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Friday Catblogging: Baseball Caturday

The idea of Friday catblogging has been around for years, as has posting about cats on Saturday, a day often referred to by those who post about cats as Caturday. A minor league baseball team in New Jersey, the Lakewood BlueClaws, decided to change their jerseys for a recent Caturday game: FIRST LOOK — BlueClaws…

Friday Catblogging: Injury to a Lion

A lion recently lost the tip of his tail in an accident at the Oregon Zoo: On Monday, during a big cat “training session” show at the Oregon Zoo, a lion named Zawadi was injured while a crowd of children looked on. Footage of the shocking incident shows Zawadi entering the indoor stage through a…

Friday Catblogging: Cats for a Teacher

When a Texas teacher Tonya Andrews’s cat passed away, her students surprised her with two new kittens: We surprised our teacher with kittens because her cat passed away yesterday pic.twitter.com/ozzwCJTVmj — Rachel Hanhart (@ace040913) May 6, 2016

Friday Catblogging: Cat at a Hockey Game

A small cat recently wandered on to the ice before a San Jose Sharks hockey game. (The cat was later caught and placed with a local Humane Society for adoption.) The Sharks, by the way, won the game, 5-2 over Nashville. See, How the San Jose Sharks saved the ‘world’s luckiest cat.’

Closing a Cat Cafe

Although cats are popular in Japan, a cat cafe there has run afoul of animal cruelty laws, and has been closed: The Cat’s Paw cafe in Tokyo’s Sumida district has fallen foul of the city authorities amid concern about neglect for the animals. City authorities said the cafe had to close for a month for…