Rumbles for New Zealand Top Cat Model

We're down to the wire, folks! As many of you know, Rumblepurr is one of the ten finalists in the New Zealand Top Cat Model contest. As of Sunday, he was the cat who had raised the most for animal charities. Along with two other cats from Wellington, Darwin and Omar, he was featured in the Newspaper, the Dominion Post!


We hope that got him some needed publicity, because some of the other contestants had been featured on television and in the paper, and after that they got quite a lot more votes.

Rumbles was #1 in terms of votes on August 2nd:

but then after the publicity for some of the other cats, he slipped to #3.


Now the voting results are not being publicized during the final week of voting so we have no way of knowing how he is doing. If you want to follow the Facebook page about the competition, you can do so here . You don't have to be on Facebook to do so.

Rumbles and his brother Inigo have been two of my good friends since shortly after I started blogging 11 months ago. I am sure all the kitties in the contest are deserving in different ways, but I am supporting Rumbles and I really want him to win. He is the only one of the kitties in the contest who is a regular blogger in "our circle", and he and his Mum have such good hearts, always leave the sweetest comments for everybody and think of others before themselves. It is, after all, in order to raise funds for the New Zealand SPCA and the Wellington Cat Protection League that Rumbles entered the competition in the first place. His Mum has been baking and having bake sales at her work to help to raise some of the donations. They are so nice about the other kitties in the competition and did a super blog post about Sooty, who is now one of Rumbles' main competitors for the top spot!


So what can we do to help Rumbles in his quest to become Top Cat Model? I know many of you have voted and voted with all your email addresses, but I bet you may have another email address somewhere. For example, my Mom's email account is with mac.com, and for that account she is allowed a bunch of aliases (5, I think) and also every address can be either mac.com or me.com at the end. She also remembered she has a yahoo ID, which means a yahoo email address, even though she never reads it. Same with Dad! And my human sister and brother have a couple of email addresses also so we are going to ask them to help give Rumbles a final push over the top. YOU CAN VOTE ONCE WITH EVERY VALID EMAIL ADDRESS. It is not required to make a donation to vote, but if you wish to do so, that would be lovely. I know that many of you have done so already. But if you can get your thinking caps on, kitties, I bet we can get Rumbles some more votes. VOTING ENDS AUGUST 12TH AND REMEMBER, NEW ZEALAND IS ABOUT A DAY AHEAD OF THE USA so we msut do it before the 11th!!!!! So do it now! HERE is where you go to vote, or click on the Rumbles Button on my sidebar.

Daisy did a lovely blog post for Rumbles yesterday. Dash Kitten has also been working hard to post about Rumbles on his blog. Whiskr and his Mum have donated a beautiful pendant she made, for Rumbles to award as a prize for one of the cats/people who votes for him.

Isn't it amazing?

Rumbles, Mom and I hope you do become the next New Zealand Top Cat Model, but even if you don't, in our eyes you and Inigo will always be Top Cats.

World Cat Day

Today is World Cat Day. I think that means all cats ought to be treated like royalty and get to do what they want to do. Anyway, Happy World Cat Day to all my cat and kitten friends, as well as their humans.

So this is how I hope to spend the day:


I have a royal canopy (plastic table) and a royal mat (old frayed towel) so I am happy.

Photo Hunt - Colorful

This colorful bouquet is from my brother's wedding - the bride made the flowers out of paper. Isn't she talented?

Thanks from Auntie M

My Auntie M sent the following email that I would like to share with all you wonderful kitties and parents who posted comments yesterday:

Dear Simba,

Thanks so much for your lovely blog about Flossie – you are such a super kitty.

And please thank all your friends from me for their very kind comments. I’m really touched.

Lots of love,

Auntie M

Farewell Flossie

On Thursday my dear cousin Flossie was very sick due to renal failure and had to be helped to the Rainbow Bridge . Her Mom, my Auntie M, is very sad, and I would like to ask my kittie friends all to purr for her. Flossie was her very dear companion.


Flossie lived a good long life: she was nearly 16 years old. She chose to adopt her Mom, because the family she lived with 11 years ago had some dogs who were a little too lively for her. Auntie M worked it out with her first owners for her to become her family.


Sweet Flossie, we know you are in a good place at the Rainbow Bridge, having fun with all the kitties and doggies who have gone before, especially those from my Mom and Auntie M's family. We will not forget you.

We love you, Flossie's Mom. Flossie was very fortunate to have you for her Mommy.


If anybuddy wants to leave a message for my Auntie M, you can do so in the comments. I am sure she will read them. We have asked Gracie to let us adopt a special Angel Squillion in honor of Flossie, and when it arrives it will go permanently on my sidebar.

Thursday in the Garden with Simba

The other day I hopped off my deck while Dad was "watching" me, so he went out into the garden with me with the camera. I decided to make it a little hard for him to catch me or chase me inside (even though he wasn't planning to) by going into the forsythia bushes under the peanut bird feeder (or maybe I really wanted to be close to the birdies) - can you see me and can you see the feeder?


Here's a closeup of me:


and here is a closeup of the feeder above me:

It was lots of fun and Dad was in the mood to let me have a little time out there (not like Mom who kept telling him to shoo me inside - spoilsport!).

Wordless Wednesday

Basket-time

The weather has been a bit cooler here the past few days, so one day Mom found me in the laundry basket, snuggling in the "waiting-to-be-washed" clothes. I haven't done that in a while. In fact, while they were out for the evening on Friday, it appears I got caught in the laundry-room area of the house because I was in there without them realizing. Luckily being separated from my litter box for quite a few hours didn't seem to have any negative repurrcussions.

Easy Sunday

In the early evening, it is especially nice on my deck. The sunny patches are very filtered which I like, because I don't like the bright sun. Often Mom and Dad have an old towel down for me to lie on to soften the floorboards for me. Life can't get much better!

The answer to yesterday's picture is the statue at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Cat got it right! As she says, at Christmastime, that is where the big Christmas tree is, and the floor below the statue is frozen for ice-skating. It is a well-known landmark. During the Spring, my folks went there for lunch before going to a Broadway Show, at the "Rock Center Cafe". They said it was kindof interesting/weird to be where the ice rink usually is. I chose that picture because it was the most Public place we had a picture of.

Congratulations Cat for being the first (only?) one to recognize it. Sweet Praline was quite warm in suggesting the United Nations - right City! I enjoyed the snowboarder/skateboarder/cheeseburger ideas! Rumbles and Inigo, yes, your Daddy WILL be there!!! Here's another view of the "skateboarder" from a different angle:
The umbrellas in the foreground offer shade to the people eating there.