I got a package from Jake and Bathsheba yesterday night!!!!!!!!! I was VERY excited, but there is a process to opening packages. You can't just RIP INTO them. That would be very undignified.
First, you have to sniff. This is the only way to tell if there are suspishus things inside, like other cats, or GREAT things, like FOODS! 
After you make sure that there is nothing scary or nothing that you don't want to share, you can let other cats in your house, like little orange sisters, sniff it too. Even though it is YOUR present, and not hers. Because maybe you are just REALLY NICE like that. 
After the sniffing is done, you might want to just get comfortable on the present. Sometimes, the best part of the present is the box itself! (You can also see my big whisker humps and my very long whiskers here.) 
And always remember to make sure to remind everyone that the present is FOR YOU AND NOT THEM. 
Anyway, after all of that, you can open the box! Inside mine was a Drinkwell Fountain to help with me pee problems, and Bathsheba even signed it on the bottom! (She can do that because she has so many extra toes) 
There was also a bag of TEMTAYSHUNS!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Temtayshuns. I was able to get them out of the box before Sophie saw them, too, but my Person says I have to share with her anyway. 
I don't think I should have to, though, because Sophie really wanted to play in the box my presents came in, so I let her have it.
She likes to eat newspaypurs and chew on weird things, and there was lots of newspaypurs in the box, so it was a great size - and snack! - for a Sophie! 
THANK YOU, JAKE AND BATHSHEBA!!!!!
Ever since the new person that lives with my Person came to live with us (Sophie calls her the "scayree laydee who loves me a LOT"), interesting things have been appearing in the apartment. First it was that great bed for me and now it is this:
I am not exactly sure what it is, but I am pretty sure that it is a present for me and Sophie. I think that Sophie looks very proper sitting underneath this thing so maybe it is a girl cat thing that I do not understand. Anyway, when it showed up Sophie was very quick to jump under it without even inspecting AT ALL! So I had to check it out to make sure that everything was okay, because that is what a good big brother does.
You can see that my tail is a little bushy, because the thing might have been vishus. You can also see that Sophie looks very confused. This is because inspecting and patrolling are man cat things to do, and since I do them, Sophie never has to. 
It turned out there was no need to worry. After closer inspection I decided that the thing was NOT vishus, and Sophie sat under it for a long time. What do you guys think it is? Since it is RIGHT outside Sophie's pink cat box, I think it might actually be a present for me - a sheeld to protect me from the litter that she shakes off of her paws and that she kicks out of the box. And if you remember that day when all the poops got on the wall, you will know that I really do need a sheeld! It is also right under the cat tv, and so it might be a thing for cats to sit under when other cats are watching the cat tv. That way if some cats don't feel like watching right then, the episohds will not be ruined for them and they can watch later!This was the good part of my post. Now for the bad part: I am going to have to go to the VETS soon. I peed on the chair TWICE this week and my Person is real worried because before I came to live with her I had lots of problems with my yurinerry trakt and blocks. I don't know what a yurinerry trakt is, but it means I can't eat dry foods very often, and I also can't play with blocks, because if I get a block it makes the pees not come. Anyway, I tried to remind her that peeing on things is just what I DO - like the couch that I used to pee on sometimes - but she is still worried because she can't remember the last time I peed in a place I was not supposed to more than once in a week. So now we are going to the VETS. And I HATE THE VETS. And thinking about GOING to the VETS just makes me want to PEE MORE. I will be sure to let you know how it goes. Hopefully it will be good for me and bad for the VETS!
After you make sure that there is nothing scary or nothing that you don't want to share, you can let other cats in your house, like little orange sisters, sniff it too. Even though it is YOUR present, and not hers. Because maybe you are just REALLY NICE like that. 
After the sniffing is done, you might want to just get comfortable on the present. Sometimes, the best part of the present is the box itself! (You can also see my big whisker humps and my very long whiskers here.) 
And always remember to make sure to remind everyone that the present is FOR YOU AND NOT THEM. 
Anyway, after all of that, you can open the box! Inside mine was a Drinkwell Fountain to help with me pee problems, and Bathsheba even signed it on the bottom! (She can do that because she has so many extra toes) 
There was also a bag of TEMTAYSHUNS!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Temtayshuns. I was able to get them out of the box before Sophie saw them, too, but my Person says I have to share with her anyway. 
I don't think I should have to, though, because Sophie really wanted to play in the box my presents came in, so I let her have it. 
THANK YOU, JAKE AND BATHSHEBA!!!!!
