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Our World this week :)

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Hello my friends, Spot here!

Can you believe it’s Sunday already? It’s amazing how quickly a week passes, isn’t it? We’ve had some nice things happen this week and of course some not so nice things…

You may recall at the start of the week, our Spike decided to worry the entire household by staying out overnight when he shouldn’t 😯 Luckily, he came home the next day, but he would still like to escape given the chance. Here he is plotting his next move, naughty big pesky 😆

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Spike plotting

 

I had a much nicer week though 🙂 As you probably know by now, I do like a little catnap now and again and I do like my comfort. All for research purposes, you understand 🙂

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Having a nap in Mummy’s office

 

Quite often, though, I have a little person helping me with my “research”…

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Little Annie helping me

 

This week, I was able to put my research powers to good use – see! I knew there was a reason for me purrfecting my snoozing skills all these years!

My mummy’s nice friends at Tigga Towers gave her one of their new memory foam cat pillows, and asked if she could see what us cats thought of it!

Well! Of course, I’m always happy to oblige if it means helping others, so I waited patiently for mummy to fluff it up and position it, and there I was – straight on the case to see what it was like! 😆

Mind you, it didn’t take long for the little pesky to join me – it’s a good job there’s room for two!

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Testing out the pillow

 

So I asked Annie what she thought and she said it was very comfortable indeed, and for a change I actually agreed with her! I can see us me having lots and lots of nice snoozes on it – its so lovely and soft yet supportive at the same time! And just the purrfect size for us 🙂

Then we asked our mummy what she thought…

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What do you think mummy?

 

She said that the main thing is that we like it which we clearly do. Lots of people buy beds that their cats hardly ever use, but this wasn’t the case here.

She then got all sensible about it, saying how practical it is as the outer cover is easily removed and washed, and there is wipe clean surface covering the inside pillow in case of little accidents. Not that I would have any ‘little accidents’ of course 😯

She knows how well the Tigga Towers covers wash from looking after the coverings on the towers we have 🙂 So compared to some other cat beds, it’s very easy to take care of.

I must admit, I did start to drift off a little here as I think practical is a bit boring if I’m honest 🙂 All I know is that it’s comfy and snuggly and is now my favourite bed if I’m in that part of my World 🙂

In the meantime, Lula was outside enjoying a cat nap in her hammock for a change as Spike wasn’t occupying it 🙂

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And then Annie decided it was time for some fresh air, so she went to catch some rays

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Little Annie

 

This week has also seen our Friday cat going somewhere we don’t like going – to the Cat Doctor! She had a poorly mouth with sore teeth and gums. Well, she is 18½ so she’s had those teeth for a long time 🙂

Luckily, the Cat Doctor was able to give her some meds which have helped a lot, so hopefully we can avoid her needing to have surgery which is a bit of a risk at her age.

When she came back from that place, I was nice and let her sit on my new bed and Lula kept her company 🙂

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Having a chat

 

In fact, I have been very nice and let Lula and Harry use my pillow. And both of them have had the little Annie pesky join them on it too! There’s no escaping her 🙂

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Harry

So the only cat in our World who I’ve not seen on my new bed is Robbie.

Robbie likes the simple things in life and often sleeps in a cardboard box which has a pillow in for him, though I think I need to educate him on trying something new 🙂

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Robbie outside, blending in

 

Meanwhile, I settled down for a nice snooze. Accompanied by you-know-who 😆

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Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

So that’s a week in our World, my friends! I hope you enjoyed catching up with all seven of us 🙂

Take care!
Love from

Spot

xxxxxxx

 

Robbie’s Big Day Out!

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Hello my friends, Spot here!

I have some very exciting news to share with you, and it’s all about our ginger boy, Robbie!

 

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Robbie

 

So it all started off a couple of weeks ago, when my mummy was looking at her Facebook and her friend, Carol, was asking if anyone would like to put forward their ginger cats for a photo shoot!

A couple of people had already put forward their gingers, but my mummy thought it wouldn’t harm and sent a couple of pics of our boy.

She was very pleased but a bit surprised when Carol advised her a day or two later that the photographer had chosen Robbie over all the other gorgeous boys!

We didn’t really know too much at that time, just that Robbie had to be at the photographer’s studios on Friday 18th March at 9 o’clock in the morning!

This was definitely going into the unknown a little as Robbie has never, in his 6½ years, been out of our home county of Shropshire, and Manchester is about 60 miles away. Also, of course, he’s never had anyone else take any photos of him other than my mummy and daddy.

A couple of weeks soon passed and Friday morning dawned. So, the hoomins were up quite early for a Friday and we were all a bit confused! The show bag with litter tray, food, water, etc were all out, as was the big carrier…. but we never go to a cat show on a Friday! Whatever was happening?

It soon became clear it was Robbie being whisked off, so we all carried on having our nice catnaps, after we’d eaten some breakfast.

Robbie was a bit unsure in the car but settled down quite quickly and they had a pretty uneventful journey up north to Manchester.

They arrived at the studio right on time and went in and had a look around. They could see a few bits and bobs that would be used as props 🙂

 

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Props

 

After a little while, once Robbie had had a chance to settle, it was time for the pics to be taken! The shots are to be used in promotional material for a new Pet Insurance scheme, and the lady who was responsible for creating the campaign, Katie,  was there along with Geoff the photographer.

Katie had specific shots in mind that she wanted our Robbie to do 🙂 The first was to eat out of a bowl…

 

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Robbie and the bowl

 

Robbie wasn’t too sure about that one as the bowl had the word “dog” written on it, and he does have standards, you know! 🙂 But I think they got the shot they wanted after a few attempts 🙂

Next up, Robbie was in the cat tree, and needed to look out of one of the openings 🙂

 

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Robbie looking out of the opening

 

Next up, he needed to be looking out of a mouse hole!

 

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Geoff making some adjustments

 

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Robbie and the mouse hole

 

Of course, Geoff was the other side of the hole, taking the pic through it 🙂 He was very pleased with one of the ones he got, and even said he thought it was the best animal pic he’d ever taken in his career! 😆

In between the shots, Robbie had a lot of relaxation time, mummy had taken one of his favourite beds and he snoozed away quite happily, purring away 🙂

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Robbie chillin’

 

Finally, they just needed a few pics of Robbie on a nice rug with a mouse 🙂

 

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Robbie on the rug

 

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Robbie and the mouse

 

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Robbie being cool

 

Then it was finished and they all made their way home. My mummy and daddy were very proud indeed of the ginger one: once he’d settled in (which only took a few minutes), he was such a good boy and was very relaxed and chilled out.

Once at home, Robbie told us all about his adventure and then had a nice catnap on one of his favourite perches on the Tigga Towers 🙂

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We’ll share any finished pics we’re sent of him when we get them (that won’t be for a while) and maybe even some of the material if he’s featured 🙂

Take care my friends!

Love from

Spot

xxxxxxx

Lazy Weekend in our World!

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Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

Well, we have had no snow to report in our World which is most disappointing. Or at least Lula thinks it is anyway. Did you know that The Peskies (Annie and Spike) have never even seen proper snow? 😯 They saw a light covering last year, but as soon as it was here, it was gone again! I didn’t even get enough time to wake up from my nice catnap before it had disappeared 🙂

 

This has been an unusual weekend for us – no shows, nothing very exciting happening either. My daddy was still getting over the little bug he had in the week, so the hoomins hardly went out at all!

 

The Spike Pesky was very happy as this meant he spent lots of time with mummy in her office whilst she worked on things for the store and packing up the orders. Spike is very much a mummy’s boy because she gives him lots of cuddles and treats. I allowed my mummy to give me some cuddles and even a kiss or two today, seeing as it’s Mother’s Day here in the UK, but usually I draw the line at her giving me some nice treats and that’s it 😆 Unless I’m in a cuddly mood of course, which happens more than I care to admit 😀

 

Meanwhile, the rest of us pottered around really! Here’s some snapshots of our weekend 🙂

 

When Spike wasn’t smooching around in mummy’s office, he enjoyed a bit of birdie watching in the garden

 

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Birdie watching

 

Daddy put together the cat tree that Annie won for being Best in Show recently – it’s a purrfect fit!

 

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Annie in her little cat tree

 

Meanwhile, Friday was birdie watching from the Tigga Towers in the conservatory – a much more comfortable way of doing so!

 

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Friday birdie watching

 

Whilst, I had to share the top bunk with Harry (again…!) It’s not like there isn’t enough space, he always has to come and sit on me when I’m up there! *sigh* 😀

 

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Trying to have a nice nap on the top bunk

 

Robbie had the right idea and went up to the heated floor in the bathroom for his nap in the squidgy purple bed 🙂

 

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Robbie in the purple bed

 

Whilst Lula concentrated more on a bit of purrsonal hygiene in the old cat tree by the door 🙂

 

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Lula keeping pristine

 

So another Monday is nearly upon us, and I wonder what this week will bring? I’m thinking some nice tuna and some of my favourite chicken treats would be a good start 🙂

Take care my friends!
Love from

Spot

xxxxxxx

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

I hope you’re all having a lovely Valentine’s Day! ♥ ♥ ♥

 

Instead of you all having to listen to me rambling on in today’s blog, I thought I’d do a photo blog, sharing some of our favourite pics of pairs! Pairs of us lot of course, to celebrate this romantic day 😉 Though not all of the pics are very romantic 😆 But they fitted the theme … kind of! 😯

 

 

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Annie and Spike: Synchronised birdie-watching

 

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Spike and Robbie: Chillin’ out together

 

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Harry and Robbie: chillin’

 

 

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More chillin’ from Spot and Annie!

 

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Spot and Annie: Furthering our education

 

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Spot and Spike: Having a manly chat

 

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Friday and baby Robbie enjoying a sun puddle

 

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Annie and Spot: Watching the World go by

 

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Harry and Robbie: Playing Hide and Seek (we can see you, Harry!)

 

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Annie and Spike: Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

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Spot and Lula: Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

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Lula and Annie: Having a girlie chat

 

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Annie and Spike: Play-fighting!

 

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Friday and baby Robbie again 🙂

 

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Annie and Mousie: Having an in-depth conversation

 

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Annie and Robbie: Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

We hope you enjoyed looking at our pics! 🙂

Take care, my friends!
Love from

Spot xxxxxxx

Spotlight on … Robbie

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

I hope your weekend has been good? I have tried to be a good boy, but didn’t quite make it … oh well, I never liked that plant anyway 🙂

 

Today, as you’ve probably already noticed, we’re going to focus on Robbie! Robbie, also known as Bob Bobs or Bobs, was born in August 2009 on a farm in the hills of the Welsh/English borders near a town called Oswestry. Here he is as a baby 🙂

 

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Baby Robbie

 

My daddy bought Robbie from the farm, he was the first cat who wasn’t from a rescue charity that my mummy and daddy had. My mummy knew nothing about it, though! She came home from work one day and there was daddy and this little scrap of ginger fur 🙂 My daddy wanted to call him Nobby but mummy didn’t like that, so Robbie was chosen as it is a much nicer name though still sounds similar 🙂

 

He soon settled in and met Harry who he has been best friends with ever since 🙂

 

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Harry and Robbie having a cuddle

 

But Friday soon accepted him too, she just accepts any new kitty really easily, and Robbie was no exception…

 

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Spotty tummies, though neither have any Bengal in them 🙂

 

Robbie loves the great outdoors and likes nothing better than to get a good vantage point in the big oak tree! He can see the hills on the Welsh border from there!

 

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I can see for miles and miles!

 

But he soon learned that not all is good fun outside, like when he was trying just that bit too hard to catch a fish from the pond in the garden!

 

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Wet Robbie

 

We don’t get much snow here, but when we do, Robbie doesn’t seem to mind it, though he is starting to prefer warmer weather as he gets older, and doesn’t spend so much time outdoors when it’s cold nowadays.

 

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Brrrrr! Chilly paws!

 

So, for Robbie, nothing beats a nice bit of sunshine!

 

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Loving the warmer weather

 

Him and Harry are still firm friends

 

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Best pals

 

Though when he’s on his own, he does like to do a spot of yoga! 🙂

 

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I wonder what that position is called?

 

But at the end of the day, as with all of us, nothing beats a nice snuggly snooze 🙂

 

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Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

Next week we’re going to be having a little break from our Spotlight series as we’ll hopefully be bringing you all the news from the show we’re going to on Caturday! Yay! So tune in for that and also of course in two weeks’ time, we’ll be carrying on putting the Spotlight on another Bengal Cat World puss! 🙂

 

Take care my friends!

 

Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

A Year in our World – Part Four

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

Welcome to the final part of my review of the year which covers October to December and what a busy three months it was! I have really struggled with choosing the photos for the blog today – it was so hard deciding what I should leave out as there are so many I could have shared 🙂  But being as I posted a random pic of me at the start of the last post, here’s a random pic of Lula to start things off today! 😆

 

 

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High five, Lula!

 

October

 

Early October saw Lula, Spike and Annie go off to the Tabby Cat Club show in Warwickshire 🙂 This was Spike and Annie’s second competitive show and I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count which number show it was for Lula. Once again, her Olympian class was very tough and she wasn’t placed, but in their subsequent reports, one of the judges said that she is: “A super gentle girl with plenty of star quality” so that was quite nice 🙂

Spike did very well at the show, he won his breed class and two of his large side classes and was such a good boy, but was overshadowed slightly by Annie who not only won all but one of her classes, but also went on to be judged Best in Show Pedigree pet so was up for the final Best in Show Judging! There she beat the Best in Show Non Pedigree Pet to win Best in Show Overall Household Pet! What an achievement at only her second show! We were all so proud 🙂

 

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Annie in her Best in Show pen!

 

Also in October, that mysterious building I mentioned last time was finished, and it turned out it was a nice office for my mummy! 🙂

 

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Mummy’s office 🙂

 

But even nicer than that, it also meant our cat garden could be re-modelled and was made twice the size, incorporating the office too! So we now have even more space to run around in and more things to explore! 🙂 And mummy can keep her eye on us if she’s in her office, though when we get cold or tired, we of course also go in there and have a nice catnap on the sofa 🙂

 

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Checking out the new building

 

November

 

We had two of our favourite cat shows in November – the Bengal Cat Club Show and the pinnacle of the show calendar, the Supreme!

 

At the Bengal Cat Club, Spike again did very well, winning almost all of his classes 🙂 Again he was a very good boy too, except for when he spilt his water all over his pen 😯 It’s a good job mummy takes spare blankets with her 🙂 But again, he took it all in his stride…

 

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Spike is chilled out

 

We didn’t dare believe that Annie would do as well as she did in her last show… but that’s exactly what she did! She won Overall Best in Show Household Pet for the second show running! What a clever girl! 🙂

 

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Annie in her pen plotting escape!

 

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Best in Show judging

 

Three weeks later and it was time to go to the Supreme! Lula went on exhibition for the Bengal Cat Club and was impeccably behaved all day, she does like to show off though 🙂

 

 

Annie and Spike both again did tremendously well! Annie won the special fun kitten class, beating lots and lots of other kittens; she came first in her breed class and also won best of breed too! 🙂

 

 

Spike didn’t come anywhere in the special kitten class, but like Annie he won first place in his breed class and Best of Breed, but the difference was his breed class was one of the largest in the show! Such an achievement at that level to beat so many other wonderful Bengal kittens, again we were so proud, though Spikey was his usual chilled out self 🙂

 

 

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Spike looking relaxed

 

Phew! What a busy month that was!

 

 

December

 

We decided we’d be on our best behaviour in December as we wanted to make sure the nice man in red visited us at Christmas, though I’m not quite sure Spike got the memo saying that!

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Lula and I are wondering what Spike’s doing up there?

 

I thought I’d at least pretend I liked the two peskies and allowed them to share my perch 🙂

 

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Brown Bengal Bubble

 

It’s not like I do like them, you understand, but they just seem to follow me everywhere! 🙂

 

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Brown Bengal gang, in size order!

 

Pretty soon, it was time for our final show of the year, the National! Again, Spike and Annie went and were very good kitties. They had an excellent show, though not as good as previous ones. Mind you, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you looked at Annie’s pen!

 

 

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Annie’s pen at the end of the show (Spike had joined her in there)

 

The weather was quite reasonable most days, so we spent lots of time in the cat garden

 

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In the cat garden

 

And we also managed to get together for our very first group photo of all seven of us!

 

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All seven of us

 

And then we had Christmas when our good behaviour paid off and we got lots of yummy treats 🙂

 

Which pretty much brings our review to a close, my friends! I hope you enjoyed travelling the journey with us! Let’s hope this year brings lots more exciting things and here’s to a happy and successful 2015 to all of you!

 

Take care!
Spot

xxxxxxx

A Year in our World – Part Three

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

Welcome to the third and penultimate instalment of my review of last year 🙂 I must warn you in advance that this post will probably feature those two pesky kittens quite a lot, so here’s a random non-kitten photo to start off with 😆

 

 

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July

 

Hmmm… I’m trying to recall…what was that big thing that happened in July? Oh yes! That was the month that not only one but TWO kittens invaded my World! 🙂 In the last episode of my blog, I revealed that the hoomins were only going to bring Spike home… a few visits to Sue’s house later and it had been decided that Annie would be living with us after all! What a palaver! 🙂

 

So on Friday 18th July, one day before they were 13 weeks old, the two peskies arrived here 😯 At first it wasn’t too bad as they stayed in their own room; I could hear but not see them which was fine by me! Mind you, they made enough noise in there, they sounded like a herd of elephants at times, not two little kittens 😀

 

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Spike soon loved this toy!

 

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Annie wants to explore outside!

 

But then, just a couple of days later, they were allowed out into MY cat garden! The cheek of it – no-one told me that would happen! 😯

 

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Spike exploring in the bamboo

 

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Lula keeping an eye on things

 

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I’m not sure about you!

 

But after a little while, I decided they probably weren’t so bad after all. Lula decided she liked them within a couple of weeks. Harry and Friday had accepted them quite quickly, though Robbie took a couple of months! But we knew he’d be like that, even before they were brought home – he’s a funny old chap sometimes who doesn’t like things to change.

 

We had another new arrival in July too – our Tigga Towers tree had proved such a hit and was such a wonderful place for us to rest in the kitchen/diner area, that it was decided we could also have one in the conservatory to watch birdies and the cows in the field and generally watch the world go by from in supreme comfort! Even Robbie decided to forget he didn’t like the kittens sometimes to have a snooze on it 😆

 

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Our lovely new Tigga Towers!

 

August

 

From lovely weather in July, August was a little less summery, though the Peskies continued to make themselves at home… *sigh* … 😀

 

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Their big event this month was their very first show! They were going to The Pet Show on exhibition, along with Lula, to show off the Bengal breed to all the visitors. There was no judging involved, and although busy, my mummy and daddy were able to be with them 100% of the time, along with Sue our breeder, so they had a familiar face to look at and a cuddle whenever they wanted… Mind you, nothing phased them and they took it all in their stride!

 

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Taking it all in their stride

 

While they were snoozing in their exhibition pen, mummy and Lula went for a wander around the show hall, and who did they see? The very lovely and famous Bob from the best selling books by James Bowen of how they went from the streets to worldwide fame! Here’s Bob chillin on the chair!

 

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Bob the street cat star

 

James was meant to be signing books, and had a very long queue, but when he saw Lula, he decided to get up and say hello! He had a very long chat with both Lula and mummy (Bob stayed on his chair as he doesn’t like other cats). After a while, his agent had to drag James back to his chair as people were getting impatient for their books to be signed, what a very lovely man he is!

 

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James chatting to Lula (and mummy)

 

September

 

September dawned and Spike and Annie went to their very first competitive cat show! They did very well, both winning nearly all their classes 🙂 My mummy and daddy were very proud! 🙂  They were so well behaved too and were a real hit with judges and visitors 🙂

 

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Spike – first in all his classes except one 🙂

 

They also went to another exhibition show – the National Pet Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Again, they behaved impeccably and were real ambassadors for the breed 🙂

 

But the thing they most enjoyed? Spending time in MY cat garden 😆

 

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Handsome Spike

 

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Oh Annie!

 

But pretty soon we noticed changes on the other side of the fence from our garden! Whatever could it be? A mysterious building was emerging (my daddy was actually building it, but “emerging” sounds a lot more mysterious 😆 ) …

 

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Mysterious Building

 

We will no doubt find out in the next episode what that turned out to be, so tune in then folks! 🙂

 

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

A Year in our World – Part Two

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

I hope you all enjoyed your New Year celebrations, whatever or wherever they may have been. As I said to Edna on our Facebook page, I’m only three years old so I couldn’t stay awake that late and was enjoying a lovely little catnap by the time the clock struck midnight 😉 Luckily there were hardly any fireworks around us so I didn’t get disturbed 🙂

 

Thanks for all your lovely comments for yesterday’s post – we’re glad you enjoyed the first part of our year in review; let’s hope you like the second just as much! Quite an important event happened in this episode, one that would change our World for ever!

 

April

 

Easter fell in April this year. And something magical happened on Easter weekend… On the morning of Saturday 19th April, three little furry babies were born to Flirtie who I showed you in the first part of our review yesterday 🙂 She had two gorgeous spotty girls – a brown and a snow – and a brown spotty boy too!

 

Our breeder, Sue, was very pleased that all three kittens seemed healthy and happy and Flirtie gave good signs of being a wonderful mother, looking after them with lots of care.

 

You’ll no doubt notice that I said these babies were born on the morning of the 19th…. In the evening there was a bit of a surprise! Just when everything seemed settled, another baby decided to make an appearance – 10 hours after the others! This was a BIG boy, and seemed to be quite a light, almost blue colour, though neither parent carries the blue Bengal gene so this shouldn’t have been possible.

 

But my mummy and daddy weren’t too perturbed by all of that because they were due to have the brown spotty girl and got regular updates from Sue as to her progress 🙂 Here’s the babies when they were a couple of weeks old

 

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Awwww…..

 

Pretty soon all 4 babies were named – my mummy and daddy chose the name Annie (pedigree name Tobysden Tsarena Anastasia) for their girl, whilst the snow girl was called Mia and the boys were called Vladimir (chosen by Andrew, his future daddy) and Coco.

 

Mummy and daddy went to see Annie as soon and as often as they could and it soon transpired she was a bit of a cheeky girl! 🙂

 

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Annie having a little nibble

 

May

 

The kittens continued to make good progress and Flirtie turned out to be a wonderful mother! 🙂

 

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Flirtie enjoying motherhood

 

The babies were starting to explore their surroundings out of the nest, though they did sit still long enough for a group shot now and again 😀 Coco had developed rich brown colourings by this time, he had clearly come out of his Blue phase 😆

 

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L-R: Vlad, Mia, Annie and Coco

 

Whilst visiting the babies, my mummy and daddy also met Lucy, another of Sue’s stunning kittens who was then around 5 months old, though she was big for her age!

 

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Sue’s beautiful Lucy

 

Meanwhile, back in our world, Lula and I enjoyed playing in our cat garden as the weather was so glorious!

 

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Lula enjoying the Spring weather

 

June

 

Time flies by so quickly and pretty soon, June was upon us! With it came some bad news…. mummy and daddy thought they wouldn’t be able to have Annie any longer 🙁 But all was not lost as Sue was happy for them to have Coco, the boy she was originally going to keep for herself. So very reluctantly the decision was made and not long after that, my mummy and daddy chose a different name for him – Spike – though his pedigree name (Tobysden Tereschenko) had already been registered and couldn’t be changed, though this was not a problem anyway.

 

However, my mummy and daddy were very sad that Annie wouldn’t be joining our World as they had become rather attached, mummy in particular….

 

But show time was here again and this time it was off to Ellesmere Port for the Merseyside show! Neither Lula nor I got placed in our title classes though Lula did win best of breed (again) 🙂 Little Lucy who you met earlier won not only Best Foreign Kitten but overall Best in Show Foreign Exhibit – a superb achievement!

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Lula and her BoB rosette

 

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In reflective mood….

 

After the show, I had a word with my mummy and daddy. I told them I didn’t really enjoy going to shows at the moment, so they agreed that I could have a break from them. We’re not sure how long for but we’ll see how it goes….

 

And so that’s the first half of the year in a nutshell my friends! Join us for more reminiscences in our next instalment!

 

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

A Year in Our World – Part One

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

Happy New Year to you all! 🙂

 

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You may recall in my last post on Sunday, I said I’d be writing an extra special blog this week to celebrate the New Year? Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to do! In fact, I’m not going to write just one, my friends, but indeed I think I will write FOUR 🙂 I’m going to take you all on a journey down memory lane with a review of 2014 in our World, starting with January to March today and doing the rest of the year as the week progresses! Does that sound OK? 🙂

 

January

The year started off quite quietly… much to Lula’s disgust we had absolutely no snow to play in though that was more than made up for by the fact that we got a different play area! We got our first Tigga Towers cat tree, and oh what fun we had exploring it! Four of us five kitties loved it straight away, Harry always takes a while to realise he likes new things so he wasn’t sure (though he loves it now!). Here we are exploring it within minutes of daddy putting it up 🙂

 

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Lula loves the igloo!

 

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Do you come here often? 🙂

 

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Friday’s wondering what she said to upset the catnip toy?

 

February

 

Despite keeping a close eye on the weather forecasts, February didn’t bring any snow to our World, in fact the weather was quite mild for the time of year!

 

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Catching the rays…

 

Lula and I went to our ‘local’ cat show – the Shropshire Cat Club show, though, as in previous years, it’s held in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire and not in Shropshire at all! 🙂 I got a Reserve Imperial Grand Premier certificate and Lula, who was competing in the higher class of Olympian, wasn’t placed though she did get a nice rosette to show what an achievement it is to compete at this level 🙂 She also won Best of Breed so not all was lost, I suppose 🙂

 

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Reserve Imperial Grand Premier

 

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Best of Breed and Olympian Contender

 

March

 

Guess what? Still no snow in March so we’d pretty much given up on it by then… *sigh* ….

 

So instead we watched birdies in the sunshine from the comfort of our warm conservatory 🙂

 

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Here birdie, birdie! 🙂

 

Around the middle of the month, we had some wonderful news confirmed! Our breeder, Sue’s queen, Flirtie, was definitely pregnant – yay! We were excited because she had had a few false alarms, and also we were hoping to have a kitten from her litter, so this was very good news indeed 🙂

 

Here’s a pic of Flirtie when she was a kitten herself – she’s the one at the front, she always was a very confident girl 😆

 

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Flirtie (front) as a kitten

 

Meanwhile, the new Tigga Towers was still a huge hit with most of us, though Harry still hadn’t got the hang of it, so Robbie (his best mate) kept him company in the big bed 🙂

 

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Zzzz…Zzzz…Zzzz…

 

And on that sleepy note, that’s where we’re going to leave it for now! Please come back tomorrow for Part 2!

 

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

We’ve got a point to prove…

Hello my friends, Spot here!

 

How are you all? We hope you’re well?

 

You may have noticed that there’s a small thing called “Christmas” just around the corner, and I’ve been chatting to all the other kitties in our World to work out a plan…

 

You see, we think sometimes people might think we may be a bit naughty now and again – which of course is never true – but we need to make sure a certain visitor who has a red suit and white beard doesn’t get the wrong impression.

 

So we decided to put together this little compendium of a few pics from this year that show how good we’ve all been! Good thinking, eh? And what better way than to show how well we’ve all accepted those two new peskies this year….

 

When the peskies first arrived, I showed Annie how to play with Dave the Dragonfly

 

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This is how you do it!

 

Friday has also been patient with the pair of them

 

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Friday with friends

 

Harry makes sure they’re ok when they go in the big garden

 

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Harry keeping watch

 

And Lula often teaches Spike the ways of the world

 

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Words of wisdom

 

Robbie has been a good boy by finally accepting them (It took a while…!)

 

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Robbie on his best behaviour 🙂

 

Meanwhile, the peskies have been good this year too, and settled in very quickly!

 

Spike “helps” daddy out when he’s taking photos for our store!

 

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Spike is a good little helper

 

Annie is good when just being cute!

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Annie being cute

 

They were both well behaved when trying out their harness jackets for the first time!

 

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Spike and Annie wondering what’s in the field

 

But, like Robbie, I suppose they’re on their best behaviour when they’re doing this….

 

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Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz…

 

So do you think we’ve done enough to encourage the big man to visit in a few days my friends? I hope so!

Merry Christmas to you all

Spot

xxxxxxx