Flickr photographer angeloangelo’ caught an amazing image of his cat tossing a mouse. What a capture. He has an excellent wild and domestic (animals) set too.

Gad, and I thought we were slaves to our late cat. We’re amateurs.

Anne Made Cards are just the thing for animal lovers or anyone who enjoys her playful sense of design and humor. They’re well made and reasonably priced.

Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you.
- Mary Bly

When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
- Persian Proverb

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
- Oliver Herford

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- Jeff Valdez

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
- Steven Wright

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
- Sir Julian Huxley

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
- Ambrose Bierce

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat’s insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all the was over on to the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while doing it. It’s their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.
- Roy Blount Jr.

A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.
- Elaine Boosler

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
- Cervantes

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
- Aldous Huxley

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
- Garrison Keillor

All cats are grey in the dark.
- Spanish Proverb

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?
- Fernand Mery

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Michel de Montaigne

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
- Henry Morgan

It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America’s favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
- P.J. O’Rourke

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
- Samuel Palmer

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
- Mark Twain

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead

The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson

If a cat spoke, it would say things like “Hey, I don’t see the problem here.”
- Roy Blount, Jr.

I have never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
- Marie Corelli

The cat in gloves catches no mice.
- Benjamin Franklin

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons; the second is to look around and see if a cat has walked out on stage.
- Alva Johnston

Never try to outstubborn a cat.
- Lazarus Long

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
- Hugh MacLennan

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
- P. J. O’Rourke

Be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it—not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain

Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.
- Ambrose Bierce

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
- Hugh MacLennan

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
- Mark Twain

I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs – and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs – several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.
- Mark Twain

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Cats don’t like change without their consent.
- Roger A. Caras

A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
- Yakaoka Genrin

Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack.
- Folk Saying

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a worn out coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.
- Irving Townsend

If you want to know the character of a man, find out what his cat thinks of him.
- Anonymous

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
- Barbara Holland

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
- Arthur Weigall

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.
- Eleanor Clark

Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
- Carl Van Vechten

A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
- William S. Burroughs

Cats are designated friends.
- Norman Corwin

They sleep in the bed and go in and out of the cat door all night – I shudder to think what the laundry thinks we do to our sheets, because it’s a sea of mud some nights. If they go in and out a lot all you get are little black pawprints.
- Sian Phillips

Animals are not brethren, they’re not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
- Henry Beston

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering, outspoken, honest fellow – but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
- Colette

In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They have never forgotten this.
- Terry Pratchett

Dogs have masters; cats have staff.
- Unknown

I can relate to this in variety of ways:

This is a metaphor for so many things: map it onto almost any miscommunication and it works. Fantastic.

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Today would have been our late cat Kitty’s twentieth birthday. We had to put her to sleep December 2nd, she almost made it to twenty.

Happy birthday Kitty, hope you’re enjoying cat heaven.

Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.

This is a collection of images of our late cat Kitty who was born March 27, 1989 and was put to sleep December 2, 2009. She had an amazing life and I hope these images will give you a taste of it.

We had this cat from the time she was a wee kitten but I don’t think we have any images of her then. Maybe some will surface. More images will be added to this collection as they turn up.

Here are a few more images taken by Gary Sharp on one of his many trips to our house in Connecticut: Gary’s Images of Kitty.

Warren, Connecticut. Today was one of the roughest days of our lives. Anne and I had to put Kitty, a cat we’ve had just shy of twenty years to sleep.

She’s been living with a worsening case of kidney disease for over a year and in the past month she started showing signs that it had finally caught up with her.

This cat got into the hearts of everyone who knew her and mine more than anyone else’s. Anne has had many cats although none this long and none who formed such a tight attachment to her people. This was my first cat and I used to dislike cats, am even allergic to them, but this cat somehow worked through all of that and became my good friend.

Anne’s younger daughter Bonnie was given this cat on her 15th birthday in May of 1989. I met Anne in June of that year and the first time I was at their house this cat who was then a very tiny kitten, crawled up my bare leg and went to sleep on my chest. I married Anne and the cat.

Bonnie went off to high school, Anne went off to teach, and I was left at home with the cat who, when she wasn’t outside was sleeping on my scanner and batting my pens off the desk.

The Kitty was a combination of professional cat who was comfortable in the wild woods and also, unlike other more aloof outside cats, a real member of our family who enjoyed us as much as we enjoyed her. Anne tells me this is unusual, most cats are one or the other.

Kitty had too many adventures and misadventures to list here but know that she led a full and wonderful cat life and was extremely well cared for.

It took us a week to get to today: we’ve been giving her pain injections, a twice a day IV and watching her deteriorate and we finally felt that the most humane thing to do was to put her to sleep. Trust me when I tell you that we’ve been crying off and on for a a while and this was a tough decision to make, not because it might not be right for Kitty but because it hurt us so much to make it.

Our vet and her assistant handled it wonderfully and they made the process as smooth and supportive as possible.

Over the past two days I dug a grave for Kitty in Anne’s flower garden back by the stream. It’s a garden that Kitty liked to sit in.

Some of you know that in a past life I was a potter and I decided to line the bottom of the grave with ceramic balls or hollow rocks I’d made and had in the garden. I also covered Kitty (wrapped in her favorite blanket) with the rocks and Anne and I covered the hole with dirt. I put a rock cairn on top to protect the hole from scavengers but next summer I’ll remove the stones and Anne will plant the spot with an entire package of catnip, which she’ll repeat each year.

We really loved this cat and we miss her terribly.

Rest in peace Kitty.

I have over 100 images of Kitty in addition to what’s on flickr now and I’ll be putting them up in the next few days, eventually turning the collection into a slide show. As we find more pictures of her from years past we’ll scan them and add them to the collection.

Slide Show: Images of Kitty

Warren, Connecticut. It’s raining so time for a little kitchen table macro fun. This is the syringe of methimazole that we give our 19.5 year old cat for hyperthyroidism two times a day. We’ve been doing this for many years now and her thyroid condition is under control. These "dosings" are not her favorite time of day and she attempts to hide if she thinks I’ve got the syringe in hand.

This image is about 2 inches edge to edge.

This image is about 1 inch edge to edge.

Great tips. Her website is Fat Orange Cat.