Monday Mankittens Purrin'

AAAAK...Has it been 3 weeks since the CB has had a Furrydance kitten update? Yep, looks like March 26th was the last update, though mewmie threw in a few pre-BlogPaws kitten pix just to whet your appetites for cuteness!

You probably thought they had all headed off to their new homes already! No, guess you knew Pierro was still waiting for his new brudder to arrive, who mewmie has now nicknamed Furrari, hahameow! Coco's kids are just shy of 12 weeks old now and they go into the V.E.T.'s tomorrow for their 2nd exam and vaccination...my, how time flies when you're having kitten fun!


They all weigh in at right around 3 pounds now and while mewmie is home, they have free run of the house (ahem, except for that basement we are all still waiting for the servant to clean up) but when she is away day hunting, she keeps Coco and her kids in the master bedroom for safe keeping.

Well, only so safe! Teri had to go out and buy 2 new lamps for her nightstands cuz some silly kitten knocked one over and then it wouldn't turn on when you tapped the base. And then today when she got home...one of the new ones got tipped over and the pretty glass globe got busted! And of course, they were kinda inexpensive so you can't just buy the glass shade part! She even looked on eBay!

She couldn't get too mad, since she was just glad no kitten got hurt...that made her shiver just to think about! One time, she had a young teenager kitten, about 5 months old, that went to jump from a chair to the top of the fridge and he didn't quite make it but pulled down a glass bowl when he fell and he cut his leg terribly, through the tendons even, and was in surgery for 3 hours to fix it and still it took months for him to use the leg normally.


But these babies have been very good kids for the most part, have stayed out of trouble and from under feet and have been very healthy--no worms, no snuffles, no problems...and in another month...they will be packing up in their new carriers and trundling off to their new homes!

Mewmie is excited about that and we think Coco is about ready too! Disco spends a lot of time fending off their tail nibbles and Kiki just grumbles at them and says "Not my kids!" and Brighton, he is hot and cold about the whole kitten thing--fun one minute, interrupting a nap the next!

So, here's the latest video, turn up the volume for the full purrin' effect!

"Be The Change" Day

Just like I said on my blog…”I’m still Reelin’ from the Feelin” I got being at BlogPaws!

I am a breeder of Cornish Rex cats (I think most of you at BlogPaws met Brighton and my Sphynx, Disco). Breeders are not typically held in good graces with those involved in rescue as many are not responsible for the lifetime care of their cats.


I am proud to say that in 21 years of raising these cats, I have only lost track of 2 cats, and that was due to the families divorcing and not letting me know where they went–once their phones were disconnected, their mail returned and their email addresses bounced back…I am sad that I don’t know where the cats are now.

I will take a kitty back for any reason, and it comforts me to know that 99% of people who have cats from me know how important that commitment is for me.

Last year I took back 3 cats for behavior issues and was able to rehab them and find the right new homes for them and I am thankful every day that I got them back and was able to give them a second chance at a furrever home.


And, being a vet tech, it is my calling to end each day knowing I helped someone take care of their cat better, and I get a lot of pleasure out of that and have helped quite a few CB kitties with their health issues. As we know, the best pet owner is an educated one. (that is one thing I really felt at BlogPaws, how committed everyone was to their animals and animal welfare).


So my “Be the Change” for April is to donate all my PawPoints from Scoop Away litter (which I don’t use anymore but don’t really need anything in the rewards available) to TABBY'S PLACE a wonderful cat rescue in Pennsylvania. I also made a small donation today to Pets Without Parents, a Columbus Ohio organization that I learned about at BlogPaws.


So, today. I'm joining in, spreading the word, meeting the challenge, and smiling, a lot!

BE THE CHANGE..CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

More BlogPaws Stuff!

...don't say "Enough already!"

Cuz if you were there, you'd understand. And if you weren't, we want you to be, next year!


So, now the classes are over, the vendors are packing up and it's time to kick back and chillax! Us cats certainly had a busy day, and really, if Disco got that much exercise every day...he wouldn't have mancat breasts and a carb belly either! None of Carol's cats were portly, much to Disco's consternation!


photo by Brad Smith Photography

Teri and Carol were heading out to the party at the A & R Music Hall Saturday night, so we got to lounge on that Heavenly bed and watch TV, which might sound like a boring alternative, but we were very tired, being show (off) cats all day is very strenuous both physically and mentally...time for some nip! (which was thoughtfully included in our Blogpaws swag bag!)


photo by Brad Smith Photography

The only cat at BlogPaws that didn't look tired was Flat Skeezix, and we saw him mingling and networking big time, sniffin' a beer, getting up on stage with the band, and not a hair out of place (maybe a few ear nibbles courtesy of Brighton!) and our mewmie tried her best to keep up with Skeezix, drinking and mingling and eating!

Bernadette Kazmarski and Teri
photo by Brad Smith Photography

Teri, Kenn Bell of DogFiles, Carol Lindsay (of ?--help me with remembering!)
photo by Brad Smith Photography

We didn't see our mewmie til after midnight Saturday, so she must have been having a good time...we are happy about that since our Daddy died, we have been hoping she'd find new things to make her smile again!


And being around truly caring, animal friendly people who want to "Be The Change You Want To See" just reinforced her commitment to do the same. She does for the Cornish Rex she raises, and she does at her job as a Vet Tech...but to meet so many who want to do so much, was one of the most inspiring things of BlogPaws!


photo by Brad Smith Photography

She has been visiting new blogs, and thinking and getting inspired and has high hopes for what the next year will bring! Thank you to everyone who was instrumental in pulling this convention together! We all enjoyed ourselves and came away with some very special memories!

Sue (The Furry Bambinos), Teri, and Karen (Skeezix's Scratching Post)

It was fun socializing with everyone (that's Disco, Brighton and Teri talking) and we are glad to see that the furrends we gave our mini-swag bags to, enjoyed them so much, when their humans returned home to them!

More BlogPaws Mews!

It's been fun, visiting the bloggies of furrends we met at BlogPaws and sharing photos, too! Somehow it's hard to remember to snap photos when you are learning and socializing, but there are some good shots out there and we're sure more will be showing up daily!

This next photo is of Carol and Moshe, of MeirCats, Chats and Fiber , who were our traveling companions to BlogPaws, along with their housemates, Jake and Maus. Teri and Carol had met once before and had been talking weekly since they decided to go to BlogPaws together, and they turned out to be good traveling companions, as they had us cats in common, hahameow!


Saturday was filled with "classes" to take, nine of them in fact. It was hard to pick the ones to go to, but there was a good variety and something for everyone! Our mewmie said she might want to write a book one day, so she went to the one on digital book publishing. Brighton listened in with pricked ears (or maybe he was just looking for one of Sparkle's tinsel balls?)


And she wanted to learn about advertising and sponsors for blogs for when she retires and gets into blogging full time, so she took us to that class, too.


She got to meet Sparkle, the Designer Cat's mewmie and we saw, when we visited her blog, that she made it home with our purresent for Sparkle, a snack and a tinsel ball. We met Skeezix's Food Lady, too and Brighton actually got to "air kiss" Flat Skeezix! Well, maybe it was a head bunt, not a kiss, but he did nibble on an ear!

This photo is of Teri, Carol of Meir Cats, Chats and Fiber ; Sue of The Furry Bambinos ; Helen of Perfectly Parker ; Karen of Skeezix's Scratching Post and Robyn of House of the Hotties


We missed the afternoon session (we were actually napping in our room) cuz Teri and Carol wandered around looking for a good place to each lunch and ended up back at the hotel, where their lunch order got messed up and took a long time to arrive.
Photo: Teri, Jen, Helen, Karen, Salina (Baby Patches mewmie) and Robyn


And she talked and talked with Mr Tuck's mewmie after the big party Saturday night when they ran into each other in the hotel bar for a nightcap...that turned into three caps, hahameow!

This photo is of Carolyn, Romeo's mom, Jen, Mr. Tuck's mom , Donna (from Lipsticking blog ) and our mewmie, Teri.

It was really nice, that at the Closing Ceremonies, they played the "soon to be viral" movie put together by the BlogPaws team...it was inspiring and left everyone feeling like they could "Be the Change You Want to See".

BlogPaws RePurrt, Late Edition!

We thought you might want to see how us kitties kept busy at BlogPaws and also how much fun we had!


This is Disco, investigating the contents of the BlogPaws Swag Bag, full of real nice purresents! There also was a lot of Doggie swag in the bag, but we gave it to some doggies we met in the elevator--yep, us and our Pink Catillac wheeled all over the Westin hotel...except in the restaurants.




Our hotel room was great--down comforters, a window to lay in the sun in and Mewmie even gave us the extra tinsel balls left over from the mini-swag bags she made, as well as bringing along some fevver fishing poles to entertain us with. And when we got back to our room after a bit of meet and greet, we found these cute little signs on our door, courtesy of the Cats Against Clay campaign...




We got to sit in on the Opening Ceremonies, as well as the seminars our mewmie attended, but we think we distracted more than a few people with our witty conversation and dancing skills! We checked out the silent auction, which raised thousands of green papers for three animal rescue places, how great is that!





Well, we are two tired repurrters, so the story of our time at BlogPaws is "to-be-continued" with more in-depth commentary on the sessions, the attendees (our furrends) and the partee, too! Hope you have enjoyed our little "Mewscast" though!



Ps: For more "late breaking BlogPaws news, visit our friends at DogTipper.com Click Here

We made it to Blog Paws! Saturday Morning Edition...

Note: Mewmie took lots of photos, but will have to wait til she gets home to download them, so for now, the pix with this post were taken by fellow Blog Paws attendees, Brian Gryphon of www.Animal-Outreach.org and Tamar Arslarian of www.ihavecat.com.


We made it to Blog Paws! Our chauffeur (Teri) and her bloggie friend Carol (of Meir Cats, Chats and Fiber and her crew of cats, Jake, Moshe and Maus) arrived at the sumptuous Westin Columbia about 4pm after a quiet (amazing for a car load of cats--though the humans talked non-stop) drive of 8 hours from the Washington DC area.

While it was cloudy all day, we hit no rain and by the time we got to Columbus, it was sunny! We got settled in our rooms (complete with our fancy "tents" like Lisa of Co9T saw at the cat show she attended recently--Woo Hoo!) Pets weren't supposed to be left "unattended" in the hotel room, so the tents came in handy for giving the appearance that we were abiding by the rules, but we is good kitties and don't suffer from separation anxiety, chew up door mouldings or bark, and that's a good thing, cuz the "Pet Park" was really a Dog Park and really people...have you ever seen a "Cat Park"?

Disco got his bath, and so did the human (how does one get dirty driving??) There were no "clean ups on Aisle 2" on the drive up, though Teri did manage to spill her coffee down the front of her nurse scrubs she wore on the trip up and smelled like Caramel Macchiato...but at least her special Blog Paws T-Shirt wasn't ruined!

We got loaded up into our Pink Catillac (aka stroller) and went down to meet our adoring fans! OMC...you would have thought we were the Cats from Outer Space, we attracted soooo much attention!

Here's Brighton, getting a good sniff of Flat Skeezix!


Everyone said "Oh, my cat couldn't handle all the crowds" or "they don't seem scared at all" and our mewmie proudly showed us off, telling everyone we were former show cats and quite used to the throngs of fan-atics, hahameow!

Carol was busy snapping photos and juggling her kitties on her shoulders and arms and we even got to see a couple of doggies, but didn't get formally introduced yet! Oh, Oh...we saw Flat Skeezix, too!! Or, at least our mewmie did. His servant gave us a little purresent from him too and we proudly are displaying the buttons on our stroller--as you know, Pink is Skeezix fav color, too!

Our mewmie and Carol attended the "Opening Ceremonies" and got a little teary eyes upon learning that Mordecai Siegal had recently gone to Heaven. He is a famous cat writer and will be truly missed by all who love cats and his stories.


There is a silent auction going on for some lovely artwork, with the proceeds going to help very needy kitties, and our mewmie made a bid on a picture of a white floofy cat (do you think she misses Spot? Just a little?). She snacked on some crudites (is that like kitty crunchies?) and had something called a Margarita and then she got a little silly, hahameow.

Then we got to go back to our room and she and Carol went off to find a brew pub and while we were dining on Fancy Feast Appetizers and Evo Wilderness...they had a fine meal at The Columbia Brewing Company (a cuban burrito for mewmie and a pulled pork BBQ sandwich for Carol)...oh, and more beverage! A Scottish ale for Carol (umm, two) and an Apricot ale for Teri (just one...she said she was too full to drink more beer!)

Then Carol went off to give Jake, Moshe and Maus their baths and Teri tried to get onto the internet...no luck, so she took us downstairs to show us off to Lisa and the hotel staff that had asked to meet us when we checked in, and she met some really nice Pet Bloggers and of course, they all had to take pictures of us and tweet about us...we blushed with pride!

After a very comfortable night (on a Heavenly Bed...the hotel advertised), it was time for Brighton's bath. Teri and Carol had a yummy pancake breakfast and while they were away--we typed this post but we don't know how to upload pix...so pix later, OK...we'll get mewmie to add it to our post!