On The Go

In case any cat is interested, I was recently interviewed by The Odd Couple. Of course that is Phanto & Truman. You can check it out here. Just scroll down a bit to June 1st.

Things are going better with Kirby. he stays in his crate now while out. This way we can all smell each other and be in the same room without Ethan & I being chased. It is also teaching Kirby that we can walk away from him without him having to chase us. (Since he can't being in the crate and all.) We'll get there in time.

Love,
Louis

I am Not In A Good Mood

Today was the day I finally met Kirby nose to nose. I am not happy about this! I growled and hissed and growled some more. I just know that little sneak is trying to take over my empire here. I got new for him-- it is not going to happen. Now I am even growling at Ethan because I wanted to remind him of my position of alpha cat too. Kirby follows me too much and too closely and it gets to me after awhile. He does not do that to Ethan. That is part of why I think he wants to challenge me one day. My mom says she thinks we did pretty good and each day will get better between all of us. And all I have to say is HISSSSSSSSSSSS.

Love,
Louis

My Gotcha Day

Today is May 10th, my Gotcha Day. It also happens to be Mother's Day so I think quite fitting at our house. I don't remember much about being got to tell you about. MOL! It was 9 years ago after all. I am sure it was the happiest day of my life as I have been happy ever since. My mom does take some looking after though. I sit close by her and watch her when she is sick. I worry so much. We have a very special bond between us. She's my buddy, my best friend and of course my mom. So we will celebrate at my house today. Both for my mom and for me. A twosome as always. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms on Catster. I hope your day is special too.

Love,
Louis

Getting Caught Up

We had so much fun a couple of weekends ago at the Pen Paws Birthday Pawty. Ethan and I won some prizes and pics will be up shortly. I won a super soft and pretty collar made by Samoa's mom. Ethan won a soft scarf made by Hazel Lucy's mom. We also won some toys too. We went to the Kentucky Derby and were Grand Marshals of the Catster Blog's Easter Parade. So Ethan & I have been pretty busy. We've also been watching the pond because a big fat groundhog is coming over from our neighbor's yard and eating our Black-Eyed Susans. He sits and scarfs them down like they are his giant salad bowl! It is pretty amazing to watch. My mom's been pretty sick for a couple of weeks and we know we've gotten behind in some things but we hope to catch up real soon.

A Grand Birthday It Was

I think I have finally recovered enough to tell you how great my birthday was. By recovered I mean from celebrating. You know I did get some very good catnip after all. MOL! Thanks to all of you for helping me have a very memorable 9th birthday. Thanks to Skeezix for naming me as Grand Marshall of the St Patrick's Day Parade in the Cat's Meow. That was so much fun and a big honor for me. Thanks to every cat for the rosettes, special gifts, paw mail, email, cards and gifts! It was all so exciting! From my parents and Ethan I got a new bed. It's a replacement for an old bed we have in the sunroom. Not really my style but Ethan seems to like it. Methinks he probably picked it out. I got a new Drinkwell 360 fountain. It's pretty cool and comes with 5 tops so you can have one waterfall stream all the way up to 5! We have settled on four for now. :) We can drink on any side of it. I hope to get some pics up soon. I also got a talking treat ball that sounds just like my mom!?! Too funny! Then I got a small assortment of new catnip toys. All very good and the main reason why I was unable to post sooner. Hee!!! My dad also took me for a long walk on my birthday. I finally got to wear my new walking jacket. Umm, don't be too impressed by that as it is really just a very comfortable harness! Anyway I was a bit bugged about turning 9 years old but I am feeling much better about it now that it has come and gone. Well about time to go indulge in a bit more catnip. Thanks again as I don't know what I'd do without all my furriends!!

Love,
Louis

A Crooked Cat?!?!?

(Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down
(Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down
My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown
Oh yes my roof's got a hole in it and I might drown

There was a crooked man and he had a crooked smile
Had a crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile
Had a crooked cat and he had a crooked mouse
They all lived together in a crooked little house

So much for that old song as my roof really does have a leak. MOL! We have a bucket to catch the rain drops and Ethan is having the time of his life playing with both the bucket and the rain drops. I guess some black stuff around a roof vent cracked from the weather. Our roof is not old at all but this stuff got bad. So my dad has to fix it and we have to have a tarp up there meanwhile. I think I will go locate my rain hat and have a nice nap on a water bed. Hehehe.

Love,
Louis

I Will Miss Our Big Koi

Our pond was frozen for a long time over the past Winter. It thawed and then froze again. I was sad to see our biggest koi floating after the ice melted. He was a huge fish and about 24" and all white. He had been in our pond since he was just a little baby many years ago. My dad said there was no wounds on him or anything. We have no idea why he went to Rainbow Bridge but we all will sorely miss seeing him in the pond this coming Summer. Maybe the long hard Winter was just too much for him this year. We just have one koi left and the two of them were always together. He is probably very sad that his friend is gone too. My pawrents decided to not have koi in the pond anymore. We have a big problem with herons coming to eat the fish. My mom gets very attached to the koi as they each have their own personalities and all. So each time those big birds come here for lunch, it breaks my mom's heart. We do all we can to protect the fish but sooner or later the bird gets his way. From now on we will just have fantails, comets and shubunkins in the pond. They kind of look alike so it is much harder to tell one from another and get too attached to them. Anyway please keep my big fish in your purrs than he is safe and happy at Rainbow Bridge.

Love,
Louis

The Fishing Pole

For Valentine's Day Ethan and I got a cat fishing pole. We don't actually do the fishing but our mom or dad does. It works just like a real one from what I have heard. My mom casts the line out. It has a mousie on the end of the line. Ethan chases it across the room. I prefer to lay and wait for the mouse to be reeled back in. As it goes by me I grab it and bite it a few times. MOL! I also like to bite the line but my mom reels it in fast when I do that before I can chew through the line. She's just no fun at all sometimes. That mousie sure is though.

Love,
Louis

Until We Meet Again Scooter

Yesterday I lost a very wonderful and very special friend here on Catster. It's a little hard to know what I want to say in this tribute. So I will just start and see where my thoughts go. I remember the first time Scooter wrote me a pawmail. It was when we were both finalists in the first Catster photo contest. She wished me luck and I did the same in return. I thought that was pretty cool that she took the time to do that. We wrote more and she really seemed to enjoy Ethan's antics with the Jell-O eating and dragging a bag of buns around the house, etc. We made another wonderful friend through Scooter and that was her best friend, Kazumi Joy. They even shared a birthday. Scooter always seemed maybe a little amazed back then at how much we enjoyed her sense of humor. I think she felt not every cat understood it. MOL! I think most did though and appreciated it. We loved hearing about her evil twin who always managed to show up when she was at the vet. ;) She had so much class and many of us could learn a lesson from the way she treated others. Being a caring friend was what mattered. She was rewarded with many caring friends in return. Friends who will miss her and also love her forever. Thank you, Scooter, for being there and for making my Catster life a whole lot more fun. It has been a true honor knowing you.

Love always,
Louis

The Legend of the Tabby "M"

I haven't posted my Christmas story of how the tabby "M" came to be in a couple of years. So for new furriends and old, enjoy!

My Christmas legend is about tabby cats and how we got the "M" marking right above our eyes.

And so it came to pass that a husband and wife journeyed to a small town called Bethlehem, as the king had decreed that all the people stand to be counted in the small towns and teeming cities from whence they came. The journey was long and hard for both, but especially for the young wife, who was very near to bringing her firstborn son into the world. When they at last reached the crowded and noisy town, the expectant father searched hurriedly for a place for them to rest and where the child could safely be born. But at every door, he was told there was no available room. Finally, an old innkeeper, though having no space left in his inn, took pity on them and offered them shelter in the small stable used by his animals.It was there that the child was born, surrounded by beasts of the field. As the night's cold grew, the baby fretted and cried while his parents pondered how to make him comfortable. His father tried stuffing straw into the open places in the walls, and his mother tried warming him with her meager wrappings. But still, the baby cried on. All the while, a tiny cat watched from the corner. "Of course the little baby is cold," the cat thought. "It has no fur to keep it warm! I will give it mine, and I will lullaby-purr it to sleep." A little jump brought the cat into the manger where the baby lay. There, he quietly gave his humble gift of warmth and love, gently stretching out his thin, fragile little body over the baby's, careful to cover all but the infant's face. The crying was soon replaced by soft purrs and coos, and slowly, the infant smiled. As Mary, the new mother, witnessed this gift to her child, she touched the little cat's forehead. "Thank you, Little Tabby, for your gift of love and warmth. As a sign of my grateful blessing, you and all your descendents will forevermore carry my initial on your forehead."

And to this day, tabby cats are known by the remarkable "M" on their foreheads, and by their extraordinary gifts of love, so gently given.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. May 2009 be healthy, fun and have lots of catnip for you.

Love,
Louis