Christmas Is For Those With Four Legs Too

We treat our pets like our babies so they also get Christmas presents and have stockings! No one role your eyes!

Excited to see what Santa brings!

Twas the night before night before Christmas Eve and Maggie was all snug in her jammies and 4 cats piled on Cas's side of the bed

While visions of pigs ears and cat nip danced in their heads

All the stocking were laid out with care

Cause Santa had been there

On Tillie

On Snittens trying to dig his catnip out

On Snoogans

On Possum

(notice her wrapping paper and bags~they were from the $ section at Tarjay and they had Weenie Dogs on them!!!)

And Maggie!

They ran through the house excited about it all!

Now dash away dash away all!

They sprang through the house with their news toys and treets until the were lost from their sight

They wished everyone a Merry Christmas~now if they would only let us sleep at night!

Show Us Your Life~Pets (4 legged children)

It is show us your life~Pets this week at Kelly's Korner!  As all of you know that read this little blog we have a four legged daughter Maggie!

I have had her for 10 years and had her before Cas and I met.  She is a purebred Daschund and actually came from near where we live now.  She is very spoiled.......see below

She loves to ride in the car with us and depending on where we are going we like to take her with us!  She sleeps with us every night and is "The Queen of the Queen Bed!"  She has a vast wardrobe and loves her Momma and her Daddy! She loves to be in the kitchen under your feet while you are cooking hoping for food to fall because one of her favorite pastimes is to EAT!  We love her dearly!

We also have four cats!!!!

Snoogans~Blue Point Siamese (bottom~I did not name him! His name has to do with a movie)

Snittens~Chocolate Point Siamese (top)

They came from the same breeder and are half brothers with different mothers and the same baby daddy!

They have a love hate relationship but we are always very amused by them and their big personalities attitudes!  Snoogans was a surprise Christmas present from me to Cas a few years ago! Then we got Snittens the following Spring. Yeah I know you are thinking it is strange for a guy to have a cat but he has always preferred cats over dogs (that is until the Mags) and Snoogans loves him and sits by the door waiting on him when he hears his truck pull in in the evenings.

 

Snittens as a baby

 Snoogans as a baby

 They are talkers!

They are in Cas's lap here in the car.  We used to take them in the car when we went to Cas's parents in Macon until the most horrific car ride ever!  It was a trip for Christmas and I ended up standing on the side of the road in some teeny middle of no where town crying!  Snittens foamed at the mouth the whole way and between the two of them they got sick and and messed up my new coat and some of the wrapping on Christmas presents.  It was about midnight and I told Cas just to either leave me or them on the side of the road!  Obviously as you are reading you can see we all made it back in the car but we ceased the family vacays!

Tillie~Just a Itty Bitty Kitty

I have had her for a while and I had her ever since she was about 6 weeks old, she is the oldest kitty child.  It is hard to tell by the picture but she is tiny, about half the size of the rest of the cats.  She is definitely a different kind of cat!  She also eats more than anyone in this house and will sit at the food bowl when it starts to get low to make sure that you are informed that she is gonna need food! She also LOVES some men!  The second Cas sits down she is in his lap and rolls around and purrs.  Anytime we have male company over she likes to sit with them as well!

Possum~Tillie and Snittens had a litter of kittens last year so he is technically half full blooded Siamese!

Last year as a kitten

As the youngest of the house he is definately the "Wild Man" of the house!  He through the house and jumps over furniture very often!  You never know what he is going to do next!  He loves to wrestle with the other kitties and he loves Maggie too.  They often nap together!

There you have our "clan"!
It is rarely quite around here!
Melissa and Cas plus 5!

Plus 6????
This is Shadow who technically is "Not Ours" but she lives here!  She belonged to someone at some point and she has taken up residence here.  Yes we feed her.  She sleeps on our front door mat every night.  She also runs up when you pull in the driveway and she follows us around the yard.

The END!

Happy Halloweenie!

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween!  Here is what Halloween at the Howard-Smith's look like!  A little like a funny farm? Hmm maybe

I just had to do it!

Her sooo cute Halloween dress!

 

Our little pumpkin!

This was already in her wardrobe

 

And because Old Navy had them on sale for $2 and I love Bee things

Tillie says Happy Halloween

So does Snittens

The only holiday he likes is "Snoogan's Day" and since Hallmark has not officially recognized that as a holiday yet he hissed something about Halloween......but I am not sure it was happy

And after alot of scratching and fur flying we finally got this little guy Possum to pose!  You see he is a little skiddish of Halloween after the great incident of Halloween 2008 where his brother (one of the 4 kittens we had during the Summer, two already had homes) we were trying to find a good home for him and I know the home he went to was not suitable since he has probably been dropped from high places and shot at with redneck devices was given away not be me because I thought it was heinous to a trick or treater the only trick or treater we had and he came a night early mind you!  After much a fuss screaming, crying and yelling by me I would hope this little guy knows I won't let anything happen to him!  I have his extremely furry back!  I only wish I was making this up folks!

O.K. maybe a little funny farmish........sigh

Cas's Pumpkin

My Pumpkin
This is the 1st year in a long time we have not carved pumpkins with Jason and Renea :(

And to top it all all this would be Shadow who has so graceously made her home right smack dab in the middle of our front door mat.  She was apparently abandoned and I guess she decided we were the suckers to prey upon.  Wonder why?  She just wants to be loved and fed.  Fed she is and loved also until she starts drooling on you. Ugh!  I do feel sorry for her on cold nights.  I am going to have to come up with a kitty house for her!
O.K. fine we are THE funny farm, but it does make for some good laughs every now and then!
 We didn't do to much today other then run a few errands and I had to go use some great BOGO coupons for cleaning products that were expiring today.  We also went to Sams and enjoyed our lunch of food samples!  Today is our anniversary.  Is today the day we met???  Noooo......but that is a whole other post blog!  We turned down Auburn tickets due to the rain and went to Logan's for dinner and luckily we were finishing up as all of the football fans coming from the game poured into the restaurant!  This evening we had 4 trick or treaters.  Three belong to a co-worker of Cas's and one little girl stopped by.  We don't live in a neighborhood so we don't get much traffic. 

 All this has worn Maggie out!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!

Always Has to Have the Last Scratch

We did Pet-A-Cures around here tonight and this little guy wasn't happy about it!


I was holding them and Cas was clipping and he got loose and scratched the **** heck out of me!

This isn't a good picture as I took it with my phone. I know I look very scary without make-up!  There is two deep scratches and when I put make up on it looks like Halloween make-up! Swell!