Ocean Beach has a colony of parrots, originally from northeast Mexico, who have decided to kick back and enjoy the Bohemian vibe and counterculture traditions of OB. I love these birds and how colorful and loud they are. When they finally showed up, I called Alexis on her cell phone. As a result of a [...]
I’m not sure what it is, but I like the colors and I’m impressed to be seeing a magnificent creature like this one outdoors on a cold late-fall afternoon. Incidentally, I asked it about current political issues of the day but it did not reply.
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They’re getting fed up. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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This is an old-fashioned street tomcat who understood the meaning of freedom. He would come and go at will, disappear for months on end, reliably doing exactly as he pleased. He was old in the 1950’s. By 1969, when this photograph was taken, he had cheated death so many times that death decided to go [...]
St. Gertrude of Nivelles, Abbess, is the Patron Saint of Cats. Today is her day. Personally, I must say I am outraged that St. Gertrude would be invoked to support a controversial idea that is being discussed in various right-wing circles across America today.
I’m not thinking of the so-called conservative commentators who have been speaking [...]
Everybody knows that San Diego is one of the nicest places to live. At least that’s what people say. It turns out that we’re not the only species that likes it here. Take this bird, for example. This is one representative of a “sustainable colony” of parrots that has taken up residence in Ocean Beach. [...]
The elegant white pooch is an Arctic Wolf named Ice. You don’t see magnificent predators like this one every day. One great thing about having a gigantic white wolf for a pet is that you don’t have to buy it any food! This friendly animal is fully capable of feeding itself. Another bonus: a huge [...]
Millions of people all over the world have been inspired by President Obama. Americans are pulling together as never before.
We can learn from the past. We’ve shared hard times before. This picture was taken back when President Jerry Ford was encoraging us to wear “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) buttons. The cat’s name is Dragon. Back [...]
Here is a fine cat named Tribble. Like many of the animals in these pages, Tribble has been dead for many years. Yet this cat remains a splendid role model for us all. Not only was he a noble, kitten-protecting big cat, he had a glorious attitude toward life. Tribble was the sort of cat [...]
Here is another of my mom’s great early color photographs from the 1950’s. She took this picture of a kitten named Trinket back in December 1958. The family cats didn’t start to get weird until the 1960’s.
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This was one of the crazier cats I grew up with in the Hollywood Hills. She was named Mad Carew, a perfect description as well as a catchy moniker. Is she using keen powers of concentration? Is she in touch with a higher consciousness? Or is she nuts? (This is an easy question.)
This photograph is [...]
The latest visitor to our tiny slice of unpaved suburbia is this bird, which hung out with us for a couple of hours before flying off. The bird and I watched one another for quite a while.
Who was this bird? Why did this bird choose this place? How come it was alone – don’t birds [...]
This rather nervous-looking cat was named Dracula because of his fondness of going for the neck of anybody wearing perfume. They all had it coming. Already I have featured one of the other weird cats from the spring of 1974. Don’t worry, there’s more where this came from! We had 12 cats in the house [...]
