Captain Jack and Sir Dante - Purrageous Pirates

Mine Gotcha Day

2011-04-04T09:16:00.009-04:00

Oh My Catness! How long has it been so Mommy let us post last! WOW!! Over a year?! Mommy has not been a good kitty Mommy lately at all!! However, today is mine Gotcha Day!!!! Three years ago little me came to live with Mommy and Daddy and Dante and Captain Jack (And Samwise and Beaux too). My how things have changed since then - just look!!! That was me when I was just a wee little lad! In fact, it took me a while to figure out whether I wanted to hang about - for the longest time I was called Little Kitty or LK because I was so very little!! But it was with the help of all of the cat bloggers that I began to feel better (all those purrayers and purrs really meant a lot!!) and so I decided to stay and go to my furrever home. And here I was ony my Gotcha Day!! I was playing with my Cheese Chase game - oh I loved that game!! Good memories!!

And here I am now, sleeping on the couch. Life is good three years later!! Now if only Mommy would help me to blog more often!!

And in case you were wondering, Captain Jack and I know get along wonderfully!

Dante: Fagin! Don't lie!

Okay Okay. Captain Jack and I still do not get along but we are learning to live together.

Thank you for coming to visit on my Gotcha Day. My wish is that Mommy will help us to blog a lot more. What can I do to make sure she gives me my wish. Any ideas kitties?!?!

Happy Birthday Fagin

2010-02-07T00:01:00.000-05:00

The kitties of the Black Furball would like to wish Quartermaster Fagin the Demonic a very

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY!!

And for his birthday, Fagin has recieved a promise to Mommy to help us blog again. YAY!!! We hope our old friends remember us and we look forward to making some new friends too!!

Oh, it's Mommy's birthday today too. Happy Birthday Mommy!

Mancat Monday

2009-12-14T08:41:00.006-05:00

As you know, our new Cabin Boy arrived a couple of weeks ago. Since then life has really changed around here - you would not believe how loud little humans can be - especially at 3am! Since Mommy and Daddy are so busy with the new baby, we've decided that real mancats help out with their little humans.

Right now Cabin Boy is sleeping in a bassinet in the big room with Mommy and Daddy. Dante was afraid the bassinet might float away and carry the Cabin Boy off so he has taken to sleeping in the storage basket underneath. Also, this way the brave First Mate can defend the baby against all attackers! Dante is certainly a fierce mancat!!

Captain Jack is helping out by guarding Callum's new room since he is not in it yet to protect it himself. As you can see, the fierce Captain is sacrificing his own self and comfort by sleeping on the pad on the changing table. Also, he has to make sure that its comfortable enough for our Cabin Boy to be laid on. Captain Jack is one brave kitty!!

Finally, brave Samwise is also helping out by guarding Callum night and day. Here he is sleeping alongside our little one to keep all of the bad dreams and nightmares away. Samwise is certainly an inspiration to all mancat woofies the world over!

Cabin Boy is Here!!

2009-12-02T07:10:00.013-05:00

The kitties and crew of the Black Furrball are pleased to announce the arrival of our Cabin Boy, Callum Andrew. Callum was born on November 25, 2009 at 5:54am. He weighed 8lbs, 8 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Here he is sleeping in his bassinet in the hospital. Isn't he cute?

Here is a portrait of all of the human members of the Black Furrball. This was taken the day after Callum was born while Mommy and Daddy were still in the hospital with Callum. They were actually there for 5 days but it was okay because Uncle Dave came over lots to take care of us.

No member of the Black Furrball is consider ship shape and ready to sail without an examination from our personal V-E-T Aunt Susan. From the look on her face, he seems to have passed. Aunt Susan is little Callum's godmother.

Daddy took this picture Monday night while we were watching the Saints game. Callum enjoyed his first Saints game a lot!!

We are doing very well with all of the changes of bringing Cabin Boy home. Mommy and Daddy are making sure that we get paid attention to as much as possible. Daddy brought home a blanket of Callum's the day before he came home so we could get used to the new smells of the baby and Mommy has let us all look at him too. The only problem is Captain Jack and Dante both want to sleep in Callum's bassinet but other than that, things seem to be going quite well. Thank you all for your well wishes - we really appreciate them all!!

It's Getting Exciting Around Here!

2009-11-23T10:41:00.003-05:00

Heya kitties! As most of you are pretty aware, our Mommy has a kitten in her tummy that will be coming out soon. Cabin Boy, as we call him, is due any day now and things are getting very exciting around our house!

On Saturday Nana and Grandpa came over and brought the coolest thing - a glider chair!

Mommy says it's to rock Cabin Boy in but as you can see from the picture, Captain Jack disagrees. It is now his favorite place in the house and Mommy and Daddy will rock it for him while he is laying on it and he just adores it! We do not know if he will share with Cabin Boy or not; we think he considers it his own pirate booty. Nana and Grandpa also brought over a cradle swing for Cabin Boy. Mommy says they are going to put the Captain in it and turn it on to see if he likes that rocking but Daddy is afraid he will like it too much and take it over too.

Mommy told us today that her very last day day hunting for a while is Wednesday. We is very excited that she will be home with us for a few weeks - 12 of them to be exact! YAY!!

Samwise is very excited that Thursday is Turkey Day. It is his absolute favorite holiday because he gets a ton of turkey which is one of his favorite foods. Mommy and Daddy were not going to take him to Nana and Grandpa's this year, just in case Cabin Boy decides to come (Mommy's nurse says the busiest day of the year for having babies is Thanksgiving), but Nana assures her they will bring Samwise home so he gets to go and have turkey and ham and dressing and all the good foods. He is so excited that he cannot wait.

Cabin Boy will be here soon. YAY!!!

Tybalt's Blurpy is Here!!

2009-11-19T20:53:00.002-05:00

The Purrageous Pirates are pleased to announce that Tybalt's blurpy has arrived!! Chloe Renea was born a little after 6pm tonight and weighed 6lbs, 14.7ozs. She was 20 inches long. Mommy talked to their Grandmama and both baby and Mommy are doing wonderful!! YAY!!!!!

Mancat Monday

2009-11-16T12:59:00.002-05:00

For this Mancat Monday, we have two mancat guidelines to discuss. The first will be presented by Captain Jack!

Captain Jack: Real mancats know how to show their true feelings. You see, our Nana and Grandpa came over Saturday to bring some things they had picked up for the Cabin Boy. Well, there were some snuggly blankets in what they brought that just had to be for me, right? So I decided to thank Nana by climbing up on her lap and making biscuits as hard as I could. I had to show my appreication, right? Can you believe that she tried to push me off and said "Jack, that hurts!" I was most displeased so to show her how angry I was, I had to put the bitey on her hand. That will show her not to let me show her my thanks in future, right?

Uh yeah, Captain, whatever you say, just don't bite us!

Our second mancat guideline is that all real mancats know how to get the 5 star treatment. You may remember us telling you about the black cat that showed up on Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's front porch this past Halloween. Well, Mommy was over there last night and Hootie, as they are calling him, was still there! He refuses to stay in the house though so Aunt Susan made him a right snug little nest on the front porch complete with heating pad for when it gets cold. And he is a real mancat as he knows how to get attention. Mommy walked by the front door and he meowed and headbutted the door until Mommy came out outside. She sat on the glider on the porch and Hootie jumped up into her lap (not easy with the Cabin Boy due any day now) and purred and headbutted her. She tried to snap a picture of him but he would not cooperate, preferring to be petted and worshipped to being photographed. Mommy says he is one of the sweetest kitties ever and the good news is his leg is better (Aunt Susan examined him and X-rayed him and even had another V-E-T that she works with look at him and they cannot see an injury or deformation so hopefully its just a sprain that will heal on its own) and that he combo tested negative. Aunt Susan said she will try to find him a forever home soon, but that he is quite snug on their porch until then. He is well on his way to being very spoiled because if there is anything Aunt Susan does well, its spoil kitties and woofies...that and making them healthy and well too - just ask Fagin!

Mancat Mystery Monday

2009-11-02T10:41:00.006-05:00

Hiya mateys!! It's been a long time since our last blog post, we know, but Mommy has been a lazy person and has not been helping us. We will forgive her for now because dude, her tummy is HUGE! She's bigger than Dante even!! That's going to be one big kitten when he gets here!! And he will be here soon - probably this very month!! WOW!!

To follow up on our last post, we asked if you could guess the chef that Daddy was cooking with. Here's the picture again, you case you forgot.

Some of you guessed Alton Brown, and although you were close (we live in Atlanta and so does Mr. Brown), that is not who this is. This chef was on the show Top Chef a couple of seasons ago, he did not win but came in 2nd place, and has a very successful resturant here in Atlanta. Still no idea? Mommy says you have two other hints - people always remark on his hair AND he really really likes liquid nitrogen. Still no idea? Go here for the answer!!

Well, we had a very nice weekend here at the Black Furrball. On Saturday, Daddy put up the closet organizer in our pirate hang out- we mean in the Cabin Boy's room. Captain Jack tried to take many naps in the new crib, but Mommy kept squirting him with water and running him out every time she caught him. Maybe one day he will learn.

On Saturday night the beans went to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's house for Halloween celebrations (we stayed home and napped) and Mommy met a NEW KITTY! Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave woke up the day of Halloween to find a solid black kitty sitting on their front porch - very Halloween like. Right now he is staying in their basement and Aunt Susan is taking him to work today because he has a limpy leg that she wants to look at. Mommy says he is very very sweet - he crawled into her arms and purred lots and made biscuits all over her shoulder.

Mommy made up for being gone all Saturday night by staying home and laying around with us on Sunday. Daddy went to work at the resturant all day so we had her home to ourselves. Captain Jack slept on her and we all watched bad tv and took naps. YAY!! Have a great week kitties!!

Finally Friday

2009-10-23T00:01:00.003-04:00

We are so glad that it is Finally Friday, for lots of reasons. First of all, our woofie Samwise is home and safe. This is a picture Daddy took of Sammy yesterday morning. We think he was saying "I do not like it here. Can we go home now, please please please?" The V-E-T had to pull two of his teeths and was unable to sew the wound up (not enough healthy tissue because the teeth were very bad) so he has an open wound in his mouth. What this means is Samwise gets lots of Auntie Botiks and pain med-a-shuns and he gets to eat as much stinky goodness as he wants for a few days because he cannot have crunchies. Thank you all for your purrs and purryers. We all really appreciate it.

Secondly, we are thankful that it is Finally Friday because both of our beans will be home all weekend - unlike last weekend. Last weekend we had Mommy all to ourselves all day on Caturday because Daddy had to go and cook FOODS for people, at a cemetery no less (Purrageous Mom: It was a dinner for participants of a Halloween event at this particular historic cemetery so that is why they had the dinner there). Here is a picture of Daddy cooking - he is in the black shirt on the right.

Can you guess who is on the left? He has on Halloween makeup so he looks a little different than normal. Mommy says if you or your beans are something called "a foodie" then his hair should be a huge hint. Your other hint is that this person has been has been on TV lots. Do you know?

Finally, we are happy it is Friday because Fridays now mean Daddy is home with us from day hunting, all day. Yay!! That means we have someone to wait on us and serve as as we should be taken care of. Oh, and he can make sure samwise is doing well too! Have a great weekend everykitty!

Samwise at the V-E-T

2009-10-22T10:03:00.003-04:00

That is right kitties. As we type this, our woofie Samwise is at the V-E-T getting ready to have his teeths cleaned. Daddy took him this morning. The very good news is that his cornea is completely healed and the V-E-T is very happy with his progress there. She just wants him to have his eye cleaned and Auntie Botiked one more day and then his is done there. The bad news is Daddy had to leave our Sammy at the V-E-T so they can so all sorts of awful things to him - they may call it teeths cleaning but who knows what they will do to him!!!!

We are worried about him and so is Mommy. Mommy says she is worried because they will put him under 'stesia so they can clean his teeths. We do not know what that means but it sounds scary - What Daddy? It means make Sammy take a nap? But he will wake up again, right? Daddy says he will wake up just fine and that Daddy will pick him up at 4:30 from the V-E-T and bring him home. Mommy is still worried though so any purrs or purrayers would be much appreciated. Thanks!! We will keep you updated!!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-10-21T08:57:00.000-04:00

Mandog Monday Update

2009-10-19T10:33:00.003-04:00

Today we have an update on our puppy brother Samwise. As we told you kitties about on Friday, Sammy had to go to the V-E-T because he had owies in both eyes! Well, Daddy came home early from day hunting on Friday to take Sammy. That vet, Dr Becky, who is friends with our Aunt Susan, put dyes is Samwise's eyes and yep, he had a very stratched left eye. His right eye is okay, just irritated from Sammy pawing at his face. He is on the same pain medication and topical eye Auntie Botiks that Aunt Susan put him on. However, when Dr. Becky was looking at Samwise's mouth, she found some really nasty teeth. Aunt Susan showed them to Mommy on Saturday and Mommy says they are not pretty at all. What this means is Sammy has to go back to the V-E-T on Thursday to have his teeths cleaned and has to take an oral Auntie Botik to help clear up that infection. Poor Sammy!! Four V-E-T checks in one week - of course two of them were Aunt Susan either coming to our house or Mommy taking him to her house where he got to see his girlfriend Storm and her sister Romy, but still!! Poor Sammy!

Wait, what was that Sammy? Oh, yeah! Sam wants us to thank all of your for your purrs and purrayers that he feels better. He thinks that is why his eyes are healing so very fast. He would also appreciate it if you would all purr for him on Thursday, when he had to go back to the V-E-T. He is a bit nervous about that, as they will have to knock him out to clean his teeth. Mommy is nervous about it too! Thanks everykitty!!

Samwise has an Owie!

2009-10-16T13:03:00.004-04:00

Heya kitties! It's Captain Jack and I am here with some unhappy news. My woofie, Samwise, has an owie - two owies actually. Yesterday when Mommy got home from dayhunting she looked at Samwise and realized something was not right! One of this eyes was completely closed and leaky and the other was only half open and leaky and both were really RED! She called Aunt Susan who came over to look at him and Samwise has owies alright! He has a very obvious ulcerated cornea in one eye and the other eye is very red and inflamed. Aunt Susan also said from his eye dialation that Sammy is in pain from his owie eyes. She had some eye Auntie Botiks that she and Mommy put in his eyes and Mommy has some pain med-a-shuns for him too. Today, Daddy is taking him to a V-E-T clinic to have dyes put in his eyes so the amount of trauma can be determined (Aunt Susan could not do this from home so we're going to the clinic our Aunt Mary works at). Poor Samwise!! We hope our favorite puppy cat gets better soon!!

Mommy Has a Sad

2009-10-08T14:56:00.002-04:00

Heya kitties! Sorry it has been so long since we last updated but we've had lots going on with the Cabin Boy coming soon and all. We've got lots of pictures to show you of our pirate hangout room being converted into the Cabin Boy's nursery but those will have to wait until Mommy can locate the cable that gets the pictures onto the computer from the camera. Daddy has been selling lots of computer stuff on Ebay lately and that cable is somewhere in the abyss known as "The Study" and Mommy and us have been scared to go down there lately to look for it!!

In other news, the Cabin Boy is growing big and strong. At least check he was almost three whole weeks ahead and getting bigger everyday. Unfortunately, when they stole Mommy's bloods a few weeks ago they discovered that she has something called di-a-bee-tus from the Cabin Boy. Do you know what this means kitties? NO ICECREAM OR FRENCHY FRIES FOR US!! We is not happy about this at all!! Mommy says that when the Cabin Boy gets here we will be able to have ice cream and frenchy fries again but that is such a long time away. Purrageous Mom: It's less than two months kitties. He will be here around Turkey Time. See, it is a LONG TIME!!!

Finally, we just wanted to say that Mommy has a sad today. She found out last night that a Special Person passed away on Tuesday. This Special Person was like an adopted grandfather to her while she was growing up from a kitten and she is very sad. He passed away on the 6th anniversary of Daddy's brother's death so it has been a sad week all around.

Meow Like a Pirate Day

2009-09-19T08:07:00.007-04:00

Ahoy mateys!!! Welcome aboard the decks of the much feared Black Furrball. Ahoy the Cat O'Nine Tails and her fearsome crew!!! Captain Jack and crew are almost ready to depart to our port of call for this year - the mystical Isle of Baast - a kitty paradise that cannot be found on a map but instead can only be found by those who know where it is. Good for us, Captain Jack knows where it is. As we get ready to make way, please feel free to wander the decks and help yourself to the treats and noms that our pirate wench (Mommy) has placed out for us -including all kinds of seafood and even HAMM!! To the left you will find Fagin with lots of fishing poles and nets for those who wish to fish. There be hammocks for napping, and lots of pirate catnip rum for sipping.

In order to get to the Isle of Baast our first stop is the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have mysteriously disappeared and cannot be explained as human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters. Popular culture has attributed some of these disappearances to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. But we know the truth kitties- the Bermuda Triangle is nothing more than one big teleyport machine - one of the few enterances to the Isle of Baast. Let's go!!

Be not afraid kitties, the Captain and crew have made this trip numerous times. Captain Jack will see us through. We will arrive momentarily.......

And here we are, at the Isle of Baast - the paradise island for kitties of all sizes, colors and meows.AH!!! The Isle of Baast!! There be beaches for sun and fun, plenty of seafood and noms and goodies, and even natives to see to our every need. Enjoy yourselves kitties and now, join in us in our call - Meow Like a Pirate - ME-ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Mommy Update Monday

2009-09-14T09:34:00.003-04:00

Hey kitties! Someone of you and your beans have asked how our Mommy and little Cabin Boy are doing, so we thought we would use this Monday to tell you all about it. First of all, Mommy has gotten big and fat! We are not kidding, she has! Just look!!

Mommy took this picture of herself last weekend for our Aunt Adri who asked her how big she is. She says she was 27 weeks pregnant here so that means she has 13 more weeks (less than 12 now) to get even bigger! We wonder how Mommy will fit out the door soon - she is bigger than our house!!

On a serious note, we have been doing a good job of keeping Mommy's blood pressures down and of making sure she gets plenty of rest. Her blood pressures are still borderline high, but the doctor thinks all will be well there. Unfortunately, right when we get this fixed, something else pops up. Mommy had to have a test a little over a week ago to make sure the sugars in her bloods are okay - well, she failed that test. Flunked it bad. This means that tommorow she has to go to a LAB place for three whole long, boring, hours to have another sugar in bloods test run. They is going to steal her bloods FOUR TIMES kitties! Its bad!! If she fails it, no more ice cream for us!! Can you believe it?? We really really hope she passes this test! Maybe we should help her study for it. What do you kitties think?

Finally, we just wanted to tell you - all of our bestest kitty, woofie and bean friends, thank you so much for all of your love and support. Mommy says that it has been a challenging time growing the Cabin Boy in her tummy, but it will all be worth it when he gets here. Thank you again. We really appreciate it and are truly touched by the outpouring of purrs, purrayers and love!

Our Pirate Den is No More

2009-08-24T10:56:00.005-04:00

Kitties, we had a very traumatic weekend. We learned some bad news - our very own pirate den room is being taken away from us and the humans are giving it to the Cabin Boy! You see kitties, we've always had the "guest room" as our room - our big bed was in it and some of our toys. The room was gated off so only kitties, and no woofies, could come in. It was the room that Fagin stayed in when he first came to live with us. Well, a few weekends ago Daddy and Uncle Dave took all of the furniture out of the rooom - even our bed! We heard them say they was going to paint it so we thought "Finally! They are going to fix up our pirate den in a way that befits such rare and fierce pirates as us three!" Aunt Susan came over and they put all this white putty stuff on the walls and Mommy showed us the color she choose to paint it - its called "Drifting Dunes" which is pawsome cause pirate hangouts should be sand colored right?

We got all excited until we heard Mommy and Daddy talking - they renamed our pirate room "The Baby's Room." Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE GIVING OUR ROOM AWAY TO THE CABIN BOY!! NOT FAIR!!! And then we heard the woman that claims to be our mother say she was going to lock us out of the room because she did not know how else to keep us out of the crib. How dare she!! Kitties, we are going to rebel - we will not stand for this!! How could she?!?!

(PS: This is the Purrageous Mom. Does anyone out there have any ideas other than utter banishment of the kitties from the room? They adore that room but I do not want them sleeping in the Cabin Boy's bed and I know that space will be way too tempting for the kitties. I hate to lock them out, but I think I might have to. Thanks!)

Thankful Thursday

2009-08-20T09:44:00.004-04:00

We wanted to take a moment to say Thank You to all of you - our wonderful kitty, woofie, and bean friends. You have been so wonderful to us and our Mommy over the last month, that we cannot express how grateful we are. As you know, Mommy has been sorta sick with the kitten that is in her tummy, and we've had some real big scares. Knowing the entire time that we had such wonderful friends purring and purraying for us really helped. We truly think that it is what has been keeping Mommy and Cabin Boy healthy and off of bedrest and out of the hospital. Thank you all!

Tabby Terror Tuesday

2009-08-18T09:23:00.004-04:00

It's ME kitties, FAGIN!! YAY!!! FAGIN has decided that FAGIN likes Mommy having a kitten in her tummy for one reason - FAGIN'S SNOOGLE!!! You see, Mommy and Daddy bought FAGIN the SNOOGLE PILLOW to sleep with - what's that Dante? Mommy bought the Snoogle for Mommy? UH HUH!!! NO WAY!!!

What is a Snoogle you may ask? FAGIN will tell you! It's a special pillow for kitties with pregnant Mommies who have hurty backs and hips. Here is a link to the website for it and here is FAGIN'S proof that Mommy and Daddy bought the SNOOGLE for FAGIN!! YAY!!!

Doesn't FAGIN look cute and comfy all cuddled up with HIS SNOOGLE? Forgive the poor quality picture kitties - Daddy took this with this camera phone because he left Mommy's camera at work. You see, FAGIN was just too adorable to resist!! MINE SNOOGLE! YAY!!!

And what will happen if anyone tries to take FAGIN'S SNOOGLE away from FAGIN you might ask??

FAGIN LASERBEAMS OF COURSE!! FAGIN SNOOGLE DEFENSE SYSTEM - ACTIVATED!!!

Manly Monday

2009-08-17T08:59:00.005-04:00

We had a lovely story here (it was about a black lab named Reggie - we undertand its on Snopes if you want to read it) that we later found out people thought was real and got angry when they discovered it was not. For that reason, we have removed it. Sorry for any confusion.

Mommy Update and Auntie Deb

2009-08-14T12:50:00.003-04:00

First of all, the Mommy Update. The Cabin Boy V-E-T is very very happy with Mommy. Although her blood pressures were REALLY high at the office (they even had her lay down and try to relax so they could take it again), her overall pressures are really good and that is what Dr. J is going by. She said that Mommy looks great and that she should keep doing what she has been doing. YAY!! This means Mommy can still day hunt for a while longer and we still get plenty of time to help Mommy rest and nap. Its the best of both worlds for us pirate kitties!! We want to thank all of you kitties, woofies and beans - we really think your good thoughts over hte past 3 weeks have really really helped Mommy and Cabin Boy stay healthy and well!!!

And now, onto today's business!

What do you feed an invisible cat? Evaporated milk!!!!

What didn't the leopard go on vacation? He couldn't find the right spot!!!

What's worse than it raining cats and dogs? Hailing taxis!!!!!

How do you catch a squirrel? Climb up a tree and act like a nut!!!!!!

HAHAHAHA! Yeah, we agree - those were really bad!!!!

Thankful Thursday

2009-08-13T08:58:00.004-04:00

This Thursday, we is thankful to have a loving home with our humans. With Mommy having to be home so much because all she can do is rest, we get plenty of snuggle and napping time.

We do have one request though kitties - we needs all of your purrs and purrayers. Mommy goes back to the Cabin Boy doctor tommorow and she is nervous about being told she has to be home with us all of the time because she is worse. Her bloods pressures have been up for the last day (we thinks it cause she is nervous because they have been great for the last three weeks) and her feets were a bit puffy yesterday. She is day hunting now with her feets up at her desk and drinking lots and trying to remain unstressed, but she could use your good thoughts and wishes too!!

Mommy says we will let you know how things go tommorow and to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your love and support. It makes us happy that you kitties care about our Mommy like we do. So we say again, thank you kitties, woofies and friends. We loves you!!

Weekend Update

2009-08-03T09:07:00.004-04:00

Well kitties, another weekend has come and gone. It was a mostly restful weekend at the Black Furrball. We started off Saturday really well. Daddy got up early and let the woofies outside and discovered we kitties had NO CRUNCHIES for breakfast so he gave us all cans and cans of stinky goodness (well, maybe he only divided two cans among the three of us but it was still good)! Mommy stayed in bed and slept in so we kitties went upstairs and took a nap with her. Later, Daddy went to pick up the Cabin Boy's crib (its like a bed for babies) and crunchies for us from the store and Mommy laid on the couch with us. And then later that night Uncle Dave and Aunt Susan came over for dinners!!

We love to see them, but well, Aunt Susan brought over something we DID NOT LIKE - a month old calico kitten that she is fostering. We thought it was staying and we was not happy at all but Mommy explained that Aunt Susan had come to our house straight from work and had brought the kitten with her because she goes back and forth to worth with Aunt Susan the way Fagin used to when he was a little guy. We was so glad when that kitten left though because Mommy kept making weird baby noises at her and we was afraid she would want to keep her (Purrageous Mom: She is a very sweet, beautiful calico with one the sweetest faces I have ever seen! We think our friend Chrys may be adopting her but we know that Aunt Susan will find her a good home like she does all of her fosters. Its always nice to hold a month old kitty)!!

Yesterday all we did was sleep. Daddy went to work and Mommy laid around the house and watched swimming and the X Games on TV. We're still keeping a close eye on Mommy but so far her blood pressures have stayed stable and her ankles are not all swollen again so that is good news. Well, that is our weekend update. We hope you all have a great week and that the next weekend gets here soon!!

Wordy Wednesday

2009-07-29T14:55:00.003-04:00

First of all, we wanted to tell all of you kitties THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. Knowing so many of you care and are out there purring and purraying mean so much to us! We're going to get around to thank all of you in person, but it may be a few days because right now Mommy is just not up to helping us blog.

You see, Sunday Mommy woke up feeling pretty awful - she was coughing lots and really warm feeling when you laid on her. She was planning on going to the V-E-T first thing Monday morning by herself until about 4am when Daddy woke up shivering and sick. Yep, Mommy and Daddy are both sick. They were tested for flu and it came back negative but their V-E-T gave them lots of med-a-shun to help them. She also sent Mommy to the heart V-E-T because her hearts was beating really really fast. Mommy had pictures taken of her heart and had to wear these weird things on her chest for a whole day so they could monitor her. She goes back to see that V-E-T next week - Mommy has seen a lot of V-E-Ts lately.

The good news is Mommy's blood pressures are continuing to be good (she took some readings to her Cabin Boy V-E-T and she was satisfied with them) and she is not swelling at all since she is staying in bed lots more than she is on her feet. We hope that the good news continues, and that her blood pressures stay low and that the heart V-E-T finds nothing wrong. We is being good kitties and are taking turns laying on her so she stays in bed. Samwise dog is helping us too!! Its hard work being nursemaids for Mommy and Cabin Boy - especially since we has had no break since Thursday because Mommy has not been able to go day hunting - but we kitties think its worth it to make sure Mommy and Cabin Boy are healthy!!

Hanging in There

2009-07-25T17:53:00.004-04:00

First of all, we want to thank all of you so much for your good thoughts and purrs and purrayers. It really does mean so much to us, to Mommy and to the Cabin Boy. Mommy has been resting lots and so far her blood pressures are still in the pre-hypertensive range where they need to stay and not go any higher. We're all helping out around here. Daddy is doing the laundry (something Mommy always does) and Samwise and Beaux are guarding her and scaring bad things off with their barks. And just look at what we are doing...

Daddy took this with his phone when Mommy laughed and called us her jailers. We is not her jailers, we is just making sure she and the Cabin Boy are not alone. So far we are doing this Mommy has to rest and relax thing pretty well. We are just purring and purraying that she can continue to have only borderline blood pressures so that she can work and not go on total best rest. We ask that you all keep purring and purraying kitties. We know that cat blogosphere purrs and purrayers are very special. We all saved Fagin and we know we can keep Mommy and Cabin Boy healthy too!!!

Purrs and Purrayers Needed

2009-07-24T07:00:00.003-04:00

Kitties, we need your purrs and purrayers. As we've posted about before, we is having a new cabin boy in a few months. Right now the kitty is in Mommy's tummy and has been there for 21 weeks now - halfway to being borned. Well, Mommy went to the doctor yesterday and got some scary news. It seems her blood pressures are high and her ankles are swollen. The cabin boy V-E-T is concerned and has told Mommy that while she is allowed to go to work for now, if she is not at work she needs to be at home, resting with her feet up. She has to destress. She also has to monitor her blood pressures three times a day and do everything she can to keep it down. The V-E-T also told Mommy to let her work know that it probably will not be long before she is placed on total bed rest due to pregnancy induced hypertension and possible pre-eclampsia. All this could mean Mommy will have the cabin boy a lot earlier than she wanted. Mommy is afraid it will be too early - way too early.

Mommy is very scared as this is quite early for these problems to be popping up. She is afraid of losing our cabin boy. She is afraid of him being borned way too early and not making it or having lots of health issues. She is also worried about losing her job is she has to go on bed rest too early and day hunting gigs just are not easy to find. Of course, all of these worries are NOT helping her and are doing the exact opposite of what the doctor needs for her to do. Kitties, we need your purrs and purrayers. We know we has not been posting much and we are sorry, but we really could use some special cat blogosphere support right now. Thank you in advacne for your purrs and purrayers. We can use all of those we can get!!

Finally Friday!!

2009-07-17T12:07:00.002-04:00

Hey everykitty!! We has news on this Finally Friday. As most of you know our Mommy has a little alien in her tummy that we are told is a little kitten waiting to be borned. Captain Jack has even curled up next to Mommy's tummy and felt squirming in there. Its realy weird!! Well, on Wednesday Daddy took Mommy to the V-E-T to find out if its a boy kitty or a girl kitty and we are pleased to announce

WE IS HAVING A BOY KITTEN!!!

Yep, it looks like we will have a new cabin boy on the Black Furrball sometime in November. It's a good thing we promoted FAGIN so that we have room from the new kitty on the ship! Have a great weekend everyone!!

#2 is Here!!!

2009-07-12T22:06:00.004-04:00

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

2009-07-09T14:54:00.005-04:00

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

2009-07-06T14:42:00.003-04:00

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!!

2009-07-04T13:49:00.003-04:00

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

2009-06-22T08:30:00.003-04:00

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

2009-06-18T12:25:00.003-04:00

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

2009-06-15T09:14:00.003-04:00

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??

Checking In!!

2009-06-11T16:58:00.004-04:00

It has been so LONG so we posted and even longer since we posted regularly and we are NOT PLEASED about this either! Almost a month!! We have informed the woman who claims to be our mother than this is UNACCEPTABLE!! She has sworn to do better....

Now granted, the woman who claims to be our mother has been very sick lately - the kitten in her tummy has made her very very sick and she has been unable to eat - either kibble or treats - it was bad. She has even lost a lot of weight (and we thought kittens were supposed to make Mommy's fat) - but woman who claims to be our mother - you have been feeling better lately and still NOT HELPING US BLOG!!!

Why are we being so hard on the woman that claims to be our mother you may ask? After all, women expecting kittens deserve pity and pampering and all that jazz. Why? Because we have proof she is feeling fine - just look!!!

She is too sick to help us blog but she can go to Tybalt's Mommy's wedding and be a honorable maid for the day?? We think not!! Totally unfair!!!!! What if the Lady Boo has forgotten Captain Jack? He will be devestated!! What if the Black Pearl has forsaken Dante - he will cry!! And Fagin - he misses his bestest friend Billy horribly. BAD MOMMY!!! You will be punished as soon as we figure out what horrors we will unleash upon you. Live in FEAR!!

Tabby Tuesday

2009-05-19T08:16:00.002-04:00

Heya kitties - it is ME, FAGIN!!! YAY!!!

Kitties, ME has a question for you - Why does humans not like us to put the bitey on them? You see, this morning FAGIN was a good FAGIN and decided to cuddle and snuggle with Mommy before she had to get up to go day hunting. It was about 5am and she seemed happy to see FAGIN. FAGIN cuddled up to her and purred lots and even made biscuits!! Mommy even petted FAGIN's head. Well, FAGIN wa so excited, that ME could not help it - ME snuggled her arm and then BITE!! ME was gentle, honest!! FAGIN just could not help putting the bitey on Mommy's arm!! Mommy screamed really loud and said "FAGIN!!!!" and then suddenly FAGIN was flying through the air off the bed and onto the floor. Well, FAGIN'S Mommy would never throw FAGIN off the bed on purpose (would she?) so ME climed back into bed and cuddled and snuggled again. Mommy petted FAGIN again so tossing ME must have been a mistake. I got so excited that well - BITE!! And do you kitties know what? FAGIN flew through the air again!! FAGIN no think Mommy likes the bitey - do you kitties?

Mancat Monday

2009-05-10T21:11:00.004-04:00

Hiya kities, it is ME, FAGIN!! YAY!! Well, not YAY actually. FAGIN is here to complain about Mommy. Why is Mommies so lazy when they had a bitty bean in their tummy? Mommy SAID she would help FAGIN to get HIS pictures online - of FAGIN climbing up a screen on our porch this weekend like a REAL MANCAT and everything but what happened? Mommy could not find the camera cable and you know what? SHE BARELY LOOKED!!! She said she is too TIRED!!!! FAGIN not get it!! All Mommy did ALL DAY LONG was lay around and watch TV and nap with Dante and Captain Jack and Samwise. She didn't even PLAY with FAGIN!!! FAGIN is hurt!!! FAGIN is going to run away!! BILLY, can ME come and live with you?? ME feels neglected.

Fagin, you cannot run away...

But why not Dante?

Because it would make Mommy sad. And we do not want her to cry, do we?

No, FAGIN guess not. But will she stop being tired and help ME with my pictures soon do you think?

Yes, I know she will help us to get pictures online soon. We just have to be patient with her for a while.

What do you think kitties? Should FAGIN be patient? Will Mommy be tired forever? Will she ver help us with our pictures again? What if all the kitties forget what FAGIN looks like. You guys still remember what FAGIN looks like, don't you? FAGIN hopes so!!

We're Finally Back

2009-05-03T16:18:00.007-04:00

Heya kities - its us, the Purageous Pirates posting this Monday - finally!! We've not been blogging since FAGIN's Gotcha Day party and we are not very pleased with this. However, we do have a real reason as to why we've been away so long. Mommy has just not felt up to helping us blog. Mommy has been really tired and has even been throwing up a lot lately. And then last Thursday Mommy and Daddy left us, not for their day hunting gigs, but to go and see a doctor and have some very amazing and special pictures made - here's the one Daddy took with his CrackBerry and showed us....

Yep kitties, like many others on the Cat Blogosphere, we are having a baby. Mommy actually found out the exact same day that our friend Tybalt's Mommy found out about their baby but we wanted to wait a while to tell anyone. Mommy says it will be COLD again before we see the baby, but that it will be before Santa Claws comes. Because the doctor said something about Mommy being a really risky human (which we could have told her), we will get to know the exact day that the baby will be here and we are very excited about that. Mommy says the baby V-E-T said she will make sure the baby comes right after Thanksgiving.

In order to help Mommy and the baby, we are making sure that Mommy is sleeping enough and resting all she wants to. Samwise is guarding her and making sure nothing attacks her or bothers her. FAGIN is tasting all of her FOODS before she eats it and making sure it is good for her and the baby. Beaux however, may be sick of all of our baby preparations because all he is doing is staying outside and sleeping in the warm spring air rather than hanging out with us and making sure Mommy takes care of herself. Or maybe he is just enjoying the 70+ degree weather......

Happy Gotcha Day Fagin

2009-04-04T07:49:00.003-04:00

HAPPY GOTCHA DAY FAGIN!!!!

Yep, today it has been one year since FAGIN came to live with Mommy and Daddy and Samwise and Captain Jack and Beaux and Dante. YAY!!! It is hard for FAGIN to remember that he ever lived anywhere else but FAGIN did for a few weeks before he got to come HOME furrever and ever. Anyway, Mommy says we cna have a party to celeybrate FAGIN's Gotcha Day and not just any kinda party - a Kitteh Slumber Partay!!

So come on over, bring your favorite blankets, cups, beds, snuggles, everything and we can have a real live slumber partay. Mommy says we can stay up late watching movies and eating NOMS! We'll have hamms and chick-hens and steaks and shrimps and fishes and cheezburgers too. We also have tons of toys (including FAGIN's Cheese Chase game) but bring your own too and we can have one wild night. What's that Mommy? Oh. Mommy says to say to tell your beans that she and Daddy will be here t0 supervise (and scoop the boxes and cook the NOMS) so we will be chap-e-roned. We hope you can make it. We will PLAYPLAYPLAY all night long!! YAY!!!!!

Thankful Thursday

2009-04-02T08:56:00.006-04:00

Heya kitties, it's ME, FAGIN! YAY!! Mommy said that I should do this week's Thankful Thursday post cause guess what Saturday is!! GUESS GUESS GUESS!!! Here, I has a hint for you:

Do you know? Can you guess?? Well kitties, Saturday is FAGIN'S FIRST EVER GOTCHA DAY!!! YAY!!! Yep, it means that FAGIN has been living with Mommy and Daddy and Samwise and Captain Jack and Beaux and Dante for ONE WHOLE YEAR!! YAY!! Do you remember these pictures??FAGIN'S first meeting with the bestest big brofurr ever, Dante!! YAY!!! Do you kitties remember that Dante never once growled at FAGIN but immediately began to PLAYPLAYPLAY with me?? He's is AWESOME!!Ah, when FAGIN first met the Cheese Chase game. Look at how TINY I was!! FAGIN was playing on the kitchen table here if you can believe it. I remember when FAGIN was little I would sit on one side of the game and Dante would sit on the other and we would BAP the play back and forth to each other!! FAGIN still PLAYPLAYPLAYs with this game sometimes.

So kitties, this week FAGIN is thankful for his furrever home, and to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave for keeping FAGIN alive and healthy so that FAGIN got to come home. Mommy says FAGIN can have a par-tay on Saturday if ME wants. What do you kitties think? Should FAGIN have a Gotcha Day party?

Kinda Wordy Wednesday

2009-04-01T09:25:00.003-04:00

Aunt Susan has a coffee mug with this picture on it. While we've always liked it (cause birds are nummy) we have it on our bloggie today to show you what Mommy's day was like yesterday because this is what she looked like when she came home from day hunting. She was not pleased at all! Even when Daddy got home from his night hunting gig early and brought her a burnt marshmellow and nutella milkshake (they are nummy kitties! They are Mommy and our favorite milkshakes from Daddy's resturant) she STILL was not happy. And then Fagin and Samwise played in front of her and you know what kitties, she still looks like that nummy bird!! So kitties, we have got to figure out a way to make our Mommy smile again. We took turns sleeping with her overnight and Samwise did too but she is still not happy. Do you kitties have any ideas? Being cute and cuddly has only had a little effect and we need something BIG!! What do you kitties think?

Mancat Monday - We're Back!!!

2009-03-30T09:47:00.005-04:00

Hey every kitty!! You guys haven't forgotten us, have you?? Oh how we have missed all of our friends!! Mommy has been a very BAD MOMMY and has not helped us to blog lately. Well kitties, we were real mancats this weekend and sat Mommy down - okay, we actually sat on her and held her down while she was lying down watching TV - and we told her that we were tired of her neglect. Captain Jack has not seen Lady Boo in forever, Dante really misses his Black Pearl, and if Fagin does not get to play with Billy soon we might kill him ourselves!! Mommy promised she would stop neglecting us poor kitties and help us more! That means we are back!!! YAY!!!

So what has been going on kitties? Did you guys miss us? We certainly missed all of you!! Anyone want to come over and PLAYPLAYPLAY!?!?! It's warm here and has finally stopped raining so we could play and take naps in sunbeams! YAY!!!!

Happy Birthday Captain Jack!!

2009-03-17T00:22:00.000-04:00

SURPRISE!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPTAIN JACK!!!!

Hey everyone!! Thanks for stopping by to help us wish Captain Jack a very Happy 5th Birthday!! Come on in, we gots lots of FOODS!!

Samwise's favorite food on earth - TURKEY!!!

And Daddy's favorite steaks right off the grill....

And Mommy's favorite FOODS on earth - SHRIMP!!

HAMM!! NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

In honor of Saint Patrick's Day we have special green nip tinis. They are made with our special pirate nip rum too so they are very good!! Dante just made a new pitcher so please try some!!

And if you are just a wee lad or lassie, we have fresh milk - yum!!

And look! We have lots of pirate birthday cake and pirate cupcakes!!

Mommy says we can PLAYPLAYPLAY and walk on the ceiling and everything!! YAY!!! Happy Birthday Captain Jack, let's PAR-TAY!!!!

Can You Keep a Secret?

2009-03-16T08:59:00.002-04:00

Hey kitties! Pssst! Come here!!!

Mommy just reminded us what tommorow is. Do you kitties know? What? Yes, its St. Patrick's Day for the beans but it's another special day too. Do you know??

It's Captain Jack's 5th birthday tommorow! Yep, the Captain will be 5 whole years old and Mommy says we can have a surprise party for him tommorow.

We hope all of you kitties will come by and help us to celebrate the Captain's birthday. We will have FOODS and FOODS and even some NOMs. Mommy says we can have toys and play games and walk on the ceiling and everything!!

Come by tommorow kitties for Captain Jack's party. It will be right here, all day. SHHHH! Don't tell the Captain!!!

Weekend Update

2009-03-02T00:46:00.001-05:00

Kitties, we must say that we had quite the weekend - well actually, we had quite the Sunday since all of the really cool things happened to us on Sunday. Okay, well actually maybe we should say that all of the COLD things happened to us on Sunday!!

First of all kitties, we got a milkshake early Sunday morning!! YES!!! A Krispy Kreme doughnut milkshake from Daddy's night hunting gig at the resturant. Well, technically Daddy did bring it home for Mommy (he brings her a different milkshake about once a week) but we had to try it. You see, they actually put whole doughnuts into the milkshake (apparently first they zap them with liquid nitrogen to make them crumble) and it was oh so sweet and nummy. If you kitties come and visit, we will make Daddy bring home more of those milkshakes cause just NOMNOMNOM!!! But that was not all that happened to us this weekend kitties!! Just look!!!

It SNOWED!! It actually SNOWED here in Atlanta. It never does this!! We were so excited!! It started snowing sometime around lunch and kept snowing until about 6pm. It was so pretty kitties and just look!!

It was Fagin's First Snowfall. He was so excited!! He ran outside onto our screened porch and jumped up to look at all of the white things falling from the sky. Mommy said that he chittered and tried to whap the snow through the screen before he realized one very important fact: SNOW IS COLD and ran back into the house to stay warm. Mommy and Daddy opened all of the window blinds for us kitties and the woofies to look out and watch. It was lots of fun being all warm while the cold stuff continued to fall. YAY!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-25T00:09:00.000-05:00

Mancat Monday

2009-02-23T09:03:00.004-05:00

Well kitties, we had a very busy and mancatly weekend. You see, on Saturday morning Mommy announced that she had a fever - not the kind of fever you get when you are sick (though she is still coughing and aching and trying to get over the flu) but the kind of fever you get in the spring. We thought that meant she wanted kittens maybe (isn't that the kind of spring fever us kitties get?) but she had a spring fever that made her want to clean and organize the house! Huh??!! Yes, we think that our Mommy is weird!!

Anyway, she spent the weekend cleaning two rooms in the house - the laundry room which we are not allowed into and her closet room (years ago Daddy converted the smallest bedroom in our house into a closet for Mommy) which we often nap in. On Sunday when Daddy was home (he works on Saturday at the resturant) she asked him to move some furniture around in her closet and we mancats could do nothing else but lend a paw or 12. In fact, Daddy exclaimed "I have plenty of help! They are all three in here!!" Yep, he meant us big, bad, furniture moving mancats! WOOHOO!! In order to award our effort, after we helped Daddy to move a dresser under a window, Mommy got one of our blankets so we can sleep on the top of the dresser in the window of the closet now. YAY!!!! Nothing is more fun than new sleep spots that allow you to survey your outside domain while laying in a comfy sunbeam.

We hope all of you have a great week!!!

We Gots an Award

2009-02-18T06:36:00.002-05:00

One of our oldest and bestest friends, Hendrix, gave us this wonderful award!

“This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

All we can say is thanks buddy, we are honored. Now we have to give it to 8 of our friends. We are going to choose:

The beautiful Miss Boo and her family at Manx Mnews

Tybalt because he is also one of our oldest friends

Billy because he is Fagin's bestest buddy ever

The lovely Black Pearl and her brothers too

Peanut Butter and Jenny

Is that enough? We hope so!!

We also wanted to say sorry that we have not been around lately but Mommy has not been feeling well and has not been up to helping us to type. She went to an urgent care place last night and that doctor told her that she probably has the flus even though she had a flus S-H-O-T. Poor Mommy. When she feels better, we will get aroudn to everyone again, we promise!!!

Mancat Monday

2009-02-16T01:09:00.001-05:00

As real mancats, we know that its very manly to participate in sports. Because we are cats, no stupid human trick sport will do, so we invented our own!!

We call it Synchronized Sleeping!!!

Dante and Fagin are quite good at this mancatly sport. Even their stipes match which helps with the synchronicity!! While inventing this new sport, Beaux actually helped them improve their design with this aspect.

We call this Synchronized Dog Glare. This happens when a woofie interrupts your Synchronized Sleeping by coming into the room. Silly, stupid woofie - go away so we can go back to sleep!! Have a good Monday everykitty!!!

Springing Into Tuesday

2009-02-10T09:48:00.006-05:00

We just had to tell you kitties about last night!! Mommy came home from day hunting (we're pretty sure that Daddy was day and night hunting last night because once again he came home late smelling of cheezburgers - nomnomnom) and when she let the woofies out, she did not shoo us back inside but left the back door to our porch open for a long time. Why did she do this? Because kitties, it was 70 DEGREES OUTSIDE!! We sat on our porch and sniffed the air (Dante said it smells like spring) and stalked some birds from behind out screens and basked in afternoon sunbeams and even napped on our rocking chairs. Oh it was awesome kitties. Everyone should come over and hang out with us on our porch today because it's the last day of the pretty weather. Tommorow we return to rain and cool weather but kitties, its worth it to enjoy the spring weather in February!! As Fagin would say - YAY!! Springspringspring! PLAYPLAYPLAY!! YAY!!!

PS: We also want to thank every kitty who helped us celeybrate Fagin's 1st birthday. We hope to get around to everyone and thank them in person soon, but until then we hope you had a great time because we certainly did!! YAY!!!

Fagin's 1st Birthday Party!!

2009-02-06T07:43:00.017-05:00

It's that time everyone!! Welcome to Fagin's First Ever Birthday Party!!!

We've brought the Black Furrball out of her winter berth and are ready to sail. Please watch your step as you go from the boarding ships to the Black Furrball. We would not want anyone to fall in the ocean!!

Welcome aboard the decks. As you can see we have plenty of comfy places for you to sun yourself. Since the Kid could not decide, we are going to sail around both hot and cold climates looking for big fish. That was all he said he wanted to do CATCH BIG FISH so Captain Jack will be sailing around looking for these:

Mommy says we cannot catch them and eat them though, that we can just look at the because they are magestic and beautiful animals but never fear kities - the Black Furrball is well provisioned for the party.

We gots all the seafood you could ever eat.

We gots hamm, hamm and even more hamm.

All of this is available upabove decks at the bar. Of course we got niptinis, our special pirate nip rum, and even milk for the kittens!

If you kitties need a break from the sun or snow, please go below decks where we have another fully equipped bar and tons of treats for everyone!! Tons of TemptationsLots of stinky goodness
And a pirate cat nip cake to celebrate the Kid turning one. YAY!!

And since occasionally you will see humans here to clean the litter boxes or bring us more food, we wanted to make sure to have a cake for them to celeybrate another important birthday that takes place tommorow. Happy Birthday Mommy!!! YAY YAY YAY!! Let's PAR-TAY!!! DANCE! SPIN! PLAYPLAYPLAY!!! WOOHOO!!!

Thursday Thirteen

2009-02-05T08:42:00.006-05:00

Heya kitties, it's me, FAGIN!! YAY!! We're getting ready for my BIRTHDAY PARTY that takes place RIGHT HERE TOMMOROW!! YAY!!! FAGIN cannot believe that he is ONE YEAR OLD almost!! Me has learned lots too as FAGIN grew into big mancat. ME thought I would share those things with you for my last kitten Thursday Thirteen so:

13 Things FAGIN has learned in his first year on earth, EVER:

1. FAGIN really loves FOODS!! NOM NOM NOM!!! FOODS is good!!

2. My BESTEST friend ever is the coolest!! Hey Billy! Let's PLAYPLAYPLAY!! NOW!! YAY!!!

3. Woofies are not kitties but theirs furrs are still fun to ATTACK!!

4. FAGIN really loves tem-ta-shuns!! NOM NOM NOM!!

5. Mommy's hair is really FUN to ATTACK!!

6. FAGIN loves the cat dancer. It's the BEST TOY EVER!!!

7. No matter how old FAGIN gets, FAGIN still loves his baby blanket and sleeps on it lots.

8. WATER is fun to ATTACK!! Especially when its coming out of the sink thingie!!'

9. DANTE is the most awesome big brofurr ever!! DANTE is also fun to ATTACK!!

10. Captain Jack still does not like FAGIN. Do you think he ever will?

11. CATNIP!! NIP NIP NIP NIP NIP!!! OH YAY!!!!

12. Check it out, FAGIN has learned to count to 13!! YAY!!!

13. PLAYPLAYPLAY!! ATTACK! SPIN!! DANCE!! EAT!!! NOM NOM NOM!! YAY!!!

Whew, FAGIN has sure learned lots!! Wonder if next year will be so much FUN!?

PS: Please do not forget to come to FAGIN's party tommorow. We're going sailing and fishing and there will be toys and games and FOODS and everything!! PLEASE COME??!!!!!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

2009-02-04T07:53:00.003-05:00

You Are Invited to Fagin's First Birthday Party!!

When: Friday February 6, 2009

Where: Aboard the Black Furrball

Why: Cause its the Kid's First Birthday

Please come and PLAYPLAYPLAY!!! YAY!!!! All Day!! Right here!! YAY!!!

Mini Mancat Monday

2009-02-02T08:25:00.003-05:00

Hiya kitties, it is ME, FAGIN!! YAY!! Today is my very last MINI MANCAT MONDAY EVER!! Why you ask? That is cause FAGIN is almost ONE WHOLE YEAR OLD!!! YES!! Mommy says that we are gonna celeybrate my FIRST BIRTHDAYS on FRIDAY and that I can has a PARTY and everything!! YAY!!! Captain Jack even said that we can take the BLACK FURRBALL out for the PARTY and that we can sail it whever FAGIN wants!! Where should we go kitties?? We could go somewhere WARM like the Carribean or somewhere COLDER like ALASKA to see the great big fishies!! What do you kitties think??

Also, guess what FAGIN did!!! GUESS!!! FAGIN nominated his big brofurr DANTE to win a very special contest:

Cause FAGIN thinks DANTE is the bestest fur sibling ever!! Please go here to VOTEVOTEVOTE for DANTE!! YAY!!! PLEASE? For FAGIN?? FAGIN would appreciate it very much because FAGIN really wants DANTE to win!! YAY!!! WINWINWIN!!

Have a good week every kitty. Okay, enough posting, time to PLAYPLAYPLAY!! YAY!!

Finally Friday

2009-01-30T08:30:00.003-05:00

We are so glad that it's Finally Friday here at the Black Furrball. It's been a very long week for us - our Daddy has been sick all week so he went to the V-E-T yesterday to get med-a-suns for his coughs and sniffles (he did stay home with us one whole day so that was nice!) and Mommy is all busy and stressed out from day hunting. Daddy will be working this weekend making cheezburgers and stuffs again (Daddy better bring some home too!!!!) but Mommy says she is going to try to take it easy and hang out with us. We're also going to start planning Fagin's 1st Birthday Celebration that we have scheduled for next Friday, Feb 6th!! Can you kitties believe the little demon is almost 1 year old???

In other news, we are pleased to annouce that we has a new cousin kitty!! Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave have adopted a very special kitty - a 10-11 week old gingersnap that they are going to name LaRoux (yeah, they are from New Orleans and it shows!!). Mommy met him and said the minute she picked him up he started purring and making biscuits on her, and then he attacked her hair (just like Fagin does)! She said she will try to get some pictures of him to show everyone but until then we wanted to tell Cousin LaRoux "Welcome Home"!!!!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Mini Mancat Monday

2009-01-26T00:15:00.001-05:00

For this week's Mini Mancat Monday, FAGIN thought FAGIN would show you how FAGIN PLAYS with a really super cool toy. YAY!! PLAYPLAYPLAY!!!

And it was a great toy too!! Mommy attached it to the cold box and I could WHAP PLAY WHAP PLAY all day long!! YAY!!! It was PAWESOME but then something odd happened.....

Are those laser eye beams behind FAGIN?? Uh oh, it looks like FAGIN's big brofurr Dante wants to PLAYPLAYPLAY too. Uh oh kitties, ME thinks this could be BAD. But NAH!! One brofur with laser eyebeams is not so scary - Dante is a great big brofurr - so FAGIN can still PLAYPLAYPLAY!! WHAP PLAY WHAP PLAY!!!

Then suddenly, FAGIN felt something weird - what is it? TWO brofurrs with LASER EYE BEAMS pointed at FAGIN?? Uh oh kitties, is that Captain Jack? *gulp* Maybe FAGIN should take MY TOY and hide!!!!! RUN!!!

Thankful Thursday

2009-01-22T09:45:00.006-05:00

We are thankful that us kitties already know how to stop and smell the roses; how to sleep in a sunbeam; how to truly enjoy life's myriad pleasures. We wish that our humans knew how to do this as instictively as we kitties do but they could use some help. Just read this email Mommy got this morning as proof:

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.

He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

A few minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar tip. A woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tugged him along, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time.

This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. Another 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32.

When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston where the seats average $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: In a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? That's something worth thinking about.

Click here if you would like to watch some footage of Mr. Bell playing his 300 year old Stradivarius violin in the subway station.

We hope that all of our beans remember that sometimes it's life's little pleasures that count the most. Have a Thankful and Wonderful Thursday everyone!!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-01-21T00:11:00.000-05:00

Mini Mancat Monday

2009-01-19T08:45:00.002-05:00

Hey kitties! Fagin here. For today's Mini Mancat Monday, Fagin is going to talk to you about the importance of finding warm places to snooze. Especially when its BRRRRRRR! COLD outside. It's been very COLD here (Mommy says it was only 9 degres on Friday morning when she went dayhunting) and that is weird because usually its warm here in Georgia. Did you kitties know that if it gets COLD enough, that ICE will fall out of the sky? YEP!! ICE!! It did that Saturday!! Brrrrrr!!

Anyway, it's very important to find WARM, SNUGGLY places to sleep when it's cold and just look kitties! ME, the Fagin, has found the bestest, warmest place!!

When the beans turn on the dish cleaner, it makes the counter WARM and SNUGGY and ME loves it!!! SNOOZE SNOOZE SNOOZE!!! AH!!!! Mommy laughed at me because she said only FAGIN would use a coffee maker for a pillow but ME did not care cause FAGIN was warm!! AH!!! Warm sleepy places are the bestest!!! Have a good Monday everyone!!

PS: Mommy says I will not be doing Mini Mancat Mondays much anymore because FAGIN will be ONE YEAR OLD the first week of February!! ME gonna be big mancat!! YAY!! Mommy says ME can has a PARTY too!! To celeybrate!! And that I can has a girlfriend like Captain Jack has Boo or like Dante has Pearl. ME nervous about that. What if girl kitties do not like ME? Oh wow - being a big mancat may be harder than FAGIN thought!!

Tabby Tuesday

2009-01-13T08:01:00.004-05:00

Heya kitties (and woofies and buns and beans). It's Tuesday again and this week Tuesday means it's Tabby Tuesday and that means that I, Dante Barbossa, took over the bloggie to give you an update. As you may remember from last week, I was suffering from the sniffles and coughs due to a nasty cold....
Well kitties, I did get better by sleeping and relaxing a lot and even taking med-a-shun so I thought I was cured. I felt so much better that I ran around with Fagin and attacked things. Well, last night Mommy came home and AH-CHOOOOOOOO! Yep, my cold is back. Mommy sighed and loved on me and told me I needed more med-a-shun. The only problem was Daddy was off night hunting and cooking FOODs and would not be home until almost midnight! So Mommy was brave and she pilled me herself without any help. And I was a very good mancat and let her pill me without fighting at all!!

After that I went to sleep because my cold tablets make me very tired. I dreamed of the lovely Pearl and only got up when Daddy came home about 11pm because he smelled like cheezburgers. Sadly he did not bring us anything home (grrrrr, bad Daddy) but it was nice to get Daddy cuddles any way. I hope that I feel better soon. I am tired of sneezing and snorting and coughing and sniffling and such. Have a good Tuesday every kitty!!

Our New Job

2009-01-12T08:30:00.006-05:00

Hey kitties! How was everyone's weekend? Ours was very busy because, can you believe it, we kitties has a new weekend job and it's all Daddy's fault!!

You see, our Daddy loves to cook FOODs. Yep. Well, he has been out of the resturant biz for a long time (he works in puters right now as his full time job) and was looking to get back into FOODs again at a top rated resturant. To do this, Daddy went to a resturant that just opened here that is run by a "Top Chef" guy (Daddy says that we used to watch this guy on the picture box with him at nights) and told them to hire him. Well, they did and now Daddy is night hunting weekends (as well as day hunting) and abandoning Mommy. He says our new job is to make sure Mommy does not get lonely on Friday nights and Saturdays while he goes to work and cooks FOODs. We are now on Mommy Entertainment Duty on weekends. It's okay though kitties, cause Daddy's new job, look what they make!!Yep, this means that we can has cheezburger as our payment for Mommy Entertainment Duty!! YAY!!! Daddy brought home Mommy a turkey burger from the resturant Friday so she could try the food and she shared with us!! YAY!! We may like our new job after all!!

Thursday Thirteen

2009-01-08T07:55:00.002-05:00

Hi kitties, Dante here *AHHH-CHOOO.* In honor of my cold *sniff, sniff* I am going to do this week's Thursday Thirteen. I am going to call it *sniff*

Dante's 13 Good Things About Having a Cold!!

1. You get checked on a lot so you get a lot of attention.
2. Mommy gives you snuggles and asks if you are feeling better.
3. Daddy pets you lots and even snorkels your tummy.
4. You can sneeze on the dogs and hope to contaminate them with your cold germs.
5. You get extra treats when you sneeze and look pitiful at your beans.
6. You can take lots of extra naps.
7. You can lay claim to the warm sleep spots.
8. You do not have to play with the kitten if you do not want to.
9. You can snorkel at the dogs and hope to contaminate them with your cold germs.
10. Cold med-a-shun means sleepy Dante means lots more naps.
11. Since your are sick, your beans will carry you everywhere so you do not have to walk unless you want to.
12. The lovely Pearl comes and brings you chick-hen soup and nip tea.
13. The lovely Pearl comes and visits you and snuggles with you until you feel better.

Sneezing on Wednesday

2009-01-07T09:46:00.006-05:00

We were going to do a Santa Paws Wordless Wednesday post today but instead we have a sick kitty that Mommy had to attend to. Sadly, Dante's AHH-CHOOOs are back and the poor ginger boy is sneezing and snuffling!!

When Mommy got home from day hunting last night she was giving us some of our special nom nom nom treats (aka Pounce) and Dante sneezed right at her! AAHHH-CHOOOO!!! And then he snuffled and snorted too. The next thing he knew Mommy was calling for Daddy to "come and hold Dante so I can pill him, please." Now Dante is a bit strange in that as long as he is in Daddy's arms, he will pretty much let you do anything, including shoving a nasty cold tablet down his throat! Ick!! Dante is WEIRD!!

After that, Dante spent most of the evening looking happily sleepy and drugged from the AHH-CHOOOO med-a-shun. Mommy thinks he will be better soon but Fagin is sad because Dante is just not up to playing with him. Please send good thoughts that Dante gets better soon, that Fagin does not go insane (more insane) from not having anyone to play with and no way to get the kitten energy out, and that Captain Jack does not maim Fagin when he tries to get the Captain to play by jumping on him and biting him. It's going to be very interesting around the Black Furrball until the First Mate is in tip top shape again, that is for sure!!!

Fagin's New Nickname

2009-01-06T08:15:00.005-05:00

Hello everyone! We were going to post some of our Santa Paws pictures today, but after last night we decided that we must tell you about Fagin's new nickname. You see, its been raining cats and dogs here lately (or Beauxs and Dantes as Mommy told Daddy last night) so Mommy thinks that is what led to Fagin's new nickname. We'll start from the beginning.

Us kitties were hanging out on the screened porch last night when Mommy came out onto the porch to get the woofies their dinner (our dry crunchies are kept in waterproof, sealed containers out on the porch). Anyway, crawling near the food containers was a slug. Mommy groaned and blamed the rain for driving the creatures inside where it's not totally wet (just damp). Anyway, she decided to feed the woofies and then come out with something to move the slug back outside. Well, it could not have been 2 minutes later when she came back out with a dustpan to move said slug and noticed that the slug had vanished but that Fagin was standing right where the slug has been.

Yep, we think Fagin ate the slug! EWWWWW!!! Doesn't he know that slugs are nasty?? The kitten has no sense, none at all! YUCK!! So in honor of this occasion, Fagin's new nickname is SLUGBOY!!

We're Back!

2009-01-05T09:25:00.002-05:00

Hey everykitty!! We wanted to let everyone know that we are finally back to blogging after our extended vacation. Mommy has been home with us for the last 12 days and we decided to lay on her and cuddle with her so we kinda let blogging go by the wayside for the last couple of weeks. Now though, we are back and we have missed all of you very much!! We hope everyone had a great holiday season and that Santa Paws was kind to everyone (YES! He did bring FAGIN presents - YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!). We'll have some pictures showing you just how we spent our holidays tommorow but until then, as Fagin would say - YAY!! We are back!!!!

Happy Christmas!!

2008-12-24T08:52:00.005-05:00

HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all of our friends and loved ones at the Cat Blogosphere. We hope Santa Paws brings all of you good treats, toys and lots of love too. This year we are grateful for the love and friendship of all of you and hope it continues for years to come!

Our Christmas wish this year is a simple one - we hope that all of our poor, cold, sad and lonely homeless furry friends find warm and loving furrever homes. If Santa Paws could only bring us that, our hearts would be full this holiday season.

Fagin Good Kitten

2008-12-23T07:45:00.003-05:00

Kitties, ME think ME is saved!! You know how I told you kitties yesterday that ME lives with Samwise Santa Paws? Well, ME think Samwise Santa Paws may have forgotten all about BAD FAGIN because while FAGIN was nice all last night, Beaux was BAD!! And ME mean BAD!!

First, Beaux pulled on the table cloth and knocked all of our kitty food to the ground AND a mug of Mommy's too. The mug shattered and Mommy and Daddy were not happy. Then, Beaux chased us a lot and gots in BIG TROUBLE for that. And THEN, Beaux ATE MOMMY'S EYEGLASSES!! ME not kidding - he chewed up one whole side to the point Mommy said she is gonna have to buy new ones cause you cannot fix the old ones. Mommy has contacts so she is not blind but she is not happy at all.

So I think ME am safe kitties!! Beaux is the BAD ONE and I made it a point to be cute and cuddly and even gave Mommy and Daddy the Puss-in-Boots look - you kitties know that look - this one!!Mommy said all ME needed was a hat and ME would have been PURRFECT!! hehehehehehe. See Samwise Santa Paws? ME good kitten. Nice, sweet kitten. Me should gets LOTS of TOYS and TREATS!! YAY!!!!!

Do I live with Santa Paws?!?!

2008-12-22T00:03:00.001-05:00

Kitties, it's ME - Fagin. You will not believe what ME found out this weekend - ME thinks ME lives with SANTA PAWS!! REALLY!! LOOK!!

ME was taking a picture of my new toy to show everyone - isn't it a cool toy? You can climb it and it has things you can WHAP on it too! ME likes my new toy even though Dante says it's really something called a Crimmas Tree and that ME am not supposed to climb it and WHAP! it and stuff. Anyway, while ME was taking the picture, ME saw this!!!

What is Daddy doing to Sammy? ME saw this and got really confused so ME decided to watch and see what happened next....

Oh, Daddy is putting clothes on Samwise - but wait, those clothes look familiar. Red and white and jackety like..... (gulp)..... like SANTA PAWS!!!!

Look at Samwise kitties!! He has a Santa Paws outfit. I think he may be THE Santa Paws and if he is kitties, then ME am in trouble cause Samwise knows that ME have not be the best of kittens. What am ME gonna do????!?!!! What if Samwise Santa Paws brings ME dog food for ME stocking and not cat treats?? ME did not know he was Santa Paws!! ME would have been better!! ME would not have attacked his tail!! Why didn't anyone tell ME?????? ME want presents!! WAH!!!!!!! BILLY! KITTIES!!! HELP!!! ME WANT PRESENTS AND ME BEEN BAD TO SANTA PAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

2008-12-17T00:07:00.001-05:00

PS: We gots our innernets back!! WOOHOO!!!

Maiming Mancat Monday

2008-12-15T08:18:00.005-05:00

We think that every mancat should be prepared to ATTACK and MAIM and maybe even KILL the innernet no repair guy when he comes ofur to your house and cannot repair your innernets!! Can you believe it kitties - we are without innernets at our house!! Our innernets went away Saturday and Daddy called to have them come and bring the innernets back. Well, they sent some no repair guy out on Sunday and all he could say was that it was not a "user error" and that they would have to get the real tech support guy out sometime later in the week Daddy said this was the "idiot fixer layer of tech support" and now that they know Daddy is not an idiot, maybe we can get the innernets back. Do you know what that means kitties?? That means that they thought our Daddy was an idiot woofie or something who forget to turn on the computer or something when he called to say that our innernets was gone. How dare they!! Our Daddy is smart - he knows when innernets goes away and when they doesn't. HMPH!!!

We is mad because we had pictures we wanted to show you but we cannot because we has no innernets to upload them and Mommy can only quickly post our unhappy message from work. HMPH!! Mancats unite - let's get the mean innernet no repair guy and the innernets too for going away!! BAD INNERNETS!!!!!!!

Wordy Wednesday

2008-12-10T13:53:00.005-05:00

The other day, Mommy looked at Fagin and was struck but what a difference 10 months can make. Just look:

Then: An itty bitty 10 day old kitty called "Little Kitty" or "LK" as the blogosphere came to name him. He weighed less than a pound and had a very uncertain future. His last sibling has just left for the Bridge and LK was all alone but had some humans and kitties and woofies and buns from all over the world who were purring and pulling for him to just live another day.

Now: A 10 month old kitty named Fagin whohas been named Quarter Master of the Black Furrball. He weighs, as of last weekend, 13 pounds. He is no longer an orphaned kitty, but has 4 bro-furrs (2 kitties and 2 woofies) and a Mommy and Daddy too. Mommy is already planning his One Year Birthday Celebration and is trying to convince herself that yes, he can date in 2 months. How they grow!!!

PS: We wanted to let everyone know hat we are sorry for not getting around to visit our friends. Mommy is very sick with what is basically pneumonia and gets tired and sleepy so easy. Please know that we are thinking of you all and hope to see you all soon!! Lots of love! - Purrageous Pirates

Tattling on Tuesday

2008-12-09T00:46:00.002-05:00

Hello kitties! First, we want to thank all of you for coming by and helping us surprise Beaux on his Gotcha Day last week. We all had a lot of fun and that was mostly because all of you were here to make the day special. Now, for today's post we are going to show you what Beaux did the evening of his Gotcha Day.

Mommy came home and let the woofies out. Well, later she went to let them back inside and though Samwise came inside immediately, she did not see Beaux anywhere. She looked and looked and realized that the dog in the fenced yard next door looked a lot like Beaux.....

Even the collar was the right color. But the woofie next door looks nothing at all like this - he is small and brown not black and fluffy like Beaux......it was a mystery until Mommy saw this!!

Uh oh - it looks like Beaux has been digging again and this time, he dug UNDER THE FENCE!!

Yep, that dog that looked like Beaux's in the neighbor's yard was actually Beaux! Silly dog dug himself into the yard next door and was fenced in there too. The sad thing was that the next door dog, who is a great friend of Beaux's, was not even home. Moppy was out with his parents so Beaux dug next door for nothing!!
Silly woofie had to stay next door until Mommy and Daddy came to get him!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

As you can see, even Samwise thought it was hillarious!! Silly woofie! Doesn't he know that home is always the best??

Happy Gotcha Day Beaux!!!

2008-12-03T00:37:00.001-05:00

SURPRISE!!!! Happy Gotcha Day Beaux!!

First we want to thank all of our guests for coming over to help us celeybrate with Beaux!! We have treats and nummy food for all:

Beaux's favorite steak!!

HAMM for Sammy and friends!!

Shrimps!! NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

Doggie Treats
Kitty Treats!!

And let's not forget
Kitty Toys

And Doggie Toys!!!!

All right guys, it's time to PAR-TAY!! DANCE!! SPIN!! PLAYPLAYPLAY!!! YAY!!!

Can you Keep a Secret?

2008-12-02T08:17:00.004-05:00

Can you guys keep a secret? Beaux is sleeping so we can tell you all about it now but shhhh! We do not want to wake him up, its a surprise!!

Tommorow, December 3rd, is Beaux's official Gotcha Day!! This means that he has been living with us for 4 whole years now and that he is roughly 5 years old now!! Yep, 4 years ago Mommy and Daddy went to the Sad Place (aka The Pound) and rescued Beaux and brought him home to live with us. Samwise and Captain Jack were already here, so that means Beaux was the 3rd fuzzy child to join Mommy and Daddy.

In order to celeybrate, we will be having a surprise Gotcha Day party for Beaux tommorow here on our bloggie. We hope that all of you kitties and your woofie friends will stop by to help us wish Beaux a Happy Gotcha Day. Don't tell him though, we want to surprise him!!! We hope to see you all tommorow!!

We're Back

2008-12-01T00:08:00.000-05:00

Hello kitties, we are back after our extended holiday break! We did not mean to be gone so long but well, Mommy had a different idea. She made plans, even though we had different ideas. Thursday we knew she and Daddy would be going to Nana and Granpa's house and taking Samwise with them cause Thanksgiving is Samwise's favorite day because he gets all the turkey he wants until he literally passes out from it! In fact, he calls it "Turkey Coma Day." No kitties, it was the other days we took issue with.

On Thursday night we heard Mommy talking about her plans so we made some plans of our own. We decided to lay on Mommy and look cute and thought there was no way she would leave. Just look at us!!

This is Captain Jack laying on Mommy's legs to hold her down with his strength and cuteness.

Here is Dante showing off his adorable orange tummy. No way she could leave this!!

And last but not least, Fagin the Twitten (hahahaha) with his sleepy flirty look.

But alas, this did not work and Mommy ABADONED us on Friday and Saturday both for her plans. Tybalt, part of this is your Mommy's fault as she schemed with our Mommy to abadon us all so they could see that silly vampire movie together. And if that was not bad enough, Mommy left us the very next day to meet another friend for lunch and coffee. Sigh. She owes Daddy though because we are not too mad at her because our wonderful Daddy stayed home all weekend with us. He even cooked a huge turkey for us while Mommy was gone and fed us so we would know what Samwise meant about turkey comas. Oh we love Daddy! Mommy, you got some work to do - you too Aunt Rini for abadoning Tybalt and the Twins!! Bad women!!! Anyway kitties, we missed all of our friends (and two lovely lady kitties Miss Boo and Pearl) and are glad to be back!!!

Tattling Tuesday

2008-11-25T11:45:00.002-05:00

First of all, we want to thank you all for your kind words and thoughts regarding our friend Quasimodo. Mommy talked to Aunt Susan yesterday and though she is in a lot of pain, she admits that it was time for the Moo to leave us. He will be very missed by lots of people.

Now, onto our tattling part. Last night, Fagin was christened with a new nickname. Now Fagin is called many things in our house - Faginator, the Menance, Fagin-no (meaning "Fagin, NO!" but one word) just to name a few. However, last night as Fagin was trying to drink Daddy's martini (he is an alcoholic kitties), he was christened with the best of all of his nicknames - The Twitten (think "kitten" and "twit" combined).

He hates it, but we love it!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! The Twitten!! HAHAHAHA! Too right it is!!

Remembering our Friend

2008-11-24T08:23:00.003-05:00

Uncle Dave called last night to tell us some very bad news. You guys may remember Quasimodo, the one eyed Persian cat that owned Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave. Quasi had not been eating for two days and had gotten really thin. He was actively in kidney failure, and though we all knew he would be leaving for the bridge, we did not know it would be so soon. Around 9pm last night, Quasi crashed in Aunt Susan's arms as she was trying to determine how to best treat him. Unfortunately, she could not bring him back and Quasi left us for the Bridge. We are all very very sad here at the Black Furrball and to honour our friend, we dedicate this post to one brave pirate kitty. We'll miss you and we love you.

Wordy, Tattling Wednesday

2008-11-19T09:46:00.010-05:00

We call this Wednesday: "Mommy's new obsession" or "WHY WE ARE BEING IGONRED!!"

She has all of the books, she downloaded the soundtrack this weekend and now she is talking about getting Aunt Susan and Tybalt's Mommy (Happy Birthday Aunt Rini!!) to go see the movie with her soon. It's a book woman and you're way too old for him anyway!! I think you are right kitties, we gonna make her walk the plank soon if she keeps swooning like a ridiculous teenager and ignoring us and not giving us enough attention and nummies. Sigh. Did we mention she also adores True Blood and swoons over Eric and Sam there? Pathetic!!

Tattle Tuesday

2008-11-18T07:46:00.003-05:00

Today, we are going to tattle on our so called Mommy and the horrible experience she put us through. It all started Sunday night when it was time for our crunchy bowls to be filled. We heard Daddy say "Uh oh, we're out." What could that mean? They are out of what? It couldn't be our food could it? Nah, and we did not hear Mommy say "Just give them some woofie food until tommorow." No, not our Mommy we thought. She is too good of a Mommy for that. We were wrong.

Monday comes around and there is more weird (it had better not have been woofie) food in our bowls and the so called Mommy person says 'I know kitties, and I am sorry, but Daddy will get you some food on the way home." Well, day hunting ends and Mommy comes home and guess what - we have no foods at all! No cat food, no woofie food (ick ick bleh), NOTHING!! Sure she gave us some Tem-ta-shuns but still!! So what did we do? We STARED at her and plotted. She sat down to try to read her book (some stupid series about teenage vampires that has a movie coming out soon that she is all excited about for some reason) but we knew what to do. We all three jumped on the couch and STARED as hard as we could. And you know what kitties? It worked. She picked up the phone (we think her hands were even shaking in fear) and called Daddy and said, "You had better get some cat food here and soon. I think they are plotting at my death if they are not fed soon."

Hahahahahaha!! That's right woman!! Bad so called Mommy person!! So Daddy came home and fed us (Daddy good, Mommy bad!!) and then do you know what that woman did? She said, "Dante is still sneezing. I think he needs a cold tablet." And she SHOVED A PILL DOWN DANTE'S THROAT!! That's it woman!! You are hereby notified that you are under observation and we are determining your punishment. Fagin said to tear up all of your Twilight books, including the ones you have not finished, Dante said to wait til you are sleeping and then put furr down your throat so you choke like he did on the pill, Jack said to meow at you all night until sleep is a bittersweet memory. We are still deciding so beware woman!! You are in so much trouble!!

Mancat Monday

2008-11-17T00:15:00.002-05:00

A real mancat knows how to defend his lady when she has been wronged. Excuse me, Mrs Pearl's Mommy, but since you have been so mean to my beautiful pirate maiden, the Black Pearl, I am going to give you this menancing look until you make amends with my lady. How dare you neglect my Pearl so badly? I expect to see not just Pearl Week, but Pearl MONTH!! Do not invoke the wrath of Sir Dante Barbossa of the Black Furrball! You would not like it!! Me'ARGGGG!!!!

I am scary, aren't I kitties? Does my winky eye make me look extra vicious? What do you think?

Fagin the Thief

2008-11-13T11:09:00.005-05:00

Fagin: Hey kitties, this is Fagin. YAY!! I gotta tell you about what happened last night. My mommy said something very mean to me kitties. She called me "Fagin the Thief" and said that will be one of my new nicknames. But its not my fault kitties, really its not! It's all the chicken's fault!!

You see, last night Daddy made nummy chicken and cheese quesadillas for him and Mommy. Well, Mommy ate all of hers but ONE LONELY piece which she left on her plate that she set down on the counter. She then went outside to do something with the woofies and I was just sitting there - honest I was - when the quesadilla said to me: "Fagin! Fagin! Do not leave me here all alone, all by myself. Fagin! I need to be eaten!" And then it began to cry, it really did, so I jumped up on the counter and NOM NOM NOMed the piece of quesadilla, just as it asked me too. And Mommy did not even know - she thought Daddy ate it because I left no incriminating evidence. Later when he ratted me out (BAD DADDY!) she called me "Fagin the Thief!!" Well, what do you expect woman!! Look what character you named me for - the head thief!!

Purrageous Mom: Fagin, that is a good story and all but what about Daddy's missing shrimps from the night before?

Fagin: I do not know Mommy - maybe they swam away? Look! What's that?!?! (giggles are heard as Fagin runs off)

Happy Veterans Day

2008-11-11T08:18:00.006-05:00

In the United States, it is Veterans Day today - a day to honor all of those brave men and women who have served in the US Military. And just look at what Mommy found for us to put on the bloggie today:

It is a picture of our Daddy when he was in the Marine Corp a long time ago. He was just 19 and right out of boot camp. Daddy comes from a military family and that means that his father served in the Air Force, his brother and himself were both Marines, and both of his sisters served at least some time in the Army. Mommy says that her family was not so military because only Grandpa served in the Navy.

We want to say thank you to all of the veterans who have guarded us and protected us. We hope that you enjoy your day.

Mini Mancat Monday

2008-11-10T00:09:00.002-05:00

Heya kitties, it's ME! Fagin!! YAY!! I got the bloggie today because I have a question for all of you big cats out there.You see, yesterday as we were relaxing in bed on Sunday morning I saw that Mommy's new book had this REALLY FUN BOOKMARK hanging out of it. I reached over to grab it and realized it was SO FUN to ATTACK!!! It has this tassel that was fun to whap and PLAYPLAYPLAY with! YAY!!! PLAYPLAYPLAY!

But then, I heard this: "You had better be good Fagin and not lose Mommy's place. Santa Paws is coming soon and he only brings treats and toys to good kitties and buns and woofies."

Kitties, who is this Santa Paws? Mommy says he brings treats and toys but when and how? And why only to good kitties and buns and woofies? How does he know when we is bad and when we is good? Did he see all of those times when I attacked Dante or what about when I stole that cheeseburger and NOMed NOMed NOMed it? Me wants treats and toys - Fagin likes FOODS and TOYS - but what if he does not like me and does not come? What if he brings Captain Jack and Dante things, but does not bring me anything?? What if he is mean?!?! I think Fagin is scared now kitties - this Santa Paws person sounds really scary!!!!! Is he??!?! Should I try to find a way to keep him from coming? What should Fagin do?!?!?!?!

Dona Nobis Pacem

2008-11-06T06:26:00.000-05:00

Election Day

2008-11-04T11:46:00.005-05:00

If your human lives in the United States, please remind them to go out and vote today. If they do, they may even get a cool sticker to prove to the other humans that they voted. Mommy and Daddy went this morning and waited 3 whole hours to vote but they did it and they got stickers like this! YAY!!!

It has a peach on it because we live in Georgia and apparently Georgia is known as the "Peach State". We've never eaten peaches but Mommy says they are good. We have to tell you what Fagin did last night kitties- he had a whole half of a cheeseburger all on his own and without permission. He stole it off of the counter and NOM-NOM-NOMed it before anyone could take it away from him! Silly kitty!!

Mancat Monday

2008-11-03T09:46:00.002-05:00

All good mancats enjoy spooky things and this year, we really liked all of the pumpkins that our beans and our humans friends carved. Our Daddy carved the haunted house one in the middle and our friends (Uncle Dave, Aunt Susan, Uncle Mikey, and Uncle Mark) carved the others. Mommy did not carve one this year because she decided she would rather cuddle with us that day. But Mommy did do other Halloweeny and spooky things this year. Just look!!

Once again this year Mommy was the good witch in the graveyard at Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's house. Basically she stands at the end of the driveway and hands out candy to the kids who are too afraid to walk to the Wicked Witch (our friend Lynne) at the top of the driveway. Aunt Susan said every witch has to have a cat so Mommy carried this little stuffed guy around and pronounced that it looked just like Fagin! Wasn't she an excellent good witch? We wonder if she got to ride around on a broom like Tybalt's sisfur Holly does.....

Happy Halloween!!

2008-10-31T10:34:00.005-04:00

Boo!!! Happy Halloween kitties!! We are looking forward to a fun and spooky night here at the Black Furrball!! Mommy is going to be a witch and we are not sure what Daddy is dressing up as but we are sure its going to be scary!!

We were going to show you some pictures of the jack-o-latterns our humans carved but Daddy left Mommy's camera at work so you'll have to enjoy these pictures we found to set the mood!!

We got this picture to honor our friend Pat who tonight, as he does every Halloween night, will recite The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe purely from memory for our beans and friends at Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's infamous Halloween party. Mommy may see if she can record it this year so everyone can see it. Pat does a wonderful job!!

Captain Jack will be spending Halloween with Lady Boo, Dante wants to spend the evening with Pearl and Beaux will be helping George to guard her home. Fagin says if any kitty wants to come over and PLAYPLAYPLAY for Halloween, we got plenty of treats and even some treats to share!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!

We're Back!!

2008-10-30T07:52:00.005-04:00

Hey kitties, we are finally back! YAY!! Mommy's really stressful time is mostly over (she will have spurts of busy time but nothing like before) and she promises to help us blog more. She had intended to help us put some pictures online so you could all see that we are still healthy and hale, but unfortunately she is still feeling bad. We keep telling her that being stressed is no way to recover from feeling icky but she just did not listen. What Mommy? You have tommorow off from day hunting so that you can relax and enjoy Halloween? Very good! That means we can lay on you and make sure that you get some rest. Dante will even keep the woofies from bothering you!!

While we were gone, just look at what happened: We were Boo-ed by Captain Jack's Miss Boo!!!

Does your neighborhood have someone who starts a BOO, or a fun Ghosting each year? This is very similar, unfortunately without candy. It's fun to sneak up on people and give them a little treat! Here is how the Blogging Boo goes: Go to as many friends as you want and tell them they've been BOO-ED. Have them link back to your blog to pick up their Halloween Treat and tell them to Boo their friends. Then put the pic in your side bar so everyone knows that you've already been BOO-ED. Please check and don't BOO someone who has already been hit, so this gets spread quickly and more people can join in the fun!

Be watching your comments kitties - we are going to let Fagin Boo some people now (cause he is now bouncing up and down with excitement)!! Happy Halloween!!

Mancat Monday

2008-10-27T08:35:00.003-04:00

All good mancats must take care of their Mommies when she is sick!! Yes kitties, we had hoped to get a real post with actual pictures up for today so you all could see how we are wasting away from Mommy's neglect - umm, we mean long working hours - but that neglect - we really do mean long working hours - has ended up with Mommy spending the entire weekend in bed with a fever and a sore throat saying she felt like she had something called the floo. So while we do not have a proper post with pictures for you today, we are happy to report that we got to lay in bed with Mommy all weekend and to make things even better she and Daddy put the magic blanket on the bed!! Do you kitties have a magic blanket? Its plugged into the wall and when a bean turns it on it gets all warm and snuggy! We love our magic blanket!!

Mommy's neglect - ummm, we mean long working hours - should end for a while on Wednesday at the latest. Please do not forget us by then! Have a great week everyone!!

Wordy Wednesday

2008-10-22T11:01:00.002-04:00

Hey kitties, did you see the cartoon we found? We got it to show Mommy because this is how she feels right now. You see, its her absolute busiest time of year and she is getting ready to do two major presentations to a really big, important boss!! Mommy has done these type of presentations before but it's always nerve racking working up to them and actually giving them (though each one only lasts 30 minutes each) is almost panic attack inducing. Especially when you have to get up at 5am to give one of them. Anyway, because of this, Mommy is not able to help us blog as much. The good news is it will all be over with by next Wednesday but the bad news is we gotta go a whole week before the stress is over. Please know that we are thinking of you all and even visiting a lot of you, just maybe not commenting as much as we would like. We promise that we will see you soon!! Until then, we want to send our love to our friends (and special purrs to Captain Jack's Miss Boo and Dante's Pearl and Fagin's bestest buddy Billy) and ask that you not forget us!! And if you can, maybe send Mommy some "You're smart" vibes to help with her presentations! Thanks!!

Mini Mancat Monday

2008-10-20T09:01:00.003-04:00

Hello, it is ME, Fagin, and ME have a question for you kitties - What is this "WINTER" thing and why does it get so cold? You see kitties, ME LOVELOVELOVE the screened porch. I could spent all day out there. My favorite chair and sleeping blanket is out on the porch too! Here's a picture of ME when I was just a kitten, in my favorite porch spot.

Well kitties, this weekend when Daddy woked up he opened the door to the porch for ME and BRRRRR! It was COLD!! I mean really COLD!! I ran back into the house and asked Dante why it was so cold. Did something bad happen? Did someone leave the freezer door open cause its cold in there like it was outside? Dante said its something called "Fall" and that it will get colder and colder and then something called WINTER will happen. And that WINTER is really cold. I am not sure I like this kitties. Dante said it will get TOO COLD to go out on the porch!! Is this true kitties??? ME not like the COLD!!!!

PS: Captain Jack got yelled at this weekend a lot!! Mommy kept telling him how badly he scared her and Daddy and even the whole cat blogosphere and then she would pick him up and snorgle him. We're going to let him tell you all about his adventures tommorow! Until then, look at this picture!!

You see, even the Captain likes MY BLANKET and the screened porch. I won't have to give up my blanket and porch forever will I? It will get warm again, right?????

THEY FOUND HIM!!!

2008-10-17T11:52:00.001-04:00

Not sure what happened but he is back home and unharmed!!! THANK GOD!!!!

CAPTAIN JACK IS GONE!!!

2008-10-17T10:56:00.002-04:00

Guys, I need you help. My cleaning lady just called and she cannot find Captain Jack anywhere!!!! He always comes out and follows her all over the house and she cannot find him. Their Dad is on his way home to look for him. Please purr and pray that Jack is okay and just hiding somewhere. Jack is an indoor only kitty and I am scared to death and stuck at work. Its raining and oh god, I hope he is okay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Freaked Out Friday

2008-10-17T07:51:00.002-04:00

Hey kitties, Dante here!! I wanted to tell you about the commotion at our house last night. I think I caused it, but I really didn't mean to. You see, Mommy had already gone to bed and Daddy was getting ready to go to bed too. Well, every night before bed I jump up on the counter and demand Daddy's attention while he takes some medication the human V-E-T says he has to take everyday. Well, last night I was on the floor and although I heard Daddy's pill hit the floor, I was more interested in the treat I found next to the pill on the floor. No sooner had I nom-nom-nomed the treat, when I heard Daddy freak out and grab up the phone and call Aunt Susan. I wondered why he was calling Aunt Susan at 11pm but hey, as Fagin would say, beans is weird! Anyway, I was waiting for Daddy to carry me to bed with him like he does every night when I heard Daddy say, "I think he ate the pill Susan! What do I do? Will Atenolol hurt him?" That treat was a pill? It did not smell or taste like the pills Daddy takes. Anyway, Daddy got off the phone with Aunt Susan, called someone called "Poison Control," and then called Aunt Susan back. While he was on the phone with her, I found the pill he dropped and whapped it over to him, so he could take it and we could go to bed. He seemed happy about that. He told Aunt Susan he had found the pill, took it, and then hugged and loved all over me. Hey, if pretending I ate a pill and then finding for Daddy makes him that happy, maybe I should do it more often!!

So the morals of the story are: Aunt Susan was right and no way a cat ate a pill on his own, Daddy needs to be more careful taking pills, the ASPCA animal poison control number costs $60 per call and Mommy thinks that is too high and that many kitty's and woofie's beans cannot afford that with the economy the way it is so they will not call and get help, and finally if poison control ever tells you to make your cat vomit by giving it hydrogen peroxide - do not do it! Aunt Susan says it rarely works for inducing vomitting for cats (works wonders for woofies though) and will do nothing but make the cat foam at the mouth!!

Dante scared Daddy badly last night but we are happy to announce that everyone is fine and no longer freaking out!! So in honour of Dante:

Happy Friday Everyone!!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

2008-10-16T00:36:00.004-04:00

4 years ago today, our Mommy and Daddy were married. That was before Dante or Fagin were even born, and Beaux was just a pup and had not come to our house yet. Samwise and Captain Jack were already living with Mommy and Daddy, although the Captain was only 7 months old. We still do not understand why Daddy wore a skirt in the wedding (skirts are for GIRLS Dad!!) but they did look happy in this picture!! Congratulations Mommy and Daddy - we all get a special dinner tonight, right?

Oh Tybalt! Look!! We found this when we were looking thru Mommy and Daddy's wedding pictures!! Its our Mommy and your Mommy!! Tybalt's Mommy was our Mommy's Maid of Honour - does that mean Tybalt's Mommy had to clean something that day? Maybe the wedding place after the party??Mommy says that she hates this picture of herself cause her face looks funny but thinks its a really good picture of your Mommy!!

Happy Anniversary Mommy and Daddy!!!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

2008-10-15T00:41:00.001-04:00

Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave brought us back this print from the Hemmingway Home & Museum which they visited during their dive trip in the Florida Keys last month. It is called "Charlie and Princess" and was painted by Samuel Mendez. It features two of the most popular cats at the museum, Charlie Chaplin and Princess Six Toes, posing in front of the Home. Mommy says she remembers Charlie well and even petted him when she and Daddy visited there a few years ago. Isn't it a great picture? Thank you Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave. We loves it!!!

Ticked Off Tuesday

2008-10-14T08:37:00.002-04:00

You will not believe this new development at our house kitties - the humans, they got ANOTHER WOOFIE!! This means THREE WOOFIES in our house now kitties!!

No kitties, we did not, I promise. That was Grandpa's and Nana's woofie. Remember Grandpa came over to help Daddy fix his truck? Well, he brought Max too so Max would not have to be at home alone.

But Mommy, you allowed ANOTHER WOOFIE into OUR HOUSE!! And he slept on Captain Jack's LSU fuzzy blanket too!!

He has gone home now - Grandpa took him home yesterday. And I will wash the blanket, I promise. I took some pictures of him though, can I post those for everyone to see? He's really cute!!

NO! No pictures of WOOFIEs until you post one of us! Where are our pictures??!!

Daddy is still trying to get them off of my laptop...

You took pictures of a WOOFIE yesterday but not us!! HOW RUDE! Woman, we want tuna for this indiscretion before we will even consider forgiving you. Woofie pictures, no pictures of us, no tuna!! BAD MOMMY!!!! We are going to go on strike!! No more purrs and cuddles for you until we get tuna and temptations and fish and chicken and hamm and whatever else we want. BAD MOMMY!!!!!!

No Picture Monday

2008-10-13T08:59:00.004-04:00

Hi kitties! We're back - well, kinda. Mommy promises that she will help us blog more this week (she thanks everyone for their concern about her - last week was a bad week for her and we are all hoping that this week is beter) but that some of the posts we wanted to do will have to wait. You see, Saturday Mommy tried to boot up her laptop and it wouldn't boot! Daddy says he can fix it but he is afraid that it will take wiping the hard drive and starting over. The sad thing about this is that the pictures for the posts we wanted to do are on that laptop. We hope Daddy can get our pictures off before he wipes the hard drive!! Until then we are going to have to use Daddy's laptop (yes, we have more computers than any sane household should have. Daddy sells them and networks them together for a living so we somehow wind up with one per room in the house. This laptop was brought home specificaly so Daddy can play World of Warcraft all over the house without being tied to his desktop - Daddy is an ubergeek. That is what Mommy calls him).

The good news is that both Mommy and Daddy are home with us today!! Mommy has the day off of day hunting because it's some human holiday (Columbus Day) and Daddy is home because Grandpa is coming over to help him fix his metal machine (truck). We wish they were home with us everyday!! We always get more treats and more cuddle time when they are home, and we know we'll get extra pets from Grandpa too!!

Mommy should be glad that she is home with us - she has a lot of work to do to make it up to us for not helping us blog last week. Bad mommy! We require more Temp-ta-shuns before we will even consider forgiving you!!!

Kinda Wordy Wednesday

2008-10-08T00:38:00.000-04:00

Look at this kitties! ME have heard that for some beans, the stuff Daddy has in that glass is like nip for us kitties. ME have had the stuff humans like called wine and champagne (well, one sip of each followed by someone screaming "Fagin, NO!") but ME have never had beer so ME thought ME would try it.

First, ME had to be sneaky. If ME get caught someone will scream "Fagin, NO!" at ME again. Here ME am making sure Daddy is paying more attention to the Saints game than to ME. Yep, he is, so here ME go!!

ME got ONE NOM in before Mommy screamed "Fagin, NO!" and Daddy said "Fagin, you alcoholic, NO!" hehehehehe. Mommy says ME have to be 21 to drink big bean alcohol. ME is 7 months old now - how long until ME am 21?? Is it soon, cause ME likes big beans drinks!!

In other news, Mommy is feeling just like this picture:

She has heard nothing about the job she wanted and she says her hope has faded and left. She said she will help us to visit our friends soon, but right now its hard to help us out when she is so sad. We'll be back to visiting soon, when Mommy is feeling a little brighter.

It Was a Miracle!!

2008-10-06T10:52:00.004-04:00

Kitties, it was absolutely amazing - a true miracle. We thought that our beloved DrinkWell water fountain had gone to the Bridge. We comforted ourselves with visions of it providing water for all of our loved ones who went before us. We had almost accepted the loss when the miracle happened. IT STARTED WORKING AGAIN!! Daddy did something to the motor and IT WORKS NOW!!! YAY!!!!

An update on Mommy - we think that she may need a miracle herself. She has not heard about the job she wanted (they said first of this week she would know) and as every moment ticks by she is getting more and more depressed. She does not think it will happen for her (maybe she is cursed she says) but after looking for a new job for a year, she is really down. She knows she should be thankful that she has a job (Uncle Mark and Gradpa do not) but she feels so unhappy and so very trapped. One more miracle is all we ask. If the DrinkWell can return from the brink maybe.........