JUST CALL HIM HUNTER

On today's Mancat Monday we wanna innerdoose our cuzzin Hunter.  

This is Hunter.  Hunter is a BIG man cat.   He got reskyood in Nashville, Tennessee and found him two reely deevotid peeple.  Holding Hunter is daddy's bruther Doctor Doofus.  Ackshully Daddy has lottsa names for him but he sez them in a rood kinda way and then peeple laff.  

I know, I dont get it eether.  

We call him Unkle Ross.  Hunter has a mommy too.  Her name is Raychill.   

Hunter got to come visit us.  He stayed heer for one nite cuz he wuz in the middle of a varry long jurnee from Tennessee to Airyzona.  Thay slept in the same room our Grammy did.

Like I sed, Hunter is a BIG mancat.  And a mellow one at that.  He wuz in his musheen for hours and hours and it diddint seem to bother him at all. 

But he's kinda messy with his litter. 



Tenny wuz feelin hurty the night Hunter stayed heer so she diddint meet him.   I diddint meet him neether but I did sniff at him under the door. 

Did I menshun Hunter is a BIG mancat? 

Innyway, I tole him to hit Grammy up for toona treets.  When she wuz stayin with us she gave bits of toona to me and Tenny evryday. 

When the daytime came it wuz time for Hunter to continyoo his jurnee.  He meowed goodbye and left with his peeple. 

After Texas he stayed in Alba Kerkee a kupple nites beeforr he finely got to Grammys house in Airyzona. 

Hunter is now livvin with my Grammy and his peeple.  And I'm happy to reeport he has put my hints to good use and gits toona treets evry mornin at 10:30. 

Today it's the return of Friday Confeshuns!  Its nice to start the weekend with a clean slate.  And then yoo git to mess it up again...dats the best part!


This is Nikki.  Nikki wuz my furst sisfur. 

She's heer on Friday Confeshuns becuz this past Saturday marked one yeer since she went to Rainbow Bridge.  We furrgot.  It wuzzint til Toosday when it got rememburrt.  I feel kinda bad about it. 

The pitchur I showed on Wordless wuz taken not long after Tenny mooved in.   Grammy sent Daddy the memorial stone engraved to rememburr Nikki.  Thay hung it on a nale next to the Pagoda. 

Me and Tenny wuz hangin up thare and I wuz tellin her about Nikki.  How she loved "her man" so much and how she trained him to be a grate cat Daddy.  I tole her whut sum of Daddys favrite things wuz.  And heer he sez he kant beeleeve Tenny gives him eyeball licks jes like Nikki.  Well, it's cuz I tole her!

Nikki had hyperthyroidism.  It had made a hart murmur.  The only way to cure her wood be to send her to a radiocat center and zap the thyroid with raydeeayshun.  But that cost many green papers so Nikki got pills insted.  She did vary well for a yeer and then she got a new problem:  chylothorax.  This milky stuff wuz fillin the spaces around her lungs and it wuz hard to breeth.  Thare is no cure, jes treetments with no garantee it wood help.  Again the green papers were a problem.  At the age of 14, they helped her with meddasin and she beat the vet's estimate of 3 weeks to live.  She hung in thare for 3 months beforr it wuz time to let her go play with Karma at the Bridge. 

The Ones Who Come Before Us leave beehind lessons for our peeple so that The Ones Who Will Come After Us will haff an even bedder life.  And one of Nikki's lessons wuz for the peeple to do a bedder job of planning for our health care expensis. 

Last week in Kaze's Frootbat Friday post she remindid us of how importint and helpful pet insurance is.  The only insurance Mommy looked at was ridiculously expensive with all kinds of ways they kood git out of paying.  But the link Kaze had wuz to Pet Plan.  Mommy liked whut she red.  The price wuz rite too.  It even covers cancer.  And we hate cancer. 

So on Saturday she bot a policy for me and a policy for Tennessee.  We sincerely want to thank Kaze for telling us about Pet Plan.  Not only do we have peese of mind but it wuz a grate way to honor Nikki...even if we diddint know it at the time. 

If yoo want yur peeple to do sum reserch and git yoo sum insurance yoo shood try Pet Insurance Review. 

Do yoo like my new portrait?

I think it's my best pitchur yet.  I've bin haffin fun posing lately.  But this next pitchur izzint one of my favrites.



My belly is still mostlee nekked.  But at leest its not hurty innymore.  Today I got showfurred to Dr. Bobo and he took out my stichis.  The bloo stichis beelow are a distant memry. 



Dr. Bobo wuz so gentil it diddint hurt at all.   But I wuz so skairt I wuz tremblin'!  

When we wuz at Dr. Bobo's we met a very lucky kitten.  She wuz beein abused and wuz seen jumping out of a car in a parking lot.  A ladey ran over and pickt her up.  Then the car drove away reel fast, prolly so thay woodint git kot for whut thay had done to that sweet baby.  Thay had shaved off the kittens whiskers, pierced her ear with an earring and she also had a bad eye and nobody knows whut happined to it.  (I dont reely want to know.)  The kitten is beeing nursed bak to helth and Dr. Bobo is looking to find her a home.  Gosh, she could be my sister.  Our tuxedos are exactly alike.  We is sad for what happind to her and verry angry too.   But whut a remarkabull girl!  She wuz so lucky to haff escaped and find a good ladey who wood get her sum help. 

