Fly free, sweet Prancer Pie

A special mancat has gone to the bridge - Prancer Pie from the Prancer Pie blog has passed tragically soon.

We send our purrs to his family. Fly free sweet Prancer, I know our Inigo will be there to meet you.

Comments are off for this post - please can you take a moment to stop by his blog and say some words to his family.

Proof that the Ham is a weirdo

We were lying in the sunpuddles the other day, totally enjoying the warm... till Hammy felt that he'd had enough warmth.

So he did this.

Check it out Rumbles! I'm under cover!

Ohhhh Hammy. *sigh* 

What? I'm SUPER comfy.

...because MOVING out of the sunpuddle would have been silly. Ohhhh Hammy.

It's a trap!

We recently got an email from the good folks at Dropcam - they're doing a fun blog challange! They wanted us to post about our quirks...

Hammy and I both LOVE these super floofy blankies. Rumblemum bought several of them because they're so soft, so now there's one in almost every room of the apartment.

Hammy and I cannot resist them! Whenever we put our paws on them, we are compelled to knead them then floomp into a puddle.

Well yesterday I took it one step further. I became a very floofy purr-ito!

How can this be so comfy?

Who cares, it's like a cloud! 

This is the best quirk EVER!

Some Sparkle in our lives!!

It has been a remarkable week.

First off, our wonderful new shopping tote! Miss Sparkle the Designer Cat is on it!! I (of course) love it for the bootiful ladycat on the outside. I also love it because Rumblemum bought some fresh fish and put it in there! You can get one of your own on Zazzle, and they help get the message out that declawing is not cool.

Then we got our Secret Santa gift... and it was from Miss Sparkle!! What an awesome coincidence, it's a Sparkley week, for sure!

Pretty sure it says 'Hammy' 

But... the big news? THIS was on the front of the package! Those Customs kitties must have been napping, they didn't steal my toys! Or maybe Binga gave them the hard word? Either way - WOO HOO!

Hooray! It passed!

NO Hammy. It CLEARLY says d'Artagnan Rumblepurr. Nothing about
YOU.

Inside... was MAGIC.

Oooo bubblewrap and packing paper! I must maul you!

I spent like 10 minutes mauling the wrapping. I loved the bubble wrap. In this photo you can see I've mauled it so it's by my back paws, which are for MEGA MAULING.

BUNNYKICK!!

Of course everything that I do, that Ham has to do too.

Ooo this IS fun!

Ok, make with the gifts now!

I like THIS one!

Look at all this LOOT!! We LOVED every bit of it!

SILVERVINE FISHIES!!!

MEGA GREENIES!!!

And there was a bootiful card as well!

OoooooOooOoo

There was even something for Rumblemum!! A while back some stranger kitties came in and knocked her Bast statue off its shelf. Several times. Till it lost an ear and had dents in it. Miss Sparkle send a bootiful NEW statue!

So pretty!

Rumblemum took many, many photos of me doing goofy things like this with my new toys:

WAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

Till she smartened up and just made a video.



Thank you SO much to Miss Sparkle. We are thrilled. Rumblemum has taken at least a million photos. All is right in the world.

Happy new year to all my friends, I hope that 2014 is a wonderful year.

Le Ham

Hello my friends! This is HAMMY!!

I wanted to let you know that we had a GOOD Xmas. I got... HAM!! Yes, I got lots of ham. I also discovered that I LOVE turkey almost as much (Rumbles says turkey is better than ham. I don't quite agree with him yet)

Today is New Years eve for us, and I'm hoping me and Rumbles get some champagne ham at midnight. I know where I'll be sitting - in my favorite chair!

See? It says 'Le Chat' - that's ME!

*whispers* Rumbles is a little cross with me. He says this chair is his chair... but look how cute I am!

2014 is the year of the Ham

Happy New Years to all my friends, I hope it's a wonderful year for you all and that the bridge stays CLOSED in 2014.

And now a note from Rumbles...

And ladies? I'll be here on MY chair, ready for the midnight smoochies!

Finally! I get to open the #oznzmas Secret Santa package!

Woo hoo!! I FINALLY got to open my #oznzmas Secret Santa gift! (Tho I MAY have already tried to open it when Rumblemum brought it in from the mail...*innocent eyes*)

But I didn't ACTUALLY open it, so Santa couldn't
be mad.

I went mental over the package - I wanted it open NOW NOW NOW! Inside the bag was another bag, a really pretty one! Of course as a refined mancat, I patiently waited for my gift.

MINE! MINE! GIMME!

If I had thumbs this would be unpacked by now.
Hurry it up.

And what was that Ham doing?

Wake me when it's time to carve the ham.

But back to ME and MY gift...

Oooooo... this looks GOOD!

It says 'Party Mix'... I need some BOOTIFUL
ladycats to come by and share!

I sure like the smell of these ones!

Gonna get this open...

MIGHTY PAW power!

Attackkkkkkk!!

HaHA! I showed this package who was boss.

You can see in the last photo that Rumblemum got something as well! A really pretty bracelet!

We all feel really lucky (even lazy Hammy) and we want to say a BIG thank you to our Secret Santa!

Outside in the Kritter Kondo!!

We sure love summer, and we were so excited to go out on our deck for the first time!!

 Rumblemum wanted to make sure we were safe, so she won't let us go out unless we're in our Kritter Kondo. We loved going out when we lived at our old apartment but it's even MORE fun to go out in this apartment! There are all sorts of birds flying by, and we can smell the trees and stuff!

ooooOoooO... I love the smell of outside!

Look how wide my eyes are! 

Hmmm, it feels like someone is watching me...

Oooo Rumbles! Look at the birdies!

Do you think if we worked together we
could catch them?

*drool*

I'm gonna head inside and get some bird
seed.

Don't you go anywhere, Mister Bird!

We had so much fun outside, and we can't wait to go out again. We really want to thank our friends at Kritter Kommunity for inventing such a wonderful product, and an extra big thank-you for the amazing customer service recently. They really went above and beyond to make sure our order got to us.

In honor of Santa...

I am being a GOOD boy.

Usually when I get on to the 'forbidden shelf' I knock over as many of those little Buddha guys as I can. But I know that Santa only comes to good little man cats, so I have found an acceptable compromise.

Woo hoo! The 'forbidden shelf' is SO comfy

Why no, I did not knock over any Buddhas. Even tho they were
begging for it

I have NO idea where the other two (and a half) Buddah
guys are

Did I mention that I'm SUPER comfy up here?

Xmas is on it's way!

And I for one am looking forward to having the humans on holiday. They better be prepared to worship me for the whole holiday, cause I'm sure feeling neglected for this 'work' thing they go to EVERY day.

EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Note from Rumblemum: it is NOT every day. It just feels like every day *sigh* 

Ho ho ho! We've got your Xmas gift SORTED!

Hello my friends!  Apparently it's getting really close to Xmas... not that WE'D know, since we're not allowed to have a TREE. (something about a kitty with a first name starting with 'D' who would tip it over... *glaring at Hammy*)

BUT! I bet you're all looking for the perfect Xmas gifts. And I bet that at least one or two of you have a 'hard to shop for' person on that list. Well worry not! We have the most perfect and original gift ideas for you!

Miss Julia is holding an auction with proceeds to go to her BOOTIFUL kitty Annabelle's vet bills. There are lots of super cute things for very reasonable prices. Including one Kiwi soft toy who makes authentic Kiwi peeping noises!

Mister Kiwi would be great for kitties, puppies or humans (I bet the mini humans would adore this guy!)

We love these Kiwi guys, as you can see from us smooching on them...

I wub you, Mister Kiwi

Hmm.. do you smell me smelling you?

Peep! Peep! Peep!

There are heaps of really cool stuff up for auction, including AWESOME toy packages, and some cool books.

Check out the auction and poof! You might just finish off your Xmas shopping! What could be better than that?

Note from Rumblemum: The 'No tree' rule came into place before Diego was born... so you be the judge about who the tree-tipper might be...

Secret hidden cat

Sometimes I like to do surveillance over Rumblemum and that Ham.

It's times like these I'm glad I have my mouse-house. I've strategically placed it behind the other cat tent, so you'll never know I'm there. If you look you can see the tail of my mouse-house, but you'll NEVER see ME!

Secret Agent Cat!

And then just like that, I appear! From out of nowhere!

I'm like Batman. Except I'm a cat. I'm CATMAN.