Heya Mates! You know, Sometimes it takes a slap in the face from my Dulcie to wake me up! I have been so neglectful of our site for quite some time! The old man should share the blame. We had a few set backs last year the made it hard to focus on the lighter side of life. We put several dear friends on the path to Valhallah. The series of losses hit the old man pretty hard and we had to pick up the slack around here.

Recently I was reminded by a friend from overseas that I have been remiss in my duties here. When I started Tabbitarium.com, based on the lives of Dulcie and Duddie and the colony out here in the foothills of New England, I was full of vim and vigor. I was ready to save every stray cat in the white mountains until I built an unstoppable army of spayed and neutered furry purr buckets. Oh yes, mates, I would be the envy of Cat lovers everywhere. We would be legion, make no mistake about it. We would be a pride in every sense of the word.

Over the course of the past two years, I have gotten bogged down in pet projects and the tabby hoard has even shrunk by one. Our own dearly beloved Lenny "Two Left Feet" Buff Bear left us and the void in our midsts is greater than the valley we live in by miles.

Merry Meat, Merry Part and May We Meat again, my beloved Big Bear.