In Awe Of The Inauguration

Catzowey! No matter whata fantasticat part of the globe you call home, we're all part of meowvalous history on January 20th 2009 and being I'm just 2 years young, it's my FURst Inawwwwwgurashun and I'm not gonna catnap thru the festivities.  So I've been checking out and under to be shure my computer hookups are in fine feline working order cuz my eyeTAILyun smart self wants to be in front of my screen fur the whole giganticat giorno tomorrow. And I don't wanna my guests to have  conniptions of Hiss Fits if they can't see any ting- Bet your most pricey impurrted sardine that  I'd be heading right to my litter box fur the whole day!

Today I'm taking abundacatnaps to git me and my self all rested up so no snoozing tomorrow fur me! I was in such a deep sleep this morn that I slept thru the Editor's deadline to get The Guido Gazette out!  Now lemme tell ya, that's what you call CATastrophic fur shure! But I'm bright green eyed and feeling purrky now. 

It's not Spring yet but my paws and me sprang into spurrring cleaning mode to tidy da house for my guests - now who left this hair band here? Don't they miss it? Ahhhh, I'm almost ready for a catnap!

In case you're curious as a cat,  I don't have a politicatical correct or incorrect party cuz I'm eyeTAILyun fromma over da oshun OR is it still called dat Old Country.... I guess you could call me a Diplomacat whose paws are crossed and hoping  the White House adds a mighty meowster to that big place on Pencil Vania Avenue. Do we wanna guess how many mice race at night thru those halls? I'm exhausticatted just thinking about it!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Literally a Little Literate & Loving It

Some folks cat chat round the water cooler, others catch up in the litter box  but today I'm talking pawsatively publicly, and about literature - literally I mean, this year I'm cutting back on my catnaps while expandocatting my reading catabilities. My smitten kitten self and me have found some CATZOWEY books which will kick off the new and unglued "Guido's Twitching Tails Book Club". Hey, that Cheekkawgo gal Opurrah has her book club, so why not the eyeTAILyun kitty?

This week me and my pawself has PURRused a good ol' fashioned kidz book, that's undoubtacatically been around for most of my 9 lives plus some others. It's CARL GOES TO DAYCARE, and can you just imagine a robust rottweiller at the kids daycare club when the teacher gets locked outta da classroom and guess who takes care of the kidlettes?? Yep, uh huh, Carl does a doggone great job and it's more than meowster mayhem I'd say!  And there's no catnip in the classroom cupboard, so this story is a au natural real story, not made in Hollywood or feline fiction.

 Remember you and yourself gotta be meowvalously comfy ... like kick back yur paws, sturrrrretch out  in a sun ray and put your reading radar on!

And it's imPURRtant to always love what yur reading, or at least hug yur book. I'm meowvalously enamored with Carl's books cuz he's wearing the eyeTAILyun colors on this book cover "Carl Goes Shopping"!  Oh let's purrponder if Carl dropped into a Johnny Cat Fursocksee Boutique!

Quit catnapping! Cuz "Guido's Twitching Tails Book Club"  is now open for reviews,  mews & amusement (a triple crown winner), so let's paw some pages  and  me and my paws hope the new book club doesn't end up in the litter box!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

New Yearz Remedy: Call A Therapeuticat

While New Years revelers were prancing their paws around town with thoughts of popping bubbly bottles and meeting midnight deadlines, me and my Italian paws  were making an Animal Assisted Therapy visit to someone I didn't even know the whole 364 days of 2008. Donning  my certified "made by Johnny Cat Fursachee" vest, off I went on the last day of the year  to  the purrominent University of California Med Center- feline radar focused to find the serious surgery ward and the speshule terrificat lady who needed a PURRk up!

Lots of catcophony in the elevator when folks stared at me in my Momma's back pack, as I bobbled (nope that's not a doll, that's a breathing moving cat!)   Whatz with the folks who ask "Are you a real cat?" or "Oh my gosh I thought I taw a putty tat!" My meowster self thinks a mannequin has more up above then some of dem!

In true Tony the Tiger fashion (the feline sugar coated flakes dude cat), it was grrrrrrreat to be there and the payshunt lady had brought her cat's blankie to the hospital - see fur yurself in the pics -  it's a SF Giants blanket that belongs to her adoracat meowster, Wilson J Scooter who found me on the 'facebook for felines - CATSTER.com.  Imagine this meowster miracle: Wilson reads about my AAT job on Catster - emails me to visit his momma (they really missed each other for weeks), and the rest is a nice Mew Years miracle story. And they don't even live in San Furfrancisco! The payshunt lady petted me and made me feel so comfurtably catzowey  - that's her and me above. She was having a bad hair day she said.  When the nurse took her blood preshure with a big gizmo machine, it had dropped  - no no no, the gizmo machine didn't drop cuz nurse had it in her paws real good, the lady payshunt's blood preshure dropped! Ahhhh, the power of the paws!

Got home from my job and found little visitors had arrived for the Pawty in the Italian limo - yep uh huh, we got the BuCATi car and painted the town with catnip while our driver purrpondered how to git us to the Kit Kat Klub before the stroke of midnight. Yur wondering if I made a New  Mew Years resolution?  Fur shure, I  purromice to  be exacticatically the same - no meowvalous or catastrophic changes, no hiss fits, just me and my optimisticat self doing what I always do.... starting my day the Guido way!     Happy Meowvalous New Year!

Ciao & Meow,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Wrapped Up and Wired Fur Fun

What do you do on the last Monday of the year?  Clean up the meowster  house to PURRpare for the next year's meowvalous mess!
Furstly,  in between my abundacatnaps today, my smitten kitten self is taking down the Cwismus twee lights, lights and more lights and Catzowey...even more lights too! Where's the end of this thing? Tell me you have this PURRoblem too! And why is it the lights all work feline fine today and next year when I take them out of the bag, nothing lights up! That's a quizical question that might be answered by the time I use up all my 9 lives!

 Now where is that last sneaky string of lights hiding?

Felice (say FahLEEchee) Anno Nuovo! That's eyeTAILyun for Happy Mew Year!  And in fine Italian feline fashion, I'm bringing out my vintage Bubbly and Nip Du Jour to toast YOU at the turn of the meowster midnight, for making my year so increducatulous!  My Italian smitten kitten self hopes this 2009 will be mighty fine fur you and nonCATastrophic too. It was a widdle bit chaotic and catastrophic rounding up everyone fur the annual foto but we'd do anything for my favorite fotographer, MARK ROGERS -  Hey anybody who can bamboozle 3 cats and a wiggling human in 1 foto without any hiss fits, gets my GUIDO 4 paws UP award of the year! Mark belongs on TIME magazine cover "Favorite PURRson of Da Whole Year"!

CIAO & MEOW,

GUIDO the Italian Kitty & His Editorial Staff

4 Paws Racing On A Holiday Week Treadmill

 I'm out and about, counting 6 french hens and on alert for 5 or a dozen geese a laying, and those 2 turtle doves who may be partying in my back yard haven't arrived yet,  and my Italian whiskers would wiggle for a partridge in or out of the pear tree! It's a bizzee time of the year fur sure....

But as Holly Daze bizzee as I am,  I magnificatly managed to squeeze in one imPURRtant visit with celebrikitty 9 Lives dude, Morris the Cat - it's kind of like meeting Chris Cat Kringle. Not to worry cuz your site is feline fantasticat- I'm not under the chair or out of view range -  Fur a change, I'm the PURRparazzi fotographer.  That's momma purroudly posing with Morris.  "Step it up a paw notch Morris" I hissed to him, and  he and his Hollywood shades PURRformed to the max. Morris is a true gent-a-cat-man, the cat's meow and anybody with 2 or 4 paws has a widdle envy of of his income too!

Now it's on Dancer and Vixen and Rudy too, honestly I don't know the others names, haven't got a clue!

My Italian stocking is hung and it's catzowey full galore - gotta wait till the 25th to get it down on the floor. 

So so so and ho ho ho, its time to wish you a Meowy Meowvalous Catmas,  Happy Hanukkah  and Abundacat Happy Holly Daze! And remember... give someone who doesn't expect it, a kitty hug -you'll make their holly daze PURRfect (and maybe jingle their bells too!)

Ciao & Meow & Buon Natale ! (that's eyeTAILyun!)

GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Imported Hugs and DeliCAT Chocolates

My atheleticat self attended a "Say See Bone" swanky San Francisco soiree benefit for Northern Calif Special Olympics last week, and definiCATically it was the Cat's Meow being at RICHART Paris the oo la la of rich yummy delictiCATible chocolates.Oh non moi - the Italian Kitty does not indulge in chocolate as we all know our 4 paws are not allowed to consume this meowvalous conchoction but my adorakitty self is amewsed with boxes of rich imported hugs, so I mugged with the most beeYOUteeful meowvalous Madame Elisabeth who is the Manager of the whole big RICHART Paris in the whole big USA. Lemme tell ya, the french hug the best and she made my whiskers wiggle so I let her beeYOUteeful self carry me around all night at the fantasticat french chocolate boutique!

Fa Feline La and La De Dah! Meow and now it's time to deck the halls with balls and jolly stuff but what to choose? PURRpondering to master pawsatively great decor before my 9 lives passed, my four paws voted UP to conult Pierre de la Pen Gwin, my nonCATastrophic (and not dazed or phased) Holly Daze designer who PURRvided helpful hints on how to pick up the balls without bruising my suave Italian head- hey someone has to toss these meowster sized bowling balls on the tree limbs!

Is there an Olympic sport for Holly Daze Ball Tossing?!

Catzowey I think I've got it! Now if I can just find my Cwismus tree!

Make it a

nonCATastrophic week

and don't leave your Holly Daze PURRojects hanging - finish them!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO The Italian Kitty

Holly Dazed or Dazed by Golly & Still Jolly

Just a few weeks until Santa Claws drops in and you know how sturressed people get at this time of the year, so it's imPURRative to exercise in between catnaps. You've gotta be doin'  your cardiocat stuff,  bench PURResses or yoga downward dog or upward pup poses to keep your meowvalous mind in balance. Balance?? Did someone say balance  ... as in not falling off the edge? Hey fur me, balance  is keeping upright on a limb while keeping this Holly Dazed hat on my head.  My smitten kitten paws attest this kitty couture creation is not designed by Italia's own fashionistacat, Donnatella Fursacchi!

Mirror mirror on the hollidazed wall, confidentacatically I'll find the  fairest feline of all, maybe under the Cwismas tree this year! 

Oh yeah, you're thinking you might be  green cat eye to giganticat  eye with the Grinch Kitty who wants to steal Cwismas? Think again...

Cwismas - catzowey!  That means my annual  holiday card is purrobably being purrduced by my purrsonal purrfesshional fotographer - the great Celebricat camera genius, MARK ROGERS. Oh si si si (that's eyeTAILyun), Mark and me share catnip, I break out the vitage stuff when he shows up cuz he's my speshule furiend.  That's we 2 dashing dudes below....

Don't get  your whiskers FURazzled this holiday season, cuz it's not worth it and besides, I'm the one who has 9 lives, you don't! And be sure to get abundacatnaps so we can mouse around the Cwismas tree or jingle bell meow mix rock! Oh my golly, it's time to be jolly!!!

Ciao & Meow

GUIDO The Italian Kitty