Showing posts with label Veronica is Good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veronica is Good. Show all posts

A little toilet training update

Hello kitties,

Our toilet training has been going great! We are now on the inter-amber disk of the LitterKwitter. FINALLY Figaro is being good. We have been on inter-amber for exactly 1 week. Figaro has had ZERO accidents. (I do not even discuss myself but of course I had zero accidents too...)
Mommie thinks we will be moving on to the next step (amber) disk in 3 more weeks. She decided we should take 1 month on every step. We will probably have to spend some time on amber over inter-amber, like we did interamber over red. The good news is, we are progressing!!! (slowly..) Also, almost every time Figaro does a #1, he goes directly in the toilet, and all we has to do is flush!!! However when I use the toilet, I go on the edge of the disk and it still has to be cleaned, but that is because I am practicing proper positioning on the seat.

However we will be not using the system for 2 whole weeks in October, 1 week when the parents are at a conference, and another whole week when we are having a guest visiting us.

- Veronica

Fig's Toilet Training Success!

WOW! Mommie is very eggsited tonight. Figaro made a #1 business in the inter-amber disk of the LitterKwitter system! We did not think this would ever happen. The bestest part is, he just went without any complaindering! We have had the LitterKwitter since May 5. We were on the red disk for a very long time, and then we were on the Red disk underneath of the inter-amber disk for another month and a halfs (this is a pain to clean, 2 disks everytime with 2 kitties). About 2 weeks ago, if Mommie remembered, she took out the red disk for me since I am a big girl and can easily easily use the inter-amber disk on my own. However, Figaro is very resistful. Remember that we started a homemade toilet training system in January!


Anyways, if you do not knows, the interamber disk sits on top of the toilet and has a hole that can fit in about 2 paws. That is a big hole for the Figaro. Well...he did it all by his self!!!

Mommie is so proud!!! I am proud too! Good job, Fig! Now you can take your nap!

Perseid Shower

I normally do not like showers because I do not like to get wet but we really liked the Perseid Shower. My mommie woke up at 4 AM and of course I was already awakened, and she took me outside and we saw FOUR shooting stars. That is more than how old I am which is 1 and one-fifth years old. I very much like to go outside especially at 4 in the morning. After we got back in I thought we were going to get fed but that was too early so I had to wait impatiently until it actually got light outside for breakfast!

Also. Here are some updates about our toilet training. We are now using the inter-amber disk with the red disk underneath of it for Figaro. Strangely it is very hard for him to adjust to it. He really does not like to go so now he is only doing the #1 two times per day or even 1 time. Mommy has to make him. On the other hand, I am only using the inter-amber disk without the red disk underneath. This is too easy for me. If I was the only one in training, I would be moved up to amber right now! But we are going verrry slowly so Figaro will not have any accidents. He ALMOST had an accident on mommie's important files in the den, but she caught him scritching around and stuck him on the toilet!!

6 Weeks on Red Disk, and counting!

Well, we are still on the red disk. Parents were out of town for july 4 weekend and we got a litter box back, and when they got back now mommie is at work all day too just like the dad. She is teaching her class and doing other works and our lap of tops is not back yet.

Now Figaro did not have an accident for over a full month now. He only had a small accident because the shopping bag on the floor made just the right crunching noise and it was so hard to resist. mommie is very pleased because used to be Figaro did an accident if she was out of the house for longer than 5 or 6 hours, but now that he is almost 1 years of old he has been holding it a lot nicer. By the way his BIRTHDAY is coming up on July 22!!!!

We might be switching to the inter-orange disk for potty training very very soon. Maybe tomorrow. What do you guys think? We really do not wants more accidents...but it might be time? How can we make the initial hole in the inter-amber smaller???

The Silly of Kitties - Movie Monday!

For Movie Monday I have secretly made this video of the Figaro. He is not in good shape and after running around only the 5 minutes for his mousie (this time he was chasing the Cat Dancer we got from Hello) he is sitting there and panting like a woofie kitty. It is very silly. This is not a good camera. This is the first time we make any youtube thing so I hopes it works. Ok we tried to do it in youtubes but it didn't works so we did it in bloggers. Later on we are gonna upload the talent show we maded this weekend but that has to wait until next week.


Figaro is again doing okay in his toilet trainings. We decided not to give it up for now but we did have to go back a step (AGAINS). It is very boring with him. Also, we did not do much this weekend because Mamaw had to WORKIE.

Oh and Papaw is not mad anymore about the Figaro's activity on top of his comic books because nothing got hurted. We just have to replace the plastic coveralls they are all in with new ones and the box because it is cardboards. I am kinda annoyed though because now we have to keep that room closed and it had a great window sill in there for looking at birdies.

Usually I pays a lot of attentions to everything going on in our house because it is also MY house and I stay here the longest (Mamaw and Papaw and Figaro all go out frequently). So here are the thirteen things of notable that happened in our house in the last couple of weekses. Our house is even younger than ME and it has so many problematics.

1. There was bad insulatings in our garage so the guy came to put insulatings, but then he almost electrecuted his self and they had to turnoff the power. He had smelly shoes.

2. The electric company came and fixed the electricutions dangers. But we didn't get to watch because we are not allowed in the garage.

3. The washer was leaking so the washer guy came and said he fixeded it. He laid underneath the washer, we liked watching hims.

4. The washer leaked even more so he came again and said he has to order parts from New Zealands.

5. The washer doesn't works anymore it keeps beeping because the washer guy messed with the levels settings - mamaw is MAD!

6. The fireplace guy came to fixed the fireplace because we had a remote control that wans't working., But now the remote works but not the switch because the fireplace guy said it was a wiring thing on ALL fireplaces. But Mamaw does not know how to use the remote so we don't get to have fireplace on anymore even though it SNOWED yesterday. He finally did it after we had to call every weeek for 3 montheses!

7. The guy came (unannounced) Tuesday at 8am to fix a hole they forgot they had in our kitty bathroom. Good thing I wokened up Mamaw at 6 like usuals or she might have been in beds!

8. The guy had to come back yesterday to finish polishing up the hole and painting over the stuffs but he never showed up even though we waited patiently at homes.

9. Today across of the street they started building a new house!!! Maybe Uncle Swoop could move there and we could see him more oftens.

And...some stuff Mamaw and we did in the meantimes....

10. Mamaw lit her toast on fire in the toaster oven and burnded all the insides of the oven, then she had to clean it up for 1 hours. The photo is of me in the toaster oven this summer when it first arrivelled. I runned in there when Mamaw got mad at me for going on the countertop because I thought I could hide, but then I looked so cutes Mamaw took a picture. Now it is all yellowed from getting burneded up on the corners.

11. I throwed up pumpkin all over the nice white carpet and Mamaw had to cleaner it for 1 hours.

12. Papaw went to a business in the DC of Washington.

13. THE VIDEO MONITOR ARRIVELED THIS MORNING!

Well Mamaw is charging up the video monitor and then she is going to set it all up. This is just in time because she thinks we are ready for a new step in the trainings. Yesterday Figaro went to the bathroom all by his self, dug around, and did a #2 in the toilet! We are so proud of him, usually he needs Mamaw supervision before doing a #2 else he does it on the floor. And we have not had a #1 accident for a while. We are super excited about the video monitor, we have to post pictures soon except the laptops for posting pictures is brokens!!! Every computer is breakings lately. AND internets. Also, Mamaw finally gave ins and bought a FURMINATOR. Because Figaro sheds like the crazy of kitties. It is also coming from the Am of Zon.

Mamaw decided not to do any more changes to our toilet setup until the video monitor arrivifies. This means I backtracked and use the Fig setup only, which is a pencil size hole. But so far there has been no more accidents. Here is a photo of me with my purse as I am ready to do some shoppings. Of course I do my shoppings online since I cannot go to the stores, I prefer it because it is more convenients. I am looking forward for my birthday because it is coming in 6 days!!! I hope I get good presents. My birthday dinner is gonna be delicious, Mamaw bought a cornish game hen. I will have everyone out from Cat Blogosphere to celebrates with me! Although I did not send the invitation yet.

