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Dezi’s First Time, pt 3

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Oh me cats and kittens what a week and weekend. Me told you yesfurday ‘bout our busy week but me left one very purrtant fing out. Sum of you blogger bloggers may have noticed we commented sum last week wiff our google account. And then most of ya’ noticed we didn’t comment at all da west of da week. Well let me tell ya’, it wasn’t fur a lack of twyin’ dat’s fur sure. we had severwal Worpress teckys workin’ on our purrawlem, cuz we kept getting’ messages dat our Open ID kuld not be verified. What’s up wiff dat? We twied everyfin’ we knew, which took all of 10 minutes, and then we contacted da help peeps via chat. We spent a day chattin’ and then one emailin’ and then we cleared our cache and kuldn’t find anyfin’. And then back to chattin’ and so on. So dat day we spent twyin’ to member passwords and web addwesses. And still we kuldn’t comment.

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Well we finally got it all fixed up, at least we fink so. MOL Nuffin’ got fixed and nuffin’ changed, we were just finally able to comment. At least we hope dat holds twue when we twy to visit today. After all dat, furst fing this meownin’ sis Lexi chucked up bwekky all over da place. She had a massive hairball, so she feels much better now dat it be out, but mommy was not amused. Even tho’ sissy pawlogized fur da slime tween mommys toes. Sowry to take up twainin’ posty time wiff all this, but we wanted you all to know why we hadn’t been commentin’. So now on wiff meez stowry. It’ll be showrt today but hopefully weez’ll get back on twack Wednesday.

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So we left off Furiday wiff me learniin’ how to turn da movin’ chair on and off. As me sed afur, this took lots of purractice but me finally got da hang of it. Da chair dusn’t move lessen da gween lights awe on. So now we were on to da next big lesson. Dat knobby fing wasn’t there just fur looks, it was meant fur usin’. So after bwekky one meownin’ mommy picked me up and we went and sat in da movin’ chair. Me immediately pushed da button till it beeped and then laid back down and settled in fur what me fawt was gunna be a ride. But mommy had udder plans. She picked me up and sat me on hers knee and gently pushed meez head toward da knobby fiing and sed, “Bite the joystick honey.”

 

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Hmmmm da knobby fingy has a name? It’s called a joystick. Joy and stick? Me luvs playin’ wiff meez fevver on a stick, so this shuld be gweat fun me fawt. Mommy wanted me to bite da knobby fingy called a joystick. So me bit down and twied to pull it up. Nuffin’ happened. Hmmmm This joystick dusn’t seem like much fun. So me let go and looked back at mommy. Sis Lexi was watchin’ us closely…fwum a safe distance me later learned why. Mommy gently pushed meez head back over to da joystick and once again told me to bite it. Only this time she kept hers hand on meez head and once me bit down, she gently pushed meez head slowly furward a bit and… OMC Da movin’ chair MOVED!!! We jerked a bit and moved furward a kupple inches afur me let go of da joystick and jumped down. Me didn’t run off or anyfin’, me just got a little scared and jumped to da floor. Mommy wasn’t mad or anyfin’, and she told me how purroud of me she was and how much she luvved me and motioned fur me to get back up in hers lap. Well now me luvs da lap time wiff mommy, so me kuldn’t jump back up quick enuff. We had a little luv fest till me was dwoolin’. You know how it is to get so happy yous just slobber? Well dat’s zactly what me did. And since me was slobberwin all over da place, mommy ‘cided da lesson was over fur da day. Sumfin’ ‘bout not bein’ able to contwol da joystick cuz it wuld be too wet wiff all dat slobber. So weez’ll pick up here da next time.

 

Till da next time…………………….Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Dezi and Lexi

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Dezi’s First Time pt. 2

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Me sure wants to fank everypawdy dat fawt me was a bwave kitty. Mommy sez we learn way more fwum da udder kitties wound us than peeps wealize. Back then me fawt da cawpet monster (vacuum) was a fun toy till me saw sis Lexi run fwum it da furst time. Suddenly me wunnewed whevver or not me was posed to run too. Eventually me did, and now when da cawppet monster makes an appearance me heads fur cover just like sissy. So me watchin’ her dwive da chair was actually teachin’ me too.

Yes, we eventually left da pawdee box room dat meownin’ and me didn’t play wiff da beepy buttons anymore dat day. Me duz still play wiff ‘em every once in a while tho’. MOL anyways, since me was playin’ wiff da buttons mommy ‘cided it was time to stawrt twainiin’ me to dwive da chair. Me was finally big enough to reach da knobby fing (joystick) and old enuff to pay ‘tention fur more than a few seconds.

