Seven Year Itch

So.  It's my seventh gotcha day, and my MOM didn't even REMEMBER.  Sigh.  Thanks to all you cats for reminding her.
Love,
Merlin

Gotcha Six

My momma and I have been together for six years now. Thanks to Everycat for remembering!

Gotcha Day #4 Update

It's Me! Dobby!

Four years ago today, I came to live with Mommy and Merlin and Max.

I want to say thank you to my first Mom, Cecilia, who brought me here after rescuing me.

I am a big old 20 pound boy now, and I love to snuggle with my Mom. I still lick noses, and bathtubs, and soda cans.  I am told I am quite the excellent snuggler.

I know we haven't blogged much, but I didn't want to let this important day go by unnoticed. :)

Hello?

Is anybody out there? We'd nearly forgotten we even HAD a blog, it's been so long since Mom let us write.

So much has changed, we've been lots of places, we can't even begin to explain, but we're back living in Memphis now. Mom has a job she likes, and she's keeping us well-fed, as you can see in this picture of us.

We are going to try to blog more often, but we wanted to say Happy Holidays and everyone have a wonderful, happy, safe, stinky good New Year!

Gotcha!!!

Thank you for all the Gotcha Day wishes!! My momma almost fergot!

Love,
Merlin

Get Well Soon Kismet!

Kismet the Big Man Cat was one of our first blogging friends, so we came out of bloggy retirement to send him purrs and purrs and purrs. We love you Kismet!

THREE!

Haven't blogged in a whole year, but came by to say...

I am THREE.

Happy birthday to my sister Madness!

It is my purrthday. I am TWO.

I am THREE!

I just had my THIRD birthday!


Many thanks to Maggy & Zoey and
The Zoolatry Human, Ann, for the graphic!

Dobby's Bathroom Belly

How you doin?

Merlin and his very big feets.

No News

There's been no news yet about Wrigley. His momma is still looking for him, though, and I think he'll come home. He gets furry scared and hides a lot of times.Thanks everybody for sending out Purrs and asking about him. Keep your eyes peeled for him!

Urgent: Purrs needed

I know we haven't been around for a long time, but we need your purrs really bad.

This is our cousin Wrigley. He lives in Charlotte, North Caroliner with my Auntie and Uncle, a little girl with curly hair, and two other kitties. My Auntie doesn't know where he is-- he is an inside kitty and doesn't like to go outside much, but they can't find hims in the house ANYWHERES. Please send out your purrs and purrayers that he will be found soon.

Also, you kitties who like to look out windows (and who doesn't?) please keep an eye out for him, and if you see him, tell him to go STRAIGHT HOME. Thanks furry much.

Secret Paws!

We got our Secret Paws!!! (Actually we got them like a week ago but Mom was really slow postin' our pickshures). Merlin's came from Kali, and Dobby's came from Derby!

Merlin opened his first...

He really liked this mouse.

Mom didn't even have time to take it out of its packaging!
Also note that box of Turtles. I dunno what that is, but Mom was happy about it.

Then we opened Dobby's. It had a byoo-ti-ful mug in it, for our Mom.

Dobby sniffed the gift bag, just wondering what was inside.

Fun mousies, and Temptations, and a stocking...

And.. and.... NIP RAVIOLI!!!!

Dobby and Merlin both played with the Ravioli... and then streaked around the house, and finally crashed for a catnap.

Thank you very much, Kali and Derby!!! And Happy Secret Paws to everyone!!!

Merry Christmas!

Sorry we are late. We have been furry busy with napping and supervising the Christmas tree and other important stuff. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is enjoying the holiday season!

All I Need to Know

Merlin here.

Look, we all know that cats know everything. And most of us are pretty good at teachin' our beans what they need to know. This one ladybean had a cat named Binky, and she learned a whole lot from Binky. So the ladybean wrote a book about how much she's learned from Binky, even though Binky has gone to the Rainbow Bridge, the ladybean still remembered all the important lessons that she learned from Binky over the whole 18 1/2 years of Binky's life! Isn't that a very neat thing, and very nice of the ladybean to do.

I wonder why Mom hasn't written a book about all she's learned from me. Anyway.

So the ladybean wrote the book, and so many beans and kitties liked it, that they re-issued it with new stuff! The nice people at the publisher sent me a copy of it, because they wanted to get a kitty's opinion. But they didn't pay me or anything. Maybe I should look into that.

So the book has LOTS of important rules that all cats know, and that beans should learn. One of my favorites is "Be Hard to Leave." Look, nobody's better than cats (except maybe bean blurpy things) at making sure to be hard to leave. I know I am VERY good at it. See, here's the picture from the book.
See that? Okay, now for an example of how skilled I am at this particular characteristic, I present the following picture. Just so you know, this isn't staged for this particular post, this picture was first posted exactly one year ago today.


See? I am very good at this stuff. Even though I already know everything, readin' the book was good for me, cause it reminded me of all the things that are important to remember, and things that I have to be sure to remind my Mom and Dad about a lot.

The book also has a quiz in it, so beans can find out if they are "cat people." Whatever that means, who doesn't like cats? But Mom says that the quiz was really funny, and that especially all our cat blogosphere friends would particularly appreciate it.

Mom read the book, too. She laughed and laughed, and she said "awwww" a couple times, too. And it made her want to hug me and kiss me and pet me, so I liked that. She liked the book a lot, and said she was going to give it to some people for Chrissymouse. If you're one of those people, I hope I didn't just spoil the surprise. Mom says the book isn't very spensive and would prolly make a good stockin' stuffer.

Here's where you can go read about the book or the ladybean.
Here's where you can pick a place to buy the book.

Hiya

I know, we are not good bloggers. We keep takin' long vacayshuns from the bloggin'. But we do read all our friends' blogs, even if we don't leave comments. And we get the cat blogosphere noos everyday, so we know what's happenin'.

But here we are, bein' all snuggly with each other.

Also, if you or your beans need to go shoppin, check out Not the Mama's store, The Wren's Nest-- you can clicky on the thingy in our sidebar. There's lots of good stuff.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Duuuuuuude.

Yo, Dudes. It's me, Merlin. I'm totally, like... Dude. I love the nip ravioli. They're, like, totally awesome. I can't even tell you, I'm sooooo nipped out right now. I was, you know, jumping and crrrrraaaazzzzy and rabbit kicking and chasing and attacking a little while ago. But now, all is chill. And the nip? It is good.

Fall is coming!

Hi! It's me, Dobby!

It is already chilly at our house, especially at night. The windows are still open, though, during the day so Merlin can talk to the birdies. I think the birdies would be lonesome if Merlin didn't talk to them every day. I like to sit in the window, too, but I don't talk. I just smell the smells and feel the breeze and look at the birdies.

It's so chilly that at night, when I get up on Mom and Dad's bed to cuddle and sleep? MERLIN IS ALREADY THERE. He NEVER used to be on the bed. But now he gets up there and snuggles up and gets some of my cuddle time. But I guess that's okay, because then I can cuddle with him, too, sometimes. And then I can chew on his whiskers. Hee! I love to do that.

We got Mom to order us some of those Nip Raviolis because Merlin's girlfriend Daphne and her family really really liked them. They sound really GREAT and Mom said that we could have them because they don't have bells or jingles (right?) or feathers for us to rip off and leave all over the place. We are furry excited and can't wait for them to get here!!!