July Fourth

Independence Day for Us, But Not for Our Animal Companions

Be safe Fourth of July

October 9, 2012

Mother's Day: Charlie and Her 5 Black Kittens

Why I Love Black Cats...They are good luck!! and very sweet, loving and cuddly!!

Black cats are the last to get adopted, so we really get to know them and their personalities.

Mother’s Day is celebrated around the world, a day to thank mothers, grandmothers, aunts 

and other important women in our lives.

M A D R E 

BUDDY

MAGIC IN THE AIR 
<3   AUGUST 24, 2010 ~ JANUARY 31, 2013

Walk on the Wild Side

THE CATS MEOW: THE CATS THE STAR

A melodrama staring Jane Fonda among others. The most interesting part of the film is the opening title sequence, (by Saul Bass), where a black tom strolls nonchalantly around before picking a fight with a white cat. The slow tracking shots serve to emphasize the grace and majesty of the cat, which is shockingly juxtaposed with the viciousness and brutality of the fight, revealing the cat as a the truly wild animal it really is, as opposed to the pet we would like to believe we own.

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) Tom cat title sequences
Location: The Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello.

Despite Walk on the Wild Side's scandalous story, the film adaptation's title song has become something of a gospel standard.

THIS IS AN ADULT PICTURE!  Movie titles

    With Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter,   Barbara Stanwyck, Joanna Moore

A side of life you never expected to see on screen.

Saul Bass  -  title sequence

 SMOKING IN BED

Walk On The Wild Side -BEST title/credits sequence Ever!!! HD

SCIENCE OF CATS

More than 600 million claim residence in households across six continents ... and now they may have dethroned dogs as the most popular pet on earth. An exterminator, fierce hunter and favorite companion, aloof and affectionate at the same time, the cat leapt out of the wood and adopted us on its own terms thousands of years ago. But how did man and beast form their unconventional relationship?

Most unusual relationship Fum and Gebra

And you thought cats only ate birds?      Dinner?

Publicity Postcard for the Fight of the Century:  "That's what they called the epic fight in 1916 between Mr Jinxie, the American fighting cat, and the German dachsund, Ludwig von Breslau-Menken. In the cruel sport of animal fighting these two were the champions in the light weight category. Because of the the Great War and growing concerns by Humane Societies about these fights, it was held at a neutral site, Berne, Switzerland. Gamblers came in large numbers from the US and Germany. Animal Rights advocates showed up and began street protests outside the fight venue."

  TURBO CAT  ~ offensive weaponry from a 16th century German manuscript

County Animal Services have feral cats that will work for food.

Familiars and Familiar Spirits

Cat Discrimination

Why don’t you love me?

We’re just a week from Halloween, which means that owners of black cats across the country are starting to keep a nervous eye on their loving pets, lest they be subjected to holiday-inspired pranks. Around this time of year, says University of California, Berkeley, black cats “can be associated with bad luck and witches,” a prejudice that persists not just for a few months in the fall, but actually has important consequences year-round for the fates of these felines. People ascribe certain personality traits to cats of different colors, a bias that skews adoption rates and leaves some cats—particularly black ones—in the lurch.

Surveying cat owners, Mikel Delgado and colleagues found that people are “more likely to assign positive personality traits to orange cats and less favorable ones to white and tortoiseshell ones. Orange cats were largely regarded as friendly, white cats as aloof and tortoiseshell cats as intolerant.”

“What about black cats?”

Don’t be so fast to judge a cat by its color, study warns

CHAT WITH CATS 
"Give me the precious back!"

B L A C K   C A T S

Cary Grant's Daughter Pens Memoir of Her Legendary Father

Cary Grant   (1904–1986)

North by Northwest (1959)

Cary Grant Movies

tURNIER cLASSIC mOVIES, cARY gRANT

   Suzy,    A  French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Ultimate Cary Grant  
Poeskine:  "Cats always see more than any photographer"

Teddy WARNS: Sharks in the Water

GREAT WHITE SHARK

Hosted By Teddy The A--hole Cat

 Sea Lion Attacked..  Jul 24, 2012  Hungry Shark in Waters Near Santa Barbara
Great White Shark Warning Signs Posted Between Leadbetter Point & East Beach In Santa Barbara
8.15.2012 6:21 p.m. Santa Barbara Beaches Quiet in Wake of Great White Shark Sighting

  Sharks in the Water

Warning Signs Posted After Great White Shark Sighting Off Santa Barbara

Great White Shark Spotted off Southern California Coast

August 9, 2012  Shark Sightings at Gaviota State Park Pier

7.03.2010  Attacks on sea lions prompt advisory; surfer bitten off Shell Beach

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE:  June 29, 2010
GREAT WHITE SHARKS TERRORIZE SANTA BARBARA

How do you treat stray animals?

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  Animal welfare activism

Friday quotes - Brigitte Bardot   Actress and Model, b.1934 

Paris, France   "Percentages are why I am rich"

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

 ...Jane Fonda...She readily admits that she allowed each of her three husbands to reinvent her, starting with Roger Vadim, the French film director who turned her into Barbarella, a sexy sci-fi secret agent, with an emphasis on sexy.

Following Brigette Bardot…

Filmology... Arguably film's first sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot grew up in a wealthy, conservative French Catholic family.

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam? 
Brigitte Bardot, the actress and animal rights campaigner, has offered to take the place of the founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group in prison.

BRIGETTE BARDOT YOU TUBE 

mother of invention 

ADORABLE. The owl and the pussycat

One has fur and the other has feathers, but that doesn't mean they can't be friends.

GUARDIAN:  What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. 

~Aristotle (384 BC – 7 March 322 BC)

The owl and the pussycat

Adorable: Black cat and barn owl playing together
FUM AND GEBRA OFFICIAL SITE

FACEBOOK FUM AND GEBRA

YOUTUBE FUM AND GEBRA

Falconry

Owls in Falconry Today

Magic in the air

BUDDY

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 Crape Myrtle

Ray Bradbury RIP

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012
Ray Bradbury dies at 91

Ray Bradbury

WIKI-Bradbury

When Legends Gather #657

Ray Bradbury remembered by game developers at E3

Author Ray Bradbury, who wrote 'Fahrenheit 451' at UCLA, dies

In Memoriam: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012

Remembering my interview with Ray Bradbury

Why Bradbury's words will live forever

Waukegan's landscape, values never left Bradbury

Author's hometown, under the pseudonym 'Green Town,' was setting for some of his novels

"Keep on Truckin' "

Gotye Dog Parody - Somebody That I Used To Know

26th Annual I Madonnari Street Painting - Santa Barbara Mission -

 26-28 May 2012

 "Somebody That I Used To Know"

 CUTE DOG AND CAT

Precious

It's A Grilled Cheese Cat!

Bud Ruff Channel

Cat Breeds

Cheezburger

Precious (Cirque du soleil)

for the birds

April 20, 2012: Birds strike Joe Biden's plane as it lands in California; nobody hurt.  It's not clear what kind of birds collided with the giant Boeing 757. Biden was in Santa Barbara for a fundraiser.

And a bird also interfered with Hillary Clinton's plane while she was flying from Brussels to Paris. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

KEYT:  Air Force Two, a modified Boeing 757, was inspected for damage and departed Santa Barbara for an undisclosed location Saturday morning.

August 11, 2010: Vice President Joe Biden's Air Force 2 in minor accident with small plane on Long Island runway.  There were no injuries as the Bidens' 747 jet lifted off from Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton.

Mean Black Cat Blues

Mean Black Cat Blues -- Charlie Patton, 1929

It's a mean black cat, Lordy, clawin' on my door.
It's a mean black cat, Lordy, clawin' on my door.
I'm going to Louisiana, where I won't hear it whine no more.

Black Cat Bistro    *    
 Black Cat dc    * 


 'Cuddly Catz' Program Saves Strays By Pairing Them With Prison Inmates

Le Chat Noir

Le Chat Noir

Le Chat Noir: Historic Montmartre Cabaret

Paris and Cats

Chat Noir: The First Cabaret
'Le Chat Noir opened in 1881 in a tiny apartment in Montmartre. When it closed in 1897 (in a larger location) it was one of the most famous salons in the world. The Chat Noir created a new style of get-togethers and entertainment.'

Le Chat Noir is a Cabaret Theater and is New Orleans' premier venue for music, cocktails and cabaret

HOLLYWOOD HUNTS A BLACK CAT

1961
Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., Published caption:HOLLYWOOD HUNTS A BLACK CAT
-Out of this sidewalk full of black cats one may be chosen for the title role in (natch) "The Black Cat," one of three segments in "Tales of Terror," which American International Pictures is casting at Producers Studio. Director Roger Corman hopes to find six look-alikes--one to star, the others to stand in--for the movie thriller starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Joyce Jameson.

Superstition, prejudice, bringer of good or bad luck


largest selection of photos

Black Cat Auditions in Hollywood (1961)


An Open Audition For The Purr-fect Black Cat

Cinema Cat

Cinema Enthusiast

 

BLACK CATS

 What About Black Kittens?
Black kittens are some of the cutest kittens ever! Unfortunately, they come with a stigma of superstition. Many people believe that black cats are bad luck and therefore will not adopt them. Did you know that black kittens get euthanized at much higher rates than any other color cat? It is simply because less people are willing to adopt them.
Stray Black    Cats Roam London Selling Video Games

Black cats last to be adopted

Black Cats You Tube

Black Cats: A Brief History
This dates back at least as far as Ancient Egypt when the goddess Bast reigned in the 22nd dynasty. To court her favor, many Egyptians brought black cats into their households in the belief that Bast's spirit would become intertwined with the soul of the cat and prosperity would follow. Both rich and poor Egyptian families embalmed their deceased pets. Archaeologists have discovered entire pet cemeteries with mummified black cats.
In the 17th century, Charles I of England fiercely loved his precious black cat, going so far as to keep it under 24-hour guard. Eventually, the cat died. Charles I was heard to proclaim, "Alas my luck is gone!" The next day, he was arrested and charged with high treason and ultimately was executed.
In Scotland, a strange black cat on a porch is considered to bring prosperity. In Italy, a sneezing cat is good luck. In parts of Europe, if a black cat crosses your path, you are considered to have good fortune, and if a black cat walks into your home, you are truly blessed.

So when did black cats become a symbol of evil and misfortune?

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