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READ GARFIELD'S FIRST
CHRISTMAS LETTER
HERE!!!!
Praise for Garfield's First
Christmas Mewsletter ....
Please tell
Garfield that his Christmas Letter was one of the most heartfelt I've
ever read. Ed Kostro Dec 2005
CHECK OUT RICKY'S YOGA SESSIONS
HERE:
One cat is
company. Two cats are a conspiracy. Three cats is an attempted takeover.
Four or more cats is a complete coup!o
Shona
Steele (Australia) |
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5 GOOD REASONS FOR
HAVING YOUR CAT NEUTERED
DID YOU KNOW... |
Images brought to you by
'The
smallest feline is a masterpiece.' Leonardo da Vinci
'Dogs come when called.
Cats take a message and get back to you.'
'Of course, every cat
is really the most beautiful woman in the room.' Edward Verrall Luca,
essayist
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A morning kiss, a discreet
touch of his nose landing
somewhere on the middle
of my face.
Because his long white
whiskers tickled,
I began every day laughing.
JANET F FAURE |
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have owners. Cats have staff.'
'In
the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with
confidence.'
Roseanne Anderson
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Jimmy, the Resident Daily Mews Feline Columnist has his own place
now:
click here
'Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr
... A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test
paper. It is reinforcement of something we would all like to believe
about ourselves - that we are nice.' - Roger A Caras
"Of all the [cat] toys available, none is better designed than the
owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to
move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it
makes a noise when you jump on it." -- Stephen Baker
Garfield: 28.03.86 - 12.06.06
Click on the cartoon to take you to
Garfield's tribute pages
GARFIELD and those infamous 20th
birthday pictures. See both birthday hats and more ...
LETTER FROM GARFIELD is a final letter
written with great love to his Mum ...
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BLACK CATS
by Pauline Dewberry
There are many superstitions concerning black cats, and
throughout history, they have suffered at the hands of the ignorant, the
bloody-minded and the church.
The black cat fell into disrepute during the reign of
Psammetichus II (594 – 588 BC), who wanted to stigmatize the Ethiopian usurpers
who had preceded him. He destroyed their statues and laid a curse upon ‘the
black Ethiopian’, associating him with the evil god, Seth.
This fusion of black with evil continued into the Middle
Ages, where monastic texts often likened the devil to an Ethiopian. Two
centuries later, the return of the Crusaders and the epidemics of the black
plague heralded a dreadful time of cat massacres.
In 1233 Pope Gregory IX denounced the diabolical black cat
that appeared on the German Sabbat. All Europe hunted down the animal. In 1307,
the Bishop of Coventry was accused of adoring a black cat, as were the Knights
Templar during their trials in the same period. All the evils of the earth were
laid at the door of the black cat, who along with the goat was the guest of
honour at witches’ Sabbats.
As Jean Vartier wrote in Animals on Trial:
‘The black cat’s great misfortune is to appear in
people’s eyes as an initiate isolated in a community of non-initiates, who,
fearing it, are ready to persecute and destroy it, if allowed to act with
impunity. Hence the ritual precautions surrounding the execution: selecting a
date according to the apogee of the solar cycle; selecting a means of
persecution that reunites all the ideal conditions of purification.’
In this, we find a
partial explanation for the Fires of St. John’s Eve, in which so many black cats
perished. The only ones to escape the holocaust were those cats that had a tuft
of white hair in their black coat, usually situated on the breast. This mark of
innocence was called the ‘angel’s mark’ or ‘God’s finger,’ and inspired the
torturers to mercy; hence the relative rarity today of absolutely black cats,
these massacres having operated a form of selection.
Sourced: ‘The Secret Life of Cats’ by Robert De Larouche
and Jean Michel Labat.
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MEGA
THANKS TO MICK, TONY AND KIM of PC HOMECARE for making my
computer better!!!!
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Top 10 Cats’ Names
in 2009 |
- Max
- Bailey
- Buddy
- Molly
- Maggie
- Lucy
- Jake
- Daisy
- Rocky
- Sadie
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DID YOU KNOW
... putting your
cat's name on his collar is asking for trouble?
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MEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
is a new section where all the past MEWSLETTERS
are stored. Read through them at your leisure or
better still, subscribe to the MEWSLETTER which
is free each month!!! |
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A
Cat's Prayer'
Lead me down all the right paths,
Keep me from fleas, bees, and baths.
Let me in should it storm,
Keep me safe, fed, and warm.
Let the sun shine where I lay,
Keep me young so I may play.
And most of all ...
Bless the people I adore,
And guard me from the dog next door.
Lisa Malone
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EVER HAD AN ELECTRIC SHOCK OFF YOUR CAT?
Find out why it happens here
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Pet, Skunk, Smoke and Dead
Animal Odor remover by Clear The Air Eliminates smells from
dead mice, skunk spray, cigarette smoke, pet urine, and foot
odors.
For a wonderful website where
animal writers and illustrators are welcome, please go to:
www.iawia.net
The fantastic logo is by Jill
Carpenter
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