Coming soon: 2010 Calendar!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by janine

Believe it or not, the idea for menandcats.com started out as the idea to make a calendar of men and cats, but somehow along the way, it morphed into a blog.

However, PUPP needs funding to help kickstart all our great programs which help people by helping pets! So, menandcats.com is going to create a 2010 calendar with proceeds going to PUPP. As an added bonus, the calendars will contain photos not seen on the website. They will be available before the end of the year, hopefully no later than December 1st (these will make great holiday gifts!)

If you want to contribute a photo to the calendar, send an e-mail to janine at menandcats dot com with the subject “calendar photo.” Please include the first name of the man and cat(s) and your name as you’d like it to appear in the credit. I will notify you if your photo is chosen for inclusion.

All photographers will receive credit for their work, this is a great opportunity for national exposure and will be helping out a great cause!

Cute kitties to cheer you up

Posted on September 11, 2009 by janine

Here in New York, it’s a gray, rainy, day full of sad memories… Need some cheering up? Check out Dreaming of Kittens, a website full of pictures of sleepy kitties.

“Who or what is Ugly Bat Boy?”

Posted on July 31, 2009 by janine

Last night, I went to the World Famous Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan’s in Brooklyn, accompanied by my husband and some friends. Imagine my pleasant surprise when the very first question was “Who or what is Ugly Bat Boy?” I got (probably a little too) excited, because not only did I know the answer, I had blogged about Ugly Bat Boy on this very website! (The answer, of course, is “World’s Ugliest Cat.”)

The host of the pub quiz, Scott, announced that he was obsessed with Ugly Bat Boy, which I appreciated. I told him about menandcats.com and he was kind enough to mention it during the evening. I tried to impress my trivia team with even MORE Ugly Bat Boy trivia (“He lives in New Hampshire!”) but alas, Scott and I may have been the only two people present who were obsessed with the alleged world’s ugliest cat.

Ugly Bat Boy in his full glory

Dear Thurston,

Posted on July 20, 2009 by janine

A typical view of Thurston upon waking up

Dear Thurston, I love you beyond 100%, I truly do. It doesn’t bother me much when you poke your head around the book I’m trying to read, or drape yourself across my neck while I’m trying to sleep, or greet me in the morning eyeball-to-eyeball. I don’t even really mind when you use my rear end as a pillow and sleep on it when I’m sleeping. But Thurst, really, do you have to jump EVERY time the air conditioning cycles on? At least you’re not constantly licking your belly any more, but still, you have been living with this A/C unit for a number of years now. And when you are sleeping on top of me, and I’m asleep, and you jump 3 feet in the air, well, it startles me too. Also, I would think you’d be used to my sneezing by now – and as I always point out to you, you sneeze too. And yet every time I sneeze, you go running as if a volcano has erupted. Well, I guess you’ll always be my delicate, sensitive Thurston – and I will keep trying, in vain, to explain things to you like sneezing and air conditioning. Love, Cat-mom

Hot cat!

Posted on March 3, 2009 by janine

Charley and Thurston both like a good warm spot, but Charley can really take it to the extreme. He likes to lie directly ON the radiator when it’s on, getting himself as hot as possible – and looking mighty annoyed when the radiator turns itself off. If it’s off, he often sits right under a lamp and sticks his face as close to the bulb as possible. Charley was sticking his head under the lamp this evening – despite the fact that it’s NOT cold in here, and I am always cold, so if I say it’s not cold, it’s truly not – when my husband had a brilliant idea. We have a microwavable heat-pack that one can use to apply heat to sore muscles; the husband suggested microwaving it, putting the cover on it, and placing it in Charley’s cat bed for him to sit on. I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that before! Of course, we tried it immediately, and right away Charley LOVED it. Normally he’s a total cuddle-bug with his brother, but he refused to let Thurston into the cat bed so he could hog the heated bed all to himself. He looked like the happiest cat alive in the history of cats. Eyes closed, purring his head off, sitting on his nice warm heated pad until he fell fast asleep. Now THAT is a pampered pet!