Gabby has a new forever home!

Gabby has a new forever home near Baltimore!  We love you Gabby!

Gabby video

Gabby video 

Desperately seeking a home for Gabby!

Hello All.
The beans are really wanting a noo  foreffur home for Gabby. Teddy, our recently neutered stud boy, is bothering her at least once or twice a day by trying to attack her. She is really skared of him and growls at him.  She just needs some new feeline buddies. Mombean feels awful as she loves Gabby very much. She is very upset and does not know what to do. Mombean has had Gabby posted as a retired friend over at FBRL twice. She has had some interest in her but then they always find a cat closer to home. Alas, Mom bean would hate to have to bring down the final curtain on Gabby.....  Mombean is very upset. Any ideas? Anyone know of  rescues that take 8 year old toothless cats? She is healthy but needs a new home. She is a lovely sweet girl who needs a home as the spoiled only cat. Here are some pics of  Gabby.

Gabby as kitten with sibling.

Mia's Munday Musings!!

Mombean....... Why is the sky leaking so much?  Is ceiling cat crying 'cuz we have bean bad kittehs? Or is it 'cuz the roses need water? 

Can anyone help me understand why the sky is leaking so much? Fanks! 

Mia's Monday Musings! Where were G and Alexi this weekend?

Mia's Monday Musings.

Well Hai All. Me has been wondering and musing about  where G boy and my great grandma, Alexi, went dis past weekend. Da beans left Fry-day after noon. Where they went after that, I don't know. Does any one know? Mom bean took some pics of waer dey were all weak-end. Perhaps they will have a clue to where they went? Will you help me understand where dey wented?

Well, I recognize these twoo kitt-ehs, the long haired kitty is my bud, Galletta. The other  kitty is my great grandma, Alexi. I iz not shoor where dey is, thou. Can you tell me?  Perhaps more pics will help?

Why is G in prizon? What did he do wrong? 

What is a Neb- bee-lung?? I don't noe that werd. What is an alter? How is altered? Did da doctors do somefin to  my bud, G boy?  Can any tell me where they was this weak- end? No? Well I am just glad they are home now. I missed my bud, G boy.

Mia's Monday Musings.......

Oh Hai, Mia here!
 I is so egg-cited about my first postie here at Alexi's bloggy. As Alexi told  efurrybuddy last weak, I am the only *queen*. All dee other girls are *princesses* but not me 'cause I can have babies!! Isn't that cool?? I had my first litter last November.

My muse for the day is this..... Does it always hurt to have babies?? I remember I had a little pain that surprised me and Mombean whisked me off to another room. Within an hour, I had really big pains and out popped a very wet kitten.

And then another kitten popped out and I had two babies!  Here they are after I cleaned them up. Both sweet little black girls. Aren't they sweet?? So cute!!

Monday Muse: Mombean, Does it always hurter to have babies?? Even if it do, I want more babies! Puh leeze, Mombean! I really want more babies!!!!!! Even with pains, I love having babies!!

Femme Friday and ...............

Introducing Mia.

Alexi: Let me introduce all my furriends to Mia, our young Russian Black female and our only queen ( Although of us girls act like princesses but Mia...... she is a queen- really it just means she is our only mom). Mia is quite a sweet, loving extrovert of a cat. She makes friends easily with other kitties and beans. Anyway, Mia has told me that she wants to start blogging so she will be doing a post of her own efurry week called Mia's Monday Musings. What will she muse? Who knows what may go thru her black but comely head? Come back on Monday to find out!

In the meantime, here are a few pics of Mia for your viewing pleasure.

Two pics of Mia as a baby kitten. She is one of the blacks- don't know which one.

Olivia's two girls- one blue and one black

 

Pictures of Mia. 

Alexi is retiring......

Oh Hi All.
Mombean and I have decided that I would like to retire from blogging or at least slow down.  You know,  a girl needs more time for naps as she ages.  Here I am doing my best to get my naps.

Don't worry we are not closing my bloggy just handing it off to a new generation of bloggers. Mia has expressed an interest in blogging so I am going to let her start posting on my bloggy to see how she likes it and see if she can find things to blog about.

If you follow G man's blog, Galletta the Great, you know that he has introduced Teddy as a new blogger with him. Likewise, Mia will be joining me on my bloggy.

Taa Taah for now! Kitty kisses and headbumpies!

Mia's girls go exploring......

Mia's girls!

Here are a couple of pics of Mia's two girl kittens. Very cute! They are three weeks and two days old.

  Pic of Momma Mia and both girls. 

One of the girls.

 Same kitten.......... we think.

The other girl. 

 What an adorable face! 

Teddy update!

 Our Russian Blue male, Teddy, was neutered  this past Tuesday, Dec. 11th.  His surgery went well. He has been resting and eating since he came home.  He has a new home waiting for him come January!  Pics of him tomorrow!

Midnight!

Midnight is one of our Russian Blacks. He is a  7 year old neutered male.  As you can see he is a big fella but a sweet boy. His eye color is more green that seen in these photos. It is NOT gold. 

My last post to the CB. The reasons why.

I thought perhaps I should just leave and not mention any reasons why. Then I realized people have left  the CB and  I sometimes wonder why- because no reason is given. It is sad when people leave so I thought I needed to do one last post to provide reasons as to why I am leaving the CB.

Well, I guess I started noticing the changes in the CB over the last year or two. It was not as much as fun.  People did not visit blogs as much and some people just dropped out of sight with no word.   After ML's illness and self-imposed sabaatical started, the CB really began to change. So few people sent any noos. And when they did, it was usually sad news about the death of a cat. While I realize many people  genuinely grieve over their cats, it was beginning to be too much for me to visit the CB main page and have it read like the obituary page of a newspaper. Argh... way too sad!! If it was not the obituaries, there were at least one if not two auctions going at a time. Again, I realize the need for the auctions, but has anyone thought how it looks for there to be auctions on the CB home page.  No? let me tell you how it looks to me. Like anyone with a cat can just send in a message for a need  and voila -an  auction is posted. Free Money if you go to the CB and send in a message saying you have a need!  Is that how we want to be represented to the world? As the place where one can send a message and get an auction going?? I doubt it. Obits used to be rare events as did auctions. It  was NEWS when someone was in genuine need. It was NEWS when a beloved 'cat blogger' died.

With the growth of the CB, there will now be no weeks without the news that a cat of a blogger has died somewhere in the CB world. I am not saying that the CB should not recognize that but does it really need to be on the home page? There are plenty of links to other pages. Why not make a link to "Rainbow Bridge" page for people to set up memorials or links to their posts about a beloved cat? If you want to know if a kitty has died, you can check that page.

Also, I believe the auctions should be moved to a page of their own so they are not on the home page. The home page should be news that happened that day. There is no need to keep an announcement up for more than a day unless it is about a party/happening that needs to be announced over several days in advance so people will know where and when. If you want to know if an auction is running, then you can check the auction page. In fact, I thought there was  going to be an auction page but I gather I was misinformed.

 I will say that the  proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" is when both my  husband and I sent news of Mia's kittens  several times including a comment to the noos section of the CB page.  We waited patiently for the news to appear. We contacted people with the news. We posted at our own blog about it. Yet, the news of Mia's kittens did not appear. When it finally did appear over a week later, it was  below a rather nasty message from Mog:

A note to those that email stuff to the noos, please include a link. I do not know all the kitties nor do I have time to hunt down all comments and links left in Mr Linky to find one. KC and ML will be back in January.


Now, If we had not  given links as well as posted comments which always have a link to the person/blog that sent it, we could understand that comment. Alas, we did indeed give links to  our blogs and my comment in the news section did indeed have a link to our blog.  No need to do any thing more than click on the link above my comment. It is that easy!! Yet,  during this time, news/obits continued to be posted on the CB home page making me wonder if it was just our news that was not being posted???? SO i would send another message announcing the good news of Mia's kittens. 

If Mog does not have the time on a daily basis to post news to the CB homepage, perhaps that  task could be given to someone else. If Mog does not want to do this (ie keep up the CB homepage) then please find someone else who will want to do this willingly. 

For those bloggers who know us on FB, see ya round on FB! . Please note- all are welcome to visit our blogs. They are still up. My/Alexi's blog has changed focus to the cattery. G's blog remains his and he can do with it what he wants. I suspect it will remain but G does not post regularly as his typist is busy with work. 

I hope this explains things. 

Teddy!

Since the new focus of this blog is our cattery, I thought I would take the time to introduce some of our cats to a new audience.

Teddy is our only breeding male at the moment. He will be neutered soon as his daughter is a new mom. Here are several pictures of him. Enjoy!

Update: He will neutered soon. December 11th. We hope he will join his new family in the new year! We are so happy for Teddy!!

Searching on Sunday!

Momma Mia is good mama. When we returned from our thanksgiving trip to visit family, we wanted to check on her and the babies. As she dashed out the door, we went into their room to check on the babies. Here is what we found in their nest.

Uh oh! Where are the babies? Momma Mia! 

Where are your babies??

 

Where could they be?? Not in this corner! 

Momma Mia found them!! What a good momma!! 

Here they are ! Sleeping soundly in the corner!

Ah!! Such sweet babies. 

Look at how big they are at almost 5 days old !

Femme Friday! Momma Mia!

 Oh Hi!
Did you guess Mia's good news? If you guessed that she is pregnant, you are correct! Mia is going to be a momma. We are so excited! She should be due soon- in about a week.  We expect blue kittens and black kittens as the sire is a blue male.

Here are pics of the prospective parents:

Mia:

Sire:

Wonderful Wednesday!

Hai! We haz sum wunderful NOOS for this Wednesdai!  

Here are some pics of Mia as clues! 

Can you guess Mia's good news? 

Answer on Femme Friday!! 

Frootbat Friday!! Show me some eers!

Hi All,
I thought I would show you my ears or as it is called in the cat fancy- ear set.

Here are a couple of  pictures of me as a kitten.

In this picture, I am  about 5 months old. Good jumper from the start!

Here I am slightly older at about 10 months old 

Here I am at about a year old. 

  Here I am as a senior cat!