The Scratching Post
February 2026

Hi Pals!
  Happy Pawlentine’s Day everyone. We hope your humans get you a special Pawlentine’s treat and extra loving.

Mabel here…and I have had the worst time lately. I have had the sneezes for months! Mom keeps getting mad because I’m getting Mabel snot everywhere. I can’t help it. I don’t know how to use a tissue.

Mom finally took me to the v.e.t a few weeks ago. Not my favorite place, but at least the man that looks at us is really nice. Now Mom has to give me this yukky, terrible tasting medicine every day. Mom knows it’s terrible because I saw her taste it (MOL). What a weirdo.

She has been trying to make me better. She follows me around with this thing called a vaporizer. She doesn’t get the hint that I don’t want to smell that thing all the time!
Then she gets mad that I want to sleep in the window...tells me that it’s too cold for me in there. Well, that’s where the sun beams are. I can’t help that. So what if it’s freezing cold outside…the sun makes it warmer (a little bit warmer).

BoyCat went with to the doctor just to get an old man checkup. I don’t understand how he could be so calm and quiet the whole time! I find that to be absolutely insane. He didn’t make a peep. So I was loud enough for both of us. Geez.

I hissed at everyone. I don’t really know what that means. I just know I’m supposed to do it when I’m mad. But even though I was hissing nobody was leaving me alone. I guess they didn’t know what it means either. At least the other cats here leave me alone when I hiss at them. That just shows how stupid the humans are…they don’t even know what we’re saying when we’re trying to talk to them.

Dummies. And they say they wish we could talk to them.
We do! They just don’t listen.

Til Next Month,
Mabel
(and nobody else)