Little Cat Diary

My Fish pond

2006-06-01T12:31:00.000+01:00

As a cat, I'm always peering into other peoples ponds to find swimming food, so I thought I'd find my cat spade and dig my own. Here's how ...

1. Find area of flat ground in a nice place

2. Start Digging

3. Cut thin turf border away

4. Line nicely shaped pond

5. Cover lining

6. Fill with water and cover sides with turf.

7. Put some plants in and wait for the fish!

Yum!

skink

2006-04-05T12:39:00.000+01:00

Heres a skink! The talls saw it while they were away (in a zoo of course) and showed me this picture to try and cheer me up. Huh! This must be what brave topsy chases. Not me! Well done topsy.

Imprisoned!

2006-03-27T12:42:00.000+01:00

The talls have done it this time! They went away galavanting for a week! leaving me in a cage. Tiny it was and no means of escape. I'm back now but that was a surprise for me. It was so cold. Theres a fire on and a duvet at home they just transported my igloo. thats the only comfort i had. i tried to escape but i couldnt.

I’m white!

2006-01-24T18:38:00.000Z

That’s strange. I woke up white! Well partly white on one side. Overnight! I wasn’t scared at all. Why should I be scared – the talls are only painting the skirting board, doors and stairs? Hmm… oh that’s interesting. Actually, they’re painting the exact same colour as I my new streaks. Strange coincidence. The talls washed me down which strangely felt quite nice. Its wearing off now.

Writing my blog

2006-01-17T21:13:00.000Z

Heres a picture of me taking a break from writing my blog. I thought you may like to get an idea of how hard I work during the day. . No one understands why I sleep so much in the evening!

Snoring

2006-01-11T17:57:00.000Z

Here’s what I’ve been doing since Xmas. I realise it has been a long time since I posted last but I had decided to give up all my vices for new year so I sneaked my way into a bedroom and found a place even comfier than cushions! Here I am below doing none of my vices.

more posts to follow as I come out of hibernation. Slowly.

Merry Xmas

2005-12-21T15:17:00.000Z

Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone. It’s a time where talls become cats and lie around sleeping and snoring (can you believe I was accused of snoring earlier!). Hope you are all Happy and Eating lots. And playing with lots of new toys. Here are some Xmas cat pictures to look at in between tuna chunks. (Oh and sleeping)

Pepperpot

2005-11-30T13:33:00.000Z

Obviously in my four dimensional igloo I have cat everything. Incredible amounts of cat space with and in my cat kitchen I have a cat table and for cat breakfast I bought a new cat salt and pepper pot from a cat antique fair. What do you think?

sleep again

2005-11-09T09:47:00.000Z

Well. Finally I think the human crazy fireworks season is coming to an end! I know the back of that sofa like the back of my paw. I've been wishing my igloo had a door - a lockable one. Rocket proof too preferably. Anyway I've started ventuing out in the dull weather a bit more now. next human silly event is xmas which means humans leaving food lying around for me to nibble. That may make up for the fireworks. Yum.

Happy Halloween

2005-10-31T16:28:00.000Z

Happy Halloween. Here's a picture of a french black cat. Like me. Its not very scary nor very Halloween-y but it’s a nice picture. Halloween is derived from an ancient Celtic festival, Samhain. This was one of the Celts four 'Grand Sabbats' along with Candlemas, Beltane and Lammas. Samhain, on October 31st, marked the end of the pagan year and the beginning of winter. People don't celebrate Halloween very much here but its Christmas for black cats - Have a good time anyway. Mieow.

Wet Kitten

2005-10-25T12:16:00.000+01:00

Whilst cycling up in Yorkshire I found a small kitten alone and lost in the absolute middle of no-where soaked from the rain and no bigger cats to look after it or show it an igloo or another dry place. I couldn't help it as I was cycling like a cat out of hell on my new bike but I took a picture to share with you.

Cycling

2005-10-18T09:04:00.003+01:00

Here's a picture of a cat on a bike in Europe. Cycling is actually a popular pastime for cats. It may sound strange at first but if you think, its the most energy efficient way to travel (much more preferable than being boxed up for an hour), well. I've made it clear with my talls that if we go touring in Yorkshire again - I'm pedalling, they can sit on the rack.

Paw-wear

2005-10-07T09:17:00.000+01:00

As if people paws weren’t dangerous enough unaided! These Bright Feet Slippers could be very scary in the dead of the night. On the other hand it would help to stop the talls from standing on me. Being the colour of night does have a downside, especially for the talls as my favourite midnight slumber place is on the top step of the stairs. I hope they don't realise this and invest in a pair.

Skinks

2005-10-06T09:34:00.000+01:00

I've been off air for a while with more spam problems. This time my little cat diary kept taking me to an anti spam website. Huh. I can see their logic but I'm not going to by from spammers am I now?! hissssss.

Anyway, to burn off my frustration I took a page from Topsy’s. book and went looking for skinks but couldn’t find any. Too cold I think. They must all be in Australia. I did find something similar back in the summer but they seem to have moved away and they were always under heavy stones. Still no skinks though. Maybe I’ll have to take some Topsy tips. Tiring work looking though maybe I’ll take a short nap. Yaaaawn.

Sophisticat

2005-09-18T16:24:00.000+01:00

Hello. As promised a while ago i would have a picture of my igloo. heres me in it too. well, I did have a very suave and sophisticated pose with top hat, cigarillo etc but those self timers take so long. A whole 10 seconds of smiling. for a cat, thats a long time. I lasted a while though. sohisticated smile smile -8seconds- smile yawn - 5 seconds - yaaaawn stretch clunk zzzzzz - 0 seconds Flash!. anyway you get the igloo.

Thankyou Bluenova.

2005-09-14T13:21:00.000+01:00

Thankyou Bluenova. I've installed Spybot - Search and Destroy and it doesn't do it anymore. Thanks thanks thanks. I dont know what it was. It redirected my browser to a gambling site but only when I logged onto this website. thats why i thought it was the site and not my computer. Scary to think that people can watch my computer without my knowing passwords and personal emails. weird. Anyway - it doesnt do it anymore so thanks.

HELP!

2005-09-12T15:40:00.000+01:00

I'm worried. There seems to be a problem with my blog. Some gambling popup thing butting into my sensible blog. I'm going to have to say goodbye to everyone and delete it if I can't get rid of it. Can anyone help? Is it happening to you or is it just my computer. It doesn’t seem to happen to any other blogs or websites so it looks like just this blog. Oh dear. Miaww.

Today's featured article in Wikipedia

2005-09-05T13:45:00.000+01:00

Today's featured article in Wikipedia is the cat. I know we all know this but its still interesting.

The cat is a small feline carnivorous mammal of the subspecies Felis silvestris catus. Its immediate, pre-domestication ancestor is the African wild cat, Felis silvestris. The cat has been living in close association with humans for at least 3,500 years, when the ancient Egyptians routinely used cats to keep mice and other rodents away from their grain. Currently, the cat is one of the world's most popular household pets. Purebreds make up less than one percent of the total feline population; cats of mixed ancestry are referred to as domestic longhairs and domestic shorthairs. There are dozens of breeds of domestic cats, including hairless and tailless animals, and they exist in a variety of different colors as well as multicolored. Cats have excellent vision, which aids them in hunting; necessarily carnivorous, they are skilled predators that have been known to hunt over one thousand different species for food. They communicate by calling, purring, hissing, and gesturing. Because the domestication of the cat is relatively recent, cats may also still live effectively in the wild, often forming small colonies.

Hack

2005-08-31T21:59:00.000+01:00

I was visiting my cat therapist recently (nothing serious, just some
food / hunting issues) and in the waiting room I got talking to a rather
shady looking cat, shabby coat, a bit tabby, old hat, you know the type.
We got chatting and he turned out to be OK. He was having trouble with
the new male companion to his female co-habitor. Anyway, he works for
The Express newspaper and as we became friends we exchanged email
addresses and I agreed to help him with any stories I could in the
future. That was that. Or so I thought. He emailed me yesterday to say
he needed "..To Find A Gal Who was Jilted At The Altar (Or A Few
Weeks Before The Altar, When Preparations Were In Full Swing)".
I don't know anyone but I thought there may be someone reading who fits
the bill and might be able to help here. Its For The Express. There's A
Payment And Copy Approval. Personally it doesn't sound like a pleasant
experience so I hope that no-one is in this situation but fame and
glory...

anyone?

Scratching Birds

2005-08-27T17:42:00.000+01:00

I don't actually scratch birds myself - knives can be unwieldy at the best of times but I do read up on the local wildlife, just to know whats new before I go out there. I just read this, Even the slightest break in the skin can lead to a birds death after a cat bite or scratch, unless treated quickly with antibiotics.
A high proportion of birds, especially blackbirds can lose a
significant amount of feathers thus disabling them from flight for
a considerable period of time.

Pose

2005-08-25T21:20:00.000+01:00

I'm trying to get my camera on auto timer and just doing my hair, then
I'll lean nonchalantly on the side of my igloo for the picture. Coming
soon.

Jeans High perch

2005-08-22T19:52:00.000+01:00

After seeing Jean on his high perch adventure playground I feel like I should put a picture up of my igloo. Its not as exciting as Jeans playground but I suits me to have a place to sulk or to play the guitar. The acoustics are great in there. I must put a picture up of me playing the piano. I'm quite a musical cat did I say?

Whitening the walls

2005-08-19T08:46:00.000+01:00

They're changing the walls in my kitchen from lovely lime green to pink daffodil white. All very well but I'm not allowed in my own kitchen any more! That includes access to the catflaps and outside as well as my dining table. Here I am, napkin tucked in collar, knife and fork in hand, tapping politely at the door and they leave me here! Just stay there with their brushes and sympathies. Looks like I'm eating out again – live food is so time consuming.

Mature art-cat

2005-08-16T11:54:00.000+01:00

Pussycat's going to London
Looking for love and for fame
I wish somebody had told her
City folk ain't the same
Pussycat carries a postcard
Won't the big city be nice
There's the place with the action
She's gonna have her a slice

Pussycat, Pussycat where have you been?
I've been to London, now I'm queen
Sitting pretty, I don't wear suits
And the mice all call me -
Puss 'n Boots

Well. Thats where I went anyway but I didn't see (or be) the queen like in the song. I was only there for a few days - thats why theres fewer blog entries. I didn't have a night on the tiles as I would have done some years ago. Instead I went to an art gallery. Well, I'm 7 cat years now aren't I.

Felis silvestris

2005-08-12T12:33:00.001+01:00

Here's a picture of a wildcat! I looked on a website to learn a bit more about them - You can't see me on the picture but you can hear the sound of my catflap slapping shut as I dive into my igloo! Fachoom!

WILDCATS

2005-08-01T13:07:00.000+01:00

Wildcats will be giving birth to their kittens this month. There
can be up to five kittens in a litter. They are blind at birth,
but have a full coat of fur. Less than a hundred years ago
wildcats could be found in many parts of Britain. Today only
a few hundred individuals remain in northern Scotland, and even
they are at risk. Many wildcats have bred with feral domestic
cats producing hybrid kittens. If they continue breeding in this
way, true Scottish wildcats as we know them today could
become extinct.

Familiarity

2005-07-31T17:00:00.001+01:00

Home safe now. back to normal. All settled in after being moved around. Cats don't travel well so a holiday wasn’t really appropriate for me. I don't really like my catflaps they're too awkward for dainty me to get through but its strange how used to them I've got. I only noticed when I just spent 2 weeks in a catflap - free house. They had flat caps though. And many strange animals it drove me feral at times. Everything is back to normal now. familiar surroundings and food. Quite happy really..looking back. Hmm. Prrr.

Cat taxi

2005-07-18T17:22:00.000+01:00

Here’s a cat taxi in Quito. Now that’s training! It’s the proper way to travel - not boxed up. I'm claustrophobic. I've only trained my bipods to open the doors for me. I still have to walk through myself and when it comes to longer distances, well, we know what depths they resort to then don't we?!

The Black Cat.

2005-07-17T11:09:00.000+01:00

I'm going to sleep with the light on tonight I think. I've just read
The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe

Holiday

2005-07-16T09:10:00.000+01:00

I've decided that this is ok. I'm on holiday now and the weather is nice. I'm not scared of the odd thunderstorm and the rest of the day is soporifically warm. Which reminds me, maybe I’ll just have a short nap before lunch.

More relaxed now

2005-07-15T07:09:00.000+01:00

Ok. I'm a bit more relaxed now. this place isn't so bad but I wish I could go outside. It looks nice out there but I can't find the catflaps! It’s a nice house though. A good place to be on holiday in. particularly the windowsills. Nice views and space enough to curl up and sleep. I think I’ll enjoy it here until I return back home. Maybe if I'm good, the original talls will let me drive on the way down - meeeooow. I won't be boxed in then – and I’ll be able to look out of the window too.

Bid for freedom.

2005-07-13T17:20:00.000+01:00

Bid for freedom. Made a break for it up the chimney of my captor’s house. It goes up too far though and it was dirtying my lovely coat. I’ll find a way out of here sometime. I've seen enough films to know what I'm doing.

Freedom.

2005-07-11T17:19:00.000+01:00

Well. From the box at least. Am settling into these unfamiliar surroundings a bit. I think the danger has passed. At least I'm not moving any more although I'm not sure who these people are. That was a mean trick with the tuna in the box. I’ll think twice next time before eating tuna. It could always be a trap. Anyway, the view is nice here even if I cant get out of the building. I decided that I can relax here for a while then possibly make a bid for freedom later. Otherwise the talls will box me up again. I was actually quite good for most of the way in the box. I thought, maybe if I'm well behaved here they may let me drive on the way back. Assuming they’re coming back! I could be here for ever!

Cat napped

2005-07-09T09:11:00.000+01:00

Help! I've been cat napped. The portcullis came down and I've been carried away trapped in the grey box. I've been put in a car and taken for miles very far away. Mieaaw! Whats happening? Where are they taking me?!!

Full Bags reduce sleeping space!

2005-07-08T07:28:00.000+01:00

Lots of very full bags in the house today. Taking up precious slouching space. I'm not sure what that means but there is definitely a strange buzz in the atmosphere around the bipods. They're running around putting things in bags and leaving them in my sleeping areas. i'll see what happens. i wonder if it has anything to do with the mysterious tuna in the grey box.

I'm an antique. I'm 7.

2005-07-07T22:26:00.000+01:00

The ‘tuna in the grey box’ saga continues. More tuna. same box. Plonked there in the middle of the kitchen with its scary caged door wide open and a small Mickey-sized box of tuna in there. I still haven't figured out what it means but its still yummy. Fingers crossed for Gina and Topsy who may be on The Antiques Roadshow. Good luck. I've never been on tv. Only the horror film, Black Cat but that was ages ago. Back in the 1930s actually but you have to work it out in cat years of course.

More Tuna

2005-07-06T08:15:00.000+01:00

Well, the tallies seemed very lively last night. Talking about a job (I haven't a clue what one of those is) and popping noisy drinks. I'm not sure how well trained they are. As long as it doesn’t continue.

More tuna was in the box again. So I went in and ate it. Again. I don't understand this. Its not my food because that comes regularly (ish) at 6 on my plate. Well – I shan’t ask any questions.

Inside the box

2005-07-05T13:17:00.000+01:00

I've been in the box! It was a tray of tuna hidden at the back of the box in the dark. Very nice it was too. Fresh and chopped. That’s that. A big dark box with tuna in. strange but true.

The Grey Box!

2005-07-04T22:16:00.000+01:00

Hmm??? A strange box has appeared. It seems strangely familiar but I cat quite remember where it came from. Its solid plastic the size of a television. It looks big and oblong and grey with a portcullis on the front but … (sniff sniff) … what’s that? Hmmm. Tuna. Its dark in there. But tuna and it has another fragrance as well. I cant put my paw on it but it gives me a sense of well-being. I hope there’s nothing sinister – it is very dark in there. It’s a very strange box but tuna! I’ll have to investigate further. Any ideas?

Derbyshire

2005-07-03T13:17:00.000+01:00

I missed my Tai Bo workout today as I have to get a new pair of leggings. So I put my rucksack on and went for a walk. It was such a nice day. The weather was great. I found an odd animal. It looked like my neighbouring cat but even bigger! It didn’t hiss though, more of a moo actually, which was a relief.

Herbs and Ice cream

2005-07-02T15:41:00.000+01:00

Yaaaawn. Just spent the day sleeping licking, ice cream, and hiding invisibly in my herb garden. Well, its Saturday after all isn’t it?
I think I’ll have a look round and maybe have a snooze unless I can find any more ice cream. I may as well make the most of it in case there are more storms.

The Black Cat

2005-07-01T16:31:00.002+01:00

Finally, they've decided to give me Salmon. Was that so difficult? I shall eat this.
I suppose.

Anyway, heres a film starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and myself. American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

Butterfly fun

2005-06-30T13:59:00.000+01:00

I'm going on hunger strike. This turkey thing is ridiculous. I'm simply not eating it! Fortunately, July is the probably best month to catch butterflies in the UK.
There are more species on the wing now than at any other
time of the year. One butterfly you're likely to munch is the
Small Tortoiseshell.

These butterflies will have laid one batch
of eggs back in April or May and those eggs will have already
developed into adult butterflies - yum! In July they start a second
brood. These eggs will mature into adults between August
and October. I can't wait. M

My grounds

2005-06-28T23:19:00.000+01:00

Heres a picture of my stomping ground. I've had a new scratching post put up there now but its generally the same.

People

2005-06-27T15:02:00.000+01:00

I prefer to replace the word People with Cats but actually, thats not strictly true.
“Sometimes in business it seems as if people are your greatest liability and that all your problems are people problems. It’s at times like this that it’s worth reminding yourself that people are the cornerstone of everything we do.”
Guy Browning, Guardian columnist

cycling

2005-06-26T20:24:00.000+01:00

Not me! them. Think they can leave me for 2 days with a robot catfeeder (turkey of course) and a
couple of catflaps while they go galavanting off cycling up the dales!?!
I've
just cleared up the cans and wafted the smell of catnip away. Phew!

Partly-animal

2005-06-25T20:31:00.000+01:00

I was going to arrange a party while the tall-ones are away this weekend but have decided that all the other cats smell funny and I dont have their phone numbers, nor can I use a telephone! So I just got a few cans of milk and I'm going to put my paws up and read the paper and chill out. Maybe I'll have a barbecue.

Christmas!

2005-06-24T09:01:00.001+01:00

Would you believe it! They've only gone and bought me an entire box of turkey sachets for meals! I ordered a variety pack like I usually have. It isnt too much to ask. Really! I've decided to keep them on for now, but they're on a warning.

The heatwave has finally crashed into a thunderstorm so i'm just getting comfy behind the sofa with a book.

Igloo

2005-06-23T20:26:00.000+01:00

I used my igloo today. Its always been there but Ive been saving it from when I need to hide away from the heat and the animals attention. Its 27 degrees today. More for me having this gorgeous strokable coat!

Holidays

2005-06-22T18:25:00.000+01:00

Had a lie in this morning before cycling to the travel agents. Am thinking of booking a holiday. I still cant decide between CATalonia again or maybe PURRsia this year. Time for a nap I think. Mickey

Born Free

2005-06-21T19:29:00.000+01:00

I finally got round to having a second catflap installed. Occupying a 2 door house, one simply wouldn’t do. I had to get them both done this week as I've managed to get a bit of cat-time this weekend packing the animals off for a few days so I can settle with a film and a glass of wine. Born Free I think.