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READ GARFIELD'S FIRST
CHRISTMAS LETTER
HERE!!!!
Praise for Garfield's First Christmas
Mewsletter ....
Please tell Garfield
that his Christmas Letter was one of the most heartfelt I've ever read. Ed
Kostro Dec 2005
CHECK OUT RICKY'S YOGA SESSIONS
HERE:
One cat is
company. Two cats are a conspiracy. Three cats is an attempted takeover.
Four or more cats is a complete coup!
Shona Steele
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5 GOOD REASONS FOR
HAVING YOUR CAT NEUTERED
DID YOU KNOW... |
Images brought to you
by
'The smallest feline is a masterpiece.' Leonardo da Vinci
'Dogs come when called. Cats take a message and get back to you.'
'Of course, every cat is
really the most beautiful woman in the room.' Edward Verrall Luca, essayist
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A morning kiss, a discreet
touch of his nose landing
somewhere on the middle
of my face.
Because his long white
whiskers tickled,
I began every day laughing.
JANET F FAURE |
| 'Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.'
'In the
middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with
confidence.'
Roseanne Anderson
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Jimmy, the Resident Daily Mews Feline Columnist has his own place now:
click here
'Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr ...
A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It
is reinforcement of something we would all like to believe about ourselves -
that we are nice.' - Roger A Caras
"Of all the [cat] toys available, none is better designed than the owner
himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in
almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a noise
when you jump on it." -- Stephen Baker
Garfield: 28.03.86 - 12.06.06
Click on the cartoon to take you to Garfield's
tribute pages
GARFIELD and
those infamous 20th birthday pictures. See both birthday hats and more ...
LETTER FROM GARFIELD
is a final letter written with great love to his Mum ...
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GETTING CATTY OVER
FELINES
by Neil the Vet
BVM&S MRCVS
Look, I know I do what I do because of the way I feel about animals but I’d be
the first to admit that cats can be a serious pain in the neck. I mean, they can
drive you mad. They’re irritating, obnoxious, aloof, dismissive, untrainable,
unreasonable and unfathomable. When you want them to stay in, they want out.
When you want them to come in, they stay out. You can’t get them into a cat
carrier without losing your patience, your dignity, reams of skin and pints of
blood and then, when you finally get where you’re going, you can’t get them back
out unless you dismantle the carrier with a makeshift screwdriver.
Oh but it gets worse. Just
when you’ve discovered their favourite food of all time; the only food that has
ever had them purring and curling round your legs with pleasure and you’ve gone
and bought a hundred tins of it because it was on special offer, what happens?
They won’t eat it anymore. I mean, can they read “special offer” or what?
And
then there is the really serious stuff. Like you just can’t stop them wandering
wherever they choose. Now I know that cats are territorial but why can’t their
territory just be simple. Why can’t they just recognise your garden and use your
wall, or fence, or whatever to define their territory. Things would be much
simpler. There would be less catfights. Traffic accidents would plummet. There
would be no falling out with your neighbour just because Fifi or Tigger
absolutely insists on pooing on their beautiful crumbly topsoil.
Because that’s genuinely what drives some people mad about cats. Despite the
fact that even the law agrees that you can’t control their meanderings and
therefore, unlike with dogs, places no onus on an owner to be responsible for
their cat’s movements, some people just can’t accept that. And rarely, in my
experience, do they vent their anger on the owner; they attack the cat. Which is
probably why old Toby appeared at the surgery last week, feeling crankier than
normal and with a large bulge on his side. To be frank, Toby isn’t the easiest
of cats. He needs to be sedated to be groomed and to have his nails clipped.
He’s not nasty, he’s just got, well, um, character. This time, it was impossible
to even get near him.
General anaesthesia and surgery showed us why. He had two ribs that were so
badly broken that they had to be removed. He had a 12cm tear in his abdominal
muscle that took 2 metres of suture material to repair. His diaphragm was torn
so that his bowel had entered his chest. And he had acres of bruising. Was it
really necessary for someone to kick him so hard, just because he had dared to
set his paws on their precious garden?
© Neil the Vet BVM&S MRCVS
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Dear
Ollie, My name is Timber, and I'm on your side about this cat-food
thing. I mean really, my mum tried to serve me LIVER AND CARROT
MEAL!!!! I immediately walked away! So I'm so on your half
on this Ollie!
Love, Timber (USA)
To read
Timber's in-depth comments about food, please click
here:
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Top 10 Cats’ Names in 2007 |
- Molly
- Felix
- Smudge
- Sooty
- Tigger
- Charlie
- Alfie
- Oscar
- Millie
- Misty
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DID YOU KNOW ...
putting your cat's name on his collar
is asking for trouble?
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MEWSLETTER ARCHIVES is a
new section where all the past MEWSLETTERS are stored. Read
through them at your leisure or better still, subscribe to the
MEWSLETTER which is free each month!!! |
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Testimonials
Ollie's diary is the most adorable thing I've ever read!!
I've just found your website today, and I can't stop reading his
funny entries. My face hurts from laughing! Thank you for
brightening my day. Naomi Harris USA (May 2005)
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A Cat's Prayer'
Lead me down all the right paths,
Keep me from fleas, bees, and baths.
Let me in should it storm,
Keep me safe, fed, and warm.
Let the sun shine where I lay,
Keep me young so I may play.
And most of all ...
Bless the people I adore,
And guard me from the dog next door.
Lisa Malone
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PRAISE FOR THE OCTOBER
2005 MEWSLETTER
Thank you very much for another wonderful Mewsletter. I look
forward to it each month, and this month was especially fine.
There is enough in it to be able to read at leisure over several
days, which sets it apart from many more compact sites, which
are finished in a few minutes. Your Mewsletter is more of a
digest, which I can go back to for something new over and over
again. I appreciate very much the work that you put into it,
and the contributions of all your feline staff. Thanks to
Ricky, I may even take up yoga.
All the best from rural Belgium, Jared Kline |
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why it happens here
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mice, skunk spray, cigarette smoke, pet urine, and foot odors.
For a wonderful website where animal
writers and illustrators are welcome, please go to:
www.iawia.net
The fantastic logo is by Jill Carpenter
MOLLIE'S BIG HEART*
is a website about a very
special cat with a very special problem. This heart-warming site is
temporarily off line while Mollie and his siblings relocate from California
to Pennsylvania. Don't worry folks - they'll be back soon!
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