Mother's Day Gift

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers and grandmothers.  In honor of this day, Mona & Prissy & Angel Weenie put together a Mother's Day Smiley Box on their blog with photos of hu-moms and their furries..  Please go by and check it out at Mona, Weenie and the Monnny too! bog. We can't wait to see it.

And, even though Jan has a strict policy of no posted selfies, we convinced her to help us enter a photo of her with one of us. 

Buddy:  And since I was the only one whose head could be seen in any of the photos, I got to submit my photo for the Mother's Day Smiley Box.  Rusty would only show the back of his head.  And Sam ... well, let's just say, he has a great eye.  Doesn't matter which one, since all we could see was one eye or the other or the top of his head.  but me, I look royal .

Marcus:  Royal?  You look snooty.

Buddy:  No, Marcus, I do not look snooty!  I look like a Royal.  I need only wave a paw to complete the effect.

Sam:  I don't know about that.  I think you look more like you could use a tissue.

Merci:  We will forgo our usual Sunday Smile video to tell a story.

Cameron:  What happens when a pup nails a walking human's sandal to the floor for just a split second?

Marcus:  I don't know.  What happens?

Micah:  The human flies through the air and slides across the floor.  Flying without wings must be a new Olympic event since Jan keeps training for it.

Rusty:  How could you not know what happens, Marcus?  You're the pup who nailed Jan's sandal to the floor yesterday morning while you were trying to squeeze past her at the bedroom door. 

Marcus:  I did not! Oh, you mean when I stepped on her sandal as I passed her?  She sure made a mess when she sent everything in the area flying.  She really should learn to be less messy if she expects me to learn to be neat.

Cyndi:  You must have known the accident was your fault, Marcus.  You can't be that dense!  Oh, wait, you can.  You asked her what she was doing on the floor.

Marcus:  I did check her over and tried to lick her wounds, but she kept screaming at me to go away.  I told her to get up but she said she was comfortable on the floor.

Merci:  No, she said she couldn't get up from the floor.  There's a difference.  She has lots of swelling and bruises, and a sprained thumb, big toe and possibly knee.  What kind of Mother's Day gift do you call that?

Marcus:  I don't know.  An unexpected one?

Cyndi:  I'm not sure whether we should give Jan a Mother's Day or a We're Glad You Survived Another Accident card.  

Cameron:  After the last couple of weeks, I suggest we skip the former and stock up on the latter.

Percy:  Yesterday we posted the original of this photo, a sepia copy, and two Caturday Art versions.  This is the black and white copy.  My stripes look pretty good in any color, don't they!

We are joining the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop co-hosted by Dachshund Nola and Golden Sugar.

Roses for Micah

Hey, Micah here.  Sorry we missed a couple of Thankful Thursday posts.  Last week I wanted to post about what I was thankful for but Miss Computer Hog ... well, hogged the computer.

On Mother's Day Jan came home from church with two long stemmed red roses.  They were given to everyone there for their mother or in her memory, if she had passed away.  I never met Jan's Ms Mother (Jan says we have to be good Southern cats and call our elders Ms or Mr) but all the other Funny Farmers knew her.

Jan put them in a vase of water on the kitchen table.  If you remember, I've been living in the kitchen for a few months now (by choice; it's near food and water and my warm bed) so I just knew she'd put them there for me to play with.  So I did.  At night I'd take them out of the vase and we'd play games.

Their leaves kinda fell off and they started looking a bit punk.So I took them out of the water more often but nothing helped.  I even tried to resuscitate them. Then they shriveled up and after one big sigh of good-bye, they both died.

I miss my friends and wish they could have hung around longer, but I'm very thankful they were here long enough to become my friends. They were fun to play with.  And they smelled good too.  Not like tuna, but with a flowery kind of scent.

This post was prepared before the F5 tornado ripped through Oklahoma the other day. We joined the BlogPaws Disaster Response Network when it was set up.  We received some information from them yesterday and posted it on Facebook but forgot to add it here.

The largest need at the moment is cash. BlogPaws is reaching out to the BDRN and all the sponsors of the 2013 conference to pledge a commitment for Oklahoma. This collective donation will go to the World Vets who are assessing the needs on site to make the best decision on where the money will go – based on their work in past disasters.

Donations will be collected by World Vets through 11:59 PM Tuesday, May 28^th. The collective donation will be announced when the money is ready for delivery. A badge with a direct donate link is at the top of our right sidebar.

http://blogp.ws/16O9ofk. Here you can find hings from who needs what to donations to where to look for lost and found pets. 

Many of you have lived through a tornado, but we never have, so we can not truly imagine the shock and devastation of such a powerful storm.  We pray for all those affected, especially for those who lost a loved one.

Mother's Day 2013

We made you this card with our own little paws.  And a few extra large ones (Sam, Buddy, Rusty).

Okay, truth be told, Jan made this card but we asked her to.  That's the same as making it ourselves, isn't it!  If we hadn't asked, she wouldn't have thought of it till after Memorial Day.  So it's our card to all mothers - birth mothers, adopters, hu-moms of furries - from all of us.

Happy Mother's Day!

Merci, Cyndi, Percy, Cameron, Buddy, Rusty, Sam & Micah
and Jan too