Putting on the pink for Skeezix

Today the Cat Blogosphere is going pink in honor of Skeezix. I would change my template to pink, but I'm not confident I would ever get it back right again. So my text is pink instead. Skeezix, you are missed...

And in keeping with the pink theme we're also posting pictures of Huggy Bear's favorite pink friend -- pink mouse:


Huggy Bear loved pink mouse the most. He didn't care if people say pink is for girls -- this was HIS mouse. 


Sometimes he would share pink mouse with Josie (but you can see Huggy Bear snoopervising way in the background).


You can see how he loved all the feathers off pink mouse's tail.


Eventually pink mouse was loved a little too much... We need a new pink mouse, but Target doesn't carry it anymore and we can't find it. This makes us sad.

Found the tail

Some were concerned that the tail from the new pink mouse disappeared so quickly. Well, Josie did not eat it, but she did bring it to Dad tonight. Maybe it was in response to him packing again. I think she may have been offering it so he would stay. But Mom and Dad have a family reunion to go to in Portsmouth, Ohio. And Dad's parents and sister are coming too. We'd go too, but the drive is way too long for us.

Hunting new pink mouse

We got our new pink mouse in the mail the other day from Caren and Cody.


Huggy Bear had a few seconds to inspect it before Josie claimed the fuzzier one.


As you can see, Josie wasted no time grabbing the mouse and running off with it. So quick she almost missed the picture.


She took it downstairs to whap it around a little.


And then she pounced it real good. She was really after the tail.


Maggie wanted a turn, but I don't think she ever got a try.


This is a very happy Josie with a new fuzzy pink mouse.

The next morning the mouse was back upstairs, in one of Dad's shoes, minus a tail. We haven't seen the tail since.

Thankful Thursday

Thanks so much to Caren and Cody from Cat Chat! They read my post about our pink mouse and were so kind to send us two new pink mice. They have been a big hit. Josie wasted no time claiming the fluffier of the two. She grabbed it in her mouth and carried it downstairs where she could hunt it in piece. She tossed it around and pounced it and threw it -- all the things that pink mice are best at. We have pictures, but they'll be up another night. Thanks again Caren and Cody! We love our new pink mice.

Pink mouse

Target used to have this awesome pink mouse toy. It was our favorite of all the mouse toys we've ever had. Recently pink mouse had to go away. We had loved it so much that we were getting the stuffing out of it and that just wasn't safe.


Here's Huggy Bear in a fuzzy picture with pink mouse. I had no idea this was from 2007 until I went to get it.


Josie and Huggy Bear played with pink mouse the most, hunting it and loving it to pieces (literally). We really wish Target still carried pink mouse. Searching the internet for "pink mouse" doesn't really get you very far. We've gotten other mouse toys since then, and they're OK, but they aren't like pink mouse.

Mancat Monday

Even a Mancat can be sad when an old favorite toy has seen it's last day. Pink mouse was hunted a lot, and provided hours and hours of entertainment for Huggy Bear, as well as the rest of us. But it was Huggy Bear's mouse. Unfortunately, it was losing it's stitches, and started to be more of a hazard, so pink mouse had to go.


Huggy Bear said his final farewell. But fear not, I think a trip to Target may net a new pink mouse soon.


Pink mouse about to lose it's insides.


The eye came off pretty early in the play, but the loss of the ear was the final blow.

RIP Pink Mousie October 2007 - November 2007

Josie's dear friend pink mousie passed last night. He and Josie spent many hours playing and having a good time. Unfortunately he suffered a fatal seam blowout, and then Josie's dad stepped on him. He will be missed. Rest in peace little pink one.