Showing posts with label scrumbles advent calendar. Show all posts
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Wednesday 2 December 2020

Welcome to Our Mid-Week News Round-Up and Hot Gossip on The Pet Parade & Today's Headlines are ~ Woo Hoo The Countdown Has Begun, One Two Three Parsley's In A Tree, and Fudge's Catline Call Continued


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Happy Wednesday Pawesome Pals

Welcome to December and mew know what that means, the countdown has begun.

Furst up in the headlines this week is...

We finally got to open this year's Scrumbles Advent Calendar, and in our humble opinion, the only advent calendar mew'll ever need.

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 Fudge and Melvyn were on the front row to get the treats furst yesterday morning bright and breezy.

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"The furst one's mine!" Fudge said. "I've been on dry food rations for weeks, so it's only fair I get furst dibbs!"

"Get stuffed!" Melvyn replied. "I've been queuing up here since dawn for this, get behind me in the queue and wait your turn!"

"But I'm older!" Fudge declared. "So therefore I have seniority, step back from the calendar smarty-pants!"

"Well if mew're going to play it like that, and use the age-card," Melvyn smirked. "I'm the baby of the furmily, so therefore I get everything furst because the baby always gets spoiled!"

Ahhhhhh, the joys of Catmas begin, and the same thing happened again today, that festive spirit is very much alive and kicking at BBHQ this year! MOL MOL MOL

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Next up in the news this week; One Two Three Parsley's In A Tree.

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Four Five Six he was throwing sticks,

Seven Eight Nine Smooch will be fine,

Ten Elebentyeight, as Smooch was hiding under a crate!

Anyhoo he missed Smooch by a mile, but Smooch took evasive action just to be sure.

And why was Parsley throwing sticks from up a tree? Well it would appear that there's - Tabbies of Trout Towne purrlease close your eyes NOW & scroll down - been a hawk terrorising the little burds in the garden and it actually took a blackburd the other day, so Parsley is on protection duty and the burds are paying him £5 a day plus as much seed as he wants, and he said, it's a bit quiet in the bunker this time of year so he's happy to help out. What a guy! 

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And finally this week, mew may remember on last weeks Pet Parade that Fudge had a massive boggle happening and had called Catline to air his grievances or his P.P.I. aka Purrsonaly Purrcieved Injustice, and that he was in a queue waiting to speak with the D.F.D.D. or Dried Food Deprivation Department. Last week we left mew here in the transcript:

Five minutes later, another recorded message said, "We're sorry to inform mew all of our opurrators are now on their regulated catnap breaks and won't be back for at least an hour, purrlease stay on the line to keep your place in the queue and we'll answer your call as soon as we wake up, thank mew for your patience."

At 5 hours, 38 minutes and 15 seconds of being in the telephone queue, Fudge was just about to throw the towel in when a voice suddenly said, "This is the Dried Food Deprivation Department, how may I be of assistance to mew today? And FYI all calls are recorded for no purrticular reason at all!"

"About fluffing time!" Fudge growled, "I've been waiting 5 hours, 38 minutes and 18 seconds for my call to be answered."

"I'm sorry sir, but we're required to take routine naps at Catline as per our Health and Safety Wurkplace Guidelines, I'm sorry that this has inconvenienced mew, would mew like me to transfer mew to the Catline Complaints Department, I see they their current call waiting time is currently at 2 hours and 15 minutes?"

"Oh fluff no, do not transfer me," he said through gritted teeth.

"So how may I be of assistance to mew today, what is your D.F.D.D.  P.P.I.?" the opurrator asked in a rather bored tone.

Fudge who was one tiny whisker away from a total floof explosion, sucked in a deep breath and replied as calmly as he could. "I haven't had any dried food in 2 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 10 minutes and  59 seconds."

"Ahhhhh that would explain it then sir!" the opurrator answered rather smugly.

"Explain what?" Fudge asked trying to be as polite as he could.

"The anger, snappish tone, short-temperedness, obvious frustration, exasperation factor piquing at around the 10 point mark," the opurrator mused thoughtfully. "Are mew gripping the phone so tightly that mew have white-paw syndrome? Is your breathing erratic, fur bristling wildly, and mew're purretty much ready to blow a gasket?"

Fudge wurked his way through the list mentally and then growled rather angrily, "YES!" 

"Just as I suspected sir," the opurrator replied with an air of utter delight. "I'll have to transfer mew as your case is beyond my training level, purrlease wait while I transfer your call!" 

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Funnily enough, the next thing on the CCTV footage was Fudge emerging from the telephone box and screaming, we think they even heard him in the neighbouring village of Fuskerton.

And so it goes; the moral of this news tale is, don't call Catline if mew're in a hurry! MOL

If mew're suffering from a P.P.I. try Parsley's Pet Peeves Service, at least mew get answered right away.

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BBHQ's Hot Gossip this week is; we posted out all our Catmas cards yesterday so they're now winging their way around the wurld as we type.
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Amber will be here on Friday with another fantastic book she can't wait to share with mew all as it's by two of our fabulous blogging furiends, so do stop by the library, tea and nip cookies will be served, and we hope to see mew then! 

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Wednesday 7 October 2020

Welcome to Our Mid-Week News Round-Up and Hot Gossip on The Pet Parade & Today's Headlines are ~ World Animal Road Accident Awareness Day #CATSMATTER, Scrumble's Advent Calendar And Ghostly Goings On at BBHQ

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Epic Wednesday Greetings Furriends

Welcome to the Pet Parade and our weekly news round up!

Furst up in the headlines this week is...


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The 8th of October 2020 is the World Animal Road Accident Awareness Day, here's the official link to the campaign; it's heartbreaking when mew read about the 630+ cats a day that get hit by cars just in the UK alone. 25% of those will be fatal, leaving 75% that could possibly be saved if drivers stopped and did the right thing.

The UK's annual road casualties for wildlife is estimated at around 70 million animals, that's roughly the UK's human population - that is the saddest thing we've read in a long time.

Apparently, October is the highest rate of road deaths for cats, and approx 230,000+ cats are run over in the UK every year, which is absolutely horrific. However, the pawesome peeps at CatsMatter are trying to make big changes that benefit cats involved in RTA's.

 At the moment, UK Law dictates that drivers must report the following anipals to the police: 

Horses, Cattle, Pigs, Goats, Sheep, Donkeys, Mules and Dogs. 

Domestic anipals need to be taken to a veterinarian immediately if injured. And deceased anipals also need to be taken to a vet to have their microchip scanned if they have one.

CatsMatter are working tirelessly with official govt bodies to make it illegal to leave the scene of an RTA involving a cat, and this procedure will include making it mandatory for all cat owners to have their pet microchipped by law.

There's oodles of info at the CatMatter's website, including downloadable sheets for

 Roadside First Aid and Flyers to Distribute plus a few others too.

This is a very worthy cause, and we're right behind them. 

Also, we purrsonally feel that some pet pawrents need to look at cat guardianship a little differently in 2020, as sadly we've noticed that some new pawrents think it's ok to let cats roam near busy roads all hours of the day and night, and then they're genuinely surprised when something bad happens to their cat. This astounds us, if we lived in a built-up area today, we'd have no outside time at all unless it was in a catio.

When the P.A. lived in the city her furst cat, Catkin was hit by a car and she spent 2 days looking for him, combing the streets, checking everywhere she could think of and asking anyone she saw, and she also rang every shelter multiple times a day until she found him. 

Catkin had been visiting another house only 50 yards away for a while, and apparently, after his accident, he went to that house and sat on the landing, the chap who lived there eventually took Catkin to the RSPCA and the P.A. finally found him. His back leg was badly broken, the knee joint was floating and it cost £2500+ in 1996 to have his leg fixed, that was a lot of cash back then and he had to go to a special surgeon 40 miles away, so the costs kept spiralling and he wasn't insured at the time.

In the last 25 years, the traffic has got busier and busier, and some people still let their cats roam at will. Ask yourself this, would mew let a baby/toddler run around near busy roads? We certainly wouldn't!

 Even in our tiny village, our neighbours Tonkinese cat was hit by a delivery driver about 3 years ago, and it cost over £4,000 to make him better.  

If mew're a cat owner and mew still let your cat roam, purrlease don't, keep them indoors or build a little catio, keep them safe. The price of a catio today would be far cheaper than paying the vets costs to try and fix your cat after a road accident.

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In other news this week, our epic buddy's at Scrumble's asked us if we'd like to try one of their new Catmas 2020 Advent Calendars, of course we'd like to try one, did mew really need to ask! MOL MOL MOL

Anyhoo, the other day it arrived at BBHQ and we were most eager to check it out.

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The P.A. unpacked it as fast as she could, and then Melvyn and Fudge were furst on paw to inspect it, and they couldn't wait...

"Roll on December!" they both said. "We can't wait to nom those noms!"

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If mew'd like to get your mittens on one of these epic calendars click here before they're sold out, and they also do one for our K9 buddy's too, so everypawdy can have extra treats this Catmas, WOOOOOO HOOOOOO! MOL

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And finally this week, Ghostly Goings On at BBHQ.

#BOO

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As mew can see we've got spooks galore at BBHQ, but neffur fear this one is part of our upcoming Crafting with Cats Halloween Special, so if mew want to find out what we're making this year, stay tuned for our big reveal coming soon! 

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Shhhhhhh, don't tell anypawdy but we've heard that Amber's got a whole new look for her new season's review posts and apparently, she's gone with PINK... we couldn't believe it either!

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Don't tell Amber that we told mew! MOL
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