buh bye february

it's the last day of february and boy are we ready. bring on the spring! the capital times is predicting march to be in like a lamb.

celebrate dr. seuss's birthday on march 2 by reading the classic cat in the hat. or cook up a little green eggs and ham.

the much anticipated alice in wonderland comes out on march 5, starring a famous feline.

lucy!

our beloved store cat Lucy gave us a bit of a scare earlier today. when we had not seen her for a couple of hours we started worrying that she may have wandered off or, worse, been cat-napped. posters were made, calls went out and just when we started to lose our cool we found her. it turned out that lucy had made her way to a neighbor business' loading dock and had gotten herself stuck behind some crates. ah, of course! curious cats are always getting themselves into sticky situations - it's part of what makes them so goofy and lovable.

we are now happy and relieved to have our girl back in the store, lounging the day away on a cat tree right where she belongs. oh, lucy.

here are some tips on what to do if your cat ever goes missing. our best advice? stay calm, check all cabinets, closets and other spaces where an animal could get trapped, and, most importantly, get your cat microchipped! the dane county humane society will do it for just 15 bucks and it could end up being the difference between life and death for your lost cat.

lucy and the frame store

another favorite thing about cats is their desire to make daily visits to a particular place, like this cute kitty in kent, who spends his free-time at the local library before returning home for his evening meal.

dottie has the outdoor seating area of the coffee shop next door, gabby has the "urban jungle" of the willy st. park, and lucy has the frame shop. it makes sense that dot chooses to sit with people dropping crumbs of muffin and donuts, and for gabby to play fearsome-hunter in the roughage of the park, but why would lucy pick a frame shop? on any nice day when we are likely to have the doors open and miss lucy has gone missing your almost always guaranteed to find her down at the frame shop - just hanging out and relaxing. maybe it's a natural instinct with cats, to seek out resources in an area away from home? or maybe they just want to get the heck out of dodge every now and then. either way, if it makes them happy it makes us happy.

in other news.....scientists are doing something crazy involving theoretical cat whiskers, shrodinger's cat, quantum sensors and a lot of other things that don't make sense. check this out:

"To create our ‘quantum cat’ we took a star-shaped molecule with one central atom and nine atoms surrounding and applied radio frequency pulses to put it into an entangled state where all ten spins are spinning one way (‘alive’) and the other way (‘dead’) at the same time."

awww, ok.

happy st. paddy's day!

bartender, a round of catnip for everyone! (at least it's green!)

be safe and have fun!

lucy in the sky with catnip bananas

looks like everyone wants to be as cool our west side matriarch. "lucy" has been found to be the most popular cat name of 2008.

you can't blame them, though. a lot of super neat ladies have shared that awesome moniker over the years.....and even millenium!

foto - Lucy vs. Nicole over red stapler

"if they take my stapler, ill set the building on fire..."

MadCats in the morning

i call the first one "kiss" and the second one"who"
the black-and-white is Lucy and the super-cute tabby is Nicole, her daughter. the shots were taken in sequence - kiss first, then who.
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they love to wander out onto the Westside dock in the morning to get some fresh air and sunshine (and some great bird-watching).
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enjoy!