Baby Patches FursShopPawty

The blogging and tweeting communities are gathering together this weekend to help Baby Patches and her mom keep their store open. As we write this, they have reached 84% of their Chip In goal. 

The reason for the need can be read in A Sincere Request.

A FursShopPawty is being held today (Saturday) for any of you on Twitter.


We know a number of you are on Pinterest, so we thought we'd let you know the latest Vipre Security newsletter includes an article on passwords and ends with a warning for Pinterest -

Also, the social networking site Pinterest is becoming a hotbed for hackers and spammers. If you see a deal that’s too good to be true on Pinterest, it probably is.

You can read the entire article here. 

Jan is still having problems with her arm and hand from the fall last week, so we're still humansitting and keeping a low profile.  But we wanted to post something for Baby Patches and her mom. 

Percy Tattles on FFs

Is it finally my turn? Are you sure? I thought you had all forgotten about me by now. But I'm Percy and I'm still one of the Funny Farmers.

The first note of business is to let you know the farm theme photo header was made by Gracie's mom. 

We have really enjoyed reading the performance reviews around the blogosphere the past few days. At least one of you admitted being bribed with num nums, a few of you we suspect were bribed but since you didn't specifically cop to it, we'll accept your human really is perfect, and all of your reviews were interesting and entertaining.

Which reminds me, I have a story to tell on us Funny Farmers about one of the reviews. But first, we need to explain that whenever we try to search for anyone we know on Twitter, Twitter swears profusely that some cat or dog doesn't exist - even if we have the correct @name.

Saturday we read the review by Zippy, Sadie and Speedy, collectively known as the Kattonic Cats. We saw their Twitter name and went right over to follow them before we forgot about it. Our plan was to copy and paste right from their blog and send them a tweet, and then click on their link in the tweet to reach their profile page. The perfect plan. Well, you know Murphy's Law, anything that can go wrong will.

Feeling really pleased with ourselves, we sent this tweet: @kattonic cats Hey, we're reading your purr-fur-mance review and thought we better follow you now, before we forget.

We didn't notice the space in the name, so when we merrily clicked on the link in the tweet ... oh, no! We were on the profile page of a complete stranger ... and his tweets were not in English.

We tried a search for @KattonicCats and as expected, Twitter told us they don't exist. Later, Zippy, Sadie and Speedy left their correct link on our post and, you guessed it, it was the one Twitter said it couldn't find. (We're @jansfunnyfarm in case any of you are interested. We would hate for you to get lost on a strange funnyfarm.)

But meanwhile, we had sent a stranger a message that wouldn't make any sense to him. In fact, we'd love to know how "purr-fur-mance review" translates into his language. And we dearly hope "follow you now" doesn't translate as the same word as "stalk." We did send an apology in 140 words or less but with our luck it was probably as cryptic as the first.

Today we have a video of living creations that will fascinate you. Or they did us. The imaginations of some humans is amazing. We hope you enjoy it, but we do want to emphasize we don't consider them "animals," as their inventor calls them.


If the video doesn't play, click here.

And with this we have to give the typing chair and keyboard back to Jan so she can get back to designs for our Zazzle store. She has been working on something different and is posting 3 new designs today.

More Addicition, Luxor & Twitter

Samaritan: Hey, we received a package with more Addiction food. Someone must have told them we like to eat. So we ate it!

Rusty: Yeah, here we are checking it all out. It arrived right after Jan fixed the woofies that big pan of .... of....whatever it was. ( "Chef Needed, Apply Now")

Crystal (the kitty in the background walking away because the food hasn't been opened yet): We kitties received 3 cans of King Salmon & Potatoes, 2 cans of NZ Bushtail & vegetables., 1 bag of Viva La Venison and 1 bag of Salmon Bleu.

Buddy: We woofies got a box of raw dehydrated Steakhouse Beef & Zucchini Entree, 2 bags of Viva La Venison, and a bag of Premium Protein Formula La Porchetta.

Rusty: The first day Jan opened one of the cat cans of salmon. Here I am enjoying my share.


Percy: I ate my share of salmon too. However, when Jan opened the first can of NZ Bushtail, Rusty, Cameron and I turned up our noses and walked away. Sorry, Addiction, but it's true.


Cameron: I enjoyed the salmon but for some reason the NZ Bushtail doesn't smell fishy. What kind of fish doesn't smell fishy?

Cotton: Pssst, Cameron, I think bushtail is a posssum. Possums don't smell like fish.

Crystal, Cotton, Cyndi, Percy, Cameron & Rusty: We kitties enjoyed the salmon, but 3 of us didn't like the NZ Bushtail. And although the last time we ate the grain-free Venison without a problem, this time we all refused to eat it until Jan mixed it together with the bag of Salmon dry food. We would apologize but we are cats, and therefore we not only have the right but the duty to be finicky.

Buddy, Merci & Sam: We woofies ate everything without a fuss. We would have eaten the kitties leftovers too, but Crystal quickly dispatched them. (He's turned into a regular vacuum cleaner. Maybe we should make him an honorary woofie. )

Sam: Thanks, Addiction, for letting us try more of your pet food. For the most part, we enjoyed it. And although Jan refuses to try any of it herself, she likes that it's made from natural ingredients. Some of it is hypoallergenic for sensitive pets and some is grain-free.

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Every once in a while we visit Luxor's blog, hoping for a new post. Unfortunately, Lux got very sick while on a trip with his humans last Christmas and was diagnosed with a heart condition -- dilative cardiomyopathy, where the heart walls become thin. Since then, his posts have been sporadic and few. We hope you will stop by today and every so often to let his human know Lux has not been forgotten and you still care. She lost her heart for blogging when Lux became sick, which is understandable. Perhaps you can leave an occasional note of encouragement, not so much for her to return to blogging, but just to let her know you're here for her. Pet bloggers are a community and they care.

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And although we know it is hard to believe -- hey, we still doubt it! -- we signed up with Twitter today. Right now we haven't a clue what's what, but if you tweet, look for us. We're jansfunnyfarm (big surprise!).