Tonks Tuesday with Silver Vine on the Side

It's a playful sort of Tonks Tuesday today.

We have a ton of these silver vine stick toys at our house. Some of them are looking rough, like the one above. I buy more of these for the kitties at least once a year, because all of the kitties love them, and also because they're really rough on the poor toys.

Tonks and all of us here are wishing you a happy Tuesday!

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

We're still in a spooky sort of mood, and given Tonks's playful photos above, this particular flashback doodle seemed like a good fit for today.

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Tip of the Day

In a home with a hind limb paralyzed cat, as well as five other happily active cats and a big and boisterous dog, rugs on hardwood, laminate, tile, and other similar floor surfaces do not easily stay put. That being said, today's tip covers just a couple ideas on how you can try to keep rugs in place when you live with playful, active furbabies who often just cannot help but move those rugs around. To begin, you can get rugs that come already equipped with a nonslip backing. There are also separate nonslip pads that can be placed beneath a rug. Even these options are sometimes not enough to keep rugs in place, though. For something a bit more heavy-duty, you can try something such as double-sided carpet tape. Similarly, you can use velcro strips, placing one on the rug's underside and one on the floor beneath it, thereby attaching the rug to the floor. I have even heard of people using something such as silicone caulking on the bottom of rugs, which, when dried, will have a nonskid effect. Sharing our homes with furbabies can mean that rugs throughout the house end up in all sorts of disarray. To combat this, you can brainstorm and test out which potential nonskid or adherent methods might work best for you, your furbaby, and your home.