Lizzy the Ocicat

Chris's birthday this week , the card I gave him

2010-11-05T21:19:00.000+13:00

My Tuesday by Lizzy .

2010-04-27T19:01:00.000+12:00

Happy Christmas from Lizzy

2009-12-20T18:54:00.000+13:00

So help me Chris , one more photo and I'm going to shred this tinsell.....

Christmas , I can see it coming........

2009-12-11T14:31:00.000+13:00

my weekend

2009-09-07T18:44:00.001+12:00

Hello Lizzy here , the occasional blog poster.

Here is my shot of what I did to the bed as a fathers day present for chris,
he didn't get the artisty and called me a "hairy plonker",
I said "philistine" and ran for the hills

Here is me hiding in the garden, note well

practiced sad look - gets him every time -

hand over the cat food and all will be forgiven.

MMMmmmmmm so much better than from my bowl

2009-08-01T08:57:00.000+12:00

I eat sticks therefore I am...........

2009-05-24T10:42:00.001+12:00

Lizzy's Christmas message and Chris messin with my head

2008-12-14T11:37:00.004+13:00

Mice "one" cats "nil"

2008-04-27T18:07:00.002+12:00

I don't know what that mouse was
thinking , OK I run up the leaf and hide , yes good plan ...not
Shortly before the "drop the camera
and release the mouse" moment .

Lizzy talks about the relative merits of mice over ducks in a non-PC moment

2008-01-16T20:16:00.000+13:00

Mice are a snack but there are more mice than ducks
Mice have a better meat to roughage index than ducks
Mice can be good toy
Mice do not poo all around the house like ducks
Mice are soft and warm, ducks are related to crocodiles
Mice are easier to get through a cat door than a duck

but

Mice are small and can disappear under furniture but ducks can’t hide
Mice are a snack but ducks are a banquet
Ducks are more of a challenge
Some ducks have BIG brothers but a big mice are still a snack
Did I mention that mice are a snack

Getting ready for the New Years celebrations

2008-01-01T08:10:00.000+13:00

According to Chris this was me from
8.30am till 4pm.
Oh sure

Sunday morning

2007-12-30T09:34:00.000+13:00

My exceptionally cute pose (reserved for use
after despicable acts )
Who me ?

(Would I jump all over Chris at 5am on a Sunday ? I DON'T think so.

What I did on Boxing day

2007-12-26T20:34:00.000+13:00

This is sleeping spot number 2435b (garden, west side
for use during south westerly wind up to 40knots and mid-summer
for the time period 1.30pm to 4.30pm)

My Christmas (so far by Lizzy)

2007-12-25T14:28:00.000+13:00

12.30 am I ask (loudly) where is my food ?
4.15am , look dad I have a mouse , look I am about to commit an uncharitable act on Christmas day
6.30 am , hey get up I need that bed

you leave it .....I steal it ..... (above and below)

Different day, same .................

2007-12-24T07:53:00.000+13:00

6.15am I return, I eat my breakfast, I annoy people , I
take over the bed

8.10am

(what can I say ?)

6pm

2007-12-23T17:54:00.000+13:00

the beast awakes ..........
on the prowl

3pm

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12.30pm

2007-12-23T12:23:00.000+13:00

My Christmas holidays by Lizzy, part one

2007-12-23T10:20:00.000+13:00

hello, I see you have the camera out again Chris ,

just let me check those settings

Here I am (10am) taking a break from my extensive photo shoot,
I may need to remain this way for several hours

Warming up to christmas

2007-12-20T18:50:00.000+13:00

This is Tana , yes ok

a dog , and yes I do get locked

in the bedroom when she visits

(otherwise I would tear her limb from limb,

just kidding but I need to maintain that illusion)

My cute photo

What real cats do with the Christmas decorations

Lizzy the infrequent blogger here.

2007-09-13T20:18:00.000+12:00

Chris made me write this because he says compared to Bob I am a very poor blogger but I say what more important , sleeping or blogging ? No contest !

Anyway the other day I brought Chris a duck from next door so he could be entertained over breakfast. I’m not sure why I didn’t eat it but it just seemed so funny waddling around the house leaving little duck poo piles on the carpet.
Maybe I couldn’t eat it because I was laughing so much. Anyway Chris and Reena after some difficulty trapped the duck in a big cardboard box and took it next door to be reunited with its family.

