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One of my sisters friends is a graphic artist. When my sister told me this, I was expecting someone who creates artwork on his computer. So imagine how surprised I was to see his pencil drawings. One of them showed a female dog in a dress working away. Behind her are several male cats dressed in male office attire, all with unfriendly expressions on their faces. I was trying to work out what he was trying to say when my sister said, Its about discrimination. Shes a female dog a bitch and all the male cats dont want to work with her. My friend was trying to say that cats and dogs should have equal opportunity.
The next one was of a headless man wearing a diving suit. He was also working away. A fishbowl was where his head was supposed to be. Inside the bowl was a goldfish. This one left me stumped. After looking at it for several moments my sister explained that this was also an anti-discrimination drawing. The man can wear a suit and so can the goldfish. She then said both drawings had been rejected by her friends client. Okay, so the second one was a bit subliminal and stretched the imagination but I thought the cats and dogs concept was clever. I have to give credit to him. He has one heck of an imagination.
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One of my favourite birthday cards came, strangely enough, from people from work. Unlike my friends who normally choose quirky but catless - cards for my birthday, someone from my team decided to get a card which had black and white illustrations of cats on the front and back of the card. Inside, two colleagues drew pictures of cats. One of them was of a cat smiling, another one was of a cat sleeping and the next one was of a scaredy cat. The last one was of a cat lying on its front which looked liked it had been run over. This led to my colleague nicknaming it road kill.
I have put the cards from my friends near my TV set, so I can see them whenever I am watching TV. The card from my team, though, is kept next to my bed where all my other cat paraphernalia sits. I like to look at it from time to time and it always makes me smile.
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I recently added an old school friend to my list of Face book friends. We were old school friends but lost touch when he moved to Queensland. Still, it doesnt stop him from trying to rile me up from time to time. Face book was a perfect opportunity for him to do this as I have a picture of a cat for my profile photo. The friend wrote on my wall, I like cats. Theyre delicious. I mean, cuddly.
Another one of his pearls of wisdom was: What do you do if an animal tries to attack you? Bite back.
Ahhh, another one of those demotivational posters. Except this one is about cats. As funny as it is, I have one objection: CATS ARE NOT STUPID! If you dont believe me, just check out Butterscotch and Gingersnap in action.
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Browsing around one of my favourite book shops one day, I came across a book called What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat (edited by Steven D. Hales). Hmmm. A cat book with a difference. I was started to flick though the chapter on cruelty to cats. At first, I wasnt impressed with it. The author was arguing that people should not be cruel to cats because it hurts them. Like, der, I thought. But I decided to delve into it a lot deeper. It turns out there are a lot of people who think cats and other animals dont have feelings or that they are irrational so therefore, the value of animal life is less compared to human life. But the author points out that there are also irrational people in the world so that negates that argument.
The bit I found really painful to read was the paragraph about how a study on blindness was conducted by taping kittens eyes shut. Why not ask a blind person? asks the author. It seems pretty obvious and I could not think of a more futile experiment. My heart hurts for all those kittens who were forced to take part in this cruel and unnecessary experiment.
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Missed the latest issue of Cat Fancy magazine? No worries. Simply purchase a digital edition from their website for a fraction of the price. And unlike the hardcopy, you dont have to worry about accidentally damaging the pages or the magazine going mouldy. As soon as youve paid for it, it is available for you to download as a PDF file. Whats the catch then? They omit the kitty poster.
Any regular reader of this magazine will know there a lovely centrefold of the featured breed in each issue. It opens up as a double paged poster with two other photos on the other side.
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Guard dog of the week. Brought to you by the kind people who like to circulate such emails through the internet:
CROSS BREED PITBULL WITH STAFFIE
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Comment by Queenie
on R.I.P. Dippy
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Quirky Queenie
I know how you feel. When my pet ducks died, the first thing my father did was to get some replacement ducks. My sister and I didn't want replacement ducks; we just wanted our first pair to come back. That was over twenty years ago and we still feel the same way.