Babe Cattykins

Danny Mittens Is Gone

2013-10-05T06:12:00.000+01:00

Danny got poorlier the staff tooked him away and he never came back.

Goodbye Danny Mittens, my bestest friend...

Out wiv the old

2013-09-01T19:56:00.000+01:00

The old website at cat-things.com has closed and a new site at cat-things.co.uk is being worked on just now by the staff.

It has been a long time since I writted here and things has changed at home, instead of us three cats (Danny, Stole and me) there is now seven cats. My adoptd cousins came to live here, two girls Charlie and Socks. They keep to themselves mostly and we try to avoid each other.

Last year Tinker a young boy cat adoptd us. He came to our house one day and was very hungry. We gived him food everyday and he kinda lives here now except if the weather is nice when he sleeps outside like Danny.

Another cat, Fluffy, real name Onyx, came to live here for a while last year but the staff founded out where he lived and so he is back at his proper home.

And this year a hungry kitten adptd us her name is Twinkletoes... I don't like her and she doesn't like me.

We also has two other cats that visit us most days: Speckled Jim and Long Tall Sally.

What else has happened in the last over a year? Nope can't think of anything. Oh yes Danny Mittens is a bit poorly.

I hasn't tweeted much lately cos I got older and lazier. I has a old year resolution to tweet more starting tumorrow. Never do today what you can put off till tumorrow.

Batman Dog

2011-02-23T13:45:00.002+00:00

Just had to share - this is a funny video....

Aren't Trees Great?

2011-01-22T14:57:00.002+00:00

I likes to chase them birdies up the trees in my garden, but I can never catch them no matter how fast I climb.

Mum videod just after I got up the oak tree, see how fast I can be, but still not fast enough to catch anything. I think I need wings.

Babe and Boxes

2011-01-16T18:59:00.004+00:00

I has two videos on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3P6A33YMC8

Watch me be scary...

I do luv boxes, they iz such gud fun and small ones iz a gud ajility test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdIokNdUJo

I'ze very kwik wiv the claws, hear them squeal, meaargh ha ha!!

Snow

2010-12-19T13:54:00.005+00:00

A couple of weeks ago we had more snow than I have ever seened.

It snowed and snowed and snowed and Mum made some paths through the snow so that I could go out and play.

The snow iz very cold but iz lotz of fun to play wiv...

I haz been bizzy

2010-12-18T13:00:00.002+00:00

It has been a long time since I posted on this blog but I haz been too bizzy.

But now I'ze back wiv a vengeance.

What has I done since the last time I woz here ? lots of stuff...

Summer came and went, ortum came and went, wintr came early and won't go

My adoptd sis Stole iz still grumpy my adpoptd bruvver Danny Mittens still wants to play wiv me but he iz scary cos he iz so much bigger than me.

I iz mostly in hibernation mode cos it is very very cold.

This iz me waking up from a snooze

The North Face of the Birch

2010-07-25T22:12:00.003+01:00

It woz going to be a grand ekspedishun up the north face of the birch. My claws woz freshly sharpend and the sun woz high in the sky. The offishul fotograffer woz standing by and I woz ready to go...

The first part of the climb woz the branchless trunk and I used my claws to good effekt, but I had a very tricky manoover to get past the first big branch, I held on for dear life until I regotted my balance. Then I traversied to a safer branch where I rested. The first arduous stage was over...

Now woz some easier climbing for another third of the birch, tho some of the branches woz really quite skinny and close together...

And as I woz getting ready for the final ascent I realized that it woz dinner time and I got a little wurried that I might not be able to get down. As I looked for the easiest route from the big branch my fotograffer grabbed me and putted me on the ground. Oh the indignity...

I will try for the summit again when I have more time.

The Usual Suspects

2010-05-22T20:13:00.011+01:00

Some birdie feathers woz founded on the grass this morning and we woz all taken in for questioning...

Stole, Danny Mittens & me (Babe Cattykins)

Who killed the birdie? Did a Birdie even get killed? They never seen a body!

It woz the usual suspects... I wozn't putting myself in the frame and Danny iz too slow and stupid to kill anything (mostly).