That night I returned with a bunny, I haven’t found one for ages because me and Bob ate them all . However before I could dispatch it and later puke its innards all over the bathroom floor Chris grabbed it and took it outside and yelled “run bunny run” , yeah right like I won’t be able to find it later ….

Lizzy signing out from the rural smorgasbord I call home.

Me relaxing

2007-06-09T10:08:00.000+12:00

Here I am relaxing with Reena in front of the fire on Friday night ..I love weekends I can demand a lot more attention …………

Lizzy on Sunday

2007-06-03T12:40:00.000+12:00

Hi Lizzy here

Ok I realise this is a bit irreverent but I’ve discovered that Bobs cross makes a good chin scratching post, I can always say I’m visiting the grave .

Chris , Reena and I would like to thank Riley and Tiki (great site by the way ) , Riker, The Ashton Family, Trevor , Shelby and Crystal for the comforting notes they left on my blog (Note how I’m calling it MY blog , Chris always says I was a bit shallower than Bob !!! ) .

I’m going to do my best to keep up the tradition of blogging my weirder moments although I should warn you now that extending on from the Ocilympics I’ve developed “Power Sleeping” to an art form .

Lizzy

Bobs last adventure by Lizzy

2007-05-31T20:08:00.000+12:00

Hi Lizzy here , I guess Bobs loyal followers will have noticed a rather long gap in my sisters blog posting , this has been due to my needing to learn to type.

Unfortunately Bob ever the one to push the boundaries as an ace stunt cat used up the last of her nine lives five weeks ago more than a kilometre from home in a spectacular attempt to break the bottom of the big valley to home speed record . This trek involved crossing a large paddock with fifty four Alpacas , a paddock with geese and ducks, followed by a road and 200 meters of mushy swamp. I don’t think I need to say which part of this journey proved the most hazardous and ultimately fatal .
After Chris found her we put her in the pet cemetery under our Red Oak tree with the other rather more long lived furry family members , Kate the Dog (15), Doris (16), Ethel (18) , Randell (19) and a couple of fish that didn’t make it when we rebuilt the fish pond.

We were all pretty crushed at the time but we are feeling better now.

Me paying my respects to my sister Bob lying next to Kate the dog (under the rocks)

New friends arrive

2007-04-25T10:51:00.000+12:00

Look, Chris has got us some new friends to play with .

Bob hides out in the boot (of the car)

2007-04-10T15:09:00.000+12:00

Hi Bob here .

Last night I was helping Chris tidy the garage and after a while , well at least ten minutes, I was so tired that I just needed a bit of a sleep so I climbed into the boot of the car and just nodded off.

Next thing , I wake up feeling a bit peckish and it’s strangely dark and YIKES I’m trapped in boot prison.

I thought , Chris will rescue me (he always does), so I just settled in for the night !

Next thing I know I’m being bounced all over the place and I can hear the radio blaring with the morning news and I start thinking “where am I” and “is this a new way of going to see the vet ?” .

Well after about 15 minutes of asking nicely I decided to bring out the big artillery and let out a really load howl .

The car came to a halt, the back of the seat was let down and hurrah daylight, but not freedom .

I then have to endure more as we head home , I have a lot to say on the way I can tell you , not least of which is I could REALLY do with having a pee sooooooon (legs crossed) , I also get to put fur all over Chris's nice black work pants (whoops) .

Chris even took me inside and gave me some new food and water, what a guy .

That would be my biggest car ride ever , beat that Lizzy.

I know someone is going away

2007-03-31T09:32:00.000+12:00

Ok I know I can fit in Reena's bag , now its just a matter of when to sneak in and will she notice my petite (5.34kg) self ?

2007-03-11T20:45:00.000+13:00

Here we are after 8 straight hours transferring our dirt, grit and passengers to the finest of Egyptian cotton linen …..weeeeeeeeeee hharrrrrrrrrrrrrr

We turn three but I get the candles....

2007-02-01T19:30:00.000+13:00

Look what Chris made for me !

But can I get it without cooking my ears ?

Found napping in the spare room

2007-01-29T08:48:00.000+13:00

Look , we were trying to be discrete, so is sleeping 18 hours a day a crime ...........

