THE GUIDO GAZETTE

Wrestling In The Ring Of Life

2012-02-13T09:31:00.000-08:00

Wrestling is fun when youza rustles up a good wrestling partner, yep uh huh itza fur shure.

But the Referee of Life often rules the game, as Me & Myself learned when the fun match ended on Saturday February 11, 2012.

My brofur Yolo crossed The Rainbow Bridge so I'ma not starting my day today the normal Guido way. Itza my first Monday going solo without my Yolo.

Dat dreaded FIP "feline infectious peritonitis" ended our wrestling matches andtook my brofur at 4 and 1/2 years yungun and it wazza right to donate his body and tissues for the FIP research study going on nowza, between our San Francisco SPCA & The University of California at Davis. It makes me purr cuz Davis izza in Yolo County! Me & Myself will purr fur shure if theyza finds da cure.

Nine lives can zippity do dah by befur youza can finish yur Pizza Meowgarita, so be shure you gives the abundacat hugs to anybody youza adores, yep uh huh. And da hug izza free so youza duzn't need yur MasterCat Card.

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Didja Leave Your Heart In San Francisco?

2012-02-06T07:39:00.000-08:00

It's meowvalous mewsic to my ears when I hears my EyeTailYun furiend Tony Bennett croon da tune under da moon, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco." Baffling cuz Me & Myself have had our heart in San Franfuncisco da whole life so I never has to leave it here - cuz it's here automaticatically!

Fur shure, youza can always leave your heart here in San Franfuncisco and Me & Myself will keeps our EyeTailYun cat eyes on it.

Catzowey! It's Sing-a-Long-a-Song time with Signore Bennett! Ready?

"To be where little cable cars
Climb halfway to the stars!
The morning fog may chill the air,
I don't care!
My love waits there in San Francisco... "

BASTA PASTA dat sounds purrfecto!

Everybody parts with their hearts in San Franfuncisco, but I always has my heart at the ballpark where Me & Myself duzn't follow da rules. Weeza do some 7th Inning Stretches sailing over dat railing which is aerobicat activity and good for the heart.

Wishing youza nonCATastrophic week - hey itza dat 1st whole week of February 2012! Get ready - there's 29 days in thizza month cuz weeza leaping thru Leap Year!

Paws UP to the Romans (theyza EyeTailYuns fur shure) cuz theyza invented this Leap Year thing even befur theyza invented Pizza delivery.

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Stroll Through a Whole Super Dooper Bowl

2012-01-30T08:13:00.000-08:00

Come on along with Me & Myself on Sunday dat 5th day of the 2nd month, uh huh like on Sunday February 5th, cuz weeza gonna do the Super Dooper BOWL which means itza da finale footzaball game of the yearl! Catzowey, a ticket is as much as my favorito Furrari EyeTailYun car! Well, I got us fab and free furont row seats, yep uh huh itza fur shure itza gonna be meowvalous and I'ma leaning on the Stadium railing with a bird's eye view of dat Super Dooper BOWL game.

In my Super Dooper BOWL packet of Instruckshuns, it says "Be purrpared for a hot game"! So I'ma trying out some red peppers to get Me & Myself in the ala hot & spicy mode!

Been around Big BOWL's a bunch and a giganticat BOWL izza part of my everyday life for Me & Myself.

If youza wanna has a meowvalous big BOWL experience, I recommends meeting and greeting da MEWScasters - yep uh huh, like dat famoso guy on the field,Terry Bradshaw whooz got no fur on his head! I'ma curious as a cat to know why heeza wearing FOX FOX signs on his suit lapel cuz Me & Myself duzn't see any foxes on the field! Dumbzabini who gave dat guy a NipTini?

Big BOWL rules of da Super Dooper Bowl game say youza gotta stare down da opponent to get their AhTenZeeOhKnee, so I'm purracticing my stare down stare. But in da meantime, I wants youza to have a nonCATastrophic week and make it a Super Dooper week.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Don't Be Draggin During The Year Of The Dragon

2012-01-23T10:20:00.000-08:00

Yep uh huh, it's Happy New Years time and I'm gonna catch the fun of the season cuz there's a reason: January 23rd brings the Chinese Lunar New Year, so say "Gung Hay Fat Choy" - datsa not EyeTailYun but itza Happy New Year! Each year has a wonnerful creature being honored.

This New Year is notta the Year of the Tiger but I'ma roaring to tell youza all about 2012!

Year of the Rabbit isn't arriving for a long time cuz 2011 was the Year of the carrot consuming creature, so arrividerci Signore BunBun.

Stars might be rocking and rolling this year but itza not the Year of The Rock.

Catzowey! It's the Year of the Dragon and it's New Years Eve when
The Year of the Dragon arrives February 4, 2012

Unlike December 31st Mew Years Eve dat has one pawty at midnight, this Lunar New Year event lasts for weeks so youza don't has to hurry up to get rested and dressed uppa to go out and stay uppa late all in one evening.

Me & Myself was born in 2006, the Year of the DOG so I should be going woofzaloni toss me a baloney and sitting for a bone! Does you and yurself know what Chinese Zodiac Sign youza born under? It'za meowvalous to find out so just CLICK HERE cuz I gotta da whole list for youza right there.

Serious stuff nowza! AhTenZeeOhKnee puhleeze, just fur a meowment, cuz I wanna menshun my favorito San Franfuncisco 49ers who played a Catzowey year of footzaball. Theyza not going to the Super Dooper Bowl - no big deal! I gotta super dooper bowl in my house that's always filled uppa so come on over for a great Bowl experience. Itza the EyeTailYun hospitality for my finer Niner pals.

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Climbing Up The Ladder Of Life

2012-01-16T10:45:00.000-08:00

Climbing can be Catzowey to climb uppa to where you wanna get to. Datsa not social climbing, but youza can be social while youza climbing if youza just says HI to folks on yur way up.

It takes supurrbo concentration to climb cuz youza gonna climb uppa and around when both feets gets off the ground for da climbing launch.

Bamzatini! It's easy to get knocked down on the ladder of life, so youza just chills out and takes that abundacatnap to try climbing later.

When youza wakes uppa from your abundacatnap, check out a fine EyeTailYun wine like Pinot No No Grigio. It might getcha revved uppa and feeling purrky - try it cuz youza might like it.

Purrpondering when to get back climbing dat ladder of life requires energy - like food, so introduce dat Vino to yur favorito Furmaggi (datsa EyeTailYun for cheeses) cuz theyza make a fine combo dat probably makes youza purr too.

Before I can say Catzowey Cheeses Pleases, I'm exhausticatted thinking about how to climb back up on the ladder of life. Oh well, there izza always tomorrow.

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Believe What You See With A Keen Cat Eye

2012-01-08T20:09:00.000-08:00

Catzowey my meowster self just completed the 1st whole entire one hundred purrcent week of the 1st week of the MEW Year and I've seen abundacat stuff with my EyeTailYun cat eyes. Gonna shares some of the 1st week feline fun with youza, but nobody else, just youza.

Holy Cannoli I donned my Man Cat hard hat when Me & Myself toured the deep intricat underground interiors of the San Franfunicsco Chunnel datsa under construction here in The City by the Bay. I declare itza notta seismocat earthquake proof!

It'za short 1st week of the MEW Year, but my cat eyes were open and I think I saw a Purrrade pass Me & Myself by, and we had no time to say hi or goodbye cuz theyza zipping by.

Itza fur shure in all my 9 Lives, I wished I wazn't an Oscar Mayer Wiener, but I did wished I wazza driving dat wonnerful Wienermobile and bamzatini I sees it happened - itz da power of the meowster mind dat makes stuff happen. Yep uh huh datza Me & Myself driving and striving to be a hot diggity dog in the Wienermobile on the Streets of San Franfuncisco! And check out da giganticat weenies on bigster buns in the background! Now datsa way to start da MEW year in fine feline fun fashion. Psssst - this izza no cocktail sausage sized small Smart car!

I see THE END has come to a meowvalous 1st week of the Mew Year!

Wishing youza a nonCATastrophic week,

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Oh One - Oh One Already!

2012-01-01T18:48:00.000-08:00

Catzowey! Itza Oh One Oh One and datza the 1st day of our MEW Year this year, and there's no better way to start this year then by hugging a furiend and getting hugged back!

Me & Myself heard if youza starts out yur Oh One Oh One day a purrticular way, the whole year gonna be the same -so I opted for being relaxacatted on Oh One Oh One. So my paws are crossed my entire 2012 gonna be relaxing, yep uh huh itza fur shure.

No MEW Years resolushuns coming frum Me & Myself! Nope youza not gonna hear us purrromising to do more leg lifts or catasthetics, but .....

I can purrromise abundacat sparkling surprises with The Guido Gazette. It's always a great way to start your day the Guido way, so now youza starting your MEW Year that way!

Happy 2012 and here's hoping it's a nonCATastrophic one,

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Spiraling Into The Mew Year

2011-12-25T19:31:00.000-08:00

Catzowey! I'm shure youza as exhausticatted as Me & Myself, from all the spiraling Holly Daze cativities. Now, itza the beginning of the finale final week of 2011 and I'ma stretching my man cat memory to remember the past Holly Daze week and all the speshule memories fur shure.

I remembers, someone visited me, yep uh huh I knows they did fur shure, and theyza checked their hat into my cat-in-the-hat check room, and left without it!

I remembers when I wasn't taking Holly Dazed catnaps, Me & Myself meeted and greeted abundacat furiends cuz Holly Daze time is dat time to meet and greet in fog, snow or sleet.

I duz remember itza Holly Dazed meowment dat makes my EyeTailYun self blush.

Oh Catzowey I also remembers, purrrverbial organized me, packed my Cwismus packages with stuff I luv and shipped them off, oopsatini I means shipped my packages to everybody I luvs.

And I remembers on Cwismus Day, Me & Myself got so so so exhausticatted weeza had to pass out and get revived with da impurrted EyeTailYun sardine smelling salts cuz we gotta be wide cat-eyed and a little bushy tailed to ringy dingy ring in the 2012 Mew Year !

Meowvalous cheers to this Mew Year being purrfecto for all and for all having abundacatnaps and hugs galore, and some nice bowls of Pasghetti & Meatballs too. Wishing you a nonCATastrophic finale last week of this Year.

Ciao & Meow! See youza next meowvalous year!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Holly Jolly & By Golly It's That Time!

2011-12-18T21:40:00.000-08:00

Deck the halls with boughs of Catnip,

Fa la la la la ... well that's it!

Tis the Season to be meowvalously jolly,

No I'm not thinking about that Holly by golly.

Fa La La and Ho Ho Ho,

I thinks weeza should be singing "Weeza FOG'd In So Let It Snow!"

I hears da silver & red bells chiming ringy dingy ding dong,

Hey do youza knows a CATZOWEY Christmas Song?

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bells rock,

I wonders what Santy Paws izza putting in my EyeTailYun sock!

It's a fine time to go riding in dat one horse sleigh

But Me & Myself purrfurrs to say....

Buon Natale (datsa EyeTailYun!) & warm jingling jungle bell wishes tooza youza

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty & Staff

Top 6 Holly Dazed Faux Paws

2011-12-12T09:27:00.000-08:00

Me & Myself has abundacat news bout what NOT to do during the Holly Daze and weeza calls them Faux Paws. Now thatsa not EyeTailYun word, itza FURench meaning "not acceptable to normal social norms." And what's The #1 Holly Daze Faux Paw? Do not dress uppa like Santy Paws cuz everyone gonna Ha Ha and not Ho Ho.

#2 Holly Daze Faux Paw:

Dontcha ever try to fill Santy Paws pants!

#3 Holly Daze Faux Paw:

Don't relaxacat and mingle and jingle under yur tree! BUT do fone da emergency folks as fasticat as you can if youza sees Rudolph down on da floor cuz that means heeza needs an organicatnip IV to get him back on track fast!

#4 Holly Daze Faux Paw:

Youza creating a giganticat four paws Faux Paw if youza walks on the dinner guests dinner plate before they arrives! But hey, theyza never knows cuz youza not gonna let dat cat of the bag!

#5 Holly Daze Faux Paw:

Rearranging yur Cwismus Tree is not a Ho Ho Ho but it is a No No NO! Hey this is no grab bag so leave it as youza sees it.

#6 Holly Daze Faux Paw:
Itza more meowvalous to decorate INSIDE da house cuz these Holly Daze balls gonna fall down on da ground when the wind arrives, and go kaboom and youza gonna cry and have dat Holly Dazed stress attack.

