Monday Funny with Bear and Joey

(Although posted on Tuesday, this story happened on Monday.  Purrz, Katie Kat) 

Bear:  Mom... mama MAMA Mom Mooommm!
Katie Kat:  Yes Lil Bear.  I'm right here.
Bear: Uncle Mike told Lil Joe a funny song and Lil Joe just told me! Can we sing it fur you?

Katie Kat: Sure. Why not. What's the song about?
Lil Joe: Ummm Kangaroos. Uncle Mike said that kangaroos are big rats with giant tails and they work as boxers in Australia.
Katie Kat:  Sounds like Uncle Mike was feeding you a tale, actually.

Lil Bear: Mama MOM Moomm Mama MOM!  I want to sing the song!
Katie Kat:  Go ahead... Calm down. I'm right here. I'm not going away.

Lil Bear:  Are you sure!?!?  I can't be alone! Don't ever leave me. You're my MOMMMM! My Mommy Mama Mommy Mom!

Katie Kat:  I know baby. Three of your littermates only lived a short while. Your brother found a home. Your sisters found another home and your kitty mom went over the Rainbow Bridge.  But I will always be there for you, Sweetie. No matter what.

Lil Bear:  Oh goods... Den We sing our song fur you! What did the kangaroo lady sing when her became a new mommy, Mom?!  What did she sing, Mommy Mama Mommy?!? What did she sing?!? Whaat?!? Do ya know? Do ya know?
Katie Kat: I don't know, sweetheart. What did she sing? 
(Katie thinks to herself... hope my poor kid calms down after his little boy surgery.)

Bear and Joe start Singing:

"Ize gots the Joey, Joey, Joey down in my pouch
Down in my Pouch.  Down in my pouch.
Ize got the Joey Joey JOEY Joey down in my pouch
Down in my pouch to GROWWW!!!" 
(to the tune of I've Got The Joy Down in My Heart) 

Lil Bear: What's a pouch?
Joey: Why did you name me after a baby kangaroo? 

Katie Kat:  Well a pouch is a pocket that a kangaroo has to keep her baby safe and warm until he or she is old enough to hop out. 

And Joey, I actually named you for Lil Joe or Joey, because you have a white J on your back and your purrsonality reminded me of a favorite TV character on a show called Bonanza...  Then your little J started looking like a check mark, kind of like the Nike logo on my tennis shoes... so you became the super hero Nike Cat for a while.  Looks like your J is changing shape though. Your long white hairline seems to be disappearing. Maybe you were only meant to be Nike Kitten. .

Joey:  Maybe so. Maybe so.  I will think about that and get back to you.  Did you like the song?

Katie Kat: Yes, Joey. Tell Uncle Mike that was furry funny.

Lil Bear:  Mom, will you keep me safe and warm too, like a Joey am with hims Mommy kangaroo?

Katie Kat: I will try sweetie, but I don't have a pouch.  Will a blankie do?

Lil Bear: Okay.  I Love you, Mommy Mama Mommy Mom.  (Lil Bear purrz and purrz in Katie Kat's lap, all wrapped up in hims warm blankie.)

Katie Kat: I love you, Lil Bear. 

Katie Kat turns to Lil Joe:  I love you too, Joey.

Joey:  Love you, Miss Mom Lady.  Thank you so much for saving me as a small kitten when my eyes were so infected that I would have lost my sight.  I knew you were there to help me. I couldn't see you, but your voice sounded furry kind. You do know that I am not destined to stay with you, though, don't you?

Katie Kat: Yes, and when you go, I will miss you very much.

Joey: I will miss you, too.  You will always be my hero. I will miss Uncle Mike and his big shoulders.  Howsumever, I must leave you eventually and carry out my mission, for I have cases to solve and deducting to do like Sherlock Holmes. You know, hero stuff. 

Katie Kat:  Yes you do. dear Nike Cat.  Yes you do.

Thanksgiving Tail of Yummy

We am furry thankfuls fur our pawsome friendz and datz weze haves a foster Mommy to luvz us.

So wif Annie at Lucy's Lounge (her thot of dis verse 1st), we say dis: "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of G-d fur all in the Messiah."
Purrz, Katie Kat.

(lol cat translation = 1 Thess 5:18 Say thnx all de timez, faw dis iz wot Ceiling Cat wants an’ Happy Cat too)

Now we brings u da Caturday post dat gotz losted frum da badz pooter
Dis Am The Tail Uv Yummy Purrviewz Pt 1:

Dis am mine

Yes Mom. I can Read Dis. It say Dis Am Mine.


Actually Lil Bear, it says, "Weruva Cats in The Kitchen - Mack Jack and Sam"

And Bear, you have to share...

 Noz I donts. Dis am Mine! All peeplez gohz away! Goh do sumpinz else! (Kerplunky sounds are heard.)

 

(kerplunky thing)

Joey: Hey guyz, dehrz a kerplunky thing. It am rolld off da table! It smell good. Lessee wher it goez... (Joey rolls kerplunky thing out of the living room and into the back hallway... other katz leave and follow kerplunky thing. Lil Bear left on coffee table.)

All katz goned... NOW I opens dis all mine... yum yum yum....(Mom takes pouch away and tears it open)  

Lil Bear, We have to vote on how everyone likes this Weruva Treats and then you can have some. MOM! But dis all mine! 

 Okay so Laura Belle, Joey and Lulu Luvs dis... 

I luvz it tooz!! says Anna May (not in pic) 

 Jazpurr haz ta haves dis...
 
Jordi wood pose wif dis... 

Tommy likes dis

Sammy wants dis on hims Chrissymouse list...

Boo Boo wudz cum out of hiding fur dis.

Miri sayz... I luvz it too!
and Doobie n Toeby, Katie Too n Max n Bootsie Woo luvz dis yummiez!

Soh dis vote am purrtee much unanimouse!!!  WE eats now!

Lil Bear someone is going to have to lick your head... you have yummies onit.

WE are furry thankful on Thanksgiving dats Chewy.com send dis yummy purrduct to triez! 

Da Mom just foundz out dis yummy stuffoms am on sale too... Weruva Mack Jack and Sam - 8 pouches (3 oz).  But we dint knoh dats...whin Mom went ta gets da linky it said on sale! And dey gots other flavors too, likes Chicken n Duck and Tuna in Pumpkin Soup.  Mom!!!  

Lil Bear: u kin buyz deze rites?  and din it all mine... 
Joey: Noh you will have to share...


But what about da kerplunky thing???? What am dat???   

Stay tuned fur more adventurez in the Tails of Yummiez!

Happy Thanksgiving... May you haves rests from ur labor... weze tells more bouts what we ams thankful fur in our next post.

Happy Hannukah... and may miracles happen in your lifes... and weze tells bout what we needs miracle fur too.

Purrz and Purrayerz to all.... the Katie Katz Gang.

(Taste testing tooks place last Caturday. The mom been under the weathers and so has da computer.  The mom gotz antibiotix now... but computer keeps restarting and doin weird video stuffs... likes Blue Screen of Death and video freezing with double colored lines and din the mousie and keyboard dont work... I purrmise mom dat not me! I chewed onda cell phone charger, not da pooter.
-- Purrz Angel's Lil Bear)

Silence of the Cats?

Blog Entry at Say Hello Beanty receives the All My Kids Have Fur Reward.

This is a partial reprint from Say Hello Beanty: http://www.sayhellobeanty.com/ please check it out....

In an article about animal writers, a pet writer ...explicitly stated that pets don’t talk, cats especially...

Beanty is a grey domestic short hair. Perhaps your cat is an orange tabby or rambunctious Scottish fold who loves boxes. When I say cats communicate quite clearly. I think you’ll agree. What’s the harm in going a step further and lending them the words they’re unable to say...We dress them in bizarre clothing, and that’s okay. There are cat capes, dresses, booties and wigs. I’m partial to cat wigs myself. Can there be anything better than a tortoiseshell cat in a hot pink wig?

Is the mix of cats and language a potentially lethal cocktail...Do they have the power to unleash a deadly new virus when trying to pronounce a long vowel? Does the scientific community know something we don’t?.... A cat says many things, least of which is, Why isn’t my box clean or Who moved this chair?

...Cat lovers are strange enough. We can’t have a bunch of people covered in cat hair, walking around recounting conversations with their cats during office potlucks...But they do talk. And if we can somehow manage to put down the cat wigs and calico dresses long enough we’d realize that they have far more intelligent things to say...

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to explain why I moved a chair.

For full version of this story see Silence of the Cats and please leave the author comments. Thanks! [update: unfortunately Say Hello Beanty blog is no longer on the net? :-( ]

--------------

Mom's Comment:

Has this pet writer checked out animal research at all? Cats understand hundreds of words and can remember them. Their vocal chords are able to formulate the words they understand better than dogs can.

Based on the research I had found on communicating with chimps, dogs, and cats, I set out to see how much my cat I raised from three days old could understand and vocalize. As a kitten, my cat Spunky picked up more on food words, but he also knew my name. He had trouble pronouncing the “k” and the “th”, so it sounded like “atrin” versus Katherine.

My other male cats, Sandy and Baby would vocalize “hungry” “water” “want out.” In fact when it came to the word “hungry,” Sandy and Snow Baby came up with their own way to tell me they were both hungry. Sandy would say “hung” and Baby would walk around Sandy and say “ree.”

Sandy also decided on his own that “water” was actually “ehr” and that he was really saying, “want ehr.”

I found out that I was the stupid one... I had to retrain myself to see how beautifully intelligent my furry kids have been and still are.

=^..^=

Shhh...I gots a seekrit!

Happy Mama's day yesserday!

Dis is Daisy wifs a furry Seekrit... I iz gonna be a Mama!

I snuk outs and well.... da rest iz purrsonal... You shud see da happy smile on mai face. And wow are mai preborn babiez n me hungry!!! Weze could use some helps ta feed alla us kitties! I iz eatin Kitty Chow ta gets extra nutrishun. (so is Bootsie cuz hur don't eat enuf. Da rest uv da gang is eating Pets Mart Authority brand sensitive diet dat is corn free.)

Ize not tellin who da Baby Daddy iz yet. Mama finks he cood be dis small long haired tabby boy frum cross da street or a big long haired sandy orange homeless fella who takes sheltur in da garage sumtimes. Last time Mama saw da big sandy boy was about a week ago. Him was nappin on our porch swing. Him was hurted and took off slowly when Mom felt hims hips. He hasn't cum bak. Pleze pur fur him.

Mama finks Ize gots a few morh weeks ta goh. Da best part is I gets da bedroom to maiself! Well mama n I finks Bootsie kin share, but noh boyz allowed. Bootsie needs a break from Maxie, too. Him has gotten all bigs and chubby and wants ta chase and wrestle alla time! And me n Bootsie dont wanna do dat! Well I dont need ta do dat and Boostie is wittel.

Pleze purr fur mai babies dat dey iz born safely and healthy n we finds dem furevfur homes n Pleze pur fur Maxie, too. We finks him woulds luv a bruther home where him kin wrestle n stuffoms and lose sum uv dat weight!

We keeps you updated

Luv and hugs,

Daisy May Daffodil  

 

Dehr is a goods website fur baby mamas,  

http://www.cat-pregnancy-report.com/

A Wittel Update Still URGENT

Mahmee iz writin fur us at our frind Mike's house...
hims a furry funny friend dat builds TV cradles fur hims day job!

Mahmee wentid to gets hur breethin test yesserday... Dey puts hur in a glass box n she breeths into a mouthpiece.... Den she takes a breethin med n duz it again!! dey said dat after hur meds, it improved like a hunert purcent!! We Givs mohr bout dat adventur latur dis week.

Granmahmee goin 2 hur doktur pointmint taday... Mawhmee n Granmahmee iz sharin a car. Soh Mahmee gots ta goh hohm n give Granmahmee baks hur car!!!

Weze cant make Granmahmeez house paymint yet. PLEEZE HELPS WIF DAT!!!
Ifns u cood sinds even a dollar, we puts u in our Squillion Raffle...Fanks!

Now Dis mewz bouts Holocaust Memorial Day Toosday.

Luv n hugs,
Da mostly Kosher Kitties
of Katie and Katie Too.
=^..^=

(From the Charlotte Observer)

An Israeli girl attaches a yellow Star of David, shaped like the ones Jews were obligated to wear during World War II, to a black banner before a ceremony at the Chamber of the Holocaust museum outside Jerusalem's old city, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. On Tuesday, Israel marked its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day honoring the 6 million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Here am a good movee frum two yehrz agoh frum Yisrael. bye bye.

Pavlov's Cat X-Speermint

Hiya! In July we gonna havs a 4 yehr Bloggiefursari!

Hehr iz dis storee dat postid bout three yehrz ago. ..

We finks u all will likes it agin.
Hope effuryone hadz Hoppy Holidayz likes Eestur, an Pashovfur, an Rezoo-rekshun Day n Stuffoms like dat.

Bye Bye 4 nao Katie Too. -- Katie Too'z Lamp x-speermint, 2006.
(We sendin owts a noo email...n givin awardz away dis week!)

---------------
.
Pavlov’s Doggie x-speermintz bin published afore…
....
Day 1: Rang Bell
Dog 8 food.

Day 2: Rang Bell
Dog 8 mohr food…

Day 3: Rang Bell
Dog 8 mai leg…

But dehrz not much published bout himz cat x-speermints til nao.

Day 1: Rang Bell
Cat twitcht himz earz n goed 2 sleep.

Day 2: Rang Bell
Cat went ta answur door.

Day 3: Rang Bell
Cat telld Pavlov, “Dehr iz a bell ringin.”

Day 4: Rang Bell
Cat put paw on bell. Bell make thunk, thunk, thunk noize.

Day 5: Pavlov wents ta ring bell,
But Cat took battareez owt.

Day 6: Cat Rang Bell.
Pavlov 8 food.

-Eddie Izzard, Host. Wembley, "We Know Where You Live," Amnesty International
Anniversary Celebration (His Day 1 for Cat--slightly diffurnt)

 

Monday Mewz n Toosday Tailz

...
Itz still Mondee here and Toosdee n bout an hour (CST)!! Soh Daisy May n Katie Too gonna share dis postie. Weze still burrowing stuffomz ta gets our bloggin werks dun.

=^..^= =^..^= =^..^=
Furst Late Monday Mews: we gotz dis hear Luv Ya Award frum http://tootlebugmags.blogspot.com/

Mawmee tellz you mohr bout dis award at da ends of da blog post. -Katie Too
...Ackshuallee Maxie iz gonna talks in a minnute too.

Herez my short tattle tail fur toosdy:Katie n Bootsie n Mousie n Me dont knohs whats ta do bout dis kitty boy. Him luvs our Mawmee... but we still votin on if himz kin stay. - Daisy.
Him seems nice, but him skarez littel Bootsie cuz....

"Him needz hiz Hoohah-ectomee!!"

(-Dats frum all uv us)

We lets Mawmee n Maxie talks now. Did anybuddee guess who dat funny face was?

=^..^= =^..^= =^..^=

Yep... datz Me!! Maxwell Imanuel Tigger. Datz what Katiez Mawmee callz me cuz Ize smart like da get smart movie guy and she finks an angel musta sents me ta getz looked aftur. I waz skinny cold and freezin an furry starvin! See how my tummy got big n cute? Datz cuz u guyz sent Katie Katz helps n stuff!

URGENT STUFFOMZ!!

I luv dis mommy ladee, she been my life savur, buts Ize dont knoh whats ta do wif my hoo hahz... I finks datz everyfings sumtin ta luvz on... and I gettin bitey bout it! Ize needs less testotstironz... Mom, whatz that? I'm stuk in my dopted momz bedroom til I getz my surguree, cuz Daizy n Bootzie iz gurl katz dat not hadz dere ladee opurahuns yet!

Ize schedooled fur this Thursdee at a low cost clinik. Dey called Katiez Mawmee Monday Mornin and asked ifns she had da 35 dollarz fur dat yet! She said noh... but dey wants ta doo dis opurshun fur me if hur kins bring fifteen, but den I cants get my rabies shot. But hur dont evens have dat!! Soh pleze helps me haves a furry mirakul! I reely hate shots, but ize wants ta be a healthy boy! Pleeze use da donashun button on da upper rite cornur sohz I kins haves my opurashun and my rabiez shot! Dis lates in askin... Ize gotz til Thursday da 19th at 8am Central Time ta gets dis helps! Fanks fur ur kindness to me! Frum da sweet luving boy, Maxie Tigger.
-----------------------------------
Thanks for listening to my babiez... I do have some good nooze... uhm news. I have a small part-time job starting on Friday as a personal care assistant for a friend of mine whose husband is in hospice care. However I won't get paid until next week and only for four hours of work this Friday.

I will be working about eight to ten hours a week to start. My friend has another PCA helping, but he isn't as reliable. She is thinking of letting him go, depending on how I well I look after her husband. Please pray and purr with us that I am able to get more hours.
Thanks so much to http://tootlebugmags.blogspot.com/ for the Luv Ya Award!

"LOVE YA " award winner... These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.
Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

Oh I've got teary eyez... thank u! This is a wonderful thing. I will post my eight bloggerz in our next post.... cuz I gotta feelin I'm going to have a longer list! (wif more about our funny fotoh contest, too - Bootsie Woo)
Luv and Purrz,
Katie Kat
=^..^=

Monday Mews: Furry Oxygen Masks

Katie's Furry Mews
Dis Week Feeture Stohrie: Oxygen Masks fur Babiez iz bein donated to Fire Departments!!

=^..^==^..^==^..^=

DA FURRY FUNNY FOTOH CONTEST
Furst uvs all - weze gots a repurrt bouts our furry funny fotoh contest. Weze gettin emails alreddy on how ta entur dat! Bootsie is moduratin cuz she won da funny sisfur contest. Ize helpin doh, cuz dis hur furst times ta do sompin dat impawtant.

Dependin on donashun response, we will gifs out a tee shurt wifs ur funnee fotoh fur each Cattygoree! Ovfur wise ta Tee shurt will goh to a grand winnur n den we gifs out ovfur prizes....likes ur funny fotoh on da purrtend cover uv "Cat Fancy" magazeen.

Now membur dis iz furst fur fun n ta helps us all stay united furry bloggers while da Grinchiez holes our eckonomee stuffomz fur ransome. Purceeds furst gohs to buy prizes, den rest gohz ta make sure our Granmawmee dont lose hur house and ta helpz pay our bruffurs vettie billz. All our bruffurz iz ovfur da bridge now. Fanks to kind blogger beanz, weze gotted dehr urns home fur Chrissymouse n Hanukkah!

Cuz uv dat, Auntie Bibi - dats Grandmawmees furry baby - saids dat at least ten purcent of donashunz fur our contests shouds goh to a fund ta helps ovfur babies n beans huntin fur werks and mites lose dehr housies too! Soh weze gonna doo dat!! Hear iz wher ta goh fur da furry funny fotoh contest rules n stuffoms - http://furryfunnyfotohz.blogspot.com/ and pleeze writes to furryfunnyfotohz(ats)gmail(dot)com fur hows ta entur and any queshunz bout dat. Please use da donashun on da side uv dis hear postie. or go to our funny fotohz sites.

--------------------------------------------------
MEWZ BOUTS A COLD TABBY BOY
Now secundlee... here iz a bit uv noos bouts our Mawmee. Fanks to sum kind beans, who helped in our furry funny sisfur contest, she kins gets sum warm wintur shooez!! Save she hasnt found onez dat fits hur yet....She checked out Athletik Werks, but dey was too shorts fur hur feets! Daisy gots a funnee storee bout dats tomorroh.

Also Ize lurnin dats a Mawmees job is nevfur dun!! I wants ta bee an onlee child and hafs Mawmee all to myself, but I gotz ta share hur wif my sisfurs and now a furry cold brown tabbie boy kitty was cryin under our porch! Mawmee brotted him in and feds him n gave him a warm blankie box (Thanks Spirit n Ezra's Mawmee Breanne fur da blankiez!) ta sleep in da bafsroom. Mawmee iz callin himz Maxwell Marvin Tigger, cuz him waz smart ta finds hur n starvin silly, likes Starvin Marvin n Maxwell Smart!

Daisy tell u morh bout Maxie tamorrow. She likes him... I wants him ta goh way. He not my Spunky Boo. He not my Sandy boy. At leest hims not Smelly Snow Baby.... like I said a Mawmees werk is nevfur dun.

-----------------------------------
Now to our MEWS Fur TODAY!

Valentine the puppy yawned during the announcement that The Wichita Fire Department now has 12 pet oxygen masks. And the city now will offer a free pet adoption service for families who lose pets in a fire.

Following iz frum Thursday, January 22, 2009 as seen ats Kake.com The Wichita Fire Department accepted a donation of pet oxygen masks from the Invisible Fence Company, who agreed to donate 42 masks. Twelve masks donated costing about $28 each, will be immediately available. Remaining masks will be delivered later in 2009.

"With the addition of this life saving tool, we have greater odds of resuscitating a pet that would normally succumb to smoke inhalation," Wichita Fire Chief Ronald D. Blackwell said. "Thanks to the generosity of the Invisible Fence Company, firefighters will be able to return beloved pets to their families."

The past few months, fire crews have battled a number of structure fires where pets were victims of smoke inhalation. Resuscitating pets is a challenge because the oxygen masks currently carried by fire crews are designed for humans. The Invisible Fence Company decided to donate oxygen masks designed to fit pets. In order for the masks to be available at all fire scenes; masks will be placed with Battalion Chiefs and Safety Officers.

Fur more news bouts masks gettin donated, maybee in a town near you! Furry Oxygen Masks Donated

Luv,
Katie Ann Kitty Too
Jr. Repurrter CEO,
Kat Renee Purducshunz.
(Mews iz repurrted hear fur Educashun purposes only)

photo by Dave Williams/The Wichita Eagle
Wichita firefighter Mike Winn demonstrates
one of the new oxygen pet masks donated to department.
Masks were donated by Invisible Fence of Central Kansas,
represented by Beth Ericson and her dog, "Secret"

 

Yoda Gotz Four Ears!

Super Sunday Video
(Update 2021 - original video post in 2008 was missing - updated with 2 videos from 2010)



Dis here Kat gots it togevur!


Yoda Has Four Ears Part Two



Dis is Katie Too Repurrtin.
=^..^=

Katie's Got Chutzpah Award

Dis Furry Friday we iz givin da Got Chutzpah Award to Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, Investigative Repurrters.

Dey waz fired frum Fox News fur telling da truth abouts bovine growth hormone frum Monsanto and how it mite affect hooman beans.

Now I knows Mr. Milky at Artsy Catsy wuvs milk and so do us kitties at Kat-Renée Purrductions. Mawmee cants hafs any dairy products, cuz of bein lactose intolurant... but before dat she woulds drinks a gallon in two days!

But dis isn't bouts milk, its about dis here shot deys givin to cows to overwerks them to makes more milk. And dehr is sums countries like Canada dat said no to dis here drug.

Here is da story of hows Steve and Jane gotted fired fur tellin da truth.



Onse we hurds bout dis, we hads ta gif dem dis here award and thank You Tube fur airing dis news fur all to see so we kins make our own decision bout dese facts. There is still folks who takes truth and ethics seriously, no mattur what.
Dis is Katie Too Repurrtin...
(We do dis here Award agins next week sumtime.)

Search Words: Channel 13 Fox News; Monsanto; bovine growth hormone (BGH); Health Risks/Effects of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST); Steve Wilson, Investigative Reporter; Jane Akre, Investigative Reporter

=^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^=

From Yahoo:
rbST (Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin) or rBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) is a controversial, genetically engineered version of the Bovine Growth Hormone used for increasing milk production in cows. While it is used in the United States, it is banned in Canada, the EU (The EU has actually taken a stance leaving it up to separate nations. One thing that they did not do is set a "maximum safe amount" of rBST which is actually something that Monsanto is citing in their PR campaign), Australia, and New Zealand.

Monsanto developed a recombinant version of bST (rbST), which goes by the brand name Posilac®. Injected into dairy cattle, the product can increase milk production from 10% up to 40%. In November 1993, the product was approved for use in the U.S. by the FDA, and its use began in February 1994. The product is now sold in all 50 states. According to Monsanto, approximately one third of dairy cattle in the U.S. are injected with Posilac; approximately 13,000 dairy producers use the product. It is now the top selling dairy cattle pharmaceutical product in the U.S. The FDA does not require special labels for products produced from cows given rbST.

However, many groups claim not enough research has been done into human health effects and subsequently these groups claim a possible increased risk of cancers, diabetes, and hypertension in consumers of products from rbST injected cows. Other fears include health problems for the injected cattle, and an economic concern for small farmers due to the increased supply of milk.

Use of rBGH in cows also increases insulin growth factor (IGF-1) in milk. Although IGF-1 is important for normal development, some studies suggest that IGF-1 is involved in the progression of breast, prostate and colorectal cancer.

According to Monsanto, milk and meat from cattle supplemented with rbST are safe. Monsanto also states that the only difference between milk from supplemented cattle and unsupplemented cattle is the amount of IGF1 — and that there is not even a difference in the concentration of bST.

In 1998, a Canadian committee found there are increased risks to animal safety due to injections of rbST. According to their report, use of rbST increased the risk of mastitis by up to 25%, infertility by 18%, and lameness by up to 50%. Humans who have too much (human) growth hormone can develop a disease called acromegaly; some speculate that it is no more healthy for cows to have too much growth than it is for humans. Many animal rights activists oppose any farming practice that seems to "industrialize" food production from animals in an artificial way, because they fear for the animal's well being.

Milk production in North America, Europe, and Australia is already plentiful and milk is relatively inexpensive, so those opposing the use of the drug have expressed concerns that using the drug to increase milk production (hence depressing prices) primarily benefits large scale producers, and will narrow the margins that small dairy farms receive for their products.

Related legal actions

In 1997, a Tampa, Florida television station, WTVT (a News Corp owned Fox station), reportedly bowed to pressure from Monsanto to suppress an investigative report on the health risks associated with Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone product, Posilac. Posilac is banned in most first-world countries, with the exception of the United States, where it can be found in much of the milk supply. WTVT pressured its reporters, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, to alter their report, despite evidence that Monsanto had lied about the risks of contaminated milk and infected cattle. The reporters refused to comply, and were eventually fired.

Wilson and Akre then sued WTVT in Florida state court, claiming they could not be fired for refusing to do something that they believed to be illegal. In 2000, a Florida jury found in favor of the reporters. However this decision was overturned in 2003 by an appeals court, the court determining that because there was no law prohibiting the television station from requiring it's reporters to lie and as such the reporters were not protected by whistleblower status. The reporters' struggle with WTVT is ongoing. The findings in their original report were never directly challenged.

* In the United States, the use of rbST is permitted.
* In Canada, the use of rbST has not been approved due to its effects on the Canadian milk production capping (quota) system.
* In 1993, the European Union placed a moratorium on its sale by all 25 member nations.
* Japan and New Zealand have also banned the product.

Tattle Tails and Coolin' Tummeez

Weze gonna tattle tail... Sumbuddee hads a purrthday yesturday...
I aints tellin who exactily... Ize just show hiz picshur.

...

Happee Birthday, Unca Belz!!
You gets da Got Chutzpah award dis week!
Keep up da good work uv suppurrtin us rescue babees!
To see Richard Belzer's video bout saving shelter pets
at NSAL America, clik on da photo!

-----

Now Ize gotta tell you about dis ting dat Mawmee tinks is weird,
but we likes it!! We really do!

Furst, can you guess what dis here photo iz (no fair scollin down)??

=^..^=
...

=^..^=

...

=^..^=

...

=^..^=

...

=^..^=

...

Did ya guess what it waz??
Here is the big photo.

ICE CUBES!!!

Here is the story... Our new home don't have no 'lectricity cause sum inspector has ta cum furst and tells Gran Mawmee stuffoms to do ... So weze borrowin lectricity frum our Gran mawmee next door. Todays it gotted a hunurt n one degreez outsides, but dis here centuree old house stayed bout 80 degreess inside. Durin da night Mawmee brings in cooler air wif a window fan. Den in da mornin, she shuts da window and runs a box fan ta keep air curcool-laytin.

Dat helps but Mawmee went and gotted dis here bag of ice cubes to puts in front of da fan today. She been doin dat on real hot days ta keep our sleepin room cooler in da afturnoon. She reads dat in da local papur on how to keep cool.

Well Ize gotted good at openin da door to da sleepin room
and I letted all my sisfurs out and broffur Spunky. Mousee too shy and stayed behind our sleepin couch.

Andee wayz, Bootsie and Daisy gotted to pantin while explorin da ovur rooms, so Mawmee pickdid dem up and rubbed dem wif cold water on dehr heads and tummees! And dey liked dat!! Spunkee dont like hiz tummee touched. He fussed but he liked it too. And I gotta confess - I dont likes my tummee rubbed neevur, but dat cold ice water felt sooo good!!

And dats how weze stayin cool wifout air conditionin...

-Katie Ann Kitty Too.

(P. S. Stay tuned fur more infur may shun on da secret movin partee...
like a 'trashin partee' onlee wif boxes!)

Pawsidential Mews!!

(Update: original link to the 2008 campaign cannot be found)
Actor Richard Belzer Launches "Paws-i-dential Year" Campaign

HAVE A HAPPY 4TH!!!
frum da Chairman's Kid Sister and hur Katz

AND KEEP DA PET BABEES INDOORS
FRUM FIRE WERKS

-Katie Kitty Too

For More info on NSAL's Adopt-a-Program and The Belz,

Go to We Want YOU to Adopt!!

A Rose For Storm

*A Rose Fur Storm: Feb 1, 1996 to June 13, 2008

Tho we did not meet here... we loved you and prayed.

May you get to meet Snow Baby while you wait fur your mawmeez...

Dear Sweet Stormie,

.
Just found out that you went home on Friday.

Yes you won... you were the best fighter and you made everyone's life better by just being you.I will always remember Friday the 13th as the day Stormie won her victory crown.

.

"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble (according to the world), are called...But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty."

- I Corinthians 1:26-27

.

Kat-Renée Kittel & the Katie Katz

=^..^=

*(dat rose bloomdid in Mawmeez cuzzins garden.)

KATIE WALKS DA PICKET LINE!!!

NO NEW POSTIES TIL DA SCREEN WRITER'S
STRIKE IZ OVUR....

KATIE'S FURRY NEWS HAS BEEN POSTPONDID TIL FURDER NOTIZE... NOTIEZ... UM... BYE BYE.

...

NEWS BOUT DA WRITER'S STRIKE
"Law & Order" Actors Picket New York Workplace
Robin and Duchovney on The Picket Line
Photos: SAG in Solidarity with Writer's Guild

 

 

 

 

 

13 TINGIEZ BOUT DA NEW FURMAT

Shalohm -- Weze brekin da code uv silense… kinda sorta. Mawmee cant talk bout dis strate owt or nuffin. Maw-mee needz sum enpurragement cuz our daddee purrson losted all hiz incum and iz in lotz of legal trubble dat weze cant talk bout. Weze gotz Public Dafendur helpin our Daddee Purrson n now Maw-mee had ta get attornee fur hurself too!! Datz iz just soooh Meow-shooganeh!!

Weze changin our bloggee ta help Mawmee bee tuff Mama Cat ta keep hurz housie and not give up da fite ta supurrt hur famblee. She scared dat weze gonna lose da housie and den wherz will weze bee??

Cuz uv life-savin enpurragement frum Da Belz (L&O:SVU),Mawmeez Big Bruddur uv Comedee, she iz lernin ta bee furry good Aktress n Komeedienne. She lernin ta be a Film Direktor, but she gotta pay billz n weze stuk in Kanzaz.

Oui (dats yes in French), Mawmee met profeshunal acting couple Richard Belzer & Harlee McBride. Mameez big bruddur Da Belz looked hur in da eye n made hur promise dat she not efurr gonna goh fall off da windoh ledgie and dat she use hur acting n funnee talent 2 da fullest potenshul !!!

.

Deyz gentle peeplez wit gentle doggeez sohz she not efurr gonna tell wherz dey met or nuffin. (Onse upon a time, 7 kittiez livd wit Da Belz!!) Richard n Harlee waz nise ta Maw-mee, but she got scardee kat and run inta da wall. Dey waz nise bout dat and jus laft wit hur. Help Maw-mee wit hur proh-mice by leevin purrayerz n advice bout our new furry funnee newz furmat! -- Merci Bohkooh, Katie Too.

OhTayz... 13 Thursday Tingiez Bout Da New Furmat.

1. Weze been hafin what Mamee callz a longz Cree-ay-teev Dry Time.
2. Weze Thurstee for sumpin inturstin ta doo.
3. Maw-mee iz gonna bee tuff Mama Cat n keep huntin fur jobbee ta suppurrt us kitteez n hur famblee.
4. Ta help Maw-mee not give up, weze gonna get serious now boutz reepurrtin furry funnee newz on da inturnetz...
5. Weze gonna make Katies Newz furry intursting and werk on new template stuff,
6. Weze gonna haf newz dat iz Furry Funnee.
7. Weze gonna find stoh-reez dat spredz Lafter n Smih-leez.
8. Maw-mee iz gonna find da CeeDee ta make da scanner printur tingie werk sohz we can putz up picshurz uv us kittiez
9. Weze gonna find outz how ta put ups Veedeeohz... (Video Catz, weze needz help wit dis one. Tank u!!)
10. Weze gonna repurrtz tingz wikes da lion dat luvz da reskuer. See da newz below.
11. Weze gonna repurrtz bout wher animulz help peeplez and peeplez help animulz.
12. Weze gonna ask folkz ta send in funnee storeez and weze repurrtz dem fur U.
13. Weze not gonna give up our housee to da bank!! Weze gonna find cree-ay-teev wayz ta soopurrt our famblee!!!

Otayz.... Datz all weze can tink uv rites now. And Ize gonna lurn how ta spel beddur. maybee. Watcha tink?? Weze lukin furr wurd ta da commentz!!

Tank U,
Katie Ann Kitty Too.
Jr. Comic Agent
Laftur Saftee Valv Cohmeeshun.

=^..^=