Prattmandu Bengals - Rubahs Scrapbook

My name is Rubah. I'm also known as the Booman. I am a Bengal cat who loves to travel and go camping.

So much water!

I am the King!

This was before I had my own tent. I got to kick back in my show cage.

Mom was fishing. I thought it was cold and boring, so I crawled into Dad's cozy fleece for a nap.

That's me on the way home. I always find my own nest in Mom's Jeep. You can see what a happy camper I am! I don't know why Mom didn't take pictures of me in the tent. I was so cute all cuddled between them in the sleeping bag. I purred as loud as I could so they would know I liked it.

This is my second trip. I'm crossing the creek here. This was a very cool place. I like mountains, even if they're little ones.

There are lots of cool things in water. I like to play with them. Mom doesn't like it when I try to drink the water, though.

This is me hanging out by camp. I was hoping someone would take me for another hike. I like hiking.

Well, I got a little bored, so I started playing with these big strings.

This is my new tent. It's just for camping.

Yay! Another hike. I like to go see new things. Mom is impressed that I know what trails are for. I don't see why. After all, I'm not impressed that she knows what trails are for!

Here is our beautiful campsite in the Guadalupe Mountains. It was a very long drive to get there. We got to stay in a motel on the way. I like motels because they have lots of cool smells. But I like camping better.

We went to Sitting Bull Falls. This is me looking wild for Mom. She likes to take pictures of me. On this trip, they took 81 pictures. Two were of a blue fox we saw. The rest were all me.

Here I am in the grotto. It was very hot outside the grotto, so I liked hanging out in it.

Dad took this picture. Mom is holding my leash. She says it keeps me safe. I don't mind it at all. In fact, I like it. I come running when I see the leash. It means I get to go outside. When I was a baby, I purred every time I saw it.

I got a little tired at Sitting Bull Falls, so I decided to take a nap. I don't know why Mom and Dad got so upset when I found this little cave and curled up inside. I would have come out in a few hours.

This is me and my tent again. I get to go in and out as long as I have my leash.

When it rains, there's not much to do, so I curled up for a nap. Dad covered me with his shirt because I was shivering.

This was not my favorite trip. In the first place, Mom & Dad decided that the newest little Princess, Akashi, had to go along. Worse, though, was being stuck in the tent while it rained and rained and rained. We only got to go for a short little walk. No real hiking at all. And everything I did, that little copy-cat princess did, too, so Mom & Dad were all gushy about how cute she was.

Hanging out.

Here's the little princess. When the tent went up, she dashed right in screaming, "I'm not a camping cat! I'm a house cat! I'm a show cat! Don't you know I'm too beautiful for this?"

I hope Mom & Dad were paying attention.

At least we were cozy.

Finally. There's a Garner State Park disaster between the Ouachita trips and this, but no photos. Dad worked too much. Mom worked too much. We never got to go camping! But they finally took me to Dog Canyon in the Guadalupe Mountains.

Mom loves it. When you wake up in the morning, you can watch the breeze blowing through golden tipped grasses. One part of the ridge above reminds her of the eastern Sierras, and the rest is all gorgeous desert.

Hanging.

At the campsite, ready to go for a hike. Does anyone want to go for a hike?

You can see my new white tail tip in this photo. I used to have a black tail tip like all other Bengals, but I lost it in an accident. Now I'm even more unique!

Woohoo! We're hiking. Look at all these gorgeous verbenas. Don't they look better with me in the middle? Mom thought so.

This is a view of part of the canyon and stables.