I speak on behalf of our family in thanking everyfur for all- the Easter eggs

Hi, thank you everyone for all the lovely Easter eggs. AND thank you Catster, for giving them to us too. I wish I had time to post away, unfortunately we'll have to miss out, the human has to run soon. We still need a new secretary so we can be here more often.

We hope everyfur and their humans are having a great time and that your weather was as good as it was for us.

We had an amazing spell of good weather and it looks like it may last over the whole week end.
It is autumn here and the weather is lovely and warm, actually way better than it was for our summer, go figure.
Anyway...
The human here is still working most days, so she tries to pop in for us when she can.
MOL funny enough she saw a competition on the front page of Catster last month and loved the prize, she brought one for herself.

MOL this should be a laugh she has to go to a black tie event so she brought some CATTOOS from

CattooDesign.com

to wear to the event.

They are really cool, she brought the kitty tribal face and the paw prints. MOL She's too chicken to get real ones.

It'll be interesting to see if she's too chicken to even wear these ones MOL

Well I hope everyone is well, safe and happy.
Purrs For now Purrs Mr D, Sam, Raza, Balty (Angel) and the ratbag Blue when she pops over. Boy she is getting big now. We still don't see her too much on her own but that maybe because Raza keeps her away from the house. She is so territorial, I think she has little cat syndrome she is such a bully, Raza that is.

Am I wrong??????.....

I kind of have a question I hope I’m wrong.........I invited one cat from You Tube but they declined because they were worried about one of the conditions for joining. Apparently it says...

"Catster.com's proprietary rights

By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the catster.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, right to publicly display or re-display such Materials in other formats not simply limited to websites."

He then said..

The above means they own your photos and can publish books, calendar, greeting cards or anything of your photos for a profit and pay you nothing for it.

I can see where he’s coming from.

I think these guys would love Catster if it wasn’t for that clause and how it’s written.
http://www.youtube.com/user/utahactor

I hope it isn’t the case and we the cat-tographers retain exclusive rights for our photos. I understand that Catster can use our photos in other things like newsletters, the front page and other things to do with Catster. That’s fun and used in good faith on the site we use. But to use our photos for monitory gain elsewhere I think would be wrong.
Am I wrong????????? I hope so.

Also about the ads, I know there are many that are complaining about the new roll over ones and how they chew up the bandwidth.

I can understand that, I had real big problems last year that my catputer couldn’t handle catster and the pages wouldn’t load.
I needed an upgrade, well the catputer was dying anyway so it needed something to be done with it.

There used to be a flashing one (ad) I wrote to Catster and told them it wasn’t nice and hard on the eyes.

I’m not sure if they were listening but I’m sure pleased they are no longer there, I’m just hoping they don’t come back.


I know many cats use software to remove the ads but that’s crazy, what about those just joining that don’t know the tricks. No wonder there aren't too many new cats joining. It’s too hard to use and it’s no fun if you can’t get the site (Catster).


I wonder if there is a way they can make the ads smaller, as in... they don’t take up as much energy to run. Or have them static. Do they listen to our comments? I know they used to, they were great and it felt like we could contact them. But I’m not sure anymore as it all seems so much cooler now. * D pouts*

We love Catster it’s fun here, though I have to admit the human was very busy last year, and we didn’t get as much us time on Catster. *D pouts again* So sorry we haven't been around much.

We hope all is good with our fur-riends and I hope this year has started out well for you all.
Many purrs from us

If your cat is an escape artist, or indoor / outdoor you may- want one of these...

I can't wait for the pet tracking devices to get better. Here's a new one that was posting on the missing cat assistance group.

http://www.pettracker.com/pet-gps/gps-cat-tracking

And the one I have on the fur gang here at the moment is...

http://www.loc8tor.com/?gclid=CI7g7eOH6asCFWVV4godt SZRIA

It has a little pouch for the tracking device to sit in so it doesn't hang off the collar. LOL or they would dip it in their water bowl. It is very light weight You can see it on one of D's photos
Photo of D with the tracking device

I did wonder where D was the other day so I used the loc8tor. It didn't
find him right away, the tracker must have been tucked under his fur while he
was asleep. I walked around outside until I started to give me a reading I was calling him too. He must have gotten up because I then started to get a direction to head. I tracked him to a room inside the house. It kind of worked, and through walls (once he was standing).

It's nice to know I do have another tool to track him with. He has
a collar with a name tag
Micro chip
and now the tracking device, lol if the collar stays on him.


When the GPS ones get better and the battery lasts longer we will probably get one of those.
I like the fact it'll (the GPS ones) will let us know if he goes somewhere we don't want him to go. But that will have to be in the future.

I hope this info helps other furs as it's not nice to lose a furry friend. Purrs for the ones that are missing I hope you are found soon.
Purrs Mr D

Meows, Thank you Da Tabbies O trout towne and Ollies family for responding to my diary entry.
I know the human has been very slack at writing my thank yous, she still intends on doing it. She starts and then has problems with the gift shop unfortunately she doesn’t have time, she feels bad about it. We may just need to send out thank yous that are copy and pasted. I'm so sorry.
Normally we write different ones, but this time with the slow catputer and the gift shop not opening it's an impossible task.

I put the diary entry here to see if anyone was in NZ, so we could catch up since we are so close to the action.

The human has been really busy at work trying to sort stuff out. Today she has a day off but in the afternoon she has to go to a conference so that will wipe out the rest of her day.
BUMMER...

I hope all is good with everyfur and yes I'm good and really really happy to be home. The old guy Balty's still with us Raza went to the vets again for a UTI. The drugs she's on, she loves, so that's a huge plus and Sam is her normal purrty self purring and as loveable as ever
That’s our news we hope all is good with everyone else
Purrs Mr D

Any Catster humans over for the world cup (Rugby)

Just wondering if anyone came to NZ to see the (Rugby) games. The human is off to work soon and thinks it'll be busy. She works in a Mall right next to one of todays venues. It's France v's Japan Tomorrows Italy v's Australia.
Here's a clip of the function last night. Boy work was quiet I think everyone was at the party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhI-8au4bO0&feature=player_em bedded

Purrs for now got ta run

Thank you thank you Thank you HE"S HOME!!!!!!!!

All those purrs thank you

It's 3:30 am and he's just walked in the door literally.
HE"S HOME good as gold starving and very light but all in all looks great.
YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!


We are so happy, thank you everyone
I'm sure it was all the purrs

My last post again
-Karyn

Now it's Mr D's again

Hi guys I'm home but the human won't let me eat as much as I want, she say's I'll make myself sick WHAT!!!! I'm starving here.
Furmum has just Hissed at me Hummm!!! I'm looking forward to life being back to normally

Except they have put a NEW collar on me they said it is a new tracking collar that I need to wear now. AND I'm not allowed outside for a long long time even though I'm asking to go out right now. Hey a guys got to pee you know.
This litter box stuff is for kittens you know.
Purrs MR D

P.S. I was told the rest of the house is purring for all the kitty affected by Irine, She sounds nasty even killed some so I'm joining them in purring for you all. Purrs Mr D

Purrs and thank you

Thank you every fur we are doing our best to find the D myster. Sorry we are not keeping up with Catster very well. But we are trying to keep up with friends, look for D then the human has to go to work Grrrrr on the last one. We still haven't got to thank everyfur for the gifts and rosettes yet. We seem to getting further and further behind. The human is having to work longer hours too, Since another work person has more serious life and death problems to deal with. We are lucky I'm sure D is fine we just have to find him.
Here's a copy of the post we put in the forums...

Funny enough we have to go D hunting twice a day.
1 In the middle of the night because that will be when D's probably active as he is shy and will be scared.
2. Then again at 5 pm around all the places were we are getting the phones calls. The reason for the 5pm one it is to eliminate the cats, as this seems to be a time most cats are outside at the front gate waiting for the humans to come home. We just went out to another sighting and the cat looked very very similar to D so we can assume it was this cat we had two phone calls from in this area.
He'll be out there it's just where?

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It's times like this you met so many lovely people out in your neighbourhood. We found out there are two lovely ladies around the road that have just been door knocking for us in their immediate area and they are keeping an eye out for a ginger they have seen in their yard. They did think it had a blue collar so it may not be D but you never know. They are so nice they are neighbours to each other about 1/2 way between our house and where he was found the last time. So it's fantastic to have them helping us they also call for him every night. That is so nice.

In another street there is a lady putting out food for the ginger kitty she saw on her bottom door step.

And we have had many calls from our flyer drops but as you all know there are lots of ginger cats around.

Just letting you know we are working on it and we thank you all for all your purrs keeping him safe until we get him home again.

