Happy St. Patrick's Day

 Today our Peep celebrates her Irishness! There is LOADS of Irish, Welsh, Manish (from the Isle of Man), Scottish and British (along with some French and Flemish) in her family tree. St. Patrick’s Day, is the feast day of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. He was actually British and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 to convert the Irish to Christianity. But everybody knows all about St Patrick...so we are going to talk about Irish Cats! 

 

There are some Irish superstitions about cat’s and their ‘sixth sense’. In County Clare it was thought that to be looked at fixedly by a cat after it had washed its face was a sign of approaching marriage. To dream of a cat foretold an enemy; to dream of a dog a friend. Throughout Ireland, a purring cat or a cat with its back to the fire was a sign of rain. 

Another belief is it is a sign of bad luck if a cat caught a mouse and allowed it to escape for no reason. In Limerick they believed putting a cat under a pot brought bad weather and it was apparently a common practice among sailors’ wives in order to keep their men at home.
Black cats are considered lucky! To have a black cat cross your path on New Year’s Eve, and if a black cat comes into the house on Christmas Night, you will have great luck for the coming year. Many Irish consider it lucky to have a black cat cross the road in front of them or to come upon a black cat unexpectedly.
 

One thing we thought was interesting in the myths  is that Peeps can turn, or are turned, into cats. The goddess Clíona, turned her sister Aoibheall into a white cat because they were both in love with the same chieftain. Clíona married the chieftain, O’Keeffe, and they lived happily together for a long time. Eventually, O'Keeffe found out and demanded that Clíona restore her sister’s human shape. Unfortunately, it was too late to do anything, and in his rage, the chieftain banished Clíona from his sight!

 

These are just a few things about Irish Cats! Kozmo, if our Peep is Irish are we Irish?

 

 

 

3.14 - Pi Day!

As you know, our Peep is a GEEK!

We get to celebrate obscure days, like--Pi Day (which is also Einstein's Birthday!), International Back Up Day (March 31),  Morse Code Day (April 27), May The Fourth Be With You Day (May 4), Geek Pride Day (May 25), to name a few. Sometimes Mom gets us pets involved and other times she and our human bro act like Geeks!

To celebrate today we have PIE! 

 We are hoping it is Pizza with anchovies! (more likely it will be morsels of cheese and shrimp and not really a pie...Mom likes to ensure we don't eat a lot of people food...)

Do YOU celebrate Pi Day?

 

*****UPDATE to yesterday's post!*****

We were so very disappointed to read this, this morning. The Orange Guy and his handler EM should be chastised! 

 Bomb sniffing K-9s become latest DOGE victims – hours after Trump shared 2019 pic with hero dog.

 

K-9 bomb sniffer dog units have become the latest victims of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, just as the White House celebrated a national day honoring the heroic animals.

Workers at the TSA were informed via email that “new guidance” meant that requests for costs including vet visits, kenneling and dog food, had been put on hold effective immediately, according to Fox News. The directive was revealed on Thursday. TSA is in charge of airport security and its dogs can be used to sniff out bombs and other contraband.

*****UPDATE*****

Let's hope they don't take care of the TSA dogs like they have done in the past.