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Cat News: Have Archaeologists Discovered Pet Cats in a First-Century Cemetery?

And here's another type ofcat mummy, this one picturedin Egypt: Descriptive,Historical, and Picturesque,by Georg Ebers, 1878.By Strassberger, B. [CC BY-SA 2.5],
via Wikimedia Commons.




A cat mummy, Egypt. This is the sort of thing we usually think of when we think, "Egyptian cat burial."Stock photo by Andrea Izzotti via Adobe Stock.






Usually, when we think of cat burials from ancient

Cat of the Week: Randy in Westhampton, NY

Randy is ready for a new home for the holidays.He is a very sweet boy who enjoys chatting or just cuddling.Photos courtesy of Bideawee. Frame stock image via Graphic Stock.Ornaments and hat stock images via Adobe Stock.


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

Miss Cuddlywumps Converses: With Cat Cozy Author Mollie Hunt

Mollie Hunt is an author of cat cozy mysteries,
a volunteer with the Oregon Humane Society,
and more.
All photos courtesy of Mollie Hunt.


Welcome
to this latest edition of Miss Cuddlywumps Converses. Please join me in welcoming author
Mollie Hunt to the blog. Mollie is here to tell us all about her cozy mystery
series, which of course features cats (because they all should, right?). Let’s
get

Sunday Selfie: Layla

For this week's Sunday Selfie, Layla the Resident Dog wanted to get in the picture, so she snapped this selfie while she was sitting on old SoLT's lap. In case you can't tell, Layla is not a lap dog--at least not in size. We told her that just this once she can be in the cat blog, because you would not believe how this dog can whine when she thinks she's being left out.




We enter this selfie

Caturday Art: Wintry Paisley

This week for Athena's Caturday Art blog hop, old SoLT decided to try something wintry. Okay, in reality she had no plan at all; instead she sat at the computer wondering what she could do, and she basically lucked in to this effect by trying a lot of different things in PicMonkey.





She started with a photo of Real Cat Paisley that is out of focus and not something she would normally put on

Words with Webster and Friendly Fill-Ins for December 2

Words with Webster: Tongue Spine

Welcome to this edition of Words with
Webster, where today’s word is “tongue spine.” (Yes, I know that's technically two words. Just go with it.) We are learning about tongue
spines today because last week the Caternet was all abuzz over the news that
some scientists had discovered how we cats get ourselves clean with our tongues.
(Spoiler alert: We lick our

Book Review: Catology

Catology, by
Adrian Searle and Oliver Ninnis, is a collection of single-pane cartoons
featuring…cats (obviously).  But this is
not the sweet, cute sort of cat book you might expect. Nor is it entirely from
the “cats are jerks” perspective. It’s more from the “cats are jerks, but that’s
why we love them” perspective. We don’t agree with that perspective, and
honestly we found several pages in

Cat of the Week: Muggy 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.






Photo courtesy of Baltimore Humane Society.Frame stock image from Adobe Stock. Ornaments

Book Review: Revered and Reviled: A Complete History of the Domestic Cat

I cannot begin to tell you how excited we are to tell you
about this new book by L. A. Vocelle of The Great Cat. We have been longing
for a book just exactly like Revered and
Reviled: A Complete History of the Domestic Cat, but nothing we’ve seen
quite fits the bill. In fact, we were starting to think that we would have to
spend years researching and writing to create a book just like this,

Sunday Selfies: Just Another Hot Saturday Night

Today we are pleased to be joining the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by our friends at The Cat on My Head. If you follow us on social media (and if you don't, what is wrong with you?), you may have seen this selfie before, but since it pretty much sums up life with old SoLT and the Real Cats, we thought it was worth sharing again. Here's old SoLT, at prime time on a Saturday night, on the floor