Enjoying Some Fresh Air #SundaySelfie

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Caturday Art

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. My summer bucket list includes continued decluttering and housecleaning. Now that Mudpie has taken up residency at the door to soak up some rays I don't have the excuse of her always on my lap so I have to get stuff done! 

2. Summers during the 1990s were some of the best summers that I ever had. I changed this prompt a bit but I couldn't choose just one. During that time period I got to travel to many country music concerts in my area. 

3. I'm getting ready for Halloween and Christmas by stalking the stores for this year's decor.

4. Any news story about animal abuse immediately makes me livid and horrified.

Squeezie Table Selfie Flops #PetPhotoFails

Meows from Mudpie!

Thank you for joining us for this month's edition of the Pet Photo Fails blog hop!

We've been super lucky with the weather so far this summer. We've had a few hot days, but they've all been followed by a drop in temperature. We've only had to turn the AC on two days! It has been a very unusual June, but it looks like the party's over. They're predicting 90 with high humidity just as July makes its unwelcome arrival. Good thing Summerween and Christmas in July are here! 

Both of my bloopers this month were taken from my squeezie table while Mommy was trying to help me snap a selfie. Of course I wasn't about to sit still - she had a squeezie!!! 

Those are my bloopers...let's see yours!

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Wordless Wednesday: Blissed Out on Mommy's Lap

 

Notice Anything Missing? #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie!

The one white whisker over my left eye disappeared! Mommy noticed it on Thursday when I hopped up on my squeezie table. She got all excited and had to take a picture. I just wanted the squeezie. 

Isn't it weird how that whisker keeps popping up and then disappearing? Angel Truffles used to get one white whisker in the same spot too and Mommy would jokingly call it her little devil horn. But I'm 100% angel. Mommy agrees.

We're joining our friends at The Cat on My Head for the Sunday Selfies blog hop! 

Caturday Art

Visit more artsy kitties at Athena's Caturday Art blog hop!

And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. Let's bring back 9/12 America. It's our wonderful country's 250th birthday and American pride is at an all-time low because of politics. It's really sad. 

2. Juneteenth is the new weekend before Christmas. I'm being facetious of course, but I made the mistake of running errands yesterday and the number of people out shopping was absolutely ridiculous! 

3. I appreciate that my local area is able to help animals in need. Our shelters adopt out animals so quickly we're able to partner with shelters down south to save even more lives.

4. Taxes, inspections, and politics are my least favorite part about where I live. Sorry, I couldn't narrow it down to just one thing. Our property taxes are one of the highest in the nation, we're one of only 14 states with mandatory annual vehicle inspections (which are supposed to be for safety reasons but only serve to put more money in the pockets of mechanics), and our politics are as far from my personal beliefs as they could possibly be. 

Feline Friday: Mommy's Been Cheating Again

Meows from Mudpie!

This week Mommy has been taking care of our neighbor kitty T-Two. She's a cutie. Not as cute as me though :) 

Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is:

Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (They may be silly or cute). 

A Tail of Two Brave Women

Meows from Mudpie! 

We had a little excitement here late Monday night that was traumatic at the time, but now we find it hysterical.

Around 11 each night Mommy fixes herself a cup of a tea and a sweet snack to have while watching the late local news. I have half of a squeezie at the same time. 

It all happened really fast but as Mommy walked into the living room from the kitchen she noticed something dark zoom across the rug - a house centipede with elebenty billion legs - and it was racing right towards me! 

She dropped her snack and started screaming. I started running from it, stopping every few feet to look behind me to see if it was still following me. Finally I bailed for the kitchen, leaving Mommy to handle the situation alone. Thank Cod the threat was neutralized quickly. 

Once I dared to venture back into the living room and Mommy finished consoling me, she couldn't stop laughing. She wishes we had a security camera that could've captured the whole thing for posterity. It might've even made it to America's Funniest Home Videos! Talk about a pair of brave women! 

(A few years ago Mommy had a similar encounter with a centipede at the back door while feeding Mo late one night. She was screaming so much while trying to catch it that Grandpa said if our neighbor had her window opened she probably thought Mommy was being murdered!) 

So... Hot... #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! 

It was disgustingly hot here on Thursday and Friday. I had to use the wall to hold my head up. Mommy laughed.

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Caturday Art

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. I'd like to learn how to play the steel guitar. It's my favorite instrument on classic country songs.

2. Something I tried to make that was an epic fail was lasagna. I'll preface this by saying it only happened once. I've made lasagna many times successfully, but on one particular occasion I clearly wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and after a couple layers of cheese, sauce, and meat I realized I hadn't laid down any noodles! 

3. I want to design Halloween and Christmas toys and decor for cats and cat lovers. If only I was crafty.

4. Peppermint mochas are a special treat I get at Christmas.

First Stroller Outing of 2026

 

(Still not completely sure how we feel about it!)

The Black Cat Detectives by Kit Gray ~ Blog Tour with Character Guest Post and Giveaway

 

A charming cozy mystery with a delightful twist: The detectives are three kittens with magical powers, determined to solve a most purr-plexing case.

Precocious kittens Bippity, Boppity, and Boop are exceedingly loyal to their human, the twenty-eight-year-old up-and-coming magician Mila. She saved them from starving to death in a dingy Corvin’s Crossing alleyway and has been nothing but loving ever since, even though her own life is in shambles.

So when Mila’s sketchy boyfriend and business manager turns up dead at the end of her big magic show—she’s the prime suspect. With evidence mounting, there’s nothing stopping the sheriff from hauling away Mila to the human pound. Unless the kittens can solve the crime and clear her name.

The kittens will have to use their dubious control over the laws of physics and every whisker of know-how they’ve got to catch the real killer if they want to save their happy home with Mila. This is one meow-stery more tangled than any ball of yarn they’ve encountered yet.

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Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person?

A Self-Scoring Questionnaire

with Bippity MacAllister

Hello there, humans! I’m Bippity, the cleverest kitten you could ever hope to meet. Does it surprise you to know that many humans find themselves in the sad state of not having a single solitary dog or cat to help them be less… well, forgive me, human, but less human-ish. Yours is a strange and limited species, and it’s a wonder you manage without us helping you along.

Honestly, I’m not entirely sure you do.

Regardless, if you’re one of the many bereft humans without a dog or a cat who calls you their own, I’m here to help. I’ve recently come to learn that there are humans who are more suitable to cats, and those more likely to be adopted by a dog. There are even some humans with the potential to be claimed by either or both!

So I’ve devised a brief self-scoring questionnaire to help you determine whether you are a dog person or a cat person. Each answer will tell you where to score your point(s): Column A or column B. If none of the answers to a particular question suit you, just move on. When you’re finished, add up your score in each column and get your results!

At least 6 points in A, less than 4 in B: Cat person!

You are clever, curious, and discerning, and deserve a companion who can match your energy. Adventuring is wonderful, but it’s a thousand times better with your purr partner at your side, so visit your local cat rescue today and give yourself the chance to meet your soulmate!

At least 4 points in B, less than 6 in A: Dog person!

You’re a goof, but that’s okay, because dogs are goofs too. You can waggle and slobber and burp together and do whatever it is dog people do for fun. Brutus says there are lots and lots of dogs who need good homes, so visit a shelter or rescue and tell them all about your ridiculous self so they can help you find an equally ridiculous partner in whatever dogs and dog people get up to.

At least 6 in A and at least 4 in B: Ambi-pet-uous! Both Dogs and Cats!

You’re a bit of an odd one, human. You’re smart and creative, but also not too caught up in being prim. I see great things in your future. I’ve heard rumors of kittens raised with dogs and puppies raised with cats, and how they can become best friends with guidance and care. I do admit, having a dog to ride on like how humans ride horses seems like it could be useful. However, I encourage you to do your research and make sure the fur-family you rescue are going to be happy with the arrangement, too.

Less than 6 in A, less than 4 in B:

Time to consider an aquarium. Though I’m told you’re not supposed to eat the fish, so I’m not clear on the point.

Photo via Pexels, taken by Valentin Cvetanoski, https://www.instagram.com/valentinn02_

About the Author:

Kit Gray aka Elise Scott writes from their lived experiences of queerness, disability, neurodivergence, fat-positivity, and petting three cats with two hands. Their life has been an adventure, from facilitating equine therapy for trauma survivors to counseling at-risk youth with the aid of an inordinately large sub-woofer and beyond. They earned their BA from Mount Holyoke and their MS from Capella University. Their debut novel, a cozy mystery featuring three kittens with the ability to bend the laws of physics, who must solve a murder to save their rescuer from the human pound, is forthcoming from Crooked Lane in May 2026. Elise is a Not Quite Write Prize winner and Best-of-the-Net nominee. Their short work has appeared/is forthcoming in The Advocate, Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, The Not Quite Write Anthology 2025, The B’K, Five Minutes, Knee Brace, All Existing, and Quibble, among others. Find out what they’re working on now at http://elise-scott.com.

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Airplane Ears #SundaySelfie

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Caturday Art

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

Mommy's answers:

1. My plans for June include stalking stores for Halloween decor and counting down the days until Christmas in July.

2. Letting Mo go is the bravest thing I have ever done. He's the first cat I've had to make that most heartbreaking decision for. Dad told me after he was surprised I was able to do it. 

3. I swear by sucking on an Altoid as a cure for an upset stomach.

Mudpie's answer: 

4. As if my ear wasn't bad enough, I've been coughing and sneezing the past couple days too! Stupid allergies! (There was a story on our local news the other night saying that because of a cooler spring pollen season got a late start this year, but now the pollen levels are even higher than usual.)

Unboxing May's CatLadyBox

The theme of May's CatLadyBox was the Cat Mom's Box...here's what was inside!

Featured Cat Lady Artist:

Macu Barreto

I Only Talk To Cat People Tee:

I don't know what I love most about this tee - what it says or the color!

Mod Meow Wall Clock:

I've seen many people on Facebook painting this clock to look like their cat, even torties! I wish I was that crafty and creative. I have mine hanging in the kitchen.

Meow Money Mini Wallet:

Such a darling little wallet! I'm giggling at the thought of a cat carrying this into the store to do their own shopping.

Kitty Paws Binder Clips:

These make boring paperwork so much more fun.

Ice Cream Sammie Catnip Toy & Boop N' Smooch Wand Toy:

The wand is just purrfect for those nose boops we love to give, and the ice cream sammie is beyond adorable (and yummy looking!)

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I Do NOT Snore!!!

Note from Mommy:

Volume UP for the cutest little snore you'll ever hear!