Dear Amigo,

If your meowmie has not already started, pretty soon she will begin wrapping Christmas gifts. Cassie has always helped me with gifts and I wonder if you would like to help your meowmie and Soncat. Sometimes I put gifts into boxes, and then wrap the box. If the gift needs to be folded, Cassie will inspect it by smelling it, touching it with her paw, and/or lying on it. She is also my tissue paper specialist - lying on it, touching it, pouncing on it, or playing with a toy that I slip underneath it. Then comes either wrapping paper or a gift bag. A bag requires inspection inside and out, and a headbumpie to be sure it smells like kitty. Wrapping paper follows the same rules as tissue paper and the game starts when I am cutting the paper from the roll. But the most fun is ribbon and bows! Ribbon can be chased and bows can be tossed and pounced upon. Our rule is that ribbon only gets played with when I can su-purr-vise. Don't want any mishaps. When Cassie Cat was little, she used to paw at the edges of wrapped gifts to try to unwrap them, so i would wait till the last possible day to do gift wrapping. Not so much now that she's older.

It is always fun to have kitty help with gift preparation. I tell my family all gifts are cat-tested and kitty approved. I'm sure you will be a wonderful help to your meowmie and Soncat when it's gift-wrapping time! There are also birthdays and other occasions when a gift is wrapped or put into a gift bag, and those are fun too.

I am sending you tons of hugs, snuggles and lovies! xxoo

Your adoring fan,
Elyse