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Your kitties are beautiful and I'm glad they're happy

Aww, thank you very much!! They’re quite glad, too~

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I’m crying, this article is just the ramblings of a lunatic... a violently cat-hating lunatic who’s just pissed that she can’t find a girlfriend that doesn’t have a cat. She’s so bitter, I’m almost mad -- I want to personally track down every cat she’s ever had contact with and give them some proper love and attention. This is what loved and loving cats look like, Burton. I’m queer and I love them and they love me!

i found the absolute hottest take of 2017

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We had a birthday party for our oldest kitties. They got hats and special treats and catnip toys.

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Mixed Monday Special: Topaz Breed

The Topaz is a very new blue eyed cat breed which is in development by Iryna Merzlenko in the Ukraine. It currently has experimental status with the WCF.

Blue eyed cats with very little or no white fur at all are usually very rare, but that’s exactly the goal of this breed. Thanks to a dominant blue eyed gene these cats can have any coat colour and still have striking blue eyes. Odd eyes with at least one blue eye are acceptable according to the breed standard as well.

As the breed is still so young the genetics behind the blue eyes have not yet been fully uncovered. It seems that homozygous cats whith large amounts of white increases the possibility of deafness. It also seems to produce extremely unusual markings and white distributions (see examples below).

Kaonasi (black smoke with white)

Panda (black roan bicolour)

Dakota (black spotted tabby)

Cyntiya (black silver spotted tabby)

Blot (black with white)

Maryska (black with white)

Lourdes (black)

all photos © Iryna Merzlenko breed: Topaz breeder and owner:  Iryna Merzlenko en.nikital.com

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This Cat

“I FOUND A SPECIAL CATTO TODAY AND HER NAME WAS TIMINE (PRONOUNCED TEE-MEE-NE)”

Photos/caption by Joëlle Bouthillier - via Shocking Group of D E N G Catto!!

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I’m cool with people using my photos as anatomy / pose reference (that’s half the reason I started this blog in the first place!), and I’d never say no to fanart! The only thing I ask is that you not use my photos in rps or as reference of your ocs :,D I was there once, I was on WCO, I was Hip and With It, but now I totally understand why it might make the pet owner feel weird, haha! 

Please reblog if it’s OK to use your photos of your pets (or animals you work with as a volunteer or professional) as art references. It’s totally OK to use mine, just please tag me when you post the art!

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I can be your angle…. or yuor devil!

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i was going to say nah, that’s not egostistical at all! but I did spend hours drawing up a repeating pattern of my own cats just so i could get it on a throw pillow, so, uhhhh... i don’t think my word means much here

buying shirts rn from my own store bc I need more Black Goth Items, & I can’t decide whether or not it’s egotistical? to wear your own stuff??

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my kitten thinks he’s damn extra

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He looks like he could beat me up with three paws tied behind his back! 😂

This tomcat is solid muscle!

Loverboy (Dean’s Grandfather) got out again. He came back when I started taking pictures of him. My step father scooped him up and brought him back inside. 

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Yuna & Sawyer may resemble your average house cat, but they’re pawsitively unique. As the smallest African species, black-footed cats are naturally rare, but you can visit our pair in Nairobi Village. (source)

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i needed the full songs worth of this not 15 seconds

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