One of my favorite things to do is to mark my territory by scratching at my stuff. It feels really nice on your paws to grab and tug and really get into it by shoving your butt in the air. This is a real mark my territory sort of thing that makes the girl cats all soft like pools of butter. Purrr....yes that's a manly thing to do.
Yarrr!! Beware all who dare pass by the Dread Pirate Chase!! Pass at yer own risk!
The lovely Pounce's brother Ping and the very amazing Henry tagged me for 7 facts:
The guidelines for this tag:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules
2. Write some facts about yourself: some random, some weird, some just plain fun.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)
4. Let those 7 people know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
The challenge is to keep it interesting without making the reader think “Um, too much information…”
1. I started my life in the slums of Chicopee, Massachusetts. Really, the building was quite scary and the door was left open to the apartment so that any person could come and STEAL me. Luckily the Awesome Man was there too. I was 6 months old and rode in the Woman's lap on the way home.
2. When its cold outside I'd rather snuggle alone. I don't need any meezer sapping my warmth as I do quite a fine job keeping myself warm. Of course, Charmers are always welcome.
3. If I'm not sleeping I'm annoying Kaze. Hehe, she is such fun to chase around! Sure she has long legs but I have a thick pelt so she can't bite me too hard. I never give up and always win. This is really fun and makes me coo.
4. Yes I stink. Sure, they call me Stinky Minky because I don't cover and can evacuate the whole house in under 30 seconds. Not my fault...we all eat the same dry food.
5. I enjoy sleeping in the sink, its cool and fits my body perfectly. It is NOT my fault that there is hair in there or that the stopper gets pushed down. When the Awesome Man finds me he says, "Chase!! Get down!" whereas the woman just sighs, pets me, and walks on by.
6. I have messed up rear claws. When I was a kitten the first lady tried to get me to walk on a harness but I dug my feet into the pavement. This resulted in permanent deformities and a couple of my claws just don't grow. The Woman thought the vet would assume she was abusing me and was scared to ask about it when I had my first check-up.
7. I am a well traveled cat. When the Woman was going to college we lived in Massachusetts and drove to NJ at least once a month. I like music in the car and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the "PTU". I always look for it when the Humans bring out the red boxes so I can go with them. I only yakked on the 5 hour trip once and never had an accident even when the trip dragged out to 8 hours or so.
And HRH Yao-Lin tagged me for the name meme.
Well....the Woman wanted a cat. She apparently also wanted some credit at the time as she was 18 and looking to start her credit history. She came across the bank called Chase Manhattan and she loved the name Chase. So I was named before I ever came. My original name was Tigger and I think that fits me MUCH better. I am after all a tigger.
One way to assert your dominance in your house is to look very debonair. The porch is a great place to show your skills and look handsome. I had lots of hot Charmers over this weekend on the front porch. I made the meezers stay in the house and the Charmers and I hung on the porch. Sure it was a bit chilly but that just makes it better for snuggling. There is nothing better than sleeping on a warm blanket in the window where cool air blows over you.
Here we have an international package from HRH Yao-lin. He included some meezerly toys and such but also some British cat treats. Latte being a Temptations SNOB decided they weren't Temptations and walked away (by the way Yao-lin, you HAVE to have some Temptations!). Of course I took advantage of the situation. Hey, I had to taste test to make sure they were fit for feline consumption, right?? Well anyhow, there were lots of great things in the package and I'm sure you'll learn more about it from the meezers over the next few posts.
Now I'm settling in for a weekend long nap with all of this cooler weather. Charmers welcome and encouraged to teleport over for a nice snuggle!
I now have the perfect example of how to get your humans to 1- not leave or 2- take you with them. Its fool proof and guaranteed to make them stop whatever they are doing and get out the camera. You will notice that for once we all act as a team playing our separate roles. I have always done the "diggy thing" but Latte discovered the "hide behind the curtain".
I still have not been able to get the blogger video thingy to work so here's the You Tube one just in case.
You know how Latte's always snivling about his pink shmousie? Well our good buddy Skeezix sent him a new pink mouse for his birthday last week. Now it can be confusing knowing what to do in this situation but the answer is truly simple. If he doesn't take it in run that means it is fair game for the rest of us. So he sniffed it, walked away and I went in for the kill. Ah....its good to be Big.
