Rescue Story: A Tiny Frightened “Unadoptable” Kitten…Who Grew Up to be Basil
As part of celebrating Basil this week to soften the memory of the first symptoms of his bladder condition last
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Autumn Refresh for Community Cats’ Shelters and Routines
Sometimes we have warm sunny days at Thanksgiving, and sometimes a snowstorm for Halloween. It’s never predictable day to day,
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Rescue Story: October 3, 1997, They Filled the Spaces
It’s wonderful and possibly no coincidence that the 20th anniversary of the arrival of two kitties who shared my life
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Rescue Story: Bella Beautiful
Bella became a star meowdel just nine days after arriving here on September 15, 2014 when she inspired the painting
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September Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Trumpet and Jasper”
CATS CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE and steal your heart and change your life. Trumpet and Jasper came from anonymous places
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Rescue Story: Remembering Kennedy
I originally posted this memory of my 2014 hospice foster Kennedy in 2020, but the same memories return today, “when
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Rescue Story Reprise: A Little Bit About Kelly
As I’ve been digging through the writing I’ve done and planning the writing I’ll do, the rescue story anthologies, the
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Mimi’s “Official” Rescue Birthday, July 29
I first posted this on July 11, 2011 (if the date sequence is confusing) when I saw Mimi in quiet
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July 10, 2007, We Lost Lucy, But She Brought Mimi
 Your petite silhouette lingers long, graceful legs tipped with soundless slender paws the waving tendril of a tail that curls
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A Little Bit of Otherworldly Magic: I’ll Be Seeing You
CAN THE SUBJECT of a painting communicate through his image? One of the dearest stories from any of my portraits
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