Mums been slack

It's been a while since mums let us write on here because she has been too busy with work.

In that time we have managed to get up to lots of mischief, go on 2 vacations away, and in general do lots of regular things we cats like to do.

Mum has said she will try to let us back on here more often so we can let you know of our adventures and put up lots of pictures.

Gotta go, Denali has found a grasshopper to chase on the balcony, time for some fun.
Gizmo

Slightly Worrying and Confusing Wednesday

Gizmo here

There was something funny going on today here. First mum let me out to have breakfast, but left Denali locked up in her room. Then she finally let Denali out but hid all the food (I wasn't finished grazing yet mum). Denali and I played for an hour while mum got ready, then she locked denali up in the carrier and put me in my room. We know what the carrier means... either we're going on the holiday early, or denali is going to the vet. Mum didn't put me in a carrier though, so I guess Denali has to go to the vet.

Mum left for about 20mins and then came back home...WITHOUT DENALI! Mum you forgot to bring her home. Where is she? I meowed  and searched the whole house. I couldn't find her anywhere, and her carrier wasn't back yet either. MUM you forgot Denali! Mum gave me a cuddle and said denali had to go to the vet to get spayed. Seriously? Who goes to the vet to get a spade? Don't they come from the hardware shop? At least mum knew that she left Denali behind. I was getting really worried.

Mum had to go Christmas shopping, so I stayed home and played with my toys. She cam home again WITHOUT DENALI! I meowed to let her know again, and she told me Denali was having a long sleep and would come home this afternoon. Finally she left the house again and locked me in my room. She didn't let me out for a few hours, and when she did I could smell something funny. Denali's carrier was in the lounge room, but denali's bedroom door was closed. The carrier smelled strange... not like denali at all. The carrier smelled like the vets... Yuck!

I meowed and searched high and low, but couldn't find denali anywhere. Mum said she was asleep in her room. Mum and Dad let me sleep on their bed, but I kept waking mum up because first there was a storm, and then mum rolled over and woke me up, and then I thought I heard Denali meow. Mum ended up getting up and put me in my room. It was 2am, mum should know thats play time.

This morning I got fed in my bedroom and locked back in there. Mum only just let me out. I can smell traces of Denali, but she is still nowhere to be found. Mum said she's ok, but just really sleepy and has stitches so I'm not allowed to play with her for a while, cause I play too rough.

I hope we can play again soon. I think I miss her.

Sundays are for snoozing in sun puddles, sleeping in hammocks and snuggling humans

Through Gizmo's Eyes

I love Sunday's. I've been spending today lying in sun puddles, sleeping in my hammock and snuggling my humans. I've also spent Sunday on the other side of the laundry door sniffing out the enemy. Mum says she is not the enemy and her name is Denali, but I hissed at her yesterday when I first saw her anyway. She didn't even seem scared of me. I could only see her through the crack in the door cause mum and dad say she's in quarantine and I'm not allowed near her for at least a month.

She is annoying already. She kept crying this morning, I wanted her to be quiet so I could enjoy my Sunday, but then I realised she was probably lonely cause she has to spend all her time in the Laundry by herself cept when mum goes in to feed her. I meowed at her through the door to let her know she wasn't alone. Only mum goes in the Laundry to see her cause she has had ringworm before so the vet said she might be immune to it, but dad hasn't had it. Now mum always smells like disinfectant.

Anyway back to Sunday Fun... I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the sun, and even more so cause mum and dad went shopping this morning, and they came home with chicken necks. Mum says its good for my teeth, but I don't care about that.. I think they taste yummy.

Anyway I will be sharing this blog soon with Denali cause mum says I need to learn to share. So I said mum could include some photos of her on here too.
I hope you all enjoy your Sunday as much as I do.

We've found a new friend for gizmo

After 2 months of looking for the perfect friend for Gizmo, we've found her. She is a Ragdoll x. We get to pick her up on Saturday, and we hope Gizmo likes her as much as we do.

Last weekend we gave gizmo a white tiger toy almost the same size as him. He hasn't stopped wrestling with it and he even sleeps snuggling it. I think he feels like he has a friend. I really hope he and the new kitten become close friends.
We have a separate room for the kitten to begin with, and have used one of gizmo's blankets in her bed. Someone else suggested rubbing our warm socks taken straight off our feet on both cats to make our scent the dominant one. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Please vote for me

Through Gizmo's Eyes

Mum entered me in a pet pagent photo competition to try to win a pet photo prize pack. She used the main picture on my blog because she thinks its cute... what do you think?

If you are not too busy could you vote for me so mum can win a fantastic prize with a picture of me because there are not enough of them around the house.

Vote here.

Caturday and Sunday

Through Gizmo's Eyes

I love weekends, cause it means my humans are home to play with. I spent caturday and sunday playing with toys, snuggling, and sleeping in the sun. I watched people looking like ants off the balcony, hung out in my hammock, and played with my toys. Dad and mum went out for a bit and came back with a new sucky monster, so dad spent the day cleaning, but then he was so tired we had a cat nap together.

I love new toys

Through Gizmo's Eyes

My humans have worked out that if I have lots of new toys to occupy me I get up to less mischief. They have been talking about finding a new friend for me, but until they find the purrfect kitty to match me, they keep buying me at least 1 new toy every 2 weeks (sometimes every week). My new favourite toys are my ball tunnel circle, ikea  (toy boxes used as) tunnels which they have joined together to create a giant long tunnel, and some toy fishies so I don't want to play with the real ones. The toy fishies are much better, they have tails of long feathers and are fun to throw and chase. I also got a new scratching post with a ball attached.

My other favourite toys are still string, paper and boxes.

I still managed to cause some mischief this week though. My humans have been trying to grow me some cat grass in a plastic pot on the bedroom windowsill. I was trying to open the greenhouse lid off it to see what the catgrass looked and tasted like. My humans told me it wasn't ready yet, but I was curious and just had to see for myself. Oops I should have listened to my humans. I accidently knocked the cat grass container to the ground and dirt went all over the carpet. Dad wasn't too happy as he had just shampooed all the carpets in the house a week ago.


But cause I was still not 100% better from my eye injury I think he let me off easy.


Anyway check out the photos of my new toys.

Im back and better than ever

Through Gizmo's Eyes

Im back!
I wasn't feeling well last week. I banged my head and eye on the bookcase trying to catch the feathers on the dreamcatcher hanging from it... The feathers looked so pretty. They changed colours when the light hit them on different angles...just like the fishies... I should have known. Anyway, my humans took me to the vet and got me some horrible medicine, but it made me feel better. They snuggled me and looked after me, and now I'm back to my mischievious self.

I have a lot of blogs to catch up on, but for this one I'm still a little sleepy after my medicine, so I just thought I would let you all know I'm better, and show you some pictures of my nice warm sleeping bag mum made me, She bought a nice warm fluffy blanket the colour of chocolate, and she cut it in 3 strips. Each strip she folded and stitched up. now I have a nice sleeping bag to snuggle into. It reminds me of snuggling with my brothers and sisters.

Thanks for all the Purrs

xox

Gizmo

Update on Gizmo

Gizmo wants us to let you know he is feeling a little better, and he thanks you for all the purrs and prayers.
He was confusing us a little on Sunday as he slept all day, didn't want to play or curl up near us at all, but was still eating his food. On Sunday night he started following us around a little bit and because he was up, we noticed he was trying to keep his right eye closed. We tried to look at the eye and see if we could see anything in it, but couldn't see much as he was trying to protect it. The one thing we did notice is his eye seemed cloudy in comparison to the other one.

We went to work yesterday after noticing he seemed to be feeling better and was starting to play with his toys a little again, but he still wasn't his usual boisterous self. In the afternoon when we got home, he was holding his eye open more, and was really playful, but we wanted to be sure, because his eye definately seemed cloudy, so we took him for a visit to the vet.

The vet was confused as to why a sore eye affected a kitten so much, so he suggested a few possibilities including calici virus and chlamydia (especially as he came from the pound and seemed to present no illnesses when we first took him for his checkup), but he checked to see if Gizmo had an ulcer or a scratch on his eye, checked for muscle soreness and joint stiffness, and checked his temperature... none of which Gizmo liked of course. In the end the vet decided to treat the eye as Gizmo was obviously trying to keep it closed, and said he might have banged it on something when he was playing.

We have got antibiotic drops for his eyes every 3-4 hrs as well as anti inflamitory drops for his food, and the vet gave him a pain killer to dilate the eye and make him feel better. We have another appointment for Wednesday afternoon to make sure Gizmo is ok, and hopefully it just turns out to be the blunt trauma. Right now he is back to runing around crazily like his usual self, so we think thats a good sign. Fingers crossed. xx

Gizmo also wants to let you all know that if you like tunnels as much as he does you should have a look in Ikea kids section. they have toy baskets that have a spiral inside them and when you cut the closed end out they become a great tunnel. We paid $25 for his tunnel from cat protection society, and this one is almost the same size from ikea for $10. It even has a lid which makes a great frisbee.

Gizmo's not himself :(

Gizmo seems out of sorts today. He's been sleeping more than usual, as in pretty much all day, and he's been quiet. Even his usual toys haven't pulled him out of the slump, and he hasn't wanted to sit on either of our laps today which is definately not normal. The door to outside was open most of the day, and normally he loves sitting out there, but instead he just stayed on the bed.

If he is not picking up a little tomorrow, I think it might be time for a visit to the vet (even though he saw us about 3 weeks ago and said I'll see you in a year).

I really hate that he can't actually tell us whats wrong.
:`(

Gizmo goes to Bora Bora

Through Gizmo's Eyes

I got invited to join my new friends in Bora Bora, so even though I just got back from my last holiday, I decided to pack my bags and go have fun...

This is me arriving in Bora Bora.

I have to thank Jans Funny Farm for helping me pack my suitcase and sending me a map, and to Gracie for inviting us all to join her.

Anyway I'm off for a swim and a cat nap in the sun, then I think I will try to meet some more furry friends...

Talk to you all when I return.

Purrs

Gizmo

Gizmo Goes on a Holiday

Through Gizmo's Eyes

My humans had to go on a holiday overseas because one of my humans had to compete in the World Cheerleading Championships in Florida... I was a little nervous cause I had never been on a holiday before. I had to hope my humans chose a nice place for me to go with humans as nice as them.

When I arrived at my holiday, I met a nice lady who gave me cuddles straight away. I like cuddles. Then I met her kids. Her kids liked cuddles too. Then I found out she had other kitties... Yay I had some friends to play with. I don't think they liked me at first. They would hiss at me when ever I walked past. Eventually we became good friends though.

When I got there I went exploring. There were lots of exciting new smells, and comfy couches and a warm furry rug in front of a heater. My humans put my bed and things in a room of my own and showed me where it was before they let me continue exploring.

I ran around and found a giant glass window where I could look outside, and the best bit was outside was on the same level as us (at home outside is below my balcony, so I can't get down there). Only there was a giant black and tan thing guarding the door to outside. My human said it was a dog. I tried to say Hi, but it definately didn't like me. It jumped up and banged loudly on the glass, so I ran and hid behind my human.

After a little while, my human had to leave, but I didn't mind because I still had people to give me cuddles, new things to explore and other kitties to play with.

I had fun on my holiday, and I got spoilt by my holiday humans. Every night I would get put to bed in my room, but someone would always come and get me to sleep in their bed and get cuddles. I got to play with the kitties, eventually they liked me. There names were Tom and Jerry, and another holiday cat Mr Bibbs... There was always someone to cuddle or play with. Every human in the house had a lap top too, so I always had something warm to sleep on.

My human is coming to pick me up today, but my holiday human has given me some photos so I can show you how much I enjoyed my holiday.

This picture is of me watching the royal wedding on my holiday