Better than the 12 days of Cwismus, youza got " 6 Holly Daze Faux Paws" infurmayshun. You're on da way to mingling and jingling thru da Holly Daze and angling and dangling! Ooopsatini - speaking of dangling, my one and only favorito fotographer Mark Rogers caught me in a meowment of private junglemania and I only does my nachural poses for Mark cuz he duz no Faux Paws and duzn't make me dress up as Santy Paws. Pssst - if youza has friends in San Franfuncisco Bay Area, a purrfecto doggone great gift is a foto session with Mark Rogers pet photographer extraordinaire!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week with no Faux Paws-yep you can do it!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Rocking & Stocking My Tree With Me

2011-12-05T08:14:00.000-08:00

There's a reason itza da Season to jingle and mingle all the way down the hall, and with a LaLaLasagna sized colorful ball! Itza da bizziest time of the year, but didja ever stop for a meowment to thinks about how bizzi Santy Paws' workshop is now? Theyza cranking out Silver bells and everything green and red, faster than the sugar cane catnip-filled fairies can land to dance on my head. But without da Tree youza got nothing to dangle da balls, so you gotta have Tree, lots and lots and lots of Tree and then the "reason for the Season" begins.

Oh Cwismas Tree, OH Cwismas Tree how will I get to the tippy top of thee?

Catzowey! This is not a Partridge resting and nesting in a Pear Tree - itza someone branch walking and not talking bout it! Shhhhh, this is a highly purrsonal and well kept secret!

Twinkle twinkles inky dinky star. Puleeze tell me these lights got an end to them, and itza not far.

Either I'ma shrinking into a smitten kitten size or we got tree ornaments made by the Jolly Green Giant factory. Me & Myself izza feeling dwarfed under my Buon Natale tree, and do you see what I see?

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week. Make it hiss-fit-free , no worrying or scurrying bout where you put dat on-sale wrapping paper youza bought last year! We're gonna skate thru these HollyDazed days together - yep uh huh itza fur shure we'll jingle and mingle, and deck out in our own halls with giganticat Cwismus balls, and some nip and ho ho holly, by golly.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Scaling Down With Fishy Feelings

2011-11-28T07:54:00.000-08:00

I'ma not cat chatting about Turkey rightovers or Turkey leftovers or Turkey Tettrazinni or Meatballs di Turkey. And there's more in store: Me & Myself izza notta curious as a cat bout how stuffed to the meowximum you are after dat looooong Thanksgiving Day weekend. So what's so fishy about not wanting to cat chat bout Turkey?

Saying ciao Turkey and I'ma scaling down my Man Cat waistline cuz Holly Daze are arriving I hear. Gots my Cat Eyes open and listening to my furiend who says to always get abundacat opinions, not just one, then it's not too fishy.

Holy Cannoli my fishy furiend has steered me directacatically into the deep blue diving land of a family of fishies and I thinks something is really fishy fur shure! Shuksatini, I forgot my Guido Speedo and don't have my immortal Snorkel with me. But itza fur shure, it's better to be fishy and scaling down around town, then to be a Turkey!

Catzowey! Dat looks purrrcisely like my tail!

Do youza purrponder this fine fishy and Me & Myself got da same DNA and are geneticatically related? Heeza got scales and I gets on da scale; heeza got a tail like mine; heeza likes to flatten out and so do I. Uh oh, he izza real catfish I thinks!

Me & Myself izza gonna give uppa on fishy fishes tales and pawsatively, yep uh huh it's fur shure, gonna just be a kicked back independacat, cuz itza not as fishy!

Wishing you da mostest meowvalous and nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Abstain From Rain

2011-11-21T08:05:00.000-08:00

Gimme shelter! Here in San Franfuncisco the rains have arrived and I duzn't purr when my fur has da Frizz-Eaze, cuz a man cat gots to have all fur in place at all times! Me & Myself izza always purrrpared and got my bella umbrella within paws reach.

The fairly seasoned weather purrson on TeeVee always suggests getting under something plastic when rain begins. So I immediately dived into my CalEyeFurKneeYah almonds bag cuz itza plasticat fur shure - purrobably not politicatically correct but hey, itza from Whole Paycheck Foods Company so itza gotta be environmentally correctacat stuff.

Definicatically - my EyeTailYun face says I'ma purrturbed and disturbed cuz the rainy drops izza disrupting my catnaps. So what's a guy to do when itza raining dogs and cats and abundant drops hitting my windows waking me uppa? Well I tells youza ....

You pack it up and head over to sit down with the One Youza Luvs and snuggle wuggle in the wain. Yep uh huh itza guaranteed to keeps youza warm in the storm.

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Thanksgiving holiday arriving this week in the USA and we all knows there were no EyeTailYuns at that furst feast back on da East Coast in 1621. Good thing cuz I hears they didn't serve any pasghetti or La La Lasagna. I shure hopes the day after Thanksgiving izza filled with gob gob gobbles of turkey rightovers, oopsatini I means leftovers and some turkey tetrazzini too (hey datza EyeTailYun)!

Happy doggone terrificat Thanksgiving good wishes and I gives da Thanks and da Grazies for YOU being MY furiend.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

City Kitty Is Busy

2011-11-14T08:53:00.000-08:00

Oh NO, itza not my birthday but everyday is speshule like a birthday so I starts it out in a good pawsative mood. I just purrtend like itza really my happy birthday speshule day. Hey..hooza not happy on their birthday?

First thing in da morning youza always wanna open yur eyes and smell the flowers in the early hours - rev up dat Flower Power.

Once a week I gotta get my cup O' catpuccino at Carmichael Salon cuz itza what gets my whiskers wiggling and stylishly spiffed. It's the purrfecto way to start my day the Guido way, and then I goes for the fluff and stuff treatments by the pros! It's kind of likes ordering the super dooper deluxe detailing on the EyeTailYun Furrari without the wax job.

Me & Myself always reserves a deep moisturizing Man Cat Fur Wash Treatment and I has a whisker trim too. But youza right if youza thinks I opticatted out of their fine facial waxing treatment cuz CATZOWEY I likes my facial fur for shure!

Exhausticatted after starting my day the Guido way, so kicking back and relaxacatting at "Occupy My House" before I move into the next part of my only-in-San Franfuncisco day.

Youza thinking you're on HD high caffein or watching 3D TeeVee, right? Hey going to da salon, early morning hour of flower power and starting my day the Guido way wears Me & Myself out and this is the real us - up close and purrsonal. Psssst - come close so I can share a secret with youza: if youza curious as a cat to know about my 2-tone lips, theyza nachural and not BowTaxed and my ivories are cavateez free.

Remember in November: No check out lines by shopping right here at a catzillion online stores, while a portion of your purchases goes to dat animal org of your very own choice! All thanks to Adopt A Shelter and their catzowey caring company! Fur shure theyza all takes MasterCat Card or Ameowican Express, ancient dug up Greek Drachmas and purrobably Euros too.

Wishing youza meowvalous and nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Purrfecto Time To Shop Till You DON'T Drop

2011-11-07T07:48:00.000-08:00

I'm hollering like they shout in Kmart, "AhTenShun All Shoppers" cuz I need youza to put down yur warm waffle that's floating in savory syrup, mute the TeeVee and hold the foam from over-foaming on your Catpuccino masheen, cuz I gots news! YOUZA can NOWZA shop from your home puter and your shopping dollars will go to animal organizations who shure are in need of the help. Thanks to our furiends at ADOPT A SHELTER whooza invented this fine shopping furiendly company - you shop, ya don't drop, hey itza Catzowey! Catch da super short infurmayshun VIDEO about how it works! Say arriverderci to aisle exhaustion and shopping cart rage.

Holy Cannoli Is it true Thanksgiving Day izza arriving this month already? Me & Myself fell right into my Fall basket when I heard dat.

Who said "Life Is A Bed Of Roses?" I'ma curious as a cat cuz we got no roses at this time of da year but we got da leaves fur leaf peeping and theyza furagrant free but funtasticatically colorful.

I gotta hold of a household tip just for you: always have a dandy and handy item to tie up da colorful Fall branches, so theyza don't fall all over da floor and then youza gets blamed for making that mess. Yep uh huh, itza fur yur purrtekshun.

I'ma always purrpondering how colorful things get at this time of da year when we gotta not so much sun sun sunny rays.

Yep uh huh itza fur shure, even with far less sun sun sunny rays during the days, I still got my Job with the Seniors at their Senior Center. Itza more meowvalous than a day filled with sunny rays! Me & Myself always goes to my job purrfectly pawdicured and wearing a good deeziner shirt.

As the Hollywood mewvie purrducers say - it's a wrap! And here's to a nonCATastrophic week filled with abundacatnaps and purrhaps a creamy cannoli!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Boozatini Itza Halloweenie!

2011-10-30T22:23:00.000-07:00

Only once a year on Halloween are weeza gonna be 'mob bobbing' fur apples, ringy dingy ding donging door bells for treats, tricking our furiends and going BOO how are YOU! Itza meowvalous fun day to be dressed uppa like someone youza not really (blame it on yur hidden funtasticat fantasies!) So to gets into the October 31st mood, Me & Myself has had our paws purrancing thru the Streets of Franfuncisco interviewing these Howling and Purrrowling furiends about what they're donning on Halloween, and WHY!

This doggone stylish dude "Dexter" is guilded in gold - yep heeza got gold everywhere and itza giving the illusion that his legs really isn't so short cuz youza supposed to be gazing at his Howling-Ween hair or his yards of gold chains - not his inky dinky legs! See, it works dat youza not noticing how short he izza. Hoorayzatini for GOLD!

Bewitching, not at all bewildered, and not bothered but adoracatable is she with Halloween colors to match her meowvalous orange self - fully Halloween color compliant according to code! (pssst, datsa my Momma Baci & her 16th birthday would be Halloween)

Purrfectly purrfumed Spring petals popping out early are purrobably making this pooch pant on overtime. Could he win the award for best doggone smile that lapped a mile?

Catzowey itza my little brofur Yolo looking San Franfuncisco stylish in his main Maine Coon fine feline fedora. Purrhaps heeza got Hogwarts, the YouKneeVersity of Wizardry on the mind!

It's purrobably CATch and release and fur shure it's every Meowster's dream: Sushi on Seaweed and please hold the WahWahsabi and Soy!

Move on over Captain Jack Sparrow and youza tooza Johnny Depp, cuz I'ma feeling like a radish!! OOPSATINI I means like I'm feeling Piratish with my cannoli chips ahoy and my pirate ship sailing and sailing over the Oshun Blue to you. All paws on deck nowza meowza, and bring your Trick 'n Treat bags too!

Me & Myself gets so so so exhausticatted purrancing the Streets of San Franfuncisco but itza worth it to meet and greet so many diFURsified furiends and see their funtasticat and doggone great Howling-Ween costumes. Yep uh huh, itza fur shure, Me & Myself izza gonna be home with my favorito pumkins - weeza sofa vegging on Halloween! Come on over and ringy dingy ding dong our door bell!

Wishing YOU a spooktacular and safe and really nonCATatastrophic Halloween!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

In My Costume Closet With Me & Myself

2011-10-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

Just days away from Halloween and I'm purrpondering what to wear. Autumn is awesome, Fall is fab and veggies are furesh and colorful, so Me & Myself izza thinking of doing Halloween dressed as an organicat Undercover Pumpkin Farmer. I blends right in purrfectly and gonna scare da scarecrows!

Looking South out my window I'm dreaming of awesome Australia, so thought purrhaps I'd dress up as an authenticat Jacaru - Datsa Aussie chat for da round uppa Cowboy and Yee Hawzatini, I could bring along my pet Boxing Kangaroo and do a Waltz With Mathilda and toss some shrimpees on my EyeTailYun Barbeque too. Feeling like Jumping Jackaru Flash!

Me & Myself always feels inky dinky devilish at this time of the year OR youza can call me Pope Guido the Furst and I declares everyday an "eat Fish day."

Catzowey! I got smart and took my MasterCat Card and myself to PetSmart to check out the new cool Martha Stewart Pet Clothes AND got myself a super sharp shirt and a new Martha Stewart Skeleton rope toy! Meowvalous toys - diversible and reversible: some fur cats and some fur pooches!

Datza my brofur Yolo comes to my rescue for brotherly assurance and backup purrteckshun in case Signore Skeleton comes to life! But when I'ma wearing my power shirt with my collar popped, nothing spooks me! (pssst, itza in da Martha Stewart Pets Collection, in pooch depawtment)

Nope, I didn't have Cosmeticat Surgery and I'm not in a Dachsund Costume! Thatza my pal Jake the bambino Dachsund, visiting me in his sequined Skeleton shirt, yep uh huh itza in the Martha Stewart Pets at Petsmart collection too. Doggone right Jake putza his paws of approval on da Rope Toy and 9-Squeakers Halloweenie Cat too, and Jake said theyza pooch purrfecto. Me & Myself and Jake are guys whooza likes stylish clothes, affurdable prices and good quality Catzowey toys, and we share em - cuz datza neighborly!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week and make no bones about it - Halloween is popping upon us!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

A Number Of Slumbering Positions

2011-10-17T11:26:00.000-07:00

Nothing more meowvalous than abundacatnaps! And slumbering with my bestest buddy Yolo is a slumber speshule di giorno cuz he slumbers soundly - never cat chats in his sleep or even snores!

