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Respect Your Cat Day

Today is Respect your Cat Day, celebrated on this day every year because on March 28, 1384, Richard II of England issued an edict forbidding the consumption of cats.

Just to be clear, around here, every day is Respect Your Cat Day. It should be at your house, too. But in case it isn’t, start with today and work from there. You have to start somewhere.

Need some ideas about ways to celebrate? How about a really cozy bed all of your own, maybe even getting breakfast served there?

This is an example of how not to respect your cat. No touching the tail!

Instead, we prefer treats as a form of respect. Lots of treats. Large treats.

Hopefully, this gives you some ideas about ways you can properly respect your cat on this important holiday!

Living in Florida, everything outdoors takes a lot of abuse from the sun and the elements. At our house, that includes the unprotected cable connection on the exposed south side of the house. When it corrodes, our internet connection dies. We’re in the process of getting this repaired now.

The first step of the repair, after the HBO words, is having a repairman come into the house to tell the head peep that she was right when she told the technician on the phone that it was the connection outside the house. The repairman then says that he has to set up another appointment for a different person to fix that.

Newton helped… with a clear path to the closet behind him, in case he needed an escape route.

Ashton: I had important things to do in the closet, so I wasn’t available to help.

Pierre: I had a prior engagement that didn’t include strangers.

Ashton: Don’t let Pierre fool you. He was in the closet, too.

Pierre: *glare*

Things should be back to normal around here in another day or two, and Safety Thursday posts will resume on schedule next week. Thanks for your patience with us not being able to visit as much as we’d like in the meantime, and with the cable guy, who didn’t really like cats.

Newton: Maybe we should have put *him* in the closet!

Mancat Cigar Monday

Newton: It’s nip cigar time!

Newton: *Sniff… sniff…. SNIFF*

Ashton: You aren’t supposed to snort it, Newton.

Ashton: Ugh, don’t lick it. It’s going to be all soggy now. I can’t watch this.

Newton: *SLURP*

Ashton: Umm… Newton? You might want to look behind you–

Newton: Not now. Can’t a mancat be alone with his cigar?

Newton: Whaaaaaaat?!

Pierre: Heh, heh, heh.

Newton: Ashton, why didn’t you warn me?

Ashton: *sigh*

Easy Sunday and Giveaway Winner

Ashton: There has been way too much of Newton on the blog and not enough me recently. So here I am, ready to share my easy Sunday with you!

We are having beautiful spring weather here, and I have been able to get window whiffs without leaving the security of the cat tree. That’s kind of like that breakfast in bed thing that the peeps like, only better, because the whiffs come to me!

Newton: Psst. You had something to announce, remember?

Ashton: I’m getting to that. Don’t be so pushy.

Newton: I assigned you one job….

Ashton: Pushy big brothers. This is *my* day on the blog. Okay, here we go…

The winner of our “I’d Rather Be With My Cat” t-shirt giveaway is Sue G! Concatulations! We’ll get that out in the mail to you right away. Newton was sure to get some extra floof on it for you.