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@dailycaturday.bsky.social
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Things are grim. I don’t even like opening my paper subscription (still have one) these days. I thought of a thing to do for a nice hit of dopamine: post a picture of my cats whenever I can, for the next 4ish years. Until… you know… It happens.

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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Faithful guarding of the donut box Sunday
This is Nick. He likes boxes. They don’t have to have donuts in them. 

They just need to provide seating space.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Return of the anxious baby, Caturday Edition.
This is Angie. Angie has decided to treat the other cats in the house with suspicion. To save on injuries going around, she is separated by a door from them. This has heightened her people separation anxiety (it pre-dated the current situation with the other cats).

This is her, post yowling because no humans were on her house floor, and how could we do this to her like monsters. My penance was, very clearly, to sit there while she napped, while thinking about what I did. This is Angie. Angie has separation anxiety when it comes to humans. 

In order to calm her tiny brain, Angie requested a 40 minute emergency nap on my elbow. 

Elbow nap achievement unlocked.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Baby Picture Caturday
Ashley when she was a 6 month old kitten. ❤️
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“The only creature that was stirring is the mice” Edition.
I stole space from Nick who considers our giant sized bean bag his cat bed. So of course he decided to pivot and use Ashley as his emergency pillow. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
He’s such an angel when he sleeps, Wednesday Edition
A close up of a grey tabby snoozing contently on the lap of a human who’s seated on a bean bag.

Nick is kind of a pain in the ass at the best of times. But all is forgiven when he sleeps like this on me. It confirms that when he’s not too busy creating mayhem, he does make time for me. He morphs back into the kitten who couldn’t get enough of sitting on my lap. ❤️
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Give me all the drugs, Tuesday edition.
A grey and white tabby sits on a bed. She is looking back at her owner, probably confused. 

Feline WW3 erupted in our household last week. Angie (pictured) started growling and screaming at our other two cats non-stop. Like, literally acted like she hated them on sight. 

Soon, litter box guarding ensued. The other cats started having accidents (I had to clean a few ) and long story short, Angie had to be separated (again!) from our other cats. 

We took her to the vet, they gave her tests, and she’s as healthy as a cat good he, physically. So it’s behavioral, possibly due to anxiety. The vet put her on gabapentin to give her a break from her fear of being aggressive upon (and ok, Nick isn’t the gentlest cat, but she basically won’t let him get nearer than 3 feet without trying to attack him, or viceversa). 

Today was day 1, and was also the first day she’s legitimately been ok with sharing space with me. Other than my husband, she hasn’t let anyone come near her and confort her, and she stopped sitting near me at night while I fell asleep, instead staring at me from a chair across the room. 

Hopefully, much like people, once she stops being on edge all the time, she’ll come to realize we all still love her bunches (yes, even the pestiferous formerly tiny grey 🐈‍⬛ ). But for now, I’ll take her no longer hating me.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Non picture announcement: due to recently having noticed that Nick always uses his left front paw to paw at people for attention, his left front paw has been renamed “The Business”. Nick loves attention. When he feels he’s being denied attention, he gives out the business in retaliation. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Don’t You Dare, Caturday Edition
The spouse (torso pictured) is laying under a comforter, from which a cat’s head peaks. The cat, a brown ticked tabby, is looking somewhat annoyed. 

We have a favorite comforter. It’s not our only comforter, but it’s by far the easiest to care for, given it doesn’t weigh 3 metric tons, and doesn’t require the removal of a cover. As such, sometimes we opt to just remove it it from the bed, wash it, and return it back in the bed by nighttime. 

Except that I was having a time finding enough breathing room to keep drying it (most comforters reliably take 2 hours to dry in our dryer, which none of the presets actually cover, so I kinda run a heavy duty cycle, followed by a quick drying short one). By the time I had the thing dry, the spouse had gone to sleep. I found  him asleep on his back, with a cat (pictured) lying under his crotch. 

He’s her human, she has claimed him, and I’m allowed to remain his wife under her benevolence. But it has limits. 

Such as, in the case of my trying to drape a comforter over her head. Hence this moment of her glaring at me while I repeatedly attempted to drape the comforter to reach my side of the bed. 

