The World Has Lost Its "Sparkle"

Photo used from Sparkle's blog
We pray her human doesn't mind

Thank you to Sparkle (and her incredible human), for the never-ending kindness that you both showed Cody and I from the day we began blogging in 2009. 

You ALWAYS visited us and 100s of other bloggers EVERY DAY without fail. Your comments often made us laugh and we looked forward to them.

Sparkle, we all promise to take care of your human, she is always concerned about all of us and the kitties of the World. We will make sure that she is looked after too.

In honor of Sparkle's memory and the wisdom she shared with all of us, Cody and I wanted to share our review that we did back in 2012 of Sparkle's book. It meant the world to us to review it, the book is one of thousands of examples of Sparkle's wit and talent with words. We hope that her humor and insight brings you comfort, we are hurting along with all of you.........THANK YOU SPARKLE for the joy you gave to all of us and for the kitties you have helped. This is the WORST day ever.

From:November 20, 2012: Dear Sparkle: CAT-TO-CAT advice from the world's foremost FELINE columnist-Sparkle The Designer Cat

Dear Sparkle,

I kicked my Mom off of the computer because I think that it should be ME writing the book review today.

It only seems right that I should write the review and not my Mom because you wrote this advice book for CATS ONLY.

Mom is not a CAT. I am a CAT, so I do the review.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

I would like to thank you for taking the time to sign my book. That was pretty darned cool of you. Especially being as famous as you are.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

I really like how you have the replies to the letters seeking advice from assorted kitties broken down into various CAT-egories such as:

GAMES KITTIES PLAY

STRANGE INVASIONS

CAT VS. HUMAN

EPI-CURIOUS

LITTER BOX LETTERS

MIXED MAILBAG

I can see how you are famous. You organized this stuff really well. If a kitty has a problem that purr-tains to a certain CAT-egory. All they gotta do is put their paw on the right chapter.

Love, Cody

Photo courtesy of Janiss Garza

Dear Sparkle,

The photos that you have in this book are of superior quality. I understand your human captured your beauty by herself? Wow! She is purrty darned talented. I like how she put your sagacious words under each photo.

You have trained her well.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

I liked the advice letter about “Playtime Time Out” Wanna know why? My Mom is super lazy. She doesn’t play with me enough. She says she has BLOGS to write, BLOGS to read, it’s all about BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!

When she does try to play with me, I go through my “cobra-routine” on the carpet. I stretch out and barely move. This frustrates Mom and she stops playing with me.

I guess I need to follow  your advice and show some enthusiasm when I play and maybe she will play with me longer.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

Thanks for printing the letter about “Housekeeper Havoc.” I could really relate.

I have a housekeeper who comes to my house and moves things around and makes everything smell AWFUL! She even has the nerve to tell me that she knows when I have POOPED! She tries to cover up the smell after I have worked so hard to make it smell like ME in my litter box.

You are right about the sucky monster dust inhaler not being dangerous, as long as I stay out of its’ way.

Thanks for the advice.

I could really relate to “Scared for my life” who wrote that letter.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

I want to thank you for answering the age-old question of why cats have expressive ears. I am sure a lot of kitties and their humans wanted to know the answer. You said, “it’s because we don’t have eyebrows”

You aren’t just beautiful, you are brilliant.

That’s why you make the big bucks.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

It’s about time that SOMEONE addressed the issue of “Nickname Nightmare” as you did in your book.

Humans need to realize that we don’t like nicknames. I hate being called “Codester”, “Jelly Belly”, “Co-Dependent” and a host of other ridiculous names.

Thanks for your advice of telling us “when your human mangles your name, make yourself scarce.”

Keep up the great work!

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

4-paws up on your idea for Vet Care Reform: “put the vets into carriers and bring them to US, instead of vice versa.”

PURR GENIUS!!

Love, Cody

Photo courtesy of Janiss Garza

Dear Sparkle,

I think your book is a MUST HAVE for any kitty worth their kibble. Who better to go to for answers to our burning questions than ANOTHER CAT?

You are right, about humans possibly not liking some of what they read. Sometimes the TRUTH HURTS!

I showed your book to my Mom and in a few instances you helped her see the error of her ways. Will she change? One can only hope.

You pointed out some impawtant issues that my Mom and other humans need to pay attention to!

Thanks for taking these impawtant matters into your own paws.

Love, Cody

Dear Sparkle,

Last but not least, I couldn’t agree more with your “Sparkle Says tidbit: the fact that dogs are so trainable does not make them smarter than us cats. Since when has being easily manipulated become a sign of intelligence?”

Love, Cody

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