Thanks for all your responses about the nail clipping.  Fortunately, Mom and Dad have been too sick and busy to actually do it yet, but they talk about it alot.  I don't like it when they are sick.  They have colds, like I did when they first found me.  Only their eyes don't run, just their noses.  But they don't play nearly as much, and aren't nearly as tolerant in bed.  This morning Mom said "Mattingly I'm having enough time sleeping without you nibbling my lip, nose and fingers."  I was just trying to let her know that I was awake and ready to be loved.  When a kitty needs love, he needs love, you know?  My needs don't go away just because she's sick!  She also doesn't like me to cuddle down on her chest while she watches tv when she's sick.  So I'm feeling pretty neglected.  I still get fed and everything, but I hope this changes when they feel better.

And speaking of feeding, I had to step it up a notch.  The last time we were at the vet, he said I was getting a bit of a belly.  Mommy said she just feeds me what the package says, but he said they always tell you to feed more than what it neccessary so you keep buying their product.  He said not to worry about it right then because I was still sick and it was important that I have a good appetite to get better.  See, I get fed twice a day, and before I would eat a little of my breakfast, and save the rest for later.  Eat what was left in the afternoon, and then eat some of my dinner when that was put in my dish, and eat the rest of that in the middle of the night.  The vet said if I was leaving food in my dish, then Mommy was probably feeding me too much.  Well... I'm showing her now!!  I make sure I start reminding her about meals at least two hours ahead of time.  I like to go in the kitchen and meow (that's where the food comes from even though that's not where my food dish is).  When she FINALLY feeds me, I eat it all up right away.  I have sensed that she is giving me a little less now that I'm feeling better, but I'm doing everything I can to make sure she doesn't starve me! I even go in the kitchen to meow right after I eat so she remembers that she needs to come back in 12 hours and do that again. That pesky vet.

There won't be a picture today.  The camera hasn't had any batteries for about a month, and Mom says she didn't want to take pictures anyway and risk irritating my eye. She says she doesn't want me to keep posting old pictures, and ones that are already on the website she made for me (I keep stealing them from her).  But she said she will get batteries soon.  So it will be a few days before any new pictures are up.  Mom and Dad say I've grown quite a bit since they got me.  I've been with them almost two months now.  Mom says I'm turning into a handsome man.  I think that's good.  Well I'm off to see if they left any dirty tissues around for me to play with!

Well, my eye seems all healed Mom says.  She calls me "bright eyes" again sometimes.  I like that.  I also like that my eye isn't all irritated.  She says she doesn't like that I sneeze a lot... especially when I sneeze on her.  But since my nose and eyes are not running she says she's not too worried about the sneezing right now.  And last night she noticed the cut on my mouth.  It's scabbed over and pretty much healed.  I was trying to hide it from her because she always tells me not to chew on paper and she thinks it's a paper cut.  I just didn't want to get scolded.  But she found it.  Oh well.  I did get some good loving out of it.

I need to ask you all a grooming question.  Mom bought some clippers to clip my nails.  When she read the package, it said that usually nails need to be clipped once a month.  She says my nails are getting long, and need to be clipped even though the vet did it two weeks ago.  Dad says we should wait until a month has passed because that's what the package says.  Who is right?  How often do you get your nails clipped?  I don't like it much.  Mom never had to clip kitty nails before because she said all the cats she had when she was growing up were indoor/outdoor cats and their nails stayed naturally shorter from climbing trees and stuff.  But I wonder, is climbing a tree nearly as much fun as climbing the curtains?  Do you get scolded for climbing a tree?  These are some things to think about while I go sit in the kitchen and wait for Mom or Dad to come home and feed me.  Later!