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To Rhay!
On this shining day of Winter,
Shines Rhay's pelage like a sky ray,
On this shining day of Winter,
Mummy sings for the beauty of Rhay's eyes
For the elegance of Rhay's temper
For the years yet to come.
On this shining day of Winter
To Rhay's birthday we sing!
Congratulations,
Baboo Booby Nino Pussy Rhay!
Louhirata
Quando, todas as tardes, te avizinhas
de mim, a luz crepuscular,
as tuas mãos são duas adorinhas,
que em minhas vistas mãos vem se abrigar.
Porém, as tuas mãos que aninhas
entre meus dedos, entre o céu e o mar
as tuas mãos hão de partir das minhas,
vazias minhas mãos hão de ficar.
Mas, não talvez, que as duas andorinhas
que retendo os sonhos, para aquecê-los
nesta grande ternuna singular.
Hão de deixar as minhas mãos sozinhas
um pouco desse sol e dessas estrelas
que transveste, as asas. ao chegar.
Pádua de Almeida
(This poem was selected from Romilda"s personal book of poems in honor to Rhay. It talks about two andorinhas, a tiny bird, that flyes away from our hands, like the author's hands may be empty of his lover's hand.. Romilda thinks as the kittens grow up.)
(Paul was traveling durint the Poem Conquest on Rhay's Birthday Honor, so today he wants to post his poem, and wants to compete for the best poem, folks!)
On my days of solitude
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of hapinness
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of sadness
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of joy
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
And so the kittens plays with me
Day and night
As the months and years goes by.
And we love to play, to dance and to party.
In this tropical days of Dieu.
Paul
To my buddy Rhay on his birthday day, my memories of our plays when he was small. Happy Birthday Rhay!
So, Folks and Fanzies, here I am to announce the winner of the Poem Conquest on my Birthday!
Paul is the Winner of the Poem Conquest on Rhay's Birthday with the Poem in Honor to Rhay's Birthday!
And Barbara is the winner of the Most Beautiful Message of Rhay's Birthday!
Congratulations!!! :)
Parabéns!!! :)
Gratulieren!!! :)
I thank you for the nice poems and the nice birthday message! Yours,
Baboo Booby Cute Nino Pussy Rhay[COLOR=orange] Mummy Lou will tell how this Poem Conquest Party was...
We had lots of fun, but must present our protest for the ugly taste of poem readings on MAL AU COEUR! Can you believe they come with poem of their lost boyfriends and girlfriends?!!! Rhay.
It was the evening... some clouds on this days of Winter... Some come with long list of poem... Can you believe they were waiting for a romantic poem seassion?!!!
The cats were waiting for lots of fun and food... Kim (in memory), Neko, Rhay, Lilly, The family - boycat, girlcat, mom cat and Hai, Tisk and Radish, the german sheppards, TB, Hebrew, Karen - Hebrew's girldriend, and 4 couples friends present... and mummy Lou, of course!
Then few cookies and salties - these how we call some salt biscouts, and some red wine... A best prefered soup and milk with cinanmon dips for those felines who wanted...
They begun to read... and the MAL AU COEUR come slowly into scene! And how they lost they youth love for another College guy... and how the flowers and the letter never got to the girl of his most love.. and so it went...
The cats started to meouw, all in all, moving their tails from one side to the other... moving from one side to the other... Uooops a tail almost into the fireplace... come one, come cat, little cat, move away from the fireplace... come one, come one..
And the MAL AU COEUR continued and some more cat meows untill mummy Lou said, come on... boys and girls... because you sound like teenagers... create new poems right away...
Oh, no!!! Oh, no!!! We rehearsed all week all these poems...
So, it was the evening of MAL AU COEUR!!!
They declared that those poems would honor Rhay because it were the best poems ever!!!
Mummy Lou said her poem, Hebrew read a poem of T.S.Eliot for his cats, and while the cats and kittens started to sleep, bored with MAL AU COEUR, dark late night come on, and the win started to blow outside...
That is why we could not decide which was the best poem!!! We come to the decision along the week after many protest of TB, whose poem was not put on Pet Talk, because it talked about MAL AU COEUR death of the beloved... George said he was not going to play anymore (!!!!!) and Joana was furious because we called them MAL AU COEUR!!!
But then reality come with Rhay prefering the poem of Paul, who saved the Poem Conquest on Rhay's Honor!
And a prize on Best Beautiful Message of Birthday was decided because at Pet Talk there it was Barbara's message so colourfull!!!
What a day...
that Paul is 13 years old and the inventor of the Walking Stick! to walk on the woods. He wrote the Poem in Honor of Rhay's Birthday out of the inspiration of his life with the cats! :) :) :)
Louhirata
This is the poem that won the Conquest for Rhay's Birthday, written by Paul, 13 years old!
On the days!
On my days of solitude
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of hapinness
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of sadness
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
On my days of joy
"meouw, meouw, says the little kitten to me"...
And so the kittens plays with me
Day and night
As the months and years goes by.
And we love to play, to dance and to party.
In this tropical days of Dieu.
To my buddy Rhay on his birthday day, my memories of our plays when he was small. Happy Birthday Rhay!
THE FOUND CATS,ALL LOVE,TO PARTY,AND THEY WILL MAKE SUE,THAT ALL,THIER NEIGHBOR HOOD FRIENDS,THE PORCH CATS,ALL SHOW UP,TOO,AS THEY ALL LOVE,TO EAT!!!
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Found Cats welcome to all our parties! Our parties would not be the same without you and PT friends! We just love to read your message and so do the friends from Brazil. (They do not know how to write on the forum, just to read it!) ;)
I have just notice this new image of PT structure: it looks renewed with new and good ways of doing things. Let us see if it works. I just tried to put everything on color by highilithing it.
Ro was telling us about a party sponsored by Jota - her youngest cat of 5 months at home where there are two other females Suzie and Lulu, who are adult cats.
(Jota is named after the Brazilian rock band Jota Quest, and he is yellow long hair tabby. Suzie is a white siamese of blue eyes. And Lulu, the sweet cat, is longhair black.)
She wrapped a piece of chicken in many plastic bags and put inside her purse and brought it home from work. This Saturday morning she could not find the purse, looked around, around, when she finally found it behind the couch.
Ro went out to grosseries and when she came back, she found the clean bone of the chicken right in front of the sofa where she usually seats!!!
The clean bone was left there in her honor - a little bit of the party Jota made during the night!!! And all the empty plastic bags where behind the couch!!! Jota sat there in front of the chicken bone and looked at Ro, smiling!!!
Jota is soo smart!!! :D :D
Neko"s birthday is tomorrow but we are going to celebrate on the 16th of October! Come to join us!
Neko is a grey tabby and he is celebrating his 2nd birthday. We call him Mimo and also Sun because he loves the Sun very much as well as to sleep.
It is Spring down here in Brazil and, altough raining still, we hope to have a nice day in this garden with lots of Sun, flowers, and fun.
So, friends of PT, come to the party of Mimo Neko, the Sun!!! :) :) :)
Archy & Binky would be thrilled to attend! They're always up for a party!
thanks for the invitation. Off to pack bags right now!
Orangemom, yes, bring Archy and Brink to the party! So more Spring time to enjoy! Come to joing us!
We will try to find a big tent to hold all of us, so the cats will not run away! We have been trying to find this tent to hard!!!! The last company we asked they said the tent costs a fortune, and is not meant for cats!
But this business man is not correct. Let me tell you something friends of Pet Talk, all places are for the cats and creatures!
Creatures like the priest said on this last 4th of October, on the Blessing of the Saint Francis of Assis Church on Animal's Day!
It was raining but people and dogs came. At least one courageos cat came!
