I fully admit that I am a complete and utter cat lover. Some of my longest relationships have been with cats. I find most cats to be intriguing and independent creatures with marvelous and diverse personalities. I'd like to share with you the photos of many of the cats who have shared their lives with me and a couple that currently still do.
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| Growltiger "Tiggy" Whitman was a marvelous and funny calico. She truly believed that ignorance was bliss and treated life with abandon. She would love to run from window to window, yelling "Purrrrrt" at whoever would listen. Her favorite game was Chase the Flashlight. |
When Tiggy passed away from kidney failure, I was in
the middle of learning the fine art of throwing pottery on a potter's
wheel. Since I was an apartment dweller and didn't have a good burial
place for her, I made an urn for her ashes. I tried to capture the jolly
spirit of her within the urn's silhouette and coloration.
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| Miss Pansy Posie Toes was a wonderful "marsh" cat. She had 5 toes on each paw and looked very much like she was wearing mittens. She loved perching in unlikely places such as the top edge of an open door or the little ledges made from the junction of the top pane and the lower pane of a window frame. She brought much joy to me in her short but energetic life. | Pansy's urn was created as an experiment in thrown and assembled pottery. Her urn was thrown in 4 separate sections and assembled in the leatherhard stage. The footprints on the urn display the unusual 5-toed pattern that was Pansy's hallmark. |
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| Miss Mozart Bonie Toes Taiwan was my constant companion for 14 years. She and I had a wonderful relationship; one that would be next to impossible to duplicate. She would often speak to me, not in mere sentences, but rather in paragraphs in that wonderful Siamese yowl. To this day, I still miss her terribly. | My vision for her urn (which is LONG overdue in being constructed) is a loose replica of an Egyptian funerary jar. The finial will be of a siamese cat rather than the traditional hawk, monkey, hippo or jackal. |
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| Queen "Queenie" Nefertiti Cocoa Bean is one of my current companions. She is one of the ditziest, most loyal cats I've ever had the pleasure of residing with. She has recently determined that my son is hers. She will often attack me when he's crying during a diaper change because she thinks I'm hurting him. She watches him while he sleeps and even allows him to grab her with his not-so-gentle grip. | My other fuzzy companion is Princess Nishnabotna "Nishna" Heptepshut. We haven't determined if we just named her well or if she lived up to the name we gave her. She is definitely the Princess and demands tuna and a clean litter box almost constantly. |