Laugh. Learn. Love cats.
On January 3, 2009, a little, naughty ball of fluff came home for the first time.
After a bout of illness, he grew big and strong, and he climbed to new heights.
Discovered the finer things in life.
(Even if he didn’t always share them so well.)
No one could ever believe that face could ever be naughty (or steal whipped cream).
Surely he wasn’t being naughty. He was relaxing in the windowsill. Wasn’t he?
That’s our Naughty Newton. Happy gotcha day, buddy. We love you!
We had a special gift arrive from very far away just after Christmas, and we have been so busy that we haven’t had a chance to tell you about it.
Pierre: Check out the stamps. This came from really far away!
The package came from our friends at The Furries of Whisppy, on practically the other side of the globe from us.
Pierre: The card says, “This awesome stuff is all for Pierre.”
Oh my COD, it’s, silvervine. I’ve never had this before, but it’s amazing!
Pierre just couldn’t help himself, as you can see in the video below.
(If the video won’t load for you, click to see it on YouTube.)
Ashton: The head peep put some of the silvervine on the outside of this envelope, and I’m here to tell you that it does NOT all belong to Pierre.
Newton: *slurp* *slurrrrrrrp* What are you staring at? You’ve never seen a grown cat lick silvervine before?
We loved getting a card from our friends so far away, and we really, really loved the silvervine. Thank you!
Pierre: What’s that up there?
Newton: It’s our new logo. It shows me jumping down gracefully from the words of our blog name.
Pierre: You haven’t jumped gracefully a day in your life. Besides, the tail isn’t poofy enough to be you. It must show an image of me. I’m oldest, after all, and I should be the official image of the blog.
Newton: But I’m more energetic! I jump up on and down from things!
Pierre: And you’re more likely to knock things over. Maybe it does show you after all.
Big thanks to Glogirly at Glogirly Design for her help designing our new logo. It’s a great way to freshen up our look for the new year!
On our post a couple days ago, Caren from Cat Chat with Caren and Cody reminded us to cut the handles off of our paper shopping bags before playing in them. It was a great reminder, especially since we posted another photo yesterday of Newton going into a paper bag which also has handles.
That’s actually not how we normally get paper bags at all, but we were supervised the brief time we were allowed into those bags to have our photos taken. If we have paper bags left out to play in, the handles are always removed first.
It’s not so unusual a danger for a cat to get a head caught in the handle of a paper bag. We remember it happening to Star from the Celestial Kitties earlier this year, and to one of the foster kittens at Riverfront Cats last year. Have there been more blog entries about this that we forgot? Probably so. Catnip does that to the long-term memory.
And once upon a time, we had a shopping bag incident, too. The head peep woke up to find one of the cats who came before, Louie, in bed with a big paper bag attached to him. He had gotten his head stuck in a handle and dragged it all the way across the house in the darkness in search of help!
So please, if you’re going to let kitties play in paper bags, cut the handles off. We’re going to leave the bag in such rough condition that you aren’t going to want to go shopping with it afterwards anyhow!
