Why Cats are better than dogs

Zoltan Kaszas gets it right!!

Cats are better than dogs.  He explains why!

My Birthday Party!!! I'm THREE!

There was quite a bit of celebration around here this weekend with it being my birthday and all. Actually my birthday was last week but the powers to be around here seem to have some priority problems.

They got me a cake - marble with white frosting! That would be great if I even liked cake! I sniffed it and it didn't seem to have the yummy odors that I would expect for food fit for a VIP cat such as myself. I'll have Friskies send them the memo. I did get a new container of Kosmic Catnip. That's first class stuff.

This is also my 1 year anniversary of living here and being the Huskercat! A year ago I was rescued from the Pet Adoption Center (PAC). I don't know why they call it "rescued" - it's really not an appropriate term. It's not like it's a concentration camp or something! It's also called the Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center which is better because it sounds more fancy. I don't know who Mary Roberts is but it doesn't sound like a cat name which is what the center should be named for. That would be a good excuse to get rid of the dogs!! HA!  So on my birthday I'll give a shoutout to my fostermom at the PAC, Jill Coleman. Things are cool here! 

They hired some pretty fancy help for my birthday!

Cake!! It was a nice thing to do. I guess symbolic of all the love felt for me by the owners.  OR MAYBE THEY JUST LIKE CAKE - I feel so used!

At least one of us is having fun!!
I gotta say ... it was a weird birthday party!

Doing the Intrepid in the Closet!

GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!!

MORE PHOTOS OF ME!

(and my musings)

Here I am being intrepid!

I guess you could say I'm still "in the closet." 

My goofy look

They say cleanliness is next to godliness. I'm not sure who "they" are, but you know how they say they. Ok, that was confusing. Oh well ... here I am taking a moment to make sure I'm looking my best! 

Me takin' a lickin'  HA!

That cleanliness saying comes from some ancient Hebrew writings. I don't know who the Hebrews are but I don't think it's a cat breed. Maybe it was one of Jesus' cats. Francis Bacon (for whom Canadian bacon is named after) brought that saying into English. Which is funny since he certainly didn't know Hebrew stuff! Weird. He seemed compelled for some reason to mention this in his Advancement of Learning book. I'm big on learning so that's good. Francis had a lot going for him having also invented peanut brittle.

I don't know why I'm going on and on about Francis Bacon! Maybe I'm hungry! I know he was an early supporter of gay rights and made much headway in this regard. I'm not sure where I heard that ... maybe I'm just thinking that from how he dressed!

I'm also big on relaxing which is evident in the "action" photo below. 

That reminds me ... I need to go relax some more! I am so outta here!

Biggest Water Dish in the World!

It gets really hot here in the summer. Not all the time, but when you have a fur coat like mine you don't want to hang out like a slobbering dog or something! I was relaxing behind the ladder until someone started taking pictures of me - this is happening a bit much if you ask me. Which you didn't, but nevermind.
So back to the point of my post today ... it's not bad being out in the intemperate environs of the backyard as long as a cat has a water bowl. And I DO! Check it out! Cool, refreshing, sky blue water. It's like a Hamm's brewery commercial!
An 18,000 gallon waterbowl for an 11 pound cat (4.98 kg for my European readers). It's overkill really, but they spoil me. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm not complaining! It just that I'd never drink that much in a week! My only complaint is that the owners go paddling around in my bowl which just seems uncivil.

I was caught off-guard in this shot. I guess that's obvious!

As Francis Thompson once said Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I have no idea what that means, but bosom is kind of a funny word! Well since my owner was out here farting around, I decided to get back indoors where it is always chill.

ME (and Kira) on HBO!!! (maybe)

Kira visited me for a couple of days!  She comes all the way from Oregon (which is a state). It's always exciting with her around. She knows how to properly communicate with a VIP cat such as myself. It's all about the love! 
You can see me featured in this photo with Kira. She was being interviewed and videod for an upcoming documentary. They videod her and my owner working together. Naturally I invited myself to the interview. I really didn't have anything to say but felt quite relaxed with the film crew. It was all pretty cool!


I don't know of any other cats who have been in documentaries. Except for big cats like tigers. They like own the Animal Planet! Along with those miserable homeless rescued cats. I forgot about them, but they don't really count. It's not my fault they have a sad life. Well, there I go ending this thing on a downer! I gotta stop doing that!

A Visit from Kira! All the way from Oregon!

Me and Kira

Kira came all the way from Portland which is far away. If you check back you can see that she was my first visitor as I moved in to assume full Huskercat responsibilities. On a sad note, she was also Tommy's last visitor just a few weeks before he ... um ... passed on. Tommy was the original Huskercat, but now everyone will just have to get used to me. I didn't have a choice so everyone just needs to deal with it!

Naturally I have to include this picture of her in her Huskershirt.  Upon close inspection you might notice that Kira has black hair in one picture and blonde hair in the other. Cats have extremely good eyes so I thought I should point this out. That struck me as unusual. I've only been the cat-in-residence for a couple months and I can say that some mighty peculiar things happen around here. For example, when I left the humane society I had not considered that I would be expected to write a blog! I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it's probably useful to stay alert around here!

Blonde Kira

Kira said she'll be back in a couple months so obviously I'm a hit with her. That's pretty cool!

TA DA!! It's the New Huskercat!!! Liam!

I'm the new Huskercat, Liam Thomas. I'm told Tommy passed on last month and was the first Huskercat and he launched the Huskercat web site in 2004. So that makes me Huskercat #2!  In his honor, I'm Liam (the name I came with) Thomas (his name).  I'm not sure what all the Huskercat job entails but I'm getting familiar with it now that I'm confident enough to come out from under the bed! Apparently a big part of it is dictating my notes for this blog. I don't even know what a blog is!  But they told me I'd get it all figured out.

Here's me just arriving at my new home in a ritzy part of Riverside. It's a pretty crumby photo because you can't even see me in the carrier!!  The owners need to do a better job of documenting things! This is exactly how weird conspiracy theories get started! But I'm saying right here that I was actually in there.

Hard to imagine that two hours ago I was in a little cage at the Mary Roberts Animal Shelter Rescue Center (or something like that).  I'm staying under the bed for awhile.  For the record, it's my choice. They aren't making me stay here. 

I'm not sure what I was expected to do with all these magazines.  At the animal shelter they rolled up magazines and beat the dogs!  It was really funny ... Suck on that, PeTA!!!   Ok, I was kidding about that.  They never beat the dogs although they deserved it. They must read a lot at this place.

This is a pretty good capture of my handsome likeness.  With these kinds of looks I should be popular on this web site.

I don't think this is the best photo to convey that I'll be doing a bang up job around here.   Not that there's anything wrong with sleeping 16 hours a day!

Everyone around here is still sad because of Tommy's demise. So I guess my first job here is to get everyone cheered up!