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seattleskies.bsky.social
Jaq
@seattleskies.bsky.social
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PNW cat lady (she/her) and casual pet sitter, control system engineer currently supporting the greenest of green deathcare. Doublewide dweller in a 55+ community. Ex-Hoosier, ex-Arizonan. Loves gadgets, plays horn and Pokemon Go.
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This is Nimbus. He's a little sh:t. Not food motivated. Hates humans. Likes drawing blood. Wily. Perfect shop cat. Gorgeous. Look at that smirk - he knows I want to trap him for neutering and feels this game of wills is beneath his skill level. #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats #snowshoe #feral
Nimbus, a small fluffy snowshoe cat glares out from his hiding place from atop a box on a metal shelving unit. His mouth is curved in a devious grin.
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
seattleskies.bsky.social
Ideal melting temperature achieved in the catio #cats #catsofbluesky #warmdays
A dark brown tabby lies fully relaxed on a slatted wood coffee table while a tuxedo cat does the same on the bright yellow cushions of a loveseat.
May 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Starting this one, I didn't like the protagonist and had zero sympathy for his drunken obituary writing ass. But I was so touched and crying by the end, over the growth of deep friendships and the realization that this, right here, is it. It's all we get. #booksky
Cover of the hardback edition of John Kenney's I See You've Called In Dead - a novel. Dark navy matte finish with brass colored lettering, several of the letters incorporate newsprint clippings in the open areas (like within the D of Dead). Smaller print next to the word Dead says New York Times Bestselling Author of Love Poems for Married People.
May 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Nimbus is always big mad and disgusted with humans. Won't eat if I'm in the area. Hugely fierce pugnacious 6-year-old child energy. Constantly affronted. But so so pretty!
#cats #catsofbluesky #feralcats
Nimbus is a disgruntled snowshoe cat, pointed like a sealpoint but with a white face and white paws. He glowers over a plate of wet food.
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This guy 🥰
Toaster is the friendliest and least spicy of the 4 Ellensburg fosters with me. He leans into head skritches and noms the churus from my hand like it's no big deal.
#cats #catsofbluesky #fostercats
Close-up of Toaster, a gorgeous ticked tabby with dilute coloration and big golden eyes. His muzzle is white and cream, so his whiskers freckles are very prominent.
May 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Security Chief Leon wants to know if I'm done with the crying and the laughing and the sighing and all those other human things so the skritching can resume. A truly wonderful memoir from Courtney Gustafson about cat rescue, community, and humanity. #cats #booksky #tnrworks #feralcats
Security Chief Leon, a dark brown tabby, snuggles on a lap, looking imploringly up toward the camera. His person is holding a hardcover copy of Poets Square by Courtney Gustafson. The cover is pale pink with ombre rainbow cat figures scattered around the title.
May 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Fostering 4 young male cats from a 100+ cat hoarding/eviction situation in Ellensburg. They are very timid but not feral. Working to see how they warm up to people. Toaster and Russell are relaxed enough to eat in front of me, and Toaster allows skritches. #cats #catsofbluesky #fostercats
A young gray cat with amber eyes glares from a carrier. A medium haired pointed cat, with snowshoe or ragdoll type markings tries to hide alongside him. The text reads Gris Gris (Nimbus in the back). A dilute ticked tabby cat drowses, eyes down, on a leopard print blanket in a large cage. The text reads Toaster. A medium gray tabby with white on his face and chest lays with front paws tucked under. He has a pink nose and lovely ear Tufts. The text reads Russell. A pointed cat with white on his lower face and paws like a snowshoe looks straight at the camera from within a large cage. The text reads Nimbus.
May 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Gordon vs. chocolate wrapper
#cats #catsofbluesky
A wadded up chocolate wrapper rests on a person's knee, their brown pants covered in cat hair. The upper face of an alert orange cat is peering from the near distance, sizing up the pounce opportunity. The orange cat has pounced! We see a close-up of the wrapper between his paws, claws extended into the knee of his person, and on his face, a look of extreme concentration A bit of a blurred paw action shot as our orange friend begins to play. His tongue is out and he is still intently focused on his wrapper prey.
May 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Greeting the dawn this morning with Willie Wildman, Cherry the Arkansas Red Cat, Zorro El Tesoro, Pretty Pam Pinknose, and Security Chief Leon arrayed across the foot of the bed with the remaining 4 cats on the floor. Peter from IT and Squit are sort of visible. #cats #catsofbluesky
A dimly lit shot of 5 cats at the foot of a king-size bed, viewed from behind. All 5 are facing away from the camera, possibly watching some other cats rumpussing on the floor. 4 are spaced evenly across the end of the bed, while Cherry, an orange tabby, sits behind them. There's another orange cat visible as a blur on the floor and a tuxedo cat on the floor at the corner of the bed.
May 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Absolutely nothing more relaxing than burrowing deep in warm clean laundry for #caturday
A pile of clean warm laundry surrounds Squit, a tuxedo cat. His back half is buried in the pile and his front legs are extended like Superman flying. A close up showing how deeply relaxed and asleep this tuxedo cat is.
April 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Golden girl Cherry, dreaming in her sunbeam #cats #catsofbluesky #napolympics
Cherry, an orange tabby, sleeps with the sun illuminating her from the left. She looks like a classical painting in this light, her face in a warm glow.
April 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Multilevel sun-day #cats #catsofbluesky
A cat tree next to a window with sunshine streaming in has two tuxedo cats (Willie Wildman and Pretty Pam Pinknose) squeezed into the top circular bed and an orange tabby (Gordon DataDude) in the next bed down. Adjacent in a square floor lamp with open shelves, and another orange tabby (Peter from IT) on the shelf just below the bed containing Gordon. All 4 cats are basking in the warmth of the sunbeams.
April 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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For #caturday, Gordon got frustrated with the balls not coming out and decided to gnaw the plastic determinedly. For over 5 minutes.
#cats #catsofbluesky #orangecatsrule
April 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This month's CatLadyBox was the perfect orange cat theme, including The Brain Cell! Cherry The Arkansas Red Cat initially tried to load the brain cell incorrectly but eventually got it. #cats #catsofbluesky #orangecatsrule
Cherry, an orange tabby cat, sits on the plush orange brain cell toy, looking moderately determined. Adorable orange plush toy brain cell. With an oval center and six fuzz tipped axions visible, it has a sweet smiling face.
April 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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When Cherry (the Arkansas Red Cat) has a confrontation with another of the #cats, she squinches her eyes closed and bats madly with her front paws at the space in front of her. Very like Arthur, sidekick of The Tick, whose battlecry is "Not in the face!"
Pam is nonplussed. #catsofbluesky #battlecat
From over the shoulder of Pam, a small tuxedo cat, we see Cherry, a shorthaired orange tabby, sitting with ears flattened and eyes squinched closed. There's an energy of OMG get me outta here in Cherry's posture
April 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Zorro El Tesoro and Peter from IT practice for their #napolympics mirror double event 🥹
#cats #catsofbluesky
Two sleeping kitties are curled toward each other, paws intertwined and foreheads touching. Zorro on the left is a very large seal point snowshoe and Peter on the right is a buff orange tabby with white. A close up of their little sleeping faces and front paws, too heart-melting for words!
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#napolympics freestyle mandala event practice by Willie Wildman, Pretty Pam Pinknose, and Peter from IT. Peter loses points for his hind leg extension, and Pam for posterior orientation. Otherwise, an excellent effort by this team. #cats #catsofbluesky
Two tuxedo cats and one orange and white tabby are napping in a cuddle puddle shaped like a 3 armed spiral.
April 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I have levelled up my cat lady game. Last year, my Havahart traps didn't do great catching Sweetface, so I got a drop trap and transfer cage. Combined with the cameras on the deck, I stand a much better chance of success. #cats #catsofbluesky #tnrworks
A collapsible wire drop trap is in the folded state behind a wire transfer cage. An instruction manual is on top of the transfer cage. Close up of the instructions. The title in a green font reads The Neighborhood Cats Drop Trap Instructions. There are three illustrations below some small print, with the first two illustrating how to correctly unfold and set up the trap. The third illustration shows the operation of the door where the transfer cage can be attached.
April 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Phoenix area flowers from the past few days #flowersky
Flowers that are puffs of red threads, with small bright green feathery leaves. Close up of the throat of a trumpet shaped flower. There are five orange lobes that fade to yellow, backlit by the sunshine. Threads of red stripe down the throat into the base of the flower. A tiny white flower like a star is surrounded by the bright fuschia of a bougainvillea. Green leaves contrast in the background. Spiny alien flower buds on a paddle of prickly pear. The buds are a fresh green against the muted gray green of the fleshy pad.
April 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Rhodie and forsythia. We are supposed to get a big nasty storm today with heavy rains and hail. Nice to capture these beauties before they get beaten up. #flowersky #spring
A puff of pink rhododendron blossoms above green leaves. The flowers shade from palest to darkest pink, with long pink stamen with yellow tips visible and pale-stemmed anthers like brown caraway seeds within each blossom. Yellow forsythia blossoms in sunshine. The branches are open and airy, the grass below green in the shade and a wooden fence visible but out of focus in the background.
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Sweetface saga: he's still an erratic visitor but has been coming around more often. Today he hung out on the deck eating snacks and getting high on catnip. Next week, I'll start trap-training and hopefully 2025 will be the year of his eartip! #tnr #tnrworks #cats #feral #catsofbluesky
Sweetface, a mostly black large cat with white tipped paws, white whiskers, and white on his lower jaw, lounges outstretched with a pile of straw at his back and a huge quantity of dried catnip branches surrounding him. He looks back over his right shoulder at the camera.
March 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Uncle Zorro thoroughly regrets offering to watch the nephews
#cats #catsofbluesky
Zorro, a large sealpoint snowshoe cat, lies pinned down by Gordon and Peter, two teenaged orange tabby boys. A close up of Zorro's face, fully resigned to his sad fate.
March 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Unclear what post-modernist figure Willie and Pam are going for here in the freestyle nap event, but 10/10 for the vibe. #cats #catsofbluesky #napolympics #advancednaptitude
Willie, a large tuxedo cat, is sleeping with his body and front leg curled around Pam, a smaller tuxedo cat. Her ears are completely obscured. They look like some kind of Rorschach inkblot against a brightly patterned couch.
March 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Post #caturday two-fer cuteness
#cats #SoOrange #catsofbluesky
Two orange tabby cats curled up tightly in a circular cat tree platform in front of an unshaded window. Peter, on the left, has bright amber eyes, white markings on his face, and long white socks. His right hind leg rests on Gordon's left flank. Gordon has a white chest and a tiny smidge of white on his nose. His eyes are golden-green/brown. The morning light shines in from an overcast sky, and all their ears glow pink.
March 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Wha.....what do you mean by "person", deck camera?
#trashpanda #nightcritter
A very fat raccoon is eating kibble on the deck, after dragging the bowl out of the small weatherproof shelter to the left. The photo is a screenshot from camera footage, with a date of March 16, 2025 and a timestamp of 1:04:12 AM at the bottom of the frame. The caption reads Person.
March 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM