a new game & a sick big brother

My big brother Tigger is not feeling well. I don't like it, cause he doesn't really want to wrassel & play fight with me. I hope he feels better really quick. He has been getting extra wet food too. What's up with that? I only get a certain amount! I must have been really cute Friday night, cause Mom let me lick the spoon when she gave Tigger his extra food. Oh and WOW I played kitty fish with The Dad! He tied a mousie to an old fish pole (he actuially found one that I have not bitten the tail off yet) and tossed it down the hall, and down by the landing. Oh I had so much FUN!!! I chased, I jumped< I stalked! We played for a really long time! and I was even a good boy, and waited for Maizy to play with it too. Usually I take over when she tries to play, but I was a real good boy. Mom says she needs to update my pictures cause I am almost all grown up already. I got some good exercise playing. Either Mom or The Day play a good running time every night to help me get a little slinkier like Tigger. Lately it has been with The DOT. but I really like Da Bird and kitty fish now too! I hope Tigger feels better soon. I want to tag team!

whew

Been a long week. Momma was crying this week, and she said it was because our friend Hazel was gone. I did not get a chance to talk to her cause I am pretty new, but she sure was pretty, and tabby & white like me! Mom says she was a very nice kitty & her Momma too. I feel sad for her Momma.
I am doing great - Mom says I look a bit sleeker, and I have not been begging so much. She is really strict with my diet. She brought home a lazer mousie and I was chasing it all over! I am pretty fast! Couldn't catch it though. I also got a nail trim, and I was not a good boy for it, but I will try harder not to be so wriggly. Hope that everyone has a nice weekend....we need some peace Mom says.
SmitterKitters

we are Irish too!

After Newman said for fun to add a bit o the Irish to our names, Mom jumped at the chance. Of course my first name is an Irish one already, but it is fun! Hopefully by next year mine will be more like Smithwick O'Skinnyminny. But I am doing good, down almost a pound! Top o the kibble to ya all!!

ok lady where is the food?

Mom has me on "an eating plan" she calls it. Cute kitty starvation is what I call it! I get a smaller measured portion of Natural Balance low calorie & my Blue Buffalo mixed together, and more wet at night than I was getting. Whatever dry we don't finish in the morning, she TAKES AWAY!!! Tigger doesn't see any problems with that, and Maizy has food all the time since she is such a princess (aaaand Mom moved her bowl AGAIN since I found it AGAIN)but....I want my snackies!! She saves a few of the dry kibbles, and gives them to me in the afternoon, like they are treats, and I like to chase them down the hall when she tosses them (hmm exercise) but she thinks my neck doesn't seem so thick as it was. Poor Mom went to Target 3 times, and forgot to pick up a battery for the scale to see for sure. So she says things will stay like this until I go to the vet for my 1 year old checkup at the end of May. The one thing for sure that has changed about me is that I am a much more confident kitty. I meh at Mom and love for her to pet me. I give her little love nibbles & lick her hand. I come when she calls me. I sleep on the bed unless Maizy is up there, cause she growls and hisses & swats me if I get on the bed, and get too close to Mom. I guess she doen't want to share Mom cause she was the only cat here for 3 years. But Mom has enough love for all of us! She tries to make each one of us feel special, and I feel so loved! So I guess the eating plan is part of her loving me too. I know where The Dad keeps Da Bird toy, so I am off to go stare at the dresser & see if he gets the hint. signed one happy (not so little?) kitten.

chubby little cubby all stufed with fluff

ok so here is the deal....Mom is getting told from the rest o the family that I am fat. She is not so sure on this. She can feel my ribs, but is not sure. Today she says she will take some pics of me at different angles to see what ya think. We know that the vet can say for sure, but since I am running & playing like a fool she is trying to wait until I would go in May. I am like a solid brick, with a kind of pin head. 13 pounds of catness. BUt Mom says it looks like my tummy is bloaty again. Like I have a little beach ball in there. I have no litter box probs, and honestly I act like I am starving ALL the time. I get about 1/3 to 1/2 cup of Blue Buffalo Wilderness dry chicken, and 1/4 of a 3oz can of wet food - usually Natural Balance. No people food, except for a bite of tuna when Mom has it for lunch, which is 1 or 2 times a month. I get 2 - only 2 treats that are 2 calories each per day. That is it. So how can I be fat? Maybe that is just the way I am growing, and I will "grow into my body" Mom is so confused. She also gives me a shake or 2 of the Eagle Pack 1 or 2 times a week. So we will post some pics and see what ya think. Happy to be back!

who me a piggie?

Well Mom says I am a piggie. She thinks I have been eating Maizy's food when she is not looking, and that has caused Maizy to lose weight, and for me to get a bit - ahem fluffy. It is hard, because I am not a lanky cat like Tigger & Maizy - I am pretty short & stocky - so Mom is not sure how much I should really weigh, maybe I am not fat. So I get precisely measured food, and wet at night - very strict. It was hard cause Mom read that you are to let kittens eat as much as they want, and it seems like maybe I abused that a bit. Well, at least I don't have to eat lettuce..... On a side note, I am getting really good about petting, and I will even chirp & purr at Mom to pet me when I come in from the screened porch! She can even hold me for a bit now & get in a smoochy or two before I start to wriggle around!

Escape!

Well, on Thursday me & Tigger went to the vet cause we are sick. We got shots, and this icky medicine to take. Wow I am 7 pounds now! On Friday morning, the postman rang the front doorbell, The Dad answered it and just as the postman kinda pulled the door open for him to sign something, I poked my head out. Mom yelled "the cat!" The Dad reached down for me, and almost had me if the stupid postman did not shove the package at him to get signed. I got scared, and jumped off the porch by the bushes. They came out there & Mom was using all my special names, and crouched down by me, but I was too scared, and ran to the other side & took off. The Dad got into his truck to follow me, and Mom went to the back yard calling me. She was crying so hard for me. She then looked at the yard next door, and I was by the fence meowing, trying to figure out how to get over. They have their gate locked, so Mom ran around their house to go through the other side. I got scared by a noise in the alley, and zoomed under the deck they have in the middle of the yard. I tried to run back home, but ran straight at the fence, and my head got stuck in the fence, back under the deck I went, and then I got even more scared. Mom was worried they would let their dog out, so she told them I was there. Even food would not tempt me out - I have a stuffy nose, and cannot smell it. Mom was so very worried because it was really cold & windy out, and I am sick. So her & The Dad tried everything to get me out. I started to, I was looking at Mom, but I was just too scared. The Dad went & got his big fishing net, and brought out Tigger on his leash. So Tigger pranced back & forth, and every time I came out & someone would move, even slowly - zoom back under the deck. After an hour and a half, I finally started to creep out on Mom's side, and she flipped the net over me. I will tell you, I was pretty relieved to be caught. I came in and ate and ate, and then slept the rest of the day. And of course, when Mom called me, I came running. She thinks that I must have thought the door was to go out on the screen porch, and then I just was too scared to even come to her. So now the porch door is locked, and anyone ringing thebell with a package, has to hand it through the top part. Mom says she doesn't want to lose me! Then her & Nana went to Petco, and I got a new bed & some more wet foods to try. Way too much excitement for a little kitty. There's no place like home!

Sneezy Mc Smitters

Well I must have caught something when I went to the spay/neuter clinic, cause exactly 1 week later, I started to sneeze. And sneeze. And sneeze. Mom says I look so pitiful cause I have watery eyes, and my nose is running. I wish I knew how to blow it into a tissue! I seem to feel ok - I am playing with Tigger, which of course means that I gave it to him, and I am eating. I just have been very snuffy. Mom called the vet today to make sure that there is nothing else she should do, and because Tigger has other problems, she is concerned about that. Other than that, I am getting bigger and really starting to get more confident. I will actually stand still and wait to be petted sometimes, and I like it when Mom scrathes by the side of my neck & face. I almost fall over cause I lean on her hand. I also got to go out on the leash & started to dig in the dirt a little just like Tigger. Momma says that she wishes there was the equivalent of chicken soup for kitties, cause she would make us some! mmmm I do like plain chicken though!

owies

I was minding my own business waiting for breakfast yesterday, when I was stuffed into my carrier, and hauled to this place that is not the vet, but smells like one! It was time for me to be.......NEUTERED...... It is a spay/neuter place run by the shelter. The vet Mom likes and had for years works there now, so she felt totally safe for me to go there. I was really scared, my eyes were like saucers, and I cried for my Mom. I had to stay there overnite. She was crying too. She totally forgot to bring me some of my food, so they fed me the kibbles that the shelter gets. I ate, but it was not my dry food, and now Mom is worried that I will get a tummy ache again. She was so upset with herself that she forgot my food. But I got a nice bowl of some wet food when I got home, and I napped in a room by myself for a while. I wanted out though to see my Tigger! He sniffed me & hissed at me! Mom says it is becasue I smell like the vet, and she will rub me with the blaket from the box we all take turn to nap in. But I am pretty sleepy today. I got microshipped too, so I am really officially Mommy's Smitterkitters! I grabbed her hand and licked it and purred when she petted me. She is really the only one that can pet me much right now, but I am getting used to the family, and I even meow at everyone else. Well, I am off to take a nap, so I can get some extra lovies & treats later.

hooray

Thanks Finney,Lacey & Alex for all the gifties,help, info & support with my belly trouble. I feel lots better and you made momma feel better too.

Thanks BK for the well wishes

Thanks Pepi, Sarge, Lena for the info - Mom indeed thinks it is something in that Wellness food that made me sick. We are checking out your vet referreal too

Thanks Hunter for the giftie and the help with my tummy trouble too

Boy do I feel better! My tummy doesn't hurt, and I am not causing the paint to peel off the walls after I go potty! I started the Eagle Pack probiotics that Alex & Hunter's mommies suggested, and I think it is already helping. I sleep in Mom's bed almost every night now, and I know my name & come running when I hear "Smitty Kitty!" I even sat fairly well to have my nails trimmed. OK I sat for 2 of them, and then had to be wrapped in a towel, but hey it was 2!

Off to be a busy little kitty!