Travelling While Not Unravelling

Everyone loves Thanksgiving: the time to travel while despurrately trying not to unravel. Even a smitten kitten gets into the cornocopiacat mode at this time of year when catnaps in the furgotten sun rays seem to be none existent. So, being the good independacat I am, I packed my kitty couture for my week-with-the -Turkey trip consisting of 4 days of cat-cultural events , equal amounts of full tables and cat naps. But I couldn't get my suitcase closed with ease. So paused my paws and got into a Zen Cat moment, and it worked! Suitcase closed with my clothes and I'm off to the airport.



When I got to the airport,they announce over and over, to stay with your bag and never leave it unattended.... so I sat on my bag for security PURRposes and I almost missed my feline flight cuz I sat so long.


Catzowey it's a suffering succotash moment for the Mighty Meowster and this self instructed electronicat check-in stuff doesn't work well with my 4 paws. What ever happened to full service check in? Oh by the way - are you wondering where I'm headed?? To Washington DC to meet that Turkey that got pardoned at the White House as he may want to dine with me, the Italian Kitty.

Do you think my bag tag auto adhesive will do the job? Not on your 9 Lives! This is a job for the Feline Tooth patrol...

Who ever said traveling was easy?But if you want your Turkey, Turkduckin, Tofurkin or traditional Thanksgiving Tuna Tartare, it's worth it! Hope your Thanksgiving was PURRfect.

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

I'm Guido inCATnito trotting my paws through the City looking for a Turkey - hey it's Thanksgiving week and the fine feathered friends of we frivolous felines are playing hide and let's not seek. I'm just hoping to invite a teriffic Turkey to dinner - gotta give thanks for friendships and share a meal...

My dinner partner does the Turkey Trot soI've donned feline feathers to strut "the smitten kitten step". DefiniCATley I'm a non -razzled fuzzy feathered friend of the Turkey and don't call me a peasant pheasant!

Wishing you and yours a nonCATastrophic Thanksgiving week!

Ciao & Meow & here's to a turkey sandwich the day after (hold the mayo for me!!)
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Tally Ho and Cheerio

A kitten from Britain friend of mine meowvalously chided "Tally Ho Guido & Cheerio". Ahhh, Cheerios - sounds good so why not grab a box from my pantry where everything is neatly arranged in proPURR CATegories. (ok ok, so now you know we buy au naturelle Joe's O's in our house.)

This week's moxey meowster lesson: read and heed the Nutrition Box ... Joe's O's are catzowey cuz they insist "they're sure to bring out the kid inside of you"! Playtime begins my day - the box has a catzillion healthy O's for a pawsatively healthy hockey game on your kitchen floor. These whole wheat natural O's have no artificial coloring so my paws are safe while my goals are great. I'd say they're politiCATically good for you too.

















Bye bye breakfast, and nobody is going to get their paws into my O's box. So in true Brit form, Tally Ho and Cheerio!



Joe's O's are whisker licking good!





Ciao & Meow
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Falling Back to Wrestle With Time Change

Fall back and Spring forward? Ridiculous meow-tick-a-less - that's what I think about changing the time for a CATastrophic adieu to Day Light Saving (have you pawsatively pondered this: do banks offer Midnight Savings?)


Hello,is anybody in there? I hear ticking ... someone must be in there. Hey,I'm Guido the Italian Kitty and I need some fast feline assistance to help my mighty meowster paws change the time on this watch ...it's Ciao & Meow to Daylight Saving. Hello? I still hear ticking....

We fastidious felines are comfy creatures of habit - oh my purrs, a time change puts my feeding habits into a frantic feline fury not to mention the lack of abundacat sun rays for catnaps du giorno - what's a kitty to do? Cross my paws for a PURRfect Day to spring forward soon.
Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Kitten Trickster Treater

Have a nonCATastrophic happy Halloween!
Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO aka 'DracuCat'

Lion-Sized Lens Captures Celebucat

Lights, camera, action and paws up! That's what echoed in my smitten kitten ears this week during my first feline modeling assignment - a catzowey professional shoot. Chill your whiskers folks, this mighty meowster was photographed by the creme de la creme (and I'm not talking fat free or low fat but the real stuff!) of animal photographers - the infamous (and feline friendly) Mark Rogers who can capture the flicker of a whisker at a pawsatively purrfect moment, even from an Italian Kitty.


Mark and I had buddy bonding on the set and he now knows which is my best side, but is it purrposterous to think his camera lens is longer than the mighty meowster?

Four Paws Up and proof that the guy has a creatacative eye - of course I have 2 big ones that may land me in a coffee table book: PURRportedly a purrfectly wonderful collection of how cats live luxuriously (is there any other way?). So stay tuned to see if my feline portfolio makes the Publisher purr and takes you to a Borders book shelf to buy buy buy.








Catch abundacat pics on Mark's website and more pics of me and his candid canine shots too.

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty






PS - Do you know someone who wants to start their day The Guido Way?
Tell me at guidogazette@gmail.com

A City Kitty Cat Safari

It's meowvalous, it's PURRfect and it's where my paws ventured to this weekend: yes out of my cat condo digs and over to Pet Camp Cat Safari which is quite the PURRfect ahhhminous experience for my big tiger cat eyes to behold! Meowsters unite - let's give this great new addition to our City a 4-Paws Up as its stellar-cat-service was unthinkable for this mighty meowster who was greeted and meeted to the max.



CATch me here with the omniscient Owner Virginia, (she cat chats well). Definitely our "let's get cat-acquainted" interview was an enduring and purring experience. Thought I was proPURRly checked IN but I was probably checked OUT simultanakitteously as the attendants seem to think I'm a dapper kind of guy, but hey I'm an Italian kitty - sleek suave stripes get ya an upgrade!

Check in was feline-non-finicky (a breeze) and I was off to the Safari room - an incredukitty experience with enthusiasticat live green jungle plants, and crickets piped in everywhere to wiggle my whiskers, high wire bamboo walking (I excelled), tree climbing for my tootsies that have only pounced on condo carpeting, and ah ha... birds birds and more birds chirping from every wild direction - well need I tell you I had a Tom Cat Time and I think I became a cat!













Once out of the jungle safari garden, I went fishing. They don't offer Hook & Release but it's all envirocatically correct and Pet Camp Cat Safari is all Green - not as in kitty grass but as in politicatically correct. It's a kindred catzowey experience! Get all 4 of your paws on over for a kitty safari at Pet Camp Cat Safari (3233 Sacramento Street in The City By The Bay) ...where else would this be?? It's the PURRfect play date place and you might get your whiskers wiggled.


Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty