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Cupcake: It started before I even had a chance to use my new bed.
Cupcake: Mr. Pierre, what are you doing?
Pierre: Is there a problem, kid?
Cupcake: Even when I got the bed put where I had a view, it kept happening. First I’m sleeping peacefully…
Cupcake: The next thing I know, I can feel someone watching me.
Newton: Hey, kid. Is there room up there for me, too?
Cupcake: What does a cat have to do get some peace and quiet in her cupcake bed, anyhow?
If you follow us on social media, you know that last Wednesday was Cupcake’s first birthday. She had a great day, including a surprise gift from her foster mom, Miss Jeanne from Random Felines. She received a new sock monkey.
You may recall that Cupcake came with a monkey toy when she arrived here, and she loves carrying it around the house. Everyone was glad to see this new monkey toy, because Cupcake had hidden Monkey the day it arrived, and the humans could not find him anywhere. Perfect timing!
Many people who heard it was Cupcake’s birthday immediately asked whether she was getting a cupcake for her birthday. So by popular demand, she did!
Human cupcakes aren’t species-appropriate food for cats and should be eaten in moderation.
Some of the stuff that we put in cupcakes probably isn’t even species-appropriate food for humans. If you look closely at the photo above, Cupcake’s tongue is blue from the icing!
It may have been Cupcake’s birthday, but not everyone else thought cupcake should get that birthday cupcake to herself.
Newton: Are you gonna finish that, kid?
She ate her cupcake lopsided! She didn’t really like the sprinkles. What you can’t see in this photo is that she dropped most of them on the side of the cupcake closest to her body, which is hidden from the camera.
Cupcake: What do you think. Should I share this with Newton?
Of course, Cupcake did share her cupcake, or at least a little of the icing, with everyone.
And a good time was had by all cats at Cupcake’s birthday party.
After seeing the Pidan egg tart bed in person, it was obvious that this was no egg tart. It was a cupcake wrapper. And Cupcake had to have one!
So I did what any self-respecting person who is completely owned by a cat named Cupcake would do. I bought it and brought it home to her.
The cushion is incredibly soft, and Cupcake seems to know that it’s her bed. While the bed is actually big enough to share if she wanted to, Cupcake keeps it all to herself.
I put it where she can look out and watch the neighbors and birds go by from the comfort of her bed. It’s a cupcake with a view!
Everybody who saw photos of Cupcake in the bed on Facebook wanted to know where I got it. Since you can’t get a floor model like I did, your next best bet is probably from Amazon.
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There was just too much to fit into Monday’s blog post about cool finds and trends at Global Pet Expo 2018, so I wanted to share with you a few more things I saw there you don’t want to miss.
For instance, there was an artist on hand making the most remarkable art out of cappuccinos. He drew on them in some kind of edible paints. In the photo below, you can see a cat cappuccino completed while the artist works on a shark.
I never thought much about pet travel until recently. Cupcake has changed all that, so I looked at a lot of products I otherwise would have passed by. For instance, I checked out these strollers.
I don’t know if Cupcake would go for these, but I liked the idea that they can be converted from strollers to shopping baskets by taking off the removable carrier on top and adding a basket attachment.
I also looked at a lot of harnesses. I was really excited about this one. Can you guess why?
Unfortunately, on really close inspection, there are dog bones stuck in the icing of some of the cupcakes on the pattern. Cupcake will be very disappointed, especially because the fabric itself of these harnesses was really light an nice to the touch.
I remembered seeing some plush pineapple beds last year. Are pineapples a thing now? This year, there was a new twist on pineapple mania, with a pop-up pineapple. This looks like it would be a lot of fun for cats to play and nap in.
At the same booth, there was a tunnel longer than I am tall. This tunnel was purple, and it had things resembling legs and a horn. A unicorn tunnel!
If pineapples were a thing last year, unicorns seemed to be this year. I have no idea what this is about. The booth was advertising dog toys, but those unicorns are much larger than dog toy sized. It made me smile every time I walkled past it, so I thought it was wonderful, even if it is inexplicable.
I also got my first in-person look at this bed that resembles a cupcake. Thanks to having a cat named Cupcake, I had seen this on Facebook a lot of times as friends shared it with me, so it was fun to see it in person.
At last year’s expo, one company was selling incredibly blinged-out pet beds encrusted with sparkling crystals. At the time, I told the woman who owned the company that I thought the beds needed to be a little larger to work for cats. Apparently, lots of people told her the bed needed to be larger, and she made a much, much larger version nearly big enough for a human to nap in. That’s a lot of bling!
I don’t usually share dog products, since I don’t know a thing about them, but these made me laugh. Truth in dog treat flavors?
I don’t want you to think I have gone to the dogs, though. The Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando team had a huge display of their products in an enclosure with plexiglas sides. Adoptable kittens provided by Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando romped through the display.
The Pet Alliance team rotated the kittens to different locations throughout the show, so the kittens I saw sleeping here on the first day of the show were in the Cat-it playground the closing day.
I think there were four litters of kittens in all, and it sounded like at least half of them found homes with people attending the show.
One cat not up for adoption was this show bengal who I originally saw in one of the booths. This photo was taken at an awards show, where the little guy was ready to show support for his favorite toys being up for an award.
I’m looking forward to sharing more of my finds with you in the upcoming months, so stay tuned!
