National Hug Your Cat Day

May 15 is National Hug Your Cat Day in the U.S. http://www.gigglepages.com/dcat/hugcat.html - see? I'm not the only one who knows this
http://www.123greetings.com/events/hug_your_cat_day/ - in case you want to send your cat a card
http://www.crayola.com/calendar/detail.cfm?event_id=51&year=2005 - although Crayola seems to think June 3 is Hug your Cat day

And if you Google "hug your cat day" you come up with lots of different websites devoted to hugging your cat.

Who comes up with these things? As if any cat owner needs a specific day to hug his/her cats. As if my cats allow me to hug them whenever I want. Isabella thinks I'm preventing her from doing something fun (like running into the hallway or pouncing on Merlin) and Merlin thinks I'm getting ready to give him medication (which I usually am).

Won't there ever be a "Cats be kind to owners" day?

Don't answer that.