Saturday, February 20, 2010

Kleen and Fetching

Today we have our final entries for the Cat-a-lympics. Each of us has had opportunity to participate.

Mile Long Machine Kleen
We have entered Rusty in this event which is sponsored by One Cats Nip.

As you can see Rusty is very thorough, washing carefully all the way to the tip of his tail. This takes quite a while as Rusty has a long, thick coat. Unfortunately, when Jan took this photo, she had no idea there would be a competition coming up and she very nearly deleted this one, along with the other bath photos he conned her into taking that day.


A very thorough Rusty finishes his bath.

Fetching
We were stymied as to where Merci could participate since many of the games are limited to cats. We were just about to give up and enter her in the Competitive Napping contest with Percy when we learned The Monkeys are hosting a fetching competition. Can Merci fetch? You bet your rawhide! She played fetch with Jan in the front yard in the rain one day and fortunately Jan's brother recovered all these photos when her computer had a meltdown last year. So here is our lovely Merci fetching her stick. This was pre-dog pen, so for her safety Merci was on a very long leash.


Jan threw the stick and Merci has caught up to it.


She is very particular. It must be picked up to be carried just so.


Moving quickly, Merci runs with the stick.


And a reflective moment on her fetching success.

We have enjoyed participating in the Cat-0-lympics. There is some very tough competition, but we think the Funny Farmers are good athletes and each entry stands a good chance of winning a medal.

Good luck to each of the other competitors.

27 comments:

  1. Ooh, good entries! It *has* been fun to see all the amazing talent. Good luck!

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  2. Good luck with the Cat-o-lympics

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  3. Awesome entry! We bet you will medal for sure!

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  4. Merci you are pawsome at fetching, and Rusty we thinks you did a very good job of washing. All of you are so athletic we are very impressed. Good luck, ~AFSS

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  5. We wish you the best of luck...you should be smelling gold in the air!

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  6. Good luck with your entries. Rusty is a good kleener and Merci is a very good fetcher.

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  7. Great photos and fun entries of your dogs; they are very talented and beautiful...Glad to see them participate=good luck!...xo...Calle, Halle, Sukki

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  8. Great entries :) The photos are so adorable :). Good luck with cat-olympics!

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  9. You are sure to be on the winning podium!!

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  10. ohhhh look at that coat on rusty!!!!!! Also Merci is one fantastic fetcher!

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  11. Well Rusty doesn't have to shower before receiving his medal at the podium. That is just down right smart playing. Merci definitely should get the gold medal for fetching. What about retrieving?

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  12. Awesome fetching, Merci!

    We are going to be posting all the finalists on our blog tomorrow and a poll for votes (actually you can vote now, the poll is up)!

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  13. Excellent work! Good luck you guys!
    Tail wags,
    Storms

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  14. You have two great entries, the washing event and the fetching event. Both are well done and we can tell that you have done a lot of practice. Good luck.

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  15. Good luck!
    Kisses and hugs
    Lorenza

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  16. Two enteries and I see two medals for sure. I think Mercy has a good chance at the gold! A lot of training went in that for sure. Good luck to both!!

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  17. Furry good fetching! We thinks you ought to win!

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  18. We agree, things worth doing need to be done just right. Like fetching.

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  19. Great job Merci. Sure hope you win the medal for fetching. Rusty good job for you too and ditto on the medal.

    Jan almost all the pictures that I put on the scripture post are the ones I have taken myself. And I really thank you for the complement on the comment section. I enjoy photography but it seems like I have to many pictures of the river but it is everchanging. I love the sunrises we get over the river.

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  20. Your right, use to b on the older ones now moving to the newer ones.i had just been deleting them ..but when they commented on one of our "angels" post, they crossed the line..

    Peace,
    claudette

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  21. We didn't know fetching was a competing sport. Not that we'd be very good at it.

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  22. You are both amazingly talented! We hope you win the gold!

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  23. Good luck in the events you guys entered. We cant wait ta start reading about the winning entries at all the host sites.

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  24. Excellent form by both competitors! Best of luck, and thanks for playing!

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