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Title: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2008, 11:17:41 am
Pippin has suddenly developed an obsession with the telly....
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/WTWTA/30-07-07005.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/WTWTA/30-07-07003.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 29 March, 2008, 11:35:38 am
I'd be more worried that she seems to have a thing for Gordon Brown...  :-X
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: FatBloke on 29 March, 2008, 11:43:05 am
Or Nee-ko-Lah Saar-ko-zeeeee?    ;D ;D

Mind you it is a Scottish cat so it probably likes Gordon Brown. I suppose somebody has to.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2008, 06:33:55 pm
Nah, about 5 mins earlier she was all over the bloke from BA looking all embarrassed over the T5 fiasco. She's a bit of a tv whore it would appear....
She was all over Jon Snow too.  :-*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2008, 10:33:27 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/001a0100219.jpg)

This is taken from the official estate agents details for our house :)

Ol wasn't going to shift off his sofa for anyone, not even a strange lady wiva camera
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 29 March, 2008, 10:58:49 pm
At least it proves your house is "cat friendly". ;)

As regards TV watching cats, on one occasion my parents old cat spotted a mouse being shown on a TV programme, and at some point the mouse ran behind something.  The cat immediately ran behind the TV, to look for it!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 March, 2008, 03:08:08 pm
As regards TV watching cats, on one occasion my parents old cat spotted a mouse being shown on a TV programme, and at some point the mouse ran behind something.  The cat immediately ran behind the TV, to look for it!
This is exactly what started Pippin off. She saw a mouse in a badger sett on the programme rcently on tv about badgers. Ever since then she has been watching any old crap!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 March, 2008, 05:17:25 pm
I think she's waiting for the mouse to reappear.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 30 March, 2008, 05:45:14 pm
I'm pleased this thread has been started here.  I've always loved this thread and would often scroll through it on days when I needed chearing up.

Thank you Mrs P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nic on 30 March, 2008, 05:58:45 pm
Box:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2149449074_f881776d51.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 March, 2008, 07:18:33 pm
Box:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/2149449074_f881776d51.jpg?v=0)

"No photographs please..."

;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 March, 2008, 10:10:17 pm
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo009.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 March, 2008, 11:40:16 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_In_Carrier_720.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_In_Carrier.jpg)

That's the trouble with black cats, they have no contrast, it's just a ball of black fur!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 04 April, 2008, 03:24:37 pm
(http://www.mseries.plus.com/gizmo1.jpg)

"Please let me out"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 04 April, 2008, 09:25:29 pm
Terry from next door:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/P1010008.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 04 April, 2008, 09:40:38 pm
Nacho says hi.

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/03/nacho.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2008, 10:46:17 pm
Terry from next door:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/P1010008.jpg)
Looks a bit like my brothers fatty catty, Alvin:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/19-05-07072.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2008, 10:49:27 pm
I have a paw fetish.  :evil:
Mojo's monster paw:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/19-05-07095.jpg)

And the owner:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/IMG_1357.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2008, 11:20:53 pm
cats & lambs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=44534625) 100% cute!  :-*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 April, 2008, 11:24:27 pm
cats & lambs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=44534625) 100% cute!  :-*

Typical cat though, found the warmest, fluffiest place to snooze!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 05 April, 2008, 12:08:47 am
Terry from next door:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/P1010008.jpg)

Ur pillowz, i pwn em.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 05 April, 2008, 09:01:39 am
Terry from next door:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/P1010008.jpg)

Looks very much like my Pegotty
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 05 April, 2008, 09:06:53 am
Pegotty Wexford

(http://www.mseries.plus.com/13022008(001).jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 April, 2008, 12:46:51 pm
Did you just wake her up? She looks a bit surprised!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 05 April, 2008, 04:16:21 pm
This week's sun was much appreciated by Milo.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2390005606_17065ed494.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 06 April, 2008, 06:57:33 pm
Mecca looking grumpy...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2392498747_caac711e29.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 06 April, 2008, 07:47:31 pm
Boushti getting a bit of sun on the flat roof.

(http://i.imgur.com/YGgr1HF.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: longers on 06 April, 2008, 09:53:13 pm
Pegotty reminds me of Eddy.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/2256141764_ace64809b6.jpg?v=0)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 06 April, 2008, 09:57:48 pm
Praps we should have a separate thread for cats that look like Felix
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dave on 06 April, 2008, 10:06:03 pm
Mecca looking grumpy...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2392498747_caac711e29.jpg?v=0)

"I said No Photographs, goddammit"

"Right. You'd better check your shoes very carefully tomorrow morning..."
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: jellied on 08 April, 2008, 12:18:09 pm
Not a cat owner myself. But I found this that might appeal:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/paintedcats.asp (http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/paintedcats.asp)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 08 April, 2008, 02:53:55 pm
Oh, a Burberry Kitty (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/paintcat10.jpg). :sick:

I think I'll stick with the conventional Ginger, Tortie, Tabby, Heinz variety etc
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 08 April, 2008, 08:19:33 pm
Hamish, the geriatric Siamese, enjoys the sun...

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/brechincastle002.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 April, 2008, 11:27:11 pm
He looks a bit grumpy about having his photo took  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 11 April, 2008, 10:05:34 pm
He looks a bit grumpy about having his photo took  ;D

He does a bit, but you can't see his smiley upturned edge of mouth - honest  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 11 April, 2008, 10:09:22 pm
here he is, being smiley:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/CatsMarch2007003.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 11 April, 2008, 10:18:56 pm
(http://i29.tinypic.com/298p47.jpg)
^ Svankmajer (left) and Bruno (right)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2390/2390551666_ee0ba6f49c.jpg)\\
^ Bruno again
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 11 April, 2008, 10:22:30 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/Office_Amy.JPG)

Ready for the house move
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 11 April, 2008, 10:30:12 pm
Rosie helps to keep the tumble-dryed towels warm:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/lunanbay211007012.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 11 April, 2008, 10:36:11 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/noodly.gif)

Pets do grow like their owners ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2008, 10:36:56 pm
(http://i29.tinypic.com/298p47.jpg)
^ Svankmajer (left) and Bruno (right)
Oh that did make me laugh!
I love the way they're propping each other up!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 11 April, 2008, 10:37:37 pm
Pets do grow like their owners ;)

spooky, or should that be spocky  ::-) ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 11 April, 2008, 11:26:40 pm
(http://i29.tinypic.com/298p47.jpg)
^ Svankmajer (left) and Bruno (right)
Oh that did make me laugh!
I love the way they're propping each other up!

they're not sleeping--Bruno is in the middle of licking Svanki's ear  :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 April, 2008, 06:06:13 pm
Mojo and Pippin love tuna  :P

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/tuna.jpg)

PS - they didn't get the whole tin  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 13 April, 2008, 09:48:53 pm
(http://www.mseries.plus.com/gizzo-hoho.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 17 April, 2008, 04:48:20 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/sleepyamy.jpg)

Not actually dead, just dead to the world :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 18 April, 2008, 12:49:06 am
Or just recharging? Cats are solar powered, you know.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 18 April, 2008, 09:57:59 am
That's possibly so :)

That's our Small Fat Cat, who is now decidedly middle-aged but doesn't seem to have realised she isn't still a small kitten.  She runs around, squeaking frantically and being silly, and then collapses in a heap to sleep for about 8 hours solid.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 21 April, 2008, 03:50:29 pm
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF1089.jpg)

Terry, looking decidely grumpy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 April, 2008, 05:05:55 pm
I don't know any other animal that can do pissed off and grumpy quite as well as cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 21 April, 2008, 10:54:38 pm
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/04/nacho3.jpg)

Nacho assumes the usual position.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: longers on 21 April, 2008, 10:57:40 pm
Maybe I should post this in the Good News Thread but my 3 cats are coming back to live with me from next month  :thumbsup:.

 I'll try not to post too many pictures  :hand:.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 22 April, 2008, 11:00:32 am
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/04/nacho4.jpg)

Nacho lies on a pile of old carpets looking nonchalant whilst Templeton (neighbour's cat) sits in the background.

It's funny how Nacho doesn't give two hoots about Templeton or his sister Poitier being on his turf, whilst he launches himself at any other cat that comes in the garden. It's maybe because he has known them since they were kittens and has established himself firmly as "the boss". Or maybe he can't take them seriously because of their silly names...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: donpedro on 25 April, 2008, 01:27:27 pm
Viewing all these great pictures I realise how much miss my cat! ::-)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2067/2209867210_4287225376.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 27 April, 2008, 07:01:04 pm
A clean duvet will always attract a cat!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2445684657_38fdc1abca.jpg?v=0)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2445682669_2815523ae1.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 27 April, 2008, 10:35:15 pm
Quote
A clean duvet will always attract a cat!

"Ah-ha! White duvet, black fur... (moult, moult, moult...)"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 April, 2008, 10:58:04 pm
Quote
A clean duvet will always attract a cat!

"Ah-ha! White duvet, black fur... (moult, moult, moult...)"

I was wearing dark blue & black last night, Mrs P & her brother were in lighter colours. I guess it was inevitable who Mrs P's brother's incredible moulting light ginger & white cat would decide to sit on  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 09 May, 2008, 11:11:35 am
What? bugger off, I'm lying here...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/2478168594_e5faac18d9.jpg?v=1210327106)

If I ignore you you might go away.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/2477355981_5d63dfb717.jpg?v=1210326941)

Bambi looking a little bit mental

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/2464451143_89842a98d6.jpg?v=0)

My window, sod off

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/2477366317_5a2dccc5a9.jpg?v=1210327651)

Why are you clicking your fingers?

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2477365721_27d4f922f1.jpg?v=1210327550)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 May, 2008, 10:54:29 pm
Mojo & Pippin catching the rays:

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mopip01.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 May, 2008, 11:18:19 pm
In the garden, the light was good this evening, not too much contrast for black cats  :)

Pippin:

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/pippin01.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/pippin02.jpg)

Mojo:

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/mojo01.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/mojo02.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/mojo03.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/mojo04.jpg)

And friend:

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/garden/pigeon01.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nic on 10 May, 2008, 08:34:10 am
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2361/2480180822_ecb47005c3.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JT on 10 May, 2008, 04:03:16 pm
Everybody needs a kitten for a pillow...

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d69/JT808/DSC_2254.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 13 May, 2008, 08:21:42 pm
Quote
Everybody needs a kitten for a pillow..

Awwww....

There's something about the total level of relaxation that cat's can achieve:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF1121.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 20 May, 2008, 09:24:47 pm
Boushti has taken to spending most of the day in this plastic box on Ms. P's work area, behind her drawing board. I rarely find him in any of his former haunts now.

(http://i.imgur.com/awTfPJ5.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Maladict on 20 May, 2008, 09:32:05 pm
cats & lambs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=44534625) 100% cute!  :-*

Wow that's Sherman!

No wonder he likes fleeces.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 20 May, 2008, 09:37:50 pm
Boushti has taken to spending most of the day in this plastic box on Ms. P's work area, behind her drawing board.

Nacho has taken to spending most of the day asleep in the shed...

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/nacho1.jpg)

... asleep on mrs bob's lap ...

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/nacho2.jpg)

... asleep on the chair (in an almost perfect circle) ...

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/nacho3.jpg)

... essentially anywhere he can get his down ;D He's currently asleep on a sofa.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 20 May, 2008, 09:38:18 pm
Boushti has taken to spending most of the day in this plastic box on Ms. P's work area, behind her drawing board. I rarely find him in any of his former haunts now.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/Mister_Penguin/RIMG0137.jpg)


I'm supposed to get a urine sample from Twist, so I emptied the packet of beads into a small tray and placed it on the floor near him.

A few minutes later he moved into the tray, curled up & went to sleep, much like Boushti.

Oh well...   :-\  Should have taken a photo!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 21 May, 2008, 12:31:21 am
Help! There's an ewok in my kitchen ;D The Home Guard remains asleep on the sofa, oblivious.

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/ewok1a.jpg)

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/ewok1.jpg)

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/ewok3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 May, 2008, 09:45:33 am
That server isn't resolving for me bobajobrob.  Is the URL correct?

...how odd, it's working at work, but not at home, there the DNS isn't even finding the IP of the server...

Did you change the DNS settings recently?  (ie they haven't fully promulgated around yet)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 21 May, 2008, 02:40:53 pm
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/ewok1a.jpg)


That looks so much like your avatar  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 21 May, 2008, 02:46:49 pm

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/05/ewok1a.jpg)


Is that the cat flap or is it in the washing machine.  I can't quite figure it out!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 May, 2008, 02:51:14 pm
Separated at birth...

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/bobajobrob.jpg)
     
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ewok.jpg)
Ewok
     
bobajobrob
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 21 May, 2008, 03:57:39 pm
lol :P

Is that the cat flap or is it in the washing machine.  I can't quite figure it out!

It's the cat flap.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 21 May, 2008, 04:00:10 pm
...how odd, it's working at work, but not at home, their the DNS isn't even finding the IP of the server...

I forward the domain to dyndns and then use the dyndns feature on my router. Dyndns had deleted my account because I hadn't logged in for ages, so I had to go and recreate it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 24 May, 2008, 10:15:13 pm
Ms P just found a picture of Boushti when we first got him. There was a vet living downstairs and she locked herself out of her flat, we couldn't contact the landlord so she stayed on our sofa for a night. She had a cat in the back of her van which she had rescued from somewhere- I think his owner had died. He got his new name the instant he put his head outta the cat carrier (it's sort of back slang, from p'tit bou). He was still with us a couple days later, I eventually worked out that we'd adopted him.

He's a lot furrier, and somewhat fatter, now. It is mostly fur tho'.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/Mister_Penguin/RIMG0015-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 27 May, 2008, 09:48:30 am
There's something about the total level of relaxation that cats can achieve:

Aye.  Here's Montezuma in typical "take me" pose...

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/Montezuma/P4100571.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 27 May, 2008, 10:01:29 am
He looks like he's impersonating roadkill.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: iddu on 06 June, 2008, 08:01:41 pm
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/20071018-Thud/CIMG1300.jpg)

Bye Bye THUD!  :'(  Too dumb to learn that headbuttin' motons is not good...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 06 June, 2008, 08:11:00 pm
Oh no! God, I hate news like that. Goodbye little kitty  :'(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 07 June, 2008, 01:32:49 am
Here's one I met recently

(http://80.177.3.51/yACF/20080511/DSC_4036.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CathH on 07 June, 2008, 06:43:33 am
Awesome picture!  Makes me want to go rushing out with my camera, right now.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 08 June, 2008, 11:01:35 am
Fence cat spotted in my garden!

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/06/fence-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 08 June, 2008, 03:39:56 pm
...and what was he watching you do?
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 June, 2008, 03:47:18 pm
There's something about the total level of relaxation that cats can achieve:

Aye.  Here's Montezuma in typical "take me" pose...

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/Montezuma/P4100571.jpg)

But that's a standard posture at your place, isn't it, Auntie C?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 08 June, 2008, 07:01:52 pm
...and what was he watching you do?
 ;D

Standing in a new pair of Endura Zyme shorts :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 08 June, 2008, 07:57:29 pm
Awesome picture!  Makes me want to go rushing out with my camera, right now.

Thank you, I got lucky with that one.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 15 June, 2008, 10:58:18 pm
Town cat, out on the prowl.

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/06/town-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 17 June, 2008, 03:13:33 pm
"I wanna go for a ride" cat.

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/MRT_9262.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ian on 18 June, 2008, 09:49:54 pm
One of my kittens appears to have developed a fault.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/stuff/cat_twist.jpg)

(evidently having a dream about Superman learning the Twist.)

The other doesn't sleep. She merely attempts vainly to satisfy her appetite for destruction.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/stuff/P1000238.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Robbo5 on 24 June, 2008, 10:57:48 pm
Mme R's new cat is now a grandmother

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/000_0005.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 June, 2008, 09:41:20 am
mmph! want ickle kitten!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 25 June, 2008, 11:18:59 am
What a cute ickle kitty.

<elleigh drools>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 25 June, 2008, 11:32:41 am
Stop posting cute pics of moggies.  You are making me broody!

I love cats but living in a 4th floor flat haven't been owned by one for years  :(

Another reason to move.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 25 June, 2008, 11:35:11 am
You are all turning into mad cat women/men.  You will die alone and be discovered many weeks after, partially eaten by the very animals you so lovingly tended...







 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Otto on 25 June, 2008, 11:47:25 am
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/_5010203.jpg)
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/_5010206.jpg)
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/otto2.jpg)
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/cats.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 25 June, 2008, 11:49:25 am
Anyone else see the resemblance?

Robbo's new Kitty:
(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/marty.jpg)

Marty Feldman:
(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/kitty.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 25 June, 2008, 11:56:01 am
Out of the Shadows—Photo Gallery—National Geographic Magazine (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/snow-leopards/winter-photography)

Some pics of a really impressive kitty...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Robbo5 on 25 June, 2008, 05:36:08 pm
Thanks Chris, that's one named.
Any suggestions for his sister?

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/000_0013.jpg)

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/000_0008.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 25 June, 2008, 06:29:11 pm
Thanks Chris, that's one named.
Any suggestions for his sister?
...

In a Marty Feldman, Young Frankenstein (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/) vein, how about Inga (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0007877/)  (played by Teri Garr (http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Teri+Garr+Young+Frankenstein) yum yum!)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 June, 2008, 06:44:03 pm
Dita, as in Dita von Teese? She seems to be posing a bit in the first picture.

All these pics are making me broody.

Otto, did you post those pics before in the other place? They seem familiar in an enormous sort of way... ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 25 June, 2008, 09:03:59 pm

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/otto2.jpg)



That sure is a long cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 25 June, 2008, 09:37:33 pm
That sure is a long cat.

Happiness is a big pussy :)

(http://www.ivy-house.org.uk/images/giant.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 25 June, 2008, 10:11:20 pm
Anyone else see the resemblance?

Robbo's new Kitty:
(http://www.ivy-house.org.uk/images/marty.jpg)

Marty Feldman:
(http://www.ivy-house.org.uk/images/kitty.jpg)


 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Robbo5 on 30 June, 2008, 09:09:01 pm
How to deal with  an annoying brother.

StevenROBSON - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/?action=view&current=000_0019.flv)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 01 July, 2008, 09:11:12 am
How to deal with  an annoying brother.

StevenROBSON - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/?action=view&current=000_0019.flv)



Seems NFN*  ;D









*Normal For Norfolk
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 01 July, 2008, 01:38:25 pm
How to deal with  an annoying brother.

StevenROBSON - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/?action=view&current=000_0019.flv)


My cat enjoyed watching that!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 July, 2008, 12:31:56 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_asleep.jpg)
Alfie, asleep after Bea has been cleaning his eyebrows.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 06 July, 2008, 02:08:41 pm
A visitor to chez Elleigh

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/whitecat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 07 July, 2008, 09:18:45 pm
This (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/cat%201/cat2006.jpg) just in from the local cat protection establishment  :)
He's about 3 years old, described as a stray, and was very nervous when he first arrived at Taylor Towers, hiding behind the sofa for the first 24 hours, but is gradually settling down.
He was named "Cliff" by the Cat People, so one of us will have to change....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 07 July, 2008, 11:45:51 pm
This (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/cat%201/cat2006.jpg) just in from the local cat protection establishment  :)
He's about 3 years old, described as a stray, and was very nervous when he first arrived at Taylor Towers, hiding behind the sofa for the first 24 hours, but is gradually settling down.
He was named "Cliff" by the Cat People, so one of us will have to change....


He looks like a slimmer version of our "Kismet".  My dad was taking one of our other animals to the vet and they had found a beautiful tortoishell abandoned in a box on the doorstep.  Holiday season, said the vet. So she came home and has been stealing food ever since!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 12 July, 2008, 08:50:38 pm
Since last Saturday, we've gone from

 (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/cat%201/cat1004.jpg)

 to

 (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/newcat/cat4041.jpg)

so I think he's settling in OK :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2008, 09:23:21 pm
awwwh, he looks much happier.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 12 July, 2008, 09:28:21 pm
 :) :)

Edit: He's got nice stripes  :D :D

Edit 2: perhaps I should update my avatar.....

Edit 3: I have updated my avatar.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 July, 2008, 10:05:16 pm
LOL, he does seem to have managed to become somewhat more relaxed, how unusual for a cat !  He is very striped in that shot, even down the legs.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2008, 10:25:29 pm
That belly is just crying out for a rub!  :-*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 12 July, 2008, 10:56:19 pm

Welcome Trevor W Brush.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Trevor006.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 13 July, 2008, 10:16:15 am

Welcome Trevor W Brush.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Trevor006.jpg)

Interesting pose.


 :-[ actually, I can do that.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 13 July, 2008, 10:29:52 pm
Fishing for cats, first dangle the bait

(http://80.177.3.51/yACF/20080713/DSC_5806.jpg)

(http://80.177.3.51/yACF/20080713/DSC_5810.jpg)

Then reel them in
(http://80.177.3.51/yACF/20080713/DSC_5823.jpg)

Finally land your catch
(http://80.177.3.51/yACF/20080713/DSC_5821.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 July, 2008, 12:33:52 am
Fantastic photos  :)

Especially the third one, superb.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 14 July, 2008, 01:04:28 am
Shaved pussy

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Luke667/DSC05060.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/Luke667/DSC05058.jpg)

Not mine, and why I dunno lol
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 July, 2008, 01:04:24 pm
Owner unable or couldn't be arsed (  >:( ) brushing the cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 14 July, 2008, 03:42:58 pm
\My sister in law has a persian cat that gets shaved every so often. They do groom her religiously but Persian cat hair apparently carries on growing so has to be kept at bay. Shaving is a kindness rather than cruel in this case. IANAV (vet) so may of course be totally wrong on this, though it's their  vet friend who does the shaving.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 14 July, 2008, 04:58:52 pm
Apparently something about the heat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 17 July, 2008, 05:22:27 pm
A friend of mine took these up in the midlands somehwhere. Granted they is big but they're still cats and loverable.

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat1.jpg)

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat2.jpg)

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat3.jpg)

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat4.jpg)

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat5.jpg)

(http://jamesmarshall.net/dd/bigcat6.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 July, 2008, 06:50:18 pm
Very impressive shots. :thumbsup:

I'm always amazed how often the look and behaviour of big cats seems so similar to domestic cats, the mannerisms; washing, scratching, interactions with other cats.  You can almost see them as a domestic cat just scaled up a bit.

Nevertheless, there's no way I'm going to scratch one of that lot under the chin or behind the ears. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 17 July, 2008, 07:10:42 pm
So you wouldn't be volunteering for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmXTsxxT9po) anytime soon then?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 July, 2008, 08:02:20 pm
So you wouldn't be volunteering for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmXTsxxT9po) anytime soon then?

LOL, no I don't think so.  For all that Craig Busch has a lot of familiarity with big cats, and how to behave with them, he has still been badly mauled on a couple of occasions.  Even domestic cats can decide that they've had enough and give you a warning swipe or bite, the same from three hundred pounds of Bengal is likely to leave your head ringing!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 17 July, 2008, 08:41:57 pm
I've posted these before, Elsewhere

I took these  in Namibia a couple of years ago

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/cheetas.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/cheeta.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/cheetakill.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/lionportrait.jpg)



Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 18 July, 2008, 03:01:41 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/cheeta.jpg)

"Yeah, get on that titanium bike now and let's see how fast you are, Mr. Lunch."

 ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 18 July, 2008, 04:09:57 pm

"Yeah, get on that titanium bike now and let's see how fast you are, Mr. Lunch."

 ;)

Indeed  :)

The guide said "Oh they'll be fine as long as you stay in the (open top)  Landrover.  They can't really distinguish you from the vehicle"

I love that photo because he so obviously is doing just that.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 24 July, 2008, 04:14:10 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2698869278_1e7229f54c.jpg?v=1216911512)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 30 July, 2008, 10:35:51 pm
Bruno:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2704790398_3285e1a317.jpg)


Svankmajer:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2703975487_b8581efed1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 July, 2008, 10:59:01 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Stairs01_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Stairs01.jpg)

Talisker Clive W (was Talisker Clive O), on holiday for a couple of weeks at Chez TimO.  He's inspected most of the rooms, checked out the cat litter (hurling a good portion across the room in the process), tested out all food and drink that's available, and decided that halfway up the stairs is a good place to guard the house.

Whether he'll be happy being cooped up here for a couple of weeks is another thing, but since the alternative would have been a cage in a cattery, he shouldn't complain... yeah right. ;D

Being a totally black cat, he is of course damned near impossible to get a good photo of, since the cameras autofocus refuses to admit he exists. :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 30 July, 2008, 11:26:52 pm
Being a totally black cat, he is of course damned near impossible to get a good photo of, since the cameras autofocus refuses to admit he exists. :-\

 ;D

Get him drunk and stationary (see above) and focus on a nearby object.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 July, 2008, 08:52:10 am
Oh I see, the tv remote is just to focus on.  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 31 July, 2008, 12:03:46 pm
Salam poses for a piccie

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/IMG00049.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 31 July, 2008, 12:56:15 pm
Saddam poses for a piccie

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/IMG00049.jpg)

I thought I recognised the whiskers....  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 31 July, 2008, 12:59:26 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2703975487_b8581efed1.jpg)

 ;D

Get some air in that or you'll get a pinch flat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 31 July, 2008, 02:42:30 pm
Get some air in that or you'll get a pinch flat.

 ;D

We're thinking about adding a passenger gondola, a propeller, and a rudder.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 31 July, 2008, 03:26:00 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2703975487_b8581efed1.jpg)

 ;D

Get some air in that or you'll get a pinch flat.


I thought some bugger had already run over it....  :-\


 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 31 July, 2008, 03:27:41 pm
You don't get a sense of the full depth of the cat in that picture.  :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 31 July, 2008, 06:58:48 pm
You don't get a sense of the full depth of the cat in that picture.  :P

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 July, 2008, 09:14:57 pm
Salam poses for a piccie

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/IMG00049.jpg)

Pippin-esque  :D

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/pippin/pippin02.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: goatpebble on 31 July, 2008, 10:25:28 pm
Being a totally black cat, he is of course damned near impossible to get a good photo of, since the cameras autofocus refuses to admit he exists. :-\

 ;D

Get him drunk and stationary (see above) and focus on a nearby object.


The first weekend with our profoundly deaf pure white English short hair thing, he drank half a glass of a decent minor Burgundy. He was drunk, and not very stationary. Manic, in fact. He was impossibly curious, kept on wrapping himself around my shoulders like a living fur accessory, before being neatly sick in his earth tray.

He sensibly drank lots of water before he went to bed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 01 August, 2008, 08:20:15 am
Salam poses for a piccie

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/IMG00049.jpg)

Pippin-esque  :D

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/pippin/pippin02.jpg)

Pippin is very regal (and a very beautiful cat :) )
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 03 August, 2008, 09:14:11 am
Let sleeping cats lie....

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/2727749110_64e0bc0a5e.jpg?v=0)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2727744442_d39bd5d97f.jpg?v=0)

And a paw for Mrs Pingu
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/2727747088_6777c571d9.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 August, 2008, 11:20:58 am
:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 03 August, 2008, 09:12:04 pm
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/08/road-cat.jpg)

Road cat sez "Oh hai, nice to see you!".
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Baggy on 03 August, 2008, 09:21:02 pm
Elderly Dinah cooling off her furry bloomers.

(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s320/Bagonabike/Smallbloomers.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 August, 2008, 09:48:44 pm
Oh she's a cutie, Baggy!

No Pippin today, the pics we took of her have mysteriously disappeared. I swear she 'does things' to cameras.

Mojo instead:
Lord of the garden wall
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo010.jpg)

Found a shady spot:
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo012.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo011.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Baggy on 03 August, 2008, 09:58:39 pm
Oh she's a cutie, Baggy!
Thank you! She's a sweet little old lady - until another cat dares to set foot in her garden at which point she turns into seething, hairy bagpipes  ;D

Mojo always looks good on that wall  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 08 August, 2008, 09:34:45 am
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/kits014.jpg)



Smudge and biff  sis and bro and double fun and trouble . :thumbsup:We got them last weekend only went for 1 and ended up with 2 .
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 08 August, 2008, 09:39:31 am
 :D

They are too cute.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 08 August, 2008, 09:47:04 am
Awww bless!


I saw this and laughed

(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-girl-lion-yells-at-boy-lion.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 08 August, 2008, 09:58:01 am
Love the names, I assume Smudge has the smudge on her nose?

The do look like trouble, but that's kittens for you!

Cat sitting Talisker for a couple of weeks is bad enough, although that's mainly because he's getting progressively more annoyed with not being let out. :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 08 August, 2008, 10:01:23 am
It's that Biff that looks norty
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 08 August, 2008, 10:03:18 am
He does rather look like he's planning something!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2008, 10:08:25 am
Aaaahh, kitten broodiness again.  :-*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 August, 2008, 10:46:14 am
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/kits014.jpg)



Biff and Smudge  bro and sis and double fun and trouble . :thumbsup:We got them last weekend only went for 1 and ended up with 2 .

BOGOF  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 08 August, 2008, 11:42:47 am
On reflection, I reckon Biff is auditioning for the position of Monorail Cat (http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=monorail%20cat&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 August, 2008, 12:09:12 pm
Smudge has perfected that "butter wouldn't melt" look.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JT on 08 August, 2008, 12:13:18 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/kits014.jpg)



Biff and Smudge  bro and sis and double fun and trouble . :thumbsup:We got them last weekend only went for 1 and ended up with 2 .

They are gorgeous.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 08 August, 2008, 12:25:26 pm
Biff is on the right here i should have made it clear,they both have a tabby back but smudge has a big white smudge on her back.She is very nosy and determined he is typical male follows on behind ,however when one of the neighbours cats came into the garden he was straight to the fore puffing his little self out as big as pos and basically staring the invader out whilst she hid behind me.He is already a good bit bigger than his sis.Because they are so alike when they sleep or fight curled up together you cant tell where one starts and the other ends.
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Post by: border-rider on 08 August, 2008, 10:46:15 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/podge.jpg)

Collapse of stout party :)

Now with inbuilt solar tracker
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 August, 2008, 10:47:57 pm
Cor! Lookit that belly! :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 08 August, 2008, 10:51:07 pm
She's just a little barrel of a cat.  With very short legs.  Ground clearance can be an issue :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 09 August, 2008, 09:29:22 pm
Kitchen cupboard cat is watching you masticate.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2746991637_5a3d11c9c3.jpg?v=0)
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Post by: Elleigh on 10 August, 2008, 10:39:08 am
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 13 August, 2008, 08:18:49 am
Sliced or chopped kitteh?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 14 August, 2008, 01:42:03 pm
This is my friend's cat, his name is Vlad!

Quote
Vlad has a bag habit. He knows it, we know it. He likes to climb inside them, much to my disapproval.

He also on occasion sticks his head through one of the handles and runs around, wearing it as a cape, super hero stylee.
Here is a demonstration!

About to take flight, SUPER VLAD!! If he's not careful I'll embarrass him and source a Halloween costume.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2761415981_c6ce0e697c_o.jpg)

You ain't seen me roight!

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2762262236_5a26cd296b.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 14 August, 2008, 02:49:55 pm
This sort of thing worries me a bit, since I've had to leave Tali alone locked in at home, so when he gets bored I assume he wanders around the house looking for things to poke his head into, literally.  I've put all the plastic bags I've found aside, so he can't do this, but after many years of reading warnings about keeping plastic bags away from small children, I'm getting paranoid. :-\

Vlad looks a lot like Tali, even down to the reflective collar!  He also appears to be about as stupid. ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2008, 02:54:10 pm
This sort of thing worries me a bit, since I've had to leave Tali alone locked in at home, so when he gets bored I assume he wanders around the house looking for things to poke his head into, literally.  I've put all the plastic bags I've found aside, so he can't do this, but after many years of reading warnings about keeping plastic bags away from small children, I'm getting paranoid. :-\

Vlad looks a lot like Tali, even down to the reflective collar!  He also appears to be about as stupid. ;D

Must be a cat thing, Lord Dashworth does the same thing, now the plastic bags hang on a hook halfway up the back door for just this reason....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 August, 2008, 02:57:37 pm
I think it's a "I must poke my nose into this bag on the off chance there's some food in there" thing, even though he's never found anything edible in one yet.  It doesn't seem to stop him from trying whenever I come in from shopping though.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MSeries on 14 August, 2008, 02:58:07 pm
like this

(http://www.mseries.plus.com/gizmo1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Elleigh on 14 August, 2008, 03:08:19 pm
Cats love bags and boxes.  My friend caught her 4 yr old dragging a bag behind her, as they were about the leave the house to go to the beach.  Once she had extracted the bag from 4 yr old's hands, she found it contain a purring cat, who was seemingly happy to be dragged around in said bag.

The 4 yr old claimed to have found the cat in the garden.
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Post by: Valiant on 14 August, 2008, 03:22:29 pm
My Nelly used to love boxes
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Post by: clifftaylor on 14 August, 2008, 05:25:34 pm
<------ 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2008, 07:45:05 pm
I can't find the box pics at the moment (Mojo has a special box for sleeping in) but for the moment I give you,

Cat In A Drawer
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo005.jpg)

and the ever popular, Cat In A Laundry Basket
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f330/Pinniped/ACF/cats/mojo/mojo006.jpg)
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Post by: Chris S on 14 August, 2008, 08:32:46 pm
Widget was helping us play Frisbee just now. She's crap at Frisbee, but was catching mice whilst we Frisbee'd. Sadly, no pics - Frisbees and cameras are mutually incompatible.
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Post by: longers on 17 August, 2008, 09:58:32 pm
Picture perfect  :D

(http://i38.tinypic.com/1198dna.jpg)
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Post by: longers on 17 August, 2008, 10:00:13 pm
His new favourite place.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/1z73i51.jpg)

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Post by: scott on 19 August, 2008, 06:10:30 pm

Bruno:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2390/2390551666_ee0ba6f49c.jpg)


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2390543644_1ab320c37f.jpg)


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/2389722299_d71ee275ef.jpg)
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Post by: bobajobrob on 19 August, 2008, 08:21:19 pm
Nacho sleeps in the bush:

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/08/nacho.jpg)
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Post by: scott on 19 August, 2008, 08:34:44 pm
In the jungle, the mighty jungle....
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Post by: bobajobrob on 19 August, 2008, 08:37:13 pm
In the jungle, the mighty jungle....

 ;D
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Post by: nic on 24 August, 2008, 06:25:29 pm
The latest addition to the cat family.

About 5 weeks old kitten rescued abandoned by his mum.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2793325328_7ba98fd779.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/2793320502_0bd61fc335.jpg?v=0)



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Post by: TimO on 24 August, 2008, 07:20:06 pm
Altogether now; Ahhhhhh.

Little black furry cuteness.  Tali must have looked like that once, but we had him as a pre-owned adult cat, so never saw him as a kitten.  He's not half as cute now!
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Post by: nic on 25 August, 2008, 12:20:44 pm
Oh yes, he's a true black ball of furry cuteness... His eyes are starting to change colour with slight green undertones.

He's now litter trained too. Phew, what a relief. After 5 days I was starting to get a bit concerned that he might still need to be lifted to his tray by the time my wife and daughters come back from Japan on 2nd September.

Our mature 6 year-old ginger cat box is not impressed but is not holding a grudge against me. He sniffs about and when he catches sight of the little one he rushes off with a disappointed look.

Here is Box keeping his tummy warm on the laptop:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2767324827_5fbf000de3_m.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 August, 2008, 06:24:56 pm
Awwwh, lil baby kitty cuteness.... :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 August, 2008, 02:40:23 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_box.jpg)
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Post by: scott on 27 August, 2008, 03:51:00 pm
Looks like you've finished assembling your cat kit.
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Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 28 August, 2008, 02:42:31 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2805186255_c8f13acfc4.jpg?v=1219929791)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 28 August, 2008, 06:06:41 pm
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/cat4053.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 29 August, 2008, 02:14:58 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerStairsCroydon_640.jpg)

Talisker looking cute on the stairs, although the bugger wouldn't look at the camera when I hit the shutter, and the camera wouldn't really produce a half decent picture without the flash, and concomitant "evil" eyes.  ;D
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Post by: Zipperhead on 04 September, 2008, 03:06:08 am
PGTips took this picture of Gateaux this afternoon

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SL81TkjyCRI/AAAAAAAAAf4/UFBfitUJBiY/s720/DSC_7851.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 September, 2008, 02:01:11 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/2heads.jpg)

Behold ! The beast with two heads !

[this is the first time I've ever seen them snuggled together - they usually fight - which is why Small Fat Cat looks a bit tense.  Big Cat isn't very well today and was seeking comfort :(]
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Post by: Zipperhead on 04 September, 2008, 11:26:08 pm
Flapjack today, after the storm:

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/grahamglen0/SL_5wuxcU-I/AAAAAAAAAgY/Q9eS_xKvRMw/s512/DSC_7921.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2008, 12:09:46 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6034%20-%20Version%202.jpg)

Alfie and Bea. Tired.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ian on 05 September, 2008, 05:03:07 pm
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/IMG_1447.jpg)

Snooze time for the ASBO kitties (La-La the Carpet Slayer and Attila the Honeymonster).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 09 September, 2008, 10:10:36 pm

Meet Anders's kitten, Sandy:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2841243689_db6fb8fb79.jpg)


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2842086150_7d3d4af3af.jpg)


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2841247975_8a8e88a0d6.jpg)

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Post by: bobajobrob on 10 September, 2008, 03:58:20 pm

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2842086150_7d3d4af3af.jpg)


What a cute face. Like butter wouldn't melt (yeah right!).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 10 September, 2008, 09:57:39 pm
Latest report from home is that Sandy is getting along OK with Bruno and Svanki, although it's hilarious to watch Bruno (aka The Insane Destroyer) running from this furry ball of bluff, who just seems desperate to play with him.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 11 September, 2008, 06:13:46 pm
Bit of an odd day for Trevor.
First he goes for a ride in his basket to some other house.

Then ... err, he wakes up.

Then he rides home again.

Then.

Oi! Where's my bollocks, you bastards!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Needssorting002.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 11 September, 2008, 06:45:33 pm
When Alfie had his pockets picked he was happy as larry when he came back from the vets.

Then he sat down.

Boy did he jump up fast!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 11 September, 2008, 06:47:39 pm
Bit of an odd day for Trevor

 ;D

Poor bugger.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Treewheeler on 11 September, 2008, 08:31:49 pm
New improved cat image!
www.ivy-house.org.uk/images/freecat.jpg
  ;D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 September, 2008, 08:09:24 pm

 OOO  L     DDDD
O   O L      D   D
O   O L      D   D
 OOO  LLLLL DDDD
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 16 September, 2008, 03:42:53 pm
Do not mess with The Blade. He will have you!

Edit: That isn't even shopped! He was seriously mad!

(http://www.zaribor.com/raz/the_blade/blade.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 06 October, 2008, 05:19:46 pm
Say hello to Ollie, the new Noodley cat; she is due to come to stay with us in 4 weeks.  Pictured earlier today, aged 9 weeks:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/IMG_1648.jpg)

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/IMG_1650.jpg)

Not the best of pics as they were taken as she scampered around her outside run...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 06 October, 2008, 05:35:50 pm
Montezuma, relaxing chez Pike:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2915840138_97da00ef1f.jpg?v=0)

Oh hai - you wantin dis bed now?
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Post by: little miss mac on 06 October, 2008, 08:08:01 pm
EEK! Ollie is all ears! Gorgeous!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 11 October, 2008, 09:32:22 pm
EEK! Ollie is all ears! Gorgeous!

she'll grow into them - I hope  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: valkyrie on 12 October, 2008, 07:25:06 pm
Say hello to Ollie, the new Noodley cat

Hello Ollie! Welcome to yACF. Please promise not to get lost in the potato field.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 October, 2008, 01:21:38 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 October, 2008, 07:13:47 pm
Pop quiz.  How many cats in the picture?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 22 October, 2008, 05:17:38 pm
The picture has a hint of MC Escher about it!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 November, 2008, 10:15:51 am
I'm afraid there's another pic of these two:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2998297733_22345e9ae5.jpg?v=0)


So photogenic!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2008, 11:41:17 am
My sister's older cat, Champion Champagne Bubbles Adfursh, when she was just a kitten, and being introduced to one of my parents tortoises (aka the rock with legs):

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Bubbles/small.php?size=640&file=/export/home/timo/www/Bubbles/tortoise4.jpg)
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Post by: LE on 03 November, 2008, 01:37:57 pm
My sister's older cat, Champion Champagne Bubbles Adfursh, when she was just a kitten, and being introduced to one of my parents tortoises (aka the rock with legs):

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Bubbles/small.php?size=640&file=/export/home/timo/www/Bubbles/tortoise4.jpg)

What a pretty cat.  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2008, 01:59:40 pm
This is her with her half brother Marmaduke (I can't remember his full name):

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/small.php?size=640&file=DSC00444.JPG&x=f625f008eb837dacec41a24b53dcf299)

He was half her size then, but he's much bigger than her now.  I think he also won a champion award equivalent when he was a kitten, but I don't think this counts once they become adults.

She stopped showing them, when Bubbles had got two black marks for scratching or biting a judge (or something like that).  If she gets a third, she is then banned from any further shows! ;D

This is him by himself, and slightly more upright.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/small.php?size=640&file=DSC00421.JPG&x=d8c0e161584b524ca590d581c4e53acf)
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Post by: LE on 03 November, 2008, 02:10:39 pm
They are lovely cats.  I don't blame bubbles for biting the judge.  I'd do the same if anyone tried to show me ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 03 November, 2008, 02:19:03 pm
Here's a (blurred) pic of worried little Ollie who came to live with us yesterday:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/Ollieisscared002.jpg)

So far she has been mostly hiding or up my jumper.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 03 November, 2008, 02:20:20 pm
What a sweety.  :*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 03 November, 2008, 02:27:19 pm
*melt*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2008, 02:28:03 pm
Still all ears! ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 03 November, 2008, 02:30:45 pm
Ollie looks very similar to my nephew's cat who spent ages on my lap yesterday.

I also have a shredded hand  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 03 November, 2008, 04:16:24 pm
Ollie looks very similar to my nephew's cat who spent ages on my lap yesterday.

I also have a shredded hand  ::-)


You been fettling again?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 03 November, 2008, 04:50:32 pm
Wasn't fettling, just playing with pussy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 03 November, 2008, 04:59:20 pm
Wasn't fettling, just playing with pussy.

Perhaps he thought you were about to fettle... were you dressed in green a bit like a vet?   ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 05 November, 2008, 11:05:45 pm
Another blurred photo of Ollie.  After 3 days of not being friends she and Rosie have decided life is too short (and the heat pad is too cosy) to not get along...

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/OllieandMinnie051108012.jpg)

I shall take some non-blurred photos soon.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 November, 2008, 11:28:39 pm
Who cares about the blurriness!

It is probably purring.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 07 November, 2008, 04:12:05 pm
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)

(http://photos-166.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514778_4604.jpg)

(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514803_334.jpg)
Oi! Stop feeling her boob! Thats my job! :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 07 November, 2008, 04:13:59 pm

(http://photos-166.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514778_4604.jpg)




That's one evil looking cat you got there....  You can just tell by its eyes it's planning something nasty.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 07 November, 2008, 04:16:52 pm
Something like this...

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 07 November, 2008, 04:23:02 pm
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)


LOL one relaxed kitty
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 07 November, 2008, 04:30:07 pm
Yes, often to be found in that very same pose half way up the stairs at night ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 07 November, 2008, 11:47:38 pm
It always amuses me how such (generally) elegant creatures can so often look as though they've been thrown!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 09 November, 2008, 12:59:39 am
Another pic of Ollie fast asleep but unblurred and sticking her tongue out:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/IMG_1658.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 09 November, 2008, 01:11:02 am
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)

That is a brilliant photo!  :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 11 November, 2008, 11:10:39 am
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerKitchen.jpg)

A slightly blurry photo of Talisker sitting on top of the tumble drier, which is in the middle of the kitchen, since I've just been putting a cat flap in for him, and I needed to shift it whilst I did that.  Of course he's ignoring the flap, and generally being difficult about using it. :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 11 November, 2008, 05:34:47 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerKitchen.jpg)

A slightly blurry photo of Talisker sitting on top of the tumble drier, which is in the middle of the kitchen, since I've just been putting a cat flap in for him, and I needed to shift it whilst I did that.  Of course he's ignoring the flap, and generally being difficult about using it. :-\

Well dur ::-) there is no way according to the Unwritten Rules of Cat that he could acknowledge that you had the idea and built it for him.

Soon he will be strutting around, dead proud of his Awesome Cat Flap Tunnel, telling all the other cats how he managed to persuade you to build it for him.

 :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 14 November, 2008, 02:58:14 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/ec5c99f7.jpg)
Amber chills out in the sink ::-)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/1b798a89.jpg)
Zabel does his Michael Jackson "Thriller" impression



I know nothing of what happens below, I was asleep and deny everything/anything :o

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/09c9a59f.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/c5c0ba77.jpg)



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Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 17 November, 2008, 11:26:19 am
The 'Bedclothes Are Being Changed' 6th sense kicked in yesterday

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3035546468_e816e39257.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 17 November, 2008, 12:24:46 pm
The 'Bedclothes Are Being Changed' 6th sense kicked in yesterday

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3035546468_e816e39257.jpg?v=0)

Awesome!

"I'm in ur bedz, pwning ur duvey"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 November, 2008, 09:48:10 pm
Jac, your cats are right wee soft sausages :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Martin on 17 November, 2008, 10:09:53 pm
two young ladies (4 months) who have almost graduated from Finishing School (as if  ::-))

(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/0cb/0cb32eebe0ce86b756ea84255851d3b1.jpg?ts=1226959662)

(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/582/582ffb28dd71e5ac8a7ff421fb259159.jpg?ts=1226959764)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 18 November, 2008, 03:01:25 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/ec5c99f7.jpg)
Amber chills out in the sink ::-)

Cats in Sinks - for all your cat and bathroom needs (http://www.catsinsinks.com)  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 18 November, 2008, 03:14:29 pm
Must.... resist



....temptation....



...to turn on tap....


... must.....resist....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 November, 2008, 12:43:13 pm
I don't really want to be woken today, OK? The sun is shining and this bed is rather comfy.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/3043527442_3851eba074_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 24 November, 2008, 10:09:35 am
A regular visitor to the garden. Known only as 'the Kitten' given he/she started visiting when very young. Our cat, who is normally a big girl's blouse, only chases this one out of the garden. Very odd behaviour.

What is that contraption you are pointing at me? Hmmm?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/3055001123_82b76ff335.jpg?v=0)

I iz waytin to pownce
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/3055000775_590accf319.jpg?v=1227520284)

Spidercat, Spidercat
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/3055837158_6a41ea5a7d.jpg?v=1227520517)

This is my wall now, understand?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3055837506_39e44e439e.jpg?v=1227520668)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 24 November, 2008, 01:41:41 pm
Willow

(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/Picture091.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 24 November, 2008, 02:04:01 pm
Awww... Willow looks sad :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 24 November, 2008, 02:24:36 pm
Awww... Willow looks sad :(

Willow always looks sad, even when she is in her most favourite place and being fussy by my mum!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 01 December, 2008, 11:20:47 am
So you don't want to cuddle me eh? Take this!!


(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/Photo-0147.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2008, 06:15:23 pm
OMG - Gas and Claw!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 01 December, 2008, 06:20:41 pm
Mmm... fishy farts  :sick:.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 05 December, 2008, 12:26:39 pm
Nacho using the toilet for a wee!
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/12/nacho-toilet.jpg)

Little bundle of love
(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/12/nacho-sleeping.jpg)

He's a happy cat having been flead and wormed at the vets \0/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 05 December, 2008, 12:50:54 pm
I'm sorry? Your cat is using your toilet...?

I like the tail positioning though.

"Some bastard's finished off the loo roll and not replaced it!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 05 December, 2008, 12:55:11 pm
He's well trained, you know. I just need to teach him not to shit in the bath!

"Some bastard's finished off the loo roll and not replaced it!"

It was the cat ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 08 December, 2008, 01:51:44 pm
He's well trained, you know. I just need to teach him not to shit in the bath!

I've only just persuaded Montezuma not to shit on the laminate flooring  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 08 December, 2008, 03:30:59 pm
Bit of an odd day for Trevor

 ;D

Poor bugger.

I was reminded of this just now when I browsed lolcatz to try to chill out at work.

(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/funny-pictures-kitten-is-back-from-vet-and-something-is-missing.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobajobrob on 14 December, 2008, 07:35:27 pm
Sofa cat says "oh hai, iz nice and warm here above teh radiator, zzzzzzzzzzzz".

(http://www.robshields.org/~rshields/2008/12/sofa-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2008, 09:21:03 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Top_Sofa_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Top_Sofa.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Asleep_Sofa_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Asleep_Sofa.jpg)

Talisker busy demonstrating that my new sofa is being well used by someone. ;D

(This is also a demonstration that my new camera does a remarkably good job of photographing a totally black cat!)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: goatpebble on 15 December, 2008, 10:54:42 pm
TimO, I wish I had a picture of my Bagpuss. I battled for more than a decade to keep him off my sofa. He was stripey and ginger, king of the block, and the Cassina Le Corbusier thing was his favourite nest.

Find cat on sofa, remove cat to a place four floors above, and he would be back on  the sofa, pretending to be asleep, faster than I could run down the stairs!

So a cat that spent his evenings in Tesco (all the staff knew him) came home to hog a sofa that cost more than a family car.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2008, 11:20:55 pm
I've got no chance of keeping him off of the sofa, he's got the entire day when I'm not around to make the best of it, although I guess I could close some doors and try and limit his wandering, although a closed door is anathema to a cat!

The sofa does exceed the value of my car though, which isn't actually saying much.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nic on 15 December, 2008, 11:39:06 pm
Meet our new cat Poppy.  :)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/3111150105_31ca2babac.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ABlipInContinuity on 16 December, 2008, 02:32:48 pm
Poppy has big eyes!

Any idea what we should call this one?
Bianchi, Ruby, Cat2 and Lola are the names we're currently toying with.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3112659481_6320a1123a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/3112659481/in/photostream/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2008, 02:41:33 pm
I dunno but she is cute and so is Poppy.....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nic on 16 December, 2008, 03:35:16 pm
Poppy has big eyes!

Any idea what we should call this one?
Bianchi, Ruby, Cat2 and Lola are the names we're currently toying with.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3112659481_6320a1123a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/3112659481/in/photostream/)

She is pretty awesome. Lola suits her IMO.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 18 December, 2008, 11:09:41 am
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/dec004.jpg)



We haz growed and is big katz now
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ABlipInContinuity on 18 December, 2008, 02:19:04 pm
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)

That is a brilliant photo!  :thumbsup: ;D

looks just like a rug?

JSG, are you trying to sneak a bicycle into every photo?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ABlipInContinuity on 18 December, 2008, 02:26:29 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/dec004.jpg)



We haz growed and is big katz now

Link to little katz picature
Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg116638#msg116638)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2008, 11:55:23 am
Ready for Christmas.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3121808723_a4d5d644da_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 20 December, 2008, 06:24:00 pm
She is bea-utiful!

Get another with both of them in and you're sorted for next year's xmas card  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Becky on 20 December, 2008, 07:42:23 pm
I think it might be raining outside.

...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2008, 07:46:10 pm
Soggy moggy :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: RichForrest on 20 December, 2008, 07:47:06 pm
Your pussies dripping :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 21 December, 2008, 01:02:44 am
(http://i.imgur.com/cvWHWZW.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 22 December, 2008, 03:29:46 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/48b5f1d1.jpg?t=1229959752)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 22 December, 2008, 04:51:18 pm
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5d-0622.jpg)

not a lot of stress in kiteh-world at the moment. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 22 December, 2008, 04:52:58 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/3127636321_1b527bb0ce.jpg?v=1229960730)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3127636871_7c6e129af4.jpg?v=1229961036)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/3127637551_c468cf911c.jpg?v=1229961214)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 22 December, 2008, 04:58:58 pm
(http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9614/kitteh2wy7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peanut on 22 December, 2008, 06:07:43 pm
Boo surveys  her daytime territory ...at night time territorial rights revert to Peanut
(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/peanutNboo/peainlanelight.jpg)

Here's Peanut waiting for some local wildlife to drop in
(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/peanutNboo/Peaonbirdtable.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peanut on 22 December, 2008, 06:20:43 pm
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)

Phew I'm not going on that turbo again
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 22 December, 2008, 09:01:01 pm
(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v377/24/97/668880166/n668880166_4514800_9605.jpg)

Phew I'm not going on that turbo again

 ;D

I love that photo, and that's a great caption
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 24 December, 2008, 05:27:26 pm
The new resident at Windy's place, a bit blurred 'cause it hasn't plucked up the courage to climb out of the basket yet

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/3133734032_01c1345d23.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2008, 10:02:35 pm
Awwwh!
Name, sex, age?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2008, 12:09:51 am
Awwwh!
Name, sex, age?

after that, can you tell us a bit about the cat?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 26 December, 2008, 01:06:41 pm
It's female, about 12 weeks old, and as yet still called 'Cat' - It's so small it curled up on a video case and fell a sleep yesterday. Fetched it on xmas eve, it slept all day untill we got into bed and turned the lights out then it started crying (think we should call it 'Durex'?).

We got it because no.2 son, who when asked what he wanted for xmas just said 'another cat'.

There was an advert in last weeks local paper 'kittens free to good home'. It was 1 of 4 and I think we 'rescued' it from a crazy cat lady in the dirtiest house I've ever seen. There were about 15-20 cats running around the place including feral cats who she said had just set up home there and she'd never been able to pet them. One of the toms was trying to get the mother of the kittens pregnant again. The place stunk, there was cat shit under the table and in the corner, half eaten dead animals that the cats had brought in. The chickens that were in the yard obviously slept in the conservatory from the amount of feathers and sh1t we had to walk across to get into the house.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 26 December, 2008, 02:57:48 pm
Some pics of it showing an interest in the goldfish

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/3137564293_12a984dd1c.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/3137547869_aa0864f8e0.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/3138371668_0c500c32bd.jpg)

and curled up with the videos

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/3137533971_7a90cd22d0.jpg)




Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 26 December, 2008, 07:28:55 pm
Christ. Aren't you tempted to report the crazy woman to the RSPCA? That sounds appalling.
Your kitty is a lucky little kitty. And very cute to boot.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 27 December, 2008, 05:22:58 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/dec002.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2008, 05:25:32 pm
'Goan, you know you want to. Heh heh heh  :demon: '
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nic on 27 December, 2008, 06:11:56 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/dec002.jpg)
Relaxilicious!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 30 December, 2008, 09:06:48 pm
(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/Picture095.jpg)
No cheezeburgerz pleaze, I haz hangovers
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LE on 30 December, 2008, 09:07:51 pm
(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e136/elleighmason/Picture094.jpg)

Willow's favourite hobby
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 04 January, 2009, 09:58:13 pm
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/Photo%20a%20day/5D-0661.jpg)

Here's Min, quite pissed off at being woken up when she was asleep in front of the fire :) 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 06 January, 2009, 05:15:36 pm
Ours has taken to sleeping in front of the fire a lot now. Finally worked out that the wee one is gone permanently and he's not going to get bullied out of the way (his brother really was a git at times - but being the one with the big personality he got away with it).

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3153391924_5589cc858f.jpg?v=1230715757)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Androcles on 06 January, 2009, 11:05:43 pm
This is Soo, at 14 he is the senior member of our pussy posse.  His hobbies include staying out of the way of most humans and being grumpy to cats.  Yes he is a he, the song about a boy with that name describes him very well.

(http://www.randellweb.talktalk.net/images/DSCF2896a.JPG)

The Youth Team:

(http://www.randellweb.talktalk.net/images/DSCF2886a.JPG)

Seven (7 black spots on white)

(http://www.randellweb.talktalk.net/images/DSCF2889a.JPG)

and his sister Six

Originally we weren't going to keep any of Six's kittens ourselves but this little bundle of fur has a slightly wonky front leg, and after her litter-mate died we got more than a little protective of her so she will be staying and taking the role of Junior Cat

(http://www.randellweb.talktalk.net/images/DSCF2894a.JPG)

Smokey at almost 5 weeks old - she has nice blue eyes really
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2009, 11:35:55 pm
Seven looks ready to take over when his time comes to be top cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2009, 11:36:32 pm
"I love putting the Christmas Decorations back in the loft!"

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/3175466742_1eb0e749be_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 06 January, 2009, 11:43:07 pm
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/3175466742_1eb0e749be_o.jpg)

If u see ceiling cat, tell him it's mai turn now.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2009, 11:47:34 pm
Poppy has big eyes!

Any idea what we should call this one?
Bianchi, Ruby, Cat2 and Lola are the names we're currently toying with.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3112659481_6320a1123a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/3112659481/in/photostream/)

Late into this thread. If you are still looking for a name, how about Gnilrad?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Androcles on 09 January, 2009, 11:22:57 pm
Seven looks ready to take over when his time comes to be top cat!

Yes, he does look a bit serious in that pic.  When the time comes he will have quite a bit of sister/niece Girl Power to cope with.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 January, 2009, 11:37:43 pm
(http://www.randellweb.talktalk.net/images/DSCF2894a.JPG)

Plz - pink litterz tray iz full
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Nuncio on 11 January, 2009, 09:29:39 pm
Brother (Merckx)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/3188380241_8f64f64ec7_o.jpg)

and sister (Pringle)


(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/3189239484_1b52d591b9_b.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 15 January, 2009, 01:48:14 pm
Montezuma, doing his best impression of a prawn

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/P1140174.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 January, 2009, 11:12:04 pm
I think he is training for the Feline Olympics - High board diving.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 16 January, 2009, 11:44:43 am
Methinks cats and armadillos shared a common ancestor. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 17 January, 2009, 08:54:00 pm
<------------------- in't she cute!

She's stuck with the monica 'cat2' 'tho. Her own fault. Only thing she would answer too!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 17 January, 2009, 11:31:24 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/3189239484_1b52d591b9_b.jpg)

Weather forecaster says it is going to be stormy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 18 January, 2009, 11:30:31 pm
This is Pepper

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3508/3207053261_b77448f47e.jpg)

and this is his brother Cracker

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3207086171_551114db68.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 19 January, 2009, 11:11:43 am
Cat claws and leather sofas?

The Horror, The Horror!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: annie on 19 January, 2009, 11:12:52 am
Montezuma, doing his best impression of a prawn

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/P1140174.jpg)

I recognise that throw ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 19 January, 2009, 11:14:02 am
He's taken a shine to it  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: annie on 19 January, 2009, 11:16:10 am
He's taken a shine to it  ::-)

I think the colour is so right for him :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 January, 2009, 11:47:20 am
Cat claws and leather sofas?

The Horror, The Horror!

Tell me about it, but ordering my sofa and it arriving, overlapped with acquiring Talisker.  Luckily he hasn't done any (significant) damage yet.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 January, 2009, 12:52:23 pm
Hazel our cat is not a furniture scratched unlike the cats we have had before. We have had a leather sofa for two years and she hadn't touched it until a couple of weeks ago when Pcolbeck junior startled her when she was half asleep and she attempted to jump from the floor onto the sofa arm, screwed it up and then used her claws to stop herself falling back down. Lovely big scratches and a couple of puncture holes in it now. Oh well its only furniture.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 19 January, 2009, 02:19:30 pm
Leather, and suede to some extent, is a really good non-clawable fabric. Our last sofa and armchair which were covered in a velour type fabric were in shreds after our kittens discovered their delights (preferred to their scratch post, of course). We got a new sofa in a sort of heavy duty suedette (horrible term, sorry, but it's not real suede) which they haven't touched because they can't get any purchase on it. Ditto the leather armchair.  :thumbsup:

The carpets are in a right old state though.  :'( ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 January, 2009, 02:31:00 pm
I think certain materials feel more scratchable to cats, especially anything rough, which they can get a good purchase on.  The scratching posts and boards you can buy have a particularly rough and uncomfortable surface, but the cats love it for cleaning their claws on.

Talisker doesn't particularly scratch the leather sofa, but there are a couple of small groups of holes which are suggestive of him having an unsteady moment, and having to use his ground anchors. ;D

What he really loves is the corner of a cardboard box, there are a few (from the house move, which I've almost finished unpacking... Aham...) which have been shredded by him.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 19 January, 2009, 07:21:05 pm
My Nelly didn't touch the leather sofa, she just jump up and snuggle up, not a single claw mark on it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 21 January, 2009, 10:52:50 pm
'Cat' at 4 months - stopping me from browsing

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3216642046_151af9bf93.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/3216639716_3af022bb42.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/3216640856_107b3eb318.jpg)



Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 21 January, 2009, 10:59:25 pm
That is a pretty cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 January, 2009, 11:01:35 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 21 January, 2009, 11:04:22 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:

a xmas present for a teenager who couldn't decide on a name - so Cat she's been since she entered the household
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 21 January, 2009, 11:05:12 pm
That is a pretty cat.

Mrs W said that even the vet went 'gooey'
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 January, 2009, 08:37:09 am
I think certain materials feel more scratchable to cats, especially anything rough, which they can get a good purchase on.  The scratching posts and boards you can buy have a particularly rough and uncomfortable surface, but the cats love it for cleaning their claws on.

Talisker doesn't particularly scratch the leather sofa, but there are a couple of small groups of holes which are suggestive of him having an unsteady moment, and having to use his ground anchors. ;D

What he really loves is the corner of a cardboard box, there are a few (from the house move, which I've almost finished unpacking... Aham...) which have been shredded by him.

Hazel is pretty good and only uses her scratching post or anything made of wicker (the washing basket and a couple of wicker storage boxes we have). If she is cross that you aren't doing what she wants (feeding her on demand or opening a door quick enough) she will have a go at the carpet though.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 24 January, 2009, 05:04:30 pm
Mojo found the sunny patch today:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/3223063200_4a48b7ba1f_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 January, 2009, 10:51:20 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerWithBall480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerWithBall.jpg)

Talisker playing with a plastic ball containing cat treats.  The idea is that you keep your cat amused, and limit his eating, by putting any treats inside the ball, and adjust the hole size so it takes some effort to get the snacks out.

Talisker, it turns out, is very good at doing this.  He emptied it almost as fast as he could eat each munchy which he got out!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 25 January, 2009, 05:01:12 pm
Leather, and suede to some extent, is a really good non-clawable fabric.

I'll have to get a photo of my parents' chair back...

Not surprisingly it's always covered with a throw now.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 January, 2009, 08:17:25 pm
I suppose it depends just how determined your cat is  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 02 February, 2009, 09:20:03 pm
This is as far as Talisker got today, he doesn't do snow. ;D

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Snow_2009-02-02_Talisker_640.jpg)

He won't go out through his cat flap, although I can't really blame him, since it looks like this:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Snow_2009-02-02_CatFlap_480.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 03 February, 2009, 10:53:15 am
Montezuma did about ten minutes outside in the snow last night.  He came back in, made his way to his favourite spot in front of the radiator and steamed  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 February, 2009, 10:21:03 pm
Talisker got further than Pippin. She barely puts her nose outside between September & April  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Torslanda on 05 February, 2009, 11:31:35 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:

So is 'Seefer'  ;D

J
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 February, 2009, 03:51:31 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:

So is 'Seefer'  ;D

J
One of my pals spells hers C4.
Another mate has one called Katy, after K.A.T.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Vernon on 08 February, 2009, 05:55:32 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:

So is 'Seefer'  ;D

J
So is kaypher...

(https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/estlxv3x79nlney2df9zf/kaypher.jpg?rlkey=ra5ems6dif73hp1nmufqxki1f&raw=1)

Gone but not forgotten

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 09 February, 2009, 02:51:05 am

So is kaypher...

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s129/vglewis/ACF/kaypher.jpg)

Gone but not forgotten




Cremated by any chance?  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 09 February, 2009, 03:40:36 pm
Cat is a great name!  :thumbsup:

So is 'Seefer'  ;D

J
So is kaypher...

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s129/vglewis/ACF/kaypher.jpg)

Gone but not forgotten



Fcuk me! Is that a microwave?!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Clare on 09 February, 2009, 06:04:59 pm

Fcuk me! Is that a microwave?!


Yup, Kafe was the cat who left home to live with my mother; mum had a black laborador as well, the cat learned to beg because she saw the dog doing so and getting fed, realised there was food to be had and tried it herself. She then sussed that hoovering crumbs also worked and one day mum wandered into the kitchen and found the cat cleaning out the microwave.

Kafe was about 2 years old in that picture, she died in 2006 aged 17 so it obviously didn't do her much harm.


I would also like to point out that when she lived with us she was called Kafer, mum embellished it to Kaypher, way more letters than is strictly neccessary.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 09 February, 2009, 07:18:26 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3449/3216639716_3af022bb42.jpg)

Anyone else think she looks like Liz with that pose?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2009, 09:46:24 pm
Does Liz wear collars like that?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 09 February, 2009, 10:36:02 pm
Does Liz wear collars like that?

Only when Charlotte asks nicely....

Though I can't see Liz in fur.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 10 February, 2009, 03:11:41 am
Liar, you'd seen her in dalmation lol
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 10 February, 2009, 08:25:36 am
I don't remember the picture of her with that posse.  ???
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 22 February, 2009, 09:08:18 am
Mmmm, Sunday morning  :D

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/cat5027.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2009, 03:55:04 pm
That belly looks like it needs a rub :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 22 February, 2009, 04:39:18 pm
And we are able to oblige these days.
I don't know what happened to him prior to arriving at the Cats Protection place, but belly rubbing was a very risky undertaking until maybe two months ago - he's been at Taylor Towers for about eight months, and is only now able to relax properly with us - in fact the general level of eating and sleeping is such that we may have to change his name from "Max" to "Mr Tubby"  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 February, 2009, 07:26:11 pm
...in fact the general level of eating and sleeping is such that we may have to change his name from "Max" to "Mr Tubby"  :D

Talisker is also on for the Mr Tubby award, having put on 1kg over the last 3 months (44% increase in body weight!)  I'm hoping that with the warmer weather, he'll spend more time outdoors hunting, and generally decimating the local population of anything smaller than him. :-\  At least he should burn off some of the fuel, and hopefully won't replace that with more energy from the additional food he gains.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 24 February, 2009, 11:00:14 am
Could I just mention: Tiggy. 42 confirmed kills. Yes that's right… 42 mice in the last two years. There must be some kind of 'mouse shop' in somebody's garden near us, and we live in a town.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Tiggy-action.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 February, 2009, 11:12:27 am
Very fluffy. :thumbsup:

I know Talisker hunts, and succeeds, but I've only ever once seen him with anything.  That was one afternoon when it suddenly started to rain, and there was thud-a-thud-a-thud as the cat flap went at some speed, and Talisker appeared with a mouth full of something, saw that the house wasn't unoccupied, and immediately turned and went back out again.

He has also been seen with a squirrel by others, and there have been occasional amounts of feathers in the back garden indicating the demise of something that once flew.

42 confirmed isn't bad, but does have a way to go to catch up with the world record holder, which was for over 3 mice a day (plus other beasties) on average, for almost 24 years. :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 February, 2009, 11:28:39 am
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talikser_and_Kaffenback_Thumb400.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talikser_and_Kaffenback.jpg)
Click image for bigness.

Talisker being disdainful about n+1, although I think it's mainly because he wandered out to see what I was doing, and has just realised how wet it actually is!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 24 February, 2009, 12:57:42 pm
Sadly Tim, there was also a 'robin' to add to the list from last week, but fortunately it's mice that seems to occupy her.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 24 February, 2009, 09:29:27 pm

He has also been seen with a squirrel by others


That is quite remarkable for a cat, especially one in an urban environment where it can't get a squirrel some distance from the nearest tree etc.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 February, 2009, 09:33:38 pm
...and this was only a short while before he was started on the Hyperthyroidism therapy, so was underweight, suffering from a heart murmer, and gods know what else probably making him feel ill.

Now he's back on form, the local rodent and bird population is possibly in for a hard time. :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: tonycollinet on 24 February, 2009, 09:52:33 pm

He has also been seen with a squirrel by others


That is quite remarkable for a cat, especially one in an urban environment where it can't get a squirrel some distance from the nearest tree etc.

A couple of years ago, I saw a bush thrashing about in the Garden. Then Spyro emerged at high speed with squirrel in his mouth. I went out in a rescue attempt, and he dropped the squirrel - who then bled to death from his throat while I watched.

He'll play with little stuff - something bigger that can fight back gets its throat bit - hard!

I found a dead rat in the garden on Sunday - not sure if Spyro had it, or if it just died there. The "just died" theory sounds unlikely though.

I can't imagine the pandemonium that'll take place if he ever manages to get a live rat into the house. The girly screeching that goes on when he brings a mouse in is bad enough.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 24 February, 2009, 10:42:19 pm
Could I just mention: Tiggy. 42 confirmed kills. Yes that's right… 42 mice in the last two years.

He's not quite as prolific as Towser (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4388043.stm).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 25 February, 2009, 08:44:19 am
30,000!

Who keeps a tally of that?!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 25 February, 2009, 08:53:52 am
Easy, you just chuck them onto a set of scales, and when it reaches half a tonne, you've got 30000 mice (assuming an average weight of 17g).

;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 25 February, 2009, 09:39:24 am
I had to post this, since it made me chuckle.  Talisker is basically on guard duty.  I've noticed that other cats will squirm under the side gate and wander past the house to get to the back gardens.  Talisker has obviously noticed this as well, and this is the first time I've seen him perched here, where he can obviously spot them, and launch an attack!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_GuardDuty_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_GuardDuty.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 25 February, 2009, 12:53:45 pm
Awesome!

Sgt Talisker at his post: alert, ears pointing in the right direction, not smoking on duty, good use of cover, good field of vision - top marks!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 25 February, 2009, 01:03:57 pm
… superbly camouflaged too!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 25 February, 2009, 02:29:41 pm
… superbly camouflaged too!

I shall go and whitewash him immediately. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 26 February, 2009, 11:09:19 am
… superbly camouflaged too!

I shall go and whitewash him immediately. ;D

Nah! You need to build him a sangar up there. That would be AWESOME! AWWWWWWW-SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM!!!!


Ahem. Er, carry on chaps, normal service resumed. :-[
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 February, 2009, 11:24:20 am
Nah, he needs something a bit more formal, how about a guard box like this:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/guardbox.jpg)

I don't think he's going to like the uniform though, and to be fair, he doesn't really need a Bearskin, he's already black and fluffy. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 February, 2009, 01:25:12 pm
The lack of opposable thumbs may make firearms use a bit problematic.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 02 March, 2009, 11:00:34 pm
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/yesillhaveanegg/cookieeated.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 06 March, 2009, 08:06:36 pm
I had to post this, since it made me chuckle.  Talisker is basically on guard duty.  I've noticed that other cats will squirm under the side gate and wander past the house to get to the back gardens.  Talisker has obviously noticed this as well, and this is the first time I've seen him perched here, where he can obviously spot them, and launch an attack!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_GuardDuty_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_GuardDuty.jpg)

"Number one post, TimO's Guard, alls' well, Corporal!"

Shamelessly stolen from the Sentry report given during the ceremonial changing of the guard at The Convent, Gibraltar, a response given by (and to) me on numerous occasions during 1985/6.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 09 March, 2009, 12:51:55 pm
Introducing Bertie, the latest addition at chez Masters:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2030.jpg)

And about 2 mins after getting out his cage:

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2029.jpg)

Seems to be settling in okay.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 10 March, 2009, 01:30:53 pm
Just joined this forum. Here are two pictures of the two kittens i will get in three weeks. Can wait till I have them.

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/kittens1.jpg)

And one with their mother and two brothers:

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/kittens2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 10 March, 2009, 02:00:09 pm
"C'mon lads, push harder! One more heave should have her over the edge!!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 March, 2009, 02:05:40 pm
Hang on, are those the same kittens? ;D

The top picture seems to show one black and ginger, and the other brownish.  Whereas the bottom shot has two all gingers, one black & white, and one grey.

Am I getting the colours mixed around (like the kittens!) in the top shot?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 10 March, 2009, 02:24:29 pm
They are the same kittens, the colours in the top picture are not very good.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 10 March, 2009, 06:48:40 pm
The black and white one is a guinea pig isn't it?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 March, 2009, 07:11:41 pm
Talisker, two or three years ago, when he was on holiday at a previous Chez TimO, before I took him on full time, and before he got seriously into running up bills at the vets.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerTwisted.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Tali2005/PICT0130.JPG)

Doesn't that tummy just need to be tickled!

How do cats lie like that, don't they have backbones? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 10 March, 2009, 07:22:43 pm

How do cats lie like that, don't they have backbones? ;D


Nope.
Universal joint.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 March, 2009, 09:17:51 am
Tasker back on duty!! Beautifully camouflaged. Mind you, he does resemble a bumble bee to be honest.



(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Talisker_GuardDuty.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 March, 2009, 10:42:04 am
I'll lend you the cat, you can try and paint him. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 March, 2009, 10:42:59 am
That has made me cry with laughter!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 March, 2009, 11:06:09 am
They'll never spot him now! Tasker all zipped up in his Winter Stealth garb.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Talisker-on-duty2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 March, 2009, 11:23:23 am
Tasker on tour of duty in Summer. Note: He's cleverly using 'what's there'


(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Talisker-on-duty3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 March, 2009, 11:50:09 am
They'll never spot him now! Tasker all zipped up in his Winter Stealth garb.

That would have been more use a few weeks back:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Snow_2009-02-02_Talisker_640.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 March, 2009, 11:55:54 am
You're tempting me! Must… re sist, m u  st resist. The force is so strong!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 March, 2009, 01:20:47 pm
I must get him a flower box for the summer, and some flowers in his hair fur.

Wasn't there a song like that (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEoxUf-KUM)? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 13 March, 2009, 01:26:52 pm
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Talisker-on-duty5.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2009, 05:38:18 pm
Talisker sitting in the flowerbed, I really need to do some work in the garden this year!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSnoozeGarden_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSnoozeGarden.jpg)
"Who're you looking at?"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 March, 2009, 06:16:51 pm
...and the "enemy" from next door.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TheEnemyNextDoor_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TheEnemyNextDoor.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 16 March, 2009, 09:26:18 am
I'm busy Tim. I know you're tempting me, but NO!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 16 March, 2009, 09:29:14 am
Go on, jack boots and a helmet on next doors mog, you know you want to. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 20 March, 2009, 08:52:38 am
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerBag_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerBag.jpg)

How was that possibly comfy?  It's not a soft bag, it's hard, lumpy, generally uncomfortable to lie on (I guess, I've never tried).  The carpet by itself would have to be easier.  Presumably he did it since he's a cat, and they are required to sleep on things that you've foolishly left lying about!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 22 March, 2009, 03:30:30 pm
Lulled into a false sense of security by 'Cat'

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3375762258_6f8e1e8b27.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3375762234_e785f4e078.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/3375762240_ab82487504.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 22 March, 2009, 03:43:49 pm
Ouch!!
Wear a helm*t, you know it makes sense.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 22 March, 2009, 11:27:58 pm
Every kitty needs a teddy

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/Scaw-GAX0iI/AAAAAAAADKg/ZdkveULthAo/s720/DSC_9752.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/ScaxF1-CG0I/AAAAAAAADKo/bh-FiUS0qzs/s720/DSC_9754.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: boudinnoirsurvélo on 24 March, 2009, 12:17:25 pm
Fangs!

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3380654718_a589190a96.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 24 March, 2009, 12:22:02 pm
Braaaiiiinnssss, I wants brrraaaaaiiiiiinnnnssssss
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/3375762240_ab82487504.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 25 March, 2009, 05:14:32 pm
Presenting my girls… Tiggy and Noodle

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig1.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig2.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig3.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig4.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig5.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig6.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig7.jpg)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig8.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 March, 2009, 08:42:41 pm
Oooh, they're balls of fluffy gorgeousness, aren't they  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 26 March, 2009, 08:21:07 am
Not when they're sicking up fur-balls they're not.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 26 March, 2009, 11:41:18 am
They do it out of love, you know. Really.


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 26 March, 2009, 11:45:48 am

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/3375762240_ab82487504.jpg)

Phrenology Kitteh takes a reading.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 26 March, 2009, 12:12:21 pm
Who's toughest? Tiggy or Noodle?


There's only one way to find out…



(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig9.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 27 March, 2009, 06:35:51 pm
(http://www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/vigilinternet/sidekick3.jpg)
Title: Oliver & the ghost cat
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2009, 01:32:10 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/ol_ref1.jpg)

Who is that spectral cat ?

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/ol_ref2.jpg)

He looks a bit like me, you know


(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/ol_ref3.jpg)

So handsome....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 29 March, 2009, 04:54:55 pm
This is Blitz, a lovely little cat who lives in the next street, she often visits our garden and checks to see if the cat flap is open.

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/Sc-Y-zIDKRI/AAAAAAAADNY/dJ3eK9fSV1s/s720/DSC_9757.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/Sc-ZAtjQOfI/AAAAAAAADNg/nb1ouhsRrSk/s512/DSC_9777.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/Sc-ZC1C6SvI/AAAAAAAADNo/w4MtJ9BJm8U/s512/DSC_9788.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2009, 04:57:15 pm
Pretty

Is she a pedigree ? She's very regal.  And nice 'n' spotty :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 29 March, 2009, 05:05:22 pm
Pretty

Is she a pedigree ? She's very regal.  And nice 'n' spotty :)

She must be, but I don't know what kind. She always looks like a little leopard.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 March, 2009, 08:51:07 pm
Bea has been watching the Yellowstone Beavers.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3396343140_c94d1db593_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 29 March, 2009, 08:51:54 pm
Pretty

Is she a pedigree ? She's very regal.  And nice 'n' spotty :)

Looks like a Bengal.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2009, 10:11:32 pm
Bea has been watching the Yellowstone Beavers.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3396343140_c94d1db593_o.jpg)


You take your cat to the cinema?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2009, 10:12:05 pm
Pretty

Is she a pedigree ? She's very regal.  And nice 'n' spotty :)

Looks like a Bengal.

Agreed
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Robbo5 on 29 March, 2009, 10:33:56 pm
Or an Egyptian Mau.

http://www.egyptianmaus.co.uk/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 29 March, 2009, 10:49:25 pm
Could be.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 March, 2009, 11:25:24 pm
She's an Asian cat. Rather beautiful and everyone who sees her wants to take her away! Tiny, as she was the runt ff the litter.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bomber on 30 March, 2009, 09:34:13 pm
Ooooooh, I don't think I've added to this thread yet.

Martha;

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3369465575_682bde1f92.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 01 April, 2009, 01:01:26 pm
Here are new pictures of the kittens, they are now about 1 month old.

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1020410.jpg)

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1020402.jpg)

(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1020396.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 03 April, 2009, 09:05:53 am
Bea has been watching the Yellowstone Beavers.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3396343140_c94d1db593_o.jpg)


O hai, Mr. Beaver, why iz you beavering around? Hasn't you heard of Cadbury's Caramel? Nom, nom, nom.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 03 April, 2009, 08:28:58 pm
Willow (L) and Scooby (R) are always treated to a tin of tuna when we go shopping. We got home a little earlier than usual this week. We had to make them wait.

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/101_0923.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 07 April, 2009, 01:49:45 pm
Whhhhooooooaaaa! We're not having that. Rather tenuous images of cats if you ask me!! We should boo him out of this Post boys and girls. Whaddyasay?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 April, 2009, 03:02:30 pm
I dunno, it does seem rather appropriate that fuzzy's picture are rather fuzzy. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 April, 2009, 05:34:11 pm
My sister's two cats, Bubbles and Marmaduke:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Bubbles_Marmaduke_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Bubbles_Marmaduke.jpg)

Marmaduke considering making an escape attempt:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke_FrontDoor_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke_FrontDoor.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 17 April, 2009, 07:30:44 pm
Call me Bubbles, dahling. Everybody else does.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 April, 2009, 07:48:47 pm
Strictly speaking, she's Champion Champagne Bubbles Adfursh, but you can call her "Oy you, stop doing that". ;D

Here is my mog, Talisker, who is no sort of champion or breed of any sort, other than domestic short hair with a predisposition for costing me money at the vets.

For some reason he thought that my Goretex jacket was comfortable.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_On_Goretex_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_On_Goretex.jpg)

"Yes, I can see you taking a photo of me".
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 17 April, 2009, 07:54:41 pm


For some reason he thought that my Goretex jacket was comfortable.



It's one of those cat things.  Because it's got your 'smell' on it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 16 May, 2009, 08:50:41 pm
New Noodley cat who chose us today:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/angus.jpg)

He really is very little, just 10 weeks old. 
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/angus2.jpg)

He can come to his new home in early June. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 16 May, 2009, 09:08:58 pm
Cute :)

Issit a Abyssinian ?

Very, very fetching.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 16 May, 2009, 09:25:33 pm
Cute :)

Issit a Abyssinian ?

He's a Blue Spotted Tabby Oriental.

He should end up looking a bit like this:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/Bluespottedoriental.jpg)

But I'm not sure if he'll be able to fly  ;D ;D

P.S. I have no idea who the woman with the badly dyed hair is.  It was the best pic of a blue spotted tabby I could find.  Although she looks like Peter Kay in drag...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 16 May, 2009, 11:02:02 pm

He should end up looking a bit like this:


Although ideally not with that expression
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 17 May, 2009, 09:03:42 pm

He should end up looking a bit like this:


Although ideally not with that expression

"I'll get you later."
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 May, 2009, 09:14:53 pm
He should end up looking a bit like this:
Although ideally not with that expression
"I'll get you later."

Isn't that the default expression for a cat?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 19 May, 2009, 07:25:18 pm
Boris the blade has a new favourite place to chill out.....

(http://www.zaribor.com/raz/pics/blade_birds.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 19 May, 2009, 08:07:48 pm
Sky high property prices force 'first time buyer' Kitteh to go down market.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: robbo6 on 19 May, 2009, 11:11:16 pm
Mr. Barnabé Barbe (AKA Beardy)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/StevenROBSON/IMGP0001.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 19 May, 2009, 11:12:03 pm
Big furry paw :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 22 May, 2009, 07:49:09 pm
Ollie cat looking very pretty at her first cat show.

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/ollieshow3.jpg)

Just about grown into those ears!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 22 May, 2009, 08:33:39 pm
Glamour puss!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 22 May, 2009, 08:50:48 pm
Glamour puss!

She scrubs up well  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 22 May, 2009, 08:52:01 pm
Too right she does!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 22 May, 2009, 08:52:47 pm
Cat in a box

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/catbox1.jpg)

and out again
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/catbox2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 22 May, 2009, 09:38:34 pm
and out again
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/catbox2.jpg)


No much wonder...I'd run away if a horse that size had clattered over my house!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 01 June, 2009, 09:39:22 pm
Boushti, fagged out from chasing string.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/Mister_Penguin/RIMG0013.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 June, 2009, 11:21:04 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/close.jpg)

Alfie at 11mm
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 05 June, 2009, 11:33:17 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/close.jpg)

Alfie at 11mm

Some bastard's nicked his legs....  >:(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 05 June, 2009, 12:27:22 pm
Alfie at 11mm

...seems a bit short, even for a kitten. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 05 June, 2009, 01:37:58 pm
Have you grown to look like him, or is it the other way round ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LinzWakeley on 05 June, 2009, 02:14:41 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/close.jpg)

Alfie at 11mm

My daughter, Abs, saw this at lunch break.  She is convinced Alfie wants a kiss, so she sends him kisses.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 June, 2009, 02:34:44 pm
Have you grown to look like him, or is it the other way round ?

 ;D

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 09 June, 2009, 09:36:00 am
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2103.jpg)

Bertie does his best to blend in...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 09 June, 2009, 10:26:00 am
Speaking of adventurous B&W cats

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3609723549_907eab0ed5_o.jpg)

This is the neighbours cat, that I rescued from our 2.5 storey roof a few weeks ago!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 09 June, 2009, 11:00:51 am
Speaking of adventurous B&W cats

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3609723549_907eab0ed5_o.jpg)

This is the neighbours cat, that I rescued from our 2.5 storey roof a few weeks ago!

Is that the private chapel attached to your west wing?   ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 June, 2009, 03:07:25 pm
Have you grown to look like him, or is it the other way round ?

 ;D



Do you mean, which one gets legless first?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 June, 2009, 12:50:21 pm
Old gentleman in the sun.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_sun_2009.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 June, 2009, 01:51:14 pm
Photo good it is.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 13 June, 2009, 08:55:06 pm
That's a great photo Jaded.

Here's one of 'new boy' Angus, fascinated by Pingu's pingu...

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF1674.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 19 June, 2009, 10:21:26 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/close.jpg)




Jean Luc Picat. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 19 June, 2009, 08:44:56 pm
Angus says spots and stripes are the new black:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF1941-1.jpg)

And jumble of sleeping cats:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF2058.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2009, 09:11:42 pm
Gorgeous!

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2009, 09:14:58 pm
A standoff

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/defending.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 19 June, 2009, 09:20:24 pm
"you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"no. you come down"

"no. you come up"

"whatevva".....

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 19 June, 2009, 09:27:08 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/close.jpg)(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF1941-1.jpg)




Jean Luc Picat. :thumbsup:                                             Mr. Spock the Vulcat. :thumbsup:


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 June, 2009, 08:30:45 pm
Cheeky:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3344/3651695052_35407e5110_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 23 June, 2009, 09:11:20 pm
Cat-in-a-box (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div)

'Oo U callin rubbish? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPXPv3oNY4&NR=1)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 30 June, 2009, 01:02:29 am
Say hello to Tiger and Lilly

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/3672871717_a4d6ac4e71_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3673683122_3317d76b1f_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3672873603_b9ac9dfd09_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3410/3672873337_3b7f411961_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3656/3672873081_8ba901ec1b_o.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/3672872701_379a1bb4fd_o.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/3673681422_b7de6cd111_o.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/3672871951_27e3afcf06_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 30 June, 2009, 06:41:25 am
Now, they're just a  little too cute for this time of the morning :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 04 July, 2009, 07:57:26 pm
Ollie cat wins a gert big rosette today at Scottish Siamese Championship Show:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF2193.jpg)

 :thumbsup:


....and here she is at home sticking her tongue out at the opposition  ;D

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF2180.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 04 July, 2009, 10:01:09 pm
There seems to be some old cats and some Siamese cats, so here's an old Siamese ;)

Meet Charlie - our 16 yo blind lilac point Siamese.....

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/MullJune2009053.jpg)

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/MullJune2009050.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 04 July, 2009, 11:17:10 pm
Hello Charlie.  He looks like he is still enjoying life sleeping all day  :thumbsup: 

Until I met Mrs Noodley I had never had pets other than fish and budgies.....when we started to 'go out' she had 2 Siamese, a seal point and a tabby point.  The Seal Point attacked me at every opportunity, and the Tabby and I got on great.....then when the Seal started to get older and got ill he 'warmed' to me and we became best friends.  The Seal point died about 6 years ago and the Tabby, who I still think about as being in the house sometimes, died last year. 

We now have Rosie, Ollie and Angus and they are 'part of the family'.   I love them to bits.   


I am most usually a placid person, but I do get a bit 'heated' when someone gets a bit 'anti cat'...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 06 July, 2009, 12:03:35 am
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3571/3691227135_c3cdf05576.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/3691227135/)

Cat2 stalking in the trees.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 July, 2009, 11:43:24 am
Awh, that's a purdy picture
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 08 July, 2009, 06:56:13 pm
They're big whiskers.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: eck on 15 July, 2009, 08:38:35 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3723878531_929ab72737.jpg?v=0)
Mia appears to have adopted my new frame. It may be some time before she lets me take it into the garage.  :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 15 July, 2009, 08:44:19 pm
That's one possessive-looking cat.

She's def. taken ownership of that lovely frame :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 15 July, 2009, 08:49:56 pm
It may be some time before she lets me take it into the garage.  :-\

Is that a Kuota Khatma frame?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: eck on 15 July, 2009, 09:02:21 pm
It may be some time before she lets me take it into the garage.  :-\

Is that a Kuota Khatma frame?
::-)
It is now.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 July, 2009, 11:07:53 pm
I think the give-away is the aggressively clenched paw, ruching up the duvet.

I'd definitely have my cricket box in place when retrieving that frame.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 16 July, 2009, 08:41:36 am
I hope we're not witness to a similar incident that took place in a hotel room in Scotland not so many moons ago.

What a cat does in the privacy of its own home is none of our concern I say.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 21 July, 2009, 11:20:58 pm
Montezuma hasn't been well of late.  The vet reckons that he's got thyroid problems, so he's on medication now.  Which, it has to be said, has perked him up a right treat.

Here he is, acting as hot-water-bottle-in-chief for an unwell Liz:

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/IMGP0167.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andygates on 21 July, 2009, 11:34:19 pm
Is she strangling the delicious tasty life out of him?   :o

Beltane says, "It is 6am. Look how cute I am! Look! Feed me! Look! Oh, wait. Is that a camera? A camera and not delicious tasty noms!  Screw you, human... *Sulk*!"

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h95/andygates/Image074.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 22 July, 2009, 12:07:00 am
(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/miffymap.jpg)

Miffy map reading
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 30 July, 2009, 09:46:00 pm
Another addition to the Noodley household arrived last weekend.  He is called Jock, or Big Jock (he is only 10 days older than Angus, but is the size of an adult), or Kinky Jock (he has a kink in his tail)

He's a Caramel shaded bi-colour Oriental:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF2756.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 30 July, 2009, 09:50:13 pm
Kinky Jock (he has a kink in his tail)





There's an ancient tale from Siam to how the kitteh got a kink in its tail.
The Princess took her rings off while bathing and placed them on the Siamese kittehs tail
so they wouldn't get lost.
To make sure he didn't lose them the kitteh kinked the end of his tail.
Blah, blah...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 30 July, 2009, 09:57:23 pm
Kinky Jock (he has a kink in his tail)





There's an ancient tale from Siam to how the kitteh got a kink in its tail.
The Princess took her rings off while bathing and placed them on the Siamese kittehs tail
so they wouldn't get lost.
To make sure he didn't lose them the kitteh kinked the end of his tail.
Blah, blah...

I had never heard that.  It's a nice story.  His tail is very very long, as are his legs. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 16 August, 2009, 12:54:26 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3826189708_2e6b9fc223.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 16 August, 2009, 07:47:49 pm

Those colours are really crisp and vivid. What a poseur.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 19 August, 2009, 10:56:32 pm
New Kitten alert!

Thanks to a chap called Sam over on Cyclechat, there's a new owner in the Shifty household:

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/Kitten/img_0768.jpg)

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/Kitten/img_0738.jpg)

And here, learning the ropes:

YouTube - New kitten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuOuHn8X-k)

Bonington isn't exactly a fan yet, but she'll adapt in due course.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 19 August, 2009, 11:09:17 pm
very cute, I'm sure Bonington will come round in a wee while.  Try a hot water bottle with them, they'll soon become pals then! 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 23 August, 2009, 12:16:56 pm
This is the pub cat at the Jenyn Arms, on Regs Ride to Regicide yesterday.  The little furry bugger kept on looking away just as I took a shot!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/JenynsCat1.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/GregsRideToRegicideTwo/P1010372.JPG)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/JenynsCat2.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/GregsRideToRegicideTwo/P1010373.JPG)

He (she?) seemed quite chatty, but wasn't willing to come down and say hello, possibly because of the Cockerel who was wandering about!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 23 August, 2009, 01:46:34 pm
Mikey, a neighbours cat.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 23 August, 2009, 02:46:58 pm
Mikey looks like a splendid chap indeed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 23 August, 2009, 03:03:41 pm
He knows he is!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 August, 2009, 01:19:34 pm
This is 'Cyril'. He has taken to sleeping in our flower trough.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cyril.jpg)

We call him Cyril because we can't remember his real name. He is the neighbour's roof-climbing cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 28 August, 2009, 01:05:42 pm
These are three of the cats at Gastrobiking (there used to be two, now there are four)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SouZ_rLyJwI/AAAAAAAAFR0/zEEW-ZyVGYA/s720/DSC_4034.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/Sow_bckcrvI/AAAAAAAAFSo/5kgkYomOIxI/s576/DSC_4038.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/So2IxHV0eNI/AAAAAAAAFVA/tgk25uwlW7M/s720/DSC_4291.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/So-dYOJ3NyI/AAAAAAAAFV8/Qf10kyzp4VI/s720/DSC_4486.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SpA1wwMkp5I/AAAAAAAAFZA/tUpwjgSfQm8/s576/DSC_4591.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 28 August, 2009, 01:24:56 pm
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SpA1wwMkp5I/AAAAAAAAFZA/tUpwjgSfQm8/s576/DSC_4591.JPG)

...wins the award for the cutest human/cat interaction shot recently. :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 28 August, 2009, 01:27:21 pm
...wins the award for the cutest human/cat interaction shot recently. :thumbsup: ;D

Also available in closeup....

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SpA1x4Q5mFI/AAAAAAAAFZE/LlHe3F-3iJU/s576/DSC_4592.JPG)

It looks like the kitty narcolepsy is quite contagious...
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SpA1y2Q0KFI/AAAAAAAAFZI/nBqSBeVP4uM/s576/DSC_4595.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 28 August, 2009, 02:58:18 pm



(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SpA1y2Q0KFI/AAAAAAAAFZI/nBqSBeVP4uM/s576/DSC_4595.JPG)

That one belongs in the 'Cat Flaps' thread.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 August, 2009, 09:48:53 am
Not quite your normal "cute kitty" shot. ;D

I'd just woken him up from yesterdays favourite snoozing location, on top of the tumble drier, and he needed a stretch and yawn.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Yawn_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Yawn.jpg)

My, what big teeth you have Talisker.

Do not annoy basement cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 30 August, 2009, 01:04:20 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Yawn_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Talisker_Yawn.jpg)



Transylvanian Kitteh no like the garlic bread!!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 August, 2009, 08:45:52 pm
Fangs for the memory.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 August, 2009, 09:21:13 pm
These are three of the cats at Gastrobiking (there used to be two, now there are four)

When we were there, there was just one:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2515/3875832640_d979361364.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2515/3875832640_f1df10bbdb_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 05 September, 2009, 12:10:24 am
We lost one of our cats last weekend, killed by a car about a mile from home. 

We miss her terribly and it's been a hard week, but happy memories are replacing the sadness.  So I thought I should post a pic of Rosie here, in one of her favourite places snuggled up on warm towels just out of the tumble drier:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/lunanbay211007012.jpg)


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2009, 08:04:30 am
Sorry to hear that, its not an easy thing to take in.  :'(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rdaviesb on 05 September, 2009, 10:09:06 am
Binda. Not liking the flash. Unusual, in that he's actually awake.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2472/3880799745_afe01a18cd.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 September, 2009, 02:09:37 pm
Oh, poor Rosie and the Noodley family :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 05 September, 2009, 02:42:04 pm
Condolenses to the Noodley family.

Siamese really do become part of the family.

I'm sure she'll be sorely missed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 05 September, 2009, 05:59:41 pm
+1 to what epa said.

Here's Cat2 being a tart again:
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p96/edd_o_brain/050.jpg)

Some cats really do get under your skin.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 September, 2009, 10:32:53 pm
Mojo:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3893661975_97cd1e8a2b_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 September, 2009, 10:35:00 pm
Brother in law's cats:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/3893661811_7383a5326a_o.jpg)
Chorlton

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/3894451502_435c0eb1f4_o.jpg)
Jock
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 11 September, 2009, 09:00:17 am
Has this been posted before?

YouTube - The Mean Kitty Song in HD!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsbL6CahtvE)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jimbob on 14 September, 2009, 08:51:35 pm
I got a new rug at the weekend.

I think its a hit

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2524/3919971449_f36a0d58bf.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3509/3919971965_106004e0cc.jpg)

Bailey izz azzleep
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 14 September, 2009, 09:38:03 pm
Some cats really do get under your skin.

All it takes is a good clawing...   ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 17 September, 2009, 08:53:42 pm
2 kittens and an honourary cat enjoy an afternoon nap...


(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF2984.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 18 September, 2009, 07:15:31 am
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 19 September, 2009, 02:03:38 pm
Ethel-the-Cat and Kitty-the-Ferret:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3933392571_222f81fd66.jpg)

(Another picture here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=23931.msg429030;topicseen#msg429030))
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 19 September, 2009, 09:54:37 pm
Excellent pic.   :thumbsup:

Ferrets must be cats in waiting  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 September, 2009, 10:23:50 pm
Ethel-the-Cat and Kitty-the-Ferret:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3933392571_222f81fd66.jpg)


No! I don't want soft toys you idiot! Bring me the tins of tuna and the opening device  :demon:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 19 September, 2009, 10:42:28 pm
Angus at todays show:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/Photo0020.jpg)

who got 2 1st, a 2nd and a 3rd


And Ollie:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/Photo0015.jpg)

who became a 'Premier' today which is the equivalent of a champion but for a neutered cats.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clarion on 20 September, 2009, 07:58:35 pm
Ollie... who became a 'Premier' today which is the equivalent of a champion but for a neutered cats.


Some consolation, I suppose ;D

Well done both - handsome cats they are.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 September, 2009, 10:08:24 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_blind.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 24 September, 2009, 10:14:59 am
fabulous! Alfie or Bea? (My bet is on Alfie...)

And what about the ickle baby kitteh? Have you chosen?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 September, 2009, 10:38:11 am
'tis Alfie, enjoying the sun and someone being at home.

We are going to have the brown one, unless we like the chocolate one better, or perhaps...  :P

My sister's second cat is dying slowly, that's 3 weeks after her first one died at 19. (The 2nd one is Alfie's son and half-brother...)

I think we'll give her the choice of kitteh, because of that.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 24 September, 2009, 10:41:36 am

Alfred Hitchcock Kitteh.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 24 September, 2009, 10:53:22 am
Mikey, a neighbours cat.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey.jpg)

Mikey looks right dead proud and chuffed.

And so he should be... he's easily the fastest neighbourhood cat, and can
easily overtake all the other cats.
Mikey freely invites you to follow all of his "kills" on YouTube.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2009, 04:46:25 pm
Pippin:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/4000479703_43c06e723d.jpg)

I really could do with a better lens, black cats indoors is a bit of a problem. Can't quite stretch to one with a big enough aperture though!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 October, 2009, 04:50:26 pm
Time for a kitteh update?

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Kittens-with-Pudsy-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2009, 04:52:05 pm
Wow, choc brown cats with turquoise eyes look.... slightly unnerving!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 11 October, 2009, 05:46:30 pm
Time for a kitteh update?

Yeah gods, are you buying in bulk now? ;D

I count Mum (?) plus six small terrors on four paws.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 October, 2009, 06:07:01 pm
Still only getting two.  O:-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: anth on 12 October, 2009, 09:56:36 am
Cats of a couple of friends we were staying with recently.

Chalse
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/3971391104_664dac6257.jpg)

Mannie
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3474/3970621147_207f03382d.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 October, 2009, 11:47:19 am
Good photos, especially the top one. :thumbsup:

<Cat Thought Bubble> "...and what do you think you're doing?" </Cat Thought Bubble>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 13 October, 2009, 11:07:46 am
Small fat cat, big tail :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/bigtail.jpg)

Got any bottles need washing, mister ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 13 October, 2009, 11:13:29 am
I'll raise (geddit?) your fluffy tail, with two fluffy tails!

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NooTig5.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 13 October, 2009, 01:48:15 pm
I'll raise (geddit?) your fluffy tail, with two fluffy tails!




*Disappointed not to see a photo of a cat with two tails...*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 13 October, 2009, 02:13:11 pm
Hey Reggers! You'll have to be satisfied with two fingers!! < two-fingered smiley>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bikesdontfloat on 14 October, 2009, 12:59:36 pm
Too much cuteness, must redress the balance!

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_VGs2r8OPqa4/StTApbD-BJI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/_7Nj22mZ0yg/2007_03010044.JPG)

This is what happens to cats that just have to be the toughest cat in the area despite barely topping 2kg.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 14 October, 2009, 04:50:39 pm
Too much cuteness, must redress the balance!

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_VGs2r8OPqa4/StTApbD-BJI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/_7Nj22mZ0yg/2007_03010044.JPG)

This is what happens to cats that just have to be the toughest cat in the area despite barely topping 2kg.


Why does that picture make me think of Zipperhead?  ???
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 18 October, 2009, 11:26:06 pm
Tickle my belly
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/4024065476_4497b55cc0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/4024065476/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 October, 2009, 11:23:33 am
Lovely shot ed <jealous>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: docsquid on 29 October, 2009, 05:47:50 pm
Here's Ozzy now he's grown up.  He is a beautiful and extremely soft cat who lets you pick him up, turn him over and tickle his tummy.  A complete softy.

(http://www.docsquid.com/cats/ozzy2009.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 29 October, 2009, 06:10:53 pm
I've just been hunting for the kitten photos that you posted, before I realised that you must have posted them on ACF rather than here, so we can't make a direct comparison.

Talisker also doesn't really like being picked up like most cats.  I've only had him since he was one or so, and he was like that from the start, so it's probably how he was treated as a kitten.  He does however tolerate being picked up like a baby, and as you say, having his tummy tickled. ;D

He is also a total softy.  A cattery I used before moving to London said that he was the most relaxed cat that they had ever met!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: docsquid on 29 October, 2009, 06:17:09 pm
Here he is as a baby - he's huge now!  The first and last photo are with his sister, Cindy, who was killed earlier this year by a car.

(http://www.docsquid.com/cats/dottienbiscuit1-web.jpg)

(http://www.docsquid.com/cats/gettingabeadonmysister.jpg)

(http://www.docsquid.com/cats/andsotobed.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 29 October, 2009, 06:18:13 pm
Tickle my belly
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/4024065476_4497b55cc0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/4024065476/)

snap!

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/cats/IMG_0856.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 29 October, 2009, 07:17:33 pm
help, I'm trapped under this cushion (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/newcat013.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: docsquid on 02 November, 2009, 05:19:15 pm
Ozzy had a bit of an explore of the hen house today :)  He got in through the run door, walked up the ladder into the hen house and then the chickens returned and he was cornered!  I had to let him out through the egg port!

(http://www.docsquid.com/ozz-egg-port2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2009, 09:06:51 pm
You'll have to guess what has happened today!!!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/4069132095_b1e997612c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 02 November, 2009, 09:23:15 pm
You'll have to guess what has happened today!!!

I'll try.

Cat electrocuted?
Sofa falls on cat?
Cat stuck in gap in floor?
You decided your sofa really had to go? (I mean... y'know... damn!... Underpass Green is just so 90's)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2009, 09:45:38 pm

Cat electrocuted?
Sofa falls on cat?
Cat stuck in gap in floor?
You decided your sofa really had to go? (I mean... y'know... damn!... Underpass Green is just so 90's)

Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.

 ;D


The sofa predates underpasses!

The answer is that it is KITTEH TIME!

Proper photos to follow when we can entice them out from the hiding places.

In the mean time, here is one from the breeder's house - the next litter.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/4070008930_756b46f534_o.jpg)

All together - Ahhh!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 02 November, 2009, 09:48:20 pm
Aww... they look like cheesy Wotsits :).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 02 November, 2009, 09:56:38 pm
The answer is that it is KITTEH TIME!

Mrs MV just said she wants one :)

Ol says he fancies a snack...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2009, 10:58:49 pm
Give us an 'A'!!!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/4070228412_ff1e81761d_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 November, 2009, 11:01:41 pm
Aww... they look like cheesy Wotsits :).

Indeed.

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 November, 2009, 12:21:34 pm
So far the two new arrivals have been mostly hiding, under the radiator and under the sofa. Probably trying not to be chosen by my sister when she comes to collect!

Good news! They've been using the cat bed I put in the room they are in. Shame it was to wee and poo in.  ;D

Here is the best so far - of them before they were coaxed out of the cat carrier

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4071976398_2ea8e5e694_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 November, 2009, 11:03:48 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/4075685351_502750aefe_o.jpg)

so much better than 24 hours earlier...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/go_homez.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 04 November, 2009, 11:07:27 pm
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/4075685351_502750aefe_o.jpg)

They are beauts!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 04 November, 2009, 11:11:20 pm
They look lovely....and full of trouble!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 04 November, 2009, 11:12:13 pm
So far the two new arrivals have been mostly hiding, under the radiator and under the sofa. Probably trying not to be chosen by my sister when she comes to collect!


Don't let her take one! They look so good as a pair!

How much more work can one extra cat be?  :D

(speaking as someone who has just been adopted by cat No 4... )
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: docsquid on 06 November, 2009, 07:26:36 pm
They are absolutely beautiful.  I'd definitely keep both of them!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 November, 2009, 11:40:45 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/4081774776_6c70666113_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 November, 2009, 09:21:41 pm
The reason why you shouldn't leave a rack pack, open, on the kitchen floor.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerRackPack_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerRackPack.jpg)

I wouldn't have thought he would fit in it, I've certainly never tried to get anything as big as him in, although I haven't tried zipping it up with a Talisker as it's cargo.  I suspect it would be a bit tight, not to mention sharp teethed and clawy. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 07 November, 2009, 09:34:14 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/4081774776_6c70666113_o.jpg)

I see you have found the ultimate solution to kitteh-clawed carpets.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 November, 2009, 09:35:08 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4083376417_8329f2d721.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 November, 2009, 09:38:21 pm
So, someone wants the central heating turned on in Chez Pingu then? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moose57 on 08 November, 2009, 09:30:11 pm
(http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs094.snc3/16153_168010628398_770548398_2727528_977538_n.jpg)

Huxley and friends
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Bluebottle on 08 November, 2009, 09:44:55 pm
Give us an 'A'!!!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/4070228412_ff1e81761d_o.jpg)

Apparently influenced by the Book of Kells

(http://www.olneystone.co.uk/images/BookOfKellsSlate.jpg)

(Yes, I know it isn't the book itself...)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 09 November, 2009, 04:12:51 pm
Things are going reasonably well...

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4089322957_cd78a9fd85_o.jpg)

My sister took the brown one, so we are now the slaves for a Chocolate Burmese whose name will begin with C
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 November, 2009, 10:36:20 am
Sorry, can't resist another photo.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4097271423_b68e772a97_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 12 November, 2009, 10:42:22 am
Absolutely gorgeous!! Boy or girl? Have you got a name yet?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 November, 2009, 10:52:49 am
Boy - has to begin with 'C'

So far we have:

Claude
Colin
Chaos
Colon*

Any other suggestions ideas?

*not serious...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 12 November, 2009, 10:55:04 am
Charles
Chip
Catemite
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 12 November, 2009, 10:55:28 am
Boy - has to begin with 'C'

So far we have:

Claude
Colin
Chaos
Colon*

Any other suggestions ideas?

*not serious...

Cadbury?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SandyV on 12 November, 2009, 10:57:02 am
Cat?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 12 November, 2009, 11:03:16 am
Chester
Caspar

(Colin is my dad's name. That would be a bit weird.)

Hang on, I know: Cutie Pie.  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Julian on 12 November, 2009, 11:10:03 am
Caesar
Cecil
Cedric
Claude
Calvin
Cuthbert
Cyril
Cornelius
Crispin
Casper
Cassius
Cosmo

He looks like a Cornelius to me.  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2009, 11:14:08 am
He looks like a Cornelius to me.  :)

+1 it has the gravitas befitting such a feline.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 12 November, 2009, 11:14:49 am
Claude is always good for a willful cat :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 November, 2009, 11:26:52 am
...Colon*

*not serious...

Sergeant Fred Colon, very PTerry Pratchett! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 November, 2009, 12:20:18 pm
Claude is always good for a willful cat :)
I was about to say that Calvin is asking for a wilful cat :)
We've got a Claude next door, he's currently a huuge ball of fluff (think 5 times as fluffy as Mojo) but he gets shaved in the spring.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 12 November, 2009, 01:16:24 pm
Cougher of Fur Balls
Clawer of Furniture
Chaser of Small Animals
Chewer of Small Animals
Crapper in Litter Tray
Chunderer of Iams
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Butterfly on 12 November, 2009, 03:32:37 pm
Corleone
Christopher
Creature
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 November, 2009, 04:21:58 pm
Geoff.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 12 November, 2009, 06:02:07 pm
Don. Don Corleone
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JT on 12 November, 2009, 09:51:44 pm
Seeing as your other two are kind of variations of the Greek alphabet - Alfie and Bea - how about Cam, a variation of Gamma?

</greek></geek>  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 12 November, 2009, 10:10:10 pm
Crème Brulee
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 November, 2009, 10:20:11 pm
Seeing as your other two are kind of variations of the Greek alphabet - Alfie and Bea - how about Cam, a variation of Gamma?

</greek></geek>  ;D

Nope, NSTN's dog is called Cam, ergo you can't have a cat called that as well. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2009, 10:22:10 pm
CJ (http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/11025.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Julian on 12 November, 2009, 10:23:23 pm
Norty Basil!

I clicked your link and it said

Quote
Hotlinking is not allowed !

It would appear you are trying to access a movie clip hosted at KeiraWeb.com by clicking on a direct link from another site.

This is not allowed. Please inform the webmaster to link to my homepage instead.

Please click here to visit KeiraWeb.com and view the clips from there.
 
  Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved! (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg471251;topicseen) /reginaldperrin/11025.jpg

:o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 November, 2009, 10:24:23 pm
CJ (http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/11025.jpg)

Nope, doesn't work:

Quote
Hotlinking is not allowed !

It would appear you are trying to access a movie clip hosted at KeiraWeb.com by clicking on a direct link from another site.

This is not allowed. Please inform the webmaster to link to my homepage instead.

Please click here to visit KeiraWeb.com and view the clips from there.

...only in HUGE letters.

I do wonder what leonardrossiter.com has to do with Keira Knightley though?


Edit: Beaten by The Julian. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 12 November, 2009, 10:28:23 pm
Sorry.  Just a link to an image of the character CJ from "The Rise and Fall of Reggie Perrin" 
Not sure why it's done that.  Works for me.

Oh well.  Move on.  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JT on 12 November, 2009, 10:36:16 pm
Seeing as your other two are kind of variations of the Greek alphabet - Alfie and Bea - how about Cam, a variation of Gamma?

</greek></geek>  ;D

Nope, NSTN's dog is called Cam, ergo you can't have a cat called that as well. ;D

But me and Jaded both have an Alfie. And, weirdly, me and Jaded have the same name IRL. So, bollocks!  :o ;D

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Bluebottle on 12 November, 2009, 10:58:57 pm
"Bollocks" is a funny name for a cat.  That said, it sounds suitably subversive :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 12 November, 2009, 11:05:02 pm
A cat name needs to be chosen carefully......not just from random suggestions. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 November, 2009, 01:25:33 am
Seeing as your other two are kind of variations of the Greek alphabet - Alfie and Bea - how about Cam, a variation of Gamma?

</greek></geek>  ;D


This is good. Added to the list.  :thumbsup:

Actually, they've all been added to the list.

We face a tough weekend.
Crossing off the names one by one.

The school debating society* will feel like a walk in the park for the Jaded kids by Sunday night. <snigger>


*I always go red in the face when the phrase "school debating society" is repeated. You see, I broke ours.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 13 November, 2009, 04:01:21 pm
Charlie. You can then tell the neighbours you are looking for Charlie,he is one gorgeous cat BTW.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 November, 2009, 11:39:36 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliTopSofa_Thumb512.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliTopSofa.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 November, 2009, 11:42:04 pm
nnnnnhhh! paw fetish!
Anna wiggle box in the background!

<goes off for cold shower...>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 November, 2009, 11:53:47 pm
Talisker is one cool cat.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 November, 2009, 12:04:22 am
He was actually sitting right behind me, and every so often I'd get a paw or tail poking into my ear. :o

I was watching Aliens, and "Jones" the cat makes a few brief appearances at the start with "meows", which were obviously realistic enough to make him stare at the TV for a few minutes, ears a twitch. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: anth on 27 November, 2009, 09:57:22 am
He starts out normal...

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4136342369_3f41f0a66d.jpg)

... but start stroking him...

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2572/4137105616_e40cf189c8.jpg)

... and he turns into a squirrel

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2556/4137105122_8a85dc23da.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 27 November, 2009, 09:59:14 am
I bet he doesn't eat nuts though. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2009, 03:04:19 pm
Those ears are special!

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2009, 03:05:13 pm
2 from a set of an exploring kitten:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4137806751_797c5172c6_o.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4138571222_234c1eeba5_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2009, 04:44:45 pm
Sorry - can't help myself:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2584/4138010477_10be4160bd_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 27 November, 2009, 08:29:14 pm
Cat installation complete  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 29 November, 2009, 03:11:54 pm
Pippin likes the sun:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4143991532_51604e5fef.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4143991532_51604e5fef_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: docsquid on 29 November, 2009, 06:55:50 pm
You found some sun today?  Pippin looks very happy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: goatpebble on 30 November, 2009, 12:53:02 am
I wish I had a camera. I have been cat-sitting!

He's a small and lithe 17yr old, and profoundly deaf. He is very, very vocal, likes eye contact, and will search out every opportunity to give affectionate head-butts. This means some strange positioning antics as he finds some useful high point to either look at you, or get onto your shoulder.

He really, really has to be at eye level, or as near as damn it.

He also seems to like my ears.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2009, 08:55:26 am
Cat installation complete  :D

Have you read the manual yet ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2009, 11:26:53 am
Mojo was clooking his claws on the sofa yesterday (Naughty boy!) when he got one of his claws stuck. He just sat there with his paw in the air looking daft....

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/4143244549_a456cf64ba.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2009, 11:28:15 am
Our Ol has taken to doing this as well.  I think that as he's getting older he's finding it harder to fully-retract his claws.  He just hangs there looking guilty until disentangled...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 30 November, 2009, 11:36:29 am

Give us an 'A'!!!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/4070228412_ff1e81761d_o.jpg)

It ain't easy being cheesy (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/JayTea/motivator4277439.jpg).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2009, 02:29:55 pm
Our Ol has taken to doing this as well.  I think that as he's getting older he's finding it harder to fully-retract his claws.  He just hangs there looking guilty until disentangled...
We trimmed his claws after that so hopefully he should be alright for another couple of weeks, until he gets stuck on one of my tops anyway....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 30 November, 2009, 02:51:49 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/4143244549_a456cf64ba.jpg)
[/quote]

Facist cat salutes the great Furher.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 November, 2009, 04:55:02 pm
Talisker tends to get stuck on my dressing gown, but it's an advantage when I need to give him his pill first thing.


 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 30 November, 2009, 04:57:47 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/4143244549_a456cf64ba.jpg)

Facist cat salutes the great Furher.
[/quote]


Don't you mean 'Furrrrher'?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 30 November, 2009, 08:36:15 pm
I think that's your coat over there...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 November, 2009, 10:21:16 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/4143244549_a456cf64ba.jpg)

Facist cat salutes the great Furher.


Don't you mean 'Furrrrher'?
[/quote]

Kitler
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 03 December, 2009, 09:17:25 am
Biff and Smudge doing whats cats do best ,sleeping in front of the fire

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/kits004.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2009, 10:09:04 am
That's excellent! Soaking up all the heat...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 03 December, 2009, 08:53:41 pm
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SwfN2TDIWdI/AAAAAAAAGaQ/-L5C31fVFCc/s800/IMG_2310.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/SwfOHVDEqUI/AAAAAAAAGbA/tm57yHzXHXA/s800/IMG_2330.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 03 December, 2009, 09:38:20 pm

Did I ever introduce Anders's cat Sandy?

These pictures are over a year old--he's full-grown and very fuzzy now (Sandy, that is):

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2841243689_db6fb8fb79.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2841247975_8a8e88a0d6.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3499368146_61e6fde50b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2009, 10:07:57 pm
aaah
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 03 December, 2009, 10:21:05 pm
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Virgin Trains would like to apologise for the cancellation of this afternoon's services. This was due to a livestock incident at xxx" :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2009, 10:36:50 pm
Mojo tries to hide from the world:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3494/4001980380_505186c5b4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 04 December, 2009, 07:29:16 pm
Boushti, in the kitchen waiting for his fish.

(http://i.imgur.com/2B5SWUJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 December, 2009, 07:35:01 pm
What a face !

:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 04 December, 2009, 08:23:07 pm
"Welllllll???!? Get ON with it!"  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 December, 2009, 08:35:27 pm
You asked him why he left such a mess after washing up, didn't you!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: slowfen on 05 December, 2009, 10:05:06 am


Not mine, but fun (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/dec/03/digital-media-lost-season-6-kitty)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 05 December, 2009, 11:34:37 am
Boushti, in the kitchen waiting for his fish.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/Mister_Penguin/RIMG0002.jpg)

 ;D

Your cat is the safe fridge cracker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DDdXdT19LM).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 07 December, 2009, 12:29:34 am
Say hello to Tiger and Lilly

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/3672871717_a4d6ac4e71_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3672873603_b9ac9dfd09_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3410/3672873337_3b7f411961_o.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3656/3672873081_8ba901ec1b_o.jpg)

Remember Lilly? She got run over the other day :( Tiger is now moewing all over the place looking for his sister  :'(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 07 December, 2009, 12:38:40 am
Remember Lilly? She got run over the other day :( Tiger is now moewing all over the place looking for his sister  :'(

 :'( :'( :'(

Sorry to hear that Sam, give Tiger a hug from my cats, and a manly hug to you from me.  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2009, 08:19:00 am
 :'(

That's very sad Sam, I know the feeling only too well.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 December, 2009, 08:50:43 am
Oh poo, I'm sorry Sam :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 07 December, 2009, 09:10:45 am
They not my kitties, they me friends.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 07 December, 2009, 11:55:00 am
Oh, awful news. Poor all of you.  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 07 December, 2009, 03:38:52 pm
Yep, sorry Sam. This might cheer you up. Sorted Zippers's cat out. New & Improved.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_2330JPG.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 07 December, 2009, 03:40:21 pm
 ;D

That's a Bobb cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 07 December, 2009, 03:51:09 pm
You mean this:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Bob_Dobbs_approves.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tom M on 08 December, 2009, 09:57:04 am
Damn you riggers! Coffee splurt...!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 08 December, 2009, 05:18:15 pm
"They shall not pass!"

Noodle on parade

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NoodleOnParade.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 08:04:10 am
All quiet on the Western Cat Front



(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/NoodleInTrench.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 08:33:13 am
"She's giving me cat vibrations"

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle-Surf.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 09:22:20 am
"How about now? How about now?"

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Evil-Noodle.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 09 December, 2009, 11:22:19 am
 ;D ;D ;D

You are Terry Gilliam AICMFP.  You're right off your Noodle.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 01:03:09 pm
You're nearly there Tiggy!


(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/TigPutMeBack.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2009, 01:05:17 pm
Riggers, you have too much time on your hands :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 01:49:54 pm
Bridge on the River Cat

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle-on-the-river-Kwai.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 December, 2009, 05:29:51 pm

Cat on a Western Front again


(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle-lawman.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 11 December, 2009, 11:36:47 am
Big fluffy Tiggy.

Do give you a sense of scale, she's photographed with Action Chaps.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Giant-Tiggy.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 11 December, 2009, 12:30:07 pm
They are large and robust looking. Just like a Norwegian Forest Kitteh.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 11 December, 2009, 04:28:37 pm
I'm spoiling you lot.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 11 December, 2009, 04:33:36 pm
Hmmmmm? There's a thought.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 December, 2009, 09:06:23 pm
Talisker snoozing on a pile of stuff

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSleeping_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSleeping.jpg)

and for the paw fetishists

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSleeping_Paws_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerSleeping_Paws.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 December, 2009, 09:31:39 pm
oooh! Middle aged paws.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 18 December, 2009, 03:12:57 am

Sandy:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2608/4193555753_3bc8f20c5c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 December, 2009, 07:18:15 pm
A rarity, Pippin & Mojo together:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4198166562_05d3698661.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4198166562_05d3698661_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 19 December, 2009, 08:23:28 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4197492569_685fbcbeaf.jpg)

'Cat' almost 12 months since moving into the 'Windy' residence
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 21 December, 2009, 09:35:48 am
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/TheBillynomatesmatesgotnomatesri-1.jpg)


Smudge spent most of yesterday playing out in the snow.Her brother who is both lazier and more sensible spent the day in front of the fire .
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 December, 2009, 12:05:51 pm
windy, that photos shows that Cat has finally taken charge of the whole household!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 21 December, 2009, 12:50:30 pm
windy, that photos shows that Cat has finally taken charge of the whole household!  ;D

 ;D

Definitely, I also have seen that look on other hooman owners.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 21 December, 2009, 01:08:42 pm

Sandy:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2608/4193555753_3bc8f20c5c_o.jpg)

The real reason why Eurostar has failed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 21 December, 2009, 02:15:35 pm

Sandy:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2608/4193555753_3bc8f20c5c_o.jpg)

The real reason why Eurostar has failed.

A cat-astrophe?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 22 December, 2009, 09:47:16 am
In Memoriam.

'Zip'. 11-year-old Tonkinese. Sadly passed away 21st December 2009.

Missed by his Dad, my workmate Rog.


(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/ZIP.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 December, 2009, 09:56:50 am
Sorry to hear that Riggers
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Post by: Jaded on 22 December, 2009, 10:04:28 am
Aww. He looks like he'll be missed a lot.
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Post by: Riggers on 22 December, 2009, 10:44:53 am
Thank you all, but a significant proportion of the local wildlife won't be grieving.
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Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2009, 12:01:55 pm
 :(

He does look like a sleek fellow, but I know what you mean about the local wildlife. :)
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Post by: mike on 24 December, 2009, 12:03:48 pm
Getting a hard stare from Grumpy Cat:

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/L1000451.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 26 December, 2009, 02:10:39 pm
3 happy Christmas cats.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4216024468_7e6662dc2d_o.jpg)
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Post by: Moloko on 26 December, 2009, 02:18:32 pm
Kitteh Inc. bring you the Autumn and Winter collecshun.
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Post by: Noodley on 26 December, 2009, 08:49:17 pm
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF1941-1.jpg)

My lovely wee Angus, put to sleep today aged only 9 months.

I  miss him.

 :'( :'(
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Post by: border-rider on 26 December, 2009, 08:53:07 pm
Oh no !

Poor lad.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 December, 2009, 08:59:06 pm
Oh no, not another one! :(
What happened Noodley?
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Post by: peliroja on 26 December, 2009, 09:05:26 pm
Very sad.  :'( What a beauty.
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Post by: Noodley on 26 December, 2009, 09:09:36 pm
Oh no, not another one! :(
What happened Noodley?

We took him to the vets yesterday as he was not himself and at that stage the vet thought it was gastroenteritis and put him on a drip for a few hours.  He came home in the evening but took a turn for the worse so went back again today.  The vet then thought it might be a liver shunt so we were preparing for a trip to the Dick Vet in Edinburgh for intensive care and hopefully an operation....but after a few more tests it became apparent he had Feline Infectious Peritonitis.  

He was spent.  And we owed it to him to spare him any suffering.

He purred when we gave him a cuddle when we were saying goodbye... :'(

I'm not taking it too well.  Sorry.
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 26 December, 2009, 09:14:29 pm
Poor wee thing.
And don't feel bad about having a wee cry.
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Post by: border-rider on 26 December, 2009, 09:16:10 pm
I'm so sorry to hear that, Noodley.

You did the right things, of course, and he was loved and cared for all his life - especially at the end.  It's probably the lost important thing we can do for them.

Take care.
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Post by: Adrian on 26 December, 2009, 09:57:36 pm

I'm not taking it too well.  Sorry.


There is no reason why you should be either of those things.
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Post by: Charlotte on 26 December, 2009, 10:11:02 pm
Oh Noodley - I'm so sorry to hear the sad news  :(

Since we lost Monty, I've been a stranger to this thread for a while.  I just popped in to post a pic of the Pikes' cats Emmie and Ethel, who are staying with us at the moment.  They've been making it awfully clear where they feel the most comfortable having a snooze:

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/f43e4fc6.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 26 December, 2009, 10:25:17 pm
 :'( :'(

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Post by: Noodley on 26 December, 2009, 10:53:53 pm
:'( :'(

I'm wondering how long it'll take me to run out of tears...that's over 7 hours now.   :'(

He was so young and such a character....it's so unfair.


Apologies for my sharing my grief.  :-[  I appreciate all your replies.
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Post by: little miss mac on 26 December, 2009, 11:00:23 pm
Oh Noodley, that's just awful. Poor little cat. That seems so desperately unfair.
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Post by: TimO on 27 December, 2009, 10:12:06 am
That's really rotten Noodley, but obviously you did the right thing, and he certainly had a good time whilst he was with you. :(
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Post by: epa611 on 27 December, 2009, 10:26:09 am
Noodley,

We're all so sorry - horrid thing to happen at the festive time - or any time for that matter.

Try to remember the good things about him and cuddle the remaining ones - LOTS

We're thinking about you all.

Paul
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Post by: Butterfly on 27 December, 2009, 11:08:56 am
Sorry to hear that Noodley. That's awfully sad :'(.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2009, 11:11:39 am
No need to apologise..... hugs from all of us here.
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Post by: Noodley on 27 December, 2009, 11:30:48 am
Thanks again everyone for your kind thoughts and words.  It is really appreciated.
 
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 December, 2009, 02:59:34 pm
It was surely the kindest way.  We had a young cat (Jack) that caught FIP in his 1st year but the vet's didn't diagnose it soon enough and the poor creature kept having fits.  It's a dreadful thing to see a cat suffering a fit and we'd much rather he'd been spared the ordeal.

His half-brother, Vinnie,


(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/Re-roofing/SDC11171.jpg)

 is still alive and well despite having been hit by a car over 6 years ago.
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Post by: Valiant on 27 December, 2009, 03:21:23 pm
I'm sorry to hear that Noodly :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2009, 03:50:59 pm
I got a new lens for chrimbo, so finally I have something with a big enough aperture to cope with black cats indoors, with no flash, and therefore no 'hypno-eyes'.
*happy dance* :D

Pippin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/sets/72157622438286337/) (you can see what a 'ginger' black she is)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4218390007_6418d81ab6.jpg)

Mojo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/sets/72157622562840240/)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/4218374181_f980678ed5.jpg)
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Post by: epa611 on 27 December, 2009, 04:27:01 pm
Playing with my new camera (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27832.0)  :thumbsup:

Charlie (17 today (27/12/09))
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/009.jpg)

Morgan
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/013.jpg)
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Post by: Kathy on 27 December, 2009, 06:50:21 pm
Sorry to hear the news Noodly.  :'(

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/f43e4fc6.jpg)

They look nice and settled. And how thoughtful of Emmie to preserve your bedding by sitting her moulty white arse on your black clothing instead.  ;D
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Post by: Noodley on 27 December, 2009, 09:31:42 pm
Playing with my new camera (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27832.0)  :thumbsup:

Charlie (17 today (27/12/09))
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/009.jpg)


Happy birthday Charlie.  A very handsome chap.
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Post by: epa611 on 27 December, 2009, 09:48:40 pm
Playing with my new camera (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27832.0)  :thumbsup:

Charlie (17 today (27/12/09))


Happy birthday Charlie.  A very handsome chap.

Thanks Noodley.  Charlie has had his birthday treat of turkey and ham.  He's now very happy and fast asleep!
How you guys bearing up today?
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Post by: Noodley on 27 December, 2009, 10:28:05 pm
How you guys bearing up today?

Missing him terribly.

But accepting that he is gone.  The kindness shown here and on Cycle Chat has helped me.

Thanks again.
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Post by: epa611 on 27 December, 2009, 10:33:53 pm
How you guys bearing up today?

Missing him terribly.

But accepting that he is gone.  The kindness shown here and on Cycle Chat has helped me.

Thanks again.

Aye,  been through it ourselves a few times, but never with such a young beautiful boy as yours.  Ours are mostly old codgers from various rescue charities (Dee Carrick from Siamese Rescue and Cats Protection).

You're not alone and it never gets any easier.
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Post by: Noodley on 27 December, 2009, 11:01:33 pm
Ours are mostly old codgers from various rescue charities (Dee Carrick from Siamese Rescue and Cats Protection).

We had just about got over Rosie's death from a few month's ago when she was killed on the road, and I was thinking we should get another Siamese as it is the first time me and Mrs Noodley have not had a Siamese in all the time we have been together.  But Mrs Noodley was still not ready for another one.

There are a couple of Siamese looking for rescue homes, but this has thrown us big time.  Mrs Noodley has declared "no more pets" such is the pain....

He was so young.  Our previous Siamese had been with us for years (Booboo was 12 when he died and Hamish was 16) and to have 2 friends taken away in such a short time is really hard. We still have Ollie and Jock and they are much loved....   
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Post by: Jaded on 28 December, 2009, 12:35:11 am
The young ones get you in a different way to the old ones. With the old ones you miss the seasoned campaigner, the mumbling purr-snore, the comforting chat by the fire, the routine and the slightly crusty eyes. With the young ones you lose the spark in the eye, the flash of a sharp claw and the wide eyed innocence.
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Post by: Jaded on 28 December, 2009, 12:53:19 am
On a more cheery note, to remind us of kitteh delight, Claude has entered the Matrix (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27968.msg507468#msg507468) (thread in this board)

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Post by: Noodley on 28 December, 2009, 01:31:50 pm
On a more cheery note, to remind us of kitteh delight, Claude has entered the Matrix (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27968.msg507468#msg507468) (thread in this board)



Excellent pics  :thumbsup:
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Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 03:42:12 pm
Bustopher Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustopher_Jones) on account of his white spats, aka Buster, aged 16, at home chez peli's parents.  :)
 
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/SzoiLOonMXI/AAAAAAAABLE/qYbT5A_sYPo/DSCN6357.JPG)

And with a picture of my Dad fettling his trike in the background...
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/SzoktdLWGxI/AAAAAAAABLo/2PN__OROUEw/DSCN4913.JPG)

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Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 03:57:31 pm
Buster looking angelic. He is not. He regularly draws blood. ;)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/SzomST-z1kI/AAAAAAAABMg/FyKvfulYXdE/DSCN4481.JPG)
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/SzomjySJi_I/AAAAAAAABMk/wolkFb5NCNE/RSCN4482.JPG)



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Post by: peliroja on 29 December, 2009, 08:51:04 pm
Last one for a while, promise. Here's Woolly and his mate Buster relaxing after Christmas dinner 2008...  ;D
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/Szomz10fccI/AAAAAAAABNA/c6pdPtJG7M0/DSCN4492.JPG)
 
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Post by: longers on 29 December, 2009, 10:36:15 pm
There's a bonny cat who lives opposite who spends most of his time in the bedroom window watching what we're up to, I don't think he goes out but today he was on the bog.

(http://i50.tinypic.com/o89avo.jpg)

Sorry for the blurry pic but I was in my dressing gown and hadn't had a brew.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 29 December, 2009, 10:43:22 pm
 ;D
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Post by: Gaseous Clay on 30 December, 2009, 09:59:37 am
Such a shame Noodley, especially considering his young age.  :'(
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Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2010, 05:42:42 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/BubblesSlumped_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/BubblesSlumped.jpg)

One of my sisters cats, Champion Champagne Bubbles Adfursh (aka Bubbles), who looks like she's had a heavy night. ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 01 January, 2010, 05:44:33 pm
after quite a few heavy months, by the look of her!!
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Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2010, 05:55:40 pm
Both her cats are pretty big.  Marmaduke is bigger than her, but Bubbles is "stouter".  They're indoors only cats, so don't really get as much exercise as they should, and probably get more treats than they should.
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Post by: Adrian on 01 January, 2010, 07:31:19 pm

Both her cats are pretty big.  Marmaduke is bigger than her


Lion?
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Post by: longers on 01 January, 2010, 07:38:16 pm
That is a great photo Tim and quite a "cuddly" cat.
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Post by: longers on 01 January, 2010, 07:53:51 pm
I went and took a pic of my "cuddly" cat as he was only in the next room.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/flm5w7.jpg)

He's big boned, with thick fur and a big belly.
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Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2010, 07:55:28 pm
Both her cats are pretty big.  Marmaduke is bigger than her


Lion?

Nope, not quite, they're both Blue British Shorthairs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Shorthair), which are quite "chunky" cats.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 January, 2010, 07:57:29 pm
I went and took a pic of my "cuddly" cat as he was only in the next room.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/flm5w7.jpg)

He's big boned, with thick fur and a big belly.

And is clearly overcome by the fragrance of gently cooking cyclists gloves  ;D

That belly is just asking for a rub....
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Post by: epa611 on 01 January, 2010, 08:45:30 pm
That belly is just asking for a rub....

and then shredded hand soon afterwards  ::-)
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Post by: Noodley on 02 January, 2010, 12:39:52 am
Jock warming his tummy on the kitchen radiator this afternoon:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF3405.jpg)
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Post by: epa611 on 02 January, 2010, 10:47:33 am
Handsome boy :thumbsup:

They do have a knack of finding nice warm places, although sometimes not the most comfortable ???

Charlie & Morgan say hello  :D
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Post by: Moloko on 02 January, 2010, 11:18:16 am
That belly is just asking for a rub....

and then shredded hand soon afterwards  ::-)

Grasshopper, when you can rub the kitteh belly and retrieve your hand unscathed, then it is time to leave.
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Post by: border-rider on 02 January, 2010, 11:32:34 am
Our Big Cat enjoying a sunbeam this morning

Very proud of his fine winter woolly coat and matching britches :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/ol2.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/ol1.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 05:00:20 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4251602708_636a482bd4_o.jpg)

His first trip out ever. I don't think he'll be pining to go out again for a while!
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Post by: TimO on 06 January, 2010, 05:38:57 pm
Cats in snow can be funny, my parents cat would wait until she was near exploding, and then carefully walk up the garden, putting her rear paws in the same holes that her front paws had made, so as to minimise contact with the cold white stuff.  She'd pretty much follow the same footprints back down the garden on her return from her "ablutions".

Talisker's cat flap was snowed in last year:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Snow_2009-02-02_CatFlap_350.jpg)

and he was decidedly unimpressed with the snow.

We haven't had so much snow dumped on us this year (so far), but he's avoided going out regardless!
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Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 05:43:16 pm
Mmm

We have a litter tray for Small Cat, who is pretty-much an indoors cat, and Big Cat has always made his own arrangements, involving shrubberies

BC was very ill last year and we gave him his own tray for a while, but once he was better he started going outside again. but the combination of he Landlord's gardener cutting back all the bushes in the back garden and the cold weather has seen him quide liderally squatting in his sister's litter tray

Since he does much smellier poos and wees than she does, this is Not Good.
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Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 05:44:19 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4251602708_636a482bd4_o.jpg)

His first trip out ever. I don't think he'll be pining to go out again for a while!

He's a real looker.


And he bloody knows it.  ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 07 January, 2010, 02:59:48 pm
I saw an ace snow cat today, standing next to her snowman owner.  With a pink collar and everything :)

I'd have taken a photo but the camera had died in the cold.  Maybe tomorrow...
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Post by: Tom M on 07 January, 2010, 03:10:38 pm
Some of Bertie's snow adventures. He's not too keen either, and could only be persuded out futher than the nearest convenient bush with some coaxing from me.

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2405.jpg)

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2397.jpg)

(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Superted_photos/DSCF2399.jpg)
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Post by: border-rider on 07 January, 2010, 03:13:21 pm
That second one is a wonderful picture :)
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Post by: Tom M on 07 January, 2010, 03:31:24 pm
Yea, you can hardly see the fishing line dangling him from the tree...
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Post by: border-rider on 08 January, 2010, 02:30:40 pm
I saw an ace snow cat today, standing next to her snowman owner.  With a pink collar and everything :)

I'd have taken a photo but the camera had died in the cold.  Maybe tomorrow...

Camera worked today :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/snocat1.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/snocat2.jpg)
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Post by: Moloko on 08 January, 2010, 02:36:36 pm

Flesh coloured Marigolds? Can't be?  That can only mean that that snowman has three working orifices, concealed about his person.   :o
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Post by: Jaded on 23 January, 2010, 02:39:24 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/loocat.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 23 January, 2010, 02:45:47 pm
Haven't you explained that the fish aren't real?
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Post by: Regulator on 25 January, 2010, 03:54:29 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/loocat.jpg)

He hasn't quite got the hang of it, has he?  His arse should go the other side...  ;)

Next lesson: flushing!
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Post by: Moloko on 25 January, 2010, 04:04:26 pm
Having just felt Neptune's kiss, Claude now searches for the culprit.
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Post by: goatpebble on 26 January, 2010, 10:03:58 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/loocat.jpg)

Nice new laminate flooring, mouldy walls.

Sensitive Cat puts head down toilet in disgust at Jaded's extreme decor fail...

 :-*
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Post by: Jaded on 27 January, 2010, 06:56:28 am
That's antique mould!
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Post by: goatpebble on 27 January, 2010, 09:56:55 pm
That's antique mould!

The last time my cat adopted the same posture, I watched in horror, and before I could stop him, he slipped...

Very angry cat wet cat erupted from the bowl, sped past me, and made a very wet nest in my bed.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 January, 2010, 11:13:45 am
  The Internet Is Made of Cats!

http://www.youtube.com/v/zi8VTeDHjcM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

 :D   :D   :D
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Post by: Pingu on 30 January, 2010, 02:10:38 pm
Pippin

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4316152722_25d7c21138.jpg)
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Post by: clifftaylor on 30 January, 2010, 06:28:47 pm
Eeeeek!!
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Post by: spesh on 30 January, 2010, 06:34:46 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4316152722_25d7c21138.jpg)

My name is Inigo Montoya... you killed my father...

Prepare to die.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 January, 2010, 06:57:31 pm
Awwwh, everytime we put pics of Pippin up everyone thinks she's evil...she's lovely really  :-*
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Post by: Deborah on 30 January, 2010, 07:13:52 pm
Pippin

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2744/4316152722_25d7c21138.jpg)

How beautiful.  Is Pippin a female cat?  I ask as Pippin is much daintier than Bernard and Benjamin, my long hair chocolate male cats.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 January, 2010, 07:38:17 pm
Yes, she (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2516/4001214689_3e5dea1c5e_o.jpg) is a bit smaller than her big bro, Mojo (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/4001212793_6b3a671b15_o.jpg).
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Post by: onb on 30 January, 2010, 09:29:58 pm
Biff has had a hard day.


(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/jan302010001.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 January, 2010, 09:51:06 pm
Biff loooks like he's been sleeping in the coal shed :D
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Post by: onb on 30 January, 2010, 10:13:49 pm
Biff loooks like he's been sleeping in the coal shed :D



He is a bit grubby, ::-)
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Post by: fuzzy on 31 January, 2010, 06:55:34 pm
Scooby says.....

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/100_1563.jpg)

....sometimes a fur coat just isn't enough.
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Post by: Regulator on 01 February, 2010, 05:35:54 pm
Scooby says.....

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/100_1563.jpg)

....sometimes a fur coat just isn't enough.


Is it just me or does Scooby looks as though he's developing cataracts?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 02 February, 2010, 08:33:58 am
No. I think (hope) it is just my crappy camera.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 February, 2010, 10:30:51 am
It is a nice Christening Gown though.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 02 February, 2010, 01:00:15 pm
Our darling Milo died in December, and Bertie was terribly lonely. So we found a friend for him.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4324500121_d734042478.jpg)

George looks somewhat like Milo (same colour) but this is not by design - we went to the breeder's house to meet a different cat, but ended up falling in love with this cheeky chappie.

Bertie was less than impressed to start with, but as you can see, has come round to the idea of having a new pal.

Sorry for the crap pic - taken on my blackberry as my camera is elsewhere, unreachable (curses).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 February, 2010, 01:06:21 pm
Awwh, that's nice. Which is which?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 02 February, 2010, 01:08:07 pm
George is the small blue (grey) one, and Bertie is chocolate.

Milo (deceased) is in my profile pic - you can see the similarity with George.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 02 February, 2010, 01:10:49 pm

Hug him and squeeze him. Indeedy doody.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 February, 2010, 01:12:38 pm
Oh yes, I never noticed your profile pic (blind!). They're both lovely :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 02 February, 2010, 02:21:15 pm
For some reason I don't think I ever posted these pictures here, I think it was over at the other place.  The small cat is Marmaduke, and the bigger one is his half sister Bubbles.  They are my sisters cats, I don't think Talisker would stand a chance with these two around, they're both bigger and heavier than him.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/small.php?size=480&file=DSC00444.JPG&x=15564c42c9b5fb3ce653e84d8de0b700) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/DSC00444.JPG)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/small.php?size=480&file=DSC00421.JPG&x=7926030792af61e6b7d09f12eeb408a4) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke/DSC00421.JPG)

Marmaduke is actually much bigger than his half siblings these days, they are both hulking great big British Blue Shorthairs.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 02 February, 2010, 02:25:04 pm
This is Marmaduke last year, somewhat more grown up:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke_FrontDoor_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Marmaduke_FrontDoor.jpg)
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Post by: iddu on 05 February, 2010, 09:41:45 pm
Hurrumph - Hungry, need another postie... ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 05 February, 2010, 10:10:48 pm
Ollie loves Charlie (not a cat but he thinks he might be):
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF3601.jpg)

We had to leave the computer chair in situ in kitchen (in cosy blanket range of radiator):
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF3678.jpg)

Jock knows the radiator hammock is supposed to be on the radiator:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF3692.jpg)

Ollie is not too bothered where it is:
(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF3780.jpg)

 
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Post by: Jaded on 05 February, 2010, 10:57:22 pm
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 06 February, 2010, 07:56:47 pm
Our wee Siamese Charlie had to be put to sleep today :'( He hadn't really been well for the last several weeks.

RIP my wee one....

Charlie 27/12/92 - 10/2/10
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/009.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 06 February, 2010, 08:16:12 pm
 :'(

Sorry to hear that epa611.  He looks a cracker, with a glint of mischief in those eyes.

Best wishes.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 February, 2010, 08:32:34 pm
Sorry to hear that. He had a good innings though. Have a wee dram for him. I might have one too.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2010, 01:07:52 pm
(http://www.peeble.com/jwall.jpg)

Ageing and slightly grumpy tabby Mr. Josh guarding "his" wall and waiting for his daily duel with Oscar, the ginger tabby from next door.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 07 February, 2010, 02:21:07 pm


waiting for his daily duel with Oscar, the ginger tabby from next door.

Tetris?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2010, 02:26:36 pm


waiting for his daily duel with Oscar, the ginger tabby from next door.

Tetris?
If only.  Pagga at dawn, usually finished when they both fall off the wall.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2010, 07:40:58 pm
C'mon peeps, it's been nearly 3 weeks without any pics, are nobody's cats being gratuitous?
(Says the stuck offshore, catless one.....)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: longers on 25 February, 2010, 07:48:22 pm
Howzat?

(http://i49.tinypic.com/i5w6sz.jpg)

He's not being grumpy, just squinting. He's the geriatric one.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 25 February, 2010, 07:53:15 pm
(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/DSCF003F3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 25 February, 2010, 08:02:34 pm
2 from last year:

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/olwindow.jpg)   (http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/olwindow2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2010, 08:11:16 pm
Yay! Time for bed methinks...all gratified with kitty goodness :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 25 February, 2010, 10:05:16 pm
All cats are aloof. MV's cat seems to have more loof than most.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 25 February, 2010, 10:12:47 pm
Nooooo !

He's just a big old soft teddy these days.  He's snuggled up against me now, dozing on the sofa.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: anth on 25 February, 2010, 11:34:47 pm
Gimme clean water...

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/4372701953_5c816cb86a.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 26 February, 2010, 10:43:31 am
C'mon peeps, it's been nearly 3 weeks without any pics, are nobody's cats being gratuitous?
(Says the stuck offshore, catless one.....)

If someone can tell me a quick way to upload pictures directly from my iPhone (I can't remember my flickr password - it's on the laptop at home) then I can give you a picture of a very sorrowful lampshade-wearing mog.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 26 February, 2010, 12:32:38 pm
a very sorrowful lampshade-wearing mog.

Elizabethan Kitteh.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 February, 2010, 10:18:40 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_eyes.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 27 February, 2010, 10:23:49 am
 ;D

OMG!  He can see right into my soul!   :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 February, 2010, 11:23:55 am
Hypnotist cat says look into my eyes, look into my eyes, not around the eyes, look into my eyes...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 27 February, 2010, 12:29:22 pm
(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/claude_eyes.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 February, 2010, 12:47:18 pm
(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/claude_eyes.jpg)

 ;D Clever
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 27 February, 2010, 01:02:41 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_eyes.jpg)

I find your lack of cat food disturbing.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2010, 10:42:52 pm
;D

OMG!  He can see right into my soul!   :o

Eh?  I thought you'd sold that years ago...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 28 February, 2010, 10:04:31 am
;D

OMG!  He can see right into my soul!   :o

Eh?  I thought you'd sold that years ago...

 ;D

I did, but it was quickly returned to me as not fit for the purpose. I hate fussy sods
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 28 February, 2010, 11:35:36 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_window.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Flying Duck on 28 February, 2010, 03:22:12 pm
Looking for something that has been lost (or picked)??
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 28 February, 2010, 03:24:54 pm
He is sure they were in his pocket last time he looked.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 08 March, 2010, 10:48:35 pm
Unhappy moggit:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4408919256_77bbc52106.jpg)

(She's a lot happier now the lampshade's been removed).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 08 March, 2010, 11:09:55 pm
<up>
Put on him her, the Cone of Shame
</up>

 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 09 March, 2010, 12:03:08 pm
Unhappy moggit:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4408919256_77bbc52106.jpg)

(She's a lot happier now the lampshade's been removed).

Sky Kitteh craves a +box.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 March, 2010, 12:55:08 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cats-4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 March, 2010, 02:57:01 pm
Jock poses with a former small furry mammal
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4453731403_1664000492.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4454514322_8b88bd3326.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moloko on 22 March, 2010, 03:11:36 pm
Shakespearean Kitteh presents The Taming of the Shrew.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 26 March, 2010, 07:29:39 pm
I say, I say, I say! My cat's got no nose!

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4464714053_6489dce3c9.jpg)

 ;D ;D ;D

And in case anyone finds that upsetting, here is a nice fuzzy belly and a kitty paw to cheer you up:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4465495926_7abe1a28c7.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4464716367_8f5b9a8760.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 March, 2010, 08:35:34 pm
Oh poor kitty with no nose :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 26 March, 2010, 09:11:06 pm
This is Milly, she lives many many miles away from Noodley Towers and we have never met her - so it's fairly gratuitous that I have posted her pic:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/Millie.jpg)

One thing about Milly is that she currently has a few kitteh-shaped objects wriggling inside her....in three or so weeks they are due to pop out to say hello, and one of them may just be the next addition to the Noodley family  :thumbsup:

I'll post gratuitous kitteh pics as we go....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 27 March, 2010, 11:13:11 am
^

She's lovely! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 27 March, 2010, 11:13:58 am
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4466875018_8113e189a6.jpg)

 :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 27 March, 2010, 01:29:05 pm
Poor sad kitty  :( :'(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2010, 06:26:12 pm
Awwh :(
It's just a chunk of her nose then, from the picture the other night I thought it had all gone.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 27 March, 2010, 06:54:50 pm
Awwh :(
It's just a chunk of her nose then, from the picture the other night I thought it had all gone.

The plan was to remove the entire nose, but once she was anaesthetised a problem became evident with her lungs and the vet was reluctant to take the whole nasal area while she had breathing difficulties. Since the leision was off to one side he took that side off, but we have to wait for the path lab results to see if he got the entire tumour. She may yet have to lose moar nose.  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2010, 07:05:19 pm
Do they think it's sun - related?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 27 March, 2010, 07:49:18 pm
Do they think it's sun - related?

The nose tumour? Almost certainly.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 March, 2010, 07:59:18 pm
No more sunbathing for Emmie then :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 28 March, 2010, 12:26:40 am
No more sunbathing for Emmie then :(

not without SPF 50! 8)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 March, 2010, 09:41:27 pm
I can haz nana loaf plz?

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4471190946_514ea82cfb.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 April, 2010, 05:22:24 pm
A selection:

Topping up the tan
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/port_cats_1.jpg)

A leap of kitteh
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/port_cats_2.jpg)

Portuguese stand-off
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/port_cats_3.jpg)

I'm like a caged tiger, me.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/port_cats_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 06 April, 2010, 06:48:39 pm
Emmie, now mostly recovered from her nose job:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4497660690_cf486e6a61.jpg)

(she still hasn't forgiven us, though).

And Ethel, photobombing a previous attempt to take the above snap:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4497663668_514f2c5af7.jpg)

 ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Deborah on 06 April, 2010, 06:55:56 pm
  :D  Emmie is certainly looking a lot happier.  That is good to see.  She looked like a really unhappy puss in the picture above.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 06 April, 2010, 07:17:55 pm
She's not wearing the cone of shame, of course she's happier. ;D

She does look happier, or as happy as a cat ever looks.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 April, 2010, 07:55:55 pm
Oh yes, she looks loads better. That's the sort of look I get whenever I try to take a photo of Pippin...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mr endon on 06 April, 2010, 07:59:22 pm
I can haz nana loaf plz?

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4471190946_514ea82cfb.jpg)

Weird! I've this whole other life as your husband going on and I know nothing about it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 April, 2010, 08:31:14 pm
Separated at birth is useless without pictures....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 06 April, 2010, 08:35:30 pm
That would reveal the truth though :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 08 April, 2010, 02:55:05 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cats_sun.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 April, 2010, 06:17:36 pm
Talisker in my somewhat overgrown garden, enjoying the warm sunny weather.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliGarden_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliGarden.jpg)
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Post by: clifftaylor on 10 April, 2010, 06:27:18 pm
Most excellent picture Jaded  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jasmine on 12 April, 2010, 04:07:49 pm
My Maine Coons

Polly in a bag:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/Cat%20people/polly1-1.jpg)

Allegro:

(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/Cat%20people/allegro2jpg-1.jpg)

The pair belonging to my dad - Rhodri and Sobers:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/Cat%20people/rhodri_sobers.jpg)

And finally my dad's Tonkinese, Yoda, who is a total sod of a cat, but quite adorable:
(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/Cat%20people/yoda.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 20 April, 2010, 08:53:11 am
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerLettingItAllHangOver_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerLettingItAllHangOver.jpg)

Talisker letting it all hang out (or over anyway) whilst sunning himself on the back windowsill this morning.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 21 April, 2010, 08:59:31 am
just over one year ago I posted this picture of one of my two kittens:
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1020402.jpg)
Last week one of them became mother of 4 kittens:
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1001831.jpg)
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/P1001832.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 April, 2010, 09:35:32 am
Oooh, ickle fluffy little kittens.

In a years time, you'll have another 12 kittens, and a year after that 36 ...

;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 21 April, 2010, 01:30:57 pm
Oooh, ickle fluffy little kittens.

In a years time, you'll have another 12 kittens, and a year after that 36 ...

;D

Whats this about 1 year, if your not careful there will be another 4 in about 3 months time.  :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 21 April, 2010, 02:56:38 pm
Oooh, ickle fluffy little kittens.

In a years time, you'll have another 12 kittens, and a year after that 36 ...

;D

Whats this about 1 year, if your not careful there will be another 4 in about 3 months time.  :o

Although I am a proud father, I will make sure there won't be anymore later this year (or next year).
For me it is the first time to have kittens, and it is fun to see them and the mother.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 April, 2010, 03:54:04 pm
Oooh, ickle fluffy little kittens.

In a years time, you'll have another 12 kittens, and a year after that 36 ...

;D

Whats this about 1 year, if your not careful there will be another 4 in about 3 months time.  :o

My bad, I was thinking of the female kittens reaching sexual maturity, but of course in that time Mum will have had another two or three litters. :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 21 April, 2010, 06:11:28 pm
Oooh, ickle fluffy little kittens.

In a years time, you'll have another 12 kittens, and a year after that 36 ...

;D

Whats this about 1 year, if your not careful there will be another 4 in about 3 months time.  :o

Although I am a proud father, I will make sure there won't be anymore later this year (or next year).
For me it is the first time to have kittens, and it is fun to see them and the mother.

In that case I'll warn you one of ours conceived her second litter whilst still nursing her first. We had planed to let them have one litter each.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 24 April, 2010, 10:34:49 pm
Ollie after winning her first Grand Premier Certificate last week:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4112.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 April, 2010, 11:25:30 pm
Gorgeous!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 26 April, 2010, 11:42:00 am
Ollie looks very proud!

Here is Emmie, (not) helping me with study:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/4553625255_1c7c8577ea.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 April, 2010, 03:23:17 pm
Cats read through their feet.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Clare on 26 April, 2010, 03:54:10 pm
Cats read through their feet.


Or perhaps their bums, that's why they always sit on newspapers.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 April, 2010, 04:15:24 pm
How's her shnozzle?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 26 April, 2010, 04:17:37 pm
How's her shnozzle?

Lopsided, but otherwise doing well.  :)

The rest of her is currently covered in tar or tree resin or sommat, so she has spent some time sitting on our bed cleaning it off this morning.  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 28 April, 2010, 12:57:42 am
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/4559312026_2d0486134b_o.jpg)

Alfie and Bea, sitting in a tree...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 28 April, 2010, 08:15:16 pm
Gorgeous pic Jaded!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 28 April, 2010, 08:51:58 pm
A bit weird though - I don't think I've seen a two headed cat before!

Edit: Or one that's clinging to the side of a farm yard animal!

Edit 2: Or maybe I'm just seeing this pic all wrong  :P
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 01 May, 2010, 11:14:07 am
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4567806400_d157515fd8.jpg)

 ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Deborah on 01 May, 2010, 02:39:56 pm
That's so cute Kathy
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 02 May, 2010, 09:33:01 am
Actually that's a look which so says that Kathy is going to pay for it. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: anth on 02 May, 2010, 09:47:06 pm
Cat on a mat!

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4571315817_f70564a438.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 05 May, 2010, 12:07:52 am
Great photo!
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Post by: longers on 09 May, 2010, 09:35:16 am
(http://i43.tinypic.com/30c6sqo.jpg)

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Post by: SteveC on 09 May, 2010, 10:52:48 am
This is Frank;

Looks nice doesn't he? He's not, he's an evil little sod. :demon:
There's a certain look to that cat.  I'd not trust him!

S
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Post by: border-rider on 09 May, 2010, 10:54:46 am
(http://i43.tinypic.com/30c6sqo.jpg)



:)

That's fantastic
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Post by: Adrian on 09 May, 2010, 11:05:09 am
That's a naughty cat. Is there a warm dishwasher under that drainer?
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Post by: FatBloke on 09 May, 2010, 11:40:08 am
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2650098295_df14a767c3_o.jpg)
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Post by: border-rider on 10 May, 2010, 11:10:26 am
Snap !

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/Office_Amy.JPG)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 May, 2010, 12:56:09 am
Can't find the pics of Mojo in a cardboard box, so drawers and laundry basket will have to do:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/4001981784_16ba3289c8.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3470/4001218121_49624fe4f0.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 11 May, 2010, 08:41:13 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/blue.jpg)
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Post by: Regulator on 11 May, 2010, 09:30:20 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/blue.jpg)

That's just plain daft!   ;D
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Post by: fuzzy on 11 May, 2010, 01:12:20 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/blue.jpg)

Scooby has a habit of sitting on stuff. She will sit on oven gloves, any bit of paper or, quite strangely, she will take what looks like a very uncomfortable perch on top of SWMBO open handbag.
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Post by: TimO on 11 May, 2010, 02:51:23 pm
It's been in this thread before, but Talisker can fit himself inside a rack bag!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/small.php?file=TaliskerRackPack.jpg&size=320) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerRackPack.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 21 May, 2010, 12:50:29 pm
Crouching tiger, running cat!
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat1.jpg)

 ;D
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat2.jpg)
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Post by: Deborah on 21 May, 2010, 12:52:05 pm
Both my cats adopt the 'budda pose'!  It's as if they know it will make people laugh!

Lovely pictures Jaded.
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Post by: Regulator on 21 May, 2010, 01:27:13 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat2.jpg)

"Where have my balls gone, you ba*tard?  >:("
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Post by: spesh on 21 May, 2010, 07:12:49 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/blue.jpg)

<LOLcatz> Kleenex kitteh </LOLcatz>  ;D

If you pick him up, does another one pop out of the box?
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Post by: TimO on 21 May, 2010, 07:53:51 pm
If you pick him up, does another one pop out of the box?

LOL, there's a scary thought!
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Post by: spesh on 21 May, 2010, 10:02:11 pm
Alternatively...  :demon:

Oh hai, Schrödinger's kitteh here...

I can haz bigger box plz?

kthxbai
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Post by: redshift on 22 May, 2010, 03:21:42 pm
Sunny garden = cats doing cat things.

Bonington dignified:

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMGP1171.jpg)

Bonington undignified er... pissed?

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMGP1207.jpg)

Hilary trying to look intelligent (the bell gives the birds time to get away, but she still gets the meeces)

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMGP1169.jpg)

Hilary hiding:

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMGP1191.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 May, 2010, 05:49:42 pm
Aaah nice pics Redshift :)
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Post by: TimO on 22 May, 2010, 08:14:33 pm
Yes, very cute pictures.  Hilary looks a lot like Talisker, and even has a matching red collar (until he looses his current one).

I haven't seen much of Talisker today, and what I have seen was him asleep in the back garden.  When he's come in, his black fur is very hot, so he's obviously been sun bathing a lot!  "Cat things" in this weather seems to be mostly sleeping.
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Post by: Jaded on 23 May, 2010, 12:06:26 am
I like Hilary hiding!
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Post by: Sigurd Mudtracker on 24 May, 2010, 11:04:25 am
(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h158/torfness/Earbeingchewedoff.jpg)

For some reason one of our cats regularly demands that the dogs nibble his ears periodically.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 28 May, 2010, 05:55:06 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/blue.jpg)

This is good  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk&NR=1)
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Post by: Jaded on 28 May, 2010, 05:58:19 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 28 May, 2010, 09:16:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk&NR=1)

I keep meaning to get a box of Kimwipes...
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Post by: Charlotte on 30 May, 2010, 09:31:29 pm
There's a litter of stray kittehs here at Gastrobiking.  We reckon that they're three or four weeks old and they are just about the cutest thing I think I have ever seen outside of the Slow Loris enclosure at the zoo...

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/Gastrobiking/5ed32673.jpg)

Moar of TEH CUTE on my blog (http://bicycleslut.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/gastrobiking-first-impressions/).
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Post by: TimO on 31 May, 2010, 09:48:09 am
... Moar of TEH CUTE on my blog (http://bicycleslut.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/gastrobiking-first-impressions/).

The link isn't working.  Dammit, I need the cute. :)
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Post by: Zipperhead on 31 May, 2010, 07:39:03 pm
... Moar of TEH CUTE on my blog (http://bicycleslut.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/gastrobiking-first-impressions/).

The link isn't working.  Dammit, I need the cute. :)

Here's some more of them....

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP-bXGjTzI/AAAAAAAAI1I/nZM0A8DREzQ/s576/DSC_9757.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP-cYJdd6I/AAAAAAAAI1M/ky1QB3XCjxs/s640/DSC_9763.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP-fT_qByI/AAAAAAAAI1Q/RDwqfITCz5s/s512/DSC_9779.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP-hZ5_HhI/AAAAAAAAI1U/CmTDan059kM/s640/DSC_9814.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP-mEMnNvI/AAAAAAAAI1g/atr6Ha1a8pM/s640/Kittens-24.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAP_J-8ZzPI/AAAAAAAAI24/QUGjsp_9Kf0/s640/DSC_0093.JPG)

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Post by: peliroja on 31 May, 2010, 07:40:02 pm
Aww. They look, so, so... Gallic!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: TimO on 31 May, 2010, 07:43:58 pm
Aaah, small balls of fluffiness. :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 May, 2010, 09:29:02 pm
Jealous.
That you're at Gastrobiking, AND of the kitties :(
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Post by: Charlotte on 31 May, 2010, 09:41:00 pm
Try the blog link again now:

Clicky (http://bicycleslut.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/gastrobiking-first-impressions/)
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Post by: Kim on 31 May, 2010, 10:30:31 pm
Want!
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Post by: redshift on 31 May, 2010, 11:07:16 pm
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.

Help!  It's not working!

We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten.
We don't need another kitten....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 May, 2010, 11:26:02 pm
This was the cat of the house when we went Gastrobiking:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4325795789_c275c030ec.jpg)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 02 June, 2010, 03:38:45 pm
Our two recently...

(http://wolfeislandlife.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dsc04787.jpg)
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Post by: nutkin on 02 June, 2010, 07:53:30 pm

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/Gastrobiking/5ed32673.jpg)



Blue eyes, spikey tails - Tiny Kitties!!!!

(have you got room in your panniers???)
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Post by: Jaded on 03 June, 2010, 12:49:18 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_bag.jpg)
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Post by: Zipperhead on 03 June, 2010, 09:00:55 am
Some more of the kittys as they are looking better....

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVnUbLYNwI/AAAAAAAAI9Y/p0Srg3euLE4/s512/DSC_0161.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVnblMwZnI/AAAAAAAAI90/1NA1NUePh9s/s576/DSC_0201.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVngvS3AKI/AAAAAAAAI-I/SdjTNapp93U/s512/DSC_0319.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAbXRm94gkI/AAAAAAAAJBs/I3AH2Pwk2R8/s640/DSC_0372.JPG)

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Post by: peliroja on 03 June, 2010, 06:25:03 pm
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/SzomST-z1kI/AAAAAAAABMg/FyKvfulYXdE/DSCN4481.JPG)

RIP Buster, 1994-2010.  :'(
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 03 June, 2010, 06:29:52 pm
 :(

Commiserations.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 June, 2010, 10:50:31 am
Sorry to hear that peli :(
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Post by: epa611 on 04 June, 2010, 10:52:25 am
Condolances. He'll be much missed :'(
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Post by: Jaded on 04 June, 2010, 10:54:50 am
Purrs from us lot here.
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Post by: onb on 04 June, 2010, 11:43:56 am
Some more of the kittys as they are looking better....

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVnUbLYNwI/AAAAAAAAI9Y/p0Srg3euLE4/s512/DSC_0161.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVnblMwZnI/AAAAAAAAI90/1NA1NUePh9s/s576/DSC_0201.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAVngvS3AKI/AAAAAAAAI-I/SdjTNapp93U/s512/DSC_0319.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAbXRm94gkI/AAAAAAAAJBs/I3AH2Pwk2R8/s640/DSC_0372.JPG)





Wants ginger Kitteh
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 June, 2010, 09:27:02 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/10233305.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/10233305.stm)

This would have really hurt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/10238041.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/10238041.stm)

How do their minds work?  ;D
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Post by: Zipperhead on 04 June, 2010, 11:42:41 pm
They're starting to get playful now

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAl9K-d1fxI/AAAAAAAAJK4/cVcQhqE8tB0/s640/DSC_0690.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAl9NXzCbTI/AAAAAAAAJLI/px24nSfZ2EA/s640/DSC_0703.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAl9QVks9rI/AAAAAAAAJL8/aqIy-uf8x7U/s640/DSC_0727.JPG)
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Post by: Torslanda on 05 June, 2010, 11:33:24 pm
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Quote from: Zipperhead on June 03, 2010, 09:00:55
Some more of the kittys as they are looking better....

Wants ginger Kitteh


Fight you for it!
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Post by: Zipperhead on 07 June, 2010, 02:54:19 pm
Right, these are my last kitty pictures that I took before coming home

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwFjwYikmI/AAAAAAAAJPA/NkLPqcIrb2s/s640/DSC_1042.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwFqx3uPDI/AAAAAAAAJPM/AWlS10SLcJY/s576/DSC_1053.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwFvwoSCsI/AAAAAAAAJPU/1z5hMC4xXQo/s640/DSC_1061.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGM53n9EI/AAAAAAAAJQE/z-mSK4-IlGQ/s640/DSC_1095.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGSLHDL4I/AAAAAAAAJQM/l090hVazdfM/s576/DSC_1101.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGV-ZBTkI/AAAAAAAAJQQ/2ZfWYY0e4Rw/s576/DSC_1109.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGg7YXutI/AAAAAAAAJQc/t21oL9QWv3w/s640/DSC_1120.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGnF9NsNI/AAAAAAAAJQo/Mr0_IJmBQd0/s576/DSC_1124.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwGyuKrCaI/AAAAAAAAJQ0/AKASmJYg4H0/s576/DSC_1135.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TAwFTQuG_uI/AAAAAAAAJOQ/9mJpIod3ug8/s640/DSC_0852.JPG)


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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 June, 2010, 02:58:18 pm
Oh that last one is Teh Cute.
Does this mean Charlotte and Julian are going kitteh shopping soon? ;)
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Post by: Regulator on 07 June, 2010, 06:40:05 pm
Right, these are my last kitty pictures that I took before coming home




How many 'stowed away' in your saddlebag?  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 07 June, 2010, 09:52:32 pm
The orange one is teh best!!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 08 June, 2010, 01:20:35 am
Talisker just came in somewhat bedraggled.  Do you reckon if I pop him in the tumble drier, I can shrink him down to kitten sized? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bomber on 10 June, 2010, 10:09:54 pm
Duvet day;

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4688594443_1a76236e1d_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 June, 2010, 10:30:14 pm
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/4701339774_79d4eb3666.jpg)

Kitler sayz seeg hail
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Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2010, 09:09:22 pm
Welcome Daisy, Mum's new kitten.  :D

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBkGcLKOCrI/AAAAAAAAINQ/x_IxhbJGkus/s800/P1020110.JPG)
 
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Post by: Julian on 16 June, 2010, 09:19:51 pm
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2010, 09:21:05 pm
Another ginge in the family.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: woollypigs on 16 June, 2010, 09:21:43 pm
Welcome Daisy, Mum's new kitten.  :D

It's Garfield
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Post by: TimO on 16 June, 2010, 09:22:20 pm
More Nermal sized, she's not wide enough for Garfield. ;D
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Post by: woollypigs on 16 June, 2010, 09:23:29 pm
More Nermal sized, she's not wide enough for Garfield. ;D
In due course :)
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Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2010, 09:24:20 pm
Her claws are too big for her.  ;D

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBkGUq28z5I/AAAAAAAAINA/DeVTS89kPWQ/s1024/P1020106.JPG)
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Post by: JStone on 16 June, 2010, 09:32:30 pm
Here's Bella (aka Cat MkII) relaxing in very unladylike fashion

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/TBkze7M3EUI/AAAAAAAAAl0/2cK3pMrj7lM/s640/IMG_1343.JPG)
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Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2010, 09:33:21 pm
Bella is indeed bellisima!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 June, 2010, 10:11:20 pm
Oh Daisy is lurrrvely :)

And Bella is very long!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 16 June, 2010, 10:18:33 pm
Here's Bella (aka Cat MkII) relaxing in very unladylike fashion

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/TBkze7M3EUI/AAAAAAAAAl0/2cK3pMrj7lM/s640/IMG_1343.JPG)

She's trying to tell you her name's Belly
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Post by: Jaded on 16 June, 2010, 11:33:05 pm
Her claws are too big for her.  ;D

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBkGUq28z5I/AAAAAAAAINA/DeVTS89kPWQ/s1024/P1020106.JPG)


Apart from the gammy eye she is perfect!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 17 June, 2010, 11:27:51 am
Look at this little picture of perfection. 
Got a text from Mum today. Daisy seems to be starting as she means to go on. :)
Quote
Pendle Pedaller: Daisy slept well, ate well, found her litter and scampered then fell asleep :)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBkGTOvaLUI/AAAAAAAAIM8/bFrsKGOUd3M/s1024/P1020105.JPG)
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Post by: peliroja on 19 June, 2010, 04:41:52 pm
For those who are not bored of Daisy pics... I've not even met her yet (we've only spoken on the phone)!  :'(

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBzdHE4N5vI/AAAAAAAAIRc/4Jo8TeEiaq4/s640/P1020126.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBzdqvft0RI/AAAAAAAAISg/7ybm8mHd4kk/s640/P1020146.JPG)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBzd-vVnd9I/AAAAAAAAITI/ZVe0-uGIXdo/s640/P1020156.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBzeVt2KjvI/AAAAAAAAIT0/rYLMLkiCR3o/s640/P1020166.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TBzetwnJNrI/AAAAAAAAIUg/Ce_eU1_Cs9E/s640/P1020177.JPG)


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Post by: Julian on 19 June, 2010, 04:44:48 pm
I can quite categorically say that I will not get bored of Daisy pictures.  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 19 June, 2010, 07:03:02 pm
Is it just me - or does Daisy have a perpetually worried look?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Julian on 19 June, 2010, 07:11:28 pm
Kittens do 'pensive' rather well...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 19 June, 2010, 07:34:40 pm
Is it just me - or does Daisy have a perpetually worried look?

Modelled on the young Helena Bonham-Carter
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 19 June, 2010, 08:16:01 pm
Well, she did almost come a cropper yesterday when my Dad knocked over the ironing board...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2010, 01:01:41 am
Glad to see she already has an iPhone.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 June, 2010, 01:01:59 am
3 cats.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/3_cats.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 20 June, 2010, 09:57:25 am
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/kittyphone.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 20 June, 2010, 11:01:36 am
*Guffaw*  ;D

Genius, redders. ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 20 June, 2010, 02:47:02 pm
Daisy is finding her feet...
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TB4YYwJZFdI/AAAAAAAAIaM/8iUNOb8ma3Q/s800/P1020190.JPG)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TB4YjwyDRVI/AAAAAAAAIag/8sdUrVGZKIk/s800/P1020195.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TB4ZFZ3zKCI/AAAAAAAAIbs/yGyAxSxnujY/s800/P1020224.JPG)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TB4ZtZX_6LI/AAAAAAAAIdQ/bA5hQFSNpcI/s800/P1020213.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 24 June, 2010, 07:58:13 pm
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TCJieqDGK9I/AAAAAAAAIlQ/9gV6M8f4I7U/s800/P1020271.JPG)

Gingas together  :-*
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TCJilF5GHZI/AAAAAAAAIlc/NZwAzSMTJ7s/s800/P1020281.JPG)
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Post by: Pingu on 24 June, 2010, 11:40:32 pm
Ginger   :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 26 June, 2010, 11:50:08 pm
Blitz was round in our garden this morning, taking it easy.

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TCe9-35iY1I/AAAAAAAAJeI/SLs-w3Eo3zo/s640/DSC_1830.JPG)

It's hard work stopping the cushions blowing away
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TCaBiNl9NoI/AAAAAAAAJc8/YGTsAF-euj4/s800/DSC_1834.JPG)

(fixed broken linky)
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Post by: little miss mac on 27 June, 2010, 07:35:05 pm
What a handsome cat.
Edit: looks like a Bengal?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 June, 2010, 08:28:41 pm
Blitz was round in our garden this morning, taking it easy...

The second one is a cracking photo  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 27 June, 2010, 10:12:01 pm
What a handsome cat.
Edit: looks like a Bengal?

I think he probably is. A lovely looking cat, just completely radio rental.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 27 June, 2010, 10:14:54 pm
Definitely, then. The ones I know are bonkers.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 July, 2010, 12:00:09 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_sandwich.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 02 July, 2010, 12:05:51 pm
They're so sweet. That Claude is turning into a big boy...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 July, 2010, 12:07:33 pm
Yes, he is! Still has big feet so there is a bit of growing to do I think. He loves his tummy tickled so he is a bit of a tart.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 02 July, 2010, 12:16:37 pm
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/claude_sandwich.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 July, 2010, 12:43:33 pm
 ;D

Brilliant!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 02 July, 2010, 02:28:40 pm
Stone Cold Seal Point Siamese?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 03 July, 2010, 09:23:00 pm
Another pic of Olliecat at a show today, after winning her 2nd Grand Premier Certificate, Best of Breed and Best Oriental Neuter:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4330.jpg)

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 04 July, 2010, 12:20:13 am
Well done, Olliecat!

Below, Daisy relaxes.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xyJ3v2Mf0nI/TCkaCsU1g6I/AAAAAAAAIok/k7amP1ZjkVE/s800/P1020293.JPG)


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 06 July, 2010, 12:41:12 pm
(http://www.zaribor.com/raz/pics/bladeup.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Si on 07 July, 2010, 10:14:48 am
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/Magdalen/Setteecats.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/Magdalen/Banjosnout.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/Magdalen/Vegrackbanjo.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 July, 2010, 10:41:41 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/meat_is_better.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 July, 2010, 11:02:36 am
A pure coincidence, I saw this yesterday near Millbank.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/veg_cat_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 08 July, 2010, 12:25:30 am
'Cat'
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4772250063_2022abd66b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2010, 09:39:01 pm
I haz just read this thread from the beginning - it made me smile :)

Mojo having a lap (very rare for him to sit on me)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4783793191_da04953ea4.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4784427980_9eecbdac22_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Torslanda on 13 July, 2010, 11:23:14 am
'Cat'
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4772250063_2022abd66b.jpg)


So that's where she went! How did our cat make it all the way up there from Manchester? Hitched a lift, obviously!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jasmine on 22 July, 2010, 02:26:58 pm
Krishna attempting to be cute:

(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/IMG_0033.jpg)

And just waking up:

(http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy185/JasmineHSharp/IMG_0029.jpg)

He does cute very well as he has massive eyes (think Puss in Boots from Shrek), so no one ever believes that he is actually a very naughty cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 22 July, 2010, 04:43:27 pm
Thought I should introduce my felines, Kiri (blue point Siamese) and Rico (seal point Siamese):

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Cats/KiriandRicopost.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Cats/KiriandRico.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Cats/Kirico1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Cats/kirikitty.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 July, 2010, 11:55:43 pm
This is Mikey, the intrepid cat.

Mikey goes for walks with his owners, and I think he has graced these pages before. Here he is today on a walk to the sea.

On a car at the car park.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_the_intrepid_1.jpg)

On the beach.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_the_intrepid_2.jpg)

Hnting down a moth.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_the_intrepid_3.jpg)

Up the lighthouse. Copious shouting persuaded him not to go further up.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_the_intrepid_4.jpg)

On the way home.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_the_intrepid_5.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 26 July, 2010, 11:06:35 am
Did he go to the beach in the car with his owners, or did they walk from their house? Either way, that's great  :thumbsup:

My much adored cat Sam used to come on walks round our (largeish - 3 acres) garden and surrounding fields when I was growing up, but nothing quite like that!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2010, 12:18:28 am
They walked from the house. The car was in the way in the car park so he just climbed over it.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 02 August, 2010, 08:36:41 pm
Boushti, lively for once. His head was anyway.

(http://i.imgur.com/Qwti4fS.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 02 August, 2010, 08:42:31 pm
Open wide!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 August, 2010, 12:10:47 am
It is him again!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_0054.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 03 August, 2010, 07:05:55 pm
Following on from this

R.I.P Oliver (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=33292.msg685109#msg685109)

we now have a pair of cute kittens :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/1.jpg)

Tam

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/3.jpg)
Daisy

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/12.jpg)

They seem to love each other :)

Tam likes his food and although we haven't told him it's unofficially short for Tamworth - because he's a little ginger piggy

Daisy is alternatively known as Blodeuwedd, because sometimes she has the aspect of an owl, sometimes flowers...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 August, 2010, 07:09:08 pm
Those two both look like trouble on four paws!

That shot of Daisy especially, it looks like she's planning something. :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 03 August, 2010, 07:21:36 pm
Those two both look like trouble on four paws!

They're very sweet actually.  Found with their mum & two litter mates living in the trunk of an ancient yew near Newport.  They were seriously socialised by someone who knew her onions when they were tiny (they're about 10 weeks now; we've had them a week) and as a result they love being handled and purr if you look at them :)

Tam's brother was even bigger, and Tam's a big chap already.  

edit: I think they're both going to be fearsome hunters though...

edit2: living in a rented barn of a place with old tatty furniture (pending buying somewhere and replacing chairs, sofa etc) it's an ideal time to have kittens - and post Mille Cymru I'm around to look after them in the day (mostly)
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Post by: little miss mac on 03 August, 2010, 10:16:28 pm
 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 August, 2010, 09:10:59 am
Daisy looks just like our cat Hazel did at her age. Same evil stare. Torties are usually good hunters. Our little one certainly is.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 August, 2010, 10:14:12 am
The orange one looks completely mental!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 August, 2010, 03:01:09 pm
My cat likes to sleep in boxes....
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39349_419338846838_551606838_4469044_2489535_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 04 August, 2010, 03:29:21 pm
Clearly worn out after doing his floor puzzle :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Julian on 04 August, 2010, 05:38:22 pm
Aww, they're lovely MV.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 August, 2010, 05:47:38 pm
Big old world out there, apparently

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 August, 2010, 05:49:14 pm
My cat likes to sleep in boxes....
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39349_419338846838_551606838_4469044_2489535_n.jpg)

Took me a moment to realise that that was one long cat folded in half...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 August, 2010, 06:58:50 pm
Big old world out there, apparently

Too young to go outside yet, I would imagine?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 August, 2010, 07:12:03 pm
Yes

They need another set of injections and, probably, neutering

There's foxes & stoats & buzzards 'n' stuff in our garden so they need to be a fair bit bigger

Plus they got freaked out when they found the lounge, so it's early days yet
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 August, 2010, 07:31:13 pm
Big old world out there, apparently

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/7.jpg)

*melts*
cuuute!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 August, 2010, 07:32:22 pm
The orange one looks completely mental!!

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/14.jpg)

Hell kitten :)


(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/15.jpg)

More peaceful...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 August, 2010, 10:29:01 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4858511526_ff8ebdd003_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 06 August, 2010, 01:23:50 pm
Patch in the flower tub.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4876474328_f1f9f17f81_z_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 06 August, 2010, 03:16:02 pm
Patch in the flower tub.


Very fine :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Tewdric on 06 August, 2010, 03:46:39 pm
Following on from this

R.I.P Oliver (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=33292.msg685109#msg685109)

we now have a pair of cute kittens :)

Tam

Daisy


I'm mildly disappointed they're not called fixie sprocket and cog..  Still, I'm looking forward to seeing them!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 07 August, 2010, 04:30:57 pm
Patch in the flower tub.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4876474328_f1f9f17f81_z_d.jpg)

"That's funny, I could have sworn it said chrysanthemum on the seed packet."

Edited to fix link.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 08 August, 2010, 05:41:06 pm
Our Daisy, growing up into a little madam.

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TF7dwblel3I/AAAAAAAABhM/cFwu4R2zyHw/s640/photo.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 11 August, 2010, 02:51:32 pm
Dish of the day :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/16.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/17.jpg)

Sleepy:

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/18.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/19.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 14 August, 2010, 06:04:04 pm
A couple of wild farm kitties...

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TGAn7nfxh4I/AAAAAAAAKHg/42JsIwK7R9g/s640/DSC_3769.JPG)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TGAn8IzDBCI/AAAAAAAAKHk/S17_EAQ3JtY/s512/DSC_3905.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 August, 2010, 06:16:06 pm
Oh I remember when our 2 used to look like that. (They came from a farm and they were covered in nits!)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 15 August, 2010, 12:49:56 pm
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/21.jpg)

Hiding under the sofa :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/24.jpg)

My feathers
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 15 August, 2010, 08:06:37 pm
Since Hilary has disappeared, and we've all been moping, there's a new addition to the household.  Let me introduce Charlie:

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMGP1455.jpg)


¾ unknown, ¼ Bengal.  He has inherited The Voice, and the temperament, and hidden in the coat are fine black tiger stripes, but they're only visible in the sunshine.  He's lovely, and even Bonz seems to quite like him.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 15 August, 2010, 08:28:45 pm
It's kitten season! Loving all the cuties!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 15 August, 2010, 08:39:39 pm
  Let me introduce Charlie:

:)

What a fine little chap
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 15 August, 2010, 08:51:48 pm
Daisy, turning into a little LION  :D Look at those paws!
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TGhE_Je9ZfI/AAAAAAAABhs/QDwDeqvXQDE/s512/photo%20%281%29.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 15 August, 2010, 08:52:20 pm
  Let me introduce Charlie:

:)

What a fine little chap
+1 he's a pretty little thing!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 16 August, 2010, 12:15:24 am
Talisker and friends.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerAndFriends_Thumb500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TaliskerAndFriends.jpg)

(Hint: He's not the pink, grey, or orange one, and definitely not the dog!)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 16 August, 2010, 01:53:52 am
Tali rules the roost and no mistake.  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 16 August, 2010, 07:52:19 am
Daisy, turning into a little LION  :D Look at those paws!
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TGhE_Je9ZfI/AAAAAAAABhs/QDwDeqvXQDE/s512/photo%20%281%29.jpg)


She's growed !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 20 August, 2010, 09:26:50 pm
I don't think I have posted this before, apologies if I have.  I'm off to see some kittehz on Sunday and was looking at kitteh pics of Jock the Cat:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/maisies_bicolours_7_wks81.jpg)

As he is now, moved on from toilet rolls to bins:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4358.jpg)


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 20 August, 2010, 09:54:11 pm
I don't think I have posted this before, apologies if I have.  I'm off to see some kittehz on Sunday and was looking at kitteh pics of Jock the Cat:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/maisies_bicolours_7_wks81.jpg)

As he is now, moved on from toilet rolls to bins:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4358.jpg)





Young me/ Now me (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=37064.msg699326#msg699326)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 20 August, 2010, 10:01:02 pm
Smudge a couple of years ago.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/TheBillynomatesmatesgotnomatesride022.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 20 August, 2010, 10:03:31 pm
Young me/ Now me (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=37064.msg699326#msg699326)

 ;D ;D


If I knew how to I'd put that onto the site...

 :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 20 August, 2010, 10:06:34 pm
It's been done before with cats, and yours is much better! You have to do it!
young me now me photo contest :: zefrank.com (http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/permalink.html?29)

There's a 'how to submit your picture' link below the photos  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nutkin on 20 August, 2010, 10:15:09 pm
And the kittehz in this one....!  :o

http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/permalink.html?3 (http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/permalink.html?3)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 20 August, 2010, 10:18:12 pm
That's fantastic :)

That's one hefty cat  :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Noodley on 21 August, 2010, 11:38:57 am
You have to do it!
There's a 'how to submit your picture' link below the photos  :)

Pics submitted....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 22 August, 2010, 12:25:33 pm
Patch asleep on the back of my chair.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4915941298_82b3831f65_m_d.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4915336359_9c9e9b8c4a_m_d.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4915335955_0025509802_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 August, 2010, 08:56:05 pm
I had Kaffee & Kuchen in the company of this lot:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4913895244_0abf17e0dc_z.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4913898060_1a19f84323_z.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 August, 2010, 11:16:16 pm
Did they let you have a seat? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 23 August, 2010, 10:55:39 am
I had Kaffee & Kuchen in the company of this lot:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4913895244_0abf17e0dc_z.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4913898060_1a19f84323_z.jpg)

 :)


I love this picture it epitomises cats fuck you Im alright attitude  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


Smudge further upthread would rather wait till we use the door and then come in than use the catflap a true sign that we are just here to serve.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JStone on 23 August, 2010, 02:50:37 pm
Friendly local on the piste cyclable approaching Laval (Mayenne / France) last Wednesday

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/THIivmkplPI/AAAAAAAAAnE/bjYxnLg6Ylw/s800/IMG_2754.jpg)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 August, 2010, 11:19:53 pm
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs305.snc4/40575_426380256838_551606838_4634367_1307856_n.jpg)

Willow, staking his claim.
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Post by: Torslanda on 01 September, 2010, 11:28:53 pm
Casper

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/variousjuly10042-1.jpg)

. . . our new family member

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/variousjuly10043-1.jpg)

Hopefully he'll calm down soon!
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Post by: redshift on 08 September, 2010, 01:57:10 pm
Not the best shot, but I had to capture it while he was sitting there:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4970404755_c37a29f0b1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27345381@N03/4970404755/)
Charlie's pillion seat   :D
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Post by: border-rider on 12 September, 2010, 06:37:00 pm
This fine figure of a puss joined us for lunch in Hay-on-Wye today

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/fatcat.jpg)
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Post by: little miss mac on 12 September, 2010, 09:54:25 pm
"I aim't been nowhere near your bike missus". George plays innocent:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4984133880_97241a9440_z.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/4983537805_b7195bd997_z.jpg)
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Post by: corshamjim on 12 September, 2010, 10:07:18 pm
(http://www.zen146624.zen.co.uk/pictures/miemie2.jpg)
I'm not here really.
(http://www.zen146624.zen.co.uk/pictures/DSC00071-small.JPG)
Me neither!
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 17 September, 2010, 06:21:20 pm
Patch doing what Patch does best.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4999182284_cff56d5f63_z_d.jpg)
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Post by: longers on 19 September, 2010, 05:27:43 pm
(http://i53.tinypic.com/i73p1c.jpg)

A hernia sorted and six teeth out later she's much happier.
It's her second hernia repair as she was pretty banged up and has a pinned knee from her previous life, the scar is just behind her new stitches.

A large box of chocolates and thankyou card were needed for the vets and nurses as she wasn't a very good patient and has dissolving external stitches to help prevent further human blood letting.

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Post by: Noodley on 22 September, 2010, 02:32:25 pm
A sneak preview of Mungo the new Noodley kitteh...still living with mum (also pictured in background) and his sisters (one of whom he is sleeping on) but due to arrive in a few weeks:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSC00120.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 22 September, 2010, 02:37:05 pm
He looks like another cat with big ears.  You do seem to favour those Noodley!
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Post by: Noodley on 23 September, 2010, 12:21:44 pm
Who you calling big ears?

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCN50551.jpg)

oh aye, you have a point  ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 07 October, 2010, 12:11:09 am
Snuggling on the sofa :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/28.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/29.jpg)
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 07 October, 2010, 12:13:14 am
Who you calling big ears?

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCN50551.jpg)

oh aye, you have a point  ;D

Don't feed them after dark.
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Post by: Jaded on 07 October, 2010, 12:37:01 am
There was a story that someone to do with the film Gremlins had Burmese cats, and that's where the idea for their ears came from.
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Post by: Adrian on 07 October, 2010, 08:21:01 am
Snuggling on the sofa :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/28.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/29.jpg)

I used to have two sofas in that fabric and colourway.
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Post by: Noodley on 11 October, 2010, 08:50:07 pm
Mungo is home!

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4626.jpg)

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4663.jpg)

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: little miss mac on 11 October, 2010, 09:35:20 pm
He is extremely handsome  :)
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Post by: border-rider on 22 October, 2010, 11:10:29 pm
(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/kittypics/30.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 22 October, 2010, 11:37:20 pm
He's squashing her!
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Post by: Noodley on 23 October, 2010, 03:14:57 pm
Ollie, Jock and Mungo in a jumble...as you can see, Mungo has fitted in quite well  :thumbsup:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4926.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 23 October, 2010, 03:40:50 pm
Living tessellation!
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Post by: border-rider on 24 October, 2010, 09:34:33 pm
First time outside today :)

It was too nice to keep them in.

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/kittypics/31.jpg)

2 very tired kittens now.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 24 October, 2010, 10:17:18 pm
Ollie, Jock and Mungo in a jumble

Fantastic shot  :)
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Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2010, 10:19:21 pm
First time outside today :)

It was too nice to keep them in.
...
2 very tired kittens now.

Hells bells that's one helluva back garden, I think your patio is bigger than my garden!  Two very lucky kitties. :) :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 25 October, 2010, 11:38:50 am
There's a little more than that!
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Post by: essexian on 25 October, 2010, 08:35:27 pm
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1137/5113585131_c1005486f9.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5113585131/)
Image026 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5113585131/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Jamise the Ginger cat (2 years old, moved in as a kitten. No idea where he came from)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5114185758_a90e9c77f3.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5114185758/)
Image028 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5114185758/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Chloe the kitten (8 weeks old). Helping me with my work.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1242/5114892589_382898fffc.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5114892589/)
Elmas (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5114892589/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Elma (A Stray Queen who moved in on the day she gave birth) and "Little" Elma her daughter.  Good at names we are!

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1402/5115666002_005e5cacec.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5115666002/)
IMG161 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5115666002/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Posie looking to help her self to food. Posie and Chloe look the same but Posie has more tabby stripes.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1341/5116702775_798ac4ce1e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5116702775/)
Image033 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/5116702775/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Pootle the tom kitten. He is the largest of the kittens and almost totally grey apart from three white hairs on his back.
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Post by: Feline on 05 November, 2010, 03:28:52 am
I very nearly ran this slow worm over with my bike in the hall tonight. It appears unhurt and all Kiri who must have brought it in wants to do is stare lovingly at it. The cats were most put out when I carted it outside and then locked their cat flap though!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Desctructopets012.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Desctructopets014.jpg)
And yes my hall floor is indeed in need of a vacuum but it's 3am so I won't do it now.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 05 November, 2010, 04:14:52 am
I'm discussed at your floor. 

I'm also discussed with your cat not eating the thing.
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Post by: Morrisette on 05 November, 2010, 10:04:57 am
I've never seen one of those - is it a snake? A big worm? Why would a cat catch it it's not very mousy!
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Post by: border-rider on 05 November, 2010, 10:40:02 am
I've never seen one of those - is it a snake? A big worm? Why would a cat catch it it's not very mousy!

legless lizard.  Looks v. like a snake, but it's not.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 November, 2010, 10:45:58 am
legless lizard.  Looks v. like a snake, but it's not.

You see quite a few of those in Basildon on a Saturday night.
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Post by: TimO on 05 November, 2010, 11:53:57 am
My parents cat used to bring slow worms in all the time, well sometimes an entire one, sometimes half of one!
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Post by: Regulator on 05 November, 2010, 03:53:28 pm
I've never seen one of those - is it a snake? A big worm? Why would a cat catch it it's not very mousy!

I love slow worms and am doing all I can to encourage them on the allotment.  They're slug eating machines  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Feline on 05 November, 2010, 03:58:55 pm
I've never seen one of those - is it a snake? A big worm? Why would a cat catch it it's not very mousy!

My cats are very obsessed with long stringy things so I think they like the way slow worms move.
Kiri is a very strange cat anyway, she has a thing for my daughters hair bands and every morning we find she has brought several of them downstairs and there are some in  her food bowl and some in her water. Natalie tried to hide them from her with limited success. She has also been known to catch a mouse and put it dead but uneaten in her food bowl  ???
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Post by: Butterfly on 05 November, 2010, 09:04:19 pm
I've never seen one of those - is it a snake? A big worm? Why would a cat catch it it's not very mousy!

I love slow worms and am doing all I can to encourage them on the allotment.  They're slug eating machines  :thumbsup:
Cooool :thumbsup: What do you do to encourage them - we have lots of food for them ;D.
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Post by: corshamjim on 05 November, 2010, 09:15:32 pm
Cooool :thumbsup: What do you do to encourage them - we have lots of food for them ;D.

Put an old sack on the ground and water it occasionally.  That will encourage the slugs.  The slow worms will soon find them and will be glad of the sack to hide under while they munch on the slugs.
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Post by: Regulator on 06 November, 2010, 08:28:23 am
Cooool :thumbsup: What do you do to encourage them - we have lots of food for them ;D.

Put an old sack on the ground and water it occasionally.  That will encourage the slugs.  The slow worms will soon find them and will be glad of the sack to hide under while they munch on the slugs.

If you have a compost heap, they'll often shack up in there.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 06 November, 2010, 08:46:47 am
Lara n Spyro waiting to be fed.

(http://www.collinet.plus.com/photos/cathilow.jpg)
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Post by: nutkin on 06 November, 2010, 07:05:48 pm
Cooool :thumbsup: What do you do to encourage them - we have lots of food for them ;D.

Put an old sack on the ground and water it occasionally.  That will encourage the slugs.  The slow worms will soon find them and will be glad of the sack to hide under while they munch on the slugs.

If you have a compost heap, they'll often shack up in there.

