A few feline oddities that can be found on Ebay:
Phone case with an image of a cartoon woman feeding pizza to a real cat.
An antique print of a cat hanging upside down pretending to be dead with mice and rats beneath him exploring mousetraps
Ceramic ashtray painted and shaped like a cat’s head.
Yep
Cat butt salt and pepper shakers
cat skullface figurine
Crazy cat lady action figure
Cat geek tee
Somebody fell asleep with a good book.
Gatsby is typing up his latest adventure.
Gatsby closeup
Hanging out in the dog crate
The “Petectives” ebooks are getting new covers:
Petectives
Petectives: Christmas Party
Hopefully, these are improvements. Let me know what you think!
A closer look at the characters in the Petectives stories
Duke is an entirely fictional character
• Duke is the leader of the Dog Patrol, an informal canine police force dedicated to keeping order in the neighborhood.
• 7 years old. Black and tan German Shepherd. 85 pounds. Disciplined, intelligent, honorable and somewhat cynical.
• Duke served as a police dog until he was injured in the line of duty
• Avid TV watcher – Duke’s favorite show is ‘The Littlest Hobo’, a show about a hyperintelligent German Shepherd who travels from town to town helping people and catching criminals.
• Duke has a gruff demeanor but he’s mostly friendly with Gatsby. Duke is not so friendly with Yoshi – he finds him to be arrogant and pretentious. Duke and Yoshi do have a history of working together before Gatsby was born and they both have a deeply hidden mutual respect for one another.
• Personal feelings aside, Duke respects Yoshi’s intelligence and Gatsby’s investigatory skills and would love for them to join the Dog Patrol but all three of them realize that cats wouldn’t be likely to follow his orders. He grudgingly agrees to work with them when necessary.
Yoshi looking thoughtful
Gatsby: What are you looking at?
Maybe its just a neck massage but it looks like somebody’s getting strangled.
Portrait of a Petective as a young kitten
Just hangin’ out
A five year old girl’s portrait of Yoshi and Gatsby.
Yoshi at three years old
Relaxing together
Is this from the camera flash or do they have super powers?
Real Life
• AKA: Philo; Catboy; Knucklehead Smith; Safety Cat
• Orange cat with light stripes. 12 pounds.
• Rescued pet; We got Gatsby at Pets Without Parents, a non-profit, no-kill, all-breed shelter for dogs and cats in Columbus, OH.
• Gatsby is usually skittish although he has been known to deliver a series of blows to dogs four times his size.
• Likes dry dog food as a snack
• He seems to howl at people doing things that he considers unsafe. This habit has earned him the nickname “Safety Cat”
• Supposedly an indoor cat but has made several attempts to escape to the outdoors.
Fictional
• Narrator of the Petectives stories.
• 3 years old. Orange cat with light stripes. 12 pounds.
• Gatsby is very intelligent but has a reckless temperament and doesn’t always think through the consequences of his actions. He’s prone to making risky decisions based on emotion.
• Gatsby has a very good vocabulary as a result of living with Yoshi, his housemate and partner in crime detection.
• Outgoing and friendly. Loves to get out of the house. Actually enjoys the company of some dogs.
• Something of a “ladies cat” before he met his girlfriend Molasses.
• Gatsby has a high regard for Yoshi although he would never admit it.
Yoshi
Real Life
Fictional
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