The Creative Cat - Tag Archive for "cat stories"

Rescue Story Reprise: A Little Bit About Kelly

JUST ABOUT two years ago to the day I looked at Kelly and decided her story needed to be told for my Tuesday rescue story. I remember, just two weeks after we’d lost Cookie, Kelly and I were finally feeling comfortable with being at our desk without her, Kelly settling

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Tags: animal welfare, cat rescue, cat stories, cats, pets, stray and feral cats

Oh Very Young…

Published on November 24, 2013 in black cats, cat conversations, cat photographs, mewsette, peaches, senior cats

From a few years ago, when Mewsette struggled to understand why she couldn’t be part of the “senior kitty lunch special”, just as she does today when I’m in the kitchen preparing Emeraude’s meals. . . . . . . . Mmmm, that smells good! Can I have some? No,

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Tags: black cat, black cats, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cat stories, cats, mewsette the cat, pet photography, pets, photography, senior cats

Muse Medallions and a Special Award in the CWA Communications Contest

Published on November 5, 2013 in authors, award, cat writers association

Now that I’ve been there and back, I’m pleased to report that I’ve won two Muse Medallions in the 2013 Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest, and I am also honored to have won a huge special award. You can read a bit about my visit to the conference on Friday

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Tags: art photography, awards, cat artwork, cat photographs, cat stories, cat writers association, cats, cwa, pets, writing

The Best Teachers

Published on October 20, 2013 in cat stories, cats, peaches, pet loss, senior cats

Today I especially remember that little dilute calico kitty, Peaches, who I feature as often as possible here and in my art and feline-inspired creations as a thanks to all she gave me in life. With the wisdom of a lifetime behind her, she gently beguiled me and I quickly

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Tags: cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cat stories, cats, pet loss, pet photography

Daily Sketch Reprises: Lucy’s Love of Yarn

Published on October 11, 2013 in adopting a kitten, black cats, books, books about cats dogs and animals, cat artwork, cat painting, cat stories, daily sketch, kittens, lucy

Above, the very same yarn bag you saw Cookie tucked into in today’s Daily Photo, and even some of the same yarn! . . . . . . . The Ball of Purple Yarn Lucy was six months old when Stanley was in his last few months, and I decided

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Tags: cat sketches, cat stories, cats, kitten plays with yarn, kitten stories, lucy the kitten, lucy the most exceptional kitten

“The Creative Cat” Wins a CWA Certificate of Excellence

Published on September 21, 2013 in authors, award, cat writers association

I’m pleased to share the news that I’ve won a number of awards for my stories and images published on and originating on The Creative Cat in the 2013 Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest. These awards are self-nominated so I chose what to enter. They are judged by a jury

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Tags: art photography, awards, cat artwork, cat photographs, cat stories, cat writers association, cats, cwa, pets, writing

Rescue Story: A Trick of Genetics, Tess and Her Boys

Published on September 10, 2013 in cat photographs, rescue stories

Take a look at these two handsome kittens and what do you think? A little Tonkinese, a little Snowshoe? Well, here’s their mom! Decidedly not a purebred, but very cute and petite. You just never know what will pop up from generations of genetic material. These are their “adoption photos”

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Tags: cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cat rescue, cat rescue stories, cat stories, cats, snowshoe mix cats, tonkinese mix cats

A Little Rescue: Lucy, Charlotte, Angus and Donal

Published on April 2, 2013 in adopting a cat, adopting a kitten, cat stories, cats, kittens, lucy, my household of felines, rescue stories

Mimi discusses a certain litter of kittens in today’s rescue story as we continue to celebrate Lucy’s birthday. I’d like to tell you about the kittens I gave birth to in April 2006 including Lucy, Charlotte, Angus and Donal because Mama Bernadette came to get them as she did

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Tags: black cats, cat stories, cats, kittens, mimi's children, my household of felines, rescue cats

A Long-ago Foster

Published on March 19, 2013 in animal rescue, cats I know, rescue stories

Recounting the stories of Sophie and Cookie as they joined my household reminds me of a few other stories of cats who stayed with us who technically weren’t rescues, but then again… In the late 1980s I began studying optimum feline diets and along with cooking for my cats and

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Tags: cat rescue stories, cat stories, cats

The Housewarming Cat

Published on March 12, 2013 in animal rescue, cat stories, my household of felines, rescue cats, rescue stories, sophie

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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