November 27th 2008 1:12 pm
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I don’t think much about what I am thankful for as long as I have a bowl of Royal Canin or Ryan’s Pet Promise around. I do not think it is a good idea to leave food lying around, so I take care of that problem.
I am grateful my mom came back and brought her salt water fish with her. They are my new obsession. I sit at their tank most of the day and just watch them. I conspire with the clown fish (we call them “the Nemos”) to get them fed several times a day because I like watching them eat.
I am grateful for the attention I get from my mom and grandma.
I am grateful I am allowed to sleep anywhere I want to.
I am grateful grandma gave up trying to get me used to riding in Big Pink.
September 25th 2008 11:18 am
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Has my grandma been that bad? No diary entry since August? Well that's just WRONG!
I am just fine after the horror and trauma of my v-e-t visit and teeth cleaning operation. My leg hair is grown back and my teefs are still pearly white and pretty!
My mom and I are still with grandma, and that suits me fine. Mom's having a hard time getting a job with school and all, and she's kind of reluctant to move out of grandma's place and into a place with her boyfriend as she doesn't want to be financially dependent on him.
Today I am sort of sad though. Remember how my mom brought her salt water fish? Well, my favorite fish, a little striped algae eater of some sort named Hal is sick, and of course fish don't get v-e-t trips. Grandma is wondering if he has a bladder infection. He's sort of swimming sideways. Grandma is going to do a water change to the tank in the hopes that fresh salt water will make him feel better. I do enjoy watching those fish!
Last night I wanted to sit on my mom's lap and snuggle with her and my favorite pink blankie. But she was sitting next to her boyfriend and he wouldn't let me up there.
I think I will plot against his stupid snake. It's icky. It's a spotted python and both my grandma and mom hate it and won't touch it, even to give it water. And my mom's boyfriend has to feed it in private. We refuse to watch.
August 13th 2008 12:10 pm
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It has taken me nearly a full day to recover from the horror and the trauma!
I have to go to the v-e-t and I got left there! I cried all the way there (a 20-minute drive!) and then grandma took me out of the carrier and they weighed me and immediately started talking about my weight and something called metabolic syndrome. I MUST lose weight, which is hard to do in a multicat household when a couple of the cats need to eat all day whenever they want! The v-e-t listened to my heart and lungs and felt my belly but I refused to stand up on the exam table.
Then the worse thing—they took me from grandma and took blood and gave me a shot and then PUT ME IN A CAGE! They gave me some food and that was it. At 10 p.m. they took my food and water away. What kind of kitty boarding is this, and why ME?
The next morning they shaved my leg and put in a needle, and I nodded off. When I woke up, my mouth was a little sore but the tartar on my upper molars was all gone! A few hours later, grandma and my mom came with the carrier and the vet tech put me in and I got to go home! I was so angry that I refused to eat at the v-e-t after I woke up! Imagine, me, Matt, refusing to eat!
I was still a little dizzy so I went and hid for awhile but then thought better and found the food bowl and our drinking fountain. And I drank lots!
Today I feel much better and I'm hanging out watching my mom's fish. We did not start my special diet; when I move with my mom I will be an only cat and it will be easier to help me lose weight with a special diet. The v-e-t called it a diabetic diet. I dunno it sounds kind of icky to me!
Best part of all—I don't have to go back to the v-e-t in a year! Unless they decide they need to monitor my weight loss ... I sure hope not!
August 8th 2008 9:31 pm
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I’ve been warned by Scottie (he knows everything!) that I will be going to the v-e-t on Monday and staying overnight in preparation for a dental on Tuesday. Grandma says there’s no way she could pull food from everyone just ‘cause I have to be starved!
Scottie says it’s not all bad but I think he’s lying to me!
July 25th 2008 1:53 pm
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My mom finally gave me my bath, and I cried like a baby! Mom told grandma the water was filthy and that she knows I'm not yet super-clean. You see, mom is trying to get me super-clean so when she gets a place of her own with her boyfriend (who claims to be allergic to me!) I can live with her and the boyfriend's horrible Jack Russell terrier d-o-g. I have never lived with a d-o-g so I am planning plenty of nice things to do to "G."
My favorite thing to do right now is lie on the bed, on her pillows, watching television with her. Even though I was mad at her for about 2 hours after my bath!
July 21st 2008 3:14 pm
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Wow. I am famous.
first I get my mom back, now I'm a ddp! Life has been good, though my mom is still promising me a bath and I'm still waiting for it!
Thanks Catster!
July 11th 2008 5:08 pm
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Nothing purrsonal about living with grandma, but my mom is coming back to stay with us! I am so happy, I love to sleep on her bed because I sleep with my head on the pillow looking at her. She gives me baths (I live being bathed and brushed!) and she loves me most of all of the kitties!
I am a happy cat! I can't wait!
June 16th 2008 3:37 pm
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Well, this is a hard one, 'cause I am such a laid-back guy I let effuryone else in the household be entertaining.
1. I like to nap in front of my water fountain. I would nap with my cheek leaning against the water bowl. Humans say that is a sign of nausea in sick kitties but I'm not sick!
2. I don't like organic or grain-free foods. And I prefer crunchies to wet but I eat both.
3. Even though I am muy grande, I mew like a kitten or a baby bird.
4. Believe it or not I do play with toys!
5. I enjoy being bathed but only when my mommy does it. Leaning over the bath tub hurts grandma's back so she makes my baffy too quick and not thorough enough!
Grandma doesn't have time today to find five furriends for me to tag, so if you want to play along, just go ahead and tell 'em Matt tagged you!
May 29th 2008 2:51 pm
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Grandma says it was planned though. I didn't get my baffy 'cause it was a bit too chilly the past couple of days.
Mom came back allergic to us! Or maybe just allergic to all of the pollen in the air. She was raised with kitties all of her life until she left me last summer—how can she be allergic now? Her eyes are all watery and she sneezes. Grandma thinks it's more of an allergies to the area thing than an allergy to ME!
Anyway, mommy will be going back to Arizona but only until the end of June, then she's coming back HERE to live and go to school to be a paralegal and start with an introductory class in summer school. But the big bummer is her boyfriend is allergic to kitties and won't take medicine! Grandma tells mom that she will never find a man as loyal as I am!
And last night I slept with my mom! I missed sharing a bed with her. The night before she closed the door and I was real mad she wouldn't let me cuddle with her. So I kept grandma awake talking and complaining about how the upstairs bedroom was closed! Not fair!
She just left to pick up her boyfriend's d-o-g (ick!) and then she's coming back through real quick to make sure she didn't forget anything. I am already sad and sitting by the cat tree by the door waiting for her to come back. Because she will be forgetting me again, but it's because not a good thing for me to take a 12-hour trip to Arizona from here, with a stopover somewhere, to live in Arizona for only 3 or 4 weeks!
How can she pick a human m-a-n over ME?? So it's possible that even when she comes back I can't live with her once she moves in with that guy! For miaowing out loud, I just don't get it!
I plan to overeat to forget her, just like I did when she left me last summer!
May 23rd 2008 8:30 pm
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My mommy came to see me! I missed her so much-she left me at the end of July and I nearly forgot who she was.
But I ignored her at first and walked off when she first came in. Scottie of course greeted her like "where ya been?" He's not afraid of strangers! Cammi ran by her and miaowed and wasn't at all sure that it was okay to have any more humans here. Ryan went poof! Ryan is still poof!
Fifteen minutes later I was sitting on the cat perch and she walked up to me. She said "Mattie I'm sorry I missed you too. I'll give you a baffie (tub bath) tomorrow!"
I headbutted her and purred in my 'froat. All is forgiven, though grandma tells me that she won't be sleeping her tonight but she might be coming back to stay with me at the end of June.
I hope so. I love sharing a bed and a comforter with my mom. Even though grandma takes care of me, she's not my mom!
April 26th 2008 9:44 pm
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Grandma just noticed I have exactly 1000 furriends—my newest friend is a pretty black kitty named Fosforos.
It feels really pawesome to have more furriends than Scottie or Ryan or everyone's sweetheart Cammi!
And tomorrow I get to be a groomscat and escort my best girl Chap, who is going to be so pretty, even prettier than the bride, I just know it. I hope I can get the cummerbund around my belly!
March 8th 2008 1:51 am
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A quick note to let effuryone know I am still here! Grandma has been very busy, and because I am a thoughtful cat, I don't demand stuff from her like Cammi does.
Though I am a bit mad about Cammi messing up our patio time! Grandma hasn't had the time to scare Cammi straight and make her not want to jump over the patio. Grandma says she will do it though, it's not fair we all have to suffer because Cammi is a stupid little girl.
February 13th 2008 11:50 am
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My grandma says she doesn't have time to research our furriends who have not yet been tagged, so we aren't tagging anyone. But here's my seven facts...
1. I like to eat, dry food, wet food, whatever. Not so crazy about people food.
2. I enjoy a magic wand session every now and then.
3. I behave myself during a bath though I do cry.
4. I miss my mom even though I know grandma loves me.
5. I like that grandma has given me two soft and snuggly beds to nap in and she washes them often. They smell like lilacs or vanilla.
6. I have been having a good time the past couple of days with the unseasonably warm weather, lying in the sun during our patio time
7. I enjoy playing chase with Ryan, Cammi and Scottie. Except I do the chasing, and they are the chase-ees.
January 30th 2008 1:12 pm
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Ryan is such a fool! He knows he should not have long adventures over the wall. It's easy to get spooked in this place, and that is probably what happened to him. Poor grandma was traipsing around this apartment complex at 1 a.m. listening for Ryan's bell collar. When she finally saw him, he ran from her!
He's catching up on his zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs today. Bet it's a long time before any of us get patio time.
January 28th 2008 4:00 pm
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It's been a rough week for me. I'm feeling okay but I have pudding poo. I eat and drink normally but my bottom was getting real sore. So grandma went to Catster questions and she got some good ideas how to take care of me. She got some acidophilus pills (pills, ick, even though they are tiny!) and some gentle soap and some butt paste. Yes that is the product's name ... she bought Boudreaux's Butt Bath and Butt Paste! But it is helping me a lot, even though I hate it when she sneaks up on me to give me the acidophilus pill. And I haven't lost a pound either! MOL
Right now it is sort of sunny outside so we are getting some bonus patio time. Yay!!
January 18th 2008 10:50 pm
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I am almost embarrassed to say this but I am sure I am not the only kitty who has this problem. Sometimes I have a problem keeping myself clean, and when my mommy was living here I got bathed about once a month. I like baths! I cry but I am really good.
Well, I haven't seen my mommy since July and I haven't had a bath since June, and my hiney was getting stinky. So grandma took me to the tub. Problem with a bath from grandma is she has a bad back so it's not a real good bath.
Grandma says if my mommy doesn't come for me before she goes on vacation in May, she will take me to the groomer at the v-e-t-'s when I get my physical (and hopefully my teeth cleaned) and I will have a day at the spa and the operating room. If they will do both in one day that is! Scottie told me I will get to take pain medicine if I get any teeth pulled but the v-e-t didn't think I have any bad teefs.
Wow I went from a stinky butt to getting a bath and my teefs cleaned. What a writer I am!
January 10th 2008 8:22 pm
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Check out the new photo grandma posted. It's a pile 'o cats on her clean clothes. Or rather, it's two tabbies (me and Scottie) and a tuxedo baby girl (Cammi).
Sleeping in a cat pile on clean clothes is the best thing to do on a cold winter day!
January 3rd 2008 5:45 pm
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Grandma was mad at me because I clawed at the door and the satellite wires asking to go out. She said "Matt you had your outside time, it's too cold now." So I scratched at the wires and separated the wires so the TV didn't work and then she had to fix the wires.
Well at least grandma's problem-solving skills dealing with mechanical devices have improved! MOL
Rumor is the rain is coming and there's not going to be any outside time for a day or more ... darn!
December 30th 2007 1:47 pm
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Well Ryan came around without a trip to the vet for a pharmalogical intervention, and I'm getting used to having a kitten bop up to me again and want to run and play. I do not run.
I hate to admit she is cute. But so tiny! If you just look at her you think you are looking at a 10- or 12-week old kitten at best. But her birthday is known, and she is going to be five months old on January 1! The reason you know she's not as young as she is tiny are her athletic abilities and her ability to stay warm on her own, though mom has a tiny sweater on her. She nibbles at wet food several times a day and gets Gerber with some lysine in it (just in case) every morning. At bedtime she gets boiled chicken with hard boiled egg as a snack.
Only problem with her is she gets to sleep in Ryan's old bed and grandma keeps that on the bed near her pillows. I like that bed too! So when Cammi and grandma get up to do their early morning business, I take over the tiny bed! Cammi crawls back into bed and cuddles into grandma's armpit, I am on the right side and Scottie's on the left, with Ryan at the foot of the bed. Grandma's pinned!
December 27th 2007 8:35 pm
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Grandma reminds me to be kind to the baby Cammi, because when I came to live with her and the person who became my mommy, Smudge and Elliott were both real mean to me! Scottie was always very nice!
She's not so bad as long as she doesn't play with my tail when I am asleep. I am asleep for a reason. I am tired. From eating and playing. In that order.
Mom even caught us in a cat orgy of sorts this afternoon on the bed. Well, we were all sleeping on the bed and no one was complaining about anything. Even Ryan is coming around believe it or not ...
December 21st 2007 5:42 pm
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I haven't been talking much lately, but it doesn't mean I am an unhappy cat. Winter isn't my favorite time of the year, but I go with the flow! I like summer best because the bugs come out at night and I like to call them and play with them and bite their heads off! But I digress ...
It was a year ago when Elliott got so sick. Now he and I weren't the best of friends because he got most of grandma's attention, and even more so when he came back from the vet on Christmas Eve and started getting daily SQs and medicines and everything was all about Elliott. But I miss him and I remember how sad grandma was when he was diagnosed (because she missed the signs of chronic renal failure) and how awful it was when he went to the Bridge.
So this is what I want for Christmas—I want for effury sick Catster kitty to rally and have a great Christmas with their families. I want a day of not worrying about how sick you are, and for each of you to rally and have a good day and beg for turkey dinner and whatever treats you want. I want you all to feel like kittens again. And I don't want for grandma to have to read about any new Christmas kitty angels ...
December 9th 2007 7:33 pm
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I had a really really good nap this afternoon in my very favorite place ... Big Pink! Grandma has a weather cover on it and it just makes is so much warmer and cozier. But don't even think about closing that zipper and moving that thing!
I had a really neat magic wand session with Ryan earlier today. He's in pretty good shape, he jumps all over the place. I prefer to keep all four feet on the ground when chasing those feathers ... must protect my dignity!
December 8th 2007 6:21 pm
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There is one thing I can say about December and impending winterhood.
It's really a good time to nap in a warm bedroom, with clean blankies and on a soft featherbed with a fursib or two nearby. Cats sleep something like 16 hours a day, right? Well what's the big deal of increasing it by 4 hours or so and calling it winter pseudohibernation?
We get our patio time around lunchtime, and the thrill just isn't there. Darn it, it's cold outside. I am a spoiled California cat, aren't I? Grandma says if I was with my mom, supposedly it's not as cold as in Arizona. But then she tells me my mom betrayed me by getting two stupid terrier dogs (it was actually probably the manipulative guy she's living with who did it, but that's beside the point). Yuck. I refuse to compete with retarded canines.
November 30th 2007 5:21 pm
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I made Stuff On My Cat! I'm global! I'm a celebrity! My photo was posted on November 29!
Actually I am still the same guy I always was! Not gonna go to my head, no it's not!!
November 20th 2007 8:48 pm
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Generally I am an easygoing kitty, who doesn't ask for a lot. But in this time of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for many things.
1. Always having fresh food available.
2. Grandma giving up on feeding me grain-free or all-natural cat foods. Royal Canin is just fine by me!
3. Having lots of places to sleep, including Big Pink. Don't zip me in or move that thing though!
4. Living with other kitties who keep me occupied and happy! Sleeping in a kitty pile is the best!
5. Getting oodles of petting and love from my grandma, who isn't going to abandon me or put me into an unstable situation. Even though I miss my mom, I don't want to live in drama 24/7!
November 12th 2007 2:26 pm
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No I'm not invisible, I'm just going along in life like I always do, go with the flow!
I am quite disappointed that Ryan has grown so big. Seriously I should have taken care of the problem when I had the chance.
I do like the change of seasons, it's nice to sleep in a kitty pile on the bed. We generate lots of body heat so who needs a heater on high in the bedroom!
Grandma keeps threatening to take me to the v-e-t for my dental work—she just needs to make sure she's got enough $$$ just in case I need a tooth or two pulled. The v-e-t didn't think my teefs are in that bad of shape. Grandma wants to extort some money from my mom, who still has given no indication as to when she is going to come get me. I like living with grandma, I miss my mom, but I want to be in a stable place. I do deserve that, as do all kitties. So as long as I have a roof over my head, food in the bowl, and loving hands that I know to pet me, things are pretty decent.
October 23rd 2007 6:21 am
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I think Ryan and Scottie's diaries pretty much cover what's going on here. Grandma is really busy and hasn't had a lot of time for playing with us. I try to be a good boy and sit nearby just in case she gets an urge to pet a kitty. You can see by my pictures I like to sleep all stretched out. It's a strategy. If you see a fat brown tabby cat stretched at your feet, you just gotta pet it, right?
I will take stray accidental pettings anytime ...
October 19th 2007 10:41 am
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Grandma has been so busy this week, and her weekend looks worse. But Scottie and Ryan and I will try to be the loving kitties we always are, so when she takes breaks she can lower her blood pressure by petting us.
I miss my mommy sooooo much! The other night, I was sitting on the cat tree by the door, and I heard footsteps and the walking rhythm was just like my mom's! My mom wears high heels pretty much everywhere! Anyway, I stood up on the shelf to meet her and started purring loud enough that grandma could hear me across the room, I usually purr deep in my 'froat (as my mom says) so you can feel me purr and hear it only when you get very close. Unfortunately it wasn't my mom, the person walked up the stairs into one of the units above us. Grandma said it was so sad, you could see how disappointed I was.
I do not understand how someone could just leave me like she did ... and then replace me with dogs!
I sleep with grandma on a flannel blankie, and as daylight comes, I migrate to the pillows and sleep near her head with Scottie and Ryan. It's not the same as sleeping with my mom, my head on her pillow looking at her, covered by a comforter, all nice and warm.
October 10th 2007 6:01 pm
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I wish I understood Scottie and Ryan's fascination with riding in Big Pink.
There we were, lying around on grandma's bed, window open, sunshine everywhere. An hour earlier we'd all had a snack of chicken-flavored Greenies. Grandma brings in the stroller and Scottie starts talking ... Ryan jumps in it. Then Scottie goes poof! Eventually he pops up and off they go!
So what happens? They come back, Scottie cried for an hour wanting more, and now grandma's back hurts like crazy. But Scottie and Ryan talk about things like houses, cars, decorations for Halloween in orange and black, and it makes me sort of want to see these things.
But not enough to stop crying if Big Pink gets zipped up!
October 1st 2007 7:55 pm
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Let me tell you, I am glad that Scottie got that cat tree for his birthday. I love the thing! It's the best for just lying around, hanging my arms off the sides and kicking back!
I have been so super-lazy the past couple of days, I love it!
September 26th 2007 10:10 pm
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I am so sad. The weather is changing, and I miss sleeping with my mom in her warm bed, with lots of pillows and comforters. I am so unhappy that I am now trying to sleep on grandma's pillows, on the opposite side of Scottie. Grandma's not real crazy about that, but she understands where I am coming from.
I can't understand how someone who has always has cats in her life can just up and leave me! Grandma does take good care of me, and she does love me, but my heart belongs to my mom! She left like poof! the end of June, came back in July for more of her stuff, and at that time grandma didn't think the 10+ hour drive to Phoenix would be smart to do in the middle of summer, not to mention my mom was unable to find a job. But we've not heard from her since then, and grandma needs to move into a smaller place (why have a second bedroom if no one is in it ... kitties dont' count!) and really can't have all 5 of us! No plans as to when I get to live with her ... Mr. Des will probably go with me as well, as he and I are buddies too ... Scottie, Ryan and Smudge will stay with grandma. No one likes Smudge, she's kind of snooty so none of us boys really hang around her. But she's tiny and hides well. Scottie and Ryan don't hide from anything!
So grandma e-mailed my mom asking her when she was coming for me & Mr. Des, and if she had enough $$$ to have my teeth cleaned to send it up here or call the vet's office with a credit card number and grandma will take me to get it all done, and I need lab work too! I am sure scared to move all the way to Arizona ... I understand summers are he**, but I know where I want to be and who I want to be with!
September 24th 2007 12:55 pm
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It might have been bought as a present for Scottie, but I sure like it a lot!
Yesterday grandma bought and built a new cat tree for Scottie's birthday. He likes it, but I like it MORE!
I love lying pretty much anywhere on it ... but I like the third level best because it has a hole in it and I can put my arms down the hole and just hang there. Well, I like the top level too, I hang my arms down that too! Grandma says she is going to try to get a photo of me hanging out on the new tree, but I try not to stay still for photos anymore because I get teased for being fat! No fair!
I have so many great places to nap ... I'm quite a happy round & brown tabby! Time to slurp up the rest of Ryan's Tiki Cat and go take a nap!
September 21st 2007 6:22 pm
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I don't think I am being treated fairly at all!
You see, I like Big Pink the stroller for ONE thing only—naptime! It's my favorite place to sleep now. But I want NO part of rides! No siree!
So today I am napping, and grandma keeps pacing (well gimping) back and forth between the bedroom and living room, walking by me and Big Pink. She claims to be looking for Ryan and Scottie to take them for a stroll. Of course there's no way that stroller is moving anywhere with ME in it! She finally gets tired of me napping, and moves Big Pink into the bedroom where Ryan and Scottie are.I of course jump out, and she puts them IN, and of course they are quite happy to be ready for a stroll!
Off they go! And of course they both come back talking about the weather, the sights, and how nice the ride was. I don't buy a word of it!
I believe that she needs to buy another Big Pink and park it for MY exclusive napping use! Sharing is ridiculous!
September 17th 2007 2:51 pm
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So today grandma came home with two pretty leafy plants ... there was a good special at the grocery store and she couldn't resist! Of course I immediately took a bite from each, which caused grandma to move the plants onto the highest part of the bookshelf, alongside Elliott's ashes. For grandma that is a very sacred place, and E sure liked chomping on her plants. He also was fond of jumping over the patio, nabbing a few bites of grass, jumping back over and barfing wherever he wanted!
I have decided to try to be a therapy cat like Scottie, so I have been staying close and trying to offer comfort. Grandma has to do an interview with one of the college presidents on Thursday and she is hoping her back will be better by then. A week later, she goes to see her doctor.
I know you will not believe this, but I also enjoy wand sessions with Ryan. I don't jump and flip around as well as he does, but Ryan is build for kitty agility. He couldn't bring down a buffalo like I could, so I attack kitty wands differently than Ryan and let the fluffy thing at the end come to me! It's a lot of fun to run in circles and finally fall down dizzy. I am happy grandma found the wand again—we need to talk her into getting some different feathers for it though!
September 13th 2007 11:25 am
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Oh wow, twice in one week I end up a daily diary pick! HA! Even Mr. Perfect Scottie hasn't been a daily diary pick with his perfect life and all of that, and Ryan has NEVER been a daily diary pick twice in the same week. Neener neener neener!
I guess people must like reading about cruelty to round brown mackeral tabby cats like me! I have already suffered TWO injustices today ... read on if you dare!
1. Remember how I like to sleep in Big Pink, but no way I'm accepting a ride in that thing! Grandma put a Boogie Mat in it, and released catnip into the bag. Well I don't like catnip but Mr. Perfect Scottie does. So now he sleeps in Big Pink as a nap place! NOT FAIR!!!
2. Already this morning there's been a Greenie treat session ... Ryan got nine, Scottie got seven, and I got ONE! ONLY ONE!
I am sure there will be more torment, the day is young!
Sometimes I think I need to be rehomed. Certainly someone out there would know how to treat someone grande like me in a fair and loving manner? Fair and loving means food of whatever type I want, whenever I want it, and in the quantity I wish it to be presented!
P.S. If you want to join the Kitty Complaints Gallery, PM me and I will zap an invite to you, my special friend!
September 11th 2007 1:30 am
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Oh gosh, grandma just told me I am a "daily diary" pick whatever that means. She told me lots of people would be reading about me and my traumatic life!
You know, maybe that is a good thing. My friend Horus and I were talking about our difficult lives ... he is tortured daily by his human, who puts flea medicine on his neck and has the nerve to use a vacuum cleaner! My grandma is the cruelest person too ... she thinks I would be so cute taking walks just like Scottie and Ryan, though I would have to be the only cat in Big Pink, because I am so round and grande. I'm sorry, but there is a BIG difference between taking a nice quiet nap in Big Pink versus being "strolled" around the place in Big Pink. Why doesn't she understand that? Is she daft?
Anyway, Horus and I think we should start a Catster group for cats who are forced to suffer indignities of any kind—baths, rides in strollers, being dressed up, trips to the v-e-t when there is nothing wrong, not being allowed to eat as much as they want, whatever they want, and whenever they want it. How many of you cats would join our group? It would be a place where we can be honest about our torture and not worry about repurrcussions, no one will lecture us about what lucky kitties we are or other piffle!
There are so many cruel things each of us endure. Even Ryan the Brat claims to suffer indignities—every time grandma picks him up, she holds him like a baby, kisses him on the nose and forehead, and talks baby talk to him. Doesn't she remember Ryan's heritage as a 'hood kitten? And Scottie, aka Mr. Perfect, grandma wipes his nose and makes him take lysine and uses ear drops on him and it's just not fair. So what if he needs it to stay healthy, it's just cruel!
Persecuted pussy cats, that's what we are!
September 10th 2007 11:57 am
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Just because I am a tick overweight is NO reason to NOT let me eat kitten kibble. If it is good enough for that brat Ryan and good enough that Scottie gets it too, then I can see NO REASON I should not have it either!
The unjust treatment I suffer is too much for one round and brown cat to have to bear!
I'm going to scarf down Ryan's leftover Tiki Cat and take a nap in Big Pink and think about what I need to do to ensure my well-being.
September 7th 2007 9:39 pm
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I have been so upset, I could not think straight. So this entry will be short.
Yesterday I told you about how I was napping in "Big Pink." Well grandma shut the zippers and gave me a RIDE to the mailbox. No more than 3 minutes.
I cried for 3 minutes straight!
Yet I do like napping in the evil thing ...
September 6th 2007 4:45 pm
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Okay it's a well-known fact that I have a secret weapon (peeing) and as a consequence I have not been for a ride in Big Pink once!
Well, today Grandma brought home a boogie mat, and put it into Big Pink. Then she thought about it for minute, and went back to take it out of Big Pink and put it somewhere else that Scottie would enjoy.
Well imagine her surprise when she found ME in Big Pink, kicked back, waiting for a ride!
Unfortunately it's still too hot and I reserve the right to change my mind by then!
September 5th 2007 6:21 pm
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Another day, another day I didn't get put into Big Pink and taken for a ride!
Though I can't for the life of me figure out why Scottie gets excited and talks when grandma takes Big Pink out of the corner, and cries when he gets home at the end of his ride.
Do you think I might be missing something after all?
Naaaaaahhhh ... let's see if I can find some kitten kibble!
September 4th 2007 6:47 pm
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So, there I am, minding my own business watching grandma put on her shoes, take "Big Pink" out of the corner, and gets ready to take Scottie and Ryan for a ride. But they are nowhere to be found!
I can hardly speak ... you know what happens next! Yes, into Big Pink I went! Grandma zipped it up, and we went for a tiny tour of the apartment. I was in the thing less than a minute. I did not relax, I did not sit down. I don't think I liked it. She wasn't going to risk taking me out, so she's looking for Scottie and Ryan to go have some "fun." If that's what they call it ...
September 4th 2007 11:27 am
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I refuse to participate in this "Big Pink" madness! I don't care if Scottie and Ryan like strolls. I don't care if Scottie cries at the end of the ride when he gets home. I don't care if Ryan is unafraid enough to actually explore "Big Pink" on his own. It's not gonna happen and grandma knows I have a secret weapon ... pee!
Grandma tried to put me in the stroller, but at 17 pounds, and with her bad back, she gave up quickly.
I win!
September 1st 2007 1:28 pm
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It's here, and I'm not even gonna go for it! Grandma has the stroller now, and I won't even walk close enough to it that grandma can lift me up into it! Not gonna do it! It's just inside the living room, and I have to walk by it to go into the bedroom. So I run by it so I can't get caught by it!
Scottie sleeps in the darn thing! But he sleeps everywhere and anywhere. Grandma says it's because he's confident. Bet he couldn't make it on the streets by himself. Wait, neither could I but that's beside the point.
Grandma is afraid to put me into "Big Pink" because she figures I will pee. And I probably will but it will be on purpose, not like it was on accident at the vet a couple of months ago!
August 29th 2007 3:01 pm
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We are finally getting some summer weather here, and it's just darn hot! Grandma finally turned on the air conditioning, but I prefer to stay in the bedroom. She has kept the window closed all day, and the oscillating fan is going and it goes right toward me on the bed! It's so nice and comfy and dark in here... grandma comes in to check on me and I chirp at her. She freshens my water bowl and I am just as happy as a fat brown mackrel tabby cat can be!
Best yet, Ryan didn't eat all of his Greenies, so I did!
August 27th 2007 6:33 am
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So did you see the new photo grandma uploaded? Well okay it's got that darn kitten in it too, but it's mostly of ME! My friend Bloo Bloo likes my autumn colors, I do have lots of orange-brown as an undercoat and on my belly!
Grandma thinks I have got to be nearly 20 pounds now from sucking up the kitten kibble Ryan doesn't eat in one sitting. I am not a tall cat, so it goes right to my gut and thighs. She's not quite sure what to do with me. She doesn't want to punish the other cats by taking free-choice food away, as I am the only one with a weight problem. Hey, just in case there's a famine I want to be ready!
Scottie and Ryan have told me that grandma bought a stroller thingie to take us for walks, but it's not yet been shipped from Petco. I am not convinced of the benefits for cats as far as that contraption is concerned. I know that if I get to take a ride, it will be more exercise for grandma to push me around versus 11 or 12 pound Scottie or 6 pounds of Ryan. Imagine pushing a stroller full of ME up a hill! Tons 'o fun!!
Time to go back to bed and take a nice relaxing nap. So what if I just got out of bed? It's bedtime again! You just don't know how to live, that's all!
August 18th 2007 2:38 pm
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Grandma did a photo session JUST FOR ME, and she uploaded two new pictures of very handsome ME! In the first one, I'm bogarting all of the new TOYS she bought for us. Don't we have lots of toys! In the second, I'm in Ryan's baby bed. Hey it fits!
I may not get as many diary entries, but it's because I am such a good boy. I still miss my mommy and I still want a bath!
August 16th 2007 11:18 am
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So we are on day 2 of the patio clampdown. So far none of us have gotten to go outside to play, and it's Ryan's fault. And the sneaky little brat, if grandma tries to open the door to let one of us sneak out, he pops up! Doesn't matter if he was sound asleep on the bed, he's awake like that!
Hopefully as it gets warmer today, he sleeps deeper and I can get some sunshine.
Scottie and I need to smack that kitten down more often for messing things up for us!
Rumor is grandma is going to go get some new toys for us in an hour or so!
August 8th 2007 7:53 pm
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Grandma got this thing in the mail from the vet's office... it's a coupon for wellness blood work and a free heartwork exam for ME!!! She's seriously considering taking me back in even though she's not yet ready for me to have my teeth cleaned.
I wonder if she forgot how I peed on the vet when I went in for my booster shots? I've done it before, and I'll do it again!
August 4th 2007 2:14 pm
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Grandma is trying to get me to eat a grain-free organic cat food and I am just not buying it! She's worried about my weight and thinks that decreasing the amount of grain in my diet would be good.
Not gonna happen! I want my Royal Canin 33 back! You heard the vet—she said that's a real good cat food and there's no reason for me NOT to have it. I don't care if the bag is empty, go to Pet Food Express and get some! Today! I don't care if you are waiting to get paid from work and have not much money ... I am much more important than your need to get milk and groceries for yourself! It's YOUR responsibility to meet MY needs and this grain-free organic stuff isn't cutting it!
And why are you letting that kitten eat jello? JELLO??? Cats don't eat jello! He's just the strangest kitten EVER!
I am going back to my nap now. You better have complied with my wishes before I wake up, or I will take part in a morning walk-over all night if I don't get what I want!
August 2nd 2007 9:29 pm
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Can you believe it? I fell for the kitty wand? Twice today! I think that all of that exercise is not good for me! I've got to remember not to fall for it ever again!
Its okay for Scottie and Ryan but it's just NOT for me ....
(where is that darn wand?)
July 31st 2007 4:14 pm
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Miss Poppy from Northern Ireland tagged me! Because she's my first friend from Northern Ireland, I'm in!
Here's the rules:
Heres how the game goes. Each player starts with 7 random facts about themselves, cats who are tagged need to write in thier own diary about the 7 things and the rules, you then need to choose 7 kitties to tag and list thier names. don't forget the leave them a little comment to let them know they have been tagged and to read your diary.
Seven facts about Matt:
1. I was born in Denair, a small town in Central California
2. When my grandma got me, I weighed all of 1 pound, 9 ounces (first vet visit)
3. My mom has been giving me baths since I was 6 weeks old. I miss my mom. I wish she'd either come home and finish school or come get me and let me live with her furrever.
4. I weigh close to 17 pounds now.
5. I don't like to eat wet cat food.
6. When I sleep with grandma, I curl up on the foot of the bed. I am polite. When I sleep with my mom, I sleep at the head of the bed, on my back, with my head on a pillow facing her.
7. I was given to grandma as a gift to "replace" my angel brother Elliott, who went missing for about 2 weeks. I look nothing like him—he was black and white and quite elegant.
I also want these kitties to be friends with my family and me! But you've been tagged too!
Mr. Bojangles 595951 (pretty panther)
Dumptruck 595922 (LOVE THAT NAME!!)
Scooter Roo 595957 (too cute!)
Becky 595901 (sexy torbie)
Ryan 578950(okay so he's my brother!)
Bobbie 595892 (is she furry or round?)
Crowley 595882 (I wanna know why your nickname is Zombie?)
July 31st 2007 12:57 pm
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So after Ryan's fiasco yesterday, grandma opened the door for us to go outside and enjoy the sunshine on the patio. I didn't even bother to get out of bed, I knew Ryan would blow it and he did!
Why won't he be satisfied just prowling the wall and staying out of reach of danger? I need to do a better job explaining things to him I think.
July 30th 2007 10:46 pm
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When grandma came home from work early (Hooray! She finished her project at work, or at least phase 1.), she didn't let us outside to play on the patio like she usually does. It's Ryan's fault!
But the nice thing is grandma needed to take a nap, her back was pretty sore from the chair at work and driving, so she and I did just that and it was nice! No Ryan or Scottie!
And once things cooled down, she opened the door and let us play on the patio, until Ryan figured out the door was opened. That was the end of that!
Ryan is a pain, but he looks to me for guidance sometimes!
July 29th 2007 12:29 pm
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Do you know what I saw that kitten Ryan doing this morning? He was lying on his side with his head in the water bowl, lapping up water!
Grandma says that lying down in front of your water bowl is a behavior that sick kitties do. Elliott did it before his renal failure crash at Christmastime ... and I figured if it was good enough for Elliott, it was good enough for me, so I started lying in front of my water bowl because he did it!
If you look at my pictures, you see me with my face near the water bowl. It works for me, so get over it grandma, it may be an abnormal cat behavior but no one ever accused me of being a NORMAL cat!! Come on, I was born in a dumpster in Denair! What do you expect?!
Now I gotta go see if Ryan and Scottie left any Royal Canin babycat kibble lying around. Nummy delicious food, that's what babycat kibble is! You don't hardly even need to chew it!
July 27th 2007 4:13 am
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I'm not fooled one bit.
Grandma brought home this silly toy, it's a kitty wand. It has two different feather tips (one is a blue fluffy pom pom and he other is actual feathers that the other cats think are birds) and we are supposed to chase it and play and jump around.
Well, so what. I played with it a little while last night alongside of Ryan until I figured out what she is trying to do here.
She's trying to get me to EXERCISE!!! Well la-dee-dah, I see through your ploy and I'm not falling for it. Matt does not exercise, get it? Matt eats and naps and gives love. That's it.
Now go back to bed. Though honestly it's never too early or late to have a snack ... I think I will check out the bowl ...
July 23rd 2007 4:43 pm
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My mommy was here for the weekend, she took grandma to the doctor for her back, on Friday, but she was in a hurry to get back to Arizona. She promised to give me a bath when she got here this past Wednesday night ... she never got around to it.
It was nice to have her home, being able to sleep with her, I like to sleep on my back with my head on the pillow next to her. She says I snore! No way! I am torn about her being where she is. I want to be with her, but grandma didn't think mom taking me right now was such a good idea, as the place she is at is furnished and mom would need to pay a $400 deposit for me. I'm a good boy, I am sure she'd get it all back. Not to mention I don't know if I want to live with that guy who says he's allergic, even ethough mommy claims she is sleeping in her own bedroom.
Mom promised grandma that if she does not have a job by the time school starts, she will come back up here. Grandma is also applying for PR jobs in the Phoenix area, there's lots of PR jobs with benefits and grandma needs benefits. Whatever happens, I want to be with MY mom, not that grandma is bad but she doesn't give me baths and is still threatening me with dental work at the vets!
Oh well now that my mommy is gone, back to acting out and refusing to eat kibble in the kitchen and stealing kitten kibble from Ryan!
July 18th 2007 5:52 pm
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So, there I am, napping, when grandma opens the closet door and takes out the soft carrier. There's only two cats who use the soft carrier ... Ryan and me! So poof! Time for me to disappear, because I don't want to go to the vet, I know what the carrier means and I still need my teeth cleaned and lab work.
Was I happy when she chased down Ryan! Adios sucker!
July 17th 2007 12:14 pm
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I'm so embarassed... photographic evidence now exists and it's on MY page. Okay, so I cuddle with that stupid kitten, so what? I live with him, I might as well love him somewhat. And if I stay close to him, I get to eat his leftovers!
It's not like the Earth is going to stop rotating or anything ... so just chill!!!
July 16th 2007 5:54 pm
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My grandma talked to my mom today and she's coming back to the Bay Area to get her car. Grandma told her she doesn't want me taking the trip to Phoenix until my mom knows if she is staying there permanently. It wouldn't be good for me to take that trip twice in 6 weeks. Grandma did get mom to admit that if her roommate complained about being allergic to me, she'd get rid of him before she'd get rid of me. I hope when my mom comes home she remembers how it was before, just her and me, and she chooses to come back to me in mid-August. A tabby man like me is better than pretty much any man...
I have been a nervous eater these past couple of weeks. Grandma keeps telling me "your food is in the kitchen," but I just like that kitten kibble that accidentally falls out of Ryan's mouth. Goes down so fast and easy, and goes right to my gut and butt! But grandma keeps saying "it's better he is depressed and eating than depressed and not eating."
I've got her right where I want her ...
July 14th 2007 11:01 am
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I don't do it ... I am large and in charge and weigh nearly 17 pounds. Besides, it's best to sleep as much as you can!
I hate to admit it, that darn kitten is growing on me. He's kind of a nice little cuddle partner during the afternoon siesta. However, we are sneaky about it and there is no photographic evidence that it has ever happened. Oh, and Ryan has a poochie LOL Not yet 4 months old and has a poochie!!!
It's the weekend so I think I will do what I always do... have a snack and a nap. It's grande to be Matt!!!
July 11th 2007 9:47 pm
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Do you know what happened to me this morning? I woke up cuddling that darn kitten Ryan! Ick can't have that! Before my grandma could grab the camera and get a photo of this travesty, I got up and jumped off the bed and asked for some Greenies. There's no photographic proof of anything with that beastie! I don't want to be friends with that kitten, no way!
Supposedly my mom is coming back, but I don't think she is coming to stay. I don't know if she is going to take me with her to Phoenix or not, the guy she is living with claims he's allergic to cats and I don't know if she will be loyal enough to me to NOT dump me off somewhere or at a shelter or rescue group because of that guy! Keep your fingers crossed for me, okay? I miss my mom, I need a bath!
July 8th 2007 7:23 am
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It's not easy being the roundest cat in the house!
To look at me today, it's hard to believe I was once a scrawny kitten, but it's true. When I went to the vet in May for a check-up, the vet looked at my chart, at my very first entry. I weighed all of 1 1/2 pounds, and needed some subcutaneous fluids. When I weighed 5 pounds, at the age of about 5 months, I was fixed. Now I am nearly 17 pounds, and I'm working real hard to resist any weight loss efforts.
The vet suggested my human grandma, the person-in-charge, put my food in an out-of-the-way place, and to NOT keep the bowl invitingy full with fresh food. And we were doing okay for a couple of weeks, though as you can see by one of my photos, I really don't like being far from food.
When that little brat Ryan came here, I had a new game: eating his kitten food! Do you know how nummy kitten kibble is? I just hang around waiting for him to eat his fill, then being the efficient cat I am, I clean his plate for him. How thoughtful!
I need to have my teeth cleaned, but my human grandma is a bit short on cash this month. My real mommy, the person I love the most, left me two weeks ago, and she spent money my grandma was hanging onto for my cleaning! I do miss my mommy, she would give me baths in the tub. I acted like I hated it, but I really don't. A bath would have been nice these past few days, it's been super hot here!
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