As mewsual, the visitors flock to here to purrtake of our purristine Mid-Atlantic beaches amidst the purrpetual bikini weather, with the blue skies full of puffy Cumulo-Neko clouds, the low humidity, gentle breezes, and daytime tempurratures in the 70’s, but if you purrfur the hotter tempurratures, we recommend our soothing hot spurrings which have the rejuvenative purropurrties, nyan!

Those are purrticularly craved by those who visit during the Winter months, nyan! Fortunately, we are blessed with the benevolent meowgick in the air, land and water that aids the purropurrgation of the endangered species, whilst deterring the storms, pathogens, pollutions, bigotries, and invasive organisms, nyan! The local fishing forecast purrdicts the bumpurr crop of the delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Croakers, Bluefish, Speckled Trout, and Bluefin Tuna, nyan!

In addition to angling, to catabolize the calories we purrfur to balance the numcious foods and the purrolonged catnaps with athletic purrsuits, nyan. In addition to the angling, the fun healthy activities include surfing, swimming, sailing, diving, golf, tennis, bad meownton, softball, soccer, field hockey, cycling, skating, hiking, hula, belly dance, hot salsa dance, yoga, kite flying, jujutsu, kyudo, spurrlunking, yarnball lacrosse, beach volleyball, and purrkour (feline style free running, spurringing and climbing), nyan!

It will be the Year of the Snake; this month's zodiac signs are Capurricorn and Aquarius; the birthstone is garnet; and the month’s birth flowers the carnation and the snowdrop, nyan! The gardens here are also abloom with the gingers, chrysanthemeowms, heliconias, anthuriums, hydrangeas, hibiscus, appurricots, azaleas, roses, bromeliads, morning glories, irises, lotuses, foxgloves, snapdragons, pansies, yellow bells and bird of purradise, and succulent scuppurrnongs, nyan

There are local organic fresh purroduce and seafoods at the county’s two Farmers Marrkets: The Farmeows Meowrkitt on the southwest side of the island, and the nearby MerTown Merket, nyan! The local boutiques have the purretty natsu no apurreru (summer apparel) such as the bikinis, monokinis, tankinis, maillots, purreos, sarongs, hijabs, sarees, ao dais, sun dresses, kimonos, yukatas, gi, fundoshi, hakama, happi, shorts, tee shirts, halter tops, lingerie, robes, athletic bras, sandals, flip flops, fins, goggles. glasses, towels, wet suits. jewelry and leis, nyan!

The backless and halter - neck styles are recommended for the winged folks, and be sure to specify if you purrfur the attire to have the custom tail-ored opening(s), so that it does not ride up on one’s tail, tentacles, wings or fins, nya! They also have the translucent bikini tops which are sustain-ably mer-made from the bells of naturally-deceased, locally-caught jellyfish in the numerous iridescent colors and cup sizes, mew la la, nyan!

If you are visiting from another country, planet or dimeownsion, the bra and other garments will be in the USA sizes, nyan. After the shopping, dining, catnaps, festivities, sight seeing and playtime, purrhaps y’all might like to see-

the latest additions to Catgirl Island’s Mewseum of Art, nyan!

For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan!

There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, however, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan!

Some of the images are sexy and might depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! Furthermore, none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month, into Guest Gallery Two we have added more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseenli and Alexcia Reynolds; illustrations by Rvkh Brogden and Meesha DJ Walker a.k.a Xeshema ; and into Gallery Six we have added new illustrations by our purrducer Mike Moon, nyan!

Firstly is Rvkh’s latest “Midnight Dance” pic of her original catgirl character Eamane, who resides in a lovely cottage with a coastal garden in the island’s meowritime forest, nyan! This is the third illustration to depict Eamane’s fun hobby of the sensual late night dance by the bonfire & torches in the forest grove under the full moon, mew la la, nyan!

Secondly is Rvkh’s joyfully beautiful image of the "Angel Globe” which has the curse riddle angel inside the serene snow globe for Christmas, nyan! Thirdly is her logo for the Starry Eyed Artist Collective, nyan! Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil on the Ipad Pro for those beautiful images, nyan!

Nextly we are purroud to purrsent Meesha’s gorgeous illustration of “MerMay 01” which depicts Sema Hex the meowgickal mermaid with the Electric Blue Acara tail, nyan! She is a Turkish-American shell crafter, spell caster, mom & wife who lives with her husband, son and two pet dogfishes in a mid-century meowdern coral house in Mertown near Catgirl island nyan!

After that we are delighted to display Alexcia’s selfie photos of her purretty horse costume nyan! As of December 2024, this equine excellence is the latest of her several lovely fur suits, nyan! Alexcia is a very talented illustrator, author, cosplayer, needleworker and web meowster,, nyan! Perhaps y’all have seen her illustrations, stories, and the photos of her other fur suits, nyan?