Also put down something for them to bask under - a small sheet of metal or black tile, something that warms up in the sun. Slow worms are protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so if you can encourage them it might help slow down the decrease in numbers.  :thumbsup:

They're lizards, so if you do find a living one that a cat has brought in be careful how you pick it up. They shed their tails to deter predators so you could end up with a handful of tail, no slow worm, and lots of blood!

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Post by: Feline on 06 November, 2010, 07:40:29 pm
Cooool :thumbsup: What do you do to encourage them - we have lots of food for them ;D.

Put an old sack on the ground and water it occasionally.  That will encourage the slugs.  The slow worms will soon find them and will be glad of the sack to hide under while they munch on the slugs.

If you have a compost heap, they'll often shack up in there.

Also put down something for them to bask under - a small sheet of metal or black tile, something that warms up in the sun. Slow worms are protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, so if you can encourage them it might help slow down the decrease in numbers.  :thumbsup:

They're lizards, so if you do find a living one that a cat has brought in be careful how you pick it up. They shed their tails to deter predators so you could end up with a handful of tail, no slow worm, and lots of blood!



I picked him up by coaxing him onto a door mat which I then rolled up and carried him outside in :)
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Post by: Jaded on 17 November, 2010, 06:31:32 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_fight.jpg)
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Post by: mike on 17 November, 2010, 06:53:02 pm
time to turn a second radiator on. 
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Post by: Feline on 17 November, 2010, 07:36:32 pm
LOL, u need to caption that and stick it on Lolcats!
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Post by: little miss mac on 17 November, 2010, 08:30:04 pm
Every time I see a pic of Claude I wonder what Bertie is doing in someone else's house  ;D
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Post by: Martin on 02 December, 2010, 06:17:36 pm
I dug a trench in the snow for the cats to get to the bushes for necessities; however it's found a new strategic purpose (the one in the foreground is under the trampoline)


(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/ff9/ff91b3ad07a4fa7324fb0ebf3fd3c388.jpg?ts=1291313765)
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Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 10:28:11 pm
I dug a trench in the snow for the cats to get to the bushes for necessities; ...

Talisker went out on Tuesday, to deal with an urgent problem, but decided that he didn't like this white stuff at all, came back inside, and hasn't gone out again since.  Luckily he's got an electric litter tray, since I don't let him out at night any more, so he's been using that under duress.
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Post by: Feline on 02 December, 2010, 10:37:24 pm
In the worst weather I sometimes find to my horror that Kiri and Rico have nominated some soft absorbant surface of the house as their temporary toilet. Last winter the spare bed got awarded this special status  ::-)
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Post by: border-rider on 02 December, 2010, 10:43:59 pm
We only got the cat flap working this week, so the kittens have been using a litter tray until now.  Despite frozen ground, they are transitioning to outside doings and the litter tray is being far less used :thumbsup:

I hate having a litter tray in the house.
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Post by: Feline on 02 December, 2010, 10:49:08 pm
We only got the cat flap working this week, so the kittens have been using a litter tray until now.  Despite frozen ground, they are transitioning to outside doings and the litter tray is being far less used :thumbsup:

I hate having a litter tray in the house.

yeah i hate it too, my guys are inherantly lazy and if I supply a litter tray they both use it for all of their needs. They have 2 flaps one in the front door and one in the back so they don't have to walk round to get in, but they don't like getting wet or cold feet!

They prefer to spend the cold weather in their electric heated bed  :facepalm:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/KiriandRicoJuly6.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/June024.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 10:51:49 pm
LOL, they're clearly roughing it!

Talisker is as lazy as any cat, but doesn't seem to be that keen on using a litter tray, if he can possibly avoid it.
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Post by: longers on 02 December, 2010, 10:56:33 pm
I like the electric bed! I bought one of the radiator hanging beds, like in Jadeds picture, at a car boot maybe five years ago and it's only in the last month that it's started being used.

It was up in the old house unused for nearly three years and I still put it up here. Glad I kept it as she's hardly ever out of there. She did get in before the cold snap arrived so maybe she's a good long range forecaster.
No pics I'm afraid as I've still lost my camera.
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Post by: Feline on 02 December, 2010, 11:05:05 pm
I bought the electric bed (it is actually an aluminium pad with an armoured cable that goes inside the bed) for them when they were kittens, fully intending to only use it for the first few weeks. However on the odd occasion I have unplugged it I get filthy looks and sad kitties. They are 4 years old now and it is always switched on  ;D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Jan191.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Jan105.jpg)
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Post by: longers on 02 December, 2010, 11:12:26 pm
The contentment in the top photo is immense.  8)

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Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2010, 12:48:28 am
However on the odd occasion I have unplugged it I get filthy looks and sad kitties.

We had a similar problem with the light (probably a 100W incandescent) in the cupboard under my parents' stairs, which accidentally got left on one time.  We eventually discovered this about a week later, after failing to correlate the lamp's position with one of the cats adopting a certain step as her new favourite snoozing place.  We had assumed it was simply her finely-tuned cat instinct for sitting in really awkward places.   :facepalm:

Cue lots of going back to see if the warm had returned, and siameseishly informing us that it hadn't...
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Post by: Feline on 03 December, 2010, 01:04:09 am
Cue lots of going back to see if the warm had returned, and siameseishly informing us that it hadn't...

I am liking the adjective siameseishly! In this house it implies making a loud volume "Raaaaaaaaaaah" noise as close to people's faces as they can get, over and over until they get whatever it was they were wanting  ;D
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Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2010, 01:05:55 am
That's the one.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 December, 2010, 01:08:14 am
Cue lots of going back to see if the warm had returned, and siameseishly informing us that it hadn't...

I am liking the adjective siameseishly! In this house it implies making a loud volume "Raaaaaaaaaaah" noise as close to people's faces as they can get, over and over until they get whatever it was they were wanting  ;D

Still quieter than a Burmese.
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Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2010, 01:09:51 am
Hmm, I've got a sound level meter here.  Anyone want to lend me their cats?  For SCIENCE   :D
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Post by: Feline on 03 December, 2010, 01:14:03 am
Hmm, I've got a sound level meter here.  Anyone want to lend me their cats?  For SCIENCE   :D

You are very welcome to borrow them. I could stick them in the post on guaranteed next day delivery, they should be with you in about a week  :D
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 03 December, 2010, 01:16:34 am
Hmm, I've got a sound level meter here.  Anyone want to lend me their cats?  For SCIENCE   :D

A Burmese is basically a needier, louder Siamese.  And the Burmese live *forever* domestically, compared to some other mogs (late 20s not unknown).  I only know this as a friend took in a Burmese aged about 16 thinking it was a short gig. Cat Longevity Fail.
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Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2010, 01:23:19 am
You are very welcome to borrow them. I could stick them in the post on guaranteed next day delivery, they should be with you in about a week  :D

Yeah, but by then they'll be both hungry and furious, so guaranteed to win the noisy cat competition.


While I grew up with and have known various Siamese cats (who were all fairly loud, though had vastly different levels of assertiveness), I've only really met one Burmese, who wasn't especially vocal.  He was however utterly enormous and had the most spectacular resonant purr.  It was like having a big warm cuddly motorbike on your lap, or something.
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Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 02:06:31 am
Cue lots of going back to see if the warm had returned, and siameseishly informing us that it hadn't...

I am liking the adjective siameseishly! In this house it implies making a loud volume "Raaaaaaaaaaah" noise as close to people's faces as they can get, over and over until they get whatever it was they were wanting  ;D

Still quieter than a Burmese.

Yup.

Alfie is just about the loudest thing about. I'll try and record him.  ;D
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Post by: TimO on 03 December, 2010, 07:53:11 am
,,, He was however utterly enormous and had the most spectacular resonant purr.  It was like having a big warm cuddly motorbike on your lap, or something.

Talisker doesn't have any Burmese in him, as far as I know, he's just a bog standard totally black domestic short hair, but he does purr for England, and is one of the loudest purrers I've ever known.

He also seems to be very chatty for a dsh, he'll chirrup, meow, and very occasionally yowl greetings, warning, and demands.  You can have a conversation with him, so long as you don't expect to understand anything he says and are willing to reply "Meow" to all. ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 03 December, 2010, 11:36:36 am
Let me IN


(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/catflap.jpg)

New catflap in place, compete with "floating" landing pads either side.  Tam rushes through it like a loon, but Daisy doesn't like it :)
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Post by: Riggers on 03 December, 2010, 12:53:34 pm
I think I can see the problem…

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/catflap.jpg)

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Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 01:40:45 pm
PSML riggers - a beauty.

We should give you more Friday afternoons.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Riggers on 03 December, 2010, 02:08:35 pm
Here's another one then.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/cat_fight.jpg)
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Post by: border-rider on 03 December, 2010, 02:48:09 pm
I think I can see the problem…


 ;D

couldn't see the picture when I looked before

That's ace.  Her eyes are pretty-much like that anyway
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 05:19:52 pm
My word Feline! What a pair of spoiled (but very contented looking) beasts you have!

*Makes mental note never to buy electrically heated pad for our pair of lazy sods*
I can already tell where the radiator pipes come closest to the floor by where Mojo lies these days.
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Post by: Noodley on 03 December, 2010, 06:16:08 pm
New bigger bed for the gang:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4977.jpg)

...and yes, that is the cable of an electric heat pad  ;D

...and next to the radiator  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 06:21:03 pm
Perfecto!
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Post by: TimO on 03 December, 2010, 06:55:15 pm
For some reason Talisker has taken to sleeping on the open steps of my staircase for the last few days.  I would have thought it was one of the more draughty places in the house.

Cats, go figure. ???
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 08:00:20 pm
New bigger bed for the gang:

(http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j10/jdfyfe/DSCF4977.jpg)

...and yes, that is the cable of an electric heat pad  ;D

...and next to the radiator  :thumbsup:

I can tell who wears the trousers in your household!
Teh cats!
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Post by: onb on 03 December, 2010, 08:59:07 pm
Kittez with proper fur coates arnt concerned about the snow.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/TheBillynomatesmatesgotnomatesri-1.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 09:29:33 pm
Hah, my kittez with proper fut coats are saying, feck that, I'm not going anywhere near the door until March! (But she is getting on a bit, Mojo is tempted outdoors by next doors' kitteh slop mealz)
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Post by: TimO on 03 December, 2010, 09:31:58 pm
Hah, my kittez with proper fut coats are saying, feck that, I'm not going anywhere near the door until March! (But she is getting on a bit, Mojo is tempted outdoors by next doors' kitteh slop mealz)

Likewise Talisker, as far as I can tell, since there are no moggy shaped footprints from the cat flap (although there are fox shaped ones trotting up the side of the garden).
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Post by: onb on 03 December, 2010, 09:33:23 pm
We only got the cat flap working this week, so the kittens have been using a litter tray until now.  Despite frozen ground, they are transitioning to outside doings and the litter tray is being far less used :thumbsup:

I hate having a litter tray in the house.

yeah i hate it too, my guys are inherantly lazy and if I supply a litter tray they both use it for all of their needs. They have 2 flaps one in the front door and one in the back so they don't have to walk round to get in, but they don't like getting wet or cold feet!

They prefer to spend the cold weather in their electric heated bed  :facepalm:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/KiriandRicoJuly6.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/June024.jpg)
What lovely cats my best cat ever was a siamese seal point ,I still miss her and our conversations.
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Post by: peliroja on 04 December, 2010, 06:12:08 pm
Twisted Daisy. Growed.
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TPqERWq4q5I/AAAAAAAACxg/SPpXHXlGr1o/daisy%20twisted.JPG)
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Post by: Manotea on 06 December, 2010, 12:37:05 pm
Introducing Marjory Whisker, the latest YACF member.

(http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab2/paudax/Marjory%20Whisker/IMG_0164.jpg)

The angle of the photo makes her look huge but shes only little really, about 12 weeks old.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 December, 2010, 12:46:56 pm
Aaah, Daisy & Marjory both look lovely. I have a terrible urge to reach out and stroke Daisy's paws though  :-[
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Post by: Feline on 06 December, 2010, 02:31:44 pm
Daisy looks like a contortionist!
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Post by: border-rider on 06 December, 2010, 10:38:46 pm
The Cat Palace  :)

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/catpalace.jpg)
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Post by: little miss mac on 07 December, 2010, 10:15:09 pm
That's almost bigger than my entire house  ;D
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Post by: Feline on 07 December, 2010, 10:31:34 pm
You need some more cats to fill it MV!
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Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2010, 10:34:52 pm
That's almost bigger than my entire house  ;D

Once the cat share is taken?
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Post by: Noodley on 10 December, 2010, 05:08:57 pm
It's been done before with cats, and yours is much better! You have to do it!

It took a while but here it is!  ;D


youngmenowme blog (http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/blog/)
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Post by: Clandy on 10 December, 2010, 05:22:15 pm
The culprit… wanted for indiscriminate chewing of wires. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security, this cat is evil!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Dg/poppy.jpg)

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Post by: little miss mac on 11 December, 2010, 07:53:30 pm
It's been done before with cats, and yours is much better! You have to do it!

It took a while but here it is!  ;D


youngmenowme blog (http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/blog/)

Yay!!  ;D
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Post by: peliroja on 11 December, 2010, 07:55:01 pm
The culprit… wanted for indiscriminate chewing of wires. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security, this cat is evil!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Dg/poppy.jpg)


What a gorgeous tummy!
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Post by: L CC on 12 December, 2010, 11:26:06 pm
'thats right punk... play dead'
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/punk.jpg)
(from my sister's living room, via facebook)
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Post by: Wobbly John on 20 December, 2010, 10:12:05 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/firewithbun.jpg)

Winter nights should be spent with a friend, in front of the fire. (Harry the rabbit & Fidgit the cat)
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Post by: SandyV on 21 December, 2010, 08:53:51 am

Winter nights should be spent with a friend, in front of the fire. (Harry the rabbit & Fidgit the cat)

Marvellous pic!
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Post by: Zipperhead on 21 December, 2010, 10:01:15 am
This was from some camera testing, but I like the picture....

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TQ6wMOUCy2I/AAAAAAAANH4/0dXSxspBxtM/s512/D7K_0450.JPG)
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Post by: Morrisette on 21 December, 2010, 12:18:36 pm
That rabbit is huge!!!
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Post by: matthew on 21 December, 2010, 02:05:22 pm
When our cat and rabbit faced off like that in the garden, the cat batted the rabbit across the nose, the rabit hopped forward, the cat batted the rabbit again, the rabbit hopped forwards again so the cat woosed out and fled.
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Post by: border-rider on 24 December, 2010, 02:08:42 pm
amazing what you can get from Waitrose these days :)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/catcar.jpg)

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Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2010, 06:42:14 pm
In between eating and shouting Alfie has time to pretend he is a Christmas decoration.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_radiator.jpg)
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Post by: Wobbly John on 25 December, 2010, 11:02:53 pm
Are we allowed video in this thread as well?

If so: cat-in-the-box (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQUNRYuWeQ)  :D
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Post by: little miss mac on 25 December, 2010, 11:55:39 pm
 ;D ;D
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Post by: Zipperhead on 26 December, 2010, 02:58:31 pm
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TRdXly_BonI/AAAAAAAANIk/bjWWoruMedw/s640/D7K_0623.JPG)
Go way hooman, hed hurtz.
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Post by: geraldc on 26 December, 2010, 03:41:58 pm
Our dog dressed as a cat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvtr6csAHdI)
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Post by: nutkin on 28 December, 2010, 05:47:51 pm
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5300186757_366dc797db.jpg)

Twist & Tim
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Post by: PaulR on 30 December, 2010, 06:14:34 pm
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/PaulRide/cat.jpg)
Bella waits for us to wind her up again
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Post by: Jurek on 02 January, 2011, 06:14:47 pm
I don't own a cat, but I think Part-Time (my chosen name for her on account of her total lack of fidelity) probably owns me.
This is her a short while ago, checking out the comfort factor of my kitchen chairs. Usually, she homes-in on wherever the central heating pipes cross beneath the floorboards.
No loyalty. None whatsoever. I never see her between April and November.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5288/5316849628_019cf62b3c_b.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2011, 12:49:48 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_computer.jpg)
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Post by: Adrian on 05 January, 2011, 10:25:55 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/claude_computer.jpg)

I haz ur shoppin ordurd
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Post by: peliroja on 06 January, 2011, 04:14:35 pm
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TSXp73hcC7I/AAAAAAAACzc/hzxweXnuEGc/s512/P1030061.jpeg)
Daisy, dozing.
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Post by: Feline on 06 January, 2011, 04:17:59 pm
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TSXp73hcC7I/AAAAAAAACzc/hzxweXnuEGc/s512/P1030061.jpeg)
Daisy, dozing.

You got a cat to match your sofa, cunning move! She certainly does seem comfortable in her own skin  ;D
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Post by: peliroja on 06 January, 2011, 05:53:31 pm
It's my parents' sofa, and I'm sure Mum had it in mind when choosing her kitteh. ;)

Daisy is a real skittish tearaway teenager, who does a comical line in 'fetch' with her favourite feather-on-a-stick toy. I'm hoping she'll calm down at some point and actually deign to sit on my lap.  ::-)
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Post by: border-rider on 01 February, 2011, 07:37:04 pm
The Tamworth Tiger in repose, on his windowsill :)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5408340932_d9aaac233e.jpg)
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Post by: geraldc on 16 February, 2011, 11:21:07 am
I'm not saying everyone in Hong Kong is mental, it's just that people are now taking their pets to professional studios to have their cats photographed in various costumes.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5395436476_1f2f033981.jpg)

This is my gf's cousin's cat Kulu as a geisha. He's award winning in the world of Hong Kong cat dress up. More photos here (http://winkypedia.net/2011/02/16/would-you-put-your-pet-in-fancy-dress/)
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Post by: Feline on 16 February, 2011, 12:33:43 pm
I had my frame on the bed for general  coveting reasons (no, before anyone asks I don't actually sleep with my frame) and it seems Rico is also pretty impressed with it. The rear triangle is his new nest for the day!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/catbikeframe002.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/catbikeframe005.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2011, 12:39:55 pm
purple + silver + cat FTW
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Post by: Torslanda on 16 February, 2011, 12:55:54 pm
Is that what they call a cat-scan?

Would you mind holding the door for me? I've got my coat, thanks
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Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2011, 02:09:27 pm
Rico's been framed  :thumbsup:
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Post by: cycleman on 18 February, 2011, 10:07:13 pm
my mum has recently passed away..around 8 years ago i stopped her from dog sitting as she had a fall on bookham common and broke her hip . she took on 2 kittens sally and geogie ,sisters. i have contacted the local vets to see if the can rehouse them as i have already got 3 cats and cannot afford more.i however very fond of them and wondered if a home might be found with a forum member . that way i hopefully can see pictures of how they are getting on  :thumbsup

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011/sandgcats006.jpg)
geogie


(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011/sandgcats007.jpg)

sally



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Post by: cycleman on 18 February, 2011, 10:51:02 pm
my three cats are fizal

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011/sandgcats004.jpg)
 who is the dad of sally geogie and

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/cats001.jpg)
 smokey

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/cats003.jpg)

and rameses the great who is the youngest  who came to us as a kitten 2 years ago and is a great bed warmer in winter  ;D.
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Post by: longers on 18 February, 2011, 11:44:09 pm
I hope you find a good home for them Cycleman, roughly whereabouts are you? It might help with someone here taking them in. Good luck!

Smokey looks the spit of one of my sisters early cats - Bacardi. She was quite an odd cat, in a nice way, but definitely odd.
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Post by: Pingu on 18 February, 2011, 11:49:40 pm
Quote
(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011/sandgcats006.jpg)
geogie


(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011/sandgcats007.jpg)

sally

They are the spit of Pippin & Mojo!

Hopefully they'll get a good home  :thumbsup:
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Post by: cycleman on 19 February, 2011, 05:44:54 am
i am in slough berkshire  :-[ :)
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Post by: little miss mac on 20 February, 2011, 03:08:06 pm
George stays still for long enough to snap a pic. Maybe it's something to do with the cat food he's optimistically sitting beside.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5461734734_f4cbda0ffa.jpg)
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Post by: Julian on 20 February, 2011, 03:17:23 pm
How old are Sally and Geogie now, cycleman?  Eight?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 February, 2011, 03:21:31 pm
I spy a certain lady in need of feline affection....... :P
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Post by: little miss mac on 20 February, 2011, 03:22:48 pm
Slough is not too far from chez Julian...
 O:-)
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Post by: cycleman on 20 February, 2011, 07:14:17 pm
yes about 8 .fit healthy and fluffy :)
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Post by: cycleman on 21 February, 2011, 08:03:51 am
i am off to fetcham this morning to feed and spend time with sally and geogie. i have no computer there so i will be unable to check the the forum till Wednesday  :)
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Post by: AnthCC on 21 February, 2011, 10:06:38 pm
Our last old boy finally gave in to time last November, a couple of years after his brother had popped his clogs and left him in peace. He was about 18, so not really unexpected.

It does mean we have a little force of nature in the house now. A few weeks of the place feeling empty drove us to the cat rescue place where we picked up Isla - a tiny 5 year old tortoiseshell who wants inside every cupboard; to sleep on every lap; to chase and fight and basically burn off energy in every way imaginable.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5235093824_f45e1f0c83.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5235093824/)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5254175404_e9724546d5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5254175404/)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5129/5253567279_7dcdf10773.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5253567279/)

She's seen off the local 'top cat' already, although she and the chickens seem to have come to an uneasy truce. She doesn't get too close to them and therefore they don't chase her.
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Post by: Feline on 21 February, 2011, 10:14:10 pm

It does mean we have a little force of nature in the house now. A few weeks of the place feeling empty drove us to the cat rescue place where we picked up Isla - a tiny 5 year old tortoiseshell who wants inside every cupboard; to sleep on every lap; to chase and fight and basically burn off energy in every way imaginable.

She's seen off the local 'top cat' already, although she and the chickens seem to have come to an uneasy truce. She doesn't get too close to them and therefore they don't chase her.

Wow she looks like quite a little character, very cute :)
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Post by: border-rider on 21 February, 2011, 10:22:35 pm
Looks like a less tubby version of our Daisy :)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/5465878055_8516708e53_z.jpg)
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Post by: AnthCC on 21 February, 2011, 10:25:48 pm
Looks like a less tubby version of our Daisy :)


She's working on the tubbiness. Allegedly torties are prone to that, there certainly seems to be something as she exhibits most of the behaviour apparently typical to them.

And Mel (better half) showed me that pic when we were first looking to put a cat flap in (she's a semi-outdoor cat, certainly more so than the two old codgers who preceded her) commenting that she looked just like Isla. :D
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Post by: Feline on 21 February, 2011, 10:42:32 pm
Looks like a less tubby version of our Daisy :)


Don't let my cats see that picture of your posh cat flap shelf, they will be wanting one too  :o
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Post by: border-rider on 21 February, 2011, 10:45:21 pm
Needs must.  The cat flap is way too far off the ground for them to get through easily otherwise.
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Post by: Tewdric on 21 February, 2011, 10:48:12 pm
Needs must.  The cat flap is way too far off the ground for them to get through easily otherwise.

I think you're on a slippery slope.

Ours would want a Stannah CatflapLift if one were available...
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Post by: Feline on 21 February, 2011, 10:49:19 pm
Needs must.  The cat flap is way too far off the ground for them to get through easily otherwise.

So is mine, but I figured if they can jump an 8 foot fence then they can perform a mid air dive-at-the-flap manouvre  ;D They do make one hell of a crash coming through it sometimes though! If I made them a shelf I reckon I would end up with a cat ornament permanently mounted on my front door!
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Post by: border-rider on 22 February, 2011, 09:18:28 pm
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5298/5469371286_6814f51a6b_z.jpg)

The Pub Cat from the Boat at Redbrook.  He was staring very intently at us when we had food :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 February, 2011, 10:13:37 pm
Oh he's a handsome chap :D
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Post by: cycleman on 23 February, 2011, 11:36:19 pm
time is running out for me to re home sally and geogie  :(. i found out today mums house has sold .if anyone on here can offer them a home please let me know .
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Post by: bobb on 26 February, 2011, 03:21:00 pm
No pics, but my next door neighbour's 7 month old cat disappeared nearly 2 weeks ago. It was presumed gone forever or dead. She turned up this morning  :)  Apparently very hungry and has an unspecified injury.

Made me happy she's back anyway  :)

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Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2011, 05:05:51 pm
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5479716075_cedccb5f24_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2011, 05:09:58 pm
This is a friendly cat that lives on our street. We call her Gas-Box Kitty.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5479708931_d59db51528.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5479712091_11abb474df.jpg)
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Post by: matthew on 27 February, 2011, 05:56:48 pm
Here is Daisy

(http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt207/matthew_streeter/Daisy1.jpg)

And some paws pics
(http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt207/matthew_streeter/Daisy2.jpg)

(http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt207/matthew_streeter/Daisy3.jpg)
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Post by: peliroja on 13 March, 2011, 01:53:26 pm
I think we now have three yacf Daisy-cats!

Here is Peli-family's Daisy, unfolded:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TXzL5yQ9-mI/AAAAAAAAC1Y/H7a-YK5pzhk/daisy%20unfolded.JPG)
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Post by: Pingu on 20 March, 2011, 11:40:36 am
The washing basket is irresistable.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5541366720_612d3bdfd4_z.jpg)
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Post by: fuzzy on 21 March, 2011, 11:59:10 am
Here is a picture of Meisiekind, a lovely little kitty we sponsor at a refuge in South Africa-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/meisiekind.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2011, 12:03:34 pm
Cheetahs rock!
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Post by: fuzzy on 21 March, 2011, 12:19:03 pm
They also purr very very loudly ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 21 March, 2011, 01:25:59 pm
Looks like it needs a belly rub  :)
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Post by: fuzzy on 21 March, 2011, 02:00:55 pm
She got a chest and chin scratch-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/100_2148.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 21 March, 2011, 02:02:56 pm
I hope the cat didn't mind.
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Post by: fuzzy on 21 March, 2011, 02:14:17 pm
She loved it. I got a good licking whilst I was with her and boy, does she have a rough tongue!

This is at a Cheetah breeding/ rescue centre  (http://www.daniellcheetahbreeding.co.za/index.php)where they have a number of animals.

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Post by: Jaded on 24 March, 2011, 05:08:31 pm
The old gentleman doesn't care about the dish on the windowsill - the sun is shining!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_in_sun.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 24 March, 2011, 06:39:54 pm
The dish looks pretty comfy!
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Post by: border-rider on 24 March, 2011, 06:42:40 pm
Kitten in a dish, you say ?

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/17.jpg)

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/16.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 March, 2011, 08:25:11 pm
Kitten in a dish, you say ?
Don't you need to cook these things before you sit down to eat ?
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Post by: andrewc on 24 March, 2011, 08:33:36 pm
Kitten in a dish, you say ?

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/17.jpg)

Kittens: "either smothered in onions or in a ragout they are excellent"  (http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/23/the-taste-of-cat-don.html)

 :o >:( :'(

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Post by: Zipperhead on 26 March, 2011, 09:19:07 pm
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_3a8mQ6kkehU/TY5Xue8mEBI/AAAAAAAAOBw/n0quEDkGc78/s720/D7K_2273.JPG)
I iz not bald, but you iz ded
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Post by: redshift on 26 March, 2011, 10:35:03 pm
Charlie cat, AKA SpongeBob SquareCat, and the friend he likes to steal from the kitchen sink:

"It's not your sponge, it's my sponge..."

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/garden/IMG_0131.jpg)
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Post by: andrewc on 26 March, 2011, 10:56:03 pm
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5562597164_4016ce4a03_b.jpg)

Kismet,   my father was taking one of our dogs to the vet, and this beautiful cat had been abandoned in a cardboard box outside the surgery, she now lives with my parents and two large Rottweilers...
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Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2011, 11:21:46 am
Daisy meets Mr Bold Pheasant:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5145/5570896352_da5dd81aa9_z.jpg)

A mutual accommodation was reached, wherein they mostly ignore each other:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5146/5570999330_3af223ddb8_z.jpg)

The Tamworth Tiger in the wild:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5570899680_d54f1fc7f6_z.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5063/5570311425_6097917a22_z.jpg)

Play-fighting:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5570313617_2816fd0305_z.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 29 March, 2011, 02:35:09 pm
Teh cuteness :)
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Post by: Valiant on 03 April, 2011, 06:17:56 pm
Say hello to Frankie (to be confirmed), s/he was rescued from a homeless guy who was mistreating her. She's tiny but has ginormous fur and huge claws. I say she but we don't know yet, her furs too long to check :facepalm: we've only had her half a day but already she's gone from being scared of everything to snuggling up in the sofa, though she's still terrified of boots. Never heard a kitty purr so loudly.

(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/206808_10150149563335629_511250628_6461632_5268311_n.jpg)

(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/197993_10150149565580629_511250628_6461663_6140702_n.jpg)

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200142_10150149566755629_511250628_6461672_6154618_n.jpg)

(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/206297_10150149564375629_511250628_6461649_6784487_n.jpg)

She even used the litter tray in the bathroom first time. Funniest moment was when we left her alone to get accustomed to the place as we went out to get food, litter etc. Came back to find her missing. After an hour of panic she finally reared her head of the of the cable tidy cut out in the shelving unit, the only access is through a 5cm hole. Oh and she loves attacking my spds ::-)
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Post by: Jaded on 03 April, 2011, 06:23:22 pm
Oh and she loves attacking my spds ::-)

Better cut her claws then, or wear two pairs of kecks.
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Post by: Fi on 03 April, 2011, 06:23:31 pm
She looks like my long deceased Blossom, only a little less scruffy.  Aaaah.
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Post by: border-rider on 03 April, 2011, 07:57:09 pm
Say hello to Frankie (to be confirmed),

Cute :)
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Post by: border-rider on 03 April, 2011, 07:58:43 pm
Small cousins Pinky & Boo:

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/pinky.jpg)

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/boo.jpg)
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Post by: Valiant on 03 April, 2011, 08:40:31 pm
So he's a boy. Just had his first bath, completely calm, incredibly so. Didn't once try to run away.

(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208109_10150149770040629_511250628_6464099_502573_n.jpg)

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196885_10150149770870629_511250628_6464110_7989866_n.jpg)

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200522_10150149771955629_511250628_6464129_3714047_n.jpg)

(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/207619_10150149774560629_511250628_6464156_3684849_n.jpg)

Almost back to his usual self. Seems to be a massive Mac fan lol. Though I think it's cos they are warmer bodied than the pc laptop in the room lol.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2011, 08:42:50 pm
First & last bath surely?
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Post by: peliroja on 03 April, 2011, 08:45:10 pm
Aww, he's a very pretty boy!
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Post by: Valiant on 03 April, 2011, 08:48:50 pm
First & last bath surely?

He honestly didn't seem to mind, not even the shampoo.
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Post by: TimO on 03 April, 2011, 08:52:04 pm
Gods, you washed a cat, and managed to get photographs of it? (and with no evidence of any blood)

Talisker is the most chilled out cat I know, and I had to use gardening gloves to bathe him, and I still ended up with the only scratches he's ever given me.  :-\

He looks very cute, and must be incredibly laid back. :)
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Post by: AndyH on 05 April, 2011, 08:13:47 pm
Our Mei exploring the Peonies
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_m6kcha3N9og/TZtn9n_Q53I/AAAAAAAAAUs/GsQ8H_pcuvk/s640/may-june2009%20070.jpg)
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Post by: peliroja on 07 April, 2011, 08:10:56 pm
Daisy in the warm tub after Mum's had a bath.  ;D

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_hpgvxYB_7cs/TZ4Lps5lGDI/AAAAAAAAC2o/oVcB6oaPGTM/daisy%20bath.jpg)

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Post by: Kathy on 10 April, 2011, 08:59:13 pm
Tim is a big old meany:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5606817039_365824b069.jpg)

 ::-)
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Post by: L CC on 11 April, 2011, 04:19:08 pm
 :( Mia (15) has skin cancer

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2011-04-11161331.jpg)
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Post by: border-rider on 11 April, 2011, 04:21:36 pm
Oh no !


Have they snipped bits of her ear away ?
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Post by: barakta on 11 April, 2011, 06:44:32 pm
Eeep, poor Mia, and poor you.  I hope they're able to keep her comfortable as long as possible.
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Post by: TimO on 11 April, 2011, 07:03:20 pm
Poor puss. :( Cat's with light fur/skin are apparently prone to this, and we should put sun block on their ears.

If they lose part or all of their ears, it must have an impact on their interactions with other cats, since ears seem to be so involved in, at a minimum, some significant body language, and possibly more subtle communication that we don't understand.

I'm just thankful that Talisker is as black as a very black thing, so I don't need to attempt to put sun block on him. :-\
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Post by: Valiant on 11 April, 2011, 07:13:30 pm
Oh noes :(
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Post by: Kathy on 11 April, 2011, 07:23:52 pm
:( Mia (15) has skin cancer


Emmie (half a nose removed for similar reasons) sends her best wishes, and says that it really doesn't stop you from being a proper cat at all.  :-*

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/4553625255_1c7c8577ea.jpg)
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Post by: L CC on 11 April, 2011, 07:58:10 pm
Mia is very placid, and seems not unhappy with life. She's become quite stiff in her old age and is not the perfectly groomed puss she once was.
I haven't seen her for more than 6 months and the winter has taken it's toll. Her (litter) sister Maudie died 3 years ago. Nothing lasts forever.
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Post by: TimO on 11 April, 2011, 07:59:38 pm
Of course both Emmie and Mia would be stuffed in nature, so they're doing a lot better as pets than they would have done in the wild.

(Aside from being spoilt rotten and given all the cat food that they can eat!)
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Post by: Valiant on 18 April, 2011, 02:28:24 pm
Frankie is now feeling right at home and safe.

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/207197_10150162005250629_511250628_6577044_7116257_n.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 April, 2011, 06:21:15 pm
Pippin inspects the quality of the catnip:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5628550945_4f94d8913f.jpg)

Mojo catching some rays:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5628525145_f2153d41fe.jpg)

Monster paw!

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5268/5629081638_b8c44ed98a.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 18 April, 2011, 06:39:52 pm
Frankie is now feeling right at home and safe.


Awwww Frankie looks very happy with their new pet human!
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Post by: TimO on 18 April, 2011, 07:07:21 pm
Valiant, I hope you realise that with a belly like that, you're required in law to tickle it. ;D

With this fine weather, Talisker is spending a lot of time sunning himself amongst the vast amount of weeds occasionally referred to as my back garden.  I've yet to manage to get a good photo of him working on his tan, his hearing is still working fine. :)
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Post by: Valiant on 18 April, 2011, 09:49:53 pm
Frankie has a new enemy, Window cat aka his reflection


    YouTube
        - Window Kitty Strikes Back
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkjgFDxIAPQ)
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Post by: redshift on 18 April, 2011, 09:52:32 pm
Outstanding, Sam.   ;D
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Post by: TimO on 18 April, 2011, 10:04:39 pm
LOL, he really doesn't get it does he!

Cats eventually seem to sus out mirrors, but it can take a while!
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Post by: Feline on 18 April, 2011, 10:36:42 pm
Frankie has a new enemy, Window cat aka his reflection


    YouTube
        - Window Kitty Strikes Back
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkjgFDxIAPQ)

LMFAO!
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Post by: Wobbly John on 30 April, 2011, 08:57:34 pm
Fidgit has discovered the nest box in the Eucalyptus tree.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/nestbox.jpg)

I don't think it's occupied this year.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 May, 2011, 10:24:17 pm
Pippin enjoying the sun

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5676871199_4eb40623b3.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5676877545_984465fc4c.jpg)

Mojo is a poser

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5677397726_9811b5c4dc.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 03 May, 2011, 09:10:38 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_sofa.jpg)
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Post by: Riggers on 11 May, 2011, 03:05:21 pm
Captain Pippin:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Captain-Pippin.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 May, 2011, 06:50:52 pm
 ;D
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Post by: border-rider on 13 May, 2011, 12:52:36 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/5715829754_4ea996c5e2_z.jpg)

The Tamworth Tiger being his usual relaxed self :)

New game: Cats in the Attic.  This is getting to be quite a PITA; every time I go up there they climb the steps and follow me in.  There's all sorts of horrible bits of wiring, wasps' nests & places to get stuck so we have an entertaining game of catch whilst I teeter along joists & try not to put my foot through the plasterboard...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3612/5715268331_43a68f0c6c_z.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/5715268239_97fe1a38f1_z.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/5715286197_f7534a4171_z.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 01:35:25 pm
Teh cute Volio kitehs!

Kiri, my Siamese also has a loft fettish. She nips up the ladder any time someone is up there but she's crap at getting down it again. Consequently nipping up into the loft to get something takes 3 times as long as it should because of the following kitteh rescue. I have even woken up at night to the sound of miowing to realise it is coming from above me and someone has inadvertently locked her up there  ;D
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Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2011, 01:50:21 pm
My parents also had a Siamese with a loft fetish.  Fortunately she also had a box fetish, so extracting her from the loft was usually a simple matter of providing a suitably enticing box, closing her in, then passing it down...
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Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 01:52:54 pm
My parents also had a Siamese with a loft fetish.  Fortunately she also had a box fetish, so extracting her from the loft was usually a simple matter of providing a suitably enticing box, closing her in, then passing it down...

Now that is an epically cunning idea! Kiri also has a cardboard box fetish ...
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Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2011, 01:54:28 pm
Alfie climbing up the loft ladder - large (http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/movies/movie_large.html)
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Post by: Feline on 13 May, 2011, 01:57:04 pm
Alfie climbing up the loft ladder - large (http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/movies/movie_large.html)

Alfie nearly had a catastrophe at the top  :o
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Post by: Jaded on 13 May, 2011, 02:13:31 pm
Yes, hanging on by one paw! Of course I kept filming.  ;D
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Post by: corshamjim on 13 May, 2011, 06:05:09 pm
Yes, hanging on by one paw! Of course I kept filming.  ;D

You didn't press the paws button then?
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Post by: clifftaylor on 15 May, 2011, 06:13:49 pm
Mmmmmm, Sunday........

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/005.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 15 May, 2011, 06:37:58 pm
ITYM Caturday  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2011, 06:39:07 pm
Muuust....not.....stroke.....bellllly!
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Post by: Phil on 17 May, 2011, 12:00:06 am
I've not been able to contribute so far because I have a singularly unphotogenic kitteh.  She was feeling more co-operative than usual today. 

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/yacf/rose-do-not-want.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 17 May, 2011, 12:02:43 am
LOL! your kitteh looks like she is being held in a DETH grip there  ;D
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Post by: Phil on 17 May, 2011, 12:11:41 am
She wouldn't hold still ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 17 May, 2011, 07:31:26 am
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/yacf/rose-do-not-want.jpg)
cat thinks: We are not amused.
 
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Post by: L CC on 17 May, 2011, 12:48:13 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/DSC00053.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2011, 12:59:48 pm
awwh!
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Post by: Valiant on 28 May, 2011, 12:17:49 am
Some Frankie videos for you :)

Frankie and Lyn playing‬ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyB5op9dYg)
Frankie with the Birds‬ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzt3T5U33oU) // Anyone know what kind of birds they are? Really quite bulchy
‪Frankie: King of the wilds‬ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em2rIQCz9Ws)
Frankie the Free runner‬ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbTHVOAgH4)
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2011, 12:23:20 am
eep they are magpies!

Frankie is gorgeous!
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Post by: Valiant on 28 May, 2011, 12:39:03 am
They be teasing Frankie and banging on the wood why? They come close staring at him, peck at the wood, jump back then forwards twice peck and sqwark and then back again.
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2011, 12:46:51 am
They be teasing Frankie and banging on the wood why? They come close staring at him, peck at the wood, jump back then forwards twice peck and sqwark and then back again.

They are bastids  >:(
Magpies can't even be arsed to make their own nests, they steal them off other birds, kill their young and throw their eggs out of their nests. I hate magpies  >:(
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Post by: TimO on 28 May, 2011, 12:55:55 am
They be teasing Frankie and banging on the wood why? ...

Because they're stupid? ... or maybe they realise he's a kitten and not much of a threat yet.

Any bird that got that close to Talisker, would be breakfast. :-\
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Post by: Valiant on 28 May, 2011, 01:37:23 am
I've not been able to contribute so far because I have a singularly unphotogenic kitteh.  She was feeling more co-operative than usual today. 

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/yacf/rose-do-not-want.jpg)


D'awwww
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Post by: L CC on 28 May, 2011, 09:20:09 am
They are bastids  >:(
Magpies can't even be arsed to make their own nests, they steal them off other birds, kill their young and throw their eggs out of their nests. I hate magpies  >:(

Rubbish.

Most magpies live off carrion, most of the time. Roadkill is why we see so many more than we used to.
They make their own nests as often as they 'steal'.
Yes, they eat fledglings sometimes, but on the scale of their diet as a whole, it's insignificant.
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2011, 09:26:10 am
They are bastids  >:(
Magpies can't even be arsed to make their own nests, they steal them off other birds, kill their young and throw their eggs out of their nests. I hate magpies  >:(

Rubbish.

Most magpies live off carrion, most of the time. Roadkill is why we see so many more than we used to.
They make their own nests as often as they 'steal'.
Yes, they eat fledglings sometimes, but on the scale of their diet as a whole, it's insignificant.


Not to the parents of the young it isn't insignificant. It wasn't insignificant to me to see the death of the baby birds I had been carefully watching hatch and be raised in my garden as I was growing up either. Magpies are vermin, and any injured specimen brought in to me takes an instant trip to 'devon'.
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Post by: L CC on 28 May, 2011, 09:41:19 am
They are bastids  >:(
Magpies can't even be arsed to make their own nests, they steal them off other birds, kill their young and throw their eggs out of their nests. I hate magpies  >:(

Rubbish.

Most magpies live off carrion, most of the time. Roadkill is why we see so many more than we used to.
They make their own nests as often as they 'steal'.
Yes, they eat fledglings sometimes, but on the scale of their diet as a whole, it's insignificant.


Not to the parents of the young it isn't insignificant. It wasn't insignificant to me to see the death of the baby birds I had been carefully watching hatch and be raised in my garden as I was growing up either. Magpies are vermin, and any injured specimen brought in to me takes an instant trip to 'devon'.

Are cats vermin then too?

Puh-leese
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2011, 09:51:11 am
They are bastids  >:(
Magpies can't even be arsed to make their own nests, they steal them off other birds, kill their young and throw their eggs out of their nests. I hate magpies  >:(

Rubbish.

Most magpies live off carrion, most of the time. Roadkill is why we see so many more than we used to.
They make their own nests as often as they 'steal'.
Yes, they eat fledglings sometimes, but on the scale of their diet as a whole, it's insignificant.


Not to the parents of the young it isn't insignificant. It wasn't insignificant to me to see the death of the baby birds I had been carefully watching hatch and be raised in my garden as I was growing up either. Magpies are vermin, and any injured specimen brought in to me takes an instant trip to 'devon'.

Are cats vermin then too?

Puh-leese

You're entitled to hold a different opinion on magpies, you won't change mine though. (Plus I won't tell you you're speaking rubbish even if you are ;) )
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Post by: border-rider on 29 May, 2011, 07:53:10 pm
They just discussed this on Countryfile

It seems that just about every organisation (including the RSPB) except the BSSC accepts that the primary impact on songbirds is habitat destruction and that magpies are not really a significant factor at all.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 May, 2011, 08:04:26 pm
Its a weird one. Last year in my dad's garden magpies took every single chick from the nests of all the other birds. It's never happened before though and my dad shot the offending pair of birds and this year there has been no repeat.so perhaps it is not a problem of magpies as a whole but just that some magpies get into the habit of it.
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Post by: marcusjb on 01 June, 2011, 07:14:43 pm
So this little lady has come to share take over our home.  She's from Battersea, came in as a stray a couple of weeks ago.  Been aged at between 3 and 5 years old, probably at the lower end of that scale.  She's a really tiny cat whatever age she might be.

Very confident and affectionate so far.  Rubs herself up on you a lot, comes onto the sofa if you're sat there etc.  Not overly keen on being picked up, but who is?

We collected her today, and she seems to be settling in quite nicely.  We've let her be for a while, just in the front living room.  She's had an explore and so on around. 

She seems like a really lovely cat.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5106/5787437098_06dd792ef4.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5787437098/)
New cat - Lady Chilli Pepper (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5787437098/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 01 June, 2011, 07:31:56 pm
She's gorgeous!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Feline on 01 June, 2011, 08:06:43 pm
Congrats on the new arrival Marcus, she does look very chilled out already. I'm sure she is delighted with her new human pets  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 01 June, 2011, 11:14:16 pm
Monmouth Household Waste Site's Rodent Control Officer:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5788182622_0beeae838e_z.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5787631591_a62b34636d_z.jpg)

Not dead, just rolling in the sun :)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/5788187710_341c882f29_z.jpg)

She's quite elderly; turned up a few months ago and they've made her a little house, and they feed her.  Lovely cat :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 01 June, 2011, 11:16:10 pm
So this little lady has come to share take over our home. 

That's a lovely cat :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 June, 2011, 11:10:30 pm
Mojo

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5181/5791481744_05e107366a_z.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5791781254_88aeb71297_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 03:31:28 am
Ah Mojo looks very cute!
My cats likes to chase your Pingu .gif across the screen btw  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 June, 2011, 12:23:51 pm
I feel I ought to point out the bottom picture was not taken at home and therefore that is not my carpet.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 June, 2011, 10:55:05 pm
Waiting...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 07 June, 2011, 11:21:16 pm
Also waiting...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 07 June, 2011, 11:23:21 pm
(bandit)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 June, 2011, 11:26:00 pm
I can't see a bottom picture, just two pictures of a cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 08 June, 2011, 03:28:30 am
I can't see a bottom picture, just two pictures of a cat.

yeah, where is the bottom picture ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 08 June, 2011, 08:21:00 am
In the hands of another, I believe!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 08 June, 2011, 09:09:32 am
Well chaps, (unless y'all are being mischievous) you have a top picture, and a bottom picture. The bottom picture is the one that looks as if said cat is chasing penguin, and is the one that isn't photographed at Pingu's home.

Glad I can sort that one out for all you lot.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 08 June, 2011, 09:45:54 am
Rigger, I think you are right!

Now, have you got a top picture? Hmmm?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 08 June, 2011, 10:09:42 am
You old trout.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 08 June, 2011, 10:44:55 pm
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zlBwbmPuuxE/Te_pCIwiFkI/AAAAAAAADyU/AFvNjjL6vFY/s640/D7K_5391.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I_7-qov03Pg/Te_pGXJnTAI/AAAAAAAADyY/5-czMk5djSg/s640/D7K_5394.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-jyHb8aEpf5o/Te_pHBMm8CI/AAAAAAAADyc/t_VY1pNNgwA/s640/D7K_5400.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-klDXc5y9Q-g/Te_pIAeiQII/AAAAAAAADyg/LLgCtqS2txk/s640/D7K_5404.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-616nzN0wh-0/Te_pKvh_4dI/AAAAAAAADyk/umWg5VuYRgc/s640/D7K_5406.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ynBXFLRWTbA/Te_pSo0a6JI/AAAAAAAADyo/GymkYfvwzq4/s640/D7K_5411.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YEeWJL9XBZA/Te_pTMJQjeI/AAAAAAAADys/7MnNaxslV80/s640/D7K_5430.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YHNvsSXJ4m8/Te_pUMiEmlI/AAAAAAAADyw/HGWmq6b2Rio/s640/D7K_5436.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tngX2prusik/Te_pVD7b-7I/AAAAAAAADy0/Mu54POKNSXU/s640/D7K_5438.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cpPPJTE-uLo/Te_pV0_zKdI/AAAAAAAADy4/OQ4KybSMePM/s640/D7K_5439.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x2dAfYsDlgo/Te_pZx6YO5I/AAAAAAAADy8/1Lpj82PQTGw/s640/D7K_5440.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-esOvIW2ol_4/Te_pau2gacI/AAAAAAAADzA/2SaSJ6nzKCI/s640/D7K_5444.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KQ_s_heZgn4/Te_qHRCOyiI/AAAAAAAADzE/_PRhB3hkE6w/s640/D7K_5450.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bNVydvAR938/Te_qKwC7npI/AAAAAAAADzI/u5cdHf-WbIU/s640/D7K_5457.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i1Y5VIDukQE/Te_qO6hZnsI/AAAAAAAADzM/MtloiuQV2io/s640/D7K_5459.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mQ8CNeWkEbI/Te_qUUnJJSI/AAAAAAAADzQ/tXT9UIdlQJY/s640/D7K_5472.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-MkFdeNuw-UY/Te_qYKiG1sI/AAAAAAAADzU/lVFGm9NUJls/s640/D7K_5489.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4dfMaNorpw0/Te_qZJECyEI/AAAAAAAADzY/4E-TB8WZA_w/s640/D7K_5497.JPG)
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Post by: Kim on 08 June, 2011, 10:48:40 pm
*dies*

WANT!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: her_welshness on 08 June, 2011, 10:51:13 pm
*dies*

WANT!

