Cat Clowder

04/25/2026

Meow, Clowder!

Today’s cat slang is floof:

Floof - A cat with an excessive amount of fur, usually associated with long-haired cats.

Let’s see photos of your floofs in the comments!!

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/25/2026

Meow, Clowder!

The Singing Cat

It was a little captive cat
Upon a crowded train
His mistress takes him from his box
To ease his fretful pain.
She holds him tight upon her knee
The graceful animal
And all the people look at him
He is so beautiful.
But oh he pricks and oh he prods
And turns upon her knee
Then lifteth up his innocent voice
In plaintive melody.
He lifteth up his innocent voice
He lifteth up, he singeth
And to each human countenance
A smile of grace he bringeth.
He lifteth up his innocent paw
Upon her breast he clingeth
And everybody cries, Behold
The cat, the cat that singeth.
He lifteth up his innocent voice
He lifteth up, he singeth
And all the people warm themselves
In the love his beauty bringeth.

- Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist. Her first book of poetry, ‘A Good Time Was Had By All’ was published in 1937. That title is how the catchphrase “a good time was had by all” came into existence. Smith was a lifelong cat lover, and wrote the text of the 1959 coffee-table book ‘Cats in Colour’ She passed of a brain tumour on March 7, 1971.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/24/2026

Meow, Clowder!

We’re wrapping up our Twain Days celebration with some of our favorite musings on cats by him:

"A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well."

"Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these."

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."

"A home without a cat -- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat -- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

"You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use."

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again."

"I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know..."

"That's the way with a cat, you know -- any cat; they don't give a damn for discipline. And they can't help it, they're made so... It sets him above the whole ruck, it puts him in a class by himself. He is independent. You understand the size of it? He is the only independent person there is. In heaven or anywhere else... He's your friend, if you like, but that's the limit -- equal terms, too, be you king or be you cobbler; you can't play any I'm-better-than-you on a cat -- no, sir! Yes, he's your friend, if you like, but you got to treat him like a gentleman, there ain't any other terms."

Paws and Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/22/2026

Meow, Clowder!

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."

- Mark Twain

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/22/2026

Meow, Clowder!

We meowed the other day about Mister Rogers and his love of cats. Here he is with Jimmy, a cat that belonged to a friend, in 1986 and again in 1991.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/20/2026

Meow, Clowder!

Happy Birthday, also, to my sister, Pacifica! She lives with friends of my mom.

Can mew tell who is who?

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/20/2026

Meow, Clowder!

It’s The Professor’s human mom, here. Today is her 8th birthday, so I’d like to take a moment to wish my little darling the happiest of birthdays, and thank her for helping to save my life.

Because of this beautiful kitty, I found hope and purpose. She came to me as a 1 1/2 week old kitten right after I had the first of many, many eye surgeries. This page was created as a means to help me cope during those horrible years of surgeries and eventually eye loss.

I could no longer see well enough to stay employed. I couldn’t drive anymore. I was home all day, every day, feeling worthless and bored silly. So, what better way to feel useful than to teach a cat how to use technology so they can run their own FB group?!

This little Clowder has now grown to over 34,000 strong and counting, and in my opinion, has become one of the kindest corners of FB.

MEOWZERS!

There was a point when I didn’t know how or if I would ever feel useful or happy again. Through The Professor, and this cattastic, fun, kind, supportive group of fellow cat lovers I regained a sense of purpose.

Thank mew to all of mew for making this possible, but especially to The Professor, my best friend, healer, and walking embodiment of joy and love.

Happy Birthday, my darling Boom Boom Kitty!

Thank mew to all of the Clowder humans for making this page such a joyful place.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

Katie, The Professor’s mom

04/19/2026

04/19/2026

Meow, Clowder!

We present to mew, Twain’s “Cat-Tale.” Because this is a longer one, we are posting images of the pages, so mew may read it in its entirety. It was published in the book, “Letters from the Earth,” which is a collection of essays published posthumously in 1939.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/18/2026

Meow, Clowder!

Feline good – The feline version of “feeling good.” Used to express happiness and contentement.

Taking the cat nap in this photo had me feline good.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/18/2026

Meow, Clowder!

This is an old RC Cola advertisement from the 1940’s. Twain had already been gone roughly 30 years when this came out.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador

04/18/2026

Meow, Clowder!

Let’s meow about an embarrassing topic: kitty dandruff. Usually, dandruff is caused by living in a hot climate, or hot, dry, home, and can be easily taken care of. If mew have dandruff, here are a few tips mew can try:

1. Give your cat a bath with an oatmeal and aloe shampoo.(Baths aren’t so bad. I even attached a picture of myself getting ready for one to help ease your fears.)

2. Start running a humidifier.

3. Add a little water to their wet food.

4. Brush them every morning and night.

5. Make sure they always have water available.

6. Add fish oil to their food.

7. Buy a kitty moisturizing oil.

If, after a few weeks, the dandruff still hasn’t gone away, please take your kitty to the vet to make sure they don’t have a parasite, or any other underlying health condition.

Paws & Purrs 🐾,

The Professor, Kitty Clowder Cat Ambassador