Thursday Thirteen #3 - Reasons we love our Spinny Mouse Thing

Here are thirteen shots of why we love our new spinning mouse toy. You see it has this mousy that runs around and around in a circle really fast or we can just bat it back and forth depending on whether mommy and daddy turn on the switch thingie. It also has a scratching pad area that we're really getting into. Thanks Mommy and Daddy for a great gift!

Oh, mommy says it's called the Motor Mouse.

Wordless Wednesday

I'm a Real ManCat Now, ManCat Monday

Now I am a true ManCat. This weekend I turned one year old so it's official and I have entered my ManCathood. (Funny, I don't feel *that* different yet...)

3rd Annual Paws for Kindness Day

Mommy attended a wonderful event in Lansdowne yesterday. It was the 3rd Annual Paws for Kindess Day to support the Animal Friends of Lansdowne. There was a parade and everything. Too bad it was mostly woofies. Mommy wanted to take us there but we have some harness training to do yet so maybe next year we'll make it. Check out all of the photos from the event.

Isn't this a handsome Great Dane?

And, look his nails are painted special for the parade!

This is our neighbor, Radar. Radar lives three houses down the road from us. Radar won 2nd place in the parade! Congrats Radar!

This is Rufus. Rufus won first place.

I'm too sexy for this parade.

This little ballerina woofie is cute, huh? Biggify to see her pink toenails.

Isn't this a handsome lion cat? His name is Eddie Bauer. Mom said she would really love to adopt him. Can you imagine? Good thing Dad wasn't there to see him or we might have ended up with a new big brother this weekend!

More funny woofies.

This one is Minnie.

And, last but not least, this here is Shadow. Shadow won 3rd place in the parade just for showing up and being the only brave kittie in a parade full of crazy woofies! Woot woot! Yeah Shadow! (Maybe we'll get to participate next year since we have a whole long time to practice walking in our new harnesses.)

Happy 1 Year Birthday to Us!

Today is our 1 year birthday party. We got a neat tent and a circular thingie that has a mouse running around in it really really fast. We also had tuna cakes (first time we ate tuna - yum.) and oat grass. Oh, our mommy and daddy tried to put these harness thingies on us. We didn't like that so much. Ollie chewed and wiggled his way out and Mr. Chen inchwormed around and looked worried. We don't think that was part of the party, though. They were trying to do that because today was also the Animal Friends of Lansdowne 3rd Annual Paws for Kindness Day (mommy says we'll post those photos tomorrow for everyone). Such a busy Saturday. Hope you are having a happy Saturday, too!

Seven Facts About Me, Ollie

It's me, Ollie, here and while I have not been tagged for the Seven Random Facts About Me meme I've decided to play along anyway. Thanks to Sammy and Miles for your encouragement!

Seven Random Facts About Me, Ollie

1. I was very sick when Mommy and Daddy first brought me home from the shelter
Mommy and Daddy were only planning to get one kitty from the shelter but then Daddy saw me and he really felt a connection and kept coming back to me (I was luring him in good!). When they decided to get me and my new brother Mr. Chen, I was healthy and fine. But, then when they came to pick me up (after I had my hoo-haas snipped and all my shots taken care of) I had a bad upper respitory infection. I really felt lousy. I was sneezin' green snot on everything. Mommy and Daddy would take turns holding me in a steam shower to clear out my sinuses. Then, after the respitory infection, I got an eye infection. So then I was getting eye drops and really not in a happy place for a little while there. I slept a lot and Mommy and Daddy thought I was "the quiet one". Little did they know!

2. My nickname is Lolli
Mommy and Daddy call me Lolli, Lollipop, or even sometimes just LOLZ. They also call me Maka, Mackerel, and Tubesocks (cuz of my white socks)

3. My middle name is also Oliver
For the record, my full name is Oliver Oliver Oxenford. It's true.

4. I am a red dot addict
I can chase the red dot for hours. Or really any moving light for that matter. I can't help it. I am an addict.

5. I ate an olive once
Mommy and Daddy don't typically give me people food but I've actually had an olive, some spaghetti, and a short rib. I liked all of these dishes but the short rib was my most favorite.

6. I ate a moth once
Again, true story. Daddy picked me up and held me and I got to looking at the light and all the sudden I saw this moth flying thingie come out of nowhere and I caught it and ate it.

7. I recently started jumping on top of mommy's mirror over her dresser
This is a new skill that I am honing but I have learned how to jump on to the very high dresser mirror and walk it like a tightrope. This is all in preparation for my next move which is going to be to get a running lunge for the ceiling fan and try to catch the arm of the ceiling fan thing. Think I'll make it?

Bonus fact - It's my birthday party tomorrow! You're all invited!
Oh, and I love my brother so much!

Seven Random Facts About Me

I've been tagged for a meme by beautiful and brainy Marie, the Defender. Thanks Marie for tagging me! (You might not guess it, but this is my first meme and I'm very excited!)

Here we go:

Seven Random Facts About Me, Mr. Chen

1. I was the display cat at Morris Animal Shelter
When mommy and daddy were at the shelter trying to pick out who to take home forever, I was in the window as "show cat" to try and get people to adopt more kitties. Leslye at the Shelter told mommy and daddy that I was special and should consider me and picked me out of the window and plopped me in their arms. Then, after they held me for a bit, I wasn't so sure about them so I jumped out of their arms and ran around the shelter and ran and ran right into the glass door.

2. I have a bit of a "coke habit"
Frequently, I emerge from the loo with a little piece of litter on my nose. Mommy and Daddy call it "my coke habit" but of course, I just really get into any project at hand.

3. My favorite sport is inchworm
Whenever anyone is petting me or even thinking about petting me, I like to lay down on the ground and stretch all out and inch my way around on the floor pulling my body around with my claws. Daddy calls it "inchworm".

4. Small beans and strangers make me very nervous
I really don't understand the appeal of company or strangers in the house. Mommy and Daddy had a party a few months after they brought me home and I didn't come down for the entire two days there were weird people here. When someone that is not mommy or daddy comes to the door, I bolt. Seriously.

5. I could play for days on end
The first night mommy and daddy brought me home, I just started playing with the mice and toys they had and didn't stop. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to play. More than my brother, Ollie, who you can get riled up with the fevers and red dots but otherwise could take it or leave it. Not me. I could mouse all day, all night.

6. Mr. Chen was my name at the shelter
Leslye from the shelter told mommy and daddy that my name in my old foster home was Mr. Chen. They thought that was cute but were going to renmame me when the decided to get me and my brother. They were going to call us Rock and Roll. But, then they decided that Mr. Chen was just perfect and how could they possibly change it.

7. I adore my brother Ollie
Though we're not related by blood, we came from the same shelter and we love each other so much I couldn't imagine life without him now.

Bonus fact - my birthday party (Ollie's too) is this Sat! You're all invited!

Now, I would like to tag the following seven kitties:
Caesar, Luna, DaisyMaeMaus, Zevo Calamari, Miles, Bonnie and Patches

Nora, the Piano Playing Cat

Wow! Not only is Pee Wee Martini (contender for World's Ugliest Dog) from Philly but so is Nora, the Piano Playing Cat. You all know about Nora, right??? Check our her beautiful piano playing on YouTube.

We also learned by reading this month's Greater Philly Tails that Nora will be featured in an upcoming educational film created by the National Science Foundation. The NSF film will feature kitties, woofies, and other pets doing our typical miraculous and wonderful stuff that we do. Apparently, some humans need to be convinced that we do these amazing things so they're making a film to help them finally get it. Way to go, Nora!

ManCat Monday

This weekend mommy and daddy went to visit a very special ManCat named Calvin. Mommy used to live with Calvin when she lived with our Uncle Mike. Calvin is a beautiful orange and white kitty but one day he went missing. Calvin was gone for weeks. His daddy was very sad and very scared and worried. Calvin was missing for what seemed like forever and everybody had pretty much given up hope. But then Calvin was found!! When he was found he was all skinny and sick and had some pretty scary neurological damage so nobody knows all the bad things that happened to him while he was gone. Now he is fat again and just as loving and wonderful as ever (according to Mommy). He is just a little "special" in that he tilts his head sideways a lot more than usual. We are so happy they found our cousin Cal Cal, Special ManCat Extraordinaire!

Vote for Pee Wee Martini

In today's Philadelphia Inquirer, we read about a woofie named Pee Wee Martini who lives in Philadelphia (Fishtown actually, which we have decided we must soon go visit for obvious reasons). Pee Wee is trying to get himself voted World's Ugliest Dog. We are definitely going to vote for him! By the way our mommy says he is not ugly but beautiful in his uniqueness. We think mommy is crazy and Pee Wee is one ugly woofie! Vote for Pee Wee Martini.

Get your freak on, Friday

Happy Friday Everyone!

Thursday Thirteen #2 - Just the two of us

Here are thirteen shots of us together - snuggling, playing, sleeping - you name it. We are so happy that we are brothers!

Does my neck look fat to you?

You are about to meet a cat with a very fat neck. Poor Mr. Chen... from this angle he is looking a bit thick, I suppose. Really, he's still just a kitten...