Fursday Is Furiday When You Pull An All-Nighter

Oh Furiday what took you so long? We was so confused we kept callin’ Fursday, Furiday. MOL  Now you may be wunnerin’ why we was so confused, right? Well let me ‘splain. As you know mommy uses a wheelchair in da meowning’s cuz she can’t get ‘round on da legs God gave her till she gets her medicine and her muscles and all wake up. Anyways, those wheelchairs run on rechargeable batteries. Seems everything runs on batteries these days. And you know, nuffin’ these days is made to last includin’ da batteries in those wheelchairs. Over da last couple of weeks da chair has been getting’ slower and slower. See once we learn how to drive da wheelchair mommy let’s us turn up da speed a bit. But here lately even on full out wheely mode da chair wuld barely creep along and when it hit a little bump it would come to a joltin’ stop and start beepin’ at us. So mommy knew it was time fur new batteries but she didn’t know who to call. See da company we got da chair from is no longer in business. And Medicare likes to work with da same company they bought an item from fur repairs. We don’t why, we just know there’s a lot of red tape to switch companies.

 

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Me’s welkummin’ Furiday and da sunshine

Anyways, mommy had to ask around to find out who everypawdy was usin’ since they all got their wheelchairs from da same place. Mr. W has someone out here workin’ on his chair all da time, so he finally gave mommy a nummer to call to get new batteries fur her chair. When mommy called ‘em they set up a pointment with her fur yesfurday furst thing in da meownin’. She didn’t get to choose a time or she wulda chose sometime in da afternoon of course. Anyways, knowin’ dat she can’t get ‘round in da meownings she knew she wuld have to stay up all night Wednesday and continue takin’ medicine so she kuld function when da repairman got here Fursday. Me has to tell ya’, me doesn’t like all-nighters. We all miss out on prime snugglin’ time. Fankfully it doesn’t happen all da time. Sis Lexi gave up ‘round 4 a.m. and she went off to da bed to get some sleep. Me on da other hand wasn’t leavin’ mommy’s site, so me laid down in one of da cat beds we have dat be unner mommys desk. Me kuld ketch a little shut eye and still watch over mommy. Needless to say we both kept noddin’ off. Mommy sez she’s getting’ to old fur these kinda things.

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It’z about time da we got new batteriez fur da wheelchair

Well Fursday finally arrived and mommy fed sissy and me a little early so da repairman wuldn’t innerupt our brekky, and then she sat down to wait fur da call. We’s not in da GPS so she spected him to call fur directions since he was comin’ from da big city (Oklahoma City). Well she waited and waited and waited some more, but no call came. Finally a little after noon da repairman called and sed he wuld be at our house in about an hour. Mommy was exhausted and fit to be tied. All she kuld say was, dat we kulda went to bed and got all those snuggles we missed out on. Oh well kulda, wulda, shulda, right?

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Da repairman finally arrived ‘bout 1:30 p.m. and sed he had batteries in his truck. So he turned on mommys wheelchair and tried to navigate it outside. They never do anythin’ in your house. Mommy hates dat cuz she doesn’t trust them, but she has no choice lessen she wants to go outside and watch ‘em. Da batteries were so drained dat when he got to da front door, da chair wuldn’t even go over da little hump. He had to manually push da chair all da way out to his truck. It’s not dat far to da parkin’ lot from our partment, but it took 15 minutes fur him to get dat chair outside. It was kinda chilly yesfurday, but repair man was workin’ up a sweat. Anyways, he replaced da batteries and brought da chair back to da house and left and mommy sed, “WooHoo, girls it’s nap time.

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Me needs a nap.

We’s got a purropurrly workin’ wheelchair again and can finally go faster than da tortoise. So needless to say me had to play a little this meownin’ afur deliverin’ da chair to mommy. Me went speedy zip zoomy and ran smack dab into da bed. Neither mommy nor sis Lexi was amused. At least we’s finally caught up with da days and it’s still Furiday. MOL  So as far as we’s concerned, we’s had two Furidays this week. We’ll be round to visit as soon as we can, mommy’s still tryin’ to ketch up on da rest she missed and sissy and me are tryin’ to ketch up on da cuddles. As we do every week, we’s joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Parade blog hop. Check it out, ya’ might make a new furiend or two. Me’s gotta go get some more cuddles now, so me will see ya’ later.

