Cats, cats, cats, and more cats, part 4

Over half a year ago I wrote I wasn't done with showing you cats and more cats from my place.
If you are interested, you can find part 1 to 3 here, here, and here. There I said "I have quite a few around the place, some because I fell in love with them myself, others because for some weird reason people think I like cats and have given me a lot of items over the years. Really strange, I know. Why would they think something like that? 😂"

Let's start with a tiny one. An online friend had sent me a surprise parcel and among other things it had a cute little glass cat in it.
The very first miniature basket I crocheted from wire in 2010 had a little black polymer clay cat in it and some colored wire loosely stuffed in to mimic yarn. I thought I still had a picture of it, but it's probably in a "safe spot", too ... anyhow, it was my first clay cat, a little creepy looking because I was really bad at it then, and also my baskets have improved a lot after that. So this single earring is kind of a homage to my (very humble) beginnings.
I have been searching for similar glass cats since then, but never found one that worked as well as this one (it's not a bead and I don't use glue, so it needs to be a specific way for me to attach it safely).

This sweetie with the sparkle eyes was a gift, but I have to admit I'm not sure anymore by whom. It's rather heavy, so I think it would work better as a bag charm.

Bikky's print has been on my blog before, but I love it so much that I want to show it again. Bikky's model for her digital paintings is her own cat Broccoli which also gave her shop the name - "Broccoli Cat Art".
A cat on a book holding a teddy, could it be any more perfect for me?

As a kid, I had one of those animals which collapsed if you pushed on the hidden spring with your thumb although I don't remember which animal it was. I had to look up what they are called - one name for them is push puppets.
A Swiss toy maker invented them (some sources say 1926, some 1932) and called his company Wakouwa using the first letters from his name Walter Kourt Walls. Originally, they were from wood, but soon other companies began making them as well, and plastic was used, too.
Here's my (nameless) cat.

The last two are from the MUTTS universe and new additions.
I just noticed that I never really talked about cartoons here. I love cartoons and comic strips and like to say that the cartoonists I follow and who so generously share their work publicly (I wish I could support all of them) help keeping me sane in these times.
There are the timeless ones, the bizarre ones, the witty ones, the smart ones, the satirical ones, the silly ones, the creepy ones and so on (although cartoons and comics can be more than one thing, of course) - and if I could share just one word for MUTTS, it would be "warm-hearted".
Patrick McDonnell created MUTTS in 1994 telling the everyday adventures of Earl the dog (based on his own dog), Mooch the cat, and the animals and people around them.
On the website it says that "Compassion for all creatures is at the heart of MUTTS. Throughout their adventures, Mooch and Earl befriend an adorable array of creatures, including neighborhood pets and their guardians, wild animals, adoptable shelter pets and rescue workers, animals at farm sanctuaries, and more."
The stories make me smile, laugh, and sometimes cry, like the story of Guard Dog, for example, or the pleas of Shtinky Puddin', the kitten "who cares passionately about protecting endangered animals".
This magnet of Shtinky gazing into the night sky is now on my fridge.

"Hopeful Stargazing"

Then there was this comic strip.
When I looked in the shop, I couldn't find it as a print. So I reached out to the team on social media. They said they'd put in a request with the design team to resize it for a print, confirmed shortly after that it would get made available, and a few weeks later it was.
It only arrived a few days ago - much faster than I had expected, though - so I haven't chosen a frame for it yet, but I just had to show you.

For personal reasons that I don't want to go into, this strip hits really close to home in more than one way, therefore I was so glad they did that.
"Some days you hold your cat. Some days your cats holds you." 💕

You can find MUTTS on their own website, on Instagram or Facebook, you can also subscribe to a daily comic strip (I really don't have many email subscriptions, but this one gives me a boost).
I should add that I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I'm just a huge fan, and if you are an animal lover and don't know the strips yet, you maybe should have a look, too.
Also, as usual I asked beforehand if it was okay to share this.

A little warning at the end, there will definitely be a part 5.