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Much too long for a tweet

Parker Prettykoshka — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:56:06 +0000

I helped my human type someting overnight. He was writing a comment on faceybk.

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Statue

Seshat — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:23:45 +0000

Seshat is a statue.

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November 2020

Friendly — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 04:07:23 +0000

Here are the kittydays and observances for Nowonder.

All month		Adopt a Senior Pet Month
All month		National Pet Diabetes Month
All month		Pet Cancer Awareness Month
All month		Stand up for Community Cats Month
1st-8 November		National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week
1st		National Cook for your Pets Day
16		Tuxedo Cat Day
17		Giornata del gatto nero -- Black Cat Day (Italy)
19		National Get a Pal for your Pet Day
25		Début of Aimable Cats at our own domain aimable-c.at (2014)

And for the human holidays:

5		Guy Fawkes Day (UK)
11		Veterans Day (US) / Remembrance Day (CAN) / Armistice de 1918 (FRA/BEL)
15		Fête du Roi / Tag der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (BEL)
26		Thanksgiving (US)
30		St Andrew's Day (Scotland and fishermen / fishmongers)

It was awful #CatsAgainstLateBrexfast

Parker Prettykoshka — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:41:24 +0000

Brexfast was way too late this morning. But that's not all.

Since we moved into this house, Brexfast has been closer to 7:00 or 7:30 than the 6:00 I've been accustomed to. This morning, he left his phone with the alarms in the other room, so he didn't hear it. It doesn't help that it's cloudy and that Sunrise is not until about 7:30, so the sun doesn't wake him up. I even went and purred by his face and he just pet me without getting up. So finally, about 9:00 this morning, he gets up to feed me.

Then he discovers there's still the second half of last night's dinner in the can. He has been breaking it up recently because sometimes I try to eat too much too fast and it comes back up. Well, he fed me half of my dinner last night at the regular time, but he forgot to give me the second half.

Yes, there's lots of lap time and warm places to sleep, but a cat's gotta eat.

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October 2020

Friendly — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 01:58:24 +0000

Here are the kittydays and observances for October.

October	National Animal Safety and Protection Month
October	National Pet Wellness Month
October	World Animal Month
October	Black Cat Awareness Month
October	Community Cat Shelter Reform Month
1-7 October	Be Kind to Animals Week (Australia)
4-10 October	Animal Welfare Week
4 October	World Animal Day (feast of St Francis of Assisi)
7 October	Cute Kitty Nose Day
13 October	National Cookie Kitten Day
13-19 October	National Veterinary Technician Week
14 October (2nd Wed)	National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
16 October	Global Cat Day^SM (formerly National Feral Cat Day)
27 October	National Black Cat Day (UK)
29 October	National Cat Day (US)
29 October	Internet created, 1969 -- we are, after all, on the internet

Daylight Saving Time in the parts of North America that observe it ends 2 hours after October does, early on November 1st. Summer Time in Europe and the UK ends on Sunday the 25th.

September 2020

Friendly — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:05:56 +0000

Here are the kittydays and observances for September 2020.

Month		Happy Cat Month
Month		World Animal Remembrance Month
Month		Eat Chicken Month
Month		Animal Pain Awareness Month
Month		Working Cats Month
1st		Ginger Cat Appreciation Day
9th		Mo Cats Day
13th (2nd Sunday)		National Pet Memorial Day
20th		Love Your Pet Day
23rd		Grey Cat Day
24th (4th Thursday)		Remember Me Thursday
28th		World Rabies Day

For those of us north of the Equator, meteorological fall begins September 1st and astronomical fall begins at Tuesday the 22nd 2020 at 13:30 UTC, which would put it at 8:30 AM US CDT.

My month of July

Parker Prettykoshka — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 04:01:37 +0000

So I have had a somewhat exciting moth this July. I mean month.

It started off with all those fireworks. Since there was not an organized display, there were a few neighborhood displays that we could see. That was loud and unpleasant. They were. Something like that.

Then He took me for a walk in my carrier in the hot heat and we went to a vets office. There were some kittens in a cage in the front. They took me into the back while my human weighted out front. They gave me a shot and I was not to happy about that. Then we had another long walk in the carrrier in the heat.

Then a human I have seen on the farm came to our apartment. She went home, but she didn't go all the way home, or something. I didn't see her right away.

Then a couple days later he took me on a walk over there and left me there for the weekend. Or longer. It was not so bad, I guess, if you have to be left alone.

But then a pipe burst on the day there weren't any humans there to watch things, and there was flooding and they took out the floor tiles and moved my carrier.

When the time came for him to pick me up and take me home after five nights in the clinic, I rode with him in the back seat of a truck. I never ride in the back seet. I'm a good kitty. At least there were no doggies in the clinic. I think they called it a cat clinic rather than a vet clinic.

So a couple of days later, I found a new cubbard I could hide in. I took a nap, and when I came out, a lot of the boxes and furniture and hiding places and soft clothes were missing. I think I heard some strange voices in the apartment. We even slept on the floor the next couple of nights. That new cubbard was about the only place I had left to hide.

Then they came and took the rest of the stuff. Then they put me in my carrier and set it on the floor while they took the end of it out. I tried to claw my way out and broke a claw. I rode in a car, in the front seat, with the lady I knew from the farm, and was okay by the time the ride started. We did not stop to go to the pet store and the restrooms like my human did from the old apartment to the farm. I didn't see my human again until I had been let out of my carrrier in the bedroom on the farm. I guess he stopped for lunch. I recognized some of the sounds and smells.

But I spent some time purring with him today. He says we don't have to go back to that noisy bright apartment.

August 2020

Friendly — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:58:40 +0000

Here are the kittydays and observances for August. One of them is more interesting for online kitties.

Month		Community Cat Volunteers month
Aug 1		World Wide Web created, 1990
Aug 1		Swiss National Day
Aug 8		World Cat Day
Aug 15		National Check the Chip day (fixed on the 15th)
15 août		Miaou mi-août ! (Meow for mid-August)
Aug 15		International Homeless Animals Day (rotates ; always on Caturday)
Aug 17		Black Cat Appreciation Day
Aug 22		National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
Aug 28		Rainbow Bridge Remebrance Day
Aug 30		National Holistic Pet Day

Stay cool out there, or in there, kitties. =^.,.^=

July 2020

Friendly — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:37:55 +0000

Here are the kittydays and observances for July.

About the only strictly animal observances I could find are these:

Month	Lost Pet Prevention Month
Month	(Australian) National Desexing Month
Month	Pet Hydration Month
Month	Community Cat Fosters Month
6 July	World Zoönoses Day (diseases transmissible from animals to humans)
10 July	National Kitten Day -- unless it's moved back to October
11 July	All-American Pet Photo Day
15 July	Pet Fire Safety Day
18 July	World Emoji day =^.,.^= Σ:-{
21 July	National Craft for your Shelters Day
22 July	Ratcatcher's Day (The Pied Piper of Hamelin, or your favorite farm cats)

So let's look at the other page of the list, where we find these national holidays:

1st July	Canada Day
4th of July	Independence Day (USA; also Philippines)
6th July	Tynwald Day -- Isle of Man
11th July	Feest van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap -- (Flemish) Belgium
12th July	Battle of the Boyne -- Northern Ireland
14 juillet	Fête Nationale Française
21 July	Belgium national holiday
22/7	International π Day

Sleeping on the chair?

Parker Prettykoshka — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:18:08 +0000

Sometimes I sleep on the chair.

But not this morning.

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