Pablo Fan Club

Rest in Peace, my sweet Pablo

2011-02-06T08:21:00.000-08:00

Dear Fan Club Members and friends of Pablo,

It is with a very heavy heart that I announce that we are in deep mourning at the Pablo Fan Club headquarters this morning. We just heard that our brave mentor and great friend Pablo was helped to the Bridge this morning (which was 12 hours ago in tomorrow).

Kate and Nick and little Alex now have a Pablo sized hole in their hearts. Everyone please send your strongest purrs all the way to tomorrow for them. Kate was a fantastic servant to Pablo over the years. Since he had so many responsibilities, it was imperative that he find such an efficient human assistant. Kate took her role very seriously and served faithfully ever since he was a young cat.

Pablo, you will be greatly missed.

Just chilling

2011-01-18T17:23:00.001-08:00

It would be a bit more "chill" if Joey weren't crowding me... Just sayin'

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New lounging spots

2011-01-10T19:35:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and everyday,

For Christmas, Joey and I got this nice roomy box fort. It's a great place to hang out and relax during the day. Joey thinks there's room enough for both of us, but I definitely don't agree.

There's just enough room for one, as you can clearly see.

Since I'm in the fort right now, Joey found a cozy snuggle spot on the bags that Tracy brings home the food in. I might try that out later this evening.

Pablo, we hope that you are snuggling in your favorite spots today, now that you're back home from the VET place. We love you.

Purrrrrrrrrrrrsssss.....

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Christmas is coming!

2010-12-18T11:08:00.000-08:00

Look at what Joey and I made while Denis and Tracy weren't looking! Tee hee. Merry Christmas everycat!

Spanish lessons

2010-07-22T21:06:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo,

Denis and I are studying Spanish. Es muy interesante.

Denis' job is to write the flashcards.

And my job is to hold them down.

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Good news/bad news

2010-07-18T14:40:00.000-07:00

Good news: we got a new box today!

Bad news: it came with a new sucking machine!

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Footy!

2010-07-09T23:36:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo,

Denis and I are watching the Geelong cats play football. Are you watching it too?

It's very exciting.

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Noisy

2010-07-05T12:57:00.000-07:00

Crash! Squee! Click! Wham!

Denis is being noisy Outside and Tracy is being noisy Inside. How's a fella supposed to get a nap around here???

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Still!

2010-03-15T23:34:00.000-07:00

Dear furriends. Can you beleive that we are STILL watching the Lympics here at the PFC headquarters? Well, we are. Here's proof.

It's exhausting...

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She's back!

2010-02-15T21:52:00.000-08:00

Look who came for a visit!

It Grandma! She's feeling much better these days and Tracy decided to come back home. We are all celebrating by watching the olympics this week.

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So boooooorrred

2010-02-07T14:18:00.000-08:00

This is what Phoebe and I do most of the time these days. Both Denis and Tracy spend most of the evenings over at grandma's house. Denis comes home to sleep at night, but Tracy only comes here for a little while.

They say it won't be much longer that Tracy will come back home.

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Tracy doesn't live here anymore

2010-01-21T14:52:00.001-08:00

She just comes to visit and leaves again. She keeps taking more of her stuff when she goes. I have watched her out the window to see where she is going. She walks over to grandma's house and stays in there.

I was very worried, so I asked Denis if he and Tracy are splitting up. He said, "no, she's just staying with grandma to help her after her surgery. She'll be back in a few weeks."

What a relief! I'm so glad that grandma is ok after her big operation. I hope I can see her soon.

~Joey "hey, where's Tracy going? When's she going to play with the bird?!"

~Phoebe "oh brother!"

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Wet food

2010-01-16T14:44:00.001-08:00

Dear everycat,

Joey here. One of my new duties as co-chairfeline is to oversee the food supply in the PFC headquarters. Monica used to see to that and I assisted her from time to time, but now it's up to me. My main technique of communicating a need for a food dish refill is a strategically timed bite to a human extremity. Toes and forearms are very effective.

Well, recently I did some research on the innernets about kitties and kidney disease. I learned that we are very efficient at getting a lot of our daily liquid needs from our food. Kitties normally don't drink a lot of water because they get it from their food. Kitties that only eat dry food may be in a constant state of dehydration, according to my sources. So I requested Tracy to check out some of this wet stuff and see what it's all about.

So far, Phoebe and I really like the chicken flavor and the salmon kind, but the others are pretty good. So we decided that we will keep this up for good kidney health. We eat some I'm the morning and some in the evening. I think that it's helping Phoebe and I get along better. She doesn't growl at me when we are eating.

Hey, Pablo! This cat looks kinda like you and me! Doncha think?

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Grandma's in the hospital

2010-01-11T18:17:00.000-08:00

Hello furriends. I just wanted to let you know that our Grandma is in the hospital today. She had a surgery on her heart. It's called "atrial valve replacement and double bypass". I asked Tracy if I could go visit Grandma in the hospital, but she said that we can't get any furs into her operation, so I have to stay home. I can go visit Grandma when she is back home in about a week. Tracy's not sure how much we will get to blog in the next few days.

Big announcement!

2010-01-09T10:24:00.001-08:00

Hi everycat!

Joey here with my Big Announcement. I've been promoted! Phoebe, Tracy and I had an important PFC meeting and determined that I will replace Monica as a co-chairfeline. I am honored and will do my best to fill her paws.

To get started, I did some editing in our layout and the fan club membership roll. Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to one of our senior members, Princess, who went to Rainbow Bridge within a week of Monica. We welcome her little brother Pierro. Hi Pierro!

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Who's this?

2010-01-04T22:24:00.000-08:00

Like Joey mentioned yesterday, we don't have access to Tracy's computer right now, but I have something to show you that is on our phone camera. We have a new friend here at the PFC headquarters. What do you think?

I think he's a boy, but he doesn't have a name. Any suggestions?he's a quiet guy, but he's pretty handsome.

Here we are posing in profile.

Welcome to 2010!

2010-01-03T16:19:00.000-08:00

Hi, everycat! This is Joey here. Tracy, Denis, Phoebe and I all want to thank you so much for your very nice messages of support while we adjust to not having Monica with us any more. It took us a while, but we are getting back to our routine around here.

There is just one problem, Tracy's computer is not working very well right now. She says that we can't get any of the pictures out of our camera right now so that we can do much blogging. This is not fair because I have some very important news to tell you all.

For now, we can only get pictures from Tracy's phone, so they are not the best quality. But they will have to do.This one was before Christmas. I was inspecting the tree to make sure Denis picked out a good one.

Phoebe helped with wrapping the presents.

And here are Phoebe and I. We've been holding some serious conferences about important PFC business. I'm hoping that I can make our announcement soon.

Sad times

2009-12-12T11:39:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

This is Phoebe telling you all some sad news. Monica has gone on to Rainbow Bridge. She was peacefully helped to go there on Friday morning after becoming really sick over just the last week.

We all noticed that Monica was not hanging out with us very much on Tuesday. She was spending more time than usual lounging on Tracy and Denis' bed instead of watching TV. Tracy suspected that something was wrong when Monica wouldn't even chase our lazer light toy, cause that is her favoritest toy of all. On Wednesday, Denis took her to the V.E.T. and they found she had lost 2 lbs in just a month. She was dehydrated, so they gave her some subQ fluids and drew some blood. That evening, we hoped that she would perk up like I did when I got fluids when I was sick. But she didn't really perk up. She was very tired and didn't eat much that evening.

Thursday morning, Denis got the report from the V.E.T. that Monica's kidney labs were very bad. In his experience, a kitty with labs as bad as hers do not respond to treatment very well, so it was not much of an option to try to do agressive treatment. Besides, Monica was never a very good patient, and Tracy thinks that she would not have been very happy to get pills and fluids, even more unhappy than I was when I was sick. So Thursday evening, we all spent some very nice quiet time together. Tracy and Denis helped Monica get a drink from the tub faucet like she liked as often as she wanted and we all slept in the big bed with them that night.

They took her to Rainbow Bridge at 8 AM on Friday, so that she wouldn't have to spend all day feeling badly, especially with Denis and Tracy at work and not home to help her.

Monica was a very good sister and kept our house in good order. Last night, Tracy and I read our whole entire blog and remembered all our happy times over the last two years. Today, I am staying near Tracy and purring for her extra hard to keep her company. Joey and I will have to sort out how the responsibilities that Monica carried will be divided between us two. We will do our best to keep things in order around here.

Good bye Monica.

New Toys

2009-11-23T00:43:00.000-08:00

We had a very exciting day here at the Pablo Fan Club headquarters. Tracy and Denis brought home some new toys. We took some video of us checking them out. Here is one.

Food Experiments

2009-11-17T20:06:00.001-08:00

Hi Every cat! It's certainly been a long time since I posted anything on the Pablo Fan Club blog and I'm sorry for that. I wanted to take a moment to tell you all about an interesting experiment that we conducted recently.

