Wow! Look at that ninja move. I’m not sure if I’m more impressed with the moves or with your photographer for capturing them all! These cats are serious athletes!
see more: Wednesday Wallaby Wannabe
Ninja Action from Finland
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Painting for cats!
A painting app for cats! Paint For Cats. It is a hunting game, as you chase the mouse your paw hits the screen and each time a multi-coloured paw print appears in that position, creating a cat painting as you hunt and play. You can save your painting or share it on Facebook .
Cool!
Safety and freedom!
Moi!
Your foreign correspondent here from Finland(North). I live in an international household, with some Britcats. One had a rough life as a street cat in Bristol many years ago. Here we do not have free wandering cats as there are rules humans make. They are for our safety as we might get eaten by predators, and in winter it would be very hard for us to survive as the temperature drops to -30′C. So here it is much more common to have cats on leashes when they are outdoors, though of course it is us walking the humans holding them.
I didn’t like the leash so much: it stopped me from stalking tasty snacks. So Äiti, that’s what we call our human, got loads of netting and wire. We now have a safe upstairs balcony and downstairs ‘catio’. Of course we’d like both to be bigger, but it’s a good compromise for us and humans. It’s also given our shy Britcats the opportunity to breath fresh air and feel the summer sun without the fear of cars.
Generally we think it’s a great idea having the catio – except when the rest of the garden is full of birds and things we want to catch!
Heippa!
Punapippuri
Lynx kitten triplets are born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
via ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Our wild cousins are celebrating the birth of triplets. Three tiny lynx kittens are born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
One proud set of parents at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo have three reasons to celebrate this summer – following the birth of lynx kitten triplets.
The all-girl trio, born in June to parents Maja and Timo, have spent the last few weeks tucked up in their den but have just begun to explore outside.
Now they are big enough to venture out on their own, the playful kittens can be spotted perched on logs and playing hide and seek with each other in the long grass while mum keeps a close watch.
Senior keeper Carole Day said: “Mum’s doing a sterling job of looking after all three kittens. They are starting to become more adventurous and independent and are having lots of fun exploring their paddock.”
read more…. Triple celebrations as lynx kitten triplets are born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
Midge an Olympic Contender or Movie Star?
On the day the London Olympics start meet a feline sprinter who loves to run. Midge is one of the Outstanding Rescue Cat category finalists in Cat’s Protection National Cat Awards sponsored by Verdo Cat Litter.
She was the rescue cat no-one wanted but one-eyed puss Midge turned out to have true movie star appeal after being adopted by Martin Humphreys. The story began when Martin took his regular morning jog to the shop and noticed Midge running alongside him. Not only was she enjoying the sprint – she actually appeared to be racing her new owner! Amazed by her sporting prowess, Martin made an acclaimed low-budget film about Midge’s competitive nature, The Great Race, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Martin says: “Midge became more famous than Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt!”
see the video, it’s pretty cool.
Out & About With The Downing Street Cats
via Your Cat Blog
There’s a new cat on the Downing Street block as Chancellor George Osborne and family welcomed back long lost Freya. Freya went missing from the Osborne’s Notting Hill house three years ago and was recently found living as a stray a few streets away. A microchip revealed her identity and she can now be seen sporting a sparkly new collar.
Read more of the story on Your Cat Blog.
Kissanpäivät
Moi!
Here in Finland we have a phrase, ‘kissan päivät‘ meaning cat’s days. These are the days when life is good – you have worked hard and can live off the fruits of your labours, and it is time to lay back and enjoy. It’s summer right now and we have no darkness here in Finland (north) so we have very long kissanpäivät. Time to stretch out and enjoy life.
Just like Mirksu does here!
Heippa!
Punapippuri, your foreign correspondent in Finland (North)
Games for Cats! – Free Cat Games from Friskies®
Challenge Your Human with ‘You vs. Cat’ From Friskies®
A game for you and your human to play on their ipod or android tablet. Challenge her to a round of ‘You vs. Cat’ From Friskies®, the first (we think) dual-species game for iPad® and Android™ tablets.
Must try it and see if we can beat them. I bet it’s easy! I mean, they’re human, how hard can it be????
The Loudest Cat In the World
The Infinite Cat Project
Smokey the cat purrs louder than a lawn mower! For cat lovers, there is nothing more soothing than the sound of their pet purring with contentment.
But when Smokey kicks off, it’s time to reach for the ear plugs. The sound she produces can reach an incredible 92 decibels – the same as you’d experience watching a Boeing 737 coming in to land. Even from five feet away the level is 80 decibels, the same as a car passing 25ft away. Most cats produce around 25 decibels.
Owners Ruth and Mark Adams say the 12-year-old British Shorthair can drown out TV and radio shows and phone conversations with her ‘cooing purr’ which they describe as ‘sounding as if she has a dove stuck in her throat’.
More about Smokey via The Infinite Cat Project – Cat Stories – The Loudest Cat In the World.
A great job if you can get it!
Hermitage Cats Today – YouTube
Hermitage Cats Today – YouTube.
