CAT OF THE DAY!

OMC!
I can't meow how excited I am to be COTD today!

This is also a very special day because it would be my mommy's mom's 80th birthday! She passed away about a year and a half ago, and it is a very special honor to be Cat of The Day on her birthday today!!!

This holiday season, I'd like to do a card exchange like old times except all my snail mail addys were lost on a fried old hard-drive =( If you'd like to do this again, please contact me by pmail and we will do it! It will be FUN!

Thank you for all the attention and concats today! I love you all and I'm honored and humbled by being named COTD!

Christopher

Hi Everycat and Happy Summer!

It's already a scorcher here!

I hope everycat and doggie's having a good summer.
Soon, mommy will start putting the wire over our catio.
Yes, she built the frame last summer and my Angel brother Patrick was able to play in the frame and enjoy it before he passed.
Then she covered the frame in a cheap mesh that wasn't UV stabilized and after only 6-8 weeks in 105+ summer, it shattered like thin dry spaghetti!

So there it has sat.

Mom just was able to get a roll of the welded wire and this will last for good! So in the next week or so (mom's been cutting trees and brush this week) the catio will be enclosed.
It's been a long time coming as mom used reclaimed 2x4s from a patio cover and fence...but it's coming.
Hopefully the deck paint is still good (for some added boards) because tho it was garaged, it got incredibly HOTT last year.
We will see.

But the wire is here and waiting =)

Kitten season was fairly heavy and mom had fosters and some dumped babies including a couple bottle-suckers. Only got two left to rehome and we're doing good. Mom's still at low-wage job and part-time but she's working and able to budget for the rescue babies so that's worked out.
~ We never asked to rescue or put out the word but somehow kittens appear. Sometimes in boxes even =( ~

We're not on Catster as much as we'd like and I miss you all terrible. It's just that new Catster freezes up my comp or takes super long to load.

AND HEY!
I recently did an interview with an epaper called Anipal Times about being a blind kitty. Please take time to read it My Interview

Purrrrs and Luv to you all!
~Christopher

Mr Fez

My sweet pal Mr Fez who I mentioned in my last entry has unexpectedly gone to The Bridge this morning.
He was sight-challenged like me but now of course he has purrrfect vision in Paradise.
He passed due to a side effect of his meds.
Purrrrayers to his sad family at this difficult time.

When my little blue kitty houseguest and I play, I think of my pal Mr Fez and purrr that the little guy grows up big and handsome like my groovy friend.

Please drop by my special friend's page Mr Fez

*tears*
Christopher

Is It 2010 Already?

It sure is and I hope everycat's doing good and hanging in there!

Christmas was fun for me because I had a houseguest..the blue kitty.
Mom's had no luck in finding him a home and he's growin up and that makes it even harder.
Not that mom would take him to a shelter, but the No-Kills are all full and the pound is pretty much euthanizing immediately and tho mom has good record of finding homes for abandoned kitties...no one's interested in a wily but loving blue gray kitty.

She brought him home on Christmas Eve because no kitty should spend Christmas in a cage that doesn't absolutely have to.
He fussed and growled in his throat all the evening of the 24th and half of Christmas then gave it up because no one was listening an got in the cuddle pile.

I started to wash his ears and he was growling but i just kept it up and then he started purring then we went to sleep cuddled up.
He's not gonna sit in a cage for months more so he's still here with me an we're pals.

I can't see him but I know he's a handsome guy and he reminds my family of Mr Fez and Coopurr and Zack! In fact, I think Zack may have directed him this way. He's very wanna-be-with-mom-every-minute and kisses her face much like our Patrick did. I'm also with mom everywhere including the bathroom, so now I have a partner in crime. He likes to explore the kitchen trash with me as well *shhhh don't tell*

The stray cats have a nice heavy cotten duck covered workbench-like frame on the front porch to sleep in. It's a water/wind proof outdoor fabric and the porch is on the south of our house out of the prevailing cold north wind. ( The porch is a small gated deal...not as big as an old old-fashioned porch but bigger than most new porches, mol.)

We have my pal Fuzzy and a big red cat who he brought home and a female torbie-looking kitty named Summer. ( She's the one mom found homes for her two gorgeous babies last year.)
Summer is feral. The red cat is wild too. He also needs a name because mom just calls him "Hey You"!
(Suggestions anyone? He isn't the most handsome kitty but he's a good guy. He's dark orange.)

They love their house and it has a heated pad in it.
There was also an opossum sharing it. Go figure.

I really need to thunk mom's camera and get it to working right. It still says the card is full after mom clears it. Somebody mentioned "reformatting" it? I'm not sure what that means but if it means kicking it a few times then I'm ready to do that.

I want to get pics of the outside kitties and blue cat (I guess his name is Blue. Or Bloo. Or...well, we could use a name suggestion for him as well, mol!)

Big Meows,
Christopher

Merry Christmas!

Thank you everycat for the cards and rosettes. My typist will start sending out some thankies a bit later today after the kitty festivities mol.

Hopefully I will get some pics of me in my coat and hat. The camera is givivng trouble saying the card is full after only two pics even tho mom cleared them all (or obviously it isn't doing it right). Not sure whats going on.
Tomorrow we may buy one of those disposible cameras just to get some holiday pics you know?

Today it's cold and sunny.
Mom has a sign in her head (or was that sinus?) so she may take a pill later.
We're doin good tho.

To save $$ mom's been walking to and from work on every day that isn't pouring rain. It's less than two miles one way and mom likes to walk but sometimes it's a drag =(

For Christmas the bus driver of the local route that mom used to take gave mommy a bus pass!!!
Woohoo! Hey does this mean I get to ride the bus again too? =)
It was a VERY nice gesture!

And we have a houseguest for the holidays! The little blue cat. His name is "BLUE" mol.
The catfamily doesn't seem to care one way or the other, I sure don't, but he's growly. Oh he plays and eats and drinks and sits in moms lap all the time. But he's growlin and hummin while he's doing it.
I think HE thinks that WE think he's tough, mol.

I'm looking forward to playing with him when he gets over his griping stage.

I'm blind but mom says Blue looks like a little Mr Fez or Coopurr!!!

Yeah, a guy wanted to adopt him for Christmas but he had Pit Bulls indoors and out and gang tattoos. Honestly, mom's known a few gang members that were ok but she wasn't going to let Blue go.
Nope.
So we got a houseguest.

I been in the tree a little but not as much as last year. Heck, this is my SECOND Christmas so I'm an old hand at this stuff now.

Mommy and I miss grandma and Patrick and Pickles terribly...but we know they're safe and warm and in Heaven with our other Angels and Angelfriends.

Purring for everyone to have a nice Holiday.
Bless you all.

~Christopher

PS Penny I luv you so!

Christmas Eve!

Hi all!
Since mom's gotta go to work in a few moments I'll make this short.
(I'll try to do a decent blog update on Blogger tonite if mom isn't too frazzled after a day of working retail on Christmas Eve.)

I purrr everyone's having a good one today and sending Holiday wishes for both my Christian and Chewish pals....an a few pagans I know as well =)
Today is a day for everyone to come together and enjoy each other's company and celebrate the reason for the season as well as just have fun!

It's reallly windy here today. Mom had to tie some little fake outside holiday trees down after she had to go fetch them a couple of times.

The little blue kitty at work still has no home. He almost did but he tried to climb a bird cage and the peoples did not like that. He's not a bad kitty at all. He's just young and wild and even when he's being mischievous he's purrring and has a twinkle in his eye.
He's just a kitty.

Mom's taking a carrier to work. If no one wants to give him a home on Christmas mom's bringing him home an I will play with him.
No kitty should sit in a cage alone on Christmas...

Anyway, Mewwwy Holidays and I will probably be back on Catster later this evening after I help mom make a cup of Lemon Balm tea for her nerves, mol.

~Christopher

Bad Ol Weather

No snow happened but we DO have wintery weather today. Not in a good way.
It's 44 degrees which isn't that cold but the winds are 30mph and it's raining ice water. Mom's is grumpy cause she's gotta go catch the chilly ol bus in a bit for an evening shift at work.
Mom's has a big cape-deal over her hooded sweatshirt and she's a skinny and Ima afraid she's gonna get blown away.
Or even worse, get her shoes soaked. Then she'll really come home cranky...

On the upside, we kitties are warm and in our beds at home!

There's a kitty mom has at work so people can see him...he needs a home. He was given over by a man who didn't speak English except that "dog try to bite". All the no-kill shelters are full and Animal "Care" Services does little to adopt out and kills 50 animals a day usually even without the big 72 hours holding time...

At least he didn't just dump the kitty. The kitty was healthy and clean.

Trouble is, the kitty was about three months old and people want little kittens. The kitty is actually quite compact and stumpy...but people want BITTY kitties. He's sat there for coming on a month. Sure, mom has him out the whole time she's there and he seems very happy but mom doesn't want this kitty to spend Christmas without a home in a kennel cage.

He's four months old now.
A deep blue steel color with green eyes. Very playful. Some people thought he was "mean" because he rabbit kicks while he's purrring or plays with the zip on their jackets...but most don't even want to see him.
Today mom's taking a little collar to the kitty, spruce him up a little.


Well, TTYL and keepin up the warm purrrrs for all those in need.

~Christopher

PS, Brrrrrr it's ugly weather out there....mommy should wear two pairs of sockies or something....

Update...Ima baaaack!

Ok so the sun came out on our "snowday" and it didn't snow....

Shoulda known =(

But good news is
TWITTER*Been offline cause computer broke. On public compy now. Just got new compy and will unbox it tonite an be back up! It's good to b back!*


Not sure how we came about the $$. My grandma had a resident trust fund at the nursing home. Social Security put in a grand total of $36 a month for her general needs there and mommy would put in some $$ when she could.
Grandma got very sick and went into hospice and mom scrambled to pay for some final arrangements as we had none.
When grandma passed away a few months ago, mom hadn't paid off the final expenses yet and was caught with money due so she emptied the account to apply to it.
An Angel helped with the final due.

Of course SS stopped when grandma passed.

So, months later mom gets a check for the account balance as they have closed out the account....
Wha?

Not sure where this moneys came from or if they will want it back but it was just almost enough to buy one of those lil kitten-sized netbooks.
So I gots one!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will set it up tonite and then we will be back online!!!
Catstering
Blogging
Tweeting

Woohooo!
~Chri stopher

I GOTTA SHARE THIS WITH MY PALS!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited I'm hoppin on a friend's computer to let you all know somethin! (My compy is broke that's why I'm not on much anymore.)
You may know I live in south Texas an we have summers like over 100F an the last one set a record an its always pretty warm...

Anyway, I just heard the weatherman and he said on Friday we're supposed to have like mid 20s and 70% chance of SNOW!!!

SNOW!

OMC I am so excited I never seen snow before (I'm blind but you know what I mean)...wow we just don't see snows down here even when you CAN see!!!

I already have a fleece coat that I never get to wear and Ima gonna put it on and we're gonna take some pics an I'm hopin the weatherman is right an I get some SNOWS!

I gotta get offline now but I just want to tell all of my friends I may get SNOW Friday an if it sticks I will try to make a snowball!!!!!!!!

Big Purrrrs.
Christopher

PS, Purrrin for my pals Toulouse and Bobcat.
PSS, I luv you my girl, Penny!

Birthday!

Today I'm 2!!!!!!!!!!

Mommy didn't announce it earlier because she's been having bad keyboard problems and could hardly type anything at all. A nice co-worker loaned her a keyboard so here I am!

I'm having a great B-Day and I'm going to be updating my blog Christopher's Groove soon with pics of a foster kitten mom's caring for.
Yes, it's soon after the loss of my bro Pickles to take on a sick little kitten, but at least mom knew going in that there was a very real chance the kitten wouldn't make it...so no shocks, you know?
And wouldn't you know...the little kitten is actually doing quite good!

So, I'll try to get that up on the ol blog later and of course put the linky here.

So Ima having some treats and thank you my dear pals Guido, Orion, the family of Edwina, the family of Pie, Calvin and family, Rufus my Guardian Angel and Eyes, Edgar and Family, Little Blaze, Kittanna, and my Auntie Hazel Lucy for the birthday rosettes =)
Thankies to Mac and Frankie for a forever star and Sky for her sweet pmail!
And thank you Aldo and family, and fellow blindies Rocky and Mr Fez for the big ol cupcakes!

All of you are so sweet esp at such short notice ;)
You make this lil blind kitty feel very special.

~Christopher