Cats Herd You

Cupcake, Thrifty Shopper

Cupcake: The humans tell me that this local store that I love is going out of business. They say that means my friends who work here won’t be here any more to be excited to see me. That makes me sad.

Cupcake: It also means the humans can afford to buy me more things, because they are on sale!

Cupcake: I like this one. What do you mean you didn’t really want a bed in this pattern?

Cupcake: Put me on the checkout counter and pay the nice lady so I can take my new treasure home.

Cupcake: I’m pretty comfortable in here, thanks. Do I really have to get out and into my carrier to go home?

Noisy Water

Cupcake: What’s this? Water making a noise?

Cupcake: Can I reach the thing making the noise?

Cupcake: Whoa, that water is kind of wet!

Cupcake: ** Blink **

Cupcake: My paw is wet, but it wasn’t me!

Wrestling Match

Cupcake: Mr. Newton!

Newton: What, kid?

Cupcake: Mr. Newton!

Newton: WHAT?

If you can’t see the video above, click here to watch it directly on YouTube.

This happens around our house all the time, but Cupcake and Newton are really camera-shy about letting the humans get any good footage of it. Cupcake thought the head peep had fallen asleep, so she took advantage of the opportunity to pester Newton. The video above skips past the two minutes of her poking Newton before the action started.

A Very Pierre Gotcha Day

We’re celebrating Pierre’s thirteenth gotcha day today. We told his story a few years ago, but we are sharing it again today in honor of his big triskadekabirthday.

Once upon a time in 2005, there was a litter of cats born on a boat, under a tarp. The mother cat didn’t know that it was nearly summer, and that’s when boats start to be used more often. She just saw a sheltered location for her kittens and took advantage of it.

The boat’s owner didn’t know about the kittens, and moved the trailer. By the time the boat’s owner discovered the kittens, the mother cat was nowhere to be found, and the kittens had to go to a local rescue group to be raised. Every kitten in the litter got nautical names, and when they were old enough, the whole litter went to a pet store adoption event.

A little gray tabby kitten, named Pier, was looking out of the cage at the pet store when his eyes locked with a strange woman’s eyes, and it was love at first sight. The woman hadn’t planned to bring home a kitten that day, but when it is love at first sight, you have to do something about it. She talked to the adoption volunteer, who happened to be the foster who had raised the gray tabby kitten, and little Pier came home that day. He was renamed Pierre.