Kazoku Neko

be ars guest

2008-08-28T00:00:00.001-04:00

look whoo came to bisit us.

its mr moth. i wanted to get up close ans gifs him a kiss but mommees nos dats i mite kinda eets hims. beesides, he wuz on the ofer side of the glass. all i cood hafs done wuz kiss the glass. yuk!!!

look who bisited my mommees at werk! mr bloo jay!!!

he is reely deelish, i mean, er, a perty color!!

mommees has a nice tree right outside hers window. she sees squirrel all the time too. sumtime pidgeons come to bisit. i wish she wood let me go to work wif hers.

mancat monday

2008-08-25T00:00:00.001-04:00

here i is!!!

mommees bots sum swheat scoop litter from petco online. they is buildin a petco in ars town. so she figured she wood see what they hads so she cood buy frum them whens they open. wally world ans the groceree stores donts carry holistic food.

mommees thinks that i gots a bad tummy afer i got adopted cuz she gaves me stinky goodness whens i cames to live wif hers. i had been eatin nofin but crunchies.

she spents lots of green papers at the vets to run tests to see why i wuz pukin ans havins bad stinkies. the vet said i had IBD but mommees wuz thinkin maybe not. she tried the science diet ZD frum the vet. i thot mommees wuz gonna hafs to sell yuki ans kimiko to be able to buy my foods. it helped sum but she had to add fiber to my foods to get my stinkies to not be so ickee. then she puts me on holistic stuff ans guess what?!?! i only pukes whens i get a hairball!!! (or if i eats a bug, leef or sumthin else i shoodnts)

this is what i likes to do wifs the boxes she gets frum petco. i gonna miss gettin boxes whens the store opens. **sigh**

temptations needs ars help!

2008-08-19T00:00:00.001-04:00

kintaro - mommees gots an email frum a mr john carson wantin uses opineon about sum videos for temptations cat treats.

momsbusy - sorry girls and guy, they want my opinion on the video that show how to train cats.

kintaro - errr, mommees why wood they wants you to see a video abouts trains?

yuki & kimiko - (rolling eyes) not choo choo trains, teach cats tricks, yu no, trainin us to do stuff when mommees wants us two!!!

kintaro - (eyes widening) yu mean teach us how to do tricks like a dog?!?!

momsbusy - ok , settle down. it is not what you think. lets go watch the videos and then we can make suggestions and tell the nice people that make temptations what we like or don't like about the videos. below is a copy of the email we received. if you would like to watch the videos and share your opinions please follow the directions in the email.

kintaro - sumone get the fishy flavored chips w/ the tuna dip please. i got the cat-a-cola.

Hi Momsbusy,

My name is John Carson and I handle all the social media work for GCI Canada, a PR firm in Toronto.

One of our clients is Mars Canada, the producer of Whiskas Temptations. They recently filmed some cat-training videos hosted by trainer Rick Parker that you can see here: http://www.temptations.ca/tidbits_videos.shtml

Mars Canada is considering filming a second series of videos, so I am identifying prominent cat bloggers to get their opinion on the format. Please would you take a few minutes to watch one (or all) of the videos and let me know (1) what you think worked, (2) what didn’t and (3) any other suggestions on what you’d like to see included. If you could post a link to the video on your blog for other cat lovers to see, then that would be appreciated, as the more opinions we get the better.

Mars Canada wants to reach the people the videos are aimed at to ensure good quality information, and using social media as a new way of doing that.

Please let me know at your earliest convenience if you can help as part of the cat-blogger community ... all my contact details are below if you need further info.

Many thanks,

John.

GCI GROUP : changeRULES

johncarson | gcigroup | senior digital media specialist

jcarsonATgcigroup.com | www.gcicanada.com | http://blogs.gcigroup.com/fineprint

make sure you substitute the @ for AT in his email address when you send him your suggestions/opinion.

for little miss sprout

2008-08-16T00:00:00.000-04:00

oh how empty is this place
for we are missing your sweet smiling face

you only came to visit, not to stay
your flight home could not be delayed

with broken hearts and tears of sorrow
we were left with no hope for tomorrow

finally, we take the time to look around
and we see His comforting touch abound

in the flowers, the sun, the breeze
it is then upon our knees

we feel His love with gentle hands
that someday soon will guide us to a land

and you will be standing there
full of life, love and cheer

o joyous times there will be
reunited you & me

little miss sprout,

this poem is the best i could do. it broke my heart that you could not have stayed longer on this earth with all of us. i wanted to watch you grow just as i watched my own daughter grow up.

momsbusy & y2k

thankful thursday

2008-08-14T00:00:00.001-04:00

i ams thankful for my toys

i am thankful for a warm place to sleep

i ams thankful for a loving home

what are yu thankful for???

in memory of little miss sprout

2008-08-10T22:45:00.003-04:00

little miss sprout,
although your time on this earth was short,
you touched many hearts and made sweet memories.
sleep peacefully little sprout, sleep peacefully.

mancat monday

2008-08-04T00:00:00.000-04:00

mommees took this pikshure of me.
she called me a hansum mancat.

she called me ofer names dat day too.
they wuz not reely nice names.
it wuz sumthin abouts not sittin still.
ans da pikshures wuz nufin but blurry orich furr.

i figyur dat reely good pikshure is dat one in a sqillion shot of me (dat day).
she shood consider hers sef fery luky she efens gots such a hansum mancat as me.

finally friday

2008-08-01T00:00:00.003-04:00

we is all gettin reddy fur the weekend.
yuki gots hers window wif the sun shinin in on hers.
kimiko gots her soft comfy bed to snuggle up in.
kintaro gots his toys
ans the whole lifin room floors to stretch out on.

we hopes effuryone has a super weekend!

i hafs defeeted the enemy - sort of

2008-07-25T00:00:00.001-04:00

sekret agent k repurtin in.
i hafs met wif the inbayders!!

ans . . .

they . . .

ars . . .

furrendly!!!

they is really nice they calls themselfs "webkinz".

the girl is crazee abouts them. she gots at leest a squillion of thems.

see, they is not tryin to eet me.

the werld is safe agin.

from behind enemy lines

2008-06-30T22:06:00.006-04:00

sekret agent K here. i is standin alurt. washin out fur the introoders.

i has gots a few pikshures of the introoders. it wuz hards to sneek up on thems whens they wuz meetin. it wuz efen harder to post. they hafs cut off the pafs to the big puter ans it tooks furefer to find a ways to post. but thems gots lazee ans left it ungarded so heres i am - reportin frum the frunt lines.

di furst guy wuz spotted.

this guy heres mus be da leeder. he is super size.

one of thems is blue! he mus be frum outer space. a troo a-lee-un

one had its disguys on. he wuz tryin to look like one of us kats. hims didnts fool me!

sorry the pikshures arnts beffer. but i was shakin so hards frum the eggsitement that i coodnts holds the camera stedy.

i hopes i kan get sum beffer pikshures to show yu next times i get to sneek on the puter.

sinnin off fur now
sekret agent K

invayshun!!!

2008-06-23T07:00:00.003-04:00

this is a e-mur-gen-see reports!!!

we hafs been invadeded!!!

they is effurryware!!! they must be 20 squillion of thems!!!

eeeeekkkk!!!! here they comes! we gotta hides!!!

more later whens the coast is clear!!

in meezer memory

2008-06-13T13:27:00.002-04:00

purraying for your family during this time of loss and knowing they will cherish the memories of the time spent loving you. farewell sweet stormie.

miserable monday

2008-06-02T08:33:00.004-04:00

some of us at kazoku neko ars sad. mommees wents away for 5 days. she wonts be back until late tuesday. dat is all day today ans all day two-mar-o. she left daddees ans the gerl to take care of us. but i wants my mommees!!! i nots eatins all of my stinky goodness cuz she not heres wif me. i not hangin out in the sames room wif the beans cuz i MISS MY MOMMEES!!!

MOMMEES PEESE HUREE HOMES!!! I NEEDS YU TO GIF ME LUFINS!!!

in ars open-ee-on

2008-05-29T07:54:00.005-04:00

last month we gots a fery heafy pakage left at ars door. mommees almost koodnts pick it up. she took furefer to open the box. when she did open it, thair wuz 3 boxes of Fresh Step Fresh Expressions in the pakage.

mommees gots all eggsited. we donts know wy, it is jus the stuff we poop ans pee in. she sed that it wuz speshul litter cuz it smell like lavender valley and it wuz suppose to make ars poopee smell less notisabul.

miss kimberly of the Fresh Step company axed us to try the new Fresh Expressions ans rite a revew abouts how we likes it.

it donts hurts ars feet or makes them feel funny (sum of us gots tender foots pads).
it sucks up the pee ans makes it ezee fer mommees to scoop (sumtimes mommees mumbles werds unners hers bref iffens the clumps of pee fall apart)
da poop is scoopabul (efen kintaros sloppee poops)
it makes kintaros poopy smell stay near the litter boxes (da smell usually goes to the ofer side of da rooms)
we used the litter boxes (they wuz no aksidents - like kats donts plan effery ting they do).
it gots paw points on the box dat we can gif to the cat blogosphere.

kazoku neko gifs the new Fresh Step Fresh Expressions da paws up sign!

we finks mommees is gonna buy it frum now on. she jus gots to find what stor gots it.

mad monday

2008-05-26T07:20:00.002-04:00

i ams mad agan. do yu no who is makin me mad?

i is been sittin in mommees puter chair, mindin my own buzness.

i us ushaly catchin a nice catnap ans then i gets MAD!!

i gets sooper dooper hissy mad! eneeones wood iffens yu gots popt on the top of yur hed whens yu is sleepin tite.

dus anyone want a orinch cat? i will pay lots of temptations iffens yu takes him away - far away!

thots for thursday

2008-05-22T07:30:00.002-04:00

being the yung mancat that i am, i hafs decided i must spend sum time in deep thot to ponder the impawtant issues facin cats today.

there ar a few things that ar high on my list of pryoratees.

the first is: why do beans hafs control ofer the foods ans treats? we cats ar kwite able to take care of ar food supply. jus cuz they ern green papers donts mean they shood control ars stinky goodness, crunchies or temptations.

second: we shood be allowed to hafs nip partees when we wants. maybes not effury days but at least once a week. so what if we trash the house?! we live heres too. at least we donts leefs stinky socks an underwares on the floor.

and thirds: what is up wif the werd "NO!"? is that the only werd my mommees can say to me when i asks fer anyfing???? she needs to lern the words: "yes" or "of corse yu kan hafs sum my handsum mancat". if she is eetin sumfin an i ask fer sum, she says "no". if i wants to chase my sisfurs an makes them get all hissy she tells me "no". if i wants to eets things i finds on the floor that the beans drug in on the bottom of thare shoes, i gets told "no". jus cuz i will promptly puk it all ofer the floor donts mean i shoodnts eat it. it is a grate way to kleen out my inner systems.

so whats do yu finks abouts my thots for thursday???

mancat movie monday

2008-05-19T07:00:00.004-04:00

if blogger video dont werk then clik here.

tuesday tummy, tail ans toy

2008-05-06T07:00:00.002-04:00

this is one of my faborite toyz. mommees calls it a frizbee. i jus call its fun.

here is am showin off my bee-yu-tee-full tummy ans my kyoot tail.

i am given that frizbee a BIG bitey and bunny kick in dis pikshure.

i hafs got it pinned fur da 3 count!

now its time fur my nap.

monorail mancat monday

2008-05-05T00:00:00.001-04:00

i hafs ben workin on my monorail skills. i gets on top of mommees puter chair. i jumps up ther from the floor. mommees dusnts like me duin the jumpin part. she says i ams gonna tares up hers chair. do i look like i care???

yu cans see yuki on the puter desks top shelf. its one of hers faborite spots. it looks like she is reelly small sittin on my bak in the pikshures but shes not. mommees says its an opteecull elooshun.

purrayin

2008-04-12T08:13:00.005-04:00

ars mommees is fery sad. she has been huggin us ans tellin us she luvs us. she said she cood not imagin what miss laura is going thru. mommees says the worst part is not noing. she says it hurts her harts to finks abouts efurryone e-fekted by this fire. we saws a video that the fireman said how hard it wuz fer the firemens to go up all the stairs wif thars ekwipment to put owt the fire ans to reskwu beans ans pets. we is sad that miss laura lost all of hers stuff. we no stuff can be repaced but it still hurts. we is purrayin fur a miracle for mushue, lilly lu ans iris. we is purrayin that sumfin good will come of this bad bad fire.

going orange!

2008-04-10T00:32:00.003-04:00

today is aspca day. so we is gone orange! mommees wuz trying to figure out how to make ars blog turn orange but she not good at that kinds of stuff. so we thots ans thots ans we tink we got a way to show ars support for the good things the aspca do.

we is postin a pikshure of ars fery own orange cat kintaro!!

book meme

2008-04-08T18:19:00.009-04:00

We got tagged for a meme by the nermal & company over at 4 boys and a lady!

Here are the rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people and post a comment to Mickey once you have posted it.

Our nearest book belongs to mommees so she is gonna write this meme.

My book is The Joy of Cooking 75th Anniversary by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. i seem to have ALOT of cookbooks in my house. i inherited quite a few from my mother-in-law when she moved into a seniors apartment complex. she didn't have much room in her new apartment so i ended up getting almost all of her cookbooks and loose recipes.

so here goes:

As for stock, see 116, there are three simple methods for removing fat from soup. Chill the soup, the fat will solidify and it is then easy to spoon it off. Or float a paper towel on the surface of warm soup, and when it has absorbed as much fat as it will hold, discard."

ummm, mommees kood yu make sum fishy flavord soup fur us? we wonts efen make yu get the fats off da top.

We tags:
taps of katnippia
benji boo of a blog for emma
mike of vincent and mike
wrigley of wrigley and cobalt
schmoo of my babys

multiple monday

2008-04-07T00:00:00.015-04:00

these are some of ars mommees "ofer" kitties.
yu kan klik on the pikshure to biggify

the two little cats (the boy ans gerl kittys) wif the kyoot clothes, she gots before any of us were borns. dats a long time agos cuz yuki is pushing anchunt. she wents on a fields trip wif the oldest girl (when the gerl was in middle skool - she is now 32 bean years old) ans found thems at the market ans adopted thems. the gray kitty is a ty beany baby kitty. she gots it frum the the gerl who still lives at home (shees too yung to moove out) as a Chrissymouse present 2 years ago.

this is a real "rockin" kitty. mommees gots it when she wents to the moewntins on bacation. she gots it a long times ago also. she said the bean that painted it made the kitty look real.

they painted the back of the rock too.

these kats are all "maneke neko" or beckoning/welcoming kat. they ars the good fortune kats of japan. the first one on the left haz a chain on hers back to hold yur keys. she is made of the same material as kimonos is mades of. mommees keeps hers on her desk at home. the three middle ones are traditional maneke neko's, cept one is all gold (it is spose to bring money). the two white ones ars a matchin pair. all three of thems ars banks. the little purple gerl mommees gots frum the animal rescue site. mommees gots hers cuz hers is purple (she loves purple). not becuz of what the deskripshun said:

" Ceramic cat figurines each feature two small stickers with Japanese writing on the front. Each has one sticker which translates to "good luck," while the white cat has one reading "good health," the black cat bears one reading "protection from evil," the lavender cat is decorated with a sticker for "personal luck," and the pink cat is decorated with a sticker for "love." "

efen tho mommees cood use sum pursonal luck ans money right nows - ars house coolin thingy went kapooey last nights.

peek a boo!

2008-04-03T00:00:00.001-04:00

peek a boo i cants see yu!

i is sleepin tight!

mancat monday

2008-03-24T00:00:00.001-04:00