Time-to-Catch-up Thursday...

Gee, our Teri goes away for 4 days to a cat show in Ohai-O and it takes her 2 weeks to catch up...just be forewarned, this is going to be a really long post, you might want to nap in between 'chapters'...

The trip to Ohai-O gave our Teri and Brighton some one-on-one time together, and while it was a 9 hour drive, he is the perfect traveling companion...nary a peep out of him the whole trip. Teri listened to audio books and stayed awake with coffee and vitamin water and got settled into the hotel room by 5pm.

Traveling with pets, one always has to make sure the room is safe, nothing left behind by previous occupants (ick, it happens!) and she'd already gone online to http://www.bedbugregistry.com/ and the place was purported to be bug-free. Still, she didn't set any bags or suitcases on the floor or bed...

Here's a few pix of Brighton enjoying the room:

And being the consummate showcat, Brighton wowed 'em all at the cat show on Saturday and Sunday. It was a Cornish Rex specialty show so there were something like 50 CRex in attendance, but Brighton was the only one who had a stroller and dressed up!


We got to meet a blogging furrend, Jeanne of RANDOM CATS. She enjoyed the cat show, bought some toys for her kitties at home, and like me, thought it was great to meet a fellow cat lover after 'following' them, and she thought Brighton was sooo handsome and got to see him performing for the judge. There is a short video of him on her blog, as well as some photos she took.

There was even cake to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the birth of the first Cornish Rex, who was named Kallibunker.

They headed back home on Monday and about halfway home, Teri realized she was coming down with a cold, but she looked on the bright side and said at least a cold didn't ruin my weekend! She's feeling almost back to normal now, with thanks to NyQuil, Zicam and Lysine (hey, it helps cats with colds, right?)

All was well in their absence and our petsitter took good care of us, with Disco getting lots of exercise and brushing (see previous post for Zoom Groom info, hahameow) and the kittens getting lots of attention and fun with 2 visits each day from our sitter.

Spottie and Dottie, 12 weeks old now, have free run of the house and they do a lot of stairclimbing on their own (unlike Disco) and it's getting harder to snap photos of them together...they are busy!

And lil Fifi? She is just over 6 weeks old already! Oh, she reminds Teri of a little elf...must be the coloring of her face with it's little orange eyebrows and large eyes and pixie ears! She now has free run of bedroom with Spot and Dot and the mama cats. She is brave and bold and scrambles up to the top of the kitten tent to curl up in the sleeping bag on top of it.




The tent will get put away this weekend and Teri will get her bathroom back (and not have to step on litter with wet feet when she gets out of the shower, hahameow)and in another week or so, Fifi will get to venture into the rest of the house and then the kitten races will increase by one participant!

When Teri and Brighton got back home, there was a package waiting for us from Nip and Bones...a cute little fishy dish for Brighton's Beach theme cat show cage, our very first Plague Rat (though our Teri says we must have too many toys cuz we haven't been playing with it much, but everycat on the CB needs at least one Plague Rat) and a silly tank top for whichever of us will put up with wearing it for photo shoots...here's some pix:



And now that Autumn is upon us, our Teri is thinking about TomTom and Mama Katz and how they will fare through the winter. She thinks they are both young and she isn't sure how they weathered last winter as kittens, but she would love to buy an outdoor cathouse for them, but she's not even sure if they would use it.

She knows they must hang out someplace at night, and they certainly look well-fed enough, and since she never was able to trap TomTom, she isn't sure they would even get in a 'house' but she bought 2 storage containers and some bubble wrap for insulation and she is going to fix something up this weekend for them.

She looked online to see how to make one DIY and came up with something like this:

If they use it, then maybe next winter she can get something nice like these:

CLICK HERE--KATKABIN

CLICK HERE-FERALVILLA

A couple of weeks ago, Teri posted pix of TomTom, and while Mama Katz is a lot more wary, she did snap a couple of photos when she came up to eat...

Well, that just about catches everyone up with what's been going on round the Furrydance house lately. Ready for that nap?