Winter Wind, a poem by Little One January 16, 2012
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The icy cold wind
Dances across the yard
Biting under my fur
It chases the last leaves
Clinging like limpets to the trees
Tumbling them across the yard
I chase them
Through the windows
Back and forth across the room
Pretending I am a tiger and
They are my prey.
Bongo’s Lucky Day November 29, 2010
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Hi Everyone… so I have hit the jackpot… yep… I thought I was really lucky when I found Annie and took up residence in her yard and back room… who could argue with two squares a day, a dry room… all the mice, gophers and birds a guy could catch and lots of scratches and pets and cuddles. Well fate has sent me a lucky rainbow.
I have been moved to a new home, in an apartment, with a beautiful girl kitty(her name is Lilleth), a warm and wonderful human, (Annies Daughter) and Ohhh Ohhh it is so wonderful… There is a refrigerator to sit on top of, as often and long as I want. A couch to hide under, and a bed to sleep on… kitty toys…a kitty jungle of plants to play in… and all kinds of boxes, just for kitties to climb in, stacked up like a castle. All the cuddles, scratches, and pets a guy could ask for… and IT IS ALL INDOORS…. no more outside for me.
Check out the new lap I have aquired.
And one more to mess with your heads… Yep, I saw you tilt your head to the side.
See you around the cat house…
Love to all
Bongo!
The visitor September 12, 2010
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Hi my name is Little Miss trouble.
I do not belong to Annie. I live next door ..my family just moved in and I LOVE Annie’s yard.
She has bird feeders. and gophers and omg other kitties to pester.
Stop taking pictures and pet me
And Annie always stops what ever she is doing, to pet me and hold me… and she lets me play in the hose water when she is watering the garden…
and did I mention the garden..there are all kinds of flowers and bugs to chase and bushes to hide under and places where a kitty can take a nice nap.
Like This spot
See you around.
Pounces and purs,
Little Miss Trouble
Testing One Two Three September 7, 2010
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So here I am, trying to find my way around this new blog site, and well darn it .. when I imported my stuff from Vox, everything got scrambled, and now I am going to have to go post by post, to fix them… all because I got all fancy with my Vox posts… anyway if you are just here and looking back at old posts.. just ignore the mess for the month of September 2010.
In the words of my darling Husband (whenever I try something new like food or moving furniture) “It’s new… It’s different… I DON”T LIKE IT!!!!!”
As with any new endeavors, I will learn how to use it and eventually I will like it. But for now…. Arrrrggggahhhh!
and now I am going to insert some pics just to get the hang of it.
Sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side but we make due!
And well darn I am on my laptop so you have to make due with one of those stock photos
Can't you hear him talking in a Jaimacan accent!
Okay that is it for the try out.
The good thing about this is that I think I figured out how to fix my other posts .. the bad thing is I think it is still going to take a bit of time to fix them all. Hopefully they aren’t all messed up.
I promise the next post will be from the kitties they have tons to post.
Vox is Moving September 5, 2010
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Dear Friends.. I am so sad that Vox is moving…
I really love the ease of building a blog here.. it is peobably the easiest and nicest of all the places I have tried.
And it is a very nice place with no spam.
The kitties and I want to keep in touch with all our vox friends.. so of course that means that i will need to pick a new site out for Kitty Adventures.. or go the route of actually building a full website, (This means lots of work but I am up to the task.
Please be sure to stop in and let me know where you all are moving to.. iI wold like to maybe move to the same place as everyone else..
I do have several new posts I want to do but I will have to wait untill I move to the new diggs.
Love
The kitties and Annie
How to help your Human in the Garden by Bongo April 11, 2010
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Dear Kitty Friends, Yesterday Annie decided she needed to pull all the weeds from the garden..Of course as any kitty knows, when your human goes out into the garden you need to help them. They are so helpless, They think the garden is just for work.
We know better.
Step One
Approach Boldly!
They may say they don't want your help but really deep down inside they do. You are a welcome distraction
Step Two
SIt down at their feet looking adorable. This will garner at least an ear scratch all on it's own.
Step Three
Begin weaving between their legs.
Step Four
Rub against their leg as you circle around on the outside.
Don't worry if they say your name in rritation it is just their way of justifying the fact that they are about to cave in and cuddle you!
Step Five
Sit down right in front of them and look up with your most adoring look.
This is the money shot, and if they hesitate to stop and pet you throw ina couple of plaintive Meows.
Step Six:
If your previous efforts have failed, flop down on your side at their feet.
This is a clear indication that you need and expect attention of some kind. I call it the flop and Purr it has a 95 % success rating.
Step Seven.
