Reader Amy found this song on the internet. I doubt that the song about neutering consoled this cute tom kitten!
My foster kitten PeeWee recently got neutered, so I sang him a little ditty I wrote about how he has no balls anymore.
Heather Hastie sent this video of a mother leopard (Panthera pardus) and her cubs, which she simply labels “Gorgeous!”:
You can see more photos of the cubs here; I’ll show three:
Reader Michael called my attention to a new Simon’s Cat video, “UFO”. It explains how the mysterious alien “crop circles” originate.
The new “sketches” format is described by Michael: “the idea is ‘back to basics’ simple, short line drawings with one idea per story.”



I was wondering how those crop circles really got there.
Finally we have the answer.
Sadly, Doug Bower (half of the duo of Doug and Dave who invented the meme of crop circles in 1978) died on July 21st this year.
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(Pleased to have lived in Hampshire where the crop circles first originated)
Nice tune. The last time I felt this queasy, I was dating a girl from Iowa, and we took a trip back to the farm to visit her folks, and her father took me out to the barn to show me the machine he and his daughter had used to make steers outta wannabe bulls.
No message there, I’m sure.