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Lisa C. Hayden
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Translator of Russophone literature. Reader. Feeder of Cats
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She looks like a snowshoe! We have one, too. She, too, has had food issues all her life (as well as digestive issues) and has developed very Particularly & Queenly Standards of Variety for her meals.
A snowshoe cat with a distinctive dumpling-shaped marking (she has white and brown fur) on her nose is lying in a cat bed and looking askance at her human.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Ireland (2013-2025) made her art while standing at a toilet paper dispenser, her favorite location. Most of her works feature a cascade of shredded paper hanging from the wall plus small pieces strewn on the floor, representing unity and individuality, made from one medium, toilet paper.
A toilet paper sculpture by the artist Ireland (2013-2025), taken in our bathroom at Ireland's favorite workplace. The sculpture features a toilet paper dispenser with shredded toilet paper hanging from it. There are also small pieces on the floor.
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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This is Ireland, who departed in 6/25. She loved sitting on the toilet lid. The toilet paper holder is empty because she was a very talented TP sculptor. (I still can't bear to take away the remnants of her last, experimental work & use the holder as intended...) We miss her so much!
This is Ireland, a lynx point cat (2013-2025). She's sitting on a toilet lid in front of an empty toilet paper holder. The TP holder is empty because Ireland enjoyed making sculptures out of toilet paper, using only her claws and teeth. She loved bathrooms! Ireland was a beautiful, empathetic, and very affectionate cat. We miss her very, very much, particularly in the evenings, when she used to read with us.
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Here's a replacement photo of Edwina. No book but another look at that nose!
A photo of Edwina sitting in a favorite spot: a white plastic wastebasket! Edwina is a snowshoe cat with a distinctive coat of white and various shades of brown. She has dumpling-like markings on her nose and white whiskers.
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Here's Edwina reading Lear. The angle's not very good since she's on my lap but there she is, all settled in!
Edwina, a snowshoe cat with a coat of white and varying shades of brown, is lying on my lap next to my knee-warming heating pad. Edwina is positioned so as to read a book that's resting on my lap desk. (This not a posed photo; Edwina does this nearly every night!) The book is Shakespeare's King Lear, which Edwina is, by all appearances, reading for the first time.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Did you just adopt Toolbox!? She looks very, very sweet!

This is how Edwina hid a fair bit in her first days with us. She and her sister mostly came out of their hiding places to eat for some days.
A snowshoe cat named Edwina is shown here behind a basket on a shelf. This was one of her first days in our home: Edwina was scared and hid. That was in December 2013 and though she's now very outgoing, she still has the same sweet brown-and-white nose and blue eyes.
July 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I've only ever used a plastic cone, on Edwina after stomach surgery. Two weeks with it! Sometimes she rammed it into me during the night. (I slept on the floor in her isolation room, to keep her company.) And I woke up a few times to see her sitting on the floor next to the cone, staring at me.
Edwina, a snowshoe cat with distinctive white and brown nose markings that look like a Georgian dumpling, is modeling a plastic Elizabethan collar that prevents her from licking or biting stitches after stomach surgery. (File photo, summer 2022)
July 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Thank you, @petipaw.bsky.social, they are definitely family. We have lots of wonderful memories of Ireland and this photo (from some years ago) is a favorite: it really captures her essence! Edwina is still feeling stressed but she's doing okay, thank you, settled in behind my monitor for a nap. ❤️
In an old file photo, Ireland (2013-2025), a lynx point cat with a vicious gaze, is in my office window, guarding our property through a window with two screens. She's shouting, "Get off our lawn, kid!"
June 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Edwina wants Gonzo to know she is very hard at work helping me edit a translation after a stressful day of having our garage door fixed so we no longer need to use a farm jack to open it.
A snowshoe cat named Edwina, who is brown with white markings and whiskers, is lying on a wooden tabletop in my office. Edwina is an editor.
May 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Yard work has been called off for now because a large, fluffy, and very comfortable fox is taking a nap in a pile of wood chips. Apologies for the blurry photo!
Blurry photo of a fox napping in a pile of wood chips in our back yard. The fox is large with a particularly fluffy tail.
May 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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My office mate Edwina is shirking her editorial duties again, but she's thoroughly enjoying a blanket and warm sun in my nap room.
A snowshoe cat named Edwina is lying on a small wooden table in my nap room. Edwina is lying inside a folded blanket, enjoying afternoon sun. The coloring of Edwina's nose makes it look like a Georgian dumpling, khinkali.
May 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Edwina thoroughly enjoyed watching this!
A snowshoe cat named Edwina is sitting on catmom's desk watching as Gonzo plays with paper in a video on catmom's computer screen. (As catmom types this alt text, Edwina, worn out from the spectacle of Gonzo's fun, is lying in her comfy bed behind the monitor.)
April 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Thank you! Looks Edwina and I are both ready for another week of Shakespeare!
Edwina, a snowshoe cat with a very distinctive nose, is lying on this week's reading assignments for Henry VI, Part 1, which she reads with me every evening. We both thank christina500 for organizing our Shakespeare readings!
March 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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It's finally here! (I saw it in Informed Delivery last night so set aside the dusty old tome, figuring it would be better to more per day from a book that's far less dusty.) Looking forward to joining you tonight!
A used copy of the Modern Library/RSC edition of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, which took a long time reaching my mailbox.
February 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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So here it is, pages riffled out on the veranda to air out some of the dust! I shall commence reading Much Ado this evening.
An olde and rather dusty edition of The Works of Shakespeare., published by Oxford University Press in March 1938. I hope that reading Much Ado About Nothing will not require wearing an N95 mask to prevent severe allergies!
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Here's Edwina sending her personal greetings now that she's settled in behind my monitor!
In a contemplative moment, snowshoe cat Edwina (who is settled into a cardboard box with soft bedding) ponders the passage of time and conveys her birthday greetings and wishes for fun to fellow reader Rebecca.
January 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Edwina's favorite boks (old photo!)
2013 photo of kitten Edwina, a smol snowshoe mix cat with a brown-and-white nose like a dumpling. Edwina is sitting on a ligth brown blanket in a cardboard box from New Egg that says "May contain awesome." Edwina strives, with every purr, to live by that slogan.
November 21, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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It looks like you're bringing our cat Edwina with you! I'm sorry neither of us will see you in Boston.
This is a file photo (almost 5-10 years old) of our mischief-loving snowshoe (Siamese mix) cat, Edwina, sitting in a white plastic office wastebasket. Edwina is known for her nose, which is white and brown. The markings on her nose look like a Georgian dumpling, khinkali.
November 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Apparently our cat Ireland also doesn't think the election results bode well
Shredded "plan ahead" page (set against blue and cream office rug) from my planner book, with the hope that I'm already thinking about my goals for 2015. The shredding was performed by a sagacious lynx mix cat named Ireland on the morning of 6 November 2024.
November 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Ours work in a distinctly different style.

And thanks to all here who've mentioned hanging the toilet paper the other/wrong way. Sad to say, it never occurred to us to try that. 🤷‍♀️
Roll of shredded toilet paper hanging in bathroom dispenser, January 9, 2014. Composition of either Edwina or Ireland H. (Dispenser has been empty since that day.)
October 28, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Edwina and Ireland, who also love boxes, welcome Mousecow.
Two cats (Ireland, a lynx point, and Edwina a snowshoe point; both have coats in shades of gray, cream, and brown) are settled on a beige blanket in a box that has "may contain awesome" printed on it. The photo, from 2013, when we adopted them, is unposed. They truly are awesome.
August 23, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Vera does look very helpful. I often discuss choices with Edwina. Here she is scrutinizing dictionary entries.
Edwina, a snowshoe point cat, is cream-colored and brown, with a white and brown nose that looks like a Georgian khinkali dumpling. She's a strict translation assistant, seen here in my office, checking a dictionary.
August 8, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Feeling the need to celebrate one of our most helpful yard gadgets: the rock sled my husband made. It gets lots of use in our (suburban) back yard.
A photo of a homemade rock sled that's about 3.5-4 feet long and has two rocks (one large, one small) sitting on top.
June 27, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Here you go! Ireland and Cricket have something in common.
Ireland, a Lynx point cat, sitting on the lid of a white toilet. Please note the empty toilet paper dispenser behind her. This cat (or her sister?) has a propensity for shredding toilet tissue.
June 24, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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That's so sweet! Edwina says someone's outdone her on the nose thing. 😊
Snowshoe mix cat with blue eyes, white neck, and brown head but a white patch on her face that's shaped like a Georgian khinkali dumpling that has a brown nose in the center. She's sitting on my lap in my home office.
June 13, 2024 at 1:54 AM