It’s three — yes three — cat videos for the Friday before Christmas. The Jingle Cats sing O Come All Ye Faithful: Cat hugs kitten: Cat soothes crying baby (h/t Huffington Post):

Via YouTube.

As promised, festive holiday cats between now and Christmas —

My favorite: The Cats of Ulthar. Via Photopoly: 37 Beautiful Cat Pictures.

Below is a video from someone who makes an entire turkey for his cats. (Alternatively, he makes the turkey for himself, claims it’s for the felines, and merely lets the cats lick it. The former and professed motivation is the more desirable and hygienic one.)

From the New York Times comes a story of the next great animal competition: feline agility contests. Consider the nature of the competition, and be intrigued: Feline agility competitions, in which cats run through a miniature obstacle course full of hurdles and tunnels, have become fixtures on the cat show scene. Modeled after canine agility…

Via Huffington Post

I’m sure to get complaints about this week’s catblogging photo – an animation of a spat between a small child and a feline. Some will blame the cat, others the child, still others will wonder where the parents are (after all — it wasn’t another cat that filmed this conflict).

I like numbers 9 (Create a Place for Your Cats to Climb and Perch) and 10 (Teach Your Cat to Shake Hands), but I’m not so sure about number 8 (Get Your Cat Comfortable with a New Place with the Help of Butter)… See the full list at Lifehacker: Top 10 Ways to Upgrade Your Cat’s Life.

The playfulness of youth —