Kitty paleontology
Daddyo, on finding pellets of dried play-doh on our dining room table: “What’s this?” The Five-Year-Old, informatively: “The poop of the first kitties to ever walk…
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…
“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…
If you give a Five-Year-Old a fossil set…
You break time. Mommyo, groggily, a mere three hours after Daylight Savings Time took effect this spring: “The Five-Year-Old, daylight savings time is supposed to make…
The Sproing Cat’s Guide to Hunting with a Giganotosaur
This morning, when I came downstairs intent on rustling up a bit of breakfast, I found my daughter’s kitten class already well underway. This morning’s lesson was on hunting with a Giganotosaur, and seemed to consist mainly of my daughter running in circles around the house while shouting out various rules to her imaginary troupe of kittens and a juvenile Giganotosaur named Laura.
Book Review: Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World
Our mini-course in animal folk tales continued this week with Jane Yolen’s Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World. Yolen’s collection mixes familiar nursery rhymes and Aesop fables with lesser known stories from India, Burma, Oman, and Thailand. Within its pages, you and your child will discover why tiger is angry at cat, why cat always lands on her feet, why having one very good trick is better than having dozens of poor ones, and most importantly, why cats and mice don’t always get along.
“When cats eat mice, do they eat the bones?”
Our cat Mulberry was an exceptional mouser. As far as I know, though, she never actually ate any of the mice she ate. But on learning that owls eat the bones along with the rest of the mice, my daughter naturally wondered if cats ate mouse bones too.
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.…
R.I.P. Mulberry the Cat, January 1995 – March 2012
R.I.P. Mulberry the Cat, January 1995 – March 2012. A very fine cat, indeed. We miss you every day.
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…
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