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So it all stawrted one day after bwekky. Sis Lexi and me was kinda layin’ wound and just takiin’ it easy. Mommy went and sat in da movin’ chair and called fur me to come and join her. Me was enjoyin’ a little baff time, but mommy was callin’ me and she had been so good to me and saved me, so me moseyed over to her and da chair and rubbed hers leg and stawrted purrin’. You know dat purrin’ fing weally makes our hoomans melt. Mommy actually sez it’s hers favowit sound in da world.

Anyways, mommy reached down and picked me up and sat me in hers lap. Me kept wight on purrin’ and stawrted massagn’ hers legs and tummy and nuzzlin’ wiff meez nose. This is sumfin’ me had dun since da furst time me met mommy. She was so soft and sweet smellin’. But unlike da udder times, mommy repawsitioned me to sit on one of hers legs. Da one closest to dat knobby fing on da awm of da movin’ chair. So me crawled up on da awm and stawrted makin’ da chair beep. Pawently dat wasn’t what mommy had in mind cuz she picked me up and put me back on hers leg and held meez paw.

 

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We don’t have any fotos of dat time cuz we didn’t have anyfin’ but a 35mm camera and mommy kuldn’t always afford film. And we didn’t have a puter to put them in eever.

Mommy gently pulled on meez paw towards da Knobby fingy and then she put meez paw on one of da beep buttons and gently pushed it til it beeped one time. And then she took meez paw away. 1 beep mommy? Weally? it beeps lots more than dat me fawt. But mommy seemed to be happy wiff just da one beep. What seemed like furever of mommy holldin’ me back, she finally put meez paw back on da beep button and pushed and sed, “turn it off”, and da chair beeped again, only once.. We did this quite a few more times till mommy fawt me was getting’ westless and meez focus was gone. And mommy let me jump down and head off fur a minute wiff sis Lexi and a baff. Mommy got outta da movin’ chair and sat down in da sittin’ chair and sed, “there’ll be lots more days to practice.” Stay tuned fur more of d stowry.

 

As we do every weekend, weez joinin’ up wiff Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Pawade blog hop.

 

 

Till da next time…………………….Be Blest!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Dezi and Lexi

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Dezi’s First Time…

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Behind the Joystick

 

Well me learned not to be fwaid of da wheelchair last time me wrote. It didn’t happen overnight but mommy sez me was a quick learner. Wight mommy?

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You’re right Dezi.. You were a very quick study. You enjoy pleasing me so much, that you catch on to things in no time at all.

 

Me fawt today me wuld tell ‘bout meez furst ever twainin’ lesson. Weez never ever told ‘bout da furst time me had a lesson have we mommy?

 

No sweety we haven’t.

 

Well meez gunna tell it today. Me was still small. Anypawdy who knows Ragdolls knows we mature slower than udder kitties, but me had also been da runt of a litter of 11 and deaffly ill when me furst came to mommy. So me was gwoin’ slowly in da beginin’. Anyways me had gotten rid of those ole worms and gotten healffy and me was a curious little fing. Not unlike most yunguns, me was in, on and up to everyfin’. Me of course had been watchin’ sissy all these days, weeks and mumffs and us kitties like any udder species learns by watchin’.

 

You need to clarify that you don’t just learn from watchin’ sweety but also physical training.

 

Okay mommy, you just did. But meez gunna talk ‘bout da watchin’ kinda learnin’ today okay?. So me had been keepin’ a close eye on sis Lexi. Me fawt she was da gweatest fing since tweats. Me hadn’t discovered catnip yet. OMC Me wanted to be just like sissy, so me wuld twy to follow her wound and me wuld bug her and twy to get her to show me how to do what she was duin’. She wasn’t always patient wiff me in da beginin’. She had alweady been fwu da helpinn’ twain a kitty dat had gone to heaven, and me finks she was fwaid me wasn’t gunna stay wound eever, so she just didn’t wanna be bovverd. But mommy kept weassurin’ her dat me was healffy and was gunna stay wound, so she gave in and got more gentle and let me hang out and watch. Sumtimes she wuld motion fur me to twy fings too. You know a tail flip or a look. We kitties don’t always meow at each udder. We have all kinds of ways to communicate.

 

Furgive da beamer eyes, this is one of those 35mm fotos mommy scanned to da puter.
Furgive da beamer eyes, this is one of those 35mm fotos mommy scanned to da puter.

