Against a background of blurred spring crocus, a photo of a cat, lying down, has been layered on, to float gently above the blossoms, as though he is half-asleep on them.
"How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasure, when the whole world is burning?”
”When you are in deep darkness, will you not ask for a lamp?”
— Lord Buddha, The Dhammapada
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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 gray tabby kitten with big ears and nose, getting their first pet on the head from the hand who adopted him, with a colored pencil filter, illustrating Cats and Names and Connection.
Names and connection - touch the power. - Names at Way of Cats buff.ly/qlEg9ow
Lou Costello's first cuddle. Four days in, he hopped right up -- don't touch him -- and slowly got in my lap.
Feral beginning, happy ending.
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Sit from above, a gray tabby teen cat is rolled onto their back with green eyes open and fixed outside the frame on the left, a dreamy smile accented by the white under his jaw, dark tabby rings around his neck, and one upright ear, large and triangular, the other folded under his head. He is lying on a bedcover of pigmented denim.
Bud-Bud of a morning, wanting a cuddle.
He's a teen here, but it's still a favorite pose.
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A photo illustration using the background of a Hubble photograph of deep space with shades of red and bursting white, the head of a gray tabby kitten with considerable white underside gazes into the lens with a slightly questioning face and side-looking eyes..
Evil feeds on evil
and in time destroys everything
connected with it. Cling to what is correct,
and evil withers quickly away.
Good fortune returns.
― I Ching, Hexagram 3, Bryan Browne Walker
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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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Two cats lie on their sides on top of a quilted blue daybed cover, with the large gray tabby cat with his forelegs around a smaller, tortoiseshell cat,whose face is in the crook of the big cat's elbow, in profile looking down, nose to bed cover. She has soft gray puffy fur, with patches of cinnamon and cream. They are next to a blue pillow and arm of the daybed, with books in the bookcase and a white canvas embroidered bag. In the lower left corner there is a crumple of a fuzzy light green throw.
Lou cleans the back of Rhiannon's head, as cat besties do.
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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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The face and chest of a burly gray tabby cat, with one white tipped paw in the foreground, and a quilted blue bedcover, white chest visible in the middle ground, with a man's fingers petting his chest, below where the cream fur turns to caramel color.
Lou prefers the chest rub. At least, in public.
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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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The corner of a sky blue daybed features a sprawled tabby cat but most of what we see is a white and caramel underside, rear legs with distinct black stripes and bright white socks halfway up his legs. His front feet enter the frame from the left, with bright, white, toe socks.
When Lou got to the big city, he found work as a sock model.
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On a background of white gift boxes wrapped at the corners, in white paper with gold dots and blue irises, there lies,on her back, a dilute tortoiseshell cat with fluffy fur, has her face lying on its side, eyes closed and her whiskers held to suggest a satisfied smile. She is a soft gray with swirls of cinnamon and cream. The larger cat, his gray back to the camera, has his large head on her belly. All the way in the back is the rest of the Tortie, who has her rear legs in the air, rear paws covered in creamy patches of fur.
Rhiannon enjoyed shooting the romantic comedy she did with Lou.
"It Happened at the Gift Shop" was one of the top hits of the year.
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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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Against the background of a green tinted misty meadow, a longhaired elfin woman with pointed ears and long green butterfly wings flies in, to greet a large and muscular gray tabby cat with a bewildered expression and a twig of rose leaves on his nose, illustrating Calm Down in Cat Ways.
Calm Down in Cat Ways, including each other. - Mutual support at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/calm-do...
Maybe we should try to imitate our cats, more.
They have things to teach us about energy management.
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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.
NEW POST! When to Adopt a Comedy Team - at Way of Cats
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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 long and narrow table of.dark wood holds a large plant pot of black ceramic with wisps of dried vegetation on the right. On the left a gray cat sits upright, with a whute jaw and shirt front. He is focused on something out of the left frame with a curious expression, but mainly enjoying the heat from the old iron radiator, painted white, visible under the window. Beyond, a winter landscape of snow on a dark house with a tall roof.
Lou in a previous winter ponder. He is always ready for a formal occasion.
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A gray tabby kitten lying on their back with their head in a windowsill with sunlight dappling his face, one curled paw at his chest, with a colored pencil filter, illustrating How Cats Bend Time and Space.
Cats bend time and space with different perspectives. - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/how-cat...
How can we tell? Any time we expect a different result… from the one we got.
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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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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.
NEW POST! When to Adopt a Comedy Team - at Way of Cats
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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 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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Against the background of a shirt with a cartoon dog, a lanky gray tabby cat cuddles in a teddy bear position between a human arm and torso, illustrating The Stuffed Animal Misconception.
The Stuffed Animal Misconception hurts us. - Love at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/the-stu...
Being both the hunter and the hunted creates a set of survival skills ill-matched with being mauled like a rag doll.
Therein lies the problem.
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On a bed with a pale comforter, a large gray tabby cat extends their head, one white-tipped paw for a nose boop with a much smaller, all black, kitten, whose head lifts from her lying down position to greet him with her nose. There's a background of a person's lower half, clad in gold and black, the top half inferred as being part of the moment, illustrating Cats Are Social Animals.
NEW POST! Do Cats Have Individual Personalities? Myth of Monolithization. - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/do-cats...
Cat Appreciation means we get something old and something new.
Each one is their own cat.
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Against the background of a blue paisley seating cube, a red wire supply rack with beige carpet visible beneath, holds a blue box with cat grass sprouts being grazed by a big gray tabby, while a stainless steel cube of a pet fountain streams water from a flower shape out of the top, illustrating Two Ways to Grow Cat Grass.
Two Ways to Grow Cat Grass, find the fave. - Gardening at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/two-way...
They are “prairie method” and “sprout creation.”
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In a photoillustration, a giant cat lies in a winter landscape. Against the background of a shaded snowy hedge, at the edge of a meadow covered with smooth soft snow, there lies a large gray tabby, white tipped front paws outstretched, and his gaze turned in semi-profile, to the right. He has dense fur that stands out, especially on his white chest, and lower face. His pupils are very wide and dark and has a thin rim of fluorescent green, illustrating Cat Breeds Shaped by Cold.
NEW POST! For mellow, Meet the Cat Breeds Shaped by Cold - Choosing at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cat-bre...
Find a longhair that's easy care, or that perfect "library cat" for winter evenings.
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In a photoillustration, a big gray tabby with a lot of white, tipping his toes, like the outstretched paw over a background of thick books open on a library table, with shelves visible in the blurry distane, while the cat is lying on their side, eyes closed, as though fallen asleep over their studying, illustrating Cats Who Love Learning.
NEW POST! Cats Who Love Learning & mental thrills. - Brains at the Way of Cats buff.ly/HPAeoCi
What is visible is not all that is going on. Most of the time, cats are always observing, and thinking. Whether we know it, or not.
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In a photoillustration, a giant cat lies in a winter landscape. Against the background of a shaded snowy hedge, at the edge of a meadow covered with smooth soft snow, there lies a large gray tabby, white tipped front paws outstretched, and his gaze turned in semi-profile, to the right. He has dense fur that stands out, especially on his white chest, and lower face. His pupils are very wide and dark and has a thin rim of fluorescent green, illustrating Cat Breeds Shaped by Cold.
NEW POST! For mellow, Meet the Cat Breeds Shaped by Cold - Choosing at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cat-bre...
They have distinct appearance and traits. Find a longhair that's easy care, or that perfect "library cat" for winter evenings.
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A big-headed gray tabby cat with golden eyes rolls their face sideways to meet the camera, paws dangling over the edge of a curved cat tree shelf, covered with beige carpet, illustrating The Ease of Adults.
The Ease of Adults is how they take care of themselves. - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/the-eas...
The ease of cat adults is how they are responsible beings. Most of the time, we can enlist their help.
As another grownup in the room.
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Two adult gray tabby cats face off on a sky blue day bed with a bookcase background. On the left, the larger one has a muscular build and fluffy white jaw, chest, and belly. His head is in profile, turned to face a smaller and sleeker version, with a caramel underside. He is leaning back, reacting as though the other cat's unseen face is expressing disappointment.
Then Bud and Lou toured in a cat adaptation of "The Odd Couple."
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In a photoillustration, a big gray tabby with a lot of white, tipping his toes, like the outstretched paw over a background of thick books open on a library table, with shelves visible in the blurry distane, while the cat is lying on their side, eyes closed, as though fallen asleep over their studying, illustrating Cats Who Love Learning.
NEW POST! Cats Who Love Learning are looking for mental thrills. - Brains at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cats-wh...
What is visible is not all that is going on. Most of the time, cats are always observing, and thinking.
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