Here is a cool picture tweeted by the Defense of Ukraine Twitter account. I always love to see the Ukrainian soldiers receiving some love from a domestic cat who's probably a stray having lost their owner to death or disappearance. Here, with soldiers, they can find some human caregiving and contact. We don't know for how long. This war - Putin's invasion of a sovereign territory - is appalling. The Russian war crimes are horrendous. I hope they pay the price. A war tribunal is being set up as I understand it both inside Ukraine and in Northern Europe (believed The Netherlands). Ukraine soldier with tabby cat. Image: Twitter. And here is a funny response also from Twitter: Feline reinforcements arrive to defend Ukraine. Image: Twitter. I should not omit dogs. They also provide a lot of comfort to the Ukraine military and vice versa. They have a home for a while. But life is very fragile. These human-to-cat relationships are liable to be shattered at any minute.

Nursery maine-coon`s LuKoshkino for the first time on the TV! Little did I know when I first found bortapir's wonderful videos posted on YouTube how the story would evolve/devolve. All I knew was that the sum total of the YouTubes he posted were quite wonderful. As I said in my first post about this, no single YouTube was "the best cat video ever" (phrase I have seen way too many times, watching kitteh videos). But, I watched them all, and put together, they really told a story of Maine coon kitteh love in a household in Russia. Here is my first post about these Maine coon kittehs in Russia. So, as it has turned out, bortapir and wife really love Maine coons (which was already apparent from previous YouTubes I'd watched), and that they love them so much that they started a Maine coon Nursery, that is, they became serious about Maine coons, and now have their own "cattery". The link is here. I previously posted an Italian TV interview with a man who breeds...

This is another video from the wonderful series that documents the life of Maine coons in a Russian household. The first installment, with more information is here After watching the first installment, Marion in Savannah, always the astute observer of cats, said: "Ah... I can see that they have one of the "I can travel all the way across the room without touching the floor" kittehs." Marion, I have news for you- they have flying electrobrooms. ("Flying electrobroom" was the title of the following YouTube.) And, it looks like they have a installed a training track for practice! Boris has told me that he has to rely on a translation program to write in English. (Uh, I have to do the same for anything not in English.) And, the translations programs I've used are, er, rather imprecise. I've been scratching my head, trying to figure out how the term "electrobroom" might have come about in translation. No idea. But, I have to say it is r...

I love finding vids of cats around the world. This YT is one of many that document the kitteh adventure in one Russian household. I've watched all of the kitteh vids from this YTer, "bortapir". As far as I tell, there are four Maine coon kittehs in this household. And, the kittehs have all kinds of nice toys to play with. Even though no single YT from bortapir is "the best cat video ever" (a phrase that SOME people put up in the YT title), as a collective aka oeuvre, they are wonderful, charming and fascinating. If you click on the direct link, you can then find more videos. Or, go to botrapir's YT page directly, to find them all, and where he provides this info: "I basically photograph, but here I will show my rare videos about myself, to a family, my favourite cats and everything that has drawn my attention and, I hope, can interest others.:)" (Boris, age 48, Ryazan, Russia) Title: "Evening ring and other entertainments". Direct l...