Ikke kom her og si at ikke katter er tøffe dyr!  Denne kanadiske katten jager vekk en diger bjørn fra territoriet sitt! Tøffe lille pus!

Cats rule! This Canadian cat chases a big bear away from his territory! What a tough little kitty cat!

Jeg tar denne posten på engelsk denne gang. Jeg håper dere kan tilgi meg, dere norskspråklige trofaste lesere!

Kari from “Kattene mine lager engler i sneen” (“My cats make angels in the snow”) gave me an “I love your blog-award”! I am so grateful that someone likes my blog so much that they actually want to share it with others!  I want to recommend her blog as well, because it is one of my favorite blogs! Kari lives on the countryside with all her pets (horses, dogs, cats, birds…), but also alongside with the wild animals in the forest by her farm. And I think she constanly carries her camera, because she always manages to catch a snap shot of the weird and funny things her animals do!

The friendships that are made between bloggers are one of the reasons why I keep writing and publishing. I love the cheering and caring comments my readers make – many of them are my good friends in the blogosphere! Kari is one of them. Thanks, Kari!

Anyway, I am supposed to tell 7 things about myself before I pass the award on. So I’ll tell you something about the cats that you might not know:

1: We don’t know how old Mathilda is, or where and how she grew up. She was a stray cat before she came to the Animal Rescue shelter. We guess that she’s approximately 2 years old.

2: Mathilda and Theodor always wants to eat eachothers’ food. Mathilda is only to be given diet food, but wants to eat Theodor’s food for neutered cats. All Theodor wants to eat is Mathilda’s diet food. We use a lot of energy on watching after who eats what!

3: Mathilda is a food junkie, and would eat almost anything. Except from fish….?!

4: Theodor hates driving car. He shrieks like a mad cow all the way if we have to drive to the vet. Mathilda thinks it’s quite allright going for a car ride. Nothing to make a fuzz about, at least.

5: Theodor hates closed doors! All the doors in the apartment must be open at all times. Or else, he’ll stand by the door and mieeeeeooow until it’s opened.

6: Mathilda and Theodor takes shifts of being the boss of the family. This week, it’s Theodor’s turn, I think.

7: Theodor can jump 1,5 meter straight up in the air! As long as someone wiggles with a feather or something fun!

There are so many blogs that I love, and would like to pass on the award to! But I have to choose one, so I give it to my Danish feline friends Cliff and Olivia, two handsome black and white kitties who I love to read about!

Visste du at en usterilisert katt i verste fall kan føre til 80 millioner kattunger i løpet av ti år?! (Se tabellen under.) Mange av disse vil bli både uønskede og hjemløse. Hvis du ikke har sterilisert eller kastrert katten din – ring dyrlegen og avtal time NÅ! (Dette er også hannkatteiernes ansvar! Det er dessuten så billig og enkelt at du egentlig ikke har noen unnskyldning!)

Year 1: 12

Year 2: 66

Year 3 : 382

Year 4: 2,201

Year 5: 12,680

Year 6: 73,041

Year 7: 420,715

Year 8: 2,423,316

Year 9: 13,958,290

Year 10: 80,399,780

Did you know that one unspayed cat can, in the worst case scenario, lead to 80 million kittens in ten years? Many of them will end up being both unwanted and homeless. If you haven’t spayed or neutered your cat yet – call your vet NOW for an appointment! (This is also your responsibility if you have a tom cat! Anyway, it’s so cheap and easy, so there really aren’t any excuses for not doing it!)

Jeg måtte ta med Theodor til vetrinæren i dag. Han har gått og mjauet noe voldsomt i flere dager (og netter!) nå, men vi har avskrevet det som oppmerksomhetssyke, da han ikke har vist tegn på at det er noe fysisk galt med ham. (Han er over gjennomsnittet glad i oppmerksomhet, så det virket logisk!) Men etter søndagsnattens 2 timers konstante hyling, ble det definitivt dyrlege! Hun kunne i utgangspunktet ikke finne noe galt, men da hun tok urinprøve, mente hun at det kunne være urinveisinfeksjon. Hun var imidlertid ikke sikker… Nå har vi fått antibiotika som han skal gis, og håper inderlig at det ikke er noe verre enn UVI. Vi krysser fingrene for at han blir raskt frisk!

Ikke helt fornøyd på venterommet... / Not quite happy at the waiting room...

I had to take Theodor to the vet today. He’s been miaowing and miaowing for several days (and nights!) now, but we thought maybe he just wanted attention, because we couldn’t see or feel that there was anything wrong with him physically. (Theodor is the kind of cat that crave a looot of attention, so it seemed logical that he was just being a Drama Queen!) But after last night’s two hours of miaowing, it was clear that we needed to visit the vet! At first, she couldn’t find anything wrong with him, but after a urine sample, she found that it might be a urinary infection. But she was not 100% sure. So now we’ve been given antibiotics that we are supposed to make him eat, and we’re hoping that there isn’t anything more severely wrong with him. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that he will quickly recover!

Theodor vet å sjarmere damene. Han bare blunker litt med det ene øyet, så har han de rundt lillefingeren…

Theodor knows excactly how to charm the ladies. He just blinks with his right eye, and they’re all his…:-)

Jeg elsker dette bildet! Jeg tror jeg kommer til å være sånn om en 40 års tid…:-)

This picture is so great! I think I’ll be just like this in 40 years time…:-)

(From this blog, via Chat Essai.)

Her om dagen var det et var en slik nydelig, fargerik vintermorgen i Stavanger. Så vakker var den at jeg måtte stoppe bilen på vei til jobb nede ved sjøen for å ta et bilde. Vinteren kan også være ganske OK…

Morning in Møllebukta

Here the other day, it was such a lovely, colorful winter morning in Stavanger. It was so beautiful, I had to stop the car by the shore on my way to work just to take a picture. Winter can be pretty OK too…

Jeg vil bare få reklamere litt for dyrebutikken vi handler i. Det er Lager Zoo ved Hafrsfjord i Stavanger. Det er en utrolig fin butikk å handle i. Det er flere grunner til at jeg liker denne butikken så godt. For det første selger de ikke levende dyr. Det er i min mening et bevis på at dette er en seriøs dyrebutikk. En dyrebutikk som selger kaninunger og rotter til hvilken som helst drittunge som betaler,  synes jeg kun viser at de er utrolig useriøse! I tillegg jobber det hyggelige folk der. De er serviceinnstilte og vennlige. De har også et meget godt utvalg i både fòr og utstyr. Det siste og aller beste er at de fokuserer på å gi tilbake til samfunnet i form av støtte til organisasjoner som jobber for dyrs velferd. I fjor mottok, i følge butikkens hjemmesider, Dyrebeskyttelsen fòr til en verdi av 25.000 kroner. Slik tankegang synes jeg er prisverdig!

Så hvis du bor i Stavanger-området og har dyr, anbefaler jeg altså Lager Zoo på det sterkeste!

(Jeg må bare få poengtere at jeg ikke er en av de bloggerne som får betalt for å skrive positive anmeldelser av ting. Jeg får altså ikke betalt for å skryte av Lager Zoo. Jeg gjør det fordi jeg synes det er en fin butikk som tenker “riktig” i min mening i forhold til dyrehold og etikk…)

Bilde tyvlånt fra Lager Zoo

I’m just complimenting my local pet store Lager Zoo. It’s a great store, run by owners who keep animal welfare in mind. They don’t sell live animals, which I think is very good. I don’t like seeing rabbits, hamsters and rats being sold to just anyone who’d like to buy from a store who’s just thinking profit, profit, profit. The store also support the local Animal Welfare Association, by donating food to them. I’m not getting paid for saying nice things about Lager Zoo. I just like the way the store is being run.

Pepsi ble nylig kåret til Norges styggeste hund i VG. Er det meg det er noe galt med? Jeg synes hun er søt jeg? Dog på en meget snodig måte!

Pepsi - Norges styggeste hund?

Pepsi has been voted “Norway’s Ugliest Dog” in Norway’s largest newspaper. But is there something wrong with me? I think she is adorable…? In a very awkward way, though…

Jeg ser mange som kommer inn på denne bloggen, har søkt på “kattepass” eller lignende søkeord. Det kan være fordi jeg tidligere har reklamert for at jeg kan tilby dette for innekatter i Stavanger. Informasjon finner dere her. Selv om annonsen er utgått, står tilbudet ved lag! Så det er bare å ta kontakt! Jeg er både snill, pliktoppfyllende, og langt over gjennomsnittet glad i katter!

An old picture of Theodor just to illustrate

Many of my readers have found this blog by googling “cat sitter” or something like that. I have an ad out on a Norwegian marketing place on the internet, where I offer cat sitting for indoor cats. The ad has expired, but the offer still stands! I’m both kind, dedicated and far above the average fond of cats!