So me wuld watch her every meownin’ when she put hers mouff on da knobby of dat movin’ chair and make it move mommy and me and her to da pawdee box room. Me likes to go, even ifin it’s only fwum one room to anudder. So one meownin’ when we got to da pawdee box room and mommy got outta da chair fur udder fings, me hopped back up in it and sat down. Me was too small to reach da knobby fing wiffout mommy in da chair tho’, so me cautiously climbed up on da awm where da knobby fing was and balanced meez selff and laid down. Me extended meez paw and stawrted touchin’ da awea wound da knobby fing and fings stawrted beepin’. Seems there’s also buttons where dat knobby fing is too, and they beep when you push ‘em. Me intially jumped when da beeps stawrted, but bein’ yung and curious me jumped wight back up there and settled in fur more “play”.

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Sissy laid on da counter and watched me and mommy was gwinnin’ so big me kuld see hers teefies. They seemed to be weally happy wiff me. So me kept makin’ dat chair beep. Guess dat’s not zactly what me was posed to learn, cuz eventually mommy sed, “That’s enough baby. No more beeps okay.” And sis Lexi jumped down into da chair and moved me off da awm of da movin’ chair. Hmmmmmm, da beepin’ makes mommy happy, but not too much beepin’. Meez gunna have to fink this one over a while.

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Meez gunna stop fur da day,, but tune in next time fur more of da stowry. Mommy has a doctors pointment today, so weez’ll visit as much as we can, and get caught up tomowwo. Hope you all have a gweat day.

 

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

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Dezi and Lexi

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And Away We Go

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Hope everypawdy enjoyed our happy posty. It was a long day and mommy didn’t get da chance to help me visit anypawdy so looks like weez’ll be duin’ sum ketchin’ up today. Da wevver did cool off sum fur us this weekend, but again wiff da busy hooman stuffs we didn’t get to go fur a stwoll. Mommy did purromise we wuld this week sumtime tho’, so all’s good. Well sis Lexi told sum of hers twainin’ stowries last so me fawt me wuld fwo in one of meez stowries.

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Fwum da look of da foto above you wuld fink me had no fear of dat massive wheelchair wuldn’t ya’? Well da twuff is me hadn’t seen it move when dat foto was taken. So da furst time it moved…OMC yous shulda seen me run. Me was down da hall so fast me was like white lightnin’. Back in those days nuffin’ scared me fur long tho’ so just a few seconds later me was peekin’ wound da corner and down da hall to see just what was goin’ on. Da chair had stopped movin’ by then and me headed wight back up da hall and over to da chair where mommy sat watin’. She picked me up and held me close and dat chair stawted movin’ again. Me alweady has big eyes, but mommy sez dat minute they was big as saucers.

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Me was still too little to learn to dwive then, but mommy sez pawrt of twainin’ is getting’ used to sumfin’ dat yous wuldn’t normally have anyfin’ to do wiff. Most peeps wiff wheelchairs who have pets of any kind twy to teach da animal to avoid da chair. It’s not weally hawd to teach dat since us animals seem to have a sixff sense ‘bout these fings and weez twy to avoid them. And dat’s a good fing cuz they awe heavy and kuld easily bweak a tail or paw ifin da furry was too get runned over. So pawrt of meez twainin’ was not to run away but to get used to da movin’ chair while makin’ sure me didn’t get hurt. No tails danglin’ down to get caught in da wheels and such. Anyways mommy took me on a ride wound da pawrtment and then outside to check da mail. Me settled down purretty quick and stawrted purrin’. Mommy sez dat’s when she knew me was gunna luv learnin’ to dwive da chair.

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When we got back in da house me didn’t wanna get down. Mommy pawrked da chair and told me dat me kuld go and play, but me didn’t move. Me wanted to go fur anudder ride. Mommy finally gave up and she got up and put me back down on da seat and left me there to nap. We continued to take rides wound da house and outside when da wevver was clear. Since me was born in November and came to live wiff mommy then, it was winter time and we had snow and ice quite a bit dat year. So on da purretty days when it was dwy outside mommy wuld bundle up and we wuld go fur short rides. Me got more and more comfurtable wiff da chair each time we went fur a dwive. By da time me was finally big enuff to stawrt learnin’ how to dwive, me luvved da chair. Stay tuned fur meez next posty and find out how twainin’ went.

And we have a winner to announce in our PetSafe FroliCat Pounce give away. Can we have a dwumroll purrlease…And da winner is…………awnty Ellen Pilch and da 15 and Meowin’ gang. Concatulations to you all.

 

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

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Dezi and Lexi

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