The Roadside Artist

Let’s have a funny and/or cutesy caption for this cartoon! The last contest was for Widget’s T-shirt and we settled on “Catnip - just say no!” Now I need a caption for the latest Hammie cartoon. Winner gets a Zazzle T with the cartoon and his/her slogan on it.

Post your suggested caption as a COMMENT on this post and be sure to enter your e-mail address so that I can contact you if I pick your caption. If you are interested in the real feral kitten Hammie, his story and his cartoons, you can read more about Hammie The Cat here.

1. You can enter as many slogans, as many times, as you think of stuff. There is no specific deadline for the cartoon caption. When I have something I like, I’ll use it ..and you win!
2. There may be more than one winner. Additional captions chosen may be applied to other cartoons past, present or future.
3. The Roadside Artist is the sole judge of what works for this cartoon. If you don’t win, don’t have a cow: Maybe I just have no sense of what is funny! Who knows? It’s only a cartoon t-shirt caption contest anyway so don’t get all mental about it.
4. Your e-mail address does NOT appear to the public. Only I can see it. Your e-mail address isn’t used for anything but notifying you if you win, getting your size, choice of shirt, and snail mail address to send it to you. I thought I’d mention that just in case you were worried.

Thank you, good luck - and have fun!

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He’s a striped tabby cat, formerly a feral kitten who was rescued. Now he’s just a silly boy who loves his family…

This is Widget The Cat, a black gray and brown striped Tabby who loves to chase laser dots and eat cat cookies. He begs for the cookies (and the laser) by making a chattery sound. Caption suggestions?

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Hammie The Cat is back, he’s growing, but he’s still a little boy. This cartoon of Hammie is cute, I think, and it shows his lovable side.

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Announcing the formation of the Crazy Cat Lady Club. What this means, I don’t know…yet. But you can post here, in the comment section, your support for all of us Crazy Cat Ladies in the world.

Personally, I can’t keep writing about cats on new posts every other day, because it’s driving down the art side of my blog and that is how I pay the bills for cat rescuing. I’d love to talk about kitties all the time, but I need to consolidate it for the sake of my art business. So here we are….

As I said, I don’t know exactly what this means, yet. I’ve been calling myself the Crazy Cat Lady for several years now, and that name has more than one irony in it for me.

I have found that other people who like to use this name don’t have much respect for feral cat rescue. They are instead into some kind of political correctness, anti “animal hording” thing. I guess that is supposed to make it all sound okay. Well you know what? The cats don’t care if you have other cats, they just want to live. And sending them to “shelters” to be killed doesn’t make you a cat person, it makes you complicit in murder.

The shelter will kill them. I won’t. Find out more about feral kitten rescue from my personal perspective.

We actually have about 5 pet cats, all rescued. But we also feed and care for many more feral cats and kittens on our small farm. They aren’t pets, like I said, they live outside on the fringes of our civilization - they just don’t want to die. So I feed them.

If you support cat rescue, drop a comment here and let me know. I’m not really asking for anything more than moral support. If you don’t like cats, I don’t want to hear about it. ..And if you are a rescuer of kitties, tell us your story!

Thank you.

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