Benjamin, the blogging cat.

Another Simese knows how to blog!

2007-08-02T13:05:00.000-04:00

Well, I better start blogging again so he don't get more famis than me! Here is the other Simese's blog, his name is Cheysuli, or maybe it is a girl cat. I will read more of his/her blog later, but I have to update my blog NOW so my fans will still no that I am alive. Also I have to change my profile because I am nine now, not seven. I dont want peeple to think I'm a baby.

I have lots of news to, soon we will be moving into a new house with Mommy and Daddy! It has lots of room for us to run and a big yard that Mommy says we cant play in because someone migt steel us to make fur coats or something. But there are lots of windows for us to purch in, and we even get our OWN ROOM where Mommy can sleap with us when Daddy is out of town, because he is allurgic to us, so we cant sleep in the big bedroom. He loves us thogh, even thogh I think he loves Cicco more. Because Cicco follows him around like a dog, he is so dum.

Anuther drawing by Unkle Walt.

2006-04-26T20:10:00.000-04:00

This is me and Joey last spring, we were posing for Unkle Walt.

A drawing Unkle Walt did.

2006-04-26T20:05:00.000-04:00

This is me taking a nap on the wikker settee.

I have a new fan!!

2006-04-26T19:52:00.000-04:00

It is a lady who read Mommy's post about Joey on the Feline CRF website. She has a kitty with CRF too, that means chronik renal faylure, it is what Joey had and why his kid-knees dint work. Anyway, she sent us a picture of one of her cats when he was a kitten, his name is Ginseng, Mommy says He is sooooo cute, who cares. I am the prettest cat in the world, everbody knows that. Mommy and Ant Hunter got samwitches for lunch with rost beaf and chease, and me and Cicco dint get none. Mommy is going to Paris with her boyfreind but we are staying here with Unkle Walt, hurray! We like Unkle Walt, he is our catsitter. He draws pictures of us, I will find one and post it. Mommy is still sad about Joey but we have been extra funny to chear her up!

Joey went to the bridge Wendsday nigt.

2006-04-22T17:04:00.000-04:00

That is the rainbo bridge, where kiddens and dogs go when they die, wich is what Joey did. He was 18 and verry sick with his kid-knees. He ate his dinner and then he went tinkle on the baffroom floor next to his litterbox and then he fell down in the hallway, he culdnt get up, poor Joey. Mommy and Bubbie and Unkle James tooked him to the mergensy vet and he went to sleep.

Mommy is verry sad, poor Mommy, she loved him a lot. Me and Cicco loved him too even thogh we used to jump on him sometimes, it was fun! But I guess we will miss him anyways. We have been cheering Mommy up by sitting on her and purring and pretinding to chasse each other. She is lucky she has us, espeshully me, I am so pretty.

Ant Karen and Unkle Nick are visiting.

2006-01-20T18:19:00.000-05:00

I love Ant Karen and Uncle Nick. Even Joey does too. But Cicco dont, he was lyeing on the bed and Unkle Nick was petting him, and Cicco rolled on his back like he wanted his tummy rubbed, and when Unkle Nick rubbed it, Cicco hisst and scrached him!

That is why evry one loves me more, becawse I dont hiss at peeple and scrach them. Also I am the prettest cat in the world. Mommy says Cicco just takes a wile to warm up to peeple. I say, Cicco is a cat-pig-bird, oink oink tweet tweet.

Mommy went saling with her boyfrend today, she sed it was cold. We warmed her up good, dont worry. I wuld not go saling, there is too much watter, it is like a giant bathtub.

I AM FINELY FAMIS!!!!

2006-01-03T19:13:00.000-05:00

I am in this weeks Carnival of the Cats at Elms in the Yard, I am so exited! It is a collecshun of cat blogs, I dint even know other cats new how to blog!

Every week, it is a difrunt person's turn to host Carnival of the Cats. This week, it was lady name Rahel from Jerusalem. She sings Hebrew songs and has two girl cats, one is even Simese like me! Okay, I think this is kind of spooky:

1. The ladys name is Rahel -- my Mommys name is Rachel.
2. She has two girl cats, one is Simese, one is not -- Mommy has three boy cats, two are Simese, Joey is not. Also he looks like a bunch of old close, he is so old and ratty.
3. The lady sings songs in Hebrew, so dos our mom. Exept I think the other lady is more famis than Mommy, who isnt famis at all.
4. They are all Jewish -- we are all Jewish. Except Cicco dont know it yet becawse he was just adopted before Thanksgiving, he is a turkie. Christmas morning he kept looking around for Santa Claws, I tole him Dont worry we still get presents and sing songs and eat latkes. And brisket.
5. The lady lives in Jerusalem -- we dont. But we culd if we wanted to, that is called rite of return. If you are Jewish that is, wich we are.
6. The lady has a blog -- so does Mommy. Exept she works all the time so she never updates it. Mine is much more intresting, everybody says so.

Missy (that is the cat who is not Simese who belongs to the lady, Rahel) says there shuld be a pitcher of me on my blog, well there is one, but it is in the November archives. Mommy has to fine her camera and take more pitchers of me, I am the prettest cat in the world.

She cant fine her camera becawse her office is a mess, in fack the hole howse is a mess. Our Bubbie (that is Jewish for grandma) came over today to pick up the laundry to do it at her howse. She says our mom isnt feeling good, she will just help out a bit. Also she gave us a snack. She is the best Bubbie in the world!

Well I have to go now becawse Mommy has to cleen our litterboxes before her boyfrend comes over. He is not even Simese, I dont know why she wants to kiss him all the time, YUCK!

Being a riter is hard.

2005-12-29T23:40:00.000-05:00

Sometimes I dont no what is intresting or not. I meen, how many times can I rite that I am the prettest cat in the world, even if it is true? Wich it is, you shuld see me sitting in the window, I look so pretty.

I am wating for Cicco to do something else bad, it is fun to rite abowt him when hes bad. But he keeps doing the same old stuff -- opening cabnets and drawers, chassing me, and hogging Mommy.

But tonigt he was kind of funny, he wented in the baffroom when Mommy was taking her shower, he was sitting on the edge of the tub and meowing at her and trying to paw her thrugh the shower curtin. Maybe he thogt she was drownding in all that water, I used to think that when I was yunger and came to live with Mommy. She wuld take baths all the time and I wuld try to get her to stop, I wuld say NO!! Your fur will get all wet and you will drown! But she wuld just laff and say oh my sweet boy, Mommy is just trying to get cleen!

He is ten, he shuld know that. Maybe his old parents dint take baths or nothing. Anyways, I tole him it was okay, and then we tooked a nap while Mommy looked in the mirrur to see if she was old yet.

Simba is a badder cat than me.

2005-12-29T22:45:00.000-05:00

He eated up some toylet paper. Also he eated one of his mommy's new earings, that is so nawty! I no becawse Satchi tole me. Here is some pitchers of Simba being a bad boy, he is even worser than Cicco, who tryed to eat up all of Mommy's curling ribban, he got lokked in the baffroom for that.

Joey is dummer than I thogt.

2005-12-23T21:16:00.000-05:00

When Mommy camed home from Chanukah shopping, he wented rigt in the baffroom and sat on the mat and looked at her, becawse he WANTED her to give him his floods! Or maybe he just wanted the treets.

But Mommy sed he had to wate until she came home from temple, we are not aloud to go thare becawse she says we wuld bite some littul kid or else run away or jump on the table and eat the briskit, she is rigt.

Now she is in the baffroom with Joey and he is purring, what a dumbo.

Well, I am FINELY getting a chance to blog!!

2005-12-22T18:59:00.000-05:00

Mommy has bin so bizy werking, she wuldnt let me use the laptop. Also she has a boyfrend, she is very bizy kissing him all the time. But she still kisses us too. Exept she has bin sleaping over at his house a lot, she wont let him come to our house becawse she says its a mess. Wich it is, Mommy is a slob! We like sleaping on the laundry and stuff.

Well, Joey has been taking his floods for a wile now. He even purrs when he gets them, he is so dum. Mommy says it becawse he knows he gets treets after his floods, he is so gready. If anyone tried to stick a neadle in my back I wuld bite them!! Unless it was Mommy.

Well, soon it will be Chanukah. I cant wait to open my prezints! I hope I got more mousies. Mommy says she wont wrap our prezints, becawse we will probly try to eat the wrapping paiper. A frend of hers gave her a prezint in a bag, it had curly ribbans on it, Cicco tryed to eat it but Mommy cot him in time.

Okay, by!

Well, Cicco came out of the closit.

2005-12-12T19:51:00.000-05:00

He wented in there in the morning when Mommy was getting reddy for werk, and she dint even know it! Then she werked and werked and werked and dint come home until late, we were hungry! She culdnt find him, she was worrid! But then she looked in her closit, there he was.

He sleaped on all her close but he dint go tinkle or doo-doo in there. Uh-oh, now he is chassing me agin, he probly is jelus becawse I have a blog and I will be famis and he will not be. Well I will jest chasse him back. Stoopid old cat-pig-bird Cicco. Oink, oink, tweet, tweet.

Okay, now we will lye down on the bed and have a nap. Joey wants more dinner, he has speshul food, it is for his kid-knees. He is awful old to have kid-knees, they shuld grow up. We (me and Cicco) eat Royal Canin dry food and Friskies and Fancy Feast when we are good wich Mommy says we usully never are.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, our Ant Diane and Unkle Pete gave us speshul Chanukah prezints, a litter scooper with a cat for a handle and Kitty Caviar, we like that on our food, it is good. Ant Diane and Unkle Pete are Satchi and Simba and Misty's parents, they think I am an excilint riter! They are rigt.

Okay, I guess Cicco can stay.

2005-12-06T22:28:00.000-05:00

He has bin a pretty good boy lately, I even gave him a baff tonight when he was sleaping next to me on the cowch. And he hardly ever chasses me any more.

But Ill tell you one thing, he is a pig. He eets food really loud and smaks his lips. Oink, oink, oink, Cicco. Also, he still meows like a bird. Chickin Eddy, the cat-pig-bird, ha ha ha.

My frends Satchi & Simba, they are Simese.

2005-12-02T13:21:00.000-05:00

These are my frends, they are very nawty. Here they are taking a bath. I like the painting on the wall, at furst I thogt it was a real Simese cat! But its not. They have a big sister, her name is Misty, I will put her pitcher on my blog soon. Also they (S and S) have a pretty cat tree, Mommy says she will get us one soon. Well, I have to go help Cicco take his nap now.

Bad things Cicconetti has dun so far.

2005-11-29T21:56:00.000-05:00

1. He has jumped on me a lot.
2. He chasses me.
3. He likes to open cabnets, Mommy put the trashcan in front of the kitchin cabnets so he dont open it and eat a sponge or drink Windex. She says she will get baby locks, ha ha, Cicco is a baby.
4. He likes to eat fabric softener sheets, wich is nawty and danjerus.
5. He scrached our mom!
6. If Mommy dont get up to give him his brekfus in time, he opens the cabnet where our foods are and nocks his faverit cans out onto the cownter, and sometimes into Joeys watter dish. Wich splashs on the flore.

He has only bin here a littel wile, Im shur he will do more bad things. I will tell you when he dos!

Joey bit Mommy!

2005-11-29T21:50:00.000-05:00

Poor Mommy. She had a very hard day. Furst she had to anser fifty emales and werk very hard. Then she had to give Joey his floods, and she stabbed herself with the neadle. Not on porpoise. Then Joey dint like getting his floods, so he bit her. Then she had to werk some more, then go to an awdishun, then go to a meating, then werk some more, then she had to go shoot somebody, I think she sed it was a cliant. Then she had to eat dinner withowt us, she wented to a restrant with her boss. Then she just got home, it is late! She gived us our dinners and werked some more. Now she is tired. Maybe she wuld like to play, that wuld wake her up!

Well, Cicco got a pedicure.

2005-11-28T19:54:00.000-05:00

Mommy clipped his claus, she sed it wuld keep the bloodshed to a reesonable level. I think thats a pretty good punishment, but she sed he purred the hole time. (Not that I wuld no, I was LOCKED UP the hole time.)

He has a funny meow -- he sounds like a bird gargling mowthwash. Ha ha -- Cicco the catbird. Chicken Eddy is a bird ha ha, tweet tweet.

Mommy is FINALLY dun werking.

2005-11-28T19:16:00.000-05:00

At leest for today. I dont no why she wants to werk all the time, it looks verry stressfill to me. She shuld spend more time playing with balls and napping, then she wuld have more energie to play with us at two in the morning.

Well if you are wundering how Cicco is doing, I will tell you. He is a bad bad boy! After lunch, I wented into my bedroom to take a nap. Well, ackshully, Mommy put me there, but whatever. Then she letted Cicco out. He sat on her lap and acked all luvvy-duvvy and stuff while she was trying to werk. Then he layed on the rug on his back and pretinded he wanted his tummy rubbed and when she did, he scrached her and growled!

She says he is just still stressed and he dont no what to think. But then later when she putted him in his room so I culd come out, he scrached her agin! Poor Mommy, she had to use hidrogent paroxide. Anyways, then she let me out, thank you verry much, then when she let him out agin, he jumped on me agin. So he went back into timeout.

Mommy says he is ajusting very well, he is just explooring our limits. Shes getting reddy to let him out agin, oh boy.

Anyways, I am just telling you in case you thogt he looked nice from his pitcher. Dont be fooled even thogh Mommy is.

Mommy is hogging the computer.

2005-11-28T14:20:00.000-05:00

She says she needs to werk, and I am being a pest. Im not, I just want to tell everone abowt Cicconetti, thats his new name, but I call him Chickin Eddy, ha ha ha. He is not reelly chickin, thogh. He got put in timeout too times this morning because he was jumping on me when I was trying to play with the little toy on our scraching post. Then he chassed me, I was skared! But at leest my name is not Chickin.

Cicco likes to open up all the cabnets, it is the furst thing he dos ever morning when we wake up. Then the drawers. So I go in his room and eat his brekfuss wile he is doing all that.

And you no what else he did? He tryed to eat ANUTHER fabrick soffener sheet. Mommy snached it away just in time, and sed, I have to rember to take these dang (well, she dint say "dang", but Im not aloud to cuss) things out befour I take the lawndry upstares.

Well I will rite later when Mommy is done hogging the computer.

Why Chico is now Cicconetti

2005-11-24T13:20:00.000-05:00

Michael Cicconetti is the judge in Ohio who sentenced Michelle Murray to a night alone in the woods because she had abandoned 33 kittens. Here's my letter to him:

Dear Judge Cicconetti:

I’m writing to thank you for your courageous — if somewhat unusual — sentence in the case against Michelle Murray, the so-called animal “rescuer” who abandoned 33 kittens in an Ohio Park. I’ve been visiting various websites, reading people’s comments about your ruling. It’s interesting to see how many people have interpreted your sentence as equating animal rights with human rights. I didn’t see that as an issue at all.

Rather, it is about human rights, and the responsibilities that come along with those rights. In this case, it is the responsibility of Ms. Murray not only to the kittens, as a self-described “rescuer”, but to the human (or humans) who left some animals with her, with the understanding that Ms. Murray would find those animals a home.

It is particularly disturbing to note that Ms. Murray has three children of her own as well as two step-children. What will happen when she’s overwhelmed by the responsibilities of parenthood, as she apparently was by the responsibilities of caring for these cats?

I am puzzled by the stipulation that she not have any more animals for at least three years; I don’t believe she has shown herself capable of caring for any animals, ever. Let alone her children. Perhaps it has something to do with Ohio law; I don’t know.

I’m sure you’re taking a lot of heat for this decision, but I want you to know that many, many people support you. And just for the record, I’m a Sunday School teacher and also serve on the board of an organization that supports adults with developmental disabilities. I hardly care for animals at the expense of human beings; rather, I would argue that my compassion for animals has taught me greater compassion for humans.

As it happens, I adopted a ten-year-old Siamese cat on Saturday, to join my seven-year-old Siamese and eighteen-year-old domestic shorthair. This cat came to me with the name of Chico, but I’m renaming him Cicconetti in honor of you. (You can find out more about my cats at my blog, listed below.)

All the best to you,

Rachel Silver

Chico is a turkie.

2005-11-24T08:29:00.000-05:00

Mommy let him sleap with her last nigt but he got up at 2 am and was clawing at the door, she put him back in his room and then me and Joey got to sleap with her, we dint get her up until six.

Last nigt Mommy was trying to get me to be nice to Chico, she was hugging me and giving me treets. I ate the treets but I dint be nice. I no when Im being patrinised.

Chico likes treets to, he keaps trying to open the cabnet ware they are. He nos how to open some other cabnets, not this one.

Happy thanksgiving to everbody, even if they (I meen Chico) are a turkie.

A pitcher of Joey

2005-11-23T18:39:00.000-05:00

Well, my penpals Satchi and Simba sed they wantid to see what Joey looked like. Its not like I dint warn them.

By the way, Satchi and Simba, you shuld commint on my blog, otherways, how will I get famis and have a movie made abowt my life?

Love,Benjamin

P.S. Dont think I will sine all my letters "love", it is just becawse Satchi and Simba are my speshul frends.

P.P.S. Uh-oh, Mommy axidently stepped on Chicos paw when she went in the pantree, now he is growling and hissing at her. She hugged him and sed sorry, but he is still mad. So she will probly still love me more than him, good.

You shuldnt abandin kiddens

2005-11-23T18:11:00.000-05:00

Woman Sentenced To Night Alone In Woods because she abandind lots of kiddens. And anyways, kiddens shuldnt be outside, not even grone up ones like me. Mommy says peeple who dont care about kiddens usully dont care much abowt peeple neether.

Well, I have to go in my bedroom rigt now so Chico and Joey can "bond", whatever that meens. Joey says Chico can do whatever he wants as long as he dont eat Joeys food. Mom thinks if I see Joey having fun with Chico, I will model my behavor and ack like him.

I say "BULL-SSSSSSSSsssss." Mom says I get an extra five minits for that.

Heres what Chico looks like

2005-11-23T09:02:00.000-05:00

His foster mom took this pitcher, Mommy says she will take new ones when she finds her dishitall camra.

Uh-oh, Chico got out of his room!

2005-11-23T09:00:00.000-05:00

He ran out when Mommy went in to scoop his box. I walked up to him and sniffed-sniffed-sniffed him, and hisst. He dint hiss at me thogh. He went over to Joey and snift him but Joey was still eating brekfess, so he ignord Chico. Mommy got my kitty wand and plade with me and hugged me and kisst me, and sed, I love you Benjamin! Then she put Chico back in his room, she sed that is enogh exitment for one day.

Having a new bruther is harder than I thogt it wuld be, Mommy says we will just take things nice and slo.

An old pitcher of me

2005-11-22T20:48:00.000-05:00

This is me the day Mommy met me, you can see why she fell in love with me. (Becawse I am the prettest cat in the world.) That is a volenteeer from New York Simese Reskew, she is holding me at Broadway Barks. I will tell you about Broadway Barks anuther day, I have to go wach TV with Mommy now.

I have two bruthers.

2005-11-22T19:49:00.000-05:00

One is name Joey, he is almost 18 and dont have kid knees or something. So now Mommy has to stick neadles in him and fill him up with watter. She did it for the furst time tonigt, she has to do it ever two days now. She wont let me watch, she says I will just get him all agetatid. He is gray and grumpy and looks like a bunch of old close, thats why I have to jump on him and chase him. If he exersised he would feal better. Mommy says leeve him alone, I will not.

My other bruther is Chico, he is ten, he is Simese like me, but he is a blupoint. He used to live in Canettycut, but his parents dint want him no more so they tooked him to a shelter, wich is like a jale, I think. They said they were moving, Mommy thinks that is the dummest thing she ever hurd. She says when your a mommy, your a mommy for as long as you live and no madder ware you live. I think so to.

Anyways, a nice lady from Simese Reskew found him in the shelter and reskewed him. Then a nice lady name Donna was Chicos foster mom, she loves him a lot, and so does her son. Then Mommy saw his pitcher and hurd about him and said Benjamin do you want a new bruther that will play with you and cuddel up with Joey, I said yes.

Then like nine other people from Simese Reskew did this thing called the Meezer Express. Mommy says it is kind of like hichhiking. They took turns giving him a ride all the way from Cannettycut to Norfolk and now he is here. Exept Mommy wont let me play with him, she says he needs to ajust.

I never get to do ANYTHING I want to do.

Mommy sed I culd have a blog!

2005-11-22T19:25:00.000-05:00

I am a very good riter, everbody says so. Also I am the prettest cat in the world.

Anyways, I have a very exiting life, so this will probly be a best cellar about my life. Someone will probly make a movie abowt me one day, because I am the prettest cat in the world.

Okay, that is enogh for a first chapter I think. Riting is hard work!