What is your cat teaching you about the perfect scratching post?
Last updated on January 1st, 2018 at 05:43 am
Sly wants to play, but what does Ollie have up his furry paws?
Hello furriends, I’m Sly Pie and I heard via the cat vine that September is Happy Cat Month. I would not have deemed it necessary to have a month dedicated to our happiness, because every month should be Happy Cat Month. But when I reflect back on my life before I joined the Chirpy Cats crew, I understand why there is a need to highlight a month for us cats. You see, I was not always pampered and fussed over, I was living the thug life, free to roam but always wondering where my next meal is coming from.
Happy Cat Month is an awesome event created by the CATalyst Council to highlight cat wellness, by “focusing on cat happiness”. Chirpy Cats is celebrating Happy Cat Month because we’re all about “connecting cats and their people” and we want to see more happy cats in forever homes and fewer cats in shelters. We would also like to squash the tired old stereotype that cats are aloof and too independent to care. We don’t like being left alone for long periods and we do like human company, even if we don’t always want to sit in your lap.
Week two focuses on the Happy Enriched Cat and this is where I show you that us cats have different play preferences. Some of us are high flyers, like the two ‘brofurs’ Ollie and Baggy, who enjoy surveying their lair from high places in the catio. But I am a ground dweller, crouching low to pounce up close, lurking in shadows and waiting patiently in enclosed spaces. Living the thug life out on the streets was all I knew, but no mouse stood a chance! My favorite toy is a cat lounger where I like to tease Ollie and challenge him to a game of patty cake. See my video below and be sure to turn up the volume to hear my conversation with him.
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Quick tip from the Lady Cat:
As Sly Pie has mentioned above, it is important to observe your cat for types of scratching surfaces cats prefer. I have heard many times from some cat owners that their cat just refuses to use the new scratching post and still prefers the couch. Well, most people rush out to buy the vertical sisal rope pole scratch posts. These are wonderful for cats that scratch vertically but there are those cats like Sly Pie that love the horizontal scratch pads and loungers, either made out of cardboard like the one in the video or made out of carpet. Overall, it’s good to have variety, especially in a multi-cat household. And remember, to keep boredom at bay, get that fishing rod toy out from under the couch and give it a good swing around the house to give your little hunters something to jump about!
How are you celebrating Happy Cat Month? We’d love to hear from all the happy kitties and their humans.
We are participating in Athena’s Caturday Art Blog Hop. Go and check out some art kitties by clicking on the badge below.
We haven’t thought about it yet, but we will enjoy each other like every day. We didn’t know about the Happy Cat Month either, isn’t just every day a Happy Cat Day 😀 We just loved the video, I do those patses on my mousie…MOL 😀 Your artwork is purrfect again, just love it! Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 <3
So true. In the same way some say that everyday is Caturday, so too, every month should be Happy cat Month. xx Thank you and take care furreind!
They are such cuties, great video. I like the art too.
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We celebrate Happy Cat Month every single day 🙂 Your artwork is *so* amazing every week…you seriously should illustrate a cat book.
Awe thank you for the kind comment, so glad you like the artwork. Who knows maybe someday my book will come ?
We love your video! You look just like us – a black and white kitty and a tabby. How cool! We’re celebrating by posting ideas for humans to make their cat happy.
Thank you! We love your post about Happy Cat Month too! And yes, we saw your pictures, we could be siblings! ?
Oh Sly, I love your little voice and video. I hope you’re not offended that TW and Pop were crying they laffed so hard. The art is great too.
Glad you liked the voices and it made them laugh heh heh ?? The big Lady Cat thinks she can translate CAT into what she calls CAT-toon voices.
Amazing art and love your video! I left a comment on YouTube 🙂
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
Awe thank you! Appreciate the YouTube comment ?
Sly, both yours and Ollie’s voices are perfect and seem to reflect your purrsonalities so well! This is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time. It certainly made me laugh and re-watch it over and over! “Where did he go?”
🙂 Thank you, I’m so glad you liked the video and our voices (big grin)
You’re video is so cute and funny! I bet this really IS what they were saying. 🙂
Thank you 🙂 This seat seems to be the hot spot in the house
Beautiful masterpiece of the two of them!
Awwe thank you! ?
GOOOOOOOO you fellow Nominee!! * high paw *
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Hello there, BlogPaws Nose-to-Nose finalist! Congratulations and wishing you many, many more blogging successes in the future!
Hello Sly Pie! What a sweet video of you & Ollie. Love it! You are so deserving to have it named as a BlogPaws Award Finalist! Woot Woot! I’m doing a kitty dance for you! Mew Mew! I love being up high on my carpet cat tree/vertical scratchy post, but I also love my horizontal catnip scratchy boxes that are down low. I look forward to becoming good friends! Mew Mew!
Valentine, thanks for your kind words, and yes, let’s be friends, you sound like a riot to be around 😸 You know what, I surprised my humans this week by climbing up to ‘the Bridge’ in the living room. They always thought I was a ground scratcher. I guess us kitties can change our tastes at a whim, without rhyme or reason…. because we’re … well… cats!
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