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Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

Hola kitties! Do you know what holiday tomorrow is?? It's Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day, the holiday started by myself to celebrate all tuxies but especially MY Gotcha Day!! I've been living in this condo for 16 years! I've seen it all. Mostly I've seen the condo go from neat and tidy to the cluttered ruins it's in today. If they sell it at a loss, it's not this kitteh's fault. We wanted to do something special for the header so we used art by Barb Kowalik, added animation and even made a puzzle.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

This was a hard post to write—or more appropriately, to think of an angle I hadn't shared on a previous post. I've shared my entire Gotcha Day story in five part harmony. I've shared the letters my peeps wrote to me. I've had an amazing pawty with noms, ennertainment and swag. I even wrote a song (This one is worth clicking on for the song and the video clips.) Sorry TW was too lazy to fix those other old posts to make them work after Blogger decided to crap out on runarounds. After 16 years, it's hard to find something new to say. I'm here to stay.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

Plus, I'm having new adventures daily. This week I learned I like to drink my water out of Waterford crystal so I have taken over TW's glass. I also learned I like to drink her tea but she doesn't approve of that even though she looked it up and decaf tea is ok for cats in small quantities.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

Thank you for being my furrends. Without you, I’d just be another disagreeable, under appreciated stunning house cat. You are my Everything.

Friendly Fill-ins

Now it's time for Friendly Fill-Ins, a weekly feature held at this time, which is already in progress. Our hosts—15andmeowing and Four Legged Furballs—need no innerductions as they are giants in the cat blogging world. They think up the fill-ins and I fill in the answers. My answers are boldface. This week my image relates to number two.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

1. I get my disposition from da hood. And I get my kicks from Route 66. MOL!

2. It's a good thing my peeps aren't vegetarians. If they were, I'd have to bust outta this place. It's bad enough they only eat chicken and there are too many meatless nights. The pic above shows me eating my Gotcha Day roast of beef last year.

3. Domesticating required me to muster a lot of courage. I'm still not completely there and never will be.

4. My younger self would be proud to know that I now keep it real. I haven't let myself be beaten down by the humans who try to stop my feral ways.

Caturday Art

Another special day we're celebrating tomorrow is National Puzzle Day. I have the assignment to make an extra worthy puzzle or two this week.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

I love the woven blankie on Pop's bed so I decided to see how I'd look on a woven blankie. I may never try it again since all that sewing made my paws bleed.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

I look like I'm on a mission in this watercolor. I always walk with a purpose and I always look this intense.

Caturday Art is hosted by the lovely Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty and her mum to showcase the latest art by anipal artists using the many different digital apps, Photoshop or original art.

Gotcha Day Fundraiser


Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

If you can't decide what to buy me for my Gotcha Day, you can send some green papers to support my Fundraiser for Maria's Cats. I posted about Maria's Cats back in September. Maria was a cat hoarder who died leaving 28 cats to fend for themselves. Liz (who also drives TW to treatment) and Kim stepped in to help. Liz has been working tirelessly to get them vetted, socialized, fed, medicated and adopted. Unfortunately most of them have needed expensive dental work. They need money to vet and feed the 11 cats who are left. These are the most unsocialized one and sickest ones. They're not a 501c3 charity. They're just cat lovers doing what they can before the estate closes on the house and kicks everyone one. Don't worry, though, the money from this fundraiser will go to the cats' care and medical bills. Any left over (we wish!) will go to the two rescues who have been assisting Liz—11th Hour Rescue and The Lucky Cat Rescue. 

Thanks to those who already donated through the FB post. I feel the love. If you want to write me a love letter in the comments cos Pop will donate a quarter for every comment on this post before next week, I won't turn it down.

Feral Friday: Happy Gotcha Sweet 16

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  1. Happy gotcha day, CK! I hope I get to have that many anniversaries with my human!

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  2. Happy Gotcha Day for tomorrow, CK! My random photo this week is your Gotcha Day date that you asked for.
    Your art is beautiful.

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  3. I'm ready for Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day tomorrow, CK, and wish you a happy Gotchaversary.
    You may not be a spring chicken, but your purrsonality hasn't dimmed one tiny bit!
    Off to puzzle; your art is amazing as always. Thank you.

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  4. Happy Gotcha Day, CK! Very cool art!

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  5. Happy Sweet 16 Gotcha Day, CK! Sorry, I didn't buy you anything for your gotcha day so I'll go donate.

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  6. Happy Gotcha Day!!!

    Great artwork. Thanks for the puzzles!

