Tortie Tuesday

I know, I know, it's odd to see me on a Tortie Tuesday. But remember, I am a dilute tortie (essentially, instead of mostly black furs with orange and white and gray, I have mostly gray furs with orange and white and black). So that means I get to do Tortie Tuesday too!

This photo of me napping on the end table actually shows my tortie colors quite well, I think.

And this photo shows the tortie 'tude for sure. This is the look The Mommy gets when she bothers me with the flashy box thing one time too many.

Feel free to 'borrow' this look to use on your own human, even if you're not a tortie!

Tortie Tuesday

The Mommy got a new flashy box thing last month and discovered that it will take clearer, better focused close-ups than the old one did. So guess what she tries to do a lot of now... ::rolls eyes::

Of course, we don't always cooperate and might just happen to move right about the time she goes to snap the photo...

Tortie Tuesday

Hi there, peoples! I'm Gypsy, the other newest member of The Kitty Krew. I had another name at the shelter (Tamara), but The Mommy said that just wouldn't do here at my new home. As Ziggy explained yesterday, we have Rules to follow here, and Tamara didn't fit in with that (and besides, The Mommy had 'Gypsy' in mind for her next girl cat No Matter What... MOL). All the kitties who already live here had a name ending in 'y' or 'ie', and my name has to match too, right? So now I'm Gypsy. I like Gypsy, it's a mysterious name and I'm a mysterious cat.

And I've picked up a few nicknames already, though not quite as many as Ziggy: Gyps, Gypsy Girl, Girly Girl, Gypster, Gypsy Mae. I'll answer to (or is that ignore? MOL) almost any of those.

I'm a dilute tortie, just over a year old. I was born in late September last year. We're not sure why I ended up in a shelter; the no-kill shelter where The Mommy came and rescued me from was my second, the first one I was in didn't have any luck placing me and sent me to the other one in hopes more people would see me and someone would give me a furever home. It worked!

I'm friendly but standoffish at the same time; I was friendly to The Mommy at the shelter and will sometimes come up to her to be petted, but mostly I keep to myself. The first week here, I mostly stayed in the den (which is where most living takes place in this house -- where the TV and computer are, for instance), and ventured to the kitchen to eat, and that's about it. I, um, didn't even know where the litter boxes were even though The Mommy tried to show me. And then the second week, for no reason The Mommy could tell, I started staying mostly in the dining room, and of course to the kitchen to eat. But I did find the litter boxes!

But I don't really play with toys or anything, I just sit or lay around, and try to avoid interacting with the other kitties. Maybe once I really get used to being here, I'll get out and about more. The Mommy also thinks I may have been abused some, wherever I was. Often when she comes to pet me with her hand out, if she moves too sudden, I kind of flinch as if I think I'm going to get hit. I'll learn better, I'm sure.

But I've learned a few things in my 2 weeks here, too. I learned to lay on the desk all comfy:

And I learned how to be an Island Cat!

I've also learned good grooming habits.

I also wanted to show you all my tail...or lack thereof. MOL Apparently when I got to the second shelter, my tail had been injured so badly - they're not sure how or when exactly - that most of it had to be amputated. So I've only got a little stub of a tail left. I'm not worried though, I'll be just fine without it!

Well, I look forward to getting to know all you kitties and other critters and peoples better!

Tortie Tuesday

Hi peoples! Time again for Tortie Tuesday. Today, I'm going to show off my biscuit-making skills - something every self-respecting tortie (and, really, every self-respecting kitty of any brand) should know.

The secret, as I show here in my how-to video, is lowering your head as you work so you can not only get your shoulders into it as you go, but also so you're in perfect position for a nap when you're done!

See how easy it is? Try it once or twice, and in no time, you too will be making biscuits like a pro!

Gotta go, it's time for me to make a few more biscuits now...

Bye peoples!

Tortie Tummy Toesies and Tail Tuesday

Hi peoples! Callie here for Tortie Tuesday. We hear that it's going to be a beautiful fall day here today, and we haven't had too many of those. It's been somewhat of a chilly rainy fall mostly so far. And as it happens, another rainy front is headed this way tomorrow. *sigh* That means we haven't gotten to go outside much lately, and pretty soon it'll be too cold to get to go out at all until spring.

