Whoo Hooo!

It's St. Patrick's Day friends and we're all excited! Mom gave us green Sparkle balls to all of us ('cept Caporal, he'd eat 'em! He got "Greenie Treats for Doggies"), we had a contest between D'Arcy and myself to see which one of us could knock it under the stove first. Mom needs her exercise and it's great to see her down on the floor trying to get them back out for us. We're really good at those pathetic looks you know..like we have no other toys even though there's a huge basket of 'em around for us..MOL!!!

We watched Mom and Dad put up St. Patrick's decorations in the bay window last night, they look great and some hang down and sparkle, we have plans for those when Mom and Dad aren't looking! *wink*

Mom put a little green in our water today, what's wrong with that woman? Where's the Green Beer? I thought this family was Irish for goodness sake! Mom says the big parade in Montreal is next Sunday, she said we can't go! Again..what's wrong with these people, we like to party too!

Have a great St. Patty's Day everyone..Erin Go Bragh!!

Purrs,
Blue

Doing our pages..

Mom decided to re-do all our pages this week and although we are grateful (they look great!) she's been ignoring us. Now we've crawled over her keyboard, sat in front of the screen, sat on the scanner and under her lamp blocking the light. But she's been so focused that nothing has worked except D'Arcy stealing her chair when she gets up for something. (I hate it when my efforts don't work, but his do, he should know that's not right!)

Besides all that, things haven't been too bad except for the snow. It's snowed several days this week and frankly, we are SICK of the white stuff. We want windows opened, we are quite tired of the birdies at the feeders looking like Mimes! We did notice that Mom has a couple of planters out with dirt in them and these strange shoots coming up. Terra thinks it's cat grass, but I know cat grass and this doesn't look like it at all. Maybe we should investigate?

Btw, Terra says Scooter dropped by a new group we're in and sent me Headbutts...she says there's tons of catnip at the bridge. You know something? I think Scooter was a little tipsey, but hey, I'd be tipsey too...which makes me wonder if those strange shoots are catnip? Can we be THAT lucky?

Purrs,
Blue

In memory of my friend Scooter

It's taken me a week to be able to come to terms with losing one of my bestest friends ever. Scooter was here for me when I was a kitten and adjusting to Maggie May, or should I say, Maggie May was adjusting to me. She'd lost her soul mate Canoe just a week or so before I arrived and didn't take very well to me at first. It felt so good to have an older sister like Scooter to talk to and give me so much love. She even talked to Maggie May on my behalf and gave such good advice.

Eventually Maggie and I became very close, perhaps more on my part then hers, but she knew I loved her and I'm sure she loved me too, why else would she give me baths and let me snuggle in that wonderful full coat of her's when I was cold? I'll always give Scooter a lot of credit for that.

Scooter was there for me when Terra came to live with us, and was there for me when Maggie May came down with Lymphoma and went through all that chemo and was so sick. Scooter knew how my heart was breaking and how helpless I felt.

I will never be able to express how much esteem I held her in, or how much pain my heart is in now that she's gone to the bridge. I hope she finds Maggie May and Canoe and joins them in a warm snuggly cat pile. I know how much Scooter loved her heated bed and she won't need one at the bridge if she finds Maggie, Magpie will wrap that lush Maine Coon tail around my Scooter and cuddle her up against her tummy. *tears* It really helps to think of them together forever.

Scooter, I miss you, I will always love and cherish you.

Blue

IT'S BEEN AWHILE!

Hi Everyone!
Halloween has come and gone and Mom made me dress up in this kooky outfit that seriously embarassed me! Most of the photos she took had me looking down at D'Arcy who was climbing up the front of the stove so he could bat at my cape. I could see him laughing, but don't worry, I'm going to sleep in his Millie Bed and get him all upset later. He'll learn!