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  7. ck...furst up, we rememburr yur gotcha day storee az if we waz ther ta see it R selves; it waz and still iz... one oh de best and shulda winned ewe awardz..... N we noe.... ewe noe... what we meen

    thurd; we will purrsonalee sendz ewe yur own moo cow sew ewe can haz fresh beef off de hoof any time

    P) yur art thiz week rox; we like number one; lookz like can vazz

    $$ we will ask de food gurl if we can help pitch in

    and leest we forgetz a MOST happee gotcha day two ewe witha yeer a head filled with happeez and healtheez and heerz two de next 16

    popz owez ewe 1.25 ♥♥♥♥♥ for thiz multee answered commint !!

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  8. Happy Gotcha Day CK! You are a Beauitful and Stunning Sweet 16.

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  9. Happy Happy 16th Gotcha Day CK!!! I can't believe you are 16!!! I want to donate but am broke for about a week.......tell TW to remind me around the 3rd next week and I will donate for sure!!! Lots of love to you CK!! To TW and Pop too!

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  10. Happy Gotcha Day CK ! Keep on keepin' it real !

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  11. Sorry I'm late CK and Happy Gotcha Day girl. I'll check out the fundraiser on FB. Good answers and beautiful art!

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  12. Wishing you a purrfect Gotcha Day, CK! Your Sweet 16 header is beautiful! Thank you for letting TW spend some time this week helping me out with my project :)

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  13. Wow, that is a lot of Gotcha's!! Happy 16th Gotcha Day, CK!
    I love the header and BK's artwork is super fab!

    Hope Maria's Cats can get all the help needed and find a good forever home.

    Puzzles!! Thanks!

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  14. Happy Sweet 16 CK!
    We bet Bob bbqs something yummy up for you. MOL

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  15. Happy Gotcha Day CK!!! I am glad you gotcha'd such a loving and patient home. Thank you for participating in the fill-ins, great answers. Glad you get to score some meat sometime. I love your art. Thank you for the puzzles. And I love you CK and I will donate to help those poor kitties. XO

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  16. Well, every day is a day to celebrate, be it birthday, Xmas, or gotcha. BUt happy gotcha day to you. My, I think I shall need to upgrade Mrs H's sherry glass to crystal! And make it pint glass too, for convenience. Of course the down side is Mrs H will get pickled, MOL
    Purrs
    ERin

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  17. Happy Gotcha Day, CK! You most certainly gotcha yourself an amazing forever home there with TW and Pop. We'll go and check on that fundraiser -- not sure how we missed it. We love you, and hope you have many, many more happy gotchas. XO

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    1. Hey, CK. We just donated a little something to your fundraiser. We marked "anonymous," but we just wanted to let you know that we joined in. Hugs!

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  18. Happy Gotcha Day!

    My mum is vegan but she is intelligent enough to know that cats need meat so that means I get fed meat. I like chicken!

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  19. My Dearest CK,
    'Tis I, Marvellous Marv, flying through the tunnel vortex to lay at feet of the most beauteous Tuxedo Cat (CK) on Tuxedo Cat appreciation day (if there is room beside her 2 other adoring admirers-Pops and TW). I can't believe you have been the Queen of your domain for 16 years TODAY! Happy Gottcha Day! You are the love of my life and I shall print the glorious collage that you have published today to hang over my bed! Further, it was me that was the paw behind making you the muse of that fabulishious digital watercolour, which you have made better! And CK, I LOVE your fill-ins. Your forever admirer, Marvellous Marv Now I shall sing you the song!
    ¸¸.•*♫♫♫ Happy Gottcha Day to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
    ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ HappyGottcha Day to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
    ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Gottcha Day dearest CK!!!!!! ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
    ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Gottcha Day to you ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸

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  20. CK, you are the Tuxie Queen!
    Belated greetings for a furry Happy Gotcha Day.

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  21. Happy Gotcha day, CK! You definitely adopted the purrfect humans for you!

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  22. Extra 16 Pawkisses for a Happy Gotcha Day sweet sixteen🐾😽💖 You choosed the best pictures of Yourselfie and we love the artwork too and the art of Marv, excellent😸🐾😽💞

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  23. I hope you had a fabulous Gotcha Day! Sweet 16 for a sweet kitty. 🐱💖I absolutely love the photos and artwork. I also love the idea of Tuxedo Cat Appreciation Day. I had a couple of tuxedo cats and they were awesome. I have a tuxedo and he loves cats. I often wonder if he knows he's a dog. 🤪🤣

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  24. Wishing you the happiest (belated) 16th Gotcha Day, CK! We hope you got to enjoy some chicken, maybe some human flesh, and all that good stuff. Purrs!

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  25. Sorry I'm late to your Gotcha Day celebration. From ghetto kitty to Waterford crystal, that's quite a transformation. I know you still have your kitty-from-the-hood catitude, but it's wonderful that you're also enjoying the finer things in life. I'm off to go do your puzzle and check out the fundraiser.

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  26. 16 years. You have had plenty of practice in taming humans. I think it is a lifetime project. We enjoyed your post. I say 'we' because I let my human take a look at it.

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