Caturday with Cecil

Hey cool cats,

Fanks for all of your wonderful suggestions! Today I have one happy mews story and one sad mews story.

First the happy one: Randolph Rescinds $5 Cat Bounty . This is such happy mews! It was such an outrageous decision by Mayor Stupid anyway.

Now the sad one: Dad Forced 7 Year Old to Kill Family Cat . In Muncie Indiana, a drunk father told his three children that they need to "learn how to kill." One very furriendly and smart son hid the cat under his bed while his father was in the bathroom then put ketchup on a knife to trick his bad dad. The father later realized that the cat was still alive. At this point he put a knife in the hands of his 7 year old daughter and forced her to stab the cat. He then continued stabbing the cat himself, and then strangled it. This is all according to the affidavit that the Dad signed.

I have never heard of such things. To force a human-kitten to kill her beloved pet is awful. I am glad that I is in a very good home where Mommie and Daddy love me.

Here I am outside on my harness reflecting on all the bad mews I read this week.

Sometimes you just has to think about how lucky you is for food, a warm bed, and toesies to bitey.

I like to be thoughtful and thankful for my spoilt life. Thank you to all cats who are my furriend even if we has never met in real life.

Until tomorrow,

Cecil

Furriendly Furriday!

Today I am foregoing my mews article to help my Mommie. I am also going to introduce you to some furriends of mine!

First to Mommie... In lieu of all that I have reported to her about the bounty on cats in Iowa and O-HI-O, she has decided to plan a fundraiser to help spay/neuter local feral colonies here. This will also help bring attention to the shelter/low cost clinic that she volunteers at, which is Cats Exclusive! She needs your help in deciding where to host her fundraiser. Should it be a bowl-a-thon? She wants to do something that is fun and fambly oriented. Peas comment and help her come up with a place to host it! If you are in the south Florida area, you can volunteer to help! My Mommie always needs lots of help, sometimes she is a little crazy.

Now to introduce you to some of my furriends...

This is what I like to call a Tubby Timby


And this is what I like to call a Tiggly Wiggly

His name is really Tigger and he is an 8th Generation Bengal

They has known each other many years and live with my Grandma!

I think you can sees that they is spoilt

Timby is on a diet, right Grandma???? The V-E-T said that he is obese and is at risk for diet-beet-ee's so he has to get in shape! Right now he would make a good meal for a vishus deer!

And this very speshul kitty with the big smile on his face is Leo the Lion

He is the Great Kitty that Came Before Me, he was also my Mommie's first kitty. She gots him when she was much younger. He actually helped raise Timby but that was a long time ago. Later he went back to being Mommie's only baby when she moved out for college.

He went to the rainbow bridge last August right after Mommie's birthday and right before I was borned. He had CRF, but that is all I know. My Mommie still does not like to talk about it. She says he is my guardian angel though! So he is Leo the Lion and I am Cecil the Cougar.

I hope you have enjoyed meeting my furriends that are not part of the blogosphere!

Oh and um...

Just to remind you that I is still the lead kitty of this blog!

Even when I was an itty bitty baby cat, I was still as fierce of a real cougar! See my back paws, I am about to pounce and kill!

Until tomorrow,

Cecil

PeeEss: Please don't forget to say where Mommie should have her fundraiser!

Animal Cruelty: An Across Species Problem

After posting about the cruelty done to the poor woofie yesterday, I realized that animal cruelty is a much bigger problem than any of us spoiled cats realize.

Today I am going to review two articles that are best not read by the faint of heart. The first is titled, "Kitten Killer Gets Probation" and the second is, "Alford Plea in Kitten Drowning".

In Canada, a man admitted that he broke the leg of a four month old kitten, and the next day suffocated it. The man broke the defenseless kittens leg by kicking it. The next day, the kitten was walking around on the shaky leg, and foaming at the mouth. When the kitten saw his attacker he instinctively hissed at the man and bit him three times (the same as any of us would do). It was at this point that the man grabbed the kitten, suffocated him, and then buried him in the woods. The poor kitten's owners filed a lawsuit against the man, but he was only given 12 months probation.

In Kentucky we have another sad story in which a man who is posing as an educated person, a horticulture Professor, drowned a kitten. He claims that he mistook it for a raccoon.

Bill Fountain, the professor, had a raccoon trap set up in his backyard. The kitten, who was only 5 months old, was trapped. Fountain reached towards the cage and the tiny, baby kitten "grabbed or bit" him, so he tossed it into a water drum and drowned him. He is not sure if the kitten grabbed or bit him. He also does not know the difference between a raccoon and a kitten. My Bosslady would not want this man teaching her human children (if she had any).

Please go to this Experience Project website and play their trivia game. For every question you answer correctly, they will donate food to abandoned (and formerly abused) animals. You can choose whether you would like to play to feed cats or dogs, the option is located on the sidebar on the left side of the questions. Please feed the cats, we are very far behind the woofies! If you are not so good with the trivia then you may go to the Animal Rescue Group website and simply click the purple button to feed the animals.

Until tomorrow,
Cecil

PS- I promise a happy post tomorrow!

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Animal Cruelty

Image Courtesy of CNN.com

We may not always get along with our dog friends, but they deserve the same respect and care as any other living creature. I just came across this article that states there is a video showing a marine throwing a puppy off a very large cliff. Read it here. Animal cruelty is very serious business, and I do not understand why anyone would do something like this.

-Cecil