Things have been pretty good around here in other ways, D'Arcy has fit right in with Terra and I and it only took him less then a week to figure out his place. I hate to admit it, but he's a smart little cookie, after all, he copies everything I do, so that's pretty obvious! We do everything together, sleep on Mom's bed together, walk around together..(actually D'Arcy follows me everywhere..I do not follow him...ahem!) He also never pushes in when I'm giving Mom smurgles, which is a good thing, that was one thing I was really worried about. Sometimes he acts like he likes Terra best, I get a little jealous, when he does that I get the feeling he's a tad fickled. I really demand total loyalty, after all, I am the "Prince" around here. At least Terra knows her role!

Mom says I'm getting a little chubby, I wonder if she's even looked in the mirror lately? Temptation Treats don't have calories, so why is she cutting back on them? They're like Birthday Cake, am I right? You know I'm right! Birthday Cake doesn't have calories either!

I missed Scooter's Birthday by a couple of days, I was so upset! I hope she forgives me. Besides Terra and Maggie May, Scooter has been my favorite girl!

Terra is pushing my paws off the keyboard, Mom said we all could write Diaries tonight and Terra says it's her turn! Females!

This may not be good! We'll wait and see!

I have not written in my diary for a very long time, my last entry was when we found out that my Maggie May had Lymphoma and was very sick. She had a lot of Chemo that made her feel better for awhile, but then the cancer came back in her bones and liver suddenly. There was no hope left, her blood count couldn't take anymore Chemo and the Dr. helped her across the bridge before she suffered terribly. I was terribly upset, I stopped eating for a while and Mom and Dad were very very worried. I didn't mean to make them feel so badly, they were going though their own pain after lossing Maggie, but I couldn't help it. I was just so depressed.

Things settled down after a month or two and Terra and I got very close, we needed eachother for support. I know Mom and Dad continued to grieve greatly for Maggie May, they kept saying that the house seemed so empty without her. We felt it too, but we were here. No, they didn't ignore us, we still got all the cuddles, play time and attention we got before, but I guess that since they'd always had 3 cats I can try to understand what they were going through.

Then last weekend Mom and Dad suddnly went away for almost a whole day, we knew something was up, they were packing the cooler, buying toys and not giving them to us, bought another new carrier..the works! At 6:30am we saw them leave, at 9:30pm they came home carrying the carrier and there was a 19 month old squirt Siamese in it. They took him up to Aaron's room and closed the door. I can hear him in there. I tried to show my protests, but no one is listening! Mom is actually pulling me away from that bedroom door D;Arcy is in. and telling me I am using very naughty language. Bah! I don't think so, it's exactly the language Maggie May used on me with I arrieved!

So I'll wait until I met this other guy, but he;d better not take my place with
Mom, that's for sure..she only gets her snurrgles for me, and he'd best learn that quick!

Purrs.
Blue

Terribly sad!

I am devastated this morning, my Maggie May is leaving us. She's been acting strange the past week and Mom took her off to the Vet yesterday and after X-rays and the exam it was discovered that she has Lymphosaroma. She's not eating, drinking or going to the litter box since yesterday. I've been staying really close to her trying to protect her, but all my protecting isn't helping at all, she's getting weaker and weaker.

This is so sudden, she had X-rays and bloodwork just this spring and she was fine! She came through her dental in March with flying colours and we were all so happy to see her playing, eating and acting almost like a kitten again.
We all thought she was jumpy because of the road construction behind our house, or maybe her thyroid had gotten bad enough now to start medication, we were not expecting this news and certainly not expecting her to go down hill so quickly! Her lungs are full of fluid and she's having a hard time resting and breathing, this is breaking my heart! What am I going to do without her??!!

Mom said something about helping her to the bridge if she doesn't start eating and drinking and said the Vet told her that Maggie May is too far gone to have treatment, can't they just try something? The Vet said that this looks like it only started a few weeks ago and has spread at an enormous rate, how can this be? Please help me pray for our Maggie?

This is going to be MUCH shorter...

Ok, my second attempt at writting about the terrible experience we all had last week. Mom and Dad packed Maggie May into a carrier and without me!
Maggie and I always leave the house together with Mom and Dad to go to the Vet, but this time I was not invited! I was worried sick, Maggie was crying and but it didn't matter how often Terra and I jumped on top of that carrier and Maggie May pushed the door, we couldn't get her out to free her.

We know Maggie May hadn't been feeling well lately, she'd been cranky and was drooling all the time and shaking her head. But we didn't see any reason to take her away!!

We let Mama know straight away that we were not pleased. But then it got worse! Mom and Dad got home 30 minutes later with NO MAGGIE!! Now it was time to seriously worry! I figured this was Mom's fault so I refused to go to bed with her and smurgle like I do every night, that didn't work, Maggie was not back the next day. Next I decided to hunch up and stare at the door. Didn't work either..no Maggie. Another day passed, then another night and I was frantic, so frantic I stopped eating and just sat hunched up and refused to go to bed with Mom a second night. I know she misses my purrs and smurgles as much as I do, so I figured she'd get the message and bring my Maggie May back, pronto!

On the third day Dad stayed home. Now what was wrong with Dad...? Must me Mom's fault again, we were sure of it! Then Dad got dressed and went out around lunch time and wouldn't you know it? Came home with Maggie May!
Was I ever glad to see her! I was worryied that I would never see her again!
She bolted out of the carrier and Terra and I sniffed her all over, she smelled funny, but we were so glad to have her home we didn't care, I gave her some loud purrs and head butts and she appreciated that and rolled over on the floor again and again. I rushed to get Mom, I jumped on top of her and purred up a storm and gave her a HUGE smurgle I was so happy! She knew right away that Maggie must be home and came rushing dow the stairs to see her. Well Maggie looks a little funny, she has a tooth missing in the front, but I think it looks kinda cute, and she's not crabby anymore which is good. She says that tooth was really bothering her.

Dad took out some pills and held Maggie and Mom grabbed Maggie and popped them into her mouth, Maggie said they tasted awful and doesn't like this at all. So I've been coaching her on how to spit them out. So far it has only worked once, Mom usually catches them and pops them back in, but we're still working on it. You Betchya!

Happy New Year!!

Hi Catsters!
I haven't been around lately with all the celebrating that's been happening around our home and my new sister is really keeping me busy! We have four floors and 3 flights of stairs to chase eachother around on and boy can we fly!! That tree was so much fun!! Mom and Dad took it down last Saturday and what a bummer! Terra and I had been playing hide and seek in the middle branches almost everyday, we did NOT break one ornament, Dad broke 3 taking the tree down and we just snickered, we can climb it from the inside almost up the top without making a mess and he couldn't even take the bulbs off without breaking some. Terra and I had a really good laugh at that!
It was Terra's first birthday yesterday and we had a little party for her in the afternoon. We all had tuna to celebrate and she got a new Play N' Squeak Mousie that she's lost already, Mom's been looking for it all day! Maggie May hasn't been feeling too well and the Vet thinks she needs some teeth removed, both Terra and I are really worried about that because Maggie May seems so upset about staying over at the Vet, we just want her to feel better, she's been hissing at me a lot lately again. I hope it's just the teeth!

Today is our friend Scooter's birthday!!

I'm writting for all of us today, I insisted! Scooter is just about the most beautiful Meezer I've ever seen a photo of and it's her birthday today! Happy 17th Birthday you gorgeous girl you!! We all hope you have a fantastic day, get your new heated catbed and that delicious cheesecake! We'll be having a party for you at our house and thinking of you today! All the best wishes in the world!

Love, kitty kisses and purrs,

Blue, Maggie May, Terra and of course our beloved Canoe

XoXoXoXo

New sister!

On sunday evening Mom and Dad brought home our new sister, I'm not sure what to make of this, she yells all the time when I try to wrestle. I'm use to Maggie May who just hisses and runs, but this new girl slaps my face and screams like I was trying to kill her! Her name is Terra and I think she should be called Terror instead! Mom said she was a Tortie whatever that means and she's showing tortietude, I don't understand anything about that, I'm a lover, not a fighter and I wish she'd get that into her little wooden head!