For the Love of Chris


My newest book titled For the Love of Chris is out now. It is about Chris’s life but told from the perspective of Chris himself.

Technically, the book is fiction because, well, cats are not known from their ability to write non-fiction. Also, the first part of the book, which talks about his early life, is pure speculation based on hearsay and the few early documents that I have. If you are interested, the book is available on Amazon here. You will also be able to get it on other retailers soon.

Here is a snippet from the book:

A couple of days later, Rose and Chuck showed up again. This time I showered them with ear licks and nose bites. It worked. They took me to their home.

They opened my carrier in a room that seemed designed for cats. It was similar to the shelter, only smaller. I stepped out of the carrier and jumped onto the big cat tree near a window that overlooked a pond. That seemed interesting, but I had more important things to do. I needed to survey my new territory.

A big ginger cat lay on the floor, watching me. I left the room and checked out the rest of the home. There were more rooms like the one I was in, but those had big beds in them and no cat trees. I examined every room and found more cats who just watched me. None of them wanted to challenge me. This home desperately needed an alpha cat, and I was ready to fill that role.

I soon learned that Chuck and Rose were my new mom and dad. Of course, they were not cats, but they acted as if they were in charge, like my cat mom did. The major difference was that with my cat mom, I was more inclined to listen and even sometimes obey.

You can read more about the book from my personal blog here. Let me know what you think.

Floki at the Vet


I am here with Floki at the vet for the first time in quite a while. I had been taking him to a nearby groomer that went out of business to get his nails trimmed but now the only place that will do it nearby is the vet. I figured it wouldn’t hurt for him to get a checkup while we’re here.

We haven’t seen the vet yet so I have nothing to report but I’m sure he’s fine.

Two Years without Chris


Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of Chris’s passing. I wanted to post something about it yesterday, but I lost track of time and didn’t think about it until today. I also wanted to publish the new book about his life on that day, but my cover artist’s mother fell ill and the cover was delayed. It arrived this morning.

I added text to it and formatted it, which I will show you when it is ready, perhaps tomorrow. What do you think?

I thought a lot about Chris while writing the book and I hope this keeps his memory alive. He really was special and is missed very much.

Photo Friday: 2000th Post


Can you believe this is my 2000th post? Considering I have been blogging for over 14 years, that’s not many, but it’s still a number worth celebrating.

Here is Floki and Franki, together but separate, which is what I was going to name this post until I realized what it was.

Watching the Lawn Guy and New Bird Feeder


A few minutes ago, I heard a loud noise from outside and soon realized it was the lawn guy. He must have hit something solid with his weed whacker. I looked onto the catio to see if Frankie wanted to come inside but instead, he was more interested in watching the lawn guy. He did, of course, turn to look at me when I opened the door to take his picture.

You may notice from the photo that we added another bird feeder. That is another story. Those Nanday Conures I had mentioned in a previous post had been visiting our neighbor and Rose wanted them to visit our house but we were using the wrong bird seed because of a previous issue with a rat. Since we hadn’t seen the rat, we thought we would throw caution to the wind and try to lure the birds to our house.

I ordered seed from Amazon but the bird feeder from Home Depot. It arrived without the plexiglass sides, so it had no way to hold the seeds. To speed things along, I went to our local Home Depot, which does not sell bird feeders, and bough a sheet of plexiglass which I cut to size. I then learned that the seed I ordered had been delayed so I went to Pet Supermarket the next day and bought conure seed.

At some point in the middle of all this I ran into my neighbor who mentioned that the Nandays stopped coming to his feeder. I don’t think they are migratory birds but what are the odds they stop coming around at the very moment I am putting something together to attract them.

Anyway, the new feeder has been up since Tuesday, but no new birds have shown up yet.