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Caturday Art: Pop Art Paisley, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have a couple of fun things for you in this week's Caturday Art. First, we really wanted to show off this terrific picture of Real Cat Paisley we got from a place called Pop Your Pup:




Pop Your Pup is a company that artifies a photo of your pet, and then you select a background and they send you a shirt or wrapped canvas print with the resulting picture. They allow unlimited revisions of

February Bloopers

It's blooper time! We have a pretty good crop of fun bloopers to share this month. I guess old SoLT's photography has been especially bad for the past four weeks or so. Enjoy.

First up, we have this selfie gone wrong:




And just in case you start to think that Real Cat Paisley is the only one who can take a good blooper, here's one of Real Cat Webster's selfies gone wrong:




 Old SoLT can't

Survey: What Emotions Does Your Cat Experience?

How often does your cat show emotions such as fear?



We recently came across a study about how Japanese pet owners
attribute emotions to their pets. In that study, 546 people who have either a dog
or a cat responded to a survey that asked questions about how closely bonded
they were to their pets and the types of emotions they thought their pets
experienced. At first we were going to write a

Cat of the Week: Neko

Each week in this space, we feature an
older adult or senior cat (7 years +) in need of adoption or sponsorship. Mature
cats make great companions, and unlike kittens, they (probably) won’t climb the
curtains! Adopt an older cat, and help them enjoy the best years of their life.



 


Today, please meet Neko. She is a sweet, lovely lady of mature years (10 years, to be exact) who enjoys

Cat Classics on Film: The Rabbi’s Cat (2011)

Today we bring you our review of an excellent animated cat
classic, The Rabbi’s Cat (originally
titled Le chat du rabbin). This film
is based on the 2007 graphic novel of the same title, by Joann Sfar. Before we
get started, we would like you to note that, although this is an animated film,
it does include some violent scenes and some not-so-subtle hints of sex, and it
is in French with

Real Cat Webster's Sideways Sunday Selfie

This week, Real Cat Webster decided to share this nice profile for Sunday Selfie. (Okay ... in reality, Webs would not look at the camera at all. He looked up, down, and all around, but never at the camera, and this was the best picture old SoLT could get.)





We're joining the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by The Cat on My Head!

Caturday Art: Paisley and Her Rainbow Ribbon

Today's Caturday Art features Real Cat Paisley playing with her rainbow ribbon in the rocking chair.




Old SoLT hasn't done much in Photoshop lately, so she decided to mess around a bit and see what she could come up with. She used a dry brush filter and then played with some lighting effects and a frame.

Here is the original:




We're joining the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by Athena and

Words with Webster: Nap and Catnap, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun Friday features for you today. First up is
Real Cat Webster, who has a sleepy word to share. After that, it’s on to
Friendly Fill-Ins!



Words with Webster




Hi, everybody! It’s me, Real Cat Webster. Welcome to Words
with Me. Today’s word is “nap.” I think we all know how important naps are to us
cats. I certainly couldn’t get through the day without several of them. A nap,

The Black Cats of Amherst in World War I

As part of our ongoing but extremely occasional series on
cats in military insignia, today we bring you the story of a group of young men
from Amherst College (Massachusetts) who volunteered as ambulance drivers for
the French army in the First World War. They came to be known as the Black
Cats, after the distinctive insignia they chose: a black cat in full-on scary pose,
with its back

Cat of the Week: Snickers

Each week in this space, we feature an
older adult or senior cat (7 years +) in need of adoption or sponsorship. Mature
cats make great companions, and unlike kittens, they (probably) won’t climb the
curtains! Adopt an older cat, and help them enjoy the best years of their life.




Today, please meet Snickers. She is a 12-year-old female who is very affectionate and likes to spend quality