Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cat-O-Lympics

In honor of the Winter Olympics, one of my blogger friends is hosting her own Cat-O-Lympics - and even better, she's allowing dogs to compete!  So of course we had to enter a few of the events.  Since some of the pets pictured here have since been adopted, we do not expect these to be official entries, but thought it would be fun to share these pictures anyway. 

For the Bare Paw Fighting event, hosted by Milo and Alfie, we have Sedna attacking Venus:
Sadly, Venus was blinded by the flash of the camera and was unable to retaliate. 

For the Competitive Napping event hosted by Huffle Mawson, we have two entries. 
First is Reese, sleeping on the couch.
She's a most serious competitor, and enjoys sleeping in odd positions just about anywhere.

Second is Bear, the Puppy Bowl star, sleeping with his foot in the water bowl, on the floor of the car.
It's not that he wasn't supposed to be there.  It's just that there was a very comfortable dog bed on the back seat above him, and a human willing to cuddle him in the front passenger seat, and yet he choose to sleep on the floor in the back.  While the car was in motion.  Perhaps my mom's driving scared him. 


Our next event is the Synchronized Snoozing event hosted by The Island Cats

Our first entry is submitted by three previous foster cats - I think it was Astro, GiGi and Blaze.  They awoke right before I took this photo - just in time to glare at me for disturbing their rest. 


The second entry is Pepsi and Ginger, two previous foster puppies who often performed synchronized snoozing in various locations around the house.

The following entries would more appropriately belong in an event called Synchronized Sitting.  Since as of now this is not an officially sanctioned event in the Cat-O-Lympics, and I'm too lazy busy to set it up myself, I'll just post these pictures as an idea for future organizers to consider. 

Cute puppies - who can resist?  And who can get them to all look at the camera at the same time... with no assistant... and without breaking their lineup?
I'll give you a clue how I did it...it involved a hot tub and a laundry basket.

Another example of Synchronized Sitting is exhibited by George and Taffy. 

And the final event we'd like to enter is the High Jump Event hosted by Cats in Maryland.  I'm about 5' 6", so I estimate here that Remi jumped to over 6 foot.  Of course, his back feet were only a few inches off the ground - but he did the best he could. 

9 comments:

Frankie Furter and Ernie said...

I see the gleam of GOLD MEDALS in your future!!! I'm just sayin'.

Kari in Alaska said...

I see many medals :)

The Island Cats said...

Wow! There are some great cathletes and dogletes there! We love your synchronized snoozing entries!! Thanks for competing!!

Amy & the house of cats said...

Oh my gosh they are all great entries - and we think you should count them all as real entries - and since there are no rules you can have the synchronized sitting in there too!!

Oh, and that picture of Bear - such a cutie and that is so funny that he chose the floor in back!

Teddy Westlife said...

These are great entries! Those Competitive Napping contestants are definite medal contenders.

Casper said...

What great pictures!
Yes many medal worthy pets here.

Two Pitties in the City said...

So funny! I love the Bare Claws fighting where the claws are snapped out and the other kitten is oblivious to what's going on.

JulieB said...

Move over Apollo Ono and Sean White - you have some serious competition with these cuties!

meowmeowmans said...

Great entries! The one of Reese was especially wonderful. :)