Month: December 2016

Dezi and Raena play with the Tower of Tracks

Tower of Tracks #ChewyInfluencer

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Hey, is anypawdy out there? It’s me, RaenaBelle. I’s so excited. I’s luvs Christmas. But we’ll tell ya’ more ‘bout dat Sunday. Today, I’s gonna get to write our very last Chewy review. Yep, da last one…of 2016 dat is. MOL  Did I’s get ya’? We didn’t receive our item till da day befur Christmas, so mommy decided to just save it and put it under da tree fur us. We ended up gettin’ so many pawsum gifts dat mommy waited yet another day befur givin’ it to us. Knowing how much we luv our track and ball toys, mommy got us da Pet Stages Tower of Tracks to review.

 

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Disclaimer: We received compensation in exchange for our honest review of the PetStages Tower of Tracks 10” cat toy. As always neither Chewy nor PetStages are responsible for the content of this post unless otherwise stated. We only bring you products we use or have tried and believe would be of interest to you our readers and friends. And we always tell it like it is.

 

PetStages Tower of Tracks

So, let me tell ya’ a little ‘bout da Tower of Tracks. Maybe da most obvious is dat it’s bright orange and made of shiny plastic. Da Tower of Tracks is 10” wide and 5” tall and has 3 levels with a ball on each level. Each ball is lightweight, made of a thin plastic and sammiched ‘tween another row/level. Each level gets smaller in diameter as you go up. There’s a plastic “bar” on da top dat closes off da hole. It doesn’t move or have any function fur da toy itself, other than to keep kittys head from gettin’ stuck. And trust me, I’s tried fittin’ mines head in there, and it just doesn’t fit. So I’s guess da bar’s doin’ it’s job. Chewy lists da Key Benefits as these:  

Key Benefits

  • Durable toy consisting of three levels of exciting play, each level includes its own circular track and ball

  • Non-skid pads keep track from sliding around as cats bat and play

  • Spinning and rotating action of the balls entices cats to play

  • Great fun for a single cat or multiple cats

  • Measures 10″ diameter x 5″ high

Dezi and Raena check out the Tower of Tracks

 

I’s gotta tell ya’, I’s luvs me a good track toy. I’s like to get all 3 balls zoomin’ ‘round and ‘round. I’s haven’t yet figgered out how to get those balls off their tracks, but give me some time, I’s’ll find a way. MOL  All things considered, I’s give da PetStages Tower of Tracks 4 paws up. Dezi, do you wanna tell everypawdy what you think?

 Dezi checks out the Tower of Tracks

          Sure Raena, fanks. Me luvs track toys too, and this one is purretty cool. There’s no place fur catnip, but it’s small enuff fur me to lay down and reach all da sides to whirl da balls ‘round. Me thinks it makes a great toy fur a kitten or small kitty, but ifin me pushes da balls too hard, it falls over. Raena, still bein’ a kitten, really likes it; and it can keep her occupied fur a whole 10 minutes. Fur dat reason alone me gives it 2 paws up. Da PetStages Tower of Tracks is on sale right now fur $9.79. Mommy, what do you think bout da Tower of Tracks?

 Dezi and Raena play with the Tower of Tracks

     Thank you girls. Well, as Raena said, the Tower of Tracks is made of a thin plastic. And as Dezi said, it’s pretty small. Having recently fallen and broken one of the girls track toys, I can say that this track toy would have shattered and made a huge mess. But, it does keep Raena occupied for short spurts. Anything that can do that, deserves a thumb up. lol  Even at less than $10.00, I think it’s still a little overpriced. But if you have kittens, you’ll pay almost anything for a few minutes of peace. lol So again, 1 thumb up from me. 

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Fank you sissy and mommy. Guess we’re a little mixed here. But hey, you can’t expect everypawdy to luvs everything. Well, we do all luvs Chewy.com. They have lots of pawsum purroducts fur all da anipals in your life. They offur speedy free shippin’ on all orders over $49.00 and speedy flat rate shippin’ fur all others. They also have an auto ship purrogram so you don’t have to worry ‘bout runnin’ out of your favorite noms, treats or other items, and ya’ save an extra little bit of cash. But don’t worry, you can skip, cancel or delay at anytime. And Chewy has da bestest customer service peeps, so you can shop with confidence. You can check out other chewy reviews by clickin’ here. And befur I’s go play with da Tower of Tracks again, we’s gonna join with Rascal and Rocco fur da weekly Pet Parade. See ya’ll next year.

 Raena plays with the Tower of Tracks

 

Raena plays with the Tower of Tracks

Till da next time………………………………………….Be Blest!!!

Raena: Navy Blue 

Dezi: Vibrant Blue 

Mommy A: Black 

 

 

Luvs and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

RaenaBelle and Deztinee

Dezi and Raena check out the new yeowww cigars

Raena’s First Christmas: Blessings Abound

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Raena, calm down. We need to take a few minutes and write our posty. We’re almost a whole 2 days late. We are so blest and yesfurday was a huge reminder of just how much.

 Dezi and Raena with the yeowww cigars

          Oh sissy, I’s luvs Christmas. When will we have it again?

 Raena plays in the gift bag paper

Me too Raena. But me does think you were just a little overly excited. Christmas only comes ‘round once a year and me thinks you need a year to calm down Raena. But you know what? Our furiends are here everyday.

          And all those extra cuddles we got from mommy? Can we have those everyday too?

 Dezi plays with Christmas gifts

Yep Raena, all ya’ gotta do is be available. You know mommy looks fur any chance to scoop us up and hold us tight.

          Mines favorite pawrt of yesfurday was hearin’ mommy laff and seein’ her smile.

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Me too Raena, me too. She cried a lot of happy tears, but she also giggled at us. She said seein’ us so happy and havin’ so much fun, makes her happy. We wanna say a meowsy big Fank you to all da Angels dat sent us purresents.

 Dezi checks out the new electric blanket

Mommy was so overwhelmed with joy she furgot to send emails and ask ifin we could use names fur our fank yous (a few peeps had notified us early they didn’t want their names listed with their gifts). So, we’ve decided to show you everythin’ we got without listin’ ‘zactly who it’s from, and then usin’ furst names fur our fank yous. We did get a gift card via email yesfurday dat specified no name be mentioned. You know who you are, and we fank you very much. But dat reminded mommy ’bout da name listin’, so we hope you enjoy seein’ our goodies. We know we fur sure purreciate everything. Mommy even likes da cutesy gift wrap bags from amazon; almost as much as we liked da boxes. MOL

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          Is dat a haul or what? We, and dat includes mommy, cuz she got purresents too, wanna say Fanky Fank you to awnties Anonymous, our Cat Scout Angels, awnty Belinda, awnty Vonda, uncle Pete, Timmy Tomcat and furmily, uncle Bill, awnty Jean, Shoko and Kali, awnty Pat, Felix and Maggie, awnty Lisa, Cat and Nugget, uncle Jim, awnty Holly, Tiger, Dora, Trouble and Spooky.

What a day we had. And mommy warmed up dat smoked turkey we got, made some cheater mac and cheese, cheater taters with bacon (from da last grocery box mommy got), dinner rolls and made a cake. We didn’t get any cake, but da turkey tom lurkey and bacon taters were delishus. And did ya’ll see dat aero garden mommy got? She’s gonna be eatin’ salads in no time. You shoulda seen da tears of joy when she opened dat. Fur those of ya’ dat’s been followin’ us from way back when, you’ll know dat mommys’ days of outside gardenin’ is over. But, she never got any of da lettuce she planted back then cuz da rabbits always helped themselves to it furst. Mommy’s gonna be sharin’ those gift cards with us, and who knows, she might even plant us a little somethin’ somethin’ in dat new garden.

Hey, Raena!!! Dat’s mes Yeowww cigar, go play with your own.

 Raena plays with a new yeowww cigar

          Oh sissy, they’re both da same.

No, yours is already full of teeth marks.

          (Raena snickers)

Dat’s okay, we got purrlenty of pawsum toys. Me will play with somethin’ else. Anyways, as you’ve all noticed, we did take yesfurday off to spend time together as a family. We rarely miss and don’t like to miss Blest Sundays, but mommy was in so much awe she couldn’t help us write anythin’. We got behind last week cuz mommy had so many fotos to edit, and she took over a hunnerd new ones yesfurday. So we’ll be takin’ a day or so to try and get all those fotos loaded up on da catputer. Mommy tried to figger out how to use da wifi on da camera to just upload automatically, but alas, she doesn’t understand da directions we guess, cuz they ain’t loadin’. MOL Dat’s okay, at least she knows how to put da card in da catputer and transfur them dat way. We’ll be ‘round to visit as soon as we can, but we purrobably won’t post again till Furiday. But trust me, it’ll be worth da wait. Mommy got some “great” fotos durin’ all da excitement, some dat even she didn’t realize at da time. 

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          Hey sissy, don’t furget, we need to tell everypawdy our Christmas article is up over at da Daily Mews. There’s a lot of great articles besides ours fur cat luvvers to read and even a few contests. Don’t furget to subscribe while you’re there so you’ll receive updates of new editions. And don’t worry, your email won’t be sold or inundated with a bunch of spam.

Fanks Raena, you just did. Again, fank you to all who made our Christmas cheery and blest. Fank you all fur da cards and well wishes. And fank you all fur bein’ our furiends. We’re purrayin’ fur all of you to have a healthy, purrospurrous New Year filled with luv.

Till da next time……………………………………Be Blest!!!

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Deztinee, RaenaBelle and mommy Audra  

Dezi lays on arm of chair

Dezi’s T’was The Night Before Christmas

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Mommy, Mommy!!! It’s almost Christmas!!! Tell us da night befur story. Purrlease???

 Dezi lays on arm of chair

     The night before Christmas story? Well, okay sweety. Girls come sit down. (Dezi jumps to the arm of the chair and cuddles next to mommy. Raena jumps into mommys lap and lays down).

 Raena lap selfie

     T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Hmmpht They don’t have Raena in their house. Dat’s not da right story, mommy.

     It’s not? Well darlin’, why don’t you tell us the night before Christmas story?

 Dezi and Raena look into a box full of goodies

(Dezi clears her throat and tells the tail tale.)

T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house

Raena was stirring and running about

Our stockings were hung on the hutch way up high

So we couldn’t reach them in the middle of the night.

 

Dezi checks out the new electric blanket

Our new ‘lectric blanky was calling our names,

Come snuggle, Dezi, Raena, mommy needs you both the same.

We jumped on the bed, for our friends we then prayed,

Including strays and ferals, homes for them, we bade.

 

 

When all of a sudden Raena jumped with kittenish joy,

Zoomies through the house, Was she looking for a toy?

Up the tree, down the tree, she chortled some more

Back to bed, mommy hollered, which she promptly ignored.

 

Raena carries a Christmas toy from Cat and Lisa

Me couldn’t take it, me had to go see

Just what had she found that was causing such glee?

Down the steps and through the house me zoomed

Me ran in and out of every room.

 

 

Where is Raena? Where did she go?

Me chortled and chirped, but she mewed not a word.

Mommy called to me in that sweet loving sleepy voice,

Dezi, come back to bed, and stop making so much noise.

 

 

What? It wasn’t me that was clamoring about,

That was Raena…Before, not now.

Now she’s snuggled by mommy asleep,

Back to bed me goes, our nightly secrets to keep.

 

 

Morning will come soon enough my love,

Mommy said quietly, as she pulled me close for a hug.

Goodnight dear friends, sweet dreams to you all;

Back under the blanky me now must crawl.

 

 

So? What’d ya’ think mommy?

 

 

     Well sweety, I think it’s purrfect. I think you’re purrfect. And Raena, I think you’re purrfect too. Why don’t you girls wrap this up. We have lots to do before tomorrow.

 Raena sits in a box of Christmas gifts

          I’s wanna wish everypawdy a Merry Christmas.

 

Raena, we all wish our furiends a Merry and Blest Christmas. And we thank all our Angels who have sent us gifts. We’ll be openin’ them tomorrow, but we’ve fur sure been checkin’ out all da boxes. And we thank all of you fur da pawsum Christmas cards. We’ve really enjoyed getting and lookin’ at ‘em all. Gotta go, mommy has fotos to edit, and visits galore. 

 Dezi and Raena's Purple Christmas card

Till da next time……………………………….Be Blest!!!

 

 

Dezi: Vibrant Blue 

Raena: Navy Blue 

Mommy A: Black

 

 

 

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Deztinee, RaenaBelle and Mommy Audra

Dezi sitting in box

Liebster Award: Getting To Know Us Better

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(Dezi lifts her head out of one of the boxes she’s been investigating.) Mommy, are all these boxes fur us?

 Dezi sitting in box

     Yes baby, all these boxes are for us.

 Raena plays with the packing paper in a chewy box

          (Raena looks up from under the packing paper in one of the boxes she’s been playing in) I’s luvs this, Christmas mommy. Sissy, did you smell dat box over there? (Raena looks to a box sitting on mommys chair)

Me did Raena. We are truly blest kitties. We are so grateful to all our Christmas Angels. Some of those boxes are fur mommy too. She was cryin’ and followin’ us ‘round with da flashy box like crazy yesfurday. We haven’t even opened a gift yet and mommy already has 200 fotos she needs to upload to da catputer. Cuz she was cryin’ so much we’re guessin’ not all those fotos will be publishable, but we gotta get ‘em on da catputer to know. So we’ll be MIA most of today and maybe tomorrow, so mommy can do just dat.

 Liebster Award Badge

          In da meantime, we were nominated by Schickes and Schoenes blog fur da Liebster Award. Dat’s German fur those of ya’ who don’t know. Fanky fank ya’ fur da nomination. We’re honored. As with everything in life, there’s rules to follow.

1. Thank the purrson what nominated you.

2. Answer 11 questions.

3. Compose 11 questions.

4. Nominate and notify new blogs.

5. Post the Award Badge and Rules.

So, let’s get to the questions. We’ll be takin’ turns answerin’ da questions cuz sissy says I’s still a kitten and don’t know everything.

1. Do you have interests that keep you busy, but that you don’t blog about?

Dezi: Nope, we tell ya’ll everything. MOL  Okay, maybe not Everything, but most everything.

2. Be Honest: Do you read long posts from beginning to end? Or do you quickly skim through the post, scroll to the end and hit the Like button?

Raena: We read ‘em all. Well, mommy reads ‘em all to us from beginnin’ to end. We tend to be a little wordy, so ifin we expect you all to read our postys we oughtta be ready to read yours.

3. Do you prefer to read the book or watch the movie?

Mommy A: I much prefer the movie. My eyes are too old to read the small print of books. And because we do read all the posts, we don’t have time for reading books. LOL

4. When making decisions, do you go by gut feeling or reason?

Dezi: We all meowed and chatted about this one, and our answers are the same. Depends on what the situation is. So we do both.

5. Do you still send hand-written letters or cards, or do you send emails and whatsapp?

Mommy A: I have to admit, I was never a letter writer or card sender. I prefer a phone call. And now, we don’t have the money to buy cards or stamps, so we send emails and ecards. I don’t know what whatsapp is, so we don’t use it. And I still prefer a phone call. If I have your number, you might just get one. LOL

6. If you could go on a time travel for the day, to where and when would you go?

Raena: I’s wouldn’t change anything. Mines life has never been better.  Dezi: Well, me would like to…nah, me wouldn’t change anything either.  Mommy A: I would love more time with Lexi, Shad, Lucky and those that came before, but knowing they would be leaving me soon, wouldn’t make it worth it. So I wouldn’t change anything either.

7. Do you know any poems by heart?

Dezi: Only da ones mommy makes up fur us. And some from da Bible.

8. Which conspiracy theory do you like best or think is weirdest?

Raena: We purrfur the facts. We don’t really follow or know any conspiracy theories.

9. Imagine there’s suddenly no power for 3 months. Would you be prepared?

Raena: WTC!!! (what the cat?!!!) Noooooooooooo!!!!

Dezi: No Way!!! Me’s a modern day kitty. What would we do? Mes fountain needs power, our catputer needs power. Just to have hot water and da ‘lectric blanky, we need power. Dat’s just not right. Nope, no way, we gotta have power. Mommy’s so beside herself she can’t even answer this. MOL

10. Prosecco or beer?

Mommy A: We don’t drink alcoholic beverages, and I don’t know what prosecco is. Based on the choices tho’, I would guess neither. I like coca cola, coffee, hot cocoa and tea. And the girls would go for catnip tea.

11. Are you a night owl or are you up with the lark?

Raena: Both. Mommy has trouble sleepin’ and I’s like to get up early and eat, so we stay up till mommy crashes and then get up when mines tummy growls. MOL

Yep Raena, and sometimes your tummy growls too early. Me’s not sure it’s always your tummy. Anyways, there’s our answers, hope ya’ll enjoyed readin’ ‘em. Now we know a lot of you have already received this award some time in the past. But, cuz it’s an answer the question type of award, and getting’ to know our furiends is so much fun, we’re gonna nominate anyways. Ifin ya’ don’t purrticipate in awards, dat’s okay, just know we’re thinkin’ ‘bout ya’. And ifin we don’t list you, but you’d like to take the challenge to answer da questions, purrlease take the award and let us know.

          We know we were s’posed to come up with our own questions, but these were really good, so we’re only gonna change one of them. So ifin you accept our nomination, fur question 10, substitute this: 10. What’s your favorite Music and Movie Genre? So here they are all together ifin you wanna do a copy and paste: 

1. Do you have interests that keep you busy, but that you don’t blog about?

2. Be Honest: Do you read long posts from beginning to end? Or do you quickly skim through the post, scroll to the end and hit the Like button?

3. Do you prefer to read the book or watch the movie?

4. When making decisions, do you go by gut feeling or reason?

5. Do you still send hand-written letters or cards, or do you send emails and whatsapp?

6. If you could go on a time travel for the day, to where and when would you go?

 7. Do you know any poems by heart?

8. Which conspiracy theory do you like best or think is weirdest?

9. Imagine there’s suddenly no power for 3 months. Would you be prepared?

10. What’s your favorite Music and Movie Genre?

11. Are you a night owl or are you up with the lark?

Dat’s a good one Raena. Great job. Now, here’s our nominees:

The Canadian Cats Shoko and Kali are our meezer sisfurs, and we couldn’t ‘magine our lives without ‘em.

Have ya’ll met Da Phenny over at Easys yet? Well he’s our next nominee.

Awnty Jeanne Foguth is an amazin’ author and our next nominee.

One of Blogvilles’ favorite adoption ambassadors and our amazin’ furiend is Brian, and we just have to nominate him. They have some new additions this Christmas.

And the ever adorable Little Binky who always has a kind word fur everypawdy.

Next up is Phoebe and awnty Ellen of 15 and meowing. Awnty Ellen be RaenaBelles unofficial God Mother. It’s unofficial, cuz mommy furgot to ask. But she knew ‘bout Raena befur anypawdy else.

And da last blog we’ll list (cuz mommy says our posty’s too long) is  our handsum furiend Bear Cat and his momma.  

 Dezi atop the Liberty Cat Tree looking down

This list is in no way complete. We think all of you are amazin’ and deserve to be awarded. So we do hope you’ll take the challenge. Anyways, we’ll be by to visit as soon as we can. We gotta go check out all da pawsum boxes we got.

Till da next time……………………………….Be Blest!!!

Dezi: Vibrant Blue

Raena: Navy Blue

Mommy A: Black

 

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Deztinee and RaenaBelle