Sometimes I’m a Handful by Furby

When I'm not here my daughter Laura is. Plus we're on different sleeping schedules so one of us is usually up with him. The knives are always turned down in the dish strainer. We just have to make sure there's nothing he can knock down into the water bowl. He's too big to get into the refrigerator. Our main checkpoint is the clothes dryer because he likes to sneak in when we have our backs turned. We always do a cat count before turning on the washer or dryer. He just likes to make everything sound like an adventure.

How do you ever leave the house and not worry about Furby? He is one cat that cannot be left to his own devices. Monty isn't quite that much of a handful. But he did get a bath two weeks in a row. I sometimes let him be outside with me off leash so I can throw a toy and he can really run after it without my trying (and failing) to keep up. Two Mondays in a row he ran under my '76 Toronado on the driveway and got his back all greasy under there. Luckily, like Furby, he doesn't mind baths too much. I just wish he'd leave the bees alone outside. He keeps going for bumblebees-- big buzzing cat toys. He's gotten stung on the paw twice, but he still goes after them!

I know you cant get mad at that face. The only thing my sweetie is doing that is bad is she insists on climbing to the top of the screen when the window is open. Well shes allowed right now because she only weighs about 4 lbs. and until she claws a hole in the screen. She knocked over my ice tea and got the table all stickey. But thats my fault because she is allowed to get on top of whatever she wants. Shes a princess so she gets to do whatever she wants except attack the plants. Then only a shake of the spray bottle stops that.

Furby I am so sorry that you had a bad week. All cats have these days, my cat (names evanrude because he purred so loud), was an outside cat and that takes in a whole new territory for cats. He loved to bring presents to me, mice, chipmunks,birds, lizards,rabbits. He always made sure they were alive and well, he would come in his kitty door making a strange meow (which means I brought you something) and drop it on my feet alive, so I had to chase it around the house and put it back out.

People also have bad weeks, my week was terrible. I started off spilling a glass (big glass full) of milk on my bedroom floor which is hardwood. I had to scramble to get it up before it ruined the floor. That night the pc froze up and I had to pull the plug on it. The next day I started dropping things, the phone, food, a stack of paper for the printer and the tv remote, all the batteries came out and rolled all over the floor.

Cats are the best comfort to anyone, when you pet a cat it takes away stress and makes its owner happy.

Thats why I'm sending you the CD. It won't upload so i'm sending both to you so you can put on YouTube for me

I liked that video of Furby playing tug-o-war. Tell me where an embeddable version is and I will put it on the page.

Everytime I see that picture the same thought goes thru my head-I've never seen that expression on a LIVE cat.

He forgot to mention he tore a 6 inch hole in a bag of dog food. Either he did it or I have a 50 pound rat.

I'll send you his videos on a CD. The one that won't upload is a clip that's about a minute long and he laying on a jade cloth washing up. He looks up at the end, shakes his head and stares at the camera. It would be great on a declawing article. Its beautiful how he stretches his toes and washes between each toe.