If innyone wants a tuxedo kitten and wood come to a North Dallas Texas suburb to git her, tell me or Dr. Bobo. 

MEMES (Thare is 2 of em)

Rules:
1.be honest
2.tag other cats
3. have fun!

What is your name?  Tennessee, but everyone calls me Tenny 

If yoo kood change yur name, whut wood it be? Maybe Google, cuz it's the most popyoolurr name in the world. 

What is yur pet's name?  Doo yoo meen the spottid mousies?  Cuz heer thay are!  I wish yoo kood haff bin heer for the Hanna Montana Tribyoot thay did.  Yello on the rite had the leed and Pink on the left played her Daddy.   

If yoo kood change yur pets name, whut wood it be?  I wood call Yello "Destiny Hope" cuz Miley Cyrus aint usin it innymore.  I wood call Pink "Akeybrakey" in honor of her Daddy. 

What is yur bruther's name?  Mr. Echo

If yoo kood change yur brother's name, whut wood it be?
  Grits-n-Fish Drippins.  Cuz sumtimes my brother is gross.  


MEME Two---Quirks
EZ Rools.  Just list 6 kwirky things about yoo. 
1.  I don't like to lay down on peeple or cuddle.  Now, I will stand on yoo and make biskits.  I will sit next to yoo and be petted.  I will hed butt yoo and ask to be loved and I'll purr my littel heart out for yoo, BUT I dont wanna lay down or sit on peeple. 

2.  I talk way more than my meezer bruther

3.  I love ripping plastic bags with my mouth

4.  Yoo know the mettul stopper in the sink?  I like to pull that out and stick my paw in the hole.  I jes know thare is sumthing intristing in thare! I also like to watch the hole in the flore of the rain room after my peeple come out of it. 

5.  When Mommy wakes up I greet her with a mew and leep from the flore to the sink.  Then she pets my hed and I get all lovey and start hedbuttin evrything.  This starts the game of "Stop Tenny From Knocking Stuff Ofur". 

6.  I'm jes not that into catnip.  I think I'm jes to mellow overall to presheeate it. 


Mr. Echo's Quirks

1.  One of my eer tips izzint pointy.  Its flat like sumone cut it.  Thay do that to feral cats sumtimes but I dont recall beein feral. 

2.  I'm always at the door when my peeple return in the Shevvie.  This is a good kwirk. 

3.  Sumtimes I will lay across the hall and whap my peeple when thay step ofur me. 

4.  My paw is useful to push food into my mouth. 

5.  I love to go to the outtadoors on my harniss but I'm still gitting ofur my feer of beeing out thare!

6.   I like to lay in my tunnel bocks and reech out the side hole and whap the ball in my turboskratcher.  It nefur sees me comin! 

If yoo is reedin this and yoo aint done these MEMEs, then yoo is tagged!!!

A Fine Meezer Quality:  Whiskers! 

Sometimes my photographer catches my whiskers jes right in the sun.  Look at the elegant curve.     

Upside down my whiskers defy gravitee.  Thay still haff that graceful arc.





Heer thay are from the side.  Dats a nice profile!

Weekend Advenchures

I'm gettin reddy to go to Gree and Othello's wedding this weekend in Hawaii.  Heh, heh.  Look at mee.  I got leid. 



I think my bak claws need trimmin....

Innyhow, beforr I go on my grate advenchure to pairadise I wantid to share sum pitchurs from Mommys advenchure to OhKlawhoma.  She went all by herself.  Me and Tenny and Daddy stayed home.  She went to Lake Eufaula, one of the biggist lakes in the state.   It is vary byootifull.

Thare wuz a famly reeyoonyun at Arrowhead State Park. Aunt Sissy and my ChaWowWow cuzzin Chalupa were thare.
 


Chalupa wuzzint the only woofie thare.  Look!  Two floofy wite doggies on a boat!



As Mommy gits smaller she is finding a hole new wurld of things she can do.  Like gettin on a big fast water musheen.  A yeer ago she wooda bin afraid this jet skee wood capsize and sink.  But she has lost 122 pounds.  Dats almost 10 of me!  Uncle VDK (Vishus Deer Killer) is taking Mommy for a ride.



Thare she goes!



Arrowhead State Park is an animal preserve.  Do yoo know what this is?



Its a turkee! 

It flapped its wings and tried to be all tuff.  But then he skeedaddled.   This turkee is so uglee its almost byootifull.  It also looks like sumthin from dat moovie Jerrassick Park. 



I'm vary glad Mommy did not see a rapter or a tee recks!  Or vishus deer!

On her way bak home she thot she found a sign to show her the way to Daisy's house!



But Mommy came home to us. 

The End.

