Tag: cats
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Neighborhood Connections (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 25)
In a world where personal relationships often are interrupted by fences and computer screens, finding a neighborhood connection is especially meaningful. Catsby was one of those connectors. Catsby was a neighborhood fixture — and when he was hit by a car, the neighborhood mourned. [You can read about his story here.] The neighborhood also connected. We were…
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Cats Keep It Simple (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 11)
Maybe cats are telling us something. Give them the choice between a fancy toy that rolls around the floor and a crumpled up ball of paper, and they likely find the crumpled trash more enticing. Give them the choice between the Taj Mahal of cat condos and an empty box, and you can bet good…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth
The cats of Old San Juan invoke warm feelings — gratitude toward their caretakers and the amazing Save a Gato organization, and delight with the welcoming love of these felines. Warmth is not only a reference to temperature, but as defined by Merriam Webster’s dictionary, also refers to “the quality or state of being kind or…
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Christmas Tree of Memories
It is Christmas Eve. We have a beautiful live Christmas tree in our living room, a tall Fraser fir … with nothing more than star at the top and lights this year. With cats in the house, we’ve always been careful to put the breakable ornaments near the top, out of reach of playful paws.…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Between
The line between comfort and despair …. good fortune and tragedy … is often much more tenuous that we care to acknowledge. One of the gato of Puerto Rico sitting in the doorway of the classic Hotel El Convento, between a life of luxury and its life on the street, reminded us of this sometimes…
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