Cats in NY - Harlem

In a recent trip to NY, a place that I simply adore, I found a cute cat in a grocery in Harlem, just when I was passing by. A super friendly cat! Cheers to the NY cats.

Cats in Paris - Cemetery Pére Lachaise

this cute cat was at the famous Cemetery Pére Lachaise in Paris. just wen I was searching the famous Jim Morison's grave I saw this cute lovely cat, I was taking some pictures and when I look back... there it was: Jim Mosrinson's Grave... just there... how mysterious ah?

Cats in Paris - Versailles

Cats in Paris - Versailles

This are the lovely cats that live in the gardens of Versailles Paris, they were so cute, and friendly....

San Francisco Ca - USA

San Francisco Ca - USA

Cats in the streets of San Francisco... this particular one is at the doors of Macy's... Macy's should adopt him, just a suggestion:)

San Francisco Ca - USA

Ohhh San Francisco is a wonderful magical city! People are so friendly, even to the cats... People beg in the streets with cats... this is a bit sad, but it's peculiar just like San Francisco...

Balboa Island California

Balboa Island California

Just more nice cats...

Cats in Balboa Island - California

This island in Orange County is a wonderful island, that promotes the transparency of the homes...
Cats her are huge, well treated, cute and friendly. Cats socialize with nice humans...:) I'm just sorry i only went at night ....

Just a cat

“Cats are magical… the more you pet them the longer you both live. “

Portugal - Sintra

Barcelona- Parque Guel

Portugal

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

T S Elliot

Greece - Santorini

# "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

Help save the Greece Cats!!!!

I went to Greece the first time in 1997. If you look into my blog you will see that I really like cats.

About 10 years ago Greece’s Islands and Athens were full of cats. I went there and had so much fun, and I thought that Greek people are so cool, because they all like cats. All of them had 5 or sometimes 10 cats! That country was the cat’s paradise, and mine, also . I went to to Greece this year (2007). I was so disappointed; in Athens I didn’t even see a single cat, just dogs, all abandoned. I also like dogs, but that was too much, everyone has a huge dog at his door, and that leaves no room for cats, I was so sad and disappointed at the same time. My memories were dead, now Athens is the capital of massive dogs.

In the islands I hoped the scenario was different; but to my big disappointment, the scenario was almost the same. The dogs hurt the cats, and they eat the cat’s food, because they were all homeless. Cat’s eventually are going to disappear from Greece streets. Now the old calendars and the cups that said “Greece Cats”, were rare, just like the cats. I have several pictures here, in my blog, but I passed days looking for the cats, to take these pictures.

I hope that if you read this, you will defend the cat’s rights all over the world, but especially in Greece. No one wants to go to Greece and look to huge dogs biting themselves all over, in the gardens and in the streets.

Please write a message, on a message board of the first minister of Greece, asking him to declare the cat a national tourist interest.

http://www.primeminister.gr/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=104

http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/MailForm.aspx?UICulture=en-US


Be happy and… purrrrrrry!

Greece - Santorini - Oia

"Cats Are Not impure; they keep watch about us." - The Prophet Mohammed

Greece - Santorini - Oia

"Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions." - Cleveland Amory

Greece - Island of Santorini - Thira

"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself." - Unknown

Greece - Island of Santorini - Oia

"Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures,they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively." - Roni Schotter

Greece - Island of Santorini - Thira

"In reality, cats are probably better off remaining indoors and sending out their humans to deal with the outside world." - Dr. Phyllis Sherman Raschke

Greece - Island of Naxos - Tripodes

"No heaven will not ever be Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me." - Unknown

Greece - Island of Naxos

"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased,which is more than can be said for human beings." - William Ralph Ingen

Greece - Naxos

"There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person." - Dan Greenberg

Portugal - Belmonte

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." - Nan Porter

Portugal - Serra da Estrela

"Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously."
- Louis F. Camuti

Bosnia - ...

"Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow." - Anonymous

Bosnia

"Bless their little pointed faces and their big, loyal, loving hearts. If a cat did
not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed?" - Winifred Carriere

Croatia - Island of Krk

"When anyone mistreats it, the cat wants nothing more to do with that person
and will remember him or her for a long time. It doesn't believe in the doctrine
of turning the other cheek and won't pretend that it does." - Lawrence N. Johnson

Croatia - Zagreb

"A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person."
- Mugsy Peabody

Croatia - Island of Olib

"I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because
the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?"
- Wendy Liebman

Portugal - North

"Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously." - Louis F. Camuti

Morocco somewhere in the country

"If animals could speak the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain

Morocco somewhere in the country

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogsshould relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Morocco - Fez

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."- Nan Porter

Spain - Malaga

"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased,which is more than can be said for human beings." - William Ralph Ingen

Morocco

"Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions." - Cleveland Amory

Morocco

"Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror."Anais Nin