King Ping and Baby Lotus are saving a spot for you, LT!  All nappers are welcome, on a first come first serve basis.  Space is limited (Sorry, it's a single bed, not a king-sized as would befit His Majesty the Ping.)

What are you most sensitive about? 

Inspired by the recent QotD, I wrote a silly little Miao-poem on Prince Tantra's behalf.  Ideally, each verse should be accompanied by an illustrative photograph, but Vox photos are so hard to format that I'll skip that part.  It's silly, and it's the first poem I've written since 2nd grade (except for hai-kus), but hopefully it will meet with my feisty Fluff-Puff's approval.

Prince Tantra is a sensitive lil’ purr
If things aren't just so, he will wonder
Why no one seems to love him anymore.
He’ll nurse his feelings, which you have made sore,
Thinking, When you walked by my kitty bed,
Why didn’t you stop to pet and kiss my head?
I chose my nap spot just for that reason
So I could collect my toll of pettings.
And why did you take Baby Lotus's side
When you know his antics I can’t abide?
Why did I get my fishies very last
When you served all my brothers their breakfast?
Am I not deserving of daily food,
Or are you deliberately crossing my mood?
Why are your eyes transfixed on the TV
Instead of gazing lovingly at me?
Am I not more beautiful than the show?
You have grown tired of me – say it isn’t so!
Woe!  my tail you have been neglecting
Even though all others are measly string
When compared to its luscious floofiness.
So I say you have been more than remiss
In expressing your love for me.  Is it
No wonder that I am compelled to hiss?

Pictured above: One of our kitties from China, and a relative of Ping (I forget how it works out - purrhaps Strawberry was his auntie?)  You can tell from Strawberry's fur that she was an outdoor kitty for the most part.  Another family took care of Strawberry for a while, but when she was going to have her babies, we took her in. 

Each little curve of floof, eyelid, and whisker is so purrfectly angled.  I wish I were small enough to crawl between the layers of Ping floof and take a nice warm nap.

See the little toes just peeking out from the floof?

Happy Bearthday Kemi Bear!
You're a bear beyond compare!
Always ready with a purr,
Kemi of the lush black fur!

This post is jointly composed by Papa Miao and Little Miao and posted by Papa Miao because of Little Miao's internet problems.

Kemi's birfday is this Caturday.  I made him a new bear-a-boo banner in anticipation.

Happy May Day/International Workers' Day from the Miao Brothers!

On this day, the Miao Brothers celebrate their kitty ancestors who tirelessly fought for the eighteen-hour nap day so that kitties around the world may nap undisturbed from dawn until dusk, until dawn.

...sharing a nap.

who can I purr for
when there's no one in the house
from brekkies till dusk?