It looks like 2025 is shaping up to be quite a year!
Flow won an Oscar, the Yankees are primed for mediocrity, this is the year Nostradamus predicted we’d get those awesome hoverboards from Back To The Future, and PITB will turn six years old in the summer!
Can you believe it? Six years of thrilling millions of readers with stories of Buddy’s incredible adventures, covering the most important cat news and setting all the hot new trends in the cat world!
Critics have lavished praise on PITB:
“You won’t find two more reprehensible characters. The ill-mannered cat who’s always hatching ludicrous schemes and the human who glorifies him. They don’t have two neurons to rub together between them.” – WIRED
“Incredible! Buddy the Cat is the most dashing, dapper and daring feline on the planet, and his fans are fortunate to read about his thrilling exploits!” – Buddy Monthly (starred review)
“Two of the worst representatives of their respective species. Fate smiled cruelly upon the world when these two joined forces. Thankfully their epic incompetence prevents them from taking over.” – The Guardian
“A titan of the feline world and his human sidekick, the Buddies join forces — and combine their considerable mental resources — for the betterment of feline- and mankind. Is there anything Buddy can’t do? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.” – The Buddy Review of Awesome Felines
“A chubby house cat who thinks he’s a tiger and a human whose writerly ambitions far exceed his talents. Both live in a fantasy world that puts them one harebrained scheme from fame and fortune. If PITB had a print edition we’d recommend it as a birdcage liner.” – The New York Times
“Buddy is an 80s action hero in furry form, a one-cat army whose skill in martial arts is matched only by his razor-sharp wit. We feel privileged to read about his many adventures.” – The Buddinese Shinbun
“The blog works mostly as a celebration of a delusional cat’s ego.” – Associated Press
“Astonishing! With clever and awe-inspiringly beautiful prose, Big Buddy is like a bard expanding the legend of our furry little hero with every post. It’s no wonder Taylor Swift’s cat loves Buddy the Cat so much and wants to share her vast fortune with him.” – El Magnifico Buddenisto
“Buddy the Cat is a legend in his own mind, where his chubby frame becomes ‘meowscle’ and his half-baked plots become ‘genius.’ In that depraved little mind exists a world where kittens plaster his posters on their walls, female cats fight for his affections, and humans argue over who should have the privilege of serving him. Somehow, both cat and human labor under the misconception that what they’re doing is ‘humor,’ but they’re both morons.” – Newsweek
“Like the contents of a particularly foul litter box upended and assembled into crude approximations of words.” – Pitchfork
“Compulsively readable and addicting, like Michael Crichton on crack. Come to think of it, why isn’t there an amusement park based on Buddy and his legend? That’s a billion-dollar idea!”- The Daily Buddy
“Shunned by tigers, nearly murdered by lions, chased out of the White House by thousands of angry Americats and laughed at by rodents. Buddy’s track record is one of infamy and failure, and he’s not cute enough to make up for it. Avoid this blog like the COVID ward of your local hospital.” – The Economist
“So handsome, so kawaii! Budditsu-chan is dreamy!” – CrunchyRoll
“Immature, asinine and frankly offensive, [PITB] chronicles the ‘adventures’ of its titular feline, a delusional lunatic who harbors a single-minded obsession with turkey. When they’re not eating paste or laughing at their own poop jokes, the Buddies are probably smoking catnip, for only drug-addled idiots will find their ‘humor’ amusing.” – GQ
Pain In The Bud 
YAY for Flow – and PITB!
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I was really happy to see that Flow won. Well deserved!
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judging from the exquisite language used by your commentators, it’s easy to see why the world at large is rightfully besotted about with the two of you…simply responding affirms the superior intellect of your audience-just aspiring to belong immediately confers superior status where it counts.
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That’s some industrial strength snark from those media outlets ( and my Bud at the Rainbow Bridge is envious); but, it’s certainly misdirected. Carry on, Buddies!
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Yes, they obviously have bad taste if they don’t recognize his genius…or his impressive physique.
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Yes! The haters desperately want Buddy’s approval, clearly. What do they know about turkey schemes anyway?
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6 years? CONGRATS!! Knew Flow would win. Have to see Memoir Of A Snail. Wild Robot. And always loved Wallace and Gromit. These movies are better than the garbage they have in movies these days. These movies are the ones that stick in your mind. Like Grave Of The Fireflies.
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I just saw a clip of Wild Robot. It looks like fun. Lupito Nyong’o voices the main character and Kit Connor, who has a major role, was great as Pantalaimon in HBO’s His Dark Materials.
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Oh, and thank you! Technically it’ll be 6 years in July, but at the time it was just a blog for family and friends and I was posting stuff from Japan along with some Buddy stories. I had written a ridiculously demanding “guide to taking care of Buddy” and people found it funny, so they asked me to write more.
I still have that “guide” somewhere. One of the demands was that cat sitters must attend Buddy whilst he uses the litter box, offering words of encouragement as he poops, then clap for him when he emerges from the covered box.
It was just the most ridiculous list of things, along with a multiple choice quiz at the end and a space for an essay in which sitters must describe why they are fit to serve His Lordship in my absence.
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Oooh, just figured out why Bud bites the sitters! Obviously they aren’t following his litterbox protocol. No praise, no applause? Get ready for assault.
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Unforgivable! I remember one of the multiple choice questions was like “You just returned at 6 pm famished, after not eating since an early breakfast. Buddy’s hungry. Do you:
A) Serve Buddy his dinner and make yourself something to eat afterwards
B) Serve Buddy his dinner, attend him whilst he dines, then make yourself something to eat
C) Serve Buddy his dinner, present the dessert menu, fluff his pillows for his after-dinner nap, groom him, and then eat if he doesn’t need you for anything else
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“A chubby house cat who thinks he’s a tiger and a human whose writerly ambitions far exceed his talents. Both live in a fantasy world that puts them one harebrained scheme from fame and fortune. If PITB had a print edition we’d recommend it as a birdcage liner.” – The New York Times
Hilarious! How do you manage to come up with such funny stuff day after week after month after year? Since no mere human could possibly do so, is it that the feline Buddy simply whispers it into your ear so all you have to do is transcribe?
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That’s exactly it. He’s the brains of the operation and we mine his imagination for stories about Los Gatos, catnip dealing, his presidential activities…but the stuff about his ripped physique is all true, of course. I am responsible for making his turkey protein shakes.
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Ignore the haters, Buddy. They’re just jealous
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