Maine Coon in the House!

This house has seen some exceptional cats in our house.  Before Pişi, Squeak and I moved in, my hubby housed the neighborhood nasty girl, Aslana. In another life, I shared my home with a wacky rescue named Nevada,  and a Maine Coon mix named Monty, who to this day I consider my most affable cat.  He was my only male cat - for some reason I'm prone to adopting sassy, strong girl cats. Pişi for one.  Squeak is proving herself to be pretty sassy, in her own fourteen-year-old fluffy cat way, with a new girl in town.

I thought, in fact, that Squeak might have some Maine Coon in her.

This is why I made the choice to go for blue-blood.  Pişi dominated Squeak as only a former Turkish street cat could, that is until towards the end of Pişi's life.  Squeak took some strong stands against that old street scrapper, but I must say that Squeak also showed the greatest respect for Pişi as she aged and grew weaker.  In fact, Squeak was in the room when Pişi took her last breath, and Squeak approached her gently, sniffed her, then quietly walked away.


I wanted Squeak to have a new companion a bit more like herself.  Since I thought she might have some Maine Coon in her, or Norwegian Forest Cat, I went looking for one of those.  A friend of ours had two Maine Coons - Delphine and Dodge.  Delphine and Dodge weren't being bred for any reason except to have babies.  (Dodge didn't have papers, though his pure heritage was apparent.)  In fact, here are some pictures of Frankie's parents:

Dodge and Delphine - making babies, I guess. (They had three litters together before Dodge passed away.  Frankie was from the first.)

Frankie (Francesca) and her mom Delphine

Frankie's daddy, Dodge

So, yes, I thought Squeak might have Maine Coon in her.  But hey, once I got a pure Maine Coon, I began to realize they are in a class all their own.  The normal rules of domestic cats just don't apply.  And if we try to enforce them, well, she just overpowers us!

hello friends

Hi, Pisi, here,

I'm demanding that my human do a blog entry.  

I'm doing ok these days.  

Reportedly, I'm approaching

18 years old.  

Go figure.

The one thing I know for sure is that my 

cat-mate,

Squeak,

keeps growing.

No way am I shrinking.

Occasionally, we even get along.

Basically,

we just wanted to say "hi!"

Hope you're well,

hope we get back here soon.

But summer's being good to us,

and sometimes the best thing to do

is to just take a nap.

Pisi's Where?!?!?

I'm not moving!

. . . if I don't look at her, she won't be there. Will she?

hi friends.

hope you are well.

We miss you so.

Please know that

just because you can't see us

doesn't mean

we aren't here!

Hibernating

Whoops

Where'd she go?

We are hibernating, folks. 

After all, look what's outside our windows:

We sure hope you're all staying warm!

with love

from Pisi

and Squeak

The Frozen Tundra

So, I thought I'd take off across the frozen tundra

to see what's out there. .  . .

Hmmm. . . what's this?

I think I'll eat it.

Well, that's enough of that.

Time to go back in and really eat something.

Yes, I will eat next to her (the Squeakster)

as long as there's a wall between us.

(In fact, when the Big Two Legged One is not around,

we're very cordial.  This morning,

she caught us nuzzling each other

in a good morning kiss.

Don't tell anyone!)

And Merry Christmas to all our friends out in cat land!

with love,

from

Pişi and Squeak

Watching The World Go By

We're not even going to make excuses for our long silence.

Just blame it on the human.

Hopefully, now that she's on Christmas break,

we'll be able to be here more often.

But in the mean time, let me share what I've been doing:

Just watching

You may wonder what a house cat with porch privileges can have to watch, well,

just look closely.  Can you see what I see?

Let's get a little closer:

There he is!  My friend, the Black Cat!

Hope all our other cat friends in Cyber Land are doing well!

 With love,

from 

Pisi 

and 

Squeak

Mid-day Nap

We are kind of upset

about our BTLO (Big Two Legged One aka: Human).

She has been far too busy for her own good.

We don't even wake up anymore when she walks in the house

But we think of our cat blogging friends often,

and we wanted to say

hello ~

we miss you!

And we hope you're all fine.

With love,

from

Squeak and Pisi

Winter Is Coming

. . . . and look at the condition of our porch:

the awning is gone!

But I'm resolved to stay here

as long as I can!

Happy first week of October to everyone!

with love from Pisi

Pisi Really Likes This Video

Yummy Yellow Flowers

yam yam yam yam yam yam yam

What????

Who, me?

No -- i wasn't eating the flowers!

Hope you're all having a great Beginning of the Week!

with love,

from Pisi

NO NAME CHANGE TO THIS BLOG!

In response to our friend

Katnip Lounge's question

about us changing the name

of our blog, just because of Marmalade, we say

NO WAY!!!

I, Pişi, am still the queen of this blog

and 

I, Squeak, will leave home if she even tries to do that!

This is our blog, that's final.

We'll continue to write on it, too,

whenever she (our Big Two Legged One) sits down long enough

and gives us a chance!

We love our blogging friends, and we hope you're all doing well --

You'll be seeing more of us, too

(though she keeps grumbling about classes starting . .  .)

with love from

Pişi and Squeak

hanging out with Pişi and Squeak

So, we've found that when it comes to this porch space,

we're best off getting along.

Sort of,

Our Big Two-Legged One gets really mad when we fight

out here.  

So, the BTLO wants us to show off her impatiens.

She's really excited about them, because she grew them

from seeds.

So here they are:

She didn't grow the begonias from seed,

but she did get them to live through the winter.

I'm telling you,

she's a little obsessive.

But I still kind of like her.

Hope you're all staying very cool!