Will one of us be the Next Top Cat?

We're so excited - we're in the running to be one of AmazeCat's Next Top Cats!

 

And we're soooo bummed that we're two whole days behind the rest of the contenders, due to technical issues with AmazeCat's site (and the fact we had no 'vote' button until this morning).

Please won't you take 5 seconds to click over and help us catch up? You can vote once each day.

Thanks ever so much!

Reward pleez!

"Holding down your sheets for you. Now where's my treat?"

We're sooo sorry we haven't been visiting much this weekend. Mommy's cleaning and cooking like mad for all the people coming over to see ME tomorrow night.





Dood. It's for Passover, not to see you.




Whatevs. Dibs on the Afikomen!



UPDATE: Snowmageddon Part 3 hit us overnight!

Nine inches of snow, with more to come tomorrow! eek!

 Um, did someone misplace Spring? Can we have it back???

Saturday Photohunt: Flow

Maxwell studies the phenomenon of what makes water flow.

Oh, and yes, he discovered water is also wet.

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We're also participating in the Weekend Cat Blogging blog hop...

...and the Saturday Pet Blogger Hop, hosted by Baby Patches, Life with Dogs and Two Little Cavaliers.

"Fun Finds" Friday

If you have a fun find you'd like us to feature, send us a shout-out by clicking on the Contact Us tab above.

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Today's Fun Find is limited to folks in the Austin, Texas metro area. But that doesn't mean we can't drool over it! This magnificent cat tree is made by the Cat Carpenter, David Murphy. David's the Director of Sanctuary Operations for the no-kill Shadow Cats Sanctuary in Round Rock, TX (a suburb north of Austin).

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

 David has made several of these lovely cat trees for Shadow Cats and the kitties adore them!

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

 But wait! There's more! (We just love saying that)
Take a gander at these fantastic cat shelves and tunnels. Talk about every kitty's Superhighway dream...

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

If you live in the Austin metro area, you can have one of your very own, custom designed to fit your home.
We can really see ourselves sitting in one of these fancy tunnels! If only we lived closer....

photo copyright The Cat Carpenter, used with permission

While you're drooling over these photos, click on over to Shadow Cats and check them out. From time to time, they hold online auctions, and if you have a few extra pennies to spare, you can sponsor one of these lovely sanctuary cats.

Many thanks to David for sharing his story with us - and we so wish we lived closer so we could get one of those cat trees!

Thursday Trivia: to "Put on the Dog"

If you're going to "put on the dog", that means you plan to get seriously dressed up.

The earliest reference in print is from a book written in 1871, entitled Four Years at Yale, and indicates that the phrase may have begun as college slang.

It explains, “To put on dog is to make a flashy display, to cut a swell.”

Manet's Portrait of a Man
(public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

We wonder if that's why the stiff stand-up shirt collars that were the height of male fashion in the 1870s and 80s were known as "dog collars"!

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Sources: History.org, Online Etymology Dictionary

Riff Raff Reporting In

Don't tell Allie we're playing with her wand toy.
Seriously.
She's hard enough to live with right now after yesterday's feature article on Vetstreet.com and we don't want any more trouble.

                                      Signed,
                                           The Riff Raff
                                           (you had to be there. *sigh*)

Can a girl ever have enough accessories?

Just for the record, Allie's being insufferable today.
And - in case you were wondering - it's not my fault.


 Allie was featured on Vetstreet.com today in a lighthearted article about how we indulge our pets.
Click the photo below to check it out!