Most of us animal guardians already know this. But it can get frustrating interacting with people who aren’t in the know and just see companion animals as…well, whatever they see them as.
Luckily Chris Piascik & Josh Lafayette at Pets Are Superheroes have us covered. $40 and 1-2 weeks waiting in breathless anticipation will get you incontrovertible proof that your best non-human friend(s) are indeed super. It’s like an Avengers ID card, but fuzzier.
A few years ago we were on a west coast road trip and stopped at the Whole Foods in La Jolla, CA for a snack. There were some nice young ladies working a table outside from the Stray Cat Alliance, a California-based non-profit that seeks to raise funds for the sterilization and care of feral cat colonies in California, and the sterilization and care of non-feral strays in shelters until they can be placed with a guardian in a forever-home.
Of course, I was broke at the time.
Of course, I gave them the last $5 I had in my wallet.
Now the SCA is teaming with one of their board members (and friend of Ex-Boyfriend!), Jackson Galaxy. You may remember Jackson from such thrilling things like his awesome show My Cat From Hell on Animal Planet, as well as the many gushing blog posts I write that mention him.
Anyway, Jackson has a new book (you remember books, right?) coming out:
I’m super-excited enough for the book, but by pre-ordering on Amazon via this link, you and I can help the Stray Cat Alliance raise funds for their continued operation. Just pre-order between now and May 10th and forward or scan & email a copy of your receipt to CatDaddyBook@gmail.com, and Tarcher/Penguin publishing will donate $1.00 to help these awesome shelter critters.
Plus, if you’re on Twitter (or just hate reading more than 140 characters at a time), for every picture of your cat you tweet with the hashtag #CatDaddy throughout the month of February, Tarcher will donate an additional $0.05 — seemingly not much, but there’s NO LIMIT on the number of tweets this applies to, so spread the word — make ‘em say “ugh” “MEOW”!
This is the teaser for Volkswagen’s Super Bowl commercial. Outside of the the beaver saving the motorist commercial, the best ad from 2011 was easily the “kid Vader” one Volkswagen put out. This might beat it:
Spielberg wisely left this nugget on the cutting-room floor:
Add your captions in the comments section below! Winner gets the self-satisfaction of knowing that they made the best joke about Nazis presenting a kitten with a dandelion and a grenade EVER!
I know, I know! She was the subject of the LAST Fuzzy Friday post… but she’s so awesome! SEE?! This is seriously all she wants to do — even when I feed her, she looks back and forth from the dish to me, like she’s conflicted about whether she wants food or to continue being petted. Kitty delight!
Also, we’re still a couple months away from our annual SPCA fundraiser, so if you have the cash and the inclination, please make a donation to Tamar over at I Have Cat, one of our fave kitty-blogs, in the form of purchasing one of the magnets at her online shop. 100% of the profits from each sale go to helping her cover the vet & food bills of Max, a handsome senior cat whom she’s fostering until he can be re-homed (his family of FOURTEEN YEARS gave him up due to “allergies”! If it takes 14 years for you to figure out you have an allergy, yer doin’ it wrong.) Anyway, say hi to Max:
Also definitely check out Tamar’s blog, as well as her Facebook page, for fun fuzzy pix and tales of her escapades with her feline roomies:)
Wow, sorry for the radio internet-silence; the holidays can do that to a guy. And by “that” I mean “crawl into a cave for weeks at a time with nothing to keep him company but his wife, cats, and copious amounts of fattening food and booze”.
Speaking of cats, remember this cutie from our last chat? Well, she just had her surgery on Monday morning and is recuperating nicely in the pillow & blanket nest I made for her in the bathroom. I felt bad sending her under the knife without a name, so she’s officially Penelope, at least as far as the state of Maryland is concerned. More pix will be forthcoming.
Anyway, let me show you what I’ve been working on. First up is a new design documenting the on-going exploits of Fuzz Aldrin, first kitty in space!
Cyber-high-five to Yuki Shichi, a fan who helped critique an early version of this design months ago and really got me pointed in the right direction. She rocks!
Another cyber-high-five to Victoria Vu, who loved the skull & cross-carrots on the Pirate Bunny jolly roger so much that she asked that it be made into its own shirt. Done and done!
Well, that’s it for now. I should have some new stuff up in the next couple weeks. Tomorrow we resume our normal diet of booze, weirdness, Japanese robots, and hilarity!
We met this tiny pile of cute last week on the street near our optometrist and have been fostering her while we wait for her spaying appointment and try to find her a new home. She looks a lot like our cat Oliver, so we’ve thought about naming her Olivia, but I’m trying to hold off on actually calling her that to prevent her from getting confused once she leaves for her forever-home. She’s awesome, and I’ll be posting more pix and video of her in the coming weeks!
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