# Thank you notes from pets: cute or sick-making? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999 "2004-12-28T20:55:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/21 "2004-12-29T20:33:57Z")
I think your parents would love a nice picture of the cats playing with the toys with a note from you. But a thank you note from a cat? Come on, that’s just silly, we all know cats don’t do that grateful thing. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/22 "2004-12-29T20:54:19Z")
You people are no fun 😛 . Minx always sends thank you notes, she’s a properly brought up kitty. She prints very neatly and is a good speller. (I also have a rubber stamp of a paw print :o). The notes she sends are generally along the lines of what **betenoir** and **gum** were talking about - not overly cutesy (I think she did do a backwards “D” once, but she was just a kitten then, so I let it go). ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/23 "2004-12-30T00:30:11Z")
I for one would love to get a thank you note from a cat. But I would assume that the cat actually wrote it himself. ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/24 "2004-12-30T01:13:40Z")
Some people are really good at it, like my friend who writes in a very teutonic style for her german shepard and like a hyperactive kid on crack for her jack russell terrier. But most pet letters do sound glurge-y. However, if your parents are into the sentimental glurge-y stuff, it will probably make them smile. Making parents smile is sometimes worth a small loss of dignity. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/25 "2004-12-30T02:12:32Z")
Like anything else on the sugary-sweet fluffy side: If it’s written / handled well, it’s cute. If it’s not… well. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/26 "2004-12-30T15:10:38Z")
There is a lady around here who is very active in the animal welfare community. She’s a lawyer and generally seems to have her head on straight. However, her hobby is writing letters from her cats. Occasionally, from her _dead_ cats. Yes, her zombie cats have been endowed with literacy and returned from the grave to share their advice. It takes all kinds. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/27 "2004-12-30T17:43:59Z")
I forgot to add: sometimes the letters from her dead cats are in French. She sends them to all manner of people–and animals, too; George Bush’s dog got one of these missives. She’s rather verging on batshit crazy rather than cutesy-wootsy, if you ask me, but it seems to be her only eccentricity. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/28 "2004-12-30T20:47:05Z")
George Bush’s dog got one? hehehehehe 🙂 Do you know what it said? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/29 "2004-12-30T21:34:45Z")
I don’t know, but I’ve heard she’s trying to get a collection of the letters published. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999/30 "2004-12-30T21:46:02Z")
I’d love to read them, hehehehe 🙂 Thanks, **burundi** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-notes-from-pets-cute-or-sick-making/281999.md?page=1)