Cali the Curious : Queen of the Towels and Towers - Post 101

"Cali the Curious"

Hello!  ^..^  I'm "Cali the Curious".  I'm 8 month old and incorrigible  (did some one say "A BALL").






I am Queen of the Towels and Towers, at least that's what my mum says.  I have a pile of 3 towels on my dresser and a huge vets fleece for sleeping.   I climb anything that isn't glued to the floor or nailed down...because I CAN and DO!

I have very fast paws that run like the wind and can climb ANY THING!!!  Five feet humans too!

I'm just thinking what mischief I can get into next!

Yes, I recently did a fine job of mountaineer running up sideways on a mattress that was put there for ME!



I actually didn't even think or worry my ears about it....

you see I was after a Dream Catcher hanging from the door way!

Kitten's like batteries need to recharge!

 
I think when I grow up a bit and I'm not chasing toy mice...I want to be a detective, journalist or maybe a writer.  I don't know yet - being 8 months old...I have a lot of exploring, hiding my toys, eating or drinking.    Who knows????


My mum called me the 'energizer' ....I wake around 4 every morning for a feeding, maybe throw around my worn and battered mouse...it keeps hiding on me.

Which is not cool as I'm getting bigger and I get stuck under the sofa ......even though my waist is still petite.

I have learned how to: Stand upright on my back paws my my full height - this makes my 'mum' laugh as she tries to tickle my tummy. I  stand on chair, looking for toys, food or anything!  I'm a mastermind of the dreaded 'Crab Walk" to scare and intimidate her.  Traverse book cases in single bound.   Run like a mad monkey and terrorize my best friend 'Bop, Bop' (toy) who I treat like a kitten and play rough.

I observe my humans

hand movements and anticipate them. I know the 'signals'. I know when she doesn't have socks on and can pounce at her bear feet; screaming at me when she's not awake - before FIRST COFFEE _ MEOW. Don't you just love it...I do!! Meep, that is fun....

I love anything that moves, the television. the mouse that tries to talk to the computer. The clock on the wall keep my eyes in focus - until I get dizzy or get bored!  MEOW!

About cameras: I love the camera and my 'mum' will try to take photo's of me when I'm sleeping.  Sometimes a 'gal' has to have some privacy to I run under the bed and sleep for hours! Wouldn't you......???? ^,,^

^..^  JUST TURN YOUR HEAD TO THE RIGHT - OR TURN YOUR MONITOR UPSIDE DOWN

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^,,^Ok, Ok.  I just found out my mum entered me into this photo contest on "Modern Cat  Magazine" a friend of hers got her the magazine...yay!!!  I love to be the centre of attention - don't you?   VOTE FOR ME HERE PLEASE:   http://moderncat.com/photocontest/entry/cali-kalamazoo-happy-cat   CLICK ON THE VOTING BUTTON.....You can vote for me and this will make my PAWS VERY HAPPY !!!!

You know I'm a none stop purring machine - in actual fact I haven't stopped singing since I was adopted int the summer or 12 of June, 2014. LOL.  .....
{Rattle rattle, GOTTA RUN - I hear the fridge door )......TIME TO EAT................

WE hope  you had a purfect CHRISTMAS  and are not too FULL OF TURKEY....!

See you in the New Year ^,,^.....follow me cause I'm CUTE AND CURIOUS! ^,,^

Celestial Sundays - Just 4 ME

Hello MY Darlings!

Celestial Sundays are what it's all about!!!  Making time for ME!

Stars sleep during the day that is why we have DAYLIGHT!

Stars enable cats see even with their SPECIAL night vision!

To do absolutely nothing, simply EAT and SLEEP.  Turn off the computer, unplug the 'cat' phone. Steal your HUMANS WATCH!

Even the universe in it's celestial wisdom ...SLOWS DOWN.  I ordered MY HUMAN to write. SNOOZE - THANK YOU VERY MUCH.................ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.


Let me radiate a little purr sequence for you!!!!

OH Momma that feels SO GOOD!

Celestial Night Patrol.....the eyes have it:

Fandango

[Wikepedia]- Cats have excellent night vision and can see at only one-sixth the light level required for human vision. This is partly the result of cat eyes having a tapetum lucidum which reflects any light that passes through the retina back into the eye, thereby increasing the eye's sensitivity to dim light. Another adaptation to dim light is the large pupils of cats' eyes. Unlike some big cats, such as tigers, domestic cats have slit pupils. These slit pupils [ did my human mean we have STARS IN OUR EYES - lol] can focus bright light without chromatic aberration, and are needed since the domestic cat's pupils are much larger, relative to their eyes, than the pupils of the big cats. Indeed, at low light levels a cat's pupils will expand to cover most of the exposed surface of its eyes. However, domestic cats have rather poor colour vision and (like most non-primate mammals) have only two types of  cones optimized for sensitivity to blue and yellowish green;

{Dream sequence..........nattering, body twitching in lucid day dreaming:  DID SOMEONE SAY 'ICE-CREAM' cones or M I L K},

Did you say M I L K WITH THAT?

I'd like CHEESE with my order!

 they have limited ability to distinguish between red and green, although they can achieve this in some conditions.

 

^{SOUNDS OF SILENCE:  My human thinks I have SELECTIVE DEAFNESS???   Well MY DARLINGS that is her opinion not mine!!!  I choose to listen to certain frequencies THAT INTEREST MOI!} 

Cats have excellent hearing and can detect an extremely broad range of frequencies:

Take me to your RADAR Hertz

They can hear higher-pitched sounds than either dogs or humans, detecting frequencies from 55 kHz up to 79 kHz, a range of 10.5 octaves; while humans can only hear from 31 Hz up to 18 kHz, and dogs hear from 67 Hz to 44 kHz, which are both ranges of about 9 octaves. Cats do not use this ability to hear ultrasound for communication but it is probably important in hunting, since many species of rodents make ultrasonic calls. Cat hearing is also extremely sensitive and is among the best of any mammal, being most acute in the range of 500 Hz to 32 kHz. This sensitivity is further enhanced by the cat's large movable outer ears (their pinnae), which both amplify sounds and help a cat sense the direction from which a noise is coming. [Especially if it's a PIZZA delivery] ^!

Diva KNOWS BEST....it's all about CATOPTICS!!

 ^{One last thought:   Remove the watch and sleep!}

Simply UNWIND

^{WELL MY DARLINGS............don't know about you ....I'm just CHILLING in MY Kingdom.................Ciao babio.}

Furry Kids Come Out to Play = Sabbatical

Hello MY Darlings!

Sabbatical Time

I have been on a sabbatical (did someone say 'bats' lol) of sorts and so has Sr. Knight. We found a wonderful oasis right in the middle of downtown Toronto, steps from our mystical kingdom.  I simply had to share this with you.


 Humans know a lot about benefits of sabbatical leave. Well, you know cats do this daily....drifting in an out of their worlds to communicate with their human counterparts LOL!  We do not need permission or appointment for we are 'free spirits'.  They seem to think they 'thought it up'....far from it
it has been part of our culture for eons!  Ancient stories of my ancestors, lounging in Savanna Plain after a good feed! 

Savanna is an enormous plain with hills and forests. It has different names in the separate parts of the globe from the equator to tropics.(My mom never taught me how to run up this tree, I guess I'd have to if Sr. Sammy was chasing - now there is a taught)!! LOL

Savanna is an enormous plain between moisture equator forests and tropical deserts. The biggest savannas are in Africa. It is 40% from it. The grass in savanna grows 2-3 meters up and forests are thin. There are parts where trees are scarce. The most enormous tree is baobab that leaves are fallen down. Adansonia is a genus of eight species of tree, six native to Madagascar, one native to mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and one to Australia. The mainland African species also occurs on Madagascar, but it is not a native of that island.

Sabbatical or a sabbatical (from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos, from Hebrew shabbat, i.e., Sabbath, literally a "ceasing") is a rest from work, or a hiatus, often lasting from two months to a year. The concept of sabbatical has a source in shmita, described several places in the Bible (Leviticus 25, for example, where there is a commandment to desist from working the fields in the seventh year). In the strict sense, therefore, sabbatical lasts a year. For the television show, see Sabbatical (TV series)

In recent posts, I meowed a lot about the issues of room mates and there often challenging relationships.  Relationships take work, a little patience and cat optics.

Sabbatical dreams

Relaxing and allowing for the growth of play time and simply chasing mice and birds.

Oh a delicious mouse memory of the Roof Garden

Queen Diva - shows how it's done

 Of course room mates need space, and besides what better place to explore the outer reaches of 'secret garden' but on a urban roof garden ...filled with delicious grasses for the picking!

Here's a ditty I just made up (to the tune of Ding Ding Ding Went the Trolly):
"Splat, splat go the flies, ding, ding, ding go the mice, we don't care what we are doing cause we're just having fun".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odXnKhKBxQ

It doesn't get better than THIS!

Sometimes we get visiting 'Diva's' from other United Kingdoms dropping in for tea.

Well, my darlings at the end of the day, it's all about catching mice, eating green and enjoying....the right purrspective.

I have all I need!

Do visit and comment on the blog, we love to have you visit again on the roof garden......

Ciao for now.....................

Friday Advice: Room mates 4

Reflective Diva!

Hello MY Darlings:



The interest in room mates, continues to create a strong following.

Personalities often play out, weaving in and out like a ball of string trying to be unraveled!  It's enough to make you shake your head and whiskers!!

"A" type feline personality

Take the other day, it was normal in the kingdom, everyone was getting along (the strong personalities were behaving themselves - for once).

Optics 101

A certain male knight was exhibiting restlessness (pacing, running around the room, frolicking like a drunk foal with springtime fever).

You've got to be kidding!

His body language reveled all, head down, watching his target, prancing and poking at the ME.  "Do you want to play, do ya, do ya, come on, come on...catch me, catch me....I'm just seeing how I can tease you............".
 

The Royal Hiss shatters the airwaves

(With a deadpan expression)

Are you ignoring me.....OK I'll poke you and sniff you....see how you like it, I'm teasing you - do you know it, do ya"

I've got you under MY Spell

I think he's always acts silly (attention seeking behavior a.s.b.) around dinner time.  A rumbling stirs from within...the Royal hiss of warning...(eyes rolling  to the ceiling --what is it with this guy, didn't he get enough mice last night on the hunting patrol)?

In defense mode, blazing MY front claws...flat and square showing MY authority. Revealing, my talons like a hawk. Eyes pierced the morning light.. glaring as a fire breathing dragon, "are you ready for me darling, are you, can you take it can you".  The Royal hiss shattering the airwaves, he jumped as a scolded cat..... on all three. (Muttering he echoes.)  I'd rather concede than fight. 

Feline relationships 101

Before personalities clash like a tambourine's, getting out hand. I grab my trusty 'water pistol' changing the optics. "Come closer, closer, that's it....I see your golden eyes.......(the spray bottle spewing out an umbrella of cold water) stunning the rivalled opponent knocking Mr. Knight off his horse!!

He asked for it - -great spray bottle - lol
OK I did pinch his food, once.

He runs was down the hall across the moat muttering in dulcet tones growling

Whaaaat happened!!

 (Stunned, bewildered) "Oh my gosh, what nerve...she did that to meeee. I love to tease you like a BIG brother".
 

I'll be  BACK

Cats hate getting their face wet.....especially if by surprise.  (Diva laughing....) Not as effective as the pie in the face but close) LOL!    (Wry smile) 'You haven't seen the last of me YET'.

The last word is MINE

  (Haughty grin...) The last word is MINE. Remember --Sr. Knight, I have the ace in my paws.

My gamekeeper knows all the mice hideouts, I maintain supply and demand list.

Darlings, remember to stay true to your OWN voice, always demand respect! Have fun and play fair!!! :)


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