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Kittens? Tabby fella is South, and the dilute tortie is his sister North. She is having some adjustment angst since coming to the café, and snuggling with her bro on a high shelf is her favorite thing.
A coppery orange tabby kitten stretching out his back legs (showing pink paw pads) while snuggling with a mostly grey dilute tortie kitten
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Maybe a nap later?
An orange tabby curled into a ball and fast asleep.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I can offer kittens. This lot is very, very sweet.
Three black and white kittens sleeping on each other on a yellow blanket printed with cartoon cats. At the bottom of the frame is an adult tabby being used as a pillow by a kitten
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This may be a more realistic depiction of “checking on your depressed friend.”
A pastel orange tabby curled up on a lump under a brightly colored floral fleece blanket. The lump conceals a scared kitty.
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Nothing clever to say, but in keeping with the theme:
A tuxedo cat with ab orange collar sitting on a pretty destroyed faux-leather futon under a teal fleece blanket
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Inky is front and Pinky is back. They’re very hard to tell apart, but Pinky is a little big rounder and Inky has the appearance of bigger eyes/smaller face. (Inky is left, Pinky is right in this set.)
Inky, a small black cat with big eyes, standing on a wood-type floor looking off to the left of the camera Pinky, a black cat, lying on her side on a large pink crochet doily
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Inky and Pinky are wishing you good luck with any and all endeavors.
Two black cats sitting decoratively on a table. The foreground cat is sitting with her body facing left, and the background car is sitting with her body facing right. Both are looking at the camera with yellow eyes.
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Here are the other 3: Lima (top), Pinto (lower right), and Jellybean (lower left).
3 kittens on a multilevel cat tower. Top is a mostly white girl with a black ear and tail. Lower right is a mostly white boy with black on top of his head and black “mustache and goatee” spots. Lower left is a mostly black tuxedo patterned boy.
October 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“Rah loves you, buddy.”
October 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Have a kitten in a fluffy bed. The rescue/café goes through color and pattern trends. Current fashion is black and white. We just got four kittens, the “Beans.” This is Garbanzo.
A black and white tuxedo-ish kitten with a pink nose in a pale fluffy blue cat bed that looks a little bit like the head of a muppet. The kitten is sleepy.
October 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Cafe kitty Jameson with a rainbow toy. He’s an older guy at the cafe, but he played like a kitten when we gave him one of these. After two days of heavy use, you can see it’s a bit dingy from all the affection.
A grey and white tuxedo patterned cat is sitting as a loaf on a white cabinet. He has one white paw sticking out holding a rainbow catnip toy.
October 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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One silly cat, coming right up.
A handsome orange cat with cream belly, green eyes, and pink nose lying upside down and askew on a round, high-sided teal cat bed. His head is hanging off and his front paws are curled. It is adorable.
September 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This is Button, who went home last week with Dryer Lint. She is everyone’s best friend, even if you’ve never met.
A grey tabby kitten with white feet, showing off her cream-and spotted belly by sleeping upside down in a bed shaped like a banana.
September 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Please have an orange kitten. Her name is Oak, and she is a wee terrorist, as are all kittens. Her favorite activity is using her paw to knock kibble out of food bowls. Her second favorite is riding on shoulders.
An small orange tabby cat with a lovely swirl and copper eyes climbing a carpeted 8’ wall-mounted scratching post. The same orange tabby kitten (swirl less visible) sitting in a very small loaf with her tail tucked in. A small mousie toy is in the foreground for scale.
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I know a good painting helper if you need one. (He likes to chase reflections on the walls and thought this was the same game when I was doing paint touch-up at the rescue.)
A round brown tabby with white nose, ruff, and paws sits ready to jump at a sponge paint brush applying purple paint to a purple wall.
August 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Here are two thirsty orange old men having a drink together. (They are clever boys who have trained the humans to get them running water on command.)
Two cats are sitting on the edges of a stainless steel utility sink the left one is a skinny pastel orange guy with white feet, and the right one is a big orange tabby. Left cat is drinking from a neon hose attached to the faucet; right cat is watching intently.
August 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Here is Dryer Lint reminding you to eat something because you need energy to fight.
A beautiful longhaired kitten with white face and paws and dilute tortie-tabby pattern elsewhere sitting on top of a display case of snacks). She had green eyes and a pink nose and looks like a kitten supermodel.
August 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I, on the other hand, have both cat pictures and cat video! Please enjoy shy orange brother Zigzag cleaning outgoing orange and white brother Swirl.
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Those are good names! I was saving this photo for a special occasion (I’ve posted them separately): Cottonball (lower) and Q-Tip (upper). Not all the kitties are named after household items, but the ones that are tend to be funny and apt!
Two white cats on a short cat tower with two levels. The lower white cat is significantly rounder than the upper white cat.
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Some of the kitties at the cat café and rescue where I volunteer have learned to tuck themselves in for the night.
A cat sitting on a brown futon mostly covered in a teal fleece blanket. The cat has a while face, ruff, and paws but black ears and head to his eyes. He looks sleepy.
August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Have a fluffy kitten named Dryer Lint. She is as sweet as can be, in addition to being cute.
A very fluffy long-haired kitten who is half-curled up, half sprawl on a pale green crocheted mat. Her coat on her back is dilute tortie colors (grey and light orange) with tabby stripes. Her fluffy back paws are white, as is her nose and chin. She has a very pink nose and most of her paw pads are also pink (some are grey). She has an unreal fluffy tail that could double as a stole with darker and lighter grey stripes.
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I’m sure I could replicate these totally reasonable setups . . .
A perfume ad fearuring an elaborate but functionally impaired setup of chemistry glassware featuring red liquid. There is a sparkler atop a volumetric flask, a sep funnel with a sidearm, tygon tubing into a Vigreux column, etc etc.
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Cute distraction from people: caught these tabbies canoodling, and they tried to deny it.
Two carpeted wall shelves against a light grey wall. On the lower left shelf is a tabby with dilute tortie striping and white paws, ruff, and chin. Her head is lowered and being cleaned by a brown tabby on the upper right shelf. The same two tabbies sitting prettily on the shelves looking straight ahead, avoiding eye contact with both the camera and each other.
August 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Challenge: Post your last photo of DC to show what a hellhole it is. Not my last photo taken in DC (phone disaster), but one of the few I have readily available.
A photo from the FDR memorial. It’s a large, rough-hewn block wall (pinkish-brownish-grey) inscribed, “We must scrupulously guard the civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.” Above the rock face is shrubbery and to the right is a waterfall into a pool.
August 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I’m so glad Cloudy is still with you!

Here are some friends taking care of each other. Left is Frankie, right is Eric.
Two tabby cats on wall-mounted shelves sitting pretty and surveying their domain. The left is a girl with dilute tortie colors but tabby striped with a white ruff and paws. The right is a brown tabby with a white chin. The same two cats on wall-mounted shelf, but the right tabby is cleaning the top of the left tabby’s head, and the left tabby looks very happy
August 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM