Two look alike kittens, old enough to develop longer legs and more expressive faces, are approaching the camera lens at floor level, gray tabbies with lighter underbellies. The one in the front is on their foot, worried face somewhat blurred by the speed of their eagerness to place their body between the camera holder and the kitten further back and somewhat behind him, whose body is alert and sitting upright, and is somewhat clearer in focus. They are on a beige colored carpet and runner, with cherrywood drawers in the background.

Nothing but sweetness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness.
~William Butler Yeats
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A photo illustration is of a gray tabby cat, whose head, shoulders, and front legs, with relaxed paws, are draped over a mossy wooden bench, with sunlit meadow behind him. His face is intent, with eyes focused on the canera lens.

Bud is tall, dark, and tabby. But I always think my cats are incredibly attractive.

Even when I acquire them at a low point, when they are factually, not.

I fell in love with that big brave heart.
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A gray tabby, with a sleek coat like watered silk, looks up from his oaws-held-to-chest sprawl on a purple pillow, next to the celadon green blanket that matches his piercing eyes, fixed on the canera person. Despite his repose, every part of his body looks alert and ready for action. The background is a plaster wall painted cream, wide moldings around an attic access door, and the edge of a bookcase.

Bud looks ready for anything.

Which means I'll have to think of something.
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A gray tabby teen cat is curled with his white chin covering a rear paw, ears blown back as though in a strong wind, while his shoulders are snuggled against the haunches of a dilute tortoiseshell kitten, half his size, who is also curled up on a bed with a blue denim looking bedspread, illustrating Cats Want Respect.

NEW POST! Cats Want Respect and their dignity acknowledged. - Friendship at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cats-wa...

Since Bud has yet to develop much, as a cat with a lot of Alpha Cat Type, this creates friction.
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In a photo illustration of a pink sunset over a turquoise ocean, with the last of the blue sky fading dark at the top of the frame. The top half of a sleek gray tabby, dark stripes prominent on his legs and face but faded on his neck and body. His whiskers appear blown back by the speed of his superhero flight, low over the ocean, front legs extended in front of him.

If I'm in distress, Bud will come to my rescue.

Cats are good at mood sensing.
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A gray tabby teen cat is curled with his white chin covering a rear paw, ears blown back as though in a strong wind, while his shoulders are snuggled against the haunches of a dilute tortoiseshell kitten, half his size, who is also curled up on a bed with a blue denim looking bedspread, illustrating Cats Want Respect.

NEW POST! Cats Want Respect and their dignity acknowledged. - Friendship at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cats-wa...

Since Bud still has a lot of kitten, as a cat with a High Alpha Cat Type, this creates friction.
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Two gray tabby cats face off over a crumpled spring green blanket with a wand toy lying across it. The cat in front and to the left has their back to the lens, showing a muscular build and considerable fluffy white underbelly. The cat across the crumpled blanket is leaning back, ears pointed outward in consternation. The background is mossy earth, with rock chips, and trailing green vines.

The brothers' bold reimagining of "The Sword in the Stone" caused a stir. Critics were taken by the bold casting.

Lou was the older Arthur. Bud, the impetuous youth he tries to counsel.
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In a photo illustration, the background is a full moon in a dark sky, with the outline of a running rabbit appearing from behind the face of an angular gray tabby cat, eyes closes, ears lying outward and relaxed on his head, with a fluffy lighter chest where his forelegs begin, illustrating What is Our Motivation?

NEW POST! If we want a cat, What is Our Motivation? - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/what-is...

If we aren't good at Cat Prophecy, here's some "stars to steer by" during the quest.
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Against a background of tall, but not wide, evergreen trees that offers a view of a distant pond, with a fringe of mountains in the misty blue horizon, a day of fresh rain. The foreground is an expansive empty deck in reddish wood, holding most of a reclining gray tabby cat, with creamy underside and large dark ears, front paws held in front of his chest, and green eyes focused on the lens.

Bud in his mind, on a deck where there's summer.
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In a photo illustration, the background is a full moon in a dark sky, with the outline of a running rabbit appearing from behind the face of an angular gray tabby cat, eyes closes, ears lying outward and relaxed on his head, with a fluffy lighter chest where his forelegs begin, illustrating What is Our Motivation?

NEW POST! If we want a cat, What is Our Motivation? - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/what-is...

If we aren't good at Cat Prophecy, here's some "stars to steer by" during the quest.
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Against a photo of a field of blooming pink bottlebrush plants starting to bloom, the top half of a lounging gray tabby cat, with long Siamese looking limbs and large ears, appears to float over them, brushing them with his paws. His white muzzle has extravagantly long white whiskers, with oval green eyes intently focused at the bottom of the frame.

New feet within my garden go—
New fingers stir the sod—
A Troubadour upon the Elm
Betrays the solitude.

New children play upon the green—
New Weary sleep below—
And still the pensive Spring returns—
And still the punctual snow!
~ Emily Dickinson
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A symphony of caramels and creams as a tall and narrow tabby teen cat sits in front of a dark wood gate, set deeply in a pointed block stone arch, in a thick stone wall in beige and shades of brown, illustrating Dear Pammy, Can I Leave My Cat Alone All Day?

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Some cats will like it. Here's how to find those happy hermits.
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A gray tabby teen cat hugging a human foot against a white sheet with gold patterns, all with a jigsaw overlay, illustrating Why Science Gets Cats Wrong.

Why Science Gets Cats Wrong, so often. - Way of Cats buff.ly/Cgal3ro

"What Are Cats Thinking?: Inside the mind of the world’s most uncooperative research subject.
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A green-tinted gray tabby cat sits on a top step, between two windows where the backlit glow off the leaf profusion outside, which has outlined him with reflected light. His front feet are crossed as he has his head turned to look behind him, face in semi-profile with wide green eyes, rear foot peeking out from a magnificent caramel colored apron, and his tail, tip up raised, rests on the left windowsill.

A back lit Bud Abbott when summer was real.

We heard the geese coming back, Bud-Bud. Won't be long now.
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In the background, candle-lit stalks of black tripods with gray sandbags, and bookcases against a cream wall. In the foreground, the light still moody, the top half of a gray tabby kitten about to fall asleep while still holding up his head. He has a bright white shirt front. Behind him, in the middle ground, the left side shows a bare wall behind the top half of a gray tabby cat, in profile, on their belly on a black desk. Their front paws are folded in front of their chest as his head droops in sleep. The edge of a laptop with with a sky-themed skin is at the kitten's elbow, illustrating Life in the House.

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For emotional closeness, cats have all the necessary skills to live indoors.

Even with people who don’t have the skills. Yet. They will train.
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A symphony of caramels and creams as a tall and narrow tabby teen cat sits in front of a dark wood gate, set deeply in a pointed block stone arch, in a thick stone wall in beige and shades of brown, illustrating Dear Pammy, Can I Leave My Cat Alone All Day?

NEW POST! Dear Pammy, Can I Leave My Cat Alone All Day? - Choosing at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/dear-pa...

Some cats will like it. Here's how to find those happy hermits.
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From slightly above and against the background of a green meter face with a red needle, labeled "Power Level." Superimposed near the bottom are the figures of two cats lying next to each other. The smaller cat on the left, is looking at the lens from under her brows, with big gold eyes and her dainty ears face outward to curve over her head, forming a smile shape. Her fur is soft gray with cream and orange patches, the midlength giving her an adorable appearance. The much bigger cat is a sleek gray tabby with faint stripes on his back. His face is almost turned to check on the photographer, with extravagantly wide, white, whiskers, green eyes, and large triangular ears, slightly forward, on alert.

What Cat Type personality will be a good personality match? Find out.
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Little Rhiannon-social Beta. Bud Abbott is high Alpha, with a nutty center.

A more challenging level.
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Two gray tabby kittens are in a big cage in front of a window with blurred greenery visible. They are long kittens with pointed faces and big ears, sitting at the bottom of the cat, interacting with a barely visible cat in a carrier on a chair next to them. One has their paws on the wire, sitting up, making a temporary color visible in green around his neck, his eyes fixed on the cat in the carrier. While the other kitten is looking above the carrier, watching the photographer, their collar in red. The whole scene in full sunlight, illustrating Welcome, MC Hammer and Fresh Prince!

We rescued a bonded pair of kittens. - Heartbreak averted at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/welcome...

I feared they would wind up separated and ruin both their chances.

These were magic kittens. Such big hearts.
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In the background, candle-lit stalks of black tripods with gray sandbags, and bookcases against a cream wall. In the foreground, the light still moody, the top half of a gray tabby kitten about to fall asleep while still holding up his head. He has a bright white shirt front. Behind him, in the middle ground, the left side shows a bare wall behind the top half of a gray tabby cat, in profile, on their belly on a black desk. Their front paws are folded in front of their chest as his head droops in sleep. The edge of a laptop with with a sky-themed skin is at the kitten's elbow, illustrating Life in the House.

NEW POST! Life in the House - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/life-in...

For emotional closeness, cats have all the necessary skills to live indoors.

Even with people who don’t have the skills. Yet. They will train.
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A gray tabby teen cat face with a prominent stripe across the throat, ears tilted all the way back to listen, with wide wondering green eyes, illustrating he is Bud-Bud the Oblivious Spud.

Bud-Bud the Oblivious Spud learns differently. - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/bud-bud...

Because he does see the trees. But, sometimes, not the forest.
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Two gray tabby kittens, four months old, are shot from the side as they. share a curved beige carpeted cat tree. They are leggy and angular like leopard cubs. The kitten in front has white-tipped paws and throat. He is relaxed and lying on his belly, looking off to the right of the frame, face in profile. The kitten behind him only has white under his jaw, with a caramel chest with stripes across his neck. He is sitting up with an alert look. The background is the corner of a cream wall,with a cherry set of drawers on one wall, with a hanging barometer on dark wood and a frilled glass lamp from an old gas fixture.

Bud & Lou, the early months. They got big, fast.
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The scene is of a many layered mountain vista, blue skies with distant puffy white clouds. From the side, in the foreground, there are wooden buildings heaped with snow. A giant gray tabby cat lies there too, one paw touching the track of a snow vehicle, face looking up from where it came.

Bud knew the snowmobile would return this way, with his favorite meal.

He just wished delivery wasn't so expensive now.
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In the background, candle,-lit stalky black tripods with gray sandbags, and bookcases against a cream wall. In the foreground, the light still moody, the top half of a gray tabby with soulful eyes with large pupils, a sweet expression, and a bright white shirt front. Behind him, in the middle ground, the left side shows a bare wall behind the top half of a gray tabby cat, in profile, on their belly. Their front paws are folded in front of their chest, and the edge of a laptop with with a sky-themed skin is at his elbow.

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Big hearts brings the Multiple Cat Advantage. If we come across any Bonded Pair, we should grab these rare gems.
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Two cats are shown with their heads resting against a red sueded blanket with blue bedding glimpsed beneath. On the left, a small gray cat with patchy sprinkles of cream and orange has her eyes closed, in profile to the left. On the right, there's a gray tabby, head tirnef to show a cream colored jaw and the inside of a pink ear, face averted so he can touch the other cat with an extended, slender, paw.

Having cared for others
and for themselves,
they then turn to
the master for
instruction.
 
This simple path leads to
peace, virtue, and abundance.

— Hua Hu Chin, Brian Browne Walker
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Against the background of a giant hold crown made of golden arches, with round gold decorations on top of the arches and golden shapes decorating the base, with the open part lined with puffy dark red velvet, a soft pillow for the crown to rest upon, but three tabby cats are superimposed on it, as though they found it perfect to relax on, with the cat in the middle staring into the lens quite happily.

But the cats -wanted- to sleep in the big squishy crown.
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The background is a pattern of light red circles, overlapping on a dark red background, with snow coming down over that, forming a snowy surface that the front half of an angular gray tabby teen cat drifts just above, forelegs hanging down to brush the snow surface, eyes almost closed, ears alert in concentration.

Bud discovered astral travel was not what he expected. Yes, he could keep his paws out of the snow.

But there was more cold-drippy coming down from the sky. Which was red, a color he could not see. Yet, it still bothered him.
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In the background, candle,-lit stalky black tripods with gray sandbags, and bookcases against a cream wall. In the foreground, the light still moody, the top half of a gray tabby with soulful eyes with large pupils, a sweet expression, and a bright white shirt front. Behind him, in the middle ground, the left side shows a bare wall behind the top half of a gray tabby cat, in profile, on their belly. Their front paws are folded in front of their chest, and the edge of a laptop with with a sky-themed skin is at his elbow.

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Big hearts brings the Multiple Cat Advantage. If we come across any Bonded Pair, we should grab these rare gems.
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A black sky with a full moon has a dark figure in the lower left corner against the bright surface, an outline of a running rabbit's front half, in black silhouette, while an angular gray tabby, with closed eyes, sideways ears, white fur on jaw and caramel on chest, with abundant white whiskers sagging down from his face.

The prophecy specified the FULL Racing Rabbit Moon.

But even with photos like this on the website, they still got calls when a sleepy Bud revealed himself to local skywatchers.
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The photo is of a alert, gray tabby kitten face, with happy triangle ears tapering down to a pointed nose, eyes fixed on the camera lens. with oblong pupils surrounded by Celedón green eye color and a direct gaze while his white whiskers swirl around his face, his head is appearing from what appears to be the bottom of the bay, shaggy carpeted, cat tree, and his stuffed friend who has a bearded and nose and a red and white striped pointed cap and the edge of a curtain rod with curtains reveals that the cat is looking at the photographer upside down, but that's the only way you can see his mischievous expression is to turn the photo upside down, illustrating The Cat's Sense of Reality.

NEW POST! The Cat's Sense of Reality makes them rational thinkers. - Brains at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/the-cat...

In some ways, our cats might evaluate situations more clearly than we can.

I might let them lead. Well, maybe not Bud.
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A brown tabby adult cat is at the forefront of a bed with a purple fuzzy comforter, his front paws extended and his curious green eyes in a slightly tiled head. Behind him, as though he is guarding them, are two gray tabby kittens who are reclining with their necks on his hindquarters. One with their forelegs wrapped around the neck of the other, lookalike, kitten. In the back ground there are pastel pillows and striped throw, illustrating Multiple Cats in Space and Time.

Cats bend time and space with different perspectives. - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/how-cat...

How can we tell we are making wrong cat assumptions? Any time we expect a different result… from the one we got.
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