Black cats rule!!!
Yoshi here! Today is Black Cat Appreciation Day! After you take a moment out of your day to appreciate me, please check out the graphic below and if you’re looking for a cat, please consider adopting a black one:
Reasons to adopt a black cat
Today is Gatsby’s 10th birthday! One whole decade of annoying Yoshi! Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Dad’s day to all the fathers out there. Here’s what I got from my daughter this morning:
I hope that all the Dads out there got gifts as good as mine!
Apparently yesterday was ‘National Hug Your Cat Day’ so Gatsby gave Yoshi a big hug:
Yoshi’s never been much for hugging. So he decided to start a new Holiday: National Strangle Your Cat Day:
Note – No cats were actually strangled in the making of these photos. Yoshi swears that it was just a little cat massage.
On Saturday June 6th we’ll be appearing at the Westerville Library’s “Local Author Festival” along with over fifty other Columbus, OH are authors. (Actually Yoshi and Gatsby won’t be appearing but they’re sending their human representative.)
Details: http://www.westervillelibrary.org/events/?event=20942
Yoshi turns 14 years old today!
Here’s the birthday boy back in 2001:
First day with his new people
And here he is a couple of weeks ago:
Hey! Stop eating the dog’s food!
Having just recovered from a medical procedure, he’s all set for another fourteen years.
As you may know Yoshi and Gatsby are my cats and they star in the “Petectives” mysteries as cat detectives. In real life they live with a dog named Sparky Jones:
Introducing…Sparky Jones!
The other day I came home to find the tattered remnants of what had been full Girl Scout cookie boxes on the living room floor. Apparently putting them in a cardboard box on top of a counter wasn’t enough to keep them away from Sparky:
So he got a sign to wear:
Later I asked him if he felt bad about what had happened. His answer:
wink, wink!
Sparky was able to smooth everything over by making sure that I saw him reading one of my books:
When am I going to be in these books?
Note: They say that chocolate is poisonous to dogs but whatever they use in Girl Scout cookies didn’t seem to harm Sparky whatsoever.
Cat detectives Yoshi and Gatsby were recently interviewed by Rocco the Tuxedo Cat from the “Cats, Books and … More Cats!” blog. If you’ve ever wanted to see two cats interviewed by another cat, check it out:
http://catsbooksmorecats.blogspot.com/2015/01/rocco-interviews-petectives-yoshi-and.html
This actually wasn’t the boys first interview. Last year they sat down with Truffles the Tortie blogger over at Melissa’s Mochas, Mysteries and Meows:
http://www.mochasmysteriesmeows.com/2014/02/truffles-interviewsyoshi-gatsby-from.html
Merry Christmas from Yoshi and Gatsby, the Petectives!
Mery Chrstmas from Gatsby!
Yoshi hiding in the Christmas presents
Gatsby in his Santa Hat
Yoshi and Gatsby ornaments on the Christmas tree!
I sometimes wonder if the things that cats do in my stories are plausible.Then I saw these videos.
Cats opening doors:
A cats gambling:
A cat using the toilet:
A cat washing dishes:
Cats playing games on the Ipad:
Petectives 