My Secret Paws gifts arrived over the weekend, and I was quite excited! In case you don’t know what this is, the cat blogging community does a “Secret Santa” sort of gift exchange every year, only it’s called Secret Paws. We have different partners each year, both for giving and receiving.
This year, I got a package from the critters from Broken Teepee — kitties Sherpa and Harry, bunny Cappuccino, a variety of ducks and chickens, plus the human in charge of the blog! They all live on a farm in Montana.
Look at all the presents here! It’s pretty awesome, especially considering that my human and I agreed not to give each other gifts this year.
Right on top was this awesome catnip fish. I gave it a bunch of licks before my human handed it over to Boodie. Mainly because I know she’ll drool all over it. I mean Boodie, not my human.
There were more toys too — appropriately, a bunny, a chick and a duck! The bunny bears quite a resemblance to Cappuccino. Plus a tube of primo catnip.
And look who showed up… just in time to check out the treats! We got two huge bags of freeze dried chicken! Like, really huge! And yes, we got some right away.
My human got a bar of goat’s milk soap. They used to have goats on the farm, and they still have some of their awesome soap.
She also got this book, Mr. Waffles Loves Design, featuring one of the cats I follow on Instagram.
Thank you to everyone at Broken Teepee for these fun gifts! My human was also excited about the box because she needed one exactly this size so we could send our Secret Paws gifts to our recipient! This saves her a trip to the post office.



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What a nice box of gifts and what a nice box too
those are most pawesome prezzies!!
Beautiful thoughtful gifts, so nice. Enjoy sweet Summer and Boodie!
Wishing you lots of fun with the new toys.x
Great gifts Summer.
Great to see Boodie! She is looking pretty!
Oh my what a wonderful box of fun you got from your Secret Santa friends! Lucky you and lucky Boodie as well sharing all the goodness.
Hugs, Teddy
Whoa, what a pawsome package. Full of goodies for you and Boodie to enjoy. Happy Holidays to your Mom.
Let us know what kind of catnip that is! It’s oj my Xmas list!!
Purrz!
Selina
how fun! You received some very nice pressies, Summer! you are lucky to be able to open them before CHristmas. everything came in a very nice box – too bad you couldn’t have hung on to that longer 😉
minnie, hollie, sharpie, ditto, TL
So many pawsome presents!
What fun! It’s too bad you don’t get to keep the box, though.
WOW! You and your human both scored. Those are great gifts.
Great gifts, Summer. I know you deserved every one. Enjoy the new toys!!
Wow secret paws sounds fun!
And it goes without saying that your friends are lucky to have you and your Mom as friends too!
You are so lucky to have such awesome friends!
Those really are super nice goodies and it’s nice to see Boodie in line for the treats!
Those are great gifts, box included ! Purrs
Those are all lovely gifts, and those treats sound very tasty too.
Whoa! You guys scored getting your gifts from the farm! TW loves her soaps and was just wondering if her shop was still open. We finally mailed our package yesterday. I think TW went cheap this year but hope the kitty/kitties like them.
What a lovely box! The Broken Teepee tribe are such nice folks & creatures!
Cool gifts and the drool joke made us giggle!!!!
Wow, lots of great gifts! So glad you got to lick the catnip fishy before it went to Boodie. Hope you, Boodie and your human have a wonderful holiday.
That is a really nice set of gifts you received. Boodie
certainly knows when to show up. Obviously, she is tuned
in to what’s happening. How exciting.
I loved seeing your gifts and seeing Boodie!
Awesome package! Glad to have that rare “Boodie Sighting”!
Enjoy!
Purrz!
Selina
That looks like a great Santa Paws gift pack. We used to do it years ago and then we had a really bad experience and stopped. Maybe we should start again next year.
Purrs,
Tama and Genji
Wow, that’s some good stuff, Summer!
I had a quick image of your person drooling over that catnip toy…LOL!
What a pawsome Secret Paws package!!! This is one of our favorite parts of the season, but I always make Mudpie wait until Christmas morning. I’m mean like that LOL
Those are some great gifts! We heard Sherpa even sent some spit along with with that catnip fish.
Pretty cool gifts! And we so love those freeze dried chickens! We always have some on hand. Woohoo! Purrs
Great Secret Paw package. We’re glad your human didn’t drool on that toy!
The Florida Furkids
Heeeeee
OMC! Great gifts! Love all the little farm animal toys!
What fun!
You got so many nice gifts!. An exchange is a great idea. Enjoy those freats!
What fun! Our human lady did a secret Santa at work and one of the fun things she got was “crazy cat lady” Band-Aids MOL!!
Oh boy! Those are some pretty cool gifts!
We think you and Boodie will have some fun playing and snacking 😉
Purrs,Georgia and Julie
Wow! Summer that’s some great gifts!
Ooh, how exciting! What nice gifts! And the box it all came in is just icing on the cake!