 

When was da last time you stayed up all night?

After an all nighter are you alert or walkin’ in a haze?

Would you like to have 2 Furidays a week?

 

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

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Dezi and Lexi 

Learning To Drive

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MeeeeeOW weez been cwazy busy wound here da last few days so mommy just kuldn’t help me get a posty up yesfurday. Me told you Monday dat me has a give away comin’ up so mommy had lots of fotos to get in da puter and we luv this purroduct so much dat we didn’t want mommy to stop testin’ it. And mommy be on a mission to take a foto of sis Lexi everyday. Purroblem is dat sissy wants to do da same fing everyday so all da fotos look alike. But mommy sez dat’s okay cuz they all be of sissy sittin’ in hers lap. But enuff of ketchin’ ya’ up on what weez been duin’, cuz today be a Service cat twainin’ posty day.

Pull up a chair and let me tell ya' a stowry.
Pull up a chair and let me tell ya’ a stowry.

In our last stowry sis Lexi had told ya’ dat me had finally gotten mommy safely into da pawdee box room. Sissy also told ya’ dat once dusn’t mean me be fully twained. Sumtimes she can sure be a downer, but she’s wight. Me wuld need to wepeat dat lots more times hopefully wiffout cwashin’ into da bafftub. And me needed to learn to dwive mommy down da hall and to da kitchen so she kuld make us our bwekky and hers coffee. Mommy sez by da time we head to da kitchen she be able to dwive. She still can’t walk, but she has use of hers awrms and hands; but finks it be a good idea dat we be twained cuz she just dusn’t know what da future holds. So da day me got mommy and me to da pawdee box room sis Lexi took over and got us to da kitchen. Me was still busy celebwatin’ meez success, and usin’ da big girls pawdee box. MOL

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Foto fur da day 9/15/2015

So later dat day mommy got all set up fur a twainin’ session up da hall. Mommy had ‘cided dat tweat twainin’ purrobly wasn’t da way to go cuz we got too sidetwacked. Mommy isn’t fond of tweat twainin’ in general cuz havin’ a tweat on her all da time just isn’t pawsible and what we be learnin’ isn’t a twick to be purrfurmed like jumpin’ fwu a hoop. So anyways, mommy had put da tweats away and pawsitioned da chair at da edge of da pawdee box room headin’ out when she called to me. Of course me came runnin’ and jumped up in mommys lap. Me weally luvs meez mommy and wuld hang in hers lap all da time ifin me kuld. Mommy got me situated on hers wight leg and told me to turn on da movin’ chair. Me stawrted rubbin’ mommy and da awrm of da chair wiff meez head and purrin’ like a motor boat. Mommy caved and stawrted luvvin’ on me.

After a little luv fest me pawed at da power button and heard it beep several times. Mommy kuld see da wainbow of lights and told me to bite da joystick. Me bit down and da chair stawrted turnin’. Mommy had made sure da wheels was turned to make da chair veer to da wight and towards da hall. Me wasn’t sure we was posed to be turnin’ so me let go of da joystick and turned to look at mommy who weassured me dat everyfin’ was okay. Me we-pawsitioned and stepped all over da power awrm of da movin’ chair. Me finally settled in and mommy told me to push da joystick furward. Me gently pushed at da joystick and nuffin’ happened. Mommy twied to look wound meez head to see what was goin’ on, but me stood up and meez big paws purressed all da buttons on da power awrm. Me still had da joystick in meez mouff, and was pushin’ it furward. So yous guessed it, we bolted furward so fast me fawt meez head was spinnin’.

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When we jolted furward me pushed da joystick even hawrder. And stead of stwaightenin’ out, da wheels kept turnin’. Wasn’t meez head spinnin’ after all; it was da room. MOL Let me tell ya’ sumfin’ ‘bout these movin’ chairs; they can turn all da way wound on a dime. So there we was turnin’ wound and wound and wound.

Lexi: Yep Dezi, frum minez seat in da livin’ room I’z fawt yawl wuz gunna burn a hole in da floor.

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Oh sissy me too. Me finally got so dizzy me let go of da joystick and we came to a stop. Amazinly ‘nuff we was in almost da same pawsition as we stawrted out in. Even so, me was fwu dwivin’ fur da day. Me jumped outta mommys lap to a spinnin’ floor and “dwunkenly” wobbled off up da hall to da livin’ room to get me sum sis Lexi luvvin’. Me was stawrtin’ to fink sissy might be wight ‘bout it bein’ just luck dat me got mommy to da pawdee box room earlier. But me became more determined to purrove her wrong. Stay tuned fur da next epawsode of learnin’ to dwive.

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

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Dezi and Lexi

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Treat Training

Well it’s time fur anudder twainin’ stowry. And guess what? Me has a special surpwise fur ya’. Sis Lexi asked ifin she kuld tell it. Those of ya’ dat followed us on facebook know what a pawsum stowry teller sissy is so me told her she kuld tell a twainin’ stowry fwum hers purrspective. So take it away sissy.

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Faynkz Dezi. Now az you awl know Dezi iz kwite comical but I gotta tell ya’, at da time I wuz wunderin’ ifin she wuz ebber gunna lern to drive da chair or ifin dat wuz awlwayz gunna be minez job. She didn’t awlwayz seem like da crizpezt cracker in da package. So mommy had used luv and nip and now she ‘cided to use treatz. Awlrite, I’z luv treatz. Maybe thiz konztant traynin’ wuz gunna be a good fing after awl. Mommy gave us boff a kupple treatz and then put da bag in da little pouch on da arm of da chair. So here we iz boff sittin’ in mommyz lap lickin’ our lipz and tayztin’ da lazt bit of treet and mommyz reddy too trayn. Well Dezi had udder ideaz and…Well it went sumpin’ like diz…

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When mommy put da treat bag in da pouch Deziz eyez went wiv her. And az mommy adjuzted me on herz levt leg Dezi put herz head fru da side of da arm and stuck it into da pouch wiv da treat bag. So when mommy let go of me and turned herz tenshun too Dezi who wuz tryin’ too pull da treat bag up, I’z ‘cided too help her. Hmmmmm maybe diz kat aynt az dumb az she lookz, I’z fawt. Now ya’ gotta unnerstand at at time helpin’ meant dat I’z wuz tryin’ too push herz outta da way soz I kuld get a treat furzt. Aaaaw Come on, I’z da oldezt and I’z been here da longezt, AND I’ can drive da chair awlreddy. So I’z dezerve da furzt treat, rite? Rite!!! I’z habz grown up a lot sinz din and I’z lubz minez sissyfur Dezi bunchez now. But back din she wuz a real payn in minez pawz-teerier. Anywayz there we wuz each one of us mommyz legz tryin’ too get da treat bag and mommyz tryin’ too pull us away so Dezi can habz a traynin’ seshun. Dezi finally got a good hold on dat treat bag and wuz ay-bull too pull it up outta dat pouch. Well in da middle of awl diz skufflin’ we had pawed da power button sevral timez and had stood on da speed button cauzin’ it to go awl da way too top speed and down again over and over.

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Az Dezi pulled thoze treatz up and pushed me back, herz big ole furry paw steadies its selff on da joystick pad. And az she did….Vroooooooooooooooom full speed ahead weez went. Da jolt furwerd cauzed us too get frown back in da chair. Weez only came too a full stop when we ran into da same chezt Dezi had run intoo afur. Dezi turned herz head so we kuld see eyez big az sawzerz and wiff da treat bag still hangin’ frum herz mouff she let out a growl. Now let me tell ya’ ‘bout Dezi and herz growlin’. She has what mommy and me call a fayke growl. It’s a mediun pitched grrrrrrrr dat she uses when mommy has to klean herz bloomerz or da rabbitz and squirrelz come up too da door. This wasn’t dat growl. She was usin’ diz low and loud Grrrrrrr dat sed she meant biznezz. I looked up at mommy who now had eyez big az sawzerz too; and mommy reached over and grabbed da bag of treatz frum Dezi and sed, “Alright girls, neither of ya’ are getting treats. Treats are for good girls and y’all are actin’ pretty ugly right now.” I knew dat tone and knew it meant we really wuzn’t getting’ anymore treatz. So I jumped down and Dezi followed behind me. Mommy parked da chair and hooked up da charger and declared lesson over.

