Feline birthday girls speak out

In honor of our birthday, Mom is finally giving us another shot at the computer keyboard. She’s been so busy with job hunting tasks and posts to her blog (“Eco Gal 24/7”) that our little paws haven’t been able to type for weeks.

Mom adopted us around Valentine’s Day in 1998 when we were 10 months old. The vet told her that would put our DOB somewhere around April 20, 1997 and that makes us 14 years old this year. In the feline lifespan, we are senior citizens and recently posed for RTA transit cards and regularly sneak over to the Century Theater for all-day Monday senior-rate movies (just kidding).

As usual, Mom was so occupied with her blog and posting about Shredding Day and some church’s Earth Day Bash, that she’s late helping us with our birthday blog. We don’t know what the heck Shredding Day means…but sign us up! Cats wrote the book on shredding and to think there’s a day devoted to it.

We've got the blue one.

For this birthday we got two new toys…a catnip mouse and a dangle-type toy with a mouse attached. Those toys were great fun for a couple of hours but now we’re bored with them. She even splurged to buy our favorite kibble…Hill’s Science Diet ® Hairball Control. Mom showed us the receipt and a seven pound bag costs $21.99. 

“Too bad they don’t make Cheerios ® with a hairball control formula,” Mom said. She’s such a kidder. OMG…Cheerios! Do we need to start worrying about cholesterol, too? 

Anyway, we’re happy with our Science Diet and promise to try and chew it into smaller pieces so neither of us throws it up whole. For the last couple of years, we’ve been given kibble that’s for senior cats and those flavors are blah.

Sashi's beautiful green eyes.

We’ll admit to being ‘seniors’ but don’t banish us to a rocking chair. Shadoe can still jump 0-to-6 from floor to bathroom sink or kitchen counter. While Sashi may have lost some of her jumping confidence, she can still zoom from the kitchen to the bedroom window and back in record time. 

Guess what? We’re bored again and ready to give our new toys a few more whacks and sniffs. Actually, Shadoe likes to carry the dangler from room to room. We’ll sign off for now and be back soon with a look at eco friendly cat litters.