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The Chinese Li Hua or Dragon Li Cat

  

A Li Hua cat. The Li Hua is native to China. It sports a brown tabbycoat and has a strong build. These cats are known as excellentrat catchers. They are also intelligent and mild-mannered.Photo credit:English
Wikipedia user Definitive1 [GFDL],via Wikimedia Commons.



Just the name of this cat breed— Chinese Li Hua (pronounced
lee-wah), Dragon Li, or Fox Flower Cat—brings up images of
exotic

Cat of the Week: Loretta in Baltimore

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 Loretta, a black-and-white kitty who
is very sweet and has such

Book Review: Angel Catbird: To Castle Catula

We recently got to read the second volume of the Angel
Catbird comic series, written by none other than Margaret Atwood and
illustrated by Johnnie Christmas, with colors by Tamra Bonvillain, and we’re
pleased to report that we enjoyed this one even more than the first volume.



It’s cats versus rats, basically



This series is the story of Strig Feleedus, a genetic
engineer who, in the kind

Sunday Selfie: Telling Secrets

We're joining the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by our friends over at The Cat on My Head (and we hope their sickretary is starting to feel better!). This week the Real Cats had some alone time (well, you know, "alone" expect for old SoLT showing up with a camera), and Webster took the opportunity to whisper a secret to Paisley. At least that's what it looks like here:

Caturday Art: Paisley Gets Kandinskyfied

We're joining Athena's Caturday Art blog hop today, with this piece that is one of our new favorites:




Old SoLT did this in basically two steps. She took the original photo of Real Cat Paisley into LunaPic and applied the Kandinsky art effect, and then it was over to PicMonkey for the frame. Easy peasy, but OMC, those eyes!

Here's the original (and yes, this is the same photo from last week):

Words with Webster (Clowder) and Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun Friday features today. First up, Webster will
tell you all about clowders. Then we’ll do some Friendly Fill-Ins.



Words with Webster




Hello, friends! Most of you probably know that one word for
a group of cats is “clowder.” But where does that word come from?



Well, Mommy helped me look up clowder in the Oxford
English Dictionary (we had to get out her library card), and

A New Cat Classic for Dr. Seuss Day

Today, March 2, is Dr. Seuss Day. It is partially due to Dr. Seuss that old SoLT knows how to read, so in honor of this day, she took the cover of one of her old favorites and updated it (I hesitate to say "made it better") by adding cats:





You may know it better like this:






Thanks to our friends at Zoolatry for reminding us of this hallowed day!





Image credits: Cat in the Hat

Cat of the Week: Lyla in Washington, 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.





This
week, please meet Lyla, a lovely 8-year-old tortie girl. Lyla’s previous person
passed

Book Review: For Whom the Bread Rolls

On this Mysterious Monday, we return to Wildwood Cove, on Washington’s
Olympic Peninsula, for the second book in Sarah Fox’s Pancake House mystery
series.



Pancakes, red paint, and murder



Marley McKinney is the owner of a pancake house called the Flip
Side, which she inherited from her cousin (you should read the opening book in the
series, The Crepes of Wrath, if you want to know how

Sunday Selfie: Webster, Interrupted

Today we're joining our friends at The Cat On My Head for the Sunday Selfies blog hop. Our entry is this black & white seflie of Real Cat Webster, taken when old SoLT disturbed his nap. Not nice, old SoLT!