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Da next meownin’ when we all woke up Dezi and me gave mommy herz meownin’ get it in gear massage and rolled her to da chair. Az soon az mommys hiney-bo hit da seat, Dezi hopped over in herz lap and started meowin’. Mommy started to move Dezi over and told me to get in the chair cuz she really needed to go to da pawdee room asap. So I’z crouched to jump into mommyz lap in da chair, and Dezi bit down on da joystick and pushed. Da chair turned and took off like lightnin’. I’z took a small leap and landed back on da bed cuz da back of da chair was facin’ me and movin’ away fazt. Mommy started hollerin’, “Lexi, baby, are you okay?” I’z stood up awl startled and dizzy like when I’z heard a loud boom, and looked over towardz mommy, and she and Dezi wuz safely in da pawdee box room. They had hit da baff tub, but they wuz there and safe. I ran too them and Dezi wuz wigglin’ herz suthern belle little (huge) hiney bo and getting’ awl kinds of prayz and lubbin’. Dezi be awl ‘cited dat she had gotten mommy to da pawdee box room. Purrleaze, youz gotta do it more din once afur youz get to celebrayt like dat I’z told her. Youz know any kitty can habz a freak accident. When she can do it ebbertime wiffout runnin’ into ebberfing in da houze thenz when it’ll beez time fur celebraytin’. I’z hope youz awl enjoyed minez tellin’ of Deziz furzt success.

Fanks sissy. Meez turned out to be purretty smawrt don’t ya’ fink? Weez joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Pawade Blog Hop.

Today be a day we member cuz so many Americans lost their lives when da planes went cwashin’ into da towers. When terrorism reared it’s ugly head in our country and on our soil. America hadn’t known this kind of violence in a very long time. Our stweets and land had been safe fur many years. We haven’t had war on our soil since the Civil War. We send out fawts and purrayers to all those affected and salute all those who worked tirelessly to restore our great Country. We must always remember lest we be doomed to wepeat da past.

Dezi = Blue

Lexi = Green

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

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Dezi and Lexi

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Training Behind the Scenes

Well we went AWOL yesfurday didn’t we? Weez ‘cided to save our Tuesday postys fur weviews, but weez didn’t weally have anyfin’ to weview and our innewnets went out da night afur so we ‘cided to just twy and do sum visits stead of postin’ just to be postin’. Sides, mommys bwain purrobly needed a little rest. MOL But weez back today fur anudder Service cat twainin’ stowry. This one’s a behind da scenes look cuz we wuld like to addwess sum of da comments weez been gettin’. Sum of ya’ sed yous was worried or concerned dat our twainin’ might be a little dangerwous and you was surpwised dat weez didn’t get hurt. Stead of twyin’ to answer yous all individually we ‘cided to twy to splain here. Now since noopawdy be in twainin’ and weez not have fotos fwum back then me fawt you might like to see me enjoyin’ one of da new made wiff luv toys awnty Ellen fwum 15 and meowin’ sent us when flat Sammy P came to visit.

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Mommy bases hers twainin’ techniques loosely on what she observed Shad (mommys furst self twained Service Cat) duin’. Since Shad taught hers selff and da assumption is dat she wuldn’t purrpussly hurt hers selff then mommy had no doubt udder kitties kuld learn to purrfurm da tasks she needed to wemain livin’ independently. Mommy was also a dog twainer in hers yunger days. And she’s been disabled and twainin’ kitties to help her fur over 20 years so there’s not much she hasn’t seen or ‘sperienced. And she makes adjustments to all the equipment dat weez twain wiff and/or on.

 

Da stwing she uses to tie to da fone so we can learn to dial 911 and bwing it to her is secure and no kitties gunna get it off and swallow it. Even tho’ me be weally fascinated wiff da fone we don’t weally see it as a toy. And ifin weez not twainin’ da cordless handsets awen’t layin’ wound in da floor confusin’ us or temptin’ us to play wiff ‘em. Yes me was a feisty kitty girl and weally luvved to answer da fone, but me only ever twied to answer it when it actually rang. Ifin it wasn’t ringin’ me wasn’t touchin’ it.

