I think that last post was confusing some kitties. I was talking about the photos for the cat calendar. The 5 photos I'm trying to pick from are 3 posts down. Catster's contest is going until Nov 16.

But I'm glad you voted for my catster pictures!!!! Thanks!!!!!!

Hee, hee, the two that got the most votes are the two I was most sure I wanted, but I've got a tie for third place. I'm sending #1 and #4 but do I send #2 or #3 as the third?

Oh, and I want to remind all black kitties to be especially careful tonight, that nobody cat-naps you!

Late AND Early

I missed Midnight Monday! Oh, well, Happy Halloween, or Samhain, whichever you celebrate!

Don't worry, my OTW didn't break her promise not to dress me up anymore, she took this last month when she tried it on me for a costume. (Note to OTW, you can't borrow costumes from the teddy bears. They don't fit. Even if you CAN get them on me.)

And thanks to everyone who helped me pick which photos to send for the calendar. It anyone else wants to vote, I won't be sending them until tonight so there's still time.

oh MY!!!!!!!

Mao!! Rocky!!!! You gotta make more Vishus Deer repellant!!! We have a vishus deer emergency!!!

The Big one nearly got KILLED by a vishus deer on the way home from work!! And it was less than a block from my apartment!!!!!

It was lurking in the middle of the road, waiting for the juicy young kitties that wander the streets around here, and the Big One even had to put on the screechy brakes!

That's WAAAAAY too close for comfort!


Ahem.

In other news, the OTW put out my surfcarpets! And she even put them in the bathroom at the end of the long hall, so I can get a really good running start to surf on them!

Please remeber to vote on the pictures in the last entry so I know which ones to send for the calendar. Thanks!

(oh and speaking of voting, I forgot to mention, I'm in Catster's Coolest Cats contest.

Could you please vote for me?

I give up

I give up. I tried and tried and tried to pick just three pictures, and my OTW was helping me, and even got the Big One to help until he started sighing and rolling his eyes every time we asked, and we still can't pick just three for the calendar. So could you all help me?

I picked 5.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

Which should I pick?

OH! And see the really cool graphic KC got her mom to make for my pamphlet?

And Thank You KC's mom for helping my OTW figure out how to put it there at the side!

Oh, and the OTW updated my links, FINALLY!!! Can you believe she's left it so long I didn't even have SKEEZIX in my links!!!! And he made me President of his Frends Of Skeezix Club Canadian chapter! I'm so embarrassed!

If you're still missing from my links list let me know, and I'll add you. I've come to visit all your blogs, and if I still haven't commented on yours it's probably only because there are Nonny Mouse-posts in the way and I haven't been able to slay them yet.

But I WILL!!!!!!!!!

Just a quick one again

I have to do this quick because the OTW is bugging me to let her turn off the computer so she can go to bed (AFTER hogging it all day! To write an essay! She's not even in school anymore!)

Do any of you kitties or kitty's persons know how to add a link to the side bar? I want to add a link to my Vishus Deer of the North pamphlet under my profile so other kitties can always find it if they need it, but I don't understand a lot of this computer stuff, and the OTW looked at it and she said it made her head all spinny.

It's been a good day other than not getting to go on the computer. My OTW played with me a LOT today, with the fev-verbutt without-the-mousie tied to my guts! I mean LOTS and LOTS!!! She kept muttering rude things at the computer, and then I'd meow and look cute and she'd smile and wiggle the guts at me!!!! She can't resist me! It was so much fun!!!

AND she says she's going to call about a little black boy-kitten just brought in at the nearest SPCA tomorrow, so I may get a kitten after all!!!

If you can help with the linky thing, my OTW says you can e-mail my e-mail address at jackofallshadesandshadows@hotmail.com

Thank!!!

Vishus Deer of the North- An Educational Pamphlet

As promised, my "Vishus Deer of the North" educational pamphlet.

Warning! Many of the pictures are graphic and may frighten young kitties. But education is vital to saving their lives!

There are several types of Vishus Deer living in the North.

The most common type of vishus deer where I live are Mule Deer. We also have White-Tailed Deer, which look mostly the same to me.

Pair of Mule Deer

Mule Deer live in most habitats in their range. This means they're sneaky and adaptable. And everywhere! They can live in mountains, deserts, forests, and grasslands, even your neighbourhood! Mostly they live in western North America.

These are a smaller type of deer and feed mostly on young, juicy cats, as they aren't big enough to catch and digest the older, tougher ones.

The second type of vishus deer is the Elk. These are a much larger type of vishus deer, the largest type of vishus deer beside Moose.

Pair of Elk

As you can see from the picture, they have many many sharp points on their horns. These vishus deer are clearly large enough that even big strong older cats are at risk. And they really do live everywhere! All over North America! They live mostly in the mountains, grasslands and forests. Luckily for cats, they don't come to cities and towns so much. Though there was that one video of a dog who was friends with one of these vishus deer. Country kitties beware.

What's really crazy is up north here; some farmers HERD these vishus deer! Just like they were COWS! My Opposable Thumb Wench, who was most unfortunately born human, says that clearly, living far north, the cold gets into your brain and makes you crazy!

The third type of vishus deer is the caribou, also known as reindeer.

A Reindeer (Caribou)

You will notice in the picture that the points of these vishus deer's horns are not sharp. DO NOT let this fool you, Kitties! If you look again you will see that while they are not sharp, reindeer horns are shaped in a way that makes it easy for them to catch a cat and tangle them all up. What's even worse is that these cat-catching horns are grown by both boy-reindeer, AND girl-reindeer!!!

Centuries ago, the neighbours of the brave viking humans, the Sami, herded these vishus deer. The viking humans thought the Sami were crazy. I'm not surprised. The Sami lived even further north than the viking humans did. I've heard that some of the Sami still herd vishus reindeer, but I never believed anyone would do such a crazy thing, until I moved up north here, and saw what crazy things humans living really far north do.

Most of you kitties reading this, can take heart however, as these vishus reindeer only live way up north. Even further north than me! Like up at the North Pole where Santa lives. There used to be southern vishus reindeer down here in the Boreal forest region where I live, but they've mostly died out. Maybe there were brave vikings here who hunted them all, before going crazy and herding vishus elk-deers.

The last type of vishus deer is the Moose. These guys are HUGE!!!! Like, bigger than your people's machines that take you to the V-E-T! Taller than your man-people!!!

A boy-moose and a girl-moose

These are the worst type of vishus deer! They have horns that skewer cats AND scoop them up!!!

Vishus moose-deer have very long legs. They run kind of funny compared to the graceful, deadly run of the normaller types of vishus deer, but they're very very fast! Especially when hunting juicy young kitties! (They are really really big, and they can hunt any kind of kitties with ease, but juicy young cats are their favourite.) Even the young mooses are dangerous and huge!

A young boy-moose

These vishus moose-deers are mostly a concern to cats living in Canada and New England and the Rocky Mountains. They mostly like forests because big trees are the only things big enough for them to hide behind while they lurk in wait for juicy cats, or the occasional stray human (especially the young juicy humans).

Even humans recognize the danger of these vishus moose-deers. A group of vishus moose-deers is called a gang, and they put up warning signs on roads were moose like to hang out and hide in the trees, so the humans know to lock their machine doors, and not let any vishus moose-deers hit their cars, or they'll die!

A couple of Human vishus moose-deer warning signs.

Remember everycat, these are very dangerous creatures, armed with horns. If you see one DO NOT APPROACH IT! Tell your human, or post a warning to the Frends of Skeezix "Vishus Deer Nayburhood Watch Groop" on Catster.

Thank you, and stay safe!

Jack

Viking Kitty
Vishus Deer Hunter
Artist's Model
jackofallshadesandshadows@hotmail.com

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