Exactly! Less waste products, less food, less space....I think we're on to something! 

and......  they could all fit on the bed on Sunday mornings for Sunday morning cuddles & snoozes... 

the micro pig, the CUTE BAYBEE POLAR BEAR, the miniature horse & the miniature giraffe...   2 penguins, one baaaad kitteh & my hobbling but bestest hairy beast of a dog! 

^^ starting to sound like a popular christmas song 

Sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas?

I'm with you.

*adds a pygmy chameleon to the mini menagerie*

Just thought I'd add one to the mini pics

Yeah... that'd make my menagerie too Sooz

A mini monkey....

Aww  

YES!!!   We wanna mini monkey tooooo!

We`ve got to add Vids and Ducky...

We are TOTALLY off topic now, aren't we?

Although...you could say we were all mad....

Is that monkey real , its not real is it Is it??? If it is i want one!

HOLY MOLY...do my eyes deceive me?  

He sneeked in to do an intercation

and zazz...... havent you got work to do

Its only a teeny weeny monkey...  

doesn't really count if its that little 

Agreed, It doesnt count as a mouth to feed when we have bigger bits of dust that float around under the bed .... I want one !

..anyways...   taking it back on topic a bit.

I had misunderstood what catnip did.    I knew cats liked it, and so bought a bag of the stuff to rub on kitteh's scratching post (to tempt her to use that instead of the sofa)... 

I had thought about rubbing a bit on the dog... thinking she;d get all lovely dovey with him.    Luckily... I found out that wasn't quite the reaction it invokes... 

cos I didn't think to wash my hand after I rubbed the stuff on the scratching post... 

I know have a raggedy bit of flesh where my hand used to be 

Also..    I looks like we have a bag of weed on table   I'm gonna have to put it away in a drawer somewhere or someone may come round & assume thats what it is 

many years ago I bought catnip chocolate treats for my cat ..........she went mental for them. Overnight she found the packet and scoffed the lot! We had a houseful of visitors at the time ...............NIGHTMARE - runny poohs everywhere - all over the house . Spent new years Day at the vets - her bum was like a golf ball .....(I hadn't realised at the time what she'd done).

 - thought she was dying!

Never bought cat nip again! Lesson learned!

awwwwwwwwwww poor golf ball runny bum kitteh! 

Well....they aren't supposed to eat it.

Must have been the chocolate that did it...although I didn't think you were supposed to give chocolate cats and dogs, as it can make them sick, but maybe this was a special pet variety?

Anyway, catnip can have various impacts on kitty personalities...Kenji tends to act like he's been smoking pot. I bought him a little stuffed ducky that has a velcro pocket for catnip. The poor little thing is soaked with saliva after the first bout.

Hugo lazing around as usual.

Ive got some catnip spray for ours, a squirt of that usually sends them a bit mental I have sprayed it on the cat tree to get them to scratch that.  I think it comes in different strengths, there is a woman i know of that makes catnip products and god knows what super strength stuff she uses but it seems to send cats mental without exception, she imports it from somewhere.

Katty, Hugo is looking lovely there. One of my FB friends posted this a couple of weeks ago, its really informative about what conforms to a tica standard bengal.  I really enjoyed reading through it and going "ohhhh come here and look at your ears, ohhh your ears are far too big". of course my little pets dont measure up on lots of these but its a really interesting read for  bengal owners. 

http://www.bengals.dk/ticaseminar.pdf

Hugo looks sweet and harmless there, katty!

I've got catnip bubbles, too. Sometimes he's interested, sometimes he's not...

MrD just stood on kitteh!!!!

Accidentally obviously...   she's fine now...  made a hell of a noise when it happened though.

I had to dig her out from under Ickles bed to give her the once over to check she wasn't badly hurt. but I know she's ok cos she has since given MrD a right good slapping & successfully stalked & hunted the back of my head 

Scary though

awww poor little kitteh, Glad she is ok. 

