Jealousy is So Ugly!

I have become a social pariah. Mrs. G invited us to come and play on her terrace and Rupert and Alice and Monty ganged up on me. They said my ego is the size of the moon and all I talk about is my store and how famous I am and they're just sick of it. Then they turned their backs and played with Rupert's new wind-up mouse without me.

And Monty -- who I thought would love me forever -- said everybody's getting tired of the Tallulah dolls and they should make dolls of him and Alice and Rupert. Which is really a good idea, but I don't know if Pets! Pets! Pets! will go for it.

It is so not fair of them. I share all my toys and let them drive my car and they get all of Jenny's food for free. Maybe I'll just hang out in my store and make a whole lot of new friends and see how they like that.

Cats & Girls Forever

Our plan worked perfectly. Zan rang our bell and when Mabel answered the door, I ran down the hall and scratched on Becky's door. Zan came after me, while Alice meowed as loud as she could, and when Becky answered the door, I jumped into her arms and Alice jumped into Zan's arms. After a few seconds, the girls made up.

Mabel and Alice's mother planned a special tea party for the four of us to celebrate. They made invitations and Jenny created a special new dish for the cats called Catmandu -- it's a tall mountain of ground pork with a layer of hard boiled egg yolks and a topping of rice.

For the girls, Jenny made a new kind of cupcake with tiny nuggets of caramels and bitter chocolate, and she put marshmallow frosting on top.

Everything was dee-lish!

Tallulah the Cat and Alice Make a Plan

Alice came over for tea and we commiserated about Becky and Zan's fight. Alice says that Rachel is really stuck up and she's a very bad influence on Becky, who used to be so sweet. Becky is rude to everyone now and her English accent suddenly got very strong like she's some kind of royalty.

Alice doesn't know what to do, but I had an idea. Mabel invited Zan to come and play with me tomorrow. Rachel has to go to the orthodontist so she won't be at Becky's house. I told Alice that when Zan rings our bell, I'll run out into the hall and scratch on Becky's door. Then Alice will scratch on the other side of the door and we'll meow very loudly until Becky opens the door. I'll jump into Becky's arms and Alice will jump into Zan's arms and the girls will have to talk to each other.

Becky & Zan are Fighting

Becky and Zan had a big fight and now they're not speaking to each other.

A new girl named Rachel just moved to New York from London and she knows Becky's cousins, so now Becky and Rachel go everywhere together and Zan feels left out. And I feel left out too because Rachel has no interest in me when she comes to play with Becky -- I can't imagine why not.

So Alice plays by herself and I play by myself and Zan mopes around her apartment, according to Mabel who is friends with Zan's parents. Life is very boring and I'm going to have to do something about it.

Opening Day of Tallulah the Cat Store

Tallulah the Cat Store opened at 10 o'clock and by noon there were cats and humans lined up around the block. They bought so many things I was afraid we would run out, but Pets! Pets! Pets! was totally ready. They had blogged and twittered and advertised and they had a basement full of products to sell.

Jenny gave out hundreds of tastes of Mabel's Table Gourmet Food for Cats and Kittens, Tallulah's Treats and her very own Jenny's Fish Tea. Some of the cats loved the food so much they licked Jenny's hand to thank her. She's already talking about new foods to add.

Becky and Zan and Charlie came after school and they brought lots of friends. They especially loved the bulletin board and promised to come by soon with pictures of their pets. The dog people asked if they could bring pictures, too, and Mabel said the more the merrier.

I have to go to sleep right now because we have to be up extra early to watch The Morning Wake Up Show. They came to the opening with the hosts and they're doing a whole segment on my store in the morning. I just love being famous.

Tallulah The Cat Doll

Diana said she was going to bring over a bunch of stuffed cat samples for us to look at.  I really thought that Pets! Pets! Pets! should make a Tallulah cat.  Who wouldn't want a stuffed cat that looks like moi.

She walked into the store with a big box that was gift wrapped within an inch of its life and she put it on the floor so I could tear off the wrapping.

OMG  they made a Tallulah doll.  She looks just like me and there are different outfits for her.  Mabel must have let them into my closet when I was having a play date.  They have me in my tutu, and my bikini, and my Chanel cape that I wear to the ballet.  I'm so excited I can hardly wait to tell all my friends.

Tallulah The Cat Store Bulletin Board

Mrs. G came to the store with Rupert and she had the best idea. We're going to have a bulletin  board so humans can bring in pictures of their cats.  Mrs. G gave us one of Rupert and me rolling around in the catnip.  Mabel said she has hundreds of pictures of me, of course, and that she'd ask Becky and Larry Lewis for pictures of Alice and Monty.  

Becky had the cutest picture of Alice and me on a bicycle for two cats.

Personally, I didn't think Larry Lewis was the picture-taking type, and I was right, of course.  Mabel pulled out our pictures and she was going with Monty just sitting there looking like a cat -- totally boring, so I kept pushing the one of Monty and me on our scooters which is much more exciting.  She finally went with my choice.  Sometimes, humans are so slow.

Decorating My Tallulah the Cat Store

They're working away on my pop-up store. First the walls were going to be pink...then they switched to green...and now they're trying aquamarine. I like aquamarine because it looks like the stone in one my favorite of Mrs. G's rings. Maybe she'll wear it to the opening -- unless they change their minds again.

They also started to put our food on the shelves. Mabel and Diana put all the MABEL'S TABLE FOR CATS & KITTENS in the most prominent place, and TALLULAH'S TREATS were off to the side. Well, I just pushed those MABEL'S TABLE cans right off the shelves. I had to do it three times before they got the message, but they finally realized that the store is about me -- Tallulah. Pets! Pets! Pets! may be the money, but they wouldn't be here without moi.

Pop-Up Store

Pets! Pets! Pets! wants to open a pop up store that will be a laboratory to try out new products....along with our gourmet cat food, of course. They found an empty boutique right around the corner from 997 Fifth Avenue, where we live, and Mabel and I just came home from looking at it. The store didn't look like much to me, but Mabel said it has possibilities.

While we were looking in the window, a cute dog came along and we kind of checked each other out. He told me his name is Max and he lives in the neighborhood. I sort of hoped Mabel would talk to Max's human and maybe we could have a play date, but Mabel can be so paranoid sometimes -- she's probably worried that Max's human is trying to rent the store out from under us.

Right now Mabel is on the phone with Diana at Pets! Pets! Pets! talking about decorating and products and all kinds of things. It's just too exhausting....I think I'll take a nap.

In The Hamptons With Al

The Countess called on Thursday to say we should come to the beach right away and stay until Labor Day. It's lucky we had so many outfits planned.

It turned out that her dog, Alexander The Great, is actually tiny. He’s even smaller than I am and that long name is just ridiculous, so I call him Al.

We're having the best time going to the beach and having barbeques with ribs and lobster…dee-lish! I hope Al and I can see each other in the city.