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Cats Love Cat Masks

4/17/2022

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I and my cats all love cat masks. My cats love my cat masks because the masks smell like my face after I've worn them. Robin is the cat in this picture. He still often acts like a wild young kitten. I love cat masks because it shows that I love cats, even when they're acting like cat cats. 

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Christmas 2021

12/25/2021

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Especially during holidays, I love being able to play with my cats. Robin, the cat in this blog posting, loves when I'm at home. He often stares at me, as if he's trying to tell me something. He also talks and purrs a lot. Robin loves to play with new toys. The photo on the right side of this posting shows Robin's first time playing with snow. Even though he is very scared of water, he seemed to love checking out the snow in the month of December.

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Thankful for Being Able to Rescue Pets

11/25/2021

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I'm very thankful for animal organizations and rescue centers. Without their help, animals would have a much harder time in our world, and people would have more problems finding pets. The picture in this posting has all three of my current cats in it. I rescued all three of them from rescue centers. They are really beautiful and are helpful with their purrs in my life. They are also very happy with their good food and lots of love.
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Eating Food Together

4/4/2021

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My three cats are still keeping me company while I work from home; we all also eat our food together. My cats smell my food and then also want to eat some canned cat food, rather than just their low-calorie dry cat food, which is always available to them. My youngest Flamepoint Siamese cat also often asks me for his canned cat food while I am cooking my own supper. My cats all eat their cat food while I eat a lot of vegetables. I also often eat chocolate items for dessert, but I obviously don't let my cats eat the chocolate. 

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Christmas Presents

12/25/2020

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​My cats love their Christmas presents. The photo in this blog posting shows all three of them playing with catnip-filled mouse toys. They also love the new laser pointer that I've been showing them. Most of all, though, they love to play with each other, with me, and with their food.  

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Thankful for Pets on Thanksgiving 2020

11/26/2020

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The two cats in the picture of this post are in heaven right now. They are a brother and a sister who were initially in a rescue center together as kittens. Yes, they were rescued together, and I loved both of these cats. They were so sweet together and shared a lot of their love with myself and my children. I am so thankful for the many pets that I've had in the past and for the three that I currently have. I love looking at pet pictures and real pets when they show their love for their homes, families, purrs, food items, toys, etc.


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Dreaming Pets

7/4/2020

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The picture in this blog entry shows one of my cats while she is actually dreaming. While dreaming, pets sometimes do such things as move their paws and open their mouths. I'm guessing my cat was actually dreaming about food when I took this picture. She was possibly dreaming about eating one of her favorite foods: chicken with gravy or chicken and tuna feast flaked. Another example of a dreaming cat appears in the poem "Political Scratches from D.C.'s Dreaming Cat on National Cat Day (October 29)," which is in Amazing Holiday Paws. Here's one of the forty-two stanzas from D.C. Cat's dream:
       Many people who were dressed very neat
       walked too near the Cat and kicked their booted feet
       to smash the puddled ground's water and scare
       the Cat caged up in its feline nightmare.
       (page 135 in Amazing Holiday Paws)
The June 5, 2020 entry on this blog page shows a picture of D.C. Cat, in addition to another stanza from this narrative poem. Yes, D.C. Cat really is one of my cats.


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Different Kinds of Coffee Mugs

6/12/2020

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One of my favorite poems that I've written is titled "Intermixing Coffee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day." This poem references the need to mix together different coffee mugs. The reality is that I have multiple kinds of cats and other decorations on my different coffee mugs. I also often mix them up, so the ones in the back are moved forward. As you can see from the picture in this posting, the mugs are black, white, blue, etc. The cats also are quite different. Some of the mugs are old, some are young, some have cat images, some have flower pictures, etc. I love the variety and the different colors.

Here is my poem "Intermixing Coffee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day," which is on page 14 of Holidays Amaze:
 
       The cupboard’s back space had black coffee cups:
       on hooks the cups were all hanging sadly
       in spots like slaves with no chance of hookups
       to some freedom of shifting forward free.
 
       The cupboard’s front space had coffee cups white:
       on wooden ground were they all standing straight
       with no hooks to keep them in spots unbright;
       at times, they’d even roll from cupboard’s gate.
 
       “I love Martin Luther King Junior’s speech:
       ‘I Have a Dream.’ He would never have placed
       his coffee cups like this.” A hand did reach
       and make the black and white cups interlaced.
 
       Like people on buses, the cups became free
       to intermix and taste of each other’s coffee.
 

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June is National Adopt-a-Cat Month.

6/5/2020

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Picture“D.C. Cat” is on page 131 of Amazing Holiday Paws.
I actually rescued the Flamepoint Siamese cat in the first picture of this blog posting when he was only three months old. He was probably left at the rescue center because he liked to scratch everything. I trained him how to just scratch cat toys and a few pieces of old furniture by taping aluminum foil to the places where he wanted to scratch, but where I didn't want him to scratch.
He then became the cat featured in the poem “Political scratches from D.C.’s Dreaming Cat on National Cat Day (October 29)” of Amazing Holiday Paws. This poem shows the viewpoint of a dreaming cat that is homeless in Washington, D.C. The cat’s name is D.C. (Dreaming Cat). Here is stanza six of a forty-two stanza poem that tells a story about D.C. cat interacting with politicians and other people:
          The Dreaming Cat jumped up and ran too fast
          in front of reporters doing a newscast;
          the Cat scratched a statue to keep its claws strong;
          a reporter yelled, “That cat’s scratches are wrong!”
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Picture“Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle), Washington, D.C.” is on page 133 of Amazing Holiday Paws.

While dreaming, D.C. Cat fought with a politician who stuffed him into his briefcase; this cat also scratched, rested in front of, climbed upon, and jumped around on top of multiple D.C. museums, such as the Smithsonian Castle.
D.C. cat, just like my own cat that was the inspiration for a poem, likes to talk and connect to others. If D.C. Cat is listed on ballots this year, I wonder how many people would actually vote for him. :-)

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Happy Easter!

4/12/2020

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Normally, I get together with family members and my church family on Easter Sunday. This year, though, the Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a need to get together with others through online video conferencing. My cats participated in my church's online worship service this morning. They heard the voices of new people, saw images of these people on my laptop's screen, and heard the music of a worship service. All three of them enjoyed this experience, and one of them kept on jumping up next to my laptop and rubbing against it. Seeing the loving actions of my cats, touching soft cat fur, and hearing the purrs of my cats during an Easter worship service in my home was a new experience for me and my cats. Love is always an essential part of Easter and every other day.

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    Dr. Karen Petit is the author of Banking on Dreams, Mayflower Dreams, Roger Williams in an Elevator, Unhidden Pilgrims, Holidays Amaze, Amazing Holiday Paws, and Paw Dream Mazes. She is thankful to God for the many wonderful animals in our world.​

    ​Each book's website
    ​has a blog page:


    Dream Blog:
    http://www.bankingondreams.com/dream-blog

    Many Good Thanks Blog:
    http://www.mayflowerdreams.com/many-good-thanks-blog  

    Freedom Blog:
    http://www.rogerwill.com/freedom-blog  

    Sharing Faith Blog:
    http://www.unhiddenpilgrims.com/sharing-faith-blog

    Holiday Blog:
    http://www.holidaysamaze.com/holiday-blog


    Animal Blog:
    http://amazingholidaypaws.com/animal-blog.


    Maze Blog:
    https://www.pawdreammazes.com/maze-blog



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