Today’s blog will be about as hodgepodge as it gets, my friends. I am always browsing the web for fun ideas for my kitty (Claire) and doggie (Chloe). When I saw this Cat Cocoon, a piece of mod design genius, I not only wanted one for Claire, but possibly myself.

Awww, right?! Now, the kitty version is made out of corrugated cardboard, which is perfect for exercising those claws. The Jackie version might need to be more along these lines:

A cocoon TUB — YES! The bikini really sells it.

Or how about the cocoon SPA?!

This Gharieni “dream cocoon” spa includes: infrared sauna, aromatherapy, Vichy shower, Vibro massage, colour therapy, hydromassage, face ventilation, and many other things. I can only imagine what the “other things” might be! But I don’t know — all those knobs and gizmos intimidate me. So let’s keep it simple, like this:

Ahhhh!

But somehow along the way of clicking around, I came across the blogs at Catster and Dogster, who were doing their own contests in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day yesterday. So may I present to you the winner in the Cat Division:

Now, I don’t know about y’all’s kitty cats, but mine would not stand for that, NO WAY!

Things were a bit more unruly over at Dogster, with a little too much “yo ho ho-ing” going on:

That’s the way my dearest husband might have looked if the Longhorns would not have pulled out a victory last night!