A Prezzie for Mom :)

I brought Mom a belated Valentine prezzie this morning…a lizard!

As she stumbled out to the kitchen to make her morning cup of coffee, she noticed Luke and me playing with something on the dining room carpet. She leaned in a little closer and saw that we were pawing at something on the floor. Good thing she turned the lights on before she walked in, or she might have stepped right on him! The little guy was already dead, so Mom picked him up with a paper towel and took him outside to the trash can.

She was kind of surprised because she didn’t even know we had lizards around our house. She thinks that maybe the wet weather brought him inside the garage last night where we must have caught him. I love giving my Mama prezzies!

Proud purrs, Sammy

What Annoys Me?

Since I’m the only cat in my family that has not been tagged yet, I thought I’d join in and play. I had a really hard time coming up with 5 things that annoy me about humans, because I’m a very easy-going little orangie guy (says my Mom) and it doesn’t seem that much bothers me. I usually “go-with-the-flow” as the humans like to say.

I did manage to come up with a few things that annoy me about humans:

1. Riding in the car or in the motor home. I usually throw a fit when I have to ride in a moving vehicle. Fortunately I have a sixth sense about these things, and I usually run and hide when I suspect that I might be going for a ride.

2. Overzealous hugs and kisses from my Mom. These are not gentle kisses, mind you. She gets really carried away at times and practically attacks me with her lovey dovey hugs and kisses. Chill, Mom!

3. Getting my pantaloons cleaned. Every now and then I get something stuck in my fluffy pants, and here comes Mom to clean it off. I can clean myself, thank you very much.

4. Being told that I cannot shred or eat paper. Mom is constantly removing paper from the house or putting it in places where I cannot get to it. I LOVE to shred paper and scatter it all over the house. Sometimes I even take a couple of bites and swallow because certain types of paper are very tasty. Paper napkins are a favorite of mine.

5. Halloween costumes. Luke and Tully told me to put this on my list because it really annoys them, and I don’t care for it either. Mom tried to put Tully’s pumpkin costume on me last Halloween, but I would have no part of it. I ran away and shook that dumb pumpkin thing off my head.

Hey, that was fun! If you haven’t been tagged yet, give it a try. I guess some things do annoy me after all.

Love, Sammy

How To Outsmart Your Brofurs

This chilly winter weather is making all of us kitties want to snuggle up as close as we can to Mom at night when she goes to bed. The trouble is those "Bed Hogs" (aka Luke and Tully) always wriggle in so close to Mom and stretch their big fluffy bodies out across the entire bed so there’s hardly any room left for little ol’ me – sheesh! I’m usually left with a little sliver of space at the foot of the bed which is not acceptable.

Drastic times call for drastic measures, so for the past couple of nights I’ve been going into the bedroom and getting on the bed BEFORE Mommy gets into it. That way, as soon as she settles down and gets comfortable in the bed, I claim my spot right next to her. When Luke and Tully come in a little while later, they get the leftover space –MOL! Tully was a little miffed at me last night because he likes to sleep where I was sleeping and had to resort to sleeping on top of Daddy – teeheehee.

Pretty good strategy, huh?

Love, Sammy

The Furry Mouse Update

I was really hoping to tell everyfur that the furry mouse toy I ate yesterday was spotted in my poopie today, but no such luck. With four kitties and four litter boxes Mom thinks it may be a bit of a challenge to find my exact poopie. When she scooped the boxes today there was plenty of poop, enough that she thinks I might have gone, but no telltale signs of a furry mouse. Thanks for all the purrs. I’m eating and acting like my normal self so Mom is hopeful that the toy mouse caused no serious problems to my insides.

Thanks to all our pals who stopped by today to wish me and Natasha a happy first Gotcha Day. We really enjoyed reading all the sweet and funny comments and messages and feel so fortunate to have so many pawsome furiends here on Catster. Mom can’t believe it’s already been one year since she adopted me and Natasha. It seems like only yesterday we were 3 month old kittens causing mayhem in our new home. Mom originally wanted to adopt an older cat, but when she saw my kitten photo on Petfinder, she couldn’t resist my orangie charms. When she came to our foster home to meet me, I made it clear to her that I had to be adopted with Natasha.

We were inseparable at the time and Mom would have felt terrible splitting us up. It turned out to be a good thing that we were adopted as a pair because I think I would have driven Luke and Tully crazy if I hadn’t had another kitten to run around and chase. I had so much energy and really turned our household upside down for a few months when I was chewing electrical wires, shredding paper, and causing quite a bit of destruction in the house. I guess I ate the toy mousie yesterday to remind Mom that she still needs to watch me closely.

To the dear kitty furiends and their Mommy who sent us the toy mousie that I ate, my Mom feels really bad that you would feel responsible in any way for what happened. It was an accident and we would never blame anyone for this. If anything, our Mom feels responsible that she didn’t take the toy away when I started licking it a lot. It was such a great toy and Mom enjoyed seeing us have so much fun with it.

Since it’s Catmas season, and many of us will be getting new kitty toys, this is a good lesson for all of us. Please be careful furiends and stay safe!

Love, Sammy

I Ate a Toy Mousie

Don’t be too alarmed, furiends, but I ate a furry mousie toy today.

We received some really cool Catmas presents recently including the best furry mousie toy I have ever met. Luke and I both played with the little mousie yesterday and I licked it until it was soaked with Sammy saliva. Mom saw it this morning on the floor and noticed that it was soaking wet. She removed the eyes because she was worried I might swallow them. Next thing she knew, I ate the whole mouse! Well, maybe not the whole mousie, just the fur. I left the plastic innards on the floor. Mom has bought us toy mousies before but this one was especially tasty.

Luke ate a toy mousie once and he was fine. Mom is a little worried about me but so far I am eating and acting purrfectly normal. Mom will feel better when she sees me poop, then she will know that the mousie is not stuck inside me. I think I am going to be okay, but will say a little purr for me just in case?

Thank you for your purrs, Sammy

The Sun Is Back!

Well, my “poor pitiful me” look may not have worked on my Mom, but it seems to have worked on the Diary Gal – thanks for featuring me as a diary pick today – woot woot! Concats to my orangie pal Pumpkin who is also a diary pick today – double woot woot!

Thanks to all the furiends who stopped by my page and left me nice comments, gifts, and pawmails – I love my pals! Headbonks and purrs to another handsome orangie pal of mine Milo and his family who are always there with special occasion mementos – their Mommy is so nice to take the time to make these special mementos for us.

I also wanted to meow my thanks to all my great Kewlest Catster Kitty (KCK) furiends – you know who you are! They are just the nicest bunch of kitties you could ever meet and they are always there to help us celebrate special occasions and have fun – thanks guys! I think they are the official “pawty animals” of Catster – MOL!

I’m furry happy to say that the sun is back today. We had a lot more rain yesterday and last night, but it stopped this morning and the sun even came out for awhile this afternoon – purrfect for an afternoon nap in a sun puddle.

We are looking forward to a visit from Santy Paws next week – hope all my furiends are having fun getting ready for the holidays! Thanks again for all the DDP wishes!

Love, Sammy

Rainy Monday

I did my very best to give Mommy my sad face when she left for work this morning. Tully taught me how to do this. He has this way of lying on top of the cat perch and hanging his head over the side while he stares down at the floor. It’s a pitiful look, and very effective at getting Mom to come over and give him scritches and belly rubs.

Mom doesn’t think he really is sad, but he sure looks like he is. So I did the same thing this morning while lying on top of the cat perch which looks out the front window. My head was hanging over the side staring at the floor. Mommy asked me if I was sad.

Yes, Mom, I am sad. I’m sad because it rained all night and all morning. And it rained most of yesterday, too. When it rains, it means there’s slim to no chance of us going outside for a little romp in the backyard (big sigh). Not that we would anyway during a weekday morning, but a kitty can always hope. Then there’s the fact that it’s Monday. Monday is the start of another work week (big sigh). That means we see less of Mom and Dad, which means less playtime and cuddles for us (big sigh).

Rainy days and Mondays always get me a little down (sounds like a song title, hee hee).

Mopey purrs, Sammy

Thanks HQ!

Since my last diary entry was not very complimentary towards HQ about all the comment activity on the Purr Board and how much it was slowing us down in locating new diary entries and photos from our furriends, I now feel obliged to thank Ted and HQ for taking it out.

Yes, it was an improvement from the first time it was introduced, and yes the comments were at least linking up to the correct pages, but I guess enough cats complained/gave feedback that they still didn’t like it, so HQ turned it off. You’ve got to admit that HQ listened to us, and they responded.

You know, it’s really easy to complain about things, and not enough pawple say thank you or show their appreciation when they really should. So Ted and HQ, I’d like to meow my thanks to you!

Love, Sammy

Oops, They Did It Again!

Remember when Catster introduced a new feature a couple of weeks ago where you could see every single comment of every single furriend on every single diary entry and every single photo? Oh yeah, and when you commented on a diary, that diary entry would end up on your page making it look like you wrote it, causing mass confusion?

Yes, it’s happening again my furriends. I thought enough kitties meowed their discontent to HQ about this feature so that we would never see it again. It's baaaaaack...

I hope we can still find our furriends' recent diary entries...

Concerned, Sammy

Cat Politics

Lately there’s been a bit of disharmony in our house. My big brofur, Luke, has been a big grumpy monster this week and has been hissing at me. Mom’s not sure if her being gone last week may have upset him. He may be a big boy, but he’s kind of a baby. He likes constant attention and reassurance from Mom and Dad. Don’t tell him I told you, he’d hiss at me for telling you this – MOL!

Luke and I are both alpha kitties by nature, but Luke has always tried to assert the upper paw in our house. I’m an easy going mellow kind of guy, so I usually back down and let him maintain his Top Cat status. Besides he’s bigger and older than me and could kick my floofy orangie bottom if it really came down to it. But some day I may outweigh him. Mom’s kind of worried about that. It’s very distressing to her, she just wants all of us to get along. She gets upset when she sees or hears Luke picking on me. He’s not violent or anything like that, he just hisses or makes threatening sounds towards me if I get a little too close to him.

Daddy calls it Cat Politics. He says we will work out the balance of power amongst ourselves and Mom shouldn’t worry about it. Mom’s not so sure about that – has any fur got any advice for us?

Love, Sammy