VISIT US AT OUR NEW BLOG!!!

Hi Effuryone!

We know we've been gone a long time - we've been working on our tans. We just wanted to let you guys know that if you wanted to keep up with us, my grandma has a blog where she's selling her blankets and we're all MODELS!!! It will have lots of pictures of us and stuff. You should stop by and say hi and let us know which one of us you want to see more of (I know you'll pick me!)

Grandma's Blog Featuring The Cats Stephens

We miss you guys and hope to keep in touch through this new blog.

Purrs,

Abbie

And then there were three...

I know it's been a while and I really wish I was posting better news.

Percy went to the bridge tonight. We thought he had a bladder infection, but it was a major blockage - we considered the surgery, but then found out there were serious renal complications, among other persistent health issues. We knew he hadn't felt good for sometime, and decided it was best to let him go. We're all just destroyed right now - I don't know what I'm going to do not seeing his sweet orange face everyday.

We hope to post some recent pics of him enjoying his garden later this week. I can honestly say these last few months he was living with my mom and got to go outside were probably his happiest. He caught his first bird and was just so pleased with himself, even though we weren't. It was a very bright spot in his dimming life.

He just wasn't well, and I know these last few weeks he was feeling even worse. We all did all we could for him, but tonight we all knew the best thing we could do was let his soul be free.

Sweet Percy - we'll always love you, and there will always be a Percy shaped piece of my heart that will never be filled again.

The Cats Stephens Mom and Family

Meow and Good Bye

Just to let you guys know - we're all fine - we're just furry busy.

We're moving out of our house tomorrow and staying the night in a fancy hotel, and then the next day we're getting on an airplane. The we'll be in Catifornia with Percy.

We don't know whether to be excited our terrified. Keep us in your thoughts.

We hope to post more soon with lots of sunny Catifornia pics.

Purrs,
Emily

Midnight Monday

I'm just taking a little break from being bad to remind you all to let your meow be heard and vote for the Best Fur Sibling of 2008.


Isn't Ann of Zoolatry such a talented artist? She made all the badges for my contest. I think we should have a cat holiday in her honor, she's the greatest!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a brofur I need to go pounce...

Purrs,
Abbie

The Percy Report

Life here at Grandma's is pretty good. Being an only kitty is such a dream come true for me. I am spoiled beyond belief - I get all the pets and food my heart desires. No sharing. I did have to fly in plane to get here and that was no fun - but so worth it.


I have my very own window seat and my very own window in my very own room where I can watch the birdies and not have to share with anyone. From here I can also see some pretty good pet insurance quotes on the internet.


I have my very own kitty cube to hide in, but I don't have to hide because I don't have any mean sibling cats to chase me and scratch my pretty little nose.


I eat all my meals in bed, served by grandma - grandma makes the best food. Did I mention I don't have to share food?


I have my own woofie... her name is Daisy. She follows me a lot and is a bit annoying, but it's nice to be a pet owner.

Don't forget to enter the best fur sibling contest being held by my former sisfur Abbie. I am sponsoring an award for best only cat entry. It's a good thing I can't enter because I'd win for sure.

Oh and the weather in Catifornia is so nice - open windows everywhere. I bet my ex-brofur and sisfurs are so jealous!

Purrs,
Percy

PS. From all of the Cat Stephens - get well Kashim! We're purring for you.

Happy Sad News

I'm a little blue these days. I just found out my brofur Percy is moving to Catifornia in two weeks. Mom and dad are going there to visit and to look into the housing situation, and they're going to take him there ahead of the rest of us. Percy is going to get his dream, he's going to be an only cat - at least for a few months, before we all move in.

My grandma and Percy have always had a very special relationship, he loves her and she adores him to pieces. Grandma has been kind of lonely since our cousin Annie went to the bridge; she's nefur not had a cat before. Percy also has health issues, and grandma can make sure he eats what he's supposed to and takes all of his medicine without being bothered. And I admit, none of us are very nice to Percy. It's just that he runs, and we like to chase things that run. He's a little older than the rest of us, and he does not like to play the way we do. I love my brofur very much, and I want him to be happy more than anything, and I know this is best for him. I just wish it didn't make me so sad.

In April we're going to be all living together again for at least a year while dad finds a job, mom gets started with law school and they look for a house, but even then Percy will be grandma's cat, and when we leave, he will stay. Mom says when grandma goes on vacation Percy will come and stay with us and we'll still see him, but I can't believe I'm not going to be able to see him for three whole months. Percy was my cage mate when mom and dad came into the shelter to get us. I don't like to think much of the time before then, he's always been there for me. Have you ever been happy and sad at the same time?

Percy will always be our brofur, so don't worry, he will still be keeping efurrybody posted on our bloggie. It will just be grandma taking the pictures! Percy is sponsoring his award for the Best Fur Sibling of the Year award, but now it's going to be called the Percy B. Stephens-Dexter Only Cat Award.

We're thinking of having a going away party for Percy... I'm not too good of a party planner so I'll have to get Abbie involved.

Purrs,

Eliot

100th Post!

Derby guessed it! We're moving to Catiforinia on April 22! We will be moving in with our grandma so mom can go to law school and we can save up for a house of our very own. We're very nervous and excited - we all have to go on a plane and we're a little worried Percy won't fit because he's a little on the heavy side, even with one toe less than the rest of us. So Derby, please email us you information and we will send your blanket off to you next week when it arrives.


I will now turn the blog over to Abbie who has a special announcement!

Purrs,
Eliot

Hi effurryone,

I'd like to announce that we are again doing out Best Fur Sibling contest. This year we have pooled our pennies and decided to donate 50 cents for each entry to the Skeezix Treat Fund. As you know Skeezix's lap lady recently was laid off from her job and Skeezix is very worried about where his next temptation will be coming from - so we have decided to help out.

Please go over to Best Fur Sibling of the Year and make an entry about why your brofur or sisfur is the best!

Purrs,
Abbie

100th Post Contest

Hi Guys!!! We've had enough sad news around the blogosphere, and we wanted to add some holiday cheer, especially with how nice effurryone was helping Percy through his surgery. We will be making our 100th post on January 1st, in honor of this milestone we have some surprises planned. The first of which is a contest. We have a major announcement for the new year - and the first person to guess this announcement will win a special blankie made by our grandma.

Rules -
1. One guess per critter per household
2. Guesses must be made in the comments of this post
3. Guesses may be made until 12 midnight, December 31st, 2008
3. One hint will be posted each day to this post, even if a someone has already guessed correctly
4. The critter that is the first to correctly guess our announcement will receive a kitty sized blanket from my grandma (pictures to be posted after she makes it)
5. Kitties who have prior knowledge of our surprise - please let everybody else have fun guessing (this includes but is not limited to Kaze, Chase and Latte)!
6. As always, we reserve the right to add to, revise, clarify or remove any of these rules at any time!

So - here is the first hint:

We're _ _ _ _ _ _/ _ _/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in April!

Happy Guessing!

Purrs,
Eliot

Clue #1 has to do with the first word...


Clue #2 has to do with the second word...

Percilla

Hi efurrybody, Percy here. More good news! When they chopped on my toe they sent it off to be poked at. The poke doctors said that ALL the bad stuff was on the part they took off, so now only good stuff should be left on my foot. I sure am glad, because I like my foot. Right now it's not pretty so if you don't want to see, don't read any further!

Anyway, so I got a package in the mail the other day...


It had a lot of packing tape on it, so unwrapping it required some persistence...


A lot of persistence.


Okay I just got dad to open it. But he had a hard time too. But when I got it open, there was ANOTHER BOX. But there was a CATNIP TOY! I forgot about everything else


But then there were stickers, and mousies...


But then dad opened the other box, and...


And what the heck is that! It's like a tiny me.


I'm going to call it Percilla. Do you think it's a girl? I don't know, maybe it is a boy and it won't like that name.


Oh look at that! it must BE a boy. And it's got my name on it!


How weird... but very cool! Thank you Daisy Mae Maus's mom, it is the spitting image of me!

So mom and dad weren't here some of this weekend, they were on loan to The Cats P's kitties. We were so jealous! They were gone A LONG TIME. We almost had to send Eliot outside to work odd jobs so he could buy us some wet food. We were starving for hours. But then they came home and everything was fine. They say they had a very good time! I say they'd better not do that again... or else.

They won't get very far with scratched tires.

Thanks again to everyone who has sent their purrs while I am getting well after my surgery. I really really appreciate everyone who helped me!

Purrs,

Percy

[Percy's dad - Percy looks like he feels okay. He gets around well and the toe is starting to heal. The vet said it shouldn't affect his balance too much and it's very good that its an outside toe. He is putting all his weight on it like normal, and his appetite is good. We're very glad this is all over!]

Pictures

Hi everybody. Percy here, thought you might like some pictures after my surgery. Everybody heard I was OK, but now you can see me too!

Here I am with the very nice lady V-E-T before my surgery...


Urg... me in the donut that Auntie Alison gave me. Gee thanks Auntie Alison


Me giving the paw to the donut


Weird yellow thing on my paw that MUST COME OFF


Relaxing at home and keeping an eye on the weird yellow thing


I've been watching a lot of TV and trying to get some rest. Eliot helps


Sometimes Eliot brings me some snacks. He's so helpful



Dad and I have been playing Guitar Hero to pass the time while I get better. I can only play on Easy with my paw wrapped up in the weird yellow thing.

All considered I guess things are OK. And I will be a lot better once I am all healed up and hopefully don't have to worry about my paw turning into a clubpaw again. Thank you to everyone who had a part in getting me the surgery I needed!

Purrs,

Percy

Surgery Day

Percy has been dropped off for his surgery - dad took pictures at the vet and we will post them later this evening.

