“Hear ye, hear ye! I am Miss Mattie, and I am Running for President of World Cat Day! Just giving you a heads up. This is my new purpose. I know this because I have been looking for this purpose everywhere. I’ve looked in the cat box, under the couch, between Mr. Bailey’s ears and […]
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How to take a Cat Nap
Sleep is the best meditation. -Dalai Lama I should call this post the “Tao” or “Way” of the cat nap. Especially considering it is fathers day.. No better day for a cat nap right. Cats sleep for many hours in a day, and you’d think that with all the sleeping they do, that we would […]
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The 10 different types of cat hugs
Hugs connect us heartbeat to heartbeat. -KT Cat Paws The National Hug your Cat day is today! I wanted to give some insight on the hug, especially the human-to-cat hug, otherwise known as the cat tolerating a human hug. Mr. Bailey, the Zen Cat has written about cuddles and a post about not wanting to […]
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Laughing at oneself- litter box wisdom
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! Charlie Chaplin Miss Mattie says…. I did something silly the other day. Well, it was actually more embarrassing then silly. I tried to hop in my box with cat paw grace but instead I ended up doing a belly flop […]
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Image of a Zen Cat
Mr. Bailey is sitting high up on his cushion of contentment staring at us with his blue eyes half open. As I look to his left nearby, there is a Buddha statue, a bamboo-water bowl and if you sniff the air, you will get a gentle breeze from the incense on the table. I even […]
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Embracing a sassy attitude!
I am a sassy cat, I am a confident cat. I am an awesome cat and I have attitude or better said…”cattitude!” I own my sassy ass and I will shake it with the world. Are you ready to share your sassy ways? Here is a little jingle for you to own your sassy […]
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Happy Birthday Cat Box Zen
Cat Box Zen is one year old today! Happy Birthday to us!! Woo! Woo! Me and the cats had a party to celebrate. Well, it was sort of a party. The cats showed up for about 10 minutes. I got a cupcake since I was the only one eating it. I also got ribbons and […]
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Cats and yarn; 10 lessons in love
Happy Valentines Day Cat Friends! We can learn alot about a cat and ourself by looking at a big ball of yarn. And on this post you can learn 10 lessons in love from a cat. Watching a kitten make a mess out of a ball of yarn is a delight… we can also sit […]
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Kittens, football and Zen
The Kitten bowl is coming! The Superbowl is coming! Woo Hoo! Exciting times getting ready to watch the men play football and watch the kittens run around and look so adorable. yippee. This is also a time when we see the effects of the big wins and the big losses. For those on the loosing side, […]
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Are you a Sassy Cat?
To me a Sassy Cat is vibrant, outgoing and truly embraced the uniqueness of *her cat essence. A sassy Cat lives life according to their ways and when it comes to Sassy, they are who they are with no apologies for being real. A sassy cat will stand for what is right, and fight against what […]
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Changing the name of my litter box
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton Miss Mattie says… I have decided to change the name of my litter box. I don’t like the name litter. It reminds me of the stuff you put in it- crap. It also reminds me of a bunch of kittens. […]
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Funny Cat in a Bag” Zen-Part 2
“The bag and the box is just the container, the zen is really within the cat” KT Cat Paws Miss Mattie shared some of her funny “cat in a bag” Zen wisdom last week in part one. Well, over this past week, she played, pondered and enjoyed her time in a few bags while destroying […]
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Funny Cat “in a Bag” Zen -Part 1
“To get the wisdom out of the cat, we first must get the Zen Cat out of the bag.” KT Cat Paws Written by Miss Mattie At a blog site being Cat Box Zen, you know we will talk about boxes, but not every cat likes a box or wants to be part of the […]
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Playing with the cat toy of life!
As a cat you have a favorite toy… you cat pad around, cat toy always in your mouth. Soon enough you put the toy down and play with it. Now, you have to make decisions; pounce on it with high flying wiggles and jumps, or wait. Patiently watching it with your wide eyes of wonder? […]
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Cat rebuttal to Zen Watching Bird
KT shared a story on here about me being so un-zen-like one day. This was the day I slammed into the window trying to catch a bird. I was told this was “cute and funny.” Go ahead, go read the article so you can giggle too. I’ll wait. Bird Watching Zen I did not find […]