Thinking Blogger Award Tuesday

In fantastic news, Annie has returned home to Krasota Castle!!! Yay! Now Mao and Annie are both home. We know Mao is grounded for the rest of his life. We don't know about Annie being grounded for the rest of her life yet, because her beans are so happy to have her back.

Eric and Flynn and Jan's Funny Farm both awarded us the Thinking Blogger Award.

We are very humbled and honored that all of you poodins and woofies feel that we are deserving of this award.

Here are the rules for this award:

1. You must write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think. (No fish or bird blogs, they'll just make you hungry)

2. Acknowledge the givers.

3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award" with a link to the post that you wrote.
4. Go tell your humans to fork over the treats!

We are giving this award to:

1. J.B.'s Big World because she posts about all sorts of animals and it really makes us think.

2. D. Chedwick Bryant because he had his toofies pulled just like our little Dorfie, and he talks about perfumes and we try and try to understand what he is talking about, but our brains have trouble thinking that hard about something other than chasing squirrels and mice, or eating, or napping.

3. Fred the Cat at Morning Martini because he makes us think about the bigger world on Fridays when he takes over PoP's blog.

4. Dr. Tweety of da Fab Five. They totally crack us up, and we really have to think when they write their posts.

5. Scooby, Shaggy, and Shout because they are a funny trio whose Mom rescues guinea pigs and we really like guinea pigs and think about maybe getting some more ourselves from the rescue group here but Maw says they are a lot of work and that 10 poodins is already too much work.

Luf, Us

Thursday Thirteen #7

Thirteen Things about Cedar Waxwings

Since we were so honored in receiving the Thinking Blogger Award yesterday by our dear friends Luxor and Daisy, we had to really think about today's TT. So, we decided to have a skool day and learn all about Cedar Waxwing Fev-vers!!

1. This is a Cedar Waxwing.




















2. It is the most specialized fruit eating bird in N. America.

3. They travel in flocks typically from about 30-100, but can reach 1000.

4. Here is a flock outside our kitchen window last month. If you look really closely, you can count 16 birds in the tree.















5. They were eating the berries off the Yaupon Holly tree by our kitchen window. This is what the berries look like.
















6. Cedar Waxwings have also been in our backyard eating the ornamental pears from our Aristocrat Pear tree. Here is a picture of that fruit.







7. Since they rely on ripening fruit to feed their hatchlings, they are among the last N. American birds to nest.

8. The highest concentrations of wintering Cedar Waxwings occur in central Texas in the oak-juniper savanna and in Alabama and eastern Mississippi in stands of juniper, sweet gum, and oak.

9. Their summer range is southern Canada from southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia to central Ontario, southern Quebec, and central Newfoundland. They breed as far south as Maryland and Virginia (and in the mountains as far south as northern Georgia), across the northern United States to northern California.

10. Their summer habitat is open woodlands, fruiting trees and orchards.

11. They are 7" (18cm) long.

12. They are vulnerable to alcohol intoxication and death after eating fermented fruit.

13. The first time Maw noticed a flock of Cedar Waxwings, she was volunteering as a Research Aide at the Dallas Zoo in the Okapi Barn. Here is a picture of an Okapi. We think we'll do a TT on Okapis next week. We bet you think it's related to the Zebra, don't you?

Luf, Us

Wonderful Wednesday

We had a fabulous turnout for our Dinner Partay yesterday!!! It was so great for efurryone to come ofer to da Forty Paws and hang out with us for the day!!!

We're sorry that it rained all day and that you didn't get to experience our enclosure in all it's true glory, but since we desperately need the rain, we hope you understand.

Here's a list of all the attendees, and we really hope we didn't leave anyone out. If we did, let us know and we'll amend our list! It looks like we had a total of 260 paws here including our own 40!!!!!

Daisy & Pixie
Bombay & Bangles
Dinkerdoo/Jinx
Dragonheart
Willow & China Cat
Zippy, Sadie & Speedy
Kaze, Latte & Chase
Abby, Boo, Ping, Jinx & Gracie
Tara
Samantha & Bebe
Gemini & Chey
Mr. Hendrix
Scooby, Shaggy & Scout
Pearl C. Pritchard & Pumpy
Icon Baxter Bentley, Kitty, Katie & Chloe
Casper, Cleo, Gizmo & Patches
Caesar & Prinnie
Sammie & Miles
Oscar the Puppy Cat
Parker, Puff, Powder & Ruby
Derby
Pumpkin, Bebe, Blackie & Tiger
Lux, Ninna & Silky


In addition, we are furry honored to have been nominated by Lux and Daisy for the Thinking Blogger Award!!!! Thank you very much for nominating us! We are so excited!!!!

We in turn are tagging:

1. Derby because his Fang Shui quotes on Fridays are so thought provoking and humourous.

2. Purrchance to Dream because NTM has become a black cat magnet and is rescuing his 2nd black cat in as many months, and his blog entries are always funny or heartfelt renditions for animals and their beans in need. The graphics and pictures are always great too!

3. Dragonheart because he teaches us all about the Sphynx breed. He also has taught us about Germany, where he is from, and Canada where his bean Mom & Dad are from. And he tells us about marathon running, which is what his bean parents do for fun.

4. One of Us because we have learned so much about rats and bunnies! We didn't know that rats could detail cars! And we definitely didn't know that buns like trackball.

5. Tara because she has taught us so much about traveling to the mountain cabin, taking walks on her cul de sac in her harness, staying away from the stray cats on her cul de sac, vishus deer, cat eating coyotes, and generally how to have fun as a Meezer kitten. Oh, and she's very intelligent because she is working toward her MzD.

Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog). That was that! Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking!

Luf, Us