Skeezix's Scratching Post: July 2009

Vary Strange....

Sumthing has happend to Mr TF and I don't think it's good. He and the Food Lady were gone furrever tonite, and win they got home, I was lookin' on the FL's compyooter to find a pikcher fur my blog, and all I fownd was this foto. I think she took Mr TF to be torcherd fur no good reezin. He smelt funny win he got home, and he had a torcher deevice attacht to him. I will have to do sum more investigayting and step up my patrols arownd the howse.

UPDATE: It terns owt that Mr TF braked his arm. I'm gonna spend the day layin on his arm and purring at it so it will be kyerd.

Labels: i love mr tf

My new pirate ship

Heer I am inside the hole of my new pirate ship. I wun it frum my best frend Calvin's mom, on her blog The Cat in the Clover. It's also Calvin's bruther Newman's ferst berthday today, so I'm hoping Newmie will drop over to play in my pirate ship. Beefore Tripper brakes it.

Happy Purrthday, Newman!

Labels: calvin

Oops, I did it again

Gess whut's on my noze? Heer's a hint: rimes with goop.

Farewell to Sammy and Sugar

My face has bin leeking all day. Sammy the Post Office Cat and Sugar have gone to the Bridge. Oh, I think my hart will brake.

Labels: rainbow bridge, Sammy the Post Office Cat, Sugar

Werdless Wenzday

Labels: wordless wednesday

Vishus Deer Alert

WARNING!!!!

THE FOLLOWING FOOTIJE IS VARY DISTERBIN'

AND NOT APPROPRIUT FUR KITTINS

OR CATS HOO GIT SCAIRT EEZILY

REEELY

I MEEN IT

YOO HAVE BIN WARNED!

Heer are 2 terrifying videos of vishus deer tasting tender yung joosy cats.

Be preepared to wet yer pants:

This one was sent to me by Max, Midge and Abby, hoo took time away frum thare vary importunt sqwerl watching aktivities to submit a vishus deer alert:

In the second video, yoo can see an evil persun FEEDING A KITTEN TO A VISHUS DEER AS AN APPETIZER!!!!!!!!

Forchewnitly, they ternd the camra off beefore the blud started sperting on the camra lenz.

Labels: vishus deer alert

Mancat Munday!

Heer I am many miles abuv the grownds, balinsing on a circle of wood the size of a qwarter. I'm reddy to join Daisy's circus!

Labels: deth-defying circus triks, mancat monday

How I Spended My Weekend

Win the tempricher gits above 800 deegreeze like it wuz this weekend, I've found the best way to hide frum the heet is to hide under the blankies on the bed.

Labels: hot wether makes me swet

Happy Purrthday, Calvin!

My best frend Calvin is sellubrating his 18th Purrthday today! WOOOO HOOOO! Happy Purrthday, Calvin, knead on!

After yoo drop by and wish Calvin da best, drop by his mom's blog and see hoo wun the Cat in the Clover Giveaway!

Labels: calvin, oringe cats are vary frendly

FOS Friday

This is Bitey, Stevie and Lucy's bruther. He is one of the few FOS members hoo duzn't have a tale. His mom sent me this pikcher. She sed, "When you're rockin' an FOS shert, hoo needs pants?"

My sentimints exaktly!

We love yoo Adam!!!!!

Labels: bitey stevie and lucy, fos, pants suk

Tonite's Walk

Heer I am owtside owr frunt door. I'm werking up my kerrije to go on a nite walk.

Winever I go fur a walk, if Rocky is owtside, I stop and git the vishus deer reeport frum him. Tonite he told me thare have bin no vishus deer sitings on owr street, and it appeers to be safe. But to take the VDR just in case.

In this next foto, yoo can't see me becuz my cammoflaje harniss keeps me in stelth mode, but I am in the middle of the catmint, and I'm staring at Rocky. Mao's givin me the stink-eye.

That's all the pikchers we have, and it's too bad cuz tonite's walk was the MOST IXSITING WALK I'VE GONE ON IN MY HOLE ENTIRE LIFE!!!!!

