Planet Tales, a pet lifestyle center in Naples, Florida opened on December 3, 2014, becoming the second operational cat café in the United States. Founder Ericka Davis Basile, an experienced buyer of pet products and loving animal mom, has made it her mission to bring together cats and humans in the comfortable, relaxed environment of the café over a free cup of coffee.

I opened it because I wanted a place for animal lovers to hang out. A typical retail store is too cold feeling. A pet lifestyle center means everyone can hang out without obligation to “shop” but I could still introduce them to really quirky pet products. Or we can just chat over a cup of coffee and talk about animals. It is the Cheers (bar where everybody knows your name) for pet lovers. Instead of beer we have coffee. But we come together because we feel like it is a place we belong

Guests can interact with adoptable cats from Collier County Domestic Animal Services in the café. Planet Tails also offers retail products, aquariums (including those for jellyfish), pet boarding and daycare, along with a pet educational center.

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Marutaro, the adorable hedgehog who poses for silly pictures and loves to be tickled, inadvertently plays a respectable measure of jazz whenever he walks on the keys of the family piano.

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The Fairy Post Office is an unofficial yet functioning post office located in a tree in Tilden Park in Orinda, California. The post office, complete with a tiny bulletin board, desk, and other office furniture, was clandestinely installed by Leafcutter Designs (previously) back in December 2013. Since its establishment, the post office has become and exchange of sorts where hikers can leave tiny letters and packages for other hikers and “creatures of the forest.” Leafcutter Designs has posted a map of the post office’s location.

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photo via Leafcutter Designs

photo via Leafcutter Designs

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In the clever manipulated photo series A Place To Go, Please, Irish photographer Jason McGroarty represents Paris, London, and other cities as miniatures floating in each city’s iconic beverage. The series was created in collaboration with Karen McDermott. Prints from the series are available on McGroarty’s Etsy shop.

photos by Jason McGroarty

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Back in March we first posted about the wonderful wooden sculptures of bizarrely fused human figures created by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki. Kanemaki’s life-sized sculptures often feature multiple faces, or surreal combinations of multiple figures. Since our last post, Kanemaki has created several more wonderfully surreal works. His latest works can be viewed on his Facebook page.

photos via Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

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Russian artist Igor Verniy creates beautiful steampunk animal sculptures out of metal parts from cars, clocks, appliances, and electronics. The joints on many of Verniy’s sculptures are functional, allowing his animals to be posed in all manner of lifelike postures. His latest work can be viewed on his Facebook page.

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A stray tabby with an unusually colored coat of greenish-blue wanders the streets of Varna, Bulgaria, causing onlookers to do a double-take whenever the feline walks by. While there have been suspicions of nefarious intent, it turns out, per Olga OV (via Rex Features), that the cat regularly sleeps atop a pile of powered green paint in a local garage.

(translated)The appearance of a green cat on a street in the Bulgarian city of Varna, which is 450 kilometers east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, has caused considerable surprise among local residents. First, people speculated about a strange mutation. Then joined animal advocates who suspect one or a group of residents in cruelty to that poor animal. On Facebook immediately appeared cat support group that was trying to find the perpetrators of the crime, which, they believed, abused animals and painted it in emerald green color. And then do the green cat experts from local veterinary clinics … The mystery was solved. To everyone’s surprise it turned out that the cat just loves to sleep in a pile of green paint powder in one of the garages in Varna.

While Olga refers briefly to a veterinarian in her statement, the hope is that the health of this kingfisher kitty will be monitored consistently.

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