The Cheezits: Colby and Cheddar: useful cats

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

We're Useful Kittehs..aren't we?

We were tagged by Miz Allie Cat for the "7 Useful Things" meme! This should be easy, of course we are very useful kitties. Um....okay, just give us time to think!

We keep the young bean company when his big bruvver is on the computer by playing wif his toy army men and tryin' to eat them like giant tigers.

We groom each other all the time, and only end up biting each other on the neck sometimes. This shows admirable restraint on our part.

We cheers the Dad bean up when he has a hard day at work by fallin' asleep in his lap and purrin' at him. (Or attacking his socky feet. Depends on what mood we're in after our hard day.)

We try to drink from the toilet AND the water bowl, so Mom saves water (good for the environment until someone closes the toilet lid!).

We attacks any bugs or lizards we see so the house is safe from intruders (see the picture? That's Cheddar in his 'watchful' pose!).

We let Mom know when our food bowl is empty by meowing loudly and trying to get our food down all by ourselves (haven't been quite so successful at that last part yet!).

We help Mom write posts on the laptop by coming over to stand on the keyboard and snoopervise.

We will tag: Cyberspn (we loved the funny Sumo commercial on his site!), Momo, Pawlux
and Lara K.

Who Are Dese Orangey Kittehs, Anyway?

Once, we were just two scared little kittens, clinging to our mother. We must have been very poor, because we weren't very clean or healthy and we had (this is so embarrassing) worms and stuff. We lived day-to-day, and we both remember being very hungry, all the time.

It seemed like we were barely old enough to walk when we were taken away from our mother and brought to a strange place, with lots of other cats (and big scary dogs!). We didn't know why, or what we had done. This place became known to us only as the Shelter.

So, there we were: at the Shelter, in a cage, cuddled together, keeping our spirits up and waiting for a chance to escape, not knowing what else to do, when a surprising new face came to see us.

She smiled at us, and looked us over without poking her fingers in our faces. She made sure our itchy ears were cleaned and those embarrassing worms were taken care of. And she didn't put us back into the cage.

Instead, she took us to a new, totally different place. A place where we have lots of food to eat and fresh water to drink. A place where there's always clean litter. Where there are toys to chase and soft places to sleep.

And we learned a new word.

That word is, "Home."

We are Colby and Cheddar. And this is our story.