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Stalking Prey

Pierre: When stalking my prey, it’s important to be properly concealed.

You have to find the perfect place where your quarry will never see you while you stalk them.

What’s all the laughter about?

There isn’t much that can be done to rescue low-light cellphone photos, but Newton and Pierre were posing too nicely for a portrait by the light of the tree not to snap their photo with whatever was available.

We Love our Secret Paws!

Newton: Our Secret Paws package arrived, and look at the card that was inside. It’s from Truffle and Brulee at Sweet Purrfections. I think they’re both dreamy ladycats.

Everything is wrapped individually to keep us in suspense. Oh, unwrap it, unwrap it!

Pierre: There are catnip flavored Tempations in here. Catnip flavored treats. Everybody can raise your paws and step away right now. These are mine.

I’m helping myself to them and *crunch crunch* they’re soooo good.

Ashton: Please excuse the blurry photo. That’s what happens when you bite the photographer.

Newton: Check this out. It’s a mouse without stuffing. The only photo of me playing with it is of me sniffing it because I was moving too fast to get a good photo as soon as I started playing with it. This is now one of my favorite toys EVER.

Ashton: Canned food. Hooray! I’m a girl who doesn’t like to miss a meal. And I’m going to check out the unstuffed mouse while Newton is distracted, too.

Ashton: I love the mint stick toy! Truffle and Brulee, you probably don’t know this, but when I was a little, injured kitten living in a cage, I had one of those, and it was my very favorite toy. I haven’t seen one in a long time, and I am so happy to have one to play with again!

This is really cool. It’s a package of toys from Brumby’s Yarns, a company we had never heard of before.

Newton: Come on, I don’t have thumbs. Open it up!

Look how cool these are. One of them is even an Oreo cookie!

Ashton: You can’t fool me. It doesn’t smell like an Oreo cookie.

Newton likes these toys like crazy, as you can see…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nT2kdfmUdw

(If the video won’t load, you canvisit it directly on YouTube)

Newton: OMC, there’s a disco mouse! I’m not even going to let anybody take it off of the packaging. It’s mineminemine.

Pierre: You just bring that catnip pawbreakers ball right over here. I’m going to drool all over it so that everybody knows whose it is.

There was more that didn’t make it into the photo… springs, that enthusiastically scattered under the furniture immediately, and for the head peep, a beautiful notebook she is going to use to take notes at work.

Thank you so much, Truffle, Brulee, and Mom Paula. We love everything in the package, and we promise to get Pierre started on a nip twelve step program soon. Thank you so much for getting such a wonderful gift to us, and thank you for organizing Secret Paws for all of us!

Happy National Cat Herders Day!

December 15 is National Cat Herders Day. Invented by Wellcat, this holiday, according to their web site:

If you can say that your job, or even your life, is like trying to herd cats, then this day is for you, with our sympathy.

Of course, we herd cats here on this blog every day, so we think every day is National Cat Herders Day.

“Sit in the box for a photo, Newton!”

That didn’t work out quite as planned.

“Hey, Ashton, you love a box. Come pose for us!”

Guess she’s being a diva today.

“You’ll come through for us, Pierre. Sit down and look at the camera.”

“No, at the camera…”

“Kitties? Anykitty? Hello?”

As you can see, we herd cats here all the time!

No mention of National Cat Herders Day would be complete without a shout out to our favorite cat herders of all, the EDS Superbowl commercial from 2000 with cowboys herding cats: