SOME Webkinz are seasonal.
This started last year with something called a Love Puppy. Later at Easter there was the Sherbet Bunny. Not only did they sell out before you could say "Jack Robinson," but they became collectible immediately. Love Puppies are selling on e-Bay for the mind-boggling sums of $150 up.
This year Ganz announced a black cat for Hallowe'en, a reindeer for Christmas, and a "love frog" for Valentines Day (Ganz apparently has frogs on the brain; there are four different ones already in release and now the love frog coming out.) The moment the black cats were released in Canada everyone began watching the posts to see when they would creep over the border. At first they were in New York State and Maine. Next one was spotted in Ohio.
When they started mentioning North Carolina, I wondered when Georgia would enter the picture.
I hadn't planned on buying a black cat. The photos didn't look all that good. But when I walked into Hobbytown this morning, there were a dozen black cats staring me in the face. Talk about something that looks better in person than in print.
So here's Harry. I figured: well, he has black hair and green eyes, right? :-)
I toyed with several names, actually, including Snoop, after the Bobbsey twins' cat, and Zipper after my friend Sherrye's black Angora cat when we were in high school. (Zipper was quite a character; as a kitten she used to like to grab the end of the toilet paper roll and then run through the house. When she turned six months old, she went into heat before they could get her to the vet. To everyone's amusement, she fell in love with my Hush Puppies. I'd come to pick Sherrye up for school and Zipper would rub her head against my shoes and trill like a tribble.)
Harry's presently sitting with the other usual suspects, wearing the big white plastic Harry Potter glasses they gave us at Borders the night of the seventh book release. It makes him look a little like Poindexter in the Felix the Cat cartoons (hey, there's another black cat name...).
Treat Without Trick
