Summer and the silly next door kitties!

This is how I like relaxing these days!!

 

 

 

It's being a while since I've written anything on this blog but being a busy kitty, well, sometimes it does take its toll on some of my responsibilities...sometimes I simply can't keep up with everything and humit is not of much of a help either...she is always busy you see or at least that's what she keeps saying all the time. You know I think it's a humit thing cause the other humit says it too...far too often.

So now that it's summer (yeah right) I should be take it a bit more easy...lots of snoozing and relaxing...this is what summer is all about...but then again we never have a proper summer just the occasional nice day or two...English summer...pssst!!

Anyway as I was saying this is the purrfect time to do less and snooze more in cool spots in the house ( I don't purrsonally do sunny spots...I'm not that silly as the other two who seem to compete for all the available sunny spots in the house...really silly who wants to get hotter...you want to feel cooler silly kitties!) and to watch the many birdies in the garden! But of course this is not always the case as the next door kitties have other ideas...aka chasing and trying to catch the cute birdies or bringing their real sometimes alive toy mice in the garden to play with...and the worse thing is that they leave behind the dead bodies of their toy mice and then our garden looks like a graveyard with corpses of dead mice scattered around...not nice! Humits need to do something about those pesky kitties..they should stay on their own home patch and they should take their mice with them..Not that I care too much for mice that is (or big moths for that matter too as I nearly caught that big one last night before humit caught it first and let it go outside...shame...I like chewing mothies, they taste..interesting...not as good as tuna snacks nevertheless still interesting!).

Anyway back to those pesky next door kitties as they can be a nuisance at times, catching mousies and scarring cute birdies and spoiling my daily views of the garden outside...grr. Humit why these kitties are out and about? Shouldn't they be at home playing with proper toy mousie and not real ones? Why their humits let them outside then? Silly kitties and their humits I say! Oh here we go again, big fat fluffy kitty from next door is chasing butterflies in the garden now...oh dear when he is going home?

Many ways to keep an eye on the ginger pest!

Well a kitty like myself has to find different ways to keep an eye on her enemies, aka the pestering and annoying ginger pest!

So with the help of my humits now I have the purrfect spots in the house to watch every move that ginger pest makes so I can always be a step ahead of him...so there...So here are my new tents/hiding places...

This is my current number one hiding place:

Well hidden here as you can see...

 

 

 

 

 

and this is my second one...

Just stretching a bit while I'm waiting for ginger pest to arrive!

 

 

and finally my third one...OK maybe not as purrfect yet but it does its job...

yes I know...it will do with a bit more covering...but what do you expect from a humit? Purrfection?

 

...now to get some supplies to keep me going while I'm keeping an eye on that ginger pest...where's humit? With a little meowing and a feel sorry for me I'm soooo hungry look I will get some snacks pretty soon now...meow, meow, hungry kitty here!

Spring is here grr!

See humits? Lots cuter than all these outdoors birdies or animalz!

 

Really I'm not a grumpy kitty, at least not as bad as my humits are who seem to complain all the time about everything...and when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING!! But I guess they can't help themselves, they are humits after all and there are a lot of things in the humit world that any humit can complain about...really I don't feel jealous of these humits as their world really stinks at times (although their food can be great most of the times...one of the best things I guess). Anyway as I said before I'm not like my humits I don't moan all the time (besides I tend to snooze most of it anyway...) but at times there are things that they do seem to annoy me...a lot.

One of these things is this change of the weather who are having now...you know changing from cold and gloomy to bright, sunny and warmer...I don't like it because it brings a lot of bad things...for example...my garden is now occupied constantly by the next door pesky kitties who enjoying coming to our garden and trying to catch our birdies...what the poor birdies have done to them anyway...they are cute and pretty to watch when they go to the feeders... Now because of these pesky uninvited kitties they have stopped coming...grrr! To top it up pesky Dora and the fat other one (see I'm not the only fat one now...plus we have Pickles in the courtyard too who looks very similar to me in size and colours...she is even fatter then me apparently, he he) like sitting outside the patio door hoping to get inside (yeah right not likely) and hide my outside view...I'm trying to scare them off but they don't pay any notice...humits are not any help either as every time they see them they keep saying: 'ahh so cute both of them...they are trying to touch!' No silly humits can't you see I'm trying to scare them off and you are not helping!

The other thing that annoys me this time of the year is the fact that humits tend to spend a lot of time outside...going on what they call walkies because it is really nice now and they can see more birdies and other animalz that way..Really they don't need to see more birdies there are plenty in our garden or any other animalz for that matter as they can watch them on telly if they really want to...And then there is poor me who don't seem to take into serious consideration (not the other two, don't care about the other two really) as their outdoors venture has a knock effect on the full attention time I'm getting...They could easily spend more quality time with me indoors instead of wasting their time outdoors on wild kitties chase...they can even try to motivate me to be a bit more nicer to them by giving me a few more extra treats ...so there! Spring sucks I say! Meoww!

A little new year meowing!

Silly humit to say that I need to lose  some weight...what belly?

Well holidays have a big impact on us kitties too you know...when our humits are becoming lazy and lethargic because they don't have to do much over the holiday period just eat and sleep which of course affect us too...You see we kitties are tuned with our humits emotions and what they are feeling we usually feel it too...so when they are bored and tired we are feeling bored and tired too without actually having eaten as much as they have.. well, usually! It's scary how much humits can change in a short space of time just a couple of weeks...take away their routine and suddenly they become totally different humits...A lesson to be learned here humits..change of routine is bad for all creatures...humits included!

But being bored and not doing much...even forgetting to feed us and to play with us on a regular basis is half the problem...The worst thing is this new thingi which they call New Year's resolutions that causes a lot of problems...in my opinion it causes havoc to our routines...you see humits sometimes listen to voices in their heads...which they called consciousness (you see they've never figured out how to ignore those voices like we do...) and which appear to be stronger and more convincing after they have done things that they normally won't do other times of the year...and these voices tell them that they have eaten too much, that they are overweight and that they need to start eating healthy and less...can you believe these silly voices? So humits to make those voices stop in their heads they decide to stop eating a lot that nice food (meat and sweeties) and go on a diet and they even start eating healthy and wait for it...the worst bit is that they also decide that we, kitties, need to also eat better and less....ha, ha what a joke...I've always thought that humits are not mentally that well...they need a lot of help from professionals. So now I need to convince my humits not to listen to those silly voices in their heads but instead to listen to the voice of reason..my voice...kitty needs a lot of feeding this new year...more and nicer food...

Talking about voices of reason I've just saw this online with my humit at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12106609 and we both go rather annoyed...what a lot of rubbish I say (my humit says too...) Of course the kitty is stressed as he is faced with a predator on a regular basis...also not all cats are the same...if this kitty is OK with that doggie this doesn't mean that another kitty would also be OK with this or any other doggie...kitties like humans are individuals and not all the same or they will react in the same way under the same circumstances...doh! Of course the humit on the video doesn't seem to know much because he is dealing with doggies and not with kitties...silly humit!

We kitties know which species is the most intelligent on this planet (clue: not humits or goggies...)

Problem solving kitty at work...

What a day yesterday was...it was going to be a normal quite day, you know one of those when I'm simply trying to convince one of my humits to provide me with more nutrition than the normal portions when out of the blue humit2 got really annoyed with something she read...To be honest I don't think I've ever seen my humit having steam coming out from both ears so what she was reading must had being really bad news...

What she was reading was an article about how some silly humits did some sort of research and they found out that goggies have evolved a bigger brain because they are more social than kitties (yeah right!) while the brains of more solitary mammals such as cats, deer and rhino, grew much more slowly during the same period. According to that research we are not therefore as clever as dogs because '...dogs are quite good at solving problems, which gives credence to the traditional image of the cunning fox which is a member of the same family. Dogs descended from wolves which appear to have the biggest brains as they live in large family groups...' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/pets/8151924/Dogs-are-smarter-than-cats.html).

Of course this is just a lot of rubbish and silly humit talk since everybody with a bit of intelligence knows that brain size doesn't really predict intelligence in a species...take a good example here, the humits themselves, they have quite big brains in proportion to their body size and who are the only species that they actually believe in their own superiority and cleverness...everybody else on this planet knows that humits are not that clever after all...a good look through history would tell you why...they are the only species that have managed to destroy the entire ecosystem of their own planet and even to destroy many of their own species members through wars and conflicts over silly and unimportant matters like ownership of land that was never theirs in the first place...(belongs to the the planet sillies, you only live here for a short period and you don't own anything not even your own bodies...as wormies and other microbes are having it after you've long gone), issues about silly humit religions and beliefs...along with other selfish and really unimportant matters...not that clever those humits after all...

As for us, well, we are the intelligent species here as we have humit servants who have trained them after years of domestication to look after us, we do what we want to and we can live our own lives without having a lot to worry about...besides we have allowed humits to take us into their homes and allow them to treat us in some cases as equal to them (I know, a bit degrading at times...) as nobody really wants to live in the wild these days and to have to hunt for food and look for shelter when silly humits can easily provide all these..Besides our brains are big enough when you compare them with what little goggies have in their place on their heads... and in the right proportion with our bodies...any bigger and we wouldn't have being able to move properly and to catch prey, with a very big head and brain...silly!

Also as my humit pointed out '...other studies have also often suggested quite the opposed ....that cats are not only very intelligent but actually having an IQ which is only being surpassed only monkeys and chimps (and humits I'd have added her myself!). Cats can think and adapt to changing circumstances and they can easily learn by observation, imitation, and trial and error (wrong humit...us kitties don't make errors...that's a humit term, we kitties never use it!) and some studies seem to have shown that cats have been shown to exhibit greater problem solving abilities than dogs and that a cat's recall can last as long as 16 hours, exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans....the anatomy of brain of cat is very similar to the human brain, whereas the anatomy of brain of a dog is not very similar to that of a human brain. Both cats and human beings have same regions for emotion in their brain. The brain of an adult cat weighs about one percent of its body weight while the brain of an adult human being weighs about two percent of its body weight. The brain weight to body weight ratio in cats is greater in cats as compared to dogs (see long comment at:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/pets/8151921/Dogs-are-smarter-than-cats-feline-friends-disagree.html)

With other words...yes we are a lot more intelligent than dogs...and these silly humits that said otherwise need to have their own brains examined as their own brains don't seem to be working as well as ours...Meoow...humit feed me nooow...I'm hungry!

Being the alpha cat in the house...

Just holding the stairs for you humit you can come downstairs now...it's safe!

 

 

Sometimes it seems that I'm being accused for no apparent reason, simply for just is expected from me in the first place...for example I often find myself being accused by my humits of all peoplez of bullying the other two...shhish kitties who share the same environment as me and who eat most of the food that either way would have come my way anyway...shishh...pests I say!

Of course this is not true...I do not really bully anybody...kitties or humits...I'm simply looking after them, whether they like it or not! You see everybody needs somebody to look after them... for example to check anything new that comes into our home and to make certain that there are no threats involved, funny smells and flavours that is...You see humits are not really good at looking themselves properly...They tend bring home new things without a lot of thought or without properly checking them, they even allow strange other humits coming inside without actually thinking whether it is a good idea or not....and even worse they even let those other two to do whatever they want with no restrictions whatsoever, to eat a lot of my food and to use my litter boxes! Disgraceful...it is a miracle that humits in general can manage survive on their own in the wild...I guess this is why we are so important to them because they really needs us...Humits you see, need some control in their lives and this is why I'm so important and useful to them... because I tend to keep everything in order and humits in control...You see they need me to remind them when in the morning they need to get up...as they don't ever listen to their own alarm as they usually turn it off and go back to sleep...while I'm there to meow constantly till they get up...they also need to be reminded when to clean my litter boxes...again I need to meow after I've used it so they can clean it properly...to my own purrsonal standards. They also need to be reminded when it is time to feed me...so I'm always around when they are in the kitchen so they won't forget to feed me...three times a day isn't a good or practical idea for pussykitties like me who needs more frequent refilling of their food bowl than other kitties...especially those two that eat my food in my home. Of course they also need to be reminded when they have to entertain me...any time in the day or night when I'm bored and of course it is important that they do keep me entertained even if they are appear to be busy...they usually aren't...they just think they are...

So you see they really need me to be around and in charge of everything in the house, even to taste at sometimes what they eat so to make sure that they are not eating anything that they aren't supposed to...Being the alpha purrson in their day to day lives it is important especially for humits who otherwise wouldn't have being able to function properly...like my own and yours I'm sure!

Humits can be sooo silly at times....or...there are not enough kitties to educate them!

What it's supposed to do again humit?

  

Sometimes the things I hear or see on humits TV thingi really make me angry and very sad...it's really so sad that there are a lot of humits who treat their kitties friends and all other non humit but friendly species out there with cruelty like they are not creatures with feelings and their own thoughts and perhaps different awareness of their world around them...You know something humits you aren't the only species which can do intelligent thinking...the rest of the natural world can too you know....and even, at least some species, solve some of the most difficult problems you huminity kind can't...But I don't want to mention today how ignorant and silly some humits really are but simply to point out at some cases in which a bit of knowledge and education could easily have saved some kitties' lives...I mean , come on humits, you can't really allow little kitties to roam in your streets where cars and probably other humits can easily harm them...you see kitties are like your own little ones...kids or 2 legged kitties, wherever you prefer, it's all the same...they don't know much about your real world and most importantly about the dangers out there...they have no sense of fear or danger when cars are passing...or some humits want to pick them up and take them away from their homes...they are not aware that not all humits are nice or kind to all creatures...some humits are really cruel and mean. Especially those kitties that they have left their mommy and brosses and sisses at a very early age and therefore they haven't yet learned everything there is to know about their world around them...there is their humits responsibility then to teach them about the world around them before they are allowed if they will be allowed to go outside on their own. A few months old kitten doesn't understand that you can't cross a humit road when there is car coming and if that car doesn't see the kitty...well...it is sad news all way round...My humits thing that humit cities and busy villages are not places for kitties that have learned to trust humits or that they are used to an easy life indoors...especially when the kitties live close by to busy roads...As for me I like it indoors...I've never tried to ventured outside and when I put a paw or two outside I quickly went back inside again to my own and trusted home environment...really I don't want to go outside...I've got my humits who are serving me well, two other silly kitties which I keep for bullying and lots lots of toys, good views to the birdies outside to the garden...and even better snoozing places...don't need anything else...really...purrrs for now!

Humans and their toys choices....

Human bad choice of toys...not moving!

I know humits try their best to keep us happy and entertained along with making sure of course that we are healthy and well fed...(food? I shouldn't have mentioned food..now I feel peckish again...maybe I should go and check if humit has gone to the kitchen...no, no it can wait till I finish...not that hungry...I think..did humit said ham?).

Anyway away from nice ham thoughts, unfortunately when it comes to humits deciding and getting toys that they think will entertain us, their choices can be so bad...really really bad. I mean they do buy things that they believe they will amuse us and entertains without actually putting any real thought, without thinking of what we kitties really like...They think they know us too well, which it might be true when it comes to feeding and providing nice cosy areas for snoozing but when it comes to entertainment area they are acting like they have no clue whatsoever...Toys that they don't move, no matter how nice they smell they are definitely not the best thing to get. I mean when humit buys a fluffy toy looking similar to a mousie which supposedly has some catnip on it (humits trust me here when I'm telling you that really there is no trace of catnip on that mousie shaped thingi you got us, you've being tricked by another having no clue humit....) and then places it in front of you..humit expects some form of great reaction from you. He/she expects you to get animated and to act all excited like they got you are a real mousie...well it ain't gonna happen...if they want us to get excited then they should get us a real mousie that actually moves and we can catch it and...play with it...(this is why they shouldn't get upset when kitties that go outside bring real mousies to their homes...they want something to play with when indoors...you see, he, he!).

I mean why a kitty should show interest in something made from plastic that it doesn't move or smells like a real mousie or birdie...All humits gadgets are doing something...why our toys should not be the same...As for the toys that they are hanging from a string...again the same principle applies here...they don't smell anything like the real thing or humits can make them move like a real prey...instead they should put a real mousie or birdie on a string and then let us try to catch it...that would be more fun...good entertainment, I sayz.

Those humits, I despair!...Sometimes they can be so clueless despite all our efforts to educate them...nevertheless they do provide a service when it comes to feeding times and cleaning litter tray...if only they could be trained to provide us with the right entertainment....

Oh my humit is back with a new toy...I wonder...Oh I like that brand new box...perfect size for me!

Sometimes I get excited so what?

Having a bit of fun isn't a crime you know!

Well sometimes humits really worry me...I mean the way they react in situations. You think you know them and then all of the sudden they become unpredictable...humits can be such a headache at times, it's sooo true! They can also be so contradicting at times..they will tell you to do something and then the next day they will tell you off because you are doing the exact same thing they told you to do the previous day. No wonder, why they need and have so many doctors for their brains...they are not working properly all the time...this is why...kinda scary though if you think that they are actually looking after us...it's also explains why they are so many other humits that help humits who look after us to understand us...their soooo unreliable brain is incapable of comprehending the complexity of our actions and thoughts....poor humits!

Anyway back to my story...as I was saying for months my humits were keep pestering me to do some exercise because they see my big and thick fur as extra weight and they think that I'm overweight....(see what I mean? Their brain is not working properly...good example is my case of invisible fat...(really now...what can a big boned with lotz of fur kitty can do to convince her humits that she is not fat?). Nevertheless to keep them happy I've decided to do a little bit of exercise on my own...especially since I found a new and interesting toy in the house...what they call bubble wrapping...it was so much fun...running around with it ...diving in and making all this lovely crunching noisiez and spreading it all over the house...seriously I had so much fun the other day...it was the best toy and game ever...OK maybe I overdone it a bit with the chasing and running and got a bit out of breath but that was not reason for humits to take away my toy and hide it...I was having fun and was doing a lot of exercise as they want me to....and also I refuse and dispute all these accusations of making a mess and causing a hazard on the staircase with all the bubble wrapping trailing from the steps...that's nonsense! Also it was nonsense that I've got overexcited and humit had to use calming drops or something so my breathing would slow down....maybe I was a bit excited but that was because I was perhaps a bit weak due to the smaller portions that they are giving me to lose all that non-existent fat...really now...those humits so strange at times...oh well I guess I should know by now all these mood swings that they are keep having and therefore I should be more tolerant with their behaviour...shouldn't complain I guess they are not always know what they are doing and they are trying to please me most of the times...by the way that new box they gave me is unacceptable...not the right size..too small and the crunchy paper not that crunchy...really you need to try harder now humits!!

You can't let food get wasted, can you now?

See? Food about to get wasted without my help!

 

 

I'm a very,very considered kitty....not only I understand that my humits are only humits with their many faults which they can't control at times or they are even aware that they have, but I'm also very helpful at times. You see, I do understand that humits need what they call 'money' (don't know why really humits are making their lives too complicated and they need something else to use to get something else....too complicated and pointless in my opinion...) so they can buy me food, toys and shacks, etc and I know that they need quite a lot of money to do so and therefore they need to work to get that money (again don't get it why they don't just get my food direct instead of using an intermediate...humits so overestimated, when really they have no common sense at times!) so to help and to show my appreciation I will make sure that no food around gets wasted...I know one of the things that humits tend to moan about a lot is about waste...what we kitties apparently waste at home! The funny thing is that humits are OK with the things they waste...far too much food which they won't eat, far too many clothes, shoes, bags etc which they don't need or use all the time...etc.

So it is rather annoying though that humits accuse us that we are wasteful when we clearly don't need too many things like they do (or they think they do) as we have no need for clothes, shoes, accessories, toiletries and make up (and whatever they buy for us with exception of course of food, litter and the occasional toy or scratching area if they won't let us use what is free and available in the house that is...). So I try to help humits as much as I can by making sure that no kitty food is getting wasted and even in some cases some humit food too which clearly humits are about to waste...So all the accusations of me being greedy and eating others' food are not valid and they are only rumours spread by those who don't really like me (the other ones that live here and who don't like me because I'm the humits favourite quite clearly and right so). So to make it clear once and for all, I don't steal others' food, do not bully them so I can have their dinners and most definitely I don't eat all that food because I'm greedy or because I like food...I'm only doing it to help and support my humits...clear? Now I'm going downstairs to check if any of the other two has left...I meant wasted their food again...purrs and meows for now!

When humits are busy...

Where are the humits when you need them?

 

 

 

quite useful to have around at all times, especially when you succeed in training them to read your moods and even your body language so they know when it is dinner time without you having to tell them every single time...how boring! But there are humits though who are completely hopeless and of low intelligent as they can't seem to be able to master simple signs such as: 'I'm hungry now...feed now...not later'....but what can you do, you learn to live and cope with what you have got to work with....at least they can provide with a roof above your head and some food at times I guess!

In a sense I'm kinda lucky that my humits are pretty intelligent for humit standards that is, so I have no problems with communications...they have learned and adapted to all my needs and they always comply...Always except when they are busy that is because they are doing other things which they think they are more important than attending to my needs...I mean how work can be more important than my need to get attention and to play with when I'm in the mood for playing that is...How can they justify ignoring my demands for attention and play time and continue to do 'work' is beyond my intelligent thinking...really! Other than that I'm quite satisfy with my humits...I wonder though if there is some form of medication that the vet might be able to prescribe, since he was a cure for everything that it might help to get attention when humits seem preoccupied....hmmm...need to find out I thinkz!

Not guilty...really

Trying to hide from shame and the other ginger pest!

 

 

You know it's really easy to get blamed for things you haven't done...No matter how hard you can try to explain that you are innocent and everything was circumstantial...humits won't be believe you because they think they know everything...yes it can be frustrating trying to convince those stubborn humits that they are wrong and that they don't know everything after all...

You see I'm an indoor kitty...I've always being an indoor kitty and have never being outside other than the few dreadful occasions to that witch doctor, the torturer who humits call the vet...yeah right...I've got other names for him you know and none of them is that nice!

Anyway so yes I haven't being outside all my life and even with doors and windows open I still don't feel the urge to venture outside....I mean all these unfamiliar sounds, smells and constant noise...and even when it is hot it is a lot better inside and often I feel sorry for the kitties outside...especially Dora from next door who she sleep these days in a pile of old and dry garden weed and leaves...on the 'heap' as the humits call it...I mean that can't be comfortable and she always looks very keen to come inside and not so keen to go to her own home (with 2 other pesky kitties, 2 humits and a constant crying small thing that kinda looks like a small humit but it kind ain't...far too noise for starters..we can even hear in my home most days...very noisy...so noisy and annoying...can't blame Dora for not wanting to go home...).

So really I don't particularly want to go outside really but sometimes I get a bit curious, especially when I see my humits outside...if they are outside then it must be safe for a kitty like me to have a quick look...Apparently though humits don't think the same way (what's new here really...) so when they saw me outside this morning following them in the garden they freaked out big time...they thought that I was trying to escape or something..really now...I was only just sniffing and checking the world outside to make sure that it was safe for my humits to be outside on their own...and trying to figure out what is so special about going outside...not much really far too noisy and smelly as I was expected it to be which, on the other hand, doesn't explain really why humits are keen to go outside that often...

So in truth I was not at all interested in going outside, I was just looking...testing... so there was no reason for humits to get annoyed with me and to start checking for fleas and dirty paws and fur...paranoia...I was only outside for a few seconds...really now!

Well I've learned my lesson now...not going outside anymore...as outside makes you paranoid and crazy apparently looking at examples of humit behaviour...

Summer thoughts

Not the coolest spot in the house....

I do like summer...don't get me wrong summer is a great season...nice weather, lots of birdies outside and even the humits tend to be nice and more...understanding when it comes to food and snacks...when they are in a good mood they will forget all about diet and excess weight and they will give you little treats when you play it cute and innocent...oh those humits they are so easy to work with sometimes...you just love them.

Anyway back to summer...as I said I do like it as a season, it is nice...long days, nice weather, etc but then you do get those extreme days which humits call heat wavez or something...when it does get too hot for a kitty like me who has a lot of fur and...a lot of fur...it's all fur not excess weight...I'm not falling to that old trap...

Then when it is too hot it becomes really difficult to try and find cold spots in the house...especially since humits are obsess with carpetz which are not only too hot to snooze in the summer (OK in the winter I guess when it is cold...maybe...) but also tend to pick a lot of kitty fur and humit hair too (I keep telling them that there is a lot of their hair there too but they think they know better and they believe differently). Then you have the humits complaining constantly (which at times becomes really boring and monotonous hearing them moaning about the dirty carpet and that they can never clean that CARPET properly because there is too much fur there...which half of it belongs to humits too...anyway, etc, etc...you fellow kitties probably know pretty well what I mean...). So if there was less carpet in the house...then there would have being more cool spots for me to snooze and rest in the summer and humits wouldn't have to do a lot of work and put that much effort in cleaning it...but oh no, humits think they know better and they cover the whole house in carpet... (which is not good enough for proper scratching either....).

Oh well, one day humits perhaps they will listen...till then I'm off to my cool spot in the kitchen for a little afternoon snooze...purrs and meows for now!

When the same personalities collide

Stubborn, who me?

Yesterday I had a little argument with my favourite humat and as a result we both ended up being annoyed with each other. I'm not going to mention who's was at fault here and who was responsible for the little misunderstanding (after all we all make mistakes humats or kitties, don't we now?) but simply I want to mention that often when you are sharing the same personality with the person you live with this often can lead to a lot of problems...

You see, I strongly believe that us and our humats we are often sharing the same personality traits, which it is the reason why we are so compatible (serious talk here...the result of being the assistant of a professional humat) and we are forming such good relationships, relationships that humats sometimes they can't even have with other humats. This is why humats they like us, appreciate us and get so attached to us. Which, in general, is a good thing as it means that humats treats us as equals and even in some cases as better than equals (a little pampering doesn't hurt anyone especially us kitties).

The problem arises though when these similarities can lead to unpleasant situations, for example when both protagonists (whooa I didn't know that I know that word...who is a clever kitty then?) are sharing a trait that is not considered as a positive one...let's say for example that both are very very stubborn. This can only lead to trouble sometimes!

I'm well known for my stubbornness and determination something that my humat is also known for and which in some occasions has lead to rather unpleasant situations. After all accidents do happen and there is no reason to blame anyone for them...So when I make clear to the humat that I don't require any cleaning after a little accident I expect her to respect my wishes....but no, not my humat! Oh no, she has to clean me thoroughly without taking into consideration my own wishes...and in the end somebody ends up getting hurt and I, being told off...

If only she wasn't so bl***y stubborn....Oh well that was in the past and today things have got back to normal again (phewww)...as we both had to apologize to each other.

But situations like these often make you wonder...maybe it is not a good thing that we both are very similar but then again if she didn't understand me that well then perhaps I wouldn't have being the way I'm today (hmmm deep thinking here!). Well the important thing is that despite everything deep down she knows that I'm the one who is in charge at home anyway, not like the other humat who has not a clue or understands a lot about kitty psychology or behaviour...he is a typical humat you see, unfortunately...Anyway things are not really bad anyway if you think about it, even after our little arguments since humat apologizes with little treats and nice belly rubs...purrs for now!

After the snow...eventually melted

Waiting for spring to arrive!

It has being a while since I've written anything on this blog but I blame the weather for this lack of creativity...you see when it is cold I get a bit too lazy and my paws feel a bit too stiff for typing...besides humat was a bit busier than usual and as a result I couldn't use the laptop to write...yes I know excuses...but still..good ones!

Anyway back to the snow...this was the first time that I saw so much snow in a day and snow that refused to melt for days and days...whoaaa...I'm so glad that I don't really live in a country where people and kitties get snowed in for days upon days or even months! Everything was white and very very cold...All birdies outside looked so fluffed and cold and hungry that I felt really really sorry for them and I wanted to bring them in but of course that wouldn't have being possible and I would have probably being misunderstood for my actions being a kitty, as we, kitties, supposedly hunt and catch birdies (although in reality I'm a more fishy kitty... I like my tuna more than my chicken flavoured sachet). At least my humats were very understanding and they were leaving a lot of food for the poor and cold birdies and as result we had many visiting our garden some that I had never seen before which it was nice and fun as I was trying to spot new ones.

But the matter of truth is that although I'm covered in lots of fur and even have fur under my paws (the humats call it tuft) which makes me suitable for such weather (yeah right) I don't really like snow and cold weather...as everybody moans about it, it is very cold and apparently treacherous and dangerous for humats when they are going out...I most definitely prefer nice weather, sunny and warm days when I can sit by the window sill and snooze under the nice and hot sun...yeah most definitely I like warm weather...plus I get bored with my humats complaining about the bad weather every single day and also being miserable and moody all the time...I really can't wait for the spring to arrive. Of course the worst part is when the weather gets too bad that humats can't go to shops to get my food and shops run out of cat food because they can't get supplies...I mean that is the worse case scenario for any kitten...it's like living in a disaster zone like in these movies we see on TV and DVDs....how can shops run out of cat food? Unheard of! They should have known better and they should have prepared themselves for such emergencies...I can't go half a day without my favourite tuna flavour sachets...Thank goodness that the snow has melted and everything is back to normal again otherwise I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't get my tuna treats...no, no, snow is bad...when spring is coming again?

My humat's survey

See not that big...I can fit perfectly on little table!

