My mum's new slippers have provided an unexpectedly useful way for her cat Floyd to warm his paws

Read more about Floyd here. and in The Good, The Bad And The Furry.

Some Lovely Recent Portraits Of The Bear From His Twitter Followers

After Eighteen Years, The Bear Finally Learns How To Do Fist Bumps

FINALLY!

It's been a long old road, but the new versions of Under The Paw and Talk To The Tail, with The Bear and Ralph as cover stars, are now available to purchase, casting the vastly inappropriate "cutesy" covers featuring anonymous posh actor kittens into the past forever. Getting to these covers has taken a lot of determination and time, as I wrote in this Guardian article.

Here are a few online retailers you can purchase the books from:

Under The Paw at amazon

Under The Paw at The Book Depository (with free worldwide delivery)

Under The Paw at Waterstones

Under The Paw at Guardian Bookshop


Talk To The Tail at amazon

Talk To The Tail at The Book Depository (with free worldwide delivery)

Talk To The Tail at Waterstones

Talk To The Tail at Guardian Bookshop

And some places to purchase the sequel to both books, The Good, The Bad And The Furry:

The Good, The Bad And The Furry at amazon

The Good, The Bad And The Furry at The Book Depository (with free worldwide delivery)

The Good, The Bad And The Furry at Waterstones

The Good, The Bad And The Furry Guardian Bookshop

Reader Photo Of The Week

Aitor, from Peter Theobold.

Monday Ralphpic

We keep telling Roscoe and Shipley to stop doing performance art in the kitchen but they never seem to listen