Tortitude

I was taking a morning stroll yesterday, when I came across this friendly and striking cat in a neighbor's front garden. She is presumably a female as most Tortoiseshell cats are and was quite pleased to pose for my camera. I love that stripe down her nose.

It's a Jungle Out There

Betty Brown (https://www.instagram.com/bbeabrown17/) shared these photos of her four garden kitties - Monk, Boo, Simon, and Miss Pippie. These charmers are expert hunters and grass eaters!

Mr Monk doing his thing...Good Kitty

Gray Tabby Is Simon Monk at the base of the tree and Boo on the other side looking up. 

Simon and a grass snake

Monk and Boo on the sidewalk

Miss Pippie in the Lemon Grass

Keep Easter Lilies Away From Your Cats

Keep cats away from Easter Lilies and other Asiatic Lilies as cats can suffer acute kidney failure within a very short period of time from just a licking a few pollen grains off their fur. 

See more about Lilies and Cats at:

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm393028.htm 

Read more about Cat-Friendly Gardening here:

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2015/10/gardenig-is-more-fun-with-cats.html

Here is a List of SAFE Plants for Cats:

http://catsingardens.blogspot.com/2015/11/nontoxic-plants-for-cats.html

Photo Source: FDA.gov
(This is an updated blog post from Spring 2014)

Beatrix and Batgirl

Jimmy and Andrew shared these photos of his two cats. Jimmy wrote:

"Our two cats love the garden. We live in a Tudor cottage with, of course, a cottage-style English garden. (We took inspiration from the Bishop’s Garden at the National Cathedral in DC.)

"Our sweet long haired torti (tortoiseshell) is named Bea, but her full name is Beatrix Farrand named after the famed Landscape Architect who designed Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown.

"Our other kitty is a tuxedo (black-and-white) named Batgirl, because when she was a kitten her little head hadn’t grown into her big ears and she looked like Batgirl from the '60s show!


"Both are great company outside whether we are gardening, having morning coffee, or entertaining."