This a Lettr in a Tin Can to Granpa

Hallo to my readrz, speshially Grandpa.

Last week started out great wift Mom celerbratytin havin dopted me eithg (8) years ago from Angell Memorial Hopsital. Eevn wift "Freeda" whu is livin wift us now bein all nosy an not lettin ME be nosy in return, stuffs has been perty gud.

But then Mom took me on a Trip, an tho it was not quite as longerer a trip as the last couple times, it was endless!!! And noises. And Trucks, and stuffs liek that: no funz!!!

But we has doenz this befores, and I allus gets a Medal fer Gallantree in the Fays of Shots! This time it shaped like a kittee!

But they seds I hads to go bak an get mai teefs cleened. And then when we wen bak and they puts me to shleep, they tukt TOO of MAI TEEFTS!!! An admitterly, they were the teefts that were hurtin me, but still!!!

And now they are squirtin icky stuffs down my throat, an it not the peeples at the vets orfice but my ONW MOM and also Marion, who is Freeda's Mom.

You gotsta talks to them an tell em to shtops! I bet this never happens to YOU!

LOv,

MUSASHI

Bak To Stuff about ME

Musashi Sez:

Wull, I has to admit jus how un-inspyrd I ben laytlee. I meen, of cors I loves mai mom (espeshullee her thums whut werk the can-opennr!!!), but ther gots to be mor to lif than that. So we goin to follr the advys of lotsa writrs, an I’m goin to writ about wut I lov eevn mor: ME.

So, fer instins, I offrs yu a play (lik drah-mr, on stayj, wift costoomz an props!) about MAI LIF. I got this jpg file frum mai Ont Lindr a whil bak, wen she toldid me about the Big Japaneez Premeer, which is lik the firstest run of the play.

It’s called MUSASHI, an the fellr on the rigt, all in blak, whu is whuppin the butt of the polkee-dottid kittee, is me. Obveeuslee, the actrz ar hoomin peeples, cuz the yoonion roolz in Japan ar still kinda strict about aminal actrz. (Parentlee, eevn the doggees whut play Orphn Annie'z doggee Sandy has to get speshul permishun. Huh.)

The plot is a little diffrint from mai akshul lif, cuz altho I wuz a ronin kittee fer a while in West Roxbury, befor the folks from Angell Memorial Hospital fyndid me, I din’t get into neerlee that manee sword figts as they shows in the play. But it do mayk pertee gud dramr.

Mom Says:

This is called taking liberties with the details in the interest of audience appeal.

Musashi Sez:

I don’t noe about liberty or peelin audiensiz, but they shur chanjd a lot of things. Lik mai mom doesn’t have neerlee so big a part, which is surprizin, but ther is this fellr they call a Show-Gun, an I don’t undrstan that AT ALL. But the royalteez keeps rollin in, so I not complayn.

Mai Ferst Birftdae Evr

Musashi Sez:

Mom sez I am goin to be ONE YEAR OLD todae! This is a big, speshul lanmark. Not jus evrbuddy gets to be one yeer old. An som folks eventchoolly get so old they don’t evn rememember bein one. So she sez we gots to comememorate the day. She sez there will be humin peeples who loves me comin an she’s goin to giv me a present! ! !

So I sez, O-KAY!

But she also sez that we’r goin to hav the partee laytr, cuz she’s been havin a cold an so hav som of mai frends. So she sez we’r goin to do it lik the Qween of Ingland, whu has 2 birftdaes evr yeer, the akshul one an the offishul one. So todae is mai Akshul Birftdae. So I told mom she cud use mai blog totell yu som importint stuff abowt how I got heer an why yu shud noe.

Mom Explains:

I am forever grateful for two cats, who came from two different shelters. MeToo Yanchak came from a shelter in Pittsburgh, PA and lived with me from September 2006 to June 2008. He made me realize what I had missed from not living with a cat full time for most of my life, and inspired me to adopt a shelter cat after he was gone. Musashi was rescued by the good folks at Angell Memorial/MSPCA in Jamaica Plain, MA, to whom I am forever grateful also.

Musashi Sez:

We tell yu mor abowt them laytr. Rigt now yu gots to sing along wift us, an sing reelly LOWD lik yu was singin from a fens. Okay, GO!!!

Happy Birftdae to Meee!
Happy Birftdae to Meeeee!
Happy Birftdae to Meeeeeee!
Happy Birftdae to Musashi, migty hunter of mousees!
Happy Birftdae to Meeee!

An many morrrrrrr!