ARTHUR's FORCED WASHING

CATS ON TUESDAY

Arthur is bored. Since this stupid guy with his radiator (story below) had left, there had been no other visitors. He even had missed the post lady in the morning because of rain ! He therefore asked me to be his doorwomanman and open the front door. I took my camera and obeyed.




He looked out of the front door there was nothing, no neighbors digging in their gardens and no other cats around. After a while I told him to get in because I started to freeze.



he went inside and turned around and around



He checked the TV if there were any animal shows with birds singing to get a little excited,



No ! nothing, not even that.



He asked me to open the back door. I did. There too he sat for a while, but nothing moved not even a little twig.

Finally he gave up and jumped on the sofa to join Rosie for a nap. But there he was wrong ! Rosie didn't let him sleep so easily, she has become a very energetic little cat woman ! She sniffed at him and probably found he didn't smell very well. I could listen to the following :

Happily he slept there the whole afternoon, until an empty stomac woke him up and directed him to the food bowls.

A SHORT WAKE-UP FROM WINTERSLEEP

Weekend Cat Blogging is being held by
Katie and Puddy at A Byootaful Life

The Carnival of the Cats is going to be with the "Meowers of Death"When Cats Attack on Sunday.

We had a visitor and Arthur was delighted ! The whole day he had slept or watched Rosie from above the table but was too lazy to participate. So Rosie did her best to seduce him but without any success.

The visitor was a man who had to replace an old radiator. Arthur found it very interesting, especially the case with all the tools in it. Of course he had to jump inside and check its content. The man was a little worried and looked at me "Does he scratch ?" I said no, no, he is a very friendly cat. The guy wasn't assured and looked at Arthur with suspicious eyes. Arthur didn't bother, after having inspected the tools he jumped in the carton where the radiator had been.

The carton and Arthur fell on the floor. The man jumped nervously back. He stood there with a screwdriver in his hand and didn't move anymore. I was afraid that he would leave me here with the new radiator unfixed and proposed him to take Arthur away. The poor man nodded and I took a very offended and struggling Arthur into the kitchen and locked the door. Poor Arthur he wasn't used to people afraid of him and didn't understand the world anymore.


When the man had left the door was still open so for once they all went out except Lisa and Pookie.

They all took some fresh air but it wasn't long until they all came in to fall into their wintersleep again !

I start to have enough to see only sleeping cats !

I have 5 cats and they should entertain me, but what are they doing ? THEY SLEEP !





As many are complaining that their cats are only sleeping whole day, I made this award for our sleeping marathon cats. Please feel free to pick it up for your cat.

HIBERNATION OR NOT ROSIE WANTS TO PLAY

While Pookie, Kim, Lisa and Arthur are very busy with doing their sleeping marathon and everybody wants to be the winner for the "who sleeps the longest" award, Rosie is busy. Busy with her mousies, busy to inspect drawers and plastic bags.




But then suddenly she had enough of playing around alone. She looked at me, saw that I was scotched at my screen and didn't move



so she decided to look for another victim to play with and found



deep sleeping Arthur. In fact I had found him in this position when I came in the living room this morning and got a shock, I thought he was dead ! But Rosie proved me that Arthur was very well alive and attacked !



Poor Arthur woke up and found himself face to face with his beloved Rosie (maybe at this moment not so beloved after all)



After having washed him for a short while, she bite him tenderly in his cheak



Maybe it wasn't that tender, because Arthur didn't look too happy.



So he got up and jumped on the floor, recovering from his sudden wake up thinking already about the next (quite !!) place to nap.




As Rosie was not busy anymore I asked her to pose for me for a nice Valentine's picture. Rosie wasn't in the mood now she wanted to sleep and here is the result !


PS. My blogfriend Toni had to take the terrible decision to have put asleep her cat Baghira. She has no cat blog and doesn't participate in cat blogworld either. But she is so sad that I thought we cat lovers should visit her and comfort her a little.




As many are complaining that their cats are only sleeping whole day, I made this award for our sleeping marathon cats. Please feel free to pick it up for your cat.

ARTHUR AND THE WASHING MACHINE

CATS ON TUESDAY

Yesterday I decided it was washing day because the laundry basket was more then full. Arthur who was busy in doing his sleeping marathon woke up when I opened the machine. That's a day he likes. So he forgot that he was tired and ran over to me in the kitchen and while I put the laundry from the basket into the machine, he decided to help me.


Arthur jumped to help me


He pulled out one of my bra, apparently he likes them and started to carry it under the kitchen table. I was afraid that he would disappear with it through the catflap, so I tried to get my belonging back and save my bra, I didn't want that my neighbors got a closer look on my underwear. Arthur disagreed and while I was pulling on one side he pulled on the other and got almost angry. Finally I managed to get it back and quickly put it in the open machine.


Arthur was very upset and watched me like a statue while I filled in the machine. When the drum started to spin he looked at the glass door as if it was his favourite TV show and even jumped against the door. He scratched like mad and tried to catch what he saw. But after a while he gave up. Very disappointed and offended he walked away.


He is very offended !

I really was very surprised by Arthur's unusual energy showing that he was still alive but then I saw him collapsing on the sofa exhausted from this effort and he fell into a deep sleep.

Apparently not deep enough because when I took the laundry out he suddenly showed up again. He smelled at the wet laundry and was impressed. It smelled so good. He helped me again with filling in the basket : I pulled on one end he on the other. He didn't give up so easily and sometimes I lifted him up as he hung clipped to a towel. I thought that this is a good exercise for my muscles. Finally he gave up, turned around and directed himself immediately to another napping place, tail up of course. He also has his pride. I got the impression that he was the winner in this duel. Later I only saw him with his nose in the food bowl, otherwise he slept in different places and still does.








And that's what I saw the rest of the day !

Rosie wasn't interested at all in the washing machine, she played and played with her little mousies.


and here we are in the evening watching TV, Rosie is exhausted



look how she sleeps on my lap !

ARTHUR'S ACTIVITIES OF THIS WEEK

WCB is at Tuxedo Gang Hideout
Carnival of Cats at Bad Kitty Cats

When he doesn't sleep Arthur moves around slowly like a snail and looks desesperately for what he could do without any effort.


Jumping on the table is already too much spending of his energy, but on the other paw hand he has to check if there is something interesting to eat.



Why not a little drink from the tap ?




or checking if there are some new DVDs




a little wash is necessary from time to time, not too much !




before he looks at me with sleepy eyes




and falls asleep wherever he feels like


Besides the bed


on the bed



or on the floor


His female companions were even worse this week, they slept the whole day on all available beds. Even Kim gave up her outside life and moved in again.





Only little Rosie is still active and plays the whole day. Fortunately she has a lot to do with her mice otherwise she would get bored in this dormitory !