Friday, September 29, 2006

Fat Cat

Fun Fat CatFat cat don't look away!
Are you ashamed?

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Smile

Laugh out loud

This is just one of smiling cats [rofl]

Hair cut

hehehe...
I've just ask for hair cut, not this Simba form Lion King style



All cats are laughing at me now, I hate my self *.*

Ninja Cat

I heard that there is ninja school for cats!? Is this true...???

Maybe this can help:



As always you must practise a lot at your home to become the black cat ninja

Cat friends

Ducky don't be afraid I won't hurt you, you my friend right...




Don't worry you have friend to take car of you, don't u cry here!




Well, lets leave these lovers here :blush:

No fur cats

They say we are ugly! Please we are not different than other cats, we just don't have fur :(




I'm not so ugly, I have earring and tatoo

Monday, September 25, 2006

Cat Girl

Cat GirlCuet Cat + Small Girl = Funny Picture

Small Cat

Black CatHelp this poor cat...

PhotoShop makes wonder

PhotoShop can really make wonders. Sometime you can not tell if something is real or not. Some works in photoshop, you decide if it is real or not!!!



Is this the world smallest kitten?




Just watched horor movie! o.O




What is this butterfly doing on my nose?!




My best puppet is frog...

Friday, September 22, 2006

Hungry diving cat...

Hmmm, tasty gold fish, wait just a sec to get my diving equipment



Here it is, I'm going down...

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Cat eyes and tongue

eyecatLook at me!
I make fun of you!

Cat Wallpaper #10

My favorite place to sleap, red boot :D



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Cat Wallpaper #9

We are not oridinery cats?!



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Cat Wallpaper #8

Two kittens playing!



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Cat Wallpaper #7

Can't be cuter, kitten in middle of meadow... :)



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Cat Wallpaper #6

White tiger, watch out he is coming right at us!



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Cat Wallpaper #5

What's up there?



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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Cats love icecream

icecream loveThis cute cat loves icecream.
Her favorite icecream is vanilla flavor.

Snow Cat

snow-catOne cat is make from snow, what about the other cat ?
Is she real ?

A Day in the Life

Beau, formerly known as Bimbo

‘I’d love to run a dog hotel like you,’ they say. I smile and nod. ‘Just feed the dogs twice a day and then play with them – nothing else to do.’ I nod. ‘You’re so lucky,’ they say. ’What you do is my idea of heaven – you spend all day long with dogs and you get paid for it.’

Beau in the garden

It’s six in the morning, still dark: I let the dogs out. Beau won’t go down to the garden. It’s raining, the third day of rain. The garden is grateful but I’m not sure I am. Beau, the Bruno de Jura who came to live here from the refuge doesn’t ‘do’ rain. Here is a dog who has had four homes before coming to me, who lived for several years in a run-down refuge and who is now living in the lap of luxury. The biggest decision in his day is whether to sleep in my chair or make a mammoth effort and move to the sofa, and now I discover he doesn’t do rain. I try to understand him: after all, he lived in dreadful conditions in the refuge, but Beau, this is not a dog kennel and you don’t pee in the house! But I can’t get mad at this dog – he’s obviously been beaten. If I pick up a broom to sweep the floor, he cringes. I’ll need to put on my dog psychology hat but for the moment, there isn’t time.

Maddie & Zak on the daybed

I go into the study. Zak, one of the Hungarian Vizlas who is staying has peed on the daybed. Zak and his sister, Maddie, always sleep on the daybed so what’s this? I strip the bed – fortunately there is a rubberised sheet underneath but the replacement protective bedding still isn’t dry as this is a repeat performance of yesterday morning. The study smells like a pissoir: a combination of Zak’s pee and bad smells from Rox, the old crossbreed, who has cystitis. The room smells of rotten fish: quite appetising just before breakfast. He’s on antibiotics so the cystitis should clear up shortly. So, that’s good, then.

Digby

I check out the bathroom: Happy, the young Lakeland terrier, has chewed a lump out of the wooden doorframe. She has Nylabones, toys galore, she plays with Digby, the dachshund all day but of course, chewing a doorframe is far more interesting.

‘I’d love to run a dog hotel like you,’ they say. I smile and nod.

Happy

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Cats Love Fish

Funny cat"I get my fish! And I'm so proud of me!"
You're cat can cache a fish ?

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Rock climbing cat

rockRock climbing cat - It's fun to train your cat.

Cat and mouse talk

mousecatI'm very curious what that mouse is saying.

13 Cats

13 catsI this picture are 13 cats. How many cats do you have ?

Monday, September 11, 2006

Café Milou


A client is sitting across the counter from me. ‘Another coffee?’ I ask. She passes me her cup: ‘Just one more and then I really must get going.’

When clients bring their dogs to Pension Milou, they often stay and have a coffee or a glass of wine. Clients become friends, of course. The nature of my metier means it's often difficult to leave the dogs and so I love it when the world comes to me, if only for a coffee and a quick chat. The kitchen, a cuisine amĂ©ricain, as it’s called in France, opens onto the living room so we sit either side of a wide terracotta tiled counter. Wooden beams frame the opening and hanging from the crossbeam above us are bamboo chimes given to me by Youdi, a Chinese/Dutch artist friend who lives in Nice. Next is a wooden goat’s bell from Nepal and further along, a yak’s milk container from Tibet: both bought from a traveller in Menton market. There’s a large brass bell I bought in Spain and a small Lautrec print on glass hangs at the end. It all looks rather 1960's, I suppose.

When clients collect their dogs and stay for a while, their little darling, who up till then, had been playing happily with the other dogs, suddenly becomes a dervish of mock ferocity. ‘Don’t you come near MY Mum.’ Yes, we dog people refer to ourselves as Mum and Dad – and why not? Our dogs are part of our family – in some cases, dogs are all the family we have.

Charlotte (Tessa and Hattie's owner) - sitting at the counter with Pixie
We are chatting and the client asks me if I’ve ever had a dog die whilst staying here. She makes the comment that it must be something to worry about. I agree. I tell her I have a friend up the road who looks after dogs in her home, much as I do, and she won’t take old dogs for that very reason. Personally I like looking after old dogs but yes, there is always the risk one could die whilst here.

‘When I lived in Wales,’ I tell her, ‘I used to board cats: The Valley Hotel for Cats, it was called. Lordy, how original I was! I eventually built kennels to board dogs but never added the word Dog to the sign post at the top of my valley. It hardly mattered anyway, as the Welsh Nationalists defaced any signs written in English. One morning I went down to clean out the cats. In one cage were two cats from the same family and one of them was as dead as the proverbial dodo. I didn’t have a telephone number for the owners and had to wait two weeks before the family returned from their holiday. I asked my vet if he’d do a post-mortem but he said he couldn’t do that without the owners’ permission and suggested I put her body in the freezer to await their return. I barely slept for two weeks worrying about how I’d tell them, how they accept it. How do you tell a family that their adored pet has died and worst of all, in your care? The day arrived – they drove down the valley. I showed them in, took a deep breath and told them their black and white cat had died. ‘Oh, that’s OK,’ the wife said, ‘she was very old and had a heart condition and we knew she could go any minute. So sorry, we forgot to tell you.’'

I make myself another coffee. Riff, was a very old Jack Russell who had been to stay at Pension Milou three or four times. On this occasion, she arrived for a three-week stay. Her owner told me she’d not eaten for a couple of days but that this happened sometimes and anyway it was probably because she was so old. I asked if I could take her to the vet if I was worried and he said he’d be pleased if I would but again, he felt she was just a very old dog, nearly 17. That day she ate a little chicken but she couldn't keep it down. That night she slept OK but the next day she was not a well dog. Once the rest of the dogs had been fed and had a run around the garden, I sorted them out: put some in the bedroom, a couple in the study, left some in the living room and bundled Riff into the car and off we went to the vet.

The vet examined her, tested her heart, felt her stomach, looked in her mouth and told me he suspected a liver or kidney problem probably caused by her very dirty teeth and inflamed, infected gums – he didn’t think she’d last very long. Dirty teeth result in infected, bleeding gums and toxins get into the blood stream. Riff’s certainly needed cleaning but you couldn’t put a dog that old under anaesthetic, not even a light ‘calmant’ as they give here in France. I remembered another old dog I used to care for: Tigger, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel. He’d exhibited the same symptoms as Riff, the vet had given massive doses of antibiotics and happily he’d got over the infection. Later, he had his teeth cleaned, some rotten ones removed and went on to live another two years, dying when he was 16: a great age for a Cavalier. The vet gave Riff a shot of antibiotics, gave me more antibiotics in tablet form but told me he didn’t hold out a lot of hope.

When I got home, I made her comfortable in a little bed in my bathroom – she was very listless and not interested in food or water. I called her owner in London to tell her what the vet has said. ‘Oh Jilly, I don’t want her to suffer. Please take her back to the vet and have him put her to sleep.’ I told her about Tigger and asked if we could just give her 24 hours in the hope the antibiotics would fight the infection. She agreed. That evening though, little Riff took a turn for the worse. I’d been giving her water by syringe, as she wasn’t strong enough to drink. I so hoped the antibiotics would kick in as they had for Tigger. Now she started having difficulty breathing - she wasn’t long for this world. I called her owner and told her I had some sedatives for dogs who travel badly. I told her that if I gave these tablets, it would be likely Riff would never wake up but at least her suffering would be over. ‘Oh please, please, Jilly, please give them. I can’t bear to think of her suffering.’ I couldn’t either. I crushed a couple of tablets, mixed them with water and syringed the mixture gently down her throat. She lay in her bed, covered by a soft blanket, gasping for breath. I sat and stroked her till she fell asleep. She never woke up. In two hours her heart stopped beating. By then it was two in the morning.

Riff's last day
Her owners had asked me to call them, whatever time it was – of course they weren’t sleeping anymore than I was. They were so kind, so considerate of my feelings yet I knew they were devastated by the loss of their old dog. They wanted to bury Riff in their garden in Menton but they were not coming back to France for three weeks. What to do? ‘I’ll put her body in the freezer,’ I said. Well, you need to know that I didn’t have a big freezer here as I’d had in Wales. I had a small freezer compartment on top of my refrigerator. The next morning I tidied the freezer as best as I could. I put Riff into a black plastic bag and up she went into that cavern of chilled air to share space with bread, pasta and last year’s home made tomato sauce. Sometimes, over the next three weeks, after I’d taken out a slice of bread for toast, I’d have to push a leg back to get the door closed.

Three weeks later, Riff was buried under a favourite tree in her Menton garden.

Another coffee?

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Cat quotes

"A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
(Mark Twain Notebook, 1895)

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
(Mark Twain Notebook, 1894)

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats."
(Albert Schweitzer)

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
(Leonardo da Vinci)

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
(Winston Churchill)

Monday, September 4, 2006

Cats inlove

inlove-catsI love cats, and I think this to cats are inlove.

Cute Cats

cute-catsPlay, play, play...
This we know to do...

Cat Wallpaper #4

I have a big blue eyes, what about you? You have that big photo camera



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Cat Wallpaper #3

Why are you ignoring me? I am a kitten and I just want to play. See you when I grow up ;)



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Cat Wallpaper #2

Where am I??? I should go back to sleep :D



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Saturday, September 2, 2006

Cat Wallpaper #1

Little cat hanging



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