Polo Shirt Fail

I stumbled upon this great deal for a green polo shirt in what I thought was Red's size given the description for the shirt online. I couldn't help myself and promptly ordered one and waited for it to arrive. When I went to the mailbox and found the package, I ripped it open only to discover a shirt more aptly suited for one of my cats! Haha! I checked the invoice and it said small, and I thought they must have just made a mistake.

I gave customer service a call, and they agreed to send another one at no charge in the correct size, they were wonderful about it and told me to keep the first one too. So I waited again, and again ripped open the new package when it arrived only to discover the exact same size! Either they sent the wrong size again, or we have two different definitions of what a large is. 

At this point I gave up and cut my losses, and thought of two perfectly sized pups who might could use these cute green polos and shipped them off to the pugs of the Canine Mafia! Hey, even mobsters like to look nice! Haha! Hopefully, they will get better use of them than we did!

Hmmm...is this some new kind of neck warmer?

Does this shirt make my head look big?

I even tried the polo on Itty Bitty, but apparently the shirt has some magical power that renders kitties unable to move, so that didn't work either! It was either that or the fact that it fit Itty Bitty more like a dress than a shirt! Haha!

You can even see Bitty's tail is a little fuzzy because he was swishing it around to show me his displeasure in this torture suit I had put on him! LOL

High Cotton Turns 5!

So I am a bad mom and did not realize it was Cotton's birthday yesterday until it was quite late last night, but thankfully I had some chicken baby food stored away in the pantry for just such an occasion! Cotton is my little weirdo, and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in any wet food I have ever offered him, but he lives for chicken baby food, so that made his night! He's also a carbaholic, but that's a whole other post! Haha!

Boy does time fly though, I can't believe my purr monster boy is already 5 years old! I've already told him that this is it, he is no longer allowed to get any older...though I'm not sure he was listening as he promptly meowed at me wanting to know why I had stopped the chin rubbin's!

A retrospective of my favorites of my lovable silly Cotton ball:

At 8 months old, this was taken the day we brought him home, back when he still had a small head ;)

He quickly showed what a laid back little dude he was...

And that bath time made him very grumpy...

But that covering him up with a nice blanket after a bath, to help warm him up makes him very happy and sleepy...

 

 He showed off his master skills at finding wonderful napping spots...

 

 

It wasn't long before we learned of Cotton's affinity for drinking water...

in all it's forms...

He took to Red almost immediately and they became lookout buddies as they both enjoy keeping an eye on the goings on of the neighborhood...

They even got into sychronized napping...

 

He showed his crazy hyper side, and how much he loved to have fun on the cat trees...

He quickly worked his way into my heart with his laid back and sweet personality, and really how can you not love a guy who can rock pink and white so well! :)

 

Happy 5th Birthday High Cotton!

SuperDog

It's time for me to come clean about something. My dog has a secret identity. Most of the time he's busy hanging out in the backyard, lounging on the porch with the kitties, or playing with his toys, but when danger knocks Red's alter-ego comes out and he's ready to protect at a moment's notice!

Introducing Underdog!

Red takes his Superhero duties very seriously, and is always on the lookout for any opportunities where he may be needed, be it helping a grandma across the street or scaring away the squirrels when they try and storm the neighbor's bird feeder!

You should see the way the squirrels tremble when Red busts out his cape! Haha!

My Cat Is Weird

So the other day I stroll into the kitchen to find Abby hanging out on the kitchen counter, which isn't weird in and of itself, except something caught my eye. She was hovering over a bag of lemons I could have sworn were pushed up against the wall of the counter, but were now close to the edge of the counter. I stop and just watch her for a second and she goes back to what she was doing, which was rubbing herself all over the lemons! So, of course I grabbed my camera to document her weirdness :)

You'd have thought that bag of lemons was really a bag of catnip the way she was loving on those things! Haha!

 

I asked Abby, "What are you doing?"

Huh! Oh hi, I was just checking these lemons for imperfections, yeah that's right, you have to be very careful...you don't want defective lemons!

 

Hmm, what's in here...

 

You didn't tell me you had a bag of limes that needed checking too!

 

Oh sweet limes, how I love you!

 

 ::purrrrrrr::   ::head bonk::   ::purrrrrrr::

 

 Such a weirdo I tell ya! Just yesterday I caught her back on the kitchen counter loving on my bag of celery! Sadly, I was cameraless at the time, so you'll just have to take my word for it!

It seems all those times she was watching me from the top of the kitchen cabinets while I was in the kitchen wasn't for nothing! Haha!

What! I have credentials you know! I'm a certified lemon/lime/celery checker!

Happy 4th of July!

Red wanted to send Happy 4th of July wishes to all his blog friends!! It's that time of year again for fun, food, and fireworks...the latter of which sends Red into a crazed barking frenzy! Yay for me! Haha!

Red pulled out his patriotic flag bandana and doggles and enjoyed strutting his stuff around the backyard!

You know, I don't get out of bed for anything less than one cookie per shot...

Alright, alright! You drive a hard bargain!

He really knows how to work that catwalk! Haha!

What do you mean there are no more cookies! I can't work under these conditions!

After some pleading and Red negotiating a cheese slice with dinner, he decided he could pose for just one more shot...

Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday!

Summer Loving Kitty

It's officially reached that hot and humid point of the summer, where when you open the door to the screen porch you can feel the air just hit you in the face. Now when I open the door, the cats, instead of running right out, will feel the air hit them and contemplate whether they really want to go out there or not, and most of them turn right back around to find a cozy spot in the nice cool AC. Except for one, Miss Bella lives for the hottest summer weather. I think she must have been a lizard in a past life, because even in the middle of the day, when it's really hot and muggy out there, she will march right out and roll over on her back like she's trying to get a tan on that speckled pink belly of hers! Sometimes if it's too hot, I will have to go forcibly remove the silly fuzzball so she doesn't get overheated.

When she's not busy napping or soaking up the sun, she hops onto the back of the wicker chairs and takes in all the activity in the backyard and woods.

Sometimes if Abby's not commandering the kitty bed, she'll crash out there...

or steal a place on one of Red's beds...

but mostly she just finds a nice spot on the wood floor and stretches out to get optimal soakage of the sun!

Luckily, she is very good about taking a break from her tanning to rehydrate!

One of the fun things I like to do with the warmer weather is to drag the cat toys out onto the screen porch and bust out the catnip! This past weekend I brought some of the cats favorite scratching posts and toys onto the porch to enjoy the warmer temperatures, and with the added catnip it only amped up the fun! Of course, I forgot to video it, but I did dig out an older video taken at our last house and I thought I would leave it for you all to see the silly antics in person of my crazy little fluffballs. Make sure to keep an eye out for when Sophie kicks herself in the head with her own back foot when she is playing with her catnip snake, it's a hoot and she still does it to this day when she gets overly excited! Hahaha!

Red Goes to College

It's been a crazy and busy past couple of weeks and I have been lacking in my blog postings, if only there were a few more hours in the day! I've been in and out of town the past week, as my brother and I are now in charge of getting my grandmother's home that she moved out of, ready to go on the market. My grandmother has been in that house for about 45 years, so it's a very big job, but thankfully Red loves to come along with me.

Last weekend Red went to college! I was busy with the Nana, helping her get some final things straightened out, so Red got to stay with my brother for the weekend, who is still in college. This was my brother's first test of how he would do with the responsibility of taking care of a dog all by himself, and he failed! Haha! Okay, so I was a little tough on him, but he did forget to feed Red the first day until I called and reminded him! Red is such a good sport, he never begs or lets on when he is hungry, so he didn't even try and clue in Uncle Reyn that he had forgotten his dinner. Initially I had these visions of a crowd of rowdy college boys chanting Red's name, while they prepared a beer funnel for him, but thankfully things went really well and Red did enjoy his time spent with Uncle Reyn.

But Red does love his Uncle, and even though my brother had sworn Red would not be allowed on his bed, Red had worked his magic within minutes of arriving and promptly spent the next few days cuddled up in his Uncle's bed! Haha! Red knows how to work his charms!

They are quite the silly pair, and have similar senses of humor and you never know what you'll find them up to when they get together, haha!

There are no words. Hahahahaha!

The best thing about Uncle Reyn's place is that there is a dog park right across the street, this pleased Red to no end! He loves other dogs, so he was thrilled to make multiple daily visits with the other pups during his stay. Of course, with the lovely hot and humid summer weather in full effect, he worked up quite the stink. And since it is so hot out, I figured there was no better time than to break out the hose for some cooling off and a little stink removal.

Red was all blissed out just enjoying the beautiful summer day.

Hey! What's this green bottle for?

Not cool my friend, so not cool!

Would you put the stupid camera down and get these suds off me now!!

Could he possibly look any more pathetic? Haha!

You owe me lots and lots of cookies for this.