Rescue Cat Personalities Captured In A Painting

Take two mad cat women.

One Italy-based artist, cat mad and an avid blogger and storyteller including writing stories about her rescue cats. The other a Portugal-based artist, cat mad and a great cat artist. Put them together and you have the recipe for a great collaboration and a fabulous memorial to a group of rescue cats.

Dorothy Berry-Lound commissioned Dora Hathazi Mendes to paint a commemorative painting of her family of rescue cats. The painting was based on the stories from Dorothy's blog.

The inseparable tabby sisters, the loud and demanding, long haired Kimberly, who was always asking for attention, and Juju the quiet one from the duo, who developed phantom pregnancy, after the loss of her best friend.

Thomas, a ginger troublemaker, the boss of the cat clan, who urinated wherever he wished. His attitude nearly killed him marking his territory on a lit up Christmas tree.

Penny the tuxedo from the group, who was a sweet little cat and was given a second chance and a new life, being rescued from a neighbourhood where she was targeted and shot by a cat hater.

Maximilian the ginger cat thief, who loved to stare hours at the garden pond, or spend hours hunting bats.

And finally, the big lovable, and partially deaf Jimmy, who once fell in love with a Chihuahua.

Read in Dorothy's blog how Dora read all of Dorothy's stories about her cats and learnt about their characters which she then depicted in the painting. Six cats, all with different characters, portrayed in a colorful Ecoline painting.

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Meet Me At The Rainbow Bridge by Dora Hathazi Mendes, a commissioned cat painting available as prints and on home decor products, tote bags and more. Click on the link for more information.