+ 1! Gorgeousness of kittens. Cannot pick a favourite pic out of that one. So happy for you  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 08 June, 2011, 10:54:47 pm
Becomes even broodier for kittehs than ever.  :'(

They are beautiful!  You all look like you're having SO MUCH FUN!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 08 June, 2011, 11:02:23 pm

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4dfMaNorpw0/Te_qZJECyEI/AAAAAAAADzY/4E-TB8WZA_w/s640/D7K_5497.JPG)


Epic!
Teh cuteness! They look like they have an oriental head shape and coat texture going on there.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 08 June, 2011, 11:02:54 pm
Gorgeous !  Sitting here with a big smile on my face. The pic with the "One giant step for Feline-kind" is wonderful  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 08 June, 2011, 11:15:03 pm
Beautiful.

I couldn't resist:

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff128/shifty176/C_Jcats.jpg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 09 June, 2011, 12:19:02 am
Trouble and more trouble. ;D

So, one is totally black, and the other has a small white bib?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 09 June, 2011, 12:24:12 am
Lovely :)

The one with the white bib looks like my first pet, Welly
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 09 June, 2011, 12:25:32 am


The one with the white bib looks like my first pet welly

I had a pet welly too, but the other kids laughed at me.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 09 June, 2011, 12:31:52 am
That wasn't to do with your pet though, was it ?

;)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 09 June, 2011, 12:33:59 am
No, it was yours!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 09 June, 2011, 08:25:18 am
Trouble and more trouble. ;D

So, one is totally black, and the other has a small white bib?

Yes, Cat1 is all black and the bolder of the pair.  Cat2 (who's now shed his clerical Battersea collar) has a little white smudge on his chest for ease of identification.

He's the more timid one and can often be found curled up in the little space under one of the kitchen units  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 June, 2011, 08:42:01 am
They're so pretty they're like cats out of a Ladybird book or something.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JT on 09 June, 2011, 09:02:59 am
They are bloody gorgeous - you've made me and Mrs JT want another kitten now!

And Cat 2 reminds us of Miles...

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/91835401_2e43adbe10_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompy/91835401/)
the champion (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompy/91835401/) by Tompy (http://www.flickr.com/people/tompy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 09 June, 2011, 09:06:42 am
They really are lovely, I have a feeling we saw them on the Bank holiday weekend at Old Windsor when we were on the lookout for our new Cat Overlordlady.

They look like a real handful and bags of fun.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: gerwinium on 09 June, 2011, 09:04:30 pm
Awww, that's death by cute.
 
Do you think they fit in a pannier on the way to Whitstable though?  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 09 June, 2011, 11:32:46 pm
Awww, that's death by cute.
 
Do you think they fit in a pannier on the way to Whitstable though?  ;D

Good shout. I'm sure that they would be welcome
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 10 June, 2011, 07:05:58 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/06062011.jpg)

Mia wears the cone of shame.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 June, 2011, 07:15:33 pm
Aww, poor Mia.  What mustn't she scratch/chew/lick/whatever ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 10 June, 2011, 08:21:58 pm
It's the skin cancer. They've cut all sorts of bits out. Apparently she's come through very well and is much fitter than they'd feared.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 June, 2011, 08:29:46 pm
Cats with light fur are apparently prone to that. :(

Hopefully the cone will be off shortly, and she can get to being her normal furry (probably troublemaking) self.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 10 June, 2011, 08:39:50 pm
Aw. poor Mia. Alfie sends her love 'n dementia.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 June, 2011, 12:38:24 pm
Awwwh cute, congrats to Charlotte & Julian on becoming the proud playthings of the kittens.

and

awwh, poor mia, hope she's feeling better soon.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 14 June, 2011, 07:31:19 pm
Boushti: I don't take many photographs of him, but almost all of them end up here. Another typical action shot.

(http://i.imgur.com/LstBSVD.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 June, 2011, 07:43:07 pm
Boushti: I don't take many photographs of him, but almost all of them end up here. Another typical action shot. ...

His paw is looking better, not quite so threadbare (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36638.msg691699#msg691699). :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 16 June, 2011, 01:46:13 pm
Quote from: my dad
all Mia's stiches are out. She's been outside for the first time. many many thanks to Cheviot Vets at Powburn, a great job well done!

No pictures yet tho'...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 16 June, 2011, 02:02:32 pm
Improved!

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/CatnPipe.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 16 June, 2011, 02:06:43 pm
Lazy Daisy, again.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eY1-ZcrQpQY/TffWBh9MjgI/AAAAAAAAKdU/oam_cxVKkpc/s912/P1030421.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w2GZKPPAGmY/TffWK7OOjpI/AAAAAAAAKd0/UcjgPCrLXHI/s912/P1030425.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 June, 2011, 04:48:49 pm
Awwwh!


Riggers, your photoshopped pussies never fail to make me larf. Will you do a calendar?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 16 June, 2011, 05:07:17 pm
"M…u…st  learn  to   con…trol     my   filthy   mind!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 June, 2011, 07:59:58 pm
Indeed!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 16 June, 2011, 10:05:32 pm
"M…u…st  learn  to   con…trol     my   filthy   mind!"

 ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 17 June, 2011, 09:00:24 am
Pirated!

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/AvastThere.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 17 June, 2011, 09:27:51 am
I just spilled my tea!  :D

Riggers, I think you need some kind of award.  Either that or regular sedation...

::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 17 June, 2011, 09:31:18 am
I couldn't let it lie.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 17 June, 2011, 05:07:44 pm
I just spilled my tea!  :D

Riggers, I think you need some kind of award.  Either that or regular sedation...

::-)

Do they have to be exclusive?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 18 June, 2011, 07:53:51 pm
these are not really mine, but teh cute at 15 mins old just born by caesarean section

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/iphone.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 19 June, 2011, 04:22:45 pm
‪Frankie the CatDog‬ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MFyg9_lYVA)

Frankie playing fetch!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 June, 2011, 05:06:10 pm
LOL, I've never seen a cat which will actually bring the ball back.  Most of them will chase a ball like that, but then look at you, until you go and get the ball, and throw it again!

One of my parents neighbours had a cat who would steal balls.  He'd take any balls that he found, and which he could carry in his mouth, back to his "home" garden.  He would even try and carry quite large ones, if they were deflated enough that he could get a decent mouthful !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 19 June, 2011, 05:18:38 pm
My first cat - who was by all accounts the stereotype of a highly intelligent Siamese - would play fetch, catch, ping-pong ball football, hide and seek, leap-up-and-grab-the-toy-out-of-my-hand, turn the bathroom light on and off and so on.  I even managed to train her that the most effective way to get food was to sit cutely by her bowl rather than tripping people up, mowling or jumping on the surfaces!  We're forever grateful that she never learned to answer the phone (my aunt has a Siamese who was notorious for this, so their line was often engaged) or flush the toilet.

Sadly none of our subsequent cats demonstrated anything like that level of trainability, though one of them did have a favourite ball that she'd carry around (sadly, even to the litter tray) in her mouth and throw at you when she wanted to play.  And another managed to train both the humans and the local squirrels to be a source of entertainment (squirrel would appear at the window, cat would go and get attention of humans, humans would throw nuts to squirrel, cat would sit and bark at squirrels eating nuts).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 19 June, 2011, 08:09:16 pm
cat would sit and bark at squirrels eating nuts).

That's a very confused cat.... :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 June, 2011, 11:03:05 pm
Mojo used to be a retriever cat  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 20 June, 2011, 08:21:21 pm
Boushti: I don't take many photographs of him, but almost all of them end up here. Another typical action shot. ...

His paw is looking better, not quite so threadbare (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=36638.msg691699#msg691699). :thumbsup:

It's not bad, there is a little scar tissue where the hair doesn't grow. He can still jump up onto the wall between our building and the next- it's above my head height- so he seems to have plenty mobility.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 20 June, 2011, 11:28:38 pm
these are not really mine, but teh cute at 15 mins old just born by caesarean section

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/iphone.jpg)

Cute in a "drowned rat" kind of way.  ;)

Is it me, or is the tabby on the left hand side twice the size of the rest?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 20 June, 2011, 11:36:04 pm
these are not really mine, but teh cute at 15 mins old just born by caesarean section

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/iphone.jpg)

Cute in a "drowned rat" kind of way.  ;)

Is it me, or is the tabby on the left hand side twice the size of the rest?

Yeah the tabby one was the biggest. The two mostly white ones were the tiniest and took ages to get breathing. They were still partly anaesthetised in that pic as takes them a while to breathe out the anaesthetic gases from their blood stream. They were lucky to all make it really considering the mum had a smashed pelvis from an RTA a year ago and should have been spayed then since she would never have been able to give birth :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 25 June, 2011, 04:02:34 pm
Scooby in coiled spring mode

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01316.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 27 June, 2011, 08:10:32 pm
Scooby striving for perfection

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01319.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Phil on 27 June, 2011, 11:20:42 pm
Rose has been enjoying the heat.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/yacf/rose-napping-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 01 July, 2011, 12:12:30 am
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Pp2EU2Q5g2g/Tg0CE1KY4yI/AAAAAAAAPlY/GPLsSJPLlrI/s720/D7K_5217.JPG)

Vampire kitty is pleased to see you
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 02 July, 2011, 08:33:51 pm
HOLD IT, DERE ARE MOAR KITTEHS!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2G07VJ_RktE/Tg9xMVsfeOI/AAAAAAAAD8M/oXQyktljwoo/s640/D7K_6083.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aPhbJ7BOll0/Tg9xNDmlCxI/AAAAAAAAD8Q/3xHzkGQzzx8/s640/D7K_6088.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mCzzJwvqAOQ/Tg9xObfM-jI/AAAAAAAAD8U/FnFVZS2F92Q/s640/D7K_6108.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UNxjfLo0Tfw/Tg9xO0kzQAI/AAAAAAAAD8Y/2Pt-9cyKcaY/s640/D7K_6112.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4wCvCltOFRk/Tg9xQHcMFNI/AAAAAAAAD8c/lUfYTxVWA5o/s640/D7K_6119.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ImCE9stIKKA/Tg9xRNNPspI/AAAAAAAAD8k/AX8BlC_M37k/s640/D7K_6121.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Kzia1vknKGs/Tg9xSMn-4yI/AAAAAAAAD8o/UJ8wVEneL9c/s640/D7K_6133.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2011, 09:16:28 pm
HOLD IT, DERE ARE MOAR KITTEHS!

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2G07VJ_RktE/Tg9xMVsfeOI/AAAAAAAAD8M/oXQyktljwoo/s640/D7K_6083.JPG)


That ain't no kitteh, that's a freaking PANTHER! ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 July, 2011, 09:17:32 pm
Do they haz names yet?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 July, 2011, 09:21:39 pm
Excellent photos, Charlotte  :)

Particularly the first two.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 02 July, 2011, 11:47:32 pm
That ain't no kitteh, that's a freaking PANTHER! ;D

Innit.  Wait till he's grown up  :D

Do they haz names yet?

:-[
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: longers on 02 July, 2011, 11:51:22 pm
Exceedingly sleek!

Not even any nicknames yet?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 July, 2011, 08:00:23 am
That ain't no kitteh, that's a freaking PANTHER! ;D

I take it you've seen Team America World Police? ;D

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/TeamAmericaWorldPolice_Panthers.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 03 July, 2011, 10:34:10 pm
‪Frankie the Kitten takes on the Fox (http://youtu.be/S2V62xT5Mgg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 July, 2011, 11:56:59 pm
These girls aren't ours.

(http://alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cats_3.jpg)

(http://alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cats_2.jpg)

(http://alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cats_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 July, 2011, 12:45:16 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_feet.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 10 July, 2011, 11:54:57 am
My beautiful little cat who passed away this morning aged 16.
RIP Patch  :'(

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5921192211_dfe46e09b6_z_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 10 July, 2011, 11:58:28 am
 :'(

very nice looking cat, and 16 is not a bad age. Patch looks very content in that photo - a lovely memory for you.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 10 July, 2011, 11:58:46 am
 :'(

Sorry to hear that.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 July, 2011, 12:10:17 pm
:'(

Sorry to hear that.

+1 :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 10 July, 2011, 02:36:00 pm
:'(

Sorry to hear that.

+1 :(

+1  :(
Patch looked lovely on that pic.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 10 July, 2011, 09:39:57 pm
Its a hard life



(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/037.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jules on 11 July, 2011, 04:25:57 pm
Our cat - aged 12 - woke up long enough to bring me a present this morning. She doesn't do this often - last  time (2002) it was a, very lively, viper so I  guess this is an improvement.

She is still looking very pleased with herself.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-y4EAwGCYT38/ThsTgloo8JI/AAAAAAAAASw/SJhXKhVz_rM/s288/DSCF2142.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 11 July, 2011, 10:22:17 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/5927931680_472fcd3fd4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/5927931680/)
Photo on 2011-07-11 at 22.17 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/5927931680/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 July, 2011, 11:20:49 pm
You should lend her your razor!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 14 July, 2011, 08:46:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

 :) ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 July, 2011, 08:44:56 pm
The Beast of East Hanney.  I stopped for a Mars bar and (I always attract cats in the street) this huge moggy came and sat on me.  It must have weighed a stone and it was very friendly.

(http://www.peeble.com/beast.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: longers on 16 July, 2011, 11:01:36 pm
(http://i56.tinypic.com/e96w42.jpg)

Next doors cat.

I'd adopt him if I could, he's brighter than a shiny button.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 18 July, 2011, 06:13:17 pm
Lady Chilli Pepper exploring inside my pannier on the fixed commuter bike:

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6010/5951299672_97b87d616e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5951299672/)
What's in here? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5951299672/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr

Lady Chilli Pepper hanging out on top of my Carradice bag - and having a little taste of the leather straps......

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6140/5951299850_0978435f82.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5951299850/)
Cat on Carradice (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/5951299850/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr

Good job she's adorable, or she'd be on her way back to Battersea she's that much trouble!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 19 July, 2011, 09:21:55 pm
a couple of shots of fizel lazing about

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011%20bits%20and%20bobs/002.jpg)

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011%20bits%20and%20bobs/003.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 20 July, 2011, 12:34:13 am
Frankie shows who's boss. He loves climbing up and laying around your neck and shoulders. He doesn't realise how big he's gotten lol.

[img height=640 width=480]http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/281993_10150321818824612_601834611_9398696_661733_n.jpg[/img]
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 20 July, 2011, 11:01:58 am
Frankie is hoooge!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 July, 2011, 12:24:41 pm
a couple of shots of fizel lazing about

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2011%20bits%20and%20bobs/002.jpg)

That is teh ginger fluffy cuute
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 20 July, 2011, 08:02:45 pm
Frankie is hoooge!

He's not really, he's tiny, well he's small. It's camera trickery lol
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 July, 2011, 10:59:09 pm
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/20/1311176393073/A-leopard-prepares-to-att-014.jpg)

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/20/1311176390532/A-leopard-leaps-on-a-fore-012.jpg)

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/20/1311176394275/A-forest-guard-aims-his-r-015.jpg)

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jul/20/leopard-attacks-villagers-india#/?picture=377083509&index=0

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dez on 21 July, 2011, 12:10:58 am
(http://dez.yacf.net/Lion.jpg)
My new lion...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 23 July, 2011, 06:14:53 pm
Baal and Belphagor's first steps into the garden this afternoon:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cD-ix2OI0UA/Tir7-U7xC4I/AAAAAAAAEBg/OVIjZ2U2ONM/s800/D7K_6798.JPG)  (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ar8lfUEQfsc/Tir71wwyrlI/AAAAAAAAEBM/jy-nAzMw1BA/s800/D7K_6748.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-TDHFGaQCIZs/Tir73z1LB_I/AAAAAAAAEBQ/rLXxoUINTEg/s800/D7K_6771.JPG)  (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Wsqe_UVtzVQ/Tir75Hv9MyI/AAAAAAAAEBU/CkF5LgujtT4/s800/D7K_6774.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eC1j5MEBwNU/Tir77JbMxZI/AAAAAAAAEBY/kHDXc2fXhfg/s800/D7K_6788.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1tkoyJRuijI/Tir79QpBXbI/AAAAAAAAEBc/H7xA9mHgPUs/s800/D7K_6794.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Vn9lHaEVyqw/Tir8AqQTmbI/AAAAAAAAEBo/Wu5biRYwsUE/s800/D7K_6805.JPG)  (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-R3hJE_47AJ8/Tir8NfsoEwI/AAAAAAAAECI/53XuxFIxkKM/s800/D7K_6870.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-eucHJKEvDFY/Tir8MCJuilI/AAAAAAAAECE/6sZWF2hZjes/s800/D7K_6845.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0Q-Bs-izg-c/Tir8HB77OuI/AAAAAAAAEB4/Z3qRlgjeNSg/s800/D7K_6820.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 23 July, 2011, 06:20:48 pm
I'm guessing that you can't let them roam free until a certain age, presumably because they need their vaccinations or whatnot?

Are you going to let them be indoors/outdoors cat?  My sister's cat are indoors only, but she does take them out occasionally with harnesses and leads.  Being cats, they do of course manage to get the leads wrapped around things. :-\ ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 July, 2011, 06:22:05 pm
*slink*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 23 July, 2011, 06:48:50 pm
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Vn9lHaEVyqw/Tir8AqQTmbI/AAAAAAAAEBo/Wu5biRYwsUE/s800/D7K_6805.JPG)

Hoominz, you will pay for making me wear this........ >:(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 23 July, 2011, 07:53:53 pm
Did they go all floppy and forget how to balance when you put the harnesses on? We used them for ours when they first went out and they absolutely refused to believe that it is possible to walk whilst wearing a harness  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 23 July, 2011, 08:00:54 pm
I'm guessing that you can't let them roam free until a certain age, presumably because they need their vaccinations or whatnot?

They're all jabbed up, but until they've been done,  they don't get to wander about.  Also, they've not started their worming/flea treatments yet. 

Are you going to let them be indoors/outdoors cat?

Outdoors, definitely.  They're a pair of little hunters if ever I saw any and it would be awful not to let them roam free.  It's fairly quiet and safe round here and I think they'll do well.  We just have to get them used to going into the garden and coming back again!

Did they go all floppy and forget how to balance when you put the harnesses on? We used them for ours when they first went out and they absolutely refused to believe that it is possible to walk whilst wearing a harness  ;D

They didn't like them very much to start with, but curiosity got the better of them pretty soon and they were dragging us all over the garden...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Clare on 23 July, 2011, 08:20:32 pm
They are still teh cutes even in bondage gear.

 ;)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 23 July, 2011, 09:27:12 pm
They are still teh cutes even in bondage gear.

That made me laugh, well done on an evening when I'm not smiling much.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 23 July, 2011, 10:02:00 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5968159844_14ab7b8c25_z.jpg)

Tam & Daisy being cute.  They'd had a bit of a falling out before this, when he accidentally sat on her, so this was good to see :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 23 July, 2011, 10:11:49 pm
That behaviour is usually a prelude to kitty fisticuffs here  :hand:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 23 July, 2011, 10:15:22 pm
It can be a dominance thing  (Mrs MV's brother's kitten tries to wash his head to show who's boss :))  but with these two it's genuine affection, and they wash each other
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: interzen on 23 July, 2011, 10:16:49 pm
Not mine, they belong to my parents (or is it they belong to the cats - so hard to tell)

Charlie - he's a Ragdoll. This was taken when he was a kitten. He's a lot bigger and fluffier now.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5967647685_0be7608d26.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzen/5967647685/)
P1010645 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzen/5967647685/) by interzen (http://www.flickr.com/people/interzen/), on Flickr

Lucy doing what she does best - still can't believe she's nearly 18 ...
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/5967649645_8d0fedaa92.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzen/5967649645/)
P1010658 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/interzen/5967649645/) by interzen (http://www.flickr.com/people/interzen/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 24 July, 2011, 02:54:16 pm
Daisy lazing about on a rock in the sun today

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6024/5970293116_5bcd26d26d_z.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5970294318_818ed9425f_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 24 July, 2011, 07:43:33 pm
Tam lazing about on a garden chair :)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5970653845_7406f577d9_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 25 July, 2011, 09:37:05 pm
Baal and Belphagor explore the garden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9vMJyxW-GY&feature=player_profilepage
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 25 July, 2011, 09:40:44 pm
Wow, they really are basement cats.  *approves*  *goes to make we-should-get-a-kitten noises at barakta*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 25 July, 2011, 11:10:02 pm
...*goes to make we-should-get-a-kitten noises at barakta*

Go on, you know you want to ...

I'm still in two minds over whether to go for kitten(s) or adult(s).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 25 July, 2011, 11:11:58 pm

I'm still in two minds over whether to go for kitten(s) or adult(s).

You'll know when the right one turns up.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 July, 2011, 04:17:18 pm
There's Mikey, the local bad boy.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_1.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_3.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 July, 2011, 05:27:06 pm
Do you think ginger cats are bullied by the other ones for being ginger?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 26 July, 2011, 05:31:34 pm
They're usually pretty tough.  That fella looks to be anyway.

<aside>

as students we shared a house with a bloke from Wakefield (who later went on to have a minor role in the cash-for-questions thing). We had jays in the garden, and his take was "That bird must be f'in hard - a pink crow, that's going to get the shit kicked out of it otherwise, isn't it ?

</aside>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 July, 2011, 06:55:51 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_4.jpg)

That's a puma  :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 July, 2011, 08:52:55 pm
...*goes to make we-should-get-a-kitten noises at barakta*

Go on, you know you want to ...

I'm still in two minds over whether to go for kitten(s) or adult(s).

Hows Talisker?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 26 July, 2011, 08:58:28 pm
Lynx, really sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  Talisker had to be put down a few days ago, I think something about a tumour in his abdomen.  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 26 July, 2011, 10:42:17 pm
Do you think ginger cats are bullied by the other ones for being ginger?

Ginger, who you you will not be surprised to learn was a ginger cat, was the local bad boy. He came home with all sorts, a literal string of sausages as in a cartoon, a slice of beef with gravy, next door's goldfish, that sort of thing. So no gingerism does not appear to be a cat thing
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2011, 08:49:35 am
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3512/3893661811_9f56f9808f_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3893661811/)
chorlton01 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/3893661811/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

This is my brother's cat, Chorlton. He's not really a big bruiser, but he does bring in small dead mammals. He's more of a slut, as you can probably see. Maybe it's because he's more of a strawberry blonde than a ginger.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 27 July, 2011, 09:18:42 am
He looks exactly like Tam :)

Same personality too, by the look of it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 July, 2011, 01:09:52 am
Lynx, really sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  Talisker had to be put down a few days ago, I think something about a tumour in his abdomen.  :(

So sorry to hear that.

TimO stories about him made me laugh.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: AnthCC on 10 August, 2011, 08:13:55 pm
Tortie Time?

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6021/5881373391_c8569afcdd.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5881373391/)
Pounce (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5881373391/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5881935176_6b713262fa.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5881935176/)
Toothy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5881935176/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5941024552_507b1e620e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5941024552/)
Blurred Pounce (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5941024552/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5940468393_196d689e40.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5940468393/)
Watching the Chooks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5940468393/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6140/5940469467_eca80c5334.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5940469467/)
Chook Chillin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5940469467/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/6014657267_dd275de64f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6014657267/)
Tortie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6014657267/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 10 August, 2011, 08:46:22 pm

First, the bad news: This was Sandy, Anders's first cat, who had to be put to sleep earlier this year at *3 years old* due to an incurable disease. This, as you can imagine, was extremely suckful for all of us. He was a strong, aggressively friendly cat with an improbably bushy tail; he quickly became the feline Big Cheese in our house.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3431/4566431184_37d0770c84_z.jpg)

Now the good news: This is Sooty, who Anders met and bonded with not long before Sandy passed away. Sooty is a strong, aggressively friendly cat with a pitifully skinny tail. He pretty much lets the other cats do their own thing, except when he's stealing their food or chasing their tails.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/5858399582_24df475779_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2011, 08:48:04 pm
Awh, poor Sandy, I remember the kitten pictures.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 10 August, 2011, 08:56:40 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/6014657267_dd275de64f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6014657267/)
Tortie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6014657267/) by blackpuddinonnabike (http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/), on Flickr

That's a look I know :)

Ours went to the vet today for annual vaccinations

The vet was telling me how torties were permanently stressed and prone to skin complaints as a result. At which point Daisy rolled over to show her tummy, and started purring loudly :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2011, 09:10:30 pm
Why would torties be stressed?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 10 August, 2011, 09:14:20 pm
No idea

all the ones I've known have been proper little madams :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 10 August, 2011, 09:33:59 pm
Speaking of little madams, for completeness I should mention the large number of gratuitous cat pics to be found in this thread.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/kitten/IMG_3057.sized.jpg) (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=50285.0)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 August, 2011, 10:17:36 pm
... and a number in this thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=50383.0).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Cats/Kai/looking_480.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 10 August, 2011, 10:54:04 pm
Speaking of little madams, for completeness I should mention the large number of gratuitous cat pics to be found in this thread.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/kitten/IMG_3057.sized.jpg) (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=50285.0)

That's no way to speak about barakta  :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 11 August, 2011, 02:13:12 am
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/253794_10150198591940629_511250628_6912214_3416634_n.jpg)

Poorly Frankie sleeping on mommy. Who might kill me if she see's I uploaded this lol
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 11 August, 2011, 08:00:46 am
Sam: Either Frankie is ENORMOUS, or your girlfriend is dinky!  That's an awesome pic.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 August, 2011, 05:08:22 pm
Happy 1st birthday kittens.... (sorry tried to link the photos but it wouldnt work for me).

http://flic.kr/p/acT7K8

Posie the little queen


http://flic.kr/p/acVUPC

Petal the first born


http://flic.kr/p/acT7aP

Pixie the smallest of the pride but the one who eats the most.


http://flic.kr/p/acT6BZ

Perkins, the lover boy!!!


http://flic.kr/p/acVUeJ

Pootle  a huge kitten who is bigger than his Mum and our adult ginger cat!


http://flic.kr/p/acVVmu

Elma their Mum.


Right, off to cook their Tuna and Salmon tea.....  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 15 August, 2011, 07:39:48 pm
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/253794_10150198591940629_511250628_6912214_3416634_n.jpg)

Poorly Frankie sleeping on mommy. Who might kill me if she see's I uploaded this lol

Sam, your girlfriend has a lovely looking pussy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 16 August, 2011, 12:47:03 am
lol I guess someone had too lol.

Baraka, he's quite big when he wants to be, but he's really not that big. Camera adds 10lbs right? Here's one from the other day if you missed it.

[img height=640 width=480]http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/281942_10150323612389612_601834611_9416243_7118263_n.jpg[/img]
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 16 August, 2011, 01:00:34 am
And he changes colour
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 August, 2011, 07:54:00 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/National%20Museum%20of%20Scotland%2016%20August%202011/035.jpg)



(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/National%20Museum%20of%20Scotland%2016%20August%202011/036.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2011, 07:57:41 pm
Kirst, I hate to say it, but I think your kitteh may be a bit underfed... ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Bledlow on 19 August, 2011, 08:26:45 pm
I just had a serious cuteness overload while visiting two kittens my parents and their two new(ish) kittens. They were born on May 1st, & are now in that lean, lithe, leggy stage of kittenhood, where they are hyperactive & excessively agile, hurtling up walls & bouncing off ceilings. They're now kittens who peep out from behind curtains - over the top, having climbed up the other side.  ;D

But I forgot to check the battery in my camera. One picture, & it died.  :facepalm:

The old cat hates 'em. She avoids them, & whenever they try to make friends she has a hissy-snarly fit.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 August, 2011, 01:42:01 pm
Three pictures of Alfred in the sun.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_sun_%201.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_sun_%202.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_sun_%203.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 21 August, 2011, 09:04:26 pm
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6vm4CpbfbR4/TlFkkXxG0CI/AAAAAAAARk4/ZoMjijX0UD4/s800/D7K_7651.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2011, 09:18:36 pm
Magnificant moggy! Great picture zipperheed :)

And I like the 1st one of Alfie, Jaded.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 22 August, 2011, 03:27:50 pm
(http://www.woofage.co.uk/animals/boo_aug11.jpg)

Boo: the cat that came back.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 August, 2011, 03:34:30 pm
Flipping 'eck, look at those big sharp pointy instruments of mousie death!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 22 August, 2011, 04:00:18 pm
Flipping 'eck, look at those big sharp pointy instruments of mousie death!

Yes, they are :demon:.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Bledlow on 24 August, 2011, 10:23:58 am
Kitten on canal boat

(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/IMG_0282.jpg)

Extremely atypical, because it's awake but sitting still.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 24 August, 2011, 01:52:19 pm
It's probably got used to the idea of 'move' = 'splash-sadcat'
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 August, 2011, 02:19:32 pm
That's a very cute canal boat kitten, but I've recently become biased in favour of mostly white underside with coloured fur on top cats.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Cats/Kai/small.php?file=Kai_webcam.jpg&size=192)

;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 24 August, 2011, 04:13:52 pm
Bledlow, she's beautiful.  One of our first cats was a tortie much like yours in colouring which is quite rare.  *wants a kitteh*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 24 August, 2011, 04:56:10 pm
Bledlow, she's beautiful.  One of our first cats was a tortie much like yours in colouring which is quite rare.  *wants a kitteh*

Just to be pedantic, a tortoiseshell cat has no white, and the colouring arises due to a genetic trait. 

Bledlow's cat is a 'calico' or 'tortoiseshell and white'.  But very cute all the same....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Adrian on 24 August, 2011, 08:03:14 pm
Bledlow's cat is a 'calico' or 'tortoiseshell and white'.  But very cute all the same....
Less of the Americanisms please.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Bledlow on 25 August, 2011, 12:37:09 pm
Bledlow, she's beautiful.  One of our first cats was a tortie much like yours in colouring which is quite rare.  *wants a kitteh*
One of a pair that my parents got recently. Born May 1st. They have a sibling in Lincolnshire. All the same colouring. The other one of the pair has a bigger black patch on the face, & the patterns on their bodies are easily distinguished.

They've not ventured off the boat yet, so haven't discovered what happens when they jump for the bank & miss. It'll come.  ;D

Most of their waking hours are spent in energetic play. Lots of play fighting with each other & anyone who'll give them a hand to fight (they know to hold back with claws & teeth), chasing small movable things, etc. They've found perches (one a shelf formerly occupied by CDs which have had to find a new home) from which they can watch the world outside. Very quickly overcame their caution & made friends with Mrs B & me. Purr very loudly.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 25 August, 2011, 09:57:12 pm
A different sort of cat, this one from about 350 years ago.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6080388083_2e18e9f7e4_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6080388083/)

In the ceiling at Blickling Hall.  By no means the weirdest of the pictures up there!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 August, 2011, 10:13:11 pm
*I feel like chicken tonight*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 25 August, 2011, 10:18:49 pm
And more Norfolk cats, this time in the church at Castle Rising, carved in the side of a font taken from the church of St Felix (of course)
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6197/6080453125_9b04e9c2a7_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6080453125/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 25 August, 2011, 11:06:20 pm
Three headed cat - NFN.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 26 August, 2011, 01:12:04 am
Both fast asleep :) Cute

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6080842965_2730419786_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 04 September, 2011, 12:33:22 pm
Ethel, explaining what she thinks of ferrets:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9jjUHr6rOqs/TmNgb2zCupI/AAAAAAAAAjY/KPzDJWaiL-I/s640/IMG_2306.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2011, 08:45:05 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiZevBed_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiZevBed.jpg)

Kai and Zev actually sleeping within a few feet of each other, and Zev is awake(ish) and not attacking Kai's tail!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2011, 09:07:23 pm
And some individual shots:

Zev
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevBed_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevBed.jpg)

Kai
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2011, 09:08:40 pm
Aww.  Zev's grown.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2011, 09:15:14 pm
Well kittens do that. ;D

She's probably about 6 in human equivalence terms, so still a little furry terror, but making Kai's life hell more than mine!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 04 September, 2011, 09:52:24 pm

Kai
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed.jpg)

Is it me, or does Kai have a permanent "Derp (http://derp.memebase.com/)" face?  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 September, 2011, 10:50:11 pm
I may have caught him a bit by surprise then!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 04 September, 2011, 10:52:14 pm
Tambert trying to fit into a rather small box in my office :)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6113996846_350617c8ff_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 05 September, 2011, 05:18:35 pm
Tambert trying to fit into a rather small box in my office :)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6113996846_350617c8ff_z.jpg)

Almost works!  Great photo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 05 September, 2011, 05:54:28 pm
Two cats, yesterday:

(http://woofage.co.uk/animals/boo_n_scout_sep11.jpg)

Couldn't make the bed, wasn't allowed ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 07 September, 2011, 04:02:54 pm
Miss Ham is working on trying to get us to get a CTA.

And has therefore taken to sending me gratuitous cat pics during the day. This may have been seen before, I don't know as I don't tend to frequent these hallowed halls, my apologies if it has.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 07 September, 2011, 07:16:37 pm
This one has a habit of getting into the bed, not just on top 8)

(http://woofage.co.uk/animals/boo_sep11_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 11 September, 2011, 11:45:38 pm
An attempt to get a couple of decent head shots of both Kai and Zev, but neither was quite looking at the right place when I took the shots, and the flash in Zev's case is a bit naff, I need to use something slightly more diffuse, but often you just have to grab the camera, and use the built in flash. :-\

Kai under the stairs, lying on a box of books.
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiUnderStairs_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiUnderStairs.jpg)

Zev hiding in a favourite location, under a folding ladder, where she thinks she safe from both me and Kai (and she's wrong on both counts!)  The shot does show the white blob on her chest well though.
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevUnderLadder_480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevUnderLadder.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 11 September, 2011, 11:52:56 pm
Tambert trying to fit into a rather small box in my office :)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6113996846_350617c8ff_z.jpg)

Ah kitten in a basket, did you get chips too?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 12 September, 2011, 11:39:13 pm
Kai looks like he is wearing perfect black eyeliner  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 12 September, 2011, 11:42:40 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6141533593_468bd25727.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6141533593/)
Cat on a hot 'slate' roof (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6141533593/) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 September, 2011, 12:40:24 am
Kai looks like he is wearing perfect black eyeliner  ;D

Cat make up?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 September, 2011, 07:44:17 pm
Nice pic Windy :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 13 September, 2011, 11:58:48 pm
Worth a pearoast - great photo!

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/6141533593_468bd25727.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6141533593/)
Cat on a hot 'slate' roof (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6141533593/) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 16 September, 2011, 01:08:07 am
This one has a habit of getting into the bed, not just on top 8)

Every morning at the moment I wake up to find George, our two year old Burmese, tucked under the duvet by my feet with his head sticking out. He is much more considerate than his predecessor Milo (see pic left) who, along with Bertie, would conspire to shove me over to nearly-falling-out-of-bed every night. Bertie has taken instead to merely sitting on my neck when the alarm goes off or if I make the slightest stirring before that. When it gets cold at night, he'll be under the duvet too.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 19 September, 2011, 08:44:59 am
Well, we've become a two-cat household.  Cass was very keen on there being another furry friend wandering around to keep us and Lady Chilli Pepper company.  So, Sir Scoville has arrived from a lady who is due to give birth this coming Tuesday and was becoming increasingly concerned about their ability to pay the cat any attention etc.  He's 10 months old and he's quite a big lump (especially compared to the very petite Chilli).  He's in the front living room currently (with Chilli wondering why she is suddenly not allowed in there!) - he seems pretty shell-shocked by the move (he's literally never been outside, so a train ride from Hackney to Chiswick was quite traumatic).  He's wandered out from under the sofa during the night and eaten and used the litter tray - so hopefully he will settle over the next few days and then we can think about introducing the two cats and hoping that all goes well!

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6161511941_b3569be729.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6161511941/)
006 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6161511941/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 September, 2011, 08:54:28 am
Yay, n+1 applied to cats. ;D

He's sitting there looking very regal, albeit maybe a bit concerned. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 19 September, 2011, 09:32:40 am
Yay, n+1 applied to cats. ;D

He's sitting there looking very regal, albeit maybe a bit concerned. :thumbsup:

Ha - a friend commented last night that we'll end up with more cats than bikes soon - I assured him that this will not be the case.  Two is a good number of cats, two bikes is far too few for two people.

He's a very handsome fellow, and I am sure he will venture out more and more over the next few days.  He was very approachable and friendly in his original house, so it's just a question of settling a bit now.  He has lived in the same block of flats for his entire 10 months, never been outside or anything, so a trip in a cat-carrier across London must have been very scary, though he was as good as gold on the train. 

He'll settle soon enough I am sure.  He'll be off to the vets on Thursday for a bit more upheaval (jabs, chipping and the chop) - we'll then take it as it comes as to introductions with Chilli.  The vet doesn't see any problems once he's been fixed (Chilli is spayed), suggesting to give him another few days after the chop before they are properly introduced.  Chilli seems utterly unbothered by his smell (we inherited his litter tray, which we left in the kitchen whilst we sorted things in the front room, along with a blanket - she had a good smell around it all and, whilst fascinated, did not exhibit any signs of distress or aggression.)  She gets annoyed when we both disappear into the front room and she can't come with us - but she tends to be like that anyway currently. 

Hopefully in a couple of weeks, I'll be able to put up a photo of the two of them at least tolerating each other, if not being BFF!

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 September, 2011, 02:44:06 pm
Makes note of scary cat people.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 20 September, 2011, 02:07:32 am
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/298378_10150317746030629_511250628_7879093_649358668_n.jpg)

Gimme ma stick!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 20 September, 2011, 02:27:16 pm
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/298378_10150317746030629_511250628_7879093_649358668_n.jpg)

Gimme ma stick!

Epic!!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 20 September, 2011, 04:53:57 pm
I think you mean Fancatstick  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 September, 2011, 04:16:18 am
Right I'm hving issues posting a pic of the two gits that seem to enjoy paying with my sockets, then going to sleep in my rag bags. Then hissing at me when I awake them. Also if i'm having a nap in a car listening to the radio I awake with one on them either asleep on my head or asleep on my feet.  So moving gets lots of moaning meows.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 26 September, 2011, 05:23:42 pm
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6185892866_6494b9e0fc_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57285831@N04/6185892866/)
daisy_onna_rock (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57285831@N04/6185892866/) by emfields (http://www.flickr.com/people/57285831@N04/), on Flickr

She's quite little, really. Fully-grown now, I think.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 30 September, 2011, 12:19:59 pm
Only here coz I don't want to leave a message in another cat thread....

http://www.webuyanycat.com/

and

http://cats4gold.com/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 01 October, 2011, 03:08:05 pm
Only here coz I don't want to leave a message in another cat thread....

http://www.webuyanycat.com/

and

http://cats4gold.com/
(http://www.webuyanycat.com/result/images/Blitz-41.59.jpg)
"webuyanycat.com has valued my cat at £41.59"

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 12 October, 2011, 11:36:30 am
A small portion of the cat pack that roams around my sister's house in Tuscany.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6237380670_43c97b4b10.jpg)

Please note - she is not (yet) a mad cat woman as they nominally belong to her neighbours.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 14 October, 2011, 06:01:13 pm
Boushti is liking the new place and so am I. He comes and goes via the catflap and I don't have to smuggle him in past the landlord any more (and we got our entire deposit back too). He's had some teeth out recently but doing fine otherwise but I don't have any new photos.

Oh well- In my email today- a photo of Ms. P's friend's cat. Ooh, I think, that can go on the cycling forum instead.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll155/Mister_Penguin/Frenchcat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 October, 2011, 09:13:53 pm
Hot off the press, 1st pic of my bros' replacement #2 cat - not yet named. (well, it's got a name but it's a crap one)
(http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/humtop/stuff/IMG_0487.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 15 October, 2011, 09:46:35 am
He'll look very silly stood by the back door shouting "crap one!! crap one!!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 October, 2011, 10:10:12 am
He'll look very silly stood by the back door shouting "crap one!! crap one!!"

He was talking about calling him Claptrap ( as in Claptrap Von Spilldebeanz) from Chorlton & The Wheelies, but I said that was a Bad Idea.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 15 October, 2011, 10:12:39 am
I'm very partial to a standard-issue black-and-white cat :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 October, 2011, 10:23:32 am
I love his matching white whiskers & eyebrows :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 15 October, 2011, 01:25:19 pm
Whiskers & eyebrows, you say ?

(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/amyknee1.jpg)

 :)

<the world's most silly cat>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 October, 2011, 02:48:07 pm
I'm very partial to a standard-issue black-and-white cat :)
Me too. They're probably my most favourite.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 October, 2011, 02:54:12 pm
I'm very partial to a standard-issue black-and-white cat :)

When I was talking to some Cat rescue bods, some months back, when Talisker went to the vets, they said that black and white cats are the hardest to rehome, because they're considered to be "common". :-\

Kai is White and Black, and Zev is Black and White (the predominant colour comes first), and they seem like a fine pair of little furry nutters to me. :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: paulk on 17 October, 2011, 09:13:05 am
Here is one of our cats being very unlady like
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/paulkal/kat/P1002393.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 17 October, 2011, 11:10:48 pm
Belly rubs  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 October, 2011, 12:26:26 pm
Some moar pictures of the cat now known as Boris:

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6262055436_9b9ec21ceb.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6097/6262055474_5145057341.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 October, 2011, 10:45:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOQkGXLjwE
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 October, 2011, 11:21:50 pm
Is there food behind that door?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 October, 2011, 10:27:52 am
Is there food behind that door?
The door you can't see to the left of the big mousie is the kitchen, so cat food there. The litter tray is in the bathroom. Front left is the living room (where the fire is).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 October, 2011, 06:48:27 pm
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x3ltzdM-k4k/TqMAQw6z3hI/AAAAAAAAASs/iOeyzipdZGk/w459-h500-k/KaiStairs.jpg)
Kai

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-aWN3iayNcOY/TqMAWFdYa8I/AAAAAAAAAS8/DsTK9aW28ws/s720/ZevLanding1.jpg)
Zev
...I'm not even sure if these image URLs will work, since the images are on Google Plus.  If you can see them, then it's worked, otherwise PM me, or post the fact here!  (The server I normally upload images to is temporarily dead, it needs rebooting, and it's ten miles away).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 October, 2011, 07:01:06 pm
Oh, they are lovely.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 22 October, 2011, 07:45:34 pm
most of the pictures i put up here are of fizel so a couple of ramases the great

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/002-5.jpg)

the purrfect camouflage  ;)

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/003-4.jpg)

my seat  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 22 October, 2011, 09:31:15 pm
Zev is unrecognisable from the teeny wee thing we sent away with you back in August! 

They're both lovely looking cats.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 22 October, 2011, 09:36:32 pm
When can we visit and annoy kittens
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 October, 2011, 10:54:39 pm
Zev is unrecognisable from the teeny wee thing we sent away with you back in August! 

They're both lovely looking cats.

She's definitely more a small cat than a kitten now, but still fairly stupid!  She can easily fall off things, and doesn't always remember not to have her claws on full four paw drive (ouch!)  I've got half a dozen scratches on my hands from her having minor panics when I pick her up, although she's generally getting better at that.

Kai is getting a little rotund, so I think I'm definitely going to have to slowly reduce his food a bit.  He does have a sneaky habit of nicking Zev's food, although that's mainly a problem with the dry food I leave out for her, which he'll happily scoff the entire bowl of.  She's much less fussy about food than him, so he often doesn't fancy her food much, and won't touch it!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 23 October, 2011, 11:10:53 pm
A couple more shots of Zev, since she happened to be moderately photogenic (ie I only got a dozen shots of a blur, or her bum!)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GaYGoZllQ74/TqSP4afCAvI/AAAAAAAAATw/fpCLZVUjJQE/s720/ZevStairs3.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kacdnQie4WQ/TqSP5-T2RNI/AAAAAAAAAT4/U1vQaVS4HrA/s800/ZevStairs4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 07:40:26 pm
Wow, she's big now!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 October, 2011, 07:52:53 pm
Have they had their nads done yet, or can we expect surreptitious shagging behind the sofa?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2011, 07:55:59 pm
Have they had their nads done yet, or can we expect surreptitious shagging behind the sofa?

Kai has been de-naded, since he could be more than a little smelly!  Zev's too young yet.  She'll probably go under the knife around the end of November, start of December, when she's approximately 6 months old.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 October, 2011, 08:16:50 pm
Hector is still a tomcat (he's about 3-4 months old and has - literally - doubled in size over the last three weeks) but, from the way he sometimes curls his tail right over his back, I suspect he will start spraying soon and then he'll be booked in.  Otherwise we'll get him done when he's six months old or if he tries to hump Boo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2011, 08:26:25 pm
*returns from the flatlands and awws at the cuteness*

She really does look like a proper cat now.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 28 October, 2011, 04:56:50 am
Guess whos just caught his first mouse?

(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/312599_10150438277859612_601834611_10295879_1222786134_n.jpg)

It ran in through the open door. Frankie saw it, ran at it and within about 10 secs it was dead and being carried outside where he decided to spend an age throwing it about.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 28 October, 2011, 11:25:08 am
Guess whos just caught his first mouse?

(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/312599_10150438277859612_601834611_10295879_1222786134_n.jpg)

It ran in through the open door. Frankie saw it, ran at it and within about 10 secs it was dead and being carried outside where he decided to spend an age throwing it about.

Guard Kitteh won't stand for any trouble on his watch, thankyouverymuch.

 :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 28 October, 2011, 12:17:49 pm
Don't worry, he'll soon learn that mice should be caught outside and brought indoors to play with.   :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 October, 2011, 01:59:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOQkGXLjwE

The Pingus have an eccentric bog!  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 October, 2011, 02:24:29 pm
S'not my bog, tis my brother's. Why eccentric?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 30 October, 2011, 05:16:51 pm
Emmie:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4HKo3MMSo_g/Tq2ETJhtgfI/AAAAAAAABSE/OSGL8FHl1c0/s640/IMG_3557.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 October, 2011, 05:29:42 pm
She's looking healthy.  Is she more or less back to normal after her disappearing act?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2011, 05:34:10 pm
Her dose is looking better too.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 30 October, 2011, 07:23:31 pm
She's looking healthy.  Is she more or less back to normal after her disappearing act?

I think she's doubled in size since returning (the neighbours over-fed her while we were away), but she's slimmer than before she vanished, and the vet approves (and would like her to lose a few more hundred grams). 

Her dose is looking better too.

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2011, 07:34:04 pm
Boris is settling in. Went to visit him yesterday, he didn't run away and hide but he wasn't up for being sociable.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6286889499_fbd769c407.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 October, 2011, 10:39:08 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom2_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom2.jpg)

Not the best shots in the world of Zev, but at least they're mostly in focus.  Trying to take a photo of a black cat against a chocolate coloured sofa, in a poorly lit room, it was challenging to focus the camera, the auto-focus refused to work at all.

Unusually, I've let her into the living room this evening.  She'll often scarper under the sofa, where it's pretty much impossible to get to her, and even Kai can't fit, so I can't use him to herd her out!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 30 October, 2011, 11:41:02 pm
Rico has assumed his winter position of being permanently curled up on the bed.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6296191297_56ed45d4c3.jpg)

Kiri is now either sat on my legs or in her heated bed.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6296692026_0d0fcf5aef.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 30 October, 2011, 11:44:28 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1.jpg)
Wow, she looks positively chunky!


