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Cat of the Week: Daisy in Westhampton, New York

Each week in this space, we feature a senior cat in need of
adoption or sponsorship. Please remember all the great older cats in shelters.
They make great companions, and they (probably) won’t climb the curtains! If
you can’t adopt but still want to help, look into sponsoring a cat in the
shelter or in foster care.





This week we are reintroducing Daisy, who is now nearly 11
years old and

Book Review: Elementary, She Read

We love Sherlock Holmes, so we could not wait to read Vicki
Delany’s new book that is set largely in a bookshop devoted entirely to the
fictional detective. It is really too bad that the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and
Emporium is a fictional place, because we would like to go there. Right now.



A Sherlock emporium



The shop is located at 222 Baker Street in the touristy town
of West

Sunday Selfie: Webster Chillin'

For today's Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by The Cat on My Head, we offer this snap of Real Cat Webster just, you know, chillin':

Caturday Art: Greek Vase

We are pleased to be joining Athena's Caturday Art blog hop with this picture:




Old SoLT did this in Dreamscope with the Greek vase filter. We just love how it turned out. Sort of a modern take on a Greek vase. The frame is from PicMonkey.

Here is the original. It's an older picture of Real Cats Webster and Paisley, from several years ago, but it's one of old SoLT's favorites of the two of

Words with Webster, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun features for you this Friday. First up is
Words with Webster, in which Webs shares some information about eyes. This is followed
by Friendly Fill-Ins.



Words with Webster



Hi, all! Real Cat Webster here. Today in Words with Me, I’ve
picked a really interesting word. It’s tapetum
(plural tapeta), and it means the
reflective layer behind the retina in the eye. My cousin

Hunting with Cheetahs: A Royal Sport of the Past

Emperor Akbar hunting with cheetahs.
By Painter at the Court of Akbar c. 1602.
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


It is hard to believe now, but beginning at least a few thousand
years ago, humans trained cheetahs as to hunt with them. When we first heard of
this, the little bit of information we had raised several questions: When,
where, why, how? And of course, What?
To understand hunting

Cat of the Week: Ginger in DC

Each week in this space, we feature a senior cat in need of
adoption or sponsorship. Please remember all the older cats in shelters. They
make great companions, and unlike kittens, they (probably) won’t climb the
curtains! Adopt a senior cat, and help him or her enjoy the best years of their
life.



Today we’re introducing Ginger, a 14-year-old declawed lady
who is just beautiful.  Look at

Cat Classics on Film: Cats & Dogs

Conventional wisdom has it that cats and dogs do not get
along. Cats and dogs hate each other, and that’s all there is to it. Well, many
of us know that this is not true. Cats and dogs can actually be best buddies.
But still the cats vs. dogs theme continues, right along with another theme:
Dogs are good, and cats are evil. Dogs are man’s best friend, and cats are
evil. Dogs are heroic, and

Sunday Selfie: Paisley in the Dog's Bed (Again)

For this week's Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by The Cat on My Head, Real Cat Paisley posed in a dog bed. Again. It's a different bed though. Someday we'll post a selfie of the dog in the cat bed!

Caturday Art: Webster and the Food Puzzle

Today we're joining Athena's Caturday Art blog hop (one of our favorite weekly events) with two versions of the same photo. Old SoLT couldn't decide which one she liked better, so here they both are:




This first one was done in Dreamscope, with the Braque V filter. The frame is from PicMonkey.




The second one was done in LunaPic, with a Sketch2 effect, followed by some playing around with