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Carnival of the Cats #589

My turn to host here and, as usual, am running late mostly cause lap time comes first. Might be even slower finding a suitable pic cause they are all on the iPhone and iPad and we are on the computer. As to why no new pics on the computer, it is full. Mog has been going thru and deleting old stuff, still has another 40GB of data to clear out first. And it’s easier to do the links on the computer.

Ritzi roll

Samantha shares some poignant memories of her family, now gone, departed and lost. *sigh* Well, the pics bring back the memories. Mog is all misty-eyed, memories of my kittens, now all gone, most adopted out except Meowza who died. She thinks I’m heartless cause I revel in all her attention. Her lap is mine!

I have to admit Summer takes the most beautiful selfies.

Speaking of selfies, check out Sister Dolly over a Brian’s Home. Floofalicious! Plus it’s a Blog Hop meaning there’s lots more kitties to drool over.

Munchkin’s catnanigans! I didn’t make up this word.

CatSynth post a pic of a cat, natch, with a MIDI studio. Both look cool.

Erica proves cat rule. Yes we do. And we do it beautifully and beautiful too.

Hm, we missed Cat World Domination Day which is also Sparkle cat’s birthday. Missed the big bash over at her blog too. Sparkle has a new book coming out and Summer has a give away too, lots of cat goodies. And there is a discount on her Kindle book, missed the free offer. Mog is so slow.

For your Traveling Cats pleasure, I present a lovely orange cat. Mog is misty-eyed again, remembering her childhood cat, an orange boy. Sorry, you’ve got me.

Phoebe has a very amusing selfie Sunday. You will just have to go see.

Iza dresses up all sparkley. Pretty cat doesn’t need to dress up to look beautiful IMHO. Cool outfit thou.

Truffles fills us in about a cat adoption event at a book store, two of Mog’s favorites. She missed that too.

Oh no! Noah’s human might be allergic to him. Could do what Mog does, allergy meds every day for her.

Update: Baby Patches business Nip and Bones is having a huge 4th of July sale. Sale stuff might not be here long, site either as it has suffered financially. Let’s help out a poor kitty keep her business.

That’s it for this week’s carnival. Next week it’s at The Opinionated Pussycat. It’s usually there as Kiril and cats have done the lion’s share of hosting with us taking up the rest. Hosts are hard to find and the carnival must go on.

Must be updated too. Mog is slow.

For your fix of the best in pet blogging I offer an abbreviated share-fest round-up:

1. Friday Ark #526 (actually #527, hee, hee!)Cats, Dogs, Birds, Invertebrates, Other Vertebrates and the Extinct! Oh, my!

2.Camera Critters #377 – The oldest active meme about photos of animals/critters!

3. Rascal & Rocco has Pet Parade #98

Carnival of the Cats #574

Time to stop glaring at the dog, and occasional swatting, to get down to the business of hosting another carnival. A little history, March 11 was the day my kitties were born and shortly after, we were posting and hosting the carnival. Well, mostly Mog was doing that on her site. My site came later. I was busy doing the mom thing and loved my kittens until that fateful day when Jezi went into heat. That did it, time for them to leave. Of course they didn’t until much later but I finally had the place to myself until the dog arrived.

me glaring at the dog

Since I am late, Happy St Patrick’s Day. And now for the other cats.

Elvira has the opportunity to review a new cat book. Read how it all came about.

Check out the nail sheath incident, it’s fascinating and will surprise you.

The Rangers went out to the opera and dinner and didn’t even bring back Maddie anything. Poor kitty. One word… turkey!!!

Summer does Selfie Sunday with a whole lot of selfies, beautiful ones too.

So does Samantha, beautiful cats, beautiful selfies.

Create With Joy does 50 Shades Of Gray with a lovely feline twist.

Tom plays a moog synthesizer as only a cat can. It’s cute, reminds me of me.

Brian is in the Selfie Sunday mood too. That sure is popular with us cats as we are way more photogenic than humans.

More selfies, this time Truffle. Check out this beauty. Best of all she’s adoptable.

Phoebie enjoys a visit from her grammie, complete with treats while her parents are away.

Ayla does something different, the Easy Like Sunday cat nap. Now that I like.

Next week’s carnival is at The Opinionated Pussycat

Not enough kitties, heres more a Share-fest round-up…

Friday Ark #511

Rascal & Rocco Pet Parade 83

Blog Paws Wordless Wednesday

Pepi Smart Dog Thankful Thursday

Athena & Marie’s Caturday Art Blog Hop

The Cat on My Head’s Sunday Selfie Blog Hop

BeThere2Day hosts a Feline Friday Blog Hop

The True Book Addict hosts a Cat Thursday Blog Hop

Dogs N Pawz hosts the Tuesday’s Tails Blog Hop

Carnival of the Cats #562

It’s Christmas time and us kitties have been getting in the spirit of things. I have been laying on Mog for the past hour or so which is why there is no pic of me yet. However, I got a Christmas wish from the cats at Zoolatry which I will share. Thanks so much for the wish.

Zoolatry's Christmas Wish 2014

More into the Christmas spirit, Maddie is lending a hand er paw with the gift wrapping. Helpful cat.

Sneakers is getting weirded out by things as moving day approaches.

Moosey is relaxing under the tree waiting for Santa. OK, it’s going to be a few days yet. Might as well have a snooze.

Samantha again, this time doing the Sunday Selfies, lots of them. She sure looks pretty.

This Traveling Cat sure looks cold up north in the U.S. while these kitties look a bit warmer in sunny Greece. I like warm, so does Mog.

Apparently this cat doesn’t mind the cold as he goes ice fishing. Silly cat. Thanks for that Funny Farm cats and dogs. Jan has so many hard for me to keep track.

Summer shows off the ultimate cat toy, the Christmas tree. This one carries a drink warning for the humans.

Meryl is celebrating Hanukkah with lots of kitties as the decorations. OK, they are not real cats but it is so cute.

Brian is into selfies too, seems to be the latest craze.

We have a serenading cat over at CatSynth. Not Luna but lovely cat anyway.

Not everything a cat does is holiday related or graceful which led to Munchie’s vet visit. Hope he gets to feeling better.

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and please send more kitties to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com. We also need hosts for next year. It is looking rather sparse. Next week’s host is The Opinionated Pussycat. I’m sure they will have lots to say once they are all settled in their new home.

Carnival of the Cats #552

I know it’s late, typist difficulties and computer problems. Had to reboot twice, screen going all wonky or at least the part in Chrome did. Maybe try a different browser.

Me on Mog's lap

Sneakers wondered about all the boxes her daddy brought home. Elvira filled her in. May their endeavors be fruitful. Purrs.

Magellan cuddles with his mom. I love laying on mine, letting her know when she strays from her duties, petting me.

Create With Joy celebrates Friendship Friday introducing Nikita, Elvira and Sneaker’s daddy Kiril who we know well.

Summer tells all about the wild Vegas show she attended. We know about those shows. That’s where Mog got her first glimpse of my predecessor who she brought home from the breeder after thinking on it a bit. I say predecessor cause after she died, Mog’s daughter brought me home.

With traveling, there are hotels and Summer has rules for them. Of course. Kitties always make the rules.

Sweetie Pie Turner has good news from the vet. I won’t spoil it for you just need to follow suit myself so Mog tells me.

Sister Zoe’s pre-op eval and post-op surprise. It’s no wonder she didn’t want to eat. Sending purrs for a speedy recovery.

It’s FURever Home Friday as all these lucky kitties were adopted. It’s always heart warming to see a cat get adopted.

And in the traveling cats category, we have a cat from Worms… Germany.

And closer to home, a cat from Kentucky.

Samantha got all sacked out and all decked out too for Halloween. Lucky.

That’s it for this week. Thanks all for entering and a big thank you to Kiril for his help in rounding up cats. Next week’s host is The Opinionated Pussycat. Submit your kitties to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com.

Carnival of the Cats #545

Is dedicated to Sparkle the Designer Cat who has joined Meowza and so many other beloved kitties over the rainbow bridge.

Sparkle Forever

Sparkle was extra special cause she’s pedigreed Somali, blogged, award-winning too, and gave sage advice, even wrote two books which Nikita reviewed. She was all-around awesome.

First book was Dear Sparkle: Advice from One Cat to Another (No Humans!).

And the second book was DEAR SPARKLE: Cat-To-Cat Advice. After reading the reviews, I am going to insist Mog get the books. She is so slow they aren’t in her cat book library.

Sparkle gave her goodbye here, a thank you rather than goodbye. So sad, made Mog all teary.

But didn’t leave without giving her human a gift. A very lovely gift indeed if I say so myself and I do.

Brian wrote a lovely tribute to Sparkle. Most special is what she did to help other kitties find homes.

Animal Shelter Volunteer also paid tribute to her tireless efforts on behalf of all kitties in need of rescue.

Rascal and Rocco paid tribute to Sparkle‘s inspiration to the cat blogosphere and have a huge, 76 so far, list of tributes to Sparkle. She was truly loved.

Samantha paid tribute to her friend with a poem.

The pets at Jan’s Funny Farm also paid tribute to Sparkle, musing on whether there is life after death for animals. There is. They have been seen in NDE’s too.

Ms Stella O’Houligan and family mourn the passing of a titan, they too had the privilege of meeting Sparkle’s human.

Truffle and Brulee remember Sparkle too, noting that Sparkle had been their Secret Paw and always visited their blog unlike me. I don’t even have my own icon or anything so Mog does the visiting when she has the time. Or interest, something got lost when Meowza crossed.

Robin Mudge paid tribute to Sparkle and discusses coping with the loss of a pet, a needed read.

Katie and Waffles, my past Secret Paws, also discuss death and dying in their tribute to Sparkle.

Note I’ve discovered several of these tributes link to 76 more tributes – lots of love for Sparkle in the cat blogosphere.

And next week, Meowza hosts from over the rainbow bridge. Hey, someone’s got to do it. We still need hosts too in October, 5th and 12th. So let Mog know, any of her emails will do.

Many thanks to Kiril who rounded up these links. He is an excellent helper. Submissions can be sent to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com.

Carnival of the Cats #540

I know, running late again. Kid was a wild child and I didn’t come out of hiding until her bedtime only she didn’t go to sleep. Between keeping tabs on her and loving me, Mog has been unable to help me with the typing until now.

We start out with Annabelle who is just too cute. Give me competition and the shots are great too. Mog is now following her on Pinterest.

Here’s a never before shared photo of Nikita, destined to become a fave here.

Here’s some humans with their pets, Women of the Year finalists. I go for the one with the cat.

Samantha is regally wordless. Love the third shot.

Guiliano does what all cats do best, sits where he shouldn’t. Least it wasn’t the computer keyboard.

Friday, Brian is snoozing, glaring, on a date. Or maybe a little of all the above.

Precious is none the quiet one, mol.

Sioux is a pretty kitty in need of a home. She gets along with other cats unlike me.

Some pretty traveling cats spotted in France and Italy along with a little history.

Timmy Tomcat celebrated his 7th birthday this past week. Come wish him many more.

John is blah, tired and going to join Maddie in a nap. Such a floofy belly, so tempting. Pinned!

That’s it for this week. Thanks all for entering and a big thank you to Kiril who hunts up the majority of submissions. Next week’s host is The Opinionated Pussycat, either Elvira or Sneakers will do it. Remember Blog Carnival is no longer so send your kitties please to carnivalofthecats(at)gmail.com.

Carnival of the Cats #531

Running a bit late here cause I was laying in Mog’s lap and she fell asleep. Sorry about that. On with the carnival.

Tammikuu is gorgeous, sweet, gentle… I could go on. He’s no me. Why is he in a shelter? He needs to be adopted into a forever family.

Snickers and Khal are doing that thing, tempting up with their bellies. Mog wants to rub them. Meowza was good at that too, me not so much. I don’t like belly rubs ever since that surgery.

Daddy Kiril is talking to a bird about the strays with some interesting bits of history thrown in.

There is a new blog in England, The Cat’s Corner with a lovely cat featured on the home page. It’s done in magazine format so check out all the pages, some very interesting stuff there.

Sleeping like a cat, that’s what Maddie’s human has been doing. Highly recommended as are the pics of Maddie and Ivy.

Straw Hat Day, how did I miss it and this pic of Brian, too funny.

Supervising dad blogging, that’s what Brian, Gracie, Kit and Sascha do best. I’m all for it, especially the looking out the window part. Sleeping’s not bad either.

Traveling Cats features a cat from Rome.

Monday, no Clementine but a lovely shot of Samantha. Lots of people have helped too.

Wordless Wednesday with lots of lovely shots of Samantha. Where’s my pics? Mog is so negligent in posting.

Miss Eevee joins the family and joins in on the Straw Hat Day thing too along with vintage Samantha, Clementine, Maverick and Mr Tigger.

This is Dexter, a big, beautiful pic of Dexter. He’s got a Pin It button as do most of these so Mog has been pinning away. She loves the kitties. Me, I love the humans.

That’s it for this week. Thanks all for entering. Next week’s hosts are Pet and the Bengal Brats. Thanks Kiril, Elvira and Sneakers for rounding up a lot of these. What would the carnival be without them?

Carnival of the Cats #521

Cause I’m a complete layabout, mostly on Mog’s lap, I just don’t post much aside from the carnival and Mog had to oust me off the lap to do that. And cause I’m such a boring subject, am sharing a pic of a cat that looks like Mog’s cat, Fuzzball, whose passing inspired her daughter to bring me into the household. She was a very pretty kitty as am I.

Elvira does her part for the rescues, just aren’t enough shelters for all the cute little kitties needing rescuing.

On a lighter note, Elvira wishes he daddy Kiril a Happy Birthday. I hope it was a happy one.

Back to disturbing, really disturbing, Elvira lets loose on the human that tattooed his cat. The poor kitty, I can understand not liking that at all. Sick human!

Maddie reacts to the changing weather in her usual, manner… soaking up the sunpuddles. Neighbor cats are a bit more adventurous.

That’s all for this week, thanks for entering. Samantha and Clementine host next week. Still four more slots are available for hosting so get those requests in. Send them to Mog.

Carnival of the Cats #513

Is very late not just for Mog falling asleep laying around petting me Sunday but also for her having gone to the eye doc today and having her eyes dilated which caused her to have difficulty seeing bright light as in the computer screen making her quite useless as a typist until it wore off.

On the brighter side, we have kitties.

Elvira shares some most profound thoughts complete with demo, I must say. Who would have thought belly rubs were profound?

Sneakers is making her presence known in the world of blogging and in the sink. Silly kitty.

Cat Chat with Karen and Cody has their 1000th post and they don’t blog every day a thought which eases both Mog’s and my consciences. Fascinating read how it came to be.

Traveling Cat shows off a beautiful Ragdoll therapy cat. Who would have thought a cat could be therapeutic?

Luna finds a lovely resting spot under a metal and glass table. Apparently, she likes those.

Katya finds a new coat and what a coat it is. I had no idea cats could find such fashionable wear. What Mog? You won’t get me one, why? Oh you went and pinned it. So it only cost $500. I’m worth it.

Sandy is a true couch potato. She likes to watch videos.

Morticia and Elvira are beautiful, adoptable kitties. Hope someone finds it in their heart to take these two. Mog loves their names.

Kit and Sascha are two more beauties just doing the Wordless Wednesday thing.

Kit has made a couple of earth shattering discoveries.

Link and Nesta help out with the daily chores, yeah right! Mind you, I am all for helping and they do it with gusto. I like their style.

Maddie, however, is excused from chores, too much sneezing. So she naps, most gracefully I might add.

That’s it for this week. Thanks all for entering. Next week’s carnival is at The Opinionated Pussycat. Only four more slots are available for hosting so get those requests in. Send them to Mog.

Carnival of the Cats #505

Hard to believe we have been around that long but it has. I don’t post much in between carnivals, too busy napping and getting love.

me nap on Mog

But enough of that. On with the carnival.

Luna has the right idea, laying around in sun puddles. I do the same and get irritated with Mog if she doesn’t open the curtains first thing in the morning.

The most opinionated pussycats’ human discusses Hill’s ideal balance treats. I’m always up for a treat and Mog likes the all natural in it. Will give it a try. Also there is a giveaway, yes they are giving away some treats. Yum!

Speaking of which, Nikita left a present for them, a cute little kitten. Sweet! Now Elvira has someone to keep her company when daddy Kiril is away.

Here’s a more detailed report on the little girl. Including her impressive vet visit.

Maddie and Ivy had a preference for the blanket stack at the end of the bed. Good choice.

That’s all for this week. Thanks all for entering. Next weeks carnival is at The Opinionated Pussycat. Now it’s back to napping.