Laugh. Learn. Love cats.
Pierre: One of the best things to do with catnip is roll in it. That way, you have it all in your fur and you can smell like catnip when you bathe. It’s like getting a bonus catnip buzz!
Unless your rolling gets too enthusiastic and you get out of control…
Can we just pretend you didn’t see that? No one saw that, did they?
Ashton would like to take this opportunity to thank whoever invented National Cheese Doodle Day, even though no one seems to know who it was. It’s one of her favorite holidays!
Newton: Oh, boy. A cheese doodle, and it’s all mine!
Ashton: ** tiptoes closer **
Newton: Hey, Ash, whatcha doing?
Ashton: Slowly back away from the cheese doodle and no one has to get hurt here.
Newton: Your cheese doodle? This is my cheese doodle!
Ashton: If you don’t go right now, I’m going to make sure the head peep finds the broken —
Newton: All right, all right. You can have this one.
Ashton: Oh, look. It’s a cheese doodle. All for me!
Ashton: I think I’m just going to take this somewhere safer to have my little snack. 
Ashton: ** CRUNCH ** Yum!
Don’t worry, Newton got a cheese doodle, too. He got his stuck to the roof of his mouth and it took him a while to work it free. He was never in any danger or distress, but it isn’t a snack he should eat unattended.
Cats may like occasional snacks of species-inappropriate food, but keep in mind that most human snacks are heavy on the calories, and they aren’t appropriate for more than an occasional taste by your cat.
The cheese doodles Ashton and Newton crunched in these photos are about ten calories each. Ashton ate two during the course of our photo shoot, which is over ten percent of the calories allotted to her daily on her weight loss diet. That’s kind of like you eating almost a whole hot dog and bun. So cheese doodles aren’t regular snacks around here for anyone… but we make an exception now and then for special occasions, like National Cheese Doodle Day!
Ashton: Oh my COD, the message that Newton wrote in the sky last week is fading.
Ashton: We were finally starting to raise awareness of the chicken shortage, and now the message is blowing away! 
Ashton: What am I going to do? No chickens means I’ll never open my chicken emporium! People need to conserve chickens!
Pierre: * sigh * My work is never done. Let me make a few calls, Ashton.
Pierre: All right, I didn’t get you a skywriter, but this is even better.
Pierre: And one more.
Ashton: Well that should get the message out. If everybody is saves the chickens, I’ll be able to taste them in my emporium any day now.
If you missed them, catch up on all of our chicken capers.
Photo credits:
Wrigley Sign – Antonio Delgado on Flickr
Water tower – osseous on Flickr
If cats had opposable thumbs, what do you think they would do?
Newton: It isn’t nice to tease like this, human. I know where you sleep. Just saying.
You may notice that we aren’t around visiting our friends’ blogs this week. The head peep is at Global Pet Expo, checking out what’s new in the pet industry before it makes it to your local pet store. She promised to bring back a wrap-up of the highlights of the show next week!
