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You are here: Home / Diary / Diary – December 2004

Diary – December 2004

January 3, 2005 By: Sparkle Cat1 Comment

Holiday Stuff

Not-so benevolent dictator

It took my human long enough, but she finally found that calico stray a home.

About time too - she was really getting into everything

By then, of course, I was starting getting used to her. She certainly knew how to play!

At least she knew her way around a box

 
The game is called Cat In The Box But you probably already figured that out

But she did have some weird habits, like her fixation with water.

That was VERY weird

And she destroyed one of my favorite toys.

She never did learn how to play nice

She thought she was coming back, but she was mistaken!In any case, the humans packed her up in the cat carrier one day and carted her off. The only one around here who really missed her all that much — other than the humans — was the dog.

Wondering where this new cat tree wasAccording to my human, the cat found a home just in time! She kept saying, “Now I can put up the tree! There was no way I could have put up a tree with her around!” The whole tree thing kind of confused me. I wondered if that meant she was going to get us another cat tree like she did last Christmas. It was even more confusing when she went to the closet and pulled out this “tree.” It wasn’t a tree at all — it was a big box that Binga immediately had to check out.

Then my human began pulling all sorts of other, smaller boxes out of this big box. They were filled with fake, brushy branches. I took a bite out of one, but it wasn’t very tasty.

Boodie had no idea what it all was Quite unappealing, in fact

So here were these branches all over the floor. My human started putting them together and it began making sense, in a weird way.

Although it didn't look like any cat tree I had ever seen

Eventually she moved the fake tree to the room where the cat tree is. The cat tree was moved to a different corner of the room to make room for the fake tree.

It had to be moved with Binga on it I did not give this furniture rearranging my paw of approval

Then my human brought out a big can that appeared to be full of cat toys. But, much to our disappointment, they weren’t meant for us at all — she hung every last one of them on this fake tree. What a gyp. Even worse, she hung the dullest, most boring ornaments on the bottom, at our eye level. We weren’t even compelled to bat at them.

There's a cat on the tin - it HAS to be for us! The treasures that we were denied
 

And this is NOT meant to be a kitty plaything? Liars!

And the ribbon wasn't even all that tastyAlthough my human gets excited about it, I am not a big fan of the holiday season. There’s just not much in it for cats. For example, my human and her boyfriend got a big basket of goodies from his older brother and his family. But it was all fruit and cookies and chocolate and other unappetizing items. There was not one ounce of meat or tuna in that huge basket!

And then there’s the stupid modeling thing. My human tried getting me to pose with a fake poinsettia in my collar. (At least she was smart enough not to try it with a real poinsettia — they’re poisonous to cats.) I really didn’t want to wear this thing. I did everything I could to ruin every last shot.

Get this thing off me NOW

Unfortunately she managed to sneak in a good photo.

At least it made her stop taking photos

Luckily things got better around Christmas.

I want to be the new Hello KittyThe one really fun part of the holidays — at least as far as cats are concerned — is wrapping presents. My human wrapped a bunch of stuff for her boyfriend, including an Elvis money clip. Note the unusual tape dispenser.

But of course I didn’t really care about the presents. They weren’t even for me anyhow. The really good stuff was the wrapping paper and the ribbons.

Picking out bows for the presents Let me add a few decorative bite marks

After all, who can chew on that?I really don’t understand why humans don’t get this. On Christmas morning, my human and her boyfriend spent all this time unwrapping all the presents they gave each other. (Among other things, he gave her a pair of Hello Kitty car seat covers. I suppose they’re meant to match the tape dispenser.)

Even Boodie knows that this is the best stuffBut they completely ignored all the really good stuff — the empty boxes and crumpled up paper! They just shunted all that aside like it was junk. How clueless is that?

Then my human showed us all our gifts. Some were hanging from the fireplace mantle.

Cat toys galore! Look at all the cool wrapping paper in that stocking!

Other presents were sitting under the tree. When Boodie saw them sitting there, she decided to add a little present of her own — some toy mouse she dug up from who-knows-where.

Not sure who the mouse was for

We were quite pleased with our wrapping paper packages… and then we realized that there were actually cat toys in them.

Cat toys AND wrapping paper! What a novel concept!
 

Boodie was amazed at her good fortune

Even Boodie knows there's no Santa KittyMy human tried to convince us they were brought by someone called “Santa Kitty.” That’s really bogus, if you ask me — if there really were a “Santa Kitty,” she’d bring us wrapping paper and skip the toys. Seriously. Some of the toys were okay, but others were really lame.

My least favorite toy was the “Cy-Purr Mouse.” It was all electronic and annoying. And it was too big to easily bat across the room. Boodie and I were not impressed.

We'd rather have a REAL mouse Wishing it would go away

Now THIS is a toy I can dig my claws into!Binga got so bored with the whole thing that she went upstairs and took a nap. Too bad for her, ’cause that’s when my human brought out the best gift — a brand new Alpine Cat Scratcher! So now we have one without the toy ripped out.

Brand new mouse! I promise not to rip it out this time. Maybe

And since Binga wasn’t around, Boodie got a chance to play with it without getting beaten up.

Hoping Binga takes a really long nap

Just when I had decided that Christmas wasn’t so bad after all, my human ruined it by bringing out one of her horrible “surprises.”

Holiday torture devices

My human never reads the labelThat’s right — “festive” holiday collars. I wonder if she noticed the warning on a couple of them.

Maybe not, since she proceeded to torture us with them. Binga’s looked dumb, and Boodie is so fluffy you could barely see she was wearing hers.

What a way to be woken up from a nap

 
She looks like she has growths coming out of her neck Wishing this so-called festive collar would magically vanish

My human gave up on Boodie completely and put hers on Binga. Binga was thoroughly offended.

My human wasn't happy unless every cat was miserable

I was appalled — I couldn’t believe she got me yet another clown collar!

After all, the last one went over so well!

I got fed up with her attempts to make me festive and hid behind her old printer until she promised to take the hideous thing off. Geez. If I wanted to be in the circus, I’d run away and join it. So much for “happy holidays!”

No photo opps for you

»January 2005

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