Frisky Friday!!!

The G-Men Speak Owt

Well, thank y'all for the comments. I think I'll stay rite here in Dooram with my brother the other G-man. I AM the king cat at this house and even tho I let Buddy stay here, he has to share, EVERYTHING... like food,toys, even his furson. I know I have it good here, even tho I like to try and sneak outside once in a while, I am so lucky to have a warm house with a sunroom and lots of windows to look out. And now, there is one more person and another cat friend to play with or hiss at. Ain't I a lucky boy!!!!
boy, Gilmore never lets me do any tawkin' on the 'puter. I kind of like having Buddy and his Mom here. Me and Buddy are bof orinch so we speak the same language. Sometimes my mom and Buddy's mom can't even tell who's tawkin,cuz we sound so alike. I like to play wif Buddy, but he really shoodn't sleep on my mom's bed, that's my spot and I don't want to share!

Staying Dry

Wen Grampa goes owtside to get the noospaper he puts this ofur his hed so he doesn't get wet. I din't want to get wet eefur, so I wented under it and guess wot? I din't get wet!! Grampa sure is smart!

--Finny

Report from Ant Ree's howse

One nite my mom was all nise and comfy on the big cowch so I wanted to sit on her lap but wen I got there wat do you fink I saw?


Cuzzin Gilmore! Sitting all snuggly and comfertable on MY mom's nise flannel jammy legs! And she let him. But even tho he isn't furry nise to me, I let him stay there becos I know that my mom loves me best cos she tells me all the time and I get to sleep wif her on the bed all nite and we get furry cosy and snuggly.

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Mom bringed home a new toy! It is a funny little red bug! It flys reely fast all arownd the room and goes up on the walls and the seeling and efurryware! Gilmore reely goes crazy crazy for it - mom and Ant Ree say he has an addikshun and he needs help. Me and Grady like it too but Gilmore hardly lets us get neer it!

See this big box? Somebean sent Ant Ree some purresents for the baby beans she takes care of and she let us keep the box cos we like it better than the baby clothes. Ushully it's upside down and one of us goes inside and pokes owr paw out the little window hole or we sit on top and play that way. It's lots of fun!

Tabby Tummy Tuesday

My little sis, Daisy.

What does Peace sound like?

Look what mom fownd in a catalog. Sure wish we had had it in time for the peace globe, but we think it's byootiful ennyways.

What does peace sound like at yore howse?

Would you shave off all yore furrs?

A human Bean we admire is doing something cool...

So last week wen we did the Peace Globe thing (see below), a nise bean who was allso doing it left us a messij and then we visted her blog and we fownd owt that she is doing somefing reely cool. She is going to shave off allllll her furrs on her hed!!! You can read all abowt it on her blog rite heer at Miss Annelisa's Blog.

Miss Annelisa is going to shave her hed furrs ('cos that's all beans have) in support of her good frend Miss Julia who has canser and is having all the terribul torchers to make it go away and all her hed furrs will prolly fall owt. But that's kind of ok, if the torchers make the canser go away.

You can see that Buddy and I have bofe had parts of us shaved for vetty torchers. I had to have a "bone marrow aspirate" 'cos they thot I mite have some cansers, but I din't and we were furry releeved. They did shave me in THREE plases and it took a long time for my furrs to gro bak.

Buddy had even more of his furrs shaved off wen he had to have an "ultrasownd" torcher on his tummy to see wy he was having trouble going pee. It took a reeeeeely long time for all his furrs to grow bak.

The best part of wy Miss Annelisa is shaving her furrs off is so that she can raise money for canser reserch. We think that is a reely good reason to shave her furrs off, plus so her frend won't be the only one wif no hed furrs. Maybe you or yore beans have a little bit of moneys you cood give to the canser reserch plase, that wood be good. If not, go visit Miss Annelisa ennyway and give her a good messij so she knows that us poodins think she's great for doing something so cool for her frend!

Oh! I forgot....Miss Annelisa writes pomes and other stuff too and guess wat? She wrote a pome abowt me and Buddy!! Heer it is...

Generous whiskers come in a pair

In timely con-furrr-ence about my hair

Dona Nobis Pacem

The literal translation of Dona Nobis Pacem from Latin to English is
Grant Us Peace.

Click on today's title to learn more.

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Imagine - John Lennon

Imagine there's no Heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

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All we are saying is...

Vishus Deers and Big Cats in Norf CArolina

Member how I sed mom was going home to owr howse in Charlotte to pak up more stuff? On the way she went to a store calld Garden Ridge that has crafty stuff that she buys to make things wif, pillows, towels, all kinds of stuff that beans need. But rite now they have all Chrissmuss things all ofur the store and she fownd these furry scary looking Vishus Deers!

Wy wood the store be selling Vishus Deers? Is it to keep cats and dogs away from there howses? Or maybe they think if there is one Vishus Deer there then no more will come?

The other reely good thing mom saw at the store was this grate big GINORMOUS cat! I never seed a green and red cat, but mom sez he was much much bigger than the Vishus Deers so that's reely good.

Happy Friday!!

Hi efurrycat and efurryfurry! Finny here (at Grandma and Grampa's howse) to tell some things that are going on.

First, we shood have tolld wif the Halloween piksher, but that kitty isn't me, his name is Jingles and he is at the Rainbow Bridge now. He had diabetes, like owr big brofur Jasper, and he got furry sick last yeer and his mom bean had to help him to the Bridge. He lived for a long time wif the diabetes and his mom is a reely good pikcher-taker so she has lots of reely good pix of him. She even has pix of him in a bowtie wif her in her wedding dress! Isn't that cool? Mom's going to look for the linky to his pikcher album and we'll post it wen she finds it.

Buddy has mostly been posting becos he is wif mom and he can get to the computer easier than I can. Grampa doesn't allways leave the computer room dore open and it's hard for me to get in there and use the puter wifowt him notissing.

Don't you fink it wood be fun if owr cuzzins Grady and Gilmore and owr Ant Lili and Unkle Iz wood take a tern on the blog and tell abowt wat it's like for them to have us staying wif them? I tolld Iz and Lili that they cood, but they are shy abowt blogging cos they nefur did it befor. The G-men have there own blog but they haf nefur put anyfing on it!

It's getting furry cold heer in Norf Carolina and the leefs are turning pritty colors. Grandma and Grampa live more in the woods than I efur did befor, so there are more critters to see. I haven't seed eny vishus deers yet, but Iz tolld me that there are some in his woods! I mite need to get some of Rocky & Mao's Vishus Deer Repellent.

Mom camed to visit me last nite at Grandma's howse and she hugged me a hole lot and brushed and brushed my old summer furrs owt but she aksed me wy I don't keep them for winter. Doesn't she kno I haf to grow new speshul furrs for winter? I can't ware the same furrs ALL year long! Grandma and mom were tokking abowt mom going home to owr howse to pak up more bokses and mom sed she wishd I like riding in the car becos then she wood take me! I'm furry glad she knows I do NOT like that. It wood be ok if she let me sit on her lap or my own seat, but I wood haf to go in the jale box and that is AWFUL! I'll stay heer wif Grandma.

Member wen we tolld abowt Cats with No Name? We wanted to remind you if you are saving yore little circles to send them off to Miss Virginia so she can get more foods and stuff for the cats she takes care of. Thank you!!

Big thanks to efurrycat and efurrybean and efurrybun who supported Miss Ramona's Big Dream and the Walk for the Animals. Ramona's Top Cats (including Fiona Bun and Miss Hope bean) raised $1,750!! That will help a lot of animals at the Conway Humane Society.

:( Litter box deposits on Blogger! Won't let me uplode any pix!

HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEN!!!

The rain is Gone!

Mom lissened to me and terned the rain off! AND she even opend up some windows but she sez she will haf to close them soon 'cos it's cooling off fast. But we are enjoying them for now. There is lots of colored leaves falling and flying arownd, I tryd to go owtside and chase them but I got cawt. Sully's beans came to visit us and I ran owt but his mom bean pickd me up reely fast. Oh well, at least the windows are open.

Mom saw me licking Grady's hed this afternoon and we have been sitting rite nekst to each other looking owt the windows and smelling the nise fresh air. Maybe we'll be frends.

Grrr, Midnight & Cocoa aksed for some more pix of Gilmore the Fluffy one for there mom bean, so here you go!

Rain Rain go Away!

It is furry rainy and yucky owtside and all the windows are closed and we can't get enny fresh air. I kind of miss Finny, efen tho mom sez he is having a nise visit wif Granma and Grampa and Iz and Lili. Sometimes I will play a little bit wif Cuzzin Grady, he's not an orinch punk like Sully was. Oh! Guess wat? Mom wented to visit Sully one nite! His new fambly is rite down the street from ware Ant Ree lives and his fambly went away so mom and Ant Ree went to feed him. Mom sez he is furry happy there and he has two little girl beans to play wif and lots of toys and things.

Mom sez owr howse in Charlotte is all cleaned up and no cat furrs ennyware so hopefully somebeans will come and like it and buy it. Then mom can loook for a new partment or a little howse heer in Dur'um and me and her and Finny will all be together agane. I like staying at Ant Ree's howse, she's furry nise and Grady and Gilmore are mostly ok most of the time. But Gilmore is allways wanting to fite me or chase me! I don't want to fite him 'cos mom sez I shood be a gentlecat and not do ennyfing to get us kickd owt of Ant Ree's howse. So I hiss at him and run upstares but he runns too and I haf to hiss and growl at him, don't I? I am not a scaredy-cat but I'm trying furry hard to behave to make mom prowd of me.

Grady likes my bizzy box and my toys and I let him play wif them.

Grady and Gilmore sitting owtside mom's room keeping me prizner so I can't leave!

Beware fellow Poodins! It's a Nepidemik!!

Just a few days ago, owr good frend Timothy Dickens(shown heer having a grate time at the St. Patty's/Finny's Birfday Party), got TRAPPED in his own loo! He was in ther for a furry furry long time and he allmost starved to def and was thirsty but he was brave and maded lots of noise and finely his mom bean resskewed him after a wile.

Well praktikly the same fing happend to me yesterday only it wasn't the loo. Some days Ant Ree bean goes to werk reeely erly and mom goes later and some days Mom goes erly and Ant Ree goes late. So mom fed me and cousins Grady and Gilmore owr brekkies and then she wented to werk.

BUT...wen Ant Ree got up and got wet and then putted on her clean clothes, I went to look in her closit and I fownd some nise soft fings to take a nap on. So I took a nise long nap and I kinda herd Ant Ree aksing ware I was, but I knew ware I was so I din't tell her.

But wen I waked up and I felt like having a nibble of some crunchy foods I was TRAPPED! Just like Timmy was!! So I did wat he did and I pownded and pownded wif my big paws but it din't do enny good. Mom din't come to save me or Ant Ree either. Cousin Grady came to the dore and sed "wat's rong Cuzzin Buddy? Don't you wanna come owt of there and play?" and I sed "Yes I do open this dore rite now!!" But he din't kno how to open it neether.

After a wile my paws got tired of pownding and my voice got tired of yelling "let me owwww owwwwwt" so I sleeped some more. So I did that all day long - slept and pownded and yelled and slept and powndded and yelled. And then I slept some more and pownded and yelled some more but still no one came to resskew me.

Finely, it was furry late and I herd Grady and Gilmore go running downstares saying "Ant Nora's home! Ant Nora's home - that means supper time, yay for stinky goodness!!" and I knew my own mom wood come and let me owt soon.

I herd mom saying "ware's Buddy?" over and over and I kept saying I was in Ant Ree's closit but I guess my voice was so week from starving all day that she coodn't heer me! She even wented owtside becos she thot maybe I skaped wen Ant Ree went to werk. Finely at last she came upstares and Grady ran over by the closit dore and sed "Buddy's in there!!" and even tho she din't unnerstand him, she opend the dore and I was so glad!! I ran owt of there and ran downstares to get some foods.

Wen Ant Ree came home she was furry sorry that she lokked me in the closit and gave me treets and petted me so I furgave her. Cos reely she's furry nise to me.

But, all poodins beware of closit dores and loo dores and don't get trappd in them. You prolly shood put some of yore toys by all the dores in yore howse so they won't close and trap innosint cats in little tiny rooms wifowt food or waters.

Grrrrr...how come stoopid blogger sez the pix are uploded but there not reely? I had pix of me and of Cuzzin Grady too.

Buddy is the Cat of the Day!

How cool is this? Emma's mom bean who does the Cat of the Day site emailed us and aksed us to send pix for the Cat of the Day a few weeks ago and now Buddy is the Cat of the Day!! Woooooo hoooooooooooooo all riiiiiight Buddy!

Kno wat? You can be the cat of the day some day too! Wen you go to the site, you'll see a plase abowt emailing yore pix and yore story to Emma's bean and she will make you the cat of the day one day.

Congratulashuns Buddy!!

Tummy Tuesday & Tuxie Tuesday

We will post a big update soon, but we are wif mom now! Well, Buddy is wif her at Ant Ree bean's howse along wif owr cousins Grady and Gilmore. I am at Granma and Grampa's howse wif my ant and unkle cats Iz and Lili. We are doing mostly ok and are happy to be neer mom and wif peoples all the time, instedd of just short visits.

Anyway...somecats are calling it Tuxie Toosday and posting pix of their Tuxie selves, but me and Buddy aren't Tuxies! But we lookd on the pooter and fownd that we have an anty cat from long ago who was a Tuxie so we are posting her pikcher. Her name was Sox and she was bestest furrends wif a drooler! Pax was the only drooler mom's fambly efur had and they say she was a reely nise drooler.

And it's also Tummy Toosday!! Of corse me and Buddy have tummies!!!!

And....the double whammy - a Tuxie Tummy!! This is our frend Doodlebug from Aridzona.

We had a GRATE weekend!!

Mom came home Fryday nite!! We gave her hugs and purrs rite away, even Buddy! Mom scoopd us up and hugged and hugged us bofe together, she was so happy to see us and we were so happy to see her. Miss Lisa is nise and all, but she's not owr furry own mom.

We had lots of snuggles after supper and then wen we wented to sleep, I (Finny) curled up wif her on the bed rite away, but Buddy waited until 3 a.m. to come and snuggle. He was head-butting mom and she woked up and he was purrrring rite in her fase. She was all happy and she petted and snuggled him a hole lot.

Mom forgot to bring the camra home wif her so we din't get enny pikchers, but we sat on her lap efurry time she sat still, or we rubbed aganst her legs wen she walked arownd. She did brush us a hole lot and kept giving us hugs and telling us she missed us and she loves us.

But yesterday she put her things back in the red duffle bag and washd all her clothes and put lots of bokses in the car and kissed us and sed be good boys, take care of each other, no wild parties, be good for Miss Lisa and Miss Soo Bean and I'll see you in a few days.

Now we're sad agane, but we kno mom will nefur desert us and she will allways come home to us and she wood nefur efur leave us behind or move to a plase that woodn't allow poodins.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY NEWS!!!

Miss Luna has come home!! Wooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

We are soooooo happy that little miss Luna, the Spanish "gatita", has been found and is home now with her mama. Luna had some fleezers and an owie on her nose, but mostly she is ok. We hope she will never get losted again.

Mom will be home sooooon!!!!!

Thanks efurrycat, for all the treets and visits. Wen Miss Lisa came to feed us and pet us last nite she sed she tokked to mom on the fone thingy and mom sed she'll be home to give us owr suppers TONITE!! Yay!!!!

In the meantime, we're gonna go to Opus & Roscoe's birfday party in Italy. Owr mom is 1/2 Italian, so we lookd in the cookbook and we're making some nise soop that she makes it's called pasta fazoool! It has sossijes and ham chunks and some veggies and some little macaronis too. We think efurrycat will like it.

See you there!!

Finny & Buddy

Mom? Mmmmmmmoooommmmm?

Mom? We haven't had enny treets sints you left. Please come home and give us some.

Mom? I know the mail is piling up in the mailboks owtside. You shood prolly come home and carry me owt there for some fresh air and get the mail.

Mo-o-o-o-m? It's furry nise and breezy looking owtside. Please come home and open the windows so we can get some nise fresh air.

Mooooooommmeeeeeeeeeee! I need hugs!!! I got nobean to hug and I am lonly.

We miss you mom. Please come home.

Interesting Week

Hi efurrycat! Wif the speshul triboots on lots of blogs, it's been kind of kwyet, hasn't it? But I kno lots of stuff has been going on and owr howse has been bizzy too.

Last weekend, mom wented away to ride her bike a lot wif Ant Ree, Unkle Mike from Arfansaw and Grampa and about a squillion other beans too! So they rided there bikes a loooong time and they were furry happy that they cood do it. But the most impawtent thing was they raised lots and lots of money to fight a furry bad disease called multiple sclerosis.

Then on Toosday wen mom got bak to werk, she had an email that said she got the reel transfer to werk in the Raleigh warehowse so now we can moove to Durhm!!! Yay! See the other transfer din't werk becos the big bosses deesided to move the jobs (but not the beans) to Serrycuse. The only bad fing abowt this is that mom starts werking there tomorro but me and Buddy can't go wif her rite now. We has to stay and guard the howse during the week and mom will come bak on the weekend. Mom's frend Miss Lisa and owr good Soo Bean will come and visit us and feed us and brush us. Mom keeps hugging us and petting us and saying she will miss us furry much. We'll miss you too, mom.

Yesterday was Miss Ramona's Walk for the Animals! Keep an eye on her blog for a full report and pikchers.
Our speshul thanks to our sponsers who made a donation to the Conway Area Humane Society to help out the kitties (and even droolers) who need medical help befor they can go home to their furever famlies.

Our sponsers - The Meezers, Sanjee, Karen Jo and Robyn (Sanjee/Boni/Mini/Pepi/Gree's mom) who makes byooooootiful joolries for beans. Owr mom is trying to make stuff like that but she's not furry good yet.

Thank you!!

This little blurpy thing came to visit us yesterday! He only went "blurp" one time and mom and Miss Lisa went Yayyyy! We don't kno wy. He was kind of nise and mom sed he smelld reely good. He tryd to wiggle up to me to grab my tale but he coodn't kwite get there.

Bye for now!

--Finny & Buddy

The 2,996 - John Paolillo

The 2,996 project is all about honoring and celebrating the lives of those innocent people who were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

John Paolillo was a Battalion Chief with the NY Fire Dept. - killed in the collapse of the North Tower. But more importantly, John was a loving father, brother, son, uncle and a friend to all.

John lived next door to my sister Marjie in Glen Head, NY. I met John once or twice "over the fence" - saying hi, borrowing sugar, neighborhood get-togethers, that kind of thing. The main thing I remember about him is that he would always be out playing in the yard with his kids Jake and Ella anytime I visited. John was very devoted to his kids, his wife, his mom Elizabeth, brother Joe, sister Sheila and their families.

John was a great athlete who loved to run, bicycle and swim - he competed in triathlons on a regular basis and enjoyed sharing his training philosophy with others. He helped Marjie with her cycling when she was getting ready for the MS 150 Bike Tour and an amateur team triathlon that she took part in. Marjie said John didn't understand the kind of mental blocks that held her back from getting up a hill - he just charged on up, knowing he could do it! The first time Marjie went riding after John's death, she took on the toughest hill in town - and made it up for the first time ever -- because she knew that John was there with her, helping her up the hill with a strong hand on her back.

A few months after John's death, his brother Joe, Joe's wife Josephine, friends Gina and Bob, as well as Marjie and her husband Chip, came together with the idea to hold an event that would not only raise money for a scholarship fund at the local high school, but more importantly, honor John's love of life and athleticism.

The Fifth Annual John Paolillo Scholarship Fund Memorial 5K race/fundraiser will be held this Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Glenwood Landing Fire Station. Hundreds of local friends and families, as well as firefighters from John's old stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, will run or walk the route that includes one tough hill, some beautiful scenery, the high school cheerleaders and athletic teams, water stops, and lots of fun.

The commemorative T-shirt from the event demands to know "Did you give it your all?", a question that echoes with John's friends and family. When I attended the 5K in 2003, Joe told the story of going running with John one time and feeling that he could have done better. "Did you give it your all? Did you try so hard you threw up after?" asked John. "Well, yeah," answered Joe. "That's all you can ask of yourself," said John.

More than anything, the Run for Heroes is a celebration that brings together a community and helps to remember a wonderful man who was always ready to help others before himself. John Paolillo was an honorable man who will never be forgotten, nor should the rest of the victims of that terrible day.

Call your family, your friends - all the people that you hold dear - and tell them you love them, spend some time with them and whatever you do, remember to always "Give it your all!"

This quilt honoring John was made by our mom, Joan Peluso. It is displayed at the Run for Heroes every year.


This quilt square is part of the "United in Memory" quilt project and was created by Janet Tetkoskie.

Impawtent News

Impawtent News! Tomorrow, we will be giving the blog to mom to use for something verry impawtent - a tribute to Battalion Chief John Paolillo of Glen Head, NY who was killed on Sept. 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York.

Our tribute is part of the 2,996 project and there will be bloggers from efurryware doing tributes.

We will be posting ours tomorrow and our blog will not be updated until after the 11th, becos mom will be out of town for the MS 150 Bike Tour.

Car Show?

Wow! So menny cats liked the idea of the cat cars and sed they're going to get there beans to make them one! Maybe we shood have a car show after the cars are all made! Efurrycat cood post them on there own blogs, but we cood also post them all on one site to see them all together. Tell us what you think.

Cat Cars!!!

Now don't think we're crazy - these are not like the bean's car that takes you to the evil vetty bean. These cars are made from those grate boxes that mom brings home from werk and thinks she's going to use for storing her junk. Heer's some pikchers and the direcshuns are on this cool site. BlueBirdy Gardens, which is a good plase to look for birdies and all kinds of good stuff. There are lots of pretty quilts too, if yore bean likes to look at those.




Buddy sez this is the bestest thing to do wif a box! Get yore bean to make you a bizzy box. This one is made from two box lids put together but you can make one from any box. Just cut lots of holes that are big enuff to put a paw into but not quite big enuff to pull toys out of. Then put some toys in there and try to get them out. It's lots of fun!

Thank Heaven for Little Girls

Buddy and I have desided that the first day of efurry month is going to be a "Do Good Things" post. Last month, we tolld you about Cats with No Names.

This month we are going to talk abowt Miss Ramona's Big Dream and the Walk for the Animals in New Hampsher.

Miss Ramona of Caturday (isn't she byootiful?) has a furry big heart and a real wish to give back to the community. Because she was rescued by some nise beans and taken furry good care of at a shelter, she wants to help the cats (and even droolers) at the Conway Area Humane Society shelter where her beans volunteer.

Finny was reskewed by some good beans and was in a shelter called SAFE Haven for Cats in Raleigh, Norf Carolina and that's where mom met him and they dopted each other. I am furry lucky that I never lived in a shelter - mom adopted me from my bean before they could send me to a shelter.

So, in honor of Miss Ramona and espeshly our little sisfur Daisy, Finny and I sed we would help Miss Ramona! Daisy came from a shelter ware they didn't take the bestest care of the animals and they din't realize she was sick. So she came to live wif mom and Finny and not long after that, she became furry sick and had to go to the Rainbow Bridge. You can go to mine and Finny's page to make a donation that will help the animals at the Conway Humane Society.

We hope that all of you other poodins and buns and woofies will start telling about the good beans and groups that are helping animals in yore communities too. That way, we can all help wenever we can, either with money or messages or by spreding the word and befor you know it, all animals will have good homes and be healthy and live long lives!

Thank you Sammy, Miles & Meezer Family for sponsoring us already!

Thank you!!!

--Finny & Buddy