While Mom was away....

Mom was saying what a good kitty I have been while she was away. Her biggest fear was that I would take a book from the bookshelf and start chewing it up. I didn't do that. But our catsitter is a tattle-tale and she told Mom some of the things I have been doing:

- I knocked down our TV antenna (the power to the TV was off, so clearly we didn't need the antenna)

- I knocked down the wooden duck that sits next to the TV (stupid duck, what's it doing up there anyway?)

- I threw things off a shelf in the bedroom (lots of fun)

- I opened the drawers in the bathroom (somekitty tell the catsitter: I'm ALLOWED to do that!)

- I tore the warning label off the cord that opens our blinds (we don't need a warning label, we won't wrap the cord around our necks, duh)

- I played on the coffee table and the table cloth together with the candle holder and candle slipped all the way to the very edge of the table (who put stuff on my nice sliding surface?)

That's all the catsitter found out about. I won't tell Mom about all the other fun stuff I did. Like, I was balancing on top of our flat-screen TV and screaming: Look Timo, Look what I can do. The catsitter said she put one of Mom's Hummel figurines away. I can't imagine why.

We had fun while Mom was gone. But I'm so glad that she is home. I cuddle with her every night.

Purrs,
Mietzi

Oh my heart

Oh my! I've been away for 3 weeks because Mom was on vacation visiting German Grandma and Grandpaw. So I couldn't believe my eyes when I finally got on Catster tonight. There are hearts all over my page. Sent by some very dear friends of mine. I have the feeling I missed something. Thank you so very much for these nice and totally unexpected gifts. Individual thank you's will follow soon.

Mom got back Thursday night (finally). I'll tell you more about how our time without Mom was later. So far Mom and I are keeping busy unpacking, washing Mom's furs and I've been ordering Mom around, I mean talking to Mom, alot. I love to go outside (supervised). So in/out, in/out about 10 times today I went. I only stayed out two minutes each trip because the weather here is awful today. Cold, rainy, thunderstorms, windy.

I'm so happy my Mom is home. Gotta run and snuggle with Mom.
Purr to you later,
Mietzi

My Drawer

I love to sleep in drawers and closets. I have MY OWN drawer. It's the bottom drawer of Mom's dresser. My drawer always gets left open a bit so that I can jump in and take a nap. One old sweater is in there but for some reason Mom says she doesn't want to wear it anymore. Yesterday Mom had that vacuum monster out and she closed my drawer and FORGOT to open it again! I can open the drawer. It's just a small dresser that's actually made for children but Mom uses it anyway for her underfur and things. To open the drawer I pull on one knob and then scoot two steps over and pull on the other knob. Then I pull on the first knob again, scoot over, then pull on the other. I do that until my paws start hurting. Then I take a break. After the cramps in my paws are gone, I get back at it. Sometimes I can open it pretty quick but other times the dang drawer gets crooked and it can take an hour or more.

Well, yesterday I didn't want to spend all that time opening MY drawer again just because Mom FORGOT. So I meowed VERY loudly for Mom to come and open it. I meowed and meowed and Mom didn't help me! Mom thought I wanted attention or food and I've already had my supper.

When she went to bed, she finally realized that MY drawer was shut. She said that she was sorry for forgetting and I said: well, why don't you come when I call you? Mom needs more training.

The windows dates

Get on the puter, open the Community Homepage. Oh, Newman wrote a new diary entry. I wanna read that. Click on that. Why does this take so long, come on. I bet it's all about his second birthday. Come on puter. Hurry up!

What's this thingy? Windows is downloaning updates, zero purrcent done.

MOM!! Can you put all our windows down please? Some dates are trying to get in and I don't want any dates. Especially not if they are on loan and zero purrcent done. Geez, that must be some looser dates.

Hurry up Newman's diary . I want to be back in the living room by 7 o'clock 'cause Timo and I want to watch the cooking show. The one with the bad name that I'm not allowed to say. I think Timo will write about that show later.

I'll go and check on them windows myself. Mom seems to be busy right now.

Nutro?

