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Fancy Feast Delights With Cheddar Giveaway

Boodie! What are you doing!

How come I am the only cat around here with a sense of dignity? I have an important giveaway today and I am already embarrassed.

Fancy Feast has come out with new Delights With Cheddar Entrees in four flavors, each one with real cheddar: Salmon and Cheddar Cheese Feast, Turkey and Cheddar Cheese Feast, Beef and Cheddar Cheese Feast, and Chicken and Cheddar Cheese Feast! As you can see, Boodie is excited about these new entrees.

They sent us a can of each flavor, packed on a cool wooden cheeseboard with the Fancy Feast logo!

Plus a card about the new Entrees, perfect for chewing on! My human says it was not meant for that use, but I think she is lying.

And I have something really fun for you! The Fancy Feast humans said I could do a giveaway on my blog! In fact, they said I could give away 20 Fancy Feast Delights with Cheddar samplers like the one I got, with the four new entrees and the cheese board! Sadly, they said it was only for my U.S. readers, but you know I will do something for you international kitties and humans at some point… maybe even sooner than you think!

Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter. Ends Sunday, August 11 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. I will announce winners next week!

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If you are on Pinterest, you also have a chance to win one of three trips for two (humans) to New York City to attend a Cheese Soiree and cooking class with Liz Thorpe! Enter the Fancy Feast “Cheese Affair Pin to Win” Sweepstakes on Pinterest — go to www.cheeseaffair.com for details. The sweepstakes closes on August 11.
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Sunday Catinee: Where There’s a Box, There’s a Way

This Maru wannabe still needs to work on his form, but you’ve gotta admire his determination!

If you can’t see the above video, click here to watch it on YouTube!
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

Photo Hunt: Guess

Guess which treats I get to have today?

Uh-oh, look who’s coming…

Aw man! Not her too?

Okay, well, nevermind.
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

10 Ways in Which Cats Are More Awesome Than Humans

Just because they have thumbs, humans think they have the upper hand on us kitties. And while we often let them get away with this misguided belief, nothing could be farther from the truth. We all know who is really in charge in our homes; after all, we don’t have to change our own litter boxes, do we? We don’t have to go out and get our own food, toys and cat trees, right? Not only have we kitties got our humans catering to all our needs, we are way awesomer than humans could ever hope to be! The reasons why are infinite, but just for fun, I thought I would list ten things that we cats can do that humans will never be able to!

1. We can touch our noses with our tongues. I don’t think even Gene Simmons can do that.

2. We can move our ears independently of one another.

3. In fact, we communicate with each other with our independently moving ears. No verbal language necessary — kitties from different countries will instantly understand one another.

4. Humans need to mark territory by drawing up complicated, hard-to-understand contracts. We cats just spray on it, and it is ours.

5. We cats can jump five times as high as we are tall, which is way more than even so-called high jumping humans can do.

6. Humans who hunt their own food need things like guns or fishing poles. We kitties can dispatch our food without any of these props. And we don’t need to cook our catch either.

7. Humans just barely have a 180 degree field of view. We cats have 200 degrees.

8. Humans have a love-hate relationship with carbs. We kitties couldn’t care less about them.

9. We have a magical sensory and radar system that keeps us in constant touch with the world around us. You might know this system as “whiskers.”

And most importantly…

10. We can purr! And science has yet to recreate this fabulous ability in a human.
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The Cattitude Test

I don’t look very happy in this photo, do I? And who can blame me — I am about to endure one of the worst parts of being a kitty: a visit to the vet! My human wanted to discuss some hairball solutions for me since I seem to have them fairly frequently and I hate all the over-the-counter remedies. I really think she could have done this without my presence, but she dragged me along anyway. And it did give the chance to review their Cattitude Room.

With the help of Feliway, making this room cat-only (no dog checkups!) and other things, they’ve supposedly made this examination room more cat-friendly. This is supposed to be a good thing for kitties like me who are very, very nervous at the vet.

The inside of the door had a poster that was supposed to welcome all kitties, no matter our disposition.

There was even cat art… along with a frightening gingivitis poster.

So what did I think of this “Cattitude Room?” I tell you what I thought of it:

I gave the Cattitude Room a big paws down. No matter how you slice it, I’m still at a vet clinic!

Can I go home now?

P.S. All that trouble, and the vet told my human to give me Pepcid (which she was supposed to do before but keeps forgetting). It’s not a hairball remedy, but it helps my stomach and esophagus feel better. Maybe someday they will make hairball gel that tastes exactly like KFC!
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

Wordless Wednesday: MY Box

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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

Boodie Tuesday

Remember how I said Boodie was a little too big to fit into the Twinkle Chute I reviewed a few weeks back? Well, apparently I was wrong!

I had just assumed she was too big because none of us had ever seen her inside it. Not that she did not enjoy playing with it… or at least parts of it.

She enjoys the string that is supposed to be used to tie up the tunnel when it is not being used. Of course, around here it never gets put away.

Every so often, one of us would catch her sticking her head inside it, but that was about it. Then one day…

Can you see her flash of tail? My human had to be fast to get this shot. So I stand corrected; Boodie can fit into the tunnel.
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

Sparkle’s Downloadable Calendar: August 2013

For fan members only — you must login to see this content. My downloadable monthly calendars are one of the perks when you join my fan club!
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

What Has Your Human Done to Earn Your Affection?

I found an article yesterday on Care2.com entitled “10 Signs Your Kitty Actually Loves You.” As you probably guessed, I do have some issues with this story. Number One, it claims that we kitties are harder to read than dogs are when it comes to displays of affection. Um, no, it’s just that humans are dumber about understanding cat language. I think the list of signs in the story is pretty obvious. How could anyone mistake headbutts or gift-giving as anything but signs of affection? I think this article proves that our affectionate displays are much more varied and interesting than the way a dog shows love — by jumping on humans and licking them. It’s pretty much a one-note love song. We kitties have a symphony of affection for those who deserve it.

But does your human deserve these displays of affection? That is really the point of today’s post. I want to know what your human does to earn your affection. If my human brushes me, I will be more than happy to purr really loudly for her. My human earns Boodie’s tummy displays… as long as she does not try to touch her! Pet Binga and she will lick your hand, and if you are lucky you will get a little love bite. If you are not so lucky, you will get a not-so-little love bite.

So tell me in the comments below… what does your human do that gets a display of affection from you?
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!

Sunday Catinee: Binga Jumping Through Hoops

When you saw my post the other day about the G-Zees treat winner, a lot of you wanted to know about the photo of Binga looking through the hoop. Many of you did not believe she would jump through it. Well, you must have missed this video from 2010, where she learned to jump through a hoop for treats. So thought I’d repost it:

If you can’t see the above video, click here to watch it on YouTube!

My human had her doing it for a while and then stopped for a long time, but recently she started her up again — and she remembered how to do it right away! They were going to make a new video this week but my human ran out of time.

And you probably already figured this out, but I refuse to do such a silly trick.
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Having problems with your human or the other cats in your house? As the internet’s “Dear Abby With Claws,” I have answers to many annoying problems in my two award-winning books! Visit my author’s page on Amazon to buy one or both of my awesome Dear Sparkle books!