If you scroll down far enough, you’ll find a little reminder calendar on the right side that lets you know the boys are just about to have a special day. Yes, Wednesday, the boys turn the Big Four!
I suppose I should plan something special for their birthday, yet I will just give them lots of scritches and love, just like every day. This is a bit of a heresy among kitty servants, but the boys are unlikely to realize Wednesday is anything but just another day. Let’s not forget they are cats! 
That said, they are dear companions, not “just cats” in my mind. Maybe I’ll buy some tuna. They love tuna water, though they don’t eat the fish, oddly. I mean, I should do something a little more special for their big day than just note it here, eh!?
Here’s my question for you: If you have cats, dogs, hamsters, parrots, parakeets, goldfish, ferrets, snakes, elephants, tigers, zebras, gila monsters, or bunny rabbits, to name a few, what do you do to observe their birthdays? Or do you observe their birthdays? Give me some thoughts on how you think I should observe Andy and Dougy’s fourth birthday.
Dougy (top photo) and Andy (bottom photo) await your suggestions! Thank you!
Please extend my belated birthday wishes. The cats get tuna (they prefer the water too) and the hedgehog gets extra worms. They really don’t like us picking them up and singing “Happy Birthday” to them. 🙂
Ha! Ha! My boys aren’t thrilled with my singing either, and neither likes to be held very long because they have important kitty business they musty attend to. 🙂
They are so beautiful… I am sure they got the best treatment!… Wishing you and the felines a wonderful weekend ahead, Aquileana 😀
Thanks! They are pretty cats, I agree, so I thank their mother and father for that!
Beautiful photos of those adorable faces.
Ali gets special toys and treats on her birthday, Christmas and all of the holidays.
She will be six on her next birthday.
Thanks! They cooperated for a change.
Another possibility is to donate to an animal shelter or something else to your liking in name of the boys…
Now, that is a brilliant suggestion, and I fully support the local shelter, the source of two of my cats in past – Freckles and Louie. It would be a nice way to honor the memories of those two beloved kitties, too! I think this is a better plan than treating the boys to a chicken dinner.
Great; I am sure the boys get their treats anyway 🙂
That they will, and my donation will have to wait till some money shows up. It will be made in July, though, and in honor of their birthday.
Very nice!
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Hiya Doug,
Pet parties are more for we humans than our furry companions because if we are human that even considers to do something special for our little ones then it is a good bet that we spoil them the other 364 days of the year. I never did the birthday thing but I did do Christmas for them with stockings and everything! lol. They did get excited when I got their stocking down and placed it on the floor for them to investigate. However, my dogs were spoiled, which I admit unashamedly. I loved them dearly and gave them as much as I could in time and attention and a few meaty treats every now and again. Every time I ordered something, they rushed over to me as I opened the box because they knew that I would always order something for them as well even if it were only a greenie. They were so easy to please and it made me happy to see them happy.
Hence, if it makes you happy to throw them a birthday bash then go for it. They will love you regardless. Have a blast and take plenty of party pics!
That’s one place where cats have it over dogs, of course: even if there is nothing in the box for them, there is always the box! Sometimes, I can’t get them to play with what’s in the box (when it is for them) because they are fighting over control of the box!
That is a comical and confounding aspect of the cat personality. They are just as happy to play with the container as they are to dip into what is inside for them. My two males liked peeing on the box but they quickly lost interest when the “goodies” were taken out and opened. Its funny how different the animals react to toys, treats, and containers. Not only does it provide them with hours of entertainment but we also benefit by their easy go nature.
Best of all, many things come in interesting (i.e. “box”) packages, so the fun is endless!
I knkow pets like music so I sing “Happy Birthday” to my little birdies and they seem to love it — of course I have to sing it over and over again — and of course, I make it a point to spend more “Face Time” with them on special days. — I know they love Christmas because they seem to like the blinking lights and the Christmas Music.
My boys would like the little birdies…! They seem immune to the joys of birdsong, unless it is to locate where the bird is, and I don’t let them do their kitty thing with birds. (I know they’d go rogue if I let them…!)
Give them a birthday party, Weggieboy! I think both you and the kitties will have a really swell time if you do. (Buy a small cake and have the bakery put the outline of a kitty on it and stick one candle in it for each kitty you have — and just have fun with the kitties. That’s what I would do.
I think the groomer makes pet treats that could serve this purpose if I think of it in time to ask. If not, I will be taking the boys in for a spa day July 2nd, and maybe that’ll trigger the thought.
Excellent idea. 🙂
See Anarette’s suggestion to donate to a local shelter, an idea I think is the best one yet.
Congratulations to the boys on their upcoming birthday! A new toy or fresh cardboard box?
That would make them happy, for sure!
I don’t know everyone’s birthdays and with 15 cats that would get a little costly and time consuming. I do let them celebrate a couple times a year with extra treats and some new toys.
That’s about the best plan, I think. I lucked out having two from the same litter, plus I knew from the start when they were born. It helps that it is Canada Day, which I tend to remember since Canada and Nebraska came into being in the same year, 1867.
I’ll relate what I do on birthdays. Which here are frequent. I know it’s unanimous that chicken is the treat of choice. So I buy at the dollar store a plastic picnic table cloth, spread it on the living room floor, and buy a bucket of KFC. We have a picnic right there on the floor and everyone get a piece of their own. It’s a great bonding event and yes, I get just right in there and sit with them. At the end I scoop up the plastic cloth and dump it in the garbage. Easy cleanup! It’s a lot of fun to watch the “checking out” of what each other got and preventing the stealing, “Hey your piece is bigger!” 🙂
I have everything but the KFC outlet here! They decided my town didn’t support them enough, and they left. On the other hand, I recently started feeding the boys a meat only premium cat food that is chicken. It even smells yummy! Maybe I can feed them that instead of that with dry food in between.
No No! That’s cheating. I’m sure there is a place you can get a roast chicken. The fun is giving them a whole piece, bone in! To watch them revert to their ancestors, tearing meat off the bone. Then playing with the bone like a new toy. 🙂
There is, in fact, a place when I can get a whole roast chicken on Wednesdays, the day that coincidentally is the day they have a whole roast chicken special. I’ll have to give that a thought. I sometimes get that chicken special after my military museum volunteer “work”, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to share some of it with the boys!
There you go! And have your camera at the ready! 🙂
True, and extra lights turned on. I’ve missed many great possible shots for lack of light or because getting up for my camera scared off the little rascals.
I look forward to the carnivorous party shots. 🙂
I’ll try to remember to take those photos. I probably will need to cut the chicken up a lot for them since they are used to food that’s in small chunks or pate form.
Or tear it partially off the bone but leave it attached. Let them find their inner carnivore. 🙂
I think they might be able to eat it that way….
Your such a parent! You have to stop coddling them. They’re growing up. Soon they’ll be dating and borrowing the car. 😀
LOL! Not until they prove to me they know how to drive a standard transmission car and how change tires, the two conditions my Dad put on me!
LOL Fair enough. 🙂
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That’s phenomenal! How fun!!!!
I think we just came up with a birthday plan for the boys!
It really is! There is something about watching a mini carnivore eviscerate a drumstick. 😀
There’s a hint of sabre tooth tiger in the smallest and cutest of pussycats. That is for sure!
LOL 😀
It’s hard not to spoil them everyday,I find myself wanting to do
That’s the problem, eh!? If every day is special, no day is special, in some sense.
I make a cake with dry food and wet food and give presents! 🙂
That’s do-able! I don’t have any presents arrange at this point, and couldn’t get them in time for the big day, but they do get a trip to their groomer the day after their birthday, sort of a kitty spa day for them PLUS they get a hair trim that should make them more comfortable in hot weather.
Buy them their special treat (tuna water if that is for them a special treat) and that’s it. I do not even know the exact day my two were born. FunTom was thought to be born in May 2005 – so he turned 10 this year – and I did nothing to celebrate it. In August my little one will be 6 – but as August ist another estimation, I do not have an exact day. The tom was 6 months when they cought him at the farm he lived at (to castrate him to get him back there, but they never did, as he turned out to have a skin disease and the farmer would not have treated him for that, he never returned). And my little one was caught with 7 months, as a feral. Together with at least one sister.
I didn’t know when my cat Louie the ginger cat was born since he was a rescue cat, so I always celebrated his birthday as November 1, which was the closest date to when he came home with me that I could remember. The boys, on the other hand, had a specific and known birthday, and I found that out ewarly on. They also had one sibling dead at birth and a brother and sister that ended up in a home in South Dakota. Apparently, from what I’ve heard, the brother and sister aren’t best buddies like Andy and Dougy. I got Andy first, then Dougy, when the person who had their mother noted Dougy and Andy played well together. SHe offered me Dougy as well, and, since I’d planned on finding a second kitten to be Andy’s buddy, this worked out even more agreeably! Aside from the two being sweet-dispositioned kitties, they are pretty, fun, ornery companions of each other and me.