Carolyn Holm

Dear Puffin,
I am so impressed with how you play with the catfish toy. All your focus and practice is paying off. You leap and twist and snatch that thing right out of the air. Your artistry is beautiful to watch!
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
C’est kind to say so. Madame’s games are much anticipated every evening. Though the time Madame spends playing with the Winston is wasted. He does not have the drive to excel. Fortunately he is content with the inferior wand toy.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
Winston just doesn’t have your focus. In fact, I think he has ADD. Attention Deficit Disorder.
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
This ADD, it is a sign of an inferior cat, no?
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
Of course not. He just tends to get easily distracted. He’s already worn out the first batch of batteries in his feeder because it opens and closes continually as he eats. He keeps stopping to sit up and look at some new distraction – a spot on the wall, a sound in the next room, to turn to see where Poppy is – and the feeder closes. If he just focused on eating his meal, the feeder would only need to open and close once.
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
Ouf. He is incapable of le focus.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
It’s not a priority for him. You, on the other hand, are very focused. No one tucks into their dinner with more passion than you do. But everyone is different. You remember Molly? The terrier who used to be in our household? Molly had OCD. She was so extremely focused she had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
Certainement this petit cat remembers the Molly. She had to first tap the food bowl with her right paw each time she ate. Molly was odd. We could say she was ODD.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
That’s clever. I didn’t know you had a comic streak in you. 
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
The cur, Poppy, has the PTSD.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
We certainly have a lot of acronyms in our household. Yes, Poppy does have PTSD. Whoever beat that poor dog in her first year left her with some issues. She can’t help it. She flips out barking when someone raises their arm. To her it signals that she will be hit.
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame, 
This petit cat has the acronym as well. Je suis VIP.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
You are a Very Important Person? Person usually refers to humans, sweetie. Still, in this household we tend to blur those lines. 
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
Non, non, non, Madame has it wrong. Et the Winston has it wrong as well. He says that this petit cat, who is VIP, is the Very Impressive Potato.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
Very Impressive Potato is, well, very impressive. 
Love, Carolyn

Cher Madame,
Je suis not a potato!!!!! C’est un slander from the Winston. VIP is the Very Impressive Poufin.
Regards, M. Le Poufin

Dear Puffin,
Winston is just giving you a hard time. Actually, your shape is a bit like a potato. But no matter. You will always be our potato.
Love, Carolyn

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