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Friday Catblogging: Shop Cats of New York

If you’ve not yet done so, I’d recommend picking up Tamar Arslanian’s Shop Cats of New York (with Andrew Marttila, photographer). Hilary Hanson’s post Adorable Portraits Explore The Lives Of Big-City Shop Cats describes the book and the felines it features. (The video above is from the Facebook page for the book.) If there’s ever…

Friday Catblogging: Snow Leopard Triple Sighting

Three snow leopards surprised wildlife researchers in China by snuggling in front of a monitoring camera – a rare sighting they say will help us better understand and protect the big cats. And they hope it’ll help scientists estimate just how many of these elusive animals are left in the wild. The big cat conservation…

Friday Catblogging: Cat Yoga

Embed from Getty Images For cat lovers and exercise enthusiasts, free yoga classes filled with feline friends sounds like a pretty good deal. But these classes are offered with a larger purpose in mind: The cats need homes. The P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center in Camden, Maine, offers free monthly cat yoga classes as a way to introduce…

Heroic Cat Saves Wisconsin Family from Poisoning

A fluffy brown tabby cat is being hailed as a hero after she alerted her human family to dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide in their home last month. Annette Shanahan of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, told Madison.com this week that around 1 a.m. on Feb. 4, she felt weak, ill and disoriented and wandered out of…

Friday Catblogging: LB Shows What Feeling Good Looks Like

Famed feline LB, who along with @BitchestheCat and Kiddo lives in Chicago, shows what it feels like after a day of successful NCAA predictions — When you’re winning your bracket challenge after day one. #NCAATournament pic.twitter.com/8CbFug3TmM — A Cat Named Bitches (@BitchestheCat) March 17, 2017

Friday Catblogging: Star Trek Cats

Of course — sometimes it takes an especially talented author to show others what afterwards seems perfectly fitting. Jenny Parks is such an author — Available @ Amazon. See The serious absurdity (and purrfection) of Jenny Parks and ‘Star Trek Cats’ @ OregonLive.

Friday Catblogging: Cats Make Appearance at Westminster Dog Show

Cats are not about to tread on show dogs’ sovereign terrain or usurp their hold on prime-time television pageantry (kitties already rule the Internet, after all). Westminster is still a dog-only show — for now. What is true: Cats will, for the first time in several years, be on display at a joint Westminster-American Kennel Club event…

Friday Catblogging: Missing Bobcat Found on National Zoo Property

Video of bobcat Ollie's arrival at our vet hospital. She was found on Zoo property & ID'd via a transponder chip. https://t.co/RbKM7ns4ko pic.twitter.com/dRbk2duJlx — National Zoo (@NationalZoo) February 1, 2017 Female bobcat Ollie found on Zoo property. Facebook Live broadcast @ 5pm press con https://t.co/XCJPq5wsn3 @FONZNationalZoo @smithsonian pic.twitter.com/jqIYMxSVXE — National Zoo (@NationalZoo) February 1, 2017…