When Grandma comes to stay...

...her coat's the place to be.

Happy Friday, everycat!

Cheers,
--Pabs

A World Cat for World Cat Day

Happy World Cat Day, everycat!

In honour of World Cat Day, I have a World Cat to introduce to y'all:
This World Cat lives on the island of Corsica, off the south-east coast of France. My Uncle Herb took this photo on his recent world trip. This kitty lives in Pigna, a small artisan village in the hills in the north-west of the island.

Corsican kitty, because you live on an island and because your claws are so awesome looking (and because it's World Cat Day), I'm gonna ask my friends Wally, Ernie and Zoey (The Island Cats) if you can become a member of the Island Cat Club. It's a pretty cool club: no dues, no meetings and only 3 rules you have to meet...
1. you have to be a cat
2. you have to live on an island
3. you have to be spoiled rotten.

Most of you know that I live on an island at the bottom of the world called Tasmania. Apparently it's the 26th largest island in the world. And Corsica is the 84th largest.

I guess you can't win them all, Corsican kitty.

Cheers,
--Pabs

HPSTR KTTY

[props to Uncle Simon and his rad iPhone]

Cheers,
--Pabs

Honorary Oregonians

A little while ago (well, a few months ago, actually), my super friends Phoebe and Joey at the Pablo Fan Club bestowed a great honour on me. They made me an Honorary Oregonian!

Here's my Official Honorary Oregonian t-shirt.

And, if you look closely, you can see that Phoebe and Joey gave it their Paw of Approval before sending it to me.

Uh... what do you mean it's not for me?

Oh. Maybe we can share the honour. I don't do clothes, anyway.

Happy Fourth of July, Americats!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Fazzy Friday

This time last year, Kate and her mum went on a BIG overseas trip to the UK and Europe.

The highlight of their trip?

...meeting Miss Faz and her human Christine on a sunny Wimbledon morning. (It was before Birks came on the scene.)

Can you believe that was a year ago, Faz? Hope that Christine has a great time at The Championships!

Cheers,
--Pabs

I've been FRAMED

Portrait...

...AND landscape.

Cheers,
--Pabs

P.S. Just wanted to wish the Socceroos, the Australian football team, best of luck in their first game in the FIFA World Cup. We play Germany in the early hours of tomorrow morning, Australian time. Go Socceroos!

Thoughtful Thursday

Know what I'm thinking about?

Sunshines.

I miss them.

And it's not even winter!

Yet.

Cheers,
--Pabs

We're a little bit late

...but we know it's still Sunday 23 May in the States. So...
Happy birthday ML! Thanks for keeping the Cat Blogosphere running. We love it, and we love you!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Five months on...

...and this guy:

finally weighs more than this guy:

...but the latter guy still has sharper claws.

So there.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Cute boys with cats?

You be the judge: Cute Boys with Cats.

Happy Friday, everycat!

Cheers,
--Pabs

I love my chair

Boy, do I LOVE my chair.

Yep. Love that chair.

Cheers,
--Pabs

It was only a matter of time...

...before I was immortalised in edible art.

My good friends Miranda, Phebe and Lizey made these for Kate. Not only do they look great, Kate tells me that they tasted AMAZING.

My favourite one is the one with three eyes.

Hope everyone has a great Easter and gets lots of yummy, species-appropriate treats.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Sorry Kate...

...I don't have time for a photo shoot.
I've got some autumn Sunday morning sunbeams to chase.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Taking the short cut

Who needs doors when you've got an open window?

Cheers,
--Pabs

Earning his stripes

Baby Alex is pretty smart.

From an early age, he realised that to be a member of this family, you hafta earn your stripes.

The photo above was taken when Alex was just a few weeks old. Not only are stripes his #1 fashion choice, he also chooses to stimulate his growing brain by gazing at some high-contrast tiger stripes in this artwork by prolific kidbean artist Phebe.

'Mr Tiger', as we call him, guards Alex's change table. He has become Alex's closest friend and confidante.
Apart from me, of course.

Cheers,
--Pabs

A decade of Pabs

Is there a better way to celebrate one's tenth birthday than with a snooze on one's favourite chair?

Today is the day that we celebrate my birthday and my gotcha day, which fall roughly around the same time of year.

It's my EIGHTH gotchaversary and my TENTH birthday.

Yes, a whole DECADE of me.

Awesome.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Awards season

Catchin' some early morning rays in my garden...

A few weeks ago, my mate Yoggi gave me the Superior Scribbler Award.
These are the particulars for this award:

Each superior scribbler must pass on the AWARD to 5 friends who are also SS.

Each SS must link the author and name of the blog from whom he receives the award.

Each SS must display the award on his/her blog and link to the post which explains the award.
(For more info, visit: http://nollsnip.blogspot.com/)

You know what? I'm so late with posting about this, most of my buddies have it already. So if YOU don't have it yet, it's yours! ALL my friends are superior scribblers!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Superbowl Monday?

That's right, Americats. We're so far into the future here in Australia that Superbowl Sunday is Superbowl Monday.

I'm just having an early morning roll in the sun before settling down in front of the TV for the big game.

I haven't followed the NFL this year at all, so I just have to pick a team to support based on the team names. So I'm supporting the New Orleans Saints today, because Nick's Australian Football League Team is the Saint Kilda Saints, and they just missed out on last season's championship. Here's hoping that the New Orleans Saints can go all the way!

Really, I'm most excited about seeing The Who rock out at half time.

Have a fun day, everycat!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Pablo no-show

My friend Heidi came to visit me today.

Heidi was one of the people who adopted me when I was a kitten. (I only came to live with Kate when I was two.)

You could say Heidi's been like a mother to me.

Heidi now lives on the island of Yap in Micronesia.

In the middle of the Pacific.

She hasn't visited Hobart for, like, five years or something.

So what did I do when she came to visit me today?

I hid in the next door neighbour's garden.

There aren't any photos of today.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Once I had a Secret Paw...

I know it's awfully late of me to be posting this... turns out that having a new babybean plays havoc with one's blogging life. Anyway, my Secret Paw for 2009 came from my Wisconsin, USA buddies Victor and Nina. My package was filled with awesome goodies:

Lovely Lucy - an awesome furry mousie toy (not to be confused with Miss Lucy, my kitty friend who turned 22 this week), a nip pouch, some cool squishy straw thingies and a beautiful Christmas decoration with my name on it!

Yessir, that's some quality nip!

Oh, and I scored a coupla cool cards this season, too. The one on the left's from my buddy Trip (although his brothers are on the card... maybe next year, huh, Trip?), and the one on the right's from Victor and Nina.

I had a great first Christmas as a big brother, with a little help from my awesome kitty blogging friends. Here's hoping that my next Christmas won't be ruined by a certain tail-pulling stickybean!

Cheers,
--Pabs