It’s not a joke, Henry really did walk into a meeting I was attending and proceeded to get himself rescued and subsequently adopted. On a mild and misty spring evening, May 8, 2008 to be exact, I met with the board of a community conservation organization to review the illustrations
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Sometimes, even though you’ve done your best to rescue kittens from a bad situation, you don’t succeed, and you never forget the ones you couldn’t catch. In this case I did manage to catch two out of five, and also have my left hand deeply punctured at the knuckle by
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Most rescue stories are pretty dramatic and any humor one can find is usually an offbeat detail of an otherwise grim story. But every once in a while there’s a rescue that’s just plain silly. After so many stories of cats and kittens brought back from the brink of death,
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Just about a year ago to the day I looked at Kelly and decided her story needed to be told for my Tuesday rescue story. Just two weeks after we’d lost Cookie, Kelly and I were finally feeling comfortable with being at our desk without her, Kelly settling on my
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Cookie and Mimi spend some cozy hours on the pile of pillows on my bed while the day fills with rain and fog outside the window. I often think rescued kitties take a little time on bad weather days remembering the days before their rescue. I know Mimi does because
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The thermometer registered 8 degrees this morning as the sun finally rose on a frosty morning in my neighborhood. And there were fresh feline pawprints in the light dusting of snow across the yard and up the steps to my deck along with prints embedded in the ice underneath. It
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You just never know where you’ll meet another cat lover. The only sure thing is that you will meet them, even when you’re just on a simple quick errand and you meet during the process of something else entirely. I needed a can of matte black spray paint for a
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I wrote and illustrated this story and originally posted it in May, this year. It’s a sweet story I’ve carried with me for nearly 20 years (there is more about this in the note at the end). I am including it in my series of rescue stories even though the
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This magnificent cat was rescued and originally placed with someone who unfortunately not only let him out, but literally kicked him out, causing a permanent injury. Felix found himself back with his original rescuers who kept a registered rescue for cats in their home. His forever family had recently lost
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Hurricane Katrina, Namir, a household of cats and my personal creative inspiration Namir was the inspiration for The Creative Cat in January 2009, and while I had been posting articles once in a while for a few months prior to this article it wasn’t until I wrote this essay in
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