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READ GARFIELD'S FIRST
CHRISTMAS LETTER
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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
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HERE:
One cat is
company. Two cats are a conspiracy. Three cats is an attempted takeover.
Four or more cats is a complete coup!
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5 GOOD REASONS FOR
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'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
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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 |
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'In the
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'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

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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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It’s getting better all the time…
It’s been a funny
couple of weeks. Having to go the vet’s for an infected tail, poor old Ch’Bee
finally going to the Great Cat, and all sorts of nonsense with my keepers.
Regular readers of
this column will have noticed my fortunes improved dramatically when I was
rescued from the very dark environs of Bumble Cottage.
I’ve had to adjust
[completely change] myself from being a hissing, strutting, macho, posing,
greedy, rag bag of conditioned responses.
Haven’t you
sacrificed all your freedoms yet? You could say that I have sold out by being
‘kept’ myself. But I do get quite a lot in return for my cute catty nonsense.
You monkeys seem to be getting nothing except higher taxes, surveillance
cameras, airport chaos and even more brain-dead people on your TV screens.
But haven’t you
detected something good happening too? I watched my male keeper pull his mush
whilst reading one of the Sunday magazines. My first thoughts were ‘Why buy the
damn thing in the first place?’ Yet I’ve heard him spout about ‘needing to know
what’s going on.’
Anyway, he threw it
down and said, “It’s all about consumption, paying a fortune to ‘look good’ and
doing sod all about anything that matters.”
Now I know he was
right, but he hasn’t yet heard the collar drop. You see I know what’s going on
without reading that rubbish, or watching your ‘news.’
Didn’t most of you
give towards the appeal after that horrible Tsunami? How many of you know [and
care] about Madeleine McCann?
The brighter of you
also realise that you will all be giving money to the flood victims by paying
higher insurance premiums. Ah yes the buffoons amongst you will cry, ‘but at
least we have a choice.’ You do, pay the higher premiums or be left uninsured.
Some of your
newspapers tell you everyday you’ll all be ‘out on the street’ when the house
market collapses. What’s wrong with being out of the street? It had its highs
and lows for me during the last few years, but aren’t your lives like a
roller-coaster anyway? And isn’t that what you expect? But aren’t there less
houses than people who want them?
One of my siblings
appears in the opening ‘credits’ of one of your best known ‘soaps’,
Coronation Street.
[I have to come
clean here. When my keepers notice me ‘watching the TV’, because they are so
amazed that we have intelligence, it hasn’t quite dawned on them that I watch
quite a bit of Jack, Vera and Ken Barlow]
I digress. Don’t
your soaps tell you that you will never ‘make it’? That you life is pretty much
to be where you are now? How many make it from the ‘Street’ unless their name is
Mike Baldwin?
He
is dead isn’t he?
You see we [beings]
are coming together as everything seems to be getting madder by the hour. But
your ‘news’ people won’t tell you that.
No, it’s up to us
sages to educate you, but even better than the ever-so-modest Jimmy are your own
feelings.
Our world can become
the kind of place we all want when our minds and bodies are free from toxins.
I suppose I could
choose to eat used cat litter. If some over-made up feline sold out and
‘promoted’ it. If Tossco supermarket sold it cheaper than anywhere else. If the
‘Chief Vet’ said it would do us good and was full of vitamins.
However, I prefer to
let my waste material improve the soil, and not live in a cell where the litter
tray is compulsory, and make my own mind up about what’s good for me. But I do
already.
I suspect if enough
of you do, we’ll get there so much quicker!
Jimmy,
6/8/07.
(For overseas
readers, Jack, Vera and Ken Barlow are characters from a long-running soap
called ‘Coronation
Street’) - Ed
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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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- Molly
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DID YOU KNOW ...
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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
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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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