Soooo many Chrissymouse prezzies!!!

How was your Chrissymouse, efurrybody? Mine was furry furry good. In fact, I still cannot believe how many prezzies I received.

Furst, Mommy gave me a giant Cat Tree. You can see me posing on it wif the family's prezzies.

Isn't it huge? It stretches from the ground all the way to the sky!

There are so many hidey holes to hide in as well. It's fun!

Then Mommy gave me a furry heavy Porcelain Cat.

But that wasn't all. In it, there was lots and lots of yummy kibble.

I'll nefer haf to worry about going hungry again!

My most fun and noisy prezzie is a Roller Mousie.

You roll the mousie backwards on the floor furst and then Woo-Hoo! Watch it zoom around like lightning!

I lurrve chasing it and then chomping on its tail.

Here are some pikshurs of me hafing fun wif my Roller Mousie.

Mommy insisted on including some outtakes of my play. So here they are!

And finally, here is a pikshur of me with my Mommy (5-Cat Style) and my Godmommy (The Flyer).

~5-Cat Style

A Lurrve-Filled Chrissymouse Eve

This is my furst Chrissymouse efer! And I am furry excited!

I haf been drenched wif kissies all day from my family. I hope that all of you haf been kissed too.

~5-Cat Style

Introducing...

Hurrow! My name is Slash and I am furry pleased to meet all of you.

I was given the name Slash because the very first time my Mommy carried me, I left my mark on her chest.

How did I meet my Mommy?

Well, one fine day my Mommy made her way to a Vet's Clinic to sign up for an Animal Assisted Therapy training program. While she was there, she spent some time looking at the sick and injured animals being cared for. And that's when she saw me!

I was purrlaying with some other kitties and Mommy asked a nurse about me. The nurse told her that I had been brought in to the clinic by a breeder. I was suffering from an eye infection, an ear infection and digestive problems. But then the breeder never turned up to collect me and pay the medical bills. I had been abandoned!

The nurse told my Mommy that while everyone in the clinic had come to adore me, none of them could take me home. Mommy then said that if the breeder didn't turn up to claim me by the end of the week, she would take me home.

And so the breeder never showed up and I became Mommy's! The vet was delighted to hear that and told Mommy not to worry about the medical bills, that she wouldn't have to pay fur the baaaad breeder.

The nurses told Mommy that the breeder bred Chinchilla Persian cats and so it was furry likely that I was a Chinchilla Persian too. That would explain my cottony fur.

Today, I get lots and lots of lurrve and attention from Mommy.

She purrovides me with many toys and invent many many games fur me to play.

One of my furst gifts is this cigar case. It smells furry interesting. I like to use my paws to swipe it all around the house and chase after it.

Here is a pikshur of the cigar case dangling in the air, perfect for practicing my fearsome pouncing.

I love my new house. It is warm and comfy with lots of room to play in. My most favourite room is the bedroom where I sleep at the head of the bed to purrtect Mommy in the night.

My second favourite room is the kitchen where lots of yummy smells float around.

In return of Mommy affections, I help to take care of the house by purrtecting it. In fact, during the move into the new house I made shure that efurrything was safe.

I am furry happy with my new life and hope to make many new furriends like you soon!

Thank you for listening to my story. I am going to take a well-deserved nap now.

~5-Cat Style

An unexpected, but most welcomed find

Dear all,

It has been a most eventful week and a half. As soon as my exams were over, I had to embark on a fearsome house-hunt. The reason for this urgent search is due to a mysterious and unwanted "fourth housemate".

The good news is... I have found myself a new house and I will receive the keys to it this Friday. Yaaay!

But here's the REALLY exciting news.

I will soon introduce to you a new baby of mine. I stumbled upon extraordinary him on an ordinary Saturday afternoon. At only 8 weeks, he already has quite a tale to tell. And as he loves retelling stories so very much, I'll leave him to tell you all about his beginnings.

So please stay tuned!

~5-Cat Style

Bombay's video for you

Dear Friends,

I will need to disappear from the blogosphere for a wee bit. My exams are here and I'm buried deep beneath the books. But I''ll hurry back to blog again after my last paper on November 27th. Till then, if I can even surface for air, I would be most thankful.

Bombay wants to help me tide you over the next 3 weeks of my vanishment. And so he has decided to throw his paws in the air and purr for you in a video. However, the silly boy forgot to turn on the speakers for the recording.

Many thanks to Bombay's adopted Dad for so patiently obliging his son's request.

I hope you'll enjoy Bombay's little video.

~5-Cat Style

Thoughtful Thursday

Sometimes I slap my paw across my forehead. And when I do that, it usually has somefing to do wif the silliness of beans.


I mean... why would beans need instructions like these?!


~5-Cat Style

So here's what we were finking...

So many kitties gotted the answer to our question on Thoughtful Thursday. Bangles was finking about food!

Bangles: Enuf clicking alriddy! Can't you tell I'm hungry?
Bombay: Someone call animal welfare purrlease.

Here are more pikshurs of my beans using me fur their own amusement. Will it nefer end?

~5-Cat Style

Thoughtful Thursday

Hurrow efurrybody!

My brofur and I haf come up wif a new theme called Thoughtful Thursday.

Efurry Thursday, we will post an entry about our thoughts, our lack of thoughts, and efen what your thoughts are on a topic... any topic. We purringly invite you to join in by posting your own entries on your blogs as well!

So we begin Thoughtful Thursday today wif this pikshur of us.


Can you guess what we were finking about when our beans made us pose fur this pikshur? Purrlease leaf your answers and we purromise to reveal the answer in our next post!

Purringly,
Bombay

~5-Cat Style

Wordless Wednesday

~5-Cat Style

Bombay & Bangles make their appearance at last!

Sheepish Bombay: Brofur, are you sure that our furriends will still want to read about us after being away fur so long?


Confident Bangles: Of course they will. It's us! *lick-lick-lick*

Bombay: Erm... I fink you may want to repurrsition yourself.

Bangles: Wha...?! Are we online and blogging alriddy? Oh crap!

Bangles: I'll just lie here looking furry dignified until all of you furget what you saw, okay?

Bombay: And I'll just lie here in my Daddy's arms until dinner time. Which should be NOW!

~5-Cat Style

An Animal Ethics Profiling Quiz

If you want to know how you view animal ethics, come log on to the Animal Ethics Dilemma website and register yourself as a first-time user.

Go to the Questions Page to create your personal profile on animal ethical issues.

You will be asked 12 questions that have been designed to assess your beliefs in animal ethics.

After the quiz has been completed, you will be placed in 1 of 5 profile categories -- Contractarian, Utilitarian, Relational, Animal Rights and Respect For Nature.

I have been profiled as having an Animal Rights view on these issues.

This is how my profile reads:

The Animal Rights View
"Good results cannot justify evil means"

Defenders of animal rights believe that fixed ethical rules place limits on our treatment of animals: there are some things that we are not permitted to do to an animal whatever the circumstances. This idea, of a non-negotiable prohibition, is what people are getting at when they talk about “animal rights”. It is one thing to say that animals have rights, and another to say what these rights are. This means that the animal rights view comes in more or less radical forms. Most radically, a defender of animal rights may hold that animals have rights just like our human rights. Obviously, this view would exclude uniquely human rights, such as the right to freedom of speech. However, it would include the right not to be killed for human benefit (except in self-defence.) At the other end of the range, the claim may be merely that animals have the right to be treated “with respect” or “humanely”: roughly speaking, we must not do avoidable harm to animals. Weaker views of this kind need not rule out livestock farming and animal slaughter. There is a vivid contrast here with utilitarianism, since utilitarians believe that, in maximising welfare or happiness, it may be morally acceptable to violate what the defender of rights would call “rights”. Examples of statements typically made on the basis of this view: “Animals are not our slaves.” “Animals have inherent value, and this should be respected.” “Experiments on animals are unacceptable, regardless of the potential benefits involved.” ~5-Cat Style

What a sad projection of the future...

May this never happen.


~5-Cat Style