What could be more wholesome: a GIF of Porcini affectionately licking her mother, Poppy, in the cat house. 🐈

Porcini licking Poppy

Another picture for your enjoyment and distraction. More fun than watching results coming in is watching the cats on my cams; here’s a screenshot, showing a cat in a cabin, two snuggling in their house, and one eating. 🐈

Cat cams screenshot

The Micro.blog challenge word for day 4 is “near“. Our feral cats enjoy sleeping near each other inside their heated cat house. 📷🐈 #mbnov

Cats

Also for #NationalCatDay, our current pet cats Paladin and Pippin sharing the cat tower yesterday and today. Normally they don’t like to be that close to each other, except when there’s food involved. 🐈

Paladin and Pippin

Pippin and Paladin

It’s #NationalCatDay and #ThrowbackThursday, so here are some pictures of our former cat Pixel from 2005, enjoying some leashed outside time (he grew up indoor/outdoor in NZ, then became indoor-only except when leashed when we moved to the US). 🐈

Pixel sniffing grass

Pixel with harness and leash

David and Pixel

Pixel and tulips

Pixel and grasses