Party Time

My good furriend Gracie is turning one today. Please all go and help her celebrate. I believe she is having a whooping BIG party. Click on the invitation on my side bar or on her name, WHOOSH, you're there!!!

This is just one of the games......

Photo by Gracie

Plenty of fun, food and game. Let's kick the year off with a decent kitty partee. See you all there!!!!

Kitties from Vietnam

Mieow! I am back!!! I do miss visiting my furriends. Now that SS is back from the wilds and more importantly, recovered enough from her operation to help me blog and visit, I have lots to say. That is, when I feel rested enough to emerge from my cool den, aka under the house, because it has been hot, hot and hot.

While SS needs to get some recent pics of me, I will let her show some of the kitties that she met in North Vietnam. Believe me, you would not want to be living there. It's not a kitty-loving place. Look at these poor kitties.....

This starving, thin kitty actually lived in a restaurant set up to train young people for the hospitality industry. You would think she would at least get food from the kitchen, if not the patrons. Needless to say SS shared her meal with the poor kitty. Note the collar is made of nylon string.

This one is better nourished but still underfed. He lived in a road side cafe. Yes, he also shared SS's lunch ....

This is the best-fed of all. His home is high in the mountains, where SS stopped for a lunch rest during her trek. He also shared SS's lunch and nosed around SS's back pack.

This is the most heart-breaking of all.....

A leopard-cat kitten caught by the locals in the wild. He was trapped, coped up in this cage and was fed left-over rice only. He hissed at anyone who came close. When SS showed his picture to the villagers they said that he would be sold as a delicacy. Doesn't it just break your heart?

Soon to be abandoned

I am about to be abandoned again soon. Can you guess where my SS is heading off to this time?

Hints:

She will be off in 2 weeks and won't be back until Christmas. I will be looked after by her sister who is a very nice lady and shares her cheese and milk with me.

PS Looks like I am NOT going to get another post in before that SS of mine heads off to Vietnam. Yes, it does looks like China because the Chinese had been there for 1000 years and left their indelible marks.

Have a good and safe Christmas, efurryone! I will miss you all but I'll back. Please don't forget me!

Introducing Pomelo

I am very excited today. A family friend has adopted this really adorable kitty, Pomelo. I know you would say, what's so special about kitty adoption. Well, this friend used to be scared of kitties (yes, it's hard to imagine, but there it was). SS and her niece have been working hard over the years to cure her of this irrational fear. AND WE HAVE SUCCEEDED!!!!

Yay for Pomelo!!!! He is a little kitten that the local vet had rescued and put up for adoption. Really tiny, cute, active, playful and absolutely loves being made a fuss of.

Cat in the Manger

Now that spring and the warmer weather have arrived, we are having more birdie visitors to our yard. SS sometimes put out food for them. Although I don't eat the grains, I guard them so that no birdies would dare to approach them without inciting my wrath.

My SS says that I am not a very nice kitty. Wouldn't you have done the same?

My Spring Garden

October has been cooler and wetter than average, so that's good news for my garden. We have been conscious of the fact that much of Australia are under drought condition and therefore try to conserve as much water as possible by switching to plants that do not need so much watering.

Here you see the beautiful Jacaranda in its lilac bloom and the red Bottle-brush. In the left foreground is the Jasmine tree whose little fragrant flowers are just coming through.


You can barely see them but these grow in a circular patch under the jacaranda tree...


Does any gardening cat know what they are? This is a special corner in our garden as my doggie predecessor is buried here. As for the fountain, it no longer functions, but remains my favourite place to hang out...

Tummy Toosday

Since SS had jumped the queue by posting my toesies on Saturday, I'll just have to show my tummy today. The trials of a blogging kitty are never ending.....