Round one voting for the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards is now open! MamaTulip’s been nominated for Best Family Blog – head on over and vote for her before 11:59 PST, January 21. (Of course, the Yarn Harlot has been nominated for several categories, too, including Best Blog and Best Activities Blog.)
Deb (aka Chappysmom) is having a contest celebrating some blog milestones, including her three-year blogiversary.
Although I’m sure no one remembers, we do actually have a cat bed around here. Here’s a picture of Chaos at six months of age (around March of 2003) actually using the cat bed. If he tried that now, he’d have to be surgically removed from it…
Anyway, I haven’t seen a kitty in the cat bed in forever… until one day when I simply flipped it over, bottoms up.
“What?” -Mayhem
“Really, this isn’t exciting enough to merit paparazzi.” -Mayhem
“Although it does merit some stretching.” -Mayhem
“You’re making mer nervous, Mom. Is there something about this cat bed that I should know? Are you waiting for it to devour me or something?” -Mayhem
Aww he looked soo cute! – not thet he isn’t cute now
Aren’t they silly? I made a kitty pi and Pepper slept in it for a month, maybe. Then they took turns sleeping on it for a while and now, it’s gone away because no one used it.
Cocoa doesn’t really care for the cat bed (she did once, right after I finished it), but Otis has taken to sleeping in it every once in a while. Weirdos.
Mine has a cat bed- it seems to be the same one we humans use- which is why all of my blankets have pulls and runs in them from little biscuit-making feet.
Maybe you should tell them it’s a sweater.
And this is why I’d never make a kitty pi. Silly catchen. I know well enough that the Fortress of Bowlitude is sufficient for Matisse and Picasso will not be satisfied unless he’s on my person.
But you know? Do I wish they’d use one? That I made? Yeah. But I know I am merely the catstaff.
Yes, well, the cat’s bed is where ever the cat happens to decide to sleep.
Bottoms up is always the best way to go.
Thanks for the shout-out!
I think Chewy would like a kitty bed, especially one as comfy looking as (the bottom of) Chaos’. Chewy’s a blanket cat; he loves to curl up on blankets, or piles of freshly folded laundry. Or the bath mat, which kinda makes me scratch my head and wonder, WTF?
That kitten shot–it’s like a pillow with bright eyes. So cute!
Thanks for the mention, Chris!
My guys are too stuck in their furry little ways to ever give a cat bed the time of day. They just like to lie all over whatever it is I’m working on…
Ah, how nice to see old things be treated with love once again!
So, would May actually fit in the cat bed?
Mel’s favorite bed is my armchair.
So, Chaos had the glare perfected at an early age!
Rocky loves his bed. He also loves the nest atop the armoire in my office. My old man, Nikita? Wherever he lays his head, that’s his bed.
I’ve got one cat her loves herself some cat bed. I really need to get around to making one of those.
der mahem, i am a new kity and ned a bed. so i dont have to slep with mom and dad and the shingles. or the fat kitty who hsssssssssses at me an slepps on the dog bed so the dog cant. love sammy. ps.. i hav to go stele some stuf now. do u stele stuf?
I love mamatulip, although I really think she should up the Dave content during the voting period. His My Bunghole picture is classic.
What happens if you wash it? All heck breaks out if I wash the beds, blankies & assorted cat designated areas. There is a lot of work to be done making everything smell like cat again
Thank goodness it isn’t traditional marking
First thing I noticed in the Chaos kittie bed pic was the x-tra sharp claws out!
Chris- I haven’t considered making KC a bed, as he tries to muscle in on Casey- who sleeps on a giant dogbed- and ends up smelling like a Labrador.
I bought mine one of those kitty heating pads. Absolutely no use of it UNTIL I put it in a long laundry basket. Now it’s used every night. I don’t particularly want a long laundry basket sitting in my bedroom, but who am I to make decisions?
Once they find out it’s a cat bed, they have no use for it.
Mine gets used more for playing than sleeping. The ferrets turn it over and push it around the house.
Mine ignore kitty beds. Although the scrap blanket I made a while back is very popular. and afghans are always a good plaace to snuggle….
Adorable! But these claws in the first picture scare me…
I just found Munchkin curled up on my TV chair, UNDER the blanket. It must colder than I realized.
Maybe if you got it wet so that they would think you were blocking it, they would be all over it!
A bunch of the comments today made me laugh out loud. It’s been a rough week (and it’s 8:57 on Wednesday), so thanks. I needed both the pics and the comments.
My cat totally ignored the cat bed I made. So I gave it to my neighbor. Hopefully one of his 3 cats enjoys it.
Ooh, baby kitty! He’s actually a few months older than my son!
My mom had to do the same flip with the cat bed she knit her cats. Mayhem seems a bit nervous about your intentions during the photo shoot. Perhaps she’s figured out you are knitting more bibs.
I thought about making my brother’s cat a cat bead. Then, I figured that if she knew it was for her, she’d just ignore it.
Hmmm. Is that an iPod cord trailing from Mayhem’s butt? I surely hope not…
We play musical beds at my house. Only the CC lives in hers, because The Meezer has dominance issues. (sigh)
Never a dull moment.
(((hugs)))
hahah silly kitty. Once they take the notion….
Hehe
It does look more like a hat upside down and I notice the kitties find clothes much more attractive than kitty beds.
Little Chaos looked like Gollum or a gargoyle there!
See now, when they stop using it again, just flip it right side up. It’s a new fun toy for them to play with every few months.
Haha. And I was just telling my mother about how to knit a kitty pi.
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