If you guessed that yours truly just ended up sleeping, without covers, like a peasant, while HRH Ashley sat herself pretty in this position half the night? You guessed correctly.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
King of the hill, Tuesday Edition.
A grey tabby sits atop of the platform part of a 5 foot cat tree. He surveils all that is around him. 

I don’t know what kind of beef Nick and Angie have been having since Christmas, but he appears to have suddenly and dramatically gained the upper hand as of late. This is totally Nick bragging about it.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Nick ponders his new gig as the little spoon.
Picture of two cats snuggling. Specifically, there’s a tiny but rotund ticked tabby using her hind legs to drape her herself against a longer, bigger grey tabby. The grey tabby is looking into space. Probably thinking about greebles.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Asserting dominance Friday.
A closeup of a grey cat sleeping on top of a blanketed human laying on a couch. The shot is eye level. 

I need to run errands and fix window blinds, but Nick had other ideas, and now I’m being sat on.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Much overdue update Wednesday.
Close up of a grey and white cat staring intently towards a window (not pictured). She is staring at the birds on the other side of it. Cat is not wearing any protective equipment around her neck. 

It took 4 weeks of wear, plus a struggle session or two of putting on nail caps to ensure no scratching, but Angie’s wound is officially closed. No more dime sized scabs.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Priorities Sunday.
A grey tabby and a ticked tabby look up hopefully at a human who’s holding three metallic bowls. Off camera, another cat is also watching closely. 

It doesn’t matter how chaotic everything else gets, these cats will. Be. Fed. On. Time. They make sure of it. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Intensifying stare Friday
Nick (Grey Tabby)in a rare moment where he’s paying total attention to something. That something is returning migratory birds that he’d like to kill, btw.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A cat and his boy napping, Sunday Edition.
Nick (grey tabby) sleeps on the couch, nestled right under the legs of a sleeping 12 year old boy for maximum coziness.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Undercover, Thursday edition.
Nick (grey tabby) spies on the spouse. 

Have I mentioned how I keep bringing home cats who fall in love with him? I mean, they like me enough, but I can’t hold a candle to spouse, apparently. He’s like catnip in human form. 😂
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“The atrocities persist, but so do I”, Caturday Edition.
Angie (blue tuxedo, a grey and white optimized for urban living) is still wearing her collar. Why? Because she keeps reopening her wound. So now she has to wear it until there is zero trace of anything that can be reopened (no, seriously, she was down to a mosquito bite sized pink skin area, and she gave herself another dime wide horror stigmata 😭). 

She isn’t thrilled. But at least I brought her her favorite hot dog toy to lounge with from the basement.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Planting a cat, Mardi Gras Edition.
Nick (grey tabby) loves boxes. It doesn’t matter which kind. With spring approaching, the one kid who wants to be a gardener decided to bring out his grow pods collection, but it sat on the dining room table long enough for the box to be claimed. 

I like to imagine that if we planted Nick in soil for real, a flower might actually sprout on top of his head. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The donut collar.
Angie (grey and white tabby) is still scratching her wound. This has earned her a donut collar + regular collar to keep it in place. She is none too pleased by this development.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Monorail concerns Sunday
Ashley (ticked tabby) has never seen me up and about before 7 AM. She found it so alarming that she stared at me like this for a full five minutes. 

I presume she wanted to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Potato Harvest Saturday.
Nick (grey tabby) explores one of his humans’ potato harvest. 

My child decided to start growing potatoes last spring, among other stuff (pumpkins, onions). He was telling me this morning that he wasn’t sure when he was supposed to harvest his potatoes. 

Me: “In winter, dude. Potatoes are a winter crop, remember?”

Him: “Wait. It’s winter now.”

So he spent the afternoon digging potatoes out of his large container plot in our front yard. When he came back in, showing me his yield, Nick had to supervise. 

This, of course, reminded me of his earlier adventure this week of being turned into a babuskat. 

I hope his little babuska heart is jumping for joy at the prospect of enough vodka in the future (old childhood joke).
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Going too far Sunday.
A grey tabby is wearing a bandanna, babushka style. He looks very unhappy. 

