My human has been spectacularly bad at updating this blog this year, mostly because she is on Facebook all the time when she is claiming she is too busy to help me blog. But I just had to insist on being allowed to wish all my friends a Happy Christmas, in case they don’t read my mum’s Facebook.

Lots of things have happened which I haven’t been allowed to blog about.  A traumatic visit to the v-e-t for annual injections when I escaped from the examination room and got chased all over the surgery!  A stay at kitty jail in October while my humans went to Devon Grandma’s.  (The kitty jailers put a big orange sign on the front of my jail cell which says ESCAPE ARTIST, I don’t know why!!!)

And if you don’t read my mum’s Facebook (see link on the right) , you won’t even know about…D.C.!!!  

This is D.C.  He is a senior kitty who started hanging around on our patio looking sort of skinny and matted, with a runny eye, quite a while ago.  First he ran away from my mum.  Then when he realised she had food he started running towards her instead.  Then he decided instead of eating his food on the patio it would be more fun to come into the kitchen and eat MY food instead!!!  The next thing you know he was asleep on the sofa several hours a day…

He is kind of boring.  I keep trying to get him to play with me but he is rude and ignores me – all he wants to do is eat and sleep and occasionally get totally stoned out of his kitty brain on catnip.  Oh.  And sometimes he does really stinky things in the litter box.  No one asked me if I wanted to have a stinky boy cat around but we don’t hiss at each other.  I have some of my meals on the counter now though because if my food is on the floor Someone Else hoovers it up.  He is not skinny any more.  In fact my mum says he is really heavy!  He purrs louder than me but he does not run fast or jump high like me.

Tomorrow the humans and I are going on a very long car journey to Devon Grandma’s.  I am not that keen on going in the car but I will like seeing Devon Grandma.  Maybe she will play with me.  D.C. doesn’t have to go in the car.  He is going to stay here and sleep and get fed by Uncle Andrew and be boring.

Happy Christmas to all my friends.  I will try to make my human make a New Year’s Resolution to help me blog much better in 2013!

Dora xx

 

 

 

 

Today is my second Gotcha Day.  When I was a little tiny kitten I lived with the people next door and some other cats (including Leo the ginger), but when I was only 10 weeks old they decided they didn’t want me any more because they “couldn’t cope with so many kids and cats”.  So I moved one house to live with my humans, who had a vacancy for a cat-in-charge because the late great Fat Eric had gone to the Bridge.  

Here I am on my Gotcha Day, sitting on the stairs about an hour after I arrived, checking out the house.  Being in charge of a whole house and two humans when you are very small is a big challenge!

And here I am on the same stairs, all grown-up and Queen of the house!

 

I am exhaustified from all the celebrations of my second purrthday. Thank you very much for all the purrthday wishes, but I think I need to do some serious napping to regain my strength. I found this clean duvet cover spread out to air on the spare bed before Cornish Grandma and Cornish Auntie come to visit tomorrow for a week. I think Cornish Grandma would prefer her duvet cover with some Dora furs. Plus it is raining outside, so…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Can you believe that my Useless Human hasn’t helped me blog since FEBRUARY???? Disgraceful! Especially when I have had so many fun adventures since then, and I haven’t been allowed to visit lots of my bloggy friends either. But now my human is on her long school summer holidays and so she can’t use the excuse about being too busy and I told her she HAS to let me blog today because it’s my PURRTHDAY! I am two whole years old!

As you can see, I am still floofy and gorgeous and full of tortie attitude.  Here I am in my garden.  We have had lots and lots of rain this “summer” but now for the last few days it has been sunny and warm so I have been spending a lot of time playing in my garden.  Often I play with my friends Leo and D.C.  (Well, I play with Leo, D.C. is a bit old and dignified for playing with us).  I will post some pictures of them now that I am allowed to blog again.

My humans bought me some really cool presents for my purrthday.  I had a scratching post and I kind of destroyed it so I was hoping my humans would buy me a new scratching post, but they bought me something even BETTER!  Look! 

I have lots more pictures of me on my new kitty climbing tower to share later.

To make my purrthday even better, yesterday I got a parcel all the way from Mericky!  It was from my boyfriendcat, Ducky!  He is such a thoughtful boyfriendcat.  He sent me a whole box of toys and treats, and also a beautiful hummingbird card.  Here I am unpacking the box.  

So far my favourite items are the catnip mouse toy and the tub of treats you can roll around (my mum left the room for 5 minutes and I worked out how to remove the lid from the tub all by myself, hee hee!)  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MY PRESENTS, DUCKY!  Everyone come over and share my toys and treats – I’ll even let you climb on my new climbing tower!  Happy purrthday to me!

Dora xxx

I made this Valentine especially for my favourite mancat.  I hope he likes it!

Look what happened to my garden, kitties!

Where is my pond?  Where is the green grass??  What is all this white stuff???

My paws got cold and wet and I decided to spend the rest of the day looking at it out of the window…

(Mum says:  We only get a few days of snow each winter in London and this is the first since January 2011.  No wonder Dora was surprised!)

I’m hiding under the dining table.  They’ll never find me here.  They won’t find dad’s grey sweater either…

I do not like winter because it gets cold.  I like to be warm all the time.

If you know the lovely Hannah, from Hannah and Lucy’s blog, you may have seen the picture she posted on Tuesday.  She has been trying to keep warm by sleeping next to the radiator, and her mum is wondering why she does not feel too hot…Hannah’s mum should see where I like to sleep when I feel cold!  This is the radiator in our front hallway…I REALLY like to be WARM!

P.S.  My mum says she is sorry about all the bits on the carpet – right after she took this picture she disturbed me by getting the vacuum cleaner out!

As my friends know, we get a lot of Evil Intruder Cats visiting our garden.  Some of them come round all the time, like Leo, the ginger cat who lives next door, where I lived for a little bit when I was a kitten.  Others only come round occasionally.  Lately we have noticed a few new cats coming round.  But usually there are only one or two Evil Intruder Cats in my garden at any one time.  Some of them I play with and some of them I hiss at and chase them away.  (There is a black and white cat I HATE and whenever I see her outside the window I hiss and throw myself at the glass!…she once pushed me off the garage roof into the pond and I have not forgiven her yet!)

But I was SHOCKED when I looked out of the kitchen window early one morning this week and saw this…They are getting together!  And plotting!  Maybe they are even plotting to move into my nice comfy home where I enjoy being a Spoilt Only Cat!  Maybe they are plotting to steal my foods!  How do they know what a nice life I have?  Have they been SPYING on me?My mum says there must be a sign pointing to our house because we have so many Evil Intruder Kitties.  But I can’t find it!  All this E.I.K. activity is a mystery to me.  I am going to have to be on the alert.

P.S.  The Cat-Who-Came-Before-Me, Fat Eric, used to have a lot of trouble with the E.I.K.s too.  You would think we would have solved the mystery by now!