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A Cat May Look At A King

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“His day-dream was suddenly shattered into a thousand fragments like a lance against plate-armour. He saw the flash of a jewelled shoe-buckle as the toe of the royal shoe caught him in the ribs. He heard the royal voice raised in petulant indignation. He felt himself flying through the air and landing on the hard […]

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The First Ship’s Cat

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There were many reasons to have cats on ships. Rodents were one reason, but did you know cats were believed to have magical powers able to protect a ship at sea. Legend and myth are filled with stories about ship cats, and every ship had a few. It is believed that during the 15th-18th centuries […]

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Cat and Mouse’s Christmas Poem

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“Cat gifted Mouse scraps of yarn from his ball. Mouse gifted Cat a felted acorn he found last Fall.” Cat and Mouse’s Christmas Poem by Phebe Phillips This poem was written in 2018 by Phebe Phillips. It is an annual reading on this podcast. In this episode Phebe Phillips reads her delightful poem, Cat and […]

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Charles, About the Naming of Cats

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“I’ve had large families of cats. Among them many memorable personalities. I’ve been greatly attached to perhaps a dozen cats in the last twenty years, but of all my cats, there has never been a cat like my first Siamese, Charles O’ Malley.” The words of writer, journalist, and publisher, Michael Joseph Charles, The Story […]

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