Here is a demonstration of my "backing" technique, note looking where I am going and at least three paws on the tree at all times  

Nothing like ripping up a tree to celebrate ones birthday  

You don't expect me to drink out of my "official" bowl do you ?
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WHAT you want me to share ? YOU CAN"T BE SERIOUS . 

Me with the birthday haul, its mine mine mine .................. 

So Ok I was in the bookcase looking at Grandads rabbit, is that a crime ? 

This is me making the bed on my birthday 

Bob and Lizzy are 1

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Hi Bob here for the birthday channel, well things are going well on our birthday with catches of two mice and something unspeakable delivered to the bed room at 1.30 am , 2.30 am and 3.45 am . It's really hot so we assumed nobody really wanted to sleep anyway .

Breakfast consisted of our beloved "Kitten" biscuit's , hey so what if the protein level will explode our livers that's only a rumor put about by those tree hugging free range greenies .

Looking forward to a day relaxing

Bob
(Happy birthday to me)

Bob continues the countdown

Only 200 cat naps to go, only two hundred cat naps to go , hurah

Bob counts down to the big day

Hi Bob here after a bit of a break.

Well the big news is , yes I got Chris to double check my vet book and me and Lizzy are one on Friday , that's only 300 sleeps by my reckoning wha hooooooooo.
Here is my birthday wish list (so far)

1. wake up on bed after long sleep
2. breakfast of pan-fried bunny in a white wine sauce
3. read the newspaper for five seconds then shred it
4. rip up the end of the best chair in the lounge without the customary "hey YOU" (Like I care ?)
5. open presents , hint for Chris I REALLY LIKE those cat treats A LOT, also I hear you can get mice from the pet shop, we have eaten all the locally available ones .
6. Snooze for 6 hours
7. wake up, eat 1kg of cat treats (PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU) try not to vomit
8. Snooze again
9. Dinner fish from you know where , still wriggling (my revenge for the "Boxing Day incident")
10. fast asleep till middle of night when I will crash loudly through cat door on way to a nice little night ramble

This is Bob Signing out from the Birthday channel

Lizzy and I work on a movie....

Bob talks about the movie industry and the Christmas holidays

Good afternoon.
Bob here for Cat Network News returning after taking a short vacation to assist Chris with the production of his movie epic "From there to here, do you feel any different ...well not really" a long title , I tried to talk him out of it but , well you can only do so much!
A movie made for two friends who are turning "X" in January where X is a large number , apparently if I say what it is I get no pats for a month .
Anyway Chris has been hunched over his computer for weeks agonising over the production but we have had the box seat right from the beginning from our "front of house" on-top-of-the-printer position. We are even in the credits. (see above)

In between shooting and editing we have been very busy with "bunny and mouse patrol" and have been bringing a lot of them into the house , five of the bunnies have disappeared immediately and apparently reappeared up the hill with the neighbours kids . But they make such a snack .....although apparently not under the bed at 2am.

The weather here has not been brilliant, its been raining a lot so people have often been available for long stretches of lap sleeping rather than disappearing off in the car for hours on end. We just don't get this obsession with fine weather ?

Lizzy pulled a master stroke and had Uncle Jim photo copy the head cold he brought back from the USA and give it to Chris and so far he has not been able to go back to work but has been in bed a lot for cuddles although there is something strangely wrong with his voice at the moment.


This is Bob for Cat Network News

We are having our summer holiday , if only it would stop raining . Here is Lizzy hard-out holidaying on the printer.......... 

Back to Lizzy in the studio ............... 

And what would your opinion be on that topic ? 

Well , mmoo moo mooooo . 

Good afternoon , I'm Bob for Cat Nework News and I'd like to ask you a few questions about the current state of agricultual policy in the global context . 

Hi Bob here for CatNetwork News reporting from the field. 

My boxing day fishing trip goes horribly wrong ................................ 

Whoops caught in the act of wrapping myself up ................ 

Here I am assisting with the Christmas present wrapping  

Bobs Christmas wild cat food carol

Hello Bob here for the Dairy Flat Tabenacle Choir (to the tune of a partridge in a pear tree)

ten night time outings
nine falling leaves
eight fleas a jumping
seven flys a fly'n
six spiders running
fiiiiiiiiiiiiive croaking frogs
four pond fish
three nasty Mynas
twoooo dead mice
and
a half eaten .........bunnnneeeee


now repeat

Bob and Lizzy get trapped in the car......overnight

Hello Bob from Cat Network News

Here is a question for Chris , when are you going to get those air-stays on the tailgate of the lift-back fixed ?
Yesterday we jumped into the boot (trunk) of the car when Reena was emptying out the shopping then next thing the tail-gate is slowly closing and we are trapped, help help . But no help came.
So we spent the night ripping up the upholstery , shredding the vinyl and waiting for rescue which came at dawn when they realised that calling from the front door was not going to work on this occasion . (Just as well because we were really dying for a pee !)

Bob , back where I belong, inside , on the printer and soon to be asleep.

Only two sleeps till I have my first Christmas...

Bobs reply to americanfox.

Hi Bob replying to the question from americanfox .

And the question was :
"How do you feel about the fact that nativity scenes never include the feline sort? Donkeys, sheep, cattle, horses...surely the smartest animal of them all was at the most important event of all time. Any thoughts?"

Well I feel pretty bad because if you read the literature , you did know cats can read, why else would they sit on your newspaper, duh, cats have been around for a lot longer than the nativity.

Also as indicated in the recent documentary "Love Actually" there was not just one but two lobsters there so why not cats .

Maybe there was a cat sleeping under the covers ? Could be a strong possibility.

Bob

Bobs lead-up to Christmas

Good morning Bob here
Well I've been let out of the locked cupboard finally, some cat and it was supposed to be me knocked Chris's model sailing boat off the top of the book case. He says it took him a year to build but it can't have been that well made given how it smashed into a thousand pieces after a mere 8 foot plummet ? I ask you what's all the fuss ?

Anyway only four sleeps till Christmas, we have got Reena presents but Chris will need to be a little more conciliatory I can tell you !!
We are making up a Christmas carol , watch this space. May have to be nice to Chris so we can get some Christmas pictures .

Bob for the Christmas channel.

Coming soon

Bob here for the Christmas channel at Cat Network News.

Just advance warning to keep an eye open for my "Countdown to Christmas feature"
We'll consider topics such as "Is a whole turkey too much for one cat ?" "Ten ways to wrap a live bunny " and "Five ways to look cool at the top of the Christmas tree".

Bob

And what better way to spend the rest of the day after a nine hour snooze than a bit of relaxing on the lawn! 

Here I am at 4.45pm see I've turned over ..... 

Me sleeping (again) somebody said I looked like a barrel on sticks , whats a barrel ?  

Here I am sleeping on Chris's printer zzzzzzzzzzzzzz twitch twitch zzzzzzzzzzzzzz 

My typical Monday by Bob

1. I woke at 5am , what idiot set the alarm ?
2. 5.30am examined food bowl, unimpressed
3. 6.00am morning constitutional
4. 6.30am caught mouse and ate
5. 7am ate cat biscuits
6. 7.30 went for a stroll
7. 8.00am Chris working at home today , cool
8. 8.30am went to sleep on Chris's printer (see photo)
9. 3.30pm still sleeping on printer....

to be continued ....

Bob decides book review too commercial

Good morning
Bob here after an exhausting weekend of visitors, how much attention can one cat endure ? (Well a lot !!)
I decided to take my book review off because it sounded a bit commercial and thats not were we are at here at Cat Network News .

Not that I won't be mentioning a few things that might , possibly look oh so good in the Christmas stocking , only 43 shopping days to go....
Bob signing off..mmm I can taste that Christmas turkey already .

Who us ? No that was some other cat you saw wrestling , honest . 

Here is me showing Lizzy who is boss, well I will in a minute ........ 

I can't explain it but there is something about this that appeals to my arty side !!!

Here we are wildly celebrating Chris's bithday. 

Here I am attempting to get the fish by drinking the pond dry, Lizzy says that will take me 300 years but for 15 fish, I think its worth the wait. 

Bobs reply to Mia.

Mia ,
What to do when you go on holiday ?
Well obviously from my point of view if Chris never left the house would be my preferred option , although I guess that one of us , unless they developed a taste for mice, would starve to death.
Option two is only leaving home for short trips to the supermarket, option three is going for longer trips to get the money to pay for the trips to the supermarket, option four is get a cat friendly person to house and cat sit, option five is get a friend or neighbour to come and feed us and the last option is to take us to a good quality cat boarding place. Ask your cat owning friends in the neigbourhood what they think of the local ones .
We can be left overnight if we have food and water and a cat washroom.
essentially I prefer to be at home and have people come to me, but Chris says Grandma and Grandpa took their many Siamese cats to the same cat boarding place for many years so I guess the trick would be finding the right one.

Note, over here you need to have all your cat vaccinations up-to-date before any cat boarding place will take you.
Bob