Thanks again purrs Sam, Raza and Balty(D's sister, fur mum and the old guy, We can't believe he's still with us and going strong. Next week will be his 21st birthday it's a shame we won't have time to celebrate it :()

Hi.

Hi it's Karyn here..... Oh dear what can I say?... I'm sorry but I lost your furry friend D again. I was just thinking a few days before he was chased off, that he's been home for 3 years. Little did I know it was all going to change, again!

I know many of you may say that we are irresponsible pet owners. I think that was what was written. I can understand the way you feel. But I still stand by that it's not common. D I admit we felt was a flight risk.
He was the only one other than Balty that we insisted had to be inside at night. We always asked each other where he was if he wasn't in sight. Normally he was always there, usually asking to go outside or be wanting to come in 2 minutes later he loved attention.

He's a big softy and loves all living things. He would never raise his paw to any of the cats even though they would always hiss at him. It seemed to be a standard thing they would walk past, hiss and he wouldn't even look up, and it was almost as if it was a tortie greeting.

If they got stroppy he would just roll over. He is a big boy and is probably quite scary to other cats. I hope this helps him.
He will be out there we just need to find him. He would have just been scared out of his territory. I think his main danger will be the road. Luckily he is older now so hopefully a little wiser.

We have many lovely folks out there looking for him. We have had a great response to our flyers and we have gone to see many ginger cats. Because here in NZ most cats are indoor / outdoor felines there are many out there. Luckily its winter and most are not silly and are curled up inside where it's warmer.

That should help D. We went to the SPCA again today, it's about a 45 minute drive away. They have his chip info, but it doesn't hurt to keep checking in on them. It is the only day off this week for me so things have been a little hectic. We get up early and walk the streets at 5am (when it is quiet). It was funny the other morning we walked down a particular street and then at 7am we got a call from a lady that she thought she saw him.
This sounded positive, as we dropped that flyer off a few days ago and it seemed to coincidental that she thinks she saw him hours after us been in the area. I'm wondering if we flushed him out a little. We called and called from the back yard of the lady next doors house. Where the orange cat was seen. Everyone was been helpful and allowed us to walk over their properties. I thought I could hear a meow then no more. Was it him? It sounded close. But I couldn't get him to meow anymore.

It's only been two weeks and He is a bit of a scaredy cat so I'm not surprised if he is very weary with me.
After talking to the lady she thought he had a blue collar on. D's collar is red :(
Also we went around to the houses on the other side and spoke to the dairy owner he said there was an orange cat that's been hanging around for the last couple of months, again :(
D’s only been gone for 2 weeks.
This guy may not be our D but we went back at 11am, 8pm and again today. But nothing yet.

This is not the only call out we have had, we usually look until we see the orange cat the people saw. Some have had white paws and some have been medium haired. There's lots of cats when you look.
Many houses have a cat or two and with most been indoor outdoor means a lot of cats. The only thing that makes the cat population look low is.... it's cold out there.

We had a high temperture of 12 Deg C today. I know that's not cold for many Catster cats but we are having some of our coldest days on record, well since 1939 that is. In the next day or so that cool front will pass over and things will warm up again.

So you see it's not too bad out there for a double coated cat (the double coat is from his Exotic Persian mother).
I belong to another Missing cat group and other person just found their cat after 7.5 months. Fantastic news. I do believe they are out there I’m sure we’ll see D again it’s just when. Luckily he is chipped this time and his collar is on good.
I have now purchased a tracking collar to put on him so when we get him back he’ll be easier to find.

I want to thank everyone for all the good wishes. Catster is an amazing caring community. It makes you proud to be a member. Thank you to you all for making it all happen as it is everyone here that makes Catster Catster.

I have been reading all the post, candles, and gifts and been scribbling then down for days, so I’ll say our thank yous on D’s behalf here, if that’s ok with you all.
My good friend Alfie and his lovely meowmy Eva do so much for us, all the lovely messages you have all sent, all the diaries, I apologise if I miss any. If I have we may not be connected as friends as I do try to read the diaries when I can, If so can I have a friends request please, so I can keep in touch. 
Thank you Sonny Bono for rounding up the Angels and writing in your diary Also Kally Kat with the cute praying kitty and your diary too.
All the kind messages from the diaries
Blizzard aka the catfather, Kaci Sunshine, Anna, Biggles, Tigger, Samoa, WeBeesSiamese, Gump, Skylar DB#39A, Jezebel,Skids Kitty,Rex, Soc and Lulu, Darwin, Pixie,Harry, Eddy, Pharaoh Princess Tao, Zachery Kolohe Rider, Timmy Tom Cat, Smokey Joe, Moka, Sundance, Cody, Maizy, Finnegan, Sky, Simo-n and Bruce the boss. Not to mention Katerina, Milo, Ollie and Teddy. Many have even multiple post. It’s so sweet of you all.

