This morning Vince and I were discussing pet birthdays and he said everyone needs their own birthday and since Rita, Boots and Cat showed up here, we don’t know their birthdays. Vince decided we should create birth dates for them so they get to have a celebration too.
From this day forward, we will have three additional birthdays to celebrate and we obviously chose dates that are easy to remember. The critters don’t care what date it is . . we’ll just do special things for them on their days and then they’ll expect the royal treatment every day. Oh, wait . . they all get the royal treatment every day.
Boots came here in July as a little kitten so we’re going to celebrate his birthday on July 7. He cane in 2013 so he’s also going to be 5 years old this year.
Rita’s birthday will be October 10 and she will be 5 years old. It was in October, 2014 that she came here and the vet estimated that she was 2 years old, so she was born in 2012. This morning Vince asked how long chihuahuas live so I looked it up and found “12 – 20 years”. Vince said “Holy sh*t! 20 years?” He walked out the door saying “20 years!”
We have no idea how old Cat is. I’m going to say her birthday is August 8 and I’m going to guess she’s 8 years old. Some days I think she’s really old and some days I think she might be younger but that attitude of hers makes her seem older – she’s so good at totally ignoring us that we were convinced she cannot hear but then sometimes she’ll hear something that has me saying . . I hardly heard that, she has to have good hearing. Who knows?
So I’ve added three new birthdays to my calendar!
Lavonna Campbell says
This is such a cute idea! My birthday is July 7 and being a cat lover, I’m proud to share the day with Boots.
Verna says
We don’t know our pets’ birthdays either, so we also made up birthdays for each of them. Any excuse for cake in our house (and the pets get treats as well)!
obed101 says
i know. we have birthdays for ours too………….
Carolyn says
A cat’s attitude is….Take a number and wait.
Dorothy Schreyer says
Love it; our critters all have birthdays we celebrate too!
dezertsuz says
This is great! It looks like you are going to have pets for some time to come. I love that picture of Boots. It’s so cat-like. LOL
Eileen says
Love this!! Happy birthday, Speck, Rita, Boots and Cat. Those are some lucky babies!! You
Lyndsey says
Great idea Judy. The more celebrations in a year the better. Scamp we got as a puppy so we know his birthday and he always enjoys his celebration especially the dog friendly birthday cake. Picasso is a rescue cat so we celebrate on the day we bought him home from Battersea cat and dogs home. We believe he was a year old when we got him but we’re not sure.