Thus is what happens when your cat loves your tween, and your tween takes advantage of that loyalty. I told tween to expect retaliation inside his shoes soon.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Mixed messages Thursday
“I missed you. 

… but I am sleepy. 

Did I mention I missed you? 

You’re my second best pillow, after all.”

Nick (grey tabby) tries not to fall asleep just in case I go on vacation again.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Them damned birds, Tuesday edition
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Convalescence edition Friday
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bonus Goodwill on Earth, and all that Jazz. Vintage edition.
Two kitties taking a snooze on a couch, together. 

The orange tabby doesn’t have a white belly. He was just extremely anxious, which manifested as over grooming his belly raw. This was taken circa 2018, right after he went on Prozac. His belly eventually healed enough that he regrew a thinner layer of fur there. 

His grey companion, Gracie, was his everything. BFF (best feline friend), sister, mother, comfy pillow. They took the most epic snoozes. 

Everyone should have a Gracie in their life at least once.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Not in the same time zone, Holiday Hiatus.
We’re on a holiday, so the cats are being looked after by their sitter. Here are some highlights: 

Ashley (ticked tabby) giving her best “I haven’t made up my mind about you” game face. Ash is usually slow to warm up. On holiday, but the cats are staying home with a cat sitter. Here are some highlights:

Nick (grey tabby) does his default “What? Whatever it is, I didn’t do it!” bit. On holiday, but the cats are staying home with a cat sitter. Here are some highlights:

Angie (grey and white tabby, aka blue tuxedo) gives her best “In need of emergency cuddles” look. Angie has become much cuddlier since Nick came to live with us. I suspect they actively see human attention as a zero sum game. 😂On holiday, but the cats are staying home with a cat sitter. Here are some highlights:

Nick (Grey tabby): “Ummmm, some privacy please?”

Ashley (ticked tabby): “Dude, it’s not like she’s taking a photo of you licking my butt, chill!”

(That is it, there’s a 4 photo limit on BS posts)
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“She’s taking my photo right now, isn’t she?” Surveillance, Sunday edition.
A ticked tabby looks a little put off and confused. The lady hiding behind the turquoise blanket just positioned her phone nearby. 

Nick (not pictured) and Ashley (pictured here) happen to be hyperaware of being photographed, much more so than our third resident feline, or the previous cats of the house. 

But whereas Nick always looks at the camera and hams it ip, Ashley is perpetually acting like the camera is a snake just barely out of view. “If I sit very still near it, it will go away. It will go away… it will go away… it will go away…”.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Caturday, Détente Edition. My cats are more interesting when the camera isn’t on.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Attention hog Friday.
A grey tabby sits on top of a weighed kick bag, directly in the line of sight fir the TV. 

Nick: “Nevermind the new The Pitt Season 2 trailer. You must bask in my glorious good looks, lady!!!” 😂
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Eepy Thursday. Nick falls asleep to the sound of Food Dad’s conference calls.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Not My Cat Monday, Wheeling Edition. Go Fishtopher, go!
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Pensive Wednesday.
A grey tabby sits on a windowsill sideways, staring at the wall instead of the window. 

Nick says “Cats can just do that.”
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Not my Cat Monday, Porch Edition
Continuing the spouse’s streak of being a cat magnet, he apparently spotted this little dude on his walk around the neighborhood last night. 

Kitty is pictured waiting for her owners patiently on her porch. Reports are the owners got home within the hour, and kitty got inside. Whew, it’s seriously rainy here in the evenings! 😅
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A picture and two moods.
A ticked tabby looks resignedly at a set of stairs. A grey tabby looks up the same set of stairs vaguely hopefully.

Nick: “You coming?”

Ashley: “Yeah, she’s gonna take the dumb picture.”
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Conversation Wednesday.
A screenshot of a text exchange. 

There’s a picture of two cats (grey tabby, ticked tabby) spooning on a cat bed. The ticked tabby is curled up in a small ball. The grey tabby, who is larger, is wrapped around her.

Accompanying texts read: 

“Mom said that Ashley is the mom, but it looks more like Ashley needs a mom to snuggle with”

“They take turns being the mom”

… for the record? 💯 agree. Not just because it was my reply (duh), but because cats organize themselves matrilineally when possible. 

It makes perfect sense that the job of “mom” is so coveted that it’s become a shared arrangement. 😂
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Paint me Like One of Your French Girls Ssturday.
Just a grey and white tabby aka a blue tuxedo, sprawling for the camera.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Centerpiece Thursday.
Angie (grey and white tabby) sits in the middle of a festive table, examining the shoddy placement of the tableware. 

Angie loves supervising.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hide under the covers Wednesday.
Ashley (ticked tabby) likes small spaces. Sometimes she’ll paw at our bed covers to ask to be let in. Then she hides under the covers, purring away, or as I like to call it, burbling. It’s basically fast and loud purring. 

Here’s a moment of Ashley’s burbling session. ❤️
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“No kisses” Sunday
Nick, grey tabby, has been kinda mad. Mad that Angie gets the good toy pickle. Mad that we won’t let him in the basement. Mad that the cleaning lady didn’t understand he didn’t want pets. 

This is him letting me know he is “angy and don’t want kisses”. So I settled for air smooches while I took this pic.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Love Overload Friday.
Angie (grey and white tabby) tests whether it’s even possible to get enough attention.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Mother and Son Tuesday.
Ashley (ticked tabby) shows Nick (grey tabby) the ropes of complete relaxation. 

When I took that shot, I went “Aww, mama and baby!”

“He’s not her baby, she’s not his actual mom”, my spouse quipped. 

Me: “How dare! She accepted him immediately when they first met, and she’s groomed him constantly, played with him, and all that! She even taught him the song of woe of their people. Adopted moms are just as real as other kinds of moms!”
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Calm vest, Sunday edition.
My child noticed that Nick calms down from his usual frenzy mode if he puts a harness on him. 

“It’s like me with my weighed blanket!” quips kid. 

He might not be wrong. We’ve noticed that he’s become a lot more anxious and aggressive in general. Part of it was the endless construction noise from the basement. Part of it has been that I’m not home as much. 

Anyway, I guess it works.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Love and purrs, Friday Edition.
Angie, white and brown tabby, giving human #2 extra TLC in the vein of a lap sit complete with purr. 

I complain a lot that I’m never the absolute favorite (that’s the spouse), but being human #2 isn’t so bad.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“You sit on a throne of clouds” edition.
Ashley, a ticked tabby, sits atop a shoulder rest pillow, which is in turn atop a regular pillow. She is softly kneading the top pillow. Not for nothing one of her nicknames is “queen of softness”.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Velcro baby Friday.
Before there was a Nick, an Angie, an Ashley, and even a Gracie, there was Boris. Before there were human babies. 

Boris thought he was my baby. So, while he was never a lap cat (too anxious), he was amenable to being held in my arms, especially if I was already sitting on the couch. He would have loved nothing better than spending entire afternoons draped on my arm. ❤️
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Birb Watching Tuesday
Angie, a grey and white tabby, supervises the goings on in the front yard, which has not been raked in a couple of weeks.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Bonus “I still love you, meowther” moment from Ashley. They all got extra pets before I had to leave the house again.
A ticked tabby looks up from her corner of a couch, giving a “Oh, it’s you. Nice to see you!” look.
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
“You haven’t been home and I’m mad” Monday. Me too, cat. Me too.
Nick the grey tabby pretends not to recognize me, because I have only been home a couple of hours a day the past few days. 

Me: “You still have three humans at home! I’m not away for fun! I’m keeping an eye on my elderly mom who broke her pelvic bone!!”

I don’t think all will be forgiven unless and until I let myself be a human hammock for a few hours in the proximate future. 🤣
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Daily Caturday @dailycaturday.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
For Halloween, a golden oldie of Boris the cat pretending to be a human baby.
An orange tabby sits on a boppy lounger pillow, circa 2014. 

At least someone got to use that pillow. My octopus child certainly never took to lounging in it. 😂
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