2008 Kitty Cat and Puppy Dog
(9/18/08)
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2008 Kitty Cat and Puppy Dog(9/18/08)
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The kitty cat pictured here has the name of "Fido". The puppy dog has the name of "Chou Chou" (pronounced "Shoo Shoo") which is French for "cutie pie". They belong to my friend Katherine who doesn't have her own web page so I put this one up. Fido is a Singapura cat. The Singapura is a distant cousin to the Burmese. Chou Chou is a Papillon dog. The Papillon is the one of the oldest of the toy Spaniel breeds. Click on any picture for a much larger version.
Below is Fido sitting on his shelf on the wall. The shelf and the thing in the corner is a "Kitty Condo" built by http://www.catsplay.com/ which makes these solid and nice looking kitty wall climbing furniture. Notice there are no visible brackets!
Here is a zoomed out picture showing more of the cat furniture bolted to the wall. Fido (the kitty) is happily sitting in one of the half-pipes.
Here is the kitty playing on more wall furniture after we installed it on 9/30/08. The "wall-o-kitty-furniture" is pretty much done now.
Fido the kitty walking up his wall the other direction. Picture taken much later around 5/31/2010.
Fido playing with a stuffed toy named "Spot". Picture taken around June, 2008.
Below is Fido playing with spot later once full grown (picture below taken about 9/30/08). Same stuffed animal, same kitty, just different kitty size. :-)
Fido the kitty sitting in more kitty wall furniture that isn't mounted on the wall yet.
Young Fido (picture taken around June 2008).
A young Fido playing with a toy.
Introducing the puppy Chou Chou, the Fido cat's new brother. He was born on August 9th, 2008. Here he is the first day home at Katherine's apartment on 10/4/08. Chou Chou asleep in his puppy bed:
Fido (the cat) checking out his new brother Chou Chou (the puppy).
Below is a picture that internally was dated 9/9/2008 so it was taken by the breeder very early in Chou Chou's life.
Chou Chou the puppy chewing on some of his toys.
Chou Chou crashed out on the couch with his eyes almost shut.
A happy Chou Chou the puppy buried in toys playing.
Fido (the cat) taking a nap side by side with Chou Chou (the puppy). Chou Chou is asleep on Mommy's phone:
Below is proud mommy Katherine Chung holding her 8 week old puppy Chou Chou.
Below is a 3 minute Youtube video of Chou Chou the papillon puppy playing with Casey Jones. For WINDOWS ONLY click here for a much higher quality version.
Below is picture taken by Katherine on her cell phone of Chou Chou sleeping cuddled up next to Fido for warmth.
On 10/16/08 the Backblaze office babysat Chou Chou for a few hours. Below is Chou Chou asleep on Damon's desk while Damon works.
Some pictures taken on 11/21/08, below is Chou Chou playing with the stuffed dog again.
Below Chou Chou the Papillion puppy is sleeping peacefully next to Fido the cat.
Same as above, Chou Chou sleeping cuddled up next to Fido for warmth.
More taken around 12/24/08. Below is Fido the cat in a green sweater.
Chou Chou in a red sweater:
Chou Chou in a green sweater.
Chou Chou reaches up to bite Fido playfully in the ear.
In the picture below Chou Chou has Fido's ear in his mouth (very normal), and Fido is yawning.
Fido playing in boxes.
Same as above, close up.
Chou Chou and Fido napping with their mommy (Katherine) on the couch.
Below is a 50 second YouTube video of the Kitty and Puppy playing with a puff ball suspended from a string. If you are on a Mac, click here for a high quality QuickTime Version.
Chou Chou has a dog walking service, here he is with his pals on a walk:
Chou Chou with his friend a Golden Lab.
The dog pack waiting to get out of the car (Chou Chou on far left).
Fido's ear swelled up one day like a balloon, and the vet had to put in a tube to keep it drained and he had to wear a cone for two weeks. Here he is on 9/20/09 after wearing the cone for 4 days. He's laying on the couch, and his ear is looking a lot better.
Fido just randomly chose to sit on the head of the wooden bear in the sunshine. Notice he is wearing his cone.
Below is a 75 second YouTube video of Chou Chou the dog licking the kitty's ears and face. If you are on a Mac, click here for a high quality QuickTime Version. The cat was wearing a cone because he had ear surgery, and his brother (the Papillion dog) was very gentle with him and helps clean him while he was recovering.
On 9/23/09 Chou Chou and some of his friends had a slumber party. From left to right that is Riley (Daschund/Chihuahua mix), Chou Chou (Papillon), in back is Mr. T (Yorkie) and on the far right front is Tuesday (Brussels Griffon).
Chou Chou with his dog walking friends on 10/6/09.
Chou Chou looks out the window at the beach in Pacifica in early February, 2010.
Chou Chou and Fido on the deck in Pacifica on 5/22/2010.
Same day (5/22/10) Fido laying out alone sleeping in the sun.
On 12/29/2010 Fido got an X-ray for a limp he had for several weeks, it shows his back kitty hip is out of socket:
Fido's surgery was on Friday, Jan 14th, 2011 and the X-ray below shows AFTER the surgery what was done.
Fido came home from the surgery doped up on pain killers, but walking around. Here he is walking around five days later off of pain killers.
A close up of Fido's shaved butt and the incision.
Here Fido the cat is doing his rehabilitation exercises with help from Mommy. (These are to make sure his leg stays stretched out and doesn't knot up too much.) Fido is a surprisingly good sport about all of this, he seems to like the attention.
Life isn't all that bad for Fido in spite of his ordeals, this is where he lives and hangs out.
The kitty hanging out on the railing.
Below is a totally silly 30 second YouTube video of Chou Chou the Papillon madly digging in the sand at the beach. If you are on a Windows PC, click here for a high quality Windows Media Version. There is nothing to find, Chou Chou just gets obsessed about holes he creates.
On March 19, 2011, Chou Chou was introduced to snow for the first time. Below are two pictures.
Behind Chou Chou is Sampson, who was also along on the trip.
In December of 2011 "Stevie" was born, here are pictures from right after she was born (we did not own her yet):
Another of Stevie:
Pictures of Stevie on 1/3/2012:
Another:
1/23/2012 - Chou Chou with one eye open like a pirate:
