In the bleak midwinter, we all need a burst of light. Brightness. Glorious gleaming orange…marmalade, even.

Add a little brown tabby, and you’ve got yourself a scene right out of a feline creche…three magi wise guys:

We three scaredy-cats of Ringoes are...Miyagi, Dobro & Pikachu

How about a Christmas miracle while we’re at it? No, your eyes do not deceive you (nor does Photoshop): here be Dobro, looking…sweet. Friendly. Christmasy, even.

Feliz Dobro???

Special thanks to regular Felis Catus family member Nikki for taking these photos. I thank Nikki, also, for dropping increasingly heavy hints on my head until I was buried in a pile of them and needed the jaws of life to get out patiently suggesting that I show the softer side of Dobro.

Our fiery marmalade fella needs devoted, see-the-good-in-him-even-when-it’s-hiding friends like you, Nik.

And when he’s got me in the crosshairs of that steely Dobro gaze, I need a prayer. Or at least the mercy of three wise guys.