Something very strange

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?

Phoebe - Arctic explorer

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.

Oops!

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

Hmmmm...

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

Peaceful

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.

Torchured

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.

I'm a Hero!

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.

That Stinky Boy

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!

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

D-O-G-S

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...

New Territory

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.

Some Pictures

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 still here

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.

Somthing's up

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.

The Monster

Dear Pablo,

Monica and I have been going Outside now for some time. It is mostly very fun. I love to smell the air and feel the wind in my furs. Monica is getting braver about exploring with me too. But we are having trouble with this red monster that lives down the street from us. It comes down our road, growling at us loudly. I am sure that it is trying to come and eat us! When it gets to the wide spot in our road, it gives up, turns around and leaves. It is a very tricky monster. I think it is trying to get our guard down and then really eat us up.

Monica is very scared of the red monster. ( I hate to tattle on her, but she is kind of a sissy). One day, the monster came growling at us, then left as usual. When it was gone, I told Monica that the coast was clear and we could go on our walk safely. But Monica decided that she didn't want to go outside anymore. This is very dissappointing. I like it when we all go Outside together. Now, Monica checks very carefully out the door to make sure the monster isn't anywhere around. It takes her a long time to decide that the coast is clear. I say, "come on Monica! Let's go!" I sniff her and give her a little lick to reassure her. I wish that mean monster would just leave us alone. I wonder if Skeezix has any special vishus monster repellant...

PS. One of our friends was wondering how Tracy would take us both for a walk. We tried that once, but it didn't work out very well. Monica and I couldn't agree on where to go, so we would pull Tracy nearly in two. We always recruit Grandma to go on walks with us now. We make a great foursome!

The Very Exciting Easter

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Phoebe alluded to what happened on Easter here at the Pablo Fan Club Headquarters, but I am going to start off telling the story. Tracy came home from church with a bag from Petco and inside was this:
Phoebe wasn't sure what to make of it, so I decided to come over for a look:
Hmm... Seems a little fishy to me. Something sneaky is coming up I told her. After a while, Tracy and Grandma ganged up on Phoebe and stuck one part over her head and the other part they wrapped around her chest. They clipped on the long rope in between her shoulders. She was walking funny trying to sneak away, but it was snapped onto her. Then, Tracy and Grandma opened up the door! Usually when they open the door, they pick Phoebe up or stick something in her face so that she cannot run outside, but this time they were telling her to go out the door. This was very strange and I warned Phoebe it didn't sound like a good idea to me. I don't know why she is so obsessed with The Outside anyway. I think it is much safer in here. I will let Phoebe take over the story now because she is very excited to tell you all about The Outside.

Thanks, Monica... Well, it is true that I was scared of the harness when Tracy first put it on me. I didn't realize that it had to lock around me. It felt very strange and I wasn't sure what to do. I went out the door and crept across our front porch trying to get away from Tracy and Grandma. I didn't know why they were following me. The first place I wanted to go was under the car, because that is where I usually hide when I sneak out of the house. Tracy and the harness kept me from doing that, so I laid down on the sidewalk and sniffed these pretty flowers while I thought of what to do next:
I looked around and gathered my wits about me. Tracy was not scolding me or grabbing me, but she had me by the harness. That's when I saw the grass! Grandma buys us little boxes of grass and it smells and tastes good. But this was lots and lots of grass everywhere, not in a little box. I finally thought of the best thing to do - go eat the grass.
Denis even came over to say hi to me.
I stayed outside for about 20 minutes according to Tracy. I started to get used to the harness and Tracy following me around everywhere. Just when I was going to explore more places besides the grassy part, there were some scary loud noises and big things around me. I don't remember the details very well, its all a blur to me. I was trying to run away, but I could only go in circles around Tracy. She was pulling on my harness and getting close to grabbing me when I discovered an important thing. I can get the harness off if I back up away with the rope pulling forward. It just slips off my head! Tracy says this is a flaw in the tightness and it will be remedied next time. Hmmm...

Well, I must say that going Outside on a harness is not what I was expecting. I'm still not sure what I think of it. I will have to go Outside a few more times before I decide if I like it or not. The End ~Phoebe

Aha! Well, we see that I was right in the first place. It is safer to stay inside. ~Monica

Something Loud

Dear Pablo and fan club members,

Something very loud happened here at the Pablo Fan Club headquarters yesterday (Saturday). Tracy was doing something with the oven called "self-cleaning". We could smell a little smoke, but no one seemed worried about it. Then all of a sudden, there was a horrible beep, beep, beeping all through the house. We all scurried about trying to get away from it, but it was everywhere. Tracy and Denis were yelling something about "smoke alarms", opening windows and fanning up near the ceiling. It took a long time to get the beeping to stop.
What happened next was really exciting! They opened all the windows in the house and turned on all the fans to blow the air around. It was like the outside was in the house and everywhere. It stayed like that all day long. Monica and I sat in the windows and our furs all blew in the wind and we could smell the outside. It was wonderful. That was our Saturday. Just wait till you hear what happened today!