CAT SELFIES AND WEEK JANUARY 16

Do I really have such a fat face ? or is it your camera ??

 

I was hiding under the table and you found me !

Enough selfies !!

 

 

 

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It is a long time ago that I haven't seen this white kind of powder ! But she couldn't convince me to put my paw in this white cold stuff ! I preferred to stay inside and look out from my cat tower 

 

The woman who comes once per week and puts everything upside down and on top uses this noise

making thing, came today on a Saturday ! It's a shame, I first hid under my maid's bed, then I had to move into the Butler's bed because she followed me with that awful thing ! What a morning !Now I like my new kibbles but only in the small little bowl and not in my usual bowl anymore. She dared to make a test with me, put the new kibbles in my old bowl, and a few in a new one smaller and it is in ceramic and brown ! Looks much better. I decided to only eat my food out of the new bowl and she finally understood (humans sometimes need a long time to understand us cats !) and put the old bowl in

the cupboard. Maybe I will change my mind in summer !

 

The Butler has bought a new mobile because he had a very old one which broke down, and now he has to learn how to use a smartphone for  seniors ! I don't understand that he gets angry if this thing doesn't work like he thinks. 

My lady in waiting called his friend and asked him if he could explain how this new mobile works. The Butler was very excited ! I like his friend very much and assisted of course to the explanations. Fortunately we cats don't need these things, we have other means to comunicate ! 

 

 

and here they are both very busy ! After a while as nobody payed attention to me,I retired and fell asleep on my favorite chair, because the explanations made me sleepy.

 

 

In the evening the Butler was still a bit nervous when his new mobile rang, it was his son who did it on purpose because he knew that his father would get excited if he doesn't find the right button immediately ! What an afternoon !! My servants are really exhausting !!

CAT SELFIES - WEEK DECEMBER 27

..... The fairest in all the land !

Don't drop the camera on me ......

 What's up there ?
 

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This has really been a strange week ! The living room was decorated with balls, angels and father Christmas, candles and other stuff of no interest to me ! When I was younger I used to play with angels and balls, and garlands but now that I am 13 it has to be something more interesting, like my laser pointer ! 

In the evening they had a glass of what they call Champagne and then they were hanging in front of their screen and I saw the little boy who talked to them and showed what he has got. Apparently they had some difficulties with the connection but then I heard them talking and I fell asleep ! 

 as usual in my favorite chair.

It got boring, because when they had talked enough with little and big boy and the girl, they started to eat some disgusting stuff called Sushi. I prefer my dry food which I eat since 12 years and I don't like to eat anything else  !

Finally I had enough and went for a while sleeping on the Butler's bed, before I joined her when she had finished watching TV. This was supposed to be Christmas Eve. I never ever had a Christmas like that, where I didn't have to hide because of the little boy. Apparently he is kind but you never know. In the old house I could hide in the basement or go outside, here it is not necessary, people seem more friendly to me and I don't run away anymore. 

I'll see you again next year !!

CAT SELFIES - WEEK NOVEMBER 29

For a second Isis woke up

but then ....

I am sorry but we are still under lockdown our humans are hanging around the whole day ! We are exhausted !

 

 

 

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Due to the above mentioned lockdown,  I have nothing special to report about Rosie this week is, that she does an early winter beauty sleep ! 

 

 

on the bed

on the floor

on her favorite armchair

and when I open the window door to let in some fresh air she just puts her head out sniffs, thinks it is too cold outside despite the sun and returns where she came from ! I have read somewhere that a cat can sleep up to 23 h a day, not a kitten of course, rather a grandma !

I have to say we almost lead the same life !

CAT SELFIES - WEEK NOVEMBER 14

Friend Isis

 

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Another week went by, it seems to me that with the lockdown, all days are similar or even the same and sometimes I ask Rosie, what day we are but she doesn't know either so we have to look on the computer !

Once a week we get up early when it is still dark and that is when my cleaning lady comes which means that we have to be ready. I in my bathrobe and Rosie always in the same fur coat, poor girl has nothing else. As soon as the bell rings, Rosie disappears from her watchtower and hides somewhere in the apartment. She doesn't like Maria, I don't know why, because Maria loves cats, but no cat loves her. She has the same problem with other cats too ! Probably she smells bad for a cat's nose. I smell nothing. As soon as she is away Rosie appears from nowhere.

When in the morning I open the window door to let some fresh air in, Rosie does her round on the balcony and looks if there is something interesting to see in the trees now without leaves,  or to catch on the floor.

I had filled the foot of the umbrella with cat litter to make it heavy and when I wanted to put the umbrella in the basement the pedestal's hole was open and the whole litter dropped on the floor ! The umbrella is saved but I have to buy a new pedestal. Of course I forgot to clean the floor right away and when I came back Rosie had used the litter for what it was and probably thought that she now has two litter boxes one inside and one in the open air ! 

Rosie is part of our household since 13 years, she has never touched a dish or stolen food or even tried something else as the Hill's fragile stomach dry food ! And now here in our new home she tried for the first time in her life to eat something else !! But  apparently she didn't like it and ate only a bit ! Then as usual she did her grooming on "her" armchair

and took a sunbath laying on the back !

When in the evening I go into my room she follows me and watches how I get undressed if I wash my face like her, and the the other parts too

 

and when finally my "grooming" is done and I lay in my bed Rosie curls up  her body into snail position and falls asleep ! Sometimes she even snores ! and loud it's amazing for such a littly body !

CAT SELFIES - ISIS A SPECIAL CAT

Rosie is in a playful mood, no selfie



Rosie found the button on the camera !



No, no selfie



Next time I will cooperate better, says Isis

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Ever since Isis left the shelter with her new servant Madame N., it took her only a couple of days and very naturally, she took possession of her new home. She quickly forgot the terrible home where she came from, where a passionate tomcat ran after her and tried without success, that she gave birth to a lot of kittens. There also were  two small children who wanted to use her as a toy.

Fortunately the owner realized that poor Isis was very unhappy and brought her to an animal shelter, where she only stayed for a day to check her health and then as Mme N.s daughter worked there and found her so beautiful that she gave her to her mother, who just had lost her beloved Golden Retriever Charlie.

Now Isis has a home which suits her perfectly. After all she is an exclusive cat, and the only child and she thinks that now finally she has the home which she earned since she was born.

Mme N. was full of good ideas for a perfect education for a perfect cat and told us that she would never allow Isis to sit on the sofa, on the table or ... sleep in her bed. It didn't take long perhaps a week, when at one of my visits I stated with pleasure, that not Mme N. had educated Isis, but it was the other way around. Isis takes a lot of space. She sleeps or sits on the sofas, on the armchairs on the chairs on the table and ..... she sleeps in Mme N.'s bed !

You can see who is the master of the house, it's not Mme N. anymore, no it looks rather as if Isis has taken the place and had left a little space for her new servant.



From her new cat tree, she watches over her kingdom, and controls Mme N.'s office





From the sofa at the entrance she checks the visitors. She is very social and very polite and has to sniff at and greet everybody.





When we have all arrived she climbs on her cat tree and observes what we are doing.

When the weather is nice she also has a big terrace at her disposal from where she can overlook the gardens, watch the birds and eventually dogs.








Little stories of Isis' life next time.

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CAT SELFIES AND NEWS JANUARY 3

I wished spring would arrive



No, no, no selfie today !



Me two years ago



and now, a bit older,  a bit slower but still a pain in the neck !

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Although Arthur looks as if he wouldn't finish the day, he still is a pain in the neck and suddenly full of energy. Each time Mr. G. goes into the kitchen he meows until he gets something to eat, even if he had just eaten 10 min before ! It's like a game ! He then eats a little piece and walks away. The bowl is full. Mr. G. leaves the kitchen and when he comes back he is still followed by Arthur who meows again for food.

This makes a lot of noise, because Arthur has a loud voice and Mr. G.  too ! So one meows and the other shouts "shut up, I just fed you" and there is a whole conversation going on ! Arthur always wins ! Slowly I get crazy, the old cat makes fun out of his old servant and when I compare their comportment they are like twins !



Reading a notice together

Both like chocolate cookies. Mr. G. left a basket with cookies on the table during the night with the result that Arthur had taken them all out and apparently had tried them all. The whole living was full of crumbs. I am the cleaning president of the house.

Arthur also still loves guests, the more they are the better it is ! Then he walks from legs to legs or leather shoes to leather shoes and selects one on which he could sharpen his claws. Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore, I mean it's sad for him but good for the owner's shoes.

Of course he also plays the victim which is never fed and starving. With hungry eyes he stares at each guests who of course can't resist and he gets a piece from whatever. I don't say anything anymore, the last days or weeks of his life he should eat whatever he likes.



anything eatable ?



and he is still fit enough to jump on the new TV furniture to check the cables behind !

Rosie is the opposite, she runs away when guests arrive and spends most of her time on the sofa, on her scratch board or besides my lap to watch TV



Nothing on TV !



Observing me while I do my Yoga exercises