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From the Archives: The Old Man in the Garden, 2006

Published on April 28, 2013 in cat photographs, daily photo, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, my household of felines, stanley

My “old man”, Stanley, at the age of about 24, enjoying the warm bricks and sun in the garden on April 30, 2006. Spending more and more time in my garden in spring, and especially yesterday, a bright and warm day much like the one you see here and my

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Tags: cat in garden, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline photographs, pet photography, pets, photography, tabby cat

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Begin in Spring to Control Fleas

Published on April 6, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, fleas, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, spring, tortoiseshell cats, wildlife, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Fleas, like most other insects, live everywhere around us and it’s how we manage our surroundings that helps to control their populations. Like managing mosquitoes, for instance, by eliminating still pools of water where they can breed, you can also manage the flea population around your yard without the use

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Tags: backyard wildlife, backyard wildlife habitat, beneficial nematodes, cat fleas, diatomaceous earth, fleas, fleas in the yard, managing fleas organically, organic flea products, Wplongform

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My First “Less Adoptable” Kitty

Published on September 18, 2012 in adopting a cat, animal artwork, awakening, cat artwork, cat photographs, cats, feline artwork, garden cats, garden sprites, my household of felines, sally, senior cats

This is one of those “happily ever after” stories we promised you yesterday. We never knew Sally because she lived with our mom before the world began when we were born. But Cookie and Kelly remembered Sally—that’s how long ago it was! We can’t imagine a kitty who was

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Tags: cat artwork, cat photographs, cat sketches, cat stories, deaf cat, less adoptable pet, less adoptable pets, pet photography, photography, sally the cat, turkish angora, white cat

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Vintage Photo: Supervising the Harvest

Published on August 25, 2012 in backyard, cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, namir, stories of my cats, vintage photo

From 2008, Cookie, as Garden Goddess, settles in a soft bed of tall grasses, violets and wild strawberries and autumn wildflowers at the edge of my pea bed to enjoy the dappled sun on an August morning and supervise my work. So far that year, the peas had done well,

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Tags: cat photographs, cats, cats in yard, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortoiseshell cat

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Old Friends

Published on July 1, 2012 in cats, cookie, daily photo, garden cats, garden sprites, kelly, my household of felines, namir, senior cats, stories of my cats

I’m remembering my Namir today, and our wonderful years-long friendship among him and Cookie and me, out in our back yard. Here they are, each keeping watch on our backyard wildlife habitat from their favorite spot and mine, the picnic table. When I think of being out there with the

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Tags: cat photos, cat stories, cats, pets, two cats outside

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Outdoor Adventures: 2009

Published on April 13, 2012 in backyard, cat behavior, cat photographs, cats, cookie, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, my household of felines, namir

On this day three years ago I had some company out in the back yard, inspecting my work and making the decisions about who was inside and outside and when. I’ve often had one cat outdoors with me and could keep a close watch on their activities—as they usually did

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Tags: backyard, cats, cats safe outdoors

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Cat TV, Big Screen Version

Published on March 24, 2012 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, black cats, cats, cookie, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, mr. sunshine, spring

After this week, and even on this rainy morning, certain kitties want to visit the yard. It’s my goal some day to at least screen in a porch for them, but I’d love to build a room for them like Chris Davis’s, mentioned at the end of this article. As

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Tags: backyard wildlife habitat, building a cat enclosure, chris davis, for every cat an angel, outdoor cat enclosure, screened cat room

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My Feline Garden Sprites

Published on November 3, 2011 in backyard, cat behavior, cats, cookie, feline health, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, kublai, moses, my household of felines, namir, peaches, peaches' 100th birthday, sally, senior cats, stanley

I first posted this article in April 2009 as Namir and Cookie and I finished cleaning up the garden for another gardening year and republished it again in 2010 in honor of Peaches 100th birthday, and now in 2011 in honor of Senior Pet Awareness Month. A number of cats

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Tags: backyard, cats, senior cat month, senior cats, senior pet month

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My First “Less Adoptable” Kitty

Published on September 20, 2011 in adopting a cat, animal artwork, awakening, cat artwork, cat photographs, cats, feline artwork, garden cats, garden sprites, my household of felines, sally, senior cats

This is one of those “happily ever after” stories we promised you yesterday. We never knew Sally because she lived with our mom before the world began when we were born. But Cookie and Kelly remember Sally—that’s how long ago it was! We can’t imagine a kitty who was ALL

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Tags: deaf cat, less adoptable pet, sally the cat, turkish angora, white cat

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My First “Less Adoptable” Kitty

Published on September 24, 2010 in animal artwork, awakening, cat artwork, cats, feline artwork, garden cats, garden sprites, my household of felines, sally, senior cats

In this week devoted to “less adoptable pets” I have a story of a deaf kitty who shared my life for 14 years, and she was such a joy to know. One would hardly have known the difference between her and a hearing cat, nor cared! I certainly forgot. I

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Tags: deaf cat, less adoptable pet, sally the cat, turkish angora, white cat

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