Cat Printable Calendars

A year of cats on the wall

Every month has its own ginger cat scene in a warm cream and marmalade palette: two cats and a heart of yarn in February, a kitten among the March tulips, an ice cream under the July sun, a cat tangled in fairy lights in December. The style holds all year, so the twelve pages read as one matching set instead of twelve unrelated pictures.

Under the art is where this collection earns its keep, because a household with an animal in it writes more on a calendar than a household without one. Worming dates, the vet, the boarding booking, whose turn it is to do the litter, when the food order needs placing again. The extra sheets below are all about giving that writing somewhere to go.

Paw prints, and where they are printed

The paw print sheet stamps filled prints down both outer margins, four toes and a pad each, roughly the size a real cat leaves on a dusty sill. They sit in the margin rather than in the grid, which is the whole trick: the page gets a border without a single day box getting smaller.

Everything else in this collection keeps the illustrated header, and that header costs about a fifth of the page. The two writing sheets below drop it deliberately and hand that height back to the cells, because on those two the ruling is the product and the picture is in the way.

Three different places to write

The lined sheet rules three faint lines inside every day box. It exists because the things a cat generates arrive in threes: the morning feed, the tablet, the litter change. Three straight lines is the difference between a legible box and a box you stop using by the tenth.

The notes column sheet does something structurally different. It runs seven day columns and an eighth for the week itself, ruled twice on every row. That eighth column is where the vet appointment nobody has booked yet, the food order and the question about the insurance renewal actually live, because none of them belongs to a particular Tuesday.

The chore chart is the same idea taken off the calendar entirely: feed, water, litter, brush, play, one row each, a tick box for every day, and a name line so each person in the house gets their own copy. Every design has one on the chore chart page.

Paper, and the month after this one

The A4 sheet is built at true A4 dimensions rather than shrunk from US Letter, which matters because the majority of the world's printers were never eight and a half inches wide. Scaling a Letter page to A4 costs you margin on every edge; this one does not, because it was drawn at that size.

The two month sheet prints this month and the next together, both fully dated. Boarding dates, vaccination reminders and the annual check up all have a habit of landing just after the month you are looking at ends, and one page removes the flip.

Questions about the cat set

Are the cats the same cat every month?

Same palette and same drawing style, different scene and usually a different number of cats. It is a marmalade and cream house style rather than a single named character, which is deliberate: a recurring character gets old by about April, whereas a consistent palette does not.

Which sheet works best for a vet and feeding record?

The lined sheet if the entries are short and tied to a day, the notes column sheet if half of what you write is a reminder with no date attached yet. Households with more than one animal usually end up printing the notes column version, because a shared eighth column is easier than trying to fit two animals into one Tuesday.

Is there a version without the illustration?

Yes, three of them. The lined sheet, the notes column sheet and the plain grids in the minimalist collection all print without a header illustration. On this page the two writing sheets drop it for room; if you want no illustration anywhere at all, the minimalist set is the one with none by design.