#2 is Here!!!

He's here! He's here!!! Hendrix's #2 is here!!!



Joel William was born on Friday, July 10th at 8:36am. He weighed 7 lbs, 11.7oz and was 20 1/4" long.


Our Mommy just spoke to Hendrix's Mommy and she reports that Mommy and baby are doing great and are home tonight with Hendrix. Mommy says Hendrix's Mommy is doing so well that she does not sound as if she just had a baby.

Welcome to the world Joel!!!!! Congrats to Hendrix and family!! In the immortal words of FAGIN - YAY!!!!!!!!!

PS: Hendrix has already posted the great news too!! Please swing by his blog to offer concatulations too!!!

Excitement

We are so excited here at the Black Furball!!! WHY?? Because our adopted/honorary cousin cat Hendrix is going to be the brother kitty to a brand new baby bean tommorow!!!!!

As some of you know, Hendrix's Mommy and our Mommy have been friends for years and years - for even longer than Captain Jack has been borned!! They are pen pals that found each other in a magazine and developed a wonderfully close friendship from that. It is because of Hendrix and his Mommy that we get to blog now.

Today Mommy gave us some exciting news - Hendrix's Mommy has asked that we tell all of the blogging kitties and woofies and beans when #2 is borned tommorow!! YAY!!!! What this means kitties is to watch this blog (and the Cat Blogosphere page too) for the lastest news and hopefully pictures too!! YAY!!!

This is a big responsibility for us!! Because of that, we are not going to let FAGIN do the updating. We do not think the kitten could handle it and would crack under the pressure. FAGIN does not agree so Dante and Captain Jack are going to take turns sitting on him until we can get the news posted ourselves. We do not want to dissapoint our friend Hendrix!!

Until then, we just wanted to say that we are purring and purraying for Hendrix's Mom and #2 so that everything will go well. Perhaps if you kitties could purr and purray, even more good vibes would be sent to our beloved friends. We are sure Hendrix and his Mom and Baby would really appreciate it!!!!

Manic Monday

Heya kitties. Here at the Black Furrball, we've been laying low. This past week or so has been very traumatic in our house, and so far no kitty has been effected, but we is nervous. Here's let us tell you about it.

Last weekend, the last weekend in June, Mommy and Daddy discovered a HUGE hot spot on Beaux. It was HUGE, almost as big as his tail, and really painful for him. Mommy and Daddy had to sedate him and clean it and he had to take med-a-k-shuns for a whiles and wear the cone on his heads. He is better now.

Last Monday Mommy had to go to the human V-E-T at the human hos-bit-tal because her heart was beating really really fast and her bloods has lots of pressure and the alien's doctor was afraid something was wrong. She got lots of tests run, and they stole lots of her blood and she had wires going to everywhere she said and was in the ER for hours for Daddy. So long that Uncle Dave had to come over and feed us and lets the woofies out. Turns out Mommy had not dranken enough waters so her body was not happy. That force fed her waters (in an EYE VEE) and sent her home to rest and drinks more waters. She is better now. The alien is fine and is moving a lot now. We saw her tummy move for the first time yesterday (though Mommy says its been moving on the inside for a couple of weeks now) - there really is an alien in there!!!!!! Sammy, you might want to come check it out!!!

At work last Thursday, Daddy hurt his shoulder. Daddy said that he thinks he pulled a muscle in his shoulder at his night hunting place and he is feeling very owie. Poor Daddy. We are hoping he gets better soon or Mommy is going to make him go to the V-E-T --- and we don't mean Aunt Susan neither!!

Then on Saturday, July 4th, Mommy and Daddy came home from Uncle Dave's (Aunt Susan was at the V-E-T clinic) and Samwise was shaking a lot like he does when he is in pain. It took a while (humans is slow) but they finally realized Sam had hurt his front ankle, right above the little hobbit paw (Purrageous Mom: It was not swollen kitties, that is why it took us so long to figure out. We knew he was hurting but we did not know why because he is not limping or favoring the leg either. It truly was a mystery until he jumped off of the bed and let out a yelp). Mommy says Sammy a-sprain-ed it and now Aunt Susan says he has to take med-a-k-shun to make the owie go away.

As you can see kitties, it's been a scary week or so here at the Black Furrball. So far all of us kitties are healthy and happy (Thanks Baast and knock on woods) but we certainly are being cautious! Here is hoping that this week is a lot calmer than last!!!

Happy July 4th!!

We want to wish everyone a very happy Independence Day!! YAY!!! We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday!

We hope everykitty and woofie out there gets some nummy food from the beans today and has safe places to hide from the fireworks. Our city had their boom boom boom fireworks last night so hopefully tonight will be somewhat quiet. Mommy and Daddy and Samwise are going to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's today but say they will be home early and bring us home some noms so yay!!! PAR-TAY!!!!

Weekend Update

Greetings from the decks of the Black Furrball!! It is time for the weekend update, and Baast! Do we have lots to update!

