Monday's Mews!

Just so that all of you know, other than being a very busy time of late for My Mummy - what with her marrying Daddy and having Grandpur living with us, while he deals with a load of health issues, it seems my sister, Isis, is pregnant yet again!

Mummy says this is because Isis went on her honeymoon for her with a lovely looking Aussi Aby mancat called Speedy, and while this was a mixed blessing, seeing as Speedy had a heart attack out of the blue and passed away... Well it seems that he and my 'sis, had themselves a very good time before that and subsequently Isis is now decidedly rugby ball shaped and getting more so each day! ;)

The kittens are due a few days after Setra's 1st Birthday on Feb 16th, so she will be a grown up ladycat before she becomes half-sister to a new litter of siblings. However shortly after the kittens are born, My Mummy has to go into hospital for a 3rd attempt at getting her knee fixed so that it doesn't keep going out of joint... This means I will have to be on special Uncle duties as well as spending much of my time nursing Mummy better. Daddy says he'll take a few days off work to help out too, and D'boy is practicing his cooking skills so that he can do the dinners for a few days - well it'll save d'family from Daddy's cooking, so we'z purring that he does good dinners, just like My Mummy makes! :)

Thinking Thursday...

This being my first Thinking Thursday of 2009, I thought I'd better do some really good thinking... However mostly I've wound up thinking about my belly, what with Isis getting her yummy queen bikky, other delicious treats and late night snacks. Well that and how very silly our housemate Tigmut'hep looks in his pale blue onesies... ;) Additionally with the cold snap we had here last week, I've been thinking about how to keep myself warm and how best to get Daddy to shove over in bed so that I can get into my favourite spot! :)

But on a more serious note, I've been thinking about all the friends we've lost in the past few weeks and even more so about the friend we're about to loose... So far as I'm concerned the Rainbow Bridge has been all too busy of late, with the passing of Vanda (the Guide Dog, aged 7 ) - she was our friend Terry's Guide Dog and without her Terry is both bereft in an emotional sense as well as physically as she was his eyes in the big bad world outside. Sadly Guide Cats for the Blind is not a sensible or apparently legal option, or we'd have sent him Tigmut'hep over to assist him - probably leading Terry to spend prolonged periods of time hunting for catnip or down at the butchers looking for a juicy steak! ;) Next we heard that Magnificat had passed away leaving Solo's Mummy beside herself with grief as he had been with her since his birth just shy of 18 yrs previously. Then my sister's beloved Sen-Chan passed at just 16 months old, leaving a hole in her heart and in that of his #1 as well as his new little sister Tama-Chan and his woffy buddy Tommy. Then Daddy got the news that one of his younger cousins passed this week while his Father was in New Zealand and not due back for a week or so! :( Lastly we just heard that Solo's Mummy's lovely old fawn Aby Fawntasia has a huge and inoperable tumar growing in her chest, it's an aggressive one at that - so after having lost Magnificat, she's having to nurse a terminally ill Fawntasia through her last few weeks this side of the Bridge...

I therefore think that I should spend more time snuggling with My Mummy as life is all too brief and snuggles are all too precious! :)

Finking Friday...

Well firstly I fink I'd better let you all know where you can see video of Isis belly moving as so many of you have shown an interest in it! If you go to My Mummy's Abyssinian Cat Breeder Website via this link and look for the button that says Video File, you will find your self face to belly with all the movement! ;)

Other than that I fink I'd better keep a really good eye out for that Stork as it's getting closer all the time! ;) Maybe a nap first might help prepare me for being an Uncle though and I don't want to be all tired and sleepy, so just forty winks on My Mummy's bed and then back on duty! :)

Heavy - Photo Hunt!

Well what Mancat with a pregnant sister can resist posting the following for the Saturday Photo Hunt - Heavy?! This is my half-sister Isis looking far more heavy than usual in her 6th week of pregnancy...

Belated Finking...

Well this week I'z did so much finking on Friday that I forgotted to blog about it... Well I'z had been reading My Mummy's kitty pregnancy book with her and so was doing some really hard finking about becoming an Uncle! :)

I'z been readin' all about what sort of food Isis should eat to help her percolate good healthy kittens. It seems a queen needs about 400 calories a day, or about twice as much as a normal kitty her size! Iffen you'z fink that's impressive she'll be demanding close to 1,000 calories a day once d'kittens are born and she's lactating... Dat's more like the sort of level of nutrition that d'boy requires and he eats loads! My Mummy weighed Isis dis morning to see iffen she'd put back on d'weight she lost while at Stud and it seems that she has even though she was very moody about her dinners all last week... Though for d'past 2 days she's been eating like a big piggy Tigmut'hep! ;) Heck dis morning she almost climbed My Mummy askin for her breakfast - before dat she's tried to make breakfast outta My Mummy's toes by putting d'bitey on them... So Isis is back to 3.2Kg and iffen she's got a belly full of kittens they'd be about the size of ickle peas at dis moment. By the time she's due to "pink up" (about 15-18 days time) they'd be about the size of hazlenuts! :) So you'z can see I'z had lots to fink about... Oh and d'books gotted lovely pictures of kitten development and all that, I'z lick d'pictures best of all, they'z easier to understand than all d'writing! ;)

So I'z very happy to have been awarded the Thinking Blogger Award, bestowed upon me by HRH Yao-Lin


This award is graciously accepted with the utmost humility. Thank you Yao-Lin for realizing that Meezers are not the only finking cats out there! ;)

Here are the rules:

1. You must write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.

2. Acknowledge this post.

3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote.

4. Go tell your humans to fork over the treats!

I would like to nominate:

Skeezix

Miss Peach

Chat Au Sphynx - Dragonheart & Merlin

Adan

Daisy

Last but by no means least we'z wanna remind you all to purr for Mao and Annie who's both gone missin' and are making their beans very worried and sad...