For the last Caturday of 2025 reader Georgiana Y. shares a story of kindness, and of hope for the future:

I call her The Princess. Last summer I started leaving a bowl of kibble outside for the neighbourhood strays but contrary to the other cats that come around this little lady doesn’t settle for kibble, she will sit in front of the sliding glass patio doors looking in until I give her a bowl of wet food. When I open the door she looks in but she makes no move to come in and she definitely doesn’t want to be touched, I have been soundly swatted (no claws) for daring to try but she keeps coming back so maybe someday …

We have a sweet story for today’s open thread. A photographer found an honor store with a very cute manager.

I drove into deepest, darkest Bryan, Texas to buy some real honey. One picks their honey on the front porch of the beekeeper and leaves money in the jar or uses one of the bank applications to transfer the funds directly to the keeper.

Local "Honey Cat" - Natural Born Killer!, by flickr4jazz, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Bonus Book Birb!

Reader Duckie shares a very special holiday gift: “My BFF took all my pictures of Duckie and put them in a Picaboo book for me.”

Time for another Caturday open thread and another visit from Storm, our favorite void, courtesy of reader Georgiana Y.

Storm is watching me and I feel like I’m being judged… which I probably am.

For today’s open thread we welcome the very dapper Squirt, a stray cat who posed for pictures while getting neutered for re-release. But the process left him a bit disheveled, notes reader Tara O.:

He is so adorable, but I wonder who was in charge of painting his tux. They made a mess! My guess is they were either “in training,” drunk, or ran out of paint. I mean, they only manage one white eye brow. Sloppy craftsmanship if you ask me. But it’s not his fault. Poor dear. He was given extra sweetness for his personality.