Pose Series: Part 5

Contorted Eagle

Now this position is ideal for sleeping and seeking belly rubs. Mom says Meg has scoliosis and that's why she lays in weird positions such as the contorted eagle. Not only does this pose show off the bod but it also conveys how limber you are, which will probably only serve for someone to toss you over their shoulder.

To achieve the contorted eagle, one should start out by rolling onto the back. Drop your feet outward to the ground or to one side. Then start wriggling the upper torso and yank the head to one side. There you have it!

Killer Shadowplay

So Meg and I like to sit out on the porch and watch the birds and etc. which is pretty cool. Every now and then we try to jump at them via the porch railing but have yet to be successful.

Well after two years of just looking and failing to catch any birdies, I've gotten kind of bored. That's why I came up with a new form of birdwatching. I first employed this inside. In the morning the sun shines through the back door and onto the wall where the couch is. So I would run after the bird shadows on the wall by jumping on the couch. Cool, huh?

I've amped it up one notch. I now sit with my back to the actual birds while batting at their shadows on this chair. The shadows you see in the picture are from plants, not birds, but that only adds to the challenge of recognizing what is aflutter and what is just swaying in the breeze.

You should try this. It's really fun. Meg doesn't get it though. Too complex of a subject I guess.

--Jazpurr

Sunshine Meg

Arent I a site to behowld? You mite notice I look diffrent in this pikture, glowweey even. Thats cuz Im in the sun. I have a speshal ingredeent in me that makes me change when expozd to sun. My fir gets softer, the blak parts of my eyes get slity and my nose gets sooper moist. Its ossum. Mom says Im sooper pretty when Im Sunshine Meg.

--Meg

Kicking ... face?

That's rite. Dis is my handywurk. or I shuld say footywurk. So the storie goes that one nite I was doing my yoosyooal walking on Ryan's legs wile he sleeps rooteen when to my serprize he mooved his legs. I no what your thinking--big deel. Wel when your a cat, unexpeked serprizes like that kaws a reakshun that involvs us jumping strate in the air. So, Ryan jerked his legs (like the jerk he is) and I jump up and where do I land? On Mom's face. She got a littel mad at Ryan and then put an icee pack on her face for the rest of the nite. She was worryed I gave her a blak eye. Also she later notissed after kiking her face my foot and claw moved down her arm. That one took a wile to heel. :)

--Meg

Where am I?

So things look a bit different around here, aye? Blogger gave us some new options and let us customize so obviously when we stubbled across this background with the birdies, we couldn't resist (Meg still needs reminding you can't eat bird sillouttes off the screen.)
Let us know how you like it in the poll to the left.

--Jazpurr

Pose Series: Part 4

Courtship Pose

The late Pretty Kitty models the most seductive of the cat poses: the courtship pose. Jazpurr learned all about the enticing effects the courtship pose has on the humanfolk when he was one year old and has been using it on his mom ever since.
The key to the pose is belly exposure. No human can resist that fluff we keep stored on our underside. Rolling the head and even flipping back and forth is also effective. Jazpurr often takes baths in this position just because he can.

Pose Series: Part 3

Upsidedown Face

This photo is a variation of the typical upsidedown face pose cats often take when lounging. Meg has taken it to an extreme by also flipping her torso and extending her arms.
This pose always looks uncomfortable yet we do it all the time. Why do we do it? Who knows? We don't even know why. Maybe it's just the different perspective we gain when everything is inverted.

Pose Series: Part 2

The Chicken or Loaf of Bread

This position is a pretty typical one and not terribly intersting until you start to wonder where our arms went. They're still there, just tucked warmly under our chests. The tail is tucked in to the side for this one. It's a general keeping warm type pose.
The name for this pose comes from the chicken wing effect achieved by the hip and hip fur, as seen below. The title "loaf of bread" or "kitty loaf" is inspired by the rather boxy shape our bodies take.

Let me 'splain

I know you've seen this post before, but I figured you might need reminding as another will immediately follow.
This is the first in a seemingly never-ending series of expanatory posts about the various poses we cats like to utilize. So to begin:

The Crossed Arms

This pose is one of the many lounging poses one might utilize. It's good for on-floor, on-chair and on-table lounging. It is not ideal for lap lounging or when balanced on any narrow surface. We'll get to those later.

This is also one of a few "flirty" poses. The crossed arms portrays an attitudy of aloofness and confidence. It's great for playing hard to get.

I am a man of discerning tastes

Guest Blogger Igor Wolfgang VonFrankenstein Returns:

You might call me a food connoisseur or maybe just an avid sportsman, but no matter how you look at things, I like to catch me some wide variety of backyard critters. I climb trees to stake out birdies and I always have one eye on the yard across the street where the rabbits dwell. Needless to say, I'm feared in my neighborhood.
Please enjoy the following photos of my recent endeavors.

--Igor

*Editor's Note: The chipmunk did get away.

Lord of the Hum 3: Return of the Flit

Flit has returned to our porch for the third year. Well, we think it's the third year. We know it's the same hummingbird we had last summer because when we first spotted him he was looking for the feeder where it was hung last year.
But to jump back a step, first Mom heard Flit chirping, then she saw him. Then she ran and fixed his sugar water. Don't know what he likes about that stuff. Seems boring to me. Where's the meat?
Well after my taste of Flit (or his lady friend, Flita [don't know which]) last year, I'm pretty bored with the hummingbirds. They're too fast to even give them the time of day. Go buzz around a cheetah, why don't ya!
I'll stay focused on the finches and such that eat the bird seed. At least they're full of sunflowery goodness, not sugar.

--Jazpurr

I am Queen

Why, helo. Chek it out. This is me siting on my throne. Its reely a compooter chare with a extra cooshin, but some time ago I claymed as mine. That makes me royal you kno. Mom likes to call me her princez, but I think Im more of a queen. cuz i rool.

Sometimes I let Mom share it with me, and if she is ever in it by herself I come up and make her move to fit me.

The best part is that its twerly. I kin go rownd and rownd til I puke on Jazpurr's face. Hahahaha!

--Meg

STOP MAKING FUN OF MEEE!!

So aperentlee my toes are on the smal side. Mom and Ryan are alwayz making fun of my toes that are to smal for my body siz. Mom calls me tinee toes.
A parent lee my body kept growing after my toes stopped.
Its not fare. 'sides, I keep them nice and metalik looking with the silver dust I put on every morning. Im the silver-toed Meg, you know. As you kin seen my toes are almos nunexist in this pikture. Its not my falt tho, so stop laffing at me, Jazpurr!

--Meg

Best. Fort. Ever.

Hey ther!

So Mom was haveeng the car pets kleened so everthing had to be off the car pets and we had too be loked in the bathroom all day. But this was grate cuz mom put our jungle jim and cat bed in the bathroom and it was ossum.

As you kin see, my eesel is there. I like to hide behin it and spie on Mom and Ryan.

It was nice and privit but this worm got in my face.

--Meg

Keep your mitts off my nip!

As you know, cats are big fans of our drug of choice: catnip. Cats have different reactions to the potent plant. I become somewhat violent; I roll in the nip and I run about.

I get all melo and like to lick wher the nip smell comes from.

In this instance, Meg got too close to my stash when I was trippin'.

--Jazpurr & Meg

World Cup

So Im pritty much a socker pro. Iv got a bunch of pingpong balls that I play with cuz they're the best size. I did a hedder a few days ago and reely imprezd Ryan.

Im pritty privit when it comes to playing anything, cluding socker, so theres no vid e o of me. There is some of Jaz during a traneing sezshun we had. Hes getting it. He dosnt have the comitment i have tho.

--Meg

A stylish incarceration

I was tri-ing owt a new stile the other day and thot these stripes sooted me well. (She was jealous of my stripes--Jaz. No Im not! Shut you!--Meg) Wat do you think? It reely seems to be a good look for when I play in my jalehouse. I like small confynd spaces, so londry jale is fun. These stripes are nice and warm too. Maybee Ill jist ware them in jale so Mom dosnt get me and Jaz confyoosed. --Meg

You might know us from such museums as the Louvre

A while back Mom did paintings of us. I was first because I'm the favorite.

Not troo! Mom spent more time doing mine so obvusly she likes me best.

Regardless, we got immortalized on canvas. The paintings now hang in the cat zone in the bathr
oom. NO, this is not where the litter box is, this is above our food area. These photos are kind of blurry and dull, but you get the jist.

I look a little pale in mine, but it does a great job of capturing my passion for cleaning my paws.

I like mine OK. My eyes are yoosuly briter, but this angle makes me look thin.

Additionally, Aunt Sarah gave Mom the coolest watercolor ever. Mom really likes the Simpsons TV show, so Aunt Sarah painted her and Ryan and us cats as Simpsons.

That's me on the arm--far from Ryan. Meg's in the middle. Ossum, huh?

--Jazpurr & Meg

These boots are made for Mega?

So won nite there appeerd this boot that looked like me. I was very confyoosed. It looked like me, it felt like me, and it smeled like feet.

I was 'tikularly confyoosed cuz I had just cleened myself and didnt notice anything missing, espech not a part shaped like a boot.

Jazpurr cooldnt even tell wich was me at ferst.

Aunt Missy was over that nite as I was trying to figure out where this thing came from and it disapeered when she left. weerd.

--Mega

I vet you can't guess how NOT fun it was

So Mom did the unthinkable Saturday: She took us to the vet.
The torment of the vet is twofold. Not only is there the absolute terror of being at the vet, but there's the car ride to and from.
So on the way there I did my usual total misery scream the whole time. Mom had Mega and me in the same cage. She thinks it will make us happy to be together. It doesn't.

It yoosully makes me feel better but this time I made some sad cries on the way. On the way back I just looked at Mom thru the cage cracks.

So we get there and it smells all funny. We go in a room and Mom lets us out. "Sweet!" I think. I'm wrong.
A lady comes in and is all petting us and stuff. Then she takes me out of the room and makes me stand on something and expects me to stay there. Dummy. I guess it was a scale: I'm 12 pounds.

I thought the lady was alrite. It was a neet room. I 'splored and just chilld. I'm 13 pounds.

So then ANOTHER lady comes in and by this point I've been shaking and crying the whole time and Mom keeps petting me but that doesn't really make me feel better--she's the one who brought us here.

The other lady poked her fingers all in me and stuff and told Mom I need to lose some wate. Pssht. We'll see about that.

The lady poked me too. Then she totally embarrased me by telling Mom I have a big bowel movement coming. Who says that?! Then she gave me a shot in my hip area, but I couldn't even feel it. Then she left me alone but I was still super scared.

The first lady came back and took me out of the room and then some guy did unspeakable things to me. Mom had told the ladies I was deprezed sometimes--its troo. So I didnt get the shot I got the violatshun insted. The guy put a needle in my place where I stor my yello likwid. Then he poked a needle in my neck and took some red stuff. I was not so happy by the time I got back in the room with Mom. She showed me the cage and I was happy to go back in.

Finally we left and I cried all the way home. It was great to be home though. But for the rest of the day I felt all achey and tired. I slept in my cat bed and didn't eat much. I'm better today though.
I did hear the lady say I needed my teeth cleaned and then she proceded to mention anesthesia and stuff. I hope Mom doesn't take me back for that. That would suck.


Jazpurr & Meg

Baby It's Cold Outside

I'm getting ready for some snowcat building.

What the?

Mom came home one night with a see through box that had something moving in it. Mom said the thing was called "Parker" and belongs to Aunt Missy.

It smells interesting and seems to think I smell interesting.

Its weerd. It looks like food but cant be cuz Mom acks like its a frend.

Parker spends all day making nests and chewing on cardboard. He likes the sunflower seeds Mom gives him. I keep an eye on him to make sure he's not making trouble.

Im reely not that into him. Hes kinda borring.Mom says he won't be here much longer. Aunt Missy is supposed to come take him back soon. Not sure why we borrowed him to begin with.

--Jazpurr & Meg