Wordless Wednesday

Apollo, Tike's kitty daddy

Tike in shower curtains

Catch-up In Pictures

I finally found the camera cord, so now I can update the awesome happenings of the past week or so via pictures!  Yay! 

We're da Bob-omb

Wild onion I foraged and ate. Definitely cook with other items.

Tike don't play no games.

Turtle buddy

I let her feed herself yogurt.

Naked time.

That's not how you take your vitamins, Lilz...

Caturday!

Tike Jumping for Joy.

It's that time of the week again!  And I'm SO excited because Animal Planet had Cats 101 on earlier.  I love that show!

So, time for today's cat fact!

*Ahem*
"Having a cat declawed is a major surgery known as onychectomy, performed under anesthesia, that removes the tip of each digit (from the first knuckle out) of the cat's forepaws. There is a slight chance of death in the surgery, and a declawed cat may have an increased risk of infection and life-long discomfort in its paws. This surgery is not recommended for an adult animal and is considered an act of animal cruelty in some countries. "
-http://www.catfacts.org/declawing-cat-facts.htm

So please refrain from declawing your cats.  You can instead clip them carefully with a claw-clipper, or get kitty claw covers.  If you clip the nails, make sure you do so very carefully and only cut the tip because the claws have a vein in them and it could really hurt or even kill your cat if cut too deep.

Image from Here.

Image from here

Happy Earth Day!

Lily and I celebrated Earth Day by planting some flower seeds yesterday because the weather was going to be too windy today.  Here is our day yesterday in pictures!
Have a great Earth Day!
Every day can be a green one :)

Awesome Pet-Related Giveaways!

In honor of Caturday I've decided to pull some pet-related giveaways I've found around the net.  Enjoy!!

Amazon Gift Card & Fur the Earth Pet Prize Package from Good Paws, Good Cause 4/21

Imperial Cat Stylish Scratching 4/26

Cat Litter Spinner 4/24

Pugs2Persians Cat Collar 5/2

Bungee Burrow Bed for Cats (or Small Dogs) 5/2 (Giveaway hop Linky on post)

10 Winners Pet Prize Pack! 5/2

Today is Caturday!

Did you know...

"The sound a cat makes is unique and is rendered onomatopoeically as "meow" or similar variants ("miaow", "miau" etc.) in most European languages as well as Mandarin Chinese. Japanese has it as "nyaa" or "nyan"; Korean as "yaong" or "nyaong".  In Arabic the sound is transcribed as "mowa'a.""

-http://www.catfacts.org/meow-cat-facts.htm

That explains "Nyan Cat," huh?

"Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan!"
Image from http://nyan-cat.com/images/nyan-cat.gif 

Well, today is Caturday, so I thought I would post some things related to my kitty, Tike Myson.  I don't recognize him enough, so today will be his day!

Tike is my furbaby.  I've had him since kittenhood and am so glad we kept him around.  He's a joy to have around, but he must stay outside now that we are living at my grandmother's house.  He was raised as an indoor kitty, so he's been taking it kind of hard.

Yesterday, though, he learned how to get in to the screened porch out back and found his way to my open window.  At 7AM he was meowing at it, trying to get me to let him in.

We usually leave the back door to the porch open, and he's already gotten inside a few times.  I don't mind, but my grandmother does.  I have just never seen a cat fight so avidly to get indoors!

Hopefully soon he can be an indoor kitty again.

Happy Easter!

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!  I've been working on classes and dealing with a newly-crawling Lily and have been finding it hard to post.  Hopefully Lily and I can reach an agreement here soon because I have a lot of great items to review!

In the Easter spirit I thought I could post some pictures of Lily's First Easter.  She did not get an Easter basked, but the Easter Bunny did bring her a nice pear that I Baby Bulleted into her sweet treat for today :)

I think his fat cat butt is sitting in poison ivy, but I could be wrong.

Lily's Discovery, My Scare, and Cleaning

A couple of days ago I was typing away on the computer when Lily's walker toy started making sounds I had never heard before.  I listened and grew concerned, so I walked in to see what was wrong.  It was buzzing and making sounds that sounded like songs.  I had never heard the toy do that, so I started to worry that it was dying or about to explode.  Before lifting Lily out of the toy and saying the Lord's Prayer to exorcise the possessed toy, I realized that maybe Lily had just found a new setting I hadn't.  Sure enough, there is a hidden switch that changes the sound-making part from a keyboard, to songs, to animal noises.  I was relieved and also proud Lily figured it out.

Of course, she could have just been banging on the toy until something new happened.

Next, Tike disappeared for a long time.  I heard a cat yelling in the woods and started freaking out.  He didn't come when I called him, which is rather unusual for him.  When the yelling stopped and everything was silent, I thought for sure my furbaby was gone.

Then, a little while later, I saw him running out of the woods and right up to me.  Scared me to death, but he's alright.

And today I've been cleaning.  That's pretty much my life in a nutshell.  I even took a break from Pokemon.  I'm sure Lily wasn't too happy about not getting to teeth on the Gameboy, but we all must make sacrifices.