(Is that bowl titanium?)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 31 October, 2011, 12:49:01 pm
Rico has assumed his winter position of being permanently curled up on the bed.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6296191297_56ed45d4c3.jpg)

Kiri is now either sat on my legs or in her heated bed.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6096/6296692026_0d0fcf5aef.jpg)

*squee*

I haz mahoosive soft spot for Siamese kittehs
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 31 October, 2011, 02:00:37 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevLivingRoom1.jpg)
Wow, she looks positively chunky!

(Is that bowl titanium?)

She does look a bit chunky in that shot.  She may have started to lower her body a bit, like they do when they're a bit nervous, and there's someone waving an odd object around!  Generally she looks quite lanky, like most DSHs.

The bowl (i) isn't hers, it just happened to be there when I was taking the photo, & (ii) is just non-stick, not titanium.  The only titanium I own are titanium tent pegs and sporks!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 31 October, 2011, 02:06:22 pm
The only titanium I own are titanium tent pegs and sporks!

Poor show - call yourself a cyclist?

Admissions like that will get you thrown out of here!

 ;)

She looks so healthy now!  Good work by everyone involved!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 31 October, 2011, 02:55:07 pm
Rico has assumed his winter position of being permanently curled up on the bed.
...

Kiri is now either sat on my legs or in her heated bed.
...

Further confirmation that Kai is a Forest Cat, is that he's quite happily going outside, even when the evenings are a bit chilly, and isn't particularly using the heated bed even when he's in the house.  He's clearly a hardy soul!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 05 November, 2011, 11:22:21 pm
I rearranged Zev Towers a bit, and fitted a new toy to it.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/NewZevTowers_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/NewZevTowers.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy1_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy1.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy2_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy2.jpg)

I think it's a hit!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 06 November, 2011, 11:01:59 am
 :o Zev towers is now mahoosive!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 06 November, 2011, 04:31:13 pm
:o Zev towers is now mahoosive!

Actually, because it's more 3D now, and not as flat, ie some of the "cubes" reuse other cubes for more of their edges, I've got quite a lot of rods and corner pieces spare.  I'm not sure what I can do with them, but I'll maybe make some more platform bits to extend it even further!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 06 November, 2011, 05:47:58 pm
Heh I love the idea of Zev towers expanding even more.  She's looking fantastic, her fur is in SUCH good and glossy looking condition! 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rower40 on 06 November, 2011, 06:24:36 pm
Does anyone else think this looks like a record deck turntable?
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy2_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevNewToy2.jpg)
DJ Zev scratchin' her latest toonz.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 November, 2011, 06:28:17 pm
Playing them with her claws to feel the music.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 07 November, 2011, 12:07:10 am
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/166912_10150378621135629_511250628_8219775_1543109946_n.jpg)

Mmm warmz
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jurek on 07 November, 2011, 06:13:28 pm
November.
So time for Part-time to show her face and come indoors to warm up.
Means I sneeze.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6323172648_e429bbf29c_b.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6019/6323193316_6f4a51db14_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 08 November, 2011, 02:58:53 am
November.
So time for Part-time to show her face and come indoors to warm up.
Means I sneeze.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6323172648_e429bbf29c_b.jpg)


"I'm watching you, tail. Don't try any fancy moves or I'm 'avin you."
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wobbly John on 08 November, 2011, 07:58:40 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/basket.jpg)

Looks anything but comfortable.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 November, 2011, 04:53:13 pm
Kai with his lunch for the next few months (in the background, you can see it properly in the What are you doing right now? (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg1095242#msg1095242) thread).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDelivery4_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDelivery4.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDelivery2_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/CatFoodDelivery2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 18 November, 2011, 05:26:04 pm
November.
So time for Part-time to show her face and come indoors to warm up.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6323172648_e429bbf29c_b.jpg)

I spotted Part time for the First time the other day. Slightly disconcerted by her resemblance to our two resident evil ones.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 18 November, 2011, 06:29:18 pm
Rico in the laundry basket

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6359012781_8a23e17122_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6359012781/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/6359012781/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 21 November, 2011, 11:48:16 am
Been a while since any photos of our two furry nutters have been shared.  They seem to be getting on okay - won't say friends, but we've not had any real outbreaks of hostilities. 

They'll chase each other around a few times a day and things only get noisy/out of hand if Sir Scoville (the younger, male cat who is the newer arrival) catches Lady Chilli Pepper (small, female who arrived first) and does his trademark WWF-style belly flop onto her!  She is not so keen on that and tends to give him a good bat with her paw (she has scratched his nose a couple of times).

Largely, they seem unbothered by each other - keep themselves to themselves much of the time, they'll not get too close to each other very often, they've found their own spots to sleep in etc.  Scovie is pretty chilled out and sleeps most all of the time.  Chilli is a handful and is constantly roaming about trying to get into/onto everything possible.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6238/6375938471_78a6280305.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6375938471/)
Scovie looking happy at getting a chin rub! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6375938471/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/6375939381_c76abec2b1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6375939381/)
Chilli's new favourite spot. We put some shelves in the front room, which have instantly become her watchtower.  She sleeps up there sometimes! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/6375939381/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 November, 2011, 01:06:32 pm
Haha, Lady CP looks pretty pleased with herself up there :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 21 November, 2011, 01:26:23 pm
I guess it's a 'tree' to her (our little courtyard garden has none), so she can see everything and is safe from predators. 

Scovie, on the other hand, has never ventured more than about 1 metre above floor level - shows no interest in climbing whatsoever.  He's quite a dull cat really, but adorable with it! 

Chilli is all the entertainment I can handle as she crashes and bangs through life.  She really is the definition of curiosity killing the cat!  This morning she gave me a fright as she misjudged the leap from her scratching pedestal onto the filing cabinet (her route up the 'tree') and bounced off the filing cabinet, off my bike's handlebars and onto the floor, certainly not feet first!  Her other tricks include hanging about on top of open doors quite a lot - she just likes being up high.  But then her most favourite hiding spots are both at ground level (1 behind a chair in the conservatory and the other in the garden between 2 large pots behind some ivy).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 09:55:34 am
Just playing with a new macro lens, I got this shot of Kai's face, although he looked slightly away as I took it (predictably!)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiFaceNewLens_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiFaceNewLens.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Baggy on 26 November, 2011, 08:52:46 pm
 :D He's wuvly.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 09:24:08 pm
That photo works quite well, since I was fairly close (although not really Macro close) to him, so the rest of his body, and the background is out of focus, leaving his head nicely highlighted.  I was also experimenting with using raw images, because with these two, either the very white, or very black images are hard to correct, and if the image is a little bit under or over exposed, modifying the JPG doesn't always look that good.  With the raw data it's much easier to get an acceptable image.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 26 November, 2011, 09:30:47 pm
Nice shot of Kai, you can see every hair on his face :)
In fact, it's making me want to pick his little nose for him (my poor cats have to submit to having the sleep picked out of their eyes for them daily, it's a bad habit of mine)!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 10:00:06 pm
Possibly you're hands are a mite smaller than mine.  I have to be very careful if I clean any sleep out of their eyes, especially Zev, since being a kitten she's sometimes not quite as good as doing that as adults seem to be.  They also don't like me approaching their eyes with my relatively big hands either!

Talisker wasn't brilliant at it either, but I think that was him getting a bit more elderly.

Until I looked at that photo, I hadn't realised he was a bit snotty, it's nowhere near as obvious as that photo makes it look!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 26 November, 2011, 10:05:23 pm
Possibly you're hands are a mite smaller than mine.  I have to be very careful if I clean any sleep out of their eyes, especially Zev, since being a kitten she's sometimes not quite as good as doing that as adults seem to be.  They also don't like me approaching their eyes with my relatively big hands either!

Talisker wasn't brilliant at it either, but I think that was him getting a bit more elderly.

Until I looked at that photo, I hadn't realised he was a bit snotty, it's nowhere near as obvious as that photo makes it look!

I think it's just me being cat-snot obsessed! Technically it isn't really snot, they have porphyrin pigments that can look dark or reddish coloured in the normal amount of tear/mucus/nasal secretions which makes it visible against a white cat's skin and fur.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2011, 10:16:21 pm
I used to pick snot out of my cats' eyes too.

Actually, Zev happily let me do it when she was with us at first (she quickly decided I was mummy cat and was therefore allowed to do such things), but eventually worked out that going near her eyes probably meant I was about to attack her with the evil ointment and became a lot more wary.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2011, 10:58:34 pm
If I need to do something like that to Zev, and need to indicate that I'm "Mum cat", it takes a definite assertiveness to get her to behave.  Tapping her nose, or if all else fails, grabbing her by the scruff of her neck.  I have to be careful doing that though, because she's a lot heavier now, so I have to support her lower half as well with a hand.  It does stop her when she's getting into a "I'm going to scratch everything / exploding cat" mood.

Here are some more shots, although the ones of Zev aren't as good because (i) it's still difficult to get a decent shot of a black cat, although eventually I'm going to work out how to do it & (ii) she was on the other side of the room, so the flash has only minimally helped illuminate her.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiRelaxing_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiRelaxing.jpg)
Kai relaxing on the edge of Zev's bedroom bed.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevWindowsill_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevWindowsill.jpg)
Zev stretching as she wanders from the end of the bed onto the windowsill.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevWindowsill2_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevWindowsill2.jpg)
Peering at something outside in the garden.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 27 November, 2011, 11:56:58 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6414789843_0b162a1c00_z.jpg)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6414792915_1359a61444_z.jpg)

Sisters make good footrests :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 28 November, 2011, 03:05:22 pm
Your cats look how I feel  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 04 December, 2011, 10:01:58 pm
anyone for a bag of kittens?
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/P1030178.jpg)

or some kitteh mountaineering? (no, that's not a pink shirt, it's red and white stripes...)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/P1030137.jpg)

cats-in-law, sadly not ours.  very cute..
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/P1030159.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 04 December, 2011, 11:34:25 pm
AWWW!  They're CUTE!  Kittehs!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 05 December, 2011, 11:52:37 am
They are so cute - all in a bag ready to take home!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 05 December, 2011, 12:57:55 pm

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/P1030137.jpg)


You've lost weight....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2011, 08:37:41 am
What's Frankie doing?

http://youtu.be/lFj7RT1jgKY
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 13 December, 2011, 08:40:55 am
Both of ours kneed from time to time, not on us though!

Funny!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2011, 08:43:02 am
But whats he trying to do?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2011, 08:45:36 am
That's not kneading, it's tenderising!  Guess whatwho is on the menu.  :o

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 13 December, 2011, 08:48:21 am
When I read up on it, there are two main thoughts. One is they are trying to make somewhere to sleep, treading down imaginary grass etc. 

The other is some kind of throwback to suckling, the kneading would trigger the milk from mother cat.

Both of ours do it from time to time on a little blanket on the sofa. Scoville sometimes does try and start suckling the blanket, suggesting the second explanation has more merit. He is about a year old.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 13 December, 2011, 08:56:09 am
Frankie is almost a year old now :)

Ooh is he going to get much bigger?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2011, 10:31:04 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_bed.jpg)

Their Christmas present just arrived. Well, to be honest it is actually Alfie's present, given he is so geriatric. He currently sits on the radiator when the heating is on, which is a struggle for him to get up to, via a missing bannister and a carefully placed bedside table  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 13 December, 2011, 12:06:00 pm
He's going to have to work hard if he is to stake a claim for that, or are you going to evict the other cats if they get there first.
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Post by: woollypigs on 13 December, 2011, 12:33:21 pm
What's Frankie doing?

http://youtu.be/lFj7RT1jgKY
My old cat called P*ssy did that for years on my mum. I think they are trying to remember old days when with mummy and kitty'hood or just some sort of animal instinct.
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Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2011, 02:34:40 pm
But whats he trying to do?

He is actually trying to stimumlate your milk let-down reflex prior to suckling you (well that is what his instincts are telling him anyway  ;D ).
it means he thinks you are his mummy and is getting warm fuzzy feelings.
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Post by: TimO on 13 December, 2011, 07:00:09 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_bed.jpg)

Their Christmas present just arrived. Well, to be honest it is actually Alfie's present, given he is so geriatric. He currently sits on the radiator when the heating is on, which is a struggle for him to get up to, via a missing bannister and a carefully placed bedside table  ;D

I got exactly the same bed for Talisker, but he rarely used it.

Kai did use it when he was sleeping in the Bathroom (because he was un-neutered and prone to spraying a bit), but hasn't shown much interest since.

Kai also did the kneading thing in that bed, and I tend to agree with others that it's them naturally doing what they would have done as kittens to stimulate milk from mum.  We do tend to treat them in a very kitten like fashion, so it's hardly surprising that they sometimes behave like very big kittens.

I wonder if Zev will use it now that she'll be allowed to wander around the house, and further afield if she wishes.  Her hair isn't half as long as Kai's, she'd just a bog standard domestic short hair, so she may well feel the chill weather a bit more.
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Post by: IanDG on 13 December, 2011, 10:26:13 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6506530049_5446d3d029.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6506530049/)
Cat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/6506530049/) by windy_ (http://www.flickr.com/people/acf_windy/), on Flickr

Cat on the window ledge
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 13 December, 2011, 10:31:28 pm
Really like that photo, Windy.
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Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2011, 10:20:33 am
OK - so the addition of a favourite blanket and moving the bed to a darker place have worked.

After 24 hours it is a success.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_bed_2.jpg)

Who knows if it will still be a success in another 24 hours. Cats, eh!  ;D
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Post by: Feline on 14 December, 2011, 09:42:30 pm

Who knows if it will still be a success in another 24 hours. Cats, eh!  ;D

Hopefully it will be as popular as the heated bed I bought Kiri and Rico as kittens to help them settle in. I've made a few attempts to unplug the thing over the years, but they are now 5 years old and still spend most of their time in it! If I turn it off they look most disgruntled.
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Post by: onb on 14 December, 2011, 11:33:12 pm
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/041.jpg)

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/040.jpg)


Synchronised sleeping
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Post by: Feline on 15 December, 2011, 12:42:03 am

Synchronised sleeping

Wonderful  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 December, 2011, 12:21:00 pm
Awh, they are so kewt!
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Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2011, 07:04:25 pm
Cats are very organised at doing what they do best. ;D

So far, the closest Kai and Zev have gotten to sleeping together, is about three foot apart, with me between them!

It'll be interesting on Monday, when I pick them up, to see how they've been getting on.  The woman who runs that cattery reckoned that it would possibly get them on better terms, or alternatively they'll end up killing each other. ;D
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Post by: onb on 17 December, 2011, 01:01:56 pm
Awh, they are so kewt!


No kewtness today ,bored due to not playing out as we have snow outside Biff has decided fun is to be had knocking 7 bells out of his sister ,who is now avoiding him at all costs.
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Post by: fuzzy on 20 December, 2011, 08:09:21 pm
Willow likes CAEK

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01744.jpg)
Someone is eating CAEK
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Post by: cuddy duck on 20 December, 2011, 09:03:58 pm
I'm not sure if it's been commented upon before, but isn't "gratuitous cat pics" a tautology?
Unless someone can direct me to the "crucial cat pics" thread?
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Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2011, 12:11:15 pm
Not so much Gratuitous cat pictures as Gratuitous Annoyed cat pictures. ;D

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevAndKai_Christmas2011_Carrier1_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevAndKai_Christmas2011_Carrier1.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevAndKai_Christmas2011_Carrier2_Thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevAndKai_Christmas2011_Carrier2.jpg)

For all that it looks like Kai is a bit annoyed, and squishing Zev, he calmed down after a few minutes, and was actually snoozing on both the Tram and Train journeys!  Zev was more all big eyes and looking around to see what was happening.

A shoulder strap on the carrier worked, and actually made it quite easy to move them around (it's a short walk from the station to the cattery in Chessington), on past experience even a lighter load (ie Talisker) was pretty hard on my arms, so it was much easier.  I don't think I'll be able to do it like this next year though.  The two of them fitted in one carrier OK, but it wasn't exactly spacious, and once Zev is a bit larger, neither will be able to move around, so I'll have to use two carriers in future (or get a bigger one).
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Post by: Jaded on 22 December, 2011, 12:24:35 pm
Some photos of Alfie when he was younger

Hurry up Dad, I want to go on the roof again!
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_roof_1.jpg)

It's a long way down.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_roof_2.jpg)

I love roofs!
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/alfie_roof_3.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 23 December, 2011, 07:38:29 pm
simonp working from home (well bed) complete with feline foot warmers :)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Cats/IMG_0138.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 23 December, 2011, 07:40:45 pm
Excellent choice of cats and computer.
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Post by: Jaded on 24 December, 2011, 12:15:06 pm
While he is still around, here is another of of Alf.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Alfie-sleeping-on-decking.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 26 December, 2011, 05:00:00 pm
Alvin-in-a-box:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6575608599_9869356c0b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6575608599/)
IMG_5224 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6575608599/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 26 December, 2011, 05:01:25 pm
Mojo in the sun:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6575648153_74e2ab3477_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6575648153/)
IMG_4906 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6575648153/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: TimO on 26 December, 2011, 05:05:11 pm
My sisters cats, Marmaduke:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Christmas2011/small.php?file=IMAG0515.jpg&size=640) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Christmas2011/IMAG0515.jpg)

... and Bubbles:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Christmas2011/small.php?file=IMAG0521.jpg&size=640) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/Christmas2011/IMAG0521.jpg)
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Post by: Kathy on 26 December, 2011, 07:39:09 pm
I got a new flash for Christmas.  :thumbsup:

The cats are a bit sick of being my experimental subjects:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vT6MS3-3Sp4/TvjGk3Xci5I/AAAAAAAABg4/FMWtOFmQN7c/s640/IMG_4222.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tswhVoTSTaU/TvjMblzBoCI/AAAAAAAABhI/NtGpZh7eZ4w/s640/IMG_4229.JPG)

 ;D
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Post by: ed_o_brain on 26 December, 2011, 09:36:54 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6577270959_e64698501d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6577270959/)
our regular visitor... yawning (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6577270959/) by Daniel Cadden Photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/ed_o_brain/), on Flickr

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6577271671_d98a128a78_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6577271671/)
our regular visitor... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6577271671/) by Daniel Cadden Photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/ed_o_brain/), on Flickr
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Post by: redshift on 27 December, 2011, 04:31:47 pm
Please tell me you call him Rorschach?   ;D
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Post by: ed_o_brain on 27 December, 2011, 10:00:00 pm
Had to Google that.... missed opportunity I think. Very strong resemblance!

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6583769391_f73d1f2649_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6583769391/)
That cat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/6583769391/) by Daniel Cadden Photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/ed_o_brain/), on Flickr
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Post by: Adrian on 28 December, 2011, 02:08:55 pm
Very strong resemblance!
To?
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Post by: redshift on 02 January, 2012, 05:31:11 pm
Charlie being undignified - his normal lying-in-front-of-the-fire pose:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6621175919_732f43b964.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27345381@N03/6621175919/)
charlie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27345381@N03/6621175919/) by shifty176 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27345381@N03/), on Flickr
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Post by: CrinklyUncle on 02 January, 2012, 06:04:31 pm
Ebony
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6691735561_8b196e98e2.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74277693@N03/6691735561/)
Ebony (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74277693@N03/6691735561/) by CrinkyUncle (http://www.flickr.com/people/74277693@N03/), on Flickr

Mitzie
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6691735309_776056aa03.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74277693@N03/6691735309/)
Mitzie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74277693@N03/6691735309/) by CrinkyUncle (http://www.flickr.com/people/74277693@N03/), on Flickr
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Post by: Valiant on 03 January, 2012, 08:44:30 am
So here's Frankie's first Christmas with us

1. Wrap Presents
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6626663809_91f2fb3a63.jpg)

2. Choose Presents
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6626662885_69e1194414.jpg)

3. Decide you don't want presents, just the box
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6626684481_5525f17e2d.jpg)

4. Sleep
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6626664637_504b5a9ec5_z.jpg)
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Post by: L CC on 11 January, 2012, 08:41:55 pm
Mia died yesterday.
1996-2012.

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2011-07-25190048.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 11 January, 2012, 09:10:19 pm
Oh poor Mia :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 January, 2012, 09:31:17 pm
Oh sorry to hear that fboab :( You're not having the best week are you?
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Post by: Jaded on 11 January, 2012, 10:42:41 pm
 :'(
Very sorry boab
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Post by: border-rider on 12 January, 2012, 12:24:49 am
Oh that's sad; she looked lovely. 16 isn't too bad an innings though.
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Post by: Torslanda on 12 January, 2012, 12:47:35 am
When you get home does your cat join you in your vehicle . . . ? Interesting dashboard ornament . . .

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/15112011099.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 12 January, 2012, 02:21:00 am
When you get home does your cat join you in your vehicle . . . ? Interesting dashboard ornament . . .


Yes, my Siamese both hop in then proceed to use the rear seats as their scratching post!
Kiri also likes to get into supermarket delivery vehicles. I have to check where she is before they are allowed to drive off!
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Post by: TimO on 12 January, 2012, 09:02:16 am
When you get home does your cat join you in your vehicle . . . ? Interesting dashboard ornament . . .

Well, not in, because my bike doesn't really have an in, but Talisker would jump onto the rack to really make sure I noticed him, and give him a fluff.
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Post by: fuzzy on 12 January, 2012, 11:20:27 am
Many years ago, one of our cats used to adorn the parcel shelf whilst I drove out to collect SWMBO from work.
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Post by: TimO on 12 January, 2012, 11:28:07 am
A friend of my fathers, who was a GP, used to have her cat in her car when she went out to visit patients.  As with Fuzzy, the cat used to just sleep on the rear parcel shelf.  I guess it's an improvement upon a nodding dog!
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Post by: border-rider on 12 January, 2012, 11:38:51 am
When you get home does your cat join you in your vehicle . . . ? Interesting dashboard ornament . . .

Oh yes. We usually have to extricate Tam from the car, and quite often from delivery vans.

<excuse to repost these from last winter>

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/34.jpg)

(http://bosphorus.f2s.com/kittypics/34a.jpg)

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Post by: Feline on 16 January, 2012, 09:33:29 pm
It's cold outside so Kiri and Rico have no intention of leaving the comfort of their radiator bed!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/IMG_0171.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2012, 09:40:11 pm
Wow, that's almost exactly what my parents' cats used to look like, only the other way up: Cleo, the somewhat lardy Seal point would usually decide to climb in second, with polite licking deteriorating into head-kicking and neck-biting when she inevitably failed to keep her back feet on the top of the radiator and would fall gracelessly on top.  They'd generaly flop around like that for a while before one of the tubes supporting the bed would work loose and the side would collapse, with both cats sliding reluctantly to the floor.  They would then wander off pretending that they meant to do that.
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Post by: Torslanda on 17 January, 2012, 10:20:15 pm
When you get home does your cat join you in your vehicle . . . ? Interesting dashboard ornament . . .

Well, this goombah went missing on Sunday night. Didn't show for breakfast on Monday or dinner or indeed breakfast this morning. This afternoon SWMBO is off to the doctor's. As she's getting into her car she sees a kerfuffle going on in mine.

The little sod had sneaked in to my car when I came home from Mum's on Sunday evening, luckily he held on to his doings until she let him out this afternoon. I'm checking carefully from now on!

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/shedbike/15112011099.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 17 January, 2012, 11:29:34 pm

Well, this goombah went missing on Sunday night. Didn't show for breakfast on Monday or dinner or indeed breakfast this morning. This afternoon SWMBO is off to the doctor's. As she's getting into her car she sees a kerfuffle going on in mine.

The little sod had sneaked in to my car when I came home from Mum's on Sunday evening, luckily he held on to his doings until she let him out this afternoon. I'm checking carefully from now on!


You were luckier than my daughter who accidentally left Rico shut in her bedroom this morning. She got home from school to find he had pissed in her laundry bin and crapped on her bed!  :facepalm:
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Post by: fuzzy on 18 January, 2012, 10:43:56 am

Well, this goombah went missing on Sunday night. Didn't show for breakfast on Monday or dinner or indeed breakfast this morning. This afternoon SWMBO is off to the doctor's. As she's getting into her car she sees a kerfuffle going on in mine.

The little sod had sneaked in to my car when I came home from Mum's on Sunday evening, luckily he held on to his doings until she let him out this afternoon. I'm checking carefully from now on!


You were luckier than my daughter who accidentally left Rico shut in her bedroom this morning. She got home from school to find he had pissed in her laundry bin and crapped on her bed!  :facepalm:

That'll learn her ::-)
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Post by: border-rider on 18 January, 2012, 11:10:27 am
We shared a house at university with a bloke (let's call him "Karl") who was really, really rubbish at getting course work in on time.  One essay had been haunting him for weeks; he'd got an extension, then another, and finally (miraculously) finished it on a Sunday evening, leaving him time to go to the pub to celebrate.

Unfortunately he made he mistake of feeding the cat a very out-of-date kipper and then accidentally locking it in his room when he went out. Said cat was explosive at both ends all over Karl's shiny new (handwritten in those days) essay which he'd left spread out along his windowsill ...

And then next day he had to go and try to explain to his tutor that he really had done the essay this time, but...

He took the essay in in a plastic bag, but the tutor chose not to try to read it.
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2012, 01:32:39 pm
I had the opposite happen once:  The school caretakers cat, who was quite elderly and not entirely in control of his bodily fluids, liked to sneak into the music rooms in search of warmth.  Unfortunately this would sometimes turn out to be a pile of freshly-marked essays next to a radiator...
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Post by: Rhys W on 18 January, 2012, 06:57:11 pm
My sister sent me this photo of one her cats, Ffwdan - and what had kept him occupied that afternoon:

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/ffwdan_deryn.jpg)
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Post by: Adrian on 18 January, 2012, 11:10:48 pm

Well, this goombah went missing on Sunday night. Didn't show for breakfast on Monday or dinner or indeed breakfast this morning. This afternoon SWMBO is off to the doctor's. As she's getting into her car she sees a kerfuffle going on in mine.

The little sod had sneaked in to my car when I came home from Mum's on Sunday evening, luckily he held on to his doings until she let him out this afternoon. I'm checking carefully from now on!


You were luckier than my daughter who accidentally left Rico shut in her bedroom this morning. She got home from school to find he had pissed in her laundry bin and crapped on her bed!  :facepalm:

Similarly my son took the kitten to bed with him last night. His bed is one of those bunks with a desk under and too high for said kitten to jump down from. He had to decamp to a sofa in the night and much laundry has been done today.
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Post by: antonela on 20 January, 2012, 08:20:57 am
Some of these stories are great.

A few years ago we had just got the christmas tree home and decorated it, we were all in the kitchen when there was a huge crash and we found the car sitting amongst the fallen tree, presents and christmas decorations everywhere, and looking very sheapish.
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Post by: Valiant on 23 January, 2012, 07:43:35 pm
(http://is03.thegumtree.com/image/extrabig/107023551.jpg)

Meet our new kitty, she's about 6months old anna stray. The photo's don't do her justice, she is absolutely gorgeous in real life. Her and Frankie don't see eye to eye yet, she keeps hissing and growling at him, he growls every so often.

She doesn't have a name yet but Lyn is calling her Charlie so it may well be that.
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Post by: TimO on 23 January, 2012, 07:47:02 pm
... She doesn't have a name yet but Lyn is calling her Charlie so it may well be that.
If you're going to use male names, then you should call her Johnny!
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Post by: Valiant on 23 January, 2012, 07:55:03 pm
Charlie is unisex these days. But I think it was because she reminds her of Charlie Chaplin lol. I want something cooler like Midnight, or Winter
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Post by: TimO on 24 January, 2012, 12:09:51 am
Charlie is unisex these days. ...
Yes, but that wouldn't have supported my argument, so I ignored it. ;D

... I want something cooler like Midnight, or Winter
Remember, you want something you can shout out the door when trying to find her, for feeding / vet visits / random other cat finding purpose.  If you pick the wrong name, it could be embarrassing!
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Post by: Valiant on 24 January, 2012, 09:24:46 am
True. Anyways, she's terrorising Frankie atm, he's realised he's bigger so isn't so fussed about attacking her but she's using guerilla tactics, every time he sits down to snooze, she sneeks up and whacks him on the face, does the whole hissy thing and then runs off and hides underneath the sofa. Other than that she stops him in his path by coming out and growling/hissing and they just stare at each hour for minutes/hours. Frankie as that sad look of bemusement on his face saying why have you ruined a perfect thing?

Is this normal?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 January, 2012, 10:24:20 am
That does sound a bit like Zev and Kai.

I think, as long as they're not really aggressively fighting ie arched back, all fur on end, lots of teeth and claws, and drawing noticeable amounts of blood, it's probably OK.

I'd guess it's a combination of trying to sort out their hierarchy, and also that kittens do play fight a lot.

Kai's a lot older than Zev, but he will join in sometimes, on other occasions he just ignores her, aside from the odd swipe of a paw to warn her off.  What used to fascinate Zev, was Kai's big fluffy tail, which he would of course start twitching when she was annoying him, and which just encouraged her to attack it!  She's not quite so bad with that now.
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Post by: Valiant on 24 January, 2012, 12:57:39 pm
Ah yes the big fluffy tail, Frankie has the same lol
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Post by: Valiant on 24 January, 2012, 01:56:57 pm
So decided to call her Lumen, she is now confident enough to sleep on the sofa instead of underneath it. Frankie has his own reading chair he's claimed.

Weirdest thing happened though, I let Frankie out earlier, his arch nemesis is Chip, the local half red half grey squirrel, they torment eachother. They were sat on the grass about a foot away from eachother looking through the glass door at Lumen who was hissing and growling at them.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 January, 2012, 03:01:10 pm
So decided to call her Lumen, she is now confident enough to sleep on the sofa instead of underneath it. Frankie has his own reading chair he's claimed.

Frankie can read?? What a star!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: border-rider on 24 January, 2012, 03:04:16 pm
Remember, you want something you can shout out the door when trying to find her, for feeding / vet visits / random other cat finding purpose.  If you pick the wrong name, it could be embarrassing!

Our old male cat, Oliver, would only respond to his name when called loudly in a comedy French accent  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 24 January, 2012, 03:12:34 pm
Remember, you want something you can shout out the door when trying to find her, for feeding / vet visits / random other cat finding purpose.  If you pick the wrong name, it could be embarrassing!

Our old male cat, Oliver, would only respond to his name when called loudly in a comedy French accent  :facepalm:

My parents should have heeded that warning when naming our 1980 Westie puppy "Fame" after the Kids from Fame. Shouting him in the park years later, some joker would always shout back "I wanna live forever"  :facepalm:
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Post by: fuzzy on 26 January, 2012, 07:52:42 pm
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01829ARW-1.jpg)

Sometimes all a lad wants to do is save the world or blow shit up. Cats just want to get in the way  ;D
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Post by: eeymsmo on 28 January, 2012, 03:24:02 pm
(http://www.leaf-node.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/photo-e1327763995266.jpg)

We welcome our new fluffy overlords, Eldritch and Spiggy (why yes, I have spent most of my life wearing too much black).

btw, when does the speaking like a muppet wear off? Is it a symptom of cat ownership or a regressive trait which leads to cat ownership?
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Post by: Valiant on 29 January, 2012, 02:46:01 am
Speaking like a muppet becomes a way of life sadly lol.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 29 January, 2012, 08:52:54 am
As ever, Randall has summed it up perfectly:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cat_proximity.png

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 01 February, 2012, 09:47:46 am
Is this allowed in here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9TmmF79Rw0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9TmmF79Rw0)
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Post by: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 01:48:54 pm
Is this allowed in here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9TmmF79Rw0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9TmmF79Rw0)

There is a company actually selling a device for this to vets, although any strongish clip will work. It sends them into kitten-being-carried-by-mum mode where they relax and hang by the scruff  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2012, 01:52:47 pm
I've never seen it work that well on an adult cat - impressive!

AIUI it's okay to grab an adult by the scruff to calm them down, as long as you don't pick them up by it as you would a kitten?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 02:19:28 pm
I've never seen it work that well on an adult cat - impressive!

AIUI it's okay to grab an adult by the scruff to calm them down, as long as you don't pick them up by it as you would a kitten?

I wouldn't necessarily recommend you try grabbing a cat who is already wound up heh. Even if you hold all four of their legs they will get you with a 5th then bite you  ;D
I wouldn't pick an adult cat up by the scruff without supporting their weight from below since the skin is not really strong enough to take 4-6kg of dangling cat and it could hurt. Calming techniques on cats work best if the cat is already calm at the start, once their adrenaline gets pumping you end up with something closer to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hPxGmTGarM
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 01 February, 2012, 03:38:59 pm
Yes, once Zev gets a bit upset, then the kitten being carried by mum bit doesn't really work.  It worked better when she was younger, but doesn't work as well now.  I've never done it that often, and generally only when she's decided to go into exploding cat, paws and claws everywhere mode, but it doesn't really do much now.  Luckily she's small enough that I can just grab all four paws and stop her struggling, although you can't really do anything else at that point, having run out of hands!

She's currently definitely not as relaxed as either Kai is, or Talisker was.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 01 February, 2012, 03:55:19 pm
The scruffing just about worked when I rescued Zev from down the side of a skip.  She was very very scared/angry and I managed to scruff her while holding her which mainly had the effect of her growling but not really able to bite/claw me.  That was enough to get her in the house and up to bathroom into drybath where we could put her down and she couldn't run away anywhere dangerous.

I think we only scruffed her one or two more times and that was to get eyedrops in her eyes, Kim usually used the nicely nicely getting her as calm as possible method which worked till she got wise to it. 
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Post by: TimO on 01 February, 2012, 06:08:29 pm
I suspect I'll find out how well it works, the next time I need to do something like give her a pill!  Kai luckily is relaxed enough that I can just flip him on his back and pop a pill in, as I used to do with Talisker.  So far, I've only had to give Zev a worming paste, and that resulted in only a handful of scratches!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 01 February, 2012, 09:34:26 pm
Here's an update:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/422785_10150644499834612_601834611_11095852_1740963113_n.jpg)

As you can see they're tolerating eachother but the look on their faces tell a story lol.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 03 February, 2012, 06:35:05 pm
Kiri likes to immobilise the mouse arm of the human she chooses to sit on :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/2011-10-15iPhone4S008.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 February, 2012, 06:39:38 pm
Here's an update:
...
As you can see they're tolerating eachother but the look on their faces tell a story lol.

In that photo, they almost look the same size.  How big is Charlie compared to Frankie?

Zev is still only about 3/5th the size of Kai, but it doesn't stop her attacking him more often than the other way around!

Frankie looks a little more relaxed than Charlie, which is much the same as my two.  Zev is the nervous one, always ready to run away, or be spooked easily, and with the big wide worried eyes if she's not sure what's happening, for example someone with a strange camera thingy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 04 February, 2012, 02:46:27 am
 Anders's cat Sooty doing what he does best


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6814870955_f054a73027_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 04 February, 2012, 01:47:12 pm
Is Anders teeny or is the cat HUGE? 

Lovely pic!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: scott on 04 February, 2012, 02:35:23 pm

Actually, they're both pretty big.  :)  And Sooty is only the mid-size cat in our house.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 05 February, 2012, 06:03:20 pm
Sniper Cat is watching you-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01848.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 05 February, 2012, 08:41:16 pm
Bertie took one look at the snow and thought better of going outside.
George was rather more determined.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6823203555_1e83ec694d.jpg)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6825320251_8d93089b24.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 05 February, 2012, 08:51:54 pm
I forgot about Rico's 'issues' with walking in snow and forgot to provide him with a litter tray yesterday. He pissed on the floor of my ensuite bathroom. I am so glad he didn't do it on the bed like he did last year!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 February, 2012, 10:35:31 pm
Mojo:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6826367941_35fae7c5ce_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6826367941/)
IMG_4906 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6826367941/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 08 February, 2012, 09:33:45 pm
Here's an update:
...
As you can see they're tolerating eachother but the look on their faces tell a story lol.

In that photo, they almost look the same size.  How big is Charlie compared to Frankie?

Zev is still only about 3/5th the size of Kai, but it doesn't stop her attacking him more often than the other way around!

Frankie looks a little more relaxed than Charlie, which is much the same as my two.  Zev is the nervous one, always ready to run away, or be spooked easily, and with the big wide worried eyes if she's not sure what's happening, for example someone with a strange camera thingy!

Frankie is a good 3rd bigger, that said after a bath they're both not to dissimilar, frankie just has tonnes of hair. He's taking the offensive now, they get on much better and only growl/hiss when they spot eachother from either side of one of us. But they do play fight a lot which Frankie starts now and stops when she starts hissing. I think he's just trying to play and she's not.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 08 February, 2012, 09:35:01 pm
Interestingly though, the other night, Toby the big male cat came in through the window for a visit, she didn't seem to mind him, infact she pretty much followed him around which he didn't like. Despite his size, he's a bit of a whimp.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 11 February, 2012, 07:25:36 pm
Willow about to go nuclear on the poor ickle green mousey toy-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01877.jpg)

edit- sorry about the sideways image but, it appears the right way up in photobucket (after I edited it to do so?)
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Post by: Valiant on 11 February, 2012, 11:59:28 pm
Amazing eyes!
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Post by: fuzzy on 17 February, 2012, 07:07:28 pm
We have a eregular visitor to our garden- she winds Willow and Scoobie up a treat. We call her Scuttle cat cos she has short legs and scuttles off when spooked. She does a good impression of a Tribble however-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC01879.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 February, 2012, 07:13:19 pm
What a fluffball!
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Post by: Feline on 17 February, 2012, 07:21:39 pm
epic!
Are you sure her legs are short or could it be her fluff covers most of them?
She looks teh cute!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 February, 2012, 07:23:52 pm
She prolly looks like a hovercraft :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 February, 2012, 07:26:45 pm
What a fluffball!

Yikes, she makes Kai look like a Sphynx cat (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sphynx+cat&tbm=isch) in comparison! ;D
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Post by: simonp on 17 February, 2012, 07:54:01 pm
I used to know a fluffy grey cat. His name was Smudge. :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 18 February, 2012, 11:11:34 am
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/Ontopofthewardrobe.jpg)

This is our new kitty overlord, surveying the study her realm from on top of the wardrobe.

Say hello to 'Princess... Oh god! We have to think of a better name! But it suits her so well! Gaah!'  :facepalm:

She is a domestic short hair and very soft. We deliberately re-homed a shy cat as our house has a very regular schedule of not much coming and going and is a quiet environment. She settled in pretty quickly, spending most of the first day in her igloo, then exploring the study when it got dark. This morning she has been wandering around, meowing to get strokes and has had a bit of a sit on my lap. She is one of those funny cats who nuzzle at you until you stroke them, then instantly walk away ::-)

We have now got the door open to the rest of the house, she has stuck her head out a couple of times, but currently isn't interested in exploring. She is currently sleeping ontop of the wardrobe, which she loves when we have music on. No music and she isn't interested in being up there for long.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2012, 12:25:50 pm
Aaah! She's lovely. A musical kitteh you say? How about Diva for a name that combines 'Princess' and musak?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 18 February, 2012, 02:15:41 pm
... She is one of those funny cats who nuzzle at you until you stroke them, then instantly walk away ::-) ...

I thought that was the set which included all cats? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 18 February, 2012, 05:27:32 pm
We are all having a lazy afternoon here, I am reading a book with a dog and cat on my lap.

Squidge and Kiri:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/kirisquidge.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 18 February, 2012, 05:43:47 pm
Is that a fleece blanket on your lap?
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Post by: Feline on 18 February, 2012, 11:34:44 pm
Is that a fleece blanket on your lap?

Busted! It is a slanket  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 19 February, 2012, 02:40:02 am
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6899963161_4623ab9df8_b.jpg)

I shall fear no evil :)
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Post by: ed_o_brain on 19 February, 2012, 03:36:21 am
That's a cute pussy, Valiant :)
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Post by: Ham on 22 February, 2012, 09:43:23 am
I trust you will be submitting to http://catsinsinks.com/
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Post by: Valiant on 22 February, 2012, 12:39:54 pm
Their email is duff :(
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Post by: Feline on 22 February, 2012, 11:52:10 pm
Kiri and Rico enjoying some sun and a spot of mutual grooming.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/2011-10-15iPhone4S015-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/2011-10-15iPhone4S011-1.jpg)

We decorated the spare room to colour coordinate with Rico .. joke  :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/2011-10-15iPhone4S009-1.jpg)
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Post by: spesh on 23 February, 2012, 03:28:30 pm
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg1155032#msg1155032

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg1160949#msg1160949

^^^ Those two remind me of the following Dune-themed LOLcat:

http://cheezburger.com/View/1018877696

All hail Meow'Dib, the Kittehswatz Haderach!   ;D
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Post by: Tom M on 24 February, 2012, 01:38:51 pm
Not technically a cat pic (though there is some) but a nice feline story from the local paper:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/02/24/george-proves-he-is-ludlow%e2%80%99s-top-cat/

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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2012, 02:22:38 pm
Our new feline overlord #1:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1T1QKXad77s/T0uRJ1zSzoI/AAAAAAAABlw/ZkG9CTSrMOk/w410-h308-k/P2270048.JPG)
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Post by: Clare on 27 February, 2012, 04:55:10 pm
Oooooh, he's lovely. Which one is he?



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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2012, 05:02:52 pm
It has been decided that is Oreo, due to the white bit on his nose....

A Twix is so called because he is always betwixt here and there :)
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Post by: Jacomus on 29 February, 2012, 04:00:07 pm
Teh cute... I haz it :D

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/2012-02-28231943-1.jpg)
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Post by: little miss mac on 01 March, 2012, 11:02:45 pm
Impressive run of handsome black and white cats!

George was modelling on the stairs recently, looking slightly crazed
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6798839958_f501f29fc0.jpg)

And outside
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6798837962_3f05a87207.jpg)

And with Bertie. Note bikes in shed. This is a cycling forum, after all  :D
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6798835574_2aae9e7d15.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 March, 2012, 03:13:45 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6949078465_9262dd186e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6949078465/)
IMG_0013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6949078465/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Dibdib on 03 March, 2012, 03:43:11 pm
Seffy, my resident desk-warmer:

(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/507476192.jpg?key=24483264&Expires=1330790363&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=h-6ftez3LVuNhfSm5pXZz7pyIXcOoHJKTFexzbNmTvlavNM3UHQwq2Lb4~VyZygpVY6pw0WLplv4Y0ozF8BjO1imE8BJaot82IbDSA5nRDGKc5O6y4ZeSKj0NRa7B7LOAO~yKSt~YzdEQLMIk3PJiG4aNVu-CVa9~W-8hmboxH8_)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: eeymsmo on 03 March, 2012, 05:50:01 pm
Our new lords and masters are settling in and growing up:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6803403134_e16d7043c3.jpg)

Spiggy:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6949513175_f428814926.jpg)

Eldritch:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6803402884_14f056cf3b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 12 March, 2012, 04:24:57 am
(http://www.selfharmony.co.uk/kittycam/pics//00A8F7011C54(KittyCAM)_0_20120312041457_436.jpg)

Mummy and babies sleeping!
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Post by: Feline on 12 March, 2012, 12:07:44 pm
I like how she has her 'arms' around one of them  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 23 March, 2012, 06:28:44 pm
Feline’s feline, Kiri:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7009007559_4eb98d1ab8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/7009007559/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/7009007559/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: TimO on 25 March, 2012, 12:40:58 am
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiCatBed_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiCatBed.jpg)

Kai, asleep in the cat bed, a few moments ago.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 25 March, 2012, 11:37:27 am
This'll teach me not to leave my panniers open on the table...

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7108/6867467908_a0cba60860.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78399806@N08/6867467908/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78399806@N08/6867467908/) by dibdib2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/78399806@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 March, 2012, 07:37:46 pm
A couple of shots of Zev playing with a toy mouse that came from the latest cat food delivery.  I tried to get one when she threw the toy in the air, but I never managed to quite catch that.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ToyMouseAndCatFood_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ToyMouseAndCatFood.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ToyMouseAndMaps_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ToyMouseAndMaps.jpg)
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Post by: barakta on 26 March, 2012, 07:44:07 pm
Awww she looks very much like when she was tiny but BIIIG!

Katzenspielzeugen!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 March, 2012, 07:46:52 pm
She still not a huge cat, albeit somewhat larger than she was.  Given she's now about 10 months old, I suspect she's not going to get a lot larger.  That is quite a small toy mouse.  She's brought in larger real (dead) mice.
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Post by: Valiant on 29 March, 2012, 05:11:31 pm
Here's a vid :) http://youtu.be/RbbhDTWMWLA

They're all just about walking, Sisqo is even climbing.
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Post by: TimO on 29 March, 2012, 06:45:27 pm
Cute little furry balls of trouble. :thumbsup:

Poor Lumen though, with kittens stumbling across her!
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Post by: Clare on 29 March, 2012, 07:02:12 pm
They are sooooooo cute.

 :D

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 March, 2012, 08:02:44 pm
My brother got a new kitteh on Sunday.
Unfortunately I don't have any pics to post because he hasn't broken cover since then. :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 April, 2012, 03:08:59 pm
Slinky Hamish

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68163197@N02/6887084510/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 02 April, 2012, 07:02:36 am
Slinky Hamish

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68163197@N02/6887084510/

Somebody's going to trip up over that hoover flex...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2012, 09:42:22 am
Haha, you know I never noticed!

Stop press: after hiding under a chair all day yesterday and ignoring enticement by tidbits, in the evening he came out for a stroke, almost had a belly rub and then would have had a lap had Jock not been in the way!
I thought he was going to be hiding for a few weeks more. Hopefully there will be photies soon :)
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Post by: Valiant on 02 April, 2012, 09:01:42 pm
Kittens on the move :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZLoTWABWjM
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 April, 2012, 09:35:20 pm
Did one of them say "wheeeeeeeeeeeee"?
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Post by: Valiant on 03 April, 2012, 04:51:14 pm
Sounds like it lol
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Post by: Arch on 03 April, 2012, 06:47:48 pm
Did they climb on there themselves, or did you put them there...?
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Post by: Valiant on 04 April, 2012, 02:46:41 am
They were chasing it so I put them on :) Now that it's off they try and climb it lol.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 04 April, 2012, 09:33:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXpJAfTapxk&feature=colike
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Post by: TimO on 04 April, 2012, 09:40:04 pm
They're definitely proper little cats now. :) :thumbsup:
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Post by: Valiant on 04 April, 2012, 10:28:23 pm
Yup they can run and climb. It's enough to make me worried. Frankie will often jump through the window, see them and growl at them and walk off. Now they chase after him which worries me.
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Post by: TimO on 04 April, 2012, 11:09:17 pm
Hmm.  Kai was incredibly tolerant of Zev when she was younger.  She would launch herself at him quite aggressively, repeatedly, and he generally didn't do too much back to her.  He could have quite easily clobbered her, but seemed to choose not to.

Now, maybe he's unusual, but I suspect there's something inbuilt in many mammals that have some degree of cooperative behaviour (and admittedly cats are not pack animals, but they do seem to have some sort of social structure) that encourages them not to be excessively aggressive towards the younger more stupid members of their species.

The chances are that he'll just work out newer and better ways to avoid them, rather than them working out how to chase him down.  They're bound to be curious about him, because that's how they're wired up.  Cats are naturally curious, as are the young of most species, so they've got double the trouble!

Anyway, keep the kitten pictures and videos coming. ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 04 April, 2012, 11:26:22 pm
Ah he can run away outside or onto the bed which is at head height.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 05 April, 2012, 07:11:08 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXpJAfTapxk&feature=colike

That's so cute.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 09 April, 2012, 07:15:02 pm
Kiri says 'OMG there's a dog in mai heated bed!'
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/googleandkiri.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 April, 2012, 04:29:41 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/small.php?file=DSCF0397.JPG&size=480) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/DSCF0397.JPG)

Kai came and sat on my lap for a short while earlier, when it started pouring down outside.  Miraculously he came in just after it started, so was almost dry, with just a few drops having hit him.  A second miracle involved me having a camera, so I took a few shots of him sat there.

