The Scratching Post: issue 6 March 11 2014

Hi everyone and a very warm welcome to all the new subscribers who’ve joined us since the last issue went out.

Today in the UK – where I live in Kent, at least – I have a patch of blue sky when I look out of my window! YAY!!!! The past couple of days have been sunny and warm and the temperature on Sunday was a heady 21 degrees near where I live. Not quite sunbathing weather – still the need for coats – but I did see a few people in shorts, flip flops and skimpy tops. We could still get snow so I hope these foolish folk won’t suffer.

At the moment, I have a rotten cold and am barking like a seal. Casey keeps looking at me with suspicion as he hasn’t seen me really unwell yet, although his nursing skills were called into play a couple of weeks ago. I had just eaten an omelette and within an hour, I suddenly felt very sick. I ran to the bathroom and just made it as the omelette and what seemed like the previous year’s intake came flooding out. I lay on the sofa afterwards and fell asleep. Bless him, he came into the darkened room and climbed up my side and found my face. He sniffed my cheek and then licked it. I felt as if he was monitoring my temperature like Garfield, Timmy and Ollie used to do.   

He didn’t leave my side all night, bless him.

The 2015 Cat Calendar Competition:

You still have time to enter this competition if you haven’t already done so. Please make sure that the cat is the main focus in the picture without other distractions going on in the background, the side areas or the foreground.

You have until 20^th March to submit your photos: to p.dewberry@ntlworld.com

Dan will choose his preferred 12 once I’ve sent him all the submissions and you will be notified personally at a later date.

PUSSY PROBLEM PAGE:

Squirt – who is the latest feline to join the Daily Mews Feline Correspondent Team – is going to take over the reins once held by the Daily Mewsers and will be available to answer your questions. So if you have any problems, no matter how large, no matter how small – please write to Squirt, c/o p.dewberry@ntlworld.com and I will pass all problems on to him.  He will do the best he can to answer your problems and these will go onto the Pussy Problem Page which originally was fielded by Garfield and all the other Daily Mewsers who, sadly, have gone to the Great Cat in the Sky.  Don’t be shy or bashful; a problem shared is a problem halved and Squirt will draw on his own experiences of living on a wild farm in Scotland to help you.

Speaking of Squirt, his Staff Penel Ashworth, has informed me that Amazon are running another free promotion of Squirt’s book: Reservoir Cats: True stories and Cat’s Eye Views from Squirt on March 16^th and 17^th. If you haven’t already downloaded Reservoir Cats, you can now do it for free. And don’t forget to leave a review afterwards on Amazon. All reviews help sales and we want Squirt to become a best selling cathor (author) don’t we!  

CAPTION COMPETITION:

Doreen Johnson in Canada won the caption competition – congratulations, Doreen – a prize is on its way to you. My thanks, again, to Carolyn Waterson for giving me permission to use Keesa’s picture.

You can see all the entries on this link:

Caption Competition 40

And for this month’s caption competition, what do you think is going on here:

Caption Competition 41

Send your entries – up to 5 entries – to p.dewberry@ntlworld.com

LINKS: 

Here’s an adorable link sent by Linda Gavitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xrj5zLJfLbo

I just love this advert of a cat and a budgie singing a duet:

http://www.freeview.co.uk/catandbudgie

Another favourite ad of mine is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy6JElmgHU

If you want to make a video with your cat and yourself singing, go to this website:

http://www.singitkitty.co.uk/?gclid=CPjzu4LDir0CFc8dfAodhQwAAA&gclsrc=ds

Robert Blau in the US sent me this link to service dogs that are helping ex-service men who are living with PTSD:

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2014/02/26/ptsd-service-dog

He also sent me this lovely link of a cat mimicking the boxing on television:

https://www.facebook.com/dima.matusovsky/posts/10203313017047412

And these two as well:

We all know how devastating it is to lose a pet but here’s a brilliant website that helps you reach a wider audience when advertising your lost pet:

http://www.komando.com/cool-sites/8061/get-help-finding-a-lost-pet?

Oldest ‘big cat’ fossil discovered is four million years old

Ham Moran (Stormy’s Food Bowl Attendant) sent me this link of a Momma Cat nursing baby squirrels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltS3q7jXAc

Pamela Richards in Australia sent me this lovely link of a cat nursing a baby hedgehog:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553034/Abandoned-baby-hedgehog-raised-cat.html

How about these 9 adorable cat memes from Purina Petcentric

Do send me links so that I can share them with everyone else at the Daily Mews.

That’s about it for this time. Hopefully the next Mewsletter will be with you by the end of the month.

Until then, keep warm and well.

Love from Pauline and Casey

xxxx

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