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Cinco de Meow Meow Outtakes

We’re joining our friends at The Lazy Pit Bull in sharing outtakes today.

Last week was Cinco de Mayo, and the head peep was delighted to find a cat-sized Mexican hat for the occasion. We weren’t as sold on the idea.

Newton objected to wearing a hat and ended up excused.

Pierre is a better sport about things, but even he wasn’t too thrilled with the process.

Ashton has the humans trained not to try things like that because she gets traumatized and hides for days, so there are no outtakes of her in the hat.

We kitties are pleading with the local party store not to stock any tiny Uncle Sam hats for Independence Day. Please!

Snake Invasion Training

A couple years ago, we had two actual snakes invade our house. Ever since then, Pierre has been training for the next snake invasion.

Today, we have a sneak peek into his training regimen.

Pierre: First, you have to bring the training snake out for the training exercise.

Hmm, this smells like it was stored next to the catnip. Clearly a diversionary tactic to prevent me from doing my anti-snake infiltration training.

Okay, back to the training exercise. The next step is to grab the snake and show it who’s the boss.

Give that snake a good bite to break its neck.

Do you give up, snake? Do you?

Snake? Are you still alive? I hope so. Newton hasn’t had a turn with you yet.

That concludes our snake invasion training for today. Are you prepared for a snake invasion at your house?

What to do about Hairball Awareness Day

Ashton: Did you know that today is Hairball Awareness Day? With it being springtime and cats shedding their winter coats, some of your humans may have become aware of hairballs by stepping on them recently.

So today I wanted to show you how I keep from leaving hairballs around for my humans to step on. I get groomed! It’s not that I don’t do a good job grooming myself. But this time of year, it’s easy to swallow a lot of hair while you’re going about your daily beauty routines, and that can lead to an upset stomach or even require a trip to the vet if you can’t bring the hairball back up.

The main thing about being groomed is to find a brush or other grooming tool that works for you. I like being groomed with the Furminator. It feels good, and it helps to pull out a lot of my undercoat. You can see some of the hair it has pulled out collecting next to me in this photo.

The same kind of grooming tools don’t work for every cat. Pierre has a thinner coat, and the Furminator irritates his sensitive skin. He does better with a brush that has little plastic balls at the end of each tine to protect his skin. The important thing is that your humans find a brush that works for you, and that they use it to get the extra hair off of you so you don’t have to do it yourself.

It’s also important to inspect your human’s work, because you never know whether it will be good enough or not. Good help is so hard to find.

So check it out, this is the hair that came off of me during today’s grooming session.

Do you think I can make it into a cat shape and scare Pierre and Newton with it?

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