oh, thank you for stopping by today :)

Fuzzy Logic

I could finally get my mummy to write a blog-post for me.

I have not been blogging much, but its all mummy’s fault... actually pappy’s too- but at least he is consistent- he never writes anyway!

Today, I put my paws DOWN... I wanted a blog-post!

To make my point, I took plenty of catnaps...

What? Only a human will say that catnaps don’t *really* make a point...

Well... they do make! If they did not- why do you think there is a blog-post today all of a sudden?

The Stealer of Blood

My humans took me to the vet AGAIN....





Routine stuff, they say.... But then the vet shaved my furs a little bit more and stole my blood... Yes, AGAIN!

Blood result on Tuesday. Whatever.

Lessons from Sherkhan: Individuality and Generalization

I hear them say that kitties do not like kissies...



... or cuddlies...



I say, every cat is different... just like every human is and every woofie is...

I would say it is wiser to not generalize... cats, humans or woofies.

One of the features on 'individuality' is that is can never be fully predicted.

[Please excuse the photo quality, both of these are iPhone photos]

No Magpies on the Bird TV this weekend!

This weekend, I am just hanging out on my cat tree. The weather has been pretty good and there were plenty on in the Bird TV (for the non-cat readers: I think you call it a Window)too- and I am having a fantabulous time!




It's not as boring as it sounds, trust me.

PS: Can you see my shaved 'arms' in the photo? Yes, the drip and the blood test and all that stuff last month had called for many 'shaves' on this little body. I am better now and my furs are growing back too... but not fast enough!

The First Thing :)

Guess what, kitties... My humans got paid back from the insurance company, they are not all that 'broke' anymore... however, guess what they did first thing as soon as they... umm... stopped being broke?

They bought this!!



A CAT TREE!

Yes, just for me!!! I LOVE IT!

Now, the more important thing- do you think it goes well with my colouring?

Mama says it matches me just 'purrfectly'!

Meows about my recent Cholangiohepatitis

Remember me, kitties? I know... I have not been here much, but I have a legit excuse- I went and got sick... I mean- even sicker than the last time I blogged!

Well, as you know- my Pancreatitis was back... and a few days later- when the vet did an ultrasound on me- she saw something in my liver too... as it turns out- I had Cholangiohepatitis, too- initial stage (phew!), as the vet suspects- and it often follows Pancreatitis, so I'd say that is what happened to me.

Right now- I'm better; even though we are still waiting for my second bloodworks results...

I'm sorry if you have been worried by my absense- Mummy was too busy (and possibly too sad, too) to help me blog... She kept writing in hers though... from time to time. She does have very twisted priorities sometimes, I tell you!

However... if you are worried about me in the future while I am not posting for a long time... and would like to know if I am doing alright, you can have a peep here- chances are, you will know... just a suggestion!

Stay well, everyone! Love and Purrs to you all!

Little meows about Pet Insurance

Kitties, do you know what an ultra-sound is? I need to get one done on Thursday. Did you know that an ultrasound on kitties costs about A$600... and that drip that was given to me lately, costed another A$400... Mama says it is only a small cost, because what is most important to her is that I am healthy and well.

My humans seem rather smug about the fact that they had taken up the ‘Pet Insurance’ for me; otherwise- these costs would have still incurred, but it would have been much more difficult for my humans to get by... Just to satisfy my kitty curiosity- what about you kitties though? Do you have a health insurance, too?

If you are interested to know or considering it- my insurance costs my humans a A$34 a month which is A$408 a year and includes treatment costs up to A$12,000 in a year- including routine check-ups, costs of ‘revolution’, vaccination (A$70 a year) and grooming. They pay for the expenses using their card and the insurance company reimburses them in a few weeks. Mama will be happy to advise if your humans are considering taking one up for you- she only knows about Australian options, but is eager to help if you’d need advise...

I hear their card expenses are EXPLODING LOUDLY till the insurance company pays them back in a few weeks, but it is a ‘temporary’ thing and you kitties need not worry... phew!

On a related note- those green papers seem powerful; I have a feeling that those not exactly the kinds of papers kitties ‘play’ with... or do they? Have any of you kitties played with these green papers and want to share the story?

Home, Sweet Home

Guess what, kitties-

I’M HOME FROM THE CLINIC!!!

I don’t look perfect- I have many patches of furs missing from my front leg and my throat- where they gave me the drip and drew my blood from; I am nowhere near ‘healed’ either... the pancreatitis is still there...

... but I am so happy to be home; and mama still thinks I'm very very handsome.

There are many vet visits in the coming few weeks, an ultrasound test too... but at the moment- it does not matter all that much because right now- I sure am happy to be back home!

Are we there yet?

I am still at the clinic, and more of my furs got shaved off- first for the drip and then for even more blood tests. There should be a law against humans for stealing kitty blood, don't you think?

Why'd they want to steal blood anyway? What do you reckon they do with the blood?

Anyway, as I was saying- I am still at the clinic... and I hear they'll steal my blood at least once more... to see if my electrolytes are restored; if not- I stay in the clinic tonight... and if yes, I get to go home!

.... fingers, paws and toesies crossed that my test results tell them to let me go home.... Meow!

Just to put it in in the lightest possible manner...

Hello my friends, if you follow my mama’s blog- then you already know that my test result has shown ‘a positive’ for Pancreatitis... a case in which I apologise for repeating myself.

And, in case you did not know it already- well... I just told you, didn't I? Meeheehee... howzat!?

Well... there is nothing much to do at the moment really, just some Vitamin B’s and some antibiotics and let my body heal itself... and since the blood tests showed that I was short on electrolytes too, I am to stay in the hospital for the night... they are putting me on drip.

This is basically it for the moment.

However, if you would like to know about Pancreatitis- you can see this post in my blog... Mama had made it last year when I was diagnosed with Pancreatitis for the first time.

And while we are at it..... keep those purr machines on for me, will ya?

Stupid Hairballs...

Well... in the last 2 weeks, I puked four times- and ALL the times wretched hairballs kept popping out. Let me tell you kitties... being a cute and floofy kitten does not come by without a cost! Our kind needs a LOT of grooming- resulting in a lot of hairballs inside our tummies and hairballs are plain and simple annoying!

Mama, however, is overreacting as usual; and if you know her at all you’ll know one thing- she fusses, and is slightly paranoid... hence, off I was taken into that horrible carrier and the even more horrible metallic silver thing that Papa ‘drives’ (translation for the human readers: a car)... to the horrible vet place where they shaved some furs off my neck and stole my blood... and I came back home an hour later smelling of those stupid ‘disinfectants’!

It keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?

As it turns out- the vet lady (her name is Alexandra) wants to be sure that my ‘pancreatitis’ is not back... she said it’s a little ‘tricky’ as ‘I have a history’... hence the whole irritating chapter of ‘shaving’ and ‘blood stealing’...

The blood works results come out on Wednesday... we’ll see how it goes- I’m purring and so are the humans, in their own way. You guys purr for me too, okay? I really don’t like medicines, vets or pain- so I am guessing it’s easiest to go with the theory that hairballs are just that: stupid hairballs.

Where has Mr Summer Gone.. ?

Do you know how cold it is these days, kitties?

Agreed, today wasn't so bad... it was sunny all morning and there were many magpies to watch; but as the night falls and the sun goes to sleep, the temperature again starts to fall. That is what is happening at this very moment. Bleh!

I’m pretty happy that we have a room heater that keeps us so warm. Sometimes if you are inside the house you cannot imagine at all how cold the outside is! Not that I’m complaining- I quite like the fact that no one can tell.

That probably means that this room heater you see in the picture, is my friend! It keeps me so warm and toasty!



Anyway... happy winter you all. I can’t wait for this winter to be over, but hey... it doesn’t mean we cannot be HAPPY in Winter!

*Purrs*

Christmas in July 2010

For this year’s Christmas in July, I was paired up with The Island Cats- the wonderful trio of Ernie, Wally and Zoey!

I know I know.... I am so late in posting- my mommy had put all my new gifts away as I had the flu and she did not want to ‘germ’ my new toys, she does get a little too paranoid at times- but hey, I GOT THEM ALL NOW... AND I AM SUCH A HAPPY CAT!!!!!

Here goes the pics....

Look, THE BOX! It's a BIG BOX!!!!... and it's come JUST FOR ME!!! JUST FOR ME!!!!!

... and look what came out of the box- a Kong Kickaroo!!! *nom nom... bunny kick 'I was too quick for mama to take a *clear* pic... MOL!!!*

Meow what you will, kitties... but me, I'm NOT EVER coming out of this cube. Never!!! Never never never!!!!

See how all my Christmas gift toys are all laid out? Lots of stuff! Do you see them all, kitties? All? My black-and-white mousie with feather tail, a pink 'chhick chhick mousie', many ballsies, ting-tong spring toy... all? I'm having a PAR-TAY, am I not? Come play with me!


I like my pressies very very much.... yes purry very much.... and that pink ‘chhick chick mousie’ is my best friend these days... and inside that cube is the best place in this WHOLE UNIVERSE, I swear!

Thank you so much, The Island Cats... I love each and every one of those pressies.... thank you so so much! *Purrs*

Happy Cat Award: July 2010

I know, I know... the subject line says 'July', whereas as of today that is 'last month', but my parents were away and I was in a pet hotel- and we did not get to give out my July's happy cat award... so here we go, late- true; but better late than never!

Anyway, since we all (Mama, Papa and I) were away last month- we decided we will not be tagging anyone in particular for this award. Rather, we will leave it open for ALL OF YOU- kitties, woofies and hoomans.... all of you who have been there for me, purred for me, read my blog.... you, you and YOU too- each one of you- this award is for ALL OF YOU. In other meows, if you are reading this post- this award is yours.

Simple!

Here goes:

Thank you for being my friends. Really. Now grab it and give out to anyone who has ever made your day!

Love.

Sherkhan is back!!!!!

Hello my friends! Hope you all have been well. I have been, too; at least most of the time.

My humans were away for a long time and I stayed in a cat hotel during that time. Mama called the hotel every alternate day to check on me and the nice nurse told her more than once that I was a ‘beautiful little boy’. Someone needs to be reminded that I am now a year and 9 months old, I’m NOT little... but of course, Mama was happy and I can’t complain- I guess I AM sorta beautiful...

And just a few days before my humans got me home, I got ‘cat flu’. And let me tell you- it is a fatiguing, mind-blocking menace and it makes you sneeze and cough! It was so bad, I slept with all my floof in complete disarray ALL DAY! I poured my love on Mama though... and Mama cried more than once too. I guess she was all-guilty for leaving me in a cat hotel for so many weeks!!!



Here is a photo of a sickly me, sleeping on Mama's shoulders.

Happy to report that I am all better now; YAAY! I had my last dose of the antibiotics yesterday, so I guess for some time at least my humans will not have to force those down my throat! Not ONE of us like this activity!

Okay... so let’s see what I have missed posting...

I know! July’s Happy Cat Award! But worry not, my kitty friends- I shall post it soon... maybe tomorrow?!?!

Also- I got my lovely Christmas gifts from The Island Cats! I have participated for Christmas in July, you see? I got loads and loads of gifts that is driving my kitty head crazy with excitement, I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!! I will post the pics in the next few days as well!

... but a big THANKS to The Island Cats, I absolutely LOVE the gifts!!!!

Wordless Wednesday: How does this work exactly?

Wordless Wednesday: So, when are you coming home?

Wordless Wednesday: Find the Kitty!

Will you miss me, my fur friends?

It is time I told you that my humans are going away for THREE LONG WEEKS and I am also to take a mini-vacation at a cat hotel during that time. Not my ideal choice scenario, I must say... anyhow, I do hear the humans will be taking a ‘plane’ (which I hear is even worse than a ‘car’); so I’m not too keen to accompany them.

I just wish they did not go...

Mama will schedule a few Wordless Wednesday posts for my blog for this time... just to help my wonderful friends remember me while I’m away, but she is likely to not be make an entry in my blog during her visit to the ‘faraway land’...

She may update her personal blog [link] and her Twitter [link] though, and let me warn you- more often than not- they are full of boring human stuff...

So.... for now... stay well, fur friends. Keep having fun but make sure you miss me a little too. Okay?

Wordless Wednesday: Peace

Happy Cat Award: June 2010

It’s time again...

... and for this months’ Happy Cat Award, I choose four of my new friends:

1. The gorgeous Calle, Halle and Sukki from Jaqueline’s Cat House

2. The lively Annie, Nicki and Derry from Fuzzy Tales.

3. The wise Charlie from the Ten Lives and Second Chances.

4. The adventurer Spitty the Kitty.


... and last, but not the least, the award also goes to two of my 'not so new' friends who introduced my blog to their friends and in the process helped me gain my new friends :)


5. The kind and generous dozen in the Katnip Lounge, this is the second time they won this award from me and they deserve it, too.

6. The beautiful black cat Huffle Mawson. Huffle, too, is receiving this award the second time from me and deserves it very much!

The rule this time... is no rule. Grab the badge and share the award with 6 of your friends that you’d like to say ‘Thank You’ to, and you are done!

Frustratingggggggg!!!!!!

Mmmm... so mommy has been video-taping me behind my back!!




Now, tell me a way of catching those clothes!!!!!

Sharing the LAUGH!

Just look at this wrestling cat... Mommy and I wanted to share the laugh!

ALSO.... looks like kitties also pick up a thing or two from the teenager humans who live with them?



Mweeheehee... we cats can be very funny... I'd say!

So... are you excited yet?

Monday would be a happy day... you know why? Because it is the Happy Cat Award day!



Anyway, for those who do not know... it is an award that I give out to 6 of my friends that I choose every month on the 21st in way of appreciating them as ‘good friends’ [and for EACH month, there is a new badge, too]. Now why the 21st, you may ask... well because my birthday on a 21st and on every 21st, I am another month older... and of course that is a BIG DEAL, right?

On this 21st, I will be 1 year and 8 months old... yes; I am quite a grown-up mancat now- won’t you say? I still have a long way to go to be eligible to join the ‘senior kitty club’ though... but that’s alright. I’ll get there someday :)

So kitties... buckle up, will ya... and stay tuned for MONDAY!!!!! MEOW!!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday: Rain Watching

Toesies Tuesday

Mama says, my toesies make her 'squee'...



That must mean that she finds them cute... not sure if feeling rather flattered by my 'cute toesies' is appropriate for a young mancat as me, but oh well...

Movie Monday

My parents decided to get another monster, and got it too... no, not another cat- but a d-r-y-e-r- yea, that's what it's being called I reckon.

It's a big white noisy box that makes silly noises... and in the process dries human 'furs'. Apparently, humans cannot use their tongues to dry their furs like we cats can... now, how silly is that!

Well... so as I was saying... it is a new monster in MY HOUSE... and of course it was my 'kitten duty to give him some 'Shera Sniffs', so that there is absolutely no confusion that this house is MY JUNGLE, not his:



I think the dryer understands. He has not dared to sniff, chase or attack me EVEN ONCE!!!!!

Awards Sunday

The cats over at Kat's Kats have given me the Catnapping Seal of approval. Here is what it said:

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde think that you not only have a beautiful kitty but your blog rocks! We especially like the way you have the picture of Sherkhan coming out on the left side. Because of this, you have been awarded the Catnapping Seal of Approval™.

And here is the 'seal':

Now, how cool is that!

With that, I leave you for today.

Thank you again, Kat's Kats... mommy and I sure hope you are having a WONDERFUL weekend over there!

Looks like I'm back!

Do you remember me still? I know, I know. I have not been blogging for a few days... not my fault, but Mommy's.

I wonder who told her to get sick... hmm, whoever that was deserves a 'hissing fit' from me. Growl!



Anyhow, mommy is better now. Thanks for the purrs, her sinusitis seems to be gone- only her eyes are still puffy... but she cooked today, so that must mean she's much better... right?

[I recieved a nifty award (?), that I need to post. Mommy is working on it... and it will come through in the next couple of days... but meanwhile, THANK YOU FOR THE HONOUR!]

Wordless Wednesday: Lost in thoughts

Misplaced priorities

Mommy went to work today...



Thank you all kitties who purred for her, but she said she had too much to do at work and she could not possibly miss it today regardless of however much she’d have liked to.... also, her boss is on vacation and she needed to sign a lot of papers in his absence, whatever THAT means... I’m almost past caring anyway... I said, almost.

... I’m sure she’d have liked me purring on her lap on the sofa better than ‘signing’ papers, but I am learning that to human mind ‘like’ is often not the ‘THE’ deciding factor.

I have asked it before and I’ll ask it again- why do humans have to make everything so complicated?

The many arts of 'Persuation'

Mommy still has what she's calling 'sinusitis' and it is still hurting her face and making her eyes water etc etc etc.



I am, however, comtemplating if mommy is ENOUGH sick that she can be persuaded to 'not' go hunting tomorrow and, in effect, spend yet another glorious day sleeping in with me on her lap?

I mean- of course I don't want her to suffer... but you know how sometimes all a human needs is a little bit of 'persuation' and they do exactly what is good for them?

What do you think? It is worth a try, right?

Mission Accomplished!

You know what I did, kitties?



I have successfully convinced my mommy to get sick and stay home with me...

The trick is to look super cute and blink your eyes a lot. A LOT!

.... I did it and it worked!!

I don't mean to brag or anything... but, you tell me- is there anyone who can deny anything to this handsome face of mine?

Yea, didn't think so either... meeheeheehee!

Awards Thursday: Life is Good

The kind and lovely Kat's Kats have given an award to my mommy. Well, that means that I will have to pass my bloggie to mommy today and I'm sure all my friends will miss me... but then... what can be done, right?

