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Ashton: Yesterday, Daylight Savings Time began. I got breakfast an hour early. SCORE!
Today, the head peep got up an hour early and went to work, mumbling something about National Napping Day. Apparently, she’s not going to be observing that holiday, so I’ll take care of it for her. After all, napping is what cats do best.
Can you help your humans out by napping in their honor today, too?
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
For Fun Facts about Names Day, we’re sharing how we got our names.
Pierre: I was part of a litter of kittens who lived under a tarp in a boat that was stored on a trailer. The owner of the boat had no idea we were even in there. One day, he hooked the trailer up to his car and drove off with the boat, and we were on board! Our mother wasn’t on board with us, though, and no one could find us. Lucky for us, we were taken in by a small rescue and had a wonderful foster who raised us until we were big enough to be adopted. She gave us all nautical names because we were found in a boat, and I was named Pier. When I was adopted, the name Pier sounded confusing, so I was renamed something that still honored my foster Mom’s original name for me: Pierre.
Ashton: It’s probably hard for humans to remember back that far, but in the summer of 2011, you were all having to listen to news about the Casey Anthony trial. I was born that summer to feral parents, probably within a mile of the courthouse. Of course, I wasn’t watching the news or anything, but after the head peep rescued me from the highway median, Aunt Orvis suggested naming me Ashton after one of the attorneys in the trial that had gone on all summer so close to where I was found. Please don’t remind Newton I was named after a boy. He has teased me about it most of my life.
Newton: You two have such long stories about your names! Mine is short: I’m named Newton because I’m a force of nature. Usually a naughty force of nature!
How did you get your name?
