Not very long, older book.
So there was this show I watched as a kid and I really loved watching it. It was based in the suburbs where these three cat detectives were solving clues around their neighborhood/town. It had that similar 2D art style to "Cailou" and it was animated. It aired every Saturday/Sunday morning on CBS or ABC channel and cartoons would usually end at either 10 am - 12 pm if I could remember. No its not "Cailco Critters" even though their a bit similar but was not born during the time when the show was released nor "Sheriff Callies" as it was not based in the wild wild west. And another thing, the show wasn't in 3D, it was 2D and had that 2000s look if I could remember.
It probably got removed or something as I tried to look in the internet for it and all I get are not what I'm looking for. I was eight or seven at the time so the only episode I could remember was they were looking for a item that someone lost. They traveled from homes to the post office looking for it and the one who was mainly searching for was main character aka the calico character. He was known to do all the work and finish the job while his friends help him out in his quest. He wore blue overalls and a red striped t-shirt. He had this girl companion who wore a pink bow on her head and wore a dress. I think it was his sister I think and she would help him or treat him to some cookies or lemonade.
There was this other cat who was a tuxedo or a black cat(who I think also wore blue overalls?) and he would always be the one finding things to help the main character solve the mystery. He was the silly one I think and he had yellow eyes. I remembered there was also birds and rabbits in this cartoon too as I remember the main character was friends with a rabbit. It could just be my imagination as I remember the whole show being about cats.
They also would go by this mailbox all the time chatting to each other as they walked through the suburbs, talking about friend stuff. Mostly the show ended with them solving the mystery and they would reward themselves with snacks or parties in the end.
Please find it because I want to cry my eyes out if it does exist and so I can binge watch my whole childhood all over again.
It is a three-chapter book. The cat is a female detective and she solves three cases (I think). The first one involves a missing baseball. One is also about a cheating husband cat. The illustrations are gorgeous and the cats all wear elaborate Edwardian costumes. There is a plot important fur muff that the detective gives to a kitten. Someone makes hats. In the end she falls in love with a boy cat. The boy cat might be a chef? Related to a case with a chef?
I desperately want to share this book with my wife but i can't fucking remember what it's called and Google just gives me Lillian Jackson Braun.
Unfortunately, he was already at the bottom of the lake, so he never answered me.
Game found! It's "Another Case Solved". Thanks people of subreddit :)
I remember that I was playing it on my phone with Android. I have no idea what year could it have been released, but I used to play it 3-5 years ago. I think it could be qualified as a puzzle game. There were like 3 types of puzzles, at least three that I remember. One, typical match-three-same-things just like candy crush where you have limited moves. That was supposed to be the part where we ask people around. Second, where we go around an area looking for a specific object. Just as in the last puzzle, limited moves. Third, where we decide who is the guilty one. After every case you would go back to your office, where you could customize your character by clicking on the mirror in the corner. In this very office every now and then you could find game currency in the air vent, a small candy. The cases were split into some kind of 'seasons' with the first season being nice and friendly, and the second one being more darker, with death and real big crimes. First quest we ever get is from a little girl that lost her cat.
I stopped playing after second 'season' and I can't find this game in my game store. Help would be much appreciated as I really enjoyed this game and need something to do in the tram when I can't get on Reddit. Thank you!
Platform(s): IOS, Android?
Genre: Platformer, I think?
Estimated year of release: Early 2010s
Graphics/art style: Cartoony with a dull color scheme
Notable characters: Cat Detective
Notable gameplay mechanics: You could sling around the cat by pulling on them (similar to the game Sling from Miniclip). You had missions to do (I think) and you had to find characters in this mineshaft/cave.
Other details: It had a cave setting with mine carts and all, and you were a cat detective. The cat detective in the game had a brown fedora, and I think they looked scrawny as well. The background music they used, and I remember very vividly, was Kevin Mcleod's Sneaky Weasel
The last entry finished: "Because if you've turned to look at this diary, then your back is turned toward me."
Apologies on the spotty details, itβs been a couple decades.
So, what I remember of the story is that a child, I believe his name was Kyle, somehow becomes a paranormal detective, and meets aliens and ghosts. He also has a talking cat (the cat may have been his uncle, who was also a detective?).
I read this for sure in the year 2000, so it would have come out that year or slightly before. Maybe a scholastic book. I think it was supposed to be a childrenβs version of the X Files, and reflected that in the name (either with βXβ or βFilesβ). I believe it had cartoony illustrations.
**Edit
Found it! "The Zack Files". Not Kyle.
On my current re-read of ASoS, Cat is under house arrest and confined, at her request, with her dying father. Hoster Tully is rapidly declining, with only rare moments of lucidity and often mistakes Catelyn for her mother or Lysa. Then, Hoster starts raving about "Tansy" and "so much blood" and having "true born sons," begging forgiveness.
It doesn't take Cat long to piece together that "Tansy" is not a woman, but most likely the abortifacient Hoster forced Lysa to take upon discovering she was pregnant with someone's bastard. She reasons that Lysa's proven fertility might not have been enough of a selling point to make an honorable but prickly man like the heirless Jon Arryn take her, and that she was the price he had to pay to gain the Riverlands' swords in the war against the throne.
Plot-wise, there's a lot happening here at once, and conclusions are reached that seem reasonable to the reader but perhaps shouldn't come so easily to Cat, and there are some assumptions that should be far more obvious but remain outside her ability to fathom. Some of these may be attributed to the unreliable nature of limited PoV. Cat has certainly been wrong before, but I have a few quibbles.
- Cat readily assumes and accepts that Lysa was pregnant with a bastard, but has no thoughts on who the father might have been. This is bizarre for a few reasons:
- Cat is aware of rumors that Petyr Baelish had taken her virginity, or Lysa's virginity, or both. Tyrion tells her Littlefinger himself brags about it.
- Baelish was summarily dismissed from Riverrun without ceremony and permitted no goodbyes as soon as he was recovered enough from his debacle with Brandon Stark to travel.
- Cat knows that Baelish was not allowed visits from Hoster's daughters while in recovery.
- After speaking with Jaime, she at least partly accepts that Petyr lied to her face about the dagger, and now knows that Tyrion had been telling the truth about at least his own innocence, but never reevaluates her assessment of Baelish's character.
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Cat concludes that Lysa was forced on Jon Arryn as a condition for Riverrun's support in the war. Why? Cat was already betrothed to Brandon and then wed to Ned after Brandon's death. What matter if the Riverlands support Stark but not Arryn when they're fighting the same war?
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How stupid was Jon Arryn? He knew the following:
- Lysa was pregnant with someone's bastard.
- Petyr Baelish had been abruptly sent home from his wardship at Riverrun.
- Lysa sho
In movies, the killer always takes an interest in the lead detective who's investigating them, and sends them letters, calls them on the phone, etc. "Hello, detective. I really admire you," they say as they play their sadistic game of cat and mouse.
Does this ever happen in real life?
it possible that my cat might actually be allergic or that the brand of litter I bought for him?
When he first came home I bought all necessary stuff for him including litterbox and litter. Then I started to notice that he had teary eyes almost daily. I've never had pets before, but I thought that this shouldn't be like this.
His first vet Check went well, he's a healthy boy and the doc told me I shouldn't worry about it, just check the eyes and clean the "tears" that came out and kinda stained the inner corner of the eye. She said if the color should get unhealthy or if he shouldn't be able to open his eye, I should bring him immediately.
With this in mind I started to check if it might be something around the house. One day I was cleaning his eyes and after that I cleaned the litterbox. Immediately I noticed that the day after that he had still some tears in the inner corner but it was much less.
I figured, maybe it has to do with how clean the litterbox is so I started to pay closer attention to that and started to look online for some info. Since I already clean the turds out everytime after he drops a dookie, I didn't think the cleanliness of the box should be the main thing of the problem, but it helped. When I changed the litter for completely fresh one I noticed that it was very dusty. It even made me cough and was not very pleasant.
I figured that might be it so I went and got him a different kind of litter. This one is more fine and when I put it into the litterbox I immediately noticed its not so dusty as the other one and didn't make me cough.
This morning I woke up to feed Bubbles and checked his eyes and I think it's the first time in a while that he didn't have any tears that were staining the inner corner of the eye!
Has anyone of you had similar experiences?
I read the beginning of a book (one in a long series) about a female detective in the South(?) who had a cat side kick and a ghost roommate. I'd love to find the series and any other type of detective book featuring an unconventional female lead or small town aesthetic. Like if Gilmore girls were detectives but also maybe witches.
