We Moveded! I nutz lyke.

Dis beed skerree! Awa oled litturbockziz beed gawn. We gutz funnee smelz in da purrlaz. Wenn lytez beed off we bumpz inta walz an furnitshur. Wise we hadded ta mofe. Meowmie say it beffur purrlase. Hau ken it beed if we goin bump in da nyte inta walz cawz we nuts memreyezed da lay ov da land?
Morticia lettedz us, mwe an Playful, put upz cawtz at
BCCP, a purrlase we doz knohed da laze ov da land. Tank mew, Morticia. Do nuts minedz dat Playful beed wyte. Deez beed twyen tymez fur awal! She owtsyde da door, besydez!

I beed taggedz

I beed taggedz by Tyson, a gwate cat an he axed mwe ta plaze dis gayme of tag ...Awll I haz ta du beed listz 5 ting dat myne hooman do dat annoy me da most !! Well affur carefulz deliburashun dese beed dose 5 tings !! An nau mew goez owt an tagz 5 kittehz.

1. Meowmie nut feedz mwe enuff!
2. Meowmie nut tayked mwe owt long nuffz.
3. Meowmie nut unfurstanz myne mews.
4. Meowmie nut lettuced mwe purrlayze on Catster nuff.
5. I hafz ta lif wif 4 sisfurs. Purrleeze taykes won off myne paws.

So nau I taggedz:
1. Clawdius Maximus - 801040
2. Alexis Tippy *Paws* - 788314
3. Pete - 1043247
4. Peppers - 1129390
5. Pittbutton - 1026962

New Year's TAg

I just got tagged by Merlin (http://www.catster.com/cats/411666)

and was asked ....

1. What is your 2010 New Year Resolution ?

Nut ta makes enny resolushuns.

2. Why did you choose that for your Resolution?

It nuts seem catly.

3. Do you think you will be able to keep it? Why/Why not?

Yup...it beed ezee. I lykes gohls I cans keeps.


All you have to do is copy & paste the entry above into your Diary, erase my names and answers , fill in yours, send a message like I sent to you, asking if they'd like to play an easy New Year Resolution Game and if so, to visit your Diary for instructions. Now you just list as many furiends as you'd like to tag and Have fun!

Have a Happy, Healthy New Year!


I beed gonna tag:

1. Morticia
2. Odie
3. Sam

Taggeded!

I were taggeded by Mary Belle Lee. Being taggeded carries a responsibility. My responsibility is to tell efurryone seven things about myself, then tag seven furiends and p-mail them to inform them. So here are my revalations:
1. I begs fur milk affur Meowmie has cereal wif milk.
2. I bees meowy lowd wenn Meowmie goeds owt an I knot wants her to.
3. I plays wif my siblin Indy an we ruffhowse.
4. I bees fassts at gettin ta da dinnur bowl.
5. I gots reel shawp claws.
6. I useds da claws to keep ways Meowmie furom smootshing.
7. I knots cuddlee or shootshy.

Nowse, I gonna tag:

Tyson - my guud buds -476218
Alfie - da camo cat - 434708
Martin - a gwate cat - 419096
Hudson - da explorur -483985
Morticia - da luvly - 602981
Simon - anofur guuds cat and bud - 357723
Jewels - a guud guud furriend of my sisfur, Playful- 597475

Da hewmileashun, awfurness

Won ting I hates is bean smooshed. I knots like it. Knot at awl. Ax Bunny's Meowmie. Mew nose Bunny who bees in Black Cats Crossing our Paths? Well she obsesseded wif smooshin kitties. Now, I manidges ta stay safes furom her. I manidges to stay safes furom Meowmie smooshes. Until tonite. I donuts offen sleep in da bedrume, butt Meowmie bean reranging efryting in da purrlase. So I wents to da bedrume to gets myne catnap. Dere I were nappin. Meowmie sneeks up and begins smooshing... I were in shokk! She nose I knots like dat. Wise she do it ennymews? Furnally, I weres awake. Dat bees wenns I runned off! Nowse I wunners, how does i GETS da nasty smell of smooshies off? So hewmileashun to gets ambushed.

Tagged by Galin

I've been tagged by my good friend Galin. The game is to list four things I like to do, four places I love to be, four things I love to eat and then tag four kitties.
4 things I like to do:


1. I like to eat plastic and wrappers if I can get my paws on dem.
2. I like to sleep on my back wif my legs hanging open.
3. I like to play wif Indy.
4. I like to chase my furmom, Mimi.

4 places I'd love to be:

1. Outside, if only I could.
2. In the living room sleeping on a nice big cat tree.
3. Sleeping on my favorite black leather chair that now has my furmom on it.
4. Did I say outside? I'd like to be outdoors climbing a tree. So I'd love to be on a tree.

4 things I love to eat:

1. Milk
2. Cheese
3. Vanilla yogurt
4. Vanilla ice cream

4 kitties I am tagging:

1. Alfie
2. Meatball
3. Hudson
4. Tyson

Ok, hopes mew plays.
Tyke

Tagged_by Tigger

I got tagged by Tigger.
Here are the rules of the game! Each
player starts with seven random facts
about themselves. Cats who are tagged,
need to post in their Diary the rules &
their 7 pawsome facts. Then choose 7
cats to tag and list their names. Don’t
forget to purr them a pmail that they
have been tagged and to read your
Diary or send them a fun Rosette
announcing they've been Tagged!

My 7 pawsome facktoids:
1. I awwaze wiggul wenns I wawk, butt it knot infurfears wif my runnin.
2. I lufs dayree and beg fur milk wenn Meowmie eats her sereal.
3. I lufs plastik bags to chew on. I lufs enny plastik.
4. Efen wenn Meowmie trims my nales, dey still sharp likes daggurs.
5. I bited a platik pill poppur so Meowmie hads to gifs pills by sneekiness.
6. I mew furry lowdly wenn Meowmie has gown owtside wifowt my purrmishun.
7. I bees da bestest smoke alurm. I mew mew mew wenn Meowmie bakes ennyfing in da ofun.

I bees taggin:
1. Bunny - my's guud bud
2. Merlin --anofur guud bud
3. Tyson--a guud kined bud
4. Sabu- a catsum blak cat an speshal, tues.
5. Skylar - a goods cooker and looker (fur a geye).
6. Louis Armstrong -- a reel kewl blak cat
7. Cheyenne - a kewl awmostest blak cat an a gurl

Santa Paws

I gots dis kewl giffsts furm Tyson whose purrtended to bees Santa Paws. Enny mesws, Tyson bees dis weigh kewl furren. He sendeds mwes a teddy bare.
Dis bees grates fur dis thyme of year, rite? Oar enny thymes of year...furriens...dey da gift!

Tagged fur Christmousie

Here bees da rules:

The rules of the game are as follows.....I list what I want fur Christmas and then tag 5 kitties to write in their diary about what THEY want fur Christmousie!!!

So I wills list 5 tings I want and tag 5 kitties.


What I want fur Christmousie:
1. Not to frow up when I drink milk which I love
2. Not to get diarrhea when I drink milk
3. Fur Meowmie to spend more time playing wif da laser toy or feather watcher toy
4. To get to go outdoors
5. Maybe dis shuds be NUMFUR 1 - All animal companions to haf good homes!

I am tagging:

1. Angel
2. Twixy
3. Oreo
4. Jewels
5. Bitu


Purrs and headbonkx,
Tyke

Adopt Black Cats

Black Jellybeans

I've never read an official study on the matter, but I've
noticed that in animal shelters, black cats are the most over-
looked. Black seems to be the least preferred of cat colors,
ranking below all combinations of white, orange, gray, spotted
and striped. Black cats are still stereotyped as Halloween
cats, creatures of bad luck, more appropriate on a witch's
broomstick than curled up on your pillow. To make matters
worse, in cages, black cats become close to invisible, fading
into the dark shadows in the back of a stainless-steel cage.

For eleven years, starting when I was ten years old, I
volunteered at an urban animal shelter. It always struck me as
particularly unfair that, time after time, I'd get to know
affectionate, adorable black cats, only to watch them be passed
over by adopters merely because of their color. I assumed there
was nothing that could be done.





One day, many years into my work at the shelter, I spent a few
minutes petting a sweet, black half-grown kitten, who had been
found as a stray and brought to the shelter. The slender thing
purred warmly at my attention, gently playful as she patted my
hand with one paw. I thought about what a shame it was that the
kitten was already too big to be adopted on baby-kitten appeal
alone, and so solidly black that most people wouldn't even pause
in front of her cage.

I noticed there was no name written on the informational card on
her cage. Since volunteers were welcome to name the strays that
came to the shelter, I thought for a moment about what I could
name this black kitten. I wanted to think of a name that could
give the kitten the kind of appealing "color" that might
encourage an adopter to take a second look. The name Jellybean
popped into my head, and I wrote it on the card, just as I'd
named thousands of cats in the past.

I was taken entirely by surprise when, later that afternoon, I
overheard a woman walking through the cat room say, "Jellybean!
What a wonderful name!" She stopped to look more closely at the
kitten, now batting at a piece of loose newspaper in the cage.
She asked me if she could hold Jellybean, and, as I opened the
cage, I sheepishly admitted that the kitten didn't know her
name, as I'd named her just hours before. I lifted her into the
woman's arms, and the kitten leaned into the woman, looking up
into her eyes with a purr of kitten bliss. After a few minutes,
the woman told me that she'd like to adopt this black kitten,
and, when the paperwork was approved a few days later, she took
Jellybean home.

I was pleased, of course - adoptions were always what nourished
my soul - but I chalked it up to a lucky break for one black
kitten, and moved on.

I was surprised again a few weeks later when the woman came back
to the shelter. She found me refilling water bowls in a cat
room and said, "You were the one who helped me adopt that black
kitten a few weeks ago, remember? Jellybean? I know you were
the one who named her, and I've been wanting to stop back to
thank you. She's the sweetest thing - I just love her to
pieces. But I don't know if I would have noticed her if she
hadn't had that great name. It just suits her perfectly. She's
so bouncy and colorful - I know that sounds crazy. Anyway, I
wanted to say thank you."

I told her I was touched that she had stopped by and thrilled to
hear that Jellybean was doing well in her new home. Then I
explained how I thought black cats were often unfairly
overlooked and admitted the name had been my conscious attempt
to get someone to notice a cat who would probably not have been
adopted otherwise. She said, "Well, it worked! You should name
all the black cats Jellybean."

I smiled politely at the suggestion, thinking to myself that
this woman knew nothing of the harsh realities of animal
shelters. Just because I named one kitten Jellybean and it had
gotten adopted didn't mean anything - it had just been a stroke
of luck. Black cats were still black cats, after all, and most
people didn't want them.

As the day went on, I kept thinking about the woman's advice:
"You should name all the black cats Jellybean." As crazy as it
seemed, I decided I had nothing to lose. Pen in hand, I walked
along the cages, looking for a black cat without a name. There
was only one, a small black kitten alone in a cage, sleeping. I
wrote "Jellybean" on its cage card.

Later that afternoon, someone came along and said they'd like to
adopt that little Jellybean. Well, I thought to myself, that
wasn't really a fair test - it was so cute and tiny.

A few days later, a nameless black cat came along, fully grown.
I named it Jellybean. It was adopted. Days later, another.
Adopted. The process repeated itself enough times that, after a
while, I had to admit that maybe there was some magic in the
name, after all. It began to seem morally wrong not to name
black cats Jellybean, especially ones who had a bounce in their
step and a spark of joy in their eyes. Although I'd usually
refrained from using the same name for more than one cat, after
a while, my fellow volunteers ceased to be surprised when they
came across another of my Jellybeans.

Of course, we'll need more far-reaching solutions to ensure that
every cat has a home. But for my black Jellybeans, sitting in
sunny windows, sniffing at ladybugs walking across the kitchen
floor, snuggling in beds with their adopted people, a name made
all the difference. "Jellybean" allowed some humans to see
beyond a dark midnight coat into the rainbow of riches in a
cat's heart.


~ Margie Seyfer

from Annette Fincher's Cattails