You see, Tracy had been switching our foods willy-nilly and it was very confusing. Here you can see me and Phoebe looking at this new food and wondering why it was different.

Here are the two foods in question:

Science Diet for indoor cats is a big triangle food that we had been eating for a few weeks.

Then, one day all of a sudden, Tracy brought home this regular Science Diet food for adult cats. It is a small circle food that we had eaten in the past before they ever made the triangle food.

Well, we decided to do a very scientific food preference survey and decide for once and for all which food we would have at the Pablo Fan Club headquarters. Here are the two side-by-side, ready for voting.

Three out of three of Pablo Fan Club members surveyed preferred the triangle food. That's 100%! Talk about a landslide... Power to the cats! Tracy is complying with the Pablo Fan club decision and buying the triangle food ever since.

We've been absent again...

2009-06-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

I haven't been able to blog for a while because Tracy and Denis left us again on another big trip. This time, instead of going to Grandma's house, a friend of ours came and stayed with us. She's been here before. She's great because she lets us sleep with her at night.

While Faye was here with us there was a very big storm and none of us liked that AT ALL. We hid under the bed and Faye protected us, but it was scary.

In other news, that new restaurant that Tracy and Denis built for us in our Outside territory is coming along well. Look at these tender juicy chickens. I wonder when we will get to eat them. What do you think, Pablo?

And finally, I want to introduce a new friend of ours who just got a new blog. Her name is Gracie Mae and her mom is selling some cat toys to donate money to a women's shelter. Gracie is a real cutie and very fluffy. They would love to have some visitors. Here is their blog.

I hope that you all are having a great summer (or winter if you are from the bottom of the world)

Something very strange

2009-04-29T18:53:00.003-07:00

Is going on around here! On Saturday, Phoebe went for a walk and brought back a report of this:

A strange large bird has apparently taken up residence in a small yellow house adjacent to our property. Phoebe said that this bird didn't have much to say for itself except "cluck cluck cluck". What kind of language is that? But stranger yet, Tracy came home from work today with a small box that was making noises. The box was saying "cheep cheep cheep". She took the box into the spare bathroom. She and Denis keep going in there and spending inordinate amounts of time. What is going on?

When they open the door, we just get a quick peek, but they won't let us go in to have a proper look.

Could this be a new game? or a change on the menu?

Wordle

2009-04-23T22:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo,

I just did another Wordle of our blog feed and I am so happy to see that you are the biggest word in our wordle now! See?

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What's cookin'?

2009-04-23T18:40:00.001-07:00

Hello everycat! I have an important announcement. I have decided what I want to do with my life. I am studying to be a chef. Chefs get to go on TV and do big competitions and win lots of money and have cooking shows and be very famous.

Hey! If he can do it, so can I!

Tonight, Denis and I are making top ramen noodle soup. You have to start somewhere, right? This is how you open up the package.

Next, we put a pot of water on to boil and add the noodles.

That's about all there is to it! This stuff is easy. I'm pretty sure that I'll be a chef before you know it!

Enjoying the sunshine!

2009-04-21T12:11:00.000-07:00

It's Spring around here and the sun is shining nicely in our windows. Sometimes, the windows are even open to let in the Outside air. Phoebe and I are just enjoying the sunshine together.

It puts me in such a good mood, I think I'll give Phoebe a little bath!

Oh bother/ oh brother!

2009-03-29T19:39:00.000-07:00

Hi Pablo and all my friends! I've been wanting to post something very special for a while. You see, Tracy bought the Pablo Fan Club a video recorder and we shot some action movies of me patrolling the grounds. But unfortunately, we can't get the video software to work so that we can edit all into a special movie for you. (that's the oh, bother part of this post) Here is the camera. Isn't it cool looking?

So, in the meantime, I caught Joey in a silly position! Look at him sitting perched on the edge of this box. That doesn't look very comfortable, Joey! (Oh brother!)

My Present!

2009-02-25T18:32:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and everycat!

Lookit this here present that I got for Christmas this year! It was wrapped up in pretty paper! There were some weird big things in it that Tracy will put on her feets to walk in the snow or something weird like that! But I got this! Denis cutted a hole in it and made it a fort for me! It was a fun place to hide! Do you like it?

Christmas report - late again!

2009-02-24T19:51:00.000-08:00

Well, I've finally given Tracy the stare down long enough that she's helped me to upload the photos from Christmas so that we can show the festivities to every cat. As you may remember, I had the same problem last year. Something about the new year sends Tracy into a blogging low spot. I don't know what's wrong with her!

Well, enough about that... Here is how our Christmas tree looked with the presents underneath it. Aren't they pretty?
While the festivities started, Phoebe and I lounged around and watched. What a mess they make with all the paper!

Things went on a bit long, so we took the opportunity to rest against each other for a little nap.

But after the present opening kept going on and on, I found a good perch to oversee everything.

Phoebe found a good box for lounging in.

So where was Joey in all this, you ask? That silly boy! He couldn't decide what he wanted to do. Sometimes he hid under the tree. Can you see him back there?

But most of the time, he would investigate in the paper wrappings for a while. Then he would get startled by the excessive noise that the people kept making and run out of the room. Probably hid under the bed. He's just not used to this Christmas stuff yet.

When things quieted down, he explored some more. He was funny peeking out of this piece of paper on the floor.

Well, that was our Christmas. We were all very tired after wards. It seemed like a good time for a nap. Tomorrow, watch for Joey to show you all what he got for Christmas this year.

Waiting for Christmas

2008-12-24T14:08:00.000-08:00

Well, the presents are under our tree. We had a little bit of snow on the ground this morning. Christmas must be getting very close.

We'll just wait right here for Christmas day to come. Merry Christmas from your friends Monica, Phoebe and Joey!

Temptations test

2008-12-22T19:03:00.000-08:00

A very very long time ago, Tracy and Denis went to visit Pablo and I sent some Temptations as a very special present from me to him. Unfortunately, the were confixated by the border patrol because food from America can be very dangerous to Australian security. Well, I wanted to at least show Pablo what the Temptations were like, so that he would know that it would have been a very good present. It turns out that recently, Kate found some real Temptations in a store in Hobart, so he has gotten to try them as well. Did you like them, Pablo? Monica, Joey and I sure did.
This is what they look like. They are not as big as they look in the picture on the bag, but they sure smell good.

We had a very hard time waiting for Tracy to take the pictures before we started eating them. I would have smiled for the camera, but I think you will understand that I was busy getting a sample.
The picture on the bag shows that there is a soft filling inside the crunchy outside, but we ate them so quickly that we couldn't ever confirm that was true. So Tracy did an experiment to be sure that the soft center was really there. It's not as big as it shows on the package, but I don't care really.

Grandma's house

2008-10-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and everycat,

Do you remember when I told you about this lady?

She is my grandma and she lives next door to our house. While Tracy and Denis were visiting Pablo in tomorrow, Phoebe, Monica and I got tooken over to her house for a vacation. I'm going to give you a tour of Grandma's house.

In these two pictures, you can see that Grandma has some good toys for us to play with. One is a furry animal on a string and the other is a birdy. This birdy doesn't fly like MY birdy does, but it does bounce up and down on it's string.

Here is Phoebe showing you the living room and the chairs that we have at Grandma's house to rest on. Grandma has lots of interesting stuff to look at in her living room. I especially like the pretty shiny crystal glass things that sit on the window sill. Grandma didn't like me investigating them, though.
This cat lives at Grandma's house, but she doesn't say a word. She just sits and stares at you all the time. It's kind of creepy.

Monica is showing you the best chair at Grandma's house. It's a great place to stretch out and have a nap.

And here Phoebe is showing you the bedroom with the bed where we all liked to sleep. This is where Grandma click, clicks on the computer and so we like to keep her company.
Grandma only has an old-fashioned litter box (not a robot one like at our house), but she keeps it nice and clean.
I hope you liked my tour.

They're finally back!

2008-10-07T15:11:00.000-07:00

I think that Tracy and Denis got lost in a time warp somewhere for a while, because they were gone for a VERY LONG time. But they finally made it back to today and came home with some very special presents from Pablo. But before we get to the gifts, let me show you what I found when I looked through Tracy's picture files:

Look, it's Pablo! Isn't he looking very handsome and stately in that stance?

And he gave a special smile for us.

Here are our gifts placed in an important spot in the house.

Tracy, Kate and Denis in Pablo's very presence! It was really such an honor for them.

Pablo said he didn't get to spend a lot of time with Tracy and Denis because he was busy with important business. Here he is hard at work on a photo shoot.

And Tracy said he conducted a lot of important business from this "office space" in the garden. An excellent location! See below for another post about our presents from Pablo.

Our gifts!

2008-10-07T15:00:00.000-07:00

Well, onto the gifts that Pablo sent to us. Wasn't that thoughtful of him to do? Here they are directly out of the suitcases. Don't you think they look a bit banged up? Tracy should have taken better care of them on the trip.

There is also a card from Pablo with a great photo of him on the front. He's in serious stalking mode.

We were all very excited when Tracy presented them to us. Joey, that one's mine!

Phoebe read the card first, then I did. Joey still can't read that well...

Here is what it said - doesn't Pablo have excellent hand-writing? You can click to biggify and see if you can read it.

Next we all got our very own presents. Here is mine in a lovely feminine gift bag:

Phoebe's bag is nice too:
Joey was so excited, he wouldn't hold still.

Look! It's a koala.
Phoebe's is a possum. He looks cuter than our American possums.

And Joey got a kookaburra. I hear they are very jolly birds, but Pablo says he likes to eat them for breakfast!

Thank you, Pablo! We love our great gifts!

Where are they now?

2008-09-27T03:52:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo,

Monica, Joey and I are having our spa vacation at Grandma's house. She was able to confirm on the internets that Denis and Tracy have gotten to tomorrow to visit you. I hope that they gave you a good greeting from us and our gifts as well. We haven't been able to check your blog to see how it went.

Now I am wondering what they are doing. It seems like they have been in tomorrow for a long time. Could you please tell them to come back soon?

What's up?

2008-09-15T20:58:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo,

Joey wrote that post quite a while ago about his new "space ship". I hadn't been watching what he was typing as closely as I should have, or he wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. Just to set the record straight, this:
is not a space ship and NASA will not be calling. This is just the latest hair-brained idea of Tracy's to get out of cleaning our bathroom facilities. It is called a "Litter Robot" and you can read about it here. Joey thinks it's great fun, but me - I'll take the good old fashioned box, thank you very much!

Since I broke the news to Joey, he's been moping around, ashamed of his mistake. Silly boy!

Now, as to other news. Pablo, you mentioned twice before something about Tracy and Denis going to visit you. They never told me about it or asked my opinion. So I did some looking around to see if I could confirm this information. Here is what I found:

They have certainly been reading some books about Australia, and you live in Australia. But these are not books about Hobart, they are about Sydney. Now what does that mean? I'm a bit concerned about this whole idea. Since you are in tomorrow, are they going to have to take a time traveling machine to get to see you? Is that quite safe? So I sat them down and asked them straight out if they are going through with this trip against my advice. And they were resolute.

Well, in that case, we have got to plan what we are going to send to you, Pablo. Phoebe called the meeting to order, but Joey didn't understand how to conduct himself in a proper meeting.

We've got a good start here, but it doesn't seem like enough for you, Pablo.
Hmmm.... time to think.... what else do we need to send to Pablo?
You will find out soon! Us? We'll be enjoying a spa vacation at Grandma's house.

Cool Cat Award!

2008-08-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

Wowie! Pablo gave me a COOL CAT award. See? There it is right up there?

I think it is because he heard that I am in training to be an astro-cat. Here is my practice space ship. Here I am going in the space ship.

It is filled with special space sand. I think I am supposed to practice going potty in space as my first training skill. But it is also a very comfortable place to just lounge in.

And here I am exiting the space craft. The best part is that a few minutes after you exit the space craft, it starts a take off procedure that involves spinning in place.

I wonder how long before I get the call from NASA to go into the weightless simulator.

I'm going to give the cool cat award to the very cool:
Faz
Kavan
Rocky of Artsy Catsy and
Madness.

Check up

2008-07-13T13:42:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and all my friends,

I know that you all remember how very sick that I was a few months ago and have wondered and asked about my health since. Well, the other day, Tracy called my V-E-T to get a refill of my medicine and the V-E-T lady wanted to see me again. Unfortunately, that meant that I had to get put into a prisoner box and taken to THAT place.

Monica tried to comfort me while I was waiting. But then Joey came along to pester me.

Anyway, we went in the moving machine and the people took my blood and the V-E-T lady poked me, squeezed me and listened to me. She told Tracy that when she got my blood results back she would call to let us know if I am actually better. None of us were sure what we would find out. I am feeling much better now, but you never know if my liver is really all better or not.

Well, much to everycat's relief, my bloodwork came back completely normal! All of the numbers were in the right places - the kidney ones and the liver ones. Even the sugar one was good in spite of me taking my steroid pills. I asked Tracy if that means I can stop taking my pills. She said, "no, I can NEVER stop taking my pills again." We still don't know why I got sick in the first place, but it seems to be related to my being off my steroid pills. Oh bother!

From Tracy: really it was so funny - Phoebe has gained so much weight back that the vet tech came in three times to be sure that it was Phoebe I had brought and not Monica. I think, and the vet agrees, that Phoebe's illness was a combination of some sort of physiological process like an infection and the stress of having Joey introduced into the house. In the absence of the steroid medication, something got out of hand for sure. And then when she stopped eating, the liver just went down hill. It is amazing now to remember how skinny she was and it wasn't that long ago... She's more playful now as well and Joey and her seem to have reached some sort of agreement. She secretly likes to play with him and will initiate it at times.

My Tunnel Toy

2008-07-08T10:25:00.000-07:00

This is my tunnel toy. My people got the great idea to buy me a tunnel from our friends Tara and Kavan, who have one just like this. Tracy said that she had to search and search to find one because our local pet-o-rama didn't carry them.
As you can see, it has a peaking-out hole half-way through. this is a very handy place for Denis to drop my toys in so that I can pounce on them. Pablo, do you have a tunnel toy? If you want, you can come to play with mine.

Have you seen this?

2008-07-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

This is called a "Wordle". I made it from the RSS feed of our blog. I'm very surprised to find that we write more about Tracy than we do about Pablo on our blog. It just doesn't quite seem right. What will the Wordls of your blog look like? (click to biggify and go to the website where you can make your own.)

A Cozy Spot

2008-07-04T18:37:00.000-07:00

The other day I snuck into our "guest room" (we never really have any guests) when the door was left open and I found a nice cozy spot. Can you see me?
Look a little closer...
Ahhhh. Nice and cozy. Tracy wanted to know how I got snuggled in here so nicely, but I'm not telling. Where do you like to snuggle?

A Book Meme

2008-05-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

I never done a meme before, but I saw that Pablo did this book meme and it looked very cool. He did a VERY BORING book. But you can see that from my favorite perch, I have lots of books nearby. I'm going to pick an EXCITING book to do this meme with.

These are the rules of the meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open the bok to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.

Here is my bookThat sounds like very good advice to me. I'm sure he knows what he is talking about... Here is the stuff on pg. 123:

"We resected fifteen feet of necrotic bowel and sutured together the ends of what was left. Incredibly, the patient remained stable throughout this horrendous procedure. As we began to close the abdomen, our short-lived optimism returned, at first tentatively, but then with growing intensity."

Maybe Dr. Daisy can help explain this to me... I don't understand much of what it says. But at least it is exciting!

Hi Everycat!

2008-05-12T14:55:00.000-07:00

Monica here giving you an update. Tracy has been doing all sorts of silly things on the internet instead of helping us blog. First it was puzzles, then word games, now she's so distracted with a game called Packrat. It's sooooo boring - just click click click. that's all we hear from the computer. I have been laying a big fat guilt trip on her and I'm hoping that she will soon come to her senses and help us blog more regularly again. Pablo is counting on us to keep up his fanship! Well, while we wait, we have been watching some moths flying outside our windows.

Phoebe - Arctic explorer

2008-03-11T00:32:00.000-07:00

Hello, my friends and fellow fan club members! Several of you have expressed concern about our lengthy absence from our blog and wondered if I was okay (since I was sick before). I want to reassure you all that I am doing just fine. I have gained back all my weight and Tracy says that I am nicely padded again. Unfortunately, I'm back to taking my steroid pills each night.

Well, it has been ages since Tracy helped any of us blog. She has been playing too many games on Facebook, but I think Monica might want to tell you about that soon.

Here are some pictures from my snowy adventure that took place about a month ago. I have seen snow out our windows before but I had never been out for a WALK in the snow. It was very exciting.First, I scanned the horizon to make sure there were no polar bears that had followed our snow down from the North Pole or something.

Then I tested my footing on that white stuff. It was a little cold and wet on my paws. I had to shake off the drips every once in a while.

I made sure to leave tracks so I could find my way back to the house...

Once I was sure that the snow was safe to walk on, I made sure to patrol my garden.

I think there was something hiding under this snowy bush, but I couldn't find it.
Tracy - I think it was melting snow drip, drip, dripping into the bush.

We took some video of my adventures in the snow. I'll see if I can convince Tracy to make it into an action movie for me.

This is my Grandma

2008-01-29T00:47:00.001-08:00

Dear Mr. Pablo and everycat,

Do you see this lady? She doesn't usually wear that red and white hat. She usually wears a baseball hat with a feather and lots of cool buttons on it. She comes over here to my house a lot. I learned something new this month. A little after that Christmas, my man and the lady went somewheres and me, Mommyca and Feebee stayed at her house for a week. Her house is just next door to ours. Mommyca says that she is our Grandma and she is very nice. Well, that is true! She likes to play with me and she kept filling up our food dishes every day. Do you have a grandma?

DRAT!

2008-01-25T18:03:00.000-08:00

Oops!

2008-01-24T19:53:00.000-08:00

"What happened here??!!" she said.
Joey~ "I dunno"
Phoebe~ "Huh?"
Monica~ "Why are you looking at me?"

Pablo Watching

2008-01-23T21:24:00.000-08:00

While Monica and I were having problems getting Tracy to help us with our blog, Pablo was doing all kinds of interesting things. He is such a good example of how to keep his household in order. He never seems to have trouble getting Kate to comply with his blogging needs. Here he is:
Reading his Christmas card collection. He receives his own correspondence.

Creating artistic shadows. Isn't that clever of him?

Warming himself in the sun. That's a wonderful sunning spot! And such an efficient pose.

Teaching Kate how to stay cool when it is WTHFC weather.

And keeping Nick on his toes.

Pablo, thanks for your great example. Monica and I will try harder to keep our household in tip-top shape!

Goodbye Caesar

2008-01-23T21:21:00.000-08:00

Monica and I are very sad because we have lost several friends this year. Caesar is the most recent friend and fan club member to go on to the Rainbow Bridge. He will be missed by his family and all of us at the Pablo Fan Club.

Some Christmas Fun

2008-01-20T17:54:00.001-08:00

Some of you long time Pablo Fan Club members and readers may remember the terrible strike of April, 2007, when Tracy refused to perform her secretarial duties for the Fan Club blog due to "other priorities". (Please!) Well, we have had a similar situation here since just before Christmas when Joey last wrote. I finally had to take the situation in hand and point out that it is HIGH TIME that we post these pictures from Christmas or they will just be pointless. (Remember that eye contact is one of the most powerful communication tools that we cats have...)

And so I present to you some pictures from the Christmas festivities at our house. They primarily centered around lots of boxes and pretty colored paper. Although Denis and Tracy went out twice with our Grandma to sing Christmas carols and light candles at various churches. I'm glad they did their singing elsewhere, if you know what I mean.

Unfortunately, the first trick that Tracy pulled was trying to get me to wear that ridiculous Santa hat. This was the third attempt, just before she gave up. Then things got more fun.

Joey got just what he wanted for Christmas - another box to "ratify".

Phoebe checked to make sure that no mice were hiding in amongst the papers.

I thought that the paper pile made a fine place to lay down and have a rest.

And Phoebe agreed (of course).

Joey kept saying "What's going on around here?" and we had to explain and explain, but he finally figured out that the waiting was worth it in the end.

And after all that excitement, I thought it best to hide under the tree for a spell. It's sure nice they thought to put a soft blanket under there.

Our tree is long gone now and things are back to normal. I hope that every cat had a wonderful Christmas. We have missed visiting all of your blogs and are looking forward to catching up with all the news.

What's going on around here???!!!

2007-12-25T12:36:00.000-08:00

Something strange has been going on around here lately. First, the Lady and the Man brought in this tree. What is it doing in here?

I thought that it was for me to climb up in and have a look around from up high, but I got in trouble for trying that.

Then the put all these fun toys hanging from the branches and some good climbing bokses underneath it.
I think that they are very fun to bat around on the floor. They are not much good hanging from the tree. But I get in trouble when I play with them. I get squirted with water from a water squirting gun.
And then, the people got out this pretty paper and played with it. But I get in trouble when I try to play with it. Is this fair?

How come Mommyca and Feebee don't get in trouble like I do?

It was a great party!

2007-12-23T18:41:00.001-08:00

There was a party at our house on the 21st. Something about Denis being really old. Whatever, it was a great party!

From the desk of...

2007-12-18T22:27:00.001-08:00

Updated: The V.E.T report was surprisingly good. On the lab work that was checked, only one value remains elevated and it is only slightly above the normal range. The other value which had actually climbed in the second set of blood work, was back down in the normal range. So the verdict is that Phoebe is improving from the steroid medication. Steroids help to improve a lot of illnesses in cats and stimulate appetite, so we are not sure exactly what has caused this or why it's better. But for now, anyway, we can relax and enjoy the fact that she's actually improved. We continue the steroids twice a day for another week and then cut back to once a day for a month.

Dear Pablo and all my friends,

Tracy and I were just looking back at the most recent blog posts and realized that we have not given you all an update about me in a while. I want to let you know that in the last week or so, I have been eating very well and have gained weight. We got a new scale and according to it, I now weight 8.2 lbs. Tracy says this is very good, but we don't know for sure that it means my liver is any better. That's why she made me an appointment at the V-E-T's office for Saturday. Oh bother! I don't like my ear medicine or getting weighed, but I do feel better and I like our new food. We are eating Science Diet for adult indoor cats. We all three like it, and we don't even have to fight over it because we can all eat it. Tracy put it in the big bowl.

Please also see Monica's post below. There is a strange new thing in our living room that you really should see!

Hmmmm...

2007-12-18T22:22:00.001-08:00

This looks like trouble to me. It arrived the other day in Denis' red machine. Does anyone know what it is?

Peaceful

2007-12-13T20:56:00.001-08:00

Hi Pablo and everycat! It's me, Joey. None of us cats has been blogging in a looooong time. We've been VERY VERY busy, napping and bathing and eating and I have been rat-i-fyin another boks. (I have to practice rat-i-fyin stuff cause Mr. Pablo says that it is a very important job!) Anyway, I have some more questions. This place is very confusing.

1. Sometimes, Mommyca and Feebee get tied up in some kind of belts and go OUTSIDE. Why would they want to do THAT? I used to live outside and it was cold and no one petted you or left food in a special bowl for you out there like they do inside.

2. The Lady who lives here keeps fussing with all the clothes. She takes them out of a basket, puts them into a noisy metal boks, throws them on the bed and then she puts them on these bendy sticks and hangs them up OUT OF MY REACH. Why does she do a silly thing like that? Why doesn't she just leave them on the bed so that we cats can lay on the soft clothes?

3. Feebee is kind of grumpy sometimes. Two times each day the Lady catches her and rubs some magic stuff onto Feebee's ear. And then her ear smells funny. I like to sniff it and I want to taste it but the Lady says "NO, JOEY". But I like to watch and then I like to tease her and she gets mad at me. Hee hee hee. Feebee is funny when she's mad.

Thanks for your help!

Update from Tracy: Phoebe is holding her own so far. Her personality is definitely much more like her old self, which is a real relief. She has been eating pretty well, but not really gaining any significant weight. But I feel much better that we are not doing very unpleasant things to her anymore and she is not hiding anymore. We are definitely enjoying her company.

New Foods

2007-11-29T00:06:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and everycat,

You have all been so sweet in sending me your purrs. They are very comforting and make me feel very loved. I want to make a list for you of all the new foods that I have tasted in the last two weeks. I'm not sure if there are thirteen, but we'll see.
1. Milk from Tracy's cereal bowl
2. Joey's food
3. My V. E. T. Dr's recommended liver diet wet food.
4. Poached salmon
5. Chicken of the sea from a can
6. Canned "Solid Gold" tuna flavor
7. Real turkey from Thanksgiving dinner
8. Fancy Feast chicken dinner flavor
9. Happy Tails chicken dinner flavor
10. Ground turkey browned
11. Cottage cheese
12. Kitten formula
13. Baby food, turkey flavor.

Wow! There were exactly 13 foods, so I can officially call this a Thursday Thirteen.

From Tracy - At the vet's on Tuesday, she got one dose of oral prednisolone (steroid) to get started. We are waiting for the compounded version that can be applied to her ear. Today, she greeted me at the bedroom door this morning for the first time since she got sick. She has eaten more today than she has in quite a while. Grandma is home and came to visit today. We'll just keep taking it one day at a time. Thanks for all the great ideas. I may look for those pill pockets and see if I can get that gallbladder medicine in without a struggle. It may have been helping a bit.

Phoebe

2007-11-27T12:39:00.001-08:00

This is Tracy with an update on Phoebe. We take her back to the V. E. T. today to repeat her blood work. It's been two weeks since it was done. She's completed her course of antibiotics. The vitamins and gallbladder medication have been a bit sporadic because she fights it so much. I have felt like I needed to pick my battles a bit and the antibiotics seemed to be the most important thing. She has been a really picky eater and seems just as skinny as before we started wooing her with fancy foods. I fear that we may learn the worst - that she is not improving. I don't think that I am ready to have her put down today. I hate to have "grandma" come home tomorrow and find that out. I'd also like to have some days without the torturous medications.

We'll keep you informed when we know more. The appointment today is at 3:10 Pacific Time.

The results are in: Phoebe's blood work was not really improved. One value was better, but the other two were worse. She is down to only 7 lbs. So I'm very sorry to tell you that Phoebe is pretty much on kitty hospice now. We are going to try a steroid, topical on her ears, to see if that helps keep her going for a while and perhaps increase her appetite. We are also going to keep doing subq fluids as that really doesn't seem to bother her at all. She doesn't seem to be in pain, still enjoys going outside and cuddles in bed at night. We figure she will let us know when she gets too unhappy. The steroids are not likely to improve the liver function much, but may help a bit. We didn't repeat the anemia test, but she's still quite pale on her gums. I'm not going to fight with her anymore with the vitamins or the gallbladder medicine. It's just too traumatic for her. Thank you everyone for your strong purrs. We are also thinking of having either Phoebe or Joey visit Grandma for a couple of days to give her a break from him. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Bokses

2007-11-26T16:37:00.001-08:00

Hi Mr. Pablo and everycat! It's me Joey. Lookit this here boks! It has a nice soft blanket in it and other nice things. It is a very soft place for me to lay down and my favorite thing to do is chew on the flaps. When I chew it and pull it, pieces come off. Then the man and the lady laugh at me and shake their heads. Why do they do that? Don't I look great in it?
Here is another boks at my house:
This is a move-y boks. Things move inside this boks and they are fun and interesting to watch.
Here there is a lady ice skating. I liked to watch her twirling around and around. Mr. Pablo, do you have a move-y boks at your house?

Thankful Thirteen

2007-11-22T21:08:00.001-08:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Phoebe and I are working together on this special Thursday Thankful Thirteen. There are a lot of things to be thankful for this year.
1. It has been almost exactly one year since we met Pablo. We are very thankful that we met him. He has been a great inspiration to us and it was through Pablo that we learned about blogging.
2. We have blogging for just over a year now! We are very thankful for all the great friends that we have met on the blogosphere.
3. We are very thankful for our people, Tracy and Denis. They are good for giving scritches, playing with the laser light toy and doing litter box patrol.
4. We are very thankful that Phoebe is getting a bit back to her old self. She still feels a bit crabby, but she is hanging out with us all now instead of hiding all the time.
5. We reluctantly admit that we are thankful for Joey. He can be a real pest, but he sure is entertaining. We are especially thankful that he is not homeless and out in the cold right now.
6. We are very thankful that we learned about going Outside on our harnesses this year. We learned about that from our good friend and fan club member, Tara.
7. We are thankful that we have lots of food here at our house. My goodness, we have lots of different foods these days than we have ever had before.
8. We are very thankful for our Grandma who lives just next door. She comes to visit us and plays with us. She keeps us company when Tracy and Denis abandon us for a trip. Grandma has been gone for almost a month now on a vacation herself. She comes back next week and we will be glad to see her.
9. We are thankful for our nice wide windowsills where we can look out our windows at the birds.
10. We are thankful that the big red monster machine does not live next door to us anymore.
11. We are thankful for warm cozy blankets and soft pillows to sleep on.
12. We are thankful for each other. Phoebe and I have been together since as long as we can remember.
13. And finally, we are very thankful for all of our friends' good wishes and purrs for Phoebe as she has been sick. Thank you everycat!

Happy Thanksgiving from Phoebe and Monica!

Hiding

2007-11-20T16:53:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and all my friends,

Can you see me in this picture? I am hiding behind our computer desk. I have been hiding quite a bit in the last week because Tracy keeps making me take pills and some yucky sticky syrup. I hide behind the desk, under the bed, in the closet among Tracy's shoes, behind the curtains and under the dresser in the bedroom. None of my hiding places work too well, because Tracy always finds me.

Oh well, I don't feel so much like hiding anymore. Today and yesterday, I have been feeling a little better. On Saturday, I went back to the V-E-T's office and he said that I seem to be holding my ground. I had not lost any more weight, but hadn't really gained much either. The Dr. gave me some more sub Q flooids that day. Since then, Tracy has been letting me eat some different foods. My favorite so far is tuna. Pablo, have you tried tuna? It is "chicken of the sea" so you are sure to like it. I have also enjoyed salmon. I DON'T like that wet food she keeps putting in front of me though. And I DON'T like the syrup stuff. It is very sticky and it gets in my furs when I spit it out.

Thank you all for continuing to send me your purrs. I miss visiting all your blogs. Monica tells me how you all are.

Fashion Friday on Thursday

2007-11-15T18:28:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I have never done a fashion show friday post because I don't wear clothes. But I did find this fancy feather hat to wear a few weeks ago. (it is really the feather from our wand toy. Joey has managed to get most of the feathers off it by now). I would like to wear it to welcome all of our new friends to our blog. If you are a fan of Pablo's and would like to join his fan club, please let me know. Membership requirements are simply to be a fan of Pablo's and show and interest in the fan club by commenting on both blogs. The Fan Club pledge is found in the sidebar for all members to refer to. A big welcome to recently added members Adan and Michico, Lord Jaders, Frodo, Fiona and Ali, Skeezix, MoMo, Tybalt and the (Mostly) Black Cats!

I'm also wearing my hat in respectful memory of one of our favorite dog Fan Club members, Jake. Jake was sick with heart failure for several months and finally went to the Rainbow Bridge last evening. If you would like to send condolences to his family, their blog is here. Jake's blog was taken down a while ago.

Finally, I'm wearing the hat to try to cheer up Phoebe. She's still not back to her old self and I can tell that Tracy worries about her. Phoebe is taking her medicine and eating some, but she also tends to hide for a lot of the day. She got tired of her special new wet food and is only interested in Joey's food. However, she doesn't like to eat when me and Joey are eating. Please keep purring for her. Thanks.

2007-11-13T16:28:00.001-08:00

Hi there Mr. Pablo and everycat! It's me Joey. Look at how big I am getting. I am a big and strong mancat. Here are some pictures of me when I was just a little scrawny kid for comparison.

But even though I was scrawny, I was already a great mouse wrangler. There are lots of mouses in this place and I chase them and show them who is boss. What would these people do without ME around here?

Here I have just sub-dude another mouse that was trying to escape out the front door.

I don't know what this thing is, but it is a good thing to attack. I use the stick as my sword and chase the mouses with it.

Now I'm tired from just thinking about all those adventures. A mighty hunter does need his rest.

Update from Tracy: Phoebe and I went for a stroll outside today. Her harness is so big on her these days... The subQ fluids that she got at the vet's office seemed to give her a boost that she needed. She has eaten her new food better than she had been eating over the weekend. It may be my imagination, but it seems like I can already tell a little difference in the meat on her bones. As long as she doesn't take a turn for the worse, the plan is to go back in two weeks after the course of antibiotics is done so that she can get the blood work repeated. Until then, we just hope she keeps eating and gaining weight.

Torchured

2007-11-12T21:52:00.001-08:00

My dear sweet Pablo and all my friends,

I want to thank you all for your strong purrs these last two days and your words of encouragement. They really helped me feel a little stronger today. And I really needed strength because I went back to the V-E-T's office to get torchured again.

I am so embarrassed to tell you that those people shaved all my pretty furs off my tummy. Then they rubbed some goopy stuff on my skin and waved a magic wand over me. It showed the doctor inside my liver, whatever that is. The doctor man spent a long time talking to Tracy and Denis about me - blah blah blah, cholangio, blah blah. Whatever, as long as I was safe in my prisoner box. But then they tricked me and made me come back out. They weighed me and found out that I have gained a little weight back - now 7.75 lbs. Then they torchured me again to take more of my blood and they gave me some of Caesar and Prinnie's flooids. I had a funny hump on my back for a while.

So now we are back at home. The first thing Tracy did was make me take a pill!! I thought I was all done with those nasty things since I stopped throwing up and all. This evening, I tried some new food - it is wet and I like it. There was also some sticky sweet syrup mixed in it that I liked to lick. I suddenly realized that I was pretty hungry, so I ate all of the wet stuff.

Well, I guess that is all there is to tell for now. I've had a busy day so I'm going to rest now. We are going to watch The Amazing Race together.

Update

2007-11-12T18:00:00.001-08:00

My dear kitty friends,

I just wanted to give a quick update because I have to run. I think Phoebe will want to tell you about her V. E. T. session a bit later tonight.

She had an ultrasound of her abdomen today (we just got home). It showed some un-homogenaity of her liver which goes along with her lab tests. Also some dilation of the gallbladder. Due to her history of inflammatory bowel disease, the Dr.'s best guess is that it is a gallbladder infection that is causing some back up to her liver. Most of the scenarios of a possible cause include an infection somewhere, so that is good news. She will start on antibiotics as well as some vitamins to help clean out the liver toxins and build back her blood. She's also going to try some special liver food.

Hopefully, she's start feeling better and perk up. The Dr. said he thinks the prognosis is good because her liver tests were not too terribly elevated.

Thank you so much everycat for your good wishes for Phoebe. She'll have a chance to tell you how she's doing herself soon.

2007-11-11T13:40:00.001-08:00

Dear Pablo and friends,

Monica here, bringing you some information about Phoebe. We both were at the V-E-T's office yesterday for our check up and we found out that Phoebe is not very well. She has lost a lot of weight since this time last year. She is down to 7.5 lbs which is 1 lb underweight. Since she is so floofy, no cat had noticed that she was getting to skinny until recently.

Well, my examination was over lickety split, but Phoebe was taken in the back room and torchured with a needle for a blood sample. The test showed that she is a little anemic and her liver tests are high. She has to go back on Monday for another test. In the meantime, Tracy is trying to coax her to eat anything that she will. We are getting to eat some of Joey's food, but Tracy doesn't let me eat as much of it as Phoebe. That doesn't seem quite fair to me, but oh well. She has also gotten to try some baby food turkey flavor, which I don't even get to taste. But Phoebe didn't take much of that. I offered to take it off Tracy's hands, but she said no.

So will everycat please send some extra purrs our way to help Phoebe get better? Thanks.

Getting a Drink

2007-11-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

Dear Pablo and friends,

Have you tried drinking water out of these things? It's hard to get at but it's very tasty. For some reason, Tracy doesn't like me doing this...

What we've been doing.

2007-11-02T20:04:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and friends,

I am very sorry that Monica and I have not been blogging or visiting our friends' blogs lately. We have been so busy trying to keep that little Joey in line that we have been very distracted. We also had company for a little over a week this month and I was participating in all the activities. Monica was mostly hiding, but she claimed the people's laps when they would sit still and be quieter for a while. Joey has been tormenting me day and night because he always wants to play. He has demolished one of our mice - it was a wobbly mouse and fortunately, not one of my favorites. Here are some pictures of life around here for the last month or so.

I'm a Hero!

2007-10-01T17:11:00.001-07:00

Hey, Mr. Pablo! Lookit what I got! This is an official membership into the cats of the revolution club and a hero handbook! What does this mean? I think it means that I am a very special boy. What a strange day I had...

The lady took me in my prisoner box in a moving machine. I was afraid that she was going to take me back because she didn't want me here anymore. First we did go back to the place where they torchured me before. But this time the people just looked at me and said nice things like "aren't you a lucky boy?" and "you are so cute!". I didn't have to come out and get torchured there. The lady put me back in the moving machine and we went to a new place. There, I did come out of the prison box. A new lady touched me and poked me and stuck something up my butt! But she said that I was healthy and very cute. And she was the one who gave me my HERO HANDBOOK! After that, the lady who lives here took me back home. YAY! I don't have to go to a new place.

I think that this book will tell me how to be a good kitten and get those lady cats to really like me.
But I can't read. Drat!

Later on, the lady put some goopy stuff onto my neck. She got it out of that box. Will it make me into a HERO? Thanks for your help.

Deep Thoughts

2007-09-30T18:53:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I have been thinking about this whole Joey situation and I have decided that I am going to be nicer to him. He is just a little kid and he doesn't have a mommy cat any more. Monica and I had this whole big house and our brand new big Outside territory. There is room enough to spare. Denis and Tracy sure like him, so he must not be too bad a kid. So I'm turning over a new leaf. I might be able to teach him a thing or two.

Plus, his food tastes really good.

He smells better now.

2007-09-29T11:32:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I've been working hard on getting that boy smell out of Joey. It's working pretty well.

I'm sure glad I thought of giving him a bath.

So if you have a stinky little boy move into your house, I recommend giving him a good lick-down to get rid of that smell.

Accckkkkk!

2007-09-26T00:21:00.001-07:00

Help! They're trying to strangle me!

I guess he's staying...

2007-09-25T13:11:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

It looks like that little boy, Joey is staying here. Every person and cat seems to think that he is just so cute! Hmph! At least he smells less stinky because Monica has been giving him baths. I do get to taste some of his food whenever her eats, so that's not too bad. But I'm still keeping my eye on him.
And this toy is mine!

How YOU doin'?

2007-09-22T14:50:00.001-07:00

Hello. I am Joey. I'm new around here and I have some questions.

1. Do I get to stay here?

2. Who is Pablo?

3. Can this lady cat by my new mommy? (she's nice)

4. Why doesn't this lady cat like me?

5. What can I do to make friends with her?

6. Can I keep this man? He is really nice.

7. What is the cat blogosphere?

8. What is that red light that runs around at night?

9. Why can't I catch it?

Thirteen Things - Joey

2007-09-20T19:24:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Thank you all for the excellent suggestions and tips. You all asked so many questions about Joey that Phoebe and I did some research to find out more about him.

And so I present to you: 13 Interesting Things about Joey

1. He smells funny. Now that Pablo has explained to me that it is just boy smell, I have decided that we can live with that. Afterall, Pablo is a boy too.
2. He is about 3 months old.
3. He has already had his hooha-ectomy.
4. He is FIV and feline leukemia negative.
5. He used to live out in the wild with his mom and all his brothers and sisters.
6. He was caught so that he could have a hooha-ectomy and he was supposed to go back out in the wild.
7. They clipped one of his ears at the V-E-T's office so they would know he had been there before if he ever came back.
8. He decided that he liked the people and didn't want to go back with his family.
9. He could have gotten eaten by a cougar out there.
10. He doesn't have a mommy cat anymore.
11. He is rather polite and not too pushy in trying to be friends with us.
12. His special kitten food is really yummy. Phoebe can steal it out of his bowl through the prison box window.
13. He looks a bit like Pablo, don't you think?

I guess he's not too bad, but I'm still gonna keep my eye on him.

That Stinky Boy

2007-09-19T18:47:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo,

Can you please help us with this:

Monica ~ This is the little boy who was in that prison box. He is interesting, but he smells funny. When he comes out of that box, I keep my eye on him very closely. He tries to make friends with me, but I am not too sure about that yet. Tracy suggested that he would smell better if *somecat* would give him a little bath. Hmmmph. I'm not his mother!

Phoebe ~ He is just a stinky little boy! I hiss and growl at him whenever I pass by to let him know it, too. He has taken over MY prison box and MY spider yarn toy. He plays with MY ball-in-the-round-thing toy and one of MY mice. I do not like him!
Tracy ~ Phoebe has here-to-fore showed little interest in these items...

Monica ~ Tracy says his name is not really That Stinky Boy, it is Joey and he is our new friend. Hmmm.... we'll see about that.

UH OH!

2007-09-18T22:29:00.001-07:00

Click to biggify. Can you see what is in there?

An eventful weekend

2007-09-11T21:57:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Monica and I had a very busy weekend. We had company come to our house. It was Gilbert and Sydney's mom (T) and dad (D). I could smell them on their clothes. They stayed for two nights in our extra room - the one that Monica and I are not allowed inside of. But when they were not inside that room, I got to visit with them. It was very interesting.

We did a lot of work while they were here. I helped Tracy and T move papers and boxes from one room to another. There were lots of boxes and papers going from here to there. I snoopervised to make sure that they were doing a good job. For a while, everything was a mess, but in the end, the extra room and our computer room both look much better. I think that Monica and I will be able to find important things much more easily now.

Monica didn't help much, but she made sure she got enough rest to keep Denis and D company watching TV at night.

Go Swans! (see below for another new post)

2007-09-07T00:33:00.000-07:00

Phoebe and I took 7th place in Pablo's Awesome Footy Finals contest and our team for the final 8 competition is the Sydney Swans. We have got a big elimination game coming up on Saturday. Here is an excerpt of a news clip about how GREAT our team is:

PAUL Roos says the Sydney Swans must replicate the intensity they showed against Hawthorn to give themselves a chance of beating Collingwood in Saturday's elimination final at the MCG.

Roos said he knows how good Sydney can be, especially after thrashing the Hawks by 72 points last week.

“Certainly last week the guys showed that their best is very, very good. And that gives everyone confidence when you know that you can put a very, very competitive team on the field and beat a team fourth on the ladder by 70-odd points.”

The Swans' confidence also stems from that fact that they played so well against Hawthorn without Tadhg Kennelly, who will miss out on the Collingwood clash due to a persistent knee problem.

So, we are cheering on our Sydney Swans. Sing along, everycat!

Cheer, Cheer the Red and the White
Honour the name by day and by night
Lift that noble banner high
Shake down the thunder from the sky
Whether the odds be great or small
Swans will go in and win over all
While her loyal sons are marching
Onwards to victory

And the answer is...

2007-09-06T12:52:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Everycat and their people gave some very educated guesses, but nocat got it 100% correct. The correct answer was phrase #5. Myow?... Myow?... Myow?... = "There is something that needs your attention. Can you guess what it is?". Note the direct eye contact, upward inflection and persistent nature of my communication. Like many of you, Tracy guessed that what I was trying to bring to her attention was the need to pet me. However, I was actually trying to tell her that the kitty litter needed attention.

Meow - a practical exercise.

2007-09-03T17:31:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Phoebe really did a good job of explaining some Meow basics (I helped her). And here is your chance to practice what you have learned. Gather your people around and see if they can figure out what I am saying in this video. It's a tricky one. Pay attention to body language, eye contact and inflection.

Our first movie

2007-09-02T19:52:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Skeezix gave us the information that we needed to learn how to make our very own videos. We are just learning, but this is our first go. What do you think?

Meow - A Language Primer

2007-09-01T19:02:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo,

As Monica has mentioned in a previous post, most people do not have a very good grasp on the subtle nuances of the Meow language. This causes a big communication gap between feline and human that can be very frustrating on a day-to-day basis. I thought it might be helpful to give a beginners orientation to Meow basics.

Meow meaning is conveyed in a complex manner. It is more than just the words that are used, but also the tone, inflexion and body language that are used. There is also a vibrative component to the Meow language that is difficult for humans to grasp. Here are some phrases that are used commonly in our household:
1. Mmmph (accompanied by an upward stretch against some nearby furniture in a human's presence) = good morning, have you petted me yet today?
2. Mee-ow? (given when the human enters your house) = welcome home, have you petted me yet today?
3. Mmmmyew! = I see that you are going Outside, can I come too?
4. Myoooooooorrwww! = Let me go Outside!!
5. Myow?... Myow?... Myow?... = There is something that needs your attention. Can you guess what it is? (food, water, litter box maintenance, petting a cat)
6. Mrrrow (vibratory) = I don't like it when you do that.
7. Mmmm (vibratory) = I love you. ( This phrase is reserved for rare occassions. You don't want your people to get too big in the head.)

I hope this has been helpful. If your people have a hard time understanding Meow, please encourage them to read this post.

Update

2007-08-28T20:47:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Phoebe and I have once again been prevented from blogging by the escapades of Tracy and Denis. They keep going out and leaving us for hours on end. They spend a LOT of time at That House (the one that smells like an unhygienic cat). Phoebe and I looked over the contracts quite thoroughly. We voiced our concerns about buying a house with another cat's scent in it, but they didn't listen to the voice of wisdom.
Here is Denis signing the contract. It is official, we are going through with the purchase.

Some of our friends have been a bit confused about this territory expansion. Just to clarify, we are not moving into That House. We are staying right here. We are buying this land so that we have more room to explore. We will own Grandma's house as well as That House. Phoebe and I don't think that we should have any people live there. People tend to make trouble. Here is a picture of what the layout is.
The yellow house is our house. The green one is Grandma's and the grey one way at the end is That House.

In other news, our new cat litter box is working out quite well. Tracy seems to be doing a better job of keeping it tidy.

We were very saddened to learn today upon our return to our blog that club member Anastasia went missing one week ago and seems to have gone on to the Bridge. Anastasia was a classy girl and very stylish. The Pablo Fan Club will be a bit lonelier without her.

We have had lots of new friends stop by the Pablo Fan Club in the last month. We are way behind in confirming them as official Fan Club members. I will see to it that I do that in the next few days.

D-O-G-S

2007-08-18T20:17:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo,

This is one of our neighbors. I am showing his picture because I saw him today. He lives next door to us with another dog. The other one has a pushed in nose and he wheezes all the time. This one is very noisy - he likes to bark and bark at me when I go for a stroll in the backyard. I like to lay down and watch him. He's very funny because he gets all worked up and he can't get to me because dogs can't climb fences! Ha ha.

In the front yard we have a wooden fence and another dog lives on the other side. She is a funny little dog. I don't have a picture of her, but she is very small. None of my neighbor dogs are very scary. They are not so big like Jake, Jazz and Sherman.

Pablo, today was the first time that I have gotten to go Outside in over a week! I have been stuck in here and Tracy hasn't even been home very much. She has been leaving in the morning and sometimes not coming home until the night when it is dark outside. It's been kind of boring around here. Well, anyway, she has been home most of today and we celebrated by going Outside. I hope tomorrow will be the same...

Litter Box development

2007-08-07T02:03:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I am very excited to show you what I bought the other day. This is a special cat litter try made especially for our new twig-style cat litter Phoebe mentioned in a previous post. See, there are really two trays there. The top one keeps the twigs in it and the bottom one collects the saw dust. This will keep our toilet facilities much nicer. It will also keep the sawdust cleaner. Since it goes into our compost pile that is important. You can read more about it at their website.

I also bought this special scooper that has big holes to let the twigs go through it. We need to keep things as simple as possible for Tracy because she is not so great at keeping our facilities in tip-top shape, if you know what I mean.

New Territory

2007-08-05T21:07:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I must tell you what happened to me today! Tracy and I went out for a walk, which started out just fine. I nibbled on some grass and was just getting into the business of monitoring the grounds. But then Tracy picked me up and took me to Grandma's house. We went in to visit for a while. I thought that was kind of a dirty trick to make me stay INSIDE when i thought we were going for a walk. From there, things went even downhill. Next, Grandma and Tracy got the bright idea to show me the inside of our new house that we are buying. I was not too keen on that idea to start with. I thought maybe the people that had that big red monster machine might still be in there. The screen door is very NOISY also.

We had only taken one step into the place when I could tell that a cat had been living there. It was a cat with poor hygeine habits! I don't know what that cat was thinking. Didn't they have a proper litter box? I started howling my distaste for the place right away and Tracy got the hint. We went back outside and I wanted to RUN back home, but Tracy is SO SLOW.

I told her that the deal is off, we should not buy that house at all. She says that what we will do is take out the carpet where the cat did its business and things should smell much better after that. Once my head cleared up a bit, I guess that might work. We will have to see...

Tracy felt so bad about my bad experience in that house that she took me Outside this evening at 9:00 PM. It is very different and exciting Outside at night. There were some fluttery bugs that I tried to catch. I had a nibble of some grass. Now I feel much better about the whole situation.

Very busy around here

2007-07-31T20:03:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

A lot of our friends have been asking where we have been. We have definitely been very neglectful of our fan club chairfeline duties. But there have been lots of negotiations and business going on at the Pablo Fan Club Headquarters that we have been attending to. Monica and I have been overseeing the negotiations for Tracy and Denis these last two weeks. Here is a rundown:

Firstly, Tracy is on the committee that plans the annual American Diabetes Association fund-raising walk. She bring home some assignments sometimes and Monica and I help her with them. This time, we were filling these bags with information about how to sign up a team to walk.
This is a very important cause because Diabetes is a disease that is really growing in the United States and around the world. The American Diabetes Association helps fund research about diabetes treatment, fights to protect the rights of people with Diabetes and educates people about it too. Grandma has Diabetes and Tracy teaches people about it each day at her job, so it is important to us.

Tracy is going to walk. I asked her if I could go on my harness, but she told me that D-O-G's go on the walk. I guess maybe I'll stay home and keep Denis company. If you would like to contribute to Tracy's fund-raising, you can go here.

The other business at hand is an expansion of the Pablo Fan Club Headquarters. We are purchasing the land that my Grandma lives on. As you may remember, she lives right next door to us. That land belongs to Tracy's brother who moved away. We are buying it so that Monica and I can explore it completely without tresspassing. (we explored it before, but now we will be completely within our rights as owners, you see...) Monica has been studying the paperwork for this sale. Tracy and Denis keep asking other people to look at the papers, too, as if Monica's opinion wasn't enough!

We will keep you all posted about the developments.

Some Pictures

2007-07-17T22:49:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I would like to tell you a little bit about what Monica and I did while Tracy and Denis were gone on their vacation. Firstly, I was right about that nice girl. She did come and stay with us, but not every night. She visited every day for awhile and took me Outside each day. We left my harness on again so that it would be easy for us to go for walks. She stayed overnight twice and watched TV with us. We tried to use the computer, but the screen when blank. Monica thought that she could fix it, but it didn't work.

After a LONG time of that arrangement, Grandma came by one day and took me for a walk and we accidentally wound up at her house. Monica came over too and we stayed at Grandma's for another LONG time. It was a little confusing, but I was glad to have Grandma's shoes to sniff anyway.

Thanks for everyone who teleported over to keep us company. It was nice because we were by ourselves a lot of the time.

Now that Tracy is back, she told me all about her trip. I found some interesting pictures. Some of them are quite scary so look at them at your own risk!

This one is not scary at all. I would like to meet that little guy and play a game of tag with him. I think that I would win and he might make an interesting meal.
Now this one is a little bit scary. These are some large birds which may be vishus. They have a big nest and they are up high where they can swoop down and grab some cats right off of the ground.

This one is even scarier. Look at those big horns that he has. He could spear a cat with those things. He look very much like a vishus deer but with more dangerous horns on his head.

Here is the scariest one of all. He is very very big and vishus. Tracy said that he can jump right over that fence if he wants to and trample you. She and Denis stayed in their car.

With all those dangerous, vishus animals around, I'm amazed that they made it home alive! They are very brave (or else they are not very smart... that is a possiblity.)

We're Back!

2007-07-16T23:07:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Phoebe and I are finally back at our own home with Tracy and Denis in their proper places. As you can see in this series of photos, that place is on the couch petting me. I have really missed all of you my friends. I have a lot of catching up to do.

Firstly, Pablo has nominated me as a top notch schmoozer. I have to research what cats have been nominated and put my mind to whom I may nominate as well. I can consult with Phoebe on that, since Pablo nominated her as well. We also have a meme to complete that Pabs tagged us for.

For now, I'm content to be kneading a soft pillow while lounging on top of Tracy. I've had to look at all her pictures that she took on her trip a couple of times now. They are mostly of different people and mountains. Kind of boring. Here is the most interesting one that she took as far as I can tell.

They're going away again...

2007-06-29T23:57:00.000-07:00

UPDATE from the secretary...

7/7 - Denis and I are in Missoula Montana right now. I hope everycat who is teleporting over for the party at our house cleans up after yourselves. Have fun! You only have two days before the girls' grandma gets home.

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Tracy and Denis have been putting a bunch of clothes and things into their boxes on wheels again. They went away just last month. Can you believe they are going again?! A nice girl was here earlier today and Tracy was showing her our food, water and litter box. Then she gave me a pill while that girl was here - how embarrassing! Then she showed her how to use our computer and TV. I think that girl is going to come and stay with us. I guess that will be okay. She petted me and said I was a nice kitty. She also said that Monica is beautiful! Well, she is right about that too.

I doubt that we will be blogging for a while. They are packing a LOT of clothes. Bye everycat! We will miss you...

addendum from Tracy - we are going on a two week vacation. The "nice girl" is watching Phoebe and Monica for the first week and then their grandma will be back to take over.

Secret Paw

2007-06-28T19:55:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Look at what came in the mail the other day!
It's our secret paw package. It was loaded full of things for Phoebe and I. Phoebe started to work on getting it opened up.

While she was working on getting the packages opened, I took a look at the card. Look at those pretty cats! They look very lifelike in this picture, don't you think?

It was from Lilly Lu and Iris. The note sounds like Lilly Lu wrote it, but Iris helped her pick out the presents. Particularly, it says here, some nip... Well, let's have a closer look here.
Oh, a catnip fish for each of us. That smells very intoxicating.
And here is a bag that smells very good too.
Some pretty pink mice. They are the perfect size for carrying around by the tail. Lilly Lu said that the pink dotted one is especially from her.
Tracy opened up that plastic bag and inside were these little puff balls that are bathed in nip! Oh, they are great!
And a nice soft blanket for lounging on with the nip balls.
Umm.... why is the room spinning a little?
Time for some girl-cat wrestling.
I'm not sure what this one is for but I like the colors and it pretty cuddly.
Is it time for a nap now? Thank you so much, Lilly Lu and Iris, from the bottom of our nip-intoxicated hearts!

Naptime

2007-06-24T23:38:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Earlier, I showed you a picture of Monica and I watching TV with Tracy. Then I told you about my Denis and how he sometimes naps with us on the couch. Well, here is a picture of us three having a nice nap on the couch. Denis sometimes falls asleep here at 3 AM and forgets to go into the bedroom to sleep with Tracy. That's what happened this time. Tracy got up in the morning and found us all snuggly together.

Pet Peeve #5

2007-06-23T16:11:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

On the mornings that Tracy works, she usually gets this monstrosity out of our computer room and sets it up in the living room. It is a very large and dangerous item called an "ironing board". When she pulls it out, it is flat. Then she makes this hideous noise and it folds out to what you see above. Then she places some of her clothes on top and rubs them with that device you can see sitting on top of the board. I'm not sure why she has to do this, I don't see that the clothes are any different when she is done. When I see the board coming, I get as far away as I can. I'm sure that it would whack me if I got too close. Do you have one of these in your house? Do you have any ideas of how we can get rid of it?

Doing our part

2007-06-20T19:34:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Well, we finally got our pictures into the new computer box and then the new ones off of our camera. Hooray! Here is a picture of our new cat litter. One day, Monica and I were discussing the public service announcement that Pablo gave a while ago about global warming and wondering what we could do about it. Our old cat litter was a clumpy kind. Tracy took out the clumps and put them in a bag and threw them in the garbage can. From there they went to the dump and sat there for who knows how long in with all the other gross stuff.

Well, we searched for something better and this is what we found.Our new litter is really different. It comes in little twigs. When we pee on it, it turns into sawdust. Tracy scoops out the poops and flushes them. When it all turns into sawdust, we will put it in our compost pile and it will be useful! Isn't that a neat trick?

Photo Hunters - Hair

2007-06-16T21:50:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I haven't done a photo hunters post in a couple of weeks, but I found the perfect picture for this week's theme. As you can see from this picture, my sister Phoebe has lots of hairs - furs to be exact. Of particular note are the extra long furs tufts in between her toes. She also has extra long ear fur tufts, but you can't see them that well in this picture.

You may be wondering if we got the pictures into our new computer box yet. Sadly, no, we did not. Tracy is making some excuse about the picture program not letting her register it because it was registered on our old computer box. She says it should get fixed on Monday when she can call the customer service people. Oh well, I found this one already on our box from before. (I know that's confusing, I don't get it myself.)

We're still here

2007-06-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

I'm sorry about the delay in our posting anything new. We still have Tracy working on getting our new computer box doing all the things we want it to do. She is supposed to get our pictures into the new box, but she keeps doing other things... Umm... I don't mean to complain, but I have got some good pictures on our camera that we need to get into the computer box. I have plans to try to do a movie. But I have to see if I can find info about how to make a movie on the cat blog help center. I want to catch up on all our friends, but Tracy keeps doing other stuff. Well, I guess we'll get it all fixed up soon. Sorry we haven't been around much. I miss all our friends.

Suzanne Sleeps

2007-06-11T17:34:00.000-07:00

Sweet lady Suzanne fought a brave battle against kidney disease. She found great comfort in her Momma Toni's loving care this past weekend and went to the Rainbow Bridge today. She will be missed by all in the Pablo Fan Club. Rest in peace, Suz.

Flowers for Suzanne

2007-06-10T22:38:00.001-07:00

Our dear club member, Suzanne, is very sick today. She is spending some nice quiet time with her mom, Toni. I think she will like these flowers and they may help her feel a little better.

We got our new computer box today and I am back in my rightful place on top of the desk, dictating to Tracy. I've got her working on reinstalling all of our programs and bookmarking our internet sites.

My Denis

2007-06-09T22:31:00.001-07:00

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Since I am having to use Denis' computer and can only use the pictures on his computer box, I thought I would tell you a little bit about him.
1. Tracy ordered him over the internet at a person store called Christian Matchmaker. I don't know how much he cost.

2. He is very handy. He built that railing that he is standing in front of above. He also built this rock wall.

3. He is missing a leg like our dog friend Jasmine. Sometimes he walks with sticks under his arms and sometimes he straps on a spare leg. I wonder who he got it from.

4. He plays the guitar. So does Tracy, but Denis plays better. I don't like it when Tracy plays the guitar, but I sometimes stick around when Denis does.
5. He likes to own special guitars. But when he moved in here with us three girls, he decided to sell some of his guitars. He sold three guitars on Ebay, but he still has three (two acoustic and one electric). This one was a special guitar made in Ireland that he sold to a man in the UK. They don't make very many of them so the UK guy couldn't find one there. Isn't that funny?

6. He works until very late at night (1 or 2 AM), so he keeps me company after Tracy has gone to bed. Then he sleeps during the day until about noon. This is great for me because one or the other of them is around for me to observe most of the time.
7. He is a "little person" like on that TV show Little People, Big World. He is shorter than Tracy. They both seem tall to me though.
8. He likes me better than Monica. Shhh, don't tell her... He pets me and talks to me and thinks I'm cute and funny. He thinks Monica is too pushy and bossy.
9. He plays finger games with me - like poking his finger through the holes in the crocheted afghan or the laundry basket. And he lets me bit his fingers when we play. It's very exciting.

Those are the most interesting things that I can think of about my Denis.

Somthing's up

2007-06-08T22:41:00.000-07:00

Something funny is going on around here. Our computer screen is all black and nothing happens when we hit the buttons. And the big box is gone from under the desk. Yesterday when Tracy was at work, Denis let this man take the box away.

So today, Tracy is helping me use Denis' computer to write this post. The bad thing is that I'm not allowed to sit on top of Denis' desk, so I'm having to dictate from the floor. The indignity of it all! Tracy explained that we are getting a brand new box to go under our desk and we are giving our old box to Grandma cause her computer died. I didn't think that computers were ever alive anyway, but go figure. Anyway, I hope our blog will still be in our new box somehow.

Peace, man!

2007-06-05T22:05:00.001-07:00

Ooops! Something went very wrong when we made our peace globe. We tried over and over to get it to come out bigger, but we couldn't. We used MS Paint. Anyway, there it is, if you can see it...

UPDATE: Thank you Skeezix, for fixing our globe. You are very smart and have helped us out several times.