Oh Look!

Our angelic Coco

Rocco, lost in thought

It's Friday — you know what this means, don'cha? I do believe that means it's time for our herd (horde) 'o' cat to make an appearance.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason

To a Cat

~ John Keats

Cat! who has pass'd thy grand climacteric,

How many mice and rats hast in thy days

Destroy'd? How many tit-bits stolen? Gaze

With those bright languid segments green, and

prick

Those velvet ears - but prythee do not stick

Thy latent talons in me - and tell me all thy frays,

Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick;

Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists, -

For all the wheezy asthma - and for all

Thy tail's tip is nick'd off - and though the fists

Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,

Still is thy fur as when the lists

In youth thou enter'dst on glass-bottled wall.

They stand at the door chatting, flirting, ignoring

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 I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

~ Winston Churchill

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

~ Mark Twain 

Skitter

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

~ Colette 

Thelma

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

~ Abraham Lincoln

May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens.

"Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go.” 

~ William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside