Hello There Furiends, Tucker here. I’m taking this Friday to opine about the Friday Fill ins # 143. I hope you enjoy my answers and, as this is a blog hop you are invited to post the answers from your blog with one of the two hosts, 15andmeowing andFour-Legged Furballs . If you’d rather opine about your answers in the comments of this post, we’d love to hear from you. Purrs & Head Bonks,
Here are this week’s fill ins:
1. I want to make ___________________.
2. My _________________ are _____________.
3. A day in my life always includes _________.
4. Good things happen to those who _________.
Here are my answers:
1. I want to makeLily a little braver so that she doesn’t run from Alberto and Oliver when they chase her.
“Okay Lily, here’s what you do when those two hooligans chase you around the house. Stand your ground, hiss loud and give them a whacky paw right on the soft spot of their nose. Got it?” -Tucker
2. Myeyesare a bit crossed.
“Human, I’m having a bit of trouble focusing on what you’re saying.” -Tucker
3. A day in my life always includesnaps with a buddy.
“Hey Oliver, could you scoot a bit more to the right?” -Tucker
4. Good things happen to those who sit on a stool on the counter and wait patiently.
“Something smells good, is that meat that you’re cooking?” -Tucker
Hello There Furiends, Well, we’ve had some staff issues again and my regular Wednesday column is appearing on Thursday this week! I would insist that there be some repercussions regardly this slacker behavior but I am not an unreasonable feline and therefore will let this little “faux-paws” slide, this one time! I hope you enjoy my web wanderings for this week. Purrs & Head Bonks,
Fluffy, the cat was found
buried under a mountain of snow on Thursday, Jan. 31. She was found by her
humans in a snowbank in Kalispell, Montana where she lives. The day she was
found the area experienced temperatures of 8F and below zero temperatures the
day before.
When Fluffy was found she was rushed to the Animal Clinic of Kalispell. Her temperature was so low that it didn’t even register on a thermometer!
They used warm water and blankets to bring her temperature up but after two hours her temperature was still too low. She was transferred to the emergency room and after a few more hours she finally began to show signs of recovery.
Fluffy is now fully recovered and at home with her humans…safely indoors! Two paws up for this amazing success story and furiends, if you live in colder climes, STAY INSIDE!!
A furry feline is keeping a watchful eye on passengers as they
go through the gates of a train station in Israel.
The cat sits on top of the ticket-reading machine, observing the back and forth of humans through the gates.
Some folks stop and give the kitty a head scratch. Others ignore
him.
The popularity of the subway cat reached the government offices
of Petah-Tikva. The mayor, Rami Greenberg, visited the famous feline, thanking
him for bringing more attention to Petah-Tikva and offering the cat treats.
I love stories about working cats and this feline seems to have a very interesting job! There are videos on the site that capture him during his daily work schedule.
A black cat showed up on the field at Goodison Park stadium in
Liverpool, England, during a Premier League match between Everton F.C. and
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
The feline spent close to four minutes giving the players a tutorial by weaving showing them how it’s done by weaving through obstacles, making it from one end of the pitch to the other end with no interruption..
The game commentator took full advantage of the feline’s time on
the field and gave play-by-play commentary , “It looks like a fully grown …
cat. He drops a shoulder, jinks one way, goes another.”
The crowd cheered the agile feline as he evaded security and the
players who tried to catch him. He was finally escorted off the field.
Eddie Kergan is a model citizen and ambassador for Wasaga Beach,
Ontario. He’s an honorary scout, a promoter of local businesses, a voice for a
local charity campaign, a supporter of Wasaga’s events, featured on the cover
of a charity calendar, and he ran for mayor in the last election.
Wasaga Beach is famous around the world because of the work the
well-dressed Eddie Kergan is doing with daily posts on different aspects of the
community. So what if his grammar and spelling aren’t purrfect? I mean what can
you expect, Eddie Kergan is, a 20-pound
Tabby with 250 bow ties and fans across the world that call themselves “Eddiots”.
Eddie came to live with his humans from the local shelter and
has bonded most closely with Dave, a wood carver who sufferes from PTSD after a
horrible accident. Dave says, “He’s been
a real lifesaver,” It’s almost like he looks beyond it. He stays right beside
me the minute anxiety or depression hits.”.
Two paws up for Eddie for making his town famous, being an internet sensation and, most importantly, being a helpful best buddy to his human Dave.
Pet models from across the country will be strutting their stuff at New York Fashion Week’s Pet Fashion show and other animal centered fashion events. Some of these felines have wardrobes that would make a human model jealous! Sadly, being a pet model doesn’t pay all the bills, the top models earn about $200.00 to $500.00 per day of modeling.
Mrs. Parberry, a 10-year old feline from the Upper West Side is
a rescue who is now the “spokespurrrson”
for New York City’s Animal Care Centers. She owns more than 100 specially
created costumes by artists who work on shows for Broadway and the Metropolitan
Opera, as well as by pet designers like Ada Nieves, who made the feline a
flapper frock for last year’s Cat Fashion Show at the Algonquin Hotel.
Parberry’s human, Valerie Volinski, said the couture kitty has
up to three fittings per outfit, and even has a custom-made mannequin head form
for her hats. And, She is also on a diet after gaining a pound. A model must keep her girlish figure!
Hello Furiends, We’ve missed some of these Friday blog hops. The staff has been a bit preoccupied with other stuff although it is the contention of Tribe of Five that nothing is more important than our blog posts! I hope you enjoy my answers this week.
This is a blog hop meaning that you can hop on over to our furiends 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs and enter your blog post. If you purrfer you can opine about your answers in our comment section. Purrs & Head Bonks,
Here are this week’s fill ins:
1. Superbowl Sunday ________________________.
2. __________________bores me.
3. If you have _________, you have everything.
4. My skill set could get me a job at _________.
Here are my answers:
1. Superbowl Sunday bores me.
“This is me not caring a bit about the Superbowl (unless Superbowl means an extra large bowl of kibble for me!” -Oliver
2. Standard, typical cat poses bore me.
“If you can’t be creative about your feline poses, why bother? This is one of my more favorite moves.” -Oliver
3. If you have a human who loves you and who wears fuzzy blankie PJs for you to stretch out on, you have everything.
“I know the Female Human bought these PJs just for me. She’s thoughtful like that.” -Oliver
4. My skill set could get me a job at a detective agency. I am the epitome of stealth.
“I’ve been on this stakeout for hours and not one bird or squirrel has spotted me yet!” -Agent Oliver
It’s a beautiful day in my neighborhood. We had quite a bit of snow last night and this morning and The Tribe and I are enjoying the beautiful view from the bedroom (and watching all the furry and feathered freeloaders coming to the upstairs deck). Wherever you are my furiends, stay warm and safe and enjoy the day. Purrs & Head Bonks,
I’m not a fan of controversial purrlitical news items (unless it’s my brother running for Purresident) but sometimes I have to raise a paw in acknowledgment of those in purrlitical office who take the time and energy to look after felines. Moshe Lion, the mayor of Jerusalem, has approved 100 thousand nis per year to build feeding stations for Jerusalem’s street cats. Now that’s about $ 27,222.00 dollars in in the good ole’ US of A. It came about because the city changed its garbage disposal system to containers that are underground. This worried the good folks of Jerusalem because they were afraid the city’s stray cats, not being able to forage in the garbage, might starve. So this fine purrlitician is having feeding stations built where the new earth-buried garbage cans are located. City hall estimates that they will use about 210 food bags per month and 2500 bags per year. Mr. Mayor, the Tribe of Five sends you a hearty mazel tov!
Oh my whiskers, my column is late today because I couldn’t stop laughing. But this is a serious tale as well.
Teddy, a Russian blue, failed to come home in early January, so his humans reported him missing to Animal Search UK, an online database for lost pets.
They were soon contacted by a couple 11 milesway who said they’d taken in a Russina blue with the same markings. Teddy’s humans went to retrieve him and all was right with the word. Sort of that is,because a few days later the humans discovered they had two identical Russian Blues in their house!
There was no Russian Blue in the Animal Search data base so these resourceful humans took feline #2 to the vet to be scanned for a microchip and lo and behold, they found an address and the cat’s name,Nigel. Nigel’s family had recently moved to the area and Nigel escaped his new abode and went exploring.
The moral to this story is this, make sure your felines have identification, even house cats. The Tribe of Five is in the process of writing an article about an amazing company that has, what we believe, is an innovative solution to help humans reunite with their felines. Stay safe my furiends, and make sure you have a way to get back to your humans if you get lost!
Alberto – “This is me being very social with my Female Human.”
How do I love this headline…let me count the ways! We felines get a bad rap about our purrsonalities and our inability to commit or show love.
Researchers from Oregon State University conducted tests with 23 shelter cats and 23 pet cats. They put the felines in rooms with some humans who completely ignored them and others who talked to them and petted them. Even though the humans were strangers, the cats spent much more time with the humans who paid them attention. The researchers found that when you call us felines by our names, we pay more attention. (Duh, they needed science to figure this out?!) And, for all you nay saying folks who call us unloving, the study showed that cats will choose interaction with humans over food and toys. So there you go, another urban legend debunked. You can read about the study in Science Alert.
The Female Human and her sister run a local Lost pet group and their favorite saying to humans looking for their lost pets is, “Never give up!” This story is a purrfect illustration of that. A feline made a what seemed to be a return from the dead when he appeared three years after his owners were told he had been run over and killed.
The human and her daughter were devastated when they were told their beloved Sidney had been run over and taken to the landfillby local workers. . When they received a call almost three years later from a woman who said she’d found Sidney they were incredulous.
The lady insisted it was Sidney (now six) who was alive and well and living 12 miles from them. The family had mourned Sidney and finally had dealt with the loss of their beloved feline. They didn’t believe it could be true that Sidney was alive but still they couldn’t ignore the call and went to visit the woman who said she had Sidney. She insisted it wasn’t some sort of a sick joke and that she’d had Sidney scanned and his microchip provided his name and address. The lady said Sidney had been living rough and was a little wild….until he saw his humans. He rolled over on his back and started meowing for a belly rub. Now that’s what I call a happy ending!
Mr. Chandoha with his son Enrico and a subject in his home studio in 1961. CreditWalter Chandoha Archive
If there ever was a king of cat photography, it was Walter Chandoha. It all started one winter evening evening in 1949, Walter Chandoha was walking to his three-room apartment in Astoria, Queens, when he spotted an abandoned gray kitten shivering in the snow. He put the kitten in a pocket of his Army coat and brought it home to his wife, Maria.
The kittens antics were frenzied and the couple to named him Loco. Locos frenzied moves inspired. Mr. Chandoha (pronounced shan-DOE-uh) to photograph him. Loco’s photos quickly sold to newspapers and magazines around the world and a career was born.
Taking pictures of cats soon began to look like a more fulfilling career path than the one in advertising that Mr. Chandoha had planned while attending New York University, after serving in World War II. So, after graduating, he turned to freelance photography for a living — and, by the mid-1950s, he was the dominant commercial cat photographer of his era.
By the time of his death on January 11th of this year, Mr. Chandoha had taken about 90,000 cat photos. I think this man must have been greeted by so many felines who crossed the Rainbow Bridge ahead of him and I bet our Miss P. and Buster said hello too (and those two are very photogenic.) I wonder if they take pictures in heaven?
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