Toby Salk, a great friend of this blog and a wonderful Mah Jongg teacher in Berkeley and

throughout the Bay Area, sent this fun picture of a cat “playing” Mah Jongg. I wonder if Toby

was the cat’s teacher (since she is already considered to be the “cat’s meow” by all of her

students!)?

Is your pet a part of your games? Send pictures and they will be posted! We recently heard from

Dianne G who wrote to us about the following:

“Most in our group have dogs. When we only have 3 available to play, the game goes on. We deal a hand to the 4th chair and call that player by the name of the resident dog. We do a blind Charleston (not in the official rules, we know) then return that player’s (Shasha, Chili, Rosie, Pepper, or whoever) tiles to the wall and finish playing the game of “threesies”. All for fun and laughs. This way the game goes on and we still get practice in playing the card.”