The Creative Cat - Tag Archive for "tortie cats"

From the Archives: Old and Not So Old, December 14, 2005

Published on December 14, 2013 in cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, from the archives, kelly, moses, senior cats, stanley

Stanley and Moses curl up together in fine symmetry like double quotes; Stanley was 24, Moses was 19, and the two had always been friends but were inseparable for that last year Moses was with us. When my little formerly feral kitten was forced out of her room by the

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Tags: cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline photographs, pet photography, pets, photography, tabby cats, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

Rescue Story: Cookie’s Homecoming Day

Published on December 10, 2013 in backyard, cat stories, cookie, fostering pets, kelly, mewsette, my household of felines, peaches, rescue stories, senior cats, sophie, tortoiseshell cats

On December 6, 1992, during a heavy storm of snow and ice, a little neighbor boy brought me a kitten he’d rescued but could not keep. That very special tortoiseshell kitten joined my household that day, though neither she nor I had any idea at the time how long or

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Laboring At What We Love, 2013

Published on September 2, 2013 in black cats, cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, kelly, my household of felines, namir, peaches, senior cats, sophie, stanley, tortoiseshell cats

Sweet dreams to The Five who are sleeping off the ceiling fan installation supervision from yesterday as they celebrate Labor Day and enjoy the fruits of their labors with the ceiling fans happily spinning. I did briefly press them into service earlier today as artist models, other than that, they

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Tags: animal artist, black cats, cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats, working cats

Cookie’s Homecoming Day

Published on December 6, 2012 in backyard, cat stories, cookie, fostering pets, kelly, mewsette, my household of felines, peaches, rescue stories, senior cats, sophie, tortoiseshell cats

Twenty years ago today a very special tortoiseshell kitten joined my household, though neither she nor I had any idea at the time how long or how deep our relationship would become—she began as a rescue kitty like everyone else, but for reasons unbeknownst to her or me other rescue

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Tags: cat rescue stories, cats, cookie the cat, rescue cats, rescue stories, senior cats, tortie cats

Laboring At What We Love, 2012

Published on September 3, 2012 in black cats, cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, kelly, my household of felines, namir, peaches, senior cats, sophie, stanley, tortoiseshell cats

Desk with Six Cats; sometimes my office is not so beautiful! From left it is Stanley, Sophie, Kelly, Namir, Cookie and Peaches. Only Cookie and Kelly are still with me, but still working hard.

Ten years ago today, January 1, 2000, I fulfilled a dream I had worked a decade to reach when, for the first time in forever, I stayed home to go to work. Even considering the wild ride this past decade has been, I wouldn’t reconsider my decision. I love everything

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Tags: animal artist, black cats, cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats, working cats

Laboring At What We Love

Published on September 5, 2011 in black cats, cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, kelly, my household of felines, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats

You hear about me and my work all the time, but I also try to give credit where credit is due—to my feline family, who through the years have always worked just as hard as me…in their own way. But as I constantly reiterate, they were my inspiration for art,

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Tags: animal artist, black cats, cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats, working cats

Ready for Work?

Published on August 19, 2011 in cat photographs, cookie, daily photo, kelly, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats

My studio supervisors arrive at work before me! I’m working on starting the day in my studio when my eyes are rested and I have daylight to work with instead of ending it there and working too late into the night. My tortie girls agree! They’ve been staying up all

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Tags: cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

We Really Are Helping Our Friends in Japan!

Published on March 15, 2011 in animal artwork, animal welfare, cat artwork, cookie, kelly, linoleum block print, natural disasters, portraits of animals shop, tortoiseshell cats

So far six Torti Girls tees sold to help animals in Japan! That’s a donation of $75! I still have six tees left, and it would be so nice to make a donation of $150! I’m donating to either Animal Refuge Kansai (if I can convert dollars to yen correctly),

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Tags: helping animals in Japan, japanese earthquake and tsunami, linoleum blcok-printed t-shirts, linoleum block print, the goddess, the roundest eyes, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

Tortie Cats to Help Our Friends in Japan

Published on March 13, 2011 in animal welfare, cat artwork, feline artwork, linoleum block print, natural disasters

The Japanese people are legendarily fond of cats, have been through history. In every stage of art in their culture you’ll find felines of all stripes and spots and solids depicted in paintings happily ensconced in homes, walking about the estate, in sculptures curled in sleep and famously with one

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Tags: helping animals in Japan, japanese earthquake and tsunami, linoleum blcok-printed t-shirts, linoleum block print, the goddess, the roundest eyes, tortie cats, tortoiseshell cats

Cookie and Me, Our 18th Anniversary!

Published on December 9, 2010 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, cat stories, cats, cookie, feline affection, fostering pets, kelly, mewsette, my household of felines, peaches, rescue stories, senior cats, sophie

Looking back in my records it’s not clear if the big day was December 6 or December 9, 1992, but no matter. Cookie is my main tortie and she’s been with me the longest of any cat currently in my household, and she has many stories to tell. She’s also

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