National Drink Wine Day

Even though yesterday was a national holiday, today is an even more special day.  Today is National Drink Wine Day (or Global Drink Wine Day depending on how you want to look at it).

Before you get all flummoxed, yes, I KNOW that it is Kitten Tuesday.  But National Drink Wine Day doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that should be ignored. So, I thought I would hit two birds with one stone (or two kitties with one glass of wine as it were).

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Cat Wine

Have you heard of Cat Wine before?  I had heard of it, but never really looked into it.  It turns out that this nice man with two cats, Apollo and Hades, invented it as a sort of gag gift for his fellow, crazy cat friends. There’s a great story about his entrepreneurial journey on his website.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Apollo Peak Cat Wines are made with natural ingredients. He uses red or yellow beets to create the proper color for his Pinot Meow, CATbernet Sauvignon, MosCATo, White Kittendale, and a Pink Purrsecco.  You know how I love a good cat pun, I think he did a great job finding the purrfect names.  They are all different versions of liquid catnip, intended to give your cats the same pleasant feelings that their people get from drinking person wine.

It makes me laugh just imagining a bunch of drunk people hanging out at home with their drunk cats.

I don’t let Anabel and Sally have catnip because they get too rowdy.  The time that I gave them a catnip toy to play with, they got really too wound up. They have a daily cat judo practice, when they will chase each other and spar a bit. The time they had catnip has been the only time that I have ever been worried about their brawling. So, no cat wine for them.

All this talk about cat wine reminds me about a story that a friend used to tell about her mom’s one-eyed Pomeranian.  Apparently, mom would dress the pup up in a pirate costume, and they would sit on the couch together watching “their shows.” The pirate Pom would drink wine out of mom’s glass while they watched Ellen together. It still makes me smile when I think about it.

National Love Your Pet Day

As long as we’re talking about national this-or-that day, this seems like a good time to mention that this Thursday, February 20 is National Love Your Pet Day. Now, I know that we all love our pets every day, but apparently you are supposed to give them extra attention. 

Maybe you can drink your person wine today and get your cats some cat wine for Thursday (there is also apparently wine for dogs, don’t think that they’re being left out). That all being said, any day seems like a good day to pour yourself a glass of wine and love your pet (whether or not they partake).