Friday Cat Blogging – 13 May 2011

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Monika Bauerlein,
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It’s Friday the 13th! To commemorate the occasion, here’s a picture of a black cat looking….unlucky. Or something. And anyway, Domino is only mostly black. Can a cat with white paws really be unlucky? On the right, we have Inkblot pushing his luck as he climbs up the rose bush in our backyard. There was something on the sidewalk outside our house that attracted his attention, but I don’t know what. Whatever it was, he got bored quickly and hopped down. Hopefully without stepping on a thorn first.