official blog of Cat Whisker Studio

After we had our ants, which are still here but thinning out a bit, and the ducks, which have not come back, we had our biggest visitor yet to the back of the studio: a 35-year-old horse named Redrum Dakota (named before The Shining came out, if you’re wondering). RD was going for a walk with his person, when he decided the green, green grass of our back yard looked like a good destination. Needless to say this gave us all a treat–cats and human inhabitants of CWS gathered outside to visit with RD, who barely lifted his head from the free chow. We were thinking of replacing our ride-on lawnmower permanently with a four-footed version.

Sabrina came quite close, as you can see pictured, perhaps not quite believing her golden eyes. “What the heck?” was written all over her. “This is no duck!” It goes to show if you hang around long enough, pretty much everything will come by at one time or another; after the recent spate of animal visits, we’ve been expecting an elephant any day now. We have had goats and Christmas parades go by (I think we’ve had goats on floats in Christmas parades, for that matter). Down the road a large old furniture factory building was turned into artists studios, where there are painters, sculptors, furniture restorers, & hand knitters, among many others, and they attract an entire population to go by our studio. I’m not saying that I don’t love to travel, but for the cats who still believe “There’s no place like home,” it’s nice for them that the world is beating a path to their door.