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The Pooch Plunge

One thing I like about Switzerland is that its a dog-friendly country, you can go to all kind of restaurants and stores with your dog (something not so popular in Spain) but I don't think Alpamare would do this:



The Pooch Plunge !!

This makes me miss my dogs

Lucky me on Monday I'm going to Barcelona for 10 days and I will see them :-) I want a dog sooo bad, no baby fever no wedding fever just doggy fever, my XX cromosomes are weird....

I need to do this with Hobbes!

Btw, I want a dog!

How to train your cat

You just need to know one thing:

DON'T DO IT, Its a waste of time really.

If you don't want them to sleep on your couch, or your jacket, or the clothes you just have been ironing and folding there is just one solution, find something waaaaay better to sleep on.

Some ideas:
1. An expensive new black wool coat (your cat need to be grey, white or orange, black cats dont like black clothes they don't see their own hair on it!).

2. A super smoot blaket your mum gave you for Christmas.

3. Your wonderful and beloved leather bag, the one you don't wear of its raining becasue you want it to last forever.

4. You.

Aich.... you can't live with them, you can't live without them!

Guest blogger Sona, thinspiration for cats

I hope everybody enjoyed the holidays, I spent them here in Zürich with Uxim. Placid and Julia went to Spain and we got a pet sitter (so no wild party at home).

2011 doesn't look really good. I'm on a  diet.

Our new vet doesn't understand I'm a healthy bog-boned feline female, no... she says I'm just FAT.

Apparentely my head shouldn't be smaller than my ass (!!)

Lucky me getting thiner as a cat is easier as a human. I see then suffering in the gym, eating 2 kg of peaches everyday for one month and sweating inside some weird plastic pants.

My diet is muuuch better, the only one who sweats is Placid everytime he has to buy my new super-fit-ultra-mega-rich dry food. Obesity its called, so original.

So I just seat, eat, sleep and go to the toilet. What a hard life...

Of course I still look everywhere just in case i find something better (and fattier to eat). The dryer is a good place, specially after laundry day.

Ji ji so silly

Working at home

One day I'll write aboutd the good and bad thingsabout working at home alone when your office and team is far away.

I'm lazy today so I'll just share with you this little spy that has been staring at mee the whole morning...

Today is the day of the week when I say "I want a dog"

Don't disturb

Cats heaven is covered by electric heat balkets and clotes that just came out the tumble dryer.
Our cats love to be on the groung, you will never see them jumping on a closet (inside of course!) but a warm and clean sheet is irrestible!

Introducing Hobbes and Patton

Two of our dogs, they have a hard life

Sad

At the end there was no way to save our dog Becquer so we decide to end it up, it didn't make sense to get her awake from surgery when she wouldn't been able to recover and probably die with pain in a short time.

I 'm sad we didn't find it before, the last month hasn't been good for her.

Its sad, dogs are really missed, since I was born I've been lucky to have a parents who wanted us to enjoy the god and bad things about having a pet I think this made me a better person. 

Dogs have something special, they interact with you like no other pet does they reflect what you do and feel and make you see the good things in life like eating, playing, being with the ones you loves and of course, let someone scratch your belly :-)

They come and go, each of them different, with their own little things and character. Becquer was a cool dog, a though girl and the smartest dog I have ever meet.

She will be missed.

Guest blogger

So here I am again. Julia is really happy, her parents are here to visit and her grandmother is here too!

Thats why on Thursday she used the vacuum cleaaner like crazy and Uxim and me spent the whole day under the bed.

Dyson its called the monster. We hate him.

We tried to bite the weird and hard grey tail he has, hoping to find some relevant arteries and let him bleed and die but we couldn't, and it tasted weird.

Placid has also come back. I'm afraid we won't see him very often theses nexts months, Julia gave us a picture so we don't forget his face and don't think he is an intruder and attackt him when he comes back home.

When I was young I did a self defense course and I'm a qualified guard cat, one day I'll show you my diploma.

I leave Spongebob is abaout to start.

Where is the cat?

Dogs

I miss my dogs a lot, so much people without pets would think I'm stupid or crazy.

I don't allow myself to think about them and to think about getting one for me here in Zurich, thats the thing I want the most in the world now but I'm not sure the life we have here would be suitable for the kind of dog I want.

And this beautiful pictures from Ellen Kooi don't help to stop thinking about them :-(

What to see happiness? Watch a bunch of dogs running on the beach, the smell, the wind, I don't know, they just get crazy there!

 

To end up with the "I miss everything" day a picture of the little "bed" Patton made for himself this summer. The dog is bigger than me so image how big the hole is. 

Guest Blogger: Uxim

Hi! I'm Uxim I'm the other catmate form Placid and Julia.

Sona wanted to write something but she is really busy at this moment.

So she says Hi! We also want to warn the tourist that are coming to Zurich, it is really hot here now so if you are expenting  a fresh trip to the mountains.... you will be dissapointed

Guest Blogger Sona

Hi! It's me again, this weekend I've been pretty busy, Placid and Julia went to Prague and Uxim and me made a party to get in touch with our new neighbours.

Ohh swiss cats are hard to party with.


Uxim didn't feel realy good after her antibiotics so we did a non alcoholic margarita party, maybe thats why swiss cats where so boring...

The best part of the weekend was that I managed to open Julias closet. She has a big closet with slidding doors form Ikea. Guess what, you don't need to have thumbs to open them!

I'm extremely happy, there is no better place to sleep than a humans closet. They are stupid, they sleep in a thing called bed when EVERYBODY knows a drawer full of clothes is much better.

Julia is not happy at all, she spent half an hour complaining about hair balls and damaged sweaters, who cares I slept soo well..... She is also thinkinga bout putting some dutch tape in the doors, I don't know what this is but poor Julia she has no idea how smart I am!

Breed ravens....

And then will take out your eyes!! (shitty translation of a common phrase in Spain) ... Breed cats and they will squeeze your credit card!

Yesterday, this hairy ball decided to start peeing everywhere, a very exotic behaviour  that was obviously not well received by me. While I was sharpening the knife to make a pair of gloves out of her I realized that it looked more like cranberry juice instead of pee bad bad.

Placid was ready to make her some cardiopulmonary reanimation but everything pointed out it could be a simple urinary infection so, despite the angry meows we where pretty sure she would survive the night.

So, this morning with Goggle maps in one hand and my German dictionary in the other  I called the nearest veterinary.

The veterinary was really nice, Uxim was not.

Veterinary: Ohh ...... so süss (= Oh .... how sweet)
Uxim: GRAAAAAURGRRRRRR (= sweet? Come here you little bastard I will make you a new face!!!
Julia: Yes ... I would recommend using some barbecue gloves .....

And the end she got someone’s finger put in her ass, a couple of shots, her chip registered in Switzerland and I got a CHF199.90 fee, I’m thinking maybe the finger in the ass would be less painful ...