Caturday Art: Notepaper Webster

For this week's Caturday Art, old SoLT had a little time (for the first time in almost a month, she wasn't double-booked!) to mess around in Photoshop. She took a picture of Real Cat Webster and applied a blur filter to really blur out the background and then used the Notepaper filter to get this:




We thought that looked pretty cool, so I told her to try the Solarize filter:




That's cool

Pet Photo Fails: June

She of Little Talent (aka old SoLT) had some super photo fails this month. She even managed to get a video fail, in slow motion, no less. We'll kick things off with this exciting video of ... Resident Dog Layla walking away:





This is a fail for so many reasons. First, just look at it (yes, that big pink thing is old SoLT's finger). Second, she did not intend to take video at all, much less

Think Before You Wish, or, Let Your Cat Be a Cat

Have you ever wished
your cat could be someone else? First of all, why on earth would you wish for something
like that? And second, you should be careful what you wish for, as the old
widow in this US folk story found out the hard way.









Once upon a time, there was an old widow woman whose only
companion in life was her faithful cat. Woman and cat spent hours every day in
their

Cats of the Week: Sampson and Mittens

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 have not one but two great cats: Sampson and Mittens. They are a bonded pair and must be

Book Review: Claws of Death

On this Mysterious Monday, we are pleased to bring you our short
review of Claws of Death, the second
Cat Lady mystery from Linda Reilly. We missed the first book in this series,
but we had no trouble at all getting right into this book, which features a
small cat shelter, a retired actress, and a mysterious ghostly cat that only
one person can see.



The plot

The action happens in

Sunday Selfie: Paisley Dominates

Real Cat Paisley has a lot to meow about in her Sunday Selfie this week. That's because her selfie also works for Cat World Domination Day since it shows something she dominated just for the occasion.




That big green thing in the background is old SoLT's latest balance-ball chair (RIP), and the selfie was taken moments after Paisley punched a couple of holes in it, making it slowly deflate. (

Caturday Art: Paisley in Purple

This week in Caturday Art, old SoLT turned Real Cat Paisley into something purple:




She did this in LunaPic, with the Daisy art effect (51%) and the Monster art effect (64%). We like the wavy parts it put in Paisley's fur!

And here's the original:





And now it's time for Friendly Fill-Ins, brought to us by 15 and Meowing and Four-Legged Furballs! The first two are answered by old SoLT this

Words with Webster: Pard

We have one fun Friday feature for you today, as Real Cat
Webster shares a really old wild cat word. And then we have a reminder for you
about next Friday!






Words with Webster

Hi, everybody! It’s me, Real Cat Webster. Welcome to Words
with Me. Today’s word is “pard.” This is sort of like last week’s word, “manticore,”
because I got the idea for it when Mommy was typing the heraldry
post

The Story of the Key Marco Cat

The Key Marco Cat.

Artifact Catalogue No. A240915, Department of Anthropology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.





Have you ever heard of the Key Marco Cat? Chances are you may
have seen an image of this famous Florida artifact, even if you didn’t know
what it was. The Key Marco Cat is a human/feline figurine about six inches
high. It was carved from

Cat of the Week: Iris

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 we’re pleased to introduce this lovely gray tabby with white bib and socks. Her name is Iris, and she is

Cat App Review: Cat Condo

Today we’re pleased to bring you our brief review of a cute
app called Cat Condo.



In this game, you start off with a small cat condo with a little
white kitty cat on each of its platforms. You combine two white kitty cats to
create a gray kitten. Then you combine two gray kittens to create a sneaky cat,
two sneaky cats to create a Japanese bobtail … and so on, combining cats at higher
and

Sunday Selfie: Webster Upside Down

This week, Real Cat Webster wanted to try doing his selfie upside down. We think it turned out pretty good:





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

Caturday Art: Paisley in an Abstract World

This week's Caturday Art was a bit of a surprise to old SoLT, as she started this in Dreamscope several weeks ago and just got the results this Friday. She was surprised (a) that it was there at all and (b) that she likes it, because the last one we waited and waited for we didn't even like.




We don't know which filter it is. Heck, old SoLT isn't even sure which original photo it's from--so

Words with Webster: Manticore, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun Friday features for you today. First up is
Real Cat Webster, who has a fantastic 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 “manticore.” At first this word doesn’t sound very
catty, but a manticore is a

legendary animal having the head of a man often with

Real Cat Paisley’s Basepaws Report

The results are in! We received the first report (the Alpha
Report) from Real Cat Paisley’s Basepaws DNA testing just over a week ago, and
boy, are we excited. This report includes information on how similar Paisley is
to 16 wildcats and 27 domestic cats. In this post, we’ll share our experiences
with the process and of course Paisley’s results.





 Collecting the sample




Basepaws sends

Cat of the Week: Ronak

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 we’re featuring a great cat we’ve introduced you to once before. Ronak is a 9-year-old gentleman who

Cat Classics in Print: Space Cat

Today’s Cat Classic in Print is one for you fans of cats and
space—and cats in space. It’s the children’s book Space Cat, written by Ruthven Todd and illustrated by Paul Galdone,
and first published in 1952. This thin volume has recently been released in a
new edition by Dover and will be followed by three more books in the series (Space Cat Visits Venus, Space Cat Meets Mars, and Space Cat

Sunday Selfie: Paisley in the Kitchen

Our Sunday Selfie started out exactly as these things usually do: with old SoLT stalking around the house with her phone on Saturday afternoon, saying "Who wants to do Sunday Selfie?" while all the pets scatter and hide. This time, Real Cat Paisley wasn't fast enough to get away, and she got her selfie taken in the kitchen:





We're joining the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted by The Cat on My

Caturday Art: Is She Still There?

This week's Caturday Art captures an uncomfortable moment for Resident Dog Layla. She was trying to share the office sofa with Real Cat Paisley, but she is (appropriately) scared of Paisley, so the whole episode made her ... tense.






Old SoLT kept things simple, using a black & white filter and adding the photo corners, all in PicMonkey, which we have not used in a while.



Here is the

Words with Webster: Cheshirization, Plus Friendly Fill-Ins

We have two fun Friday features for you today. First up is
Real Cat Webster, who has a catty word to share (but perhaps not catty enough,
as you’ll see!). 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 “Cheshirization.” I learned this word last week when
Mommy was looking up stuff about Alice

Kids’ Cruelty Toward Mother Cat and Kittens Points to Need for Humane Education

Warning: This story
includes two brief accounts of cruelty toward animals.




This mother cat and her kittens were pelted with rocks, but thanks to theirkind rescuer and Alley Cat Rescue, the mom and her surviving kittensare recovering and will be available for adoption soon.Photo courtesy of Alley Cat Rescue.


In late May, a kind person in Maryland witnessed some
children throwing rocks at a

Cat of the Week: Phil Dunphy

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’re happy to introduce Phil Dunphy. This fellow’s name caught our attention right away (Modern

Book Review: Seafurrers

Today we are pleased to bring you our short review of the fascinating
book Seafurrers: The Ships’ Cats Who
Lapped and Mapped the World, by Philippa Sandall and illustrated by Ad Long.
This book covers the history of cats on ships from the very beginning, when
cats took up duty stations on grain ships to feast on the rodents that ruined
the cargo; to the years of exploration, when cats went

Sunday Selfie: Flashy Paisley

Real Cat Paisley: Don't flashy thing me, Mommy!

Old SoLT (aka Mommy): Click, Flash!

Real Cat Paisley: Grrr...




And that's how the taking of this week's Sunday Selfie went.

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

Caturday Art: Webster's Z

This week's Caturday Art features Real Cat Webster's back part, and especially the white Z formation he has on his leg. Old SoLT thinks that is just the neatest thing, and she's always making a fuss over it. None of the rest of us are impressed.




The art was done in LunaPic, with the Homer (56%) and Cartoon (41%) effects. The frame is from Photoshop.

We'd show you the original, but once again

Real Cat Paisley’s Friendly Fill-Ins

We have just one fun Friday feature for you today. This is
because old SoLT has been double-booked with work for the past two weeks and
has not had as much time as usual to type the blog. That’s also why we haven’t visited and left
comments on our friends’ blogs very much this week, and we’re sorry about that.
We miss visiting everyone! Hopefully things will return to normal soon.



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