Tummy Tuesday

HELP…I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN’T GET UP!

Really? How rude! That title was Dad’s idea, and the typist thought it was cute. How could she?

 

Floofy, long-haird grey cat lying on her back with all four paws in the air.

 

I can get up anytime I want. I am just showing off by extra floofy tummy and my substantial paws for your pleasure on Tummy and Toesy Tuesday.

Did you know that today (March 3) is: If Your Pets Had Thumbs Day? If I had thumbs, I would take over writing this post right now and rename it: “Meet the World’s Most Gorgeous, Smart and Floofilicious Cat with the Expressive Eyes!” I am every one of those things and more! (No, that more is not my size. It’s the camera angle that makes me look like a fuzzy dirigible.) I will admit that I appear to need my floof brushed. Hey, if I had those thumbs, I could do that for myself as well as open cat treat packages.

Hmmm, I believe I will need to think about this idea of thumbs for a bit. If I could brush myself and get my own treats, I could also scoop my own litter box.

Nope, don’t need to think about it. NO THUMBS FOR ME! I’d rather have the humans wait on me and do all the dirty work! I’ll just roll around on this heated kitchen floor and look adorable.

How about you: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Purrs and paw-pats, Giulietta

 

 

TUMMY TUESDAY WITH SKOOTER

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Kitten Skooter

The First Kitty Blue

Skooter was our very first kitty (not counting our childhood kitties). He was such a little cutie-pie when we adopted him at five months old. At the time we had not met and did not know that his Dad’s name was Tubby nor that he fit that moniker perfectly. As the years passed we watched Skooter begin to resemble his dad; though, he always had a small head.

He was a very sweet man-cat and accepted all the kitties added to the household during his lifetime.

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Skooter shows off his ample tummy.

Unfortunately he only lived to 14 years old. He had a heart murmur from birth and eventually succumbed to congestive heart failure. Though that was many years ago now, we still miss him and think often of our good-natured first kitty.

Freak Out After Escaping

P.S. from Astrid: On Sunday night I was able to heap a little more payback onto Mom, thanks to Dad. He had to change the propane tank on the grill so opened the door from our screened deck to the grill locale and I snuck out. That part of the deck is only about six feet above ground. When I can sneak out, I jump off and explore the yard. Unfortunately, as previously posted in, “Cats in the Garden,” I freak out when I get out. And I will not come to my dad…no way, no how, not ever!

This time I jumped the low fence to our neighbor’s yard and then couldn’t figure out how to get back to our side. The ground is further from the fence top on their side. Mom came downstairs and started calling me. I let her know where I was but that I wasn’t ready to come home. As all my housemates had eaten dinner, Mom brought mine out with her and started making clanking sounds on the bowl to get my attention. I wasn’t buying it.

As it was time for the humans’ dinner, I got a reprieve. While they ate, I figured out how to get back to our yard. (I’m not telling how I did it.) When Mom came back outside again and headed toward the fence, I shot out from where I was hiding and ran up two flights of stairs to the top deck while she closed the door behind me. I came down when she set my food bowl a few steps from the backdoor, ate it and then came in the house without any argument. I was all tuckered out.

But I sure had a good time giving Mom the runaround.

TUXIE TUMMY TUESDAY

1-SCAN0037Once upon a time I wished for a black and white cat. It wasn’t until years later that I found out these felines are called tuxedo cats.

Unlike most wishes that never come true, this one did. Suddenly kittens appeared in our drive way. However, when we approached them, they disappeared. After some investigation, we discovered an entire litter of kittens in the engine compartment of my car. Eventually we were able to extract all four of these babies and temporarily transfer them to the bed of Tom’s truck. All were black and white, and one had long hair. One of the kittens was adopted by a neighbor, another by a friend of a friend and another by the grandparents of a friend.

1-SCAN0035That long-haired kitty became Daphne and joined our other two kitties, Skooter and Steamer. As you can see she grew into a luxuriously floofy cat. She spent her entire life with us from 1991 until she went to the Bridge in 2010.

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I offer this as a little background information to go with these photos. Daphne’s story and that of additional litters that followed will be covered at another time.

 

TUMMY TUESDAY: THE BELLY EXHIBITIONIST

A little sun + a little shade makes a perfect napping spot for Lily Olivia.

A little sun + a little shade makes any spot perfect for napping. At least Lily Olivia thinks so.

What cat doesn’t like to show off its tummy? And what person can resist a good tummy photo? Not us. And Lily Olivia is a champion belly exhibitionist!

This was taken a few years ago on our upper deck, which is uncovered and at certain times of day during summer way too hot to spend much time. Lily doesn’t seem to mind as long as she can find a little shade.

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TUMMY TUESDAY: C.J.

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Calista Josette displays her lovely colorful fur and full length while napping on the heated kitchen floor. For some reason all of the kitties like this particular location in the corner. We suspect that for some reason the floor is warmer in that one spot or perhaps it is because it’s the furthest away from the back door and blocked by the island from any cold breeze or the view of entering kitty housemates. Whatever, the reason, it is first-come, first-served, and no cat fits ensue from competition for the space. Yippee!

P.S. Tom calls our tortoise shell kitties (Astrid and C.J.) and the calico, Lily Olivia, committee cats for their no-two-alike coats.