But TBT has something ta mention separate from that so I turn it over ta him.
"Friends, I am trying to plan a luncheon of all cat/doggie bloggers in the Washington DC area in late October. So if you happen to be in the area then or want to attend a luncheon with others, let me know. I'm planning it at a reasonably nice Chinese restaurant for October 26th, but we will see who can come when.
Just mentioning it...
Back to the Mews.
Hmph, I think my possum capture just got overtooked by Bein stuff! Oh well. It was a good Mancat Monday annyways.
dang, I don't know what that is but it might be an alien!
ReplyDeleteYum, looks tasty! I bet they won't be serving anything as fresh and yummy at the restaurant where the humans are going to meet! My human wishes she were closer.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I think I agree with Brian!
ReplyDeleteBoy that lunch sounds like fun, and especially in October! But...even if my mom did fly, she'd probably be on the no-fly list. So I don't think she'll be there. Or us, either. :-(
We don't have opossums here ; thank you for the gastronomic review ! Purrs
ReplyDeleteI would love to go and meet some bloggers, but I don't think I would be able to make it to D.C. in October this year- sorry.
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I don't think any of us should drive much more than an hour to see each other. I would love to meet and greet, but would want to know who could come, where they're coming from and how we can make it fairly distanced for everyone. For me, I would have to drive over two hours. When Paula was here, she was attending a conference and didn't have much choice for where we could get together. Now, with those of us interested, we should be able to come up with a centrally-located venue; and, thank you Mark, for your interest in this. Hope it all works out. ~ Julie
ReplyDeleteIf we could get together that would be very fun! But alas, Seattle is not the DC area!
ReplyDeleteHey Mark, you know we are interested and would be glad to help out with some driving!
ReplyDeleteHow neat you have people in the area who hopefully will be able to come to a get together.
ReplyDeleteHow I would love to go!
ReplyDeleteBut Mark - are you sure that cats actually like Chinese food? (LOL)
ReplyDeleteMegan
Sydney, Australia
We had a baby opossum visit us indoors. Sitting in a darkened room, mom was grateful to discern movement on the cat tree, since we hadn't used it in a while. She soon realized that not only did we have a visitor, but she was a baby opossum. It was much bigger than yours, too big for us to challenge but exactly like a miniature opossum. Ma's embarrassed to admit that although she tried to chase it down she was too scared to pick it up when she got close. She found out on the web that it was large enough to live on it's own. So she closed it off in the room with the open window, said a prayer and went to bed. Our visitor exited that night.
ReplyDeleteThat's an opossum for sure. We get those here as well, along with raccoons, squirrels, skunks, etc., etc. Mom says that she would be interested in that luncheon. She may be going to BarkWorld, but if not would like to attend. We are in southwest VA. Please keep us posted as you make plans. janet.blue@thecatonmyhead.com
ReplyDeleteXO, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
I have never seen a possum and we don't get them here. It does look like the shrews I catch in the fields though. They have long pointy noses like that. They are more closely related to moles than mice which is probably why I never eat them when I catch them.
ReplyDeleteYou caught a shrew, common name for the small, insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, related to the moles. I catch them also. Got I wish I lived in your area I would attend the luncheon.
ReplyDeleteSweet William The Scot
Hey, as long as you can call it tasty it's all good!
ReplyDeleteMy Mommy wishes she lived close enough to come she would love to meet TBT in purrson. And she LOVES Chinese foods.
ReplyDeleteWe thinks that mighta been a baby possum, but it's kinda hard to tells. If it was you are lucky cause possums kill ticks
"Because many ticks try to feed on opossums and few of them survive the experience. Opossums are extraordinarily good groomers it turns out – we never would have thought that ahead of time – but they kill the vast majority – more than 95% percent of the ticks that try to feed on them. So these opossums are walking around the forest floor, hoovering up ticks right and left, killing over 90% of these things, and so they are really protecting our health." http://www.caryinstitute.org/discover-ecology/podcasts/why-you-should-brake-possums
We thinks Sweet William The Scot is right that it is a shrew that it what we first thought of when we saw it.
ReplyDeleteWe hope the DC area bloggers can work out getting together. The head peep says she wishes she lived closer so she could join you!
ReplyDeleteThat was a nice catch...whatever it was!
ReplyDeleteThe mom says she would love to meet all you DC area folks...but she lives too far away. We hope it works out.
I love to see it can fly ... So please allowed me to WHACK !!
ReplyDeleteYou can call it anything you want - we call it DINNER!
ReplyDeleteConcats on the kill, kittehz.
XOXO
Good catch, whatevfur it is, MOL!
ReplyDeleteOur Pawppy came from DC and our uncle still lives there, in an assisted living pawlace, so we can't stay with him anymore...but its also over 6oo miles from where we live now...sigh...
It looks like our shrews, but they taste icky so we are glad yours was better! We wish Äiti could just hop on a plane to go to the blog lunch, but it's too far . Sorry!
ReplyDeleteSweet William the Scot was right it's a shrew, we had many here where we live. When I was little one of our Mommy kitties would always bring them into the house for the babies to play with and to learn to hunt. My Mom hated it when she did, I'd just laugh to see her running from the little things.
ReplyDeleteOh I don't know what it is but I bet you enjoyed it. I really wish I was going to be over there for the meet up because I would have loved that
ReplyDeleteMe to think it´s an Alien *mol*
ReplyDeleteSounds like much FUN with a luncheon !
To bad that we have that BIG pond between us :(