He may not have been named for a sweet snack, but Oreo certainly is one smart cookie! This unique catblogger is a songwriter and explorer from Hardy, Virginia. He enjoys reading with his momma, sleeping, eating, and killing rodents.

In one entry, the brave Oreo told of his heroic battle - with a 4-foot-long black snake - that was cruelly interrupted by his well-meaning momma. In another, he writes a sensitive ballad about bugs, along with pictures of the objects of his inspiration. Almost every update is adorned with photographic details, such as stories about his adventures outdoors and even his meetings with strange beings such as a giant mouse! True to his feline nature, he also has a bit of a naughty streak, which he is not ashamed to share. You’ll just have to read it for yourself at his site!

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I was NOT named for a cookie!!! RIGHT?

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Today is National Hairball Awareness Day, so it is the duty of all cats to make their humans aware of hairballs. Did you know that humans can get hairballs?

According to Wikipedia’s entry about Hair Balls:

Although uncommon in humans, some hairballs have been reported, often in young girls as a result of trichotillomania and pica. In 2003, a 3-year old girl in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada had a grapefruit-sized hairball surgically removed from her stomach and in 2004, an 18-year old woman from McAdam, New Brunswick, Canada had a 5-lb hairball surgically removed from her lower intestine. Hairballs can be quite hazardous in humans, since hair cannot be digested or passed by the human gastrointestinal system, and (assuming it is identified) even vomiting may be ineffective at removing the hair mass. This can result in the general impairment of the digestive system.

Be sure to tell your human about all the ways that they can prevent hair balls, especially all the methods that work best for you! Here are some tips recommended by the Catnabbit! Cats:

1. Brush your human’s hair every day, or more frequently if they have long hair. This is the perfect time to pay them back for all those loving evenings of grooming with a fine-toothed wire brush.

2. Make your human take a laxative (like mineral oil, laxatone, or petroleum jelly for cats) if they get constipated and can’t pass their hairball.

3. Remind your human to eat lots of grass or catnip every day. This will help keep hairballs from getting stuck somewhere in your system. Humans really don’t like to eat grass, but you must insist that this is for their health and prevention of hairballs!

4. If your human has long hair, the only solution might be to get a haircut. Cats with hair only 1-2 inches long don’t get as many hairballs as cats with longer hair, so recommend that your human gets his hair cut to 1-2 inches length.

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Over 1 million cats decried an obscure magazine today after it issued a cartoon depicting a human, an unholy Vacuum Cleaner, and a cat. This latest installment in “The Cartoon Wars” comes after a long line of caricatures of religious, political, and other entities in offensive imagery.

The Cartoon Wars have been a hot topic this year, sparking world-wide debate on wheter there should be limits on free speech where other cultures may be offended. Most recently, an Oregon student newspaper published images of a Christian deity in artwork which could be considered blasphemous mostly by humans, but also by some cats who might practice in the Christian religion.

The Vacuum Cleaner is an unholy Beast which terrorizes all houses, apartments, condos, and other homes at least twice per week. In some unfortunate circumstances, the home’s Beast may reveal itself more frequently, especially if the house is occupied by a “neat freak” or an especially messy individual. Long-haired cats seem to be plagued by more visits from the unholy Vacuum Cleaner, although short-haired cats are far from exempt from such unholy terrors. In fact, there have been several instances where cats have been eaten by a hungry Vacuum Cleaner. The horrendous Vacuum Beast is a dangerous force which should not be approached under any circumstances — especially when it is awake.

Cats worldwide rioted after hearing of this blasphemous depiction. The casualties so far are as follows:

Carpets urinated on: 9,321
Humans rudely awoken: 3,566
Couches shredded: 1,329
Litter boxes overturned: 893
Wedding rings tossed under the fridge: 94
Important papers chewed up: 32
Dogs bitten: 2

Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do. — Lee Entrekin

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