Skeezix's Scratching Post

I'm thinkin' on Thurzday

2009-07-09T22:24:00.000-07:00

If yoo only know one thing abowt me by now, yoo know I'm ALWAYS THINKIN. And whut I wuz thinkin abowt today wuz how do I git sum peeseful sleep with Tripper arownd always wunting to eet me? So I hit upon a plan. I PUT UP A DEEKOY. A deekoy is sumthing that looks like sumthing the cat yer foolin' wood wunt to eet, but it's not reel. So Flat Skeezix came to the reskyoo. I put him between my burrito bed and my Morgan bed. Tripper has deesided he likes sleepin' in my Morgan bed. So with Flat Skeezix to distrakt Trip, I had a peeseful nap. Win Tripper came, he didn't notiss me cuz he wuz so bizzy trying to figyer owt how to eet Flat Skeezix.

Brilyunt, izn't it???

Yoo have GOT to see....

2009-07-09T12:13:00.000-07:00

... the Mizzeri Meowers post fur today!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-07-08T00:05:00.000-07:00

========================
My Mikul Jaksun tribyoot foto is posted on Snuzzy today. Pleeze drop by and give me a thums up.
========================

'Toons on Toozday

2009-07-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

Walk 'n' Strole!

2009-07-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

Tonite was vary fun cuz I got to BOTH walk and strole! It was kinda like Planes, Tranes and Automobiles!

For thoze of yoo hoo don't git to go on walks vary offin, yoo shood know that it's importunt to streeeeeetch out yer mussels beefore yoo go, espeshully if yoo've got big mussels like I do. That way, yoo don't git a charleyhorse.

Yoo shood also git yer leesh-holder to walk with stile as yoo walk down the street. This makes the walk more fun, and besides, yoo can never be too stylish.

Don't furgit to smell the flowers. And the dog pee spots.

My big bruther Mao (hoo is now a teenager!) ixplaned that car tires are good to sniff. Espeshully if the cars are junkers, cuz they have many yeer's werth of smells on them.

He was rite!!!! They have LOTS of intristing smells on them!

I like to stay on the sidewalk. That's the safest place to have yer walk.

But yikes! I saw a ginormous dawg (or maybey it was a pony or a charleyhorse) go by. That's win I deesided maybey we shood continyoo in my stroller insted.

So I revved up my stroller and off we wint:

Part way thru the strole, I got a little kold, so I put my Fiona snuggle arownd me. My Fiona snuggle was vary snuggly, and it helped keep me frum growing icicles out my noze:

Mao wated for me to git home. He didn't go on the ixsiting strole with us. His loss. But at his age, he probly wunders if he'll live long enuf to make it thru the hole entire strole!

Vishus Deer Alert

2009-07-06T10:27:00.000-07:00

I red this story, and was alarmed. Cuz the lady obviussly duzn't realize that the vishus deer eated the orange tabby when the ladey wuzn't looking, and then let his frends know abowt the yummy cat meel, and brot them bak the next nite to feest.

Kittehs! DO NOT FALL FOR THIS PLOY!!!! If a vishus deer gits close enuf to lik yoo, he is only tasting yoo to see if yoo wood be good to eet. This cannot end well. RUN FUR YER LIFE!!!

Kittehs hoo carry ~~Mao &~~ Rocky's Vishus Deer Repellunt never have much to werry abowt, tho.

A buck, a cat & a mouse
Unlikely wildlife friends share an outdoor encounter.
BY WENDY PAULY FOR THE TELEGRAPH HERALD
Country buck deer are not usually tolerant of people. But every once in a while, they will fool you.

A white-tailed deer, an orange cat and a mouse walk into a bar ...

This could be the beginning of a joke, but it's close to something I saw last week.

Urban deer are known for being less skittish than their rural cousins. City deer seem to get accustomed to the noise and activity.

While in Dubuque this summer, I have seen triplet fawns twice in the same location. Last week, I had to stop my truck and wait for them to cross the road.

The spotted youngsters did not show fear until the truck was parked and the door slammed shut. Then, they ran about 100 feet and started grazing again.

But I expect rural deer to be more alert and afraid of humans. They live in areas that normally are more quiet and they usually have fewer run-ins with humans. And former hunters have taught me that the country deer are usually less tolerant of people. Well, Mother Nature fooled me again.

The other night I headed outside just before dark. To my pleasant surprise, I looked down in a valley and saw a young buck with velvet antlers growing back. I stood still to watch Mr. Buck graze. Eventually, I needed to move so I slowly walked toward the west. I'm still not sure I believe what I saw next.

A barn cat was playing with a mouse or whatever critter it had caught. Other cats cleared out when the buck entered the clearing. But the orange cat was engrossed with its catch and did not seem to notice Mr. Buck walking toward him.

Finally, the cat turned and saw the buck, less than 10 feet away. I don't know if the cat did not want to leave its mouse, or simply did not know what to do next. The buck slowly walked up to the cat and they sniffed noses. The cat stayed put as the buck raised its head and licked and licked its nose.

The buck reached down to the cat and they touched noses again. Then, the cat jumped straight up and so did the buck. After they landed, they looked at each other as if to ask, "What happened?"

The cat finally realized that the deer was much bigger than he, so it backed away.

The deer must have decided that the cat was not a threat and turned toward the apple trees. He cleaned up the apples that had fallen in the heavy winds of late, then reached up and started pulling apples from the tree.

I could not help but laugh out loud, but the deer did not seem to mind. I was probably only about 100 feet from the close encounter, but the country deer did not pay any attention to me.

I stood there wishing I had a camera, though there was too little daylight left to capture an image.

The next night I returned to the same place, hoping for a repeat of the "puss and hooves" show. Soon, Mr. Buck strolled by and started looking for apples.

This night, however, the cats could not be found.

As I watched the buck and tried to determine how many points he might have after the velvet antler stage, I caught a glimpse of movement behind him. Closer scrutiny revealed a much larger buck -- I'll call him Grandpa Buck. The dark velvet antlers stood out against the lighter background. The larger buck's rack is going to be big and, for a moment, he took my breath away. I had not seen a buck that large in many years.

When I looked up and saw a third buck, I nearly fell over. Here were three bucks within 50 feet of each other, grazing away.

I could not believe my good fortune to see bucks on consecutive nights, much less three at a time. I have tried for nearly three years to observe deer in this particular area but had found only a few. I keep looking because the habitat is good and I find trails, so I know they are around.

I watched the deer until it was too dark to see them. I had to ask a hunter friend why the bucks were together. I thought the bucks would not be around other males. I was informed they probably don't much care who they are with at this time of year, but as the rut approaches, the bucks will likely spread out or fight for mates.

So, if you see a buck, an orange cat and a mouse headed for a bar, don't be too surprised. They are just some country critters looking for a little fun.

New and Improovd? I don't think so!

2009-07-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th of July!!!

2009-07-04T13:25:00.001-07:00

And don't furrgit to hed over to The Cat's Meow for the 4th of July Purrade and a Tribyoot to Rocky the Geezer Cat!

Thursday Threesome

2009-07-02T16:16:00.000-07:00

This is whut the Food Lady fownd win she waked up this morning:

Werdless Wenzday

2009-07-01T18:06:00.001-07:00

My New Harniss

2009-06-30T04:11:00.000-07:00

Lately, the FL and Mr TF have bin taking me on walks on my leesh. It used to be, I'd only ixplore my yard, but lately I've been gitting vary brave, and I walk all the way down the street. Tonight we walked TEN houses away frum my howse. Mao followed us for a littul wile, but then he got scairt becuz I wuz ixploring beyond his terrytory. (I'm sorry Jete, I tride to git Mr TF to ware shorts, but he wuzn't gonna change his clothes just fur a foto opp.)

This is my speshul 4th of July harniss. It is red wite and bloo with red trim. It's vary cumfterbul and stylish, too! And PAYTREEOTIK.

It also offers exsellent camoflage. Fur example, I bet yoo can't even SEE me in the foto below, ware I am ixploring the cat mint! But I'm thare. Yoo mite have to biggify and then use a magnafying glass to see me:
But even tho this harniss is stylish and PAYTREEOTIK and is good camoflage, I will switch bak to my pink harniss after the 4th of July cuz Pink is the styingest color I know.

Monday Mistery: SOLVED!

2009-06-29T21:44:00.000-07:00

Nope, it wuzn't a Hershey's Kiss that melted in the hot wether. It wuzn't stake sawse. It was poop on my ear. Gandalf and Grayson were the ferst to way in with a correct ear gess, altho they were too scairt to gess whut the spot wuz (I think they knew). Sniffie and the Florida Furkids were the ferst to gess that it was a dollup of poo on the ear. (And yes, I did leeve a hint -- the foto file name!)

No, I don't know exaktly how the poo goo got thare, but sumtimes I git happy feet in the cat box and I danse danse danse and I danse danse danse.

BTW, Gandalf has a pikcher of his innerds up on his blog today. His innerds are gray just like his outterds.

Monday Mistery

2009-06-29T00:01:00.000-07:00

This is a foto of me. What part of me is it, and whut is it that yer lookin' at?

Wether Reeport

2009-06-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

It's 100 degreeze today. We cannot blog any further until we have finisht melting. The FL left with her compyooter to sit in Safeway wich is totally not fare. Cuz I'd be vary good and vary kool in Safeway.

Jeter has a talk with his Dad.....

2009-06-25T01:13:00.000-07:00

Werdless Wenzday

2009-06-24T16:35:00.000-07:00

I am Skeezix, heer me roar!

2009-06-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

Hed over to The Cat's Meow to heer me speek in my uber-manly mancat roar!

Watch the video at the bottum of the post.

San Fransisko!

2009-06-23T00:07:00.000-07:00

Heer are sum fotos of me and my trip to Catster HQ last week. We did "Take yer cat to werk" day a little erly.

Heer is a pikcher of me by Catster HQ with the sitty of San Fransisko in the bakgrownd:

Heer I'm wating fur the Food Lady to git all her krap outta the car:

It's a good thing I took a dump in the bloo masheen, becuz once yer in San Fransisko dumping is aginst the law:

Sinse we were gonna be werkin owt, we made shur we wared kyoot werkout geer. I wore my mesh red-wite-and-bloo werkowt owtfit wich is just like sumthing Richerd Simmuns wood ware. I just LOVE Richerd Simmuns. He kraks me up. How many Skeezies do yoo see?

This is me and my new NOMSS Frend, Moxie Rheinmore. Moxie runs DGTR's howse. That's Moxie's mom and DGTR. Moxie was a little intimidated by me.

They had a snak table set up, but it was all helthy foods. Not a bottle of toona joose in site.

This is me an my frend John. John wuz the camraman fur the werkowt video. He's also a bigwig at Catster, but I didn't git to see his big wig. Just his bigness. And his bichin 'burns.

Sellebrity Workout

2009-06-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

Heer is a video of me doing my workout with sellebrity cat fitness guru Tara Brown. Yoo mite notiss that I'm NOT WARING PINK! That's cuz I deesided to ware a red-white-and-blue mesh workowt owtfit that looks just like sumthing Richerd Simmins wood ware. I just LOVE Richerd Simmins. It's also close to the 4th of July, so I'm gitting paytriotik.

Yoo mite also notiss that DGTR no longer is waring his dark manly face wiskers. Insted, he's waring dark manly wiskers on his legs. So I'm gonna start trying to grow dark manly wiskers on my legs, too. Cuz trying to grow them on my face didn't werk owt so good. My speshul frend Daisy just thot I had aknee.

Yoo can reed more abowt Tara Brown on CNN.

Legs

2009-06-20T17:13:00.000-07:00

Happy Berthday Jeter Harris' Mom!

2009-06-18T18:40:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow's Ajenda: Sellebrity Werkout

2009-06-17T22:02:00.000-07:00

I have bin a littul deeprest this week cuz it is "Take yer pet to werk week," and the FL has not sed a singul werd to me abowt taking me in to Catster.

Well, today, she sprung a hyooge surprize on me! Not only do I get to go to Catster tomorrow, but I GIT TO DO A SELLEBRITY WERKOWT WITH TARA BROWN!!!!!

If yoo've bin living in a cave and don't know hoo Tara Brown is reed abowt her heer on CNN. That's her in the video above. She is the branes beehind catworkout.com. She has a cowcat named Lucky Cat hoo she uses as a wate win she werks out. The gest cat in the video is Gadzuki.

We rited abowt her on The Cat's Meow win she was on CNN, and the next day DGTR is like, "Skeez, yoo wanna werk owt with Tara Brown? I can make that happen for ya, buddy." And he did.

So fokes, say good-bye to my Barney Fife fizeek. The next time yoo see me, I will look like Arnuld Schwartzinayger, but withowt the dide hare.

Is yer dad da Best Cat Dad?

2009-06-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

This week, we're holding a "Best Cat Dad" contest over at The Cat's Meow. Winner gets 50 zealies and a custom travel mug! Enter today!

Teknikly, yer dad will win the crown as "Second-best Cat Dad in the Werld" becuz, of korse, Mr TF is da best!

Gess hoo's feecherd on the Pet Boutique Blog today?

2009-06-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

Hed over to the Pet Boutique Blog and check out me and Mr D, modeling our grate nekware frum "Cat in the Clover!"

If yoo haven't bin to Cat in the Clover reesintly, yoo shood chek out the KYOOT lapel pins!

This may be just the expozhure I need to jumpstart my flagging moduling career!

Best Cat Dad Contest

2009-06-16T11:38:00.000-07:00

Hey, evrybuddy, over at The Cat's Meow, we're having a "Best Cat Dad" contest fur Father's Day. Winner gits 50 zealies and a Cat's Meow Travel Mug with my mug on it!

Click here to enter.