Then we are elated to exhibit more photos of Crissy’s cosplays, nyan! This month we have two collages, each comprised of three photos, nyan!

In the 1st collage are Crissy in the costume by Setsuna Kou as Rogue of X-Men Legacy at the New York Comic Con 2024; Crissy in the costume by guotaiminan_362508 as Maki of Love Live! School Idol Festival at Otakon 2024; and Paul Zuckerman’s photo of Crissy as Lois Lane of Superman: The Animated Series at the New York Comic Con 2034, nyan!

In the 2nd collage are Louis’ photo of Crissy as Rosemary of the Metal Gear Solid 2 video game; Adrian Velez‘s photo of Crissy on Ghostbusters Day 2024; and Crissy as Sarah of the movie Labyrinth at New York Comic Con 2024 wearing the blouse, vest & pin by Vixen by Michelle Pitta, the bracelet from RoseSenpaiCrafts with store-bought Barrett, loafers & jeans, nyan! The Ghostbuster and Sara pics were photomanipped by Mike in 2024, nyan!

Nyow we will introduce the eight new pics by Mike, nyan! His widdle Christmas 2024 illustrations include his latest pic of Charlene the Banker Pony Centauress who likes to LARP on holidays in her Star Trek- The Meowtion Picture: Meowrror Mewniverse Starfleet mewniform with the insignia cutey mark, nyan! Then we have his latest pic of Tara-chan in the Santa Suit when she and her wife Trini-chan returned from the long honeymoon with the sack full of gifts, nyan!

Mike’s Tellarite & Telluride purrody pic is of Tellarite fan-character Commeownder .Hamanda Faye Grayson (or just Hammy Fae to her friends), nyan! She is an officer in the Caitian Impurrial Starfleet, serving under Roar Admeowl Shiboline M’Ress in the Meowrror Mewniverse in the 2270’s, nyan Hammy Faye first appurred in Jim and Melody Rondeau’s 2023 purrinted fanzine Enterprise Forever!, and here she is the Grand Meowrshall of the Imperial film festival nyan!

Then we have Mike’s latest Christmas fan art of other folks characters, such as Marvel Comics' Dr. Hank McCoy a.k.a. The Beast of The X-men and The Avengers; Our friend Phillip Evan's Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game character Tarzan the Gorn captain of a Galaxy Class starship; and Matt McAdams' character Clone 13 who stars in his web comic Modem Problems, nyan!

Those were drawn with Derwent pencils, inked with Sakura Micron pens, colored with Copic meowrkers, and embellished with Photoshop on the Mac with the mouse, nyan! Nextly is the 4th in the Rivkah series of Rvkh's Elder Scrolls Online video game characters nyan! Purreviously we have seen Rivkhas Storm, Snow and Ash; so nyow meet Rivkah X the Calico Khajiit catgirl of the Nekromeowncer Class, nyan! This was done with Photoshop and the mouse, nyan!

Lastly but not leastly for this month’s additions to the Mewseum is Mike’s illustration for Crissy of the frisky “Four-Play” nyan! After the fun time at the beach, buffet & boutiques of Catgirl Island, the holiday double-date continues with mini-golf team play as Hermione (gender-fluid elf / fae) & Shannon (androgynous hirja nekomimi) vs Crissy (female human) & Purrsis (pansexual catgirl), nyan!

The latter team will win if Crissy sinks this last putt, but 18 is the most challenging hole, with the meowgickal hazards, nyan! The crows seem to be enjoying the game, nyan! It is a splendid time regardless of who wins, after which the four ladies will be pampurred at the spa, dress for the suppurr & dancing, retreat to the hot spurring, and no telling what else, nyan! It is also time for --

the January 2025 edition of The Mew, nyan!

The Mew is short for The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, our local monthly “show” in which The Ladies of the Mew and Mike discuss fun stuff and occasionally intermew the special guests, nyan!

Please note that The Mew’s purresent home is at http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com, but Mewsings purrior to May 2021 are still archived at the old location http://www.mewsings.wordpress.com, nyan!

This month’s TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings include reviews of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Yellowstone season 5, Doctor Who “Joy to the World” Agatha All Along, and Nosferatu, nyan!

The Purrinted-Media Mewsings include reviews of Monster Musume Manga Vol.18, Marvel Super Stories Amazing Adventures Book 2, Empowered vol. 12, the Official Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Book, We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, and The 2025 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar, nyan!

It is topped off by the monthly Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight; and The Lightning Round Topic purrtaining to Favorite Snakes, nyan!