Hi, guys, it's Loki!

I just found out about catster from a friend at You Tube. I do videos there and I have a My Space and a 43 Things account, but I find some of those places a little human-centric sometimes. (I'm lokithecatfromhell at all of those places, but I'm actually very nice.)

Don't get me wrong, humans are my favoritest primates, and I love mine, but it can be jarring when you sign up for an online service and they refer to you as a "person". It's nice to find a place where I can be a cat with other cats and share treats! :D

Food

My sister Luna is gaining weight again so my primates moved the food back up to the windowsill where she can't reach it so they can give her rations.

I hate having to jump all the way up there. It's a pain. So this morning I left a big, juicy hairball right it front of the toilet so one of them would step in it.

That'll show 'em.

Yay! They added video!

That's where I excel! I even started a group for all cats who have videos called "Movie Star Cats" but I haven't had the time to figure out how it works. I think any cats with videos or who like cat videos can join.

I hope Catster doesn't mind that sometimes I'm in cartoon form.

Please help me get my anti-racism vlog aired during the- Superbowl!

As many of you know, I do a talking cat vlog. I have a rare opportunity to appear on TV during the superbowl, and since I don't understand some humans' obsession with color, I did an anti-racism ad from the point of view of us pets.

Talking Cat Vlog: 15 Seconds on Racism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKg3bExWy8

CBS is taking hits, ratings and comments into account, so if you like the vid and the message, please forward the link to other interested parties (whether or not they have youtube accounts).

But don't spam and be sure to put in "OT" if you post the link in a non-related forum. I don't want to win by being impolite. :)

Thanks all, feel free to tell me if you post the link somewhere and maybe I'll add some links back somewhere if it takes off. You can get the embedding code from the You Tube page

TYTYTY!

:D

Loki and the Primate

Well, I have an ear infection again

I'm getting kinda sick of getting these. It's hard enough to look good on camera without worrying about your ears twitching.

But I am in the finalist pool at CBS. They are supposed to choose 5 videos this week to put on CBS.com, and possibly TV.

One human dropped out after he turned in the notification email to the police and Better Business Bureau because he thought it was fake. Turned out it was real and he missed his deadline to get the forms in.

A sock puppet dropped out because he believes that he'll have to pay taxes on winning time during the Superbowl. But he's not. He's giving away all rights to his video to CBS. Once they own it, they can air it or sell it or delete it so no one will ever see it again. He's not winning anything but a chance to give away a video. What taxes do you ever pay to give something away?

Hooray! I made it to the next round!

CBS 15 Seconds

There will be 10 videos in all in this round, and the judges pick one of these.

WHOOHOO!! :D

Something that bugs me.

Bosco, for lack of a better name, showed up at our house recently. Maybe he was lost, maybe he was dropped off, I dunno.

Now, Luna and I, we are house cats, proudly fixed housecats, but we live on a farm. My friend Mayday is a working-class cat, our farm Queen as they say. In farm areas humans have a choice between skunks and cats to control rodents. I guess I don't have to tell you which they usually choose!

Working class cats and feral cats have a hard life. From the moment they are born they learn from their mothers which sounds and smells are dangerous. Later, they learn from their mothers which animals are food and how to kill them quickly. If they miss a week of school, they are more likely to starve or become dinner for a hawk, owl or coyote. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT A KITTEN NOT MISS ANY SCHOOL!

That being said, when a human drops off a house cat in the country and expects him to survive.... NO NONONO! BAD PRIMATE!

Once a kitten is removed from the wild, it ceases to be suitable for outdoor life. There is no such thing as a housecat who "would make a good farm cat" as they say sometimes in the paper of cats that are playful. NO!

This is like dropping a person off on a deserted island and expecting him to be able to climb a tree for coconuts because he was so good at climbing stairs and to be able to fight off a shark because he took a karate class. A mouse toy is not a mouse and the hand cobra is not a hawk.

This appears to happen a lot on our corner because there are a few farms close to each other here. To the humans who dumped Bosco here, in the event that it doesn't turn out he just got lost in the storm and can't find his way back until it thaws, I would like to say he was lucky, because in this state it is legal to shoot cats without collars and since he has a mild injury he probably would have been if he showed up elsewhere because of fear of rabies.

But I can't say he was lucky, because it's very likely he will be eaten by something before we can gain his trust and bring him to a shelter. However, it is clear that he belonged to a home somewhere as he appears to be fixed, too well fed for a working class cat and he is very vocal around my primates, even if he won't let them closer than a few feet from him.

Mayday showed him how to get into our warm root cellar through a badger hole the primates left open for her. Hopefully we can find him a permanent home with a human who wants him or figure out which direction he wandered in from.

I won the CBS contest!

I don't know how many sets were on at the time, but way more than ever saw one of my videos before! Sweet! :D

I may have to disappear for a few days while I wrap things up, but I'll be back.

Well, I had a terrible Valentine's Day

MayDay just wants to be friends. But I knew that. I don't know what she sees in Mofo. He's a loser.

But at least I got a song out of it.

My Video Blog Thread

I started a thread in the Catster Video Forum for my video blogs if you want to respond, but I'm also putting them here, of course! :D

This is an old one. I posted it here before but it didn't have Kevin MacLeod's music so now it's 20% cuter if I do say so. I wanted to tell Boo a joke to make him feel better at the vet.

The Milk Joke