Alberto here. Today’s letter is “G” and it stands for GRACEFUL. Just look at this photo of me, it doesn’t get any more graceful if I do say so myself.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
#AtoZChallenge G
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#AToZChallenge F
Hi All,
Tucker here.. Today’s letter is “F” for “FURRY AND FEATHERED WOODLAND FURIENDS”. We live in a rural area and there are many creatures that come to our house. The Female Human feeds most of them (not the skunks or the bears though).All these critters are very polite and go home after they’ve been fed (they can’t burrow under the house as we are built into a hill with lots of concrete.). All that is except the pesky woodpecker we wrote about recently.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these photos of the view we have at our house. The Humans refer to it as “kitty cable”. The Female Human told me to tell you that although there is only one bear photo included (look at the lazy thing, laying on the railing and eating the bird seed) we had not one, not two but 3 bears at our house! And also, the bird feeder is no longer on the downstairs deck!
Welcome to our very own purrsonal wild kingdom!
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Alberto opines on bags, baskets and High Places in Friendly fill ins Week 100
Hi Folks,
It’s Alberto. This week’s fill ins were tailor made for me so I’m doing the answers. We love this weekly blog hop sponsored by our friends 15andMeowing and McGuffy’s Readers. Join the hop yourself or, if you prefer, leave your fill in answers in the comments.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Here are this week’s Fill Ins:
1. __________________is one of my ___________________.
2. I _______________to _______________________.
3. I have a hard time .
4. is easy for me.
Here are my answers:
1. Bag and box sitting is one of my favorite pastimes.
2. I also tend to spend quite a bit of quality time on window sills.
3. I have a hard time understanding why the humans would rather pay attention to the big moving picture box rather than me.
Why are they looking at that stupid moving picture box rather than me?
4. Hanging out in high places is easy for me.
1. __________________is one of my ___________________.
2. I _______________to _______________________.
3. I have a hard time .
4. is easy for me.
#AToZChallenge E
Hi All,
Jasmine here. Today’s letter is “E” and that stands for “EATING” (grass). The Tribe of Five is quite fond of our wheat grass and the Humans always make sure we have access to the fresh, tasty stuff.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Walk Through The Web Wednesday 4/4
Hello Friends,
Alberto here. Boy have we been busy with the April Blogging A to Z Challenge. My little feline noggin is getting tired looking for new ideas to write about every day. You know we felines are not overly excited about working under pressure but we committed to do the thing and The Tribe of Five believes in following through with our commitments. The Female Human is a bit cranky about all the typing though.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Man Has Genius Plan to Feed Cat When Keys are Misplaced – LAD Bible
Let me just say that this is one of the nightmares The Tribe of Five has every time the Humans go away. Humans, PLEASE make sure that the cat feeder has keys before you leave town. Evidently, someone from work was going to drop the keys through the mail slot of the neighbor’s door so they could feed the cat. Except it was the wrong door and the neighbor had no key. What did the neighbor do? Their solution was quite innovative but let this be a lesson to all you humans!
Boy Bullied Because of His Unusual Eyes Finds Purrfect Friend – Love What Matters
We felines will never understand why you humans bully. Granted, we felines will mix it up a bit now and then but it’s only for play. The little boy’s parents were shown a photo from a rescue in Minnesota. Now mind you any cat photo is worth another look but this cat was extra special! The kitty had a cleft lip and heterochromia iridum (different colored eyes) just like the little boy Madden. The boy’s parents knew that cat was destined to be a part of their family. Some kind friends helped the family fund the road trip from Oklahoma to Minnesota. If there ever was a match made in heaven, this one is it. We give this story a 2-paws up and wish Madden and his feline friend many happy years!
What Your Cat’s DNA Can Tell You – LifeHacker
We felines are curious things. I mean, look at me and my brother Oliver. One of us looks like a pure-bred Siamese and the other, hmmm, is a stocky black and white feline with a heart over his eye. Our Humans often say they’d love to know the story of every Tribe of Five member but because we were all rescues they have no history about us. And then there’s our strange behaviors like why do we all run and hide when a human sneezes, why do some of us love beef and the others turn their noses up at it, and there are lots more questions the Humans would like to have answered.
Now not all of your questions about your fabulous felines can be answered but you can get more information about them from Basepaws, a company that says through a DNA kit, you can learn about your feline’s ancestry and their habits.
Our humans were intrigued by this article because the human who wrote it said that the kit covers several areas such as health, ancestry, predicting traits, physical traits and more. Can you imagine what our Humans could learn about us? Now that I think about it, I’m not so sure I want them to know all our secrets!
Catios Are The Newest Way to Spoil Your Felines – Simplemost
I’ve reported on catios before but they are becoming more of a “thing” and, as felines who enjoy the out of doors safely at our house, I thought this article was great, offering many options for you humans to choose from. Our Humans didn’t want a permanent structure built on the house (and during times when we have 6 months of winter I can understand) so they got us a “pop-up” catio that can be moved from the upstairs deck to downstairs by the waterfall or on the front porch. We blogged about it if you want to see what our catio is like. So my feline friends, tell your humans to get you a catio posthaste!
Crazy Cat Guy – PeopleMusic
When The Female Human read this article she said, “Hah, I knew it! There are crazy cat guys too!” Now I am confused as to why The Female Human found this surprising, after all, she’s married to a crazy cat guy…but I digress.
The singer, Granger Smith recently wrote a parody of his song, “It Happens Like That” titled, “I happen to like cats” and we think it’s quite a catchy tune. The best part about this song is that he and his crew took over a cat cafe to film the video and this wasn’t some publicity stunt, Granger Smith DOES like cats! Meow!
#AToZChallenge D
Alberto here,
I’m blogging today’s challenge and the letter is “D” and that stands for Desks. What is it about cats and desks? Whenever you humans sit down to do some work, there we are!
Purrs & Head Bonks,
#AtoZChallenge C
Hello Folks,
Lily here. Today’s challenge letter is “C” and that stands for CUDDLES. All of the Tribe loves to cuddle and we seem to have our designated cuddle buddy. My cuddle buddy is Tucker, although I have to admit I sometimes get on his nerves.
Oliver and Alberto are cuddle buddies and they really like to cuddle. Jasmine likes to cuddle with the humans. Here is a little Tribe of Five cuddle montage, I hope you enjoy it.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
#AtoZchallenge B
Hello Folks,
Alberto here. Today’s letter is “B” and today that means bird. Did you read about how a bird almost drive our Female Human crazy? We think it’s funny, she was far less amused. Here’s the story. It’s pretty funny to see the humans get their whiskers in a twist!
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Alberto
Oliver Opines on Inspurration -Blogging from A to Z..”A”
Hello Folks
This is our first time purrticipating in this challenge and we’re a bit apprehensive about coming up with a post inspired a letter every day but The Tribe of Five has resolved to do it.
Today’s letter is “A”, so I’m blogging about All of The Tribe. I figure many of you will be new to our blog so I thought an introduction would be a good idea. We are five rescue felines who live in the Northwest with our two humans.
My brother Alberto and I are the youngest, (2 years) fostered and then adopted by our Humans. Lily is four years old, she was adopted from our local shelter and Tucker (the Alpha) and his sister Jasmine are 14 years old and moved with the humans to this home.
We will be taking turns opining on things that strike our fancy (in alphabetical order, of course). We hope you enjoy our feline view of the world and we look forward to having our purrsonal secretary read the posts of the other purrticipants to us.
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Oliver Opines on Easter and other things on Friendly Fill Ins #99
Hi There,
Oliver here. I’m hosting the fill ins this week and I hope you enjoy them. I invite you to join the blog hop fun at 15andmeowing or McGuffy’s Reader. If you prefer you can leave your fill ins in the comment section of this blog. Happy Easter!@
Purrs & Head Bonks,
Oliver
1. For Easter ( or Passover), I ______________________________.
2. My favorite Easter ( or Passover) treat is_______________________.
3. Lately, the song is stuck in my head.
4. The A-Z Blogging Challenge .
My answers:
1. For Easter I hope the humans bring home some of those plastic eggs. Their church has a community Easter Egg hint for all the kids in our community and those shiny, colorful plastic things are so much fun to whack down the stairs. As you can see from the photo, it’s always a bit chilly (and often rainy) in our neck of the woods but the kids love it. Our humans volunteer every year and bring coffee and donuts to the parents and invite them to church. That’s all well and good but what do the Humans do for felines on Easter?
2. My favorite Easter Treat is Hello Kitty Easter eggs! Now I know that cat’s don’t eat hard boiled eggs (at least I don’t think so) but we sure appreciate any nod to the feline population during Easter.
3. Lately the song “We Are Siamese If You Please” from Lady and the Tramp is stuck in my head. Every one of the Tribe of Five has some Siamese in them and everyone but me looks Siamese. My brother Alberto looks like one of those cats in the movie and me, not so much. I’m a chubby little black and white feline with a heart over my eye but I still have Siamese heritage!
4 The A-Z Blogging Challenge is something the Tribe of Five had never heard of so we sent our purrsonal assistant over to the site to sign us up! Look for our daily alphabetical blogs in April.
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