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Birthday Celebration

Yesterday was Cupcake’s second birthday, and we had a celebration. How do you celebrate a birthday for Cupcake? With a cupcake, of course.

Newton got to the cupcake first.

black and white tuxedo cat reaches to touch cupcake as orange tabby cat licks it

Cupcake: What are you doing, Mr. Newton? 

Newton: *slurp*

black and white tuxedo cat reaches to touch cupcake as orange tabby cat licks it

Cupcake decided to help herself, but there wasn’t a fork in sight.

Cupcake: Mr. Newton, I’m just going to take a little bit right here. 

She used both paws to sample both sides of the cupcake.

black and white tuxedo cat reaches to touch cupcake as orange tabby cat licks it

Cupcake: Who needs a fork when I have claws? 

black and white tuxedo cat has icing on paw

She ate it, sprinkles and all!

black and white tuxedo cat licks paw

Even after Newton gave up and left, Cupcake continued to eat icing using the paw method.

black and white tuxedo cat with cupcake

Until she finally realized she could slurp it up.

black and white tuxedo cat with cupcake

Happy second birthday, Cupcake!

Cupcake’s Busy Week

Cupcake had a very busy week last week. She went on her first visit ever to Global Pet Expo, where the pet industry shows retailers what new products they have available.

global pet expo sign

They had activities for attendees at various booths, like putting your pet’s name on a sticker and adding it to a board for Hill’s to make donations to a local shelter.

As you can see, Pierre, Cupcake, Ashton, and Newton were all represented.

There were a surprising number of pets attending the event. Most of them were small dogs in strollers, and people were always surprised to look into Cupcake’s stroller and find a cat inside instead of a dog. Cats and dogs weren’t the only animal attendees. A beautiful lizard on a leash was there, too. We ran into her several times, but Cupcake didn’t notice her at all.

Cupcake had the chance to check out some of the new products. At the New Age Pet booth, she watched attentively while the booth staff demonstrated the litterbox hiding furniture.

She decided she absolutely won’t wear this costume. Would it be redundant?

One of the events Cupcake attended was a press conference featuring Jackson Galaxy, the famous cat behaviorist. He came by our table in the press room to see her, and he liked her fist bump, observing it’s similar to the tricks they teach shelter cats in his Cat Positive program.

Cupcake spent long days exploring the enormous expo floor and attending events. She was SO good, calmly letting lots of strangers pet her. Pet industry people are better than average people we run into about asking before petting her, which was nice. 

After the expo ended, Cupcake invited some of her friends who were in town to join her for her weekly coffee shop patio visit. She was all tired out after so much excitement, and she slept the rest of the weekend.

Worm Tale

Cupcake: When we go out and I seem bored, I get to play with my toys.

black and white tuxedo cat plays with pink worm toy

Cupcake: Over the weekend, I got to play with the pink worm.

black and white tuxedo cat plays with pink worm toy

Cupcake: Where do you think you’re going, worm? 

black and white tuxedo cat plays with pink worm toy

Cupcake: If I grab the worm’s tail, maybe it can’t get away. 

black and white tuxedo cat plays with pink worm toy

Cupcake: Can you bring the worm back, please?

black and white tuxedo cat in stroller

Shhh, She’s Hunting Lizards

When Cupcake has an outing, she often gets a little recreation time in our garden beforehand. She checks out our flowering shrubs, which are confused about whether it’s time for spring already.

black and white tuxedo cat looks into shrubs

Cupcake doesn’t look in the shrubs because she wants to become a horticultural kitty. She is looking for the lizards she often sees from inside the house. When she sees one, she dives in after it.

black and white tuxedo cat goes halfway into shrubs

She emerged with some clover and a lizard. Lizards can carry parasites, so it isn’t a good idea to encourage your cat to eat them. I tried to get her to drop it.

black and white tuxedo cat with lizard tail protruding from her mouth

She used her paw to stuff it back in, and the lizard was never seen again.

black and white tuxedo cat paws at lizard in mouth

Cupcake! How could you?

She caught another a few minutes later we managed to get loose from her jaws. The lizard then crawled up her face. I wished I had video of that and her surprised and frustrated expression at that moment.

After that, Cupcake was all worn out for our visit with her buddy, Rocco, at the coffee shop patio. Too much excitement for one cat’s morning.

black and white tuxedo cat naps in stroller while small dog looks on

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