What We Did On Our Summer VaCATion and Black Cat Appreciation Day by Layla Morgan Wilde We’re back after a three month hiatus and boy do we we have news and lots of new photos. Settle back and let’s catch up shall we? Before we do, it looks like with the new look, the comments aren’t posting. Sorry about that.
Only big news would propel me out of blogging hiatus and this is it. The queen of Internet celebrity cats, Grumpy Cat is dead. Long live the queen. I’d followed her breathtaking career from the beginning and was fortunate to meet her, her family and manager a few times. I’ll always cherish the memories of snuggling her in my arms
Cat Blog Hiatus or Farewell Is In The Stars aka expert cat blogger calls it quits by Layla Morgan Wilde. After 8 years, 2000+ posts, numerous accolades and milestones, I’ve reached a blogging crossroads. It’s not the first time but this time feels different. It reminds of the time I stopped being a vegetarian after 7 years. Fair warning. This
March Madness Instagram Cats and Pet Holidays Hello, March! It’s official: the world has gone holiday crazy. Pet holidays, weird holidays on every possible topic, food holidays, cause driven holidays, global religious and secular holidays official or esoteric. Do you get confused during Daylight Savings Time? I found no less than three different dates in March but we got the
Did you know the last Tuesday in February is Spay Day? Passionate animal advocate and actor Doris Day launched the annual event in 1995 and is a campaign of the Humane Society Check out our unique spay/neuter graphics and their site for suggestions and low cost spay/neuter events. The International awareness and action campaign focuses on the need to spay/neuter pets
Rare Video Of Odin One-Eyed Adventure Cat for Mancat Monday Motivation. As your egalitarian feline editor Clyde, I’m shining the light on Odin this week. Are you and your cats itching for spring? We sure are. Odin is the only one keen to go outdoors regardless of the weather. He did some epic tree climbing which we captured in a
Super Full Moon Astrology Calendars With Creative Cats by Clyde, feline editor a very old black cat. Greetings dear ones, are you feeling yet another super full moon? It’s bursting into its fullness tomorrow and heralding fishy Pisces time. It will be life-changing if you’re ready. Expect a bit of dreamy but creative confusion. Enjoy our unusual collection of antique
Valentine Purrs of True Kitty Love. If you missed our ahem, unusual Valentine’s Day cards this week, enjoy the love right meow. Instead of our usual vintage flare, today our love is contemporary but still unique. The kitty Valentine cards are freshly designed by Layla with love and extra purrs of devotion to you dear reader. But first the sweetest
Unusual But Funny Feline Valentines For Cat Lovers by Clyde a very old black cat. Cupid is about to pounce this week. Are you ready? I’m far too old for romantic notions and think Hallmark holidays are waste of money. Why spend your dollars on cards when I’ll share mine for free? If you’re going to dole out a few
Timely must-read advice about cats of all ages for Pet Dental Month. Includes updated links from our archive with new graphics. After a lifetime (or nine) of cat care, it’s clear one of the most misunderstood and under-treated feline care is dental. Cats in general visit the vet less often than dogs because cats will hide symptoms for as
Meowga Monday KonMari Kitty Japanese Style by Clyde, feline editor and curious cat. Are you as curious as a cat? Well, curl up with me and you might learn something new. How about doing a good stretch for starters? It’s #Meowgamonday. Yeah, it’s my thing and a thing on Instagram. #goals. We can’t let all you yoga buffs have all
RIP Punchy, The Feral Who Inspired Black Cats Tell All Book by feline author and editor Clyde. We’re quietly grieving the loss and honoring the charmed life of the one and only Punchy featured in our book Black Cats Tell All: True Tales And Inspiring Images. We first published a story about Punchy in 2015. The idea for a book about
It’s a wildly fun February of Pet Holidays For Cat Lovers by Layla Morgan Wilde. Its a jam-packed roster of holidays this month plus a few bonus ones for fun. It’s the dead of winter and I think we can all use a dose of levity. If you’re feeling the winter blues or if your cats are going squirrely may
Hello, dear ones. It’s Clyde with another Black Cats Tell All Monday. I’m honored and frankly flattered by all your kind comments to my 19th birthday celebration post. Never mind me. I’m grooving on the full moon and eclipse energy. In honor of MLK Day. All I want to say is: Hello humans, cats don’t care about the color of your
It’s our dear Clyde The Black Cat’s 19th Birthday with a little wit and wisdom, cat art, extravagant cake for your to enjoy and prizes. It feels like yesterday that we were celebrating our angel Merlin’s 19th birthday. It was a big milestone for a cat with kidney disease and the thought of him turning 20 seemed remote and turning
Who Wore It Best On Dress Your Pet Day and Hat Day by feline author and editor Clyde If you hate winter, hooray, January is half over. I’d do a happy dance but I’m too old for such frivolity. Diabetic neuropathy is creeping up making jumping more difficult. But it’s Black Cats Tell All Monday so I’ll be a good
How Black Cats Are Every Day Lifesavers by Clyde feline author and editor. Happy New Year my dears. It’s Clyde and I’m back blogging about all things black cat. Namely our fantastic, furry fabuliciousness. Is that a word? It is now. January is the beginning of the new year but I feel it just started yesterday with the new moon
2018 Best 9 and 2019 Printable Cat Holiday Calendar. It’s been a wild year and we’re happy to share our #bestnine. Every year we create and gift to our readers a calendar of pet-related holidays, awareness causes and events. Given the huge uptick in the holidays in general, we decided to do something different and include a printable calendar with
Cats, Vintage New Year’s Cards and Diversity. This is our 7th year of curating and creating unique, vintage of other cat-themed New or Mew Year’s cards. It’s been a wild year and not always the sweetly purring kind. To end the year on a high note, I created a cute collection but with more diversity. I hope you enjoy this
Are Your Cats This Naughty Or Nice? Don’t believe everything you read except for the last sentence on this page. Cats can be influenced by fake news but only if their human is foolish enough not to do their homework or partakes in silliness like this. Clyde, Domino, Odin and Nou Nou think they are nice and Layla is naughty