You don’t need me to remind you how hard it is to be a person. Especially in winter. Especially this winter. Being a person is excruciating. Being a person is exquisite. But being a Tabby’s Place person means never having to face anything alone. And being a Tabby’s Place cat means taking care of the people who […]
Here at Tabby’s Place, the lightest winds are tickling Sootie’s hind end, and the reason is just so very embarrassing!! Oh, the shame! Oh, the mortification! Oh, how humiliating!!
Happy New Year, kittens. Let us make a pact, today, while we still have confetti in our whiskers and something called “egg nog” in our fridges. (How did it get there? Who invented it? Why have we never had a Tabby’s Place cat named Nog? I digress.) Here’s the plan: we will not permit this […]
Watching Mary Poppins as a child gave me great expectations. I thought I would meet fun-loving chimney sweeps everywhere, bursting into song and clicking their heels for the sheer joy of soot. I lived four sad decades without hearing a single “chim chim cher-ee.” But the wait is over. Sootie is here.
Hang around Tabby’s Place, and you’ll hear peculiar things. “I need to squeeze six bladders before lunch.” “Half a salamander was found in Solarium B.” “We have a hostage situation in the back hallway. Hazey has the entire Junior Honor Society cornered. Negotiations have failed.” But there are three words you will never hear at […]
It was not a pumpkin-shaped golden carriage that brought a cinder-colored cat to Tabby’s Place a short time ago.