Tabs

Of all the things Tabs was, low-carb wasn’t one of them. That cat loved his bread. Sourdough, French, honey whole wheat — if it was bread and I was eating it, I was sharing it with Tabs.

It was one of his many enduring quirks.

Not a lot of people know this, but Tabs was supposed to be one of the original hosts on The Great British Baking Show. He was cast as the Paul Hollywood character.

Yeah, we flew over to the UK and spent a few weeks filming the pilot episode. Like, we were literally in the tent.

I think it was week three or four when we found out Tabs had been cast as the main character in the Spider-Cat movie, and it was his chance to fulfill one of his lifelong career dreams to work with Jon Favreau, so we bid adieu to The Great British Baking Show and returned home…

Paul Hollywood stepped into the tent, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Every once in a while, I make one of Tabs’ favorite recipes. This weekend, I busted out his world-famous catnip-infused 🧁 cupcakes, and of course I also made a rustic rosemary catnip loaf in honor of my little bread lover. 🥖

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Tabs may have crossed over to the Rainbow Bridge last May, but he still says hi to me, and he does it often.

Sometimes he leaves his whiskers for me to discover like buried treasure. Connor calls them “Kuya’s whispers.” Kuya means “big brother” in Tagalog. “Look, I found one of Kuya’s whispers!”

His other favorite way to say hello is through a colorful sunset, and there have been some amazing ones this summer.

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Serenity meow! As as I’m sure you’re aware, Tabs was a huge advocate for cat-friendly gardening and creativity-stimulating power walks in the great outdoors.

He was also the cat who coined the phrase, “purr-fect zen,” to describe the state of becoming one with your garden…

While a lot of cats enjoy hanging out in nature, Tabs actually enjoyed gardening.

In fact, he grew and harvested his own salads.

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A lot of people don’t know how important cats were to the space race. They call it the final frontier, but the “feline frontier” is more accurate.

In fact, some of the greatest astronauts in history were cats.

Like Tabs. He was the first American to orbit the Earth wearing a feather boa, and that was just one of his many astronomical feline fashion firsts.

He also created the uniforms for CASA, the Cat Aeronautics and Space Administration, and started the agency’s toddler outreach program to cultivate the next generation of cat ladies and cat men.

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Tabs wasn’t simply content being a seafood lover. He loved fish so much that he wanted to know everything about it. He wanted to know everything there was to know about fish because he loved it so much.

In fact, among his many careers, he was a sushi chef, a professional bass fisherman and bass fishing lure designer, a marine biologist, and he also starred, of course, in the hit Hollywood superhero movie Aquacat.

While studying for his dual degrees in fashion design and marine biology at the University of Novato, Tabs developed the world’s first SCUBCC (self-contained underwater breathing cat collar), but it hasn’t seen the light of day (yet) because there was some drama with the estate of Jacques Cousteau…

Hopefully we get it worked out one of these days because it’ll revolutionize undersea kitty exploration as we know it. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen