The Scratching Post: issue 1 June 20 2013

Hi there and a very warm welcome to this first issue of The Scratching Post – your mid-month ‘in between Mewsletter’ which will have the latest Book Quiz and Caption Competitions, plus the winners from the last competitions, and a round up of the best in the links.

What do you think of the header? My friend, Anthony Smith, who has a ‘Learn to speak cat’ cartoon in the Metro newspaper every day, designed it for me. I think it’s great and as you can see, Casey has joined Sam and Ollie on the logo. See more of Anthony’s work here at www.learntospeakcat.com

BOOK QUIZ:

Jared Kline from Belgium was first to get all three book titles/authors correct – well done, Jared.

The Book Quiz for this month can be found on this link:

Book Quiz

CAPTION COMPETITION:

Last month’s caption competition showed Ollie standing on the tower looking out of the window. Andrew Lane from Southampton, UK, submitted the winning entry:

"Oh where is he? He said seven-thirty, and the mouse-aka will be ruined if he doesn't get here soon!"

You can see all the entries here on this link:

Caption Competition 35

This month’s caption competition can be found on this link:

Caption Competition 36

As some of you are still experiencing problems with bounce-back with the email address given for both the book quiz and the caption competition, please just send your entries/answers to the usual address: p.dewberry@ntlworld.com by 7^th July, 2013

LINKS:

Britta sent me this one about a bear ad on YouTube. I think it’s very funny – hope you like it too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT4ikdAS-P0

Britta also sent me this lovely link about Bonedigger, the beautiful lion who was born with a metabolic bone disease and couldn’t walk properly. He was brought up with a ‘pride’ of Daschunds:

http://thestar.blogs.com/dailybeast/2013/05/the-daily-beast-bonedigger-and-milo.html

Cheryl sent me this link of a cat ‘boarding’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlH5SDGoyA&feature=player_embedded

Several people sent me the link to Deucy, the two-faced (or Janus) kitten:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/deucy-the-two-faced-kitten-slideshow/rare-two-faced-kitten-born-photo-174214065.html

Many folk sent me this hilarious ‘Sad Cat Diary’ which I’m sure you’ll all love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKffm2uI4dk

Ann in the US sent me the link to a cat that was a surrogate mother to 4 baby hedgehogs:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/cat-adopts-hedgehog-babies_n_2066996.html

Leny in Holland sent me the next couple of links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jesse-knott-cat-koshka_n_2956859.html#channel=f271cbbc73d8f5origin=http3A2F2Fwwwhuffingtonpostcomchannel_path=2Ffacebook2Fchannelhtml3Ffb_xd_fragment23xd_sig3Df2678d1f4a1662c26

Here’s a couple of links to 2 legged dogs that she sent: