New Years Giveaway: Bad Cat Page-a-Day Calendar
Are all you kittehs busy making your new year’s resolutions? Share them with The Cat’s Meow and you could win a Bad Cat Page-A-Day Calendar 2010
So are you a good cat striving for purrfection, or a bad boy who’s planning to cement his reputation as a scoundrel in 2010? Tell us your resolutions in the comments field of this post. We’ll publish our favorites, and draw a winner at random (using random.org) from the finalists.
HOW TO ENTER:
- Leave a comment in the comments field of this post telling us what your 2010 resolutions are.
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ENTRY DEADLINE:
11:10 PM on 1 JAN 2010
ELIGIBILITY
Cats only, please. We all know humans never keep their resolutions anyway, so it’s pointless to make them. We’re interested in hearing how cats — who are pretty darned purrfect already — resolve to achieve even greater heights of purrfection.
All cats in a given household may submit entries. HOWEVER, only one cat per household can be a finalist.
Contest is open to cats anywhere in the world.
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED:
Monday, January 4th 2010.
About the Calendar:
Based on the funny #1 New York Times bestseller, Bad Cat features a year of felines who take pleasure in biting the hand that feeds them. And that’s just the beginning. Here are haughty cats, surly cats, cats with inappropriate ways of showing affection. The lazy, the entitled, the manic, the rude. Plus Bad Cats in Show Business, Bad Cat Fortune Cookies, and Bad Cat Secrets: “I think about you all day and dream of you at night. . . . Now where’s the tuna tartare?”
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Well I’ll try to be nicer. MOL ! I’m the boss cat here so, they better tow the line ! I would love the calendar for mommy.
I will try to be good at the vets
I’m sure I’ll see Newman’s face many times in that Bad Cat calendar! As far as 2010 goes, I resolve to be even more beautiful and to become Head of Household!
Wow. I get a whole new year to plan for? That is cool. Lets see…my plans for 2010. I will learn how to get the sponge mommy keeps hiding and tear it to pieces, I will exterminate the paper towels and toliet paper. I will pounce my big sistercat Winnie EVERY day (twice a day if I am not too busy with other things). I will always wait til mommy has her furs off to try and land on her back. I will find even higher doors to jump too. I will remove all the pictures from the walls (they need redecorating) and most of all I promise I WILL figure out how to get back in that couch again!!!
Yup, for 2010 I will be turbokitty to the max! *looks at other kitty’s posts* oh….I was supposed to put something nice I would do? What fun is that? 2010 is the year of the monstah kitty!!!!
Hmm, I;m such a good kitty already, don’t know how I could become more purrfect than I already am!
Bosco promises to be more like his pal Skeezy this year! I’m sure Bosco’s photo and story are in one of the calander’s pages. Happy New Year to all! Bosco
I resolve to eat more ham. Alas, being so perfect this is the only thing I can resolve…
Well, I’ll try to do a better job of sharing. I don’t like to share anything….toys, beds, or food. It’s mine, all mine! Oh! And a Happy and Healthy 2010 to everyfur!
I cross-my-heart promise not to knock over my Mom’s water jar while she is painting anymore, unless, of course that invisible shark shows up in the jar again like last time that my Mom needs rescuing from. It had very big teeth. Like mine. It was life and death, folks.
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I promise to try and be nicer to my little sister cats when they want to play.
And maybe to lose a little but of weight so my mom doesn’t have to go “uf” everytime she picks me up.
Tango resolves to stop hiding around the corner and bat-slapping the dogs until they cower and run.
*crosses toesies behind back* i pawmise not to hide between the quilts on the quilt rack in the girls’ room and wait in ambush for them while they’re using the litterbox. i pawmise not to scarf my gooshy food down so i can bother my brofur while he’s trying to eat his. *uncrosses toesies* i pawmise i will continue to let mama cuddle me to her heart’s content and i will always purr for her when she lays her head on my chest. i pawmise i will keep following mama around the house and take the best care of her and daddy that i can for as long as i live.
sending best fishes from de land o trout to everyone for a happy N healthy 2010….there’s a lot o good resolutions here !!!!
I resolve to be the best naughty cat in 2010. I’ve been practicing and will be perfectly bad soon. In fact, I may publish my own ‘bad cat’ calendar next year.
Cheers,
luci
Hi! You won’t see my Sweet face on that Calender …that’s fur sure! However, Mom still would love it ,as she loves all Kitties …Good or Bad! ♥ I hope you all have a Happy, Healthy 2010!
Whoops! I didn’t leave the correct comment! Sorry! I will try not to make as many mistakes in 2010 on Catser! MOL How’s that?
Ooh, what a pawsome calendar! Meowmy loves calendars like that. My New Year’s resolution is that I will catch the seizure monster and keep him away from me furrever. MOL I also want to be a better kitty at the vet!
I’m going to do more self-grooming and also groom my brothers, even though their fur isn’t as nice as mine.
In 2010 i vow to not growl over my tinsel ball kitty toys that came in my stockin!
I also will NOT jump into any closet/dishwasher/cabinet that opens up in front of me and send everyone on a Jonesy hunt for hours while I sleep.
I resolve to get more sleep and to get some more quality time with my Daddy! I sure enjoyed my 21st Christmas with him.
2010 is going to be the year I finally quit sucking on my blanket. I know I get nothing from sucking on the blanket- it just makes me look goofy and upsets my Momma and Daddy when I suck on it in their bed and leave a big wet spot for one of them to roll over and touch. I’m also going to quit being to mean to my bubba this year. Buddy-Cat is really a sweet cat and I’m going to quit being jealous that my humans love him too and be nicer to him since I’m the oldest and I should be a good role model.
I am going to try to be nicer to my old sister LuLu. She is 13 and I probably shouldn’t be jumping on her and chasing her around the house. I may even resolve to let her clean me some more even though I hate it.
Oh goody a whole new year! I lived through another one without meowmy killing me,MOL!!! This year Ivow to push Meowmy to the limit of her endurance. I will clean the catbox out of every last piece sand before she reaches to grab me. I’ve come close before but,either I missed some or meowmy caught me before I could finish. Yes, this is the year, 2010 is Missy de Muffs’ year!!!!!!!!!! >^..^<
Hi all! 2010 is almost here so am resolute in the beief that I can out do my 2009 score. In what, you ask?
Only the best sport in the world-NAPPING! I just know I can pass my former record of 20 hours. I scared meowmy half to death, she kept checking my breathing and things. MOL!!! I got extra treats and catnip for a few days after that. That makes me happy.
I iz tryingz to learnz to be a good kittiez – but itz hard comin frum da ztreetz of Zan Juan?
I vowez to ztopz takin all da Morganz Bedz frum my brotherz.
i have to bad catz who want more ideas on how to be bad!
I just know my brother Milo is in this calendar or he should be!
All of us furs pawmise Meowmie that we will not put that sign up welcoming everyfur at least till spring and will stop making such a mess with our litter … 30 kittehs do make a mess! >^..^<
WEll, dis will abuut kill me, but I puromises to stop sneakin behind da couch an scratching on it!!!!!! It is sooooo mucho fun!!! Dat’s me only bad habit!
wul, lets see, as I don’ huv uny bad hubits, whut kin I quit.
I jus pruomises to try to be a bit bad nuxt yur. I luvs racin up and down hall and skidding rugs!!!! Ohhh fun! Purhpas I cun run into sumptin as i run?? I’s guud boy, cun try to be bad boy!!!
Both our names are “No, no, bad cat!” Our mom would love this calendar, and it would help her bring in the new year with style.
PS – She adopted us both from a rescue, and we’d already had two other homes. We’re so happy in this one!
I promise to be nicer to Prissy because I realize that she is the elder of the household,and I must respect her wishes that I stay out of her airspace. I will stop hiding from her when she walks down the hallway and pouncing on her…I know that makes her mad. I love her so much and know that she doesn’t love me back. She still is the one that demands respect in this household.
In 2010, I purromise to let my mom use at least half of the t.p., paper towels, and other paper products before ripping them to shreds. That’s fair, isn’t it?
I promise to stop calling mommy when she is cooking/eating/doing anything in the kitchen that I think involves food. I also resolve to stop flinging myself at her thighs and holding on for dear life when she is sitting at the table, rendering her legs ‘textured’. Other than that, Im as close to perfect as a kitten is gonna get!
I would love to make promises but all I can promise is to continue to just be me.
I resolve not to continually want to play with something, making an annoying repeatitive noise when my parent wants to take a nap. I promise. Purrrr….NOT!
I resolve not to antagonize the dogs… especially the mastiff when he is in bed in the morning.
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My name is “Brutus”, and I have been a very naughty boy.I will be 6 months old on Jan 2, 2010, and I still refuse to use my litter box. I make Mommy so mad, cause she steps in my pee. And she has to look hard to see if I have pooped where I shouldn’t have. I am trying. I poop right outside the litter box, so I am getting closer to being INSIDE the litter box. I watch the other 5 kitties pee and poop where they are supposed to, and Mommy is always scooping and cleaning up after us. I resolve to try a LOT lot lot harder so I don’t upset my Mommy so much.
In my favor though, is the fact that I am so funny, adorable, and cuddly. I let Mommy roll me over on my back and I go limp for joy while she kisses my tummy and mooshes me with love. She always forgives me.
I resolve to try to use my litter box like a BIG boy!
hey! why’d they make a calender without me?
I will try not to start fights with Allegra.
I will try not to nom on teh hoomins’ foods.
I will try not to hump Junior.
But can I still cry for my Daddy hoomin every night, until he comes home?
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I, Little Isis, do solemnly swears not to antagonize that old grumpy Spookers anymore. Or not so much. Or at least not on a daily basis.
Is this a legally binding document?
Cuz I feels an urge to go and see if I can make her hiss and try to thwap me.
I will only take up half of the bed.
Being the Queen that I am, I have to say that I have already reached a level or Royal Purrfection. However, even I can admit to having New Year Resolutions. I will try really hard not to try getting extra treats from Grandma and Grandpa when Mama is not around. This will be hard but I will also try to use the litter box like a lady and squat when leaving a deposit instead of standing up and shooting out the back. This is all I can commit to at this time, as being the Queen speaks for itself.
Hmmm ….. I promise ….. umm …..but I’m purrrrfect …. hmmm … I guess now I’vee had a Perineal Urethrostomy I can promise not to spray when I am mad at Mummy, MOL.
I promise now to stick my claws too deeply in Freya, the Rottweilers face, when I give her a bath.
I’m adorable, and I promise that in the New Year, I will be even more adorable, and also Iwill, maybe, stop trying to escape at any opportunity into the outside world just cos I’m an Indoor Cat who wants outdoors.
Umm, let’s see, I could promise to let Mummy cuddle me more.
I promise not to use my claws to take food I want out of Mummy’s mouth., hands, off her plate, off the cupboard, oh, for the three weeks she is away anyway.
i george do hereby promise not to bring my meals home for momie to prepare and i promise to eat them outside really purrrr
I will not pee in empty boxes.
I will not dump my cat grass planter on the rug.
I will not walk around on he kitchen cabinets.
I will not climb through the window blinds.
I will always love my hoomans!
Nikolas the tabby
Wally: I will try not to yak on the carpet…
Ernie: I promise not to chew on stuff like mom’s expensive purse…
Zoey: I’ll try real hard not to hiss at that orange stripey cat…
Um, we’re purrfect just da way we are but maybe we should resolve to nap more…
Mi resolution for 2010 will b to uze mi litterbox more than once a week cuz it would make my mum very happie
I resolve to give my Mom an extra smoochie every day!
My NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WILL BE:
I PROMISE NOT TO SHRED ENTIRE ROLLS OF TOILET PAPER! My Momma will be SOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!
Pocky
ACK!! Hey all yoo catties!! Happy Mew Year to all!!
So….What iz MY rezzolooshon for the Mew Year?
I rezolve to be the SAME Rappscallious Reprobate Kitteh that I have ALWAYS bin!! WHY change a GUD thing, eh?
MOL
yor Frenn, BBBT
The most challenging resolution for me (failed in 2009) is to minimize my stinkage. I tend to offend my mom and dad with my smell and they’ll boot me off the catch saying, “you stink!” It’s a tough task, one i’m not sure i can succeed in but will try so that i can have more close time with my parents.
My 2010 resolution is to lose some weight. I tried last year but I didn’t like the Lite food my mom got for me. This year, I will try and eat less and chase more mice. (Yeah right).
1. Lick more butt.
2. Sniff more butt.
3. Kick more butt.
4. Get more butt.
5. Start 12-Step Program for butt obsession (in hopes of meeting more butt.)
I resolve to pee in more corners of the house in 2010 than I did in 2009, start more fights, break more dishes and generally be even badder than ever. Love Mooney!
PeeSssss – please give my meowmy a calendar!!
New Year’s resolution: rip off the stuff mom used to “adapt” the autopetfeeder so I can reach my paw in and knock down more kibble as I please. And perhaps some more exercise.
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New Year’s resolution: rip off the stuff mom used to “adapt” the autopetfeeder so I can reach my paw in and knock down more kibble as I please. And perhaps some more exercise.
I will not be making any resolutions, since perfection cannot be improved upon.
George
The whole clowder will do more to help cats less fortunate than they are — cats in sanctuaries, “shelters”, feral/homeless/community cats, and the like — in 2010 than they did in 2009 (and that was quite a bit, acshully!).
And Rani will try really hard not to go at the step down to the living room quite so much. Vintage carpet that’s already past its stale date doesn’t love the scimitar treatment.
Meowsers! I am almost 2.5 years old and a pipsqueak compared to my friends…but that does not prevent me from being the fiercest kitteh in the house! I avow to up the fierceness ante, cut back on the cheezburgers and maybe (just maybe!) be a LITTLE less “squirmy” when my owners pick me up…
I am going to be the best cat this new year. When dad says its time for bed. I will not run away from him and hide! I will go right to my room like my butt kissing, brown nosing, fat little brudder, Kozmo!
hmmmppppfffff
Klancy
Hey!
I’m not fat, I’m big boned. And I don’t need a New Years resolution because I am the bext cat in the world.
As mom says… I am pure love!
Hmmmpppf back at ya, fuzzball!
Kozmo
For my New Years resolution, I promise not to murder those two little toe terrorists, kitten mafia, suck up bruthahs!
Aw, who am I kidding, I’ll get them yet!
Kramer Joseph Cole
Well I’m Lucky and mom ask if I would stop pulling her oxegen out of her nose in the morning just to feed me my cat food. But how else will I get her attention!!! I will also try not to pick on Taz so much and my sister Foxy. I will try to share our new toy the fling-ama-string. But oh the temtation of it all. And here mom thought that Taz was so bad with his ADHD. Ha Ha Ha Purr Purr Purr. But I’m just so cute what can I say. We would made bad look good.
My resolution for this year is to teach my car Morris to behave better!
Hi my name is Beaver, I am a 2 yr. old polydacytl and my New Years resolution is to stop biting. I love grabbing momma’s hand, I think of her as the big kitty and I just want to play. I also love it when mom squeals and thats when I want to bite down a little harder. I know this is a bad habit, but it is my addiction. So I am going to give up my pleasure and try being a very good kitty this new year.
My cat Mr.Jinxy (his name IS short for hi-jinx!) should be the spokes-cat for this calender!
I vow to keep jumping on the kitchen counters when Mommie is preparing food so I get to go in the time-out room after the third or fourth time.
I vow to persuade daddie that I should get to go OUTSIDE once in a while.
I vow to keep purring and loving my people and to be the best kitty ever.
~Mr. Emerson
Oh ya…my NEW Year’s resolution is to TRY and quit peeing in the kitchen sink. (well it IS cleaner than the cat box!)
I’m going to try to be a better kitty this year….I won’t be(get caught) jumping on the counters and won’t pick on grandma shadow cat anymore (respect your elders!)
In 2010, I, Rusty, resolve to have 30% more chicken than any other cat! Right now, I am at 20%, but I shall strive for 30%.
I, Rusty, also resolve to hop as high as a rabbit.
i’m going to quit smoking this year. that my new year resolution
I Serenity will try to not knock my kibble out of the bowl to bat around the kitchen floor, Mommy gets her feet hurt when she steps on it(I didn’t know!), and maybe sleep in my new kitty bed, well at least I will leave some fur in it, so Mom thinks I tried it out.
And last but not least, I iwll try not to paw Moms food off her plate while shes looking.:)
Serenity=^..^=
I will try not to pee and dig in Mom’s plant anymore and leave a big mess for them to clean!
My Mom says I have to lose weight! I’m a hefty 34 pounds and she’s worried that I’m something called diabetic. She is one of those also and doesn’t want me to take shots! Believe me, I see her do it everyday and I don’t want to do that! My resolution is to lose 19 pounds! Help!!!!!!!
I resolve to work on peeing only in the litter boxes, and to quit peeing on mom and dad’s bed.
For 2010 I resolve to tear less paper towls into pieces.
My New Year’s resolution is that I will be more forgiving with Mom when my meals are not delivered on time. It’s so hard to find reliable help.
I’m resolving to try not to hack up hairballs in the middle of Mom’s table!
Hey, I should totally be in this calender!!! http://www.catster.com/cats/446846
My Mew Years resolution is to be a more benevolent ruler to my subjects and…..er, ahem, I mean…
I wish i could promise not to be a bully to the nice cat around the corner as my New Years Resolution but I’m so bored right now, I think I’d chase him around the block, not just out of my yard, cuz it’s sooooo cold outside and I can’t stay out very long. Happy New year all kitty’s!
I promise not to get into the catnip anymore without permission first!
I promise not to get into the catnip without purr-mission first!
I PROMISE NOTHING!
Me-ow! To become more purrrrrrrrrfect in the year twenty ten, I resolve to:
1. Take more naps in strange and unusual places/positions
2. Train my assistant, Seniorita Squeeky Toy, to be my substitute potty monitor, ensuring that my slave person NEVER have a minute alone
3. Attack and kill without mercy ALL dustbunnies that dare to invade my palace!
4. Further program my slave person to be at my beck and call-sigh! It’s a thankless job, and you just can’t get good slave people these dayz*~* but I do the best I can, and I suppose she does too, bless her little human heart♥
5. Last but CERTAINLY not least, I solemnly vow NEVER, not no NEVER, to stop lavishing my lady with all my kitty kisses, ’ssages and blanket snuggles, as well as abundant games of King Queen Hide and go Tag!! A-men and purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr=^-^=
I promise to keep up the good work of getting into everything I possibley can, MOL!, Momcat say’s I am a little monster, just doing my job Momcat since we lost out brofur Sonny Bono, ya see I am just like him…..soo kool!! I love to steal things from Momcat and Dadcat, money, paper clips , rubberbands, the mail,Momcat calls me her “Burglar Baby”
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Well I’m the bad Taz not to be confused with my friend the good Taz. I promise to stay the same just bad kitty. I can do bad all by myself. And i’ll try the other stuff to. Right!!!
I’m Foxy, And I’m going to lose weight, play more games on my brothers and just try to be a bad girl for once.Look out Taz & Lucky.
I’m Beau, and I’ll do my best to not sing opera at the top of my lungs in the middle of the night or beat up/intimidate the poor vet techs at the doctor’s when I need shots. I’m a good boy at heart with a devilish streak
Oh, and I’ll harrass my brother Fluffy more this coming year since he desperately deserves it..I’m top cat around here and he needs to be kept in line 
Taz says- I promise to try to stay out of trouble. No more helping mommy paint, no more playing in the styrofoam pellets, no more fighting with my older sister, no more waking mom up in the middle of the night to play just because I am bored….and most of all no more pulling down mom’s curtains and rod.
I will try not to continually sit on my tin of treats begging for them, and even accomplishing opening it and getting a few!!!
Hi all you cat and kittens my name is Autumn aka (little puss) this is what my mom calls me.Well Iam going to try to be good kitty this year Iam not going next door and dig in there flowers hehe only if they are gone and I will really try not to tear holes in the couch and mess with the pet rabbit and tear chunks out of the blinds before my mom opens them for me and stay out of the shower when my mom in in there because I can’t see for a minute or two hehe oh yeah my mom really wants the bad cat calendar
love Autumn
In 2010, I will try to stop my two tabby persian sons from picking at our Humans’ boxspring. They have picked at it so badly our Human had to put a fitted sheet on the boxspring! Three months later, our Human had to rotate the boxspring~ they shredded the fitted sheets’ corners on the boxspring!
I have way too much class for such insubordination! I am a seal cream lynx point with big, blue eyes. I am a goddess. People weep when they glimpse at my beautiful form! I make the Fancy Feast cat look like a dishrag!! I have a big, fluffy double coat with nary a knot nor mat! My Human uses my loose hairs from my daily grooming, balls it up, and puts it in the tree by our bedroom window! Our little bird friends sleep in Lynx Point hair!!!! I’m a “nest donor”! >^..^<
Love Ya, Baby!! ~~Sweetie.
We may be physically a little bigger than our catmom Sweetier, but she whoops our butt if we even think about stepping out of line! Junior & I play fetch & retrieve with wiffle balls, and even make our Human throw it to us and we bring it back to her to throw again!!! –HeeeHee! We meowed & meowed and just made our Human stop & throw us the wiffleball!
In 2010, we all plan on cutting our Human off everytime she moves an inch!! She will never be in the bathroom without us, or we will continue to kick the door open! We will hypnotise our Human into buying alot more cat treats~~ Whiskas “Temptations”~~soooo good!!!! Viva le CAT!! Especially VEGAS KITTIES, BABY!! >^..^^..^<