Lily is 3!

Hey kitties, Lily here!  Today is my 3rd birthday.  Even Google knew it was my birthday!

See the hover text says, "Happy Birthday Lily!"  My Mommy didn't know they did this.  (It was in Google Chrome while logged in to Lily's account.)

I started my day with snuggles with my Mommy in bed.  Then I laid on my bed in the front window.

Mommy brought me breakfast in bed!  Fishy gooshy food, so yummy!

Later I got a brand new box!

I may look unhappy here, but it was because of the paparazzi.

See it's perfectly Lily sized!

Now Mommy go away I'm trying to sleep!

Lily's Mommy here.  Since she's asleep, I thought I'd tell you the other fun thing she did today.  She had supervised outside time!  She was pretty good and patrolled her yard looking for voles.  Once she tried to leave the yard it was time to go back in.  I hope she is having a good birthday.  We are so lucky to have our little girl!

Lily's 2nd Gotcha Day!

Hello everybody!  It's my 2nd gotcha day today.  Last year my Daddy made me this graphic to celebrate:

This year my Mommy made a lame attempt:

This picture is from a time when I actually went and laid  down next to Jan.  Usually she joins me and I leave after a few minutes.  I still enjoy playing with her, but lately I've been getting a little upset at her at times and hissing.  Most of the time though we are fine and just keep our space.

Thank you to everyone who's already sent gotcha day wishes!

Sisfurs

Hi everybody!  My Mommy is very bad and has a lot to catch you guys up on!  

First of all you got to see I got a new sisfur.  But did you know she was brought over from Angel Junior, Orion, and Sammy's Meowm?  My Mommy started thinking about getting me a brofur or sisfur after my walkabout.  When she first saw Jan on their blog she thought maybe that could be my sisfur, but my Daddy wasn't sure yet.  You can read about Jan's beginning starting here.  She has a very special name because she was named after the Rocky Mountian Meezer's Mom.  When Junior got sick Mommy hopped to action in convincing Daddy that we needed to take her to help Junior's Meowm out.    We were very sad that Junior passed away.  It was very nice to meet his Meowm and have her bring me my sisfur.

Now first of all I wasn't too happy about this.  When Jan and I first met, I hissed and growled.  After 2 days though, I was crying that she was stuck in a room and I couldn't see her.  It still wasn't a happy relationship, but oh how fun it is to play with her!  I had trouble explaining to her how I like to play.  You see, I like to be chased.  Jan was too busy playing with all the toys.  We've got it pretty well figured out.  As you can see in the header, Jan tried to lay by me after a little while.  That lasted about 1 minute.  Now my Mommy has new pictures to show.  Mind you this lasted about 5 minutes, but my Mommy is so happy with our progress!

My Mommy also almost forgot that Andrea, Leo and Star of the Celestial Kitties gave us an award!

I'll let my Mommy answer the questions since she is sweet crazy.

Cookies or Cake?  Cake

Chocolate or Vanilla?  I am a weirdo and hate chocolate therefore it's vanilla

What is your favorite sweet treat?  This is hard... probably peach cobbler

When do you crave sweet things the most?  All the time

If you had a sweet nickname what would it be?  My hubby calls me honey and when I was a teenager my friends and I came up with sweet nicknames, mine was milk dud (my best friend was bon bon)

I'm supposed to pass it on, but I know it's been awhile since it was passed around so probably most have gotten it.  If you haven't feel free to take it cause all of you are very sweet!

Sorry for the long post and thanks for reading if you made it this far!

New Little Sisfur

Hi Kitties!  My Mommy says this is just a quick post for today.  Part of my house has been closed off for some reason.  A fellow cat blogger Mommy stopped by today.  This is what she brought.

Meet Jan!

The Story

Hi Kitties!  Sorry my Mommy hasn't updated, she says things were so crazy before I even took a walkabout.  I won't tell my Mommy what happened during the time I was gone, but she wants to tell you from her side since she knows all you Kitties and your Beans want to know what happened.  Take it away Mommy...  

Thanks Lily.  Let me start by letting you know how much Lily would go outside.  When it's warm she sometimes would go out on weekdays as early as 7 am and come back sporadically until dark when we would lock her in.  As it got colder her outside time was less and less, and was always when it was light outside.  Right before she disappeared she barely showed any interest in going out, and we were thinking about starting to make her an inside cat.

So on Saturday December 1st in the afternoon Lily, her Daddy, and I were in our TV room relaxing.    Lily decided around 3 pm that she really wanted out, so I let her out opening her cat flap for her.  I started to get ready for a wedding reception that her Daddy and I were going to that evening.  At 5 pm we had to leave, so I put food in Lily's dish and we left for the reception.

At 8:30 pm that night we came home expecting Lily to be in the house.  I looked in her food dish and noticed she had been inside at some point to eat some food.  We searched all the house, but she was no where to be found.  We called for her outside, but didn't see her.  We weren't too worried at that point because it was a little warmer than normal, so we thought for sure she'd be back before bed time.

I starting to worry as 10 pm approached.  It was also starting to get really windy.  There were high wind warnings all that night, and raining for the next day.  I did not sleep at all that night.  I kept hearing the cat flap open and close, but it was the wind.  I was so worried as Lily had never been gone overnight, and the weather was so bad.

Sunday morning I posted her most recent picture on Facebook asking if anyone had seen her.  I have a lot of my closest neighbors friended there.  By that night I had so many neighbors looking for her with one false positive sighting.  I decided to post on her blog and the CB because I truly believe in the power of purrs, prayers, and positive (or maybe not so positive since I asked you guys to tell her to "get her butt home") thinking.  I also posted on our local free classified site (which is more used than craigslist) and craigslist.

Monday morning still nothing.  My neighbors checked on me to see how the search was going.  I called our local shelter.  I tried on Sunday, but they are closed weekends.  Oh I forgot to add that this whole time my husband and I took turns walking the neighborhood looking for her.  I started to make posters and fliers to hand out.  We actually spent almost $100 getting copies made to blanket our neighborhood with.  I just really felt I needed to focus on the area around us.

Tuesday morning I got a call.  A neighbor saw a cat in her yard, but wasn't sure if it was Lily.  I thought it was another false positive, but decided to check.  The neighbor said she tried to grab the cat, but it did not want to be held.  I walked down by the house, but saw no cat.  I called her name as I walked home.  Just as I got to the bottom of the steps to our home, I see Lily come running towards me.  I grab her as fast as I can and start crying and saying, "Where have you been?  We've missed you so much!"  I get her inside, close her cat flap, then get her some canned food out.  She was very thirsty, but not very hungry.  Her fur was gritty and dry, but otherwise she looked fine.  She spent about 10 minutes running around the house and up and down her cat tree.  Then as it started to rain outside, she settled down and slept on my lap for 5 hours.

Sorry this is so long.  I just knew everyone would like to hear what happened.  I want to thank you guys again for all your purrs, prayers, and thoughts.  Lily is now an inside only cat,  much to her dismay.

LILY IS HOME!!!

Lily came home!!!!  I want to thank you guys all so much for your purrs, prayers, and shouts to Lily!  I will be around a little later to thank everyone personally.  Now to spend a little time hugging my little girl!

Lily is lost...

Hi everyone, Lily's Mommy here, could I ask that everyone send their thoughts to Lily to get her butt home?  Sorry I haven't blogged or visited for awhile.  I have kept up with your blogs, just haven't been commenting.  Thanks.