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Way of Cats
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Years of rescue experience led to website and book, The Way of Cats. WayofCats.com

Advice to make cats, and their people, happy. To build more love into the world.

My circle of beings is drawn very wide. For more friends. #Rescue
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Unbreeds: the Regional Barn Cat - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/unbreed...

Rural areas, with feral cat populations, add local flavor. The favorite breeds of time past.
#TheDivineQueen #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #TortieTuesday
A dilute tortoiseshell cat reclines on a sage green comforter, one foreleg stretched out to touch a felt bumblebee cat toy, with skeptical golden eyes looking upwards at the camera person, illustrating Unbreeds: the Regional Barn Cat.
December 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Rhiannon putting her best paws forward.

Which is... all of them. But that Creamsicle paw is still my favorite.
#TheDivineQueen #TortieTuesday #ToebeanTuesday #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane
Close-up of the emerald green interior of cat warming hut, shaped like a dragon head with two white felt teeth visible, radiating long fibers which catch the light. Inside there sleeps a small, dilute tortoiseshell, cat. She's on her side, paws thrust outside the opening of the hut to catch sunlight, all soft gray and dappled with cream and orange, except a paw which is all cream and orange.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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What Exotic Hybrids Tell Us About the Domestic Cat - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/what-ex...

Turns out, cats are domesticated. And it makes a big companion difference.
#MissMorgenMagic #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
A sleek black kitten standing in profile, head low, tail high and curled around a rope covered pillar, standing on a high shelf of a beige carpeted cat tree, illustrating What Exotic Hybrids Tell Us About the Domestic Cat.
December 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Rhiannon is firm, but fair. And it's all for my own good.
#TheDivineQueen #MondayMotivation #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane
A cat hut shaped like a dragon head, with felt teeth and eyes, holds a curled up small dilute tortoiseshell cat, gray with orange and cream patches, with sunshine slanting over her face and paws.
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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NEW POST! American Ringtail, Breed in Progress - Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/america...

Halfway there, with some fan sites and sightings. Not official, but how do Bud and Lou stack up to this experimental cat?
#Rescue #Cats #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Humane
Against a floor of cement and a wall of concrete blocks, a fluffy orange and white cat poses with their side to the camera, a lush tail of body and fur both is curved over the back, dropping tail tip down the side almost to the level of the cat's belly. The face has a white mask and a bit of a moustache, with alert ears and eyes directed off frame, showing off her face, illustrating American Ringtail, Breed in Progress.
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#SilentSunday
Against a sky where clouds have spread, thick and even, to make a soft pastel blue. Two trees stand, particularly tall, their leafless branches outlined in ice with bits of snow clinging to the tops of the branches, a long and lacy design filling the frame, with a few shorter evergreens in bottom left corner as contrast.
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I know Bud is bright. Not sure he's found his calling. Not sure what that might be.

But he's Alpha Cat Type. Their different parts can grow up at different rates.
#BudBudTheSpud #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
A photo illustration has a background of a swirling purple vortex in deep space all super imposed on the front is the intent face and angular face of a gray tabby cat with ears, focused outward and curved into a smile while his green gold eyes stare into the lips
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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In A Purrfect World - Episode 7 - Super Senses
Pamela Merritt on Pet Life Radio
www.petliferadio.com/purrfectworl...

They are like superheroes! So if we think the cat is over-reacting, we're not remembering that all their input has been turned up to eleven.
#ManyFacesOfPickle #Caturday
The text says "In a Purrfect World" and the tropical background of palm leaves and tranquil lagoon features a brown tabby cat sleeping on their stomach on a white, furry cat tree shelf.
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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She stops asking for attention when she's full.

She'll let me know when that happens.
#TheDivineQueen #Rescue #Tortietude #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane
The foreground has a blurry striped green and white cat toy with a fuzzy end, a less blurred but made large by foreshortening cat paw reaching for it, with one of the toes a cream color among the soft gray. The cat's face, a patchy dilute tortoiseshell, is in focus, greengold eyes almost closed in pleasure at the pale fingers visible at the top of the frame, one ear pointing up and the other flat and to the side, as though to give the fingers room to work.
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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NEW POST! Cats as First Graders is a guess at their abilities. - Friendship at Way of Cats buff.ly/0b0nGIn

That’s a common guess at their deductive and logical abilities. A floor, not a ceiling.
#Cats #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
In the lower left corner of the frame is a toddler with short brown hair, in a striped shirt of white and short haircut, beating on a small drum and xylophone, while a lion, head and mane filling the frame, face as large as the child, looks down at the child with a calm expression, the background a mix of bright sun on grass and heavy tree limbs in shadow, illustrating Cats as First Graders.
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Engage Imagination for good cat communication. - Brains at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/engage-...

Since our native languages are so different, we need some kind of common ground. I use cat stuff as a people tool for communication.
#ManyFacesOfPickle #CatsofBlueSky #Cats #Humane #Rescue
A brown tabby cat with a deeply thoughtful expression turns to have their picture taken while watching a video of mice darting in and out of a baseboard mousehole in a video on a Chromebook, illustrating Engage Imagination.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
-Socrates
#TheDivineQueen #Tortitude #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
The head of a dilute tortoiseshell cat is tilted at a coy angle, hiding half her face, as she chases a fluffy toy. She's on the edge of a dark bookcase top, against a cream wall.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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NEW POST! Cats as First Graders is a guess at their abilities. - Friendship at Way of Cats buff.ly/0b0nGIn

That’s a common guess at their deductive and logical abilities. A floor, not a ceiling.
#Cats #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
In the lower left corner of the frame is a toddler with short brown hair, in a striped shirt of white and short haircut, beating on a small drum and xylophone, while a lion, head and mane filling the frame, face as large as the child, looks down at the child with a calm expression, the background a mix of bright sun on grass and heavy tree limbs in shadow, illustrating Cats as First Graders.
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Bud is sitting on my lap. Morgen is on her cat pad.

Bud's tail is sneaking up to lie oh-so-near her.
#BudBudTheSpud #MissMorgenMagic #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
A soft black bulge of fur at the top of the frame has a side view of a cat face on top, trying to see who is touching them, when it is the black and gray tabby striped tail of another cat, sitting on the lap of the blue clad leg sent at far left. The tail has the tip raised in sneaky triumph.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Cat Imagination is always ON. - Survival at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/cat-ima...

I always talk to my cats while I take their picture, so I can prompt different thoughts from them.

Then they have expressions to match their thoughts.
#LouTheCreamfilledCat #CatsofBlueSky #Cats #Rescue
At the top of the frame a guitar seems to loom over the cat face at the bottom, eyes rolled upwards as though they are thinking of music, illustrating Cat Imagination.
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I interrupt some attempted girl kitten talk and have to pause Morgen with a hand on her shoulder.
#MissMorgenMagic #TheDivineQueen #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
Against a gold and black upholstered chair, a dilute tortoiseshell cat is curled up sleeping on the seat, while a all black kitten is restrained with a cupped hand so she will stay in the shot, her amber eyes relaxed.
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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A Sense of Extravagance can overwhelm our cats. - Big Feels at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/a-sense...

Cats have a super sense of extravagance. They take in more sensory information than we do. They also feel deeply, with strong emotions.
#BudBudTheSpud #CatsofBlueSky #Cats #Humane #Rescue
A long gray tabby teen cat, sleeping on his side with front paws at different angles, superimposed on a night sky with Northern Lights and a shooting star, illustrating A Sense of Extravagance.
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Lou was concerned, but tried not to show it.

It wasn't usual for him to be called out of the morning meeting.
#LouTheCreamfilledCat #MondayMotivation #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
The left side of the frame is filled with a person's torso in a red shirt, while the right side has a large gray tabby cat sitting up with one paw on the red shirt, the other on a ball bristle brush, and a look of round-eyed concern on his face.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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NEW POST! Morgen Plays Cat Chess With Bud . Checkmate, Bombay! - Brains at Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/morgen-...

As seen, Morgen at three months, so eager to boop she blurred her head to bigness.

She's found her game, and bested Bud yesterday.
#MissMorgenMagic #CatsofBlueSky #Rescue
On a cat tree covered in cream plush, a small all black kitten is in perfect focus, except for her head and some of her fur, which is blurred with forward movement. Because, the photographer says, she wants to boop noses and cannot wait, illustrating Morgen Plays Cat Chess With Bud.
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Lou's stay at the monastery gave him the ability to send his astral body up to the trees, and rest there.
#LouTheCreamfilledCat #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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#SilentSunday
A forest of evergreen branches, seen from a hiking trail after a snowfall. The bare branches are white at the top and dark at the bottom, making a lacy pattern in cloudy sunlight. It glows delicately with the reflected light from so many angles. At the sides of the frame, snow laden branches are thick enough to form curtains. A few fat evergreen branches cross the frame horizontally, white at the top and green at the bottom, providing startling frames for views of deeper forest, and ever smaller bare branches.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Bud took a surprise role, the lead in "Grinch, the Musical." He wowed Broadway with his silent tap dance.

The hit song, in the scene where his heart grew, had audiences sobbing.

At last, he had found his own spotlight.
#BudBudTheSpud #Caturday
Against a background of smudgy dark skies with outlines of delicate, ice coated, sparkling bare branches, there is a frame full of a closeup of the head and shoulders of a gray tabby cat, one ear turned to the side. He looks at the lens with skeptical, heavy lidded, gold-green eyes. Their head is pulled back into his shoulders so his chest is large and prominent with a cowlick visible down the front. His back and body crouch in a curve, ready to spring.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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In A Purrfect World - Episode 17 - Speaking in Cat
Pamela Merritt on Pet Life Radio
www.petliferadio.com/purrfectworl...

For care, for training, and for affection, there's nothing like having an "open line" to call our cats on.
#ManyFacesOfPickle #Caturday #CatsofBlueSky #Cat #Cats #Humane #Rescue
The text says "In a Purrfect World" and the tropical background of palm leaves and tranquil lagoon features a brown tabby cat sleeping on their stomach on a white, furry cat tree shelf.
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Lou's stay at the monastery gave him the ability to send his astral body up to the trees, and rest there.
#LouTheCreamfilledCat
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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NEW POST! Girls Will Be Girls, Especially Torties - Boy/Girl Choosing at the Way of Cats www.wayofcats.com/blog/girls-w...

Not a saying: “girls will be girls” but there should be.

An excellent example of what I mean would be tortoiseshell cats.
#TheDivineQueen #Tortitude #Rescue #CatsofBlueSky
A tightly cropped shot of a dilute tortoiseshell cat with wide golden eyes, one paw upraised over a bright purpley-pink stuffed toy, with shadow bringing out the dark parts of her coat. It has an overall brooding and apprehensive effect, illustrating Girls Will Be Girls.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM