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Daily Photo: Hug Your Cat Day

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Every day is Hug Your Cat Day here, and I’m sure it is in your home too, if your kitty

Me and Mimi

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Daily Photo: Hug Your Cat Day

June 4, 2018June 5, 2018 Bernadette 2 Comments cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline photographs, hug your cat day, pet photography, pets, photography

Every day is Hug Your Cat Day here, and I’m sure it is in your home too, if your kitty

Closeup of the five of them, the last time they'd all be together here.

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Daily Photo: Bon Voyage

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Sunday, yesterday, was clinic day, the day the five kittens would be spayed and neutered, and Splash’s new person would

Oranges

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Daily Photo: Oranges

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Samwise and Crayola together in the sun, watching one of their sisters on the windowsill. They make a journey tomorrow.

Basil watches the birds through the screen.

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Daily Photo: Watching the Sky Change

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Basil watched me work outside the window in the early evening, and also watched the birds in the trees and

Second photo: look extra sweet.

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Daily Photo: Hug Your Cat Day

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Today is hug your cat day, and while that’s something I do every day I had something special planned for

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Daily Photo Reprise: Hugging My Cookie for Hug Your Cat Day

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Yes, hugging Cookie and giving her a scratch on the chin, just the way she liked it! In August 2011

Me and Cookie! Copyright © Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2012, all rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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Daily Photo Reprise: Hugging My Cookie for Hug Your Cat Day

June 4, 2013June 5, 2013 Bernadette 6 Comments cat artwork, cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline photographs, hug your cat day, pet photography, pet portraits, pets, photography, the creative cat, tortoiseshell cat

Yes, hugging Cookie and giving her a scratch on the chin, just the way she liked it! In August 2011

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Featured Artwork and March Desktop Calendar: Nikka’s Jupiter Ball

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Book Review: Heavenly Headbutts by Allia Zobel Nolan

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Allia gives us many reasons to believe we may just be able to spend eternity with our feline companions. Allia

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Vintage Cat Food Ads, and A Career Inspired By a Rescued Cat: Photographer Walter Chandoha

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Featured Artwork and March Desktop Calendar: Nikka’s Jupiter Ball
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