An artistic vision of a tortoiseshell cat lying down, with front paws out, on a pile of bright orange sunflowers, with reddish brown centers. There are fluffy pink and cream clouds in the background of a brownish red sky. This links up the colors against her gray fur, which has cream and cinnamon patches on her toes and face.

My artistic vision of Rhiannon. She's like summer gardens and tall airy clouds.
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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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The Land Footprint of #Food.

You’ll see that the foods that are scientifically and nutritionally proven to be the healthiest for us are also the foods are the healthiest — and most #humane — for our planet.
#sustainability #climatechange #plantbased

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This cute little girl has had a rough life on the streets, and needs her person to love her! Meet Calypso!

#shelter #dog #adoption #humane

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The background is dark brown, with a person's torso clothed in black, leaving only her extended, feminine, arm and hand, with a drawing pen held on artwork in progress. The other half of the tablet, resting on a light-colored wooden drawing table, holds a dilute tortoiseshell cat, sitting up with head moving intent and forward with big gold eyes. But there are clues that this is a photo illustration, because of her oversized outline next to the woman's hand, and the lack of a shadow on the drawing paper, since the hand has one. Makes her look magical.

Rhiannon began a Creative Muse service, and found herself in high demand at a nearby artist colony.
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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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A snow scene with a plowed, but still snowy, trail, running under a single giant tree, every leafless branch coated with puffy snow. While a small dilute tortoiseshell cat, swirls of cinnamon and cream in her gray fur, back and tail arched as she daintily steps onto the flatter expanse of trail, her head turned away to look down the path.

Rhiannon sighed with relief as she reached the Snow Cat trail.

But it wasn't what she expected.
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A small kitten, all back with spiky patches from being three months old and too busy playing to groom the way an adult does, is lying on her belly with front paws out and gripping the surface of the fluffy white cat hammock with wide spread, and surprisingly large, front paws, illustrating Get Them Tiny?

NEW POST! Get Them Tiny? Maybe we need a bigger size. - Choosing at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/get-the...

They don’t have to be babies to fall in love.

That magic happens at any age.
#MissMorgenMagic #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue

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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A an black kitten's head looking downscreen with golden eyes, a cat shelf with high walls hiding the rest of her, illustrating Life in the House.

Morgen in contemplation as a kitten. In the teen times, this was very rare.
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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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In the foreground there is a beige carpeted cat trough, taking up half the frame at the bottom, while the top haof is occupied by a dilute tortoiseshell kitten. She has her head, shoulders and busy paws over the edge of the trough, attempting to snag the purple play ball at the bottom, made of some sort of woven soft plastic. She has midlength gray fur with patches of cream and orange, with a purple lava lamp and blue blanket on the black desk behind her, against a cream painted wall.

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~ Anais Nin
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A dilute tortoiseshell cat, with soft gray fur liberally sprinkled with orange and cream patches and places, with big gold eyes rests on a golden oak surface with frayed caramel colored sisal from a nearby scratching post. She looks up from her repose, paws reaching for a stainless steel dish, the bottom covered with heavy cream, illustrating Things With Meaning.

Things With Meaning guide our cats. - Cat Talk at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/things-...

Things with meaning is about what we tell our cats, especially with our care. Giving my cats all they need is, ultimately, about love.
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Against the background of a golden crown made of open gold arches with a lining of burgundy velvet, there's a dilute tortoiseshell cat, gray fur with patches of cream and orange. She is resting in front of it, front paws curled in front of her fluffy chest, head looking over her shoulder, golden eyes intent offscreen, to the left.

Rhiannon knew the crown wouldn't fit her head.

But obviously there's other ways to enjoy it.
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A black cat is lying on her back on a fluffy white cat hammock, face turned on its side, one ear up and the other folded behind her head, with paws drawn up to her chest, and amber eyes intent on the photographer, illustrating Dear Pammy, Why so many names?

Why so many names? And nicknames! - Dear Pammy at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/dear-pa...

Her shelter name was Blue. Morgen Le Faye, once we met her. My Morgenska. Sometimes, Sweet Baby Panther.

She answers to all of them.
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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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A small kitten, all back with spiky patches from being three months old and too busy playing to groom the way an adult does, is lying on her belly with front paws out and gripping the surface of the fluffy white cat hammock with wide spread, and surprisingly large, front paws, illustrating Get Them Tiny?

NEW POST! Get Them Tiny? Maybe we need a bigger size. - Choosing at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/get-the...

They don’t have to be babies to fall in love.

That magic happens at any age.
#MissMorgenMagic #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue

Shot from above,a dilute tortoiseshell kitten, with fuzzy gray fur and light cream and orange patches all over her face and paws, is ready to climb a shredded sisal scratching post. Her face, with intent golden eyes with hints of green around her narrow pupils. The base of the post is beige and there are frilly purple decoration in the upper right corner.

This is Rhiannon's determined face.

It's her favorite.
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The text says "In a Purrfect World" and the tropical background of palm leaves and tranquil lagoon features a brown tabby cat sleeping on their stomach on a white, furry cat tree shelf.

In A Purrfect World - Episode 17 - Speaking in Cat
Pamela Merritt on Pet Life Radio
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They can read our body language, and learn vocabulary words.
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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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If a friend died, and did not have family to provide a proper memorial, Confucius would say, “I will arrange to have his funeral in my home.”

Analects 10.22

📖 All demonstrations of respect and compassion, even ceremonial, are important to a #humane community.

Shot from above, on a sky blue quilted daybed cover, a small dilute tortoiseshell cat lies on her back, with soft gray fur of medium length. Especially on face and paws, she has patches of caramel, cream, and orange patches. Her eyes are closed, yet her front paws triumphantly clutches a miniature wand toy. It has green and white stripes and a green handle, with a fluffy end one paw is clutching to her chest, illustrating Provide a Daily Triumph.

NEW POST! Provide a Daily Triumph to give our cats frequent accomplishments. - Way of Cats buff.ly/f0kCaQY

Our admiration makes them feel loved and respected.

Everyone likes that.
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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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Newly approved US medication offers hope for cats diagnosed with FIP That drug is GS-441524, a medication that has shown a high success rate in treating FIP but, for years, was illegal in the U.S., putting veterinarians in an impossible position.

Newly approved US medication offers hope for cats diagnosed with FIP www.wlky.com/article/newl...
#CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue

Newly approved US medication offers hope for cats diagnosed with FIP That drug is GS-441524, a medication that has shown a high success rate in treating FIP but, for years, was illegal in the U.S., putting veterinarians in an impossible position.

Newly approved US medication offers hope for cats diagnosed with FIP www.wlky.com/article/newl...
#CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue

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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Caroline Earle White, born in Philadelphia in 1833, founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) in 1867, the first 1st animal shelter in the United States

#WomensHistoryMonth  #Humane #AdoptDontShop

A dilute tortoiseshell cat, with shades of puffy gray fur splotched and swirled with soft orange and cream, is standing and stretching on top of of a dark bookcase, where a cream painted plaster wall slants down into an eave, with her arched back almost touching. Her fluffy tail hugs the eave, curled and brushing against it. The top shelf of the bookcase holds a purple ukulele case.

Quiet the senses,
forget the body, abandon
concepts and control and contention.
Transform the mind into a pile of cool
ashes, and then do non-doing until
stillness permeates inside
and out.

In this
way you can be
illuminated by the clarity
and silence of the
Oneness.
#CatsofBlueSky #Humane