 

Fank you awnty Ellen. Weez just luv yous made wiff luv toys.
Fank you awnty Ellen. Weez just luv yous made wiff luv toys.

As fur da wheelchair, da fotos yous see today awen’t what it looks like duwin’ twainin’. Because we live in a pawrtment and wuld have to pay fur any damage we cause and mommy dusn’t want us to be hurt eever, she makes sure da chair won’t be leavin’ mawrks on da wall or any holes in it. Mommy attaches big foam pieces to da metal foot rest and awrms so dat it’ll kinda bounce off whatever it hits. Mommy wasn’t a very good dwiver of da wheelchair in da beginnin’ eever and ran into a few doors and walls hers selff. Who is she twyin’ to kid? She still duz on occassion. MOL We did have one oopsie dat mommy hadn’t fawt ‘bout and purrally kuldn’t have purrpared fur, but fankfully nopawdy was hurt then eever.

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As fur me and sissy, mommy keeps a purretty good hold on me or sissy when we be dwivin’. Mommy sez no matter how long yous been dwivin’ da wheelchair accidents can and do happen. Da joystick be very sensitive and da wheels can get “stuck” on da cawrpet and turn unexpectedly. So she’s always got a gentle but furm hold of us. When we come to an abwupt stop or sumfin’ we might lunge a bit, but nopawdy’s getting’ fwown outta da chair. And purrawlly most purrtant is dat our twainin’ takes place “inside da house”. We have a very small pawrtment so there’s not a lot of room and we don’t have faw to go afur weez at our destination. Altho’ da close purroximity of fings is why we can so suddenly run into furniture and walls and such. Our pawrtment is just a little over 500 square feet and mommy be a furniture walker so dat means we have lots of stuff to run into. MOL

Now sumpawdy asked ‘bout us “seein’” where weez dwivin’ to. Member our mouff be on da joystick; which by da way is a very soft vinyl/leather/plastic and therefur weez lookin’ downward stead of stwaight ahead. We can see da floor and fings on da floor and da bottoms of fings dat be fairly close, but like you ifin yous head was down; we can’t see swaight ahead. As fur helpin’ mommy in da shower…well all we get is a bit wet. And not all kitties hate da water. Mommy sez any kitty can be twained to fink it’s purrfectly normal to get wet. So there yous have it. These be just sum of da purrpurrations mommy takes when twainin’ us. We hope weez answered sum of yous questions ad helped you to unnewstand better what goes into our twainin’.

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As we have sed afur, our stowries awe not meant to be a trainin’ manual as we can’t pawssibly list every minute of every day. And da twuff is dat mommy stawrts twainin’ us da minute we decide to make her our mommy. And altho’ we was kittens, mommy sez it’s never too late to twain yous kitty. Kitties do wanna purrlease their peeps so dat unwanted behavior yous kitty be duin’ can be altered ifin it weally be behaviorwal. But purrlease member to check wiff yous VET afur ‘cidin’ yous have a bad kitty. We don’t typically act out just cuz. We hope yous enjoyed a little look behind da scenes of our Service cat twainin’.

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Now ifin yous member we also write an awticle fur da online kitty mewsletter called da Daily Mews. This mumff sis Lexi is tellin’ ‘bout hers fone twainin’. We know yous wanna read dat, so click here to check it out. Awnty Ellen fwum 15 and meowin’ also writes a piece there as do many udders. There’s a little sumfin’ fur everyone so check it out. And ifin yous never wanna miss out on a publication, just sign up. We purromise yous email won’t be sold and yous won’t be bugged by constant nonsense emails. Da daily mews posts 1 to 2 updates a mumff fur which you wuld weceive notice. Well dat’s it fur today. Come back tomorrow fur da continuin’ saga of meez flat scout alter ego, Izzy and Tristy aka Christy Paws. Da Lionesses awe on da prowl and yous won’t wanna miss out on their virtual adventures.

 

Till da next time………………….Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

 

Dezi and Lexi

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