I'm sorry I couldn't get Meowmie to write before, but she's been very un-cooperative. Worse, she has brought a lot of trouble to us all. A while ago, she brought in two cats. (Writer's note: Rob brought them in, not me. But I'm going to get blamed for it.) One of them didn't belong here, and we all knew it. The other one suddenly got fat and made kittens come out.

Penelope Marie (they giggle when they call her that) wouldn't let me near the kittens. She HISSED at me and told me I was a bad influence and she wanted to get her kittens raised properly and living in good homes. I got to play with them a couple of times. They were fun, though they were a lot smaller than your's truly. Penny Hisspit at me and swatted me any way and took them away from me. She chased me away from them and called me a bad boy. She was so unfair. She even let QC help take care of them, and Berfert and Merlin each took one under their care and were teaching all sorts of great things that they never bothered to teach me. I'd have liked Berfert to teach me how to hunt greeblings, or Merlin help me learn how to shape a paper bag, but they made me learn on my own.

They finally took the kittens away, along with Penny, but then brought Penny back a couple of days later. Then we all had to go see this BAD MAN that made us hurt and groped on us. Meowmie calls him the cat doctor. Tanada told me that he's TED, The Evil Doctor. Meowmie took us back again and he poked us with more pointy things. He said that I was active and getting a little chubby. I'm NOT chubby. Not like Merlin, anyway. Meowmie said something about us all needing to go on a Di-ate, whatever that is. The nice ladies at TEDs said I'm cute and tickled my chin. I like the girl TEDs at my other place better, but the nice ladies are nicer here. Meowmie said that you can tell a lot about a TED by the people they have working for them. If that's true, Meowmie's right, he's a really GOOD TED.

Meowmie has been busy being bad. She made white stuff come down and has been playing with the temperatures again. She made it really cold, then summer hot, and now she's made it really cold again. She also made our Paw disappear for a long time. We thought we'd never get him back. We worked hard at it, and made her return him. She thought we wouldn't notice that he was gone. HA! We knew. She was so sneaky, but we were on to her.

I have decided that the younger female, the one they call Mandy, is more fun than the rest of them and have become her student. Besides the rest of them have personal owners anyway. Tanada prefers Paw, QC loves everyone, Merlin has Jason, Berfert has Mike, and Penelope has taken Meowmie under her care. I have taken on the hardest of the humans to raise. I think the mothership will be proud of me.

I heard Meowmie tell Paw that you have moved into a new home with your Meowmie, Auntie Flippy, and the two old cats. I hope that this is a better house than the last one. Sometimes they don't look into our comfort when they choose a new house. Do you have plenty of windows to look out of? Are there a lot of birds and furry ones to watch? Do you have to share the windows with the old cats? I have to share my windows with them, but I've found that I can get them to leave by sitting on them or sniffing their tails. Do you have plenty of climbing places? Do you miss me as much as I miss you? I would like to be able to share a bowl of tuna fish with you while watching the squirrels in the back yard. Meowmie says that they are starting their silly season when they get married and become parents. Silly Meowmie, squirrels don't get married.

Missing you,

Pine Cone Esq