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Book Review: Distillery Cats

Today we review the short illustrated book Distillery Cats: Profiles in Courage of the World’s
Most Spirited Mousers, by Brad Thomas Parsons, with illustrations by Julia
Kuo. Some cats have important jobs, of course, and some of those jobs are in distilleries
and breweries. It makes purrfect sense: Brewing and distilling rely on grains
such as wheat, rye, barley, and corn, and those are the

The Mythmakers Preview, plus Sunday Selfie

As promised, today we present the first chapter of our new book, The Mythmakers. We hope it whets your appetite for more!






Chapter 1

Mid-November

This is not going to be okay, Rory Roberts thought as she squirmed in the back seat of the deputy’s patrol car. The metal of the handcuffs felt cold and hard against her wrists and hurt as though it were pressing directly against bone. With her

Caturday Art: Psycho Kitty

Today we continue our series of Halloween-themed Caturday Art with another fake movie poster. This one sounds pretty scary!




We're joining Athena's Caturday Art blog hop.

Words with Webster: Kitten, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun Friday features for you today. First up is
Real Cat Webster, who has a familiar 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 “kitten.” I picked this word because of the word(s) a
few weeks ago, “Saturn’s Kittens.” At first I figured everybody knew what a

Cat App Review: Cookie Cats Pop

Today we are reviewing a fun game called Cookie Cats Pop.
Even the name is fun, right? Well, don’t be fooled by the fun name and cute
kitties, because this game can get quite challenging once you get past the
lower levels. At least old SoLT has found it challenging—addictively so.



See, there’s this octopus, and she has these kittens…


The story behind the game, as far as we can make out,

Cat of the Week: Whitney in Baltimore

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.






This week, we introduce a beautiful brown-and-black tiger kitty named Whitney. Whitney is 8 years old, and

Book Review: Witch Chocolate Bites

On this Mysterious Monday, we bring you a short review of H.
Y. Hanna’s Witch Chocolate Bites, the
fourth book in her Bewitched by Chocolate
mystery series. This is the first book we have read in the series, and we
enjoyed it a lot even without knowing the background from the first three books.




The plot



Caitlyn Le Fey has only recently learned that she comes from
a long line of

Sunday Selfies: Paisley Helps

Last week, Real Cat Paisley jumped (literally!) right in to help old SoLT fold a sheet.  Old SoLT was not appreciative of Paisley's efforts (something about it being "hard enough to fold a queen-size sheet by yourself without a #$&%! cat sitting on it"). Everything turned out fine though (okay, the sheet is very wrinkly, but whatever), and Paisley got this nice selfie:





We're joining the

Caturday Art: Cats of the Undead

Here's a movie we'd like to see. It's what they call an "instant classic"!




We're joining Athena's Caturday Art blog hop.

Words with Webster: Pyewacket, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

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



Words with Webster




Hi, all! It’s me, Real Cat Webster. Welcome to Words with
Me. Our word this week is “Pyewacket.” If you read our post yesterday on the
excellent cat classic Bell, Book and Candle, you’ll know that I found our word