Review – Cat Hampurr 1 Apr 2014 11:41 AM (11 years ago)
We got a new exciting box in the post today, from the people at Cat Hampurr.
It’s a system where you pay for a secret box of kitty goodies, either for a one-off, or a monthly subscription (which is cheaper)
Right from the start, the boys were interested! (I think there may have been a sprinkling of something nice and smelly inside!)
Sorry there are no pictures of Freya around, but she keeps wall away when us boys are running rampant!
It came in a nice box with Cat Hampurr on it! and here’s a funny story! –
When it arrived, Daddycat was out so the post office left a note to collect it. But it was addressed to Freya, Teego and Chatzi, so Daddycat had to explain why he didn’t have a Bank Card for Freya, Teego or Chatzi when he got to the post office to collect it! It even made the grumpy man at the counter smile!!
Comes with a completely free cat trap! Look- It’s already caught a Teego!
It came with a nice variety of treats and goodies in there, although the contents change all the time, but will always be of a similar value.
This is what our one came with:
Fish4cats Finest fish dinners for cats Salmon 400g
Thrive 100% chicken treats 25g
3 Yarrah Adult chew stick treats
2 Jolly Moggy Sisal Catnip Sisal Balls
1 BecoBowl Eco-friendly Cat food bowl
1 sample packet of Seahorse Atlantic Kelp Care – which seems to be a vitamin food additive thingy
Something really got Chatzi’s interest at the bottom of the box!
Conclusion
I think if you’re looking for an unusual present for a cat family, or something original to treat your own cats with, it looks like a great product for £16, or £12 if you subscribe.
Cat Hampurr launches on April 11th 2014, so there’s still time to get in at the start! Don’t forget to say Freya sent you!
The alternative is the dreadful Supermarket Christmas Stockings for £6 that are genuinely stuffed with rubbish – a plastic ping pong ball, and 3 packets of treats that none of us three cats will even acknowledge as a food item!
Here’s a picture with the beautiful Freya, just to prove that she hasn’t been kitnapped!
Review – Dog Magic Puzzle Feeder by Nina Ottosson 1 Feb 2013 12:27 AM (12 years ago)
Puzzle feeders are a big thing with us – we love to eat treats, and if we can interact with people as well as get treats, then well, everyone wins!
You see, life can get pretty boring sleeping for 18 hours a day, when you’re not feeding or cuddling us, so it’s great to get some extra stimulation from a puzzle feeder – a puzzle feeder is something where we have to solve a challenge in order to get a treat, rather than bury our face in a food bowl!
The Dog Magic puzzle feeder is a 1 out of 3 on the difficulty scale, so it’s pretty easy! Basically, it’s prepared by putting a treat under each of the 9 plastic covers (shaped like a dog bone, ugh!) and then you have to lift up each one, and you get to eat the treat underneath! Cool eh? (um, or you can wear it on your head.)
So Daddycat made a video of Freya and Teego playing with the puzzle feeder. Chatzi was locked out of the room, as he’s too pushy, and he wanted to film a pair of NORMAL cats playing with it! He made such a racket trying to get back in, it’s quite funny!
So here is the video we made. If you want to buy one of these, you can click here to get it from Amazon, buy a Nina Ottosson Dog Magic Activity Toy from Amazon 
Pet Portraits 27 Jan 2013 4:09 PM (12 years ago)
We had a lovely e-mail just before Christmas from Kirstyn Holgate, the pet portrait painter, offering to paint a portrait of Freya!
We hadn’t had an offer like that before, and didn’t really know what to say!
Of course, it was quite difficult to find the perfect picture, as you don’t get a second chance to have a portrait painted personally, and Freya doesn’t take bad pictures, so we had to pick one out of the 1000’s of perfect Freya pictures…. (**coughcough!!**)
We sent off a picture for her to paint, and waited for an email back containing our picture.
A while later, we got the shock of our lives, when a big parcel arrived at the door, and we discovered it was a hand painted picture, 14″ x 18″ – We’d only expected it to be a digital JPG picture or something, but it was a real painting on canvas!
Because Freya’s eyes are a bit weird (don’t tell her) in the picture we sent, we’d also included another picture showing the eyes as they should look (not so weird!)
I think she’s really captured Freya’s expression and eyes!
Also her fur in the picture is a little greyer, where in real life, Freya has more reddy/brown colouring, like in her back legs or paws in the picture. Kirstyn has really captured her real colouring too!
Overall, we’re thrilled with our painting, and couldn’t be happier with it.
You can contact Kirstyn at http://www.kirstynholgate.co.uk
or her facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/KirstynHolgate
(It’s worth a visit, as she sometimes does free giveaway competitions!)
Highly Trained Obedient Bengal 10 Aug 2012 3:32 PM (12 years ago)
Today I want to show you how well behaved Chatzi is.
Well, when I say well behaved, I mean well trained. He’s still as naughty as a bag of Badgers, but when he’s caught and told to do something, he does *exactly* as he’s told.
We made a film about his fantastic behaviour. The other day, Daddycat was in the kitchen, making something with our favourite, Salmon, and the naughty kitten jumped up and stole some of the Salmon!
This is what happened next….
A New Cat Behaviour Film! 1 Jul 2012 6:20 AM (12 years ago)
Hooray!
Daddycat’s finished his new cat bahaviour film!
When Teego arrived, Daddycat made an amazingly successful cat behaviour film documenting Teego and Freya’s first week. Having done that, when Chatzi arrived, he took NINE HOURS of footage of Chatzi’s introduction, just in case!
So finally we’ve made episode1 of the second day of the introduction, with commentary on what’s going on.
We really hope you like it – if you do, please share it on Facebook or whatever with your friends!
Cats love water! 29 May 2012 1:53 AM (12 years ago)
Well, maybe they love to drink water!
Chatzi loves to splash his drinking water! At first, we gave Chatzi a normal kitty drinking bowl, and he has such a strange way to drink, that he would always knock it over and spill all the water without getting to drink any!
So now, he has his own swimming pool in the bathroom, and he can splash all he likes. He doesn’t seem to be splashing for fun – it’s like he’s trying to dig a hole, or another theory I’ve heard is that he’s scraping the leaves and dirt off the surface of the water?
As a special treat, sometimes we’ll put some water in the kitchen sink for him to splash around in, and this time Daddycat made a film of it!
Why do you think he’s scratching around? Does your cat do it too, or is it an unusual behaviour specific to Bengal or cats with wild ancestry?
Shadow Profiles 22 Apr 2012 2:53 PM (12 years ago)
I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but never got round to it. I was inspired by a post on Daisy The Curly Cat’s blog about cat profiles and wanted to try it out myself.
So here goes. Be careful not to scroll down too fast, as the answers are at the bottom!
Here are the three of us – Butt-head Chatzi, Teego and Freya
In order: Chatzi, Teego and Freya
Of course, all three of us are very distiguishable.
But as soon as we become silhouettes,
(SCROLL DOWN CAREFULLY SO NOT TO REVEAL THE ANSWER AT THE BOTTOM)
So who do you think is who? It’s not so easy now is it?
We’re not entirely sure that we’d get it right first time looking it like this!
It’s very difficult – we all have fairly similar snouts, although one of us has a large back to our head!
So if you’re ready to see the answers, scroll down and let us know in the comments if you got it right!
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A little bit further…
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Nearly there…
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So the correct answer is Teego – Chatzi – Freya! Teego is the one with the big head. I don’t think it’s full of brains though – more like marshmallow fluff!
Freya has a slightly squarer bit between top lip and nose, and Chatzi’s is a bit more rounded.
It’s much harder than you’d think though, isnt it??
Chatzi wants to be a Snow Leopard 24 Feb 2012 2:10 AM (13 years ago)
We had some snow this year, and Chatzi went out to investigate.
Surprisingly, he didn’t seem at all phased by the covering of white stuff everywhere, and just acted as if it’s always like that!
On the positive side though, the whiteness really brings out his colouring, doesn’t it? 
Teego’s all ok and well again. 23 Feb 2012 7:21 AM (13 years ago)
Dearest friends, I’m so sorry I haven’t posted a response for so long to let you all know that Teego’s ok.
Teego came home after 4 days at the veterinarian, and had a couple of war-wounds to boast about. Of course Bratzi Chatzi greeted him by sticking his nose straight up Teego’s bum! Where’s his dignity????
Teego has a bald patch on his neck from where they took samples of his blood
And he also had a bald patch on his forearm… It looks really sore and ouchie, but it’s actually only bruising from having a drip in it for three days, rather than scraped skin!
Finally, the vet said he might have Cardiomyopathy as she was concerned by his heart rate and sound, so she booked him in for an ultrasound scan of his heart, which he passed fine, so the evidence is that his heart is perfectly sound.
Teego goes to the emergency vet AGAIN! 6 Feb 2012 4:48 PM (13 years ago)
It’s all about Teego at the moment… Our facebook friends will already know about this, but Sunday morning, Teego was taken to the emergency vet because we were concerned about his squatting and vomiting the day before. (it was a week or so after the mouse incedent, in case you were thinking that!) 
This has happened a while ago too, 
and it wasn’t a blocked penis, but turned out to be an infection of FLUTD. To our shock this time, it WAS a blocked penis, and thank God Mommacat made the decision to take him to the vet! The vet instantly admitted him, gave him a catheter to drain his bladder, and his life was saved.
It sounds dramatic, but young mancats do suffer from this occasionally, and a burst bladder is usually fatal!
Fortunately Teego was saved in time.
This is the techie stuff, but if I’m wrong,
please feel free to correct me in the comments!His heart rate was fast, and arrythmic, due to the Potassium that comes with having a blocked bladder. The Vet gave him some glucose that’s good for absorbing the Potassium.
The next day, Monday, his heart was still quite fast, but no longer arrythmic. His Glucose was 5.8, which is ok, and there was still a little blood in his urine, but that could be due to the catheter.
Kate the vet is quietly confident. If everything goes well, Mr Teego might get to come home on Wednesday. WOOHOO!
Monday evening, we had a call from Kate, the Vet from Anderson’s Vets in Orpington who was looking after Teego, inviting us to come and see him.
You can imagine how excited we were! We literally stopped everything and ran out to the car!
Teego was very subdued, but when we walked in, his eyes really seemed to recognise us, and his whiskas went forward! We were allowed to take the collar off while we were there to give him cheek scritches, and he even purred, which is lovely in itself, because Teego doesn’t really purr. At least we felt like we gave him a few minutes of comfort in his misery.
Still, there’s only a day and a bit to go now!!!
Many thanks go to Sinenna Kittykins on our Facebook page for giving us this link to information from Long Beach Animal Hospital about blocked urinary tract procedures
Here’s a gratuitous picture of two Bengal cats beside themselves with worry over their missing brother. Or is it some ham being prepared for them?
To be fair, Chatzi was calling a lot on Sunday PM, so maybe he was missing his big brother?