We will keep you updated as we hear news.

We also wanted to thank all of you for your purrs, your support, for everything.

All of you made this surgery possible. Percy might not be grateful at this exact moment, but when he's not licking at his paw because it bothers him, and he's all cancer free, I'm sure he'll be very grateful.

Ann of Zoolatry made us this beautiful graphic with Percy's favorite color, green.



Thank you so much Ann! You made my mommy leaky with your kindness.

Thank you all so very much, from the very bottom of all our hearts!!!
The Cats Stephens Family

**UPDATE 1**
Surgery began at 10:30AM EST - it should last about 30 minutes. We will let you know how it goes. Please purr for Percy.

**UPDATE 2**
Percy is out of surgery, everything went well. He is currently purring up a storm, rubbing against the cage, and charming the vet techs.

**UPDATE 3**
Percy is home, hiding under the bed. He has to go back on Monday for a bandage change. Mom and dad are watching him carefully, but he seems to be doing very well and is even putting weight on his foot. He's all little drugged up right now, but said he'll make a post (with pictures) to all his furriends tomorrow.

Furgive Us?

Just a quick post - our mom has been very sick with the flu for the past two weeks so we're behind on everything - we've been busy purring on her. We have awards to give out and we still need to ship the blankets. Please furgive us?

Purrs,
Abbie

Raffle Winners

The winners of the Christmas blankets are:

Laura Walker (sorry we don't have a blog address for you)
Abby of Manx News

The winner of the Mommy and Me blanket is:

Gypsy and Tasha

I want to thank everyone for pawticipating - we have are very close to having enough money for my surgeries and we never could have done it without you.

I'd also like to thank my sisfur Abbie for picking the winners - pictures to come soon.

Winners of the snuggles and the blankets please email us with your address. Blankets will be mailed this weekend.

Purrs,
Percy

Raffle Results Coming Soon

Hi efurrybody... sorry to keep everyone who bought tickets waiting, but our parents haven't been home and they won't let us use scissors to cut out raffle tickets. Mommy got halfway through with the raffle tickets tonight, but since she got home late she can't finish tonight, so we are very sad that the results will have to wait until tomorrow.

We will have them posted as soon as possible tomorrow 10/21 after mommy and daddy get home from work, unless we can figure out where they hid the scissors.

Purrs,

Percy

Another Toe Raffle for Percy NOW WITH DIVA KITTY SNUGGLE AUCTION

***Please scroll down for new posts***

UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR BLANKET RAFFLE ONLY - RAFFLE WILL CLOSE AT 10PM EST TONIGHT.

UPDATE: DIVA KITTY SNUGGLE AUCTION IS CLOSED!!!

In addition to our raffle the wonderful DKM was so kind in making Percy a couple of snuggles to auction off!

Updated 10/7/08: Auction Rules
1) Bids should be posted as a comment on this post so that all viewers of the site can see the most recent bid. Please include a name if you don't have a blog.
2) Valid bids are for a specific dollar amount and a specific snuggle.
3) Incremental bids can't be counted as valid, 1 bid per snuggle per comment.
4) We will do our best to update the highest bid on the main page a few times a day.
5) Highest bid posted in the comments at the end of the auction will win the snuggle.
6) Auction will close on Sunday, October 19 at 12 noon EST.
7) Only bids made before 12 noon EST on Sunday October 19th will be counted. We will go by the posted time on the comment.
These rules may be updated as we are cats and it is therefore our prerogative

Above you can see the lovely tail of the Diva Kitty, Sophia, and both beautiful fall colored snuggles.

This lovely green snuggle pictured above is called "Fall Leaves"

Winner of "Fall Leaves": $85 Skittles

The warm brown snuggle above is called "Turkey Day" and was graced with gorgeous Diva Kitty toes.

Winner of "Turkey Day": $50 Mao

Hi guys. I first want to thank effurrykitty fo all their support over the past few months. My wonderful grandma made a couple more blankets to help with green papers for my surgery. This time we're just going to have two raffles. I haven't been feeling so well with my infection, so Eliot was a nice brofur and helped model my blankets.

First - we have two Christmas kitty blankets up for raffle. These blankets have a nice red backing. It is $3 for a raffle ticket and we will have two winners.

Christmas Blanket Raffle

Next we have a set my Grandma like to call Mommy and Me - it's one large blanket for your bean and one small blanket for you. The blankets have a lovely red backing. This set is $5 per raffle ticket and winner will get both blankets.






My daddy was nice enough to pose with Eliot to show how nice and snuggly the bean blanket is - doesn't he look super cozy?

Mommy and Me Blanket Set

If you'd like to be entered into both raffles, it is $7 for a double chance raffle ticket.

Double Chance Raffle Ticket

And if you would like to donate but aren't interested in a blanket - please use the button below.

Donate to Percy's Surgery

The raffle will go on until Sunday October 19th at 10pm EST and winners will be announced by the following evening at 10pm.

Purrs,
Percy Stephens