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Tag Archives: cats
It makes me feel old when you say stuff like that
Remember when I said I had a backlog of Mulberry-related incidents to work through? Here’s another one. The (then) Four-Year-Old, rubbing Mulberry, our seventeen-year-old cat just above the eyes: “You’ve lost the fur right here. And here.” Pause, then in … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged aging, cats, fur loss, Mulberry the Cat
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“Did kittens get their name in Britain?”
Sometime last year, The Five-Year-Old discovered the highly informative children’s book series “The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That.” The books relay all kinds of fun facts about the natural world in a Seussian rhyme scheme. The … Continue reading
“When cats eat mice, do they eat the bones?”
Remember when I said I had a backlog of Mulberry-related incidents to work through? This is what I meant. The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, would Mulberry eat mice?” Mommyo: “Yes.” The Four-Year-Old: “Why?” Mommyo: “Because she’s a cat. Cats eat mice.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Ask the iPhone, Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged bones, cats, mice, Mulberry, nutrition
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In which The Four-Year-Old tells it like it is
The loss of a pet is tremendously sad. But even in the most heart-breaking moments, life with The Four-Year-Old forces you to make room for laughter. Scene: The animal clinic, moments after Mulberry’s death. Mommyo is cradling Mulberry on her … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged cats, grief, loss, Mulberry, when a pet dies
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R.I.P. Mulberry the Cat, January 1995 – March 2012
A Very Fine Cat Indeed. Mulberry’s Caterpickles Career (to date*): In which The Four-Year-Old invents a new feline punishment Kittens! Knitting! Dinosaurs! Oh My! In which my daughter channels Mary Poppins In sickness and in health In which The Four-Year-Old … Continue reading
Feline Lullabies
As composed by The Four-Year-Old. Designed to be sung as loud as you can, preferably while petting an actual cat, if you can get any to stay for it: “Go to sleep now little Cozy! Go to sleep little kitty, … Continue reading
In which The Four-Year-Old invents a new feline punishment
One of the few problems with having cats is that it makes doing yoga at home a hazardous occupation. Mulberry in particular takes fiendish delight in increasing the challenge with a well-timed and precisely targeted head bump. My balance in … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says
Tagged cats, Mulberry, yoga, yoga with cats, yoga with kids
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In which The Four-Year-Old uses Siri to send her first text
For those of you who have not yet met Siri, it’s a voice recognition application that you can use to operate the latest generation of iPhones. In this case, The Four-Year-Old commandeered her father’s iPhone and said something to it … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Stuff My Daughter Says, Technology
Tagged cats, iPhone, Siri, texting
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“Did Elvis have a cat?”
The Four-Year-Old adores dinosaurs, cats, and Elvis. So naturally she wants to know all the combinations in which these revered beings might co-exist. Dinosaurs having died out years before Elvis was born, he clearly wouldn’t have had them as pets … Continue reading
Posted in Ask the iPhone
Tagged animals, cats, Eddie Deezen, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Graceland, pets, Wendell Corey
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