Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows - Nature & Animals

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Waiting For My Midnight Snack #SundaySelfie

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Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Run for the Roses #CaturdayArt

Meows from Mudpie, and Happy Derby Day! Do you plan to watch the Kentucky Derby today? We will be even though Mommy watches horse races with...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Feline Friday: Feisty Mudpie

Meows from Mudpie! Mommy told this story on her personal Facebook page, but I wanted to brag about it here too :)  On Tuesday night around 1...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Keeping Grandpa's Blankie Warm

Meows from Mudpie! Grandpa will be discharged from the hospital on Thursday and needs to go to rehab for awhile. This is the blankie he cove...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Spying on the Neighbors Again #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! On Friday morning our neighbor had fiber internet installed, and I watched the whole thing! I don't think the guys knew t...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Caturday Art

Meows from Mudpie!  Today is National Devil Dog Day, so we thought it might be fun to ask AI to show us a tortie eating a Devil Dog. We wond...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: More Purrs Needed #PetPhotoFails

Meows from Mudpie! Thank you for joining us for this month's edition of the Pet Photo Fails blog hop! We have some bad news to report at our...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Mother's Day Gift Ideas for Cat Moms from Etsy

Meows from Mudpie! Can you believe Mother's Day is less than 3 weeks away??? Now that my Grandma is gone it's no longer a holiday Mommy look...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Yes, I Do Wake Up Looking This Beautiful #SundaySelfie

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Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: National Record Store Day #CaturdayArt

Meows from Mudpie! Mommy might have a new addiction. On Thursday the new Meta AI rolled out on Facebook. She hasn't had much luck with the v...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Mudpie Needs To Vent

Meows from Mudpie! Some of you might remember Mo as we've featured him here before. Mommy has actually known Mo longer than she's known me -...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: The Book of 5 Mews by M.G. Rorai - Blog Tour & Book Review

A heartwarming story about cats, cheese, Catness, cat-tastrophies, and why cats are basically running your life. Did ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: What Season Are We Doing Today? #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! Friday I spent the entire day sunbathing in glorious 75 degree weather. Yesterday it was back in the 40s. I think Mother ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Caturday Art

Visit more artsy kitties at Athena's  Caturday Art  blog hop! And now our weekly answers (all answered by Mommy this week) for the Friendly ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Book Review ~ Purrseverance: Inspiring Stories of Cat Resilience and Hope by Sierra M. Koester

What do cats do when faced with adversity? They persevere. "Purrseverance" contains 16 accounts of how our feline friends triumphed over l...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Happy Eclipse Day!!!

Meows from Mudpie!  It's a super exciting day in our neck of the woods because we're in the "path of totality" for the Great American Eclips...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: You're Silly, Mommy! #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! This is the look I gave Mommy after she called me by my silly new nickname...brace yourselves... MUDDY POO-POO!!!   Do I ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Mudpie in Bloom #CaturdayArt

Visit more artsy kitties at Athena's  Caturday Art  blog hop! And now our weekly answers (all answered by Mommy this week) for the Friendly ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Feline Friday Flashback: Talk to the Paw

Meows from Mudpie! You're looking at one teed-off tortie. Yesterday we got 8.8" of snow. That makes it the biggest snowstorm of the year...o...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Scary World

Cars, trucks, motorcycles... Airplanes, dogs, other peoples... It's a scary world out there, Mommy.

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Easter Art & Selfies

And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs... Mudpie's answers: 1. I ho...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Failed Selfie Attempts #PetPhotoFails

Meows from Mudpie! Thank you for joining us for this month's edition of the Pet Photo Fails blog hop! The big excitement in my neck of the w...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Mudpie Interviews...Princess Fuzzypants from T. C. LoTempio's Urban Tails Pet Shop Mystery Series

There may be honor among thieves, but a long-ago diamond heist might hold the secret to a man’s murder . . . Pet shop owner Shell McMillan...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Belly Up to the Local Watering Hole #SundaySelfie

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Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Dreaming of Spring #CaturdayArt

Meows from Mudpie! Mommy popped this picture into a filter on Pho.to and gasped at how beautiful it turned out! I'm most definitely just dre...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Unboxing March's CatLadyBox

The theme of March's  CatLadyBox  was Cats in Bloom...here's what was inside! Featured Cat Lady Artist: Elina Parhomenko Paw of Flowers T-...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: WW: Has Anyone Seen Mudpie???

Note from Mudpie: Could someone please tell Mommy that she could dust my KatKabin once or twice a year??? How embarrassing...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: May the Luck of the Irish Shine Upon You #SundaySelfie

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Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Caturday Art

Visit more artsy kitties at Athena's  Caturday Art  blog hop! And now our weekly answers (all answered by Mommy this week) for the Friendly ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Feline Friday Flashback: Mudpie & the Leprechaun

Meows from Mudpie! Officially known as the "Pi Day" storm, 7 years ago on March 14-15 our neck of the woods got dumped with 30.4" of snow, m...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: WW: Mudpie Loves Her Meow Mail Mat!

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Mommy Said I'm Beautiful #SundaySelfie

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Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Sad & Blue #CaturdayArt

No words. Only tears. Visit more artsy kitties at Athena's  Caturday Art  blog hop! And now our weekly answers (all answered by Mommy this w...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Grandpa, You're Fired!

Meows from Mudpie! On Wednesday morning I wasn't feeling well. I barfed several times and made a number of trips to my litter box. (I'm fine...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Unboxing February's CatLadyBox

The theme of February's CatLadyBox was Smitten Kitten...here's what was inside! Featured Cat Lady Artist: Eva Farb Purr, Purr, Purr T-Shirt...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Sous Chef Mudpie #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! Grandpa loves soup, but canned soup is way too salty for him, so Mommy has been spending lots of time in the kitchen late...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Visiting a Snowy Whoville #CaturdayArt

Meows from Mudpie! Today we're taking part in the annual celebration of Dr Seuss' birthday, also known as National Read Across America Day. ...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Feline Friday Flashback: Tax Time Tortie Blues

Meows from Mudpie! Mommy has been busy pulling all her paperwork together to have hers and grandpa's taxes prepared next week. I had forgott...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: 4 Tips for Keeping Your Cat's Teeth Healthy

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of the day we had to leave my beloved cat Patch at the vet to have several teeth extracted. I sti...

Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows: Sleepy Sunny #SundaySelfie

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