Happy Friday! We celebrated another Gotcha Day this week – Dexter’s! We found him 12 years ago. Here’s the obligatory kitten photo. He was quite tiny, and you can see that he had a cut on his upper lip that turned into a scar. Dexter has definitely grown into a handsome mancat.
Here’s what the cats were up to this week!
Tired Tortie
Olive: ∗yawn∗
Olive: ∗yawwn∗
Olive: ∗yawwwn∗
Olive: Hehe.
Olive: ∗slurp∗
Olive: Wut?
#tiredtortie #longweek
Model Cat
Mama: Give me handsome.
Woodrow: ∗poses∗
Mama: Give me a blep.
Woodrow: ∗blep∗
Mama: Boop your own nose!
Woodrow: ∗boop∗
Mama: Now give me a kiss.
Woodrow: Incoming!
#woodrowphotoshoot
Father’s Day
Sophie: Hey, Lazy.
Mama: What?
Sophie: Get up. You need to go buy a Father’s Day present from me for cat dad.
Mama: Isn’t that your responsibility?
Sophie: I don’t believe so.
Mama: You know he can hear you.
Sophie: Oh good! It’s the thought that counts anyway. My work here is done.
#catdadlife
Happy Father’s Day to all the awesome cats dads out there!
Acceptable Gotcha Day
Mama: Happy Gotcha Day!
Dexter: That was 12 years ago.
Mama: I know, but I like to acknowledge the day and you!
Dexter: Does it require me to do anything?
Mama: No.
Dexter: That is acceptable. You may acknowledge me.
Mama: Happy Gotcha Day, Dexter!!!!!
#12thGotchaDay
Cuddles or Treats?
Harley: Hmm, why did I come in here?
Mama: Not sure.
Harley: It had to do with cuddles.
Mama: Well, come on in!
Harley: My bad, it was treats. I came in here for treats.
Mama: How about treats then cuddles?
Harley: How about treats then treats?
Mama: Treats then cuddles then treats?
Harley: Treats then treats then treats?
#onetrackmind
Squeezable Beans
Mama: Look at that paw!
Olive: Where?
Mama: Your paw! It’s so cute!
Olive: I suppose.
Mama: And those toebeans are just squeezable!
Olive: No squeezing the beans!
Mama: Aww, sad face.
Olive: Fine, just a tiny squeeze.
Mama: ∗SQUEEZE∗
Olive: Mama!
Mama: I couldn’t help myself.
#irrisistbletoebeans
Tabby Treat
Woodrow: Just squeeze it into my mouf.
Woodrow: Yep, right there.
Woodrow: Fanks.
Woodrow: More?
#treattime
Bonus Friday Video
Dexter…living life on the edge.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Happy Gotcha Day Dexter! What a cute baby you were, and a handsome mancat now. It is lucky I can’t put my hand through the monitor or I would squeeze those beans too, Olive.
Well Dexter your baby photo is adorable and you blossomed (Mom’s word) into a mighty handsome guy didn’t you. You sure lucked out in the “happy home” department. We enjoyed getting updates from you all – as always!
Hugs, Teddy and Mom too
Happy gotcha day Dexter!
happy gotcha day dear dexter.. have a super day with lots of pizza and treats and lots of love
Aww, such a wee babe you were, Dexter!
Happy Gotchaversary, handsome.
guyz…everee onez fotoz thiz week bee total lee awesum…trooth !
and dood…a most happee 12 two ewe N heerz two de next 24
witha yeer filled with happees, healtheez and salmon ❤️
Hi Dexter. I just want to say that that was a Woodrow move. I think you’ve been spending too much time around him.
The photos were all pawsome this week, especially Olive’s toebeans and Sophie. Have a great weekend!
OMC, y’all are so cute! I’m squeeing and squeeing and my kitties are getting annoyed. Happy 12th Gotcha Day Dexter!!!
Happy Gotcha Day to Dexter!!
Such fun chats gang! Happy Gotcha Day Dexter, love the pic of the wee you and your video too!
Happy belated Gotcha Day, precious Dexter! Love those pics of Woodrow enjoying his squeezie :)
Happy Gotchs Day Dexter ! And many more !
Cat purrs are great, but I like their trilling even more; and a combined purr and trill is delightful, too. … Whenever I observe anxiety in the facial expression of my aging mother, a typical senior, I can also witness how that stress suddenly drains and is replaced with joyful adoration upon her cat entering the room: “Hi, sweetheart,” she’ll say. I know that countless other seniors with pets also experience the emotional benefits of their animals’ presence. (Of course, the animals’ qualities, especially an un-humanly innocence, makes losing that pet someday such a heartbreaking experience.)
Many of us can appreciate the reciprocally healthy — perhaps even somewhat symbiotic — relationships that can exist between pet cats and their loving and appreciative human hosts, especially physically and/or mentally ill hosts. They have a beneficial influence over humanity that many people still cannot fathom; and this beautiful reality of their positive effect on their human hosts can also be beneficial to the animals themselves.
Still, the last I heard, a city neighboring mine had/has approximately 36,000 feral cats, very many of which suffer severe malnourishment, debilitating injury and/or infection by callously neglectful municipal government as well as individual residents who choose to remain silent. There seems to be a prevailing mentality out there of feline disposability; a subconscious human perception that the worth of such animal life (if not even human life in regularly war-torn or overpopulated famine-stricken global regions) is measured by its overabundance and the protracted conditions under which it suffers.
I believe that only when overpopulations of unwanted cats are greatly reduced in number by responsible owners consistently spaying/neutering their felines, might these beautiful animals’ presence be truly appreciated — especially for the symbiotic-like healthy relationships they offer their loving owners — rather than taken for granted or even resented.
Until then, cats may remain beautiful yet often misunderstood, prejudged and unjustly despised animals.
That looks like a good treat Woodrow.. Happy Gotcha Day Dexter!!! You were cute then and you still are adorable. Have a nice weekend everyone. XO
torties have the most squeezable toes! And love that kitten photo!
Happy Gotcha Day, Dexter! We loved seeing that photo of wee little you. And Olive, we agree … that was a seriously long week!
Happy Gotcha Day, Dexter ! Claire is just like your mom, Olive, she can’t help herself when it’s about toebeans… Purrs