My humat is currently very busy with her survey on the relationships that us kitties (and yak dogs..) have today with our humats and she spends a lot of time on the phone or on her laptop working. I'm trying to be a considered and understanding kitty and give her space and not bother her too much (but I do need to stick to my feeding schedule) and also by helping...talking when she is on the phone to humats to let them know my opinion on the matter (although my humat doesn't seem to be pleased when I interfere...but you see I'm a kitty with strong opinions who likes to be heard...) but I will be happy when she finally finishes. She needs apparently a lot more humats to take part (they must live in UK so if your humat lives in UK ask him/her to take part, the details are on the side...It will help my humat, meowself and all the kitties and pesky dogs as well as the research will try to understand what type of relationships we pets have with our humats and why...) so she will spend a lots more time on the phone which means that I will be getting  a lot less attention for a while than normal...which has started I must admit to bother me a bit...I love attention and petting and playing with my humat all the time so I'm not that happy right now but as I said I have being very patient and understanding...Let's hope that more humats take part so she can finish sooner...now I need to have a little break and search for some available treats around...purrs! 

Cats around the house!

Of all the places!

Why, oh why any cat with some form of intelligence will decide to sit in a place like this? I purrsonally wouldn't have chosen to sit there even if it was full with tuna treats...well probably not! Why make your  humat's life so much easier?

Kitties vs Food

Just finished my workout...where is my dinner then?

There are many stories these days in the media about overweight pets and in particular cats

(see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215425/22lb-cat-Socrates-signed-PDSAs-Pet-Fit-Club.html). Although I purrsonally don't think that only pets are overweight these days (more humans are overweight comparing to cats & dogs and I have also see a lot of fat pigeons and other birds from my window pecking away in the garden...) I also think at the same time that it is not always our fault for gaining a bit of weight. A lot of the blame needs to be directed towards our way of life as us cats we are not known as a species which is very 'energetic'...except from when we are very young and not wise at all. You see cats tend to spend a of time sleeping and grooming and of course eating, even those cats that spend a lot of time outdoors....(most cats will find a nice comfy spot and will snooze till it is dinner time back at home). These days because we are well fed we don't need to use a lot of energy for hunting and catching food...food is waiting for us in a bowl or plate and tastes in some cases even better...but even in cases that we do decide to do a little bit of real hunting we end being accused of killing unnecessarily and being a menace to the wild life (see you can't win really). No, no what I think that needs to be blamed for our little overweight issue is what we actually are given to eat...all these human premade food is not good for us and even the food that is recommended by some 'experts' can be also in some cases extremely harmful to kitties as it will not only make you fat but also cause you future serious health issues...I think humats should stop blaming us pussy cats for eating too much or even blame themselves for feeding us too much (most of us will eat when we are hungry and eat as much as we need) and instead they should start considering checking and rechecking what they are feeding us and making sure that the food they are giving us are good to be eaten by not only us but also by themselves... No good making sure that they have a healthy diet but also making also sure that us their furry babies are getting also a healthy and natural diet. No extra salt, sugar & additives please...just good quality meat & fish will do!

Monday's rumbling

Getting ready for my snoozing routine

Finally after days of netbook issues it is working again although my humat says that not all the keys are working now...and it needs more fixing..at least we can all type...those keys that are not working are not of any use any way...who uses squiggle key or backward slash and wiggly parenthesis...but my humat says that this is not the point..all keys should be working on the netbook even if they are not being used. She says that you don't cut your small finger or your claws because you hardly use them...no, no I want my claws I like them and they are very very useful...when attacking or scaring off Choo Choo...I wouldn't look that menacing without my claws and teeth...and some growling and hissing and having lots of fur and looking big, etc, etc.

Yes I think I get my humat's point...it is a matter of purrnciple of course! But is quite annoying when because of a little machine you can't do your daily routine and as result you feel irritable and annoyed all the time...you see routine is very important...for humats & cats. Without your routine you feel anxious and lost...you want to be in control of your ownself and environment and routine helps you to do so...If I don't have my meals on regular times I feel lost very stressed and anxious that I won't get enough food for the day...routine is everything...for example now it is time for my late afternoon snooze...I don't want to be disturbed so I can have a restful snooze and then I can wake up fresh and ready for my supper...Also Mondays are catnipdays and I expect fresh catnip to be ready for me on my scratching post...if it is not there ready for me I will be very upset and grumpy for the rest for the day...and my humats don't want me to be grumpy...they know that when I'm not in a good mood...everybody suffers...humats and cats! So they need to keep my schedules and maintain my routine for their own good...Oh well enough for the day...time for a snooze...purrs & meows for now!

Just like me

Don't even think about it....no similarity whatsoever!!

Well no time to blog now because of computering issues (netbook on pc hospital till it gets better) but I thought I post this photo instead of another kitty who seems to have a lot in common with me and humats might also found funny....

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Yeah humats entertain us!