Laugh. Learn. Love cats.
We hope we didn’t overlook anyone when we were sending out holiday cards, but if we did, we wanted to share it with you here. All of you who read the blog and comment (and those of you we know are reading and don’t comment!) are a special part of our family. We hope your holiday season is full of things that make you smile the way you make us smile every day.
Pierre: Check it out! Our friends at the Chewy.com blogger outreach program sent us something to taste test.
They are 100% beef liver from Evangers. The photographer likes that they are a single-source food, which is good to have available if anyone eating them has a sensitive digestive system.
Ashton and Pierre: We don’t care what’s in them. They smell good, and we want to taste!
Ashton: This thing looks really big. Maybe it was meant for a much bigger cat than me.
Holy cat! I have to chew hard to eat this huge thing!
Yes, Ashton took the whole treat while we were demonstrating its size and proceeded to chew and chew and chew and chew until she managed to eat it all. While she was under observation to make sure she didn’t choke on it, Newton got impatient and found the open container and stole a big treat, too.
Newton: *bite* *drop* *bite* *drop* This is TOO BIG!
Pierre: This isn’t as exciting as I thought it was going to be.
These didn’t cut as easily as expected. It turns out that they will cut reasonably easily one direction, but not against the grain of the dried meat. The treats could also be soaked in water to reconstitute them, but treats are open-and-eat affairs around here, so we stuck with leaving them dry to simulate the way that we would normally eat them.
Newton: Thank Cod. I had started to think I was going to have to order out for pizza.
Final opinion from the cats: Ashton and Newton were two enthusiastic paws up. Pierre decided that it smelled better than it tasted. And the photographer decided that the oversized treats that can’t be broken by hand are tasty occasionally, but aren’t a good solution if you need a quick treat before the peeps head out the door to go somewhere.
Thanks for sharing this extra, liver-flavored bit of holiday cheer with us, Chewy.com!
Newton: Our Secret Paws package arrived, and look at the card that was inside. It’s from Truffle and Brulee at Sweet Purrfections. I think they’re both dreamy ladycats.
Everything is wrapped individually to keep us in suspense. Oh, unwrap it, unwrap it!
Pierre: There are catnip flavored Tempations in here. Catnip flavored treats. Everybody can raise your paws and step away right now. These are mine.
I’m helping myself to them and *crunch crunch* they’re soooo good.
Ashton: Please excuse the blurry photo. That’s what happens when you bite the photographer.
Newton: Check this out. It’s a mouse without stuffing. The only photo of me playing with it is of me sniffing it because I was moving too fast to get a good photo as soon as I started playing with it. This is now one of my favorite toys EVER.
Ashton: Canned food. Hooray! I’m a girl who doesn’t like to miss a meal. And I’m going to check out the unstuffed mouse while Newton is distracted, too.
Ashton: I love the mint stick toy! Truffle and Brulee, you probably don’t know this, but when I was a little, injured kitten living in a cage, I had one of those, and it was my very favorite toy. I haven’t seen one in a long time, and I am so happy to have one to play with again!
This is really cool. It’s a package of toys from Brumby’s Yarns, a company we had never heard of before.
Newton: Come on, I don’t have thumbs. Open it up!
Look how cool these are. One of them is even an Oreo cookie!
Ashton: You can’t fool me. It doesn’t smell like an Oreo cookie.
Newton likes these toys like crazy, as you can see…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nT2kdfmUdw
(If the video won’t load, you canvisit it directly on YouTube)
Newton: OMC, there’s a disco mouse! I’m not even going to let anybody take it off of the packaging. It’s mineminemine.
Pierre: You just bring that catnip pawbreakers ball right over here. I’m going to drool all over it so that everybody knows whose it is.
There was more that didn’t make it into the photo… springs, that enthusiastically scattered under the furniture immediately, and for the head peep, a beautiful notebook she is going to use to take notes at work.
Thank you so much, Truffle, Brulee, and Mom Paula. We love everything in the package, and we promise to get Pierre started on a nip twelve step program soon. Thank you so much for getting such a wonderful gift to us, and thank you for organizing Secret Paws for all of us!
