It's been a while

Me in deep thought...my dinner is too far away

Yes I know it has been a while while since I've posted anything here but you know how life is for us pussycats...we are always soo busy...so many things to do, you know sleeping and eating takes a lot out of you and then they are the other three cats that occasionally bother me, especially the pestquito Ozzy (as my hoomins call him these days, ha ha...quite fitting I'd say) and of course they are the hoomins as well who they need constantly looking after...So there are so many hours in a day for a pussycat to take care of everything...so I tend to neglect some things like writing and updating my blog...I'm only a pussycat after all.
So many things have happened since the last time I've posted so it is really difficult to mention everything in one go you know. First of all we have moved to a better close by location to a bigger place with a nice view of the canal and thankfully no more steps any more. So now I get my chance to move about a bit and not just to stay upstairs only...I've used to hate those stairs so much...so hard to come upstairs again..too many high steps...Why on earth hoomins like places with stairs...don't understand  them...well they are hoomins after all I guess with no common sense.
Unfortunately the other thing that has not changed though is Ozzy...he is still around...grr and he still annoys me....grrr again!

Pfft...he tries so hard to look cute for hoomins...pathetic!

Yes he is still around and he is acting like he owns the place, he annoys me, he bothers poor Faith and he tries really hard to bother Choo Choo (but of course Choo Choo doesn't get bothered by anything or anyone) and of course he gets what he wants from the hoomins as he always plays the cute and innocent with them and of course they're always falling for his old tricks...so annoying at times but again what else is to expect from a not so intelligent species like hoomins...pfft!
The only ones that he doesn't bother at the moment are the fish and that is of course because they are in tank full of water. I dare him to bother them...ha, ha, splash, a wet and not so cute Ozzy.

Anyway I've written quite a lot for now and my poor paws are tired from typing and besides is dinner time and hoomins would be bringing me my dinner any minute now...hmmm I think they are a bit late actually...pfft hoomins what are they doing on Sunday evening and not having my dinner ready?...sometimes I do despair but again what can you do...you can't get good hoomins these day, you'll have to do with what you have...
Purrs and Meows for now then!

Introductions

Hi there. My name is Ripley and along with Ozzy (who currently is growling behind me....he is hungry again I guess) we are taking over from now on the ownership of this blog.

I am Ripley, the clever one

This is Ozzy the one that hoomins  often call trouble and who is not that clever really, he likes eating and playing a lot...

Sheng Chi unfortunately passed away a few months back,very unexpectedly and her loss caused a lot of sadness to both my hoomins and myself of course along with Choo Choo too. Since we've lost Sheng Chi hoomins have brought home (or as they said it they've 'adopted') two other rescue cats. 
Faith, a 12 year black and white female who has no many teeth left (just four really, poor thing) and a bit of arthritis on her front left leg which makes her limp most of the times and impossible for her to jump on high places. Faith came from a local shelter and she is a very affectionate and loveable cat who causes no trouble and who i also like very much.

Faith snoozing in her new bed...she is quite cute really...

My hoomins also adopted Ozzy (big mistake really) from the local cats protection branch, who is a 7 year old black and white male and who most of the time acts like a 1 year old kitten, instead. He is far too playful and a big pain in my fury....who thinks that anything and anybody is there for him to play with....Yes it is quite obvious I guess that I don't like him that much really but now he is a member of our family so slowly, very slowly I'm getting used to him being around (believe me it is very hard to do though ...). 
Unfortunately and although Ozzy is not that clever really nevertheless he has managed to win over the hoomins and Choo Choo (not Faith who she doesn't really trust him as he runs a lot and tends occasionally to knock her over....he can be very excitable and he also tends to buzz a lot like a mosquito....this is why the hoomins call him mosquito, I guess). He sometimes behaves also like a puppy, following the hoomins all the time, being affectionate and cute with his big eyes and rather cute face (grr...) so you tend to hear quite often from the hoomins a lot of 'ooohs' and 'aaaahs', and 'how cute is he'....grrr and more grrr...such a manipulative little monster he is....
Anyway this is how things are now that Sheng Chi is not around any more and from now on and since I'm the oldest and the wiser of course I'd tell you on a regular basis, hopefully, some of the things that are happening in my house and which you might find interesting and entertaining perhaps. Oh yes Ozzy (ha, ha right if this is ever going to happen....) would perhaps take over and tell some of our stories also as it was agreed (the oldest and the youngest in our family) but very much doubt as he doesn't have the patience really to sit down and type anything...
Till next time then! Time for dinner now which hopefully will stop Ozzy for a little while from running like a maniac downstairs....poor hoomin can't get a moment of peace and quiet, he, he!

Finally the mystery has being solved (at least hoomin thinks so!)

    It’s being a while since I’ve posted anything and now we are already in 2014! But you know how things are sometimes… a kitty like me can get really busy especially when she has hoomins and other kitties to manage! Yeap I’m a very busy kitty and sometimes don’t have the time for all the things I want to do as you understand of course that snoozing and eating always takes priority in a kitty’s daily life!

 But since today I seem to have a bit more extra time I’ve decided therefore to post something and since my hoomin seems to be also so annoyingly pleased with herself. You see she believes that she has finally solved this big mystery, which in my opinion it has never being a mystery anyway.

So for the past couple of days she keeps telling over and over and over again that she finally knows the answer to the big question of what cats are doing when hoomins are not at home (they are at that place which they call ‘work’)! Apparently the other day when she came home after being at work for most of the day (around 9 hours really too long for a pussycat to be without her hoomins and the services they provide, mainly regular food) she found Choo Choo (who is really lazy and sleeps a lot even for an old lazy cat) sleeping on the exact and very same spot she had left him in the morning… big deal!

When my hoomin came back and went into the bedroom Choo he simply looked at her, still very sleepy and not too much bothered, and he went back to sleep again to finally wake up a little later to hassle her to feed him, acting of course like he hadn't be fed for days (to make things clear here I don’t bother hoomin so she can feed me as we have a clear understanding of when she needs to feed me and how much…so she doesn’t need to be reminded)! 

Afterwards she told to the other hoomin: ‘Not that I had any doubt of course that my cats spend most of their time when I am not at home sleeping but at least now I have proof too,  I have seen it with my own eyes!’

Really hoomin and all the other hoomins out there you didn’t know that when you are not around to give us attention and food we’ll sleep till you finally come home again and save our energy for when you are at home?

Well if this is the case then you should stop once and for all consider yourselves to be an intelligent species because everybody else including the birdies outside already knew this facto of life!

Ten tell tell signs that your cat is more human than you!

1. Your cat seems to spend more time and take more space on your bed than you do!

 2. Your cat always eats better than you (her food looks and tastes better and it is more expensive than anything that you can afford to buy for yourself).  

 3. Your cat is more intelligent and talented than you!

4. Your cats seems to spend more time watching TV these days than you do (and she is not watching only nature programmes when you aren't around it seems!!)

5. Your cat seems to know how to operate all of your gadgets even better than you do (and she appears to be very skillful with your laptop...)!

6. Your cat can have a conversation and win all the arguments with you!

7. Your cats gets more and better presents at Christmas and birthdays than you do..

8. Your cat always tells you when it is dinner time (especially when you're late feeding her) and when to change her litter-tray.

9.  Your cat has more expensive furniture (and toys) than you do in the house...

10. ....and finally she has managed after all these years to train you well to obey all her ...demands and to let you believe that you are still the one in charge around the house (silly humans!).

I thought I'd be nice to humits for once...

You see I'm the one and only purrfect kitty in the house!

OK being today that is, humits Valentine day or something (don't really understand it why they have to be especially nice and eat a lots of pawcolate only one day of the year anyway) I've decided that I can be nice to them for at least one day.

Well they are not very intelligent really but at least they do try most of times to be nice and kind to me...in their own strange ways I guess.

So today I'll make an exception and I won't complain (much) about their inabilities to purrform their duties properly (especially when it comes to feeding, giving me attention and playing with me when I want to and NOT when they want to instead!). Instead I'll point out some of the peculiarities and strange behaviours that the other two kitties that live with me are often showing...

I mean when it comes to Choo Choo, hee, hee that half ginger pest....he is so weird that makes me feel embarrassed calling him a kitty, seriously it gives us kitties a real bad name...hee, hee, hee...he's so strange though even humits have noticed.

Basically among other peculiarities he has also a weird way of eating his food...he's very spoiled and lazy of course...he defines in humits dictionaries the word lazy, the purrfect example he is...he'll even eat while he sits down...he can't be asked to get up to eat...that lazy good for nothing kitty. He also tends to sleep on his food, using it often as pillow and more than often he will dip his tail in the plate with the food, leaving there to soak and then he will actually eat or lick it off from his tail...I mean how strange is this...you don't dip your tail in food, it's not a humit biscuit you know to dip...strange kitty, very strange kitty...

Silly Choo he would snooze anywhere where there's food!

As for the other one, princess Ripley she is such a snob that it's so unbelievable and very annoying...don't touch my food this, don't go near my box or my sofa that, etc...sooo fussy.

Boy humits must be real glad that I at least have me, the purrfect kitty to live with otherwise who knows how they will have copied these two weirdos only! Silly and strange kitties indeed!

Tuesdays thoughts!

Sleepy kitty wants reassurance from her humat!

I haven't blogged for a while because my humat has being busy and she won't allow anybody else to use the laptop and also because it seems that I'm suffering from blogger's block...and currently I tend to procrastinate a lot...But I thought I type down a few words to express my purrsonally opinion on a purrticular matter...You see my humat advises other humats (as you probably already know) on how to modify their kitties behaviours, behaviours which they think are not proper and which they need to modify (of course the issue that arises here is what behaviours they think that they are not normal for a kitty in her environment and most importantly what do they know about cat behaviour because they are not cats after all...I must stop now because I'm starting getting annoyed...). One of the 'problems' that humats often ask for advice is when us kitties are meowing (usually at night of course) for attention. My humat and despite the fact that she says that she knows and understands us kitties well, advises them that in such situations we need to be ignored if we are not meowing because we are not feeling well. She saiz that if humats ignore us eventually we stop because we will figure out that we are not getting what we want....I sayz, NO, NO, NO! You humats, can't ignore us when we meow because we wantz you to come and check on us, to talk to us and reassure us that everything is OK with the world. This is why you are here humats to serve us and to look after us, you can't ignore us...I mean that would be disastrous...I can't think of a worse case scenario of being not reassured after I have woken up from one of my occasional nightmares or not being acknowledged from my humat, when I meow to her and him so they can play with me and give me attention....no, no no humats do not ignore us...pleazeeee....purrs, purrs, purrs!!