Queen here. While our typing committee has been working to get this website together, we have discovered something rather disturbing. Did you know that if you’re not careful on the computer, you might buy something you didn’t intend to buy? It’s True! It appears this internet thing is designed to trick the unsuspecting into handing out a credit card number for a product you didn’t really need!!! I mean, really. Why do humans do these things to each other? What humans need is a Queen. In our village, all you need is one opinion. No argument, no back-biting, no taking advantage of each other. Simple.
Well, except for the Raccoons. Call me a speciesist, but I’m convinced that raccoons are destined to be criminals. I mean, they have that burglar’s mask and everything, to say nothing of the striped tail. It’s almost as if they were designed that way. In this case, they were, since it appears our holder drew the mask on with a permanent marker, and fitted them up with striped tails made of pipe cleaners. Heaven only knows what kind of creatures they were before they were raccoons. I’m not even sure they’re real Calico Critters. They just sort of showed up, so what can you do.
Anyway, week after week, we’re getting this social media thing put together. We hope you like it. We found out just yesterday that Google had found us. It seems that they have to crawl the internet to find new websites and index them. I told the King that ‘crawling’ maybe wasn’t the best mode of transport. Perhaps they should try ‘running’ or ‘hopping’, or any number of animal-related gaits that we’re conversant with. But nobody asks us.