Must Love Cats

My friends and I had a relatively lame night at the bars in Vienna: empty dance floors, bad music, the works. We were on our way to the gelato place to cheer ourselves up when we found this little guy on the sidewalk– and we deemed the night a success.

Big Sheep Rancher!

This is Part 3 of 4. We own a sheep ranch in the mild climate of the Pacific Northwest, and have a livestock guardian dog which lives with the sheep to protect them from predators. She is a Maremma, bred for this purpose, and she likes her job of being lazy all day in a … Continued

Merry Christmas, 1922

A friend gave me her grandmother’s antique bureau, and told me to look for old notes, as the grandmother had the habit of writing down the history of her furniture, and placing it somewhere on them. I didn’t find any notes, but I did find this old photo of a gentleman and his dog. The … Continued

Nursing Rudolph

This image was found when I picked up a book at a used book store.

Animal Greetings

I found this random message on a piece of paper with a cat photo (cut out of a newspaper or magazine) pasted onto it, apparently, from someone’s sweet mother

Attack at Random

These were posted all over my neighborhood in the North Loop area in 2006. I never saw the badger.

Lost Cat

I saw about 5 or 6 of these posted near the corner of Broome St. and Broadway. Oddly none had any contact information included. It turns out that this was written on the back side of a flier for a Psychic Shop. So, will the psychic know the number of the person who finds the … Continued

Dress-up Kitty

I think this gem was from the 1800s printed on a large glass plate negative that I found.

Lost Semi-Telepathic Cat

This poster appeared on a pole outside my house one night. There were no others like it in the neighborhood, or posted at any stores nearby. I can’t imagine how someone lost a cat pulling a wagon with balloons.