Cyndi Flexes Claws, Purrs and Orlando

Hey, Cyndi here with today's post.     Do I look like I need calming?  I think I look all sweet and docile.  And I am ... sometimes. Just don't try to mess with my claws! 

Jan accepted an offer for us to review Pet Naturals of Vermont Calming chews for cats but we haven't been under any extra stress lately so we haven't had need of calming. 

Tonight Jan thought she'd try one on me to see if she could clip my nails. I scarfed it down.  And she gave me a second chewy for good measure.

About ten minutes later she tried to cut my nails.  Oh, I was lovey, purring and climbing her shoulder to groom her hair, but every time she tried to see my nails, I blocked her view with my head and voiced my displeasure. She tried again a little while later.  And again.  And again.  And guess what?  All but two of my long, razor-sharp claws are still intact.   

Jan has had a couple of serious bites  (not from any of us).  One ripped a vein, she lost a lot of blood and nearly ended up in the hospital with an infected hand, so when we're uncooperative, she's chicken mush.  Perhaps she needs to give me more calming chews at a time?  Or on a daily basis for a while prior to approaching with the clippers again? Okay by me!  They taste good.  (The calming chews, not the clippers.)
Or maybe she needs to try a handful of the calming chews herself. 

The reason she was interested in trying them on us is because they're made from natural ingredients.  They contain brewers yeast (which she gives us anyway) lecithin, colostrum and L-theanine (an amino acid found in green tea and known to be a natural stress reliever).

A few days ago Jan opened the package and gave Cotton a calming chew.  Cotton wasn't upset but she's the oldest, so Jan wondered how she would react to something new.

Uh-oh, Jan put it down for Cotton and look who's trying to beat Cotton to it?  (Yes, it's me.) 

Cotton beat me to it.  **Crunch, crunch, mmmmm.**

Cotton searched for seconds, or at least leftover crumbs.

Jan said she'd sure love to try some of the dog calming chews on Buddy because of his separation anxiety. He has taught Sam and Merci to cry while he howls if Jan is on the opposite side of the door from him.

Pet Naturals of Vermont will send a free trial size of Calming for Cats and a coupon to the first 500 cat lovers that sign up on their website.  Those signing up after the 500 limit is reached will receive a first-time discount coupon.  Stop by calmingforpets.com to sign up.

We were given a sample of the calming chews to try but were not paid for this review. This is our experience with the product.

Graphic by Zoolatry

Milo and Alfie's dad has a very important appointment with a specialist today (Thursday) to save his failing eyesight. Please remember him in your prayers. 

 Graphic by KC of CB

And Orlando from Diva Kitty & Fiona's blog has gone to the bridge.  We send comforting purrs and woofs to his family.

Buddy Bunny

 Hi, it's Buddy.  It's my turn to post today and I have some exciting news to share but first ....

Okay, we didn't get a couple of days off.  Yesterday we all started working on the blog list on JFF. Some blogs have moved, some have closed, some are too busy to blog -   We need to update it, our bookmarks and Google Reader subscriptions.  What a mess!

After 5 days of fighting with our blog template, Jan was "brain dead" and never wanted to look at Blogger again. But she decided to redo another blog she has. This one was cooperative and since she had worked the sizing so many times for JFF, that one was finished in about an hour or less.

She also figured out the problem with Blogger in Draft, which she needed to access Blogger's new templates, and now that JFF is set up, we hope our dashboard is back to normal and our auto posts will start auto posting again. Guess we'll find out one day soon. But for today, we're going to post this ourselves. :-)

Thank you for our new look, Jan. We would reward you for your hard work, but since you won't give us an allowance, all we can offer you is some dry kibble in a bowl. Help yourself.

Now, to get to the exciting news.  I entered the Easter contest hosted by Socks, Scylla, Artemesia & Fenris' mom.  And I encourage all of you who can to enter it also. You can read about it and post your entries at Contest Hosted by Alasandra.  This is my entry.

Buddy Bunny

This year I decided to celebrate Easter by serving my fellow furries. You guessed it, I volunteered to help the Easter Bunny deliver baskets to all those furries who want one. Or to all those we can reach before our hoppers wear out. (That means before our paws wear out, in case you are wondering.)


Yes, some of you already know me as Dr. Buddy, the renowned (at least around the Funny Farm and The Meezers') brain surgeon. But very soon I will be Dr. Buddy, Assistant Hound to the Easter Bunny. And the other Funny Farmers will be my assistants. As usual, I will be in charge, and they will most likely be their usual 4 left paws selves. But if they do a good job, they can wear bunny ears next year.

I haven't been given our top secret route yet, but perhaps I'll be assigned to deliver in your area. If so, remember this -- do not laugh at the hopping hound bunny! This will be grounds for immediate consumption of your intended Easter basket by said hopping hound bunny.


Happy Easter!

Buddy Bunny
& Assistants: Cotton, Merci, Cyndi, Percy, Cameron, Rusty & Sam

A Card, Award and a Prayer

Zoolatry sent this beautiful Valentine card. We know it's a bit late to post it, but it's so pretty. KC (Gentle Annie) sent us a beautiful card too but we couldn't save it to post.




We received this lovely award from Caspersmom recently. Thank you, Casper!

"This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight kitties who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Passing on an award is always hard. There are so many good blogs and nice bloggers. It's just hard to choose. We're not sure who has already received one, so if this is your second, we hope you will enjoy it the second time around. We choose these 8.

Chance Bond -- We know Chance's blog is temporarily closed because his human lost her job and thereby access to a computer to blog, but we hope he will be able to receive it before long. We love his friendly blog and miss him.
Zoolatry's Zoey & Maggy -- They share their human's talent so generously with all.
Wicky Wuudler, Angel, Oliver and Gerry -- Whenever there's a need, Wicky and his siblings are spreading the word.
Karen Jo of Kitty Limericks -- She is always giving by writing about others' cats and dogs. And as hard as it is, she writes a good-bye limerick when they leave.

Buddy: Hey, wait a minute. These are all kitties. We should have picked at least one woofy.

Samaritan: Yes, I can think of a number of deserving woofies.

Cotton: But we all agreed on these 8. It wasn't deliberate. It just happened that today we happened to pick all kitties. Next time .... who knows, it might be all woofies. Or a hammy or a bunny.


We hope you will continue to pray for Pet of Pet's Garden Blog. We can't remember the medical term, but she still has infection in her spinal column!

Crickets and Buster Bunny

Um, about the book we won from Skeezix. We were so excited after we caught some crickets for Jan that we decided not to wait until Halloween to surprise her. We put the crickets in a plastic container and wrapped it up with the book.

She unwrapped her present and seemed a little interested in the book, The Reality TV Handbook. Until she noticed something move in the container. She popped the lid and then popped a screech that was probably heard in the next county. Our ears are still ringing and since Samaritan is the tallest and he was sitting right beside her, he's still a little deaf in his right ear.

Needless to say, she threw the container across the room and let all the crickets out. We tried to catch them but they disappeared under the baseboards.

Maybe it's just as well. She could never catch enough bugs on her own to support her appetite. She'd probably have had to join the Cricket Bucket of the Day Club, which could probably run into squillions of dollars and we certainly couldn't afford to support her habit. Neither could she.

But, personally, we think that's a very rude way to accept a gift. We put a lot of thought and effort into it. She could at least have tried one cricket.

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"With the Premium Dardos, recognize the values that each blogger shows each day in commitment to transmit cultural values, ethical, literary, personal etc. that, in short, demonstrate their creativity by alive thinking that remains intact from their letters and words. " This label implies two rules: the first, link the blog to which he received the award. The second - pick blogs to deliver the prize."

We received this award from River and we would like to pass it on to :

Niko and Cloud (Cloud's coming home!) because their mom will continue Texas' photo contest, even though he left for the bridge recently, and has given two new kittens a home.

The Kapp Pack for their rescue work and fundraising for Siberian Huskies.

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We met the cutest little blind Irish Hare bunny who lives in -- who would have guessed? -- Dublin, Ireland. He... actually they finally learned he's a she ... was found sitting in the road when she was a tiny leveret. Stop by and meet Buster.

Emil, Award and Adoptions

Emil of the Cat Realm is missing. In the area where he lives, when a cat doesn't return home overnight, it is often very bad news. But we don't want Karl, Mrs. Oz or their maid and butler to give up hope.

Sassy made this poster. Feel free to display this one which includes the link to the Cat Realm or stop by Sassy's or Cat Blogosphere to pick up a copy.

House of the mostly black cats (Hot MBC) has a very good post on Emil's disappearance. We all do what we believe to be best for our furbabies.

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We received the Daily Blogger award from the Hudson Furkids. As you undoubtedly are aware, we can't always blog every day, but we do our best. And if we remember correctly, it is for those who blog at least 3 times a week. We're not going to start counting back. We're just going to say thank you to Rocky and his family.


We thought it would be fair to pass it on to one kitty and one woofie. We voted to pass this on to Daisy, the Curly Cat. And we picked the Zoo Crew 5 for the woofie award. If either one has already received it, that's okay.

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Yesterday was a good day. The local Humane Society and the animal shelter hosted a special adoption day. It turned out better than they dared hope. 11 dogs and 1 cat found a new home.

But Jan is sunburned, exhausted and grumpy today. She wants the computer back so she can work on the photos she took yesterday. We'll probably be back in a couple of days since tomorrow is Jan's regular day to take pictures at the shelter.

What's that? Why don't we just use the computer when Jan isn't home? Well.....

We've been banned from using the computer when she's not home. There was an incident. We don't really want to talk about it.

Okay, if you insist.

We are not allowed to touch the computer without supervision, ever since we accidentally blew out the speakers listening to cat-erwalling muzak with the volume turned all the way up. Buddy woof-erwalled right along with it. If he had just shut up we could have played innocent. But no, the neighbors complained about Buddy's bass baying (we know it couldn't have been the cats' vocal range), Merci's soprano and Samaritan's hearty and loud tenor. Plus the weird background music. So Jan knew. She just knew we were responsible. And we're banned.

Panther, Archi and a Trio

The other day things were looking very bad for Panther kitty, but amazingly he is improving. Panther lives in Malaysia. He had a rough start in life that left him disabled, and then he was hit by a car. You can read Panther's story and updates on CrizCats.

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We were sorry to learn one of our favorite bunnies died unexpectedly Sunday. We hope you will stop by Archie's Antics and leave an encouraging message for her mum if you haven't already done so. She will leave the site up as a tribute to Archi Ann but she now blogs on Archie's Mum.

Sometimes the unexpected happens, no matter how careful we try to be.

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This trio of animals is amazing. As the owner suggests, we should all get along so well.

2007 Playboy Bunny Calendar

Yes, we know it is already December and we're just getting around to viewing and posting the 2007 Playboy Bunny Calendar. But if you haven't already seen it, it's a must-view.

Take a deep breath and ... voila. Just click on pictures to enlarge for better viewing.

Okay, I've heard from folks who can't view the photos. I heard from one that the phtos can be viewed but not enlarged. I checked Google Web Albums and the photos are gone - poof. So how I or anyone else is able to view them is beyond me. I am replacing the photos. Hope Blogger lets me. It's a fun calendar.





































We hate it when people remove identifying information from photos and stories. Does anyone know who created this calendar so we can give credit?