Around the Saint Francis of Assis Church a procession went on around the blocks behind a van with a loud speaker on which the priest was saying words of blessing of the "Creatures", because the Bible mentions it instead of the word animals.
We prayed The Blessing and Maria's prays while we followed the crowed. The dogs went silently maybe because of the words of the priest.
Later we went inside the Church and I counted 45 dogs of all sizes and shapes and pelages... Many people around the altar, looking for blessings for their animals.
The dogs barked and barked... and some other answered back... The church was crowded...
Outside the rain continued in these days of early Spring, and I felt well having said a prayer for Kim, Neko and Rhay and all the animals.
Creature of God, although many people would not agree, I believe the Bible blessed the creature, the animals.
And so does the priest of Saint Francis Catholic Church at Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil.
One cat came carryed inside a box by his boss. And Kim, Neko, Rhay along with me in thoughts!
Today we celebrate Neko's 2nd Birthday!!! Come to join us in this special day!!! ;) ;) ;)
Neko is long hair grey and white cat whose prefered thing to do it to get into trouble! He broke a leg already, almost swallowed a frog, who was taken out from his mouse alive and now swalloed the cap he used to chase after!!! Out to the vet he went and it came out alright!!!
That is why his nickname is Spook and because he loves to sleep on the Sund his nickname is Sun. And also Mimo because he is really Mimoso, a Brazilian word for little darling!
And so he is Mimo Neko Spook Sun!!!
And guess out? we got a tent!!! After looking for a tent to fit all of us and the cats in the garden, so the cats would not run away while we have amousements together!!! It has plastic windows looking outside!!!! And a big door!!!
It was very difficult to find it, believe me... After all, we did not tell the man that we wanted to put cats!!! :)
So friends and cats are coming for the birthday party!!!
Come to join us, Pet Talk friends!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEKO! OUT DEAR SUN CAT!!!
Sounds adorable.... will the human parents give the bride away? :D
Sylvi ;)
Yes, the human pet sent the bride to Rhay's marriage some time ago, when the marriage was celebrated. Everybody had a blest! ;) ;) Good that you came to the virtual wedding party, finally! ;) ;) ;)
Well my cats are not suppporting me in style... Otherwise I would send belated wedding gifts of matching T-shirts for human and any willing kitties to wear... :D Oh well most cats will NOT wear the doggie T-shirts I design but it's the thought that counts.... Where can I see the pictures of said wedding? Meow!!!
Sylvi :)
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Originally Posted by louhirata
I see you have a SIG pic... can you or anybody look at mine here and see why it's NOT poppiing up?
I want to link my pic when it shows up with this LINK at:
http://www.SylviART.com/T-shirts
HELP anyone! :eek:
Sylvi
You wouldn't believe Pet Talk friends: it is raining!!! :mad:
So we are all under the tent, which is white and there is a strong smell of humidity, although it is dry inside here. We are smelling the rain, a very tropical cold rain! It is cool! :cool:
Neko's birthday guess have arrived: Kim (in memory), Rhay, Lilly, Bo, The family cats with the kittens, Suzie, Lulu and Jota!!! all here to have fun... They meow frequently because they all loving to watch the rain falling and the baloons colors around the lamps... They keep smelling each other and there was some hisses too... ;)
The cake is a big chicken pie with whiskas flavour covered with dry cat ration and some flower seed... there are some integral flower biscuits covered with liver juice... tuna past cream with no salt and salmon whiskas, fish ration and raisins... and milk, bouble water and some orange juice... Huummm, tastes and smells goody!!! :cool:
Many balloons which spook all the time, and the sound of the tambor and the battery for the cats, they jump on top of it, making he funny noise when they marche and jump on it... like a water bed... ;)
There are posts to screch and ropes to limbe, together with some ramps that the cat they climbe to the ceiling, which they are loving to do... Uooops, one can almost fall from it...
And the party goes on...
made the CAT WEDDING PARTY into a Children's book yet! Such fun!
Delightful writing from the human mom!
:D Sylvi
Silvi, The sig show up: such a wonderful cat!!! A big one, like a lion all blue and colorful!!!! More than beautiful! I took a look at your site, very very good! Loved the cats there and also the T-shirts for the dogs but can you make for cats?! In Southern Brazil, cats have to wear something warm during Winter otherwhise they shake so cold and humid it is...Louhirata
As for the PHOTOS, I tried to fix the camera with the photos of the Wedding Cerimony, because it fell down from the shelve. Couldn't do it! :o Now I have to look for friend's photos to get pictures of the cats and dogs who came to the party!
I promise I will do it some time!!! And post it here! :o
ON the TENT of NEKO'S BIRTHDAY, Ah, almost forgot: the white tent of Neko's birthday!!!! You wouldm't believe it! The cats pee on it!!! The Sun dried it up and when the men came to take it back it smelled like cat bad smell... (You know like urinated on it, the pitz, pitz they do... to mark territory... because it smelled brand new!!!!)
All the cats said it were not them who did it!!! Of course!!!
That company will never rent to us a white tent again!!! After all the difficulty we had to rent one, because when told it was for a cat's party, all company declined to rent it!!!!
But I bet the cats had a complete total blest!!!!! :p :p :p
The climate is very good, today is raining and it is very hot and humid. It just rained and now it is not so hot. Birds are singing very early in the morning, butterflies come around the house and Kim (in memory), Rhay, Neko, Bo (in memory, Kim's father), Lilly and the family cats and human pets had a darling day outside.
We let them get wet and muddy, playing around the ground, so they will take a good shower and get ready for a cool night.
A typical Spring day in the tropics!
Hello!
You would not believe what show we see Jota presents when he wants whiscas's wet food!
Jota starts to meows around everytime Mummy comes with a plastic bag making the little noise of bags carrying some surprise. Then he wanders around Mummy and starts to purr and meow... Jota even kisses Mumy!
Then, as Mummy starts to say what do you want, what do you want? and Jota sees that she is not getting the point, he stays in his back legs and raises his front paws up, sitting very straight up and crosses his arms back and forth!!! And he repeats the moving of the arms and paws until Mummy says: I see, I know what you want, Jota!
And then, Mummy says, "Here, Jota, here the whisca's wet food you prefer Salmon fish! And he eats sharing with Suzy and Lulu, who know already what comes when Jota does the show!!!
Jota got used to Mummy's visit on Saturday to Romilda, always bringing wet food. Suzy and Lulu also expects Mummy and me for the visit! It is a good visit! They love Mummy!
So, now Jota knows how to make his show when he wants something: Romilda told Mummy he does it for the milk, to close the door of the armoire, so he can jump it up... There he goes...
Jota even did the show to Suzy but it did not work out: we did not get what he wanted from Suzy. After all, she is the princess White Syamese with Blue Eyes of Ro's house... For her, he must do something special!
Jota is a show of yellow long and grosse tail and is named after the rock Brazilian band Jota Quest, which is the best prefered band of Ro: Jota's human pet mom.
After feching balls and briging it back for Ro to thow it again, and putting inside Ro's purse as a basket of basket ball game, he now has this show number!
Let us wait for hiw new show number!!!!
See you in this Spring day that is good for cats and kittens with flowers and its perfumes, shinning Sun and tomorrow the Full Moon when Mummy is going to sing for with us to the beautiful Moon of Spring! ;) ;) ;)
Rhay, our Baboo Booby Black Cat of Brillant Pelage, has been very happy with Spring: he rolls, and rolls and have meowed to the Full Moon this week so much that Mummy had to wake up to see what was up!
So, Mummy keeps singing the songs of good night, now with a very old japanese tune, her grandmother used to sing for her. Mummy makes an ensamble with the names of the kittens and clap hads marking the rhytm.
Kim (in memory) told us he was sick, so we had to call a ghost doc, and he came and gave medicin to him... Specially food and lots of chicken juice...
Neko has more and more the ways to the news of the family, telling the stories he hears Mummy say about the weather and what is going on around the world...
And Rhay loves our little routine, in these days of Spring... not time for swiming yet because the temperature of the water is still under 33 C. But last Thursday the climate reached 30 C, and no wind.
But the winds of Spring are still here, carrying the fur of the cats when they come outside.
Rhay, Neko, and Kim (in memory) enjoy the weather. Jota, Suzy and Lulu are very playfull at Mummy's friend, meowing to the Moon. And Lilly, Hay and The Family at TB are very glad Spring is on.
So, the Cats of the Tropics say hello on this beautiful Spring day!!! :cool: :cool: :cool:
Happy Thanksgiving Day!!!
We say it in Portuguese: Feliz Dia de Ação de Graças!
May we bow our heads and pray together. Amem.
I am having turkey beef, with shoyu and kechup and ajinomoto seasoning - a sauce I cooked hopping to taste good, and rice. And an American cake as good dessert.
Be our guests for the nex party of Rhay, the Cat of the Black Pelage, of this Southern Tropical Brazil!!!!
Come to join us on the 18th of December, after 3pm, for the Cat Christmas Party when the creatures and the human pets will be together...
... best friends and some special goodies for the evening...
... nice UUUU tunes and some taping of music...
... Rhay and Mimo singing songs ...
... special dishes, and of course, Nadyr's special dish...
... and some great fun!!! :) :) :)
Come to join us!!! Come on!!!
Wow! We will be there! Striker, Missy, and Sasquatch send thanks for the invitation, and it sounds wonderful. Sassy is an accomplished singer, and he says he can join in the choral. And we'll provide the cat nip! See you then!
Please accept our RSVP to your Fiesta de Navidad(sorry I studied Spanish in high school nearly 40 yrs ago!!)!!! But, I can say Bono Ano Novo to you!!! The cats would like to bring something to your party/ Perhaps a platter of shrimp for the cocktail hour?? Norton is putting his chef's hat on and going to look for recipes!!! He has decided on baked ziti, always a crowd pleaser!!! O, wait!!! Ralph wants to make chili!!! Raven, Tina, and Molly are getting ready to make a cheesecake. Nicholas, Riley, and Hayley are making catnip toys to put in everyone Christmas stocking!!!! What time will the bus pick up the cats at the airport??? Sandra
The limo will be waiting for you at 3pm at the Salgado Filho Airport from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Sourthern Brazil!
Don't forget to bring swiming suits, sandals, and lots of sun solar filter because it is Summer coming soon!!!! The cats should bring their swiming aparatus to swmin and enloy the summer waters!
There will be a sit with special plate dish for every little nice cat males and females, with a wonderful view of the clouds of the tropics and this wonderful Sun Summer Fly!
Come, come for the Christmas Party!
Shall the days of Winter of North America and the Summer of the Tropics be enjoyed by the cat of Pet Talk!
Merry Christmas and joy in this coming 25 th of December, with socks crowded with toys and bells...
Christmas meal with chicken liver dish and salmon fish... and, of course, wet whiskas food flavour tuna and salmon too...
And we sing "Feliz Natal! Feliz Natal! Que o Papai Noel traga presentes e bençãos! Feliz Natal! Feliz Natal!"
And the best cat singers of the world sing their Oooos tune:
Oooooou... Ooooooous..... Ooooooous...
Ahaaaaa! Ahaaaaa! Ahaaaaa!
Miawou Miawou Miawou!
Miawouuuuuu! :) :) :)
Here friends of PT, come and bring the kids with you!
And we celebrate our good Christmas Party with all the friends from PT and all the friends of Rhay, Neko e Kim (in memory) and Hai, Lilly, the Family and dear Bo, Suzi, Jota and Lulu...
Many gifts that the kittens have to open, tearing the papers and leaving behind all the red laces and green leaves...
Santa Clause brought many many toys...
Rhay got a new scratcher that he can roll with his paws...
Neko got a tambour with a bell that rolls along the floor...
Hai, Lilli, the Family and dear Bo got new beds...
Suzi got a necklace and a rat to chase...
Jota got also a strecher all light blue like the sky...
and Lulu, our dear Lulu, that is all black fur, got a witch that she already took the head out!!!!
The human pet are having fruit salad with "nata" a kind of natural cream...
But they started with cold rouse beef with lots of green salad with the secret seasoning of the dear friend Charlotte...
It is a summer day and there is a hot humidity around here...
The cats are going to have a "showering rain" from the hose, something they love when it is very hot...
And we are all going to have ice cream with a bit of coffee and a cherish!
Merry Cristmas! :) :) :)
Good people ask, it seems our Christmas party didn't have special dishes...
But the roast beef, mas "picanha" roast beef, this part of the meat that really tastes good, specially if it has a little bit, just a bit, of fat, that burns and is dorée... It was done at the "churrasqueira", this place to put carcoal and let it burn and toast the meat, slowly... It Tastes really good!
Fruit salad had tropical fruits, of course, "manga", this very tasty redish wine color fruit, giant papayas, tropical mellons, imported apples from Argentina, which tastes really good, pears grown in the tropics, pineapples of the sub-tropical area, and so many other fruits... With the "nata" on top, this cream made by Banca do Martins for more than 50 years, from special milk that is turned into a kind of butter... Nata all over our mouth's side!
The boys-cat had the delicious Nadyr's dish that is difficult to make because the point of the chicken liver is not easy to getk... But it was a success! Together with salmon fish and of course tuna fish... Yamy...
And the limo that we rented to go to the airport waited for our friends from PT but they did not show up!!! With the PT cats coming to this hot temperature, taking a short break of the hard snow you are all having up in North Hemisphere!!!!
Come on, what happened? The limo was black and it had written on it WELCOME PT CAT FRIENDS! with golden letters!
You are always welcomed! Shall we one day leave the virtual world aside and really come to a party? Sounds terrific!!! :) :) :)
Merry Christmas!!!!
Oh, oh, Filou and Tigris cannot decide whether to go to Catmandu's Christmas party or to yours! Decisions! Decisions!
Maybe they split up. Filou is much more accomodated to warm weather and Tigris with his Siberian grandfather may prefer Canada.
Filou is a dancer too so he'll love Brasil :D
If you talk about non-virtual partys you must come to Gini's next July. They had the 3rd PT party there this year.
Filou and Tigris can go round the parties, what about it?!!! They will love it!
I promised there will be Nadyr's dishes and shrimps - the season just started!
Dancing always... soon summer dancings in Brasil... weather was very hot: it was 28C at 9 am yesterday but a tempest with strong winds that put down trees and flown roofs came... today now it it around 18C! Tomorrow, we never know... around 35C the highest of the day!
Canada is under heavy snow I heard... but lots of people comes to Brazil runing looking for the Sun... and the beachs, of course!!! :) :) :)
The city if half empty... many people went to the beach already for the holidays!
Ah! Ah! A party! Where is Gini's party going to be?
HEARTLY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sandra, Gin, Barbara! Summer greetings to warm you up! PT friends who feel cold, warth winds of hot temperature...
Christmas party was very fun: Jota got all the Christmas gifts because he immediatly got the toys from the other cats. But he is so cute: he begs in his back paws!
But Lulu and Suzie loved their toys and gifts!
Rhay played with Jota all around the house, chasing the most successful gift: a tiny pink wool/velvet mouse with black face and big ears.
There they went around the furniture running after the mouse and throwing it up and down... Believe it was Suzie's gift, a lady's gift!!! :) But the boys decided they made a better play: they carryed it as if it were a real mouse, their hunt, showing it to us, with great proudness!
The kittens didn't pay any attention to the goods! Just the noise of the red bags and the toys!
So human pets had a blast eating the pudding and the "torta fria", a torte made of several creams and layers of bread, covered with a cream mayonese. And of course, turkey with gravy, this time the recep was secret I say, but tell you I almost had to call emergency to make it: it was too salty, and then I had figured out a way to solve it! I simply put sweets on it, and in the end it simply tasted wonderful.
(I wonder how am I going to make the same recep again!) :D
I was kind of lunatic the other day: I wrote Jota got a strecher!!!!! No, No, No!!!! He got a new scretcher, something to finger nail! One that he can carry on!
I also wrote Karriot, meaning "carriots", unbelievable I wrote it!!!
I hadn't drunk anything... But I kind of fused, like the kids say! I simply forget somedays how to write some words!!! :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR! AN EVERYDAY YEAR TO MAKE IT YOURSCOLOR!!!!
Louhirata :) :)
MEOW MEOW!!! It is a cold and windy day here in NJ!!! BUT, the sun is shining!! I bet you have a lot of cleaning to do now that the party is all over!!! Sandra
Yooooou wouldnnnnnn't belieeeeeeeve what is like it! The mess - the cats hates it, of course, so I have to clean everything as soon as possible!!!!!!! :D
Carriots, greens, liver dish, dry foot, wet food, water, milks, nuts, all over, a little bit here, a little bit there... No, no, no salmon nor tuna, because these they eat every bit of it!!!!
Some visitors makes pitz pitz, so you can imagine how much I have to clean it. Because, the cleaner state that she wouldnnnnnnnnnn't clean it alone!!!! After all, she said, never heard of people that give parties to cats and dogs!!!!!!
So, some friends always stay behind to help put the house in order!!!!!
The worst, really, was the party of the white tent, when the cats made pitz pitz on the bran new white tent! The company got furious with it. After all the effort to rent one - they refused when knowing it was for a cat's party, but one was kind enough to accept it. We were so sorry the cats pitz pitz on it!!!!
We told them we would rent the same tent again. Thanks this is Brazil, they said ok. Believe it!!!!!!!
Uffffffff, now it comes Carnival!!!!!! In February..... The country is all "samba", "churrasco" parties and beaches!!!!! SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!
Uffff, ufffff, meow,,,,,,,, meow, says Rhays! He hates the loud sound of samba!!!!! But loves Summer!
Looks like I missed lots of partying, but here I am, with lots of ice. It is good to have ice at parties.
We sure need ice, lots of it. Because today is 41oC at shadow!!!! It is so hot, the fans move hot air around! :D
(The cats are going to have their basin bath, because it is going to rain tomorrow, so no swiming pool today. But they can have a cat's basin bath, where the water is more shalow and the temperature higher! They love it! :) )
We have to buy ice in boxes with about 5kg, there is 2kg too, at the grossery store! So, FrostFrog, you are more than welcomed! Bring lots of ice!
Never meat someone from Alaska! How do you keep your cat and yourself warm? You have not said the name of your kitten...
Lou
My cat buddies, posted from oldest (going on 14) to youngest (3): Little Clyde Texaco - tabby; Royce - long-haired pure orange boy; Chicago - chubby little calico; Jim Slim Many Toes - black cat; Pistol-yero, white-pawed, white breasted tabby.
With such cats around, how could it be anything but warm?
FrostFrog,
Simply very cute your kitties: the names are interesting! Jim Slim Many Toes, what cute name! Specially for a black cat! Chicago, come one, come one, sounds just cool! And Little Clyde Texaco and Royce are funny. Not to mention Pistol-yero. What is the meaning of this last word? It sounds like "pistoleiro" em portuguese, that is a man who shoots with the pistol professionally, like in the old movies! :) :)
I am sure they keep you warm! Do they go outside ever? Because it is all ice, isn't it? Alaska sounds very interesting and exotic. How do you dwell on everyday life about the icy environment?
Here it is 40oC latelly, like 28 oC at 4:30 am, which is 5:30 am in summer schedule! The kittens went to the pool yesterday and will go today. I must be carefull because they cannot have pool if it suppose to rain the next day -the temperature falls about 10-15oC, and they might cautch a cold, but if hot climate means no rain, there they go, they love it! They love summer time! :)
Otherwise, I give them a shower rain with the hose: they don't get really wet. But yesterday I went to visit Ro, and see Jota, Lulu and Suzie, and passed a wet towel on their back and bellies. Suzie, the siamese, loved, she splashed on the floor while I passed it. Lulu, who is black, sat immediately under the roof fan and got refreshed. And Jota, an orange mix angora did not liked at all. it was horrible hot at their home!
Despite the heat, Jota was giving his show and begged in his two back paws for some ham!!! He got all he wanted, because it is so cute, but so cute!!!!
Lou
As for Pistol-Yero, this is the story behind his name:
When my oldest daughter first went off to college at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, she lived in the dorm with a girl that she did not like, nor did she like the fact that she could not keep a cat there. The next year, she decided to go study in England. There, she again lived in a dorm where she could not keep a cat. As they wandered about England, Scotland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and such, she and her boyfriend met many cats and they would photograph them, and then email me the pictures.
Still, this did not satisfy her desire to live with her cat.
For her junior year, she returned to UAF and rented a waterless cabin out in the woods, because there she could keep a cat.
So, the day before she was to return for classes, I took her to the local pound, where I was confident she would find a good cat. Her younger sister came along and I told her, "Now, we are going to get a cat to go live with Melanie and that is all we are going to do. We already have four cats; that is all we can handle and I do want to hear even one word of persuasion from you, trying to convince me to get another. Do you understand? I especially don't want you to cry."
"I understand, Dad, and I promise I won't ask you to bring home another cat; I won't cry, either – I agree - four cats is enough."
So off we drove to the pound and there, amongst a host of beautiful and deserving cats of all ages, we found two eight monthers, one that had a coat similar to that of a blue fox, and the other a tabby, with a splash of white across his face, a white-belly and four white socks leading down to his white toes.
My eldest daughter quickly settled on the fox-blue, who she named “Slick,” although in time, she would begin to call him “Meechee.”
“You made the right choice,” the sad pound volunteer-lady sighed. “He is a nice cat, but that one down below is a real pistol. He’s mean. He hisses and scratches and bites and nobody wants him. He’s a real pistol! Nobody is ever going to take him. I’m afraid he is going to get the purple tag. He’s a real pistol!” She bent down to the level of his cage and peered in. He arched his back, hissed and let fly with claws extended.
“He’s a real pistol.” She sighed again. “No one will ever take him.”
I squatted down to his level and looked in. He did not look like a mean cat to me – just scared, a cat who did not understand why he had to be in a cage and who did not like it at all. He was beautiful and I loved him immediately. “Oh, Dad…” my youngest daughter stammered, tears beginning to form at the edge of her eyes as she scanned her brain for the most compelling argument that she could use to justify breaking her promise, to convince me that we should bring this cat home.
“Well, we’ll take this little pistol home with us, too,” I said. My youngest was shocked. She had won the argument before even making it.
The lady then led us up to the front desk to fill out the paper work while a male employee took the two cats to a back room to give them their initial shots. As we were filling out the paper work, the man suddenly screamed in the back. “Owww!”
The lady shook her head. “That cat is a real pistol,” she said again. The man soon emerged with both cats, and there was blood dripping from his fingers where the tabby had sunk a claw after being stabbed by the needle.
So I named him Pistol and it was just as I suspected. He was not mean, just frightened and scared. He is sweet and loving and in no way ever deserving of the purple tag of death. In time, because I felt so affectionate toward him, I began to call him “my leetil Peestol-yero!” in honor of the Mexican gunslingers of old.
And so, he is, "Pistol-Yero."