Bob and Lizzy relax

2007-01-28T09:13:00.000+13:00

Chris says we have been overdoing the sleep lately

(pictures taken over different days ) but hey its the summer holidays
and a cat needs rest for those nocturnal rodent expeditions .

2006-12-25T21:44:00.000+13:00

Just stretching out for a bit of a snooze. All these fabulous Christmas pictures taken by Nicky, aged 14 move over Chris theres a new photographer on the block.

2006-12-25T21:38:00.000+13:00

Of course Lizzie was feeling sleepy too �.

2006-12-25T21:35:00.000+13:00

And then after Chris stopped mauling me I just needed a bit of a rest on the deck

2006-12-25T21:32:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here on Christmas Day in New Zealand .
I�d just like to wish every one a happy Christmas .
Here I am after my enormous breakfast of bacon and eggs and 2 cups of tea .

More on Monty by Bob

2006-12-16T21:14:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here , Chris says I have to get on with this story so here goes .

Monty headed west and after a few days of roughing it found somewhere rather more cozy and warm for a nice sleep. Unfortunately for Monty her luck just ran out as she had in fact snuggled up in a renovated basement that was about to be sealed up.
For seven days Monty was trapped under the house, her night vision goggles gave out and although she had plenty to say about it and was feeling rather weak and VERY thirsty nobody came to her rescue .
Then there was some banging and daylight but Monty was too weak to make a run for it and found herself locked in a garage.
Mean time the owner of the house had gone off to the supermarket to get some cat food and while there looked through the hundreds of notices and found the one left by Monty’s people two weeks earlier .
Even though it was late he called them but they found it very difficult to understand the caller because English wasn’t his first language , possibly not even his second ! But he was very insistent so they got in the car dressed in their pajamas and drove half across town; and the rest as they say is history .

Word on the street is that Monty has not been going far from home after her 17 day adventure and has hung up her night vision goggles and disguise and is getting her GPS unit serviced.

Lady Penelope Montague (at home at last !)

2006-12-10T07:25:00.000+13:00

Wow , what can I say but cool , hey wait a minute , that looks like Lizzie as the model , am I not good looking enough ? Arh yes, I forgot I am the one with brains .

Christmas is coming yipeeeee

2006-12-10T07:22:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here , just had to show you the Christmas tree that Chris and Reena made us !!

More on the Monty saga by Bob Ace reporter for Cat network news

2006-12-07T19:54:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here reporting .

When Monty woke from what seemed but a small sleep in some shrubs but which turned out to be almost the entire day she realised that progress had not been good thus far and so despite the nagging feeling of hunger she decided to wait till the cover of darkness was available and then make a push in the direction of home.

Unfortunately Montys GPS unit was failing and instead of going north she continued to go west.

That night it wasn’t long before she found herself faced with a major obstacle, otherwise known as Great South Road with a traffic volume according to Chris who claims to know such things of 31,600 vehicles per day . Hell that’s only a vehicle every three seconds on average so there should be plenty of time for Monty to cross the six lanes .
Monty had failed her paper in “Risk Assessment” at cat danger school otherwise she would also have realised the weakness of my recent calculations.

But as luck would have it there are in fact less cars at night so with that casual air that we cats are able to display while traveling at something approaching the speed of sound Monty looked both ways (not) and then in a blur found herself safely on the other side .

The story continues by Bob

2006-12-05T20:14:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here for Cat Network News, humble apologies for the break in transmission , this was due to a technical fault with my web surf Chris, who says and I’m not sure I believe this , he was working on his Christmas letter… sure buddy , priorities priorities .

So Ok Monty’s in the McDuck , time to look pathetic and under-fed.
Success and so a pleasant evening was had eating burger filling , yes cheese is an acceptable cat food.
Then it was away, don the disguise, pick up the equipment and forge on with the search for home ( I know it's here somewhere) .
Meanwhile Monty’s people arrive back from their trip to the news that there has been a break-out at the cat hotel. There begins a street search , they rope in their friends , they put up posters, they visit the local vet , they put up a tiny notice in the supermarket , they visit the SPCA , the Council , but no sign .

Meanwhile Monty has crossed one of the busiest roads in the city, her cat GPS has let her down badly at this point and she’s heading west , home is actually 20km north and on the other side of a harbour ……

The amazing story of Lady Penelope Montague (Monty) by Bob , Ace reporter for Cat network News. Part 3 Hamburgers

2006-11-23T20:53:00.000+13:00

It was here that Monty began 17 days of adventure and freedom.

