Thoughts on Thursday

Well, tomorrow we are off to the Katzenpension (luxury cat hotel) for a week, while our humans are in Dublin. They will be running the Dublin marathon on Monday.

At the Katzenpension we will have a room entirely to ourselves, with plenty of cubbyholes to curl up in, and cat trees to climb. Unlike in August, when we were able to use the outdoor run on a daily basis, it probably won't be warm enough for us to go outside. Merlin is disappointed, as he loved the outdoor run!

The ladies at the Katzenpension take very good care of us, and spend lots of time petting us, playing with us, and, of course, feeding us and cleaning our litterbox. They enjoy having us there, because we are so friendly and unique!

When our humans return from Dublin, our typist should have more time to help us visit our friends. She'll be taking a month off of running, focusing on swimming, strength training and group fitness (ie. aerobics) classes, and then she'll start running again. She hopes to do several triathlons next spring and summer, as well as a half-marathon or two in the spring. So she'll be focusing on triathlon training over the winter. Although that means she'll be spending a lot of time at the gym, she also promises she'll have lots of time for us to blog and visit our friends, since she won't be doing any super-long runs like she has for marathon training.

So we will be gone all next week. We may be able to sneak a post or two while our humans are gone, but that all depends on whether we can get our paws on a computer. We hope that everyone will have a safe and happy week while we are gone.

Meezer Rule Wednesday: Lap Sharing

Merlin: My Meezer Rule for today: As long as there is enough room, sharing a lap with a sibling can be enjoyable!

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Cats on Tuesday: Toesday

Can you tell which toes are Dragonheart's and which toes are Merlin's? (If you click on the photos to enlarge them, you can see the bit of fuzz on our toes.)



Click here to see if you were right!

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Mancat Monday: Sun!

Dragonheart: I love to sit next to the window and enjoy the afternoon sun that shines through.

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Frootbat Friday

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Thursday Thirteen: People Food

To continue yesterday's theme, today we bring you:

13 Human Foods We Like to Eat

1. Salmon - D & M
   
   
2. Milk, the little bit in the bottom of the humans' cereal bowl (it doesn't bother our tummies) - D & M
   
   
3. Yogourt - M
   
   
4. Vanilla ice cream - D & M
   
   
5. Vanilla pudding - M
   
   
6. Animal crackers - M
   
   
7. Digestive cookies/biscuits - M
   
   
8. Cheese - M
   
   
9. Popcorn - M
   
   
10. Chips/Crisps - M
    
    
11. Ritz crackers - M
    
    
12. Sandwich meat - M
    
    
13. Fruit smoothies - M
    

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Meezer Rule Wednesday: Food!

Merlin: My Meezer Rule for today: Even though we are obligate carnivores, it is perfectly acceptable to eat other types of food. I particularly enjoy eating chips, animal crackers, digestive biscuits, cheese, and yogourt! In the video and photos below, I am enjoying some yummy chips/crisps.

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Cats on Tuesday: Tummy Tuesday

Dragonheart's Tummy:

Merlin's Tummy:

Thanks to everyone who asked about our humans' marathon. They didn't do as well as they hoped, but they get to try again in two weeks in Dublin! They didn't have a great training cycle: our dad injured his calf half-way through training, so had to take a lot of time off while it healed, and our mom has been trying to get her thyroid sorted out (she's hypothyroid, so her thyroid function is low, and they've been trying to figure out the right amount of thyroid hormone for her to take). But even though they didn't do as well as they hoped, they are happy to just be able to run marathons. So thank you for all your purrs and good luck wishes!

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Marathon Monday: Thank You!

Our humans are too tired from running the Munich Marathon yesterday to help us post, so we just wanted to say Thank You to everyone who wished them good luck and who purred for them.

Thank you!

Frootbat Friday

Thanks to everyone who wished our humans good luck in their marathon! We'll be purring hard for them on Sunday when they run.




(Yes, our mom needs to clean the window that's in front of Merlin's Gizzy quilt. You can see our nose and pawprints on the glass in Dragonheart's photo!)

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Thursday Thirteen: The Marathon

Our humans are running the Munich Marathon on Sunday. In honour of this fact, we bring you:

13 Things About the Marathon

1. A Marathon is 26.2 miles / 42.2 kilometres. Other races may call themselves "marathons" but an official marathon race is this distance.
   
   
2. This will be our humans' third marathon together. They ran their first in the Fall of 2005, the Prince Edward County Marathon, their second was the Hamburg Marathon in April 2007. Our dad has also run one marathon by himself, the Munich Marathon last October (2007).
   
   
3. The name, "marathon", comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, who was sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been miraculously defeated in the Battle of Marathon. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping, but moments after proclaiming his message to the city he collapsed dead from exhaustion.
   
   
4. The modern marathon was first run during the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. This first Olympic marathon was 40 km (24.85 miles). It was an Olympic race for men only until 1984.
   
   
5. The women's marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, USA).
   
   
6. The length of a marathon was at first not fixed since all that was important was that all athletes competed on the same course. The exact length of an Olympic marathon varied depending on the route established for each venue so the choice of distance was somewhat arbitrary.
   
   
7. The marathon at the 1908 Olympic Games in London was set to measure exactly 26 miles and to start on ‘The Long Walk’ – a magnificent avenue in the grounds of Windsor Castle. At his own request it was scheduled to be started by King Edward VII personally. It was only on the day before the race that it was extended by 385 yards from its set 26 miles so that the King could start the race in the Great Courtyard of the Castle (385 yards up the hill) and so that the runners would cross the finish line in front of his wife Queen Alexandra in the Royal family's viewing box in the Olympic Arena - so the length became 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards).
   
   
8. A fixed distance of 42.195 km was adopted in 1921 by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) as the official marathon distance.
   
   
9. The world record time for men over the distance is 2 hours 3 minutes and 59 seconds, set in the Berlin Marathon by by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia on September 28, 2008.
   
   
10. The world record for women was set by Paula Radcliffe of United Kingdom in the London Marathon on 13 April 2003, in 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds.
    
    
11. In 2007, in the U.S.A. (the only country we could find statistics for) there were more than 407,000 marathon finishers.
    
    
12. 0ver 12,000 runners are expected to participate in the Munich Marathon this year.
    
    
13. We wish our humans all the best on Sunday! Good luck mom and dad!

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Meezer Rule Wednesday: Tails

Merlin: My Meezer Rule for today: Tails make excellent toys! It is perfectly acceptable to play with your tail if there is no other toy available. Grooming your tail first, and then playing with it, is a lot of fun! (As demonstrated in the video below)

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Cats on Tuesday: Toesday

We Sphynx have unique toes! They are long, with thick paw pads. If you look closely (and click to enlarge) you can see the bit of "peach fuzz" hair on our toes!

Dragonheart's Toes:

Merlin's Toes:

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Meezer & Mancat Movie Monday: Round and Round

Merlin: Ball tracks are lots of fun to play with! Here I am enjoying one of ours. You can see Dragonheart watching me in the background.

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Frootbat Friday Fun!

We both love to play with our butterfly toy! It's lots of fun! It is definitely our favourite toy.

Dragonheart: I get excited every time it is brought out and start chittering! I love to play with it!

Merlin: I like to grab hold of it in my mouth and pull it out of my mom's hands! She then takes it back because she doesn't want me eating the little beads on the end.

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Thursday Thirteen: Photos

13 Recent Photos of Us!

(If you missed Merlin's masterpiece yesterday, be sure to scroll down and check it out)

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Meezer Rule Wednesday: Art

Merlin: My Meezer Rule for today: Let your creative side show whenever you want! In the photos below, you can see the artistic masterpieces that I created with toilet paper. For some strange reason, my humans weren't too happy with my creations. Humans are weird.

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