Cats Herd You

Whose Chicken Emporium?

Ashton: There’s so much I am going to need to pay for my chicken emporium: There’s rent, chicken, chicken, and chicken! Good thing I found some coins under the sofa cushions. I’m not sure if it’s going to be enough for very much chicken, though.

Newton: Don’t worry, Ash. I’m here to help you achieve your dream. I’m a venture cat-italist.

Ashton: What’s a venture cat-italist? I’ve never heard of that before.

Newton: It’s someone who invests in promising new companies like yours when they are small and just getting started.

Ashton: Oh! That sounds like what I need.

Newton: I understand you are just starting out and can’t repay me immediately. So instead, why don’t you give me a percentage of the chicken emporium? Let’s say 51%? *wink*

Ashton: Let me think about it, Newton. This is a really big decision.

Ashton: What do you think? Should I let Newton have own part of my chicken emporium?

If you missed them, catch up on all of Ashton’s chicken capers.

A Big Surprise in the Mail

Newton: An unexpected surprise came in the mail for us the other day… a lovely thank-you gift from our friends at Chewy.com in the form of a set of amazing portraits of us. Of course, mine is the handsomest of the portraits, by far.

Ashton: Well, mine isn’t handsome because I’m a girl and I’m beautiful, not handsome. But look at this! It’s amazing. Lauren Hammack from Off the Wall Paintings did a fabulous job of capturing my wink.

Pierre: This painting is actually of the head peep’s favorite photo of me. We’re sure that neither Chewy nor Miss Lauren could have known that, but it’s extra-special that the image of me was made from that photo of me inside the paper bag.

A big thank you to Chewy.com for the big surprise, and to Lauren Hammack for taking their commission and doing such a beautiful job with the portraits. We absolutely love them!

Camouflage

Pierre: Just like wild cats, little cats like me have coat patterns for camouflage. Big cats who live in dense habitats like trees that cast fragmented shadows on them are likely to have irregular or complex patterns that blend in with the shadows of the branches moving above them.

And little cats like me who live where the light and shadows are more likely to be elongated… well, I blend right in, don’t I?

I hope so. I would hate for Newton to find me and interrupt my nap.

We’re Interviewed on Mousebreath!

Pierre: Check it out! We’re a featured interview on Mousebreath!

This was really exciting because no one has ever interviewed us before, and the Funny Farmer Felines, had such great questions. We really enjoyed getting to share a little more about ourselves than you might have known before.

Thanks so much to Cyndi, Percy, Cameron, Rusty, and Micah from Jan’s Funny Farm for asking us for the interview and for sharing our answers with all of you!