Spectacu-Cat 1st Birthday Celebration

Life has changed drasticatically since I was adopted from the the San Fran SPCA where I began life as an inky dinky kitten. But with my Italian genes and gusto galore, I now resemble an ocelot, I'm packing on the pounds (went from 2 lbs to 12+ and still eating Pesto Pizza) and I am finally ONE year old, which only occurs once in your life. Categorically speaking I have 9 lives but I still PURRportedly turn ONE only once. So this momentous meowster occasion was deemed the time to party but catzowey, it takes some planning I found out, and it pooped me out in the end.




Flowers ordered, check the water ... no fish or PURRposterous uninvited critters in sight! Party plans can progress.










Move on over Martha Stewart and Bare Pawed Contessa - my plates are politiCATically recycled and I swear by my kitten striped seat I have sat on every plate and they can now be re-used. That's recycling at it's best!

















Birthday Rule 101: Hug your gifts and listen for any suspicious ticking noises. Not knowing what I was in store for (hey the box postmark was Oh Hi Ho), I donned my Commando-Cat jacket, a Kitty Couture gift from my beloved Kitty sitter.














This Italian kitty has gourmet whiskers and didn't want cannoli's or cake cuz I demandacatted the Planet's yummiest most delicate desert from American Cupcakes . Who wouldn't want these little cups O' cream whose logo says"lick frosting"! So I followed the bakers' orders and licked to my kittens content.




















Paula Abdul and Simon too would give my soiree a 10-Paws Up and Platinum Purrfect score until.......







I passed out at my party! Hey, this smitten kitten was zonkered, so I curled up amongst all the guests and entered a deep sleep dreaming of buttery cupcake frosting entangled in my whiskers. Now that's the PURRfect catnap.






Was the "Birthday Boy" hat really necessary?













Abundacat thanks to YOU for catributions to my 1st year - a Mighty Meowster Memorable year. You are truly the Cat's Meow!



Ciao & Meow and now on to Year 2 - woo hoo,
GUIDO
The Italian Kitty

Jumbo Kitty Litter Box at Race Finish Line

Prolificatically speaking, everybody wears some artisticat costume to the Bay to Breakers race, a foot fest of calamities (or a paws party in the case of we 4-leggeds who trot our 4 legs a whopping 7 miles from the Bay to the Oceanside!) Ah ha, did someone say Beach??? The world's biggest kitty litter box awaits us at the finish line - catzowey woo hoo. But what to wear to this annual "Only In San Fran" event was a challenge for me as well as trying on my costume. How do I get into this thing???


Refusing to wear a blonde Paris Hilton wig to match my built-in stripes (hey she's going to have that look soon), I opted for the "Divine Diva Drag Kitten" look, and donned a whole Big Bird's worth of flamingo pink and set out for the race course.







Well, at least I was wearing my fur - look at these folks who dashed out their doors so early in the morn they forgot to get dressed!



And my pawsatively great shape and Italian tude took me to the finish line - unlike some others. Was it really necessary for this bear dude to wear a badge prouncicating "Out Of The Race"?Click on that photo and try to control your laughter. You bet your cat's eye that I hissed at him as I pounced past his passed out paws.


Stay tuned, I'm revving up for my 1st birthday party on Saturday and I won't be wearing flamingo pink.
Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Time With The Fat Cat Of Bubbles

We're having bubbly abundacat colorful times here in San Fran and being I reside in a place that is a tad into fashion and filled to the paws with high cat-couture, I thought it cool to have better contact with everyone - no no, not as in pawing and a-mewsing you but as in colored eye contact lenses! So here I am, just 2 mini meowster weeks before my 1st birthday, trying on turquoise contacts (absolute-a-cat sensible disposables!) to see the world in a PURRfect blue mode: a meal of Blue Fin Tuna would be yummy, or a Blue Moon - oh yah it's famous for sure and I didn't see one this week, and rest assured this mighty meowster didn't squeeze the big paws into any Blue Suede Shoes either. Do you think blue works with my yipes stripes or should I go with the Dom Perignon green? Catzowey, this is one jumbo bottle (a fantasticat Magnum they say) and maybe there's someone inside...


Helloooo? Anybody hiding in there? I can't see you....come out to play and you can be at my birthday soiree. Hellooooooooo.....

Ciao & Meow
GUIDO
The Italian Kitty

A Cinco De Meow Mayo

Ayyyy cat carumba! My first Cinco De Mayo and your first 05/06/07 and odds are against all of us that even we cats with 9 lives will not live to see another one of these dates.

Hope you enjoyed your nonCATastrophic weekend while I was revving up my paws to learn latin dancing in hopes I could be in San Fran's Cinco De Mayo parade - a PURRrrrrrfect San Fran experience! Here I am learning a 2-Step Samba move (Reminder: they do it on Dancing With The Stars and if Heather can dance, so can this Italian Kitty as I've got 4 legs.)

Laugh if you may but my paws are doin' the Achy Breaky On Your Back Break a Bit Dance ala Billy Ray!

Catzowey - I'm catnapping in between dance lessons with my PURRfect partner, Loretta Lobster. It's exhausticating! And she has physical challenges too, but she follows my paws well so on to another week of mighty meowster antics. Wishing you a PURRfect week!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO The Italian KittyPublish

Mews On Over Home Makeover

My 11 month old kittenish mind is inspired wildly by the bountiful beauty that our world offers us and lucky me ... I've got weekly fresh florals to my paws delight and to play with too! Rumor has it one should smell the roses in life, and relax too, so I've put my kitten nose to work to greet the gladiolias as I didn't see any roses anywhere. Might you think I've a future career in fabulous Feline Design or at the house of Feng Shui Feline Florals?




Flower arranging is tiring and I'm kitten maxed out! Did you ever wonder how Extreme Home Makeover does what they do or how Martha Stewart kept her cool when the petals pooped over? Whew, I need catnip to refresh the kitten in me and get these petals back to paws level! What a way to start my day ...

EARTH DAY From a Kitten's Paw Point

Everyday is a Guido Day - tons O' fun and a 24 hour experienzia for this Italian Kitty. But Catzowey ... this frisky feline is not frivolously wastefull. I'm an Enviro-cat who wants to help make my planet safe for the next catzillion feline residents and you too. So on this Earth Day my PAWSatively purrfect self checked our faucets and found they flow far too freely and what a CATastrophic waste.


You too can be like my smitten kitten self - a concscientious civic-minded cat watching your drips and drops. This is no Desperate Cat Wives tail - it's the environmental cat's meow ... and how! PS - Rumor has it, I've got 9 lives, and you don't! Please protect our Planet - and help make it PURRfect again. Every drop counts!

Ciao and Meow
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty

Rub A Tub Tub and Happy Spring Cleaning

Sun rays are popping thru, I didn't have to file taxes because I've been unemployed since I was born, and I'm feeling like a Spring Clean (No no no - not the house, me - Guido.) Basically you could say, I want to wash away the stress and take a bath, like you 2-leggeds enjoy. So what better way to start my day than with a double bubble catnip infused bath - if I can figure out how to twist that faucet on. Catzowey - it's not kid proof, it's paw proof!







Definitely I've got a super commanding view from inside (feel like I'm Commando Cat at the helm of the ship -"Mice Ahoy Mate!") but what's one to do with this curtain thing? Bathing is just too CATstrophic for this mighty meowster.I'm pretty sure my paws prefurr to just hang out or maybe hang over. There might be no need to shower afterall - this is the cats meow!




Ciao and Meow,
GUIDO - The Italian Kitty