CAT SELFIES AND ISIS

I just woke up to do the selfie !



Now I am exhausted



What is a selfie ?? That's my first one



I am Isis and proud to have done a selfie !





Rosie must have a sleeping virus, not the one which spread over the whole world, that's only for humans.

She sleeps most of the time and often on places where Arthur used to sleep.

It's too early to say if she misses him, but I think so, she looks a little lost and is more often with me then before.

Below is Isis, she belongs to my friend Nicole who adopted her from an animal shelter where her daughter works.





Isis is four years  old and a Birmanese cat, a little girl who should produce a lot of kittens. Fortunately Mr. Birmanese didn't like her or the other way around, it didn't work. On top the poor thing was terrorized by two little kids who loved her too much. Finally the owner had enough and brought her to the shelter.

She  was skinny and rather shy. Nicole was informed by her daughter that there was the ideal cat for her who was used to stay in an apartment and never go out. Nicole saw her and brought her home.

Ever since Isis became a beauty with her cross eyed blue eyes, her fur is shiny and she became more round. She also turned out not to be shy at all and is very social. When we are at Nicole's she is always with us and we can pet her she is not shy at all anymore. She is an only "child" now and of course spoilt ! She was lucky to find such a good home, in fact both are very happy to have found each other !

Corona Virus effect

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CAT SELFIES

These are all cat selfies from different friends.



Sweetie, a former stray cat and now a princess



Stumpy spending holidays with my son, while her servants were on holidays



Molly



Choppy my friend had picked up in an animal shelter





and our Rosie the Queen of the house now. From a cat with 3 siblings she is now an only cat child.

I still can't write about Arthur, we all miss him so much, Rosie has changed a bit her behaviour, she often sleps on places where he slept. Today it is exactly one week and one day he passed away.

I am not sure what to do with this blog, he always inspired me. I will see in the future.

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GOOD BYE ARTHUR

After 18 years of life together, Arthur fell asleep forever. He was sleeping on a chair when the vet came. He didn't even wake up he just opened an eye and closed it when he saw that it was me. He didn't see the vet. He just continued to sleep and after he had gotten the final shot without moving a bit he was gone as you say "over the rainbow bridge"

You can easily imagine how hard it is to loose a family member, but it was really time for him before he started to suffer. Despite the fact that he ate a lot, he was so skinny and all bones. The outside of his ears were infected and apparently he had started a skin cancer which happens mostly to white cats.

I am not able to write more I feel as if somebody has hit me with a hammer and Mr. G. couldn't hide some tears. I join a few photos of his life. He was such an intelligent, social and funny cat, we had so much to laugh about him with all his adventures. I will write about him when I can.

Now Rosie is the only "child". When she arrived they were four and one after the other passed away after 18 to 20 years of commun life. Rosie is  12 now we hope she will stay with us until she can go into the Guiness book of records.



Between these two photos 18 years went by



He was such a cute kitty not bigger as the remote control



He didn' take much space on the sofa


Sleeping under my Kaftan and stealing food from plates belonged to his hobbies



Sometimes he also used the cat tower or sat outside on the tiles and listened to people walking by "What a beautiful" cat !



He had very funny sleeping positions, and loved to watch TV especially animal movies



Once I managed to give him a bath, that's when he was not white but black, he had "worked" as a mechanician under a car. He also was the best model for all photo memes.

I could write a whole book about Arthur and maybe I will do it when his absence hurts less.

CAT SELFIES - NEWS FEB 29

a profile selfie



when I was young and still could do my Yoga



Today I am wearing my perls for the selfie



Enough ! No selfie anymore !

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And the storms continue and always on weekends.



Grandpa Arthur stays in bed or walks around in the living room. He still eats like a horse and now he even wakes me up twice during the night always for food. So I get up and feed him, otherwise he continues to meow non stop until the morning. Slowly it becomes difficult but he doesn't seem to suffer. Of course he goes more then often in his litterbox and drinks a lot. But all this is normal with old cats.




As it is so bad outside, Rosie takes the furniture for trees and jumps like Tarzan from armchair to armchair from sofa to sofa



and then finally rests and falls asleep for the rest of the day !

CAT SELFIES - NEWS FEBRUARY 23

Impossible to wake them up for a selfie, sorry !

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NEWS

After a nice nap, Rosie shows me some new Yoga exercises. I wanted to try it out, but it was too difficult, as I can't even find where her head is !



After that, she rolled herself in snail mode and slept again for another couple of hours. Outside we had a storm called Denis, who howled around the house, it doesn't bother Rosie she continued her peaceful sleep.



From time to time she stays awoken for a couple of hours and watches TV, but there were no birds or mousies to be seen so she gave up. There is never something for cats on TV ! Not even an aquarium !



Looking outside through the window it is not better because it rains and nobody is outside, not even a pigeon ! They must hide somewhere.



While I made the bed she looked out on the empty and wet street, and as soon as my bed was ready,



she got so tired that she thought she should return to sleep otherwise she wouldn't make her daily challenge of 25 h !



Arthur sleeps, wakes up, meows for food, eats distributing pieces all over the kitchen and then goes back on his carpet continues sleeping until he wakes up because his stomach growling (even I can hear it) claims food, eats and the whole procedure starts again.

He should look like a Buddha, but not at all he rather looks like a with fur covered cat skeleton, only the belly is a bit round. He eats at least 4 bags of wet food now per day, but doesn't gain a little weight. We spoil him and don't care if it's good or not what counts is that he is happy and doesn't suffer ! Unfortunately some nights he does the same and I have to get up 3 or 4 times otherwise he meows until he gets what he wants, fortunately we are retired and could sleep a little longer but ..... there is ol'Arthur !




My friend Nicole's cat Isis when she heard the storm arriving !