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Friday Catblogging: Can Cats Smile?

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Claire Milroy asks Can cats smile? Yes, but not in the way you’d expect. Here’s what they’re trying to tell you: Cats do smile, but not in the way that humans do – while we bare a grin to show our happiness, cats smile with their teeth, says Marci Koski, a feline behavior and training…

AI, Art, Cats, Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 4.29.23: Flying Siamese

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 7:53 PM for 14h 02m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 65.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Union forces under David Farragut capture New Orleans. A flock…

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Friday Catblogging: The Unicorn

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Erin Odell writes Meet Unicorn, the rare male calico kitten who landed at a Colorado rescue: An extremely rare male calico kitten born in a Weld County shed this year was turned over to the Weld County Humane Society and, ultimately, transferred into the care of NoCo Kitties, a foster-focused rescue based in Loveland, according…

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Friday Catblogging: Cats Film Their Own Stunts

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Amelia Nierenberg reports These Cats Do Their Own Stunts. They Film Them, Too. (‘With the help of cameras that attach to collars, a niche style of cat content shows the world from a feline perspective’): In one video, the athlete pauses, assesses the height and leaps. He tries to free-climb up the side of a…

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Friday Catblogging: The Corsican ‘Cat-Fox’

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For years, scientists have wondered if striped cats on Corsica were a distinct species: Turns out, they are: The elusive striped “cat-fox” familiar mostly to Corsican shepherds and as a source of intrigue to scientists, is indeed its own species specific to the French Mediterranean island, the French office for Biodiversity (OFB) announced Thursday. New…