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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!o
Shona
Steele (Australia) |
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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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FIREWORKS
My
keepers tell us felines that when they were young, Bonfire night lasted
one night. They heard the odd firework, but everything was geared up to
just one event.
Now, of course, we all know that you have a firework month. Some
will have a bonfire on Sunday 1st
November, most on Thursday 5th, but we can
add in Saturday and Sunday immediately after, and a few more times after that.
You
all know we cats have hyper-sensitive hearing, and the last thing we want is
loud noises.
Most of you also know Guy Fawkes was supposedly attempting to blow up your
Houses of Parliament, and given what is currently happening with your MP's [Make
a Packet?] I suspect some of you wish he had succeeded.
Did
you know bonfire night in Eire is June 23rd
[which just happens to be my male keeper's birthday] when the Irish
celebrate the eve of St. John the Baptist's birthday? And the
ritual has its roots before Christianity, when the Celts
honoured their goddess Áine?
I
suppose a celebration which marks the birth of someone [John the B] and/or shows
gratitude to God for crops should be of a higher moral order than celebrating
someone's execution...
We
cats are never surprised. Your 'media', especially aimed at your kids is
wall-to-wall noise.
'Passion' in your popular culture is a whisker's breadth off being violent, and
certainly it is at least aggressive.
You
love us for our grace, peace, calm and our purrs. Fireworks are crude, noisy,
loud and potentially dangerous. How could we like them? Even our noisy house
mates, dogs, don't like fireworks.
We
have no problem with humans celebrating. It is how you do it. Can
you not have spectacular but silent fireworks [you can]? Does it
surprise you that time after time, when here and abroad, British people are the
loudest, most drunk, most aggressive?
I
know my keepers used to set themselves a goal when working in schools to have
the kids be silent for 1 minute. They always achieved it, but only just.
So,
how many of you sit silently for 10 minutes or more, regularly, on your own in a
room?
A
culture that values aggression, celebrating death, mindless noise and upsetting
the most sensitive of its members [us, all animals, very young and 'old' people]
has no future.
I
gather one of your philosophers, a former French child prodigy named Blaise
Pascal had it right in the 17th century
when he declared:
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
We
can sit in a quiet room alone for 18 hours, so you have some way to go.
Jimmy.
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WORLD ANIMAL DAY is on 4th October EVERY YEAR. Get INVOLVED.
www.worldanimalday.org/uk |
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MEGA
THANKS TO MICK, TONY AND KIM of PC HOMECARE for making my
computer better!!!!
http://www.pc-homecare.co.uk/
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Top 10 Cats’ Names
in 2009 |
- Max
- Bailey
- Buddy
- Molly
- Maggie
- Lucy
- Jake
- Daisy
- Rocky
- Sadie
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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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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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EVER HAD AN ELECTRIC SHOCK OFF YOUR CAT?
Find out why it happens here
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Pet, Skunk, Smoke and Dead
Animal Odor remover by Clear The Air Eliminates smells from
dead 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
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