ARTHUR's PRECAUTIONS

Rosie speaks first !

CATS ON TUESDAY

CATS ON TUESDAY

New Year's Eve may be fun for humans but certainly not for cats, except the good food ! Instead of being 6 people we were only 3, because the others had a cold and had to stay home. This wasn't important at all to Arthur and Pookie who, thanks to Mr. G's good education methods were turning around the table and intended several times to even jump and nibble in the plates. Of course my friend who is a cat fan too, gave them a bit of salmon and Mr. G. too, only I was hard hearted !

Arthur with his usual charm when it comes to guests, made Nicole fall in love with him, while Pookie enjoyed being petted all the time.



He spent the whole evening (after the salmon of course) behind the CD's and DVD's and groomed and slept there peacefully.

When the fireworks started at midnight, he continued and stayed cool like James Bond in all situations,




while Kim fearing an earthquake hid under Mr. G's bed



and Pookie under my desk. But when she saw me coming with the camera, she came out and thought the worst is over.

Now the days have turned into normal, which means that



Pookie follows Mr. G. everywhere and watches over him even in very private places,



Rosie tidies up the Living room and throws her mousies in the air,



and Kim makes her usual walks and just came back for lunch.

I hope you all didn't suffer too much because of the crazy humans and that nobody ran away !

WHERE ARE THE EAR PLUGS ?

CATS ON TUESDAY

CATS ON TUESDAY

I had put my backpack open on the floor, and when I came back it was squatted by Rosie !



I doubt very much that she wants to come with us and driving in the car to Amsterdam to celebrate Christmas there.



The last evening before we left, Pookie had found a new occupation, she sits on my lap and plays with her tail. Of course I got her sharp claws in my legs ! It looked so funny when she tried to catch it and bite in it. I watched more Pookie than the News, anyway they are always the same.



Arthur has discovered chocolate cookies and steals them from the plate on the table. I wondered what he was eating there when I saw that it was a cookie and the carpet was already full of crumbs. I had never heard of cats eating cookies with chocolate, and wonder why he does it now, he never did that before. Has anybody cookie eating cat experience ?

On Christmas day we arrived at noon



and had a first glance on the Christmas tree. The gifts were put late evening, because it would have been a too big temptation for one year old grandson Toby.



Mr. G. for a change doesn't play with his cats but with his grandson. We loved his little pajama with a bow tie he was wearing on Christmas morning.

When we came back in the afternoon, we thought we would find very sad and hungry cats.





Instead, we found these two still lives, which didn't even open an eye to greet us, they had celebrated Christmas with my neighbor who took care of all our cats since the 35 years we live here. Our cats know it because as soon as our car has disappeared Arthur and Pookie are sitting at her front door, performing starving cats. She lives just across the street !

CATS ON TUESDAY

CATS ON TUESDAY

My dear cats continue their bad weather sleep, or maybe they went into hibernation.



Rosie always ready to check what I am doing or have done, was looking at the Christmas cards I had printed out, just to put them in my neighbor's mailbox. Probably Sir Arthur will escort me from box to box ! He knows the houses better than I do !



From time to time they look at each other, "to play or not to play ?"



with this result. Arthur needs a lot of beauty sleep, on the bed



or on the heating. The cat figure serves him as pillow.



I took a painting from a classmate home from an exhibition, which she wanted to pick up later, of course Pookie made the art critic by sniffing at the picture. Afterwards I have been told that my friend has also a cat and the painting probably smelled "cat" !




When she is not busy with sleeping, she watches over our bathroom rituals.



A miracle happened ! Kim who was outside since spring, and only came in during night for food finally decided to sleep at home again. First she slept on a doormat in the garage, refusing to use a comfortable basket I had put there for her, then she slept for a while on the kitchen table but run away each time we entered the kitchen, now she has decided to behave like a normal cat and squats Mr. G's bed every day. She even allows us to pet her ! I hope I can catch her and bring her to the groomer, because the poor thing is full of knots again. I wonder if autistic cats exists. She is not stupid at all, I would rather say very intelligent, but her comportment is really strange.

To all of you