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Booda 4 Bubba

This is a Booda Litter Box.
We bought one of these for Bubba a couple of days ago.
I had thought about getting him a little ramp to go up into the one he already has.  Poor Bubba is 17 years old and sometimes he gets a bout of "dodgy pins" syndrome.
This makes it difficult for him to get into the current litter boxes that we have.
The trouble was, I wasn't sure if he would go up a ramp. 
He is a bit of a wooss.
He has never been able to figure out the cat flap, which the girls sussed out in seconds.  Instead, he would sit there forlornly bashing the door with his foot, looking bewildered as it flapped backwards and forwards, with nary an inkling of how to actually go through it.
We eventually had to tape it open so that he would actually use it.
So, the intricacies of climbing a ramp without a safety net, could quite easily have escaped him.
Then I saw this box.
It is brill.
It has its own built in little ramp that takes the kitty to the 'business' end of the appliance with very little brain power required.
Would he use it?
He actually does.  He seems to really love it.  Trouble is, every other bugger seems to love it too.
Now we have 5 cat litter boxes in the basement but only this one in  use.
We even had a queue of kitties waiting to take their turn in there last night.
Of course it was all the girls.  We poor ladies always find ourselves queuing for the 'ablutions hut' wherever we go.

The Jewelled Christmas Dragon is finally finished and bedecked in all its finery.
It is actually much prettier than it shows here.  The jewels are really sparkly and really a bugger to put on.
My fingers were covered in poxy super glue.
I used super glue as I don't want to take a chance on all the 'real diamonds' falling off.
I have found something out though, that may be useful to other crafters & model makers.
Pure acetone removes super glue from your fingers !!!!
I tried it as a last resort.......bingo....it worked!!

                                                            Persian Prince.

I have also finished this one.
We have a 'facebook cat people' get together this weekend.  I couldn't say 'cat lady' as many of those going are actually men.  We are all friends on facebook and they are really nice people.
We went last year and it was a lot of fun.  They come from all over the US and stay at a hotel in Madison (about an hour and half from Milwaukee).  Many stay for the whole weekend but we went just for the Saturday last year and are doing the same this year.
We are fortunate that we live so near.
Anyway, some people bring prizes for raffles etc and as many of them have Persian cats I thought this might go down well.
Last year I took a can of Spotted Dick to give as a prize.
Previously, one of them had asked on facebook what on earth Spotted Dick was. 
The usual ribald comments came flying across the interwebs whilst I valiantly defended the honour of my home country's national dessert (if it isn't then it should be).
Having found one (at great expense) in a World Market shop, I duly took it along.  It turned out to be quite the hit and is currently the annual prize of the weekend.
Whoever wins it must promise to take great care of it for the year and bring it back the next year to be won by someone else.
Never, ever must the Spotted Dick be eaten ( worshipped perhaps but not eaten)..........although I don't think they would anyway.

posted by Sue Banks @ 1:44 PM