Attention Deprived

Apparently we did not pay enough attention to Gus this evening and he decided to make his point by coming between us and The Amazing Race. Fear not, Gus received lots of lovin' before bed.

24 Hour Cat Diner

I keep food on the front porch for the strays in our neighborhood. We have counted about 5 or 6 different cats that stop by the 24 hour cat diner. I have named them all. The most frequent visitor is Morris. Nick has promised me that if I can make Morris my friend, then we can take him with us when we move. I love my husband so!!!! More on Morris at another date. So tonight we went outside and found a new visitor to the all night diner.

I will now begin taking suggestions for the name of our possum.

Ice Fishing

One of Zander's favorite pastimes is ice fishing. If you leave your cup sitting on the table and walk away, you could return a few minutes later with your ice scattered around the cup. He has always liked to play with stuff in water. Seems he missed a few days in Cat Behavior 101.

SHARK ATTACK!!!

No real animals were harmed in the filming of this video, just the stuffed mechanical one.

Roque really is the sweetest dog but talking and moving toys really drive her crazy. This particular toy is light sensitive, so whenever it senses a change in light, it sets the shark off and it rolls around and laughs. We have to make sure we flip the switch off before bed or we hear it go off while we are sleeping.

Memory Lane

Yes. I do dress my pets up for Halloween!

Wrapping presents sure does take a lot out of Zander.

Counting down the days until Mommy starts decorating for Christmas.

Daddy helping Gus catch a moth.

Look at that face.

Doesn't take much to entertain a cat.

Stick 'em up.


Feeling a little sentimental tonight so I thought I would share some pics from the past with you. Hope you enjoyed my trip down memory lane!!

DJ Update

DJ and Roque are home. As you can probably tell by this picture, all is not well with DJ. I got home from work around 5:30 and I noticed that DJ was still using the bathroom quite frequently. In the span of 30 minutes, poor DJ used the bathroom 5 times. I think this means that the plumbing still isn't working at 100%. He is using his litterbox again. At least he has stopped using the bathroom on everything in the floor. He still has some medicine to take, but if he isn't better by Thursday, it looks like he will be going back to visit our Vet.

Home Again, but Something is Missing

Some cute little cuddly otters. I wouldn't mind having some of these for pets.

Spider crabs. Yuck! These are creepy.

Beluga whales

Sharks! They had an underwater tunnel you could walk through and look at many different kinds of sharks and fish. I was underneath these sharks. Very cool.

Jellyfish

Nemo's friend. Nemo was in the same tank but he was hiding so
I couldn't get a picture. This was a pretty fishy though.

Nick and I went to Atlanta this weekend to cheer for the Hokies as they attempted to bring down Alabama. Didn't really work out that way, but we still had a good weekend. The pictures above are of our trip to the Aquarium. These aren't pictures of our fur balls, but since they are animals, I thought it would be okay to post them to the blog. The trip to the aquarium was probably the highlight of our trip. We tried to go when we went down in 2006 for the Chick-fil-a Bowl and we couldn't get tickets. So we made sure to get them for this trip and ordered them in advance. We had a really good time and got to see some interesting species. Nick got to touch a stingray, but I chickened out and would move my hand everytime they would swim up close. Oh well, maybe next time. Actually, it will probably be a while before we go back to Atlanta since the Hokies lose every time we go. So sad.

Anyway, we are back at home and two of the fur balls are very happy to have us back. Gus and Zander are loving life right now and have free reign of the entire house. Unfortunately we will not be getting the other two (Roque and DJ) until tomorrow because the Vet's office is closed today. I bought Roque a shark that rolls around on the floor to show her how much we missed her. Hopefully DJ has recovered from his little UTI.

It is weird to be here with just two cats. Things just don't seem right. I will be happy when everyone is back tomorrow and things are back to normal.

Sicky Pooh

Poor DJ gets UTI's a lot. I never even knew it was possible for a cat to get a UTI. Well, the poor guy has another one. When this happens, he uses the bathroom constantly, on anything that is on the floor. Unfortunately, we didn't discover the problem until we got home from work, after the vet's office has already closed. It is going to be a long night for the man.

Please send DJ good thoughts for a speedy recovery and a small bill at the vet's office.

As an aside....I love our vets and I think I am going to make them all a bunch of goodies this year for Christmas.

Help Wanted

Helping set up.

Supervising his staff.

You missed a spot.

You got it.

Good Job! We approve of the new Hokie bathroom.

We painted our downstairs bathroom this weekend and we had so much help. As you can see the little guys were there every step of the way. Gus stayed with us through most of the project. Zander, true to his upper management position, just checked in on our progress throughout the morning. We probably could have finished the project in half the time without all the "distractions", but what fun would that be.

So if you are in need of some help with bathroom updates, I have two guys who will work as fairly cheap labor. I hope you don't mind some cat hair on your freshly painted walls.