Peeps, this is a special open thread, because we’re celebrating a birthday! Here’s reader Georgiana Y. with the news:

A very happy birthday to my sweet Minnie who just happens to be turning 18 on Caturday, October 19th. She has good days and bad days but she’s a tough little girl and we love her very much.

Get comfy — it’s another cozy Caturday, and here to inspire us on our relaxation journey is Hamster, from reader Tracy R., who writes:

This is Hamster lying on his special pillow (it’s an orthopedic neck pillow, and he fits right in the area down the middle) and thinking … something, I dunno.

Happy Caturday! Let’s start the weekend with a story from reader Hoosierina, another satisfied customer of the cat distribution system:

Within a month of retiring, this showed up in my backyard. Her name is Mrs. Jones, fully Mrs. Shed Jones as she was living behind it. Named so because it’s just me and now we got a thing going on (“thing” involves much finger gnawing and turbo scampering — her, not me).

Welcome to the Caturday open thread! Today’s visitor is off on a thrilling adventure through the wilds of the treacherous backyard.