'Tocktober Fest!

Happy Birthday Derby! We hope that you have a pawesome and 'tock-tastic birthday!!!





(Sorry, we don't have any good pictures of Bert's 'tocks!)

- Pearl, Bert and Jake

Meow Like a Pirate Day

Ahoy, me Hearties! We have signed aboard the Black Furrball as deckhands for today's mission! So we are off to join our shipmates and set sail.

If you're worried that there's not enough room aboard the Black Furrball, George has readied her sail boat the George and she, Bert and the woofies (of course George's first mate Beaux) will sail along side the Black Furrball in their adventure!

So let's weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!
- The Black Pearl, Deadeye Jake and Sealegs Bert

ManCat Monday

Not funny Mommy...


I know that I lost my collar, and that I can't go out without one - so I don't really see the problem with "borrowing" Bert's collar. I know it's not my normal regal purple, but when a girl needs to go out, a girl needs to go out!

But just because I have to wear Bert's collar for a few days does not mean you can put me on ManCat Monday! I just know my sweet Dante is going to be really mad at you!

-Pearl

Madhouse Monday

Ayla, Skeeter and LC decided to organize a house-trashin' party on Sunday (all right, it was mostly Ayla, but darn if she isn't great at trashing a house)!

Also, please make sure to keep Skeeter in your Purrayers, he's not feeling well and he gets more test results back from the V-E-T today.

Here's all the crazy stuff that went on (sorry no pictures this time!):

The Criz Cats all came over, they played "catch a real mouse, hide it and see who can find it first" - but we know one has found it yet (hee hee)

Zippy, Sadie and Speedy brought extra nip for added fun and Speedy worked on a couple of hairballs for extra mess.

Tybalt, Holly and Ivy brought over some niptinis to help relieve the stress.

Katie & Da Katz brought over extra furniture to shred and jump on (they're moving!)

Karl & Ruis searched for lizards and Karl dug some holes in floor. Ruis was sure there were 3 mice in the other room and accidentally trashed the whole room to try to catch them....

Super special thanks to Karen Jo who helped all us kitties out by opening any closed doors to make sure the whole house was available.

The Meaowy Troops came over to help!

The Taylor CatSSSSS were in rare form, Sassy took care of all the lamps and Sam yacked up a hairball or two, Seaborne, Spats & Summer left furr and destruction in their wake and then got started on a great round of THoE?????

Every furry kid over at Jan's Funny Farm stopped by to help out!

Mr. Hendrix and Bendrix spread all the dirt from the house plants around and then got started on shredding the curtains.

Tenny was feeling better and got started shredding all the TP in the bathrooms!

Mr. Echo did a bit of redecorating - knocking a pile of papers onto the floor to dive into and slide around.

The Meezers went all out, Sammy whaped some picture frames onto the rug, while Miles tossed some pillows around the bed and Billy ran around pulling all the towels off the towel racks.

Goldie brought three birds and two mice for a corpse flinging contest. Not sure who won that one!

Fat Eric did more than his fair share, coughing up a nice big hairball on the rug, sharpening his claws on the wooden chair and leaving ginger floof in his wake.

Samantha & Tigger brought lots of Florida lizards! And their duck furiends, Mo & Jo, were are very, very, very messy!!

And of course the hosts did the most damage, here's what Skeeter, LC and Ayla did:
Skeeter: I likes to do stuff what smells. So I peed in a closet corner, stuffed a dead mousie inna boot, an farted all aroun as much as possible. An a few of those raw shrimp I found at Gree & Othello's weddin got mysteriously stuffed unner the fridgerator!

LC: I love ta spread stuff aroun. So that pile of bills onna table are now hidden unner beds and stuff. I dragged all the pens I could find unner chairs, an iffen ya hear a strange noise when the Beins turn on the garbage shredder, don't be surprised!

Ayla: Heh, heh, heh. I LOVE destroyin. The Big Thing has started callin me "Shiva". I got up onna curtains an ripped out the threads. I got into the bookshelfs and pushed a few behind the ofers so they will never be found. Then I chewed on the corners of the dictionary pages an ate a few werds they are sure to look up someday.

After that, I collected a bunch of dust bunnies an stuffed em inta the pillowcases ta promote sneezin, got Karen Jo to reverse the direction of the TP rolls (thanks Karen). Beins hate that. I also got her ta help me exchange the contents of the sugar an salt containers!

Skeeter again: While Ayla was doin all that, I took the time to open all the CDs and DVDs and change the disks around inta the wrong cases. An a spilled some sugar onna kitchen floor ta attract antsies.

They had to leave for a bit (there was a thunderstorm at thier house, but here's what they did when they got back:

Skeeter: I marked a coupla cutain bottoms, and left a hairball behin the bottom shelf of books...

LC: I ripped off the address labels ta some magazines. I'll sell them on ebay! An I marked the magazines too.

Ayla: "Marking territory", how crude and unclever... I traded the medicine cabinet asperin fer the sleepy pills, squeezed ex-lax inta the toofpaste, an I opened a hole inna attic so bats can move in! MOL! It took 6 kitties ta manage that, but it was worth it.

We also noticed that Karen Jo switched the salted butter fer the unsalted kind. We're not sure what that does, but she seemed real pleased, so it mus be a good trick.

LC: I replaced all their roasted nuts wif unsalted ones. Ayla and Skeeter tole me that was REAL lame, so I added hot sauce. Lots of hot sauce. They liked that idee better, so I added "chilly powder" too.

Ayla: I found a bag of round dry beans, so I scattered them on the stairs.

The biggest deal for our second visit was that we dragged The Big Thing along fer a few minutes. He was stunned at the trashin. But we asked him ta thing of somethin.

Ya wont belief what he did. he went ta the "thermostatie thing" an reversed the wires! When the Beins set the cool lower, it will rise!

Oh Bastet! That is so cool (or warm) we're not sure. Whatefer! LOLOL!

An as we left, we turned their front door mat upside down AND backwards! MOL!



Well done again all you kitties, puppies and Karen Jo - thank you again. Hopefully this time they will really get it!

Trash the House Tuesday!

Alright, we decided to take this situation into our own paws! We've gotten a total of 1 hour of Mommy or Daddy time since yesterday - and that is unacceptable. So we're throwing a house trashing party!!!!

Here's what we have planned:
We'll break into the big white food box and get the giant vat o' nip (and of course any ham, cheese or anything else we want).
There are some blinds that need to be climbed on.
Mommy and Daddy left the trash cans full, so they can all be knocked over and messed with.
We've got a bunch of paper bags that need shredding (Faith Boo? Riley? perhaps you could create a little art work for Mommy and Daddy).
And of course there's always the furniture that needs climbing and clawing!

So, who's in?!?!!?

Footie Friday

I do all sorts of things with my feet - they're one of my favorite things! I can walk on them, I can hunt mice with them, I can whap my brothers and sister with them and can grab hold of Mommy's fingers with them.

But none of those are the best thing to do with my feet, this is...



I love to put my feet in things! Especially things I want to eat - it's my way of making sure something is worth eating. Last night I decided to test out Mommy's pudding cup to see if it was worth eating, and it was! So I cleaned up my paw and then stuck my head in the cup (which Mommy was too slow to get a picture of, ha ha!) - and had some tapioca.

Now, I don't want you kitties to get in trouble, but try it if you can (it works for lots of stuff, not just pudding)!

- Pearl

Knock Knock

Hey Pearl, I've got a joke for you!

Well, I'm kind of busy Bert, but ok, what is it?

Knock, Knock!

Who's there?

Puss!

Puss who?

Puss-ibly you could climb that tree?!


Why yes Bert, I can!


Hey Mom, I've got a knock knock joke for you.

Oh yeah, Jake - what is it?

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Jake

Jake, who?

Jake, your cat who's 6th birthday is today and you forgot all about it!!!!!!!!

Oh Jake, I didn't forget your birthday! It's just that we agreed that you guys were going to post a knock knock joke for Camie's Kitties' Fund Raiser!

All right Mom, but there had better be some presents and serious stinky goodness later on.

There will be big guy, don't worry.

Well, I'm just going to sulk over here till I get some cool birthday stuff - harumph!



It looks like other kitties (Gandalf & Grayson, Auntie Stinkie, Gretchen and Tiger Lily & Ruckus) are having a better birthday than me - please stop by their bloggies to wish them a super Happy Birthday!

Silly Terrier Tuesday

Good News! I finally got my basketball unstuck from all that snow and mud - Waaa hooo!!!!!



- George

The Rare Tuxie Bird

Daddy: "Hey Hon, could you pass me the binoculars?"
Mommy: "Sure, what are you looking at?"
Daddy: "There's a huge bird in that tree over there."
Mommy: "Oh, I see it - what kind is it?"


Daddy: "It looks like the very rare White Footed Tuxie bird!"

- Mommy and Daddy

Who Me?

What Mommy? A ripped bag, what ripped bag?


Oh this ripped bag here? Well, yes it is next to my snuggly, but I don't know anything about it.


Well, yes I do see this all these bits of paper - yes obviously someone has been shredding it.


But I still don't know anything about it.




Oh, you have a movie as proof - umm, well I guess I might have had something to do with it...

-Pearl

Where's Flynn?!

It's a lovely and sunny day so we decided to make the most of it and go furr a walk. I checked out the car while Flynn had a sniff around the hedge.

Come on mum, leave Flynn sniffing. He'll soon catch us up.

Mmmm, nice fresh yummy grass.

What's this I can smell? It's not enuff to make me puff right up, but just enuff to loosen my furrs a bit.

Flyyyynnnn come and smell this. Huh, where is he? Come on mum, we'd better go find him.

Can't see him, but it looks like he has been around here wiv his muddy paws, so he can't be far away.

What wuz that noise?

Hey Flynn, what you doing in that box? We've been looking furr you.

Sorry Eric, I just came back to use the litterbox and found this great cardboard box on the floor. You should know that I haf to check out anyfing new. It's ok, I've finished now.

Right you can continue sniffing Eric, you've got me furr back up now.

Thanks to our Guest Bloggers - Eric & Flynn. Make sure to see who's on their site! Happy April Fool's Day!

Really Wordy Wednesday

We've got lots to say today - so it's a really Wordy Wednesday!

First of all, we're super excited, cause Mommy is working from home today and George is going to the groomer for half the day - so we're gonna have a super day, lots of Mommy and not so much Georgie!

Next, the lovely and talented Queen Snickers tagged us for the middle name meme. But this got us thinking, do we actually have middle names? So we had a little talk with Mommy about it, and we decided that we don't actually have middle names, but there are some two-part names that she and Daddy call us all the time, so we'll use those!

Here are the rules:

1. You have to post the rules before you give your answers.

2. You must list one fact about yourself beginning with each letter of your middle name. (If you don't have a middle name, use your maiden name or your mother's maiden name).

3. At the end of your blog post, you need to tag one person (or blogger of another species) for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged.)

Mommy has called me Jakey Bo-Bo since I was a wee kitten, so:
B - Big, I am big, really big - and I like it.
O - Overly-Cautious - No, that is not another way to say scaredy cat, ok, well, maybe it does - but I prefer to say overly-cautious.
B - Baby Teradactyl, that's what Daddy says I sound like when I am asking (well, yelling) for my breakfast.
O - Omnivorous, I'll eat almost anything!

My Granddaddy said that the famous singer Pearl Bailey was called Pearly Mae when she was young, and so my whole family (even my wee bean cousins) call me that!
M - Mastermind, Mommy is pretty sure I'm usually the mastermind behind all the trouble that goes on in the house (oh - and she's probably right!).
A -Alert, I am the first to check out anything and everything, I even watch the front door to see whose coming and going.
E - Enthusiastic, I will play any time any where, I love to play!

Mommy is an insane Harry Potter fan, so when they decided to name me Bert, she instantly started calling me Bertie Botts (you know like the beans).
B - Black and White, yep I'm a tuxie and proud of it!
O - Open-Eyed, I love to watch the birds. I watch for hours and hours in the morning - it's my favorite thing.
T - Tough, I can take a licking and keep on ticking, I wrestle with George, and Jake and Pearl and I always come out just fine.
T - Talkative, I don't meow much, but I chirp and prrrp and mew a lot - especially when we're playing
S - Snuggly, I love to sneak up on Mommy in the early morning hours and snuggle up.

Since that is a lot of kitties to tag, we're going to tag Tazo and her brothers, Dante and Captain Jack (and the woofies as well), Tesla and Skeeter, LC and Ayla (who all just got middles names)!

- Pearl, Bert and Jake

Tuxie and Terrier Tuesday #2

Heh, heh, heh - George doesn't know it yet, but I'm about to pounce on her and steal her toy...



It's good to be a kitty!

-Bert

Thursday Thirteen #12

We've been up all night playing - playing Thundering Heard of Elephants and playing with and in our basket of toys - very busy! So that gave us the inspiration for our Thursday Thirteen - our favorite toys!

1. Rattley Fuzzy Mices- Pearl
2. Shoe Strings- Bert
3. Feather Butt Mice (or balls) - Jake
4. Rope Tugs - George
5. Cat Dancer - Pearl
6. Nip Cigar - Bert
7. Any Part of Daddy, arms, hands, feet - Jake
8. Rope Tugs - George
9. Feather Boa - Pearl
10. My new Nip Sushi - Bert
11. My new Super Nip Heart - Jake
12. Did I mention Rope Tugs? - George
13. Kitty Cubes - Pearl, Bert and Jake

Oh, and Holly - we tried the onion thing, but...


at first we weren't to into it...


but then Jake kind of got into it (sorry it's a bit fuzzy, but he was trying to bunnykick it!).

Go ahead kitties - try the onion toy!!

-Pearl, Bert, Jake and George

Thinking on Thursday

Yeah, we're thinking that woofies are nuts!


No really, that's our crazy dog George, out in the snow having a great time!

Shadow's new award got us thinking that George really does do some funny things (besides just cuddling with me), so for now here's a funny picture of her and maybe, just maybe, we'll let her blog every once and a while!

- Bert

Monday Memes

Today is all about me, no me, no me! We got tagged for three memes this week, so here's a bunch more stuff about us!!! We also decided to let George join in, since we've got so much to tell.

My darling Dante tagged us for the nickname meme.

Here are the rules for the Nicknames Meme:
Post a link to the kitty who tagged you, and post the rules on your blog. List your real name, how you got your real name, nicknames you like/tolerate, and nicknames you wish your humans would stop calling you. Tag several kitties, and write a comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.

Pearl
How I got my name: There are two possibilities for how I got my name , either I was named after the ship from Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Pearl or I was named after the octopus in Finding Nemo. You can take your pick.

Nicknames I like: Princessa, Principessa, Pufferella, Precious, Little Tortois (you've got to say it kind of french-like), Wee One, Sweet P, Littlest One, Pearly Mae, Mae-Mae, Mae-Malay.

Nicknames I don't like: Beaker (cause sometimes I make little noises like Beaker from the Muppet show), Loud-Mouth, Principessa Whiny-Pants.

Bert
How I got my name: I was named after Bert from Mary Poppins. Mommy says it's because I'm almost all black like a chimney sweep, but I think it's cause Mary Poppins is one of Mommy's favorite movies.

Nicknames I like: Boy-o, Boy Boy, Boyoski, Mitten Man, Mr. Mustachio, Bots, Bots-Dots, Bertamus Maximus (or Bertamus Minamus when he was little).

Nicknames I don't like: Dirty Bert, Squirty (ok once I had a little litter box issue, but that's no reason to keep calling me that!), Lamby-kins.

Jake
How I got my name: It took a long time for Mommy and Daddy to come up with my name. But they finally named me after the seagull in Rescuers Down Under.

Nicknames I like: Ja-ja (sort of like Zsa-Zsa Gabor), Jaj, Digger, Dig, Big Dig, Jakey Bo-Bo, Bo-Bo, Boboski, Nomojijo, Jingle Jake and Squebunk.

Nicknames I don't like: Jerk (Mommy calls me that when I'm picking on the kittens), Nudge, Mr. Poo-Pants.

George
How I got my name: I am named after the fox terrier from the movie Bringing Up Baby. It's Mommy's all time favorite movie and she thought it would be a perfect choice, even though I'm a girl.

Nicknames I like: Georgie, Georgie Girl, Puppy Girl, Baby Puppy, Georgie Porgie, Georgie Porgie Puddin Pie, Puddin, Georgie Jumping Bean, Snow-Nose, Pupcicle and Super-pup.

Nicknames I don't like: Poo, Super-Poo, Devil Dawg and NO! (I get called that one a lot!)

We haven't done this meme before, but here's the story of how we got our names and here's a 7 things meme that we did on other nicknames!

Then Abby, Boo, Jinx, Ping and Gracie tagged us!. This meme was created by the charming cats at http://www.petspics.blogspot.com/. The rules are: you have to post who tagged you and link back to them and then to petspics.blogspot.com. Then you have to tag 3 other kitties, beans, woofies, or any other assorted animal. What three things would you do that you have never done before, if you knew you wouldn't get caught, get in trouble, or suffer any consequences?

1. I'd break into the refrigerator (or as I like to call it - the Great White Feeding Parent) and eat all the food and nips that are in there. - Jake

2. I'd get up on the vanity and knock all of Mommy's rings and earrings off. - Pearl

3. I'd run around the house and chase all the kitties and eat all the food off the counter and pull all the cushions down off the sofa and eat them. - George

(I chose not to put anything down, cause I'm a really good kitty and Mommy and Daddy never yell at me, ever. - Bert)

And then Skeeter,LC & Ayla tagged us for the 7 weird things meme.

1. Bert never gets yelled at (really he's a perfect little guy).

2. Jake jumps up on the counter and eats the butter if Mommy and Daddy forget to cover it.

3. Pearl likes to sleep in the kitty tent when it's upside down.

4. George runs and gets her bone when a kitty walks in the room, she's afraid we'll steal it!

5. Jake wears a jingle bell on his collar cause he used to get lost when he was little and Mommy and Daddy needed it to find him.

6. Pearl loves to put her feet in plates to try and get the food off.

7. Bert likes to sit under the window and watch the birds (Mommy's not quite sure how he can see the birds from where he sits, but that's his birdwatching spot!).

Wow - that's a lot of information about us! Now we now that a lot of you kitties have done some (if not all) of these memes, so feel free to do them if you like. We would like to tag all those new kittens out there for these (just think of all the silly nicknames that could get started!)!

Purrs,
Pearl, Bert, Jake and George

Flashy Box Friday

Mom! Quit it with the flashy box!

- Bert

Wordy Wednesday

Oh we were all set to do a Wordless Wednesday, but then I found this in our email:

Dear Queen Snickers,

My name is Bert - I'm Jake's little brother, and I'm looking for love. Pearl has Dante, and well, I think you know that Jake is sweet on you - and since I'm about to be two I think I'd like a girlfriend too!

I sort of have my eye on a pretty lady cat, but I'm not sure if she likes me too! And there are all sorts of pretty girl cats on your Love Cafe, it's hard to decide. What should I do? Should I tell Tazo that I think she's pretty spiffy (and she loves her woofie too like I love mine) - or should I try my luck with another kitty?

I've attached my most handsome mancat picture for the love cafe just in case!

Purrs,
Bert

Well Tazo, girls? He's out there - and even though he's my little brother - he would be a pretty good catch, go take a look!

Hee hee - boy are Jake and Bert gonna be mad at me when they see this!!!!!

-Pearl

Funny Friday

We got tagged for another 7 things meme from Chancy, since we did one recently, today we're going to do 7 weird things that Mommy calls us. Now you have to understand that our Mommy is very creative and comes up with some strange names, so we've done our best to describe how she came about these names. And there are lots of crazy names that she calls us, these are just a few...

1. Bertie Botts Every Flavored Kitty - Well they call me Bertie Botts all the time (you know, the candy from Harry Potter), but one day when I had just come in from outside, she picked me up and said I smelled like grass - just like the grass flavored Bertie Botts Every Flavored Beans.

2. Digger Digowski - That one is kind of easy, I was digging around in the blankets on the bed, trying to get under the covers. But instead of calling me "Digger Jake" somehow it turned into that, she also calls me just Digger, or Big Dig - and there are even more!

3. Principessa Puffy-Pants - I suppose that doesn't take much translation, I am the Princess (Principessa is the Italian word for Princess) and I do have very puffy pants. Mommy looked up the full Italian translation and it's "pantaloni del soffio della principessa" - I think I'd like to change it to that, what do you think?

4. Bertamious T. Dumb-Bunny - Mommy and Daddy both call Me Bertamious all the time, I can be so dignified sometimes that Bert doesn't quite cover it. But one day I was acting kind of silly and I was running around in circles and bunny kicking everything - I got a little dizzy and bumped into the table leg. That's when she called me that, but I haven't done anything so silly in a long time, but she still calls me that!

5. Nudge-y Noo-noo - in Yiddish a Nudge (pronounced noodge) is "One who persistently pesters, annoys, or complains". And well, when it comes to the stinky goodness I suppose that can be the case. And she does call me the Nudge, but then she had to go one step too far.

6. Swirly Girl - I have swirly furrs, and I can swirl my tail around in funny circles and Swirl rhymes with Pearl, see makes perfect sense to me.

7. Pup-cicle - That's one that Mommy calls George, but only in winter. George loves to go out and play in the snow - she wouldn't even come in if they didn't make her! So when she comes in she's covered in snow and chilly - a pup-cicle!

Ok, now the hard part, we've got to tag seven kitties (but this is going around a lot so we understand if you may have already done this!):

1. Daisy
2. Bonnie and Victor (hopefully they can share the list?!)
3. Fat Eric
4. Kimo & Sabi (maybe they can tell us more about Kiera)
5. Sultanfus and Guy
6. Henry Helton
7. Little Cat Zee

Don't forget the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself. Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a notification on their blog.

-Pearl, Bert, Jake and George

Thanks Pearl & Jan!

Wow - what a great weekend, Pearl gave me an award and Jan tagged us for a meme! So many great things.

First things first! My spiffy new award...


The Extraordinary Gold Star Award was created by - Storm, The Furry Fighter - and is for Bloggers who have achieved or done something special. The award celebrates beyond what is ordinary or usual.

1) Post the explanation and rules of the award and link back to the blogger who presented you with the award and repeat the reason why you received it.

2) Pass the Award on to two other Bloggers who you fink deserve it and explain why!

Well, there are so many deserving kitties out there - but if I had to choose two I think it would have to be Chancy, who continues to blog even after loosing Ernie (plus she's a very pretty kitty!) and Chase, for being such an amazing injured kitty ambassador (though I'm sure she's gotten then award before).


Now, onto the meme. Here are the rules:

Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself. Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a notification on their blog.

So here are our 7 weird things we do:
1. Pearl can run around the ottoman - on the side of the ottoman!
2. Bert likes to hid under the table at dinner time and come out only when his dish is down.
3. Jake likes to attack the sheets while Mommy and Daddy make the bed.
4. Pearl always licks and bites fingers when she's "making biscuits" on a lap.
5. Jake prefers to sit in the kitty tent head first (with his big old butt sticking out!).
6. Bert will only sleep on the big bed if he sleeps on Mommy or her clothes.
7. George has to move her bed and blankets around at night before she goes to sleep.

We'd like to tag Dante and Capt. Jack, Tybalt, Merlin (he might never have been tagged) and Dragonheart (if he's feeling better), Parker, the Furry Kids, Tesla, and Jasper and the McKitten-Cats.

-Pearl, Bert, Jake and George