It's your amazingly wonderful princess Lesley Anne here. They tell me
it’s my turn to write the newsletter (and your privilege to read it if you
ask me) this month and inform you all of the "goings ons". I was wandering
around the store the other day and realized Mother’s Day is this month,
Sunday the 8th as a matter of fact. I was looking at all the
gifts we have around here and realized, wow, we have a lot!
My store has a lot of beautiful jewellery, scarves, music boxes,
clocks, watches, throws, figurines, sun-catchers, journals, chimes, photo
frames, stationery, socks and even some great t-shirts and night-shirts
like my favourites and for $24, the price is right.
 |
 |
 |
| Despurrate Housewives of Whiskeria
Lane |
Yoga
Pawsitions |
The Cat Nap |
The Cochrane Humane
Society
Many of you are already aware that there is an active Humane Society
in Cochrane – just fifteen minutes west of Calgary.  The animals (and
staff!) are currently housed in a small, derelict house with an even
smaller more derelict trailer alongside it. You can visit their
website www.cochranehumane.ca
to see photos of their current facility. THE CAT HOUSE has decided
(at my insistence) to help raise funds to build a new shelter for the
Cochrane Humane Society – which is halfway to their fundraising goal of
1.7 million dollars. We have set a goal of raising $25,000 to contribute
to their building fund.
Our inspiration came in the form of the
other shop cat, Buddy Guy, who had been living with a feral colony of cats
in Cochrane for several years before Henry and Joanne trapped him and gave
him a new lease on life as a resident shop cat and my personal
assistant. We took a photograph of Buddy in one of his many
“outfits” and gave it a western theme as Cochrane was the home of one of
the original cattle ranches in the province of Alberta.
We hope you
like the resulting “WANTED” poster which we have printed on to nice sand
coloured T-shirts as a fundraiser. All proceeds of the sale of the
shirt go to the Cochrane Humane Society Building Fund. We hope you
love the shirt …the more we sell, the quicker the new shelter will be
built. Wouldn’t this make a great shirt to wear during Stampede – or
any time here in Alberta during our Centennial year.
We are also
collecting coins as well as Canadian Tire Money for the Cochrane Humane
Society at our store. Every little bit helps.
Summer travel
plans?
If you are planning to travel with your cats this summer my Mom and
Dad would be happy to discuss with you their experiences travelling with
four cats. They can offer you tips on making the whole experience
less stressful on your cats and therefore much less stressful on
you. One product we have found very helpful and that we have been
selling for years at THE CAT HOUSE is “Rescue Remedy” – an herbal product
which contains homoeopathically prepared flower extracts. Rescue
Remedy is formulated “to comfort and reassure” and in our experience it
works remarkably well – not only when travelling but also to help settle
hostilities/dominance battles between cats within a household.
The great outdoors
Since we mentioned the KITTYWALK pet containment system in our last
newsletter we have sold many of them: personally I love it. It allows me
to lounge around outside and keep other animals away from me. Visit www.kittywalk.com to see all
the variations of this portable, affordable and effective enclosure for
cats (or dogs). We keep several versions of the KITTYWALK in stock
in the store at all times and can special order the others usually within
7-10 days. We can also ship these anywhere you need just give us a call to
find out more.
Second Kittenhood
We all want to be young again, except of course me, because I haven’t
aged a day in the last few years (don’t believe my Mom if she tells you
I’m 14 years old ). For those of you with kittens and cats that need a
little rejuvenation, you have to come and see my favourite new toy, the
PURRfect Feather Dancer. It’s become one of our fastest selling toys and
we’re hearing great things about how other cats are loving it : it’s kept
me going! I’m not the only one who loves it either, it recently received
an Editors Choice Award by Cat Fancy magazine, though in all honesty, my
opinion should be enough.
 
Honeysuckle
Please remember to call us if you or anyone you know will be cutting
down any honeysuckle bushes or trees. We just can’t get too much of
that wood that cats love!
Feline Frolics
Oh! Don’t forget to send us your cat stories. I want to hear from my
fellow felines and humans out there. E-mail your four footed anecdotes to
cat-tails@thecathouseinc.com
and we’ll publish the funniest and cutest stories (and pictures too, but
only with stories) in our next newsletter.
Meow Foundation
Update
If in your spring cleaning you find that you
have any towels, bedding, cat furniture, toys or care items that you no
longer need please drop them off at THE CAT HOUSE as we have a donation
closet to accept items for the MEOW Foundation. Check out their
website www.meowfoundation.com to see
their latest count on cats adopted out in the last few years – you will be
amazed.
Are you ready for the Royal
Visit?
They say the Queen is coming to town on May 25th 2005.
I hope she has a good time, but if you don’t have tickets, stop by
the store and see me, I have tiara too you know and you don’t have to pay
for parking to come see me!
Gifts for
all!
As a special Meowthers day gift to all "THE INK"
subscribers, come in to the store and ask for your special "Royal
Meowthers Day Magnet" of me as below!
Yours Wonderfully,
Lesley Anne
PS. Didn't you know all
female owners of cats are "Meowthers"? Neither did we, until we
made it up today.
|
