Who let the cats out ... nobody

Now that Spring has Sprung in a half-hearted manner, I am finding that I am wanting to be outside in the fresh air more than normal.  However, I am finding my owner is rather slow on the uptake regarding letting me out.  She did try and train me to use a strange swinging flap contraption at another house but I thought it was beneath my dignity to pass through a heavy piece of plastic that would bash me on the head, so she has not bothered to install one of these thingymejings in her own abode, thank goodness.  I therefore have to either screech at her with much gusto to inform her that I wish to be let outside or I try another tactic of standing on my back legs and bashing on the door with my front paws.  Eventually she usually gets the drift but she can be a little obstructive at times.

Missing Moses

Disappeared for a long time on Tuesday evening and gave my owner quite a scare.  She checked the bamboo bush in the back of the garden, she called me and shook the Royal Canin food bag.  This conjured up Lily the neighbourhood white cat with black blotches who obviously thought she was in for a tasty treat but no Moses.  Owner put shoes on and went for a cat hunt.  I was located, by my collar tag glinting in the darkness, half way up a footpath that runs along the side of the house having a face-off with Fluffy, a long-haired female tabby that belongs to neighbours Pat and Mike.  We must have been having a turf-war stare-off for a good 45 minutes.  I was initially reluctant to walk towards my owner and when I did Fluffy had a swipe of me.  Slightly embarrased by admitting defeat to a girl cat I diverted on return to own property into other neighbour's drive where the dog is usually to show machismo but fortunately the Spinone was not in evidence.

Poor Moses the pug dog in Ireland is not so lucky and is missing.  http://www.doglost.co.uk/dog-blog.php?dogId=49850&status=Lost.  Hope nobody has stolen him and he comes home soon.  Owner went to Crufts last Saturday and found it really worrying how many dogs are being stolen in the UK.

Spring it is a Comin' In

Watching dem beautiful blackbirds chirrupin' in the morning sun of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Food To Go

Why eat your wet sachet Sainsburys Bistro food with your paws on cold kitchen tiles when you can pick up bits with your mouth and deposit on the warmer fake laminate of the living room floor and eat it there in a nice puddle of gravy?!  Yes this week I have been putting the 'takeaway' into dining as well as spreading gravy slime around the house.

I have also discovered the great beauty of 'Miss Rose' another lilac a blue colourpointed cat on the web: http://oliverandruby.wordpress.com.  This might be a cat I would not try to bully.  Hate to admit it but she does have the glamour edge on me.

Furry White Slug

Things I have been doing lately:

1. Head-butted owner's cup of tea causing it to spill over magazine, chair cushion, table and owner's clothing
2. Hid under a bamboo bush in the garden and refused to make my presence known or come in when called whilst my owner was frantically searching for me
3. Chewed wire on new telephone
4. Hogged middle of the bed in the night and created furnace like heat meaning my owner was forced to lie on edge of the mattress with duvet off trying to cool down
5. Bird-watched blackbirds, starlings and pigeons as they have got excited about arrival of Spring
6. Attacked a woodlouse but gave up within two seconds as most uninteresting when it plays dead, what a spoilsport
7. Shown lack of interest in posh brand of 'Beef' flavoured cat food ... hopefully not horsemeat
8. Given my owner some kneading sessions in attempt to assist with her high blood pressure
9. Sat on owner's chest preventing her from reading this month's book club selection - Margaret Forster's Keeping the World Away.

Full Moon-itus

The cold icy stuff has gone so I've been able to go out in the garden again in the evenings for some a-mousing and to pounce on night flitting moths  in the light of the full moon.  On my return through the kitchen doors I have yowled about my exciting activities at my owner so that she is kept fully informed.  Unfortunately, the lunar cycle has been making me a little aggressive and my owner has been complaining when I have been trying to forcifully pull her out of bed by her hair in the middle of the night.  Can't imagine why?  You would have thought she would be delighted to be sharing my company rather than doing noisy breathing through her open mouth. I have also been having a few temper tantrums and tried to knock my owner off her feet after a night of imprisonment in the kitchen accompanied by loud shouting at her to protest at such harsh treatment when I should be allowed full reign of the house.  I am re-booked in for my booster jabs on Saturday so will develop my usual sixth sense ("I see alive vet people") a half hour before my owner plans to bundle me into the cat carrier and go and hide in an unreachable position beneath the double bed so that she is forced to lie down in a very uncomfortable postion and try and fish for me with her arm.

Its (not) getting hot in here

Well, I am hopefully on the mend again.  Back to waking my owner up at various minutes past 4.00 am for a bit of much needed attention.  I either like to sit on her pillow and shout, bite and pull her hair with my teeth or do some excellent athletic long-jumping across the full width of her bed and landing in a very noisy manner.

Handsome Henry and Ms E Heap

I'm none too pleased with the cold though and I am either velcro-ing myself to my owner's anatomy or leeching warmth out of radiator covers as in the attached picture.  I have been enjoying pouncing on my Pets@Home fluffy reindeer toy on a stick c/o Miss E Heap at Christmas.  We rudely forgot to return the favour with Lord Feline Henry who I deigned to share a house with for three months a few years back when I was a kitten and he was already a mature boy.  We did NOT get on as I kept trying to chase him around the house, ate his food and sat atop his litter box whilst he was trying to use it.  What laughs!