Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Our Life Through Pictures

As many of you know to be a beauty queen takes a lot of work. Today was Sophie-cats day at the spa. Because she is so robust (not fat), she is unable to groom herself that well. We try hard, but she always gets these knots in her hair that just won't go away. So we made an executive decision to have her shaved. In order for them to do that they had to put her to sleep. She was not happy at all being without food for 9 hours last night, but she did survive. Although, she keeps telling us how she was on the brink of death. Here are the before and after pictures as well as some other fun pictures.


BEFORE & AFTER










Here she is all tuckered out from the day. We love it when she puts her face into us and just says "take me away Calgon".
Here is Sophie and Laura enjoying "The Amazing Race". It's a whole family affair when we watch it. Sophie tries so hard to be human, she even tries to sit like us. Our next goal: not eating cat shit. She just doesn't get that we don't enjoy an occasional cat shit treat.


Here's Landon from this past Sunday. He was waving at the camera. I am trying to figure out if he was saying "Hi" or "Get that damn camera out of my face". You be the judge.


This is a picture of Beth (Laura's younger sister), Laura and Landon. By this time in the afternoon Landon was clearly saying, "I was promised cake. I want it NOW!!" Oh, wait, that wasn't Landon, that was me.

9 comments:

poet said...

here via trop...erm, how much does 'kitty' tip the scales at? we have a very 'robust' cat here too. it is almost the best thing to shave them when they get so they cna't groom as well...it makes them feel better too.
have a good day.

One Messed Up Chick said...

We have a 24 lb. bundle of joy at home, and we shave the bad spots, i never thought of shaving all of her. Maybe we should try it.

Anonymous said...

Great pictures! We have a cat about that size, too. He was 26lbs but in the past year or so he has dropped some. He's 16 and pretty much has one foot out the door. :( Anyway - always fun to see pictures of your home life. Landon is a little doll! :)

Monogram Queen said...

That is a very healthy kitty.. so cute! I love when they make biscuits on you.
I am definitely with you on the 'no cat shit treats' thing! Soph needs to be a wee bit more discriminating methinks!
Landon is so cute! LMAO at the cake thing too. You are on a funny roll today Hon!

Minnesota Nice said...

I wrote a song:

SOPHIE GOT BACK

I like big cats and I cannot lie
You other brothas can't deny...

you know the rest

Caroline said...

traci--but her heart is as big as her stomach

poet--thanks for stopping by. sophie cat already feels better with all that hair gone

onecrazylady--sophie is right up there at 24.4 pounds of pure love

casey--how did you get him to loose weight. it's so hard when you have other cats that can eat "normal" food

patticake--thanks for the comment on landon. his personality is equally as cute

sandra--lol. you are too funny.

Anonymous said...

Caroline,
I didn't do anything. I think it's just because he is starting to really age and slow down. The poor boy has gotten so lazy (read: worse than the rest of his lazy-wonderful life) that I actually have to pick him up and deliver him to the room that houses the litter box, food and water. Talk about having the life of a well-loved cat. :)

Minnesota Nice said...

By the way thanks for your support in the little flame war at my blog this week! Am I naughty for kind of enjoying that ;-)

Caroline said...

casey--there are many mornings when I get up to go to work and just wish for one day i could have the life of one of our cats.

sandra--i love the discussion going on. it's been kind of entertaining.