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Cats for Adoption: Bottle-feeding Kittens and Fostering Cats

It is officially kitten season. In fact, it has been for a while. Many of the calls for assistance to rescues and shelters, and from friends, involve a mother cat with very young kittens or orphaned kittens with no mother to be found, and generous people finding a place in

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Daily Photo: Sending Me on a Guilt Trip, and Visiting Kitty Cousins

“That’s fine, just go and leave us here with no food and nothing to do. Have a great time. We’ll still be here when you get back. Like we have any choice.” Giuseppe, Mewsette and Mimi line up on the bed for a grand send off as I left to

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Daily Photo Reprise: Why Are We Here? 2012

Giuseppe, do you think there’s a reason why we’re here? You mean, like, on this table? We sit here every morning… No, stupid, a reason why we’re…like, on this planet, maybe in this country or here, in this house, with Mama Bernadette? Where else would we be? Well, there are

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“Cranberry Goes to the Block Party”, Illustrations, Design and Printing

Cranberry Goes to the Block Party is finished, bound and delivered. I initially posted a sketch and outlined the idea back in May, and through the following months worked out the illustrations, designed the text and coordinated the printing and binding of a very small but important number of copies—this

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An Animal’s Love is the Gift

The holiday season  is here! Time for the biggest gifts and the best surprises, eating and drinking merrily, countless visits to friends and family, and generally overdoing it. This year, you’ve decided it’s time your child had a pet. Or perhaps you and your friend, spouse, partner or other family

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Pet-proofing for the Holidays

It’s kind of like wondering how those of us of a certain age survived our childhoods without seatbelts and bicycle helmets. How did our pets survive before we knew all these cautions about which foods and plants were truly toxic and exactly what a length of curling ribbon could do

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Daily Sketch: Illustrations

I’m illustrating a book for a friend and coming near the end of the illustration phase. Of course, it’s a cat book, and I’ve been so intently working on it I thought I’d post my favorite two. The author is a big fan of Clare Turlay Newberry, and I had

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Vintage Photo: Tiny Fromage

This is what happens when I look through old photos and find kittens! I’ll admit, I’ve been thinking about kittens—not adopting, but fostering, so I’m trying to work it out of my system by looking back through photos of other kittens. I found Mr. Sunshine from 2007 when the Mimi

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Daily Photo Reprise: Fromage Being Cute, 2011

Yesterday I visited with my niece-kitty Fromage, my little neonatal bottle baby from two years ago. Here she is, all grown up and acting as cute as a self-centered little black kitty can be. For some reason she chose to settle on her back under the wicker chair like this,

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Her first kitten…

A 13-year-old girl who loves animals and wants to be a veterinarian is going to adopt her first companion animal, a kitten—or kittens, if she has her way. How many of us got our start with companion animals just like that, pre-teens or young teenagers who loved animals and wanted

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