Yesterday mamaw drinked some wine for dinner that was called Beanblossom. I knows what a bean car is, and a bean bed. But what is a Beanblossom I do not knows. If anyone can enlightens me that would be greats. Oh and I wanted to adds, I knows wines is bad for kitties so I did not drink any. I sniffered it though and I don't think I would like it anyway.

Tuxie Tummy Tuesday

First, I just have to mentions, thanks to our Uncle Swoop who came over today to fix our internets. We were not going to be able to post anythings if our internets were brokens, so this is really great. He also takes careds of us when parents are gone so he is a good guy but he does not haves any of his own kitty childrens. We gots a new cables of ethernets. It got brokens because Papaw took the good laptop to his trip of businesses. If Figaro had did the #1 in his duffel bag of his dry-cleans-only pants, maybe he would have had to stay home!!!

Yesterday Figaro went to the Petsmart and tried to be a mancat-in-training but everyone thoughted he was a girl!! Hee hee. You can read about it here on his new fig.blog. But he was pretty well behaveds. Here is a photo of him showing his stomach. He is sitting on the table in the decorative bowl that came all the way from Californias that the parents gotted when they got married. He loves to sit up there even though he is not allowed. (But sometimes Mamaw lets him because she is not the good of disciplinarians.) He gets lots of scritches on his stomach when he lays like that. I like to lay like that too but I do not like tummy scritches. Figaro will take scritches anywhere he can get thems. Here also is my tummy which is not so fat but very soft! I am a very sweet tuxie!

Also today I practiced clicker training and playing the pianos. So far I can play middle C pretty well but sometimes I don't put my paw down enough and doesn't make a sound. The funnest was when Mamaw put it on the "birds" instead of "piano" mode and the bird sounds came out from the speakers. WEIRD! Mamaw is still waiting for the video camera monitor to arrive so she can be a poo-poo spy.

I am posting a news: Mamaw was at Target and in their Spot Saves section they have got in a new selection of Pet Couture. She got Figaro a hoodie and a polo and also I got a polo! But we are not wearing our polos until for my birthday in a week since we want to wear something news for the party. If your wardrobes needs a little pick-me-up, tell your beans about the sale, the hoodies AND polos are only $2.50 each! They also have shiny blankies that convert to beds, but they looked a little too shiney so we did not get one. They also have got baby blankies some were cute pink with polka dots but we did not needs one.

Here is what we got. First, here is Figaro in his "Sgt Pooch" hoodie. It is one of my favorites because it is green, one of my favorite colors. He is a undercover fluffy doggy agent. He looks like a punky kitty, he is a real mancat. Here he is going to be wearing it for Day of St. Patrick Cat Blogosphere party!
Figaro also got a baby blue polo. With a paw applique on the sleeve, like mine, but mine is lavendar. It is the kitty equivalent of American Eagles!!! Howww nice. He looks growned up when he tried it on. We tried them on but we are not posting the pictures until my birthday party because that is when we will be wearing them for reals.

Also yesterday we did not stream Figaro live because the laptop was having problems. But he did not make any accidents on the floor. However, we also did not change any of the toilet setups. We are going to have to do it someday. Saturday marks the week since Figaro had any accident! This is good. However, it also marks the 4 months since we were toilet training, and we aren't any further than December! This is bad.

Thursday Thirteen

First I just wanna say, today is Day 6 that Figaro did not make an accident on the floor. I am glads. Maybe he can finalyl learn to be potty trained. It is also Day 4 of him getting streamed live. So far only a few people have seen him use the toilet streamed live, because he is very elusive and only uses it 3 times per day. Of course I use the toilet too with the LK Amber hole, and today Mamaw spend an hour cleaning the toilet now it is squeaky cleans! Because Thursday is bathroom cleaning day.


Here is a photo of me showing that I am boss of the house. Do you like my fluffy chin fluff?
Now I make a list of for Thursday thirteen. Here are the things of thirteen that I don't like:

1. The vacuumm cleaner because it is loud, we had to see it all morning today. We run and hides from it but sometimes it comes and gets us.


2. Not being allowed on the countertop because it is the most fun ever, especially when there is some raw meats up there.


3. Not being allowed to play with the blinds in the bedroom at 4 AM because it is even more fun to make annoying the parents.


4. Figaro when he is being annoying, because sometimes he comes over and sits on me when I am hiding under the covers and gives away my good hiding spots.


5. When Mamaw leaves to go outside and I don't get to come, hint hint, I want a kitty stroller!!!


6. THE KITTY DOCTOR! Because who likes him.


7. When I sit on the bean bag and the Papaw runs over and jumps on it and makes me fly off it and then he laugheses. SERIOUSLY, Papaw, is this the highlight of your days? I thinked so.


8. When Figaro takes my toys, because he always does it!


9. When parents don't give me food just 'cause I ask. I have to wait for mealtimes.


10. When Figaro steals my homegrown 'nip


11. When we don't get any homegrown 'nip anytime we wants.


12. When my bff friend HELLO KITTY'S site goes down and never goes back up again!!! :(


13. When parents don't get me any toy I want for my birfday (coming up, in the one week!!!)

Look at teh Skinny of Figaro

Here is a photo of Figaro when he was the skinny. He is scritching his self. That was a long time ago. This is actually the day of Halloweens when he dressed up in a bow tie. Cute, isn't it.


Well, we were the good of kittehs recently. First, Mamaw keeps the library open again and we (and by we of course I mean Figaro) do not show interests in going #1 in there. Second, Figaro did the #2 like a good boy yesterday. Also yesterday, I used my big hole insert, which for clarity I will now refer to as my Amber Disc in case kitties on the LitterKwitter method wish to be clarified. But only for #1. And this morning, Figaro did the #1 all by his self by walking to the bathroom and doing it. Mamaw was SO proud! Of course there are no holes in his setup, but she did poke micro sized holes so the #1 goes through there and there is not so much to cover up in the setup. This is a great ideas. We hope we keeps it up. Mamaw can't wait to transition us to big kid toilet!

And again Figaro make attempt at Lolcat. I tells him, give up Figaro, you are not the funny, is more funny with cheezeburgers. But he thinks he is, go figures. The pic is above but you can vote on it on the site too. It didn't get promoted even to the voting page but he thinks it will. Here is his lolcat.

Figaro is loving up on some catnips

Here is a photo of Figaro enjoying his catnips. Mom grows catnips for us fresh in a little pot and when we have been good we get to have some. Normally we are not that interested in this particular toy but when there is the catnips on it we are loving it.

On Sundays we had the temperature like 60 degrees of farneheits and I got to go outside for a walks. But right now it is a winter advisory, below 30, and snowing a snowstorms. I can't wait for winter to finish up already! Sunday when I did my walk I practiced following on my leash and got treats. Papaw says we have had more discrete snow events this winter than ever.

Yesterday Figaro did his businesses like a good boy. It has been a long time now since he has peed in the tub although he still thinks about it sometimes, I can tell. Today I also did good but I have never ever had an accident except for when I was a baby kitten the first day I came home I did some #1 on the bedspread because I couldn't figure out how to use the door on the litterbox.

Kitty Bloggy Announcement

The announcement is here. Today I am announcing that I am the proud owner of http://www.kittybloggy.com/ and I am the cool of bloggiers on the block!


Here to commemorate is a photo of the Fig an I back in the autumn when it was warm outside and we could sit looking out of the patio door. Those were the good days. We can't wait for it to get warm again. Also, Figaro was such a small baby still and now he is already getting bigger than me.
So many things to tell about. First, Figaro was good and did his #2 in the toilet. And of course I did #2 in the toilet too but I always do it so it is not such a big deal.
Also, yesterday Mamaw noticed that Wal Mart is selling more of the Holiday Platters. They have it in red, blue, and lite blue. So she bought another one in case we have to backtrack. They are only $2. If anyone is interesting in our homemade method, they can purchase it too. So far, not including the toilet seat cover, we have spended about this amount:
$2 - holiday platter x 2
$2 each for pack of about 20 - Hefty serving bowls x 5
$2 - huge roll of duct tape
$2 - roll of white duct tape for taping up the lid so it doesn't look yuckyy
Total: $18. That is not such a great savings amount for a homemade setup but we like it because since Figaro is so finicky it is the easy to backtrack and really you could use less hefty serving bowls but since Papaw is the lazy about cleaning them he throws it away when he is home and we go. If you wanted to save lots of money and clean a lot you could get by with:
$2 - holiday platter
$2 - hefty bowls
$2 - duct tape
Total: $6.
So our setup is pretty cheap. If you want to get it go to Wal Mart because they don't always have those platters in the stock!
Third, when Mom was at Wal Mart she got us a very nice Birdie calendar. I will post pics later. she put in all our #2s in it and hung it in the bathroom. If it was a bad #2 she hi-lited it. There is a lot of hi-liting for the Figaro.
Oh PS. Figaro made a LOLcat of hiself. He wants you guys to vote on it: http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?disthreadi128487769906250000.jpg

Yesterday I was the good of kitties. Mamaw took me to great-grandma's house for dinner and I like to go there and smell all her flowers. Here is me smelling some. I was a good kitty and wore my collar, normally in winter I do not wear it since I don't go outside, except on my harness. I can't wait for springs but it will be a while since we all sawed the groundhog see his shadow a month ago.


Then Mamaw was out for the evening, so we were home alone with Papaw. Figaro used the toilet properly, and then when it was my turn to use it, Papaw forgot to put in my insert so the hole was extra big. But I just used the extra big hole, even though Mamaw wasn't planning to enlarge my insert to extra big for at least another 2 weeks!!! I am the AWESOME of kitties. Mamaw couldn't even believe it when she got home, because I went right in the hole too so there was no messes! In fact she was so happy that last night she got back with a lot of chickens and made our single-serves portions for the next month. She also kept feeding Figaro because he was begging and begging and begging. I think he eated too much.


Then this morning at 4 AM I decided to use the toilet so of course Mamaw had to get up to make sure she cleaned it after me in case Fig had to go, and she stepped in GROSS THROWUP on the carpets!!! It was the Figaro who threwed up his foods after he eated too much. Then she had to clean it up. Nothing beats cleaning up the throw ups at 4 AM!!!

Quel Horreur


I am so embarrassing. Mamaw is posted a photo of me using the toilet. It is very blurry though because I tried to move out of the way right when she took the photo. So at least it is difficult to recognize me. You might not be able to see very well but I put all 4 paws on the seat at all times and hang my bottom down to do the #1s.
Lately there has been no accidents. This morning Figaro woke up parents by scratching in bathtub, and they ran in there and told him "no, no, no" so he stopped and went in the toilet. However its really bad because now there is no hole at all but he is still trying to use the bathtub!


Now I don't know, maybe its because sometimes Mom has the bowl in with the hole that I use, and that's why Figaro is getting confused. Maybe I have to go back to no hole too so that we can be on the same step. I hope not because I have got so far already! As it is Mom can't always predict who will be using the setup next, so sometimes I am going in the one without a hole now. So if I get used to that I will not want to use the setup with the hole. It is difficult to say.

Very Frustratings

I have been figuring out how to make a good bloggger css but I am too little to do it. I will keep you posted all on my progresses. I am trying hard but Mom can't help me during the days she must do the work and not the play. So that is why it is difficult. Good thing I found the Mamaw old computer in the library I am using that for my bloggy.

But on the other hand I did the #2 today in the toilet! But the Figaro was extremely bad and once he saw me do the #2 he decided he must immediately do #2 and he did it on the floor while I was covering up my own #2!!! He is such a bad Fig, not so smart. Mamaw was very unpleased and she did the Correct and Re-Direct method but this did not encourage the Fig. He is bad.

The Figaro Learns from my examples


Another day, another #2! :) This time I am proud to say that I did the #2 and I told Figaro, Watch me okay. Anyway, this time after he watched me he did the #2 all by himself again in the toilet. That is 2 successful #2s. But Mamaw says we still need to wait before he is ready for any holes. On the other hand I think today we might make my hole bigger.


So I have decided I may keep my site at blogspot because I do not like the advertisements. They are the large! However I have to make some changes. First I want to add some important sections, like an advice section for fellow kitties. Also some reviews of my toys and activities and food. I think it would be beneficials! It might take me some time because I have to learn to modify the template and do a lot of work while keeping it all very professional and stylish. Because I am a stylish kitty. Here is a pic of me working with Mamaw in our library on Sunday. We did a lot of work. Well she did a lot of work and I mostly just relaxed. She is working on some very important things but I am not interesting in them.



You can see my cool laser eyes.

I did not do the #1 yet today even though breakfast was a long time ago so I'd better go do that now. And then I have to make Mamaw put more bird food in the feeder because the birds they are not coming and I am the bored of kittehs.

Figaro did the bad things again

Well...Yes. You have to find out sooner or later. Figaro did the #2 on the bathroom floor again. We were running around like the crazy of kittens all evening and parents went to bed. Then I did the #2 in the toilet, I was very good. Then Mom heard me so she wokened up and went to change out the #2. Then I said, Look Figaro, that's how you do the #2. Then I did the #1 and Mom had to wake up again and go change out the bowl. Then Figaro was the SNEAK and did the #2 very quietly by the toilet!!! I was like, Figaro, silly goose, don't do it!!!! But then he was not a very smart sneak because since I had just did the #2, Mom knew it was the Figaro who did the #2 on the floor. Plus then he tried to do the #1 in the bathtub and Mamaw always hears him when he does this so she wokened up AGAIN to get him and made him do the #1 in the toilet. That's when she found out about the #2!!! She was annoyed but she couldn't do the correct and re-direct method because she was too tired.

Also for Valentine's day we got to eat some beef roasts. They were very delicious.

I am thinking about moving over my bloggy to the place like Hello Kitty has, so I can post pictures and also informations about myself. And of course my reviews. I think my reviews can be important for other kitties.

I have been the busy of kittehs


Well I have been the busy of kittehs and this is why I have not posted for almost a whole week now. The Figaro is really having the troubles using the toilet setup. We had to go back to no hole all over again. He keeps trying to use the bathtub and he likes especially to be the tricky and use it while the parents are on the other end of the house so by the time they come running to stop him he is already finished with his businesses. Here is a picture of how we like to lay in the evenings when we are just relaxing. I only lay by the Figaro 'cause he is warm and cuddlys. But if he is not sleeping he is the annoying of brothers.
On the other hand I have been very good. We have been getting extra helpings of pumpkins so we are having a better #2 schedule. Also, the Mamaw just especially for me enlarged the hole in the setup to 2 inches diameters and I am using it with no problems all by myself. I am the smart, of course that is why. Also the Figaro is getting the fat, he keeps trying to eat my foods. I am a dainty kitty and I would never get fat.
Tomorrow is the day of Valentines and so I am probably going to get some special treat like extra fishes. Fishes are better than candy or anything. I have to tell Mamaw now to re-fill the bird feeder because the birds are not coming and it is empty, so I am boreds.

Every Day is Toilet Training Day


Wello, we are doing great on the training of the toilet. So far there are no accidents and already it has been the one whole week. The Mamaw plans to switch us to the toilet hole of larger size.


Also, the Papaw came home today and informed that we may get some bacterias from the raw of chickens but the Mamaw convinced him that this is not the case. So far we are eating some raw pieces mixed with lots and lots of our cooked liver-giblet pate and cooked chicken pieces (that were in the pate.) The pate is the favorite of us. The parents maybe think we should switch to the raw of beef instead but that is not the as good as the chickens.


Also Figaro last night practiced his "go to mat" and he is the good at it. He targets the stick and then when the Mamaw says "Figaro go to mat" he goes where the mat is, and it can be in different places because he is the smart. I am the smart too but I am the lazy and annoyed by this type of games so I am only targeting the stick when I feel like a little treat. Usually I lay and watch from a distance what is going on. Now Figaro is supposed to put Mouse in his mouth and bring to the Mamaw but so far he only sniffs mouse for the click and treat.


Also it is very cold today and the pond froze over so the Mamaw was worried about the Frog who is living in the pond which may be dead in which case it will be the food for us (ok ok it will not be the food the Mamaw says this is wrong since we should be nice about Frog.) Anyway it is sunny so I'd better go sun my tummy and get a lots of Vitamin D. (By the way that is the pic of me sunning myself and generally relaxing like I do on most days after I finish using the toilet, making sure the Figaro is not being bad, eating some food, and of course updating my bloggy.)


 

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