Itza Groundbreaking Ground Hog Day

 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

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

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

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?

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

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

 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!