Mom here. The Furry Bambinos graciously allowed me to post today about Mohawk.
He is One Who Came Before.
You might even call him The Original Furry Bambino.
Today is the Anniversary (#21) of his Gotcha Day, back in 1991. This photo was taken sometime in 1991, which would have been soon after he came to live with me.
Today is also the Anniversary (#10) of the Day Mohawk left us for The Rainbow Bridge.
One date, that is both a happy and a sad reminder of Mohawk’s Magical 11 Years with us.
When we adopted Mohawk from my friend Lynn, she mentioned that “Mohawk likes bread”. She said it almost as an afterthought. What she really meant was:
No bread or pastry will be safe in your home from Mohawk.
When I first understood this translation, I was bringing groceries inside, soon after adopting Mohawk. Before we finished unloading the car, Mohawk had already sniffed out the grocery bag with the bread in it, chewed a hole through the plastic bread bag, and was busy nomming on the bread.
Another time, I learned that Mohawk also had a taste for fancy Greek pastries. There is an annual Greek Festival held at a local Greek Orthodox church, and we make a point of visiting their bakery for baklava, spanakopita, and other delicious pastries. We brought the pastries home to our apartment in the white cardboard bakery box, and left it closed up on the kitchen counter overnight. Big mistake! The next morning, the box was on the kitchen floor, and the pastries were strewn about and nommed upon.
For dinner tonight, we had Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, one of Mohawk’s all-time favorite people foods.
Well, not the noodles so much, but the yummy cheese sauce! It was tradition to give Mohawk our bowls for clean-up. The hard part was convincing Mohawk to wait until we were done eating before starting to clean up. In this photo, you can even see Mohawk’s stripe! It grew out by the time he was one year old. (Please ignore the hideous 80′s style glasses. Admit it, you wore them that big too.)
Sunny, Sky, and Padre share Mohawk’s love of cheddar cheese.
Mohawk enjoyed Cheetos, too. (Great, now I’m craving Cheetos.)
We miss you, Mo. Love you always.
Filed by on Jan 11th, 2012 under Gotcha Day, Love, Macaroni and Cheese, Mohawk, Mom's Posts, Sad, The Rainbow Bridge. 4 Purrs or Hisses. 
Happy New Year Efurrybuddy! The Furry Bambinos and I (Caramel, AKA Ms. Floofs) received a terrific package from our furriends DaisyMae Maus, Charmee, and Sparky Fuzzypants all the way across the country in sunny Catifornia!! Thank you so much DaisyMae, Charmee, and Sparky!! Here I am sniffing the package.
Panda Bear dived inside once Dad got the package opened.
Panda Bear opened the card and read it to us.
Look at all the wonderful presents!
Sunny sniffed the presents in the pretty blue wrapping paper.
Panda Bear is REALLY into nip!
He’s even licking nip flakes off the lid!
When Panda Bear gets really excited, he claws the carpet with gusto! That’s the effect nip has on him.
My sister Cookie sniffed the cute little mousies! We have been carrying those around and practicing our Mouse Patrol techniques with them!
We loves Temptations! Thanks for sending us Fishy Flavors! Meerkat is asking for more. Nom nom nom …
Thank you so much for sending us The Red Dot Maker! It is the one toy that gets all of us moving! Meerkat is stretching out to smack The Red Dot.
Mom put all the presents on the table and took a photo of them all together! We can’t wait for Mom to start that cat grass growing! We ate the Purina One Turkey yesterday! Mom loves the dove pin, jingle bells, and the yummy chocolates! What a generous gift!
Meerkat claimed the box! (The rest of us are a little too “well-endowed” to fit inside the box.)
Even Senior Catizen Padre got off his Gizzy Quilt to join in and play The Red Dot! Padre says Thank You!
My sister Cookie is really into wrapping paper. She likes to lie on it, play with it, and nap on it. Cookie says Thank You!
Sky says Thank You! (Especially for the Temptations.)
Sunny says Thank You!
Panda Bear says Thank You! (Especially for the Nip!!!)
On behalf of The Furry Bambinos, I say Thank You!!!
What a terrific present!!!
A huge Thank You to Mom Paula, Truffle, and Brulee for coordinating Secret Paws!!!
Filed by on Jan 8th, 2012 under Caramel's Posts, Christmas, Friends, Nip, Num Nums for Tum Tums, Presents, Secret Paws, Thank You. 7 Purrs or Hisses.
Greetings Furriends! Sunny here. The Furry Bambinos and I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Winter/Summer Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, etc.
Clearly, we are happy. Why?
Well, for the past four weeks, we have not seem Mama. She is Sky’s and my biological mother. Mama is feral (afraid of people), so she lives outside. Mom and Dad have been feeding her for over a year now. In the summer, Mama slept on our front porch in sunbeams. Now that the weather has turned cold, Mom and Dad prepared a winter shelter for Mama. Mama had been coming to eat on the front porch just about every day, except when it was raining really hard.
Mama had even started to talk to Mom and Dad!!! This is HUGE for a feral kitty. Normally, feral kitties are silent. Kitties that trust people talk to them.
The last time we had seen Mama was November 23, the day before American Thanksgiving. We had begun to assume the worst had happened. Mom even called the Animal Warden in our town to ask if she had been found.
As it turned out, no news was good news.
Last night, as Mom and Dad were leaving to take current fosters Panda and Domino to PetSmart, Dad spotted Mama!!! On our porch!!!
Happy Dance!!!
So Dad told Mom, then went back inside to get food for Mama! Mom got out of the car, and went to the porch, where she talked soothingly to Mama. Mama had jumped off the porch and was under a bush. All Mom could see in the dark was Mama’s white bib. (I have a white bib and white footies just like my Mama. And both of us have our left ear tipped.)
Mama came out from under the bush and got close to the porch where Mom could verify that it definitely was Mama! Dad gave her a big bowl of stinky goodness, and a big bowl of crunchies.
Merry Christmas, Efurryone!
P.S. We still see Daddy about once a week, so he must have other restaurants he visits. Mom and Dad see him crossing the big busy street when he leaves our yard.
Recently, another kitty – white on belly and legs, grey stripes on head and back – has been coming to eat from the porch. He/she is big, but timid, so Mom and Dad don’t think this kitty has a home. When Spring comes, they will trap this kitty and get him/her “snipped” too.
Filed by on Dec 21st, 2011 under Christmas Miracle, Feral Cats, Kitteh Daddy, Mama Rose, Sunny's Posts. 10 Purrs or Hisses.
Today is our Mommy’s Birthday! We are happy that it is on a Saturday, so we get extra snuggle time with her today. She was surprised to see her birthday announced on the Cat Blogosphere! She says thank you for all the kind birthday wishes. She just got off the phone with Gramma. Mom always calls Gramma at the time Mom was born to wish her mother a Happy Mother’s Day.
We haven’t been able to blog much lately. That’s because the computer has been overheating and shutting down randomly. So Daddy performed surgery on it. This is what he pulled out.
A furball! The computer hacked up a furball! An impressive one, if I do say so myself.
In other news, I have always thought that Cookie is a bit daft when it comes to The Rug Sucking Monster. She is not afraid of it! When it comes out, most of us go running the other direction. Clyde, One Who Came Before, would hiss at it even before it got turned on. Then he would run to the farthest corner of the house to get away from it. But not Cookie.
Watch the movie and see what I mean.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAh297anJGg
Crazy, I tell you! That Cookie is bat sh*t crazy! What do you do when The Rug Sucking Monster comes out?
Filed by on Dec 3rd, 2011 under Birthday, Cookie, Excuses for not working on our bloggy, Movie, Panda Bear's Posts, Rug-Sucking Monster, Thank You. 8 Purrs or Hisses.
In addition to being Veterans Day, today is also a lesser known holiday: Nigel Tufnel Day. Why? Because of the date: 11-11-11.
In honor of this occasion, we thought that we would re-post my previous homage to the Great Nigel Tufnel.
Mom says that I have a very loud purr motor.
I replied, “My purr motor is very special because it goes up to eleven. See, most cats have purr motors that go up to ten, but mine goes up to eleven.”
Mom asked me, “Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?”
“Well,” I replied, “it’s one louder. It’s not ten.”
“See, most cats would be purring at ten. You’re on ten, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten, purring on someone’s lap, and where can you go from there? Where?”
“I dunno.” Mom said.
“Nowhere! Exactly! See, if I need to get my purr motor to make that extra push over the cliff, I can put my purr motor up to eleven.”
Mom asked me, “Why don’t you just make ten on your purr motor louder, and make ten be the top number on the purr motor, and make that a little louder?”
She clearly doesn’t get it.
“My purr motor goes to eleven.”
(with apologies to Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer)
Purrs!!!
Panda Bear, and Angel Mohawk (who also had an extremely LOUD purr motor)
pee. ess. Mom says that if you don’t get this reference, you never saw one of the Funniest Movies Ever. Immediately go watch This Is Spinal Tap, or at least this scene. Then come back and read the post again.
How LOUD is your purr motor?
Filed by on Nov 11th, 2011 under Nigel Tufnel Day, One Louder, Panda Bear's Posts, Purr Motor. 7 Purrs or Hisses.
hello furriends! recently Cookie, Caramel (Ms. Floofs), and i (Meerkat) were inducted into The Ladies of Autumn (TLOA). TLOA is a new elite feline society “celebrating the beauty and elegance of tortoiseshell, calico & torbie cats”. you simply must check out their web site.
as you may know, female tabby (striped) cats with splotches of autumnal coloring (as seen in tortoiseshell cats) are known as “torbies”. both Cookie and i are torbies, and Caramel (Ms. Floofs) is a tortoiseshell. in order to have calico, tortoiseshell, or torbie markings, a cat must have two X chromosomes. so that means that virtually all cats with these colorings are female. there will be a very rare few XXY males that can also have these colors. last year, there was a male calico cat in PAWS! his foster mother was told that only about 1 in 4000 calico cats are male.
enough science, go see my induction page! Cookie has an induction page, and so does Caramel (Ms. Floofs).
TLOA will be having a Halloween party! so we are planning to attend in costume. the male contingent of The Furry Bambinos will also be attending the party in costume. efurryone is welcome, so please join us!
here i am in my witch costume. exactly the look i was aiming for.
Cookie was unhappy about the whole costume thing, and ran around the house moaning and complaining about it. they eventually dressed her as an angel and got a good photo.
Caramel looks absolutely ridiculous in her pumpkin hat.
my boyfriend cat Padre looks absolutely dreamy as Count Dracucat.
my dorky brother Panda Bear really enjoys these photo shoots. here he is dressed as a clown. heh.
and here is Panda Bear dressed as a skeleton.
Sunny is batty, oops, i meant that he is dressed as a bat.
and Sky is an angel.
Happy Halloween, Efurrybuddy!!!
Filed by on Oct 29th, 2011 under BlogPaws 2011, Caramel, Cookie, Halloween, Meerkat's Posts, Padre, Panda Bear, PetSmart, Sky, Sunny, The Ladies of Autumn. 8 Purrs or Hisses.
Hello Furriends! Today is a Very Special Day. Four years ago today, Panda Bear, Meerkat, and I (Padre) were ADOPTED!!
We are so grateful to have loving parents, safe and warm and dry shelter, food, water, treats, and Furriends like you!
Also, in honor of Derby’s birthday this past Thursday, here are some Tocks shots for your viewing pleasure.
Cooke and Sky weren’t open to showing their Tocks yet, so they just turned their heads. Do you see Panda Bear?
Cookie finally showed off her tocks by doing a full 180.
Sunny has been alerted here, and the rest of us are getting into the viewing. If you couldn’t find Panda Bear before, now you can see him.
Sky wanted to get closer to the action so he gave Panda Bear full control of the top of the perch.
Meerkat rearranged herself to get a better view.
Finally, a nice shot of all our tocks, although now Sky is trying to shield Caramel’s from the camera!
Can you guess what had our attention?
Time to get our party started! Teleport on over!
Happy Tocktober Birthday, Derby!
Filed by on Oct 22nd, 2011 under Gotcha Day, Padre's Posts, Tocks. 14 Purrs or Hisses.
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