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Elisabeth Parker Henry
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🇨🇦 Sarcastic GenXer, author, pop culture zombie, variable-functioning depressive, introvert, and completely sane cat lady.
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Elisabeth Parker Henry @ephystuff.bsky.social · Nov 15
My current feline line-up. From left to right:

Oliver Ozymandias Jones, b. 7/2023
Augustus Droolius Caesar, found 4/2016
Maximilian Tiberius Jones, b. 4/2020
Cleopatra Purrsephone Jones, b. 5/2023

(No, my last name is not, and has never been, Jones. It's a long story.)
Four kitties: a ginger, a grey tuxedo, a black luxury model, and a black sports model.
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An OWNER'S manual? Seriously!? Well, actually, The Cat Owner's Manual is a technical manual on how to keep your model healthy and clean, how to help her interface with other animals, and why she throws hairballs with such regularity.

#catsOfBluesky #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat #void
"The Cat Owner's Manual". It's all in the name. Does anyone really own a cat, though?
May 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I'm pretty sure that if cats could talk, we wouldn't. Or else we'd lie to you.

Cos that's how we roll. But in If Cats Could Talk, it's assumed that we are witty, talkative, and brilliant. Which we are, of course.

#catsOfBluesky #Caturday #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat
A picture book, "If Cats Could Talk". Next to an actual cat, who cannot talk.
May 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Why DO cats do that? You know... That. Yes, THAT. Probably because we're so awesome. Or maybe because we love you. Or maybe because we are protecting our territory. Or maybe because you're too stupid to know how to hunt.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview
A black kitty sleeping in front of the book "Why Cats Do That".
May 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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So, I totally should've posted this last weekend, but we were dealing with a kitty issue (as one does). So you get your Easter #book #review a week late. =P

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The Easter Bunny certainly gets around... And Cat is going to help.

#catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #ECCBookReview
"Here Comes The Easter Cat", possibly the best Easter book ever.
April 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"Easter Bunny"? No, I haven't seen anything like that. These chocolate eggs? They were here when I arrived. - Beast

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #cute #Easter #ByeByeBunny
A black kitty lying suspiciously close to some scraps of fur and a couple of chocolate eggs...
April 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I haven't reviewed much fiction during the last year or so, and to be honest, I'm not 100% sure that this book IS fiction.

#catsOfBluesky #Caturday #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat
A black cat sitting next to the book "Belshazzar: A Cat's Story For Humans".
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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"You know your cat is a superior being, with deep wisdom about life...."

So sayeth "Zen Kitty: A Cat's Guide To Enlightenment".

Yeah, whatever.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #cute #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday
A black kitty next to the book "Zen Kitty: A Cat's Guide to Enlightenment". Cute book, but not worth the money.
March 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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An OWNER'S manual? Seriously!? Well, actually, The Cat Owner's Manual is a technical manual on how to keep your model healthy and clean, how to help her interface with other animals, and why she throws hairballs with such regularity.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #cute #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday
A black kitty next to the book "The Cat Owner's Manual". An excellent book, well-recommended.
March 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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...uh-oh. I've been spotted! I had hoped to bring all you kitties a secret review of this fascinating book by The Oatmeal (aka Matthew Inman), but I foolishly read it while stealing the short human's warm spot on the bed. Bah!

#catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #book #review #ECCBookReview #TheOatmeal
A black kitty reading "How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You", by The Oatmeal.
March 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Everything Here Is Mine. Yes, that pretty much sums up my life. And this book, by Nicole Hollander. BEST BOOK EVER. Especially the plans for setting up a feline solarium and bathroom.

#catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #book #review #ECCBookReview #void
A black kitty sitting next to the book "Everything Here Is Mine".
March 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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This week, in between being fabulous and being amazing, I read Know Your Cat's Purr Points, by Margaret Woodhouse. How could this NOT be a good book?

#catsOfBluesky #cat #cute #void #book #review #ECCBookReview
A black kitty next to the book "Know Your Cat's Purr Points".
March 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week, I read 50 Simple Ways To Pamper Your Cat, by Arden Moore. Not a bad selection of ideas — who wouldn't love to have specially-made treats and daily massages? —

#catsOfBluesky #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat #void
A black kitty sitting next to a book titled "50 Simple Ways to Pamper Your Cat".
February 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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When I asked if the day could get any worse, it was a rhetorical question, not a challenge.
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Yhis sweet little New Yorker Book Of Cat Cartoons may look small, but it's stuffed full of comics by all the best cartoonists to ever submit to the New Yorker, from Charles Addams (yes, THAT Addams) to Jack Ziegler.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday
A black kitty wearing a Hallowe'en bowtie and sitting beside The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Do you knead your mommy? These kittens do, and they've written poetry about it! If you read and enjoyed 'I Could Pee On This', you will also enjoy I Knead My Mommy.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday
A black kitty standing behind the book "I Knead My Mommy".
February 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Be here meow.

Have you ever wondered why we kitties are so calm and peaceful? We have achieved Purrvana, and now you can, too.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday
A black kitty sitting next to the book "Kitty Yoga".
February 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Not all books in my personal library are about cats. (Shocking, I know.) Sometimes, I come across a book that exposes a cold, hard, sparkly truth, like this one: Unicorns Are Jerks.

#book #review #catsOfBluesky #ECCBookReview #cat #unicorn
A grumpy black kitty next to a colouring book called "Unicorns Are Jerks".
January 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Soooo. The short human actually has a book called How To Talk To Your Cat! (And Get It (sic) To Do What You Want). After I stopped laughing, I realised the author, Lynn Allison, was serious.

#catsOfBluesky #ECCBookReview #void #book #review #cat
A black kitty sitting next to the book "How to Talk to Your Cat!".
January 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Oliver heard that it was #kissAGinger day, and has generously offered his entire, enormous, fluffy body for smooches. He will reciprocate with head bonks.

#catsOfBluesky #cat #gato #chat #кошка #cute #ginger #smooch #fluffy
A large ginger kitty waiting to be kissed!
January 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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What's that you say? You aren't going to school because the teachers don't understand you, the curriculum is too focused on thumbs, and the students are too, well, human? Then have I got a surprise for you!

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #CatHigh #legaliseCatnip
A black kitty sitting next to the book "Cat High: The Yearbook", by Terry deRoy Gruber.
January 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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What is this sorcery, mother? My paw cannot go deep into the water! And now it's wet! How did this happen?

- Max

Better you than me, bro. I jumped into the big one once. Never again.

- Oliver

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #ginger #water #fountain #newExperience
A fluffy black cat playing with a water fountain while a fluffy ginger cat looks on.
January 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Before you tell me what I did wrong, mother, you should first know that I don't care.

- Max

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #badKitty #couldNotCareLess
A very fluffy black kitty lounging on a high stool in a window well.
January 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I didn't intend to be in the same room with you, mother. The fact that I am lying on your belly is sheer coincidence.

- Max

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #dontTouchMe #totalCoincidence
A black fluffy cat lying on a human's belly. Which is a total coincidence, and does not mean that he planned to lie down with a human.
January 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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So tell me, human. How long have you controlled the red dot?

- Beast

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #cranky #interrogation #theRedDot
A black kitty loafing on a blue basket and looking very stern.
January 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I've got the tall human's car, the short human's credit card, and I'm ready to head to the catnip shop. Who's coming with me?

- Beast

#catsOfBluesky #cat #void #carGoVroom #getInLoser #wereGoingShopping
A black kitty sitting at the wheel of a car, prepared to go shopping!
January 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM