Taag Along

Calvin, What I wanted to say...

The crowd of angels was so great around you, and I am so shy.

Had I been pushy like my brofur Nuk, I simply would've muscled my way up front to you.

Had I been demonstrative like my sisfur Sweets I would've called and pawed out to you.

But, I am me and so I hung back and I waited... patiently, for the crowd to thin out around you. So many angels, greeting you, taking you under their wings. Such a flutter at the Bridge.

I knew you by your striking green eyes, by your magnificent, regal bearing. (and of course by your over flowing heart basket) ;)

All I really wanted to say to you (on behalf of me and my family) was:
"We have been so blessed, to love and to be loved in return. Thank YOU with ALL our heart, for letting us share in your life."

I am a Guardian Angel {Again}

Oh purrs !!!

I am a Guardian Angel again ! - This time 2 brothers have graciously accepted my guardianship. They are just so precious.

If you haven't already met Smily Bob and his brofur Flipper - stop by and say a warm "Hello!"

They are 2 kitties who both have Cerebellar Hypoplasia. Flipper is more affected than Smily Bob.

Here is a nice, loving, educational video of Charley another kitty with Cerebellar Hypoplasia.
Charley

It's true. Kitties with Cerebellar Hypoplasia aren't like other kitties. Depending upon the severity of their condition they will present varying degrees of motor uncoordination. They may exhibit “Intention tremors” which are evident when the cat is focused on a toy or their human, but the cat will look largely normal if sitting still. Their walking is uncoordinated and with a wide stance, often using the wall for support.

While some people may find cats or kittens who display Cerebellar Hypoplasia "disturbing" - these kitties have a condition that is non-progressive meaning it doesn't get worse. They are NOT weak, only uncoordinated. They are no more in need of pity than my Earth Sisfur Sweets is with her fused patella. Kitties with Cerebellar are NOT in pain and enjoy the same quality of life as perfectly coordinated kitties.

What causes this condition?
The cerebellum is a complex piece of equipment. During development before birth, the cerebellum is maturing up until the last few days before birth. This leaves the cerebellum vulnerable to an assortment of toxins. In the case of Cerebellar Hypoplasia the culprit is the Feline Distemper Virus.

Growing nerves in the cerebellum are destroyed creating a tiny cerebellum and a disability in the kitten.
The mother cat need not be actually infected during pregnancy to create this syndrome; she can simply be vaccinated with a modified live distemper vaccine, the most basic of all cat vaccines.

Kittens infected with distemper under age 2 weeks may also experience enough cerebellar damage to suffer cerebellar hypoplasia.

This means that mother cats due for vaccines should not be vaccinated during pregnancy nor in the first 2 - 3 weeks following kitten delivery.

Although there is no treatment which can resolve the damage in a kitten/cat with Cerebellar Hypoplasia, most cats have good life quality and make up in personality what they lack in motor skills.

Emphasis is on managing their condition. The CH cat should be indoors only and non-spill food dishes are best.

I am so happy that my 2 Guardees have found homes with a forever family who could see past their physical imperfections to their wonderful, warm, loving, perfect hearts within.

I am so honored to be their Guardian Angel !

We close our eyes and dream...

We close our eyes and the world has turned around again
We close our eyes and dream and another year has come and gone.

How strange it is to me to read your last year's MusikFest ends diary entry....
Written back when I took for granted our time and thought we would have many more years together. I took for granted any of the little things that made up our day-to-day lives with you. All the ways you were so *present* and so uniquely you.

But Time obeys no human standard - when time must end, so it ends.
It was Winnie and Chester's mom who helped us to see that Love too obeys no human standard - when love must begin, so it begins.

We had thunderstorms and Musikfest ending fireworks today - but no hail this year!
I wore your Memorial Necklace from Angel Amelia's Mom and you were close to my heart all through your beloved man's birthday celebration.

We thought of you often today. We missed you, we sighed, our eyes grew sometimes wet and shiny but we also smiled and were glad that you have peace now and that this year you could simply close your eyes and dream without fear, and without hiding.

Six months without you too is approaching (and on the heels of that sad observance follows the celebration of Gabby's first six months with us.)

You've been a busy angel in that time. Many friends old and new you have greeted at the Bridge. Each small comfort that you gave and that touched to another family's heart has also lifted and touched our own hearts.

Thank you for the privilege of loving you and being your family! Thank you for your gifts and your lessons.

My Dear Family!

1 Angelic Cons. Stat. § 1101

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

P.S.
I Love You and I love seeing you smile.

Going Backwards For A Special Thank YOU!

The Beloved Angel Amelia Whose family was our first Catster friends made a special "Rainbow Bridge Memorial Necklace" for my Mama and me

Even sunlight doesn't do this necklace justice:
Rainbow Memorial Necklace


On the month anniversary of my bridge passing, the weather in our town was windy and gray... There was a sadness in my Earth home, that matched the weather.

But then our doorbell rang! I saw Mama stop cooking to run through the house to answer it and it was the mailman. He said "I have a package for you!"
Mama looked and saw Angel Amelia's meomy's name on the return address, thanked the mailman and smiled. Hurrying inside she opened it with shaking hands.

I watched her bite her lip as she pulled out first a card, opened and read it. I watched the tears start to form in her eyes. Next she pulled out a beautiful pale blue beaded pouch and marvelled at the thoughtfulness of Amelia's meowmy!

Then I saw my Mama open that pouch and take out a piece of sky blue tissue paper. Oh so delicately and tenderly she unfolded that tissue. Inside was a treasure!
And it truly was! The tears came spilling out from Mama's eyes as lifted the necklace into her hands and beheld the interlocking hearts forming a chain leading down to aurora borealis butterflies and individually wrapped rainbow beads ending in a runic heart with 3 dangles. 1 of rosy hued beads, 1 of rose stone hearts and the middle 1 of a topaz round multifacet bead, followed by a rose and gold foiled heart and ending with a cat charm. At the clasp were 2 more hearts and an extension with my name spelled in letter beads and ending with one more rosy heart. So beautiful! What care and craftsmanship!

I watched as my Mama put this necklace on. Her hands pressed this necklace over her heart. We felt close to each other then she and I. I saw her smile through her tears.

Forever and Always when my Mama wears this necklace she will think and remember the loving and happy memories that we made together. She too will think about and feel the love for her dear, dear friend, who with her own hands made this gift for us.

Angel Amelia's meowmy, there are not enough words to express our gratitude!
This necklace from you is one of the most beautiful, comforting and special gifts that I have ever in my life received. I am so touched by your generosity and thoughtfulness.


Here's even nosy Nuk looking over everything, getting himself into the picture

The Importance of Photo Backup

While Nuk is having a nap, I want to take over the computer a moment to make a message about the importance of scanning and uploading your hard-copy photos.
That way in the event of disaster or catastrophe your precious photos would still be in existence and accessible from any computer anywhere. While some items can be insured for their value in case of loss. Other items are irreplaceable.

Even digital photos should be backed up and then they would not be lost in the case of hardware failure, or catastrophe.

In recent correspondence with
Blazer's family
they told me:

"I truly hope that you, and others, will take something from our ordeal...about the importance of uploading photos! It would make me happy to know that someone might benefit from what we have painfully had to learn."

It's quite a project, but my people have taken Blazer's family's hard lesson to heart. We have so many pictures that are one of a kind and so dear to us in sentimental value. Pictures of we kitties, generational pictures of the human family and special occasions.

In the same way that Laurel's death demonstrated to all of us that we need to have binding written provisions and instructions for kitty care in the event of some tragic loss of our people!
So too Blazer's family demonstrates the need to backup our precious photo memories.

I am a Guardian Angel

My heart is so full of love... (The other angels say about me that "Her heart grew 3 sizes today")

Chloe
has honoured me, by permitting me to be her very own Guardian Angel!

Perhaps you saw? Chloe's sad news
I was so touched and of course I greeted that little kitten and took her under my angel wing.

But then I read more about her mother Chloe on her page - and I knew this was a special girl!

Chloe's first angel was her foster mom. An Earth Angel whose heart was big enough to take in a girl who was pregnant, homeless and scheduled to be euthanized. This first angel agreed to give her a safe place to have her kitten babies, give her a renewed chance at life and a renewed hope to find her forever home with people who would love her endlessly.

From her Bio:
"Not sure how any one could just let Chloe out and not care enough to get her fixed or at least get her micro chipped. She is a very sweet cat, she purred as soon as I let her out of the carrier."

This sounded too familiar to me. I was in a home once, my people too never spayed me or micro-chipped me. They let me out, they let me roam. Then when I came home, and my people saw later that I was pregnant, I lost my home. I was found living behind a store, nursing my 3 kittens. We all were caught and taken to the local animal shelter. My shelter was a No-Kill shelter, so I was *safe* there, but I was not *home.* I got spayed there. I watched my kittens get adopted and go to homes - I waited and waited many months for someone to want me.
... Then my forever family walked into that shelter!
The rest is, as they say, "Catster history"

I want for Chloe that she too knows the love that I was blessed with.
The joy of "Living in Love", that comes from being united with your forever family.

From the bridge I will care for Chloe's kitten as if she were my own. Together we will share in of all the beauty that is here. Together with all the angels we will wait until the time when our beloved friends, furry and unfurry are reunited with us again. From here I join with Chloe's first angel, her Earth Angel and I lend my angelic furry paw to her foster mom's in support. From here I will keep watch for the forever family who is Chloe's to make their way to her. All together we will celebrate when she is adopted and taken home!

Thank YOU! My Friends. [Updated]

I was the most shy of our family. It was easiest for me to let Nuk be our family *Spokescat*
He never seems to be "at a loss for words" (Which is 'cat-sister' code for "Oh Please! Nuk, can't you ever be quiet?!")
But as dorky as he is, and as annoying a pest as he can be, he was still my *family*
And in my quiet way, I loved him too.

But enough about him. One of the things I have found here at the Rainbow Bridge is my voice. Sure, I always had one, especially when I thought we should be given treats, or when waking my human family in the morning. But here at the bridge I am infused with a new confidence and a strong *inner* voice that I never even knew I had.

So for myself I wish to thank each of you, my precious friends.

Winnie
My fur twin, you're right, it's sucky that we never got to say "Goodbye"
But your rose that you laid down for me, was just perfect. Thank YOU! That rose on my page now is extra dear to me. It will to me always be a symbol of our very special friendship. P.S. Your mommy is one wise and wonderful woman.

Sally ♥ Sweet Angel
The family of Sally ♥ Sweet Angel, Lucy and Sophie
Dearest friends of our family. Thank YOU! For my angel wings, rainbow star and gifts to Sweets and Nuk. Your friendship, and your sympathy to our entire family has been such a comfort. All that love you've been sending our way is helping to heal our hearts. What a blessed event it was that we met and I know that my family loves you!

The family of Aldo: by Laurel, Tess: by Laurel, O'Malley, Squeaky and more!
My first emerald! Thank YOU! What a special gift. From such a special family. Your rescue is one of the most amazing things that I have seen while here at Catster. Your kind words of sympathy give us great comfort.

The family of Piewackit ^PAWS^, Shadow ^PAWS^, Zeke ^PAWS^, Lacey (In Loving Memory) and more!
Thank YOU! for your starry rainbow gift. Your soft purrs and hugs comfort us.

The family of Max and Marley
Thank YOU! for my candle and heart. Knowing that your family is thinking of us and holding us dear in your hearts means more than words can say.

Lilly *PAWS*
Angel Lilly, Thank YOU your starry rainbow and know that your words of truth and comfort truly touched our heart.

Aragorn (In Memory)
Thank YOU for your gift of my beautiful wings and rainbow star. Kitty kisses, purrs and peace were just what my family needed.
Athena
Apollo
Athena, Thank YOU. Kitty kisses do help wipe away human tears.
Apollo, Thank YOU. What comfort we drew from your inspirational poem.

The family of Bridget CGC, Talley, Billie-Bob, Bunkie : Our Beloved Angel
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and for your kindness in reaching out to comfort my family.

The family of Smokey and Punky
Thank YOU! Smokey, for sitting with Winnie in quiet mourning. Thank YOU! Smokey and Punky for my gift of a dozen roses. They are beautiful, but not as much as you are.

Pooh Bear
Thank YOU! For my rainbow star gift and for your gentle kindness and tender words. You do know that your sweet face, always brings a smile to my family when they see you?

The family of KC Sunshine, Mittens, Abby (Rainbow Bridge Angel), Pete (Forever Loved) and more!
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and your understanding. Your thoughts and prayers are so very appreciated.

Stormy Lynn
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and your purrs, hugs and love. It is a comfort to know that others care.

The family of Sissy,*PAWS* and Jazzi, Sunshine Angel^PAWS^
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow, your sunny presence, giving us hope and strength and reminding us that “Love is the greatest gift” Your Jazzi has always been an inspiration to our family and we send our love right back to you and Sissy

The family of Scooter, PAWS , Mrs. Trudy Essig , Scooter and Ozzy's Wedding, T & S Snoop Spa and more! Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and your kind wishes. May you also always know what it's like to feel a lot of love.

The family of Dusty Miller, Ernest Hemmingway, i.e., "Erni, jennifer, sasha and more!
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and your sympathy. I have met Old Man Kitty and Rusty here as angels. Thank you for new friendship.

Beloved Angel Amelia
The family of Martin(after StMartindePorres), Beloved Angel Amelia, Vincent, Hugo (in loving memory) and more!
Our VERY first Catster friends hold a very special place in our heart. There are not enough words to tell just how dear you are to us and how much we cherish your family and having you as our friend. Thank YOU! For my emeralds, my angel wings, my rainbow necklace and your confort. You know what? I think your meowmy is one of those “Angels on Earth” Thank YOU! For meeting me at the brigde, and showing me the beauty of looking up at the stars through the Willow trees.

♥ Shadow ♥
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow and your comforting words of beauty. That starry rainbow showed me the way to a new friendship.

Miss Sable-Kitty
Thank YOU! For my heart and your thoughtful words of sympathy. I send my own purrs to you too, for reaching out to my family and helping to make their grief a bit easier to bear.

The family of The Drifter♥, Mouse ♥, Purdie ♥, Muffin ♥ Rainbow Bridge and more!
Thank YOU! Because of you my rainbow star shines brightly and this Henry Wadsforth Longfellow sure knew he was talking about!

~ Chloe ~
Thank YOU! For my starry rainbow. I am only too happy to give to you some of the comfort that has been shown to me.


Boxie Brown
Thank YOU! Boxie, for coming to offer your sympathy and condolences to my family. Your purrs were heard here and mean so much to them.

Sky
OH MY! Thank YOU! For your hugs and support.

♥- Suey- ♥
Thank YOU! Suey, Your hugs and pawpats gave us a smile.

The family of Andre, N'bikay, Gnomey and Lokie and Jacoba need a home!!
Thank YOU! for my starry rainbow. May the treasure at the end of that rainbow be a forever home for Loki and Jacoba. (Catsters can you believe it? Another family who looks like me and our Nuk.)
I thank you too, for fantastic new friendhship.

Mipo - in loving memory
Thank YOU! for my rose. As an angel yourself, you certainly know how to welcome new angels with open hearts and open paws. Thank you for your tender words of hope and comfort to my family.

O'Autumn McAngel
Thank YOU! for my wings. They are breathtakingly stunning.
Today, it was a week since I have come to the bridge. For my family I think today was a bit rough of a day. For them to see a picture of me with my wings, watching over them from the bridge, is a heartwarming close to a day that felt dreary.

Thank YOU! Each and every one for sharing in our lives.

Of Catster Community, Catsters and Care

On Catster Community: When I first heard of Catster and decided to join the Catster Community it was 1 month after Nuk picked us as his family. I looked all around the site, thought "Hey, this is pretty cool." I set up a profile for him, then added Taag's. (Even though she was here before he was) When Sweets joined our family she too got her own page.

As I moved through the Catster Community and made friends. I became truly amazed at the amount of caring and community that Catster offers, from Catster HQ on down through each of the Catsters themselves. We are all here because we love animals and our animal family members. Looking back, I see now I should not have been so amazed. Love is a force that nothing can oppose! And because we are a community of compassionate, kind people, it's only natural that our community would reflect that.

There are amazing cats here (and beautiful people behind them) There are and have been and I don't doubt will continue to be, amazing things accomplished here. In good times and in sad, distressing times Catster gives us a home and the care and the comfort that come from "being home and amongst family."

To the Catsters: I've been trying to stay on top of all your kind condolences and to send you each personalised "Thank YOU's" from the bottom of our heart. Your simple acts of kindness are like hands that hold us up, when we on our own would be weak. Even the heaviest thing, when held by many hands feels much lighter.
Thank YOU for the comfort you give.

I've been saving all of your gifts, mails and posts. I want too, to have Taag thank you yet each one in her diary. I want also to make a memorial book for her (Yes, I have somewhat stolen that idea from Scooter)
I want to compile and print everything and add it to a photo album to chronicle the legacy of love that was Taag's time with us.

Back in the time before another generous Catster family gifted our family with a Catster Plus subscription, we had to carefully manage our photo limit. As I sat today looking through our photo CD, I was saddened to see how many photos I have of Taag, that never got added back after our Catster Plus expansion.

Is it heartbreaking to look through Taag's photos? Yes, but it's also beautiful. Much like your messages of sympathy have been for us. There are tears threatening to spill from my eyes, but they are of a mixed type. Tinged with mournful missing, but touched by beauty and unending gratitude.

We have been so blessed, to love and to be loved in return. Thank YOU with ALL our heart, for sharing in our lives.

Family! Don't cry.

Please, My beloved man and his raccoon eyed lady, please don't cry. I never wanted to break your hearts. I know you are missing me, I miss you so much too. There is a beautiful field, a bridge, many other cats, dogs and even some humans. The other cats here tell me that on one beautiful day we will all be together again. I look forward to that, I really do. I miss your loving caresses and your tender kind words to me. I feel very far away from you now, but the other cats tell me that isn't really so.

Please, don't blame yourselves. It was all so sudden. There was nothing you could do and you did the kindest thing for me by loving me and giving me a family. When I started to cry under the bed, you did the right thing to pull me out. I'm really sorry for kicking at you, I was scared, disoriented and something was wrong inside me. Cradling me in your arms was such a comfort when the scary seizures came and wracked my body. As terrifying as the seizures were to you and me both, I knew you were with me, holding me, talking to me and loving me.

As my body relaxed and I exhaled my last Earthly breath in your arms, I knew Love. I knew that I was special and that our hearts are forever joined by paws. As my Earthly vision dimmed and the angelic bridge world cleared, I looked back one last time on my family and then left my body. My ears could hear your heart broken sobs and I wanted to touch my paw to your face, look into your eyes and *tell* you "I too, love you"

Just then I was interrupted in these thoughts by the soft touch of a paw to my own face and standing before me was Beloved Angel Amelia Next to greet me and comfort me was Sally ♥ Sweet Angel
Taz came, it seems that I must have some *smell* of you! Taz said she knew who I was because our families are friends. Two other cats came. One that I had never met before but who knew me because of you! She introduced herself as Musha and with her was Cappy who I can remember briefly living with. There's even a BUDDIE..ALWAYS LOVED here and he tells me that his fur wife Hazel Lucy is yet on Earth. I met Aragorn (In Memory) who tells me that he has something to teach me, once I get settled in here. Sunshine really does follow Jazzi, Sunshine Angel^PAWS^ and
Bixit Boseph (taken too soon) has been ever so nice to me.

There are so many angels here, I have trouble keeping all the names and faces straight. But I have alot of new friends and everyone here has the glossiest fur, the shiniest eyes and no pain, sickness or fear exist here.

I will always be as near as your heart, as your memories of me. Remember me with love, because that is how I remember YOU!

I looked up "Whiner" in the dictionary...

...and there was a picture of Nuk. (Ok, not really ;) but you get the idea. I don't know what he whines about half the time.

We all get our nails clipped but he still gets to play "Who's hiding in the bathtub?" and he gets away with terrorising and perforating that poor shower curtain.

I recently got a "re-purposed" down comforter. My humans bought a new down alternative one to replace their 15 year old down one (only full on its sides anymore)
The lady folded it up into a large puffy square and covered it with a fleece blanket for me.
It's like a pillow bed for a queen!
No other cat seems to want it, so I have claimed it for my own. It's worlds above that small faux fur "carrier mat/bed" that I'd been cramming myself onto.

About Nuk's picture inadequacy? Any quick look into each of our picture folders will reveal just who has the most pictures. (and that's just since the last one were burned onto CD and then taken off the computer!)
He *works* his way into my pictures sometimes. Do I really need a picture of me on top of the towering pile of CD suitcases with him stretching up to harrass me?
My body language on that one says it all "Leave me ALONE"

Oh Noes...

Yesterday evening I heard the metal sound of our carrier doors opening and I know what that means and I went to hide under the bed.

But, the bed is not as it was. Before, I was always safe under the bed.
That heavy, heavy waterbed couldn't be moved. This new bed can move all over the room if need be.
NOWHERE is SAFE NOW!

