I told my husband about the naw-tee kitty contest and he reminded one of Ripley's antics. By the way, this is not an attempt to get votes, just funny.

Back in 2001 my brother got married in TX and a few months later they came to Tennessee for a visit. I decided to give them a Newlyweds Reception since he has a lot of family and friends here who couldn't go to the wedding. Anyway, as part of the reception I got a huge full sheet cake made. I picked it up the afternoon before the reception and kept it here at my house on the dining table. That night about midnight my husband and I were watching tv and we heard a funny noise come from the dining room. I ran into the dining room to find a hole in the top of the box of the cake with a very large paw print sunk into the cake. I then followed the white icing trail off the dining table, across the carpet and it ended behind a chair where I found Ripley licking cake icing off his hind foot.

Needless to say I was hysterically upset. It was only one foot print but it was large and the cake was a mess. After getting no sleep I ended up taking the cake back to the bakery at 7 am the next morning and they repaired it by filling it in with icing and making it look like the rest of the cake. We marked the area so no one else would notice and it would photograph well but I would know which part not to serve.

At the reception I had someone to cut the cake but I insisted on doing it myself. When I got to the area where Riplely had stepped I cut out that whole section, put it on a platter and had my husband sneak it off to the the trash. No one was the wiser.

Finally this past Christmas I told my family about it. They laughed, for the most part.

Just had to share.