Like all kittehs, Nelly was obsessed with boxes and refused to give them up. Thanks to the perserverance of her owner, VonFluffinstein, Nelly got through her challenges and is full recovery. She attends BA meetings everyday to stay straight.
One box day at a time, Barbarella A.
the LION!
the kitty she is a crazy
p.s. theo- *whispers bleeeeeeeeen*
THank goodness I’m not the only one who talks and sings to their cat that way! LOL
One box at at time, Nelly. You can do it!
I think someone other than the lion-shaved cat needs professional help.
I think Nelly and Winston should get to know each other! Or can the world not handle that much grumpy cuteness (cute grumpiness)?
I’d be vexed and likely to skulk in a box if I’d been given such a haircut and was being sung to like that!
Great camera work (for a change)As usuall we Brits have pwned zer verld. Is good no, yar….. Yar har oim a poirat, shiver me timbers, swab me poop deck, matey..Sings, There’ll be a welcome in the hillside there’ll be a welcome in the Glen, no, no, your not putting me in that white jacket, I,m not mad I tell you I am not mad, keep away, keep away, arrrgh…….
Is this the same lady who was trying to talk her cat out from under the bushes a while ago? (Wishing I was computer literate enough to do links.)
I’m sorry but the kitty needs a new hairstylist!
That puss is whack.
If I was that lady, I would not be stickin’my paw in there with Nelly.
Now I am gonna have that song stuck in my head all day, no no no.
HG-YAY Pirates! My son is currently in a community theater production of “The Pirates of Penzance” so we’ve been “arrgh”-ing around here alot lately.
*goes off humming “Pour Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry…”*
Martha, the one with the mouthy siamese? “But you’ve been out here for ages!”??
Martha: I bet it something to do with…merry next. Am I right.
Her other vids aren’t as entertaining but she has a beautiful kitteh named Lugosi who is just as cray-geee.
”Oh foolish Fey figure of masculine beauty”. My fave G&Sline.
Paunchie-Yes! That one!
HG–”Fill Oh Fill the Pirate Glass
And to Make Us More than Merry
Let the Pirate Bumper Pass.”
kitteh should stay away from Boxonon. that’s the boxhab run by the Scientologists. it is a big scam
Martha–
That was Alaska, with her charming English mum.
“Are you being cheeky?”
“mrowr”
Are you being a little cheeky?”
rofl, the only reason that cat is lurking in the box is because it got a bad haircut! oh, a lion haircut on a cat is tff!
That’s right. Alaska. Sounds like the same lady.
Maybe I’m just confused tho.
It loaded but would only play a few seconds at a time. You might think that her little singsong was annoying without pauses to load, or think, or stall, or whatever, but it was far more annoying with stops and starts. LOL @ Anonycat, however.
Sorry about the double post. First the ‘puter wouldn’t find the page…
Maybe they bought a toaster just so Nelly could have the box. It’s their way of saying, “Sorry about the lion do”?
I’m glad I got to see Nellie b/c I’m in withdrawal from lackawinnie. Winston, have you met Nellie?
Hahah! I´m Nelly´s mummy here, and no I´m not the same lady with the gorgeous little Siamese “Alaska”.
We (featured Nelly, her nemesis Lugosi and his twin brother Spider) live on a tropical island called Lanzarote and it´s HOT here right now, plus Nelly really doesn´t tolerate grooming (= torture!) too well – if you don´t believe me, there´s a video on our youtube channel with a demonstration on how she turns into a *monster* when being touched in the *wrong places* in particular (under the arms, inside of legs e.g.).
Anyways, that´s why she has a lion cut. And with her colouring, I think it´s *dead cute* cause she does look like a mini-lion.
She IS a widdle wion!!!
Oh man, yes, WINSTONNNNN!!!! We got to get the two together! *hears wedding bells* ;D
Yes! Nelly and Winston, sittin’on a tree…
Their kittens would make disapproving bunnies look downright complacent!
Aww. I love cats in boxes. This afternoon, in spite of it being 80+ F in my apartment, I found my two kitties snuggled together (one “hugging” the other) inside a box I had been planning to break down.
I just didn’t have the heart to take away their little love nest.
Pardon my ignorance, B von F, but where is Lanzarote?
I, for one, love the haircut. Her tail is so Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz.
It’s a good thing both Nelly and Winston are both fixed, b/c if they ever had kittens, the world would IMPLODE with floofy grumpyness, or grumpy floofiness, or whatevs.
Also LOL @ Anonycat. Good warning.
Lanzarote is one of the Canary Islands, which belong to Spain.
i love the lion cut, singing and the crazy kitty.
i think people who don’t sing to their animals are the crazy ones.
honestly- making up songs and singing them to your critters is truly one of life’s greatest pleasures. totally.
That is one bitcheh kitteh!
It’s the kitty’s human that made that video so cute. How cute was that song?!!!
Hey. an addiction to boxes isn’t hurting anyone! Maybe if we decriminalize the use of boxes we can regulate them better, or at least tax them…. oh never mind.
You know what I say to that singing? I say “no, no, no!”
Minnie looks anger-tastic!
Why was she torturing that poor cat?
posts like this remind me of the xkcd comic:
http://xkcd.com/231/
…and i love it!!
I LOOOVE it all—-kitteh, haircut, Barbarella von F.’s singing and lovely accent!!
Congrats, BvF, on having such a cutie!!
(And I sing to my “kids” all the time…even the Boxhab song!!)
P.S. DLT, what a great comic!!!!!!!!
i would get a temper too if i was being annoyed like this.
At a certain point ,it’s kind of uncomfortable, like I imagine the original production of “The Connection” was by the Living Theatre in the 1950s. (That’s right, peeps, a Judith Malina/Julian Beck reference — I have now out-obscured everyone).
But really, we shouldn’t make fun of kittehs who need boxhab.
That cat is so gonna kill her in her sleep one night…
News @ 11!
I love the mood change at 1.28-1.31.
Kitteh: “WHY I TELLS YA, the government its run by retiles from the planet Zog, try to take my box away, why I once met the pope and he told me boxes were a source of gold, gold to fight the space reptiles….”
*owner pets him*
“AND I SAID…..ooh, petting, thats nice…NO! George Bush and his reptilian army can’t get me trying to steal my box, why I oughta…..”
Nelly´s mum here again – OMG, all your comments just make me ROFL like hell. *tries to stop giggle fits*
its a good thing Nelly got outside to reality.
but i’m pretty sure by the end Nelly would have eaten the box anyway.
Boxhab might be important to this kitty.
However, I imagine that I too would try to stay in my box if someone cut off all my beautiful hair, no matter the reason!
No, no, no.
Beautiful face, though!
Love the lilting voice singing!! Who doesn’t love an accent???
Poor Nelly!!! I imagine she has a similar but more haughty accent than her mother. “Do you MIND!? I am TRYING to enjoy this box. Now take your infernal singing and the stupid camera and …”
(Now all I can hear is Stewie…)
seems like Barbarella is an enabler- how’s a kitteh supposed to do any good in boxhab if they live with someone who KEEPS GIVING THEM BOXES ! AND PETTSES TOO! !
its just not right.
Do you need some cinnamon-sugar for your kitteh-toast?
I think the lion cut is teh awesomes. Nelly is a big kitty! I totally wanted to scoop her up in my arms and snorggle her.
Kris: Nelly is actually from Berlin in Germany (I am German too, but I moved to London when I was 18 and lived there for 20 years!), so she would probably sound more like “ja ja, zis ist meine Box! U do not touch meine Box!”
Ellen: Nelly is a TINEEE KITTEH! She only weighs 3 kilos. Think toaster size!
And OMG LOL ROFL, they are just playing that rehab song on the radio right now…
Here’s the video of what happens when the owner tries to brush this kitty. Barbarella, I can’t believe how patient and sweet you are with her! Such a good cat mommy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UseA_GIeEq4&feature=related
…undo the box and put it in the recycling bin. >_>; Isn’t that just an easy solution?
Kestrien: thanks for posting that. Imagine having to do that every single DAY?! Well, I had a talk with Nelly and she agreed that once a week was acceptable, but then it comes to that day… and she turns into monster kitty at the sight of the detangling comb!
Btw, in that video, her fur was only *half* as long as it is when it´s fully grown. The video was done about 3 months after she got shaved last year. To fully grow back it takes about 5 months. The best fur length she has about 2 months after shaving – she´s like a little fleecy lion-lamb, so soft and fluffy! I wish I could stop her fur growing at that point!
She looks like a big kitty! Maybe my perspective is just all messed up.
OMG, I just watched the grooming video. I feel your pain, no really, I literally feel your pain! I used to have a sweet little kitty who would claw people with very little provocation (I think she was abused before I got her). I put soft paws on her b/c I am on the same page as your are about declawing, but I also didn’t want her hurting me or my guests. Oh my dog, the noises she made during that operation! You would have thought I was strangling her! What a hysterical video. The louder Nelly yelled the harder I laughed.
Ellen: glad you get me, haha. And glad you´re anti-declawing too.
One of my theories is that she´s just a drama queen and likes to complain and make noise (I call her *J-Loaf* when she´s in kitty loaf position, heh), just like some humans are like that.
Nelly was definitely saying NO NO NO to the grooming!!! Loved the upward stampy feet near the end.
JUST WHAT THIS SITE WAS MISSING: CUTE KITTEH VIOLENCE!!!!!
This is when we need to stage an intervention – when the kitty’s addiction to the box prevents them from seeing the hurt they’re doing to his family and loved ones (Yes, I’ve been watching way too much of the A&E melodrama that is Intervention).
By the way, LUV the lion’s cut.
Wow, that woman was an annoying prat. I don’t think a fool annoying her innocent kitty is cute.
I wouldn’t come out of my box, either, if I had to face that woman.
Psipsina — rudeness will win you no sympathy. Please remember that there’s no rule that requires Cute Overload to tolerate it, either, whether it comes from you or anyone else.
Theo – you’re right. I’m sorry I was rude.
I was just boggling that people think it’s cute to watch someone pestering a cat.
[Hey, they pester *us* all the time. Turnabout is fair play, I'd say... - Ed.]
Teughcats, add my agreement to the others. Nelly and Winston should meet and, possibly, procreate!
Nelly should also check in with Oscar (Engineers guide to cats) who could help her hone her technique in post modern cardboard deconstruction.
i am truly not sure which is cuter, the lion-cat or our film-maker. perhaps we should all go to kitty hab.
@Mizzy: What! And put my poor kitty through box hab cold turkey?!!! No way.