Monstah Monday: Stealing from Homeless Kitties

Mommy wasn't very happy with me the other day. She was trying to make some more catnip toys for the shelter cats and I kept "getting in the way." What does she expect? She took out my catnip! Of course I'll want some!

~Mommy: Cherry was being a little brat about this whole thing. I put the catnip on the table while I rolled up the toys (Watch toy tutorial here). She then jumped onto the table and started tearing into the catnip bag almost spilling catnip everywhere. I gave her some and that kept her occupied for about a second. Then she was back again. After a while she gave up and started rolling around on the floor. Who knows what that was about. 

She left me alone after that. I had a bunch of scrap fabric in a bin and hid the toys and the catnip bag in the bin under the fabric. Later I came back to find this:

Little brat had taken out one of the toys and was playing with it. Thing is, I had even given her one before! That one was on the other side of the room, untouched. I took the one I had given her and placed it with the others. Then I took the one she stole back. 

I came back later to find she had taken out both toys AND the bag of catnip. She's lucky she didn't rip open the bag or she would be in big trouble. I had to hide the bin in my room. Such a heartless kitty. Stealing toys that were going to go to homeless cats. ~

Trying to steal the catnip bag.

Rolling around...

Still rolling...

Lurking.

Black and White Sunday

I seriously need a better schedule for this

~Mommy here. I've decided to do different "theme" days as we really don't do anything that interesting every few days. As you've seen, we're going to be doing 'Wordless Wednesday'. Too bad it's not another day, then we could have 'Woody Wednesday'. Oh well. 

Here are the themes I was thinking of:

-Monstah Monday
-Wordless Wednesday
-Thursday Update
-Flash Back Friday
-Woody's Weekend


Monstah Monday: This day will feature something about Cherry. She is known as my 'Little Monster' (Well, 'Monstah' with my slight Boston accent lol). Who knows what it will be about? Maybe a new toy she has or what she's been up to all week? 

Wordless Wednesday: What is a Blog Hop?

Thursday Update: May or may not happen every week. This will be a day for me to just update what I've been up to all week. Usually it will talk about my volunteering if I end up going that week. Soon I plan on finding either an internship or some other volunteer work, so there might be more to talk about.

Flash Back Friday: This day will include a picture of either Casie or Titan(the dog I grew up with). May include a little story about them or whatever. 

Silly Dog Saturday: An update from Woody.

Black and White Sunday: What is a blog hop?

This will all start Monday. 
Keep in mind, Cherry may take over any day if she so pleases. 

You know, I actually don't know if any reads this blog. If you do, take today to introduce yourself to us! We'd love to hear that people are actually reading! 

Wordless Wednesday

Decided to try this out. Shhh...we totally aren't doing two posts in one day.

A Fluff Bug No Longer

Woody here again! Today I spent the day at the groomer's. I wasn't very happy when Mommy left me there. I was trying to claw my way back in front of the counter. They finally came back for me around 2:30ish. I was barking when they got there...I could hear Mommy saying that she heard me. I just wanted to get home so badly! 

Anyway, here are some pictures:

Before

After

After

After

After(Mommy's favorite picture of the day)

After

After

After

After...

I think you've got the point by now.

We didn't do much else for the past few days. Mommy's been working out in the gardens and somehow both her eyes are swollen. They think it's from the hedges...She's not very happy about it. I think she still looks fine. 

She also didn't work at the shelter today. There weren't enough cats for her to be needed. I think she was alright with that. She's been wanting to get yard work done for a while. She's also been considering finding either an internship at a vet's office or some other form of volunteer work with animals. 

The Fluff Bug

Woody here! Mommy's letting me write a post, so that you don't have to have a somber post from her(see end of this post). She's calmed down quite a bit after finding out her cousins are safe and since the whole ordeal is calming down a little bit.

Mommy has recently been doing a lot of work with me since joining Dog Forum. They promote positive reinforcement training and I am thriving on it! I highly recommend you look into it if you have a dog(or even a cat! Cat's can be trained too, just don't tell Cherry I said that). 

Since the weather has been nicer and the majority of the snow is gone( :( I liked the snow...), Mommy and her dad have been taking me on long walks in the morning! We go roughly four miles through the trails in the woods around here. Every day we go a different route! It's a lot of fun! I've met a few dogs while there. I just love walks!

Now with the training, Mommy has been working on getting me to not pull on the leash, to come when called, and to lie down. I'm kind of getting it, but it's tough. 

Here are some pictures from today. We were working on recall:

And tomorrow, I'm going to get groomed! All my fluff will be gone, but I'll feel so much better. I keep getting everything caught in my fluff. Mommy also gets freaked out with my shedding. My fur sheds in tiny puffs. She says they're like little invaders. They're everywhere!

~Mommy: You may have seen the post before this. I deleted it, but I'm going to briefly repeat what it said. We live in Massachusetts and are safe from the explosions at the Boston Marathon. I was debating whether to go to the marathon, but didn't end up going. I have heard from three out of four of my cousins who live there. All three are safe. Two were not even in the city and the other(who I am the closest to) was a mile away from the finish line. Normally she goes and watches at the finish, but didn't this year. ~

So guess who sucks at staying on schedule?

MOMMY DOES! She wouldn't let me on the computer for days! Well, I guess there wasn't much to write anyway. We haven't been doing all that much. Mommy had some friends over last week and she went to the shelter again on Wednesday.

~Mommy: I was going to go back last week, but the person who is supposed to be with me wasn't there. I got told I had to go home because I couldn't work alone. When I went on Wednesday, the shelter had gone from two cats to ten and down to three outdoor ones! YIKES! The cuddly one Smudge and one of the black cats Sammy got adopted. The new cats' names are Toby, Spring, Sampson, Timmy, Pokie, Freddie, Sonny, and Boo. Ming and Rusty were still there too. Sonny is getting adopted soon. 

I think Ming and Boo are my favorites. Ming is like a little monkey. He's so outgoing. He's always hogging all the attention. Boo was really sweet. He meowed every time you said his name. It was adorable! He was so soft too...I gave him a catnip toy and he just cuddled with it. Ming, on the other hand, went wild when I gave him one. 

If my parents would let me have another cat, I would probably want to take home Boo or Ming. I've seriously fallen in love with them. 

The other cats were nice too. When I got to the shelter Spring was wandering around the room while her and Toby's cage was being cleaned. Toby didn't seem to keen on moving. He played a bit when I gave him a catnip toy, though. Then Spring was put back in her cage. 

I was trying to get some good pictures of Boo, too. It's so hard to get a picture of a black cat! Luckily I had been playing around with camera settings and it was nice to be able to figure out a setting that worked. 

My favorite one of Boo.

Once we got a few pictures we went back to cleaning cages. I washed dishes while the cages were being cleaned. Sonny was let out while his cage was being cleaned and he ended up smelling the catnip toys in my bag. I looked over and he was rolling all over it. He's a sweetie too. 

Freddie was sleeping the whole time and Pokie, who's blind, didn't pay much attention to me. Timmy is really shy, so he didn't come over to me. Sampson wanted attention, but I'm not allowed to touch him due to his injured paw. I ended up spending most of my time petting Ming and Boo. I didn't get to see any of the outdoors cats, though. The weather was nice, so they were probably off doing cat stuff.~

There isn't much for me to say, so I think I'll let Mommy post some pictures of me!

Some from when I was younger:

First picture Mommy ever took of me. I was still hiding then.

Casie in the same spot years before. 

Being a cat is tough work. 

If you want to see Mommy's photography, check out her DeviantArt account! http://snaparific.deviantart.com/