Invitation!

What a lovely story, so nice to see cats finding good homes. :)

I loved the story of Pistol-Yero! Simply most wonderful how he found a home!
The word "pistoleiro" in Portuguese means bang-bang man from the old movies! What really a name, so unusual for a kitti but with a meaning of his life!

He is a tabby: which color? Light and dark grey or orange? How old is he?
PT friends want to meat Pistol-yero! Have you got a pic?

I am on vacation this month, so I decided to adventure on the sea with Rhay and Neko, ten days ago. The plan was to go in the morning and come back at noon.

We got in the car with two other friends to be able to take care of the two of them and drive at the same time. We got Rhay and Neko on the boxes with the opening to the back window of the car and hoped they didn't get too much sun. It was 7 am and the sun could not be seen yet, because it is summer schedule, which standood for 6 am.

(Some people told me I could have found sun solar filter for cats, but really it did not occur to me at the time. Now I know a pet shop that sells sun solar filter for them. Poor dears, took all the sun!!!)

The ride to the South Atlantic Ocean takes one hour and the road is very good, plain and straight. We were heading for a city at the beach that is call Atlantida, which stands nearby some other sea cities. In fact, it is an area by the coast with many beach cities.

Rhay and Neko were silent all the first half of the way. Them we made a stop, and gave them water and let them breath the already felt ocean smell.

Their nostrils moved fast and their heads were nervously moving trying to get out of the Sun... But the Sun is the Sun... so they sat very quiet and drunk some water.

We continue our ride 'til we got to Atlantida city and its beautiful beach... The sand was warming up and it was a little windy, with sand waves hissing on our feet by the beach...

Rhay and Neko felt the sand and seem to think it was not a good idea to move... they stated very quiet... Neko meow tremble low and I could hardly hear it because of the sound of the sea...

We put up a small tent and got under it. The wind lift our towels so, we had to seat upon it, and Neko fur was blowing with the wind, while I caressed Rhay...

Later we took them to the water and they wanted to stay out of it!!!! Scretched and almost bite me, Rhay that never did it! But I kept him on my lap and seat on the shallow waters of the waves and kept him tight...

I wet him a little bit with sprinkles and he meow in protest... So I took him back to the sand tent... and did the same with Neko, who also prefered the sands...

Neither of them wanted to have lunch or eat anything... we had to scream a bit because of the high sound of the waves, and felt the salty wind on our faces... They drunk water though...

The sea was talking aloud, we told them... Finally they ate a little bit of wet food, tuna taste, and pee on the sands far away.

Neko try to lick his fur but gave up... it must have been salty... And Rhay licked all his front paws after eating his late lunch...

Before the sun got down, we started to ride back home, and got Sunset on the road... Rhay and Neko slept all the way back...

At hime I gave them a good bath...

But I am sure they will never forget the roar of the sea and the sunny sands of Atlantida. :)

Lou

:) :) Dear Fox and fanzies,

Mummy has been kind of busy after vacation, when we had a great time, goint to the beach and to the "pampa" (we are going to tell you this trip to the "pampa' later on...) and before we had time to breathe it is ...

CARNIVAL TIMES NOW....!!!!!


So, fox if you want to joint the fiestas of Carnival it starts in Rio on friday night, the 24th of February, and lasts until Wendesday morning, the 1st of March, . At Salvador, Bahia, it last until the end of the week, the 5th of March.

During these days it doesn't stop except for the mornings, where people try to get some food on their tummies...

But we eat regularly and only listen to the samba sound all the time... some times a "block" with musicians and people following passess on the street and the "samba on the foot" carries people along the avenues...

Get your best fantasy fox and fanzies, clown, sailor, naked indian, just a string bikini (like the ladies at the beach) and a simple bustier for the top and come along to the

CARNIVAL OF BRAZIL!!!!


Nino Pussy Rhay :)

The Found Cats Are Already In New Orleans For Mardi Gras,so It Would Be A Simple Matter Indded To Catch A 737 Down To Carnivale.
The Pet Angel Army Loves Fun,frolic And Great Food!
The Conga Line,and Lamada Lines Are Already Forming!!!!!

The Clan Cats are hurrying to get their passports in order to head down to Rio for Carnival!!! Save us places on the Conga line!!!!

Finnigan will be there in spirit only as he has enough trouble coping with our heat without going somewhere that is possibly a lot hotter! :)

All folks of Pet Talk, prepare your fantasies and come, come to the Carnival of Brazil! :)

While the temperature is warm, around 29oC, the beachs welcome you after dancing all night... Come, it starts tomorrow...

Come to the CARNIVAL CAT BLOCK that will go on parade along the streets of Rio, specially Avenue Copacabana, passing carrying crowds behind it with the truck music of samba, "birimbau", "cuíca" and "tamborim", the drums all pushing the rhytm...

The strass that shines against the lights and the moon, the "colombines", the clowns, ghosts, gypsies and sailors following among the crowd, all carrying our pussies cats and kittens and baby cats!!!!!!

IT'S CARNIVAL TIME!!!!!! :)

It's Carnival Holidays until Wendnesday!

So let's enjoy the fun the parades the balls the streets of Carnival with our best fantasies and allegories, watching the parades at night at Rio with the shining lantejoulas and strass, while samba music is on and the stories of popular carnival schools gives the most beatiful show on the Marques de Sapucai!!!!

Tonight starts the Special Group parades at Rio, and dressed as a Queen of the Sea, I follow the crow... Just take a look!!!


Come to the most fun Carnival of the World!!!! :) :)

PT friends, here are some more pics of the Carnival at Rio. Those are samba schools which presented their shows at Marquês do Sapucaí - the samba parade street. :)

It says the name of the Samba School. The first is how life started, for example.

We spent all night watching the parade, because it ends at 7am the next day, sleep a while, and them prepare for the night, to go samba on foot on our blocks - more than 100 people together - along the streets following the musicians with drums, cuica, pandeiro, and all the typical instuments...

Come enjoy Carnival with serpentines, lantejoulas, strass, and purpurine... To make the night shine into the night to the sound of the battery - the set of musicians...

Carnival Times Once More!!!! :)

That looks fantastic, I wish we had something like that here. :)

I think there are carnival parties in the USA and Europe like Brazilian style promoted by Brazilians and friends who live in this countries. Otherwhise, they would have to go withouth our biggest parties... Maybe they don't have the samba school show parade, but for sure they have the parties on the streets with the battery - how we call the set of musicians who play the instruments and the drums.

Brazilians don't live without Carnival! :)

Lou

Here are some more photos of the Carnival of Brazil shows along the most famous cities for carnival in the country.

One shows how big the allegoric cars - how we call the cars that bring to the avenue plot of the samba plot, the story of the plot of a samba. In general it tells a story and the samba schools presents about 6-8 allegoric cars in their presentation.

Other show the street carnival of Recife a northen northeast beach city that is very famous for its the street carnival. The most famous party is the Midnight Galo - the male chicken, who brought to the avenue 1,6 million people behind it! :)

I couldn't get no photo of the eletric trio - how we call the big cars who carry a small band on top of vey high traillers with a singer too, singing to the crowd who follows it along the streets of Salvador, Bahia, also a south northeast beach city, the most famous place for eletric trio street carnival. But I got a singer, dressed as Carmen Miranda, a famous Brazilians actress of the past, that is a famous singer here, Daniela Mercury, who is the best singer of eletric trios makes every dance and sing behind the eletric trios on the streets of Salvador.

Enjoy the photos!

While there is Carnival Street Parties along Brazil yet!!!! :)

The samba schools on the Carnival Show Parade presents each about 5.000 people, along the parade. Those are people who safe money all year around to buy they fantasy for the parade and also help the samba school during the week-end events to promote samba and bring funds to the school for the carnival parade.

Each samba schol receive a fund also from the government to do the show and from private promotors.

The wining samba school of the Carnival Show Parade competion receives a big prize in money each year from the promoters of the event.

This year the winner of the Rio carnival was Vila Isabel.

The winner of São Paulo was Imperatriz.

The winner of Porto Alegre was Restinga.

All big poor neighboors of these cities.

Also about the photo with the big dolls it is from Olinda, a beach town in northeat state of Maranhao, wich is very known for marvelous beach and its street carnival.

So, tv show tourist: 680.000 tourists come to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. The majority is still in Rio, enjoying the beach, which might include having cocktails by the beach under sun umbrellas and big chairs!!!! :)

All of them, Americans, Germans, Canadians, Italians... promised to come back next Carnival!!!! :)

Because next year there would be another Carnival in Brazil! :)

The Found Cat Hotel is cover of Pet Talk today (the 1st of April 2006) with the beautiful Tuxedo Joseph, or JJ3, for the friends.

Happy Congratulations! :)

He is very cute!!

Lou

Holidays on, I happily sit to visit Cat of the Day! Just remember to tell PT's friends how we went to the "pampas" last Summer!

It was February, it was all Carnival, but I had promised to Rhay and Kim (in memory) that we would visit the "pampas", this landscape/climate typical of "gaucho" area that exists in Sourthern Brazil and also Argentina.

We went we friends in their nice and comfortable pick up with double cabinet! Ufa! Because it is a long way to the country side heading frontier. :)

After driving about 7 hours with 3 stops on small villages so Rhay could have some water and pee, sure he had to pee, feeling the movement of the pick up.

We got to the home of friends who have a "hazienda", the big ranch with cattle and a beautiful pampa landscape. Having got there, they waited for us with a big "churrasco", this meat on the stick cooked over chorcoal, that was the most delicious churrasco we ever taste. (Rhay was so pleased he had to eat many little bites and seemed not have enough...)

After a "siesta", we got another pick up to the center of the hazienda, more down at the pampa, where cowboys with leather clothes were dealing with cattle. Then, we went across the plain green landscape with just grass formation, good for the cattle, with some group of trees once in a while in a kind of oasis in the middle of the vast land your eyes would get lost into the horizon...

There a enormous bull whose name was so long with all his prizes, Rhay could not get it! He was so afraid, his back and fur was like a stick up into the direction of the sky. I believed it was a fear reaction when the bull made a big 'muuuuuuuuuuu....". :) And the cows where all around pleasantly eating grass... And the sky was light blue and some white cute clouds passed once in a while...

I let Rhay out of the box and run freely around, far away from the cattle and bull, and he run so happily after stading still for a hesitant moment...

By the sunsent, we were all very tired... Rhay wanted to sleep and so started to purr, so we come back on the pick up with him sleeping in my arms...

We left after a warm soup made with churrasco slices and legumes that it is say to give strengh during the long nights of the cowboys watching cattle. What a good soup!

The friends of the hazienda gave Rhay a small cowboys hat and to me a red "prenda's" handkirchief , prenda is how they call the woman of the pampa!

The meat of the Brazilian pampa is known as the "green meat" because the cattle only eat grass. This is because it tastes so good!

Rhay got home so tired, he didn't want to eat anything. He just sleeped so much and had an aggitated sleep. I think he remembers the big bull crying out "muuuuuuuu...."!

I believe I fulfilled my promised to Rhay and Kim (in memory) to take them to the pampa! It was a gorgeous day! We all had great fun! :)

Ah! We call the pampa cowboys, "gauchos" and the ladies "prendas"! Lou :)

HELLO MY DEAR FRIENDS, KITTIES, KITTENS AND CATSIES!!!!! HELLO!!!! HELLO!!!HELLO! HELLO![/COLOR] HELLO! HELLO!HELLO!!! HELLO!!!

This is mammy with me, Rhay, after such a long, long, long time!!!!

We have been out of the comp cause Mammy was kraked! All kraked, all put down, you wouldn't imagine!!!!

After that she was finishing to write a book, which took a long time and a disease! Mammy also got many kilos!!!!!

We ate a lot, you wuldn't imagine!!!!!

Now we are back once in a while, cause Mammy has a wobt at her comp at home, cannot visit Cat of the Day... No kraking through Mammy, PT friends!!!!

It is summer here and I have many friends.... The skies are beautiful, beautiful, the MOVAIS WINDS blow all day, afternoon, evening and at night.

Such a beautiful winds!!!!!

There are many new stories we can tell you. Such a funny episodes of our daily life with Mammy, Kim, Neko, Tibesa and so many new friends.

Talk to you more frequently cause Mammy found a good Internet Center at the University!!!!!


Bye Bye, So Long, So Long!!!!! :) :) :)

Nino Pussy Rhay - your best friend of the tropics!!!! :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE BIRTH DAY GREETINGS!

I am know it is a late answer, but better now than never!

I am still alive, navegating not because I got sick of computers. But I finished the book.

Now I am navegating a little at a lan house, just to keep in touch, later I will think about putting the machine at work.

The cats are the only ones that are having a great time! Jota, Lulu and Suzie, fuzzied around because a construction bldg put great logs around the windows and they used to skeep to the streets and enjoy the night.

Tibesa died at age of 15,5 years old in a very calm way. She used to come to my chest and sleep there, very calmily.


Rhay is enormous and very funny. He likes to date!!! Now he does not like all his nick names. We have to see what to do!

The cats of the Redencao Park still have Nadyr taking their special dish every morning. Now there are many black cats there, no one understands why. Maybe some misterious thing.

The neigborhood has two cats that I help, and a baby cat. The other two went to the country side with a neighbor.

So, may cats. So long for now!!!! :) :)

Thank you very much for remembering me. :) :) :)