Stole looked as though butter wuddent melt in her mouth but she iz top on the list of suspects. Well, she sez it woz Keyser Soze. Don't know who that is - must be the grey and white stray cat that woz attacking the bag of recycling the other day. He iz a bit of a psycho - he pooed in the hallway too.

Whodunnit? We woz all outside when it happened.

Woz it Stole?
Woz it Danny?
Woz it me?

Or woz it Keyser Soze? or it could have been Kitty from nextdoor or Frankiestein... or the hawk... They all has motive but now there iz too many suspects - i'ze not very good at writing whodunnits am I?

The Frankiestein Strikes Back

2010-05-08T13:55:00.005+01:00

After a long nite owt I woz coming in the in thru the catflap and a bit of sumthing broked off.

I didn't think anything abowt it cos I'ze always breaking sumthing, but jus as it woz starting to get light there woz an almihty racket. I went to run up the stairs cos it woz scary and saw Danny and Stole looking down at me. They thort the noize woz me but the noize woz still happening.

"Ther'z a monster in the house" I shouted and Stole shouted "Ther'z a monster in the house" and Danny didn't say anything - I think he's a bit stoopid.

Anyway Mum came to see wot all teh noize woz abowt and it wozn't a monster it woz the stray cat Frankiestein wot had come in thru the catflap and couldn't get owt again cos I'd broked it.

He ran away very scared when Mum opened the door - maybe he wont be back again.

Mum iz trying to fix the catflap so it won't get stucked shut again. I think it mus be folty she shud get her money back and get me somthing nice.

Anyway it woz a tiring nite and I haz been very sleepy all day.

The Munths According to Babe

2010-05-07T01:00:00.000+01:00

How to remember the munths...

Jangleberry, Marks and Maize
Thirty-one has them dayz
Augers, Jillhigh, Oxrober, Dismember
Thirty-one yoo iz now remember
Apehill, Saptemper, Newmember, Dune
Thems have same but minus one
Odd one out is Feebleberry
Has twenty-eight but be wary
On leaping years has twenty-nine
Now we knows them all so fine

The Naughty Kitty Club

2010-05-04T09:00:00.004+01:00

I has joined The Naughty Kitty Club
and posted a Pin The Tail on The Cat.

Happy Maize Day

2010-05-01T21:17:00.006+01:00

Iz the 1st of Maize an I iz celebrate it in traditional manner wiv a very long sleep. Iz a bit cold owtside. I think I stay indoors till Dune Day maybe warmer then.

It Wozn't Me

2010-04-30T09:38:00.003+01:00

I woz sitting at the kitchen window when the owtside birdies got all scaredy and flewed away. Then my Mum and me saw a hawk land on the hedge and sit there for a minute. It looked something like this pikture but sitting on a hedge not in a tree.

There haz been piles of dove feathers on the back lawns evry so often and I woz keep getting blamed for killing birdies and it wozn't me; it woz the hawk!

I kill my birdies at least two gardens away so I don't get found owt.

Wordless Wednesday #4

2010-04-21T08:20:00.001+01:00

The Cattykins in Action

2010-04-20T17:43:00.004+01:00

This iz a rare pikture of me on the move, I'ze so quik usully iz jus a pikture of my tail. Mum woz quik wiv the clicky button on the camra.

I'ze on a nice bit of indoor furniture wot iz outdoor, great for climbing or just sitting to watch the birdies.

Mum sez the furniture iz going to be gotted rid of. The catz in the famlee iz going to have a protest sit on. This may not work out very good cos Stole does not like to share it wiv me and Danny Mittens.

Beatles Songs

2010-04-16T20:56:00.005+01:00

Wow I'ze loving this song iz the bestest.

And hoo can forget...

♫ ♪ Pennies raining in my ears and in my eyes ♫ ♪
Iz painful !

...and...

♫ ♪
When I find myself lookin for trouble
mother Mary comes to me
speaking words of wisdom
Don't catch the bee
♫ ♪

I woz trying to catch a bumbly bee the uther day but it gotted away wen my mum shushed it away and picked me up.

Dog Alert

2010-04-09T13:02:00.007+01:00

I'ze been playing chase-me in the garden wiv Danny Mittens. Danny likes to play wiv me sumtimes. Izn't the sunshine nice?

All of a sudden while I woz checking out the birdbath I noticed the dog in the garden.

It woz Danny's friend Jack who had come to stay wiv us for the day. Danny likes him but I don't. I kept out of the way and watched him.

And do yoo know wot he didded - he tiddled on my favrite shrub - yoo know, the little one I like to roll around next to and kick.

Isn't tiddle a funny word? Reminds me of the nursry rhyme:

Hey diddle diddle

The cat did a tiddle

All over the kitchen floor

The little dog laffed to see such fun

So he tiddled a little bit more.

Hey diddle diddle

The cat did a tiddle

All over the kitchen mat

The little dog laffed to see such fun

And he tiddled all over the cat.

Babe Does Art

2010-04-03T12:54:00.005+01:00

Mum woz hanging out the washing and I gots the urge to do art so i jumpyed arownd in the puddles and then hopped into the laundry basket just before the last towel woz hanged out.

This iz my art:

I calls it "Muddy Garden on Laundry Day"

Mum for sum reason wozn't too pleazed but I think it is ekcellent.

The Secret

2010-04-03T09:28:00.016+01:00

My Old Secret

Think about wot yoo want and write wot yoo want on yur blog or on Twitter and make sure yur peeples see it
Look pathetic until yoo'ze get wot you want
When they'ze totally ignores yoo pretend yoo'ze never really wanted wot yoo want

And like attracts like and yoo'ze get more of the not getting wot yoo want

My New Secret

Ask for wot yoo want (on yur blog or on Twitter)
Beleeve that yoos already got wot yoo want
Receeve wot yoos want

And like attracts like and yoo'ze get wot yoos want - in theory.

I'ze wotched The Secret and i'ze practising beleeving that I has a new fun climbing thing, wen I climbs on top on the television in my mind it is a noo fun cat climby thing or cat tree.

I don't quite get how the receeving bit works yet, but apparently I'ze just got to trust the powers that be to arrange for it to happen.

Sappling Lifelike Small Cat Tree House

To the Almighty Ceiling Cat,

Please send me a nice climby thing cos I getz easily bored and I needs sumthing to keep me amused. I wud prefer a super deluxe one.

Also I would like tuna evry day and squirty cream cos they'ze really lip-smacking good.

Thank yoos very muchly

Yurs thankfully

Babe Cattykins

Wordless Wednesday #3

2010-03-31T17:53:00.003+01:00

Ain't no sunshine....

2010-03-25T09:46:00.003+00:00

♫♪
Ain't no sunshine when it'z dark
An it'z always dark at nite
Ain't no sunshine when it'z dark
An it'z always dark at nite, evry nite sun goes away

And I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow
I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow
I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow
I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow, I meow
♫♪

Good cat'z chorus there...

Babe Does a Limerick

2010-03-22T18:53:00.000+00:00

There woz a yung kitteh from Leicester

Who worked as a factry food tester
She ate far too much
So her outline is such
She iz now known as Fatbelly Esther

Babe iz a poet ha ha!

Babe's Night Time Adventures

2010-03-21T09:24:00.000+00:00

I woz in the bedroom exploring in the dark last nite and there iz a tiny little gap behind a shelf that I'ze been wanting to investigate - so I did. It wozn't really big enuff and I got a bit stucked.

I wud have gotted out eventully but Mum woked up and heard me. It took a little bit until she founded me and she moved the furniture and pulled me out. She said I am a norty girl and covered over the gap so I can't get in there anymore.

So the explorings continued onto the top of the tv stuff and my attempt at the north face of the pile of DVDs on the high up shelf. Mum woz not amused and gotted out of bed again to bring me back down.

Anyway it seemed like a good time to play catch the foot under the quilt. She iz quite good at screaming and still not very amused.

Why iz hoomans so grumpy at nite and why does they want to sleep away the best bit of the day?

Wordless Wednesday #2

2010-03-17T08:25:00.001+00:00