Do you cats read the vetblog here on Catster? The one from Dr. Barcas? We do. There is some good info there. Lately we noticed that there are all these ads for Nutro on the vetblog. We are very disturbed by the fact that Catster let's Nutro advertise here. Nutro (Max Cat and Natural Choice) is not a good food. We don't like it at all. They had so many recalls, we don't trust them. You might say: Other pet foods had recalls too. Yes, but Nutro still has problems right now. Cats and dogs are still getting sick from it. Don't believe me? Read for yourself consumer affairs complaints against Nutro

We want all those ads gone. That's why we are saying No to Nutro. Nutro is a dangerous food. Our advise is to stay away from it.

Want more info? Want to join the cause? Join this group Say No to Nutro Over 370 furs already did. A funny thing happened though. This group got 370 members in 2 days but it's not showing up on the Groups page that lists groups with most new members. Mmmmh. It used to be listed there as the group with the most new members. But not any more.

Mietzi smells a rat.

There is a Button for that

I found the Community Homepage button! When I first came to the site after all the changes, I couldn't even find myself. Then I saw the Community Box but for some reason I didn't see the Community Homepage button. I had written in a forum that it would be nice if we could click a button and all our stuff/friends activities/diaries could be there. Duh, there is a button for that.

I think it needs to be more obvious for new people that there is a community and how they can join it. There should be something right on the homepage, not hidden in an orange box.

The big Catster Cat has worked very hard on this site and he deserves an extra Hamburger. I like that there is so much info on the homepage now. It is fun to click on some of the links and find out some interesting and fun things. On the old site all this information was also available, but it was not on the starting page. I like all the pretty pictures of the cats on the home page.

The new site looks fresher, more modern. I would use the picture of the Catster Ccat more. Not everywhere, that would be annoying. Maybe he can fill some of the white space that cats don't seem to like :)

Slowly getting used to the re-arranged furniture.
Mietzi

Carpet removed

I'm hot. Timo and I ripped out carpet all day. I need a glass of lemonade. Timo is dipping his toes in his aquarium. Puh, I'm still kinda dizzy from trying to find stuff. So much has changed. Nothing is in it's place anymore. I can't see my friends right away. They are hiding somewhere.

Mom had a nice day. She was at the farmer's market eating yummy food, drinking herbal lemonade (something new), buying yuckie veggies and meeting her friends. Meanwhile Timo and I had to work like dogs to get rid of the carpet. Oh, there were alot of dogs at the farmer's market says Mom.

Still not liking change,
Mietzi

Whoa, where am I?

Whoa, what is going on here? I am so disoriented. Where am I? I can't find anything. I had to search a while even to find myself, MOL. I admit, I have been away for a while. But new carpet? Who layed the new carpet in here? I didn't order new carpet. I would remember that. And why didn't they cut out a piece in the middle so that furs can READ what I am writing here. Some white paint in the middle would be so much better. I need to paint this. Where do I find paint? I don't know about this.

I'm a cat and I don't like changes.

Don't kiss your cat on the lips

H1N1 flu part 2: You can read the full story in the Cat's Meow blog but they listened to my warning from yesterday and they are also saying if a human has the flu, they should take precautions.

One of the precautions is "Don't kiss your cat on the lips". I say Eww Gross. Mom doesn't kiss us on the lips anyway. She kisses us between the ears like she's supposed to. They have released the identity of the poor kitty that caught H1N1 from the humans. It's a 13 year old orange tabby from Ames, Iowa. That is purrty close to where we live.

The cat is really lucky to be living in Ames because the Iowa State University is there and they have a Veterinary College, which is like a teaching hospital. The cat's owners knew some people there and they got her in right away to be tested and treated. The cat made a full recovery. Yay.

Scary times we live in friends. Humans catching flu from swine and cats catching flu from humans. Who knows what's next.

Stay healthy every fur and every human too.
Love,
Mietzi

The flu

Maybe you already read it in the vet blog here on Catster. A cat from Iowa is the first cat to be infected with the H1N1 flu. No, it's not Timo or me, we are all fine. The cat caught the disease from the humans in the household. Several people in the house were sick. Some people call this flu the swine flu but here in Iowa we don't like to call it that. We have alot of farmers here and they are afraid the name swine flu will scare the humans away from eating pork.

I just wanted to remind the humans if you have the flu don't forget to wash your hands before you touch your cat. We don't want to catch something from you. And there is good news: The cat with the H1N1 flu has recovered.

Stay healthy every fur,
Mietzi