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A New Family Member

The head peep always said her next cat would be special needs. But she really missed having a black cat, and black cats are hard enough to find homes for that she felt like it was time. As it happens, two of the cats who were being fostered with Purrchance to Dream were black cats. It looked like there was a match with Beau!

Beau: Where are we going? Is it my new forever home?

Newton: It’s the PTU! Wait a minute…

Pierre: Whoa, what’s going on out here?

Newton: Who are you?

Beau: Who am I? Who are YOU?

Newton and Pierre: Hmmmmm….

Beau: Didn’t anyone ever tell you that it’s not polite to stare?

Ashton: What’s all the noise out here?

Ashton: HOLY CAT! That’s not cool!

Beau: What do you mean? I’m a very cool cat.

Beau has settled in remarkably well, and he is already enjoying the programming on the big Cat TV.

We’re excited to have him in our family, and we’re so grateful to The Way Home rescue organization for taking in Beau and raising him to be such a well-adjusted young mancat.

Tasty Thursday

Newton: What’s in the package? We heard that there were some Natural Balance Platefulls on the way from Chewy.com for us to sample. Is this it?

Hurry, hurry, before Pierre or Ashton wakes up. I don’t want to have to share with them!

Do I have to pick just one? They all look so good!

Umm… oops. Okay, how about the Turkey, Chicken and Duck flavor?

The first ingredients on the label for this food are turkey broth, turkey, chicken liver, duck, and chicken. No mystery meat. They also contain no corn, soy, or wheat. Also, no carrageenan, which is hard to find.

Newton: Hey, who invited you, Pierre? Get your own plate!

Ashton: Too bad this isn’t smell-o-vision. This Chicken and Salmon Forumula in Gravy is amazing.

At Newton’s request, Pierre got his own plate of Chicken and Giblets Formula in Gravy, and soon, there was nothing but the steady slurping sound of happy cats eating.

Newton won a special award as messiest eater. This illustrates why he usually eats from a much deeper bowl.

Pierre: Are you going to finish that?

Everyone: I want to taste yours. Switch bowls!

The Natural Balance Platefulls were a hit. We’re still in the process of transitioning from a dry food diet to a soft food diet, and this is a lot more than we usually eat at a sitting. We ate most of the three packets we had during the taste test, and we liked them so much, we will have to paw wrestle to see who gets the fourth one for breakfast tomorrow.

These are also packaged in handy plastic packets instead of cans. While our paws can’t open either one, cats like us who live in hurricane-prone areas and and have evacuation kits will benefit from having these lightweight packets instead of cans.

Overall, we give the Natural Balance Platefulls six paws up! Thanks for introducing us to these, Chewy.com!

Disclaimer: This food was provided to us free of charge for review purposes, but the opinions are our own.

Formerly Feral Friday and an Award

Ashton: I’m reporting in for Formerly Feral Friday.

Some people think that I’m still kind of feral. *cough* manpeep *cough* hairball in shoe.

I can’t help that everything scares me. So I was really excited when Boomer at the Furries of Whisppy gave me the Opposites Attract award.

I love the flowers on it. They look really tasty.

The rules for this award are:

Thank the kitty who awarded it to me
Thank you, Boomer! It was so nice of you to think of me with this beautiful award!
Post the award on our blog
*points paw to the award above*
Award it to another kitty who is the opposite of me
I honestly don’t know who has already gotten this award, so I am going to give it to a cat I admire who is very much the opposite of me: Flynn, from Eric & Flynn’s Adventures. He is the opposite of me because he’s a mancat and I’m a ladycat. Also, he’s brave and has big adventures, and I am shy and hide in the closet.

Thank you again, Boomer, for the award and the chance to share it!

A quick note so there aren’t any hurt feelings: We had another award presented to us yesterday, but we didn’t want to steal Ashton’s spotlight with it. Also, we were catching a really good sun puddle and didn’t want to write it up in a hurry when we were so comfy at the moment. So we’ll talk about that one someday soon!

Practicing the Sad Face

Ashton: Today, we are practicing the sad face. This is important when you think dinner is late. Or just when you want it to hurry up.

Sit carefully in a location near where you would normally be fed. this allows the offending peep to notice that there is a vacancy that can be filled with a food bowl. Then lean forward a little, like you’re feeling weak because you haven’t eaten in so long. Finally, make your eye really big. It’s OK if you have two eyes, but you have to make them both big and sad. That’s probably more work than just doing it with one eye, so make sure you practice. Like this…

Sometimes the peep isn’t very bright, and it doesn’t work. It isn’t your fault. It just means you’re going to have to pull out all the stops to get through to them.

Meow pitifully to be sure you have the peep’s attention, then lay down right where you want the food to be while giving them the sad eye. Even the thickest-headed peep can’t miss that there’s no food in that location now, because they know you wouldn’t lay down on your food.

Practice, practice, practice, and you’ll get fed every time. You don’t think I got this Rubenesque figure by not knowing how to get extra food from the peeps, do you?

A New Family Member

Tasty Thursday

Formerly Feral Friday and an Award

Practicing the Sad Face

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