Posts Tagged ‘Friday’

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

January 24, 2014

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Thanks, Curtis.

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

January 17, 2014

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This wonderful room for cats (thanks again to Katie for the tip).  It is available from a German company called Goldtatze.  Click on this link to see their webpage.

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All of the cats in the video look pretty blissed out.  I am sure Cmdr. Vimes would love it.

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

January 10, 2014

Thanks to Katie for this week’s sappy cat post, which coincidentally ties in with Fashion Week.

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Give your kittie the Xena look.  For more information, click this link to the Etsy site.

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

January 3, 2014

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Cmdr. Sam Vimes helped me get ready for Christmas.  I made white silk scarves and the fringe, I understand, was fascinating.

Happy New Year!

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

December 20, 2013

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I’m not . . . today I am sappy dog blogging with this beautiful and touching nativity scene.  I especially love the three kings. And the sheep.

This is from Maggie’s Farm.

Merry Christmas to all.

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What is sappy cat blogging about this week?

December 6, 2013

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“The Monastery of Saint Nicholas of the Cats is regarded as a sacred cat haven in Cyprus, as it’s name has been linked to felines for almost 2,000 years.

The original monastery was built in 327 AD, by Kalokeros, the first Byzantine governor of Cyprus, and patronised by Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great. At that time, a terrible drought affected the whole of Cypus, and the entire island was overrun with poisonous snakes which made building the monastery a dangerous affair. Many of the inhabitants left their homes and moved off the island, for fear of the snakes, but Saint Helena came up with a solution to the plague – she ordered 1,000 cats to be shipped in from Egypt and Palestine to fight the reptiles.”

The monastery endures and today is run by six nuns and about seventy cats.

ref: Oddity Central

December 6 is also St. Nicholas’ Day

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Read more here.

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

November 29, 2013

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In honor of National Chocolate Day, sappy cat blogging features the York Chocolate Cat.

The York Chocolate (or simply York) is an uncommon and relatively recent American breed of show cat, with a long, fluffy coat and a tapered tail and most of them are mostly or entirely chocolate-brown. The breed was named after New York state, where it was established in 1983. This breed was created by color-selecting domestic long-haired cats of mixed ancestry.

Ref. Wikipedia

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

November 22, 2013

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Cougars are the topic – the four-legged variety.

Here is a map from the Cougar Network showing the expansion of cougars across the U.S.

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The solid green areas depict established populations.  The red and blue dots indicate sightings.

Long ago the Inca called them puma, but today — though they belong to only one species — they have many names. In Arizona they are known as mountain lions; in Florida they are panthers, and elsewhere in the South they are called painters. When they roamed New England, they were called catamounts. In much of the Midwest they are known as cougars, and that is the name everyone understands.

Source: New York Times

From Wikipedia:

An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, after the jaguar. Solitary by nature and nocturnal, the cougar is most closely related to smaller felines and is nearer genetically to the domestic cat than true lions. [How about that?]

I consider this expansion a natural way to manage the deer population.

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

November 15, 2013

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Bonus Sappy Cat Photo – Cmdr. Samuel Vimes has eschewed his chapeaux in favor of a black lace jabot . . .

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What am I sappy cat blogging?

November 8, 2013

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This is from didyouknowblog.com – thanks HMS Defiant.