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Manscaping Monday

Newton: I need to report a theft that’s about to happen.

I heard that I have an appointment at the vet for manscaping today.

Don’t worry, I’m not getting a lion cut. I’m still too much in charge around here to allow that to happen! But my glorious armpit floof is going to be gone after this appointment!

The head peep keeps saying things about it being matted and saying I have dreadlocks in my armpits. I’m pretty sure that’s rude. She’s probably just jealous, so she is stealing the symbol of my mancat virility.

I promise to love all of you ladycats just as much even with my armpit floof gone, and I wanted to tell you now, just in case you didn’t recognize me without it. I’ll always be the lady’s cat, no matter what.

I have to run. Time for me to go hang out in the closet so this isn’t too easy for them.

Happy Easter

We heard a rumor that a rabbit that lays eggs was wandering around, visiting a lot of our friends. We didn’t see a rabbit, but look what showed up in our basket…

Toy balls of all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. After this haul, we are pretty sure there aren’t any hiding under the sofa or bed any more!

We know that our basket isn’t in very good shape, but this basket has been around a while. Pierre has grown a bit since he first posed with it.

Happy Easter to all of our friends who celebrate it!

Caturday Interruptus

Pierre: I had a whole day of lounging around and power-napping planned. But no…

The steam cleaning people are due to clean the sofa and chair. And deodorize it. Are they saying that I have a smell? It was the manpeep’s fault, I tell you!

If you’ll excuse me, I need to join Ashton in the closet. I’m self-cleaning, and I don’t want anyone trying to steam clean me.

Flashback Friday: Ashton’s First Day

A lot of you commented last week that you didn’t know the story of how Ashton had joined our family. We forget that many of you weren’t reading along a few years ago, so we’re sharing the story again for this week’s flashback Friday.

Do you remember the day that the last space shuttle launched? We do. The head peep was driving to work down the highway and noticed some debris blowing in the median. She had passed the debris when it clicked in her head that it wasn’t debris at all but a struggling kitten.

When she reached the kitten, she saw that it was scrambling with its front paws to run, but its back legs weren’t working. That was probably what had saved the kitten from running into highway traffic and being killed. One side of the kitten’s head was swollen, and that eye was obviously blind. She felt sorry for the little kitten and put her in a bin from the trunk of her car for the ride to the vet. The whole way there, she was convinced that the kitten would need to be euthanized.

The vet surprised her, asking to do an x-ray first. “Nothing’s broken. Why don’t you take her home and see how she does?” The head peep was surprised. That hadn’t been what she thought was going to happen at all! So home the shivering little kitten came, bundled in a towel with a heated saline bag as a hot water bottle.

The other cats were very curious about what was wrapped up in the bin.