March 23, Puppy and Cuddly Kitten Day

 

 This is a wonderful news story!

 

On February 13, 2026, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, a waste management worker saved five newborn kittens from a "horrible fate" after discovering them buried in a pile of cardboard just moments before they were to be loaded into a trash compactor

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• The Rescue: The worker heard faint cries while processing waste and discovered two kittens initially. Later that same day, he found a third. Due to his persistence in checking the pile, he found two more kittens at the same site on February 16.
• The "Pile": The kittens, which were very young and required bottle-feeding, were buried beneath cardboard, necessitating urgent intervention.

 

• Care and Recovery: The BC SPCA Abbotsford took the kittens into care. Because the shelter was closed for a holiday when the last two were found, the worker took them home to care for them overnight. The kittens were treated for upper respiratory infections.

 

• The Future: Named by their foster parents, the litter includes Dave (the largest and gentlest), Steven (curious and purrs when picked up), Dorito (small with a big voice), Cheeto (calm), and Annie (playful). They are expected to be available for adoption in early April 2026 once they gain enough weight.

These are things that make us THANKFUL!

 

 

 

March 20, Spring Equinox

We were going to do a great post about the querky things that only happen this time of year! We thought Equinoxes are the only time of year you can balance an egg on its enod and we figured we could get some cool images then our human bro says that is not really true and he showed us this YouTube

 

Kozmo  laughed and with his thumbs (see Thumbs Up  Day) made some eggs stand on their ends!

 

 

Soooooo that led us to look up egg balancing and we found this great story about  Christopher Columbus!

 

 

Columbus being at a party with many noble Spaniards, where, as was customary, the subject of conversation was the Indies: one of them undertook to say: "Mr. Christopher, even if you had not found the Indies, we should not have been devoid of a man who would have attempted the same that you did, here in our own country of Spain, as it is full of great men clever in cosmography and literature." 

Columbus said nothing in answer to these words, but having desired an egg to be brought to him, he placed it on the table saying: "Gentlemen, I will lay a wager with any of you, that you will not make this egg stand up as I will, naked and without anything at all." 

 

They all tried, and no one succeeded in making it stand up. When the egg came round to the hands of Columbus, by beating it down on the table he fixed it, having thus crushed a little of one end; wherefore all remained confused, understanding what he would have said: that after the deed is done, everybody knows how to do it; that they ought first to have sought for the Indies, and not laugh at him who had sought for it first, while they for some time had been laughing, and wondered at it as an impossibility. 

 

Monument to the discovery of America by Columbus in the shape of an egg in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

Happy Equinox Every one and I hope you ALL have a balanced day!