The Scratching Post
January 2026

Hi Furriends! Happy New Year to you!

We hope there were no big, scary boomy noises around where you live. There were some by us. Mom can’t figure out where people get so many of them! They go off so many times during the year. Don’t these humans run out of monies?? How can they still hear even??

We hope all our furry and not furry furriends had nice holidays. We hope Santa Paws brought you toys and treats. Mom’s Catmas trees stayed up the whole entire time (yay). Nobody here ate it all, and nobody knocked it down! It’s an unbelievable miracle…nine cats and Catmas trees remain upright all season long (MOL).

Santa Paws didn’t bring us much. But we got some ham treats that Mom let us have. That was yummy in our tummies. The outside critters got some too, so they had a nice holiday treat.

This was Stetson’s first holiday with us. He is probably the reason we didn’t get any gifts this year. He has been so naughty since he’s been inside! He has been jumping on Mom’s bookshelf…so has Acorn, but Stetson went to the tip top shelf and broke a frame. He gets litter all over the place because he just diggy digs even if he doesn’t use it. He climbs all over Mom when she’s trying to leave. Just a naughty Stetson. Maybe he’ll learn better for next year, and Santa Paws will come back and visit us. We want more than just dumb old hammies for Catmas.

Next year we are writing a list of what we want and sending Mom with it to see Santa!

For our New Year’s, we hope we get to see some new outside critters! We’re getting bored with the same ones all the time. We want to eat new treat flavors too. We don’t all always eat our treats in the morning because some of us are so bored with the flavors. We need some variety in our lives in the new year!

Til Next Time,
All of Us
(except naughty, stinky Stetson)