If all other tactics have failed to get your human to stop wroking in the garden and play and cuddle you this one is sure to meet with success. Roll over and expose your belly, Be sure to reach out a tentative paw.
I call it the playful Roll. This one gets them every time!
Remember. They really do want to stop and play with you and cuddle you. Really… who wants to work when you are out in the garden in the flowers.
Que the Close up!
.
I am the Biggest Loser January 10, 2010
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As many of you know, I am Ruebenesque! ( Annie rudely called me FAT! The nerve). Anyway since I came to live with her she has tried several times to put me on a diet. None of them worked and let us just clear this fact up right away
Diet food SUCKS! Oh yes it does and you all know it!
At the beginning I hated even wet food, so being a staunch hold out(everyone else liked the raw food…Idiots) Annie had to gradually move us… Okay me… to wet food only. And since I wouldn't eat the wet if their was dry food in the house.. the dry food had to go. Such a pity!
Yes I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dry food. Annie says that is why I am so chubby!
We learned a few things along the way
1. When we kitties eat a raw diet we almost never hack up Hairballs.
2. Pooping is less often and does not smell so awful.
3. The skinny cats stayed skinny and the chubby cat (I resent being called that… I am just Floofy! ) got skinnier and not too quickly which is bad for kitties
4. When you lose weight after being extremely overweight it is never a good idea to start jumping up and down off of tables. I sprained my front paw. OUCH!!! It is almost all better now.
Okay on to The Big Reveal
Before
This is me when I arrived at Annie's house.
And a second picture so you can tell the difference
And my After pictures!
Tah Dah a sleeker me!
And one more to show off the actual waist i now have.
And my sort of stats.
I started out at 14.5 Lbs of kitty floofiness
and now i weigh in around 8.5 to 9 Lbs we are not quite sure my acurate wieght we will find out when I go in for my checkup here pretty soon!
As you can see I am now smaller than lilac and actually fit my name
Magneato’s day August 13, 2009
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Some of you know this .. some of you don't . But here it is..Magneato has crossed over the rainbow bridge it is just over a month since I laid her to rest. July 3rd 2009 I will try to get through this post as best I can, I have waited a month because it makes my heart ache beyond belief. I thought I was prepared to do it but I started crying when I looked at the pictures just now so we will see how it goes,
Back at the beginning of June Magneato got sick and stopped eating and when she did eat she kept throwing her food up. This started late in the week and by Saturday morning I was gravely concerned and took her to the emergency vet. They gave her antibiotics and she came home and seemed to recover but a week after stopping the antibiotics she got sick again very quickly. she went from running around to barely moving.
This time she went to her regular vet. She got more antibiotics and lots of tests. but the antibiotics weren't stopping the vomiting and I could not get much food into her even hand feeding so back she went for a liver biopsy and a feeding tube. Then Home for the weekend and some major family time.
She got set up in the guest room with her own litter box, her favoirte basket and water dish. She seemed to be getting better but then she vomited up the feeding tube. Back to the vet to reinsert it.
I was just leaving work to pick her up to come home when I got the call … Maggie had liver cancer and it was very advanced. She would be comming home and if all went well we could expect maybe a month or two with her.
Unfortunately that was not what we got … she was fine for one day but began throwing up everything .. water food and then the feeding tube again. I saw her throw it up this time… poor kitty it was aweful.
I called the vet on Friday morning July 3 to see what I should do…but really as the vet spoke to me it was really just not going to be good..she would not be getting much better if at all and in fact would probably just continue on back to a feble painful state. THe pain meds she was already taking were only relieving part of her pain so after much talk we decided to end her suffering, poor little sweet heart… These photos are her last day with me. her last few hours.. I took her outside in the sunshine and breezes for a cuddle on her favorite lawn chair in the flower garden and a sun bath in the grass,,,,
Keeping an eye on Bongo who is jealously trying to horn in on some attention.
A dappled sun nap in her favorite chair.
She was the favorite while she was at the vets she got showered with love there.
Just goes to show how ill she was as she was always my ferocious calico tiger kitty
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a final look at the flowers and a listen to the birds..
anmd then blessed peace.
Her bouquet.
I laid her to rest in the flower garden near Darin. I will be getting a small perenial probably a salvia to place over her.
I will always miss her.
I miss cuddling with her and I miss her following me to the barn and sleeping with me every night. I miss her bossing everyone around and I wish she was still with me she was just ten years old.. a young cat..
Rest in Peace Magneato .. my champion cudler and gopher catcher. You will be missed.
Butterflies fluttering by April 21, 2009
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This is my favorite butterfly video.
Evening Shadows April 18, 2009
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Lilac Making it clear that a photograph even if it is beautiful and mysterious looking is not on her agenda.