It's already pretty much too dark to get to go out by the time The Mommy gets home from that work thing, so we only get a chance to at all on the weekend. It's just not fair! *whine whine whine* (For those concerned and/or new to the blog, we only get to go out for about an hour at a time, carefully snoopervised by The Mommy, so don't worry too much about us roaming or getting in trouble or lost.)

Oh well. Guess I'll just have to stay inside and look cute by showing my tummy and toesies and tail - and make it a Tortie Tummy Toesies and Tail Tuesday!

Bye peoples!



PS - The Mommy was feeling pretty wiped out after going back to the work thing yesterday so we're still behind on visiting our friends. We hope to get caught up today, and thanks for understanding!

Tortie Tuesday

I has a complaint!

Did you hear me?! I has a complaint!!

We haven't had Tortie Tuesday for the last two weeks. I'm feeling left out and ignored (doesn't matter if I've had photos other days...that's not the point...really...). The People and Kitties demand their Tortie Tuesday! They can't be expected to go on without their Tortie Goodness!

For instance, the way my gorgeous tortie colors are set off by the blue hairy bed:

And how adorable I look curled up in the corner of the couch on the burgandy/white fuzzy blankie with my head on the arm of the couch:

And of course, a squeeeeeeee-licious belly shot!

There. I feel better now. Thank you, Mommy.

Tortie Tuesday

Hi peoples! It's Tuesday again, and I'm here to show off my tortie gorgeousness once more.

A couple of weeks ago on a Saturday, The Mommy was sitting at the computer doing something meaningless (The Mommy sez: Uh Callie, I was helping your brother Bugsy do his blog post, that's not meaningless...) so I thought I would brighten her day by getting up in her lap and giving her a wondrous Callie Look and Smile.


Then the next day, I was lazing about in a sunbeam, snoozing. The Mommy woke me up when she wandered by, then compounded her mistake by grabbing the flashy box thing. *Sigh* It never ends...


It's okay, Mommy, I forgive you.


Now, a few Wednesdays ago, we posted a Wordless Wednesday post of me and Pixie sniffing at each other. It kinda looked like a cute little smooch between friends. Since it was Wordless Wednesday, we couldn't really 'splain any further, so it was natural that you guys would take it the wrong way. And apparently most of you missed, or didn't understand, the label that said something about aliens taking over the cats. See, me and Pixie don't much get along. (Then again, Pixie's such a pest, he doesn't get along with any of us very much, 'cause he's always picking on us!) If you saw his two videos a couple of weeks ago, you saw how in one of them, he walked over and started picking on me for no reason whatsoever! Hmph.

So anyway, this next photo shows how it really is...he makes like he's being nice by giving me a lick or two, but the Smacky Paw of Doom is coming on the other side where I can't see it!


The trauma of living through that again has quite done me in. I must go recover now.

Toodles, peoples!

Tortie Tuesday

Hi peoples! Yes, it's another Tortie Tuesday. I know you missed me last week since we had the toy thing to take care of, so here are some lovely shots of moi to keep you going for another week.

My, what big eyes I have!


I think I'm too tired to take another step!


And an obligatory belly shot...look at those 3 spots of deep orange just across my chest (may need to bigify to see 'em), aren't they pretty?


That's it for me today. Bye peoples!



PS - Delilah had a great solution to my dilemma yesterday on whether to visit her or Tasha or both on separate days -- she said me and her should both go to Tasha's! We three could hang out together, and we'd kick out Franklin and Dobby and send them to go play with Samson, that way it'd be just us girls. Wonder if Tasha's mom could handle THREE torties for the day (or maybe longer!)??

Tortie Tuesday

Hi peoples! It's another Tortie Tuesday. So here I am, in all my tortie goodness.
Getting ready for a nap on the couch:


Napping in the Bubble Wrap Box:


Okay, enough of this photo stuff, I'm outta here...


Bye peoples!

Tortie Tuesday

Oh hai peoples! Callie here on a Tortie Tuesday, just checking in. I've been taking care of important things, like exposing my belleh, taking naps, laying in sunbeams, taking naps, eating, taking naps...all those pesky chores a cat is responsible for.


And of course, checking to see what's outside while continuing to guard the box of the new loud noisy vacuum monster so The Mommy can't assemble it...


I think I hear a nap calling my name now. *sigh* A cat's work is never done.

Bye peoples!

PS - We just heard that our friend Franklin at Mishkat is feeling poorly with bronchitis, so please send out some purrs for him!