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28 Jun 2012

Practicise, Practise, Practise…

I’ve been thinking, and I am gonna try to get ready to enter one of the upcoming Cat-O-Lympic events!! YES!! Gettin’ more and more confident!!

But I know, it will take Practice, Practice, Practice!!!

So I am not much of a jumper, I kind’a don’t like getting all 4 paws off the floor at one time. But I may try for that. The one I think I might be good at is the Smackdown Event, except I don’t know what that is…hmmmm…so I think that’s the one I’ll go for!

So, I follow Leader Otis’ blog, The Blog of Otis. And he and his Brothers Oliver and Henry are training for their own in-house catlympics which they do in October.

Leader Otis was very impressed with Mama Cat’s prowess (vocab builder)…so much so that he asked Mama Cat to train the limbo kitties for his Catlympics. I am so impressed with her training mantra, Watch, Anticipate, Act, that I had to try it myself.

Watch means to focus on the bird, know the bird; Anticipate means get ready for where it will go next; and Act means use the kill strike, smack it down, and also requires that you must have the appropriate ‘kill’ face on when you act.

That’s what I am working on now. Last night was my first workout with Mom handling the training Flying Bird.

I do my work mostly from the floor…but I get pretty good leverage given I have very well developed gluts (that’s butt muscle for the uninformed).

….now I am practicing WATCH…good eye focus on the bird…can ya see that???…

…now the bird moves and I ANTICIPATE where it is going and prepare my body for the next move…can ya see my ‘anticipation’???…(no, not the song sillies…the mood…)…and can ya see I’m startin’ to get my ‘kill’ look going too???

…ACT!!!! Check out that ‘KILL’ face!!! Nice, huh?!…except I missed the bird!!..OH MY CAT!!!…how embarrassing….

But…this was just my first training session, and like I said…Practice, Practice, Practice…

hhhmmmmmm…I wonder if I should find out what that Cat-O-Lympic event Smackdown really is???…maybe I need another training routine!!!

I guess I could at least enter the Competitive Napping…I do that one really good…hmmmm…off for Practice, Practice, Practice for that event now….zzzzzzzzzzz

Paw pats, Savannah

23 Jun 2012

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Oh No!! I Damaged Mom!!!

Well, ya may have been wondering why I all of a sudden started to check out Mom’s lap…errrr…ummmm…oh gosh! Sooooo embarrassing….paws on side of face, shaking head…oh cat, oh cat…

So if you have been around my bloggy much, ya know I luvluvluv a good game of “Oh No! Mice in the Bed”….mostly me and Mom play it…but sometimes I get Dad about 2Am…MOL

Anyways, so a couple of nights ago…well—first ya need to know that we changed our bedspread from the Spring weight one to the Summer weight one. Mom calls it something like Seerer Suker (what’s a ‘Seerer’?? and what do they ‘Suker’??) So…this bedspread is thin, with a cotton sheet under it then peep skin…got it??

So the night I am talkin’ about was chilly, so Dad (he’s so nice like this…purrr) he gets a couple of afghans…one for him, one for Mom and both for ME ‘cuz I sleep in the middle.

They are in bed…Mom moves her feet…I raise my head…then Dad says to Mom something like…”Ya better not do that, you’ll be sorry…” and Mom just giggles…

And…the game is on with me and Mom…Oh No! Mice in the Bed!!!…

…I lay down, real quiet like…watchin’ and waitin’…

…WHAMMO…the mice move…and I go for the kill immediately…diving right in for them…

…whoa! where did they go??? Which way??…I must be alert!!…

…there!…over there!!!…grab quick…claws out to get a good killing grip…

..aiiee! they slipped past me!…now where???…wait for it, wait for it….

…GOT IT!!! Ah HA!!…get it fast…don’t let go…make this one the real final blow…

…Oh, what was that?? Did Mom say something??…I thought she said something like, errrr…ummmm…wellll…did she say ‘couch’ or ‘shout’ ….

…why is Dad getting up…going to the bathroom…now Mom is going too…Dad said something like “Told ya so” and Mom just giggles…and…oh gosh…is she kind’a limping???

…why do they have this stuff out????

OH NO!!!! I DAMAGED MY MOM!!!! SHE WAS BLEDDING!!! AWFUL!!!…

Can you see her boo-boo??? It is almost healed now…but for the last couple of days I have been letting her know how sorry I am and so I am trying to work on getting in her lap ‘cuz I know that will make her feel way better…

Just a little head’s up for all you guys readin’ this…whatever ya do…DON’T DAMAGE MOM!

…sigh…Paw pats, Savannah

PeeEss Mom gets her mani/pedi on Monday…whew!

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16 Jun 2012

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Lazy Saturday ‘Cuz It’s Hot, Hot, Hot!

Well, it is totally hot, hot, hot here…102F…thank cod for the aircon even if I don’t like the noise…whew!

So I tried to play a bit by myself…just to get some exercise… but with the heat…I kept a low profile…and yes, I MEAN LOW…flat on the ground…no running, jumping and all that stuff…

One of my fave things to do when I am just sort’a hangin’ out in my bedroom…is I like to pretend there is something alive under my scratch post…

I start off by just ignoring it at first…ya know, like all us cats do….

…then I flip over really fast and jam my paw under the post to scare off the live whatever…

…whoa! Ho!!…maybe there is something under here…better do the two paw search…

…Oh My Cat!!!…there IS something alive under this…quick…rams both paws under to grab it…oooopps….the post is tilting backward….

…I hear a huge intake of breath…I look up…there’s Mom…”What??!!”…”I am not gonna knock over the post Mom!!”….sheeesh….

…well she ruined that game…it’s hot, hot, hot…so over to my Nip ‘n Nap Mat…strategically (vocab builder) placed near the aircon vent…yawn! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz