Tube Shootin'

Kitties!

Sweet Pea here.

Mommy fastened a shoe lace to a dowel and wiggled it Very Enticingly...how could I resist?

I didn't!!!!!

or click HERE

*pant*  *pant*  *pant*

I had so much fun!

Happy Wednesday!

XX  Sweet Pea  XX

Mommy's New Toy

Kitties!

Mommy killed yet another inexpensive dehydrator a couple of weeks ago, so she decided it was time to open her stingy wallet pull out the big guns and buy a real one.  After all, she does chikkun treats for us weekly, as well as jerky for her and Daddy, and banana chips, nuts, tomatoes...and all the lemons off our tree.  Around here a dehydrator gets quite the work-out.

The Chikkun Inspector worked diligently on the maiden run.

And here it is, all loaded up and ready to go!

Mommy gets a little queasy with the smell of dehydrating chikkun (she is crazypants) so Daddy set up a spot in the garage with a fan to waft the stink delicious aroma outside.

...six hours later... 

Et voila! 

Crunchy, chewy, toofy-cleaning chikkun snax.

8-10 pounds of titz makes about a gallon and a half of treats, enough to last us about ten days, more or less, depending on whether or not we can get the lid off the ceramic treat jar!

Which would never happen, right Maui?

Happy Caturday!

XX  The Katnip Lounge  XX

pee ess:  Mommy bought an EXCALIBUR dehydrator.

The Party, Part the Third

Kitties!

We have a few remaining photos of the initial Archway Frenzy.

May Ling enjoyed the catnip...

...a nice cheek-groom, and then she went off to enjoy the pink spotted nip mousies dancing through the air.

Grayce was next up for a nip and a scratch.

The Baby was waiting for another go at the arch...

...but Grayce said possession is 9/10 of the law, and nokitty here dares to mess with her--she's a mean nip-head.  (Which is why The Baby went to sit on the box.) 

 Mommy got bored, waiting futilely for Grayce to move along, and finally put the camera away, thank Cod.  Way to take one for the team, Grayce!  

Or maybe it was simply a case of too much nip?

Happy Thursday!

XX  May Ling and Grayce (and The Baby)  XX

Friday Floofy Fun

Kitties!

Sweet Pea here...I can't seeeee you!

We got an unexpected parcel in the mail a few days ago from The Random Felines!  Mommy opened it up for us right away.  She's good like that.

Inside the bubble-lope were two crocheted round throw/bunnykikker toys (which we love to chase and let Mommy retrieve) and this super-duper braided rope...

...one end of which Mommy cunningly tied to the cat tree.  

Me (and Salem, too) enjoy killing the rope verreh much!

And verreh often--it's a sassy toy.

*gnawgnawgnaw*

Braided Rope toy, you are ace!

I hope you last a long, long time.

On behalf of all of us here at The Lounge:  Mom Jeanne and Random Felines--Thank You!  

We are having lots and lots of fun with our new toys.

Happy Friday!

XX  Sweet Pea  XX

Grizzled Whitey!

Kitties!

The Baby here.

If you think I'm looking a little miffed, you would be correct.  As usual, it's all Mommy's fault.  Because she made a movie of me playing on the dining room table--it was great--I was running 'round and 'round, killing the shoelace and generally acting like a wild thing.  And then...we discovered that the battery ran down partway through our play session and  Mommy only got a few seconds of the action!

Cod, she's inept.

Compounding her sins, she didn't wipe my eye boogers off before she took this photo.  Pathetic.

Anyway, I made her fancy it up with a title and stuff, and here it is, thirty-seven seconds of what was at least a good two minutes of vigorous Whitester action.

Click HERE for the YouTube link.

*sigh*

I'd trade Mommy in, except she has such mad skillz with the toys, and (and this is the kicker) she just gave me a fresh hot towel to skoochie up on.

Happy Monday!

XX  The Baby  XX

Paper FRENZY!!!

Kitties!

Felix here.

Lately I've been in a very Very VERY playful mood! 

Every night Mommy puts out a piece of  incredibly tempting crinkly brown paper and gets out the fevver-onna-stick toy (which also has a shoelace taped to it--the imagination of that woman is astonishing) and plays with us.  Usually I'm shy about playing if any other cat is around, but the Monster Under The Paper Game is irresistible and all my bashfulness melts away in the excitement of playing.

In fact, it's so fun I decided to allow myself to be filmed (the boy is a ham--ed)so I can show you in purrson!  Kitties, this is Daddy's first-ever video.  I think he did a pretty good job, even though he turned off the camera accidentally...

*sigh*

Anyhoo, if the video doesn't load you can see it HERE.

What do you think?  Is this a great game or what?

Gotta go...I hear paper rustling!

Happy Thursday!

XX  Felix  XX

Pipe Cleaner Improvement

Kitties!

Johnny here.

I'm playing with my favorite Yellow Pipe Cleaner.

They has the bestest flavor, in my opinion.

Although this one could use a little fillip.  Perhaps some eau de toe jam?

Yes.  

Daddy's checkered Vans have a lovely funky footy scent with a top note of insole slime, and a most excellently lingering rubbery finish.

I'll just marinate my Yellow Pipe Cleaner for a while, and think dastardly thoughts about how I'd like to eat my pestiferous sister, The Baby.  Probably with mustard.

What's that, Mommy?  Oh, nothing...

Happy Wednesday!

XX  Tiny Johnson  XX

The Paw of Doom

Kitties!

Daddy bought some pipe cleaners.

The Hapless Victim

The  Perpetrator's Paw

The Merciless Assault

♪♪♫  Oh...Wrap a yellow pipe cleaner around my sharpened claw... ♫♪♫

The Feline Instigator

Happy Monday!!

XX  Johnny, Slayer of Pipe Cleaners  XX

Pee Ess:  Our new bloggie friends at PURRY CUTE are planning a New Year's Eve Pawty, and we don't think a lot of kitties know about it...we bet they would be thrilled to have you stop by!

Parcel Part Deux!

Kitties!

May Ling here, for the second day in a row!

How exciting.

After we opened our parcel yesterday Mommy gave us the wrapping paper to play with.

May I draw your attention to the blue washcloth--it had silvervine on it; I *ahem* inhaled!

So I was rarin' to get my freak play on.

I dove under the ESS when Mommy turned the spinny toy on...

...then I turned around and KILLED the feathers!

Mommy put the paper on top of me and the ESS for an enhanced playing experience.

It worked!

I waited in the paper lair for the perfect pouncing opportunity.

When it arrived I gave those feathers The Business, first with my right...

...and finished 'em off with my left!

Kitties, my work here is done.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  May Ling  XX

One Thought Thursday

Kitties!

Maui here.

You know, there's only one thing to think when the Braided Grass Rope appears:

KILL!!!

::anticipatory lip lick::

::Whisker Cup activated::

Reaching...stretching...

Wait for it...

Wait for it... 

AAAAUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Too soon!

I wasn't ready.

Whoops--gotta remember to smile for the camera.

At last.

Victory is mine!

Feel my scimitar fangs, Braided Grass Rope, and prepare to die.

Happy Thursday!

XX  Maui Slayer of Braided Grass Ropes  XX

Scouty Couldn't Resist!

Kitties!

Scouty here. 

 Even though I'm a Big Chicken semi-feral it doesn't mean I don't like to play with toys!

Even if that Missus Try-n-Touch the Kitty is on the other end.

Some things are just too fun to pass up...

...like these mutant ginormous blades of grass Mommy brought home.

Look at how close I got!

When I get to playing I sometimes forget to stay out of touchy-feeley range; but Mommy very kindly refrained (thank Cod) from violating my purrsonal space while I played Wild Lion Killing a Gazelle on the Serengeti Plains.

After I shredded the evil behemoth blades with my deadly daggers Mommy braided them into a rope for some extra super-duper strength.

She may have been trying to reel me in here.

Anyway, the rope was immensely satisfying to chomp on, and later in the evening I yakked up an epic grassball!

Scouty = 1

Mommy = 0

Happy Thursday!

XX  Scouty the Brave  XX