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Aby-a-Day - 19 Maj 2020: Kiipi and her kitten - Work in progress (Cartoon Tuesday)

Aby-a-Day – 19 Maj 2020: Kiipi and her kitten – Work in progress (Cartoon Tuesday)

Last week, my friend Sanna-Leena posted this awesome photo of Kiipi and her kitten on the Facebook group This IS an airport, please announce your departure: Aeroplane ear posting. I love Kiipi, and I have drawn her before. When I saw this photo, I wanted to draw it.

I tilted the photo a little, so I could add in their tails. This is my preliminary sketch.

I decided I wanted each cat on its own…

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Aby-a-Day: 8 Februari 2020: Instead of Örebro, a tale of Finland (Cat Show Saturday)(Part 1)

Aby-a-Day: 8 Februari 2020: Instead of Örebro, a tale of Finland (Cat Show Saturday)(Part 1)

Note: today and tomorrow’s posts were written by Björn. We were supposed to go to our favourite show in Örebro, but for a constellation of reasons, we had to stay home. Since I had planned to do cat show posts this weekend, I thought I would share Björn’s account of Jacoby’s Big Finland Adventure.

We left for Stockholm on Thursday, 29 September.

It was our first time travelling with a cat EU…

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Shout-out to Summer! I sent a few gifts to our Somali friend Summer in California for a (belated) Christmas gift.

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Happy Birthday, Molly!

One of my best friends in the Abyssinian world, Molly of Tigerlower Abyssinians, has a couple of major life events happening this month. At the end of the month, she is retiring…but today is her 80th birthday! Since Molly considers the CFA her extended family, I’m part of a birthday greetings blitz. Since she considers her friends in CFA her extended family. I am trying to create a birthday…

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Abys are Everywhere and Singas are Super: Cat breed zodiac Aby-friend Rachel posted this on Facebook, and I had to share it. Not only does it feature an Abyssinian for Aries...but my sign, Gemini, is a Singapura! I actually did laugh out loud when I saw it.

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Other People's Abys - Ailsa and Gus

Other People’s Abys – Ailsa and Gus

The other day, my friend Ailsa, who own Greenman Pet Services in San Jose, CA, posted a selfie of herseld with one of her clients. This is Gus the Abyssinian…isn’t he handsome? .

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Aby-a-Day - June 1: Happy birthday to me!

Aby-a-Day – June 1: Happy birthday to me!

So today is my 49th birthday. Very weird feeling, I must say. Next year is going to be…interesting. Because of this blog and the Abyssinian Cat Club on Facebook, however, I’ve gotten birthday greetings from, literally, all over the world. I love the fact that I have friends all over the world who think enough to say Happy Birthday – from Australia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium,…

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