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Noel Fuzz!!!!!
I didn’t know elves could make those
Hello All!!
Hello what a cute one our cat seemed to like under the tree also she liked the tree skirt and the presents would sniff them to see if they were hers lol Shes 2 years old now and our joy she was a stry alos we found her in the desert and she took to us immediately thats why her names Desiere Desi for short
thats french for desire not desert.
awwww your cat under the tree is sooooooooo cute i luv her.
Aaaaaaw…little cali baby!
Merry Christmas Fuzz!!!
Wow! Quick into my back pack!
Hehehe, my cats adored the Christmas tree this year too!
This is a cute Xmas epic: http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp
This is a cute kitty pic I liked a lot: http://www.cuteaddict.com/2007/02/its_900amis_it_.html
OK, this story is cool so I have to share it
**Police Dog Nabs Suspect Despite Chemo Treatments**
Thursday , February 22, 2007
Salt Lake City’s got one tough bloodhound.
J.J., the city’s senior police dog, made his 223rd apprehension Feb. 16 despite being in the middle of cancer treatments, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Police were searching for a suspect wanted in connection with the ramming of an occupied truck when J.J. came to the rescue, the paper said. The bloodhound — one of six dogs used by the department — caught the suspect behind a dumpster.
“That’s what J.J. lives for,” said Sgt. Chris Ward, who oversees the department’s K-9 charges. “That’s what makes him happiest.”
It was quite a feat for a dog that’s been flying back and forth between Utah and New York to treat a melanoma in his mouth, getting the doggie equivalent of chemotherapy.
J.J. is a contract worker for the city, hired out by his handler, Officer Mike Serio, who is paying for the bloodhound’s expensive cancer treatments.
“Mike is going to pay for [the treatment] regardless but donations have been coming from as far away as Virginia, Montana and all across the state of Utah,” Ward told the paper.
That’s so cool. thank you for sharing that
WONDERFUL story!
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Awww…, what a great dog. Also a great owner to take such good care of him
You should talk more about the cat then the dogo.OK
Hello Brittany….you must be new here, so WELCOME TO THE GROUP……after you get to know us a little better you will find out that this wild, crazy, but loving group talks about everything from A to Z….but especially about animals of all kinds….
Sorry but I am not new. I have ben going on to the daily kitten for 2 years.
Sorry I forget something this is ‘The daily kitten’ not ‘The daily dog’
Hi Brittany. It’s OK for people to talk about other subjects – the people who come here may have been attracted initially by the kittens, but they have plenty of other interests in common.
Thanks.
Yourwellcome Kittenmaster.
Good morning! Happy Friday to all!
Jingle Bells Fuzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! Looks like she’s trying to figure out how to get up the tree when nobody will be looking!!
ok, this is just so cute and funny, I had to share. Not my cat or anything, but the expression is just classic
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/index.php?itemid=3208
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Made me laugh out loud! So cute!
Did anyone read the comments? I swear some us are blogging there too!
I do sometimes.
My name is Jennifer and I am a cuteness addict
Hi, Jennifer!
My name is Ginny and I, too, am a cuteness addict. I do not, though, want to be cured!
😆 so very funny!
Thanks, I needed that! This day is turning out to be some kind of awful–the last day in a grading period is always hectic, but today is redefining the word! Badly in need of a chuckle. 🙁
Just remember, if the students get out of hand duct tape is always an option 😀
Remember the Fort Bend ISD teacher who didn’t get her contract renewed last year because she put Scotch tape on a student’s lip (the student wanted her to do it)?
They won’t let me use bullwhips or cattle prods, either. Those guys in Austin are no fun 🙁
My aunt taught at HISD for years and she once made a disruptive student put his leather jacket on backwards, had some other students fasten it up, and made him go and sit in the trash can until ‘she got tired of looking at him’
She could never get away with that now. LOL
How about tranquilizer darts?
What you need to do is get it set up so that there is a day where the state legislators are teachers and have to deal with the classroom antics.
The next day you would have full riot armor, mace, and stun guns.
Amen, brother. I also believe that no professor in a teaching college should ever go more than 5 years without a year in a Title I classroom (that’s a room in which a significant number of students live at or below the poverty line). I guarantee some of these whacked-out ideas that come from academia would stop! Of all of my students in all the grades I teach, I can count on one hand the the number of parents that have e-mail addresses.
Another thing that I love is that some of these school in our area require reasearch papers to be done on the internet only and not use library references.
Some of them have also said that they want papers from the middle school students to be typed up on a computer.
What happened to teaching kids how to write, read from books, and use the library???
To answer your questions individually,
Writing: text messaging
Read from books: TV, PS3 and the PC
Use the library: What? You make us get out of bed before noon, dress like you want instead of like inmates and “ho”‘s the way we want, put away our cell phones, listen to what your saying, and you expect us to WORK, too? That’s not fair, Miss!
I just received this from a teacher friend.
Too close to the truth to be funny.
No Child Left Behind – Football Version!
The football version of what is going on in education
right now. (If you’re not an educator, this may not
make a lot of sense to you. )
1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all
MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the
championship, they will be on probation until they are
the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
If after two years they have not won the championship
their footballs and equipment will be taken away UNTIL
they do win the championship.
2. All kids will be expected to have the same football
skills at the same time even if they do not have the
same conditions or opportunities to practice on their
own. NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest
in football, a desire to perform athletically, or
genetic abilities or disabilities of themselves or
their parents.
ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL!
3. Talented players will be asked to workout on their
own, without instruction. This is because the coaches
will be using all their instructional time with the
athletes who aren’t interested in football, have
limited athletic ability or whose parents don’t like
football.
4. Games will be played year round, but statistics>
will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th game.
5. It will create a New Age of Sports where every
school is expected to have the same level of talent
and all teams will reach the same minimum
goals. If no child gets ahead, then no child gets
left behind.
6. If parents do not like this new law, they are>
encouraged to vote for vouchers and support private
schools that can screen out the non-athletes and
prevent their children from having to go to school
with
bad football players.
I’ve got to send that to my mom – she was a teacher. She retired and couldn’t be happier about it.
She told me that the stuff she taught freshmen when I was a freshman she couldn’t teach her seniors by the time she retired because the didn’t have the background to understand it.
I use to teach martial arts and my students lost the attitude really quick because I refused to tollerate it.
Sometimes I think I was more involved in their lives that their parents were
see, THAT’s why I got out of teaching. And just in time, apparently–in my last weeks of teaching, back in 1997, I had to deal with my first case of students putting inappropriate information about other students on the computer. It wasn’t even on the Web, back then–it was just a lab computer–but the amount of bureaucracy that got involved in just that little event was enough to make me realize that it was only going downhill from there (that, and the time when one of the students put chalkboard cleaner in another teacher’s coffee cup and did NOT get expelled when the teacher drank it and had to go to the hospital. I loved teaching, but it wasn’t worth risking my life!)
I don’t think this picture is cute actually. It kind of looks a little like animal abuse especially if you think of how they got it on the kitten (possibly shot it at the kitten)? Sorry but had to put in my two cents.
Otherwise today’s kitty: Jingle All the way Fuzz
i dont think its very nice either i dread to think how they got someting so big to stay on that poor tiny kitty. i think it could encourage cruelty
I agree. The kitten doesn’t look very amused.
I don’t particularly care for the photo, either. I think it has more to do with the fact that it’s a tiny kitten–so helpless and vulnerable. Perhaps if it happened to be a fully-grown cat (like my 16 pound bruiser, Gabriel), it would be less objectionable…
I think the kitten is adorable. I assumed the picture was photoshopped. The kitten is young enough to be unsteady on its legs.
I thought so too. That’s what I found so cute about it. It looks like he just squeezed out of the couch cushions. By no means would I endorse shooting a little kitten with a suction cup arrow.
Hi Karin, Glad I’m not the only one who thinks it may be abusive. The kitten looks like it’s being squished (and not at all happy) and how did they get the arrow to stay on it? I don’t like pictures like this at all.
Thank you for saying that, because I thought the poor thing looked too squished for comfort.
That is one funny picture. Thanks for sharing Meezer Mama
Cute Christmas kitty too. Looks like she is saying “all mine!”
TGIF 🙂
Way too cute!
Scratch my cats on the back with something like that and it will soon be under attack in manic mode also. Looks like this little guy is catching his breath to launch a second attack.
Wow her eyes look like olives justt need red centers! She is definetly what I would like to get next Christmas Ho, Ho, Ho.
Kristmas Kitten! Hey everyone, glad to back and posting. London was great, fabulous weather and Amsterdam…….what happens in Amsterdam stays in Amsterdam! Actually, the Anne Frank home was most humbling and a must see for anyone that has the opportunity. I read with interest the interaction and reactions to the Sunday posts. Bottom line, TDK makes me smile every morning and that is priceless.
Welcome back Tinafish!!
So glad you enjoyed your vacation!!
Yes, TDK is the best!!
Welcome back. You must have just missed the storm, everything must have been closing down just after you left. So good that you had good weather there.
Welcome back Tina fish. I love London! Glad you had a great vacation.
Welcome back Tinafish, world traveler. 🙂 I bet you had fun in Amsterdam..stay out of that Redlight district! hehehe.
Welcome back, Tinafish! *from someone who only travels for work and, at that, only in the continental U.S. (unless of course you count camping in Canada when I was a child, and a drunken trip across the border from El Paso into Juarez, Mexico when I was in my 20’s)*
How exciting, Tinafish! I, as a foodie, want to hear about the food you ate!
Welcome back, world traveler! I’m so jealous of you right now! I returned from a 3-month stint of living in London 2 years ago Christmas. I miss it so much every day, even after 2 years! It’s an awful feeling getting to know a place so well and being able to travel outside to a different wonderful location all the time and then having to leave it all behind. I hope you had a wonderful, wonderful time! And Dee, if you want great food, go to Paris!!! London…not so much, unless you count this great Portuguese chicken place that I frequented down the street from my flat… remarkable!!!
Welcome back Tinafish!
I love London and would like to travel more in Europe.I would like to see the Anne Frank house.
Seen on the “joke wall on Laugh In”
If the Smothers Brother teamed up with King Kong what would they be called?
Tom, Dick and Exceedingly Hairy.
Old Karnak the Magnificent joke (Loved Johnny Carson in that ridiculous turban)
Karnak said “Macintosh, Dolly Parton, and the Ford Pinto.”
The envelope read: “Name an apple, a pear (“pair”), and a lemon.”
Judge: I could sentence you to 10 years in Levenworth or 5 years in Twelveworth.
Groucho Marx: I’ll take 5 & 10 at Woolworth
greatjoke you guys keep me laughing
Cat’s love Christmas trees!
Beautiful kitty! I want the fuzzy Christmas present! My boy Shaddo loves to sleep under the tree! So cute.
Kitties love that fresh pine scent!
What a beauty!!
*Hugs Bako and drops her gently into the backpack after releasing everybody’s kitties from yesterday*
HM,
Since when were you into “catch and release”? Yesterday you still had the semi! I thought next for you would be a C-5 Galaxy! (You know, the monster military cargo plane that’s big enough to transport an Abrams tank?)
I just keep them for a little while, not forever. I had to turn the semi in though because a big semi is just like a purse, the bigger it is, the more you put in it. I had too many kitties in there – if I’da kept going NOBODY would have had a cat left – LOL.
Every Christmas, when I see my cats under the tree I think of the fluffy white cat on the Christmas Vacation movie. I watch that darn movie every year around the Holidays…such a classic!!
I hate to say it LeeAnne but the cat on the Nat’l Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie is the funniest part especially when it gets in the “inside white snow”.
Yupper!! LOL!! OH! and what about Grandma’s wrapped Jello! I hate to admit it, but my family’s Christmas get-togethers are about as disfunctional as the Griswald’s!! (sorry, I just cracked myself up….had a flashback!!)
Yup my grandma had a jello mold thingie that had miracle whip and cabbage in one of the layers. Ack!
Hey Santa… bring me several of those in assorted colors!!!
Adorable!
Bako in the Christmas forest…she looks like she’s been caught in the act or something naughty! Oh-oh… shaking boxes, perhaps?
Ok who loves this commercial ?
(Cat) I SMELL CATNIP (dog) Dont inhale (cat) to late !!
🙂
I love that commercial Brandi Lee! First time I heard it I laughed so hard that I was crying. I smell cat nip, don’t inhale, toooo late! Whoooo! LOL!!!
Forgot to mention but I think it is a Petsmart or Petco or some sort of pet store commercial.
Brandi Lee, please tell me more Sounds hilarious.
Maybe I can find it on youtube.
Thanks 🙂
its a Petco christmas Commercial where the dog and cat are looking for thier christmas presents, they are up on a chair cat on top in a cupboard and the cat says I SMELL CAT NIP…….it hilarious!!!
I remember that commercial! Very funny! I think my favorite commercial featuring animals was the one for Kodak about 10-12 years ago; a woman comes home from work and discovers that the kitchen trash can has been knocked over again and there is trash all over the kitchen floor. She scolds the “bad dog!” for misbehaving. While she is gone the next day, the dog sees the cat in the kitchen trash once again, so he snaps a picture of the cat (with the Kodak camera) caught in the act and has the picture in his mouth when the woman comes in the door! So cute!
I remember that! So cute. Somebody should put a dvd out for best animal ads.
Does anyone remember the commercial with a white persian -like cat named Precious? It was a carpet commercial. A caged bird was saying, Precious, dinner time!
I swear it took me several times of seeing that to realize that it was an ad for carpet. I was laughing to hard and caught up by the cuteness of the kitty to pay attention. I think the cat ate the bird!
thanks Brandi Lee, going to youtube..
They have lots of tv ads and super cute kitty video clips.
Camoflage Kitten FUzZ! Took me a moment, had to do a double take 😛
Fluffy little Christmas kitten! She’s just too adorable, I’d have to snuggle her belly lots. Hmm, maybe I can out manuver Huddys Mama……..
Too late, dahling!
Aww, c’mon, share!
Ok, but just for a little while.
Thanks! I promise not to slip away with her (crossing fingers behind back).
*makes note to self not to share with Mary in Maryland any time soon*
Can’t we be friends (uncrosses fingers and gives big puppy eyes to HM).
*singing*
Why can’t weee be friends,
why can’t weee be friends…
*singing*
I know you’re working for the CIA
And now you wanna steal the cats awaaaaaaaaay
That did it! I am now forcing you to get Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” in your head–one of the worst songs, EVER!
I LIKED Bobby McPherrin. I thought it was cool that he produced the whole song using nothing but his voice.
My nominee for worst song EVER is anything by Dan Fogelburg, but ESPECIALLY “Another Auld Lang Syne.” That voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard, and to invoke a traditional Scottish song in such butchery makes me want to shove a caber…well, you can guess where.
Sorry Ginny but Dee has it right it is Bobby McFerrin and the song is enough to make me wish I was deaf……well almost.
Personally, the only song that makes me want to have my ears surgically removed is “My Humps”. Whoever thought that piece of crud deserved radio-play ought to be flogged in the public square, if you ask me!
Bob Dylan destroyed one of my all time old song favorites in Natural Born Killers. It was You Belong to Me. Waaaaay too nasal.
Santa Baby
Just slip a kitty under the tree, for me
Been an awful good girl
Santa baby
And don’t forget the catnip tonight!
adorable christmas fuzz.
both of my cats pebbles and lucy had their first christmas just gone it was also my first xmas in this house. at first they looked on at the tree with horror as we decorated it. when they decided it wasnt going to do them any harm and we left the room they both climbed up on it and pulled it down. (good job i chose shatter proof ornaments!!)when we heard the crash we ran back into the room and they were both huddled in the corner! very funny. we had to redecorate it.
after that they wouldnt go near it again!
we did however give them each a round ornament covered in catnip to play with which they loved.
Good story Fiona
My Lil Hunney would take the tree apart every day. With her short term memory issues, the tree was new to her every time she left the room for awhile. It was hysterical to watch her do that kitty double-take every time she left the room for a while and came back and saw the tree again. I would come home and half the ornaments would be all over the house. Even the lights would be strewn about the living room. She obviously was having such a good time with this whole thing, I couldn’t even scold her. I just knew during Christmas I would redecorate the tree every day. She never pulled it down because I chain the tree to the wall. I screw a little hook in the wall behind the tree. Then I get some small gold chain (about the size you see on a swingset) from Home Depot. I attach one end of the chain to the tree and hook the other end on the hook in the wall. I also never ever leave it plugged in when I leave even though Lil Hunney is the only cat I’ve had that would remove the lights.
The last time we ever tried to put up a natural tree (which I had always had growing up–cut from my grandfather’s property a few miles from my house…mmmmm!) was a disaster. Not only did my son with asthma react to it, so did my kitty with asthma (the late, great Mittens a.k.a. “Mantequilla” whose story I told some time ago). They were both so miserable we have stuck to artificial ever since and probably always will. *sigh*
We’ve always had artificial trees. Last year I bought a white fiber optic tree and the cats were determined to eat it. I finally had to put hot sauce on the branches. At that point, they wouldn’t go near it. Don’t worry, they didn’t burn themselves on the sauce. The smell is enough to keep them away. Honestly, i was afraid of what might happen if they ate part of the fiber optics.
Last fall, we were making Pico de Gallo (for those not into Mexican food, it is a combination of fresh tomatoes, onions, jalepenos, and cilantro). A chunk of jalepeno fell onto the floor where it was instantly pounced upon by Linus. Needless to say, the little monster (said in love) got himself an education that day. Funny, he hasn’t become any pickier, though. He still has the “table manners” of a dog!
ohhhh….. yea, I bet he didn’t like that at all
Try hiding the AirWick pine air freshner in the branches of the tree. Not the same but better than asthma with a real tree. I have an artifical tree as I used to get the tree up around Dec. 10th to Jan. 6th the real is great but too much a fire hazzard.
On my Trixie’s first Christmas she tried to climb the tree and ended up getting sap all over her paws. She walked around for the rest of the day licking and shaking her paws, but she has stayed away from the tree every year since.
That is so sad and funny at the same time! Like when my girlfriend’s sofa bed was accidentally closed with my Juliet still in it! It was so horrible and chaotic when it first happened, (she was not hurt at all, by the way) but we laughed over the fact that afterward she was terrified of that sofa and would RUN past it to get to the kitchen. My girlfriend’s 3 year old son, who witnessed all of this, told friends of ours that Juliet got stuck in the sofa and got all “stretchy”! HAHA! So that was poor Juliet’s nickname for a period of time…
Beautiful Calico. Color same as my 18 year old Zasha. She looks like a fun baby to have around, just a wee bit of imp shinning through her beautiful eyes. So glad you could rescue her and that she fits in with your other three.
AAAAWWWWWWWW!!! What a sweet lil’ Christmas baby!! Smooches to Bako!!
Now I know what I want to find under my tree next Christmas! Bako looks so cute and comfy there.
Bako sez: “Honest, I was just arranging the packages! I wasn’t trying to peek, I promise!”
Bako looks like deer caught in the headlights. He looks like he could be saying “Who me, do anything naughty…I am too cute to do anything like that”. He looks so soft and fuzzy. Gently picks Bako up gives him a kiss and a snuggle and puts him back into someone’s backback. I
Speaking of the “deer in the headlights look”, don’t you just love when you get on to your fuzzbutts and they shoot you “the look”??!! My youngest, Biscuit, actually raises his paw at me when I get on to him about aggravating the other 2 as if saying “talk to the paw Mom”!! Can’t help but grab his whiney little behind and hug him…everytime!! Biscuit doesn’t Meow, he whines, it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard!!
Sounds so much like my April. It would be just like her to take that attitude, and she doesn’t meow either. Just makes the same whiney noises (or yowls mightily when she’s really annoyed, like when I’m grooming her.) She gets so dramatic, I’m afraid the neighbors will call the ASPCA on me!
Does your April try to whine when she’s purring?? My Biscuit makes the funniest noises! When he does meow it just doesn’t sound right!! He “Me’s” but seems to leave out the “ow’s”!!
and this goes back to the Robin Williams cat on Prozac Joke !!!!
April doesn’t do it while purring, only when she’s trying to say “Buzz off!”. She sounds more like a puppy than a cat, but the attitude is all cat.
A cat I used to live with couldn’t meow at all, he only opened his mouth and let out a high pitched “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”.
haha! My tiny, crazy Emily can’t meow, either. She only gets a high-pitched “eeeeeeeee” out of her mouth. I refer to her as my “crazy little opera singer!”
Taffy could only say eeeewww and Domino had such a low voice it sounded more like a dog’s growl.
Santa Claws sure left a sweet little gift under the tree! Anyone seen the latest entries on Cute Overload? Too cute!
What does a cat get walking on a beach Christmas Eve?
SANDY CLAWS!
(they’re coming to take me away, ha ha!….)
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I’d go berzerk?
Well, you left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse.
And now you see I’ve gone completely out of my mind
And..
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha……….
ok, I’ll stop there
To the funny farm?
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they’re coming to take me away
To the happy home with bees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their
thumbs and toes……
I didn’t realize I remembered so much of that song.
I used to randomly quote the whole thing to my friends.
I actually have an ‘opposite twin’ at work and we do that too!! We frighten our co-workers a lot.
I cooked your food
I cleaned your house
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind, unselfish loving deeds?!!
Hah. . .
Well you just wait
They’ll find you yet
And when they do they’ll
Put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!
AND…I’m out
Eeek! Thanks for the worst case of earworms ever… 😈
What a beautiful babygirl! She looks so comfy and loved.
How cute! I love it when the grey and gold tabby markings get all swirled together.
Fluffybuns! Soooooo precious!
She’s a pretty little baby! Such a treasure to find under the tree.. 🙂
♪♫♫♪♪♪♫♪♫ KENTUCKY KITTEN ♪♫♫♪♪♪♫♪♫
*sung to Neil Diamond’s Kentucky Woman*
What is it about kitties loving to sit under Christmas Trees? I guess they just need to do cute mischief all the time! 🙄
See you all in 1 week. I’m off to visit my sister in Satellite Beach Florida and soak up some sun. I’ll try to get on the site if I can next week, but if I don’t I’ll be in severe kitten withdrawal when I return. Meanwhile,
Meanwhile, HAVE FUN STORMING THE CASTLE everyone!
Have fun! I love to travel and visit with family. Because that means they’re not close enough to get in my business everyday!!
Thanks. Rosie! Uh-huh. I know what you mean about family & my business. 😡 As wonderful as they may be, sometimes some distance is healthy. I haven’t seen sis in about 6 years but we have coffee together every Saturday morning. That’s a real special time for me. We really connect then. Now I get to see her in person! I feel like a kid again! 😆
–Love your song B-low. It really fits!
Enjoy the fun and the sun. Have a margarita for me. I could use a vacation myself but not till I land permanent employment. Temporary work doesn’t give paid holidays till you work for them a year.
Have a wonderful week just remember plenty of sun screen when you are toasting your tootsies.
Enjoy the warmer weather, Caddycat! Have a safe trip and enjoy the time with your sister. See you when you get back. Safe journey to you.
Hey Lynn!
My Pa. buddy!!! It’s a nice warm day today huh!? Very windy though…..
So how are you???
Hey there, girlfriend! Are you really warm?? We are only at about 30 degrees here and the wind is whipping like crazy. We should go to the low 40’s next week. I am ok. Couldn’t post much this week, have been very busy here at work. But I have checked in every day though. I see HM is still swiping kitty’s and Mary in MD is giving her a run for her money!! I’m glad someone took over while I was out!! We sure do have a lot of newcomers, don’t we!! Welcome to all and enjoy the craziness! Bumblebee, how’s the back? Are you feeling better? If I don’t catch you before I leave, I’ll check in over the weekend.
Enjoy yourself, Caddycat! This is the best time of the year to visit! The weather is beautiful. It is 79 degrees and sunny at 3:30 pm in Tampa. Are you going to visit Cape Canaveral? And, although I am not very superstitious, I wish Atlantis did not have an Ides of March launch date! Speaking of numbers, is anyone going to see “The Number 23” this weekend? Don’t forget that “Amazing Grace” starts tonight, as well!
I want to see “Amazing Grace,” but I want to see “Breach” first.
SHE SINGS:
“Santa baby, leave a kitten under the tree for me,
I’ve been an awful good girl, Santa baby.
So, give me kitty lovin’ tonight!”
I now have the Santa Baby song running in my head and will be stuck with it all day till I get into my car and listen to the radio.
That’s where it started, as soon as I saw that lovely little girl under the tree, I heard that song and am in the same boat…only I take the bus!
Absolutely precious. My Chloe doesn’t bother with the tree or the ornaments… just looks, gives quik sniff and walks away… now, ribbons on the other hand – that’s a different story !
Hi Debby, Oh, don’t get me started on ribbons. My 15 year old Mr. Bounce has always had a thing for ribbons. One evening I had decorated all the packages with ribbons and bows and the next morning they were strewn all over the room. A few were still on the packages but they all had “kitty teeth” holes. Now I decorate right before we exchange gifts.
I sometimes work with raffia…. oh my… Chloe has ‘stolen’ pieces of that and I find it on the second floor, in the bathroom !
I find extremely fluffy q-tips all over the house – used q-tips that is. Trixie swipes them from the trash in the bathroom and thinks they’re great fun!
My Trixie swipes used Q-Tips (yuck) from the bathroom trash can and I find them all over the house with extremely fluffy ends. She also swipes my chenille stems (pipe cleaners) from my craft basket!
I thought Snickers was the only one who liked used Q-Tips!!! How nasty can they get? (Although… a blogger I read often, once posted a pic of her kits’ new “favorite toy”–the applicator from a female product!!! At that point, kitty and I would have to sit down for a long talk about “EEEEEWWWWW.”)
I am painting my dining room this weekend and when my husband and I moved the bufffet we found no fewer than 20 of Gracie’s cat toys behind it. A lovely assortment of rolled-up knee-hi’s, pony tail holders, milk rings and other stolen treasures. I gathered them all up and put them in the toy basket. Later in the evening Gracie was frantically searching the dining room for her stash. I had to tell her that they had been transferred from savings to checking!
This morning I found 6 of them scattered on the dining room floor!
This morning I also discovered that the wallpaper in this room is actually over a painted surface!!!! Whoo hoo I will be able to get it off without damaging the walls. No more baby-pink and white stripes. Hello Cranberry Cocktail!
Hey PPearson!
I’ll be thinking about ya while I’m still at war with my kitchen wallpaper! I’m getting there! Next step will be to patch up the mess the previous owners hid behind the wallpaper!! Can’t wait to paint, I’m going for a dark barn red!
Funny, when I moved the stove, my boys had a stash of stuff under there. Even found a couple little army guys that belonged to my nephew, along with milk rings, pens, a gazzilion pompoms and “parts” from my silk flowers!! They were so excited when I got that stuff out, it was like Christmas to them!!
Good luck to ya with your wallpaper war!!
My sister often takes a broom handle and does a sweep under her stove to get her cats’ toys out. They DO act like it’s Christmas. lol
Last time I pulled the stove out :
30 mice, 15 balls,6 milk rings,pieces of stolen uncooked macaroni,a dust bunny the size of a large family of gerbils 😳
This would sound like a lot except we know you have 25 fuzzbutts and this is just a one day count.
LOL 6 month check
Ah yes! I can relate to the “monster” dust bunnies, or shall we call them dust “kitties” in our cases?!?!?!? What about under the refrigerator grate thingy, every time I remember to clean it, it looks like a cat got sucked in there!
The joke in our house is that if we saved everything our two cats shed in a couple of months there’s be enough to make another kitten. Thank heavens no one in the house is allergic!
I can’t figure out how 1 cat can leave so much hair. My bf says that cats are heat to hair converters… they soak up the heat to throw off the hair…..
Brandi Lee,
Sing that list and it almost sounds like the 12 days of christmas- cat style! lol
i can come up with more………..5 beer caps,4 hairbands,3 bread ties 2 stolen dog toys, and a giant dustbunnieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
My cat, Lucky used to think the stove was a goal post! He would grab a toy mouse or anything small, head to the kitchen, line up with the stove, scoot his back end back and forth, then use his paws to put the toy through the goal! After weeks of retrieving various items, I screwed a piece of door liner to the bottom of the stove. Now he uses every other piece of furniture to play hockey! I can’t win!!! Is funny as heck to watch though!
Lynn–Atticus does that with all of his toys, except he slides them all under the washer! I’ll bet there are a dozen “mousies” under there. And, each day, he still tries to get them out from underneat the washer! Thanks for the door liner idea!
lol…and I thought 6 bouncy-balls under the sofa was a nice big stash to find….
And let’s just not even talk about dust bunnies. They’re just too frightening–my ex once choked the vacuum cleaner just by running it through his “den” a couple of times. I was pulling compacted dust-bunnies from the hoses with a needle-nosed pliers for an HOUR a few days later, when I needed to vacuum and discovered that for some unknown reason, there was no suction…..That was it for me and dust bunnies.
I just got a new couch, and as we where moving the old couch out and tipped it on the end, dont a dozen balls come rolling out! Now i’m just trying to find all the other hiding places.
I’ve got you all beat! I moved my dresser and found three dead lizards, four pink puff balls (from my scarf!), a dead grasshopper and three milk jug rings-my two boys have been busy!
Don’t you just love finding the “what is that??” surprises!! Then you figure out it’s a dried up mummified lizard!! Ewww!
I accidentally picked up a dead, dehydrated lizard! I saw it behind the dining room table and thought that it did not look like any of their cat toys! I didn’t have my contacts in, so I picked it up and inspected it and noticed what it was and I SCREAMED and flung it into the living room! Living in Florida, those things get in the house once a year or so and they always scare me!
LOL! Been there done that!! Ugh! Mine bring in the roaches from outside too! That just grosses me out! Then they pout when I end up flushing it!! They’ve got every toy made especially for them, but noooo, that’s not enough, gotta bring in those nasty roaches…..got a shiver just thinking about that! ewwww! I’ll take a lizard any day over the bugs!
I house sat for my brother once and his cat was an Indoor/Outdoor who had her own way out so she could come and go as she pleased.
I woke up one morning to the ‘gift’ she left me. I stepped on a dead lizard she left by the bed – minus the head.
She was sitting there so proud of herself so I told her what a good girl she was and gave her a belly rub
I don’t have lizards to deal with (thank god) but I do get field mice. The cats like to be outside with us on the porch and both of my kids have gotten a hold of a mouse. Lucky brought his in the house, ran to the back bedroom and growled when we tried to take it away! I kept saying drop it(what was I thinking)! My roomate asked if I was crazy! So we chased him outside with it and he finally let it go. Darn mouse took of like heck! Another time Lucky chased the rabbit that lives under our shed. He jumped the fence and was on that rabbits tail fast. I screamed his name and I swore he stopped in mid air to look at me. But he did finally stop and jumped the fence back on the porch and looked at me like “ok, I’m tired now, I’ll just rest here a minute.”! Lady likes to bring in leaves in the fall when they are all crunchy. All in all still better than what some of you deal with! Guess I’m lucky!! Keep the stories coming!
I have a kitty door, and I get all kinds of suprises/gifts brought in. Last Saturday I was sweeping by the kitchen stove and out wondered a very bedraggled woodpecker. I am still trying to figure out who brought the bat in to the house last summer.
Try a rats tail. My mom’s cat Fiesta (a siamese MeezerMama) who was always bringing in something as a present to us. Well, one day I am vacuming and I see what I thought was a string or something. Bent down to look closer and just as I am about to pick it up, I discovered it was a rat’s tail. I just about jumped out of my body. Never did find the rest of the rat’s body (she must have ate it). The other experience is when she brought in a bird, ate most of it and left the bones and feathers under the sofa of which I got to clean up since she was practically my cat (I fed her and she slept on my bed at night). Thankfully Sylvester is an indoor kitty and just catches flies or bugs that crawl in when the window or door is open.
Emerson likes to eat just the legs off the crickets. I guess that’s all it takes to shut them up
Should I mention the desicated (sp?) mouse tucked in the kitty bed?
Oh, holy cow, y’all. I always knew I was a LITTLE bit of a wuss when it came to creepies and critters, but I have the bejeebies from head to toe after reading those little slices of life. Last night Snick caught a big moth, and proceeded to eat it, very slowly and with great enjoyment, in the middle of the living room floor–and even THAT sent me into a shiver!!! I don’t know HOW you guys handle dead lizards, rats’ tails, and all the rest…you all have WAY more nerve than I EVER will!!! 🙂
im sorry it proby should not be so funny but i think i tinkled meself…….:)
Oh…Brandi lee………
Oh, by the way, a Cranberry Cocktail sounds great, I think I’ll have one too! A little early tho-only 1:35 in the afternoon here
Like the Alan Jackson song “It Is 5 O’Clock Somewhere”.
Hi,
When I moved from my apt we found about 15 tiny ornaments that my big red kitty had stashed behing the couch after plucking them off the tree.When I confronted him(jokingly) he got that deer in the headlight look but then did “big kitty eyes” so I had to forgive him.I would always put a bell in my tree so I could tell if it was being pillaged. It didn’t seem to stop them but they got to be very quick about it.
Bako is such a cutie. I think she is saying “back off, these are mine, all mine).
A lovely pastel calico kitten. She’s absolutely precious, and seeing her beside the tree reminds me of a quote from a rescued cat on another website who said that he had been adopted from a shelter in December and he received “a house and slaves for Christmas.” I thought that was the funniest thing.
Oh, Tessa, that is SO cute! True too!
What a cute package to find under the tree! A very pretty kitty.
The first year Goober was with us for Christmas…he lived in the tree.
I think he had more fun that Christmas than anyone else in the family. Every year he still tries to get in it but he weighs to much now and it just falls over.
For Christmas this year I had the two college kittens, Lucy RIP and Charlie. Someone posted an interesting tip that worked! I put clementines under the tree and the kitts just walked past the tree. They never touched it, swatted an ornament or anything. Apparently cats don’t like citrus and it worked as a natural repellent for them. Thanks for all of the warm wishes on my return home from holiday. We flew out of Chicago O’Hare during a huge blizzard. It was amazing that I got there from Memphis and my oldest dearest girlfriend made it in from DC. All of the national flights were cancelled, we sat on the plane 3 1/2 hours, de-iced twice, but took off for Heathrow. We were amazed that we departed Chicago at all! Have a great weekend!
I may have to try that. I haven’t had a tree since I’ve had Sebastian (almost 17 years). I know he probably wouldn’t bother it, as he’s very sophisticated. Huddy and Maverick on the other hand….well…..can’t be trusted.
Glad you had a good time, Tinafish and that you were able to take off despite the storms. Sounds like you had a wonderful time and saw some neat stuff. Welcome back.
Bako is a cutie!
Hey Tinafish,
Our Oliver ~ black and white tuxedo cat, HATES citrus. He was lounging on the table once and I was peeling an orange to eat, and he sniffed the air and ran off. He hates anything that smells anything like that. Funny!
When we had an artificail tree years ago when my daughter was young, the cats climed in it everyday. We only had lights on the tree that year and had to re-arrange them each night before lighting the tree. We had the tree in my bedroom and closed the door at night and when we weren’t home.
Crazy Perry, we let him outside a couple of times and he ran right up the overgrown bush/tree right next to the door, and up on the roof! We had a time trying to get him down! He escaped out the door a few times and did that. Bugger. This was also years ago when we rented a little pink house. Small, but very cozy for us and the 3 cats we had at the time. Cats do the funniest things!!!
Bumblebee,
Cute story. My cats like to get on the roof and sleep!
They climb the tree next to the house and jump onto the roof. My cats also like to sleep on the roof of my washroom/greenhouse. It is on the bottom floor of my house and they access it from the 2nd level. I can look out from upstairs and see them. Hope you are feeling better today and the soreness is easing up.
Hello Renee,
That’s cool how your cats do that! Also, that you can see them from upstairs. Silly things!!
My back is feeling better, but still acts weird. I don’t understand it….. The pain kinda moves around. I still get the sharp pains in the middle of the lower back. Oh well. All in all it is improving, so that is a blessing….
Thanks for asking! I sure feel loved on this site! 🙂
My cat eats them! I cannot peel and eat an orange or a clementine without having C.J. begging for some.
My gracie likes grapefruit! Emma and Thierry will come over for a good sniff but wont eat any. I have heard that cats with an “oriental” heritage do like citrus. Gracie also likes grapes, strawberries, kiwi, watermelon and cherries.
ppearson you do have some crazy cats. My tuxedo Sylvester doesn’t like human food except for croissants, butter and whip cream (which of course all have butter).
She looks so cute and innocent…but you know the thought of…er, ‘redesigning’ all that shiny wrapping has at least crossed her mind 😉
Very true! haha!
I dont know which one is mine…honestly! lol such a guilty look on her face
Fluffy Present Investigator FUZZ!!!
Hello, Dee? Hello? Are you there? yooooooohooooooo…..
Where’s Dee today? Maybe really busy at work.
I wanted to say thanks for the tip about calling 800 numbers on products you like or use, to get coupons. I called 3 different products today and they are ALL sending me soupons! Not to mention the 2- $2 coupons I got for the dog food we use for Damien! How cool! Thanks Dee!!!
Hope you see this post!
Hi, Bumblebee! I’m happy to hear about the coupons. Many times the company will send you a coupon for a free product, or even the product itself! Also, if you register at kraftfoods.com (link below), they send coupons for free products every few months–just received a coupon for free cheese “Crumbles”!
And, yes, I’m busy at work—and the community has gotten so big that it’s impossible to read every post most days…
http://kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=profile&m=/profile/profile_registration&u1=join&task=NewsLetter&rmain=profile/profile_registration&redirect=/main.aspx
Thanks Dee!
I shared the free crockpot liners link with my step daughter as I know she uses them.
Thanks for all you share with us. Your a dear!!!!
Christmas morning, Bako was disappointed to find that the large box of “catnip” she’d guarded for weeks was actually a new vacuum cleaner.
lol
“Mutts” is cute!
http://muttscomics.com/art/dailyarchive.asp?month=2&date=9&year=2007
**More Than 1,000 Customers Receive Billion Dollar Utility Bills**
POSTED: 10:50 am PST February 22, 2007
WEATHERFORD, Texas — Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden to turn down the thermostat a bit.
Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.
The mega-charges were attributed to a printing error.
Irving-bases DataProse, which prints customer bills for Weatherford Electric, said the company was embarrassed by the error.
“Obviously, this is not something we are pleased about,” said Curtis Nelson, DataProse vice president and general manager.
Weatherford Electric spokeswoman Pam Pearson said customers can expect their correct bills later this month. She said the company’s records were correct and showed the right balances.
“I know they raised the rates on kilowatt hours a little bit,” Redden said. “I guess we shouldn’t have run the heater quite so much this month.”
**’Hugging Bandit’ Leaves Men Wallet-Less**
POSTED: 9:16 am PST February 23, 2007
BUFFALO, N.Y. — She’s a hugging machine, but her affection comes with a price.
Police are warning men about the “Hugging Bandit,” who heartily embraces men coming out of downtown bars and leaves them wallet-less.
Dozens of men say they have been victims. Police say others are too embarrassed to admit it.
“She doesn’t just go up to you and hug you,” said Detective Sgt. Tom Donovan. “She actually grabs (them), tries to talk them into something more, and there goes their wallet.”
The Hugging Bandit has been striking for about the past decade, typically between 2 and 4 a.m. She uses the credit cards she steals within hours of her theft, police said.
“As far as I can tell, she waits until it’s late at night and these guys coming out of the bars are tipsy,” Donovan said.
“They’re either going to their car or going to the hot dog vendor … She makes sure they’re rip-roaring drunk.”
Officers believe she is a 48-year-old Buffalo woman they have arrested 17 times between 1998 and 2005 for similar schemes, as well as prostitution and criminal possession of stolen property.
Her most recent theft was early Sunday. A man told police a heavyset woman approached him for sex. When he said no, she gave him a hug and left — with his wallet containing $25, his driver’s license and debit cards.
Police said they showed the man on Wednesday a photo array that included the woman suspected in the case. The man admitted that he was too drunk to remember her.
Santa’s never brought ME a kitten! Guess you have to get on his extra-nice list!
Oh well, that leaves me out.
Hey Dee, The fish n chips in London was great! We stayed in Chelsea and there were great restaurants everywhere we turned. The best food was in Amsterdam! Could it have been the party favors before dinner? I’ll never tell!
Welcome back Tinafish! Sounds like you had a good time and enjoyed the food and local flavors. *wink wink*
Thanks Teresa, Wink Wink back at ya!
Fish n chips sounds wonderful! An ex-boyfriend used to live in London and turned me on to mashed peas, which he said are often served with fish n chips. (Having never been to England, I guess you and residents of England can speak more on that…)
Mushy peas actually – delicious
I just received this recipe from Nubella–the health-oriented site of which I’ve spoke. I’ve never cooked fish in an oven roasting bag–it sounds delicious!
Recipe: Baked Stuffed Salmon
Servings: 8
Preparation Time: 15 min.
Cooking Time: 45 min.
Ingredients:
1 salmon, about 5 lb each, center and rib bones removed
1 lemon, juiced
1 medium onion\cooked, thinly sliced
1 large tomato\cooked, thinly sliced
8 basil leaf, rinsed, dried and thinly sliced
oven roasting bag
This Recipe is considered:
Low Fat
Low Sodium
Cooking Directions:
Preheat oven to 400° F. Slice partly through salmon so that you can open it up and lay it flat, skin side down. Remove thin bones running down center of each fillet. Sprinkle inside of fish with salt and pepper to taste and half the lemon juice. Place 2/3 of the onion, tomato and basil on one of the fillets. Close up fish with stuffing inside and place it inside roasting bag. Arrange remaining onion, tomato and basil on top of fish. Sprinkle with remaining lemon juice. Close roasting bag tightly around fish. Bake 30 minutes. Turn package over and bake another 15-20 minutes, or until fish is no longer pink inside. Serve fish with juices.
Per Serving: calories 72, fat 2.4g, calories from fat 29%, protein 9.3g, cholesterol 20.7mg, dietary fiber 2.1g
Nutrients Exchanges
Calories 72 Milk Exchanges 0.0
Protein 9.3g Vegetable Exchanges 0.9
Carbohydrates 5.7g Fruit Exchanges 0.1
Dietary Fiber 2.1g Bread Exchanges 0.0
Sugar 2.6g Other Carbohydrates/Sugar Exchanges 0.0
Fat Total 2.4g Lean Meat Exchanges 0.0
Saturated Fat 0.6g Very Lean Meat/Protein Exchanges 1.2
Mono-unsaturated Fat 0.8g Fat Exchanges 0.2
Poly-unsaturated Fat 0.9g
% Calories from Fat 29%
Cholesterol 20.7mg
Sodium 31.2mg
Oooh Dee that Salmon dish sounds delicious! I love salmon. 😀
Beautiful kitten! What a Christmas present 🙂
**Man Discovers World’s Hottest Chili Pepper**
POSTED: 9:08 am PST February 23, 2007
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Paul Bosland recalls taking a bite of a chili pepper and feeling like he was breathing fire.
He gulped down a soda, thinking, “That chili has got to be some kind of record.”
The Guinness Book of World Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world’s hottest chili pepper, Bhut Jolokia, a naturally occurring hybrid native to the Assam region of northeastern India.
The name translates as ghost chili, Bosland said.
“We’re not sure why they call it that, but I think it’s because the chili is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it,” he said.
Bhut Jolokia comes in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, a measure of hotness for a chili. It’s nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the variety it replaces as the hottest.
By comparison, a New Mexico green chili contains about 1,500 Scoville units; an average jalapeno measures at about 10,000.
Where do I get seeds?! I LOVE hot food!
I saw that chili on The Simpsons. It gave Homer hallucinations it was so hot. (I’m kidding, I never saw that chili on the Simpsons. But Homer DID eat one that was so hot it gave him hallucinations).
I thought he was licking a frog for those…was this another episode where Homer gets hallucinations?
That was Beavis and Butthead! lol
Homer was addicted to licking toads when he inadvertently signed on to do missionary work! (The Simpsons is one of my favorite shows!)
I’ve thought about that, and you guys are right!!
I love the Simpsons too. It’s one of the few shows I can watch over and over and laugh like I’ve never seen it before.
FREE sample of Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners
http://www.alcoa.com/reynoldskitchens/en/promotions/scl_sample.asp
Oooh, good recipes on that page! I love the slow cooker, it makes my life soooo easy.
FREE 7 day supply of coffee-mate
http://www.coffee-mate.com/7Days/default.aspx?
Bako is a cutie!! Smooch cuddle kiss kiss! Would little Bako be a muted tortie or light colored calico? Don’t mean to sound stupid (as we all know I have the habit of doing) but I was just wondering.
Have great Friday and keep warm!!
BTW-Where is Ivory Bill? How’s Joshie?
**Tiger kills girl at Chinese zoo**
Last Updated: Friday, 23 February 2007, 14:18 GMT
Tigers are a popular attraction at many zoos in China
A six-year-old girl has been killed by a tiger at a zoo in Kunming in south-western China’s Yunnan province.
The girl was posing for photographs with the tiger when it was startled by camera flashes and pulled the girl’s head into its mouth, state media said.
Staff beat the tiger until it released the girl, but she had suffered a crushed skull and died in hospital.
The zoo has stopped allowing visitors to pose with its tigers for a charge of $2 (£1), Xinhua news agency said.
The girl was identified as Rui Xin. Her mother was bitten on the arm while trying to rescue her.
A local newspaper said the zoo had been charging visitors for the opportunity to pose with the tiger since May 2005.
I read this sad story earlier today. What a horrible experience for that family. One of my biggest pet peeves is animals being used for the entertainment of people. Who knows what kind of life these poor tigers had – you can’t blame them, they are just animals. I do blame people who use animals in that way, it is just cruel!
My thoughts, exactly!
agreed
I couldn’t agree more. Even the major zoos are not immune to ongoing mistreatment. Although, they at least are doing some wonderful things to prevent the extinction of some animals. I will never forget looking into the eyes of a gorilla at the Baltimore Zoo when I was a young teenager. The poor fellow was in a large cage with glass front. Just sitting there looking very bored. When I looked in his eyes I could see such depth, and pain. I’ll never forget that experience and have hated seeing captive animals ever since.
I agree. I don’t go to Zoos anymore due to the fact that the animals look so depressed and some Zoo’s treat their animals bady. I just don’t believe in an animal being penned in. I would keep birds in cages for that reason. Just seems wrong but that is only my two cents.
TGIF!
Oops..fingers not matching the brain. I wouldn’t keep birds in cages. and the other word should be badly not bady. Sheesh. Definitely time to go home.
Here’s a link to a good zoo, http://www.cathouse-fcc.org
It’s in Rosamond CA and is dedicated to endangered felines.
I have visited this place and it’s wonderful! Anyone in Southern California or anyone planning a visit, this place is worth the drive… Its about an hour and a half north of Los Angeles.
Interesting article!
**The ancient girl with the golden eye: 5,000 year old priestess found**
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=437632&in_page_id=1811&ct=5
wow, that is…creepy.
Looks like she’s up to no good!
TDK’ers, what was the name/brand of the kittylitter that someone recommended for cats with no interest in their litterboxes?
Cat Attract! A miracle product! Here’s the link with all the info, including where you can purchase it—Petsmart.com has it available online, as well…
http://www.preciouscat.com/
Great! Thanks, Dee
Happy weekend TDK’ers!
I’ll be “cat”ching up with ya Monday! Off to wallpaper war I go…..
Treats to all the kitties for me…….
I’ll be with you in spirit! Catch up with you Monday to compare war stories!
I saw this on another site and thought that little kids (and big kids)would get a kick out of this…
**Puppy Chow for people**
Ingredients:
1 stick butter
1 cup peanut butter
1 12oz. package chocolate chips
1 full box Crispix cereal
3 cups powdered sugar
Directions:
1. Melt butter, peanut butter and chocolate chips in the microwave.
2. Pour in 1 full box of Crispix cereal. Mix well.
3. Pour in 3 cups powered sugar. Mix well.
4. Serve. Store in a sealed plastic container.
It can be fun to serve in dog bowls (obviously clean) at kids parties!
In Clearwater (across the street from my old neighborhood) was a 19th hole bar and grill called the Dogwater Cafe (“We Treat You Like the Dog You Are”). They specialized in sandwiches and burgers (the food was very good). All the dishes were named either for dog breeds or famous dogs, and they were served in dual dog dishes (sandwich on one side, fries on the other). My favorite was the Huckleberry Hound–a burger with bacon and Bleu Cheese. YUM!
Bako is so sweet looking.
Christmas came early! I’ve heard of christmas in July but this is February. I DON’T MIND! I love it.
Pine Tree FUZZ
YAY! I am sharing the email that HSUS just sent me. Partial victory!
Dear Dee,
Thank you so much for speaking up about Amazon’s sale of animal fighting materials. Thanks to you, we are making some progress, but our job isn’t done yet.
Responding to your calls and e-mails, Amazon stopped selling a couple of gruesome dogfighting videos-–the sale of which violated a federal law relating to the sale of videos that depict illegal acts of animal cruelty.
But Amazon is still peddling two cockfighting magazines, The Gamecock and The Feathered Warrior, which have dozens of pages of advertisements for fighting animals–and that, too, is a violation of federal law. The law being violated is the federal Animal Welfare Act, and it has a provision banning the interstate shipment of fighting birds. Amazon says it’s a free speech issue, but the company is sorely confused.
The First Amendment doesn’t protect a company if it solicits illegal behavior and peddles contraband. Amazon does not sell magazines that advertise the sale of narcotics, child pornography, or other illegal materials. The animal abuse being incited is against the law, and Amazon should know better.
As you may know, The HSUS filed suit against Amazon in February to get the company to stop inciting these criminal acts, and I’ll keep you updated on further progress in the case. I hope I can count on you to take action again if we see a good opportunity for further public pressure–you are a vital part of our battle against cruelty to animals.
Sincerely,
Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States
Way to go Dee! Proud of you sister! As you find these things, let us know so we can add our voices.
ppearson–I posted the link for this issue a couple times. And, although I would love to be able to move mountains, this was an email that was sent to everyone who emails Amazon.com over this issue. How great would it be to get a personal email from Wayne Pacelle, though?!
I finally got both of my boys up on Catster. If anyone would like to visit with D’artagnan and Maximum, here’s Mr. D’s page: http://www.catster.com/cats/485358
*waves at Susan*
I just went there and saw them. What beautiful boys they are, and lucky to have you too. My kitties sent them an invitation to be friends.
Max has an amazingly fluffy tail!!! Both of them are very cute.
I’ll send an invitation when I get home
What handsome boys. Max’s beautiful plumed tail about made my heart stop it is so lovely and D’s sweet funny face made me smile!
Just visited your wonderful kits. Max is so beautiful, just want to give him a hug. D’ is a tux like my Munchie and Max. Munchie has the same eyes as D’. (impish and sweet)
I just sent you an invite from my kitty, Sylvester. I love the markings on “Bub” aka Mr. D.
Awwww darling. He has beautiful markings. I liked the story. Bless you for giving him a forever home.
Beautiful kitties especially “Bub”,I invited them to be friends.
😀
Thanks to everyone for your kind words! I love my boys and I’m so glad to be able to share!
**$3.5 Million Lottery Ticket Unclaimed, Now Worthless**
Officials Reject 200 Lost Ticket Claims
POSTED: 6:59 am PST February 21, 2007
UPDATED: 7:19 am PST February 21, 2007
HARTFORD, Conn. — The dream of becoming a millionaire could be turning into someone’s nightmare.
Connecticut lottery officials said no one has produced the winning ticket for a $3.5 million jackpot in the Feb. 14, 2006, drawing.
The winning ticket expired and is worthless, lottery officials said.
However, officials said if someone mailed it in and it was postmarked before the deadline, it would be honored.
Lottery officials have also rejected nearly 200 lost ticket claims.
Lottery spokeswoman Diane Patterson said the people who had made the claims didn’t have such basic facts as where and when the winning ticket was purchased.
But there is one winner in the story of the jackpot that turned into a pumpkin.
The Coventry Getty Mart in Coventry, which sold the winning ticket, is getting a $10,000 bonus.
Here is an article about that scary billboard that I posed Wednesday. It looks like it is a real news story…
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/10/16/story5.html
Still creepy though.
She’s having a good time!
**Beaver Spotted in NYC–First Time in 200 Years**
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2898945
And another NYC story–this one being disgusting!
http://www.wnbc.com/news/11089614/detail.html?dl=mainclick
They need some cats!
11:02 Thursday 15th February 2007
**Dogs sings ringtones**
A Chinese woman claims her pet dog can ‘sing’ along with mobile phone ringtones.
Mrs Zhang, of Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province, says 14-month-old Dangdang picked up the habit a year ago.
“I was in the kitchen and my mobile phone rang in the sitting room. Then I heard Dangdang making a series of strange sounds, which was exactly in the rhythm of the music.
“He stopped when I picked up the phone,” she told Xi’an Evening Papers.
From then on, whenever her mobile phone rang, Dangdang has ‘sung’ along with the music.
“The difference between high and low tunes is quite obvious, and the speed is also in good control. From his expression he seems to enjoy the singing,” added Mrs Zhang.
She says Dangdang is a very intelligent dog who escorts guests downstairs when they leave and barks farewell.
And she added: “He knows how to play dead. If you point at him with hand shaped like a gun, he’ll immediately fall to the ground and stay still for half an hour.”
Dangdang—That’s a wonderful name for a dog.
My cat will occasionally sing along with a ring tone, but not reliably
**Minister’s lens cap gaffe **
Friday 23rd February 2007
Mr Peretz was inspecting troops in the Golan Heights with the Israeli army’s new chief of staff, Gen Gabi Ashkenazi.
According to the photographer, Mr Peretz looked through the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Gen Ashkenazi explained what was in view.
Mr Peretz’s popularity has fallen in the wake of last year’s war against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
But one Israeli paper pointed out that he is not the first prominent official to make this mistake.
According to daily Yediot Ahronot, President Bush and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have both done the same thing.
The starting point of achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires produce weak results, just as a small amount of fire produces a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
Motivational writer
I forgot to post this awful Florida story–infuriating on so many levels!
**Dog Taken From Deaf Woman**
By LATISHA R. GRAY Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Published: Feb 21, 2007
SARASOTA – An assisted-living facility owner stole a deaf resident’s service dog and told her it died, deputies said Tuesday.
Geoffrey W. Kinne, owner of McIntosh Manor Assisted Living Facility, didn’t want the animal in the building, so he sneaked into Joan B. Gurland’s room one night in November and took it, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office reports state.
Gurland, 64, had owned the dog for 12 years and paid $2,000 for it.
Kinne tried to take the dog to the Sarasota County Humane Society, but staff there said Kinne didn’t have the proper paperwork, reports state.
Kinne tied the dog to the back door of a home he owns on Antilles Drive and left it without food or water. A friend staying there didn’t want the dog, Sgt. John Walsh said.
Kinne filled out paperwork from the Humane Society using a fake name and took the dog back, sheriff’s reports say. The Humane Society found someone to adopt it.
When Kinne learned he was being investigated by the sheriff’s office, he tried to get the dog back, but its new owner refused to give it up.
Kinne, 64, was arrested Tuesday and charged with forgery, burglary and grand theft with a victim 65 years or older, all felonies. He also was charged with misdemeanor confinement-abandonment of an animal.
By the time the arrest was made, the woman’s dog had been euthanized because of liver failure.
KITTENMASTER: Is there a way to check a past date on TDK without backdating day-by-day? Will there ever be archives available, as was the case with the old site?
I’m not sure what you mean, Dee – from the homepage there are links to all the old monthly archives – is that what you’re after?
Well, that was embarassing. I never realized the archives were still available on the new site. Thanks for the response, Kittenmaster, and sorry for the interruption…
That’s OK 🙂
I need to make them more readily available anyhow – it just struck me that you all spend your time and these individual pages, rather than on the homepage. So thanks for inadvertently pointing out that I need to fix this!
To dee from Tampa. If you click on “A new kitten everyday…” that’s typed in pink at the top of the page, it will take you to a page with several pictures plus a calendar etc…
I hope this helps. Skye.
Thanks, Skye. As I told Kittenmaster, I’m surprised I never noticed the archives on the new site. Glad they are still here!
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Hello to Cathi in NC and Thomas and Chester and Ivory Bill!
Hi Dee!!! How are you? I miss our chats. I really must start posting more often. Hope you have a great weekend!
This is just terrible. I’m glad someone is trying to do something about it
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/14382/
Oh, I couldn’t read another story about cruelty to cats. Makes me so sad.
Was wondering how Bo is doing.
This is the latest update:
Comment by Brittany (Bo’s foster mom)
2007-02-20 22:22:54
Oh no, Sharon in Austell. He will definately not be going back to the streets, if all else fails he will most likely stay with Mrs. Ginger. We do have another person that would like to adopt him though, and it sounds like a great hom situation for Bo.
Thanks again to everybody who has helped, we couldn’t have done this without you all!
Take care,
Brittany
H there,
Sorry I haven’t updated you all again. Bo is doing GREAT. His leg is healing up very, very well, and the fur is actually starting to grow back! I am hoping to have new pictures soon. We do have another person that would like to adopt him, and I know that Mrs.Ginger was supposed to talk to them today, but i’m not sure how it all went and such. But, I will let you all know as soon as I know anything.
Thanks!
~Brittany Tisdale
Bako is such a pretty fluff ball with enormous golden eyes. She looks totally innocent. In fact so innocent that I suspect she is not guarding a sack full of presents.
No, she holds Santa hostage. I don’t ‘know’ the real reason but I suspect it has something to do with the latest scoop of The Tabby Tabloid – allegedly Santa runs the world’s biggest cat nip cartel. 80
Good night peeps! This is a kitty pic I wanted to share: http://www.cuteaddict.com/2007/02/its_900amis_it_.html
she is super cute! love her colors and markings…. 🙂
KITTENMASTER there is a guy called mikethat is having trouble posting on this site can you or anyone out there help him.
Not without more details. What kind of problems is he having?
JCL
“Whatcha git ME, Santa?!”
“Y’all take care, and clean your paws before — and after dinner.” The CatWrangler from Louisiana
is there a way i can have you e-mail me then i could forward the e-mail he sent me,but if not what i remember is that he fills out the coment box and hits the add comment button but then nothing happens,i think he may need adobe writer or some other thing like it to be able to post his comments.
or maybe he did not register or add his e-mail addressbefore sending his comment .
This is more likely. You need to fill in the name, e-mail and comment fields. If not, you’ll get an error message and your comment won’t appear. You don’r need any other software or anything.
Don’t talk about how you get on to add your comment talk more about the cat.
Hi Brittany. It’s OK for people to talk about other subjects – the people who come here may have been attracted initially by the kittens, but they have plenty of other interests in common.
Thanks.
**~~Bako Foil Fuzz~~**
Aw! Bako’s SO cute! Bako would be the best Christmas present of all- even if I got $1,000.00 as another gift he’d be #1!!!!
I love this picture with Bako and the Christmas tree.
Bako is definately the cutest present under the tree. 🙂
k, that kit definatly wins 1st in christmas toys! i say! kit freak on the loose and iv come 2 see my own! am i welcomed? o well im still talkin!
we do have lovely kitten for homes,they are very intelligent and have loved companion of other animals and children,contact for more infors
hello any one out there to have cute and adorable kittens that can’t make good companion of yur home get back to me via mail
hello any one out there to have cute and adorable kittens that can’t make good companion of yur home get back to me via mail
I am seeking further information about an article which appeared in London, The Times, Wednesday, February 21, 2007 on a 5,000-year-old-golden artifical eye. Where might I obtain added information please?
J.M. Enoch