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stormybailey.bsky.social
The CatWirks
@stormybailey.bsky.social
Dedicated to Snow, my beautiful Snowshoe rescue. Current home of feralish cats Foxx and Tabouli. This is also where I nap, write, bend wire, string beads, paint, draw, drink coffee and occasionally wash dishes. All photos mine unless indicated.
Tabouli came in last night after being out all the night before. Foxx played with her until she was exhausted. Stella came in to eat and wanted back outside immediately. So I guess I have a pet, a stray and a feral. And nothing is the same from day to day. #SnowPlaceFerals
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Temps were 20 F last night. I had 3 overnight guests. All behaved beautifully and retired early, Tabouli and Stella under a chair and Foxx in a sweatshirt-lined box. They are no longer ferals. They are pets now, out doing their usual morning things. We'll see if they come back inside tonight.
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Day 21 Kate Bush's This Woman's Work was featured in "She's Having a Baby" with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. Soundtrack also included "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke, covered here a capella by Laurence Fishburne, Charlie Sheen et al in "Cadence." #DavidsMonthOfMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl65...
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
feral boi wants to be my boi. Tonight Foxx walked away from his food to come love on me. Plans to TNR him but he soooo wants inside. He would be someone's wonderful pet. But I want someone to love him as I do and be kind to this sweet, gentle, loving void. #SnowPlaceFerals #CatsOfBluesky #aww
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Tabouli has stolen my heart (don't tell Snow). She was so happy to see me, she purred and did a little dance, making biscuits on the concrete porch. She and Denzel are tolerating my picking them up, if squirmily. Here is Denzel, master of all he surveys. #CatsOfBluesky #SnowPlaceFerals #Cats
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Chain game.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Spike is a girl.

She finally trusts me to check her for identifying traits. She has a white star on her throat and a white merkin. Google it. She has a most attractive blep. She also has no boy parts.

Now I cannot stop calling her Stella even tho Spike is a perfectly good name for a molly.
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
everything about this photo is perfect. Def frameworthy. Something about downspouts. Here's one I did a few years back:
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Tabouli & Denzel finally trust me. Tabs' tail serves as a chastity belt but she rolled belly up last week. Def a little femme. Yesterday was 1st time she did not flinch when I stroked her back. Denzel has a long battle scar on left rear leg. First feral to let me pet him. Healing for us all 💕
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My first year in 5 to welcome trick-or-treaters, 3 little ones and 3 big ones (16, I think). I had 4 cats (Denzel loved them), 1 Care Bear and 1 princess who thought the whole thing was suspicious. I couldn't remember where I put the candy so I gave out snack size Fritos. They were a hit.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
your guide to Halloween baking.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
After a summer of doctors/vet visits, Snow and I are glad for autumn! After a year of socializing my ferals, I am able to actually pet them! Beautiful voids Spike, Denzel and Jimi show up for meals with sweet, shy gray tabby, Tabs. Bonding with her has been slow but no one can resist me for long.
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I spent several days wondering if we have two gray tabbies or just one. This is Diva. If she is the only one, then she is a shape shifter.

Snow looks for her all day. Snow lets me know when porch food needs replenishing. Diva is family, whether she likes it or not. But I suspect that she does. <3
April 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
George was out back by the old shed.
I stepped out to say hi.
He got ready to bolt but didn't.

Then at the front door,
George was waiting!
How could he run that fast?

Back to the kitchen for cat food.

OMG, there are two Georges!

I have another black kitten!
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
March 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am breaching my own policy for a minute. I am so embarrassed. On so many levels. About so many things. But most of them about what passes for government in my country.

Rant ends here.

This has been a Public Service Announcement. Or not.
March 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the area sirens just sounded. Thunderstorm coming in like a bomb. Head for shelter. Half a banana for scale. #weirdweather
#bringyourpetsin #MemphisWeather
March 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@igor-yankov.bsky.social This is the one daffodil in bloom right now. #spring #flower #hope #steadfast
March 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Snow came to me crying. Something was amiss.

What? Kitty chores were done. But she insisted.

I said, "Show me."

She led me to the door.

George had spilled his food.

For the first time ever, he didn't scurry when I stepped outside. Here's proof. <3 #SnowshoeCat #CatsOfBluesky #FeralLove
March 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Snow's tail does not want to be washed and puts up a spirited fight for freedom. Snow is puzzled at my laughter. Surely this is serious business.
#SnowDays #SnowshoeCat #CatsOfBluesky
#BlueskyCats #Cats
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm unfollowing some folks today. Not personal; believe me, I enjoy being in community again. But my job is covering world events and politics and I am tired of that man getting every headline in the news.

When I joined, my news feed was full of art. I'm working my way back to that. Best to all.
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I was somewhere yesterday and this popped up. My first thought was, "Sardonicus." Alas, it wasn't yours. Hopperstad Church, Norway.
March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
funniest thing I have seen today.
March 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's my day off and I'm in boycott. But it's gorgeous outside. Snow's feral friends ignored breakfast, maybe to hunt their own food. So she cries all morning with a need I cannot satisfy: peer companionship.

My solution: Nap-inducing bird videos with sound. #SnowDays #SnowshoeCat #CatsOfBluesky
February 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM