Whiskers & Purrs

How Mademoiselle Coco Chanel Got Her Name

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Coco speakin'.  Now it's finally my time to tell y'all how I gots my name.  Like you already hearded, me, Fergie and Mrs. Lilly White adopted mommy at the same time.  It was very dramatical.   

I was very extra cute back then.  Here's a picture of me showin' off my beautiful tummy...see...it's got all kinds of polka dots! 

Mommy said I was very fashionable!  She said with my pritty brown furs, I reminded her of a cup of hot cocoa...all warm and cozy.  Plus, she said I am always so fashionably dressed in my beautiful brown furs...I would say mommy has some pritty good taste!   

So mommy said, "Dang!  That's it!  I finally figured out your name!  Because you have such beautiful brown furs and the fact that you are always dressed so fashionably with your polka dots and stripes...prettier than any Chanel suit I've ever seen...your name is Mademoiselle Coco Chanel!   And, so, that is how I got my name!

Some innerestin' things 'bout me:

• My beautiful tummy furs have turned bright orange! 
• I like to hide from mommy and then sit back and watch her panic when she's certain I have gotted outta the house!  I've gotted in trouble a couple of times 'cause of this...you can read 'bout it here and here.
• I like to tinkle on things...'cause it feels good!
• I "squeak" instead of "meow".
• I'm skeert to be picked up by mommy but I LOVE it once she picks me up.
• My favoritest thing in the world is to have my tummy rubbed.

And so, now you know how I gots my name.  Tomorrow, Georgie Porgie Puddinandpie will tell you all 'bout his name.

Very truly yours,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

 

Coco's Busy Friday...

To all the peoples on the innernets, this is Mademoiselle Coco Chanel speakin'.  Today has been busy.  Here is some of the things I has done today:

1. Eated my Fancy Feast
2. Peed on some stuff
3. Flirted with Felix
4. Eated some crunchies...mmmm...crunchies are good!
5. Peed on some more stuff
6. Taked a nap
7. Chased Mazie Grace up and down the steps 'bout 47 times
8. Flirted with Senator Henry Jackson Edward Graves III
9. Eated some more Fancy Feast
10. Peed on even more stuff

I am tired now and must take a nap after this very busy and important day.

Very truly yours,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

Coco speaks

 

Dearest peoples on the innernets,
This is Coco speakin'.  I am now 'fishally breakin' our silence.  Mommy says we ain't suppose to break stuff but I think silence is okay to breaks. 

Me and Senator Henry Jackson Edward Graves III gots us an announcement.  We is boyfriend and girlfriend.  It's prolly gonna be in People magazine so be sure to look for it in the grocery store!  I can't say I love him too much...he's kinda weird, what with him poopin' in the floor and all.  But, he's a free spirit and has lotsa power since he's a senator.  And, he sure knows how to lick the insides of my ears good.  So, I'mma happy womans. 

Wish us luck!

Very truly yours,
Coco Chanel

Day 6...Coco Speaks!

Dearest peoples on the innernets,
This is Coco Chanel speakin'.  I gots somethin' to say.  Does anybody wanna know what it is?

Very truly yours,
Coco Chanel

One Word Wednesday: Hidey-Place

To all the peoples on the innernets,

This is Mademoiselle Coco Chanel speakin'.  Today is one word Wednesday and mommy says I gits to pick our word.  Today's word is "hidey-place".  Okay, it's two words...so, sue me.  This is a very important word. 

Sometimes a woman needs to have a place to go to git 'way from everybody when they is gittin' on her nerves.  This here picture shows my favorite hidey-place...in between the shower curtain and the liner.  I hide here lots...mommy never thinks to look here when she can't find me and she starts to thinkin' for sure that I have gotted outta the house.  It's real fun to be in your hidey-place when mommy starts to freak out 'cause she thinks you is gone forever.  It's specially fun when she starts cryin'...you can really know that she loves you when that happens.

You can use your hidey-place when somebody new comes into the house...like repairmen, delivery peoples, and mommy's friends that you don't know.  That way, you can watch 'em but they don't even know you is there.  You can see 'em when they starts to go through mommy's stuff when they is in the bathroom...you can identify who the Mr. & Mrs. Snoopy Snooperson's are.

You can also use your hidey-place when you just need to meditate and relax.  Elsie's hidey-place is actually out in the open but sometimes when you is in the "zone" it don't matter if your hidey-place is actually hided.  It's basically just your "place" without the hidey part.  Peoples just know to leave you alone 'cause you is "zonin".

Everybody's hidey-place is different.  Where is your special zonin'-out hidey-place?

Very truly yours,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

A Politikal Announcement

Hi to all you peoples on the innernets.  This is Coco speakin'.  You don't normally hear much from me 'cause I'm real shy...and...I like to hide a lot.  I gots into trouble a couple of weeks ago 'cause I hided myself real good and mommy couldn't find me.  She was real mad at me.  You can read 'bout it here.

Anyways...I just wanted to let everybody know that I have decided to announce to the world that I am throwin' my politikal support to Obama.  There's lotsa reasons why...

1. I just like to say "Obama Obama Obama".
2. It will make Unkle John mad.
3. My vote will cancel out Unkle John's.
4. It might git me some points with mommy since I'm purty sure she's still real mad at me.
5. His kids call his wife "Mamma Obama" and that's even more fun to say than "Obama Obama Obama".

Very truly yours,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

Strike Two For Coco

Hi.  This is Coco speakin'...uh, I think I'm in trouble...BAD trouble.  See, early this mornin', some man came to the house.  He was workin' on some stuff and makin' lots and lots of noise.  He kept goin' up and down the stairs and movin' stuff around.  He talked real loud and slammed stuff around a lot.  He skeerd me 'cause I knowed he ain't supposed to be here.

So...I decided to find me a hidin' place.  See, I'm real real good at findin' hidin' places.  I did it one time before, too.  You can click here to read all 'bout my big adventure.  Mommy don't necessarily appreciate my hidin' place findin' skills...in fact, she starts to cry when I'm practicin' my skills.  That's just weird, people.

Anyways, back to the story.  So I found a place nobody would ever find me and went sound asleep.  It was nice and quiet and cozy.  In fact, I sleeped so long that I missed supper!  Dang...that was some good sleepin' a goin' on!  It was real real late...about midnight.  Mommy was a goin' to bed and realized she hadn't seen me since real early this mornin'.  She started thinkin' and was afraid the man that came to work on the house had let me out...

One minute I was snoozin' and the next thing I knowed, mommy was cryin'.  I couldn't see her but I sure could hear her.  I heard the front door open and close 'bout a jillion times.  Mommy was goin' up and down the steps...she keeped a callin' "Coco...where are you..."  I could hear her callin' my name outside, too.  Now tell me, why on earth would she be lookin' for me on the outside???  I'm real embarrassed 'cause all them neighbors we gots must think mommy is plum crazy walkin' 'round in the dark at 1:00 in the mornin', in her night gown, callin' for me. 

When she finally had given up, she noticed that Felix and Georgie and Henry and Elizabeth Taylor was all sniffin' round this real fancy thing called a chaise lounge.  It's in our spare bedroom and me and all my brothers and sisters LOVE to sleep on it...see they don't know the super-secret trick that I know...I know how to git down inside of it.  Oooohhh, it's so cozy and nobody knows where you is!

So, when mommy sawed all the cats sniffin', she knowed that was where I was.  She turned the fancy chaise lounge upside down and saw the hole I had cut into the bottom of it.  DANG...now my secret is out!

Mommy was cryin' and callin' me a hairy little sunuvabich.  I wonder what that means?  I ain't sure but I think it means she was glad to see me.

Now my big adventure is over, it's time for a nap.

Yours truly, the hairy little sunuvabich in the Graves House,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel