Plan B

How about carry on luggage? Mum? How about that?

The Monday Sit In

My mum is abandoning me again on Friday. We are supposed to go back to Pawpaws.

But I'm not letting her go anywhere without me.

Food on Friday

Do you think it's a matter of Miss Sunshine-Sausage taking on the role of quality control inspector?Or is she trying to find a way to tear into the bag... Have a happy weekend :)

In the Garden with Fui

Meow! One of my favourite things about the garden is that there are always things to investigate.This thing here was very interesting. My mum calls it a watering can. I don't know how she knows what it is. I've never seen her use it.

See that grass in the pot? Do you know what it took for that to grow? For my mum to leave the country!!!!

White Furs on Wednesday

The Junk in My Furs edition.My playtime in the garden comes with a price. 10 minutes combing the leaves out of my pantaloons!

Have You Heard

About Da Bird? B-b-b-bird bird bird bird bird a wellawella!

We have been having a ball playing with our new toy.

It's got us leaping and diving and running all over the place! What is your favourite toy?

Moods on Monday (in a box)

The shy: The observant:

The perfectionist: The cheeky:

The I've-had-enough-get-that-camera-out-of-my-face: I'm a girl of many faces.

Fun on Friday

Today, Suey and I had to go to the vet. We had our health checks and our needle. I weighed in at 7.06kg (15.5 pounds) and Suey is 4.88kg (10.7 pounds). Little Lishy is still the baby. Just before we went on our holiday, he weighed in at 3.96kg (8.7 pounds). That was not the fun part of my Friday. The fun part is this Wunderful Wubba! I have been wrassling it, bunnykickin' it, chomping on it and flicking it through the air. It makes jingly crinkly sounds that make me wild!

I hope you have a fun weekend, friends :)

From Fuifui.

Sigh

There has been a lot of sad news in the blogosphere in the last couple of days.We are sending our deepest purrs to the families of Wintergreen, Fat Eric, Molly and our dear friend Luxor.
I think I'll just snuggle here for a while.

Mailcall

Hi kitties! A little while ago, we were lucky enough to have our blog name picked in a draw run by the uber handsome D'Artagnan Rumblepurr. We were given a gift certificate to Baby Patches' shop,Nip and Bones.

We had lots of fun choosing some toys, and today our special package arrived.At first, we were distracted by the wonderful crunchy paper that was in the box! Boy did we have fun wrassling in that!This is the great haul that arrived for us- a new wall mounted Cat Dancer to replace the one Lishy has been destroying, a Kong Wubba that we have heard so many good things about, and a Da Bird toy with a couple of replacements which we have been hoping to have a turn with for a long time. We have been running ourselves ragged playing with Da Bird all afternoon! It's been such wonderful fun. We want to say a gigantic thankyou to Rumbles, Inigo and the lovely Rumblemum. They did a marvellous job fundraising during the contest, and we can say for sure that Rumbles is our Next Top Cat Model :)

Today is our blogoversary. We have had our blog for two years :)

Monday Munching

I like to chomp on grass. But leaves? Leaves are my favourite!

CHOMP! Have a happy week :)

Love Suey.

From the Mum

Today, the Kittenheads have let me use their blog to be a gushy mum. We hit a big milestone with Lishy the other night. Some of you may remember that when we decided Lishy would stay with us for as long as he could, I became obsessed with the notion that he must have a collar from PretaPawte, the same as Fui and Suey had. There was a problem though in that the collars are made to fit necks of 20-30cm (8-12 inches). For Lishy, we needed a collar that would fit a much smaller neck. The lovely Alison made a collar especially for the wee boy, of 12cm (4 3/4 inches). It was the teeniest collar I have ever seen. At the time of ordering, we had been warned that Lishy may not even make it long enough for the collar to be delivered. As Lishy continued to defy the vet's prognosis and grow, we have been letting the collar out. It is now 22cm (8 1/2 inches), and wont go much bigger. On Wednesday, I had the exciting experience of ordering Lishy a new regular sized collar.

I know some will think it is ridiculous to be excited about ordering a collar, but to me, it meant so much more than just something cute for tags to be attached to. Ordering Lishy's collar was a really practical indication of just how far he has come, and how strong he has become.

Today marks 11 months that Lishy has been living with us. He is showing no symptoms of anything other than tiring fairly quickly when he plays. He has been microchipped, fully vaccinated, desexed, and keeps up with the big cats, all things his vet said he wouldn't be capable of. I would like to say thankyou so very very much to all the people, kitties and pups who have commented, purred, sent emails and suggestions, and sent their love out into the world for our boy. I really believe that in addition to his tough spirit, all the positive energy that was aimed at Lishy has helped him get to this point, and I am so very grateful for that.

He is an extraordinary wee boy, and we are blessed to have him in our lives :)

The Grass

It is delicious.

Battle of the Lap

It's Suey here. We have a problem. It's Lishy.

He keeps stealing our lap time!

How do you feel about this, Fui? Yeah, me too.

We also wanted to assure our friends that Tiger will be ok. He has a home with Nan's husband Uncle Alan, and their daughter Aunty Vicki is living with them. He will be well cared for.

Have a happy week :)

Thoughtful Thursday

The Rubble boys on their last night at our house. Barney is giving his best "you woke me from my nap" glare.

Today we are sending big purrs to our dad. We got the sad news yesterday that his Nan had passed away. She was a really lovely lady, and had a gigantic mancat of her own that she rescued from neighbours who were 'getting rid of him'. Tiger, we are sending you purrs too.

Wordless Wednesday

Or, melting into the sunbeams

Mancat Monday

Getting all up in your space

We're Baaaa-aaack!

Hi everybody! It's Suey Sunshine-Sausage here, back at last. We came home from PawPaws yesterday afternoon. The three of us sat in our carriers yelling at mum for the whole trip home. She said it was exactly what she needed after being up since 3am and mucking around in air ports, so we are glad we could help her. We had a good time at PawPaws. It is a bit different to other boarding facilities in that we are allowed out of our runs, and if we are comfortable and well behaved are able to interact with the other kitties there. Fui and Lishy made some good friends and did lots of playing, but I chose to keep to myself and got loving from the lovely Morgan instead.

Mum was worried about me as I developed a nasty case of cystitis last year after staying at the boarder and flying down to Sydney. Morgan kept a close eye on me and gave mum an up to the minute litterbox report each time she called, which was very good for mum. When mum picked us up, she got to see how we were behaving before we noticed she was there. Lishy was being a little monkey on the cat tree with his friend Chai, Fui was sitting inside a big bird cage playing with a wand toy, and I was writhing in a sun puddle. We need to go back to the boarder in a month when mum abandons us again, so she is very happy to have found one we seem happy in.

Today we spent lots of time in the garden helping mum hang out the washing. Our long dead pots of cat grass came back to life while we were away, so we put in a lot of effort choming on those. It is very good to be home! :)