We Man Cats like to slumber "spa style" like a little grooming in the middle of the afternoon Catnaps session. And Spa Slumbering is free, no need to use yur MasterCat Card!

Bamzatini! Before the Raviolis are boiling on the stove top, weeza back slumbering in a numbering of pawzishuns!

Then the alarm goes off cuz weeza got to wakes uppa to think about what weeza gonna do next!

Purrobably hit the hay and snooze so we duzn't loose any Man Cat beauty rest!

Wishing you the mostest nonCATastrophic week and hopes you takes abundacatnaps!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Columbus Day In The City By The Bay

2011-10-10T11:10:00.000-07:00

Catzowey! I luvs celebrating Columbus Day and Me & Myself always pawties the whole weekend long in San Franfuncisco, cuz I'ma EyeTailYun and Christoforo was too - relatively speaking, purrhaps weeza cuzzins. (can youza names the 3 inky dinky ships Captain Christoforo was using to sail to San Franfuncisco?)

Only at the Columbus Day Purrade is youza gonna meet and greet Carmen Meowranda with her miles of piled fruits.

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Itza Fleet Week too and these Marines izza happy to see me so much theyza got me a cup O' Catweiser!

Brushing off the Purrade dust after Me & Myself got back home and oh my paws izza aching!

These are my purrade paws - Pawsatively exhausticatted after marching in da Columbus Day Purrade and I'ma ready for a Man Cat meowsage.

Gotta put my specatacles on to see where my paws has gone?

OOPSatini! While I was at the Purrade, someone had an accident spilling da beans or dropping da Cannolis! Catzowey I'ma glad I was out and about so I duzn't get blamed for this messaroni. So now I'ma gonna blurt about dirt, yep uh huh I am. NOWza MEOWza youza sees it and .....

NOWza MEOWza you don't see it cuz it's all cleaned up thanks to Purina ProCare the supurrrrior pet stain and odor eliminator! This product sifted and lifted out all that mighty mess - yep uh huh it really works and now the sheets are tidy and whitey again thanks to this fast acting and good smelling product that works. Hoorayzatini now I can drop my pizzas all over the house!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

No Messing With A Blessing

2011-10-03T08:46:00.000-07:00

When youza sneezes someone nice says CatZuntHeight or Bless Ya and that's a meowvalous blessing to hear. Another fantasticat blessing is when we furry or feathered creatures are recognized on St. Francis Day to be blessed to the meowximum cuz weeza "Creatures of the Planet too". Yep uh huh, weeza invited on St. Francis Day to Church to sit in da Pews and be amewsed! (checking out da cobwebs and dusty balls under those Pews!)

Grace Cathedral in San Franfuncisco is where I went for St. Francis Day - they even got da welcome "All Creatures Loved By St. Francis" flag flying in our honor

La La Labradors enjoy going to the CAThedral too for a doggone great time in da Pew with a birds eye view!

Check out that 2nd pew with yur Binocucatulars - the pooch is paying attenshun and ready to grab and go with dat Altar bread sitting there!

How comes my Pew mate tosses Me &Myself a Hymnal from 1982 when itza 2011? I wasn't even a smitten kitten in 1982 cuz I was born in 2006.

Bamzatini! Befur youza knows it da giganticat service is over and weeza all been blessed to the Meowximum (good to go for a year!) and are on the Plaza to mingle and jingle! Didja ever think about a purrson looking like their pooch? These dudes rock and blow dry together in any weather!

Sharing the Blessings with my fur furiends makes me exhaustitcatted but itza good feeling fur shure.

I wishes youza a nonCATastrophic week and hopes itza filled with pawsative sunny rays, a doggone good catnap and a Pizza Meowgarita too. And pssst - comes closer cuz I wants youza to know I am blessed cuz youza my fabuloso furiend!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Catting Around In Hollywood

2011-09-26T08:07:00.000-07:00

Hollywood - think about that name - I never saw holly growing on the famous star studded sidewalks! It's for shure when I flew to Hollywood to be a CATestant on the TeeVee show "Think Like A Cat". I wanna share this amazing meowvalous time! Like the cat walk models, I was told to bring along my foto Purrtfolio, so I did and my favorito fotographer Mark Rogers made me a Catzowey book of fotos. (check out his link cuz youza gonna smile!)

Checked in to the Hotel Palomar on Wilshire Boulevard (purrrs galore cuz theyza pet furiendly) and checked outta my 14th floor room overlooking all of La La Los Angeles. Itza impurrtant to get a birds eye view of where youza is.

Immediately I got furmiliar with the fine feline furiendly art work on the walls of my Suite.

Bamzatini, I had to catnap cuz I was exhausticatted from exploring every nitch of my comfy Hotel Palomar Suite (oh Si Si Si, I always travels with my EyeTailYun blankie thatza the colors of Italy so I feels at home).

Catzowey! Always inspectacat yur plumbing in the Hotel Suite and if it's got a little drippity drop coming out all night, itza feline fine!

Lemme tell youza dat I was Star Struck with the Giganticat TeeVee Screen - only in Hollywood!

But then someone got Star strucked meeting and greeting Me & Myself - yep uh huh datsa Chuck Woolery whooza started waaaay back when, (waaaay befur I was even a smitten kitten inky dinky idea), with Wheel of Furtune, and heeza looking like heeza gonna do the Happy Dance, cuz heeza happy to meet my meowster self.

Just chatting with Chuck about Man Cat stuff like so so Southern California man tanning, washing the gray fur away, getting a pawdicure and looking spiffy for Tee Vee. I think he listened cuz heeza looks intrigued fur shure, yep uh huh!

So I wishes you days filled with abundacat Sun and nights filled with meowvalous Stars. Make it a nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

If You Gotta Go - Go With Kitty a GoGo

2011-09-19T08:49:00.000-07:00

Just when youza thinks life is purrfecto you finds out life is more Catzowey! Why? Well I tells you, I discovered this oh so so so stylish and funtasticatically functional Litter Box for us meowsters whooza gotta go when weeza on the go. BUT we finicky felines only wanna to go IN STYLE of course. It's like a 1st Class classy hotel restroom - It's Kitty A GoGo.

It arrives at yur house in da big box - which is recyclable (youza knows I'ma Envirocat) and the box becomes yur new Meowster Mansion after youza takes out the goods. Wowza Meowza - youza gonna luvs what's inside this box and CATZOWEY, it's all in one piece - no assembly!

Look at Me & Myself - weeza in our new Kitty A GoGo litter box and you got choices for the deeziner cover. Me &Myself both selected the "burlwood" cuz it'za got the Man Cat feel to it and I'ma EyeTailYun kitty with Man Cat style and pssst - I'ma giganticat 16 pounds so this box is big sized. It's meowvalous that you can get it in abundacat cool styles that works fur yur purrrsonality when youza wanna goes in style.

Get comfy with yur double creamy Catpuccino and kick back yur paws to see Me & Myself in the action mewvie - yep uh huh in my new Functional Litter Box With Personality

Purrhapps Kitty A GoGo izza nominated for a Best Deezine at The Acatemy Awards.

Get out your Pirate Pawty Kit cuz today is Talk Like A Pirate Day - all around da world, like from the North Pole to Jackson Hole - no matter where you izza relaxacatting, people are talking like Pirates! Ahoyzatini matey - letza share some arrrrgh gold from dat Treasure Chest and release our inner Pirate selfs. Hee Hee Hee and Yo Ho HO! Give me a bottle of Rumzini and a catini under a Tropicatical palm tree on a ship wrecked island. Then tomorrow, I'ma back to being my City Kitty self with a Captain Sparrow sized Nip hangover! Ahoy I thinks I see the Canary Islands ahead....

Me & Myself wishes you the mostest meowvalous week - don't furget to make it a nonCATastrophic one, and we'll cat chat soon!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Hug The One Ya Love

2011-09-12T08:24:00.000-07:00

When I'm having a wild week, Me & Myself both find that hugging the one we love is the purrfecto purrscription for feeling better. CATZOWEY, hugging izza healthy, not genticatically modified, 100% nachural, and no fake fillers or syntheticat stuff in a hug. Hugs are healthy, yep uh huh it's for shure.

Lemme tell ya, giving back to my favorito non-profit animal organizations is as good as a giganticat HUG, and it helps keep my EyeTailYun blood preshure at sea level. Giving back to my CoMEWnity makes me catnap comfy, cuz giving back is like an Alaska King Crab sized dose of shrimps. Itza relaxing to know youza helping others and when youza helps, you get a hug.

Didja ever sneak up on somebody and shout SirPrize (and then hug them?) Well, Me & Myself gonna SirPrize you with a fabucatulous way to shop so you don't drop. It's shopping frum your cat bed, shopping from da sofa or even while youza multi-cat-tasking on yur fone! It's meowvalous: when you're shopping you're donating money directly to the animal rescue org of YOUR choice. Yep Uh Huh, I'ma telling you that ADOPT A SHELTER is the mostest meowvalous thing since Seafood Supreme Souffle or Creamy Cannnolis! Imagine this: your purrchase from the online store will give a portion of that to the shelter of your choice!

Reaching out and pawsatively touching someone can be funtastic. And if you shop, youza gonna drop some moola into yur favorito animal rescue org at the same time. Kind of like a free HUG! It's EASY and itza FREE too. Just start at ADOPT A SHELTER and then shop yur favorito online retailers, like Amazon, iTunes, Old Navy, PetSmart and a catzillion other great stores - every meowvalous time you buy, they donate! Life is Catzowey!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week and here's my Man Cat Hug for YOU.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

My Keen Eye For Dining Deezine

2011-09-06T07:59:00.000-07:00

Catzowey! Look into my eyes and youza hears me better! Yep uh huh, itza fur shure youza gonna see what my EyeTailYun self has got to say.

No catnapping today cuz Mail has arrived and I'ma ecstaticat to try the latest dining goodies Martha Stewart Pet Accessories has deezined. They're meowvalous materials and doggone cool designs for we Meowsters and my small pooch pals too. Use them in yur home or when youza traveling cross country in yur LimoOhZeen.

This product rocks Me & Myself Cuz the Stay In Place - Place Mat doesn't slip, slide or glide all over my floor, even during my San Franfuncisco earthquakes, and itza got a lip to catch my dropped foodz (pssst can hold yur nip too!). So when I'ma chowing down on my favorito Pasghetti and Meatballs and get a little slippity sloppy, my food still stays on the mat! That makes the Staff happy. Get comfurtable with yur creamy catpuccino and watch this Mewvie of Me & Myself In My Dining Room, dining and not whining with my new cool stuff - and thanks to PETSMART youza can get a discount on these items cuz theyza on sale NOWwza MEOWza!

On the lookout for more meowvalous home stuff that gives me a comfurtable & catzowey life style. Hiding out in my UPS Hide-Out box to SirPrize the mail purrson. No catnapping cuz I hear weeza got more funtasticat home furKneeShings arriving, maybe by plane, train or surfboard! Pssst, speaking of surfing, I wanna share something doggone cool with you - meet Buddy the Surfing Dog - my CalEyeFurKneeYah surf pal whooza gonna make you smile!

My crystal cat ball says youza gonna have a nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Getting Crabby With Irene

2011-08-29T08:58:00.000-07:00

Trying to tell you exacticatically, yep uh huh, about my meeting and not great greeting with mean Irene. I'ma catchatting about HurryCane Irene, the pawty crasher at BlogPaws 2011 . It's the mostest meowvalous assemblage of animal bloggers - life is Catzowey with their blogging paws! And purrhaps even more Catzowey without HurryCane Irene!

Traveling cross country to a conference is good for my Man Cat appetito. When I arrives in a new City, I'm hungry, yep uh huh fur shure, I wanna eat at a local Dive to feel local. Me & Myself took the plunge and dived into a tray of local Maryland crabs at Captain Pell's which was swell! But definicatically HurryCane Irene's swells were even bigger.

I meeted and greeted everybody at the doggone super BlogPaws confurence! Pssst come close, cuz I wanna tell youza secret. Dontcha tell anybody else but I'ma wearing the American flag cuz I wazza going to the Nashun's Capitol and I'ma purroud patrioticat.

In between the meeting and greeting fine folks and companies, we ate. Seems everybody enjoyed da New Yawk Cheesie Cake.

But the mostest meowvalous meowment for Me & Myself was being in the furry same room with the Rescue Ink founders, Big Ant and Joe Panz. They're EyeTailYuns! Meeting them was a 'pinch my paws am I dreaming' experience, and bamzatini my EyeTailYun self fainted smack on da floor. Thatza why Joe and Big Ant izza holding my bizziness cards, while someone else is reviving me with impurrted EyeTailYun sardine smelling salts from da ol' country. If youza don't knows about Rescue Ink Redemption youza gotta reads their web page. Theyza my heros and theyza EyeTailYuns too!

FurEyeDay night in Virginia, Me & Myself opticatted to go out andza get hammered before the wild child HurryCane Irene arrived - cuz sheeza was on da path of travel directacatically to my confurence, and I tells you this was no blind date. Did a high dive again back at Captain Pel's for a mountain of more crabs.

I give up - I can't figure out why weeza needs a HurryCane Irene cuz there's nothing pawsative about her. She's a trouble maker, a jumbo sized wind masheen blowing da food off of my plate And not even da biggest bag of my favorito Greenies can stay on dat plate when she's around on the ground. Irene creates a bad fur day with a catzillion furizzies, and mean Irene can stop da trains and planes when youza wants to go on vakayshun. She fusses with the busses and Irene makes a Jolly Green Giant sized mess in the garden and doesn't clean up or even recycle. Sheeza just an old bag full of hot air. Arrividerci Irene!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week filled with abundacat good weather and soothing catnaps!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Hydrocatically Speaking

2011-08-22T08:33:00.000-07:00

Oh no! It's the H-Two-Oh factor - which is the combination of meowvalous molecules that makes life Catzowey! What does H-Two-Oh spell? WATER and without water, our whiskers would never ever wiggle and our tongues would never jiggle, and we'd have abundacat wrinkles too premeowturely.

Absoluticatically, youza gonna have different times of the day and different situations when you want H-Two-Oh. And definicatically there are different ways youza gonna be enjoying da water, but thatza yur choice. Nobody izza ever ever gonna say "drink Water my way cuz it starts your day this way"!

Itza impurrtant dat youza always never uses the wrong kind of container fur yur water or yurself, yep uh huh, and this izza Me & Myself sitting scurried and worried in da bad container, called Styrofoam and youza never ever wants to have yur smitten kitten paws in this thing cuz itza PURRtroleum based, and causes cancer and is NOT recycled. WOWza MEOWza - 3 strikes youza out!

Nachurally speaking, there izza way to get good water from the plants - yep uh huh, itza fur shure cuz 98% of all plant materials contain pure water. Catzowey! There is a destructive and non-destructive method to getting da water out of the plants so be shure you investigates the correct method. I assures you this is NOT the scientificatically correct method!

Being an EnviroCat can be exhausting so itza suggested youza just kick back and relax-a-cat after you drinks yur healthy H-Two-Oh. When you're relaxed and revved uppa again, life is Catzowey!

Here's to a meowvalous week and make it a nonCATastrophic one.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Kitty In The City - Life Is Catzowey!

2011-08-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

Me & Myself are always angling and dangling for a Catzowey view. So weeza ecstaticat to share with you life as a City Kitty in da City of San Franfuncisco. Pssst wanna here a secreto? Come close and admit it - youza curious as a cat to know what is wiggling my City Kitty whiskers every day! So get yur double creamy Catpuccino ready, get comfurtable, relaxacat yur paws and we're off and running like a giganticat herd of turtles!

FURstly- youza gotta know, life is a puzzle when youza City Kitty living in the City and often the pieces to the Life Puzzle duzn't fit exacticatically. Datsa OK cuz thatza life as a City Kitty in the City.

Basta Pasta! Nothing more meowvalous than kicking back yur paws in the City and relaxacatting with a good book, and fur shure I luvs "Carl Goes Shopping" . Undoubtacatically, Me & Myself are thinking Carl should go shopping with my EyeTailYun self, to Meowlano Italy, fur a doggone cool deeziner shopping spree.

More than youza wanna knows, Me & Myself gotta be a TechnoCat every day, and fix da puter stuff. Exactly when it's time for my abundacatnaps, the wires conspires to make confusion for my office,so I has to get in back of the screaming streaming screen and be the fix it feline. Just call me a Man Cat At Work!

The Day izza never ever over with out being on Guard Cat Duty - like Brinks Cats at Work! Gotta guard da baby brofur while heeza slumbercatting and snoozing cuz I'ma City Kitty kind of Man Cat at Work, yep uh huh fur shure. And that leaves no time for my beloved abundacatnaps!

At the end of the Day as a City Kitty, I'ma basket case!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week and hope itza PAWSative one!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Camping Out When Fogged In

2011-08-08T11:18:00.000-07:00

Foggy San Franfuncisco is my favorito place to be a City Kitty. Itza where Me & Myself always slumber away the day, while the famous Fog is rolling by.

Being a savy camper cat means always taking my favorito pillow along on the trip. Itza more meowvalous than a pillow filled uppa with dat goose down.

When Me & Myself is fogged in and camping out, we just gotta have the EyeTailYun Nip Cigar along on the trip.

Catzowey! Itza a purroblem when youza camping out cuz youza fogged in and youza catnaps too long and bamzatini - youza got the dreaded Bed Head! Yep uh huh datsa when yur fur is all flat like a bad ravioli. Me & Myself always twavels with a catnister of Bed Head spray to keep it away!

Wishing you a fog free week and make it a nonCATastrophic one too.

Ciao & Meow!
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Surprise! Guess Who's Arrived

2011-08-01T08:26:00.000-07:00

CATZOWEY! Youza gotta believe it when I tells you August has arrived - today is really the 1st day of August which means we all gotta catnap quickly cuz soon the Holly Daze is arriving. Wondering if you & yourself are in the know on the Historicatical Amewsing News that has happened on August 1st.

Always, fur shure, the 1st week of August holds a speshule place in my EyeTailYun meowster heart cuz itza when I found my furever home. This ancient foto frum my nip laden dusty archives shows me on the left with a person of interest and my real geneticat sisfur, Aurelia, on da right with another person of interest. Me and the sisfur said Arrividerci bambini dat day on August 5th, 2006 cuz weeza selectacatted our favorito persons of interest. Yep uh huh, fur shure youza gonna say it's an ahhh meowment!

Have you & yourself heard the global rumor circulating everywhere that I growed into my ears later in life? Dontcha believe it!

When you've having a good time, the time terrificatically flies by like faster than da pizza dough grows. And itza time to announce on August 1st this year, that I am completely comfy in my ears, finally at Fab Five! Now puhleeze remember, chillaxing is a superbo way to wait fur your ears to grow up, and relaxing is a fine way to pass the day even if it's not the Guido way!

I wishes you the mostest meowvalous and nonCATastrophic week, and purrhaps youza has a fun idea about how to Pawty Hawty the 1st week of August - send your purrfecto ideas. Me & Myself luvs a speshule OKshun which the 1st week of August is fur shure - yep uh huh!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Chillaxing & Relaxing In The Heat Wave

2011-07-24T20:08:00.000-07:00

Me & Myself are feeling tropicatical. It's a hot Summer all over the Globe and some furiends are feeling like a "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof". Let's chill with the thrill of laughter cuz laughing is definicatically the bestest stuff on da Planet, and it might bring da body temps down to Sea Level, then weeza all feels cooler.

Doggone it - everybody should have an indoor shwimming pool like Gus, and I always has my Guido Speedo ready for a quick cooling dip!

I mean GO GREEN and itza could cool us all down all over da Globe.

Itza cool to sneak a green but catOstrophic if theyza not tasty.

Public Services Meowsage: Go Organicat Green, and don't get mean but I mean to tells you to be happy like my brofur Yolo is! All thanks to CATCHING LIZARDS Handmade Pet Products and theyza got toys fur da feline furs and da doggone great pooches AND sparkling preshus stone jewels too! Be shure youza tells the deeziner, my furiend Mimi Pipino, dat youza FOG "Friend of Guido" and sheeza deezines something Catzowey fur you! Sheeza cool, yep uh huh itza fur shure.

Are you feeling more cool? I wishes you the mostest meowvalous nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao & Meow!
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

The Traveling Unraveling Envirokitty

2011-07-18T09:42:00.000-07:00

Definicatically, you've heard of Global Warming - it's warming uppa the Globe, and my Envirokitty self izza concerned about that. Yep Uh Huh, it never rains in CalEyeFurKneeYah and itza raining less in the Rain Forests. Fur shure these forests are hoomidity filled and can furizz yur fur. But definicatically, itza necessary to the Planet that we keeps da Rain Forests cuz many critters likes hanging out in dem, and theyza calls the Rain Forests 'home sweet hot home'.

Every now and then youza gonna come around da bend in a Rain Forest and meet someone different, like a lounging Gator. I didn't say see youza later alligator, but I did decide to lounge around with da great albino Gator named Claude. Itza meowvalous heeza not named Alli! Pssst ... heeza thinks I don't see him! But he duzn't really see me cuz heeza albino gator.

I'm not feline fooling around whenza I says the Rain Forests just izn't fur 4-leggeds. Fur shure everyone lives in that Rain Forrest on land and in water too. My pal Ferdinand da Fish whooza little fishy (but hey, even though he's not a catfish he's meowvalous) luvs his foto taken with my underwater cam.

Imagine Me & Myself meeting and greeting the Penguins whooza curious as a cat about me showing up down under. I thinks this one is wondering where my Guido Speedo is!

Quzzicatical me wonders if youza purrpondering about learning more bout flying fishies, abnormal florals, purrhaps penguins or a great gator or two.

Traveling and unraveling in the Rain Forrest often makes me exhausticatted!

Wishing you da mostest meowvalous and nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Barreling Through A Barrel of Fun

2011-07-11T10:00:00.000-07:00

There are wheel barrows, wine barrels, water barrels and barrels of fun but Me & Myself are more inclined to barrel down the Streets of San Franfuncisco, cruising in my CatOlac convertible. Nothing wiggles my whiskers more than the famoso San Fran Fog frizzing my fur and Fog keeps me cool during Sum Sum Summertini time in San Franfuncisco.

Itza fur shure, always before I hop into my CatOlac convertible, I gotta wake uppa the neighbors - hey can youza all hear me saying "Buon Giorno, it's a meowvalous day in the City by the Bay"!

Leave it tooza the Purrisians to have the mostest meowvalous French Press Coffee maker and here I am pressing my Furench masheen EyeTailYun style. Catzowey I feel a double Meow-spresso coming uppa! Good morning World!

Once the Catfeine is working and youza driving with me in my CatOlac convertible down da coast seeing da sites and site seeing, in true EyeTailYun fashun, weeza gonna stop at a cool cafe for something refureshing - a bottle of Purrrseco duz it fur me!

Weeza gotta keep our energy up and stop for some sweets on da road trip. Didja ever have Pomegranate & Champagne cuppie cakies? Theyza absoluticatically deelishus and probably filled with all da Omega Vitaminis cuz the cuppie cakies got Pomegranate inside - hmmmzatini I thinks Pomegranate is called da 'homely old fruit that's not winning any produce aisle beauty contests. Let's take pity on da poor Pomegranate!

Holy Cannoli I knew I shouldn't have had that extra cuppie cakie! I can barely fits into my new deeziner CommandoCat vest! Itza pooch size Medium and I'ma sucking it in for this foto. My purrsonal shopper found a doggone great boutique "The Doggie Bag" in Granite Bay, CalEyeFurKneeYah and Signore Ammirato owns it. Hey heeza my fellow EyeTailYun so youza knows heeza catzowey!

Jessie is "The Doggie Bag" boutique model and sheeza trying out my new Deeziner vest and not ecstaticat bout being a meowster model! I thinks sheeza looking funtasticat in my new jacket!

Hey! I wishes you da mostest nonCATastrophic week and if youza ever seeing hues of blues, youza just reach out and pawmail me cuz I'ma always ecstaticat to hear from you & yurself.

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Lettuce Entertains You -Eat Lean & Green

2011-06-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

Let US entertain YOU with meowvalous and healthy ideas for expanding our lives! And youza thought I was cat chatting about being at a salad bar! I got your attention - right?

I'm no vegecataterian, but both Me & Myself izza striving to keeps my Catlesterol low, my heart beat high and hoping for more than 9 lives, so eating healthy even though I'ma not wealthy is impurrtant, and now Holy Cannoli I can be eating Holistic & Natural foods. Yep uh huh - datza fur shure. Cuz FELIDAE Pure Elements dried & canned foods for da Meowsters izza all natural! And, yep uh huh again - theyza got da CANIDAE natural foods for you pooch pals too. Itza diverse company that cares for all of us 4-leggeds.

Catzowey! Da bag is like a traveling picture postie card - has da mountains on it - and the view of da package makes me purr like exacticatically when I'ma going on a VaKayShun.

When you finishes enjoying yur nachural and healthy meal, then you picks yurself uppa, dusts yurself off and gets right back to living again. BUT youza gotta use that darned de-dusting masheen to say arrivederci to da lint and stuff - and itza can be mind boggling.

Phewsatini I'ma dreaming of linguini!
Nothing better than Catzowey company, fine foods and abundacatnaps with someone youza luvs, after dat giganticat healthy and really nachural meal.

Wishing youza meowvalous week - make it a healthy one - and Me & Myself hopes your week is a nonCATastrophic week too! Let's rest up fur the 4th of July.

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Fun & Fineries At The Wineries

2011-06-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

I'ma EyeTailYun kitty who luvs the soil my 4 paws prance on, and feeling the ground is a grounding experience. So nothing better than a pawsatively great visit on a summer Sunday to ANDRETTI VINEYARDS in da Napa Valley. Youza knows Signore Mario Andretti - yep uh huh famoso fur racing da Indy speedy cars round and round dat track. NOWza MEOWza, heeza racing to harvest da grapes!

Itza fur shure, Ruth my speshule VIP "Very Important Paws" guide made my whiskers wiggle and I kinda giggled after tasting so many meowvalous Andretti wines.

Always get up close and personal with your wine and never whine if it empties fast. Itza more meowvalous when you get yourself into dat glass breathing the aromas like when youza having organicat Nip at home.

Like the shrinking economy, even wine glasses used to be giganticat sized when I was a smitten kitten.

Basta pasta, life izza Catzowey with fine wine and fineries at the Winery, and my EyeTailYun furiends were purrring, ooopsatini, I means pouring the bottles in my honor.

Itza true CalEyeFurKneeYah and EyeTailYun hospitality that flows where it grows at Andretti Vineyards, and when Ruth waved arrivederci to Me & Myself, I swooned, fainted and needed to be revived with my impurrted Sicilian sardine smelling salts. (pssst, they don't carry that in da Giftie Shop so youza gotta bring yur own)

I luvs my EyeTailYun heritage almost as much as I luvs my Pasghetti and Meatzaballs. Hmmmzatini, could it be possible Mario and Me are related? Now thatza something to purrponder and purrhaps heeza gonna make a new vintage vino - "Guido's Organicat Catbernet".

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao &Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

The Curated Purrrrrated Memory Guide

2011-06-13T08:21:00.000-07:00

Didja ever wonder where you put something that youza trying to find? It shure can bring on a hiss fit when youza cannot remember where youza put dat something. Thatza something fur shure cuz what youza looking for is purrrobably right in front of you or on top of you (where didja put my glasses?!) Congrats - youza got "I Furgot Where I Put It Syndrome"

Me & Myself can completely fall into an all day catnap or the siesta di giorno and I forgets where I put my glasses all the time! Itza that dreaded "I Furgot Where I Put It Syndrome" in full force!

You can lose all kinds of stuff, yep uh huh itza fur shure. Itza not just the memory we looses with that catOstrophic dreaded "I Furgot Where I Put It Syndrome". Hey we loses our balance too and basta pasta, datsa purrroblem and a challenge to find just in time.

But I tells you dat furgetting where your favorito cooking pots is, can cause a more giganticat hiss fit cuz youza needs dat pot or da favorito pan fur making da Pasghetti and Meatzaballs! Now if I can just remember what time I'ma catnapping today, the day will be purrfecto.

So here's wishing you a week full of good memories and a nonCATastrophic week too!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Rev Up & Work Out With My Energizing Secrets

2011-06-06T09:02:00.000-07:00

Life just keeps getting more meowvalous after each catnap and turning Fab 5 last month was fabuloso fur shure! Youza probably curious as a cat to know what keeps my EyeTailYun motor revved up and my whiskers wiggling in energized mode all over the Globe. Come close so youza can hear my secrets to a good and healthy life. Shhh dontcha tell anybody cuz itza just between youza and Me & Myself.

Numero Uno ... stretch everyday, all the time and anytime ,in between meals or during meals, after meals and whenever youza reeling from a meal, just stretch cuz itza good for the meowscles - hey have youza ever heard of a cat having a knee replacement?

Numero Two - get close to natural stuff, like uber ruby red tomatoes and snuggle in the catnip cabinet!

Numero Tre (datsa EyeTailYun for #3) ... The good times will be ALL the time if youza eats correctacatically and healthy. Speaking of eating, I hear a drum roll cuz I gotta giganticat announcement fur youza right NOWza MEOWza! Yep uh huh, I'ma purrroud to tell you Me & Myself have been honored by the makers of the mostest all natural foods for we cats and dogs. I'ma purring being selected as their 1st Spokescat! Pawsative applause puhleeze for CANIDAE-FELIDAE the USA manufactured fabuloso food that's filled with the healthiest goodies galore (like in my EyeTailYun kitchen)! Yep uh huh, I devours by the hour FELIDAE Grain Free Food cuz itza for felines and the CANIDAE izza fur my canine buddies. Catzowey theyza even got munchies for da Seniors and for those furs whooza waist lines izza busting at the seams like an over stuffed EyeTailYun cannoli!

And, I got more amewsing news fur you! CANIDAE/FELIDAE has also honored Me &Myself in their SPECIAL ACHIEVERS department, cuz I'ma Cat with a job and theyza thought that was amazing. Purrsonally I thinks my mostest special achievement is wrestling my organicat Nip toy!

Here's to a nonCATastrophic week, abundacatnaps and good healthy foods.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Different Ways To Do Nothing Differently

2011-05-30T05:44:00.000-07:00

Itza crazy world of busy stuff and stuff that keeps you busy, and nothing better than doing nothing when we have a 3-day Holiday in the YouEssHey like this Memorial Day Holiday. Didja know there are abundacat ways to do nothing? Yep uh huh itza fur shure.

Youza can do nothing when youza wrapped up like an EyeTailYun Tortelini or a Purretzel.

Bag it! Catzowey thatza like doing nothing and nobody sees ya doing nothing cuz youza in a bag!

Definicatically if youza trying to move dat sofa with yur foot and itza not moving, well I gotta tell you thatza like doing nothing! So youza might as well take abundacatnaps and leave dat furnichure where itza at, and get back to doing nothing!

It's consoling to know we all enjoy doing nothing in diffurent ways - we're really doing something when we're doing nothing. Lemme tells you, Me & Myself is shure enjoying doing nothing after my giganticat FAB FIVE birthday month. Youza all shure made it speshule fur me and definitcatically, yep uh huh, and I luvs ya so so so molto much - might even luvs ya more than I luvs Pasghetti & Meatzaballs!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Turning 5 = 37 In Human Years! Holy Cannoli!

2011-05-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

All my life I've been waiting to turn Fab Five and CATZOWEY this is thee week itza happening (Mighty Meatzaballs! Didn't get Raptured so I can have my Birthday pawty! Hoorayzatini). I thought while I'm still 4 plus a little more (like 4 and 7/8's), I'm gonna take you down my smitten kitten memory fotos lane before I furgets what I used to be looking like. Is it true dat 5 in meowster years makes me 37 in da hooman years? That means I gotta catch up with voting and start acting like a mature meowster.

Climbing up up uppa is still my favorito aerobicat exercise cuz I likes da birds eye view of stuff specially when I'm climbing Mount Chairamanjaro! This is me at 62 days yungun ... I finally grew into my ears!

Ole and hooray for having doggone good furiends! Billy the Chihauhaha was my first AyaCarumbacat Taco Bell dog pal for a play date. Holy Cannoli look at my tail! Itza got da puffies like a double cream filled Cannoli! Where's my deeziner defrizz cream?

One day right befur my EyeTailYun eyes, Catzowey I turned 2!

When I turned 3 even faster, I flew to Hollywood on a jet to shmooze da Stars - here's me and Chuck Woolery on the TeeVee film set. I'ma just checking out his Man Tan makeup - of course I opticatted not to wear that stuff and go the more meowvalous nachural look but Chuck is Chuck and I am EyeTailYun!

Itza UNFORGETTABLE meowment when I turned 4 and the oh-so-purrty Natalie Cole was holding me amongst her bling while getting ready to sing. Ohhh that wiggled my whiskers & I was waiting for more while I was still 4.

You can get my whiskers wiggling and have me hugging yur HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUIDO giftie by clicking HERE, cuz it'll take sensayshunal you right over to my Birthday wish list which is PAWSatively cool. No nip toys or mounds of meatballs or holy cannoli cakes is gonna make me purr like YOU donating just an inky dinky dollar or a vacayshun Euro to my furiends at "Pets Are Wonderful Support".

Can youza help me have the happiest fabuloso 5th birthday? Sure ya can and check out my Happy Birthday Guido Meter! Cuz itza on the rise.

Wishing you a fantasticat super dooper nonCATastrophic week

Ciao & Meow!
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Choose To Snooze

2011-05-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

Everybody sleeps , snores and snoozes at different times and in unique pawzishuns, and that's what makes the world a wonderful furiendly place to catnap in any time zone. But getting to a sound snooze is not always easy.

Naturally, some people dose right off - starting to dream abundacat good dreams in technacatcolor but some people purrfur Bed Time Nighty Night Tea to get them dreaming naturally faster.

Hot and steamy, really relaxacatting bathes can expedite your snoozing too but youza gotta propel yurself outta da tub before youza can snooze.

Don't furget a good glass of EyeTailYun red wine has nachural knock-out enzymes!

Good books can put youza to sleep too but don't slumber till youza finishes that chapter so you don't have to re-read it tomorrow.

Here's wishing you a week filled with abundacatnaps and hoping it's a nonCATstrophic week too! Pssst ... get ready for next week cuz we're gonna pawty hearty and celebrate my turning fab 5!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

SAY HEY On A Day In May!

2011-05-09T08:25:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder where the term "Say Hey!" started? I do and I'ma gonna tells ya .. my very own San Franfunciscan ball catching pal, Willie Mays made this Say Hey saying famoso. FurEyeDay May 6th, yep uh huh in 2011, me and myself went to Willie's Say Hey 80th Birthday Pawty at da Giganticats Ballpark - yep uh huh, me and a catzillion others paying tribute and pawtying with wonnerful Willie.

Stylish Say Hey pawty hats were given to us - theyza diverse, convertible and reversible. Wearing it this way is purrfecto for golfing or mousing on 9 hole greens.

Meowvalous to be with the aMAYSing Birthday Boy in his BOX when I stretched so much during the 7th Inning Stretch I passed out and catnapped.

Itza fur shure May is the month of birthdays fur Willie Mays AND Me & Myself. WOWza MEOWza I'ma turning 75 years more yungun than Willie and our birthdays izza just 20 days apart. Getting revved and wrapped uppa to celebrate my milestone like he did - hey itza like turning 21 in human years only I'ma not graduating from da Mewniversity.

Youza only turns fab feline 5 once in yur life, and before I turns 6, youza can tickle me pink and say
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUIDO"
The bestest gift youza can give me (and it duzn't gotta be wrapped up so itza Environmentally correctacat) is a donayshun for PAWS "Pets Are Wonderful Support" cuz theyza helps Seniors (theyza not old, theyza mature) and ill humans keep pets in their home when theyza can't take care of the pet - cuz PAWS sends volunteers to bathe yur pooch, bring free pet foods for the pantry, play hide n' seek with your kitty, take the dog fur a walk and take Miss Meowster to the dreaded Vet! Yep uh huh, PAWS is doggone meowvalous and theyza just opened up in New Yawk City!

Dontcha keep me dangling wondering bout my HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUIDO purresent.
Pssst, come close cuz I gotta secret....youza can give just $1 for every one of my 5 years on this catzowey planet and dat really makes my whiskers wiggle and then I can get down from dangling and have a catasticat birthday pawty!

Wishing youza nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Getting To The Wedding On Royal Soil

2011-05-02T07:52:00.000-07:00

Of course Me and Myself were in London town for the Royal Wedding and catzowey I was purrivelaged to have my paws behind the scenes with loyal Royal security and top dogs. Checking out the bride's tingling Tiara was the thrill of all my 9 lives - itza da real bling thing fur shure!

Scotland Yards Guards gave me a job - inspectacat the Tiara - from all sides uppa and downza.

Holy Cannoli! Imagine being the Tiara Transportation Meownager for the rehearsal at Westminstercat Abbey, yep uh huh like the night befur the big day. Without a doubtacat I wazza eyeballing da ancient mice under da Pews, as I purrranced royally and loyally down dat looooong aisle (transpurrting the Tiara of course!).

Itza fur shure the well groomed and a few doomed-dressed wedding guests had abundacat rodents racing around their ankles on the wedding day cuz The Abbey duzn't have a house cat. Hey... there's herds of purebred royal mices in da Abbey with lineage longer than the aisle! Now this guest's couture izza politicatically correct - repurrsenting our fine feathered furiends, our doggone good pooch pals and we meowvalous meowsters.

Time for tally ho, cheerio and HOORAY cuz itza May, my birthday month and I'ma in da pawty mode feeling feline festive fur shure cuz I'ma only turning 5 once. Are youza curious as a cat to know what I PAWSatively wants for my birthday? Click yur paw right here to see
Guido's PAWSative Birthday Wish List

Wishing youza nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Catchitecture - Royal Chateau Housing

2011-04-25T10:56:00.000-07:00

Catzowey! Youza knows life is grand when yur house is on a box. And Chateau La Paws izza pawsatively the cat's meow vineyard, offering da meowvalous wine called "Cote Du Bone Roan" - doggone impurressive if youza asks me and myself! This is royal housing at itza best!

The Chateau home can be open floor plan for easy accessing by youza and yurself.

Purrhaps youza not La Chateau loyal royal type and looking to have an ecstaticat time in a more down to the ground house deezined by the supurrbo Charles Shaw - heeza also known as "Two Buck Chuck" but I calls him Signore Shaw cuz thatza sounds more EyeTailYun than saying "Buon Giorno Chuck". Oh Holy Cannoli - I'ma ready fur a Man Catnap in my Chateau cuz the Easter weekend exhausticatted me and myself.

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Whatza more funnier than a barrel of bunnies and me with myself at the Union Street San Franfuncisco Easter Purrade? Duzn't get more meowvalous than this. Yep uh huh itza fur shure weeza having a hare-larious time! NOWza MEOWza letza get rested uppa fur da Royal Wedding on FurEyeDay! I'ma making the Beefy Wellington stuffed with Fancy Feast Pate to pawtay, all in honor of this meowmentous OKshun! Cheerio, ta ta and pinkies pawsatively up up uppa! Purrhaps we'll share a spot of nip tea too ...

Wishing youza Royal nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

It's Funny To Meet The Bunny

2011-04-18T08:16:00.000-07:00

Itza hilaricatious and possibly hare raising I tells you, yep uh huh - the Bunny izza funny and somethings is never fur shure, but itza fur shure that this week is the week the Bunny izza coming to town. Me & Myself meeted and greeted him to cat chat bout stuff, yep just cat chatting and having a harelarious time.

Signore Bunny claims he lays Easter eggs in a purrfecto dozen! I'ma purrondering that amazing fete fur shure.

Bamzatini and Holy Cannoli I sees that 'plain Jane' egg dozen turn into wonnerful colorful eggs right befur my eyes! I thinks I met Houdini-Bunny!

Absoluticatically - carrots must be the answer to dat Bunny's magical musings.

A Tisket or a Tasket, whatza in his basket? Purrhaps samples of Crest, Ipana, Colgate, Arm and Hammer, Tom's of Maine and Pepsodent too. The jumbo Hare needs to brush more or visit the Orthodogtist cuz he just has 2 teeth - just enuf for working on dat carrot or enjoying a Carrot Cake but heeza still smiling and out and about. So youza sees, the message is dat somethings just not impurrtant in life cuz da beauty izza inside, not on dat outside.

Wishing you da mostest nonCATastrophic week and make it a Catzowey week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Grin! Cuz You're Meeting Your Twin

2011-04-11T08:49:00.000-07:00

Statisticats with PhD's (stands for "Purr-House-Directors) around the World say that everybody has a twin somewhere on the Planet, and thatza amazing stuff to purrponder. Thinking about being just one wonderful, super dooper and pawsative YOU is enough, but then to think about having dat identicatical Twin, well CATZOWEY! Datsa amazing fur shure and could be exhausticatting to the meowximum - like double da stuff.

When youza meets yur Twin, itza recommended to extend yur paw to do a "how duz your Twin self do" paw shake. And then you might wanna try to trick yur Twin by changing quick to the other side, to find out if theyza authenticatically yur Twin! Purrhaps theyza faux twin whooza stolen yur identicatical identity.

Bamzatini! Dat authenticat Twin goes where you goes - left, right or uppa or downza, always passing da authenticat Twin test.

Me & Myself is trying to trick my Twin by looking like I duzn't care - hee hee! But my Twin is looking exacticatically at me and myself not caring either. Basta Pasta whatza with this Twin that he can't be his own solo self?

Watching my authenticat Twin has made me exhausticatted so I'ma having a solo PurrEyeVat catnap.

Catzowey! Itza like seeing waaaaay tooza many of me - like triplacats! I'll be back on da pawsative solo track next Monday. Cuz spending the week with my Twin and Me & Myself wazza exhausticatting fur shure, yep uh huh. Phewzatini, 3 of me means itza time for a Meowtini and tuna too.

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week!

Amore!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Spring Flinging On The Field Of Dreaming

2011-04-04T08:27:00.000-07:00

Itza Spring! Daffodils are blooming and I'ma not snoozing cuz Baseball season izza here, and I wanna hear from the purrfeshonal coaches (pssstt.... theyza won The World Series!) on how Me & Myself can throw some curve balls instead of my EyeTailYun meatzaballs!

Warming uppa my pitch and my catch and my every move is the 1st exercise fur yur sports meowscles, cuz The Coach says getting to know the ball izza good idea. This ball and me izza comfy together cuz weeza catchatting.

Itza sneaky move to look yur batter directacatically in the eye when youza bout to pitch dat ball towards him. Might even hypnocatatize him so he falls over before he can hit it! Bamzatini ... youza runs fast all around da bases, jumping uppa and downza like youza just won the Acatemy Award!

Baseball has 9 innings but my favorito inning of all is the 7th Inning Stretch.

After abundacat purrractice, youza can end up on a Trading Card or on a dry food kibble box on the super dooper market shelf!

Duzn't matter whooza youza rooting and tooting fur, cuz itza just more meowvalous to have funtasticat fun in the sun and get out to dat Ballpark. OR purrtend youza there when youza really relaxacatting on yur comfurtable sofa munching Oscar Meyer weiners with ballpark mustard drippity dripping down yur chin! And nobody in the seat next tooza youza, izza saying "Scuzzi, youza got ballpark mustard drizzling down yur chin", cuz Catzowey youza home alone and smiling with every bite of dat ballpark frank.

Here's to da Season with a reason - hot diggity dogs at the Ballpark!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week.

Ciao & Meow!
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Is It Norm To Brainstorm During A Storm?

2011-03-28T08:19:00.000-07:00

When the ice and rains are pouring out of the sky, rivers are rising and youza not staying dry, then reach out - yep uh huh, just reach out to someone you likes and tell them, or hug em or even kiss em. Do something nice cuz that's a meowvalous thing to do in a Storm. It can make a bad fur day seems like a purrfecto day. Yep uh huh itza fur shure, being a create-a-cat can bring you pawsative brainstorming.

When you reaches out to someone, before youza knows it, youza getting the deed returned, indeed.

When youza stuck in da house during dat stormy day, itza good to start cleaning out yur Spicy Cabinets and clean uppa the ages of mess and piles of spicy stuff datsa in need of cleaning uppa and tossing out. Yuckaloni this is no baloney!

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Quicker than a mini meowster catnap or even 40 winks, get yurself outta da kitchen mess and get into selectacatting the right Umbrella for the storm youza in! Definicatically that's more fun. Holy Cannoli - there's no sun cuz itza raining out and youza not out and about but you are selectacatting the Umbrella of the meowment! That'll perk ya up!

Yep uh huh I'ma singing in the rain .. what a glorious feeling I'ma not cleaning out my spicy cabinet no more, so I'ma happy again, just singing in the rain.

Whether youza having a good weathered day or a bad fur day, just be shure to shout out and tell someone that youza really cares bout them whether theyza got da furrrizzies cuz itza raining, or cuz theyza got that fresh Pacific Oshun sardine breath - duzn't matter cuz youza luvs dem anyhow and youza wants them to know! Datsa what makes a purrfecto day in a storm, seem more norm.

Wishing you and yours a nonCATastrophic week (and purrhaps a good weathered week too)

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Spring Storm Snorkeling

2011-03-21T08:30:00.000-07:00

Itza Spring now, and whether youza in good sunny rays weather or in tumultuous terrible stuff, youza gotta always be purrpared fur dat unexpected Storm and have yur Storm Snorkel and Snorkeling Mask ready tooza go, just in case youza needs it. Be purrrrpared izza da motto of the meowment.

Itza good idea to figure out yur snorkel before da Storm arrives, so there's no dust bunnies or fur balls inside blocking it and CATZOWEY - I'ma not quite shure if my super dooper Storm Snorkel goes uppa or downza at this meowment!

If the storm izza coming youza gotta clear yur Storm Snorkeling Mask so youza can see clearly and find yur way in the Spring storm. Going "ahhhhhhhhzatini" and blowing yur hot air on da Storm Snorkel Mask clears the fog away. Then youza safe to go Storm Snorkeling and find yur way safely, yep uh huh datsa fur shure!

In case of Storm Snorkel Emergency, just breath into yur Storm Snorkel and itza magical, taking youza everywhere with ease, even downtown to da Super Dooper Farmers Market when itza raining cats and dogs!

In the end, the storm will end and youza gonna store yur Storm Snorkel and Snorkeling Mask in a safe place, where itza ready fur da next storm. But be shure youza remembers where youza stores it.

Have a nonCATastrophic week and stay safe in da storm!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

When You Feel Blue - Wear Green!

2011-03-14T08:43:00.000-07:00

Statistacats say "more people want to be happy in March, to shake off the winter blues" so itza Catzowey to don the Green to get happy, especially this week - St. Patrick's Day week - which makes the blues go arrividerci. I'ma not wearing any furesh green EyeTailYun basil or my favorito organicatnip - just wearing da real EyeRish green stuff and gonna share with youza the 160th St Patrick's Day PURRRade in San Franfuncisco this weekend. Hunker down with a Corned Beef, a platter of Irish Potatoes and dat crinkly cabbage stuff. Here we go into a Sea of Green and itza Bye Bye Blues!

Duz he know his momma is wearing lettuce on her head?

Gotta have doggone great EyeRish Wolfhounds at da EyeRish purrade or itza notta authenticat EyeRish purrade!

And all da EyeRish Firemen wazza over the Top Oh The Morning happy to sees me!

Even San Franfuncisco's finest Polizia stopped twaffic tooza show me his secret 007 secret microphone in dat EyeRish green flower! Shhh, dontcha tell anybody!

Do youza believe in Magic? It wazza magical meowster ride in da Purrade with the Shriners whooza helps all the kids and plays da tooting trombones too. Mamma Mia I puckered uppa and blew dat horn!

Holy Cannoli & leaping leprechauns! Itza EyeRish kissing Mouse thinking I'ma Blarney Stone!

Green comes in many deeziner styles and sizes. Can you even sees my CatOflauged self by dat littlest leprechaun? Do a double paw click on this foto andza smile!

Thizza inky dinky leprachaun saluted me - nowza thatza fine feline manners!

Took my paws for a meowvalous visit to O' Meows Pub, or was it O'Double Dat Drink Pub, or, hmmmzatini was it O'Rise 'n Shine Pub? My memory cantza remember after dat big purrade, but I kicked my paws back enjoying Fishy n' Chippies and a few Tom Cat nip infused drinks. I'ma exhausticatted but definicatically wishing youza very happy St. Paddy's Day. Hey ... this week everybody gotza some EyeRish genes in them - even me the Italian Kitty!!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Zing Into Spring

2011-03-07T08:29:00.000-08:00

I'm seeing Spring everywhere in the air and on my table too, but thatza cuz I lives in CalEyeFurKneeYah where Spring arrives faster than youza can catnap or say "Pesto Pizza"!

Petals are popping all over and Me and Myself always thinks itza pawsative to get uppa close to da Spring petals thatza popping uppa and outta. Kinda like testing pearls: put em between yur teeth to find out if theyza real or notta real. Cuz some Spring petals izza silk and datza surprise!

Balancing Spring izza not easy when itza still a little bit Wintery outside.

Even if you and yurself izza not ready for Spring, don't turn yur back on it.

One thing izza fur shure, Spring izza popping uppa all over and everywhere and that reminds my creature-of-habit-clock to tell you, dontcha furget to change yur clocks cuz Daylight Savings Time arrives in some USA States and in Canada. Yep uh huh itza arriving on Sunday March 13th. Spring Furward and dontcha Fall back being a relaxacat!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Oscar Night With Oscar and Me

2011-02-28T08:07:00.000-08:00

Hot Diggity Dawgza! When the whole giganticat global press told me and myself Sunday February 27th was the night to be with Oscar, I purrrzooms theyza meaning itza da purrfecto night to meet and greet dat dude whooza driving and arriving in his Weinermobile! I waited fur a while at my door to meetza and greetza Oscar, but shuksatini, he turned to be a wienie no show cuz heeza da wrong Oscar!

Whooza Hooraying for Hollywood? Me! And I shure did get my paws fast, over tooza Hollywood to The Oscars - the correcticat Oscars - land o' giganticat Stars on the sidewalks and Stars in yur eyes. Grabbed my golden celebricat shades and purrpondered how to purrance down that Red Carpet cuz thatza where all the Purrrpurrrazzi is flashing - I means flashing their flashie bulbs.

Struting da stuff down that Red Carpet can be confusing and not always amewsing! Purrhaps youza trips on a Star's falsh eyelash datsa fallen frum her emergency falsh eyelash back pack, or you has to hurdle a big pawsagraph book that gets tossed at ya.

Catzowey! So so so much happening on the Red Carpet - I'ma looking left andza right fur my Celebricat black-out God Father styled sunny shades so the fans doesn't see my Roman roaming eyes.

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Here's a meowvalous fashion statement when youza goes to meet Oscar at The Oscars - definicatically wear all yur biggest baubles and make shure theyza borrowed!

Youza purrobably curious as a cat to know whatza my favorito mewvie of all my lives? Well without a doubtacat, itza THE GODFATHER cuz itza EyeTailYun mewvie. Hope yur week is funtasticatically meowvalous, nonCATastrophic and Viva La Mewvies!

Ciao & Meow

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Purrfecto Catnapping On Purresidents Day

2011-02-21T10:10:00.000-08:00

Catzowey! I'm snoozing here in the YouEssHay, cuz today weeza all off work, having no mail and can't go to da Bank to pay my MasterCat card bill, cuz itza Purresidents Day - the day everything izza closed. So itza da purrfecto day fur catnapping after youza has yur Catpuccino.

Purrhaps youza exhausticatted from a hecticat week and just wanna bag it - well Purresidents Day izza da purrfecto day to do that.

Laying around while twisting uppa and down on Purresidents Day might beeza more meowvalous than taking an aerobicat class. And good news: youza already on da floor so youza can't fall over and go kabumpity bumpza and get da bruise!

Itza no SirPrize that itza funtasticat Monday to be doing absoluticatically nothing cuz itzza politicatically correct to do that on Purresidents Day, but itza also da 1st Monday of da Chinese New Year "Year of The Wabbit", and my pal Signore Tiger izza cat-chatting Man Cat style with me.

Yep uh huh, itza fur shure, he says he's exhausticatted cuz last year was The Year Of The Tiger and heeza looking to kick back his paws and snooze till his Year pops uppa again in 2022. WOWza MEOWza he's gonna be rested and revved up like Tony the Tiger! If youza born in 1951 or 1963 or even 1975 or 1987 then this izza your year and youza in The Year Of The Rabbit. Congratucatulashuns and Happy Hopping Mew Year from Me & Myself.

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Hugzatinis and Sweet Treats Too

2011-02-14T08:16:00.000-08:00

Loving the hugging and giving more than one hug izza my favorito thing cuz, well you know I'ma EyeTailYun and we knows hugging izza healthy. But today, hugzatinis are popping uppa all over, and under and everywhere, cuz itza the day of Mister Cupid (dat little dude who wears a diaper and aims atcha). Weeza gonna be hugging more today cuz there's more love in store all over the world cuz itza Valentines Day!

Sweet and neat treats are great to give and receive on Valentines Day, but itza more impurrtant to hug, cuz a hug is free. And your heart loves a hug. Remember to listen to yur heart - always, not just today but everyday when youza not catnapping. Listening to yur heart izza comFURtable fur shure - yep uh huh, it really is and who knows, it just might even lower yur Cathlesterol or Blood Preshure.

Itza fur shure dat some people gives nice Catzowey purresents to show their affeckshun on Valentines Day so youza might get Flowers and if you duz, youza can be shure dat da Sender selectacatted with love and inspectaccated them from all direkshuns.

Purrhaps youza duzn't get chocolaties or flowers, but youza might get a SPA treatment for washing up and getting squeaky clean, cuz being pampurred izza purrfecto purresent on Valentines Day.

Nopa, I'm not staring uppa in the sky looking for dat Cupid dude, I'ma focusing my cat eyes, reading something speshule and am ecstaticat to share it with you. I loves this story, so itza love story. The meowvalous and doggone smart natural pet food company "CANIDAE" featured both Me and Myself in this amewsing article, and I purrs and falls in love with it every time I reads it so everyday izza like Valentines Day fur me. Enamored by da lovely author, Signorina Julia Williams, I felt my smitten kitten heart go bumpity bump bumpza during the interview! So kick back yur paws, grab a giganticat catpuccino and enjoy reading about me and my job in the Canidae Responsible Pet Ownership Blog-The Therapy Cat Extraordinaire! Youza gonnza enjoy my love story fur shure!

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic week,

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Super Dooper Bowl Weekend

2011-02-07T08:06:00.000-08:00

Whatza more funtasticat than being part of the 45th annual abundacat long time celebrated Super Dooper Bowl weekend, and I luvs my Super Dooper Bowl anytime of the year no matter whatza day it izza. Cuz any day is a purrfecto day fur a Super Dooper Bowl!

There izza rules at da Super Dooper Bowl - and furstly youza always wants to inspect da bowl to be shure itza meets da regulations and rules. Cuz the last thing youza wanna discover is dat yur Super Dooper Bowl is an inky dinky bowl! Thatza reason to have a giganticat Hiss Fit!

When youza finally finishes the trek and makes it to da Super Dooper Bowl, youza always wanna be on alert, checking things out to the left and tooza the right so there's no sneaky stuff going on in your field and youza never ever wantza fumble and tumble into yur bowl. Just play feline fair!

And befur youza know it, suddenly youza has a pawsative TOUCHDOWN and youza puts uppa yur paws in the air cuz thatza "Touchdown Language"!

Being up close in the End Zone izza funtasticat meowment - a pawsative pawzishun at da Super Dooper Bowl and youza purrrobably gonna be licking yur lips over da funtasticatico foods datza served to youza in dat giganticat Super Dooper Bowl. WOWza MEOWza - I wanna hear from you bout whatza youza got in yur Super Dooper Bowl. So pawmail me at guido@theguidogazette.com and tell me whatza in yur Bowl datza making yur whiskers wiggle this season.

Cheers to a super week and a nonCATastrophic one too!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Itza Groundbreaking Ground Hog Day

2011-01-31T08:12:00.000-08:00

February 2nd izn't justa the day after February 1st. Catzowey! Itza the day of da Groundhog and I'm checking out my pal to see if heeza Groundhog. Pssst .. this foto izza favorito - taken by my meowvalous fotographer, Mark Rogers.

If youza wondering what Signore Groundhog does on his speshule Groundhog Day, well I tells ya, he's looking fur his shadow.Or purrhaps heeza not gonna see his shadow so while heeza doing that, I'ma looking everywhere, trying to find my shadow before February 2nd arrives.

Looking everywhere uppa and downza and behind stuff too - just looking fur my shadow.

Itza fur shure - youza don't need tools to find yur shadow - itza already assembled so youza just needs payshunce.

Me & Myself izza so so so exhausticatted looking fur my shadow, dat I gotta lay down and resta uppa fur finding my shadow. Oopsatini, I thinks I sees my shadow, yep uh huh, itza fur shure - Basta Pasta ... my shadow izza right next to Me and Myself.

Da mostest famous working Groundhog in da world, izza Phil - dontza call him Philip, not Felipe, justa Phil as in Phil Punxsutawney from PencilVaneyah. Heeza catnapping till da early morning of February 2nd when he peaks outta his Groundhog mansion, in da frigid temperachures. Sometimes Phil sees hizza shadow, and sometimes he duzn't - time will tell and so will da Press dat gathers from all over da Globe to watcha Phil on February 2nd. Why? So weeza knows whether the weather izza gonna be good or not so good! Yep uh huh, itza fur shure.

Wishing youza da mostest meowvalous, hopefully warm and nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Envirocat News For Youz

2011-01-24T07:44:00.000-08:00

Didja hear dat Plastic is not funtastic? Youza gonna find this article "Plastic Water Bottles" totally infurmayshunal (and healthy fur youza tooza). When youza reads about "60 million plastic water bottles" thrown away purr day, youza gonna think if only we could justa neuter and spay da water bottles, then weeza have less plastic population! Da purroblem would get fixed.

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Trash yur plastic trash bags and get youza and yurself into alternative stuff. Definicatically youza can be making a giganticat difference! Check out thizza envirocat healthy TIP Di Giorno here on Healthy Good Plastic Bags, and say arrividerci furever to da bad baggies.

When youza got something to say shout itta out! If youza duzn't catchat bout it, then nobody hears youza and yurself and Momma Earth needs youza and yurza so so so much.

Yep Uh Huh - itza fur shure I'ma catchatting at this meowment about my Envirocatical concerns, and I hopes youza spreads da word to getza it heard. Catzowey! Youza can helps our Momma Earth cuz sheeza da bestest mostest meowvalous momma in da YouKneeVerse.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

It's The Clue For a Good Bird's Eye View

2011-01-18T08:28:00.000-08:00

When I'm wanting to know exacticatically whatza going on (above me, under me, to my leftza and my rightza), Me and Myself thinks itza beneficial to see things from all direkshuns. I'ma gonna give you a clue, shhhhh dontcha tell anybody else! Itza called getting the whole Birds Eye View!

Itza scientificatically proven dat once in all yur 9 lives youza might be feeling like youza giganticat basket case - but CATZOWEY, being in da basket can beeza really BeeYouTeeFull thing fur shure. Cuz youza got da Bird's Eye View of everything from da basket and nobody can see you in da Basket when youza peeping out or not wanting to be peeped at.

Undoubtacatically, sometimes you may wanna change yur place to get a better Bird's Eye View of life - and holy cannoli it's pawsible! Look at Me and Myself! Weeza went from EyeTailYun Cat to French Cat with just a wiggle of my whiskers! OH LA LA da Bird's Eye View frum Furance izza c'est spectacucatular! Bring on da Purrrisian mouses du Jour mon monsieur.

And when youza feeling like yur Bird's Eye View is fogged up, iced over or grounded cuz of da weather, and youza in need of a purrkup, call me. I'ma fully employed as a Certified feline in Animal Assisted Therapy (I gotza not-so-little AAT vest and my purrfeshunal credentials in my deeziner EyeTailYun backpack). Today I'ma sharing thizza very speshule foto - taken justa few catnaps ago. Itza me visiting my furiend whooza in Hospice. Weeza holds paws, weeza both purrs and communicates purrfectly. I visits him weekly now for however long thatza gonna be. Momma Mia! Thatza Bird's Eye View of a meowvalous moment.

Wishing YOU a week with a purrfecto Birds Eye View and I hopes itza nonCATastrophic one too.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Posing The Paws On The Red Carpet

2011-01-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

Next week, yep uh huh, notta this week - I'ma getting my domesticat self all glittery and star studded cuz weeza gonna see The Golden Globes and after dat, weeza gonna see the bronzed and super CalEyeFurKneeYah tan Oscar dudes. But weeza duzn't have to wait to see super dooper star power cuz my furiend Morris The Cat izza purrrancing his purrrriliant self down that red carpet right nowza.

Lemme open uppa this Morris & Friends 2011 Calendar cuz I'ma on da July page and jingling and mingling on the December page. Itza just $16.95 fur 12 meowvalous months of Morris and his Furiends (datsa Me and Myself too), and all da sales goes to Hinsdale Humane Society which izza not in CalEyeFurKneeYah but in Illinois where my pal Morris started hizza career.

Trying on my dark EyeTailYun deeziner shades cuz I'ma gonna have to hide from da Purrrpurrrazzi at those Globes of Gold, oopsatini I means Golden Globs, uh oh, I means Golden Globes!

I'ma purrplexed and wondering if I should go tooza Acatemy Awards in Tails & Black Tie or tie my tail with a black tie ... hmmmzatini decisions can put ya in a hiss fit and head ya into a catnap.

Itza sunny in sunny CalEyeFurKneeYah so everybody in Hollywood izza tan, tanner and more tan, so yep uh huh I'ma at da SPA getting Man Cat Tanned. Itza the real thing, no spray stuff fur my organicat self - justa nachural rays in my tanning masheen. While I'ma relaxacatting at my Man Cat Spa, I wanna wish youza speshule nonCATastrophic week, full of warm sun rays and abundacatnaps.

Purrhaps next week weeza cat chats about da Mewvies, so start making yur list of favorito and funtasticat films youza likes as much as EyeTailYun pasghetti and meatzaballs.

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

A Million or A Catzillion Reasons To Believe?

2011-01-03T07:49:00.000-08:00

Trotting my paws around San Franfuncisco on MEW Years weekend, when Me & Myself stumbled across the giganticat sign that has a real reasonable big meowsage for me, for youza, fur everybody! Yep uh huh itza fur shure - there's a Million reasons to Believe but if youza like me, then there's a CATzillion reasons to Believe!

Furstly, I believes in securing dat early morning place in the kitchen, near the coffee masheen. Nothing finer than a cuppa Catpuccino with the double creamy foam cuz itza so so so EyeTailYun.

Oh yes, I believes when youza finishes yur cuppa Catpuccino, then youza all Catfienated and can look yur furiend directacatically in da eye to have a purrfecto conversayshun. They'll be paying ahtenshun to youza, yep uh huh itza fur shure!

Me & Myself both believes weeza can stumble, rumble and tumble when life izza bowling us over with a buncha bad lemons but weeza, well weeza ....

Well I tells ya, weeza turns those lemons into da platter of sweetness stuff cuz weeza BELIEVES itza more impurrtant to be sweet than sour, at any hour. So youza sees, there's a Catzillion reasons tooza BELIEVE this year izza gonna be a more meowvalous sweeter year than dat last year.

Abundacat cheers to a BELIEVABLE 2011 and here's to a non catastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

It's Happy Mew Year Time

2010-12-27T21:53:00.000-08:00

Timely and amewsing news izza here: itza time for the Mew Year and hoorayzatini and oh how I luvs da tuna linguini! Weeza all got our paws crossed and me and myself izza on countdown too, fur a doggone funtasticat 2011, and here's my pawsative suggestion fur living da Catzowey "Oh Eleven". Ready??

Youza gonna feel revived and alive if youza has a daily catnap - yep uh huh itza fur shure.

Strrrrretch da paws cuz itza better than Zumba an lotza easier than the downward dog in Yogatini. So just hang out and Strrrrrrretch da paws!

And then after youza works at hanging out and strrrretching, just kick da paws back, air out da laundry and enjoy da meowment .

Dontza wait till Mew Years Eve, go GREEN nowza meowza, cuz youza helping our Momma Earth. And my Envirocat self asks youza to puhleeze compost dat pizza meowgarita and da leftover Holy Canolis, recycle dat Mew York Times paper, and keepsa keen cats eye on da house lights - yep youza can realisticatically do yur part.

Read to somebody, read tooza yurself, but read to keep uppa to date on stuff. Pssst, dontcha tell but I luvs "Carl Goes Shopping" books cuz theyza doggone infurmayshunal.

Youza can stay organized and always knows what day itza is during 2011 if youza has da meowvalous 2011 MORRIS & FRIENDS CALENDAR - yep uh huh, I'm purrrroud to be wtih my pal Morris on da July and da December pages of his calendar. My EyeTailYun Cat Crystal Ball says itza gonna be a nonCATastrophic and Catzowey year fur shure!

Happy Meowvaloso 2011 and Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Holy Cannoli! Itza Ding Dong Sing-a-Long

2010-12-20T09:31:00.000-08:00

Ding Ding goes the trolley! Itza time for meowvalous mistle toes and holly by golly, cuz it's Cwismus week and all thru my house, I see my empty EyeTailYun stocking waiting fur a mouse (ahem, or some boxes of Mice A Roni - the San Franfuncisco treat!)

(Catzowey! Youza knows thizza tune) ... "Do you see whatza I sees?" said the little Drummer Dude with a good Catitude! Lemme tells ya a secret: Me and Myself sees abundacat furiends whooza da bestest purrresent ever. And furiends duzn't have to be wrapped uppa or put under da tree cuz not everybody hazza tree! Pssst ..YOUZA my fantasticat furiend!

Tapping da toes, here we goes: Have a holly jolly Cwismus and a very GREEN New Year! Itza impurrtant youza knows our Environment is near and dear.

Sleigh bells ring and snowflakes may not be glistening but youza gotta be listening when I tells ya Me, Myself and My Staff wishes you a meowvalous Holly Daze and a Catzowey San Franfuncisco GIANT New Year!

Abundacat Holly Dazed Hugs,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

PS: My furiend Morris The Cat (yep uh huh, the authenticat Morris The Cat!) has his new
"2011 Morris and Friends Calendar" that hit da Stores this morn! Itza catzowey calendar and I'ma purrroud to be on July and December pages! All proceeds from sales benefit Morris's shelter where my furiend started hizza life. Puhleezes purrchase a calendar cuz itza Catzowey & youza knows me!

Lazy Or Crazy Days Of The HollyDaze

2010-12-13T09:35:00.000-08:00

Ah nuts! Da HollyDaze is not all what itza cracked uppa to be - but this guy was meowvalous to me as I purranced my paws through San Franfuncisco on a HollyDazed and crazed Saturday.

Not starting with 12 drummers drumming as I purrfur a smoother beat at The Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill - my favorito pet furiendly place to relaxacat and feel HollyDazed. The Lobby izza filled with echos of "Ciao Guido - can weeza treetza youza to a nice creamy double Catpuccino"? Basta Pasta - datza mewsik to my EyeTailYun kitty heart.

Meeting and greeting Fairmont guests izza what "Ann" duz best. Sheeza so so so happy I'ma purrancing thru The Fairmont. The purriliant purrfeshunal dons her fancy white paws to cuddle my EyeTailYun kitty self (Catzowey weeza got matching paws!). AND then, Ann and Me and Myself heads to da sweet dreams place ...

Catzowey! ItzaMan-Cat sized Gingerbread Mansion in the Lobby of The Fairmont Hotel! Two stories (thizza izza no fairytail story!) of real gingerbreads and abundacat gum drops. Hmmmmzatini I thinks there's impurrted Furench catnip in dat white icing too!

Boarded my Limo-Sleigh and headed my paws directacatically to da "HollyDazed Hug Booth" where I snuggled and huggled Signora Claws. Shhhh, dontcha tell, but sheeza gave me her favorito famiglia recipe fur Hot Mulled Nip and Holy Cannolis!

In fine feline fashion I Purrancered and Dancered and speeded like a Comet to sit on da lap of dat

ho ho ho OH so so so jolly man whooza not so fat. Must be lean times uppa at da North Pole.

Yikes! Four Calling Birds and three Furench Hens and notta even da two mini Turtle Doves ever gonna fit into this inky dinky shopping bag! (My MasterCat card gotta small credit line so I shops small)

I wishes youza and yurza da mostest nonCATastrophic week. Yep uh huh itza true!

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Untangle, Jingle Jangle & Tis the Season!

2010-12-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

And thatza da reason I'ma exhausticatted. Catzowey! Itza HollyDaze time and me and myself is so so so busy dat I got no time fur my abundacatnaps. Purrhaps itza gonna take all da day and all da nighty time to figure out how my tree lights gotza all knotted uppa, when theyza just sitting quietly in da box all year.

Itza fur shure theyza didn't get put in dat box like this!

There gottza be an ending so I can start !

WOWza MEOWza da tree arrived and I'ma inspectacatting it like da fabucatulous SuperDoopervisor duz. Youza knows a SuperDoopervisor does construction and also ....

Tree relocationing! Checking out each branch cuz furesh green branch walking izza favorito sport at HollyDaze time. I hasn't topped da tree yet, but if youza thinking dat my smitten kitten self toppled the tree, well youza correctacat. Holy cannoli! Itza resilient tree - bounces back automaticatically when youza leaves da room. (Shhhh, dontcha tell anybody but, IF youza double clickity on da foto youza sees my tree relocationing work uppa close!)

There's abundacat reason and tis da season to enjoy da HollyDaze and purrhaps youza needs my "Smitten Kitten Stress Less Tip Of Da Weeka" ..... if youza feeling stressed-out and stressed-in and upza down and tipsy turvy I got da purrrscripshun: kick back with hot frothy Catpuccino, put da paws up ,have a pawdicure, do a downward Dog pawzishun and youza gonna be having a relaxacat HollyDaze. Youza got 11 more months to spread out da stress stuff so don't jamza pack it all into da December.

Wishing youza nonCATastrophic week,

Ciao & Meow!

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Holy Cannoli Kittens! It's Time For SMITTENS

2010-11-29T07:38:00.000-08:00

Itza not Black FurEyeDay anymore, itza not even Cyber Cat Meowvalous Monday but it IS the day that I'ma purrroud to tell you about SMITTENS - the fingerless mittens made in New Zealand. And theyza 100 PURRcent, datsa 100% natural New Zealand wool - no syntheticat stuff in the SMITTENS Mittens! Yur order izza custom crocheted purrsonally fur you - - yep uh huh itza fur shure!

Pawsatively comfurtable and da natural New Zealand wool is super soft and washable!

Showing you the "Wrist Length" in Graphite color - $27.

"Forearm length" for extra warm arms when yur coat sleeve starts to rise like da tide. I'ma showing Ballet Pink color here cuz itza springy color. $35. (this paw model needs da smaller SMITTENS - we can make it to fit)

Everybody needs da Basic Black -here's "Wrist Length", and SMITTENS can be custom made in either of the lengths. It's $27 for this style.

Raspberry izza yummy color. SMITTENS can be made fur the guys AND the gals. Furiends has purrchased SMITTENS fur horse riding, sailing on da boat, walking in da snow, riding da bus and fur strutting around town to keep warm while theyza tap out da text meowsages on da fone.
SMITTENS are versatile fur shure!

I loves SMITTENS cuz theyza makes meowvalous meowster blankies! Purrfecto size fur me and myself! And theyza can be made in abundacat colors!

Ordering SMITTENS the Fingerless Mittens is easy and not gonna cause a Hiss Fit! Youza email me yur order with:

1) Chose the color of your choice

2) Selectacat yur style (Wrist or Forearm length) and size (Small or Medium)

3) Pay via PayPal

4) My PayPal account is guido@theguidogazette.com

5) Yur SMITTENS order arrives in about 2 weeks from New Zealand

Wishing you a warm nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty "the Smitten Kitten"

If youza got queshuns about ordering SMITTENS, you can pawmail me directacatically at my purrsonal pawmail:

guido@theguidogazette.com

Abundacat Thanks On Thanksgiving Week

2010-11-22T07:29:00.000-08:00

The famous punkin pie making Pilgrims landed on da shores of, um ... of ... hummzatini what shores did theyza land on? Waz it da white sandy shores of da Florida or da shores of San Franfuncisco. I shores duzn't know, do youza knows?

Starting to smack my smitten kitten lips just thinking of da Turkey tiddybitties tumbling from da table, but furst here's my list of thanks fur da Thanksgiving week ..... yep uh huh itza da week for thinking of thanks (and good eats).

Me and Myself izza thanksful fur justa hanging out in da jungle at Cat Safari

Abundacat thanks fur all da fureshly made Pizza with Nip Tomato Sauce and da home delivery is reason toooza be full of thanks too

I gives even more thanks fur da daily furesh running water

Gotta give da thanks fur my little brofur YOLO whooza big little brofur

Most impurrtant izza da giant thanks for YOU my furiend, cuz youza da spice of my ife in all da celestial seasonings! If youza celebrates Thanksgiving - enjoy it, andza travel safe. Purrhaps youza in da airport for da new "airport meowsage services" - give dem yur best Hiss Fit in true feline fashion and theyza faints and youza continues on to yur flight! I hopes youza has abundacat right-unders, oopsatini I mean left-overs on FurEyeDay!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Balancing In A Heat Wave of Hot Stuff

2010-11-15T08:24:00.000-08:00

Didja ever hear of a heat wave in da middle of November when itza almost December? Blame it on da giganticat global warm and storm stuff (yes youza knows I'ma Envirocat purrtecting my earth). But this izza CalEyeFurKneeYah where da Surfers will surf any day of the year, and "Hang 10 Paws and Hold On" is pawsatively Surfer chat when theyza maneuvering da board on da crest of a wave. Nothing finer than going to the Pacific Oshun beach to watch da Surfer dudes and dudettes do their balancing board acts.

No way can you say youza gonna be a super dooper balanced surfer without purracticing on yur board and I purrractices abundacatically every day and sometimes puts on my Guido Speedo when itza heat wave!

Balancing izn't just fur da surf board or my peachy beachy ball - cuz everyday izza balancing act and Me and Myself started early in da balancing biz....

My furst balancing act was when I wazza 62 days yungun

Catzowey I made it tooza da tipza topza of Mount Dining Chair

Now, yep uh huh I wishes you a purrrfectly balanced week and make it a nonCATastrophic one!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Leaf Peeping In Technocat Color

2010-11-08T07:34:00.000-08:00

The colors in November izza definicatically worth a remember cuz theyza BeeYouTeeFull fur shure. Me and Myself izza peeping at da leaves - and itza called "Leaf Peeping" in Mew England where da colors of leaves izza increducatulous in Technocat Color.

If youza wanna surprise the leaves, itza good to be Cat-OH-flauged fur da Leaf Peeping - then nobody sees you peeping around. But peeping at all da purrty colors can make ya exhausticatted ... so whatza on my agenda when I'ma Leaf Peeped & pooped out?

Grab a furiend and hug em! Then fall onto da floor and hug 'em more!

Fur shure, yep uh huh, a good furiend izza always right there next tooza youza, no matter what Season izza in the air or what meowvalous seasoning theyza smelling in the air (purrhaps itza Meatballs simmering or Pesto Pasghetti sauce on da stove top).

Wishing you a nonCATastrophic and meowvalous week!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty