Q-tip cat carefully constructed by the staff members. With no help from me.
The Twelve Days of Q-tips®-mas
Inspired by tips from our wonderful readers, with a special holiday giveaway at the end!
On the first day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
A Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the second day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the third day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the fourth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the fifth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the sixth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the seventh day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the eighth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Eight Q-tips to apply topical meds to my pet’s boo boo’s
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the ninth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Nine Q-tips to clean out the corner of the birdcage
Eight Q-tips to apply topical meds to my pet’s boo boo’s
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the tenth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Ten Q-tips to scrape out the doggy doo from the bottom of my boots (ugh)
Nine Q-tips to clean out the corner of the birdcage
Eight Q-tips to apply topical meds to my pet’s boo boo’s
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the eleventh day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Eleven Q-tips to clean out the squeaker in the squeaker toy
Ten Q-tips to scrape out the doggy doo from the bottom of my boots (ugh)
Nine Q-tips to clean out the corner of the birdcage
Eight Q-tips to apply topical meds to my pet’s boo boo’s
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my tree
On the twelfth day of Q-tips-mas my true love gave to me
Twelve Q-tips to gently clean “sensitive” areas on my dog or cat
Eleven Q-tips to clean out the squeaker in the squeaker toy
Ten Q-tips to scrape out the doggy doo from the bottom of my boots (ugh)
Nine Q-tips to clean out the corner of the birdcage
Eight Q-tips to apply topical meds to my pet’s boo boo’s
Seven Q-tips to get the gook out of the slots on the litter scoop
Six Q-tips for the pets to bat across the hardwood floors
Five Q-tips to get rid of cat and dog eye boogies
Four Q-tips to remove the winter road salt from between my doggie’s toes
Three Q-tips to clean the motor of the automatic drinking fountain
Two Q-tips to clean my cat or dog’s ears
And a Q-tips Christmas Cat to sit by my treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Readers, leave a comment below and tell me how you use Q-tips and you have an opportunity to win one of TWO $50 Petco gift cards!
You have until Friday, December 24 at 5 p.m. EST to enter. I’ll do a random drawing and alert the winners on Monday, December 26, 2011.
Happy Holidays everyone!
This post and awesome holiday giveaway is sponsored by Unilever, the makers of Q-tips®. But the song is mine. And yours. 
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I use Q-tips to clean the soap and water scum that builds up under our sliding glass shower
doors. There isn’t much of an opening between the doors and the frame that holds them so
a Q-tip slides in quite easily and cleans it out.
I use cute tips for putting makeup on and to clean delicate ears
Q-Tips are so useful for my Howie and Huey’s ears-eye boogies-and so much more!!
We use them for all sorts of cleaning or applying. They work really well to clean my cat Frog’s nose, she looks like she’s been sniffing kitty litter. A little warm water dabbed on to soften, then swab off the dirt. She hates it because it makes her sneeze, but it works well.
I use Q-tips in a variety of ways from cleaning out my cat’s ears to fixing mascara mistakes!
I use Q-tips to clean the filter of my 3 cats’s drinking fountain- and to clean ears. toes and the cat box scoop. I would like the directions for the Q-tip cat! It’s darling!
I use Q-tips to help clean the ears of my Rat Terrier, Luigi (those crazy windscoop ears get really dirty) and my sweet cat, Blue Eyes.
I use Q-Tips for just about everything involving cleaning or applying for myself or my cats. They work especially well to clean my cat Frog’s nose, it always looks like she’s been snorting kitty litter, I use warm water to soften, then swab to clean-she hates it because it makes her sneeze.
I use Q-tips to clean my dog & cats ears; I use them to apply eye shadow and to remove lipstick smudges.
My staff member uses Q-tips for all kinds of things. It would be wonderful if you would please post the instructions for how to make the Q-tip kitty?? I’d LOVE to have one to play with!
I try to clean around my big ginger cat’s eyes and ears with Q-tips, but this is only if I survive while attempting to accomplish this. And of course the Q-tips never survive this escapade – they always get killed afterwards. (I consider myself lucky if he is not able to “bury” them by pushing them underneath rugs – charming to discover afterwards!)
I use Q-Tips on the dogs and cats ears and for cleaning the aquarium filter.
I use Q-tips for cleaning ears. The cats are not fond of that.
I LOVE this revision of “12 Days of Xmas” – and I’d never have thought of using Q-Tips to remove road salt from a dog’s toes!! Marvelous!
I use Q-Tips to clean the outer portion of my dogs ears. And will be using Q-tips to clean my bird cage and as playthings for my cats.
Sometimes it’s a challenge keeping our 13 adopted kitties’ busy. So I roll some Q-tips in their favorite catnip and hide them around the house. They search and search until they’re all found and properly destroyed! Lots of very relaxed, purring kitties! Except for Ocean, who darts around the house full speed with a Q-tip in his mouth, springing from our laps to the nearest cat tree or shelf! Our Great Danes know to stay out of the way until he wears himself out!
I just love Q-tips. What do people do without them? My kitty has bad gums and using the spray bottle from the vet doesn’t work. So I dip a big fluffy Q-tip into the solution and rub his gums. Since the cotton ball soaks up the fluid, it is easily spread around the gum area. Kitty #2 has ear mites, so I clean around the ear area with a Q-tip sometimes wrapped in a wad of cotton ball to clear debris…..then I dip the q-tip into the medication and swab around the ear. Don’t know what I would do without Q-tips! Thanks for making them J & J.!
I use Q-tips to clean out my cats ears. They are soft and small enough to clean the dirt from the crevices in the ears. Of course she loves to play with them also.
Q-tips are a favorite cat toy in my house – in fact, there was a mangled one on the stairs this morning!
I use them for a billiongazillion things….but my favorite is craft time with the grandkids!
I buy the ones with wood shafts to clean things with and the paper ones for ears.
Q-tips work great to clean my cats ears!!
I use them to build model airplanes. Also, they are great for getting into hard to reach places when I am cleaning.
Me? I carry them around the room in my mouth.
I use Qtips to clean jewelery, apply makeup and remove nail polish from the corners of the nail bed. I’m sure there are a million other uses, but those are all I can think of now! I can’t live without Qtips!!
I use Q-tips to clean the motor (and parts!) in the cats’ water fountain! Oh and for cleaning their eye gunk!
Ha! Just for ears. Seriously. But now I’ll reconsider.
We use Q-tips to clean all the human and non-human ears in our house. Also, use Q-tips to clean all the hard to get at grooves in our furniture…love Q-tips!!
We use Q-tips to clean all the human and now human ears in our house. Also use them to clean in all those hard to clean grooves in our house…love Q-tips!!
I dip them in a disinfectant cleaner and clean the slate/vent thingy at the base of the refrigerator that the drip pan evaporates through. With dogs this gets dusty and a little furry everyweek, and I don’t feel like taking it off weekly and washing it in the sink. So the Q-tips do the trick getting in the little slate vent areas on this drip pan cover.
I use them to clean the corners of frames.
I use Q Tips to clean my computer keyboard.
Toys are number one followed by cleaning out small crevices in aquarium filters.
Mom uses q-tips to paint small things. We’d rather bat them around all over the place.
We like to use Q-tips as toys! Until our mom takes them away from us. RATS!!
Q-tips are great for the ears. The tuxedo has wax built up wax in his ears, and I use the Q-tips to swish it around the exterior. They also work to clean their teeth, treat a wound or even serve as toys.
OMC.. I LOVE that qCat..
I use q-tips to clean my kitties ears and eyes.
I tie them in crosses to make my kitties favorite toys.
Ears, ears, ears, ears! Those are the top four, for people and kitties alike. Then between toes, noses, and little booties sometimes. They’re perfect for so many things! Oh, and for ointment of pretty much any kind that goes anywhere! On kitties, I mean.
Always for my ear goo, but also sometimes to get rid of nastiness from my occasional skin infections. Those infections are gross!
They are good when you have cases of ringworm to use to apply the Betadine. With the itty bitty’s Betadine is safer than the shampoos and mega meds and works just as well most of the time.
My kitties love Q-tips. One cat likes the clean ones and another only likes used Q-tips…eww. Fun to watch them play with them.
The ditty is fun and so true! I use Q-tips for cleaning the ‘yeasty’ nail beds that Cornish Rex and Sphynx are prone to. Remember, Q-Tips are as ‘rough’ as a Brillo pad when used dry, so be sure to moisten them with the appropriate ear or skin cleanser before using them (a speaker at a veterinary conference told us that and we always stress that to our ‘patients’ now…
Many ways, some not conventional, but this morning to distract one Kitten from jumping
on my *x mirror so I could pluck my eyebrows (strange bathroom mates and all) She likes to play fetch with them, and is so crazy when she gets one she flips them in the air.
We use q-tips to apply vaseline to the dog’s floppy ears. She’s a Boxador, and she bursts blood vessels at the ends of her ears when she shakes her head really hard in this dry winter weather, but if we keep the tips moisturized and keep her from shaking then the house doesn’t look like a crime scene with blood splattered everywhere. =)
{Also great for cleaning my cats and dog’s ears}
I put them in one of my old medication bottles and then have them for when im travelling. Also, they are Perfect for perfecting eye liner (especially liquid) as well as lipstick/liner!!
We like to bat our Q-tips around the floor, but they’ve also been used to clean the corners of bird cages! And to get the eye goops…and to clean the ears… Q-tips are a must-have in our house, I think
Love your 12 days, Romeo!
I use Q-tips to clean my kitties ears & whenever I do, I always have to toss a few on the floor for them to “kill”! LOL Makes them feel better to destroy the Q-tips I guess…
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