Tonks Tuesday with Yet More Pumpkins

We have just a couple more days of Halloween wrap-up we'd like to share. For Tonks Tuesday, I really wanted to share some of my favorite Halloween photos I took last year. They're quite basic and don't even look that festive, but they show off my adorable and playful calico with her cat-o'-lantern toy, and I love that. 

As we mentioned yesterday, we also have a couple more jack-o'-lantern photos to share from the event my mom and I went to at a local pumpkin farm. Yesterday we shared a number of pumpkins that were carved like kitties, and today I'm sharing some slightly more random ones that stuck out to me.

For the record, I am not a fan of clowns. That said, the pumpkin below was aptly creepy for the spooky holiday, and so I had to snap a photo of it.

We hope you all continue to have terrifyingly terrific days, friends!

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Spooky Doodles of the Day

Today we're finishing up sharing the doodles I scribbled up of my parents' kitties in their Halloween costumes. Today we have the last of the girls, first up with Gilly. Her glamorous fur earned her the role of The Ring's Samara, a girl who crawled out of a well with her long hair hanging good and creepy over her face. Gilly looks far less scary, though.

The next one stars three kitties, those being Fizzgig (aka Fizzy), Iris, and Josie. It was my dad's idea for these three to be a group of witches, and since they notoriously don't get along, I made sure they all looked good and angry at each other.

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Tip of the Day

It's Pet Cancer Awareness Month, so we have another cancer prevention tip for you today. We're here to talk a bit about vaccines. While vaccines can be important for the prevention of various diseases, especially for those furbabies who go outdoors or are in another way more susceptible to disease, it is still crucial that you be knowledgeable about the potential side effects of some vaccines. In some cases, vaccines can lead to injection-site tumors, commonly cancerous fibrosarcomas. To help prevent these, you can keep furbabies, such as cats, indoors. This could render some vaccines far less necessary, since your furbaby would likely not be exposed to the diseases certain vaccines cover. In other cases, such as if your furbaby does go outdoors or might be exposed to certain diseases, simply do your research. Ask your veterinary office what types of vaccines they use, as some vaccines do not contain the components typically believed to cause injection-site tumors. Vaccines are often a highly debated subject in any case, so always be knowledgeable about them, about what kind your veterinary office uses, and which vaccines your kitty or pup might need.