Welcome! Not only is it my tenth birthday, we are also celebrating Cat World Domination Day! Today we get to enjoy the fruits of our labors now that we cats have totally taken over! I have garden-fresh catnip sprig appetizers for everyone!
We shall start off with cocktails. My mixologist designed these Niphitos especially for my soirée.
We are having a formal meal. The first course is clam chowder, New England style, of course.
Next up is a warm salmon salad. I am sure it will please your palate.
The main course is chicken thighs with mushroom crème sauce. I hope you like the dinnerware — I pulled out my finest crystal and China for this event.
Because dinner was so formal, I though I would plan something fun for dessert — freshly hand-whipped, unsweetened whipped cream, right off the beaters!
Because, by some strange coincidence, Cat World Domination Day coincides with my birthday, I have some presents to open up!
It’s a Cheese Chase toy!
Everyone is welcome to give it a try!
Let’s see what the other gift is…
It’s an awesome new cat bed!
I will have to give a try later because the real celebration starts now!
I’ve completely emptied my toy box! Everyone’s favorites are here!
It is also time for my giveaway! As I mentioned on Friday, I have two prizes for those of you in the U.S. One is this awesome basket of goodies, and the other is a surprise package of swag from the BlogPaws conference — my human is bringing that home today. Each winner also gets to choose a 501(c)3 cat rescue, and my human will donate $25 to them both! All you have to do to enter is comment below and tell me the rescue where you want your donation to go! There are a couple more options if you want a greater chance to win.
(If you can’t see the above widget, click here to go to the post on my home blog to enter.)
Because of the weight, it would be way too expensive to ship these packages internationally, but I do want to have a giveaway for readers in other countries, so if you give me the name of your favorite rescue in your country, my human will give them US $50 in your name! Enter below only if you are an international (non-US) resident:
(If you can’t see the above widget, click here to go to the post on my home blog to enter.)
Both giveaways will last all week. You can enter until 12:01 AM Eastern Time, July 1. I will announce the winners on Monday, July 2! Good luck everybody and I hope you enjoyed my party!
Happy bday SPARKLE!! Hope your day was catstacular, awesome, fantastic, and just super!
I hope you had a fabulous birthday Sparkle. If I win, then I would like the donation to go to the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association.
Hapoy glorious birthday!!! Rescue house in San Diego has already helped us out this year when we found teenagers giving away kittens that were too young away outside a local grocery store… We love rescue house!!
Happy Birthday Sparkle! I wish I would wear my age so well.
Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary
please send to the rescue agency I came from: Brown County Humane Society New Ulm, MN
Happy Belated Birthday!! Hope you had a purrrrfect day!!
West Palm Beach Peggy Adams is where we got our little kitty from! They do a great job for the homeless animals http://www.hspb.org/
Happy Birthday Sparkle!
Happy Belated B-Day! I see you had a grand time. Meow!
If I’m the lucky winner, I’d like the donation to go to No Kill Louisville: http://www.nokill-louisville.com/
Happy birthday Sparkles
Humane Society of Whitley County
http://www.hswc.org
We are big supporters of Cats Cradle Animal Rescue: http://www.catscradleanimalrescue.com/Default.aspx
Happy Belated Birthday.
We thinks The Animal Education and Protection Association is a worthy rescue in need of donations. http://www.animalprotectionms.com/
Oh and our rescue would be Rocky Moutain Siamese Rescue!
Happy Purrthday Sparkle! Those are some awesome prizes and some wonderful gifts you received!
Happy Belated Birthday.
We thinks http://www.animalprotectionms.com/ AEPA (Animal Education and Protection Association) is a worthy rescue in need of donations.
Hapy Birthday Sparkle. What fabulous presents you got! I would like you to donate it too Blind Cat Rescue if I win. thank you.
http://blindcatrescue.com/
Happy belated birthday, Sparkle!! What a great party you had!! I just had a birthday too and it lasted 3 days….but no catnip cocktails….and not as many presents….and no new beds….but really, it was a good one ;-D
Would you please donate to San Diego Humane Society and SPCA? Thank you^^
Austin Pets Alive. Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy birthday Sparkle! You are a cutie patootie!
If we win, we would like the donation to go to Austin Pets Alive! in Austin, Texas 🙂 Thank you for the chance to win!
Happy Birthday Sparkle!!! Sorry I am a little late but down here in FL me & my kitties were flooded in (with no power) cuz of the Tropical Storm Debby! All is well now though & we even took in two refugee kitties because one of our friends homes did get flooded & she had no where to go to take her babies! We love your blog & thank you for the awesome giveaway! If we win we would like the donation to go to The Little Cats Rescue in New Port Richey, FL.
Thanks & hope you had an awesome party! 🙂
Please pardon our tardiness in wishing you a Happy Birthday Sparkle, but our human had some lame excuse about flying from Salt Lake City to Fort Lauderale on your special day and was totally overcome with exhaustion and jet lag. Thank goodness she was able to manage to feed us dinner, or there would have been heck to pay!!
Anyhow, as always, cats rule and we hope you had a wonderful day!!!
Meows from Zee, Zoey, Mia, Peanut, Rolz, Harley, and Jazz
Happy Birthday!
Hearts United for Animals!
Happy birthday, Sparkle!
I would contribute to http://www.catposse.org/ in Pasadena, CA.
Happy Birthday, Sparkle and I would like the donation to go to the Franklin County Humane Society a local organization that receives no government or state funding.
just catching up on my blog follows, and so sorry sweet furriend, but I think I did not comment yesterday when Mom first opened your bloggy posting…and of course, I DID NOT FORGET it was your B-Day…but Mom forgot to input my comments. sheesh
Anyways, furlfurriend, I so admire you style, your grace and your composure…you are my role model for all that us furl cats can be…sending you lots of paw pats, Savannah
Texarkana Animal Shelter
We never got on the computer yesterday so I missed this. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVED the photos! Haddie LOVES the cheese chaser (though hers isn’t as fancy pants!).
What a lucky girl you are with a multiple course bday meal!
🙂
Happy Birthday, Miss S!
Happy Birthday!
I’d love a donation to Colony Cats & Dogs – http://www.colonycats.org in Columbus, OH! I volunteer there and love the work they do!
Happy Birthday Sparkle!! All of us felines here wish you the very best on your special day. We hope you have loads of fun with your new gifties. We know you will be around to celebrate many more of your 9 lives so celebrate in style. Maybe you can let our human know how to grow some of that beautiful fresh nip! We want niphitas, too!!!
All the best,
Tanner, Lizzie, Cleo, Ozzie and Cookie
I’d like you to donate to Charleston Animal Society
N. Charleston
2dogs5catscrew@att.net
Happy Birthday Sparkle!
Would love to see a donation go to Purrs and Paws in Lake George, NY – a no kill rescue shelter in upstate NY.
Happy birthday, Sparkle!! You’ve got such nice presents yay!
Happy Birthday (belatedly, my apologies), Sparkle!
I would choose my charity to be the Humane Society of Huron Valley (not affiliated with the USHS). http://www.hshv.org
Thanks!
Happy Birthday Sparkle!
Happy Birthday Sparkle!!! We hope you have many more!!!