*coff* Would it be too much to ask for an update of Zeus, Atlas and Egypt's Christmas? How did they cope with the Christmas fuss, and the excitement of Christmas morning, presents etc? Were they dressed in their Christmas outfits?

I know its sad but I quite like to get my bengal fix  Ta.

awwww

well.... they loved it! Zazz brought home lots and lots of turkey from work for them, and they ate it all up, they are mad about turkey . They were a nightmare with wrapping paper and tried to get involved with everything to do with it; they ate bows, they stole ribbon, they ate parcels as soon as they were wrapped .  On xmas eve we took lil egypt to pets at home in a reindeer outfit to buy a present for the rabbits, and it took us about an hour to get round the store, lots of people wanted to offer her a home.

On xmas day, they loved stealing all the wrapping paper and just being involved. They ate so much they slept loads though so missed a big part of the day.  They didnt dress up for xmas day but they did get new socks and leg warmers .....

Ive posted a slideshow of their highlights here ..... http://www.purrz.co.uk/whatsnew.html

Having checked the link..I'm happy 

Why do they like turkey so much?... I wonder???

Not sure, but we have given lots of turkey to cats this xmas, where zazz works really has LOADS of waste WHOLE massive turkeys that would feed about 40 people! So we gave some to the breeder and a cat charity. There was also beef, but they all said the cats were not too fussed with the beef but went mad for the Turkey.

Glad you highlighted this problem Gypsie... I always suspected it ...

Suspected what? waste or turkey? Neither I can really take credit for. But Its good that they liked it.

loads of general food waste... I know there are people who raid bins...and get a lot of good stuff

there really is LOADS of waste from my work, sad thing is, no homeless shelters will take it, as it is pre cooked and they cant coz of "health and safety" and yet, there are "skip cafes" which I personally dont know alot about, but basically, the homeless raid these skips where people have dumped there food!!! far less hygienic than accepting food from us it is sooo wasteful, and really, quite sad....still, at least someone (the cats) are benefiting from the waste....and tonights waste happened to be 3 bags of profiteroles, so I am in the good books!!

Oh Zazz, terrible aint it ...

Fer fook sake the waste of it... there must be tonnes a year  

I just checked it again Gypsie and   oh  they are sooo cute

Little Egypt is so pretty. Gorgeous! ... do you think she will ever like being petted though, or is she just too wild?

Kitteh is getting all slutty again!!!!!

Lots of intimate grooming, chirping, affection & backend shimmying going on... 

even caught her giving it a stroke herself 

teee heee heeee, the filthy little madam awwww bless her though! What time does that vet open ???   SHe is such a cute little thing, her little face >-<

Rosie ... LIl Egypt is getting very snuggly indeed. She pretends she doesnt want to be caught and snuggled...but she does.  Out of them all she is now the one that will stay put and not put up a struggle when you pick her up and cuddle her. She even looks at you and has a little conversation. She really is adorable.

Ickles Pay Day & my Tax Credit Day are around the 9th Jan...  

Sooooo...    10th Jan we'll be whisking her down to the vets for the full Monty! 

Still waiting for her to do a proper miaow!   She will go "Maaaaa"  at Ickle...  but apart from that she chirps!   its like having a chipmonk in the house! 

Hugo is my permanent lap cusion,he plonks himself on me,usually when I'm on the comp.As he weighs 6 kilos  I have to shove him off after a while in case he cuts my circulation off. he also does the claws in and out kneading ,usually againt me boobies..ouch!

Maybe she is a little chirper ditty? Our three make the most silly noises. She does a cartoon style meow like butter wouldnt melt in her mouth, Zeus does the most high pitched girly meow (does not look right at all coming out of him :laugh and atlas just barks

Katty, Hugo does sound really big ... I dont think zues is anywere near that weight, i need to get him on scales .... but how   But sometimes I wake up with him sleeping on my chest and i swear i feel like im being crushed to death.

How is hugo getting on with the bird katty?