Furio Charo Bain: I'm a cute, but complicated cat

The 2009 Furiowards are in. For those of you interested in the 2008 winners, here they are.

A completely impartial committee sifted through all the nominees, and painstakingly chose the best Furio-related content from 2009, in a few age-old categories:

• Best vet visit: Phone-a-friend
• Runner-up: The Silence of the Cat
• Best nude scene: Tuesdays with Furio
• Best casting against type: Slumcat Millionaire (after Brokecat Putnam, I felt like I needed to show my range)
• Best fight scene: I killed a mouse, and I liked it
• Biggest snobbery: My post-kibble digestif
• Runner-up: Guess Who’s Come to Dinner
• Best endorsement: Molly Meow
• Runner-up: The NBA
• Tearful goodbye: Caludia’s adieu
• Runner-up: Go West Young Cat
• Honorable mentions:
  • No free lunch
  • Comfortable in the kitchen
  • My celebrity doppelgänger
  • Brief experiment with drugs
  • Heartfelt apology
  • Two cats, one cup
  • My sleep thesis
  • Pretty young cat

I hope that 2010 gets off to a great start for everyone, and that your holidays were half as restful as mine.