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“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul.” ~ Jean Cocteau

“If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.” ~ Nan Porter

“Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.” ~ Cervantes

“One cat just leads to another. ” ~ Ernest Hemingway (owned over 30 cats!)

“There are no ordinary cats. ” ~ Colette

“A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.” ~ Champfleury

“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.” ~ Eleanor Farjeon

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

“When I play with my cat who knows whether she is’nt amusing herself with me more than I am with her?.” ~ Montaigne (French Philosopher)

“I have noticed that what cats most approciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted – but his or her entertainment value.” ~ Geoffrey Household

“My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.” ~ Colette

“Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat’s insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It’s their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.” ~ Roy Blount Jr.

The Difference Between a Cat and a Dog

“What’s the difference between a cat & a dog? A dog ponders his relationship with man: ‘He feeds me, he grooms me, he takes care of all my needs… He must be God’. A cat thinks: ‘He feeds me, grooms me, takes care of me. I must be God’. ” ~ Friend Tali

“A dog is prose, a cat is a poem.” ~ Jean Burden

“Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.” ~ Anon

“The difference between dogs & cats is that a dog will respond but a cat will take a message & get back to you.” ~ Mary Bly

I’ve been making lolcats…

My very own Babe Cattykins

Meowilujah

Hairnet Cat

Danny rolling around

I’ve been outside with my camera this morning. Babe Cattykins and Danny Mittens have been enjoying the sunshine.

Babe in the Spring sunshine

Only trouble is my sister’s dog arrived, he’s here for the day. Danny doesn’t mind him, they were kittens together, or is that puppies?

Jack the dog saying hello to Danny

Babe doen’t trust dogs though and she keeps her distance.

Babe and Jack the dog

I love this medieval-looking wall plaque.

A unique and whimsical gargoyle-like cat with a tiny mouse at the base. It would make a great gift for a cat lover.

Cast in stone with a wire in the back for hanging.

Ships to US and Canada only.

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Angelo Petrillo buried his cat, a ginger tom named Alfie, after a friend spotted his body at the side of the road apparently killed by a car.

Soon afterwards the family moved to a new home with their other cat Freddie, also a ginger tom.

Nine months later their old neighbor phoned to say that their ginger cat had been trying to get into their home and had been meowing pitifully outside. But their cat Freddie was with them at the time. The ex-neighbor said the cat had tried to get into an upstairs window by climbing on the consevatory roof, which is what both of their cats used to do.

Mrs Petrillo asked her husband if he was sure that it was their cat Alfie who he had buried and he replied ‘Yes, 100 per cent.’ He had examined the body of the cat found near their home in Milnrow, Greater Manchester, last June and was convinced it was Alfie.

Mrs Petrillo returned to the couple’s old home and immediately recognised the cat as Alfie. He had lost the collar and had put on weight, so someone must have been looking after him while he was being mistakenly mourned.

Mr Petrillo said, ‘It was just unbelievable – the cat I had buried nine months earlier, the cat we spent about a month grieving over, was back, and my wife just couldn’t believe what she was seeing.’ 

Now reunited the family are overjoyed, apart from their other cat, five-year-old Freddie. ‘They’re not getting on very well at the moment, but hopefully he’ll settle in again,’ said Mr Petrillo.

Read the whole article at The Daily Mail