Mon 12 May 2008
What is a Good Cat? Doodling for half-dollars
From visiting Daisy the Curly Cat, I’ve learned that during Doodle Week, Mo from It’s a Blog Eat Blog World is having a Doodle Fun Fund Raiser for Cat Friends Helping Friends. For every blog that posts a doodle with a cat in it today, and links to It’s A Blog Eat Blog World, Mo will donate 50¢ to CFHF. Here’s the Good Cats’ contribution:
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I’ve written that Kelly is mighty serious about his food when he’s hungry. When his appetite has been satisfied, though, he starts to have more fun with his food. The Big Guy amuses himself by pulling pieces of crunchies out of his dish and batting them across the kitchen floor, then chasing them down like prey and eating them. He seems more interested in playing and hunting than actually eating the food, since he doesn’t try very hard to retrieve any pieces that he can’t quickly find. Lizzie is much more willing to make the effort. We’ve seen her crouch next to the kitchen island and stretch as far as possible to rescue a morsel that Kelly knocked under it. Despite her determination to let no food go to waste, some ends up in a place even she can’t reach, as we found out one day when I moved the refrigerator and swept up a few dozen pieces. Lizzie simply followed her nose to those stray crunchies, because a cat’s sense of smell is far more powerful than a human’s. So while Phoebe sings Smelly Cat on Friends, who’s to say the cat isn’t more offended by a human’s odor than the other way around? |
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Before Phoebe wrote her silly Smelly Cat song, I came up with these silly alternative lyrics to “La Donna e` Mobile” from the opera “Rigoletto” by Joe Green (or, in Italian, Giuseppe Verdi). They’re fun to sing to whichever Good Cat happens to be in the vicinity: |
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Here is the Kelly Cat |
This is the Lizzie Cat |
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Now here’s our Caitie Cat |
Then there’s our Nicky Cat |
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Daisy said,
Mon 12 May 2008 at 13:27
Your doodle/comic made me laugh out loud! Sometimes I like to push things behind doors and under cabinets just for the fun of trying to get it back out, just like that.
John replies: Thanks! And now, I can’t help myself:
Daisy the Curly Cat
She’s such a girly cat
So pink and pearly cat
What a good Curly Cat!
Jasper McKitten-Cat said,
Mon 12 May 2008 at 17:23
That is a very impressive doodle! We like to chase balled up Hershey Kisses wrappers like that.
Sandy's Opal said,
Mon 12 May 2008 at 20:18
Our special Opal cat
She’s such a hopeful cat
Never a mopeful cat
What a good Opal cat!
(Well you try rhyming with Opal! Bet even Joe Green would have a problem!)
Kimo & Sabi said,
Mon 12 May 2008 at 22:20
Furry nice doodle - did you git yer treat?
not the mama said,
Mon 12 May 2008 at 22:49
That’s a great doodle - and even funnier because Chloe just pushed her catnip fuzzie under the bookcase!
It’s Monday night, and we have 86 blogs that have participated in our Manic Monday Cat Doodle Fun Fund Raiser!
That’s $43 for Cat Friends Helping Friends!