American Cousins

Happy Thanksgiving Day on November 28th to any felines in the Grand Ol' U.S.A.  I hope you get your chops around a tasty morsel of turkey, even if my favourite treat of choice is prawns. I would also like to say Happy Hanukkah for any cats of the Jewish faith although if they are kosher cats they should stay away from the prawns and leave them all to me! I quite like the American cartoon cat Garfield but I prefer Simon's Cat www.simonscat.com as he looks and acts just like me.

Happy Thanksgiving Y'All

Doppelgang-ing

Fiddlesticks, the tall one has been caught eyeing up pictures of pesky kittens on the bright box thing.  Blow me down with a bird feather but the Mumsie of the infuriating fur-balls looks the spitting image of myself except for the fact that she is a stoopid girl cat.  I wonder if we are related as she could be my sister?  For-tuna-lately, the asking price for these impish pests is considerately higher than what was paid for my amazing self and the tall one has to buy expensive things for the garden like a shed so I will not be plagued by a small thing trying to steal the attention from the tall one - ha ha.  Tall one bit sad though as she says it is 'oh so sweet and cuddly looking'.  Get a grip woman for goodness sake, one heaven-sent cat is enough for you!

Welcome Home

Waiting for the Tall One to arrive Home from work

Moses in the Middle

I have been visiting Robert Elliott's Vets in Stanford-in-the Vale due to ahem (embarrased cough) a certain 'lack of movement'.  After four days of the tall one obsessively checking my empty litter tray she was getting a little frantic and so I was escorted to the vets for examination.

Fortunately 'movement' was observed to be in progress but just not there yet so I was bundled off with some extra tasty Royal Canin Hairball biscuits to encourage things along and some cellulose granules to try if those failed.  In the waiting area, I met a senior citizen black Labrador, a West Highland Terrier and a shouty Cairn/Poodle mix.  All very interesting smelling even if faintly alarming.  Did not fancy the idea of the granules being added to my food or gawd forbid mention of another word if that did not do the trick and so I offered up my worldly goods the same evening after I'd done a run through neighbour Pat and Mike's garden which is good to get the adrenalin going as they have three furry-trousered creatures that are none too keen on me.  The tortoiseshell one has visited my garden recently and came and stared at my food bowl through the closed french doors which enraged me greatly.

Ironing with Moses

Well here I am sitting on the bottom of the tall person's sheet whilst she is trying to do the ironing.  When she tries to move the sheet across the ironing board she can't as my great weight is sitting on it. Evil chortle, nasal snort ...

Moses and the (non) Burning Bush

Celebrated my fourth birthday on Saturday July 20th.  The tall-one failed to buy me a present (she thinks I have enough toys already, skinflint) and was also unsuccessful in providing me with a plentiful plate of prawns.  Think I might return her to DudOwnersRUs for a full refund.

I have also:

1. Briefly got myself stuck under the decking area after going for a reconaissance mission.
2. Exterminated an exciting blue dragonfly.
3. Aghast to hear that Aunt Hat's cat Heli has been having to deal with large nasty hissing grass snakes in her back garden in Woburn Sands.  I would not like such works of the devil in West Oxfordshire.
4. Sat under the Berberis bush in the garden trying to find some shade but also frequented neighbouring gardens and refused to come in when called.
5. Tested new Comfortis flea treatment crushed and mixed up in my lovely Lick-e-Lix. Realised something was amiss about half way through the tablet and refused to eat the remainder of the dose.  However, a few ailing fleas were spotted on my coat shortly afterwards and not stinky-poo smelly like the chemical drops.

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Aerating my stomach fur on the stairs

The tall one has been off work all week so I've had her at home which has been simply bliss-kinis as I've had her at my beck and call.  I've been demanding extra brushing sessions, snuggles under the bedcovers, food bowl top-ups and general admiration 24/7.  I've also had separate visits from the doting grand-mere and le grand-pere, lucky me.

It has however, got rather hot in the UK (28 degrees) and my house gets very warm so I've been rather knocked out by the heat and have to keep aerating my stomach fur on the stairs in an attempt to cool down.  I watched the news with the tall one last night and at the news that Abu Qatada had been deported from the UK to Jordan I turned my attention towards the television and did a particularly high-pitched loud purr.  I think it is important to keep abreast of current affairs to distinguish myself from the pavement moggies.