A little Bryce video

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I don’t have any exciting Brycey news but here, for his adoring fans, is a little video clip of him retrieving – taken while playing around with the video on my new phone …

You may be thinking “What a cheesy little video” … let me tell ya, I went to great lengths to post this…

For some reason, pictures and video won’t sync properly from my Treo to my PC. Since they’re all on a 1 GB SD card, I bought a nifty little card reader … which doesn’t work! The pix and vids WILL sync to my laptop, so I had to boot the laptop, sync to it, THEN move everything to the main PC.

[begin a lot of geeky stuff]

THEN I had to convert it from 3g2 to one of the accepted formats to upload it – except my video program doesn’t understand 3g2 so after looking all over for a solution I finally cheated and renamed it to a 3gp, which was similar enough for it to convert it to a .mov!

[end of geeky stuff]

Phew!

So there! :P :)

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Jasmine, Kacey and ‘Bika

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My indoor cats were feeling neglected, with all those Kit posts! Here they are being cute (and not fighting!)…

Kacey and Jasi like to curl up over the radiator and groom each other on cold days. Kacey (calico) is usually the groomer, Jasmine (orange) is usually the groom-ee.

Biki is antisocial and takes no part in these activities. But what do you expect from a cat who sleeps like THIS???

Cat sleeping in what looks like a very uncomfortable position

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Jayda’s First Letters!

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It’s true! Baby-J has REAL letters after her name now :)!

She finished two CPE agility titles at our trial in February – her CL1-R (regular agility) and her CL1-H (handlers – one of their games titles). She wasn’t flashy about it, but a Q’s a Q and I was proud of her.

Here she is, posing with her two New Title ribbons.

Jayda and her first CPE title ribbons

You can’t tell from that picture, but she HATES to pose for the camera! It took me about 10 tries to get a photo with a nice expression on her face and that didn’t have her eyes, ears and feet going in all directions!

On the other hand, she’s very cute in candid shots – like this one of her playing with Jasmine:

Jasmine the cat playing with Jayda the sheltie

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Kit-man update

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Kit the Cat is still hanging around! He’s been sleeping on my porch more and more frequently and eating here regularly. To help him stay warm, I put out a scrap of artificial sheepskin and some fleece fabric – it was obviously quite a hit! On very cold days I heat up a SnuggleSafe and put it underneath for him. The other week we had a nasty day when it rained/snowed/sleeted the entire day – he slept on his chair for a good 10 hours straight. Every once in a while he woke up, blinked, looked at the weather, turned over and went back to sleep.

He’s also getting used to me – I wouldn’t say that he LIKES me but he tolerates me. He certainly isn’t tame, and probably never will be – if I get a little too close to him he does the most convincing impression of a Halloween cat – ears out to the side and glaring at me!

Here’s Kit enjoying a mellow moment on his chair – he just woke for a minute to scratch an itch.

The other week I noticed he had a lot of hair missing from the upper inside of his left leg and some nasty scabs. I don’t know how it happened – that isn’t an injury you’d associate with a fight. It seems to have healed without incident and the fur is starting to grow back now, but its scary to think what would have happened to him had it gotten infected. He looks like any pampered house cat in my photos, but it’s a rough and dangerous life.

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Strange Birds and Boring Bloggers

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I’ve been shamed into adding some posts by someone accusing me of being “boring”. I beg to differ, but boring, busy … whatever.

What better to start off my “catching up” posts than with this Strange Bird …

strange, large water bird in suburban new jersey

Whatever it was, it was hanging out in suburban NJ behind my house a few weeks ago. That’s no little finch, it was about the size of a Canada Goose! Not a clue what it was (some kind of water bird maybe?) – I never saw one before and haven’t seen it since!

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