The World Is Your Litter Box Deluxe Edition: Like Cats Need More Help!

With whiskerslist coming out next week, I'm reluctant to even tell you about this book. Like our cats need any more ammunition! The World is Your Litter Box Deluxe Edition is a book by Quasi (with minor help from Steve Fisher), who is a feline expert on his own kind, and willingly shares how-to advice for other cats who wish to manage their human better and enjoy cat life to the fullest!

This deluxe edition includes the original version of The World is Your Litter Box, along with six chapters from The World is Still Your Litter Box. But wait, there's more! You'll also find some of the funniest posts from Quasi's blog.


If your cats manage to get their paws on this book, they can expect to learn a few things. Here are the pages that were dog-eared (ha) by little paws in my house:

• How to Get Away With Unacceptable Kitty Behavior
• 20 Things Cats Don't Have to Do
• How to Get Food Anytime You Want
• 20 Good Places to Throw Up
• How to Wake Your Human From the Deepest Sleep
• How to Get Attention When It's Convenient For You
• 20 Good Places to Hide

There's much more, but these are apparently the ones my cats found especially interesting. This, my friends, worries me. Not only are they logging onto my computer, now they're engaging in book research! I think I'm in trouble.

Saffy pretends she wasn't reading the book. She's a terrible liar.

This book was a fun read and definitely a great gift for any cat lover in your life ... or for you! But I'd suggest reading it in an undisclosed location. You don't want your cats getting their mitts on it!

The World is Your Litter Box Deluxe Edition, by Quasi (with minor help from Steve Fisher) is available on Amazon.


 

It's a whiskerslist: the kitty classifieds Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN SATURDAY, SEP. 7'S POST!

Please note qualification changes!

It's finally here! My first book, whiskerslist: the kitty classifieds's official release date is this Tuesday, September 3! Amazon's been filling orders for two weeks, so some readers have already received theirs, but it will be available at other retailers this Tuesday!

The book, whiskerslist, (yes, it's all lowercase) is a parody of craigslist (yes, it's all lowercase ... get it?). It's nearly 200 posts that cats may write for a craigslist-type site. These frisky, freewheeling felines are looking for dates and hookups. They want to buy and sell crappy toys and rent sink space. They're offering classes in hairball crafting and even looking for comrades to help them crash the Westminster Dog Show.

Many Catladyland readers contributed photos to the book -- thank you! You helped make it awesomely silly and completely fun!

I'll be visiting some bookstores, cat shows and radio programs for signings, interviews and readings. Here's a list of what's to come (so far). I hope you'll come out and say hi and help spread the word to anyone you know that lives in one of those areas!

Please note: the book is PG-13ish. It's not really a young kids' book. Like craigslist, some of the material is a little racy, but it's not offensive ... at least I don't think so.

We've already gotten some really positive reviews on Amazon, and Jackson Galaxy (My Cat from Hell and Cat Daddy), Francesco Marciuliano (I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems By Cats) and Yasmine Surovec (Cat vs. Human) all gave fantastic advance praise! I'm so grateful!

Oh, and now there's a whiskerslist site! Your cat can actually create postings and comment on other cats' posts. There are some really funny ones so far!

And don't forget to like whiskerslist on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Would you like to win a copy? We're giving away a copy of whiskerslist: the kitty classifieds to three lucky Catladyland readers!

How to qualify:
Leave a comment on this post, telling us what your cat would post on whiskerlist. Would he or she sell the dog? Find a job at a catnip farm? Buy used Q-tips? This will get you ONE entry.

If you'd like to double your chances, hop over to the whiskerslist site and actually create the post (it can be simple -- you don't need a logon), tell me you made the post in a comment here.  It's not necessary in order to qualify  -- you can simply leave a comment. Leave your email address (we need to be able to contact you). Please do all of this by Friday, September 6, 2013 at noon, CDT.

The whiskerslist team will choose the three winners via an online random number generator.

If we cannot contact you within 48 hours of the notification email, we will choose another winner.

One entry per person.

Contest subject to change.

Thank you, good luck, and THANK YOU for all the support!

xo
Angie

Minneapolis Internet Cat Video Festival: I Felt Like Paparazzi ... With a Significantly Less-Cool Camera

Last night I attended the 2013 Internet Cat Video Fest, which is right in my backyard here in Minnesota. I attended last year's as well and was eager to see how this one stacked up. I was one of the 20 jurors for the fest and was reporting for both Catster and BlogPaws so I got to wear this cool media badge. This allowed me to wander almost anywhere, which was pretty swell. I felt like paparazzi, except with a significantly less-cool camera. Speaking of cameras, a huge thank you to my guy for being the staff photographer!

Here are some of the highlights!

The venue was the Grandstand at the fair, which would hold more that The Walker's field from last year. The attendance was just under 10,000, which was a little less than last year. I think it's because last year was free and this year we had to pay to get into the fair ($10 with library card discount!) and to get into the event ($10).

I met some awesomely cat-centric people! It was like a huge feline costume party!

Oh, man -- you have to know these guys. They are Bryan and Neil of Koo Koo Kangaroo, one of the local bands who opened up for the festival. Catladyland readers will love them because they are our brand of silly! They sing about other stuff, but performed some top-notch cat-themed tunes for the festival, including my favorite: "I Spent $10,000 on My Cat's Birthday." Go listen to them. Now.

The gopher is not part of their group, but who doesn't want a dapper rodent in their photo?

Oh, and I got to meet Lil Bub again (I met her for the first time at last year's festival). Her human, Mike Bridavsky, told me she was feeling a little overwhelmed and stressed. Poor girl. When she came on stage, the host asked that we not clap or scream because we could scare her. Everyone complied and was respectful. My only bit of irritation from the night was that, at the end of the festival, they set off these crazy-loud fireworks! Poor Bub had barely left the stage! Cats and fireworks don't mix, especially when Bub was already stressed out. I really hope they remove that from the schedule next year.

And guess who else I met? Christopher Torres, creator of our favorite flying Pop Tart of a cat! he was so nice and I left our meeting feeling a little bit hungry for breakfast pastries.

What can I say about Charlie Schmidt, the man behind the legendary Keyboard Cat? He was a total hoot! Love this guy.

Brian Laidlaw and the Family Trade played again. This multi-member group is super-talented and full of bluegrass-goodness. How about you take a listen for yourself?

Last, but not least, Grumpy Cat took the stage with her family. She was just as lovely and indifferent as you'd expect. She and Bub went face-to-face and Bub wasn't especially interested. Tarder won the coveted Golden Kitty award, but I have to give a shout out to my friend Alana Grelyak, whose superbly strange and fantastic video, Catalogue, was featured!

Overall, a great night! Congrats to all!

Wordless Wednesday: Cat Butt

The Finest Jiggle in All the Land

As Cosmo ages, he's developing this fan-damn-tastic jungle pouch that swings when he walks. I love it so much. I want to nap inside that jiggly pouch. It'd be way better than a Sleep Number bed. It would be like napping on a fluffy cloud, while choirs of angels sang and played harps.

Laser Cat Wants Your Food

Saffy is such a food poacher and is constantly looking for ways to jack Cosmo or Phoebe's food. After she's finished polishing off her own chow, she not-so-stealthily sits off and stares at the other cat who's still eating. I left the laser eyes in the pic because, well, the intensity is laser-level, for sure.

The Dog Days of Dating

I don't know, Phoebe ... he looks pretty dapper to me.

Cosmo Visits the Copacabana

I was just skimming through some silly old Catladyland funnies and ran across this completely ridiculous one. It still makes me laugh. A whole lot.

Cats and Ice Cream? What's Better Than That?

As summer comes to a close (I know, shut up), I would like to take this week's Fanglish cat slang post to pay homage to one of my favorite summer treats: ice cream! 

What could be better than cats and ice cream, right? Here are a couple of new terms for you, ice cream-style!


1. Double scoop
A litter-box clump so hefty, that it takes a human two scoops to completely remove it.

Maurice smiled as he watched The Lady remove a double scoop from his litter box .

Photo: Wicker Paradise

2. Awful cone
A collar worn by a cat after surgery (not to be confused with a waffle cone, which is a container for delicious human treats).

When Snowball returned from the vet, Mittens and Maurice laughed at her awful cone.

Photo: Shelly

Click for Past Fanglish lessons

See you next week for another visit into the back alley world of Fanglish!

Doors and the Ultimate Power Play

Why can't cats just choose a side of the door? They meow to go on one side of it and then stand in the very spot that prevents us from closing the door. I don't think they care about what's on the other side of the door -- it's just another power play to show us who's really in charge.