More Pictures From Venice!

Opus and Roscoe just sent us some more pictures they took from all of us in Venice!!!

Here we are all in front of the Church of Saint Marks - for some reason all the pigeons vanished while we were there..... hahahahahhahahahahaha

At the Bridge of Sighs - and some sighs were heard! It seems some of the costumes were cut a bit too tight for the opulent venetian food, hahahahahahahahah.... Right, Emil?
And finally we are going over the famous Rialto Bridge! The local carabinieri tried to get us off fast - some concerns about structural integrity, I think.....
THANK YOU Opus and Roscoe for the fabulous pictures!

Toes on Tuesday - Golden Paw Award

My wonderful fiance Ruis, the sweetest cat in the universe, created this award, using his OWN PAW to make it!

It is given to cats, dogs or any animal or human bean that have lent a special helping paw/hand to another cat, dog, animal or human bean.
You may give this award to as many individuals as you want to thank for lending you a helping paw/hand. If you don't need it now, save it, and you can give it when needed.
And he gave the two very first Golden Paw's to our special girlfriend Sassy and me and my maid!
Thank you so very much, Ruis, it means a lot to me and I will treasure this award for ever! The maid actually got leaky eyes, she was so touched by this! And she thanks you from the bottom of her heart!

There are so many who have lent a special helping paw and over the years I will probably give this award out again and again!
Today I want to pass it on twice:

To Tyler, who not only lent us a special helping paw but actually had green papers in that paw for the animal communicator, so that we could have some kind of closure to Anastasia's death.

And to Benjamin Fuzz's Mom - who sent me two pages of instructions for Mr. Linky when I was just starting to blog and didn't know how to incorporate him into my blog.

Venice Carnival - Group Photo

If I am not mistaken there are 13 cats and 4 dogs in this 1 Gondola!

Venice Carnival

This year a whole group of us went to the Venice Carnival. In alphabetical order (and I hope I didn't forget anybody....): Asta and Charlie and Momo and Opus and Roscoe and Percy and Ruis and Sassy and Socks, Scylla and Charybdis and of course the three of us.

left to right: Karl, Ruis, Momo, Asta, Charlie, Emil, Sassy in front

Here are Opus and Roscoe,
picture by Sassy

And Percy and Sassy, picture by Sassy

Before we got into our fancy costumes Ruis and Sassy and I took a ride in a Gondola - steered by Momo!!!

Here is Mrs. Oz, waiting to be picked up by us

and Emil in his funny costume!















Here is another group shot, Opus, Roscoe and Sassy watching the festivities, picture by Sassy:

And Mrs. OZ in her fancy costume:

Do NOT MISS to visit the others who went with us to Venice - there are lots of fabulous pictures!!!
Asta and Charlie and Momo and Opus and Roscoe and Percy and Ruis and Sassy and Socks, Scylla and Charybdis

Award Friday

This award was created by Chance's doggie, Shadow for all the kitties who are brothers/sisters of a dog, or just good friends with one.

Camies Kitties gave me this award for starting the NOMSS Friend Challenge.
Thank you so much, I am very honored and appreciate it a lot!

"Here are the rules: Give this award to at least one blogger who has a woofie as a friend. If they let a woofie blog sometimes, posts information on woofie safety, or just love to cuddle with a woofie of their own, then send this award to them. Make sure you leave a comment on their blog letting them know you are giving them this award and don't forget to link back to the person who gave it to you."

I like to give this award to
Tazo and Earl Grey, who share their home with wonderful dog Titus,
Sassy, who just became the nomss friend of Asta the dog,
and my fiance Ruis who shares his home with two dogs, Taylor and Buzzer!

Wordless Wednesday

Toes On Tuesday

Do not miss to enter the contest!!!

Across The Universe Day

We have been tagged for this by Chris, long story here, short one below:
NASA has invited people around the world to play “Across the Universe” on their audio systems at the same time (February 4, 2008, at 00:00 GMT = 7:00 p.m. New York /EST) NASA beams its mp3 version into outer space.
And I quote Chris:
"Bloggers, let’s do this! This blog got the track ready. I also added Fiona Apple’s version and Beatles’ Here Comes The Sun to the playlist. You can add the playlist to your blog or site, I’ve included its code below. Please invite other bloggers as well to join the celebration."

+++I took out the song as I did not know how to stop it from playing constantly, hahahahaha+++

I tag you all!!!! Let's do this!

Do You Think We Qualify?

Gattina made an award for cats who sleep a lot. I actually found it at Marilyn's place.
Someone told me that lions sleep 20 hours out of every 24!
Maybe that is a bit exaggerated. But here is some good information about sleeping lions!



I am sure Snow and Forest's Dad could give you even more information here....
Mrs. OZ doesn't care - as long as she can sleep.





And even if he gets up for 10 minutes every midnight to wake up everybody who might be so unlucky to be around, Emil agreed that we all deserve the Deepest Sleeping Award. Definitely. What do you say?

The Butler's Windows

Remember the Sleepy Sunday Post with our beds on top of the stain glass window that the butler was making? The one on the right is the one in that post, the one on the left is one he did before that.
You can see more at his website!

Many Things

First and foremost: our beloved sweet Anastasia, who we still miss every single day and will love forever was honored with a limerick by Karen Jo this Wednesday. Yes - this is why the sun feels so much warmer on your furs the last couple days - because I am sure Anastasia is BEAMING with pride and joy!

Anastasia's soul shines bright as the sun.
She could dazzle the eyes of anyone.
While here on Earth
She brought such mirth
With her dares, sunglasses and hats just for fun.

Secondly: thank you all so much for your congratulations to Ruis (read his limerick here!) and my engagement! Yes, there will be a BIG wedding party - probably in April or May. And you will ALL be invited, for sure!



Thirdly: we got an award! Samantha and Tigger were kind enough to give us the "This Blog is Rated E for Excellence Award" - thank you Samantha and Tigger, we are very honored!

We are instructed to send this to 10 Blogger Writers of outstanding style and ability!
So we like to pass this award on to (in alphabetical order, hahahahahaha)
Adan
Asta
Catnip Corner
Chairman Mao
Daisy
Faz
Opus and Roscoe
Ruis
Skeezix
Yao-Lin

And last but not least: our sweet friend Ariel gave Ruis and me The Caring Cat Award! Thank you so much Ariel!
And Catnip Corner gave it to us The Cat Realm! Thank you Jackie, Gidget and Fritz.

And I like to give this award to Gaius - unfortunately I do not know how he is doing - his last post is from December 13, 2007 - does anybody know what is going on with him???

Mancat Monday: To Ruis From Karl

+++Breaking News: RUIS ACCEPTED!!!!+++

This is my proposal to my beloved boyfriend Ruis.

Meme

I have been tagged for a meme. Here are the rules:
- You have to post who tagged you and link back to them. Lucky tagged me.
- You have to tag 3 other kitties, beans, woofies, or any other assorted animal.
- What three things would you do that you have never done before, if you knew you wouldn't get caught, get in trouble, or suffer any consequences.

1. I would stay out all night!
Now I have actually done this a couple of times and it did greatly upset the staff! Because the trouble I could get into by doing this could be owls, coyotes, and bobcats with consequences no one wants to think about....

2. I would start a lizard farm.
Yes. For consumption.

3. I would eat a whole stick of butter at once every day.
Which I actually could - the butler leaves it out and doesn't care if I help myself or not. Because he knows as well as I do about the consequences: horrid diarrhea!!! I've done it twice, it was not nice, I carefully only lick a little bit at a time now...

I tag my lovely boyfriend Ruis, our very special friend Sassy and a new cat on the blog, Shelby Fatman.

Karl Has A Limerick!!!!!

Emil and Mrs.OZ here. We are so proud of our Karl -
he was featured at Karen Jo's blog and got his very own limerick!!!!
Thank you Karen Jo!!!

Karl is a cat of many talents.

He goes far beyond poise and balance.
He did a writing gig
And chased a nasty pig.
He does it all with a flair and nonchalance.

Do not miss to enter the contest!!!

I Am A Cheerleader!

Our good friend Sassy persuaded Ruis and me to take part in a cheer leading course!
Here we are at the Cheer Leading Academy:

Photo by Sassy
l-r: Karl, Ruis, Mystery, Daisy, Miss Peach, Sassy, Percy, Momo, Asta, Opus, & Roscoe

We did a lot of team practice:

Photo by Sassy

Front center: Chilly
Second row l-r: Brownie & Miss Peach
Third row l-r: Percy, Norman, Roscoe, Mystery, Ruis, Opus & Karl
Fourth row l-r: Asta, Daisy & Sassy

And we also tried some different jumps one by one, like I do here. This was a tough jump - you can see it in my face....

But we all passed and got a beautiful certificate to proof it!


Thank you Sassy for this wonderful experience!

Do not miss to enter the contest!!!

The Red Carpet Buzz, A Contest!

The humans have a very important red carpet event coming up on February 24:
the 80th Academy Awards Show, in short and better known as
"The Oscars".

As we all know, the most important thing about this show and the main reason millions are watching it are -
the dresses, the suits, the gowns!

So Little Productions came up with a contest to show those humans we can do it better! And if canceled - ours might then be the only show to watch, hahahahahaha!

Dress yourself up in the most glamorous outfit you can imagine and post it here by February 23.

Login: redcarpetfashion, password: dressedup.

You can also click the Red Carpet Button in my sidebar.
And on Oscar night, February 24, let's all post our dress-up pictures on our own blogs and show those humans!

After the Oscars we will have viewers vote for
the best outfit in 4 categories:

Best female "real" outfit
Best male "real" outfit
Best female "image edited" outfit
Best male "image edited" outfit

Surprise prizes for the winners in each category!

If you have questions you can email Karl.

HAVE FUN!!!

Ruis and I WereTagged

Moses, Bear and Emmy tagged Ruis and me for the "Seven Random Things" meme.
Our answers are also posted at our joint blog Karl & Ruis but we only use that blog when we travel together. Or have a big party, hahahahahaha!

So, here are seven random things about us:

1. We had our first date in the back of a bus.

2. We are members of Little Productions.

3. In spite of seemingly obvious evidence to the contrary we both HATE the cold.

4. We have very funny humans! See some evidence here and here.

5. We are both people cats! We just love people.

6. We live on two different continents! Karl in Arizona, and Ruis in the Netherlands.

7. As far as we know we are the first (and so far only?) gay couple in the Cat Blogosphere. But most certainly not in the animal world at large!


This meme has been around a while so we will just invite anybody who reads this and hasn't done it yet to PLEASE do it!!! Just let us know that you did it, please, so we can come over and read all these random things about you!

In Memoriam

Zed, 1992 - 2008

Zed was the dog of the maid's best friend in New York. She knew him since he was a puppy and visited him several times every year.
He died this Sunday.
Zed was the most wonderful dog you can imagine.
Loving, gentle, caring and kind.



The last two years of his live he was paralyzed but he never complained and enjoyed whatever pleasures life would
give him.



He is survived by his human and his dog buddy Festus, who is a lot younger than Zed and ever since he was a puppy has never been without him.
They do not blog but if you could send them some purrs and/or barks or leave a comment here I am sure they would appreciate this.

It was a very sad weekend, last weekend....

Mancat Monday: Dedication to Caesar

Caesar
April 15, 1991 - January 20, 2008

Please Purr For Dorothy!

Gretchen's mom-bean Dorothy, who blogs at Scrungy and Friends, is very sick... her heart got badly out of rhythm and she had to be put in cardiac intensive care.


Please join us in sending love and purrs to Auntie Dorothy and her family. Dorothy's daughter, Gretchen's Auntie Paula, blogs at Basset Knitter. I'm sure both Gretchen and Paula would appreciate lots of purrs and supportive notes. And you can leave a note on Auntie Dorothy's blog here.

Please feel free to use /modify the graphic of Dorothy and Gretchen for use on your blogs!

Thank you Ballici for alerting us!