With her night vision goggles still working well Monty set off north according to her built-in Cat GPS unit.

There was something vaguely familiar about this whole area even the smell of hamburgers wafting from the local McDucks .

BUT WAIT with that smell Monty realised she was hungry and stopped in her tracks and headed in the opposite direction towards the smell of burnt hamburgers , somehow the smell was irresistible.

There was suddenly a huge rumbling noise and a click , clack , click , clack ,click , click , clack and Monty remembered that she was beside the big iron pathway to lots of places and which was very easy on the paws to walk on .

Then in a jiffy she was there, cat food heaven and there were plenty of suckers (sorry customers) in the outside eating area . Monty stashed her night vision goggles and other equipment and slipped through the metal swing door neatly and unsuspectingly twirled around a customers legs .........

The amazing story of Lady Penelope Montague (Monty) by Bob , Ace reporter for Cat Network News.

2006-11-21T17:32:00.000+13:00

It was a dark night. Luckily Monty’s night vision goggles (made from toilet rolls, a pipe cleaner and a broken transistor radio) worked perfectly. She collected the clothing, food and map she had been hiding in the exercise yard and quickly slipped on her collar as a disguise.Monty crept forward, keeping low to the ground and moving only as the sound of passing vehicles and trains muffled the sound of her paws on the leaves. Then as she cut through the perimeter fence she was spotted by the eagle eyed prison guard (Hotel owner) who had come outside for a smoke . It became a race against time with Monty cutting and the owner running in slow motion shouting NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! Too late - Monty was through……………..

This is Bob for Cat Network News

2006-11-18T18:13:00.000+13:00

Lady Penelope Montague

The amazing (and mostly true) story of Lady Penelope Montague (Monty) by Bob , Ace reporter for Cat Network News.

2006-11-18T17:58:00.000+13:00

Hi Bob here I‘d like to share with you an amazing story of cat bravery and resourcefulness.

One day Montys people (names withheld to protect the innocent) decided they needed to travel for two weeks so after much soul searching they put Monty in a Cat hotel near where they used to live because they felt she would be more comfortable there as she had stayed before.

However Monty being highly resourceful decided it was high time to test the security of the Cat Hotel which had not been breached in 15 years.

The comings and goings of the Hotel owners was noted, security systems observed and then plans drawn up for a daring escape.

Under cover of darkness Monty armed only with a pair of wire cutters made in the hotel workshop from a cloths peg and a cat food can made her break for freedom. …to be continued

This is Bob for Cat Network News.

2006-11-11T23:33:00.000+13:00

What can I say but YAWN

2006-11-11T23:29:00.000+13:00

I have found this very cosy place in the garden where I am very hard to find even though I am in full view. We Ocicats have our very own camouflage !

2006-10-22T08:51:00.000+13:00

Just to show how reformed we are here is Lizzy demonstrating her tomato defense technique .

2006-10-22T08:48:00.000+13:00

Now that our two week grounding is finished after the "who sniffed the catmint and posted it on the internet" episode we have been assigned to the task of guarding the tomato patch

2006-09-29T12:56:00.000+12:00

At this point she became completely incoherent��.

2006-09-29T12:54:00.000+12:00

Lizzy hits the cat mint

2006-09-29T12:28:00.000+12:00

Lizzy checking that the coast is clear before we have a roll in the cat mint

2006-09-27T21:18:00.000+12:00

Here is Lizzy REALLY trying to get that moving red dot, note that I am casually waiting for my moment .

2006-09-27T21:16:00.000+12:00

Action shot

2006-09-27T21:10:00.000+12:00

Well here we are finally at the big party event "get the spot".
We made Chris promise to capture the whole thing .
As you can see Lizzy is heading in his direction to give him a few pointers on night time photography.

2006-09-25T21:41:00.000+12:00

Lizzy checks out the new swimming pool and its fishy inhabitants after a successful reverse emergency bucket transfer at the weekend.

Luckily Chris was unable to capture me on video taking a wet face-plant in the former temporary fish accommodation, OK so I thought the trough was empty and I just leapt in , an easy mistake. I'm a stunt cat sometimes things go wrong !!

