I Made A Custom Cat T-Shirt For My Niece

It’s a one-off with the possibility of more for my niece who “loves kitties!”

My niece is six years old and she “loves kitties!”

Unfortunately she’s allergic to cats. Hopefully her allergies become less severe with time as mine did and she can adopt a cat at some point, but until then she has to settle for admiring felines at a distance and occasionally petting Buddy.

Even though my niece can’t have a cat of her own I can still encourage her love of cats, so I made a cat t-shirt for her as one of her Christmas gifts this year:

I’m using the same image for February in Buddy’s Meownificent 2024 Catlendar, which should be available soon. I’ll post the link when it’s live on Redbubble.

This is now the second t-shirt with my custom artwork featuring cats. I have a t-shirt of the photoshop image I created of Bud playing basketball:

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The print came out surprisingly well, but in the future I’m going to stick with artwork rather than composites of photographs/photoshops like this one, for the simple fact that the simpler color schemes and cleaner lines work better on t-shirts than photographs.

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  4. I love the t-shirt and I have ALWAYS been allergic to.cats but it only takes 3 months living with them and sneezing etc. And I was better! I don’t give up a cat for anything! Just ask Spunkmeyer! I did grow out of my allergies! There is hope on the horizon !

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    1. He’s good with her and her sister, but he’s also wary because he understands they’re young humans who don’t have full fine motor control yet and can be unpredictable.

      But they’re good kids, and they know to give him space and not to corner him. Cosmo the dog, whom I wrote about a few months ago, was the family pet for their entire lives until he died at the ripe old age of 15, so they understand how to care for animals.

      Because my younger niece can’t have a cat, we say Bud is the family’s cat.

      For a while I convinced both of them that Buddy collects Pokémon cards and had all the rare ones they wanted lol. They’re too smart for that now.

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