Thirteeen Random Things From the Past Week....

1.  Tenny is feeling much bedder.  The pain meddasin has helped and she's pritty much bak to her old self.  The meddasin makes her a littel jumpy so she still runs bak under the bed now and then to chek on the spottid mousies. 

2.  The pain meddasin also makes Tenny vary loving.  She dont wanna cuddle but she will hed butt innything.  Like Mommy's drink.  How wuz she suppost to know it wood fall over if it got hed buttid? 

3.  How wuz Tenny suppost to know Mommys new pink camra wood stop working when the drink got hed buttid and fell over? 

4.  Mommy is sekritly happy the pink camra is ded cuz that meens she hasta yoose Daddys Nikon now. 

5.  I'm sekritly happy the pink camra is ded too cuz the Nikon takes bedder pitchurs and duzzint need the flashy thing neerly as much. 

6.  We've gone throo one and a haff bags of Temptayshuns in less than a week.  Tenny has eeten most of em.

7.  My payshints with Tenny gettin all this simpathee and attenshun is gettin short.   Meezerboy is gettin ignorrd and this cannot go on much longer!

8.  Mommy got me a new Alpine Skratcher so I've bin able to get my claws nice and sharp jes in case I gotta give a reminder to pay more attenshun to the Meezerboy. 

9.  We is gonna get sum new tunnils to play in.  Ikea has cat tunnils for less than 10 green papurs!

10.  Our cuzzin Hunter the Maine Coon stayed heer Sunday.  We diddint meet him but we can smell him in Grammys room.  We gots pitchurs but thay are in the pink camra.  I'll show em to ya when we git em out.

11.  Speekin of Grammy's my furrend Toulouse is verry sad becuz his Grammy has gone to Rainbo Bridge.    I am sad fur him and his momma.

12.   The big tree we play on in the sleepy room is still on its side and I kinda like it!

13.  My favrite nap spot rite now is Mommys pillow.

Hi everykitty.  I hope yoo dont mind but I'm gonna do my Tenny Toosday from down heer under the bed.  I'm jes not feelin kwite myself.  Plus it's my turn to watch the spottid mousies.  Thay is gonna do a show latur. 



My peeple dont like that I spend so much time down heer.  So yesterday I got dragged out from heer and takin to see Dr. Bobo.   He looked me over and poked at my tummy.  I diddint like that.  But even worse wuz the rude thing they did to my backside. 

Finely Dr. Bobo sed "I think shees jes hiding becuz of pain.  The hernia wuz pritty big so it mite take a littel longer for the hurt to go away. "  Then he sed he had givin me a shot to help with pain but he sed it worr off aftur a few days.  (Yeah, tell me bout it.   He wantid me to feel bedder so he gave me a shot of Buprenex and sent sum more meddasin home with me. 

Dats sum good stuff. 

But I dont got infeckshun or innything like that.  I jes hurt. 

When we got home I came rite bak down heer and darned if the spottid mousies werent heer to welcom me.  I did come out to get some Temptayshuns from Mommy.  I went and klimed the cat tree but then I herd a big voyce.  It soundid so weerd it skairt me. 

Only latur did I figger out it wuz Daddy. 

But oh well, I'm heer now so I mite as well stay.  Besides the mousies are workin up a musicul rootine.    And bless thare harts thay are jes workin so hard.  Thay say its a Hannuh Montana tribyoot.  I shood be able to catch it after my morning dose of Buprenex.  The turkey stinky goodniss will be a good snack at intermishun!

Tenny Update

Mancat Monday is being interruptid for this update on my fursister Tenny.  Last Toosday she had hernia surjury.  She was doin grate up until Friday when she startid hiding under the bed.  Tenny woodint even come out for Temptayshuns!  (But if Daddy put them under the bed she wood eet them up.)  She has bin seen drinkin water and using the bocks but then she runs rite back to hiding.  She came out and visited Mommy in the middle of the dark but jes fur a minit and she ran back under the bed.   So we are worried.   Maybe she is jes really hurty.  But whutever it is she seems depressed and "depressed" was on the list of things to look out fur and call Dr. Bobo about if thay happind.  So Dr. Bobo wants to see Tenny again.  She'll go back at 4:30 today.  We hope it's nothin serious...

We now return you to this regularly scheduled episoad of Mancat Monday....

Hey guys, I wanted to show yoo my fort.  It's swell.  The decor is simple and ellagant.  Jes a hangin mousie.  And no flowers or girly pastells.  Jes brite kullurs. 



This tent is litewate and versatul.  Riteway up is sumthing only peeple haffta worry about.  If I can get in it, it wurks.  Thats sumthing all good forts shood haff.  I like when the fort is sideways and tha door is up top like this. 



I gess I've bin kinda hard on my fort.  The doorway is kinda fallin apart.  It takes a beeting when yoo haffta defend yur fort against a gurl kitty.  (Speshully of the sisfur kind...)



Dats rite.  No gurls allowed!  Well, cept fur Lucky Star.  In dat case it wood be cozy...