Now all the construction is finished and the deck cleared the way is open for the great red spot catching challenge, we have been limbering on the lounge carpet during the add breaks on TV . I don't know where it comes from , there's just that "click".

Happy Birthday Fiona !!!!

2006-09-19T19:51:00.000+12:00

Happy Birthday to Fiona , Happy birthday to you , hhaaappy birthday dearrrrrrr Fiona , Happy birthday to you . ..........21 on the 20th . Wow thats old .

Sorry about the crazed look , there was a blinding flash that's all I remember !.

Love from Bob and Lizzy .

2006-09-17T19:01:00.000+12:00

Here I demonstrate the correct fishing technique, four feet on the ground and Lizzy note do NOT place your back feet on the pond edge !!!

2006-09-16T21:10:00.000+12:00

Lizzy looking a little wet after her impromptu dip !

2006-09-16T21:07:00.000+12:00

Lizzy has developed this real thing for fish food. This is what happened when she tired to scoop it off the top of the temporary pond, whoops, not quite the firm footing she was expecting. All the foreign friends (just out of frame) fell over laughing.

2006-09-16T21:01:00.000+12:00

Chris has been visting Granda Pa and Granda Ma but now he's back things are progressing on the pond rebuilding . Here I am supervising .

2006-09-08T10:33:00.000+12:00

I check out pond reconstruction progress

2006-09-08T10:30:00.000+12:00

Where the pond was...whoops, note the "rescue bucket"

Disaster strikes party during the lets “ impress our overseas guests with a pond swim” episode…..

2006-09-08T10:20:00.000+12:00

Lizzy and I are in big trouble with Chris because he thinks that while we were doing the 4.00 metre dash in the pond to show how quick we are that we accidentally ripped the pond liner and caused a lot of the water to drain away. We said it was just the pond chugging but then the loss of a couple of cubic metres of water does seem a lot even for us to drink!
Good news is that there are more fish than we thought which was discovered during the dramatic rescue mission. Fifteen fish were found and placed in a cattle trough dragged on to the deck.

The fish seem happy enough and will be much easier to reach now they are only in 300 litres of water instead of their normal 4000.

2006-09-01T20:31:00.000+12:00

Friday night and the party rages on, we have ripped up a bit of catmint and have been passing it around .

Lizzys' found Reenas' camera and done a self portrait, she has however failed to grasp the concept of the self timer, thus cementing me firmly in my position as "the smart one" .

Bob signing out , or is that passing out (from exhaustion ) at my party .zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Bob is speechless...well almost

2006-08-30T20:27:00.000+12:00

We loved the Plan and the pLan so much ( http://ashtoncats.blogspot.com/ ) that we borrowed them from to put them here (we hope they don't mind). These are the schemes from the minds of genius and do not require the blunt instruments I was considering.

I especially like the teamwork aspect of the rope approach .

I'm still almost speechless with amazement ....

Bob signing off from the party , hic, Catnip , who me?

2006-08-30T20:25:00.000+12:00

Freckles Plan

2006-08-28T17:57:00.000+12:00

Bob and Lizzie showing the others at the party where they can get a snack if they are very clever .
All options considered !
(footnote from Bob , I of course will not reveal my secret but it may involve a hammer and a crowbar )

2006-08-22T20:47:00.000+12:00

Lizzie attempts to chug the pond in event number 1 . Chug, chug, chug...can be heard from the onlookers.

Bobs list of party games now that the guests have all arrived.

2006-08-19T20:04:00.000+12:00

List of games

1, Spin the mouse
2, Flip the sparrow
3, Hide and seek something mousey
4, Rip the rugs
5, Climb the curtains
6, Fish the pond
7, Pond water chugging (I know I can do a gallon…..)

2006-08-16T19:45:00.000+12:00

Well here we are waiting waiting waiting for the overseas visitors to my party , Lizzys up the tree again keeping a lookout and the rest of us have our eyes peeled at the bottom .

2006-08-05T15:24:00.000+12:00

Here is the entrance for party organisers and cat food supplies .

2006-08-05T15:20:00.000+12:00

Just to help you find me here is the guest entrance .

2006-08-03T19:11:00.000+12:00

Lizzy says I am dawdling with the party preparations but I just found this new cushion in the lounge and it needs proper scientific testing . By the way did I mention this is a theme costume cat party. I'm coming as Catatonic hoho. Reena says more like Cleocatra ......!.

Cats are getting ready to rummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmble !!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-29T21:15:00.000+12:00

Well the preparations are well underway , the rugs have all been laid out ready for ripping up, curtains drawn waiting for climbing and here I am test tasting my latest trendy creation mouse on a stick with cheese, ginger and an olive .
I hear the cat mint is on the way , wow drugs ............................

This is Bob for Bobs Goodtime Party Ltd

Bob and Lizzys big night out.

2006-07-25T10:00:00.000+12:00

Chris and Reena are out for the night so Lizzy and I are considering our options for a big party. We think we will invite a few friends over for drinks out of the fish pond, perhaps some of that stuff from the toilet since nobody will be around to yell at us.
Then to follow a smorgasbord of cat biscuits and mouse on a stick.

We could play a few party games, spin the sparrow, flip the mouse, hide and seek something feathery, who can go through the cat door with the most noise (an essential skill for the 2am entry and exit) and rip the carpet.

I see possibilities......

Bob signing out for Bobs Goodtime Party Organisers Ltd.

2006-07-18T20:06:00.000+12:00

The very picture of self control .....

2006-07-13T19:36:00.000+12:00

Plan B try another set of scales
WHAT 5.4kgs (11.8lb) those first scales must be right .

.....and acceptance , I'm a tank .

2006-07-13T19:32:00.000+12:00

Denial ............ 5.1kgs (11.2lb) Oh crap...........................

2006-07-07T14:37:00.000+12:00

Lizzy looking at my food bowl , little does she know that Chris and Reena are giving her "diet" food due to her being renamed "the tank" . I'm still on full strength because I have self control !!

2006-06-28T18:08:00.000+12:00

Molly caught in the act of bed stealing

Bob sends Chris across the “ditch”

2006-06-28T18:02:00.000+12:00

Hello Bob here reporting on Chris’s recent trip “across the ditch” (for those that don’t know this is the bit of water that separates the mainland of New Zealand from the island of Australia ) . Apparently two cats were found in the cloudy and wet suburb of Manley West namely Molly and Liquorice . Molly likes to sleep on peoples keyboards and leap into newly abandoned beds before anybody can do anything about it , way to go Molly. Liquorice generally likes to cut a low profile but was spotted wrapped around the legs of a heater watching the World Cup football on TV.

Bob for Cat Network News signing out

2006-06-21T08:19:00.000+12:00

On the other hand if he had gone accross the Canterbury plains he might have found a bit more me thinks. This is Bob signing out for the Winterless north !

2006-06-21T08:16:00.000+12:00

Chris is back from the deep south and says this is all the snow he could find . It looks a lot like the inside of the freezer.

Bob sends Chris south to investigate “snow”

2006-06-16T20:33:00.000+12:00

Bob here , I’ve decided with a bit of prompting from Trevor to send Chris south (that would be north if you were north of the equator , but I digress, to investigate “snow” .
We know nothing of “snow” .
Grandma and grandpa live “south" and they have been having the big freeze with another on the way so its goodbye Chris and pack your thermals. We expect a full report .

Bob

Bob considers the merits of winter.

2006-06-15T20:21:00.001+12:00

For winter:
Heaters
Electric blankets
Roast dinner leftovers
Gravy (see above)
Humans who use you as a warmer ( but who is warming whom ?)
A reasonable excuse to “own” the best and warmest chair in the lounge.
Autumn leaves
Excuse to pack on a few pounds

Against winter:
Cold
Wet , especially the lawn
Mud
Varmints hiding
Never enough food in my bowl
My drinking water (pond) is very cold

2006-06-04T17:25:00.000+12:00

Well our holiday with Mr Push-over comes to an end as Reena is flying in our direction as I speak, eta mid day tomorrow . Dang .
Here Lizzy and I are hard out preparing the house for her arrival, hey we have nailed the door shut and got in extra supplies is there something we forgot ? Maybe Chris will put his foot down and place her in the number four spot ?

2006-05-26T16:18:00.000+12:00

Look Ok so this isn't quite "Objective H" (below) but you did leave the table and I thought you were finished...honest ! Lamb rack is cat food is it not ?

2006-05-22T14:01:00.000+12:00

Lizzy out and about in the leaves....

2006-05-13T16:34:00.000+12:00

Heater, I love you ......

More of my Weekend by Bob

2006-05-13T16:28:00.000+12:00

Rain rain rain rain rain more rain rain rain when will it end , I'm bust'n

by Bob

My Weekend so far…by Bob

2006-05-13T16:24:00.000+12:00

Rain rain rain rain rain more rain rain rain , small gap , rain rain rain rain sleep, eat , rain rain rain .sleep, give up on field activities find a heater, a knee, anything .

by Bob

2006-05-02T20:30:00.000+12:00

Lizzy considers her "now what?" options....

2006-04-30T10:55:00.000+12:00

I achieve objective F (because I am the smart one)

Bob and Lizzys Business Plan

2006-04-28T21:25:00.000+12:00

Company objective : A seat at the table and a roast dinner

Strategic Plan

A, Get Reena out of the house by 24 April 2006 (sub plot , phone airline and cancel return tickets , call border patrol and say she is a drug dealer)
B, Let mouse loose in pantry thus suggesting that we are needed to exterminate varmints
C, Act cuddly
D, Practice "poor me" meow while looking pathetic
E, Take over Reena's side of the bed
F, Causally shove our way under the covers (sub plot devise means to turn on electric blanket)
G, Convince Chris that "breakfast in bed" is a valid cat option
H, Order bacon and eggs with cat milk as a side. (note must be runny eggs)
I, Read paper (cartoon section)
J, Snooze
K, repeat C to J

Monthly report to Board :

Progress to date : up to strategic objective E (see photo above)

Bob
Chaircat

My Easter by Bob

2006-04-16T19:26:00.000+12:00

Hello , Bob here taking a few days off from being the ace reporter just to put my paws up and have a bit of a relax. Slept on the sheepskins in the Toyota all day as some kind person had left the window down for me. Popped inside for a bit of a trough down and returned for another snooze.
Lizzy continues her “a mouse a day keeps the vet away” routine but needs to scoff them a bit more quickly as Chris is getting pretty fast off the mark with his catch and release policy.
Reena heads off for Mexico, Spain and Turkey next week which means it will be just us and Mr Push-over , bring on the sleeping in the bed , the cat treats and the left over eggs on toast .
Uncle Jim passed through yesterday on his way home to Brisbane, I don’t know what WE are supposed to do with the Baileys Irish Cream ?
Well its back to the Toyota for a bit of a kip.

Bob

2006-04-08T21:11:00.000+12:00

Lizzy captured giving those ears a bit of a shake

Mystery cat identified

2006-04-08T21:04:00.000+12:00

The mystery visitor has been identified as the cat from next door ( next door is 500m away) . Apparently an inquisitive cat it has recently been discovered attempting to operate the controls of a hydraulic digger while the owner was having morning tea.

Trying to excavate a rabbit hole maybe !!

I think I can see possibilities here …….

This is Bob signing out for Cat Network News

Stop press ...............

2006-03-28T12:09:00.000+12:00

Bob from Cat Network News reporting

Who was that fat black and white cat who came through the cat door last night ?
More on this item once the detective agency is contacted .

Bob signing out.

Bob and Lizzy slug it out for mouse catcher of the year award.

2006-03-28T12:08:00.000+12:00

Good evening Bob here from Cat Network News bringing you this exclusive report on the all-in cat fight for the Mouser of the Year Award (Sadly not an event at the Commonwealth Games recently held in Melbourne).

So far this week we have Lizzy with the 1am and 3am (Monday) mouse brought to the bathroom for consumption. My people timed this at 25 seconds for a head first scoff. Then there was the 7pm sneak in and scoff.

For myself I can post one catch and scoff , one “get outside with that thing” and one catch and release out the bathroom window and the words “run for your life little fella” (yeah right , well find you soon enough ….).

Updates as they come to hand .
This is Bob for Cat Network News

2006-03-18T09:34:00.000+13:00

Lizzy and I on our way to Stuart at the Dairy Flat Vets for our annual jabs . We still don't know what they are (never felt a thing) but there was that pill and the throat rubbing. We saw a dog, a vacume cleaner and a LOT of cat food and I mean mountains of it ........