Breaking News: Cat of Nine Tale's Returns from Summer Break!

We are back from Summer Break!


And we have missed you all so very much!!!!!

Happily, everyone is healthy and we've nothing too eventful to report.
We've had a good summer with plenty of...

Hanging around outside in the Cat Enclosure...

But some days it was just too hot so we....

stayed inside with the air conditioning...

We had some visitors!

forcing Angus to seek out new hidey-holes in the bathroom cabinet.

Don't see him in there?

Let me biggify for you...

There he is!!!

We did plenty more this summer but I'll save them for future blog posts.

Many thanks to all of you who kept visiting, checking in on us and wishing us well.

Hello to our new followers!! We're at over 100 now, yay!! Welcome!

While we are definitely back to blogging, new internet rules at my work place will drastically reduce my daily participation in the CB. I'm able to get around the new "security walls" in our fancy new system and visit blogs, but it will not let me comment, no way, no how. I've tried many things to no avail. No social networking allowed at all including Blogger, Facebook, Twitter and ones I've never heard of.

I plan to post and visit when I can, but everything will have to be done at home between chores and my limited time available there (we do have 8 cats and 4 dogs to take care of!).

Meanwhile check out our entries in Monty Q's Do The Q Full Monty contest. We have four posts for three kitties.

Two for Yukon.

One is his Full Monty (brace yourself) here.

The other is his Monty Q-(less) here.

One for Snafu in a Full Monty as a kitten here.

One for Penny in her Full (Modest) Monty here.

Voting starts today (I think) and there are lots of great entries! Have fun!

We're glad to be back!

~Lisa Co9T

A Snafu Friday and So Long for Now

The master of charm himself, Snafu!

He is quick with a sharp bite or a sweet nose tap!

He wades through broken glass to explore strange new cabinets!

He sleeps on spinning washers and rubs his face on...

well, just watch him and see...

Watch it on YouTube here.

That Snafu!

Two more things for today:

1 - We want to give our thanks to Nimbus of Lynx217 for awarding us the Versatile Blogger award! And thank you very much to Kat from The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde for awarding us the Catnapping Seal of Approval! We’ll be proud to add them to our sidebar!



2 - This will be our last post for a while as we’ll be taking the summer off from blogging. I can’t totally rule out a post now and then and I may visit but may not comment. I have thoroughly enjoyed blogging in the Cat Blogosphere (way too much) these past nine months. I had no idea such a large (and likeminded) cat loving community existed. It’s been so heartwarming to be a part of it. But, I need to work on a couple new projects for the summer and I’m looking forward to them, too.

Everyone is welcome to peruse old posts through the labels at the bottom of the blog or in the archives. Comments are always welcome!

On behalf of the whole Cat of Nine Tales gang, my humble thanks to everyone who visits us. We wish you all health and happiness and a wonderful summer (or winter, depending on your hemisphere)!

~Lisa Co9T

Bed Buddies

I read a couple of posts recently about where kitties sleep on the bed with you. I had these pictures kicking around so I thought I'd put them to use. 

This is generally where Penny sleeps.

Can you tell I'm not really sleeping?

One day, I was sick and stayed home from work.

Everyone wanted to help me get better, but Penny wasn't about to lose her place of importance.

It was pretty crowded...

~Lisa Co9T

Wordless Wednesday with Penny

~Lisa Co9T

Two Cat Tuesday - Nick and BJ

Two Guard Cats

BJ and Nick are on alert for "introoders,"

 which in this case would be Rocky, one of our neighbor's cats.

Rocky is an unneutered male who likes to claim our sheds as part of his territory, leaving a lovely scent behind. In defense, Nick likes to leave his lovely scent inside our house.

Lavender, it's not...

Short of keeping Nick doped up on Amitriptyline, we manage the problem okay with all the usual products. Nick has such a bright and happy personality when he's not doped up. We've missed him and are glad to have him back to his old self.

~Lisa Co9T

P.S. The Semi-Finals of Kitty Fight Club are going on and Snafu is up against Cookie. Check out the post on Misha's Blog and vote today!

Thanks!

Mancat Monday Morning Hangover

Yukon looking out

When DP plays ball with the dogs in the backyard, Yukon likes to sit on the back of the futon, hang his paws over and watch.

~Lisa Co9T

Happy Birthday ML!

We wanted to shout out and wish ML of Missy, KC, Faith, Sol, Smokey & BJ  and The Sherwood Bunch,  a very Happy Birthday today!

ML is the Master of the Cat Blogosphere Universe - The Information Super Goddess.

If you haven't already, please stop by and wish her a Happy Birthday.

~Lisa Co9T

A Snafu Friday

Thank you to everyone who voted for Snafu during the Kitty Fight Club! We are honored to have such good friends (with great taste :)!! And for those who voted for the other kitty, we love you too! You're here reading this afterall...

This is one of Snafu's favorite places to play.

He'll take a toy, usually a mouse, and bat it in and around my legs while I stand at the sink doing dishes.

That Snafu!

~Lisa Co9T

Thursday in the Garden

Guess What?

We are members of the Society of Feline Gardeners, but until this post we have only been dreamers of gardens.

I thought it was about time we did a gardening post.

So here is Wizard lounging around inside the cat enclosure

- the kitty garden, sorta.

Nick and Penny have found something interesting that caught their attention.

Nick is under the ramp.

Snafu in full ruff - always looking directly at you.

This is the full shot of them all.

You can see we have a bumper crop of dandilions this season, some plantain and crabgrass too.

This kitty garden was totally rearranged and trimmed back this past weekend by DP. The shot above is still in winter mode, but now it looks much neater with wider spaces to romp.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of our kitty garden/cat enclosure.

Please visit the Master of all Feline Gardening, Jonsie.

~Lisa Co9T

One Word Wednesday with Yukon

Tick.....

Two Tabby Tuesday - Yukon and Owen

The new cat tree provides many more opportunities

for fun photos like this one.

 Let's get an aerial view...

Of course I barely got this shot before Owen got up.

~Lisa Co9T

Monday Morning Hangover

Hangover with a twist!

Courtesy of Owen.

~Lisa Co9T

A Snafu Friday

Snafu loves the doggie backpack.

We use it to carry elder (stubborn) terriers on walks.

Maybe he is hinting that he'd like to come along with us on our outings?

Wouldn't it be fun to take Snafu along?

He fits inside perfectly!

Um....

Maybe not a good idea...

We are talking Snafu...

See ya later, Snaf!

(What was I thinking?)

 

This most holy terror was once an adorable kitten!

Please check out his face-off against Ronny of Forever Foster at Misha's Kitty Fight Club quarter-final match TODAY and VOTE for the cutest (not the nicest)!

~Lisa Co9T

Secret Agents Cats

A Secret Meeting

~Lisa Co9T