Hello. Ah am Gracie. Ah am one of Sarah’s cats. Ah am one of two girls in this house. Everyone else is a boy.
That is the disgusting.
Here is me. Am Ah not pretty? Ah am pretty. You can send me the tributes. Ah like the Pounce.
Sarah asked me to write the entry today because Ah have not ever done so, despite sitting on many, if not all, of Sarah’s romance novels. Mah Gawd, they are everywhere. Piles of them. Ah like to drape my
hairy backside
– ahem – beautiful puffulous posterior across as many as possible, especially if they are in the sun. The books make mah furs glitter, and Ah hear that is very desirable.
Let us go back a minute. Aren’t Ah pretty? Yes, thank you. Admire Mah
Booty
Beauty.
Anyway, this is my brother, Oliver. Sarah calls him The Diggus. Ah call him The Stupid. He is the very dumb. Oliver and Ah were born in Brooklyn. We are rescue kitties adopted from North Shore Animal League. Sarah adopted us because it was the easiest way she knew of to make sure she and Mah Man didn’t break up when they moved in together. See? Ah am pretty, and Ah am the relationship guarantee, in one pretty furry package.
Then came The Spawn, and his late brother, The Foo. They are rescue kitties, too, from… oh, Ah do not care where they are from, but I wish Spawn would go back there. He is annoying. There are more boys, too: DOG Boys. Can you imagine the indignity? First, there was Toto, and Logan, who both came from the Petfinder.org. And now there are the TWO boy dogs – this is unacceptable but no one is listening to me, here. Buzz and Zeb are from a kill shelter in Arkansas, and Ah will tell you between us that Ah am glad they are here, but Ah wish they would stop trying to sniff Mah Butt. Indignity, Ah tell you.
Anyways. Sarah asked me to write this to tell you that the people at the Avon Books have lost their ever loving’ minds. First they wanted to make a book trailer, but when they said Ah could not be The Star, I said, No. Spend your money somewhere else. Like on me. Then they said no. So then we had the idea. Their author, Liz Carlyle, has rescue cats (clearly, she is the woman of the excellent taste) and to celebrate her new book, One Touch of Scandal, Avon is doing A Touch Of the Crazypants Fund Raising.
For every comment left here, and at a collection of other blogs about the romance, AvonBooks will be donating $1 to Cat Angels, a rescue organization chosen by the Ms. Carlyle. She has the good taste, yes.
The donation will be capped at $3000.00 US, with one comment per person, though you can comment at the other sites including Avon Romance, DearAuthor, Romantic Times Blog, Borders TrueRomance, Fresh Fiction among others (links to come! – SBS). Comments will remain open until we hit $3000.00, or 3000 comments across all the different sites. How long do you think that crazy will take?
If you have the time for that kind of thing. Ah personally am due for Mah Nap.
So go leave the comments here and elsewhere. Feel free to compose odes to the awesome of animal rescue, or to Mah Beauty, or both, and help rescue kitties, like me. $3000, 3000 comments, all for the kitty rescue. Leave the comment, spend the dollar. Is easy.
Because rescue kitties like me, we are the Awesome. And so pretty, did you not notice? Yes, Ah know. So pretty.
Diggus, Spawn, Gracie, and Zeb have a message for you:
Great cause! I’m in. We got a cat from the Toronto Humane Society years ago. Oscar. He was black and white and he loved my son. Would drap himself around his shoulders and just start purring. Unfortunately Oscar didn’t last the weekend before he had to bring him back. Turns out da boy is severly allegic to cats (broke out in hives, both eyes almost swollen shut, and asmatic breathing). We still miss Oscar though and hope he found a good home after us.
Well this is certainly very generous of Avon!
Kitty!
My mum just rescued a cat this weekend, although he has just lost his boy bits today….But other than that I think he’s very happy to have a new home and I hope this helps others like him 🙂
Lucky, our adoptive cat/housesitter, says thank you!
This is fantastic, and for a fantastic cause. I love it!
YAY kitty rescue!!!!
Byooteeful kittehs! And an excellent cause! 🙂
Monies for the Kitties!!! Yay!!
I’m commenting for the cause…
Gracie, u r a purrrfect kitteh.
Helping animals is a great cause – glad that my spouting off at the mouth can help an animal have a meal and a warm place to snuggle.
In the sainted names of Lily and Peg, I support the cats and the romances.
This are an awesome cause! We, being JaneDrew’s cats, feel that rescue kittehs are the bestest kitties. We know that we are certainly the bestest, purriest, one-eared fluffbeasts who ever decided at first sight to go home with Our Person (of course, the Older Feline Generation and
Oh look a box of free kittens what could it hurt?
the Stripey Brother are also pretty awesome as well)
—Van Gogh and Picasso
I love animal rescue! I have two foster cats just waiting for the perfect forever home around my house right now . . .
A very worthy cause!
Excellent cause! I love both of my kitties and they were both strays (my husband won’t let me have more than two 🙁 ). I may or may not be known as the crazy cat lady by my nearest and dearest.
Writers and readers love Rescues because they all have stories to tell and love to share. Many paws have padded across my books. Thank you, Avon.
My kitty approves of this sort of fund raising.
Surrounded by “previously owned” felines myself and wishing you luck!
commenting because I love propagating the notion that because I LOVE romance, I also am a crazy cat mommy. (What? Its true!)
Hooray for rescue kitties; hooray for fundraising!
As I sit here watching an episode of Hoarders featuring a woman with 36 cats (13 of which are dead and rotting in her house), I can think of no better thing than to comment on this post.
My rescue kitty, The Sassy, approves this comment.
Awwww
My two rescue kitties are wondering what the heck I am doing staring at this screen instead of giving them the piles and piles of food they so obviously deserve. Here’s to a dollar to feed cats that aren’t my two. Lord knows they could use less food. 🙂
The three rescues in my family would like to thank Avon for being awesome and they’re glad to pay it forward…even though they had to ask their human to type.
Awesome idea! Hope you get all the money you can for them. 🙂
This is a wonderful promotion. Kudos to Avon and Liz Carlyle.
hurray for beautimus rescue cats. our miss lulu has gone away, but her boyfriend romeo is still… well, my boyfriend.
My kitty is sitting beside me, thinking to himself: DOGS? DOGS??? that poor kitty. NOW she needs to be rescued!
My puffulous one was a sort of rescue, I took her from a friend before she had to go to the shelter due to bad behavior. She’s been a little princess here, no troubles at all!
Here’s to the rescue kitties!
I’m commenting on behalf of my two rescue boys. One came directly from the streets, and the other from a shelter.
Eight cats, two dogs, one comment…
Way to go Avon.
What a beautiful cat, and what a great cause!
Happy to help!
beautiful cats! yay for helping to rescue kitties… i’m glad my simple comment can mean $$$$ for cats in need 🙂
Yeah for da kittehs! Herez mah monez.
Hi – I just got my cat about 1 month ago from the local animal shelter in the Denver area. I guess Denver had a lot of needy cats this past summer because all shelters were either giving cats away for free or at a reduced priced. I got a gorgeous all-white kitty with blue eyes for free! (I did leave a donation, though.) I am so happy with him. I was living alone but now my home is no longer empty when I come home from work. Cats are great company.
I have a rescue kitteh and a rescue dawgie. Both are a great comfort to me since my husband died of cancer in July. Rescue is the way to go!