Who Could Say No to This Face??

Oh hai, it's Annabelle today! Don't I look pretty?

Every parent thinks their own baby is the cutest one to have ever been born. No other child could possibly compete, am I right? Even an ugly baby is beautiful in the eyes of its own parent!

The same principle holds true with hoomins and their fur kids. You may not have given birth to your precious four legged baby, but in your eyes they are the cutest kitty or woofie on the planet. We know this, and we take full advantage of it. Yep, we use the fact that you are smitten with our cuteness for our own selfish benefit. As in, who could resist that adorable face when we're begging for another treat even though we've already had plenty? We know you can't!!

In my Warden's eyes, I am the cutest cat she has every laid eyes on, since the beginning of time... well, since the beginning of HER time here, which is almost the same thing. MOL. She is powerless to resist me when I want something -- cuddles, pets, brushing, treats -- I get what I want just by being cute.

She wanted me to ask you guys for a little favor, because if my charm works even a smidgeon as good on you as it does on her, there's no way you can say no! She was wondering if you might kindly put her auction link on your blog for just one day, to make sure everyone knows about it? If so, she would be very grateful, and I would too!

Auction for Annabelle: http://auctionforannabelle.blogspot.com/

We Has the Sads, Because Our Grandma Hates Us!

Kitties, this may be hard to imagine, but our Warden's mom denies our existence!

Well, that may not be exactly the truth. She knows we exist, but she doesn't really care about us and never spends any time with us. Yes, she refuses to acknowledge us as her grandcats! Now, admittedly, that's more hurtful to the Warden than it is for us. But when the Warden is sad, we're sad...because she tends to dole out the treats a little less frequently when she's unhappy!!

See, it wasn't in the cards of life for our Warden to have human beans, so she adopted us kitties instead and we became her family. She calls us her "fur kids" and she does absolutely think of us like children, we're just a little bit furrier than most beans. MOL. She loves us with every part of her heart, and then some. We are more important to her than anyone or anything on earth, and we know how lucky we are to have her as our Mom. Yes, I know we like to joke that she's our Warden, but that's all for fun. We love her and she's the only Mom we have and ever want to have.

Who wouldn't love this adorable face?

Our Grandma, though, is not an animal person. She doesn't dislike cats but she's not interested in them either. But we're not just ANY cats, we're her grandcats! At least...we should be. But she says we are not -- that she only recognizes the beans as grandkids and that means no cats. How sad is that?

Recently, Grandma doled out $2,000 to each of her ten human grandkids. What did we, her grandcats, get? Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. Not even a teeny tiny bag of cat treats!! Wowzer, our Mom was mad. She brought it up to Grandma and do you know what Grandma said? We don't get anything because we aren't human!!

Harumph. Our Mom thinks that is really unfair. She thinks we should have gotten a little something as a token to acknowledge how special we are to her, because in her eyes we ARE her kids whether we have two legs or four. And if we are that special to our Mom, and Grandma cares about her daughter, then she should want to honor that relationship. Do you think our Mom is right to feel slighted? We would have been happy with a bag of treats for each of  us. That's a lot less than $2,000 but it's the thought that counts. And right now, our Mom thinks our Grandma is thoughtless.

I am curious what other kitties think, and if you have a Grandma who cares about you even though you are not a bean.