My beloved man gently picked me up and put me in my carrier, then into the car we went. I tried to tell him "I don't want to go anywhere", but he didn't listen.
I cried all the way to the place where the people with the needles are.
I tried to hide myself in the back of my carrier, but they took me out anyway and put me on the cold steel high table.

I suffered their various indignities made upon my body. Then more carrier, car riding and home again we went.

The good news is that I don't have to suffer that again for another year.

Musikfest Ends With a Bang!

OMC!

The 10 days that terrorize me have ended and with fireworks of course. It wasn't bad enough that today there were thunderstorms, rain and even ice balls falling from the sky. I spent most of my day in deep hiding.
I had just come out of hiding 45 minutes earlier for my treat. I had myself comfortable on the couch with my people. Then at 9:45 the fireworks started. I made myself as low to the ground as possible and slinked away to my under the bed hiding spot.

At least it's over now. The loud cars, the screaming bands of drunken pedestrians, the sirens, the fire engine horns. My home can now be quiet again and my only tormentor now will be the occasional *offensive* weather assaults.

Some Cats Are Brave

...But I'm not one of them. *sigh*

Happy 4th of July to all the US kitties. I hope yours was better than mine.

The fireworks are terrible. I don't understand the human fascination with fire and explosions. I got to spend all of my evening under the bed, under the table, trying to hide in a corner, just generally wishing that I was safe. I know that technically I am safe. I'm in a house with my people and they would never let any harm come to me. But I can hear those fireworks even above music on the stereo or the sound of the television.

Sweets sleeps through it mostly and Nuk generally doesn't mind but the city's fireworks sent off fireworks that made 'fizzling' noises and those he ran back and forth through the house from, looking 'bothered'.

It's already after midnight and the city's fireworks ended long ago but our neighbors seems to be busy amusing themselves with who knows how many dollars worth of fireworks. Just when I think it's ended and peace has come to our area - another one starts.
Can anyone explain how in the on-again-off-again rain fireworks can even manage to be lit?

I guess this whole weekend will be the *celebration* I better stay on my toes.

My Tail of Devotion for Taag {Guardian Angel}

This is a special Tail of Devotion

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I was *Tagged* again (New Game!)

Winnie tagged me...

So here's how you play this version: List 5 facts about yourself and then list 5 cats to tag.

My 5 facts:

1. I have seniority in this house, and I'm the oldest but I'm not the boss.
2. I'm not allowed to be on the human's bed past 5:30 am. If I forget this fact Nuk will *remind* me it's time to move by sitting on me.
3. I would rather eat catnip than play with it or roll in it.
4. I prefer quiet evenings at home, sitting with my beloved man, to any kind of 'excitement.'
5. I know the sound of the cellar door opening, and will stop whatever I'm doing and rush to get down there. Despite seeing for myself, that there's nothing much interesing there.

I am tagging:

1. Puddles
2. Nigel
3. Gimli
4. Charlie
5. River

Did You Know?

There is an animal shelter/rescue in North Carolina called:
Transylvania Animal Alliance Group? (TAAG)

No... That's not the shelter I'm from and it's not where my name comes from.
Sadly my own shelter was closed last October after Bartonella ran through it.
Seven weeks after a veterinarian ordered 19 infected cats to be euthanised at my shelter, The Borough Council decided to close it permanently.

I'm glad I had already found a home almost 2 years earlier, but I wonder sometimes about my friends who were there. Who was sick? who remained healthy and made it out safely to other area shelters? and who found their forever homes before the Bartonella came? I guess I will never know, but I can remember their kitty faces sometimes and they each hold the place in my heart.

It makes me extra thankful for my home, for the forever love, attention and care I have here.
I will always remember how *lucky* I am.

7 Random Things About Me...

1. I'm the only cat here who likes to be under things, under blankets, under the bed, under tables, under the dresser.

2. I hate any weather except sunny windless days - the sound of wind, rain, hail or thunder sends me hiding for hours.

3. I can be amused with a simple ball of crinkled crumpled up paper.

4. I'm a *treat scammer* Even if I just had my treats, I will try asking soon afterwards for more.

5. I'm the feline alarm clock. I wake my man human every morning between 6am and 7am.

6. I can't stand my paws touched - DON'T DO IT!!!

7. I carry my favourite pink pom-pom toy in my mouth to my desired playing location.