Shhhh!!!!! Super Kitty Gets A Microchip!

I Knew I shouldn’t have come out from under the bed for those treats! What a rotten dirty trick! Everyone at the vet’s office is very nice but still… VET!!!!! Sigh, I don’t put up 1/10th the fight Makamae does. She puts her extra claws to good use.

I hear barking back there. Wish I didn’t eat the chicken off of Kea’we’s kibble this morning. I’m a cat that smells like delicious breast meat. Any dog I meet in the hall is going to lunge at me like I’m a s’more at a girl scout jamboree.

Hey! Hey up there! I haven’t gained weight; it’s just winter fur! I hate this carrier! It makes me look Fat!

I’m pretty cool here… until they put me on The Table. The table is cold and there’s nothing to sink my claws into. As soon as mom gets close I’ll latch onto her like she’s the last life preserver on the Titanic.

Ha, Ha, Ha, Oooh! That tickles! Darn right my ears are clean! I’m a very hygienic minded cat.

Doc! Doc! Is my heart OK? I sometimes get these palpitations when I watch Animal Planet and they show Gazelles escaping from my cousins! Oh, thank goodness I’m fine. I don’t smoke or chew tobacco and never drink alcohol. Heh, heh, heh – Shhhhh! I have my own little vices!

I just had my annual shots. They were a piece of cake. Actually our vet is so good I didn’t even feel them. Ask Comet, Makamae and Kea'we they’ll tell you the same thing. This needle can’t be for me, look at the size of it! It’s for a Rottweiler! I feel faint. What could be the purpose of a needle of that magnitude?

OH CRAP! A slap the forehead V-8 moment! I know! It’s for a microchip! I’m the only one of the fuzzies without a microchip. Mom and dad pick up a dozen lost dogs every year and half of them don’t have collars or microchips. It breaks mom’s heart. Mom’s never picked up a single lost cat that has had a microchip or ID. That breaks my heart. Mom and dad caught a wonderful kitty living in our bushes this spring and I was hoping for another sister but she didn’t like dogs at all. I’ll never understand speciesism if I live to be 200.

GULP!

Nowhere to run….

Wow a little pinch was all I felt. I love my Vet!
Look, I have a new tag. Lots of “bling…”

PART II



I Really, Really, didn’t want a Microchip though. Makamae says it’s a stupid myth, that I’m just a crazy conspiracy theorist, but I believe the government will be able to track me now that I have this chip. That’s not crazy is it? My friend Bali, she’s Siamese, she thinks her microchip makes her like specific cat food. In other words her microchip is controlled by Corporate Giants who manipulate her mind into an addiction to Blue Buffalo canned turducken with gravy. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Government tracking we all know is real.

My problem now is what am I going to do about my Home Grown Maui Yeowie Catnip now that the Government knows my every move? I’ll have to plant it somewhere more discrete.

Before I dig this up I’ll take a little in to share with Makamae. When I harvest I always cover my face or the Catnip never makes it into the house. I won’t get anything done just rolling in the grass or racing up and down the maples. Wasn’t it just the other day I was saying I’d never have use for this blue shovel?

Oh shoot this isn’t a good spot. Once these peonies and Four O’Clock’s are weeded my catnip will be visible. Gee Whiz.

Yeah, right here between the weeds, jalapenos and the mulch my beloved ‘nip will be hidden. I’ll just have to take the chance that one of my Feral Friends will take a nibble. So be it. I’m cool. I’m going in now with the ‘nip I cut off for Makamae to enjoy.

“SK! Thanks so much Sis! I love catnip! Mind if I just dig right in? Oh Yum!”
Go right ahead Makamae. Careful though, it’s kind of strong!

“HOT DIGGITY!!!! I’M SOOOO STONED!”

Please get your pet Microchipped!
Special thanks to the excellent Veterinarians and Staff at Bostic Veterinary Hospital who have treated our animals with great kindness and gentleness and myself with great pet parent patience. The hospital sequence would not have been possible without their extra special giving. Mahalo nui! 
Bostic Veterinary Hospital 

Mom Has A New Pacemaker!

Mom’s old pacemaker ran out of battery juice and since they aren’t rechargeable she had to get a new one. I stole the old one to show everyone. Looks big on me but it’s really pretty small.

Hey look it says something on the back…. OMG!!! Finally confirmation for what I’ve suspected all along………………………


“NOT FOR HUMAN USE” So what is she? Part cat for sure, part canine whether I like it or not. Bet she’s an ALIEN!!!!! Shhh! I've heard they can hear around corners; I know mom can. And! She's psychic! She grabs Makamae before she even tries to dart out the door. I'm going to have to be soooo nice to her! Darn it anyway....

!!!!Men’s Archery Team Get’s Silver Medal!!!!! Yeah!!!

Congrats to the Men's 2012 Olympic Archery Team for a spectacular silver medal contest!! It was a real nail biter!

The Italians took Gold in a contest that ended with a score of 218 to 219. You don’t get any closer than that. Plus the Italian’s last shot was about 1/3” from being the next lower score. It was so close to being a shoot-off I thought mom was going to go rip up the carpet. Even I'm not allowed to do THAT! (She was a bit excited!)
Archery Rocks!  

THE SHOVEL

Mom and grandma were recently going through grandpa’s toolbox. It has been sitting in grandma's garage basically untouched since it was delivered to grandma's house from the company where grandpa used to work after he died years ago. Grandpa was a journeyman machinist. He made very precise things with metal, so his tool box wasn’t exactly full of screw drivers and hammers. When grandma and mom were down to the third drawer along with the calipers and micrometers there was this blue toy shovel. Grandma and mom were surprised by it.  Grandma didn’t recall whether it belonged to mom or mom’s brother.

Grandma sat in a lawn chair and mom leaned against grandma’s car and they wondered why grandpa chose that to keep in his tool box. It didn’t fit well. It had to have been in the way. From the color it was most likely his son’s toy.
For many years at that job grandpa had a boss that mom said made his life hard, so she thinks he kept it as an early reminder of why he was putting up with the um, bull…crap. It made me think about the fact that people are animals too and go through a lot to protect and provide for their young. 

I was having a hard time wrapping my head around most of what mom and grandma were talking about. I kept thinking about the shovel. It is a shovel. I’m a cat and if there is one thing cats know it’s toys! Shovel does not equal toy!!!! Balls filled with bells, feathers on strings, paper bags, boxes, lasers (oh yeah laaasers!) all great to play with. I've seen mom using shovels to dig up the yard, a different kind to move mulch and one that is shaped like this one to scoop snow. Shovels are all a lot of work. Mom wants to give me this one but no way. I've figured it out. This is a Starter Shovel. They must not have had child labor laws way back when mom was a kid. I'm not going to fall for it, when mom gives it to me I'll just bat it around on the floor like I have no idea what to do with it. Then nonchalantly, no one looking, behind the dryer and bloop!  Gone!  Out of sight, out of mind!

The only digging I like to do is in my sandbox and yeah sometimes I go a little crazy and kick sand all over.  But I'm not the only one. Makama’e does it too. That is a pleasure. No, I’d never have a use for a shovel. Nope, not me.

Tractor Trouble

This old toy tractor looks kind of fun. I'll pretend I'm a farmer today.

La, la, la, Get your tractor runnin’ la, la, la, head out on the sidewalk la, la, la, heading for adventures la, la, la….. Vroom!

Mom planted peppers and tomatoes and more peppers.  She loves peppers. The tomatoes are growing like weeds. Some plants have ripe ones.

Oh wow! This is a blast!!! Wheeeee!!!

OOPS!

Well this was just a “Tragic Tractor Tomato Accident.” We shall never speak of this… In fact; Anyone out there willing to give me an alibi?

FOURTH OF JULY TWO

Don’t forget to stay hydrated! It's Hot Out There!

This is the temperature in Mom and Dad’s Carport today. Day after day of this heat is making me crabby.
 
Kea’we stepped on my tail. First I swiped at her tail with the talon like claws of my right paw then I followed through with the four rapier swords of my left paw. Two giant handfuls of tail fur. Uh Huh. Uh Huh. Who’s da Kitty? Uh Huh. Uh Huh!

I’ll just play a little Sudoku and chill out. I may be a little full of myself today. How could I have been so mean to Kea’we! Poor puppy, I’d better go apologize she’s probably terrified of me now.

Of course I could be wrong. My sister still loves me!

Happy Independence Day!

I was trying to write out the Declaration of Independence as a surprise for mom. These calligraphy pens are harder to use than you’d think though - I keep getting ink everywhere – but thankfully none on me. Mom would freak. You should have heard her when I asked if I could get a tattoo! Anyway I wanted to do this because mom said to me this morning that a lot of people have forgotten the real meaning behind the Fourth of July, just like so many other holidays. (Christmas isn’t really about getting gifts and seeing Santa, Easter isn’t just about baskets and candy.) Independence Day isn’t about setting off fireworks and drinking too much. Mom said it’s also not about waving our flag. Mom said if I’d read just a little of the Declaration of Independence I’d see that our founding fathers wrote an amazing document that not just declared our separation from Great Britain but eloquently established in our country a standard of tolerance and freedom unheard of in that time.It’s basically a letter to all of the people of Great Britain and the world but especially to King George III saying we’ve taken too much abuse; we’ll take no more. It lists King George’s offenses and at the very end includes the powers the undersigned give the then tiny government of ours. If you want to see the names of the signers look them up. You should. These people are important and it is thanks to them – not just to the many incredibly brave people in our military that you are here and free in the United States of America today.
Of course if the US does ever decide to have a Monarch again – it should be a cat – I’m available!
I’d look great with a crown.Queen Super Kitty the First. OK OK I was just trying it out.
Have a wonderful safe holiday!!! 
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
To Read online a better presentation with signatures go to: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/ 

OH! SO CLOSE! I ALMOST CAUGHT A RABBIT!!!!

What a day I’ve had! This morning out in the back yard there was a rabbit trying to get through unnoticed, but my sharp eyes didn’t miss him and the chase started in the ivy.

The rabbit dropped something then made a run for it.

I gained on him but then he pulled away from me in the yuccas.

Oh, then I really gained ground until the rabbit leapt over the day lilies.

Crap! That leap cost me big time. I leapt over the lilies but by the time I caught up with that rascally rabbit he was almost through the fence.

All I caught was a bit of tail fluff. That was OK though. I made my way back to the ivy to see what it was he dropped. I had no idea what it was but I’d haul it into the house to play with anyway.

So I got these cool ears, a basket with this grass and some roundish things. That rabbit must have been pretty wealthy because these round things are personalized. Poor guy, his name was Cadbury. OMG! It says Egg on here. I took the poor guy’s children. I didn’t know rabbits laid eggs, I do know eggs have to be kept warm. I’ll slip these into Dad’s recliner so he can keep them warm. That will get me off the hook and Dad will never know until the little bunnies come bursting forth!

HAPPY SPRING EVERYBODY!

FINALLY SLEDDING!

We’ve had some odd weather. We had 15 minutes of a thunder and lightening snow storm. Now there are little bits of leftover snow and ice. I’m going to take
full advantage of it!
  

We don’t have any hills in our yard and this little slope is the best I can do. This is soooo wimpy!



Oooooffff! Ah crap, wiped out on a clump of grass. This just won’t do. There has to be a better way!!!



The view from the top of Mom’s van is fabulous! Oooh, this looks steeper from here than it does from the ground. Here goes nothing!

Wheeeeeeee!!!!!!

UH OH!!!

Umm, not the best thought out plan.

Will someone get me a ladder? How soon is summer?