Straight out of a horror film…
Last night, my brother in law Steve came over and Eric, Steve, and I got cozy in the family room and watched The Bourne Identity. Eric and I are huge fans of the Bourne movies. We have watched each one probably over 10 times. I also may or may not have a crush on Matt Damon. shhhhhh. ;)
Eric and I are going to bundle ourselves up in about 7 blankets and watch #2 and possibly #3 tonight! Can’t wait.
The weather is perfect for some snuggling and movies…
After the movie finished last night, Eric was showing us his new media player. It lets him play You Tube videos on the TV. He decided to put on a bunch of Sketchie’s videos that have now become quite popular! One of Sketchie’s videos now has over 122,000 hits…pretty crazy! This cat delivered when he was a kitten. haha.
Without further ado, I present to you a little entertainment on your Friday night. I hope you will get a laugh out of Sketchie’s crazy kitten ways! :D
Let’s start off with the first day we brought him home…April 28, 2007:
His body was too funny!!!!
Let’s just say that Christmas is a very interesting time of year with Sketchie around!!! This was his first Christmas in our condo…
Make sure the music is turned up for the full effect!
Sadly, our Christmas tree doesn’t stay in one piece very long! Does anyone else’s cat climb the tree?
Sketchie as a kitten fighting with that ‘cat in the mirror’…
OMG!!!! Cats are so rediculous.
And now the one that has over 122,000 views! A You Tube Sensation!
Nothing makes us laugh harder than that loud ‘DONG’ at the start of the video when he hits his head. That explains so much…
And now for some kitten pictures…
Those awkward teen years…
He’s a great listener….bahahaha
He loves his mice…
MY BEH-BEH!
We once found him sleeping in an empty tissue box.
[I’m joking, but that would be hilarious]
Oh no you didn’t!
I think this post officially breaks me into Crazy Cat Lady territory if I wasn’t there already! ha!
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Now I want you to tell me about your pets!
Do you have any? What crazy things do they do?
If you have any pictures of your pets online or any videos please link to them! :)
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This is too cute!! Love Sketchie :-D
My husband and I have a big purebred Alaskan Malamute kennel and a black lab. We do dog sledding expeditions with the malamutes, which is SO much fun! All our dogs are our beloved pets! They are the coolest, cutest, fluffiest babies!
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And we love Sketchie! He’s a cool guy! Thanks for sharing your adorable photos of him.
Ohmigosh Ange, I don’t even like cats and I think I’m in love with Sketchie. Does he have any siblings??! I love the action shot and the videos of him as a kitten. How freakin’ adorable!
Those videos were AWESOME. They left my husband and I laughing our butts off! :) My husband’s family has a Pug. He’s awesome. And fat. And super, duper lazy. But we love him. :D
I LOVE PUGS!
Haha! He is so cute. I have become a crazy cat lady too. Here is our baby http://modernation.wordpress.com/photos/picture-17/. Wish I had more pics of him on the blog – I need to do a post, too I guess. Our cat likes to squeeze in the tiniest places, too. I think it makes them feel safe.
awww he’s cute :)
I am in hysterics over those videos!
OMG your kitty is amazing..I am not a cat person but this post just changed my mind!! My daughter is a huge animal lover and has not demanded a sketchie of her very own!
has now demanded*
AMAZING!
Totally made my Friday! Sketchie is AWESOME. I showed your blog and him to my cat obsessed friend and she fell in love :)
She was the one who turned me onto cats actually. Before her I was totally a dog person.
But she convinced me to foster a pregnant cat when we were roommates together in university.
Boy am I glad we did. The pregnant kitty had 3 of the most adorable kittens I’ve ever seen.
Here they are for your viewing pleasure.
Elmo, Daisy and Zoe in a box :)
http://i935.photobucket.com/albums/ad196/justflourishing/kittens1.jpg
OMG I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!
PS- I used to be a ‘dog’ person too…now im both :)
HAHA I love Sketchie, he is so cute. My fiance’s mom has a cat just like him.
I have two cats Pookie and Smeagol-I feel like I talk about them a lot but they are so fun! I can’t imagine coming home to a house without them-especially when my fiance is working late =)
Here they are..Pookie is the white Persian and Smeagol is the brown tabby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjtvrC35fc
=)
lol…kittens just can’t resist can they? Always getting into trouble
Yay! I love reading about other peoples pets! Sketchie is too cute and I love the shots of him as a kitten! Those videos are too funny too – I sure hope you have those unbreakable christmas ornaments! ;)
-K
Those videos are great.
My parents’ cat, Clementine, has knocked down the Christmas tree almost every year. They always buy a real tree and you have to keep water at the bottom. Water goes everywhere, all of the ornaments break, and the lights become tangled. It is such a pain to re-decorate the tree and clean-up but it is also really funny :) Pets make life so much better!
You’re right, cats are redic!
haha we bought a fake tree b/c we didn’t know what he would do…plus we were in a tiny condo so it worked out. All our decorations are plastic. In this house, he will be closed off from it (we don’t let him on the one side of the house) so I don’t think he will get into too much trouble :)
I am a proud crazy cat lady too! :-) Sketchie is beautiful! I love the pic of him under the brown bag with his tongue sticking out! I had a cat that used to do that! Too cute!
My cats have never climbed the Christmas tree though and after seeing the video of him doing it, I wish that they would! Maybe I could teach them!!! Yes! I’ll make it a December goal! bah!
You’re playing with fire! haha
such a coincidence…i was just talking to my mom about how next year i want to get my own cat to bring with me to college. i have my dog and my horse at home, but they belong at home. i need someone to come along with me!
OMG!!!! Sketchie rocks!! :-)
I love the climbing up the Christmas tree video…what a cute little rascal.
Ninja and Pancakes were enchanted by the Sketchie videos. They want to know what his status is. :)
These are my babies when they were babies. I need some better pictures of them for general circulation! http://runningsongs.wordpress.com/i-like/
awww such fluffy lil guys :)
This is my crazy dog. You have to watch the whole video. We catch him doing this all the time!! Ps. We just got him about 2 months ago from the pound!!
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkrdMpGqUmM
OMG your dog is the funniest dog in the world!!!!!!!! Does he do that often? lmao
he does it all the time. If me and my other half are busy, he’ll do it just to try to get our attention!!:)
ahhh I LOVE bengals! when hubby and i were first looking at cats I so wanted to go buy a bengal from a breeder – but then we got realistic and realized rescuing a cat was a better option for us.
My cats totally freaked out while I was watching that video because they heard sketchie meowing and went to investigate upstairs to see if there was a visitor – hahahahahahah!!!!
Ahhh I love how much joy pets bring! We have 2 cats, Smuckers and Scout. They are quite the handful, especially Smuckers who is like a dog. She also jumps up and tries to wrap her paws around the doorknob to get out. I don’t know what she would do ever she ever actually succeeded!
Sketchie recently discovered how to open doors…its all he does now
I am not a cat person, but Sketchie is one gorgeous cat! That last video had me laughing so hard!
We have a miniature schnauzer, Rufio (like from the movie Hook). He’s insane and we love it. His newest trick is he sings to us! I have pics of him all over my blog, and a video going up in the next day or two. I love him so much!
My cat climbs the Christmas Tree too. He also tries to eat the fake needles of the tree, which then lead him to puke…you would think that he would figure out that he shouldn’t eat them!! :)
Sketchie will eat just about anything. Bugs, paper, lint, you name it. ESPECIALLY if we tell him no, then he gobbles it down as fast as he can, haha
Haha OMG that first pic!!
My roomie currently has a cat, but it’s rather boring haha. I grew up with a shi-tzu bichon puppy and though she lives with my parents, she’s my baby :) Now she’s 15 (so OLD in dog years!) and she’s losing her sight and hearing. It’s funny though because her new thing is to move her big bed (a pillow at least twice the size of her) around our kitchen. It takes her a looong time and she’s out of breath, but it’s all she does now! Makes me laugh every time.
thats so cute.
I may have already labeled you into the “crazy cat lady” realm considering the only way my husband got it when I said where I got my AWESOME SUPER-DELICIOUS Glo Bars was to finally just say “It’s Sketchie’s mom!” Then he got it :) I always show him the Sketchie pics! LOL.
Love Sketchie. Don’t leave him unattended or I may kitty-nap him!
sketchie’s mom…love it!
Aw, Sketchie is beyond cute! I think I’m a dog person (a small dog person, at that!), but a cat like Sketchie would win me over any day. I recently adopted two rats, and they are so fun. The older one is my ‘lap rat’ – perfectly content to sit in my lap and get scritches for hours on end. :)
AAH!!! This was the greatest post! I’m such a Sketchie fan…ad I’ve talked about him so much that my husband had to come sit here while we watched the videos. We have a little girl, Shelli. She’s a bobtail, so she’s *really* clumsy. There are pics up on my blog. We’ve got that same squeaky mouse that chirps whenever it touches anything, too!
Last thought about the blog; I’ve got to say, it’s pretty freaking righteous that you guys appeared to be watching The Jeffersons during the “Sketchie vs the Mirror part 2.” Joey noticed that right away.
Hope you have a good night:)
Everyone mentions the Jeffersons, but we have never seen it in Canada- I think it was either a commercial using that music or it was on and we just never caught it. lol.
It’s a pretty funny show. The theme song is iconic, though…that’s what people remember. At any rate, it provided an excellent “musical score” to Sketchie’s epic battle with the cat in the mirror;).
mel
I love cats but my allergies get in the ay. I had to take allergy pills as a kid because I loved cats.
Now I have two dogs: Leo the co-dependent powderpuff chinese crested and Peanut the independent Pomchi (pommeranian chihuahua mix). Love them dearly like they are my kids.
I have a fair bit of pics on them at my blog itallchanges.wordpress.com
BTW I love the ode to sketchie. Made me giggle and remember some of the fun times with my kitties. And his markings are gorgeous.
LOL! I have 3 kids…ages 9, 7 & 6. They sat here and giggled and laughed watching all of these….the bonk into the glass and climbing the tree got watched over and over…then we had to look through the other vidoeos of Sketchie on you tube….great Friday night entertainment, Ang! Thanks! :) He’s so cute!
awwww…glad it brought some fun for the family!!
I’m a total cat convert after this hilarious post. Sketchie is awesome!
I’ve always been a dog person. When I was little, we had a terrier mix named Blondie who had a masochistic desire to attempt to eat bees. She was stung in the mouth more than once, but somehow, it didn’t deter her. Gotta love crazy pets!
I’m so in love with Sketchie!!
ERGH about the Christmas tree…I’m dreading putting mine up this year. Last Christmas my lovely little Chloe passed away the day after (which was devestating!). I was so upset that my husband went out and foreced me to get two kittens (which I felt guilty about)…but of course, no one can replace what you lost..they’re just different! (-:
The kittens turned about to be a blessing, but they climbed up my tree so I immediately took it down. Now that they’re bigger cats, I’m hoping the urge won’t be there this year otherwise I have no clue what I’m going to do!!
Man. I had Chloe for 18 years (since I was 9) and she never ever climbed the tree or did anything bad.
Your cat is absolutely adorable, not to mention completely entertaining. That is a huge compliment, considering I’m such a huge dog fan. I was wondering though, is Sketchie a specific breed of cat that I’m unaware of? I’ve never seen a cat with such a beautiful pattern. (Well, besides leopards.) His fur is such a trip. I love it.
he’s a bengal :)
Hahahaha awwwwww this is quite possibly the cutest blog post I have ever seen in my LIFE! :D
Sketchie is adorable!! My kitty climbs the christmas tree too haha.
I’ll do a blog post sometime soon of the mischief my girl Jazz gets herself into :)
This made my day!!!
I love Sketchie! His markings are so beautiful. My favorite video is the Christmas tree one, its so funny how he knocks down the ornaments. He is so adorable as a tiny kitten curled up in your lap too. I am also a crazy cat lady, here are a couple posts that feature my babies:
http://veganmindedblog.com/2009/10/06/breakfast-with-the-cats/
http://veganmindedblog.com/2009/10/23/acorn-squash-bowl/
Keep the Sktechie pics and videos coming! :)
Sketchie is just too cute!! The mirror fighting is amazing!! haha His body reminds me of Tigger…and I totally mean that as a compliment!!
Those videos were great! I especially liked the christmas tree one! I have a yellow lab and whenever I take her for a walk she always has to start it off with part of the leash in her mouth like she’s walking me rather than the other way around :) When she was a puppy she used to always eat with her back feet in her water dish :)
I love it! These videos are hilaaarious! The mirror fight ones are awesome. I want a cat like this! I love Clarabelle, but she’s *such* a princess!
I remember the first three years I had my sweet kitty Montey….our xmas tree was bare for about 4 feet from the bottom up…we could only have ornaments on the top 3 feet of the tree because otherwise he thought it was there for him to whack with his paws…after that, never had any incidence….he would just curl up under the tree and sleep…it was very sweet. He never did try to climb it though…. hee hee…I miss him, and sure enjoyed your pics and videos…
Love Sketchie is SOOO cute! One of my cats is 25 pounds so he doesn’t fit into any small places. Yippee for Crazy Cat Ladies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7-yauzZkbI
My best buddy: Constance. :D
Sketch is awesome.
ll what a crazy lil guy!
Oh my, Sketchie has the most expressive eyes!
I have a 9-year old cat, her name is Peashi, and she sleeps about 20 hours of the day. She has long legs like Sketchie, and when she isn’t sleeping, she likes to drink out of the bathroom sink. The door is usually closed, but she “stands” up and stretches her paw to open the door.
Your cat is probably the cutest cat I have ever seen – I love Sketchie’s colours!
Sketchie is seriously beautiful. And obviously a comedian! And a YouTube star. Quite the CV he’s got. :)
I have two pups, a chihuahua (Tamale) and a miniature dachshund (Mistletoe). Tamale is… feisty, to say the least, but I love her dearly. Missy is disabled and uses a doggie wheelchair and loves getting attention and treats!
We have two cats who are almost 2 yrs old, Arty & Fuey (their “proper” names are Arturo & Fuente – they’re named afer my husband’s favourite cigar – but they only get called that when they’re in big trouble, lol) Last year was our first Xmas with them and definitely our last with a mini-tree (it was about 3 feet tall). They sniffed it out and seemed uninterested, but when we came home from a night out with friends, there were ornaments everywhere and our tree was laying on the floor & had definitely lost the battle. Not sure if you will be able to see this video from my Facebook…Fuey once got his head stuck in a tissue box and I nearly pee’d my pants laughing at him: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=61044671221 And finally, check out this video on YouTube and see how Sketchie reacts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6W19KTlZo My boys FREAKED and spent a good half hour after I shut it off searching for the unwelcome cat, lol!
Forgot to add, I love that your first pic of Sketchie is of him in a box that says “High brightness, dynamic sound, wall mountable”. LOL!
Sketchie is so cute! I was laughing so hard at the video when he bangs his head on the mirror! lol.
I don’t have any cats, but I feel like I live at a circus most of the time. We have two dogs and a bird, and they all have their own fair share of character. Especially the bird! She’s camera shy, so whenever we take out the video camera, she pipes down, but here’s a video of her beat-boxing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIJv9_qotM
P.s…you’ll see what crazy REALLY is when you watch this. I talk to her like she’s human. Actually, my boyfriend and I both do! lol.
Birds are so cool…he could definitely beat box!
I have a cat named Webster, he’s an orange tabby cat and I absolutely LOVE him. It’s just me and him living together right now so he’s like my BFF!! Haha
I have to say your cat is SOOO different looking. He has like a cheetah pattern – I have NEVER seen a cat like that before. Is he some sort of special breed??
Awwww, what a cutie! I’m more of a dog person, but cats can be so much fun.
What a stunning kitty! I love that Christmas video, it combines all my favorite things: Christmas, adorable animals and hilarity! This was such a great post, thank you so much for sharing!
Luv luv luv your kitty!! So beautiful! So funny xo
Bahaha! Sketchie is só cute and funny! I am officially a crazy cat lady too and I also infected my boyfriend. We have 2 cats and both have the capability to be cute, annoying, evil and incredibly funny at the same time.
http://s359.photobucket.com/albums/oo40/Oxidaisy/?action=view¤t=P4160069.jpg
I can go on and on telling stories about them. like how they sleep in crazy places in crazy positions, kick all the decorations out of the christmas tree, play soccer with whatever. And how one always plays with stuff she shouldn’t and then runs away WITH the thing when I try to take it. And how the other one crashed behind the heater because when she sprinted and tried to jump, she forgot that we had removed the window-sill that was on top of the heater.
Just made me realize…I have to write a cat-blogpost soon!
lol…love it. They are very cute! Look like best buddies. Makes me want to get Sketchie a buddy.
I can’t see myself ever owning a cat (or a dog, for that matter) but Sketchie definitely makes the prospect more appealing.
I guess I’m not a “conventional” pet person. My ideal pets include pot-bellied pigs (have to get a bigger yard first) and sugar gliders (the absolute cutest things in the entire world).
BUT, my boyfriend and I just happened to bring home a pet today – he’s a hedgehog and we haven’t even named him yet but he’s quite adorable.
Hey Angela, your best bet is to put citrus on the tree, e.g. put the peel of an orange and lemons inside behind the décor so it’s not visible, but cats apparently don’t like that :) Also put it around the gifts- it doesn’t have to be noticeable:)
Take care
Thats such a good idea because Sketchie HATES citrus peel. He scrunches up his face and swats at it!!! HAHAH
You’re no crazy cat lady- my mom has FIVE cats!! lol
And we have found a kitten sleeping in an empty tissue box before. ha!
xo
K
Bahaha, those mirror videos are hilarious. My cat of 11 years just passed away. He was awesome. A big ‘ole fat cat that totally ruled our neighbourhood. Whevener I was laying down, he would come up and start pawing at my stomach. He was so heavy it would knock the breath out of me! :P
Awww his coloring is so beautiful!! I have a dalmatian, so I guess I’m kinda partial to spots ;)
My dog bashes his head against a door if it’s closed- it opens up a couple door at my parent’s house, but doesn’t really work in our townhouse. He still thinks it will though.
There are pictures of him all throughout my blog, but especially here http://spottyprep.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-wedding-day-my-husband-and-i-with.html You do have to scroll through about 4 wedding pictures first though!
OMG, those mirror videos are hilarious!!Thanks for sharing them!
i think this is one of my favorite posts of yours! :D i love cats soooo much. when i was growing up we always had a good few kitties – we lived in north carolina country and we had a big deck and yard, and they’d live out there. unfortunately life has majorly changed since then and right now I don’t have any cats. someday! :)
sketchie is such a cool looking kitty. i’m sure you are one proud mama ;) hehe
when i do get a cat i want to get one of those super fluffy persian cats with the smooshed in faces. everyone i tell that to is like “omg they are so ugly” but i totally love them. lol
happy saturday angela! enjoy the movies :)
♥
Those are great!! My cats cry at bugs when they are hunting them too. It cracks me up. You’re not a crazy cat lady….cats just provide a lot of blog material: they’re cute and they’re funny! Mine have made numerous appearances on my blog!
I have a slight obsession with photographing my cat, Max. He is the best!!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/35212422.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1256389240&Signature=el%2F95ifvVPWdRgdl2TUtcP5iea4%3D
Aw, Sketchie might just be the coolest cat ever!
I have a cat, Pinot, and a dog, Zoe. They are my world!!
Last year, Pinot was a kitten at Christmas time…so she didn’t really attempt to climb the tree. I have a feeling this year’s gonna be a different story ;)
Oh Angela he’s so cute! :) My cat used to react the same way to mirrors. Hilarious. Aw, this made me miss him..
those videos were so so so funny. me and my husband watched them and laughed so hard! our kitty did the same thing when we first got her! you made us want to get another one by watching that….we looked online last night at kittys for sale. it was fun! such a cute post!!
I’m not really a cat person, but Sketchie is probably the cutest one I’ve ever seen!! I’m in love with his cheetah spots :D
I have a golden retriever, Maggie. She’s the sweetest dog ever! I miss her so much :( She better remember me when I come home for Christmas
I grew up around cats! Unfortunately, my fiance is deathly allergic to them so no more kittys for me… we are planning on a hypo-allergenic dog once we move from our tiny condo into a house with a yard!
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that this morning. I have a rescued dog and kitten, and they light up my life. The cat is a new edition, Dallas (after the Cowboys). He’s affectionately named Tom Sawyer because he makes playing with his toys so difficult. Much like Tom and his elaborate plans to help Jim, the slave, escape in the novel Huck Finn, Dallas dive-bombs off the couch for a toy he was sitting next to a few minutes before. He stalking toys from behind the wicker on the dining room table, and stretches to attack it, when he could just walk around the table and get it straight on. It’s fantastic to watch.
I have a cat named Elmo… and she fetches, and chases her tail, so we’ve always said we think she’s actually a dog just masquerading as a cat.
Up until August, we had two cats, but the older one, who was 16 years old (we’d had him since I was 7, so for 13 or so years) got sick and we ended up having to put him to sleep. He wasn’t the most quirky cat, but he loved rubbing his face all over my head right after I showered. And if you made him really mad he would spit at you. He was the cutest cat, Himalayan with big blue eyes.
Your cat is adorable! And very entertaining…
Sketchie is hilarious! I want to meet him!
I am totally a crazy dog lady. I got my first puppy this spring, a little golden retriever named Lily. She is now 8 months old. I think of her as my daughter.
Her quirks include giving high-fives, always bringing visitors a stuffed animal as a gift, and going through the laundry to find my socks then bring them to me in the morning!
I love her to bits, even though last night she chewed up my favourite heels from New York City….but I can’t stay mad at her for long ;)
So cute, and I don’t even usually like cats! I especially like when he is fighting with the “other cat” (ie: his reflection), and jumps around the corner expecting the other cat to be on the other side :)
The bourne movies are awesome! I think the top CIA agent, Pamela Landy has a pretty awesome name, but then again I might be a little biased since it’s my first and last name :).
this is such a great post! sketchie is amazing. i loved all the videos, aren’t pets the best?!
Oh my gosh Angela this was hilarious!!!! I loved the videos and my mom and I are cat lovers (we have a “mutt” Abyssinian and Bengal mix) so we laughed hysterically at the videos of Sketchie. Those types of cats have so much personality! Thanks for sharing with us, he’s a beautiful cat!
Sketchie is so beautiful!!! My cat, Yoda, a large black and white rescue kitty is my ‘beast’. She knocks things off the counters to watch them fall, burrows under my blankets, drinks exclusively from the bathroom sink WHILE I’m in the bathroom and loves clean laundry. I loved that video of sketchie climbing the christmas tree, now I don’t feel alone! My cats always ruin the tree!…. and play hockey with the GLASS christmas ornaments.
Oh my goodness! Sketchie is hilarious. That video of him fighting with himself in the mirror is so funny!
We have a cat and a dog… they both have been up to such antics lately, but my favorite is my “I am T-Pain” app on my iPhone. Let’s just say that the dog howling on auto-tune makes for a racuously good time! Haha
Sketchie is the CUTEST cat EVER! I’m not a big cat person, but I’ve been toying with the idea of getting one. If we did, it would have to be one as cute as your little guy! :)
That Christmas Tree video is totally destined for National Lampoons Christmas Vacation! While I was watching the YouTube sensation video, my kitty was going nuts at the meowing!
haha so I was showing my mom pics of Sketchie and remembered there was this post full of pics and videos so I showed her…. she might have just become Sketchie’s #1 fan. She thinks he is the coolest looking cat and wants one for herself. :)