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Anipal Photo Hunt: Pawtraits

It's the second week for Cokie The Cat's Anipal Photo Hunt! This week's theme is all about paws. This is what my paws look like when I'm napping.

Anipal Photo Hunt: YOU LOOKIN' AT ME??

Wordless Wednesday-On The Phone

I Read a Book for #readpawty!

Recently, I discovered a book club on Twitter. Some of my anipals were talking about #readpawty one evening and what books they had read. Well, my mom likes to read a lot and I thought this this sounded pretty cool so I asked for some more information.

The book club is led by @MaggieTKat. All of the #readpawty information can be found on her bloggy, Kruse Kats. Anipals get together every other month or so on a Tuesday evening and discuss the books that are on the list for that month.

This time, one of the books was "The Cat, The Quilt And The Corpse" by Leann Sweeney. It is the first book in a series called "Cats In Trouble." I picked this book because it had cats in it plus it sounded really exciting. This was a kind of book that neither Mom not I had heard of, called a "cozy mystery." It is the kind of mystery that's not really scary and the crime scene isn't described in a lot of detail, so even the most delicate of kitties (like myself) won't be offended. The person that tries to solve the mystery is a regular person, not a detective.

In this book, the person trying to solve the crime is a very nice lady (she owns three kitties!) named Jillian Hart. She lives in a small town by a lake and comes home one day to find one of her precious kitty cats has gone missing. She knows right away that the kitty has been stolen, but not many people want to believe her. They think she is just overreacting. Then, she finds a man dead-and guess what?-he had a house FULL of kitties! She sets out to figure out what her missing cat (along with other missing cats in the town) have to do with the man's death.

This book was a real claw-biter for a while! Then I was trying to figure out who the killer was and what happened to all the kitties. I got so caught up in trying to solve the mystery that the book was finished in no time! I liked all the people in the book, especially Jillian. She really loved cats and wanted all the kitties back to their rightful owners. How can you not like a human like that? If you want to read a really good book that has cats central to the plot, this is the book to read!
Our next meeting is in October. I think I'm going to read two books this time: "Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter" by Blaize Clement and "Homer's Odyssey" by Gwen Cooper. Come and join us!

Wordless Wednesday-My Hidey Hole

Dog Days of Summer Food Drive

Why would I be writing about dogs you ask? Well, this post isn't about just dogs. You see, the Dog Days of Summer Food Drive is a Be The Change For Pets (#BTC4Pets) challenge and that's what they call it. I told Mom that we absolutely had to participate and she agreed. She knew that Wayside Waifs was in need of canned cat food at the moment, so it was perfect timing!

This challenge actually came on the heels of some bad news in our family. My brofur cat, Rosie, had to be put down right before Mom left on her big trip to Boston. He lived in Wichita with my grandparents, so I had never actually met him, but I heard wonderful things about him. He was elderly, at least 17 years old, and had just come to the end of his life. Mom was very, very sad that she couldn't be there with him when he went to the Rainbow Bridge, but Grandma was there to comfort him.

When Rosie passed, he had a lot of food in his cabinet (I haven't bothered to ask Mom yet why he had wet food but I never get any). Mom knew that by donating the food to a shelter, it would help to ease her pain. She gathered everything up from Grandma's house including Rosie's bed, one of his blankets, his pillow, cans of wet food, a bag of dry food and tons of nommy treats. She put it all together and took it with her last week for her normal volunteer session.

Of course, I inspected it first to make sure it was good enough to send to the kitties waiting for their forever homes.

It looked pretty good, so I sent it off with Mom. She said the dry food would go home with a foster family. The wet food would be used at the shelter, they give each kitty a little bit every night! Mom got to pick who would get to use the blanket, pillow and bed. She put the blanket and pillow in the "storefront" where several kitties stay together. She put the bed in a "hug room" with a kitty named Ike. I think he appreciated it, don't you?

By the way, the dry food weighed in at 3.5 pounds and there was maybe another pound with all of the cans of wet food put together. That makes 4.5 pounds of food for the challenge! I'm so glad we were able to Be The Change For Pets once again. I know what it's like in a shelter and it can be lonely. Things like this make the wait a little easier.