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Friday Catblogging: Cat Keeps Crossing the U.S.-Canada Border

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A cat named Louis Vuitton regularly defies U.S-Canadian border policy: On Zero Avenue in South Surrey, B.C. lives a cat without a care in the world, and a supercilious name to match. Louis Vuitton has become a local legend for doing with ease what most humans wouldn’t dare. Each day, he leaps back and forth…

Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: More Research on Why Cats Land on Their Feet

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Cats are endlessly fascinating, and among their captivating qualities is an ability to land on their feet. An article in The New York Times describes the latest scientific findings: In a paper, published last month in the journal The Anatomical Record, researchers offered a novel take on falling felines. Their evidence suggests new insights into…

Cats, Science/Nature

Friday Catblogging: A Discovery of Naturally Mummified Cheetahs

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Just as some animals have been naturally fossilized, it’s possible for some animals to be naturally mummified. Thousands of years ago, that’s what happened to some cheetahs on the Arabian Peninsula: In 2022 and 2023, Ahmed Al-Boug — a wildlife biologist at the National Center for Wildlife in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — and his colleagues…

Cats, Daily Bread, Planning

Daily Bread for 12.28.25: The Extent of the Plan

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 47. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:28 for 9 hours 3 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a…