In line with my policy of always having a Caturday felid post, no matter where I am, here is a trifecta!
First, a ten-year-old book on Cats and God, Does God Ever Speak Through Cats?, by David Evan. The cover and precis:
“Does God Ever Speak through Cats?” is a book about Christian spirituality and cats. When David Evans moved into a new house in Los Angeles, he unwittingly embarked on two strange new journeys. One involved a totally new relationship with God. The other was focused on a stray cat that was living in the backyard. To David’s great surprise, he discovered that these two very different journeys were related to each other and had a lot in common. This is the book he wrote to tell that story.
My informant notes this: “By the way, take the time to read some of the ‘reviews.’ And the bio on the back (click the ‘Look Inside’ option) states that the author wrote for the TV shows the Monkees and Love American Style!”
Here are some of those reviews:
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Unfortunately, I lost the source of these camouflaged cats (and three d*gs for the miscreants), but perhaps some reader will know. Can you spot the cats?
I’m sure I’ve shown this one before:
And a lone d*g:
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Finally, from many sources (e.g., here, here, here, and here), we learn of a Cat Library in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where I’ll be visiting a friend this summer (you better believe I’ll visit this!) The library is in the offices of Doña Ara County, which has partnered with a local animal shelter to bring cats needing special attention to the offices. The lucky employees can either visit the “cat condo,” which houses 5 felines at a time, or check out a cat to take to their office for a while! Over 100 cats have been adopted by this program. This is the best idea ever, though I’m not sure what it does for productivity. . .
Now how much work would you get done if you could have one of these at your desk? (From imgur):
Here’s a short video about the program:
h/t: Heather Hastie, Blue, Merilee, Todd
Those Amazon reviews are great! I’m pretty sure I saw that compilation of camouflaged animals on Bored Panda.
These are very clever, very entertaining, pictures, and lots easier than those confounded nightjars!
Shouldn’t this be “emmeowed”?
Yes. But the ‘unwittingly’ part is purrfect.
Ha, I’d thought just the same thing. 😀
A shelter that lets people ‘check out’ some cats is a great idea. But what if the cats are overdue?
Then a library feline is charged.
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Poor guy…so close and yet so far. Got it perfectly umop-apisdn, in fact.
Gods don’t speak through cats; cats are gods.
b&
If a god speaks through a cat, who is speaking through a god? Maybe another cat?
It’s cats all the way down.
If it were the cats speaking through the gods, we’d be in good shape. Alas, ’tis the priests doing the speaking for the gods….
b&
A dog looks at its human and thinks, “He feeds me, he pets me, he gives me a warm place to sleep and takes me for walks. He must be God.”
A cat looks at its human and thinks, “He feeds me, he pets me, he gives me a warm place to sleep and cleans my litter. I must be God.”
Assume g*d wouldn’t speak through all cats – Just the Christian ones? Would not apply to my cats as they were raised with no faith.
A Christian cat? Inconceivable. No felid is anywhere near that gullible.
D*gs, on the other hand….
b&
You’re probably right. Humans do a lot of brain washing but the cat should be immune.
Cats are already self-cleaning….
b&
Wouldn’t the Christian gods speak through Christian cats ; the Muslim gods through Muslim cats ; the Greek pantheon gods through Greek pantheonic cats (one god for each cat, or can the cat believe in the whole pantheon at once) ?
The whole lot being predicated on the ludicrous concept of cats believing in any sort of supernatural being.
Jerry- you will meet the guy who started the cat library in Las Cruces! My dear friend and neighbor Jess Williams!