Ferst off all, we wint all the way down to the end of my street at the bottom of the hill. We wint by abowt a sqwillion howses. I thot I was gonna git blisters on my feet frum so much walkin'. And then, when I got to the bottum of the hill, I stopt ded in my traks.

Yoo wanna know why????

Cuz thare was an oringe cat staring at me!!!!! I looked at the oringe cat and tride to figyer owt if it was Calvin or Sammy the Post Office Cat or Baci or JOBA one of my other oringe cat frends. But she woodn't tell me her name, she just looked at me!

And then she came toward me!

Mr Tasty Face pikt me up cuz yoo never know whut sumbuddy else's cat is gonna do, but the cat wuz just comin over fur sum skritches. She was vary vary frendly, and purred a lot., and rolled over on her bak so she cood git tummy rubs. And win we continyood on owr walk, she followed us!

The FL and Mr TF walked fast so they wood looze her becuz they didn't wunt her to pownse on me and eet me up. I think maybey she just wunted to make anuther cat purrade like we had the other nite. I think that oringe cat and me cood be good frends!

Labels: oringe cats are vary frendly

Giveaway: Win Peaceable Kingdom Print

One of owr faverite artists Susan Faye is having a giveaway on her 365 Cat Ladies Blog now thru the end of July... and she's giving away a print to THREE winners! All yoo have to do is go to her blog, and leeve a comment deeskribing yer faverite game. She'll draw three names frum all the commenters... and rite now, thare are only two!

Support handmade made-in-America artists, peeple! Think ahead: this could make a GRATE Krissmiss prezint! Drop by and enter today!

Labels: crazy cat ladies, giveaway, susan faye

Werdless Wenzday

Labels: wordless wednesday

Nite Walk!

Sinse owr walk was at NITE, it was vary dark owtside, and we coodn't take pikchers cuz they wood just tern owt blak. But the pikcher above is an artist's rendishun of whut yoo mite have seen.

After dinner, becuz it was a warm nite, Mr TF and the FL deesided to take me fur a NITE WALK. It was vary fun. Cuz not only did I git to walk with my harniss, but Mao and Tripper followed us. It was like a CAT PURRADE!

Becuz us cats have good nite vizhun, once my eyes ajusted, I cood see pritty good. And evrything smelt wunderful. Tripper kept hiding in the bushes and then charjing at me, cuz he likes to heer me sqweel like a littul gerl, but tonite I did not give him the satisfakshun of even aknolujing his exsistinse.

Mao only follows me up to ware his terrytory ends. Then he wates fur us to reeturn. Once I got 12 howses away, I ternd arownd and walked bak. Tripper jumpt me elevnty times on the way bak.

Win we got neer owr howse, I discuverd that even Rocky had joind in the Cat Purrade. Ixsept he stopt at the howse with the yappy dogs next door to owrs and wuz wating fur us. That's the farthest Rocky has gone in abowt 3 yeers.

Yes, Jeter, Mr TF was waring shorts, but yoo'll just have to settul for the artist's redishun.

Labels: going on walks

Concatulayshuns, Skittles and Sly!

Sunday was a wunderful day cuz me and my speshul frend Daisy got to be in a wedding. No, not owr wedding, but the wedding of my best frend Skittles and Sly. I was made of honor, and Daisy was a bridesmade. It was a luvly garden wedding and the bride was raydiunt. I coodn't stop krying, I got so emo over the hole thing. Pleeze drop by the wedding blog to leeve yer well wishes!

Concats, Skittles and Sly!!!!

Labels: my speshul frend Daisy, skittles, sly

PSSSSSST: I've got a seekrit

This is Garage Cat. She sleeped in owr garage sumtimes. She was vary vary vary vary vary wild. She was SO wild, she didn't even have a blog. Hard to beeleeve, huh? She's bin heer ever sinse we've bin in this howse, abowt six yeers.

Mr TF put a heeted cat bed in the garage for her, and he spent 6 munths cunvinsing her to sleep in it. Evenchully she did.

A few munths ago she got an owie on her leg and it swelt up and the FL had to take her to vizit owr frends at Bullevard Pet Hospital. It was hard to ketch her, but they did, and they put her in the prizzin box. It shook like an erthqwake cuz she was doing wild things inside it. She had to spend five days at the hospitul. The FL and Mr TF thot they'd never see her agin once she came home and they let her owt of the prizzin box. But she stade arownd. And she even got a little bit not as wild. She lets the peeple pet her now, and she comes in the howse and sleeps so the coyotes won't eet her. I'm trying to git to know her better. She's kind of like an ixchange stoodent frum a forun land, like Sandy in Greese. Maybe she can be a pink lady.

But the FL insists she is still just a garage cat. Even tho she duzn't sleep in the garage anymore.

Labels: garage cat

Freeky Friday

This was the freekiest Friday EVER!!!

Fur the ferst time in the HISTERY OF OWR HOWSE, alla us cats were on the bed this morning win the FL waked up. I NEVER git on the bed win Tripper is thare cuz I werry that he'll eat me, but sumthing came over me today and I felt all filled up with kerrije, and I just sat thare staring Tripper in the eyes.

Freeky.

Labels: Freaky Friday

I'm thinkin' on Thurzday

If yoo only know one thing abowt me by now, yoo know I'm ALWAYS THINKIN. And whut I wuz thinkin abowt today wuz how do I git sum peeseful sleep with Tripper arownd always wunting to eet me? So I hit upon a plan. I PUT UP A DEEKOY. A deekoy is sumthing that looks like sumthing the cat yer foolin' wood wunt to eet, but it's not reel. So Flat Skeezix came to the reskyoo. I put him between my burrito bed and my Morgan bed. Tripper has deesided he likes sleepin' in my Morgan bed. So with Flat Skeezix to distrakt Trip, I had a peeseful nap. Win Tripper came, he didn't notiss me cuz he wuz so bizzy trying to figyer owt how to eet Flat Skeezix.

Brilyunt, izn't it???

Labels: Flat Skeezix, thinkin on thurzday, tripper is psyko

Yoo have GOT to see....

... the Mizzeri Meowers post fur today!

Wordless Wednesday

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My Mikul Jaksun tribyoot foto is posted on Snuzzy today. Pleeze drop by and give me a thums up.
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Labels: michael jackson, the food lady wunted me to poze with kittins and jeezus joose, wordless wednesday

'Toons on Toozday

Walk 'n' Strole!

Tonite was vary fun cuz I got to BOTH walk and strole! It was kinda like Planes, Tranes and Automobiles!

For thoze of yoo hoo don't git to go on walks vary offin, yoo shood know that it's importunt to streeeeeetch out yer mussels beefore yoo go, espeshully if yoo've got big mussels like I do. That way, yoo don't git a charleyhorse.

Yoo shood also git yer leesh-holder to walk with stile as yoo walk down the street. This makes the walk more fun, and besides, yoo can never be too stylish.

Don't furgit to smell the flowers. And the dog pee spots.

My big bruther Mao (hoo is now a teenager!) ixplaned that car tires are good to sniff. Espeshully if the cars are junkers, cuz they have many yeer's werth of smells on them.

He was rite!!!! They have LOTS of intristing smells on them!

I like to stay on the sidewalk. That's the safest place to have yer walk.

But yikes! I saw a ginormous dawg (or maybey it was a pony or a charleyhorse) go by. That's win I deesided maybey we shood continyoo in my stroller insted.

So I revved up my stroller and off we wint:

Part way thru the strole, I got a little kold, so I put my Fiona snuggle arownd me. My Fiona snuggle was vary snuggly, and it helped keep me frum growing icicles out my noze:

Mao wated for me to git home. He didn't go on the ixsiting strole with us. His loss. But at his age, he probly wunders if he'll live long enuf to make it thru the hole entire strole!

Labels: strolling

Vishus Deer Alert

I red this story, and was alarmed. Cuz the lady obviussly duzn't realize that the vishus deer eated the orange tabby when the ladey wuzn't looking, and then let his frends know abowt the yummy cat meel, and brot them bak the next nite to feest.

Kittehs! DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PLOY!!!! If a vishus deer gits close enuf to lik yoo, he is only tasting yoo to see if yoo wood be good to eet. This cannot end well. RUN FUR YER LIFE!!!

Kittehs hoo carry ~~Mao &~~ Rocky's Vishus Deer Repellunt never have much to werry abowt, tho.

A buck, a cat & a mouse
Unlikely wildlife friends share an outdoor encounter.
BY WENDY PAULY FOR THE TELEGRAPH HERALD
Country buck deer are not usually tolerant of people. But every once in a while, they will fool you.

A white-tailed deer, an orange cat and a mouse walk into a bar ...

This could be the beginning of a joke, but it's close to something I saw last week.

Urban deer are known for being less skittish than their rural cousins. City deer seem to get accustomed to the noise and activity.

While in Dubuque this summer, I have seen triplet fawns twice in the same location. Last week, I had to stop my truck and wait for them to cross the road.

The spotted youngsters did not show fear until the truck was parked and the door slammed shut. Then, they ran about 100 feet and started grazing again.

But I expect rural deer to be more alert and afraid of humans. They live in areas that normally are more quiet and they usually have fewer run-ins with humans. And former hunters have taught me that the country deer are usually less tolerant of people. Well, Mother Nature fooled me again.

The other night I headed outside just before dark. To my pleasant surprise, I looked down in a valley and saw a young buck with velvet antlers growing back. I stood still to watch Mr. Buck graze. Eventually, I needed to move so I slowly walked toward the west. I'm still not sure I believe what I saw next.

A barn cat was playing with a mouse or whatever critter it had caught. Other cats cleared out when the buck entered the clearing. But the orange cat was engrossed with its catch and did not seem to notice Mr. Buck walking toward him.

Finally, the cat turned and saw the buck, less than 10 feet away. I don't know if the cat did not want to leave its mouse, or simply did not know what to do next. The buck slowly walked up to the cat and they sniffed noses. The cat stayed put as the buck raised its head and licked and licked its nose.

The buck reached down to the cat and they touched noses again. Then, the cat jumped straight up and so did the buck. After they landed, they looked at each other as if to ask, "What happened?"

The cat finally realized that the deer was much bigger than he, so it backed away.

The deer must have decided that the cat was not a threat and turned toward the apple trees. He cleaned up the apples that had fallen in the heavy winds of late, then reached up and started pulling apples from the tree.

I could not help but laugh out loud, but the deer did not seem to mind. I was probably only about 100 feet from the close encounter, but the country deer did not pay any attention to me.

I stood there wishing I had a camera, though there was too little daylight left to capture an image.

The next night I returned to the same place, hoping for a repeat of the "puss and hooves" show. Soon, Mr. Buck strolled by and started looking for apples.

This night, however, the cats could not be found.

As I watched the buck and tried to determine how many points he might have after the velvet antler stage, I caught a glimpse of movement behind him. Closer scrutiny revealed a much larger buck -- I'll call him Grandpa Buck. The dark velvet antlers stood out against the lighter background. The larger buck's rack is going to be big and, for a moment, he took my breath away. I had not seen a buck that large in many years.

When I looked up and saw a third buck, I nearly fell over. Here were three bucks within 50 feet of each other, grazing away.

I could not believe my good fortune to see bucks on consecutive nights, much less three at a time. I have tried for nearly three years to observe deer in this particular area but had found only a few. I keep looking because the habitat is good and I find trails, so I know they are around.

I watched the deer until it was too dark to see them. I had to ask a hunter friend why the bucks were together. I thought the bucks would not be around other males. I was informed they probably don't much care who they are with at this time of year, but as the rut approaches, the bucks will likely spread out or fight for mates.

So, if you see a buck, an orange cat and a mouse headed for a bar, don't be too surprised. They are just some country critters looking for a little fun.