First of all, Dante would like to thank everyone for the birthday wishes. In honour of his 4 years on this earth, we celeybrated on both Saturday and Sunday by getting lots of treats and stinky goodness. We also got our claws trimmed on Sunday morning too, but we will ignore that for now. Mommy says we will have a party for him soon so that all of us can get together and have a good time! We think we will take the Black Furrball out on a cruise again, but this time we will be going to a new and never before visited locale. Keep in touch kitties, you will not believe where we will be partying. More details to come!!

Also on Saturday, Nana and Grandpa and Uncle Mark came over and we had lots of fun. Beaux and Samwise were very excited because Grandpa will always pet and pet them. And he did. Fagin was excited cause he got to attack Uncle Mark, which always makes him happy too!!

On Sunday, Fagin had a little scare and we want to tell you about it so you kitties will be careful too! Fagin loves to go out onto our screened porch and nap and hang out. Well, Sunday was very hot here (over 95 degrees) but Fagin seemed alright outside and laid in the shade with the ceiling fan on, and Mommy checked on him lots too. Well, in maybe 10 minutes Fagin went from being fine and happily sleeping to not fine - Mommy found him panting and shaking in the heat. Mommy quickly scooped him up and she said it was like picking up a rag doll Fagin was so limp and lifeless. She quickly brought him inside and laid him on the cool table. Fagin mostly perked right back up and immediately stopped panting, but it was still scary. Fagin was droopy the rest of the night but it could have been so much worse. Be careful outside kitties! We kitties love the heat so much but sometimes it can get bad for us very quickly!

Finally, we has a new crew member on the Black Furrball - a little bunny rabbit who has moved into our big azalea bush in our front yard! Daddy has seem him lots at night and discovered his house on Saturday. Mommy was afraid Daddy had scared him off but she saw him in the yard eating grass this morning. Mommy is wondering if anyone knows what a good treat would be for our new friend. She would like to leave him something nice that he would like to munch on.

That is the update from the Black Furrball. We hope all of you kitties and your beans have a nice and fast week at work!

Thankful Thursday

Hiya kitties, it is ME, FAGIN!! YAY!!! ME get to do this week's Thankful Thursday because what we are thankful for is ME!! Let ME explain. As most of you know, FAGIN was bottle raised by Aunt Susan (we does not have a V-E-T here at the Black Furrball; we has an Aunt Susan) from the time FAGIN (then know as Little Kitty or LK) was only about 8 days old. She kept FAGIN alive and healthy so ME could become the big, strong mancat FAGIN is today.

Well, last night Mommy and Daddy went to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's for dinner and Mommy got to meet Aunt Susan's newest foster - a little girl tortie who is so tiny that she is calling Ethel!! She may be about 3 weeks old or older. Aunt Susan has had her for about two weeks but she is not growing much so its hard to guestimate age at this point. Mommy says if we could all send healing and growing purrs and thoughts to little Ethel that she thinks it could go as well for this little kitty as it did for ME - the FAGINATOR!! YAY!!!! Ethel needs purrs to eat lots and gain weights and not be what Mommy calls "failure to thrive." So come on kitties - purr hard for FOODS and WEIGHTS and ETHELS!! YAY!!!

That means that for this week's Thankful Thursday, we is thankful for Aunt Susan taking in little kitties to foster and grow into big kitties, and for all of the kitties at the cat blogosphere who send special purrs and purrayers to help little kitties like FAGIN and Ethel to grow big and strong. Come on kitties - you pulled FAGIN through - can we get some of the same magical purrs for little Ethel?? YAY!!!!!!

Mancat Monday

Ahoy mateys!! Its Mancat Monday here at the Black Furrball and in honour of this day, we are going to tell you how we spent the weekend - punishing the scurvy dog who is She Who Calls Herself Our Mother. Yep!! We have started our revenge tatics to punish the Woman Who Claims to Be Mommy for not helping us blog! Just listen to what we did!!

Saturday morning, Captain Jack started the revenge by meowing as loud as he could beginning at 4am!! The Captain did not stop this until 6am (he sung 99,000 Bottles of Catnip Rum on the Wall - it was pawsome!) when She Who is Not Really Our Mommy made Daddy get up with us. Not to be outdone by the Captain, Fagin began round two by performing the classic snuggle, snuggle, purr, purr, CHOMP!! YES! This made the Woman We Are Mad At get out of bed much earlier than she wanted. We then faked her out by actually being nice to her the rest of the day. Saturday night now, that was a mission for the First Mate! Sir Dante punished the Woman Who is No Longer Sick But Still Does Not Help Us Blog by sleeping on her head all night! He even made biscuits on her head occasionally to wake her up. When she got mad that crazy ginger pirate purred and squinted at her quite fetchingly, deflecting her anger and urge to toss him across the room. He is the master!!

Last night we let the Woman Who Had Better Shape Up sleep as we planned our next round of attack. What do you kitties think? What should we do next??