The Creative Cat - Tag Archive for "backyard"

A New View

Published on May 11, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, mimi

Mimi wants to know what this tree is doing lying atop her savannah of grasses and wildflowers where she can prowl like the panther she is, but she’ll just have to make due with the rest of the yard for now. A quick and powerful spring storm moved through yesterday

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Tags: backyard, black cat, black cats, tree down

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Modifying Your Design

Published on February 16, 2013 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, dog, garden, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Such potential! It’s almost time to plant the peas…and a little bit of snow on my garden this morning didn’t deter me from dreaming of what this year’s garden would look like, and remembering happy warm and sunny summer mornings out there with my feline supervisers. I’m happily planning out

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Tags: attracting hummingbirds, backyard, baltimore orioles, birdbath, feeding backyard birds", feeding birds in your backyard, feeding wild birds, garden plants not toxic to pets, giving birds protection from predators, killing slugs, monarch butterflies, native plants, using native plants in your yard

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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Sweet and Sour in Summer, Poison Ivy!

Published on May 26, 2012 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, dog, garden, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Itch. Itch. Scratch scratch. Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch DIG DIG—aaaggghhh! No, it’s not your cat or dog, it’s you! And what’s the culprit? Poison ivy! But you’ve been wearing work clothes in an office all week, where the heck did it come from? Does your cat visit your yard

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Tags: backyard, feeding wild birds, identifying poison ivy, managing poison ivy, native plants, poison ivy, poison ivy and pets, raspberries

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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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Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat: Bringing it All Together with Design

Published on March 3, 2012 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, dog, garden, Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat

I’m happily planning out this year’s garden and I would bet those of you who garden and manage a habitat in your backyard are as well, so it’s high time to consider design and layout for this and your backyard wildlife habitat for the coming hear…and remember those sweet summer

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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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Memories of Snow

Published on August 13, 2011 in backyard, cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, garden cats, photographs, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats

This might have been nice to remember last week when we were melting on our feet, but we certainly weren’t out in the yard last week! This huge branch fell in the snowstorm in March 2010, the heavy end end on the ground near our picnic table and the other

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Tags: backyard, cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, snow, tortoiseshell cat

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On Planting Peas

Published on March 19, 2011 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, garden, garden cats, photographs, spring

It’s my annual paean to gardening and the cycles of life. While it may not seem to have much to do with cats and animal welfare, my garden, my backyard, my love of the seasons and enjoyment of all the creatures who live in my yard, even the slugs and

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Tags: backyard, cats in the garden, garden, gardening, photography, planting peas

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My Feline Garden Sprites

Published on April 23, 2010 in backyard, cat behavior, cookie, feline health, garden, garden cats, garden sprites, kublai, moses, my household of felines, namir, peaches' 100th birthday, sally, senior cats, stanley

As part of celebrating Peaches’ 100th Birthday, this is an article I first posted a little over a year ago as Namir and Cookie and I cleaned up the garden for another gardening year. A number of cats have grown to their senior years here, and one of the treats

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Tags: backyard, senior cats

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Bringing it All Together: Enhancing and Developing Your Habitat

Published on January 6, 2010 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cats, dog, garden

This is the fourth and final installment in considering your backyard wildlife habitat, plus I’ve published posts featuring the art, prose and poetry which my backyard habitat has inspired—scroll to the bottom for the links. Ick. Slugs. Everywhere. And they weren’t drowning in my beer traps, they were having a

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