No Thomas, You Have to Wait...

When it's treat time every cat in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde knows.  Now Thomas is the dominant cat in the pride.  So naturally he thinks that a) he should get treats first and b) he should mug me.  I find this behavior unacceptable because a) it's not always his turn to get treats first and b) he needs to learn not to put his face in my face when it's treat time.  Thus, I have been teaching Thomas not to do this.  How, you ask?  muahahahahahahahahahaha!

When each of da boys comes up to get treats, if they get too close, they get one of two commands.  Either, "sit" or "wait".  If Thomas doesn't "wait" then a) he gets shoved back and his nose tapped and b) he has to wait until everyone else gets treats.  Thomas doesn't like this.  Too bad, so sad.  Should it happen that Thomas is the only cat in the room and he is getting treats he still gets the "wait" command.  I also use "back" or "sit".  Da boys are quite smart and 'speak' quite a bit of English.

For instance, if they start yelling at us, we look at them and say, "show me".  They immediately go either to their food bowls, to the door, or wrap themselves around our legs (the latter meaning "pick me up neow and love on me!!"  Thus Thomas is getting "wait" when he's mugging me for treats.  He's starting to get the picture.  No treats unless you behave.  Everyone else has already caught on.  Mister Stubborn may take awhile.

Maybe I should switch to German.  No one else in the family uses it but I have a tendency to shake my finger at da boys and say "tu das nicht!"  It's amazing how well they understand me when I talk to them in German!  I don't remember much of it even though I minored in it in college (and two & a half years in high school!) but I have enough to let them know what for!!

BTW I'm still waiting for the router!  And I had to go buy a coaxial cable yesterday because a mysterious person managed to tear apart the one connecting my modem to my cable.  ::narrows eyes::  The Shadow knows who did it.

large mug... once I get the laptop back online I'm thinking about changing the shop

around so that the mugs & such are in one section, shirts in another, etc.

but I'll need names for the sections... suggestions??

Teenage Mutant Ninja Horde have new treats.... router still kaputen!

The router is still kaputen.  I’ve got one coming from Comcast.  Good thing I called this morning to see if my dearest husband could pick one up from the local office!  The order hadn’t processed!  For $29.95 I could have it overnighted but we can’t afford that right now.  meh  This means 4-5 business days before we have a new router and I have internet access on the laptop in the bedroom.  ::sigh::  Da boys were happy last night because Corwyn and I stopped at Krogers and bought them treats.  Yay!  Two different flavors, both crunchy, as we discovered that they much prefer that type.  I wish that we could have gone to the pet store or the vet’s office and bought Greenies but until our income goes up that’s not going to happen.

Of course, this meant that last night and this morning we were mugged.  ::grin::  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde knows that morning & bedtime are treat time!  Corwyn insists that he should give Mister Kitten his treats.  I think that this is a Good Idea since it helps reinforce the idea in Mister Kitten’s head that Corwyn is His Boy.  ::grin::  Mister Kitten spends a great deal of time sleeping on Corwyn’s bed.

 Mister Kitten is helping enforce the law.  No, really!!

See!  See!  You must have a sleeping cat!

I use cloth bags all the time.  I probably have twenty or more

in my car of various shapes, sizes, colors, & designs.

I really like how my cats come out on the CafePress bags.

heh heh heh  Now if I could just afford to get them all!

Eeeep!! The Router is Tick!

Now the router is sick which means that I can't use the laptop.  StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty worked diligently with me yesterday trying to get it back up but to no avail.  We have a new one coming from our local cable provider but it's going to be a few days until that happens.  ::meow!::  Until then, no kitty pictures!  And no new ones because Jennifer took off this morning at waaaay too early an hour (even the cats thought so!) to go on a choir trip to Orlando, FL!!  At the last minute I asked her if she had a camera, "No.", so I herocially parted with mine (she's on pain of death to return it safely!) and let her know that she can eliminate the current kitty pictures on it if she absolutely has to do it!

I just hope that the router issue wasn't sabatoge.  Star seemed just a wee bit enthusiastic about me being in the office.  He was trilling like no tomorrow, weaving in and out of my feet and getting into my lap to help. hmmmmmmm

large coffee mug... I definately need more coffee!!