The China Cabinet

My humans like watching movies - a lot. They say they don’t have this ‘cable’ thing so they watch their shiny flat things a lot. (I don’t know what they’re talking about - I see cables all over the place. I often want to chew on them but that gets me yelled at.)

Anyways, sometimes I like to watch the movies too, and today I found me a new hero. He’s in a movie called Whisper of the Heart and his name is ‘Moon’ and he has the best attitude ever for a movie cat. I mean, just look at his commanding demeanor. (Click to see bigger.)

No one questions why he’s there, although it’s a ‘human’ mover. He goes where he wants, when he wants and he has all sorts of people feeding him and taking care of him.

I want to be Moon when I grow up.

It’s been 3 months once again since anything was posted to this blog. It hasn’t been abandoned, just…put aside I guess.

The past year has been rough here in China’s house and blogging has been put off and put off and then put off again. China and Zoe have plenty to talk about, I just haven’t felt up to posting about it for them.

I can’t promise that things will change anytime soon but I do hope that this blog will become a more regular thing sometime in the future.

Thanks for those of you who still tune in. Hopefully we’ll be back soon to make it worth it for you.

I can’t believe it’s been over 3 months since Mom last helped us post…and it was about tuna, even! Ugh! Mom thought Easter was a good time to get back into the swing of things, since it’s a symbol of rebirth and starting over. So, here we are!

The snow is FINALLY gone! Was it just me or was that the longest cold time ever in the history of dogdom? No? Well, it sure felt like it. But now, it’s gone and those silly leaves are starting to pop up in the yard and Mom’s all happy and talking about bulbs and splitting tubers (ouch!) and trimming rose bush branches (which is fine with me - they bite my nose!).

I’m just glad that I can lay in my field and chew on stuff again. I mean, look at this - isn’t this just the true definition of bliss?:

China in her beloved field

Zoe is doing good. She’s loving the sun and the open windows. She tried to get out once, but she only got her body halfway out before deciding it was a bad idea. She came back inside real fast. I don’t think she’s cut out for outdoor life, which is just fine with Mom and Daddy.

Oh, she says she’d pop in and say hello but she says people are always calling her ‘chocolate cat’ and she’s heard about all the awful things that happen to chocolate bunnies on Easter. She’s hiding under the blankets until today is over. Yay Easter!

I’m not what you call ‘food motivated.’ Sure, I eat my kibble - I get hungry - but I prefer to chase things than to eat stuff.

But I’ve found something that is so wonderful that I will even be nice to the lady if she gives me some - they call it….tuna.

Exotic sounding, ain’t it? I had my first tuna a couple of weeks ago. The lady was having some for lunch and she set the can on the floor to let me check it out. I normally don’t care for whatever she puts on the floor for me but the smell was so enchanting that I just had to try it.

Heaven - that’s the only word I can find to describe it. Now, when she makes tuna I can’t help but walk around her feet and even meow (which I rarely ever do) to make sure that I get some. So far, she’s always given me a smorsel.

Which is surprising, really, since I tried to steal some out of her bowl when she wasn’t looking one time. Heh heh. It’s good to be da cat.

Well, Mom and Dad are back and I’m glad but I have to admit that I’m a little depressed.

You see, while they were gone I got to stay with my Auntie Wendy and Uncle Dave and all my human cousins and my canine cousin Harley. Auntie Wendy is one of my favorite humans and me and Harley were like sisters for two weeks. Now, I haven’t seen her since Mom and Dad got back and I’m missing her lots.

It’s too bad the humans have those ‘job’ things. If it weren’t for that I could visit all the time but I can’t. I have to wait until it’s convenient for them. I do get to visit during Thanksgiving, though. I get to see everyone and free turkey - SCORE!

Mom and Dad have started thinking about getting me a buddy – a doggy buddy. (I don’t think I could handle another demon – um, Zoe). They have to wait until they have the money for the vet and adoption fees and all that stuff. I think that might be a good idea – I have been awful lonely lately.

So keep your paws crossed that they can find me a good brother or sister!

Mom and Dad are going on vacation tomorrow so there won’t be any posts here at my blog for two weeks.

Not that that’s any different than usual. Mom has been so bad about my blogging! I’d do it myself but she says I drool too much on the keyboard.

And if that isn’t bad enough, I don’t even get to go! They’re leaving me for the first time (other than when Daddy had his kidney out, and I didn’t even want to go there - I don’t like the vet) and going far, far away. At least I’ll get to spend lots of time with my Auntie Wendy and all my human cousins as well as my doggy cousin Harley.

Talk to yas later!

Next Saturday is the second annual National Pit Bull Awareness day. Click the graphic to go to the official website where there is a list of different events happening all over the USA. Maybe there’s something going on near you!

I’m always being told I look like a Bully and Mom thinks I probably have some in me somewhere - maybe my left pinky toe or my right ear, I’m not sure where she means - but even if I weren’t I’d want to make everyone aware. There are several breeds that get a bad rap and Pits usually get it the worst.

Sorry for my long silence. Mom has been really tired lately. Her vacation is in three weeks and she’s already counting the days.

Summer was nice this year, like I wrote earlier, but seemed way too short. It’s all colorful and the leaves are falling - I love running through all the leaves - but that means the cold times are coming. I like white stuff but it seems like just a few months ago we had snow way over my head and I couldn’t even get to my back yard!

Oh well. At least I had fun this summer and fall. We went camping again, but this time we only stayed one night because some hurricane that came all the way up here made it all rainy. Bleah. I got a nice walk out of it though.

Oh, Mom says to click the pictures to see them bigger.

We went back to Cobscook Bay State Park again, but stayed in a different camp site. This one wasn’t on the water - Mom made some mistakes with the reservations - but it was nice and big.

And wiley trees. I mean, look at what they made me do!

Mom and Daddy enjoyed it, but they had to leave over a day earlier than they wanted to because of the rain. Meanwhile, the evil one…um…Zoe, stayed home and did this all weekend.

Last week, another sure sign of the cold times coming happened. The big, hungry monsters came and ate up my field!

They’re just like me, though. Once they ate all that grass, they had to spit it all back up again.

Because all those trees are dying their hair and losing it, Mom had to go way up high to see the trees. Here’s me on the drive there. Mom says I’m getting fat, but I think I’m lookin’ gooood! In fact, I think I could still gain a few pounds. Anyone want to donate some treats to finish out mah belly?

We went to Camden State Park - we’ve been there before - but this time there were lots of people peeping at leaves. I just don’t get it. Why look up when you can sniff all the good stuff on the ground? I didn’t get to meet this doggie, but he seemed to like looking at the trees as much as his two friends.

And now, it’s halfway through October. It’s still nice to go out but I know that soon I’ll be wearing my new sweater (I better be getting one - my last one fell apart ) and curling up into a tight ball. Oh well, there’s good stuff about the winter, too.

For one, the evil thing…um…Zoe, stays upstairs under the blankets all the time. Hee!

Mom had this idea that since everyone in the family apparently loves me, a good Christmas gift this year would be a Calendar with a different picture of me for every month. She thought some of my friends might want to check out the calendar so here’s a link. Check me out, I’m famous!

China’s Dog Days 2009 Calendar
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