So there you go, I'm sure It will not be as interesting as it would have been if I WERE BLOGGING... but there you go....




1. What would your perfect day consist of?
Umm... let’s see: not waking up to an alarm clock, a winter day with the room heater on, Sherkhan on my lap, 'the man' by my side, the coffee mug in my palms- watching rain from the window in my pajamas ALL DAY! Oh yea!!



2. How would you describe yourself if you were an item of clothing?
A bright red scarf with simple earth coloured clothes... :)



3. What hobbies are you currently working on?
Writing... for my kitten’s blog and mine, it does not matter which one I update- it de-stresses me greatly to be able to put those words down on a paper- or a monitor screen, in this case.



4. Walking in the woods in wellies or bare foot on the beach?
Barefoot on the beach.


5. Have you ever hugged or sang to a tree?
No, I’m allergic to most plants. How woody of me, right? I know!!! *rolls eyes*


6. Growing your own veggies or nipping to the supermarket?
Nipping to the supermarket; as I said- I’m allergic to most plants, gardening is not for me :(.


7. Have you found anyone exciting in your family tree?
Other than that my forefathers were traders from Iran, who went from country to country to trade goods from country to the other? Umm... no...!


8. Slap up meal in a posh restaurant or fish ‘n’ chips from the wrapper?
Umm... slap up meal in a posh restaurant. I’m not a snob; no, really not. I just like those delicate flavours in my food :)... besides, I like my food better when cooked, not fried.


9. Which element do you most resonate with, Earth, Air, Fire or Water?
Water... water... water... and water :)

And now, I pass this award on to:

Huffle Mawson
Kitty Trio
Angel & Kirby
Jacqueline's Cat House
Fuzzy Tales

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: The Stunned Stunner

'Oh no! Did I just see the Winter man?'

I say... They say... You say

They say it's the first day of Winter here in Australia... but of course, they say a LOT of stuff....



You know what else they say? 'Do not believe everything you hear'... meeheehee! I totally crack myself up.

That Winter Man, I say, can stay in the South Pole... and leave me alone forever....

What do you say?

Lemon and Lime!? .. Oh.. puhleez!

My mama and that cleaning broom worked together today; well, not just the broom- the water bucket, the water-base multipurpose cleaners, water monster... so, you can guess how strange the house smells today (mostly due to that multipurpose cleaner, methinks).... Why would someone even LIKE the smell of lemon and lime is beyond me!



Now... mama keeps saying that even though she likes the house clean, she hates ‘cleaning’... not that I understand what this means really.... what my kitty head tells me is that if you hate cleaning, you don’t clean... or if you like clean houses, you clean... but apparently human logic does not go like that...

Sometimes humans can be such silly complicated bugs... so- I give up trying to figure them out, I’m going napping!

[I have a lot of new friends lately... this time a special thanks goes to my friend Huffle for sending those wonderful kitties my way... and a big friendly meow to my new friends, too! MEOW!!!!!!]

Mates & Monsters

First of all, I would like to thank my friends in the Katnip Lounge for sending their nice furry friends my way. I have felt much loved by all that attention! A big meow out of THANKS to ya, mates!

Secondly, sorry I did not write. Mama has been busy... but- what's new in that- right? I mean this will not be the first time when she aban-doned by bloggie after all!

But she did sound convincing when she said that some monster called EOY was chasing her real bad... so I decided to believe her. She is an ac-coun-tant, you see? I guess that EOY monster is unleashed every year to chase the ac-coun-tants around this time of the year.

.... must be some REALLY bad monster to want to kill my mommy. I would totally go save her, you know... if only there were not so much winter rain.... sigh!

Some paperwork and a nap...

I helped Papa with his work today... in fact I helped him so much that I got pretty tired with all that hard work....

So I thought I’d take a nap on our books...

It was a good nap. I woke up a few hours later.. feeling very refreshed!

Contemplation

I’m a plenty contemplative kitty...

.... but sometimes that contemplation monster hits at the most inconvenient of times... like... like... say... in the middle of ‘grooming’ myself.

Too bad the 'mamarazzo' is ever ready with the camera... if it were upto me, there are things I’d rather not share... nothing personal, mate, I hope you know that?

Now... I ask you kitties again, can a cat really get no privacy?



Pee Es:
If you look at my sidebar, Mama has created a list your Cat Parents' blogs... right below my Mommy and Papa's blog, so that we can follow them. Mommy is curious like a cat about the humans who help us blog, that's why. If your human has a blog too, and would like to be added- let mommy know. Likewise, those who are added- if your beans would rather not have it listed here- please let mommy know :)