This Is What I Did.....

I felt really very lonely here with Karl being on safari...
So I went to the local pound which is just overflowing with cats and kittens (foreclosures, students leaving for the summer, etc.) and I rescued a kitten. The maid had gotten a "Help! Adopt a kitten" sheet some days ago with lots of pictures of cats in jail, and one of the pictures was this:

Yes, I got the guy who the arrow points to. Because he is a ginger cat like me! O.k. I may be a very diluted ginger cat but check out my tail and my ears... And yes, I hiss at him constantly. But he already knows that it is just all show and no teeth - no pun intended....
I hope Karl will not be mad...
Imagine something like this would happen, oh my, oh my, what did I do...

And the kitten does the Monty Q.! So I entered him in the contest and I will introduce him to you now with the "outtakes" from our photo session. I used Emil's camera but I am not as good as he was. Yet.
Here is Tintin, the new kitten at The Cat Realm:

(Don't worry, he only goes out fully supervised by a human right now until he is bigger!)




And to tell you how we pronounce all our names I had the maid do a Voki recording for you, she'll say:
Mrs. OZ, Karl, Tintin, Emil and Anastasia

Get a Voki now!

I Got Mail

As you might know, Karl and Ruis went to pay Sassy, Opus and Roscoe and Momo a surprise visit at their safari in South Africa.
And left me at home.
Didn't even ask if I would like to come.
So what if I did say that I don't like the outdoors, wild animals, jeep tours. That I think Africa is full of mosquitoes, snakes and dangerous predators...

They must have heard about my complaints because today I got a postcard from them:

And this is the front side:

So now I feel a little bad and I also wonder if I might have been a bit hasty with my actions here....
I wonder what Karl will say once he finds out what I did....

We Are Crashing The Safari!

Remember how our romantic Antarctica cruise for two ended up with LOTS of visitors?
Now we are going to crash the safari! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Ruis and I are off to Africa and you can read all about it at our blog!

Happy Hunting! Hahahahaha - Picture hunting that is of course!

Mancat Monday

This post is for the most awesome Mancat ever: my husband Ruis! Guess what he did?
He sent me a snuggle!!! He actually didn't send it himself but he bid on it and then had Diva Kitty send it to me directly.
First I hoped maybe he might come out of the package himself, hahahahahahahahaha!

Unfortunately he was not in there himself... But the wonderful snuggle was, and three squiggly things to play with and a beautiful card.

So I unfolded the snuggle and laid down on it and started dreaming about my Ruis right away.

And then I got up to do some stretching and guess what....

Maybe she tries to get back at me for this.....

Happy Birthday Dragonheart

Alles Liebe und Gute und herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Dragonheart!

Another Award

Today we were making our rounds to personally extend our gratitude to all of you who participated in Emil's wake. And we realized that in our grieve and sorrow it slipped our minds to mention another award in our last post.
Miss Peach gave Emil this wonderful award:

And this is what she said:"...I would like the honor of giving this award to Emil for his talent that he amazed us with while he was a part of our world. Now in heaven, this will look very good on his resume!"

Thank you Miss Peach, we are sure Emil is very very proud!

Lots Of Thank Yous

Thank you everybody who came and participated in Emil's Wake. We very much appreciated it and were very touched. We will come by in the next few days to personally thank you all for being such wonderful friends.

We have some catching up to do. Already in May we got the 'Totally Hip Award' from wildcatsthree. This is what they said: "...we always enjoy our visits to the Cat Realm because of their creativity and ability to entertain...their world travel and cruises around the blogosphere are a must see." WOW. That is quiet a compliment! Thank you so much Abby, Rosie, Jackie, Gidget and Lola.


In July Castle wrote: "...I think that Storm would have passed this award on to every single cat, creature and human that came by to wish her well on her final journey, and I would like to pass this on to all who have since visited us to make sure me and my meowmies are OK...so we pass this on to all of you!" Thank you Castle, we humbly accept this in honor of the wonderful Furry Fighter Storm - we will never forget you and always love you!


And Samantha and Mr. Tigger gave us the Arte y Pico Award.

'The ‘Arte y Pico’ award" was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity and their talents, also for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium. When you receive this award it is considered a "special honor". Once you have received this award, you are to pass it on to 5 others.'
The rules for passing this honor on:
1) Pick 5 blogs that you would like to award this honor to.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
We like to pass this award on to Opus and Roscoe, Rosetti and Kirara, Bendrix, all my In-Laws and last but not least to Omer who just lost his sweet little Forest. Please go over and give him some comforting purrs.

graphic by Zoolatry

A Wake For Emil

Our dear friend and bestest men Opus and Roscoe put together an Irish Wake for Emil.
We are just overwhelmed with gratitude, thank you so much dear friends.
We invite all of you who met Emil, maybe got to know him a bit, or maybe just heard about him, saw his "Behind The Scenes" pictures or never even met him until now to participate in his wake.

Post your favorite Emil story, anecdote, or memory or just give your condolences.
Login: awakeforemil at gmail dot com
Password: inourhearts

Opus and Roscoe also made a picture of Emil arriving at the bridge, being welcomed by Anastasia, Miral and Ralph.

Cold Box Meme

Mindy and Moe tagged us for this great meme:
"A fun and simple MEME for the hot summer. Show us a photo of the front of your Cold Box and tell us about at least one thing on it and one thing you keep inside of it! Tag your friends and remember to stay COOL!"
And here is our Cold Box:

One thing on it:
On the upper front part to the left of Skeezix 'no vishus deer' button there is a picture of Patsy and Edina that the maid took off the TV once. She absolutely LOVES AbFab....
One thing in it:
Now that is easy! In the upper part, the freezer, there is ALWAYS a bag of our main food!
We like to tag:
Ruis
Yao-Lin
Bunjie
Opus and Roscoe
Chica and Pumuckl

Traveling Tuesday

Our friend Dicky Duck, the traveling duck, finally has all the pictures of his last trip posted!
Some of you may know that he took the maid on a bus trip to Poland. There are a bit more than 400 pictures to watch: Wroclav, Krakow, and lots more!
We hope you enjoy!
Go here for his blog.

House Trashing at Mr. Hendrix

Emil would not want us to sit around and mope so we decided to go to Mr. Hendrix's house trashing party this Sunday, July 6! We will take Emil's camera with us - maybe someone volunteers to try and catch Bendrix and/or anybody else who misbehaves - which should be pretty much anybody who comes, hahahahahahaha - on film. See you there!

Happy Birthday Emil

You didn't quiet make it to your first birthday Emil, which would have been today, but we will celebrate your life, even if it was short, and always love you.


Thank you Ruis for making this lovely picture of Emil at the bridge.

P.S. we are in the process of visiting everybody who came by but it will take a few days to reach all of you. So bear with us - if we haven't been by your blog yet, we will be shortly!

Sad News

With very broken hearts we have to inform you that Emil is gone.
He was last seen Saturday, June 21 in the morning and never came home.
Unfortunately in our environment that means that he has crossed to the bridge with the help of either coyotes, bobcats, rattlers, or owls. We have very few neighbors (who all know us) and no garages to be locked in.
We know that some of you don't understand why we are not indoor cats in such a dangerous environment but we all came out of the desert and hate to be locked up. We are glad that our staff does not try to make us indoor cats, even if they would rather have us save 24/7.
The maid is back but she and the butler are heart broken. We try to comfort them as good as we can and take comfort ourselves in the fact that Emil had the best of lives, enjoying every minute of it.

Karl Is Back! Still No Maid...

Karl is finally back from his travels! First the honeymoon (we still do not know where they went!) and then his visit with his husband Ruis in The Netherlands. We are very happy to have him here again!
But we still can't blog or visit because the maid is not back....
So we tried to send her a message. We wanted to spell out "We miss you" but we ran into technical difficulties......

Surprise: Karl In The Netherlands

The maid is still gone. We are still confined to a life without blogging.
But Karl is back from his honeymoon and will be visiting his husband Ruis for the next few days!
Word on the street has it that they will arrive there Friday 13......

Do not miss
Karl's adventures in The Netherlands!!!

Please go to Ruis' blog and follow their adventure in The Netherlands. We have a hunch that there will be awesome pictures!!!

A Month Without Blogging....

The maid who is helping us with all the blogging stuff will be gone for the month of June.
The nerve!!!!
She is traveling with Dicky Duck in Europe and we have to suffer the consequences...


Might as well make the best out of a bad situation, right?

Karl is still on his honeymoon... BUT:
come back here on June 12th
and we will have a surprise for you.

A few of you have asked where Karl and Ruis will reside now. They will stay at their respective blogs, Karl here, Ruis at Kattenpraat, and use their joint blog for occasional adventures and events. Just like before.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Mancat Monday

While Karl and Ruis are still on their honeymoon we received their Marriage License from Star Fleet Command:

And their best men Opus and Roscoe made
the most beautiful WEDDING VIDEO for them!

The Wedding Party!

Thank you all so much for coming to our wedding!
And now please celebrate with us here.

Today is THE DAY

Today is THE DAY! Ruis and I are getting married aboard the starship Voyager!!

52 Cats and dogs are attending the official wedding ceremony at Ruis and my joint blog, and an innumerable multitude is gathering at the wedding reception!

We are registered at Moki's, so you don't have to look any further for a perfect wedding present... hahaha. Also the money prizes for the best Trekkie at our reception blog are donated in the winner's name to Moki!

Our wedding planner Sassy helps us getting ready for the wedding.