Successful communication

The other day I read a cool post from Salem over at the Katnip Lounge. It was about how much she loves nip and valerian. And you might know that I love valerian very much myself!

So I went right up to mom to ask her to dish out the good stuff. And she did! Sometimes it's hard to communicate with mom, especially when I ask her for treats or to be let outside. I really don't know if she doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand... Anyway, she gave me a nice portion of both valerian and nip that night and I thoroughly enjoyed myself rolling around in it.

Great times!!!

Purrs,
Siena Snowfox

Seeing off the Old Year

Dear furriends,
a longer note from us to see off the Old Year - and wish you all a wonderful new one of course.
Like last year we're at the other type of human's parents place. And like last year the drive up here was terrible because little Chillimus screamed her lungs out. Mom had given her a calming pill from the vet and was very disappointed in the effect. She had hoped so much to spare Chilli a lot of stress, but listen for yourself:

Does that sound like a calmed Prettypuss? Not really.

Initially mom tried to have Chilli in her harness on her lap with her but that didn't calm her at all so she went in her PTU. Things are more or less well now. "More" because we've got pawsome presents for Christmas, "less" because Chilli has got the sniffles. Mom, aka worry-wart, was driving everyone mad with saying she couldn't leave us tomorrow as arranged for four nights to go up to the north of Germany with some friends. But we convinced her that Chilli is feeling much better already and that we are in good hands here. So from tomorrow on we will probably have some cool chances of escape from the room we are staying in. Paws crossed for us please, we haven't yet seen that Christmas tree with the ornaments and everything. And that is so not fair.

Now to our presents. Mom gave us our first real litter box. We had a box before too, but it was just a white everyday box someone had thrown away and mom picked up to put it to this use. Miss Snowfox likes to dig and turn around in the box and one day mom realised that the box was a bit too small by now. The new one is purrfect. It has a spiffy pink rim. Mom wasn't allowed to take pictures.
The greatest present came from our furriends Goldie, Shade and Banshee.

Hand it over, mom. Now!

They sent us a foxtail, stuffed to the brim with their primo catnip. We have never reacted so strong to nip before, we just love this toy! Especially Siena lost it completely and went off into a nip craze.

The second present mom won as a give-away from a very creative human.

A great colour for Gardening Cats on Winter vacation.

It's a crochet mousie filled with valerian!!! Mom says it's too cute for words. We think it's very whapable too.

Here you can see us enjoying our presents. Siena has the mousie and Chilli the foxtail. Great times.

We wish each and efurryone a pawsome New Year! We hope to see you around in 2010.
Loving noselicks,
Siena & Chilli

A try at Toysday

Sigh, can't a floofy girl roll around in peace with her valerian filled cosy cushion? Just look at what that cheeky sisfur of mine always does. She had her own toy, but can't leave me alone...

I kept the upper paw and won the staring down match though. Now, who's the α-cat here? Ha! And mom? It doesn't help at all when you chuckle at the sight of us two - NOT AT ALL!
Purrs, Siena

Wordless Wednesday

Violently happy

My hommage to Valeriana officinalis.

Although it seems so in this first video the main source of my excitement wasn't the little cushion, but the scattered filling of a tea bag I had ripped open shortly after it's offering. It's a calming good-night tea for humans and it contains valerian!

Very "calming" indeed! I wish I could dig right into the floor!

Boy, oh boy, I love valerian!