I WOULD LIKE TO DEVELOP A CAT LOVE’S NETWORK.

Recently I received an email from my daughter with an invitation to join Yuwie. After looking at it, at her recommendation, I joined but then tried to understand what it was I joined. After becoming totally confused and receiving several emails from strangers wanting to be my friend I called my daughter and asked her what it was. She said she didn’t know either and she had not received all the emails.

Finally I wrote to Yuwie support and asked them. I received, in part, the following reply, “Yuwie is a social networking site that pays its users. We share our advertising revenue with our members… Basically we pay for page views, yours and those of your referrals.”

The best I can understand is it is a way for people with common interests to maintain contact and pass information. They have people who advertise on their site and when someone visits a member’s page they pay that member part of the commission they receive from the advertiser for showing the page.

There is a profile page and after people read the profile page if they share common interests they can invite them to be a friend. I received over 45 requests to be a friend but after looking at their profile pages I don’t think most of them read my profile page because I could not find any common interests. My daughter said she did not fill in the profile page and that may be the reason she did not get all those requests.

After all that is said I come to the point. It might be fun to develop a group of friends who share my love for cats. We can swap stories, pictures, advice, and just have fun. We may make a little money along the way and that is ok with me because cat food costs money. If making money does not interest you that is fine because you could donate any money you make to a cat shelter because they could sure use it. They need to buy cat food too.

You can learn more by going to http://r.yuwie.com/wa6ohp and view the video.

SAD NEWS

This is Bill writing this post to pass on some sad news.

After the last post Sadie wrote somehow she managed to get outside while I was leaving for the night and she and Evinrude managed to get together. The result was five of the most beautiful kittens you ever saw. I helped deliver them and was there through the whole time they were growing and when they reached 9 weeks they each received an operation so they would not add to the cat population explosion then I found homes for each one. Sadie also received an operation.

A few days after the operation I let here go outside with me and she would stick with me constantly. Dottie, my wife, did not want her in the house so she would have to be locked in the office every time I went in.

One night I put her in the office as I had done every night but somehow, like before she slipped out as I was leaving. The next morning she was not in the office and as I searched for her I found her lying in the neighbor’s yard. The neighbor has two large huskies and they will kill cats that get into their yard so I lost Sadie.

You don't need to tell me I know I should have been more careful and it was my fault.

Sense loosing her it took me a few weeks before I was even able to return to the office and even longer before I was able to write this blog post. I loved her and I miss her.

I am going to try to keep up the post in her memory as much as possible.

DON’T YOU HUMANS HAVE ANY SENSE OF LOYALTY?

Monday was a really nice day. Bill left the door to my office open so I could get out and enjoy some of the sun shine.

By the mid afternoon it was time for a nice cat nap so I went back into my office but with the door open it allowed other intruders. Evinrude came in and went straight for my food dish where he helped himself to my food. I let him know what I thought with a little growl and hiss but I didn’t feel like fighting for it so I went into the shop which is adjacent to my office.

I had just jumped up into the chair to take my nap when I heard Bill returning so after a bit of debate I thought I would honor him with my presence.

Bill was already seated by the time I entered my office and I walked over to him for a little attention. That is when I saw him holding Evinrude in his lap. Bill is my human and he was in my office holding another cat.

It was just more then I could take. Think about it ladies how would you respond if you walked in and saw your human sitting there with another lady on his lap. Would you think that was ok? We cats or at least this cat believes in loyalty and let me tell you I let him know. If he had not had leather boots and blue jeans on I would have left him with two bloody stubs to walk on.

I just don’t get it. If Bill is going to two time me at least he can do it somewhere else then in my own office.

MINUETS OF THE FIRST MEETING OF LUCOOM

September 13, 2007 at 2 PM Pacific Daylight time the first, and possible the last, meeting of LUCOOM (Leave Us Cats Out Of Metaphors) was called to order. Present were Sadie Cat, Mama Cat, D'Artagnan, and Evinrude all charter members. Robbie wanted to be admitted but we reminded him that the name was LUCOOM not LUROOM (Leave Us Rabbits Out Of Metaphors).

Robbie replied that it would be LAROOM (Leave All Rabbits Out Of Metaphors). D'Artagnan moved we change the name to LACOOM and Evinrude seconded the motion. Sadie Cat reminded them that before motions could be accepted they would first need to elect officers. Mama Cat hissed some unrepeatable words and the nomination of officers began.

Evinrude nominated Sadie Cat for all offices using a phrase common to all you humans, “makers uppers it.” D'Artagnan announced to everyone that until now Sadie Cat had not been able to spell his name correctly and thus he did not feel she qualified for any office.

Mama Cat nominated D'Artagnan for president and Evinrude seconded the nomination but D'Artagnan declined the nomination on the grounds that he did not have time.

Sadie Cat asked D'Artagnan what he did that made him so busy. All she was aware of was eat, drink, sleep, and dig holes in the dirt to be filled in when their purpose was completed. With that D'Artagnan stuck his tail straight up said he did not have to take that and left. Evinrude said he did not like my attitude and he too departed. Mama Cat just stuck her tongue out at me and left.

I don’t get it. Humans have clubs, churches, and other organizations. They can hold meetings and they don’t get mad about some silly little thing and leave or speak ill of each other. If humans can do it then cats should be able to do it better.

LUCOOM

I was reading one of Bill’s blogs on radio and he mentioned the use of cat’s whiskers in radios.

That made me mad. I was wet cat type of mad.

My thoughts were: Don’t people understand that God gave us those whiskers for a reason? I also couldn’t help but wonder if they pull them out by the roots or do they cut them off? There is that other animal they call “man’s best friend” and I call “animal’s biggest sellout”; they have whiskers why can’t they use them?

I let Bill know just how mad I was and to think he was trying to help more people to get involved in radio. I could just see more cats losing their whiskers.

Then Bill explained that a “cat’s whisker” was a small piece of wire usually springy or stiff. In the days of crystal radios, like a cat is suppose to know what a crystal radio is, they made “cat’s whiskers” out of safety pins (that was a device used to hold a diaper on a child who had not learned to use the sand box yet).

Why can’t you humans mean what you say and say what you mean? Why do you have to drag us cats into your metaphors? Like the one used to speak of driving a Caterpillar tractor, you humans call it “skinning a cat.” Baby tom cat did it ever make me cringe when I heard Bill talking to someone about when he used to “skin cats.”

I am thinking about starting a new organization. It will be called LUCOOM. Leave Us Cats Out Of Metaphors.

THAT IS ALL I NEED MORE BEEP BEEPERS!

How does he do it? Bill is running 10 different blog sites and if that was not enough now he is building a site to help people get their ham radio license. From 5 in the morning until after midnight he has been putting this program together. He is on our computer almost the whole time.

I need several cat naps during the day and though cats are suppose to be nocturnal Bill keeps me awake for so much of the day I have to sleep at night when he is gone. It is so hard for me to get to the computer that I have come to the conclusion that what I need is my own computer. Maybe then I could keep up with this blog (and maybe not).

Then there is this ham thing. Do you have any idea how much squeaking and squawking those radios make? I do not like the sound of them and I keep telling Bill I do not like them but he keeps running them just the same. He will run those radios during the day while he is working and listens to something he calls Morse code. To me it is just an annoying beep beep. When he tries to transmit to someone I make it a point to jump on his shoulder and meow just as loud as I can in his ear just to let him know how much I dislike those things. I have even been known to bite his ear but he just reaches up and strokes my head or leans his head over and nuzzles me and keeps on doing what he was doing.

Now he is trying to get more people out there he can beep beep with by starting those ham classes on the internet. He will be starting this class on 09/04/2007 on http://hamslife2.blogspot.com and I hope none of my readers go there or to his other site http://hamslife.blogspot.com because all I need is more beep beepers out there.

Bill went to answer the door and I hear him coming back now so I had better get off this keyboard or he will pick me up, pet my head, and put me on the floor and I would rather get on the floor on my own power.

HUMANS ARE UNIQUE CREATURES

You humans are unique creatures in so many ways. You have abilities that neither we cats nor any other animal have. You can reach out and help others not only of your own species but also those of us who are not of your species.

Disaster hits and you will rush around the world to help your own who are in need. While your own kind are in need there are other fellow travelers of this world who also need help and some of you reach out to them.

To illustrate what I mean let me tell you about a young couple, Steve and Terra Irwin. These two wonderful animal loving people were married on June 4, 1992 with a planned honeymoon to follow.

Now for you cats and other animal readers I know we don’t understand but to humans marriages and honeymoons are very important times in their lives. They have this big ceremony where they stand in front of a lot of people where someone asks them, “do you?” and they say, “I do.” Then after they eat some cake they leave all the people to clean up while they go spend a few days somewhere where they can get away from all those people they invited to come see them say “I do” and were nice enough to clean up after they eat some cake.

Now if you want to see those two leave that location in two separate vehicles, this time without tin cans, just let the husband ask his bride if he can cut the honeymoon short so he can go save some crocodiles. That would be the point where most women would say bye bye.

Not Terri, when Steve heard that some crocodiles needed help he asked her that very question and she was quick to agree and even went with him to help.

Humans it is up to you to help your fellow travelers but to do this it usually takes a thing called money. There are so many organizations out there who are trying to help people, animals, and even plants who need money to accomplish their goal. Thee are so many good people who are trying to raise money by asking others to help that it becomes very difficult for humans to know which ones to contribute and which to say no. I hear Bill on the phone almost everyday having to tell someone he just can’t help and I can see the pain it causes him because he really wants to help but he can’t help everybody.

Now someone came up with a way where you humans can sell things around the house they no longer need or they can buy things they would like to have that someone else is selling and help your own kind and others at the same time. It is called Mission Fish. It is part of a marketing group called eBay. When these sellers sell their item part or all of the money received from the bid is sent directly to the organization.

Maybe you know an organization that help fellow travelers and would like to be added to this link. If so please let me know via the comment portion and I will check it out and possibly add it to the “SITES HELPING FELLOW TRAVELERS OF THIS WORLD”. I am sorry that I can’t add everybody, there are just too many good worthy organizations but I have room to ad a few.

Speaking of Mission fish I think I smell fish. Bill must be fixing supper so I had better go before Evinrude steals it.