Then there are the gifts the power of the paw from...
Tate, Worlds coolest Fluffy and Alex, Tabbie little and family, SmokeyJoe and family, Timmy Tomcat and family, Cody and family,Wanda and her family, Sundance, Clementine, Jason Hopper, Big Harry and family, Kelly Kat.
Candles from...
Hamlet, Miranda and family, Pinky and family, Lucy and family, Toby and family, Alfie forever loved.
Heart from...
Kaci Sunshine and family

Then there are the candles from Riley and Skippy, Blizz – cat fathers family, Tink, Alfie, Biggs, Sonny Bono, Milo Smokey Joe, Jezebel, KallyKat, Miranda, Zoe, Sklar, Tigger and family, Kaci, Skids, Boomer, Anna and Mom, Zach, Jason, Harry and Albie, Ra, Bobcat, GN. It’s nice of you to have them burning for him.
I just want to thank you all for your help and I want you to know we will look for him until we find him. It may take a little while but I’m sure we’ll get him back. I think he’ll still be a little timid at the moment as it’s only been a few weeks there’s lots of food and water out there and there are very few predators, Maybe dogs if he goes into their yards, but all in all he should be ok. Fingers crossed.
You know we love our cats to bits, they are not pets but good friends and members of our family. Even Balty whose been getting most of the attention lately. We will do our best by them to best of our ability.
I can’t believe none of the cats are showing signs of missing him this time, little rat-bags. If anything Sam seems happy Grrrr. That’s the tortie top cat coming out I think. She never accepted D back the last time. They used to be so close when they were kittens. D would try to get close to her, but she would get stroppy hiss and take off. I just put it down to her tortie tude. He would just ignore her. LOL he was good at that.
Yes me miss him and will do everything we can to get him back.

We are still away but check in when we can, and thank you- for all the lovely gifts

You wouldn't believe it they are predicting MORE tornados today.
The human has to go to work so paws crossed it doesn't get the Mall again. I think the last one did enough damage. They are very rare here. So it is a shock for us to see them. We are still listed as away on our profile because we cannot guarantee we can come to Catster and we would hate it if we miss something important and upset anyone if we didn’t respond.
The human is still very busy sorting everything out. She has to go to Australia to bring her fathers ashes back to New Zealand. She has a conference she has to attend over there too, also sorting out the mess at work. Only half the Mall is open, I’m guessing her work will be quiet today because of the tornado warnings. Also there’s still stuff to sort out with the Earthquake. I can’t believe we are involved in both unusual occurrences. They are miles apart and I mean miles ones in the South Island and ones in the North. But yes we are involved in both.
MOL I think the human should buy a Lotto ticket her luck has to change soon. She always believes things go in waves you have to have the bad to get the good. We are very lucky things haven’t been that bad for us. We have only had minor damage in all the problems, nothing yet that we can’t handle. It’s just a pain and it’ll hopefully make us stronger.

We hope all is good with everyone and we also want to thank everyone for all the lovely gifts you have given us. Our pages look pawsome with them.

Wow!!!! we are all fine but..... You wouldn't believe- it.......

It sure is a strange year.
You know about Christchurch and all the earthquakes, well they are still happening and the human's have a house there. Well it seems fine with only minor damage like the hot water cylinder needs securing and there are cracks in the walls and floors. So they consider themselves lucky.
Last week the human female’s father died. He wasn't well and it's not really a huge shock but still not nice.
THEN.... THEN today......
I cannot believe it. There was a tornado that ripped through our area. WHAT!!!!!!! We don't get tornados. But..... There sure was one.
It went right through the Mall were the human has a shop. Everyone in their shop was fine, but there have been some deaths and the Mall is a mess apparently the roof has been taken off.
I can't believe it. Raza and Balty were at the vets this morning for urine test and Raza had to stay the day. The tornado went very close to the vets which are just up the road from our house.
When's it going to stop is that our 3?

We purr for all the others that are having problems and I hope it all works out for you.
Purrs for now, purrs Mr D, Raza, Balty and Sam.

What next???????
Now you know why we are away at the moment.