Cycle Of Life

With heavy hearts we have to tell you that we lost our sweet Luna June 17. We did not want to spoil the Dare, so we did not post about it at the time. A neighbor had seen a coyote chasing another neighbor's cat (he survived) that day in the morning (he told us the next day) and in the afternoon Luna did not show up and hasn't been seen since...
Notty and Tintin took it pretty hard but are getting better now.
Here are the very last pictures of Luna, and the last one demonstrates why we called this post "cycle of life". As predators we cats are part of a cycle of life which mostly is a cruel one.

Luna was a vibrant, effervescent bundle of energy and we miss her lively personality a lot!

And on June 21 Dame Edna and Coco Chanel joined us. They were found abandoned, malnutritioned and hungry under a car and needed a home.... The staff thought it might help Notty and Tintin and that seems to be the case. Both have by now started to play with the kittens, and the kittens have almost doubled in weight since they came! These pictures are about 2 weeks old, we will try and get more recent ones soon.

June 21, Edna and Coco's "Gotcha Day" also was the day when last year our sweet Emil left us to go to the bridge. We miss him - his little voice and his big paws, his mischievous spirit and his compassionate heart. Edna reminds us of him - just as bow legged, hahahahahahaha!
Emil's friends gave him a wonderful wake, and we want to post this picture today, done by Opus and Roscoe - who sadly enough also left for the bridge only three month after Emil - as a toast to Emil's glorious life, a small part of which you can see here!
You are in our hearts forever and we will always love you Emil!

IDYA#5 Results!

We have a winner! We actually have two winners - Diamond Emerald-Eyes with his "eastern egg hunt played with mousies" and Milo and Alfie with their "NUDE charity Calendar for cats" both won first place. Followed by the Curators "silly fake Happy (whatever) Day".
Now I know you are all on edges to find out what EXACTLY those and all the other ideas are - BUT: I sent the complete list of all entries to ML, as this was her birthday present, and she will decide what to do with it! If she publishes all entries in their entirety or has us all play them one after another - we 'll have to wait and see...
I am sure she'll let us know at the CB what she'll do!
Thank you all for participating and thank you judges for making these incredible hard decisions!
We will get back to regular posting very soon after I had some rest....

Sorry...

I know we said we'll post the results of the last Dare today - but we are still waiting to hear from one judge... As soon as those results come in we will post!

The Judges Are Deliberating

The Dare is closed and we had fourteen (14!) wonderful entries! Thank you all who participated and all who wanted to participate and didn't get around to doing it too!
The results will be posted Monday, July 6!

I Dare You All..... (# 5!)

....to come up with an idea for a continual contest, game or treasure hunt or anything else fun that you can think of to be hosted at the Cat Blogosphere.

Oh my - after getting several awesome entries I realize that I might not have explained it well enough.... We are NOT looking for a Dare ("I Dare You All to...." - that is OUR job to do, hahahahahahahahahahaha) but a continual fun game (or contest or treasure hunt) to be carried out at / through the CB... if you are in anyway unclear about it, email me!

The idea to this Dare was inspired by Mom Robyn for ML's birthday who thought that ML would love to have just plain old FUN stuff to do at the Cat Blogosphere sometimes! Because ML works so hard for all of us " ...that all too often the fun gets set aside. She needs more fun." Mom Robyn said.
And so this Dare is our birthday present for ML.
We assembled a panel of judges to determine the winning Dare.
We will then help to put up and organize it at the Cat Blogosphere.
The judges are:
Cory, Sanjee, Zoey, Locket, Alexi

Every animal and human can participate, one entry per animal/human.
You have to have an active blog or Catster/Dogster page to participate but if you share a blog with others each one can enter.

Your challenge is to come up with an idea for a continual contest, game or treasure hunt or anything else fun that you can think of to be hosted at the Cat Blogosphere.

Please try and explain your idea as simple and clear as you can!!!
Please try and MAKE your idea as simple and easily executable as you can!
And remember: FUN - we want to have FUN, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Two example entries would be...
1) Annual Cats in Hats Day, where cats get dressed up in any kind of hats once a year to have fun. It can be photoshop or real photos with a division for each.
2) A treasure hunt around the cat blogosphere, with the first clue starting at CB and a new clue at different cats blogs. Or with a list of things to find at different cat blogs (simpler).

Email your entry to us at
idareyouall at gmail dot com
Enter your name in the subject line and leave your blog address/Catster/Dogster Page with your idea!
Deadline will be June 29, 2009, midnight EST. Then the judges will be deliberating and we will post the results on July 6, 2009.

By submitting your entry you give permission to The Cat Realm and Cat Blogosphere to use it in any way we see fit as long as we give you the proper credit for it.
Of course we can change these rules at any time, thank you Skeezix, hahahahahahahaha!

Please put your name in the Linky box so we know who is accepting our Dare!

Remember Tomorrow...

International Box Day

"It is common knowledge that "cats in boxes" go together, like cookies & cream, nip & tini, soft purrs & belly-rubs!"
So MAGGY (Zoolatry) & ROMEO (Peggy's Place) officially declared Friday, June 19, 2009 INTERNATIONAL BOX DAY.
No prizes, no awards, just a box full 'o fun!

Wordless Wednesday - Oh My ...

May We Present:

The positions were filled before we even had lunch the day the call was posted! Thank you everybody for your interest and there will always be more Dares and the need for more judges, hahahahahahahahhaha!
Cory, Sanjee, Zoey, Locket and Alexi will do the incredible difficult job of trying to pick three entries out of the "every-entry-is-awesome-and-worth-winning" list of all entries.
Watch out for the Dare on June 22, right here!

Call for Judges!

+++ SORRY - all positions are filled! +++

On June 22 we will Dare you again! It will be a fun Dare and
benefit the whole community!
Right now we are looking for 5 judges to help us pick the three best entries of this upcoming Dare.

These are the requirements if you would like to be
a judge for IDYA # 5, Fun:

You will have to choose from a list of entries the ones you like best (details will follow later).
You will have to have time to do this between July 1 to 5.
You will have to have an active blog and be part of the Cat Blogosphere or be a nomss friend of a member.
You will have to accept a personal thank you note and a little gift from Karl for being a judge.

If you are interested email us at idareyouall at gmail dot com.
First come first judge, hahahahahahahahahahaha!
If you have been a judge before in a Dare you can apply but will only be considered if we can not fill the positions with newcomers.

This is fun, former judges always enjoyed it a lot!
So email us NOW !

Happy Birthday Butler!

Today is our butler's birthday! Karl is still in Bora Bora with Ruis but we got him on the computer so we can all wish the butler a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

picture by thecatrealm, Karl outfitted by Ruis

Karl and Ruis First Anniversary

Tomorrow is Karl and Ruis first anniversary!
They will fly to an undisclosed but most romantic destination together! Here we are seeing Karl off to the airport. To see the rest of their trip go to their blog!
And believe me: you do want to see that!!!!
Mrs. OZ

CCSI 5 Party Aftermath

I wonder if Elvis was influenced in his choice of music by
our previous predicament...?

CCSI 5 Cast Party

As is tradition after a successful CCSI show we are having a cast and crew party! Here are the executives of Little Production, still on location at the Byrd Mansion, also known as Westover, in Virginia, trying to figure out where to have the party.

picture by Asta

After a glass of that fabulous New Zealand wine that Momo brought along Ollie decides to climb up on a roof where she has an idea!

picture by Momo

All agree that this might be the best idea - food is brought in, the famous house wine from The Cat Realm is added, and someone even put up some decoration. Here is the whole cast on the front lawn of the mansion.

picture by Karl

The cast is eager to help with the preparing of the food (we wonder why?):
Fat Eric, Ayla and Luxor take care of the fish, while Miles, LC, Perfect Parker and Angus Mhor are grilling the chicken and beef.
Momo and Opus don't understand that Dr. Tweety and Sassy apparently already have eaten something.
Karl whispers something in Ruis's ear and Ollie has a conversation with Pearl while Titus and Asta try to keep an eye on all and everything to make sure the party doesn't go out of hand.
Not that that has EVER happened before....

picture by Ruis

All of a sudden Asta is heard shouting from the garden:

picture by Karl

And after everybody races over there, this is what we see. Our bridge animals appeared in the fountain!

picture by Karl

We think this is the perfect moment to commemorate all the men and women who died while in military service as it is Memorial Day today.

picture by Karl

Then Miles insists on re-enacting his famous corpse scene. Director Ruis is a good sport and goes along while Ollie and Asta try to figure out how to actually shoot the whole thing....

picture by Karl

Meanwhile the others are attacking the buffet - Ayla fills the plates with food and Asta serves them around, Perfectly Parker serves herself, Luxor and Opus try to be regal on their respective cat sofas and Ruis and Karl still have something to whisper about.....

picture by Ruis

And then the entertainment arrives!!! Sassy has arranged for some Elvis impersonators to come and sing, hurray!!!!

picture by Sassy

Now let's party!

Happy Birthday ML

The thing that brings us all together, the site we go to every morning (and night) to find out what's going on, the place that makes us the best community ever, the fabulous Cat Blogosphere would not be without the driving force behind it: ML.
And today is her birthday!!!! So let's celebrate, and all go and wish her the very best birthday ever!

picture by "no need to say" Zoolatry -
but we all know that anyways, hahahahaha

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ML!

And here is your gift from us for you:
In June we will put up another Dare, this Dare being your present, and we can't really say what it will be because then it wouldn't really be a Dare anymore, right? We will email you that little detail and all other cats and dogs can now roll around in the suspense of what it might be, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

As for some other suspense: CCSI 5 "The Old Famous Caper" has re-runs ALL weekend long at Sassy's blog!!! Go get your popcorn here or here and then head over there!!! The movie theater awaits you!

picture by Sassy

CCSI 5 - Now Playing at Sassy's!

Go to Sassy's blog to see the newest CCSI caper!

Part 1
Part 2

We Are Doing It Again!!!

The newest CCSI caper will air this week! Go to Sassy for details.

newspaper clipping by Ruis

Check This Out!

+++ Hey everybody! +++
You have to see this post!

Tintin blogs....

How We Spend Our Time

We finally got over our hangover and today we will show you some pictures of how we spend our time - which is mostly sleeping of course - but we do other things too. Not much different though....
Here I tell the story of the day when I walked out into the desert with the maid and the butler, far far away from home. So far that I actually got a little bit scared at the end and set a brisk pace on the way back home. But I do not mention that to the gingers...

Tintin likes to be "on the Red Carpet', hahahahahahahaha. You have seen this carpet in other pictures before but here you can see in the mirror image in the window what a glorious view we have from our Red Carpet! You can also see our stupid maid - couldn't she MOVE so she wouldn't be in there???

And here is a rare shot of Luna that is not blurry. She ALWAYS moves. And the moment she sees a camera she moves towards it - I wonder if that should tell us something...? She loves the tent, most times she manages to totally flatten it up...

Notty is not discriminatory in his choice of toys at all. Anything will do - but the little toy mouse to the left of the carrot (which incidentally is Mrs. OZ absolute favorite toy) is his most loved one.

And Mrs. OZ likes to lounge. Here she enjoys the end of the day sunset - and as you can see, she has her carrot with her. She always puts it on the maid's bed in the afternoon but it was found in front of the butler's door, out in the garden, under the table, on the porch and various other places over time.

I hope you enjoyed - now back to the Little Production Studios - we are in pre-production mode for CCSI 5 which is almost ready to air!!!! So yes, you can get excited and eager with anticipation now.

And we do have to mention that we got an award from Angel about a month ago.... I know, shame on us... Thank you Angel, we sure appreciate it!