I'm still amazed by how different he looks after only a bit over 6 months, compared to this shot that Loafheads took of him.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/small.php?file=6006665945_a02f373637_b.jpg&size=320) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/6006665945_a02f373637_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 April, 2012, 08:52:35 pm
Bobb's cat, the legendary Boris the Blade. He's a lovely cat, but a bit badly-behaved. He hasn't really got the hang of posing for photos either.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Chelmsford%205th%20-%2010th%20April%202012/006.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Chelmsford%205th%20-%2010th%20April%202012/009.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 10 April, 2012, 10:56:03 pm
... He hasn't really got the hang of posing for photos either. ...

Oh, I don't know, he seems to have cracked the "moving just as the shutter button is pressed" bit down perfectly. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 10 April, 2012, 11:56:01 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/small.php?file=DSCF0397.JPG&size=480) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/DSCF0397.JPG)

Kai came and sat on my lap for a short while earlier, when it started pouring down outside.  Miraculously he came in just after it started, so was almost dry, with just a few drops having hit him.  A second miracle involved me having a camera, so I took a few shots of him sat there.

I'm still amazed by how different he looks after only a bit over 6 months, compared to this shot that Loafheads took of him.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/small.php?file=6006665945_a02f373637_b.jpg&size=320) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/6006665945_a02f373637_b.jpg)

Seems to have grown quite a bit!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 11 April, 2012, 07:50:34 am
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7085/7061323337_ac29ffa93e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/7061323337/)
Sir Scoville (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/7061323337/) by marcus_jb1973 (http://www.flickr.com/people/marcusjb/), on Flickr

Our handsome boy, Sir Scoville.

He is off to the vet's shortly for an X-ray to try and finally diagnose whether he's got asthma or whether he had a chest infection. Poor chap.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 07:02:20 pm
Hope he's feeling better soon!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 11 April, 2012, 07:54:18 pm
He's getting there!  X-Rays, ultra-sound of his heart etc. showing he's still got fluid around his lungs (but not heart disease thankfully).  More anti-biotics and back in a week to be X-rayed again.

Bank account emptied by above procedures!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 11 April, 2012, 08:03:51 pm
Seems to have grown quite a bit!

Not really, it's mostly fur.  When I first took him to the vets, he estimated that Kai was around 4 years old, so he's not a spotty faced teenager, but a middle aged cat (unlike Zev who is the equivalent of a spotty faced teenage, and behaves like it!)

I think eating better, and having more time to wash and generally relax a bit means his fur has grown out a lot, and is much more luxuriant.  He's probably put a bit of weight on, but mostly he's just a lot furrier than he used to be.


marcusjb, I'm glad to hear that Sir Scoville is getting better. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 12 April, 2012, 05:50:10 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/HangingOver_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/HangingOver.jpg)

Zev making herself comfortable, in the way that only cats can make themselves comfy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Phil on 13 April, 2012, 01:11:14 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/pnweb/high-rose-lo.jpg)

Rose goes exploring.  It took a significant quantity of ham to tempt her up that high, but she seems to be getting the idea now :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 April, 2012, 04:47:31 pm
Kiri says 'OMG there's a dog in mai heated bed!'

or...

I was bumbling about and came across this huge bed
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bed1_.jpg)

Mum! There's a scary cat in my bed! I'll just lie down here.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bed2_.jpg)

she really is scared of cats. Even tiny blind ones.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 16 April, 2012, 09:43:20 am
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/Princessonpaper.jpg)

Princess guards our lineups for the game.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 22 April, 2012, 07:55:54 pm
Willow leaks like a sieve if you rub her belly

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC02117.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 22 April, 2012, 10:44:28 pm
Apart from the belly-rub (touching in the bathing-suit area (ie anywhere below the collar) is strictly forbidden), Willow sounds a lot like Ethel-the-toothless.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 23 April, 2012, 05:11:47 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525929_10150762211565629_511250628_9452945_206168621_n.jpg)

Luxeon is sleepy
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 24 April, 2012, 12:47:48 am
I'm tempted at set up a cat-cam in my hall. So far today I've seen 4 different cats who are not mine come into the house! I think I must be feeding the entire feline population of my street. Rico certainly isn't thin but I had wondered how I've got through a 15kg sack of top quality cat food in 2 weeks! I'm going to have to stick some batteries in my microchip-operated cat flap a d stand back and wait for the dull thuds methinks!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 02 May, 2012, 12:28:11 pm
Woke up today with a heap of cats on the bed as usual  :thumbsup:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Photos/f4fa4f7c.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 02 May, 2012, 10:38:26 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8168/6990768576_ec6e6c6d3f.jpg)

Ugh helps out in the greenhouse.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 02 May, 2012, 11:32:07 pm
Cats are actually liquid. Trufax.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 07 May, 2012, 09:24:55 pm
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-CTM-yoi6cMs/T6gu1Ze4v1I/AAAAAAAAFTs/UtPcZixM04M/s640/Lyope_001.jpg)

Ba'al is bored with Bank Holidays.  He is also bored with next door's HUUUGE cat pissing on his territory:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1mL9HBKfdjY/T6gud7wo8MI/AAAAAAAAFTc/0UHJ5JEYPhE/s720/Lyope_018.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 May, 2012, 09:41:41 pm
Don't they gang up on him?  Isn't that what siblings are for? (well, that and fighting each other).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Charlotte on 07 May, 2012, 10:18:36 pm
Sadly, no - they would appear to be terrified of the next door moggy.  Honestly - what's the point in being a pair of demonic black throat slashers if you can't scare a fluffy pussy out of a garden?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 07 May, 2012, 10:22:13 pm
Always the way with cats.  You could train them to use a super soaker, I suppose, but that way lies the slippery slope of defending your cat's territory for them...
Title: Re: Gratuitous kitten pics- prepare for squee
Post by: L CC on 13 May, 2012, 09:26:45 pm
Sleeping:
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-05-13204046.jpg)
No1Son has new friend:
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-05-13204400.jpg)
Really, he's No1Daughter's:
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/535270_10150879844124451_1894423244_n.jpg)

He's been playing with my socks.
I can't handle teh cute.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 13 May, 2012, 09:27:49 pm
Awww, he's gorgeous!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 14 May, 2012, 03:24:16 pm
^^ What she said!

Our kittens have learnt to climb up the curtains right to the top. Don't worry he's ok though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Hn9rhM-E4
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 14 May, 2012, 08:41:16 pm
^^^^^^ what they said x 2

Vaiant. I hope the kitten that fell was ok.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 14 May, 2012, 08:46:38 pm
Such cute kittens!
Boab-kitty has lovely symetrical facial markings  :thumbsup:
This is making me kitten-broody. Must remember my monagerie is currently full  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 15 May, 2012, 12:10:20 am
He was ok, he climbed back up a minute later.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 18 May, 2012, 02:04:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5p3PeC_Q0g

Patch does exactly the same as mum a few months earlier. And here's a photo of them too:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/7218784046_4db227a4fa_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 18 May, 2012, 12:37:02 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 18 May, 2012, 01:44:41 pm
I ran my washing machine on 95C empty this morning to give it a bit of a clean out and try to help rid it of pet hair. Finding it nice and warm Kiri decided to get in there just to make sure it is sufficiently hairy again  :facepalm:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Photos/1938af04.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 May, 2012, 11:01:24 pm
My cousin Amanda has a new cat, Luigi.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/luigi.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/luigi2.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/luigi3.jpg)


Boris and I were skyping last night.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Videocallsnapshot1.png)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Videocallsnapshot2.png)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Videocallsnapshot4.png)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 18 May, 2012, 11:08:39 pm
(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/580213244.jpg?key=24483264&Expires=1337379890&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=ugDk~B8p~nB0OQr2jFkJ8bdgW1RFowEvawtxog3y8uPmkM7ZU6B6G~Q-TgquCPGQsHqB7w7EJutoxoPbUMBRMvakQRMqoNN7gbONV4eoXeh-nfjBPY3tZtESgbVrC-pS8qHJTzxdvli1eg0EaeQIsXZggjcbkq8lYRHRQog8I6w_)

and while we're on the subject of mogs and baths:

(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/575899515.jpg?key=24483264&Expires=1337379851&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=DgDdlDmY69vw5wgeWvo8e5uclDTXNFf9Ucdye-Z1Wivvu~5TJNwIwrBJHIQWarZxZlz8sUN9B~hMXkOlMJu0l0fmQL6-Lxvyq6K8QA1kzYOx0OMlRWmuHWaQnrtSC0BYL2kFK8TIzBQMOOar0KrjtRW31xTXGEXU1yywkglOGS0_)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: LindaG on 18 May, 2012, 11:09:30 pm
Aww.  Luigi looks scarily clever.  And Boris is a sweetie.

I skyped my daughter's cat Wilson tonight.  He tried to sniff me through the laptop.   :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 May, 2012, 11:10:52 pm
Boris usually just shows me his arse.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Regulator on 19 May, 2012, 12:11:28 am
Boris usually just shows me his arse.

Copying bobb?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 May, 2012, 10:03:16 am
I think it's the other way round.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 May, 2012, 10:56:38 am
Luigi looks scarily thoughtful.  That's one cat who is planning world domination.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 May, 2012, 02:15:03 pm
Zev and Kai having their supper last night.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/KaiZevEveningEating_120521_thumb640.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/KaiZevEveningEating_120521.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bomber on 26 May, 2012, 10:30:03 am
Someone has been spending a lot of time on the lawn now the suns out;

(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/465803_10150910382697080_512382079_9877369_1987617165_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 27 May, 2012, 08:44:55 pm
one of my cats smokey died yesterday  :'(. he was 11years old . fizal his father is 13 and going strong.i still keep looking for smokey  :'(.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 27 May, 2012, 09:17:13 pm
one of my cats smokey died yesterday  :'(. he was 11years old . fizal his father is 13 and going strong.i still keep looking for smokey  :'(.

Sorry to hear that cyleman  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 27 May, 2012, 09:28:39 pm
He's visiting again

Making himself comfy
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-05-27202959.jpg)
Playing with Mr Smith
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2012-05-27204735.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: petes46 on 27 May, 2012, 10:35:34 pm
one of my cats smokey died yesterday  :'(. he was 11years old . fizal his father is 13 and going strong.i still keep looking for smokey  :'(.

Sorry to hear that cyleman  :(

It doesn't seem to matter how many you have; losing one is always a wrench. Commiserations.  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 May, 2012, 11:15:37 pm
one of my cats smokey died yesterday  :'(. he was 11years old . fizal his father is 13 and going strong.i still keep looking for smokey  :'(.

Condolences, CM
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 28 May, 2012, 10:09:29 am
thanks all  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 June, 2012, 02:35:16 pm
The cat plant is coming on well

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7327208686_37515a308e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7327208686/)
IMG_0386 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7327208686/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 03 June, 2012, 11:24:21 pm
"Thrives in a sunny position". Don't try watering it.

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 June, 2012, 09:49:10 pm
Funny thing is, she's sitting on top of a rather stunted catnip plant. I wonder why it's stunted....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 10 June, 2012, 07:46:52 pm
Scooby has been visiting the Truly terrible Jokes thread

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC02246.jpg)

whilst Willow just womdered what the fuss was all about

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC02256.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 13 June, 2012, 08:38:08 pm
Met this handsome chappie over the Jubilee weekend:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fU7Jv7y-B10/T9jpuTVRkqI/AAAAAAAACLo/tMLdML1EuD4/s640/IMG_5544.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-74WhLZba8cI/T9jp6aY4lyI/AAAAAAAACL0/WHyt3_8GknI/s640/IMG_5546.JPG)

Apparently he's a Siberian Forest Cat, or something equally odd. But he was very lovely - even when he went and brought a small fledgeling as his BBQ contribution, and proceeded to disembowel it in the centre of the party.  ;D :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 13 June, 2012, 08:44:26 pm
Oh, and Paris has a lot of cats:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5eUkibHxh7A/T9e5E3is_OI/AAAAAAAACKQ/6U5FQPfAPBs/s640/IMG_5737.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--9SSQXujeog/T9e6SHMF57I/AAAAAAAACK4/KfRNOnjgBms/s640/IMG_5750.JPG)

More here: http://ablogofallthingskathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dont-blink.html (http://ablogofallthingskathy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dont-blink.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 13 June, 2012, 09:41:04 pm
... Apparently he's a Siberian Forest Cat, or something equally odd. ...

The Siberian is one of three breeds of Forest Cat, which are believed to be the ancestors of all long haired breeds.  The other two are the Maine Coon, and the Norwegian Forest Cat (the only one of the three with Forest Cat actually in the name).

I reckon Kai is related to one (or more!) of these, because he has a lot of the features, the ruff around the neck, long legs, big paws etc

That chap is a fine looking cat though, lovely colouring.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 17 June, 2012, 09:42:23 am
http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/ I often go here for a kitteh fix.  Such a lovely site and full of lovely pictures of foster kittens and Charlotte Butterbean who 'mothers them' for a while.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 June, 2012, 09:58:04 am
http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/ I often go here for a kitteh fix.  Such a lovely site and full of lovely pictures of foster kittens and Charlotte Butterbean who 'mothers them' for a while.

Charlene.  I think you're confusing her with one of Ba'al's and Belphegor's openers of cans and changers of kitty litter.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 17 June, 2012, 10:36:01 am
http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/ I often go here for a kitteh fix.  Such a lovely site and full of lovely pictures of foster kittens and Charlotte Butterbean who 'mothers them' for a while.

Charlene.  I think you're confusing her with one of Ba'al's and Belphegor's openers of cans and changers of kitty litter.

Whoops iPad fail; the iPad wouldn't let me put in C h a r l e n e without trying to change it to Charlotte and I hadn't noticed the change of spelling.

Back to topic, it's a lovely heart warming site.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 June, 2012, 06:25:42 pm
Zev scoffing lemon sponge cake off of the bit of paper on the base of the cake, after I've finished eating the cake itself!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake1_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake1.jpg)

The cleaned off paper, it did start of with quite a bit of cake still on it, but ended up somewhat damp from cat spit!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake3_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake3.jpg)

Afterwards, busily licking her lips. :)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake2_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/ZevSpongeCake2.jpg)

Click images for bigness
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 19 June, 2012, 11:43:25 pm
Kai having a relaxing moment, after spending the previous half an hour hurtling around the house with Zev.  Shortly afterwards he decided to bugger off outside, as usual!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed_20120619_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/KaiBed_20120619.jpg)
Click for bigness
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 22 June, 2012, 04:03:00 am
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/165905_10150970535725629_1725903761_n.jpg)

Frankie is spending most of his time at home now, also doesn't seem to mind Lumen anymore. That will change soon.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 26 June, 2012, 11:23:52 am
So, Bear Grumpikins is settling in (I don't make the names!):

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/7446854588_77a4567b7a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/7446854588/)

He's a lovely cat, a little under socialised and very timid of humans - it will hopefully get better as he settles more. 

Chilli and him get on quite well - he seems to want to be her friend more than the other way around - if he doesn't know where she is, he'll wander around the house, chirping, until he finds her!  We have a small litter tray challenge in that he is now using Chilli's favourite one and she won't share it at all with him (though she did with Scoville - though he would only ever wee in that one). 

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7446865168_7b9922ce80.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/7446865168/)
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Post by: Feline on 26 June, 2012, 01:03:04 pm
They seem to be getting on very well for such a short time!
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Post by: marcusjb on 26 June, 2012, 01:25:26 pm
They seem to be getting on very well for such a short time!

Yes!  Cass did the beginnings of introductions at the weekend, whilst I was away at Mille Alba - and no signs of agression at all from either cat, so things moved pretty quickly.  It took many days with Chilli and Scoville - so that's great that they managed in a couple of days.  He's enjoying having the whole house to explore as well.

he is quite shy around humans still - sometimes.  He sits at the base of my chair in the office quite a lot and I can stroke him as much as I like.  Other times he physically flinches if you put your hand out to stroke him - then runs off.

All going well though - it's nice having two cats again - especially two well cats that chase each other around etc.
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Post by: TimO on 26 June, 2012, 04:59:14 pm
he is quite shy around humans still - sometimes.  He sits at the base of my chair in the office quite a lot and I can stroke him as much as I like.  Other times he physically flinches if you put your hand out to stroke him - then runs off.

After almost twelve months, both Kai and Zev still occasionally flinch and cower when I put my hand out to them.  It's possibly Kai's been hit by someone else in their house, because he clearly does visit other people (I know this from my neighbours), but Zev is far too nervous to go near anyone else.  The one time I answered the door when holding her, I lost a significant amount of blood.  She really does not like other people (no one else has yet been in the house long enough for her to not feel threatened by them).
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 26 June, 2012, 07:50:22 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7446865168_7b9922ce80.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcusjb/7446865168/)


Very nice shot and lovely cats  :)
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Post by: ed_o_brain on 29 June, 2012, 01:25:38 am
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8009/7463823980_f262b52b16_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/7463823980/)
Pushkin 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ed_o_brain/7463823980/) by Daniel Cadden Photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/ed_o_brain/), on Flickr
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Post by: JonBuoy on 29 June, 2012, 08:45:23 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8142/7468422484_b0fab43def_z.jpg)

Ugh checks out the flavour of Thursday's cloudburst.
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Post by: mike on 01 July, 2012, 07:04:57 pm
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/temp/5D-0661.jpg)

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/temp/IMG_3767.jpg)

RIP Min.  Put to sleep this afternoon, age 19 11/12ths.  :'( :'(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 July, 2012, 07:17:12 pm
Sorry to hear that mike. Min looks lovely in the 1st pic.
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Post by: TimO on 01 July, 2012, 07:22:30 pm
Likewise, it's always sad to loose a small furry friend.  That's a good age for a cat though, and those fine photos suggest that it was a well spent time.
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Post by: TimO on 01 July, 2012, 07:41:06 pm
From the "It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=60861.msg1260696#msg1260696)" thread.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6226/6342477496_c0de96bbd9_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atkamano/6342477496/sizes/z/in/set-72157627996748535/)

I've got no idea where that kitten came from, but it's insistent. ;D
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Post by: Valiant on 01 July, 2012, 09:11:26 pm
^^ Hah that's brilliant.

Here's a pic of Patch and Luxeon

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/314788_10151078596814224_1816170509_n.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 01 July, 2012, 09:18:31 pm
It's a Pushmi-Pullyu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Dolittle_characters#The_Pushmi-pullyu) cat. :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 01 July, 2012, 09:27:09 pm
Siamese cats
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Post by: Feline on 02 July, 2012, 12:50:06 am
Sorry Mike to hear about Min. She had a good innings, although that doesn't lessen your loss :(
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Post by: Valiant on 02 July, 2012, 02:39:22 am
I'm sorry too Mike. What a fab innings.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 02 July, 2012, 06:23:26 am
It's a Pushmi-Pullyu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Dolittle_characters#The_Pushmi-pullyu) cat. :thumbsup:

My exact thought. And I was struggling to work out how they were arranged for a minute.
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Post by: marcusjb on 02 July, 2012, 06:51:34 am
Sorry for your loss mike, looked lke a lovely cat who really reached a grand old age.
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Post by: Feline on 02 July, 2012, 02:16:19 pm
My Kiri has a novel method of cleaning her ears out, she asks the dog to do it for her  :o
Here Google the Cockapoo gets a bit fed up of it after a while and won't carry on long enough for her liking:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/?action=view&current=d9d2c3dc.mp4
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Post by: alecstilleyedye on 09 July, 2012, 06:55:52 pm
new little kittens amy (i) and rory (r)

taking cuteness to new levels…  ;)

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s480x480/306602_10150965650069232_387968786_n.jpg)

patra, lost to cancer in 2010  >:(

(http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/6919_155568889231_3074846_n.jpg)

nutmeg, who did the cat altruism thing last december  :(

(http://kittenwar.com/c_images/2005/08/31/30814.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 09 July, 2012, 07:49:32 pm
Amy and Rory look like trouble.  Who is going to be the Dalek? ;D
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Post by: alecstilleyedye on 09 July, 2012, 09:09:07 pm
Amy and Rory look like trouble.  Who is going to be the Dalek? ;D
dunno, but there's a cyberman helmet in the boys' room…:D
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Post by: Valiant on 10 July, 2012, 03:31:07 am
Here's Patch and Luxeon from a couple of days ago. They seem to have settled into their home.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/7540139710_c35d9748a7_z.jpg)

Will he ever grow into his ears?
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8156/7540138582_1cfebd26bc_z.jpg)
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 July, 2012, 04:04:09 pm
new little kittens amy (i) and rory (r)

taking cuteness to new levels…  ;)

(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s480x480/306602_10150965650069232_387968786_n.jpg)


What a cheeky looking pair. Very nice!
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Post by: Jaded on 16 July, 2012, 05:56:34 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bea_salmon.jpg)

This is Bea, proving that smell is tertiary to sight and hearing for a cat. She knew there was some smoked salmon nearby, but couldn't find it for ages.
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Post by: Feline on 16 July, 2012, 09:01:03 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bea_salmon.jpg)

This is Bea, proving that smell is tertiary to sight and hearing for a cat. She knew there was some smoked salmon nearby, but couldn't find it for ages.

Awwww bless her. She seems to have coped so well with losing her sight.
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Post by: TimO on 16 July, 2012, 10:24:02 pm
My parents old cat lost her sight with old age, and she coped with it fine, so long as you didn't move the furniture.

One Christmas, one chair that she favoured sleeping on, had been moved exactly it's width sideways, and Cindy wandered into the room, brushed up against the leg to check that she was by the chair, and then jumped up, only to fall flat on her face!  It was quite amusing, even if the poor cat probably didn't understand what had happened. ;D
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Post by: Kathy on 16 July, 2012, 10:24:20 pm
Just been sorting through some photos, and realised I hadn't shared this street-wise Parisian:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cIejZaN_I90/T9jsp3lyzfI/AAAAAAAACMM/GCEgorxrTgk/s640/IMG_5675.JPG)
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Post by: Jaded on 16 July, 2012, 10:31:22 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bea_salmon.jpg)

This is Bea, proving that smell is tertiary to sight and hearing for a cat. She knew there was some smoked salmon nearby, but couldn't find it for ages.

Awwww bless her. She seems to have coped so well with losing her sight.

She is amazing, she will walk through a room - straight through. Then, if you are in the way, she will walk through the room, at the same speed, but walk round you.

Doesn't help her find the smoked salmon though.  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 17 July, 2012, 02:18:23 pm
Here she is asleep in her warmed bed.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/bea_bogie.jpg)
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Post by: little miss mac on 17 July, 2012, 10:58:33 pm
Bea's gorgeous. Is she as petite as she looks in those pics?
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Post by: Jaded on 17 July, 2012, 11:02:50 pm
Yes, she is tiny. Kitten sized.
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Post by: Andrij on 18 July, 2012, 09:28:57 pm
Resident at Willows campsite

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yMV8SJoIKrM/UAcV1_w98dI/AAAAAAAABR8/1iJRR5-lHbY/s640/P1020659.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9biy4H0qW6o/UAcV21O70hI/AAAAAAAABSE/NJO4yMMs9XA/s640/P1020661.JPG)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 July, 2012, 10:22:56 pm
Kewt!
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Post by: alecstilleyedye on 20 July, 2012, 11:29:11 pm
after 2 weeks:

rory
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394721_10150995240729232_565245061_n.jpg)

amy
(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/391344_10150995240559232_1508028960_n.jpg)
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Post by: Valiant on 21 July, 2012, 02:07:23 am
Aww bless :D
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Post by: lou boutin on 21 July, 2012, 03:52:27 pm
Aww bless :D

how are the new kittens?
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Post by: Valiant on 22 July, 2012, 03:02:47 pm
They are good :) very cute and have started really moving now.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 23 July, 2012, 08:38:48 pm
Next door's cat Kevin who lurks underneath our dinghy on our front lawn - except today he decided to sleep on top of it.

(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/55a4fe83.jpg)

(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/6072e0a9.jpg)

(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/2a8cc973.jpg)

(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/98c05fcd.jpg)
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Post by: simonp on 23 July, 2012, 09:38:31 pm
Is it punctured?
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Post by: Zipperhead on 24 July, 2012, 12:10:57 am
Blitz was around today to demonstrate his general air of superiority...

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Tg9hiYEF8Cg/UA3YKSqFzCI/AAAAAAAAXVo/7UuAjyWqHEE/s720/D7K_4256.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Bhx9WqFYdFY/UA3Yc6DLqsI/AAAAAAAAXVc/QV5c8fTvz7E/s720/D7K_4276.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l__A3-2EEaY/UA3ZK886aSI/AAAAAAAAXVw/xNPTgjSIldM/s720/D7K_4260.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-InZExXTnUDE/UA3ZcNzqk5I/AAAAAAAAXV4/IX47jiAc8Yc/s720/D7K_4262.JPG)
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 24 July, 2012, 09:33:27 am
Superb, Zipperhead, especially the first pic  :) Lovely cat.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 July, 2012, 09:42:47 am
Our two, first up Oreo, the boss (they are brothers, but Oreo rules the roost)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4ee1pezvYsc/UA5fQudQZBI/AAAAAAAACZo/TGAhQcqE1EA/s791/P1000149.JPG)

Next up Twix, when you see them both together I always get reminded of the guys (IIRC) out of 10,000 leagues under the sea (and Tad Williams' Otherland series), one being long and skinny, the other smaller and tubby.

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y6r6ONfYDes/UA5fVda8-tI/AAAAAAAACZw/WxAT_dFrKjA/s791/P1000151.JPG)
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 24 July, 2012, 11:45:52 am
Is it punctured?
Still looks OK this morning. Mind you, we had a very amusing three hours a couple of years ago filling it with the dinghy equivalent of Slime. We had to keep rolling the dinghy around, turning it upside down etc to ensure the inside was fully coated. That thing is heavy and not easy to handle on dry land!
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Post by: Jacomus on 24 July, 2012, 10:52:10 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0014.jpg)

BBQ* leads to a rather nice warm patch which Princess doesn't take long to exploit...

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0018BW.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0024.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0029.jpg)




*Photo taken on Sunday, but I just like it, we BBQ'd tonight too which is when photos 2, 3 and 4 were taken.
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Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2012, 08:18:25 pm
Neighbour's cat, neighbour away.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/neighbours_cat.jpg)
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Post by: Valiant on 30 July, 2012, 07:45:28 pm
Blitz is awesome!

Here's a vid of Kanji being tickled :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5krdXt0EU
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Post by: little miss mac on 31 July, 2012, 07:43:53 pm
That vid should be in the Squeeeeee thread. Too cute.
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Post by: Wombat on 01 August, 2012, 07:55:19 pm
Blitz was around today to demonstrate his general air of superiority...

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Tg9hiYEF8Cg/UA3YKSqFzCI/AAAAAAAAXVo/7UuAjyWqHEE/s720/D7K_4256.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Bhx9WqFYdFY/UA3Yc6DLqsI/AAAAAAAAXVc/QV5c8fTvz7E/s720/D7K_4276.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l__A3-2EEaY/UA3ZK886aSI/AAAAAAAAXVw/xNPTgjSIldM/s720/D7K_4260.JPG)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-InZExXTnUDE/UA3ZcNzqk5I/AAAAAAAAXV4/IX47jiAc8Yc/s720/D7K_4262.JPG)

That is one serious mog.  A cat I would have respect for, looks like an elder statesman of the cat world, and possibly ours as well!
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Post by: Jaded on 12 August, 2012, 12:29:28 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_2012.jpg)

A hunting Abyssinian.
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Post by: Pingu on 12 August, 2012, 10:58:56 pm
Mojo & Pippin find the sun:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7766674694_466673cf0a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7766674694/)
IMG_0494 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7766674694/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8431/7766668302_a58564f9aa_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7766668302/)
IMG_0492 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7766668302/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 August, 2012, 10:18:45 am
<points out that is not our bedroom so cannot be held responsible for any of the decor>
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Post by: Adrian on 13 August, 2012, 08:46:48 pm
<points out that is not our bedroom so cannot be held responsible for any of the decor>
You sneak your cats into other people's houses and take photos?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 August, 2012, 08:56:53 pm
<points out that is not our bedroom so cannot be held responsible for any of the decor>
You sneak your cats into other people's houses and take photos?
It's the new planking, you know.
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Post by: Feanor on 13 August, 2012, 09:11:49 pm
The picture did rather remind me of Bill Bryson's 'Notes from a Small Island', where as a fresh arrival to the UK from the US, he was somewhat taken aback at the less-than-customer-oriented service from the propierors of the B+Bs on the south coast.

Sample here:
http://www.watermelon.lararala.com/unidades/essence/notes.htm

A page or so later he says:

"[...] what the Fuck *is* a counterpane?"
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Post by: Kim on 20 August, 2012, 04:00:46 pm
Neighbours' kitten.  Trotted in when I opened the door and demanded a ride on the Trice.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3637.sized.jpg)

When I refused he went sniffing around the house, probably because his fish-dar had detected the smoked salmon defrosting in the kitchen.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3624.sized.jpg)

That's a particularly impressive Tail.

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3636.sized.jpg)

Eventually lured him back outside with a game of chase-the-string.
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Post by: TimO on 20 August, 2012, 11:02:22 pm
Neighbours' kitten.  Trotted in when I opened the door and demanded a ride on the Trice. ...

He looks like an impressive young fellow.  Is he long haired, only too young to have grown much yet?  The tail suggests he might be.  His colouring isn't entirely dissimilar to Kai's although with a bit more black.
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Post by: Kim on 20 August, 2012, 11:29:50 pm
Yeah, he's young - he's grown visibly in the last couple of weeks.  Too young to be allowed out if you ask me, especially having observed his lack of road sense.   :hand:

He's got long hair - there's surprisingly little cat under all that - and a spectacular tail (that's natural resting fluffiness, not excited bushy tail mode), so I wouldn't be surprised if he grows up to be very Kai-like.

He's quite friendly and extremely curious - he climbed all over the bike trailer a couple of weeks ago while I was hitching it up, and I've seen him approaching random students as they walk past outside.  And he followed barakta into the house when she came home from work this evening and ran around exploring.
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Post by: TimO on 20 August, 2012, 11:39:51 pm
Cats seem to have surprisingly little road sense.  You'd think rapid evolution would have forced them to have some!  Talisker, a totally black cat, used to favour sleeping in the middle of the road in warm weather like this.

A black cat, on a black road. :facepalm:

I used to put the highest vis reflective collars I could find on him, and wondered about putting velcro retroflectives on his paws, but decided they wouldn't last very long!  I seriously wondered if you could produce some sort of retroflective or fluorescent pet shampoo, that could make a cat glow in the dark. ;D
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Post by: Kim on 20 August, 2012, 11:49:21 pm
It's not helped by our road suddenly becoming a rat-run, due to emergency water main works on the Bristol Road in the middle of Silly Oak.  Yes, the same bit of road they've spent the last couple of years building a bypass round...
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Post by: Feline on 21 August, 2012, 12:26:14 am
Cats seem to have surprisingly little road sense.  You'd think rapid evolution would have forced them to have some!  Talisker, a totally black cat, used to favour sleeping in the middle of the road in warm weather like this.

A black cat, on a black road. :facepalm:

I used to put the highest vis reflective collars I could find on him, and wondered about putting velcro retroflectives on his paws, but decided they wouldn't last very long!  I seriously wondered if you could produce some sort of retroflective or fluorescent pet shampoo, that could make a cat glow in the dark. ;D

Fortunately they come with cats eyes factory fitted  ;D
I think evolution has ensured that cats have lots of sex and get pregnant early enough that by the time Darwin strikes they have already left a dozen replacements!
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Post by: ed_o_brain on 25 August, 2012, 10:38:47 am
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7855922302_c459f03c82_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/47196779@N07/7855922302/)
Gash the Cat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/47196779@N07/7855922302/) by Andrew Wood Photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/47196779@N07/), on Flickr

This is Gash the Cat. He is a stray who hangs out at Press On Dry Cleaning, next door to the studios in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He seems to be a good guard cat! He is so named because when the proprietors of the dry cleaning business met him, he had a nasty cut all the way along his side. As you can see, he is very well fed and made very welcome.
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Post by: Pingu on 05 September, 2012, 09:30:17 pm
Oui, je suis un kitteh. Je habité la, a la sarf de France:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8446/7915645608_79ec7dcb52_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7915645608/)
IMG_0510 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7915645608/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/7915654260_01018a3fd0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7915654260/)
IMG_0511 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7915654260/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/7916825236_0a08340a13_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7916825236/)
IMG_0687 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7916825236/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/7923161724_9f2253cb2a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923161724/)
IMG_0707 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923161724/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/7923183702_482490a866_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923183702/)
IMG_0711 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923183702/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8443/7923189766_700008689a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923189766/)
IMG_0712 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923189766/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/7923196358_7b303872c2_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923196358/)
IMG_0714 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923196358/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8030/7923207322_cfb4e562c6_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923207322/)
IMG_0715 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923207322/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8305/7923911116_c2844aca76_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923911116/)
IMG_0777 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7923911116/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8180/7924006712_3d5dd16d19_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924006712/)
IMG_0788 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924006712/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8437/7924096502_11071fc1a0_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924096502/)
IMG_0799 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924096502/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8298/7924131342_637afd3478_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924131342/)
IMG_0806 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924131342/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/7924137458_57312bc5be_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924137458/)
IMG_0808 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924137458/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 September, 2012, 09:54:49 am
I don't think any of you should let your cats watch this in case they start to demand you make one for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9W_VdV1l0
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 12 September, 2012, 03:51:22 am
Thats awesome :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 12 September, 2012, 03:52:52 am
Here's our remaining kittens, Kanji is at her new home and sadly Toby was still missing :(

Puck
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8445/7978361270_a0aa4b2283_z.jpg)

Charlie
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8318/7978360137_0a79d9f18e_z.jpg)

Hoshi
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8180/7978360965_41bc4b3dbe_z.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 September, 2012, 08:43:42 am
*dies of teh kewt*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 12 September, 2012, 08:51:07 am
Super cute - hoshi in particular.

I hope you can find them all good new homes.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 12 September, 2012, 08:41:56 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8302/7976912279_76a8a17f52_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7976912279/)
IMG_0858 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7976912279/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ian on 13 September, 2012, 11:25:23 am
My Frankencat project continues...

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/IMG00110-20120911-1025.jpg)

There is more, but she is shy. Awww.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/photo-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 13 September, 2012, 11:50:41 am
Fixed that for you:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/FruitKitty.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 September, 2012, 02:28:53 pm
I think Puck is my favourite.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 14 September, 2012, 09:25:57 pm
Sometimes, someone elses dinner is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more interesting-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC02856.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Rhys W on 17 September, 2012, 09:07:16 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to young Wiggins?

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/wiggins.jpg)

Sadly not mine, but my nieces'. She was known as "Mo" for a day, but I guess the Tour de France made more of an impression than the Olympics.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 17 September, 2012, 09:27:40 pm
Oh my word. Demand video footage for the kitteh-lovin cyclists immediately.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 18 September, 2012, 08:28:57 am
Can a (female) cat grow sideburns? ;D

I love the mottled colouring of Torties, she looks like she's tricoloured.  Very cute. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 18 September, 2012, 08:31:24 am
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to young Wiggins?

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/wiggins.jpg)


Very cute little face! Sure she is a lot of mischief.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Arellcat on 18 September, 2012, 10:40:56 pm
Hazel in "Purposeful Puss"

(http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a470/BeckyT_bike/Miscellany/purposefulpuss.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Torslanda on 18 September, 2012, 11:12:36 pm
Somehow you just 'know' that is Becky's cat.

The purposeful stance and the look that says 'It's OK. Whatever engineering problem you had, I'm here now and I can sort it.'
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 18 September, 2012, 11:15:32 pm
Hazel says "Don't mess!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 30 September, 2012, 02:45:09 pm
No1Daughter's dad came home this morning with a stiff flattened body. She's had a shit weekend (her bag was nicked last night, too).

Poor Zuko. Less than a year old.  :(

(http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/3378_10151078723287810_201651542_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 30 September, 2012, 02:47:29 pm
Ohno, that's horrible.  I'm sorry to hear this.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 30 September, 2012, 04:57:32 pm
That is so terribly sad. Poor thing.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 September, 2012, 07:04:13 pm
Poor kitteh :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 01 October, 2012, 08:34:18 pm
Kittencam alert!

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/too-cute-kittens/kitten-cam/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 02 October, 2012, 03:11:50 pm
Sorry to hear about Zuko  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 08 October, 2012, 12:37:30 pm
Cat action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwntRpLobU&feature=player_embedded#!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 09 October, 2012, 06:51:27 pm
Check out "Baby loves Cat" on the same page  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 12 October, 2012, 10:03:38 am
our new additions:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_2910.jpg)
percie on the left, pickle on the right.  Exhausted from running about the kitchen...  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2012, 08:24:17 pm
Awwww
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 19 October, 2012, 01:08:08 pm
they're a bit livelier now:

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_3054.jpg)


(for about half an hour, then an hours hard kip, then a poo, then more deth and destruction... and repeat)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 19 October, 2012, 01:33:23 pm
they're a bit livelier now:

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_3054.jpg)


(for about half an hour, then an hours hard kip, then a poo, then more deth and destruction... and repeat)

Excellent pic! You really need to caption that and submit it to http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 October, 2012, 01:37:12 pm
Also here

http://kittenwar.com
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 19 October, 2012, 01:41:08 pm
The third one is already quite fat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 19 October, 2012, 08:51:42 pm
It reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtIz9E2faYs
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 23 October, 2012, 12:47:56 pm
Two Cats sleeping

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC02872.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 23 October, 2012, 01:43:42 pm
A rare shot of Zev, showing all her white patches! (ooer missues).

She has five white patches, one on her "bib", one between each pair of legs, and her front paw-pits (the patch between her front legs is only just visible).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevPatches_thumb512.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/ZevAndKai/ZevPatches.jpg)

She moved her left paw outside of the image, just as I took the picture.  She probably wouldn't have been quite so stretched out, if she hadn't done that.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 23 October, 2012, 06:10:20 pm
Aww, she's all huge!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 23 October, 2012, 11:18:42 pm
Love it !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2012, 12:10:54 am
Neat. :thumbsup:

That is an incredibly well behaved, and mellow cat!

There was of course the infamous Rastus (http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/motorcycles/2/5/2), the Kiwi motorcycling cat (who unfortunately died with his owner in a motor vehicle collision), but I've never seen a cat on a bicycle before, other than in a carrier.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2012, 04:59:31 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mountain_lion.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 October, 2012, 07:52:25 pm
Ooo, where's that? I like :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 30 October, 2012, 11:32:04 am
The best view of the street. This is why there are always footprints on my windscreen!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/B906A70C-B847-443B-AD64-DCF4DDB7208E-3718-00000906F4BF0DE7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 30 October, 2012, 12:08:14 pm
Mrs P, it is up in the NW Highlands!

I've forgotten the artists name. I shall ask again.

If it ever stops raining I shall pop out and take more piccies.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2012, 12:22:00 pm
Near your gaffe then? It's kewl.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 30 October, 2012, 12:45:44 pm
about 400m away.  :)

It's made from scrap metal.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 02 November, 2012, 09:22:44 am
more kitty wrestling:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_3926.jpg)

they're almost unbearably cute...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 02 November, 2012, 09:24:15 am
Dear Mr Brooks.  You do make very comfortable boxes:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_3934.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 November, 2012, 11:25:17 am
They may be comfy but the edges are razor sharp, the kitty's chopped his leg off on that one !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 02 November, 2012, 12:45:22 pm
They really are adorable! 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 November, 2012, 08:24:08 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevYawn_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevYawn.jpg)
Zev yawning.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevChairback_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevChairback.jpg)
Zev sitting on the top of the settee back.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiDoorway2_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiDoorway2.jpg)
Kai in his new favourite sleeping location, the door from the hall into the living room, looking suspiciously at me!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiDoorway1_thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Kai/KaiDoorway1.jpg)
Kai in his new favourite sleeping location, the door from the hall into the living room, equally relaxed.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 11 November, 2012, 03:24:44 pm
Blitz came round to be stroked this morning....

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AA9qRgCN0XE/UJ_ASERqKUI/AAAAAAAAY00/gzlDKMllrWs/s720/D7K_7353.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CGxD3DKHlTc/UJ_CpyY6NDI/AAAAAAAAY4Q/VmiCjzAC9Ag/s720/D7K_7381.JPG)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Yvi_6Nsbphw/UJ_CjJgmR8I/AAAAAAAAY4I/FG-KBZm3Uw4/s640/D7K_7380.JPG)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3zpzo4ACZIM/UJ_Cvc4cgXI/AAAAAAAAY4Y/JoqminxlGuY/s720/D7K_7382.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 11 November, 2012, 04:13:52 pm
Is Blitz wearing a bandana?

I can't say I've ever seen a domestic cat "in the wild" wearing one.  There are plenty of shots, which look like they're staged, with cats wearing them, but not generally when they're just wandering about.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Zipperhead on 11 November, 2012, 10:16:33 pm
Is Blitz wearing a bandana?

I can't say I've ever seen a domestic cat "in the wild" wearing one.  There are plenty of shots, which look like they're staged, with cats wearing them, but not generally when they're just wandering about.

He is. I'll have to keep an eye out for him to see how long it lasts - but I may not see him until next weekend.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Rhys W on 16 November, 2012, 11:47:17 pm
Here's Wiggins again:

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/wiggins2.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SandyV on 17 November, 2012, 03:06:18 am
He is indeed a cutie.  Sideburns still need work though.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kathy on 17 November, 2012, 08:56:59 am
Is Blitz wearing a bandana?

I can't say I've ever seen a domestic cat "in the wild" wearing one.  There are plenty of shots, which look like they're staged, with cats wearing them, but not generally when they're just wandering about.

You can get collars (with the standard safety-release) with a bandana attached. Tim says our cats don't needs them.  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 November, 2012, 09:18:55 am
Is Blitz wearing a bandana?

I can't say I've ever seen a domestic cat "in the wild" wearing one.  There are plenty of shots, which look like they're staged, with cats wearing them, but not generally when they're just wandering about.
You can get collars (with the standard safety-release) with a bandana attached. Tim says our cats don't needs them.  :(

It does seem like it would just be an increased cost.  I reckoned Talisker's average lifetime for a collar was around six weeks.  With both Kai and Zev it was a lot longer, but recently their loss rate has gone up.  I'm currently out of spare collars, and need to stock up.

I generally buy retroflective and/or luminous collars costing £2 to £3 each, and just treat them as disposable.  The current record for loss was a new collar put on after breakfast, and gone by the time Kai turned up for supper.


Wiggins does look cute, but a bit blurry.  Is there an appropriate description for kittens, in the same way that all babies look like Winston Churchill? (as pointed out by a colleague about her new daughter, so it's not just me!)  To me they often look a bit shocked, and tend to have big ears and head, compared to the rest of them (but I suspect big heads are a trait retained by most mammals).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 November, 2012, 12:26:53 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mummy_cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 25 November, 2012, 03:37:18 pm
Too much dried food in his diet??
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 25 November, 2012, 07:48:27 pm
Can you handle teh cute?
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_174137.jpg)
They went to get a grey boy, and call him Theon Greyboy, but came back with a little girl.
Unnamed as yet, but Asha is high on the suggestions list.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_174322.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 25 November, 2012, 07:50:36 pm
*squee*
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 November, 2012, 08:07:41 pm
awwwh :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 26 November, 2012, 08:35:44 am
Very very cute indeed. Love blue cats.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 26 November, 2012, 06:40:25 pm
So cute  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Valiant on 26 November, 2012, 10:30:03 pm
Very cute!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 26 November, 2012, 10:40:57 pm

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_174322.jpg)

That is a cardboard cutout of a cat, is it not?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 27 November, 2012, 09:47:13 am
That is a cardboard cutout of a cat, is it not?
Nah. She's a cuddly toy
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_180644.jpg)
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_174758.jpg)
(You can just about see her stripes on that one.)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 27 November, 2012, 11:02:05 am
That is a cardboard cutout of a cat, is it not?
Nah. She's a cuddly toy
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20121125_174758.jpg)
(You can just about see her stripes on that one.)

At last! A sensible use for a hoodie :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 December, 2012, 03:05:05 pm
At the garden centre.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/garden_centre_cat_2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/garden_centre_cat_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 03 December, 2012, 01:28:04 pm
Camouflaged.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 03 December, 2012, 01:49:52 pm
Its a great place to be, warm, dry ....













... till they water the stock.  :demon:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 December, 2012, 02:51:05 pm
(s)he may be an employee, it's not unusual to actually have a cat as a mouser, to keep vermin down, and they're "paid" in cat food.  Both distilleries and BT have certainly done this in the past.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 December, 2012, 08:53:30 am
As did York Station at one time, not sure if it still has a cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2012, 09:09:27 am
The cat rescue bods often do this with feral cats.  They capture them from an undesirable location, neuter and treat them with long term worming and flea treatment, and then release them at a location like stables, where they can live happily, are fed, and will keep the inevitable vermin under control.  Slightly bizarrely a well fed mouser is far better than a hungry one, a strong appetite doesn't make them better!

I presume they have to go back once a year or so, trap them, and do an annual checkup and retreatment.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SteveC on 07 December, 2012, 12:43:20 pm
Several of the garden centres round here have resident cats, usually with warnings posted about not getting too close!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 December, 2012, 11:17:47 pm
http://streetmog.blogspot.co.uk/
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Post by: essexian on 12 December, 2012, 01:42:36 pm
When we took the late great Alfie to be cremated, the crem had a "comfort cat" who came to sit with you while waiting for the ashes.

A lovely touch.

If you need a crem, Prestwood near Stourbridge were first rate.

Right, back to pictures of lovely cats.....

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8494/8267255924_d92f8cacbb_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267255924/)
Petal (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267255924/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8267255400_51b8080178_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267255400/)
Elma (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267255400/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8059/8267254762_2cd695cc13_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267254762/)
Posie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267254762/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8338/8267254238_a2438036a8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267254238/)
Pixie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8267254238/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8344/8266185929_fc858f3d25_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8266185929/)
Colin (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8266185929/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8491/8266185285_e57d0d4088_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8266185285/)
jamise 005 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/8266185285/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
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Post by: TimO on 15 December, 2012, 11:24:00 pm
Zev showing off her natural elegance, as is common with many cats, when sleeping.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingCatTreeBed1_thumb500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingCatTreeBed1.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingCatTreeBed2_thumb500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingCatTreeBed2.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 16 December, 2012, 12:13:24 am
*has a giggling fit*
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 December, 2012, 03:08:37 pm
BlackCat's latest catbed....

(http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/563607_10151266753931839_1189665450_n.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 16 December, 2012, 04:58:11 pm
Either that's one huge cat, or there's a certain amount of camera foreshortening!  Still he (the cat) looks comfy. :)

Nice colour match. :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 16 December, 2012, 05:00:22 pm
He's pretty much normal cat sized.  Probably confused because clarion's sleeping the wrong way round :)
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 27 December, 2012, 09:54:26 pm
(http://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/uploads/monthly_12_2012/post-113758-1355919150291.jpg)
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Post by: Valiant on 28 December, 2012, 08:21:49 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/309414_10151401788869612_1634699576_n.jpg)

Charlie is the last kitteh left. Tempted to keep him and both Frankie and Lumen are rarely home.
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Post by: mike on 25 January, 2013, 10:17:43 pm
kitten update!  they're getting big..
Percie (the clever one):
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_7042_zps747cd729.jpg)

Pickle (the stupid one):
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_7132_zpsbb557ab9.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/5D3_7134_zpsf6d70c2d.jpg)

it's surprising how different their coats feel, percie's fur is quite wiry but pickle is incredibly soft.  Sadly she's a bit dim too, while her sister is quite cunning..
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Post by: Kathy on 27 January, 2013, 07:41:42 pm
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9e5gUl1Kcv0/UQV744HkgPI/AAAAAAAAC0U/JdL4ldDpsFE/s640/IMG_8561.JPG)

Emmie with a cat-fur finger puppet.

(More details on my blog, here (http://ablogofallthingskathy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fun-things-to-make-from-household-items.html))
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Post by: Valiant on 28 January, 2013, 07:55:55 pm
Emmie is bootiful :))
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Post by: Pingu on 02 February, 2013, 10:08:14 pm
Mojo:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8221/8438338925_27931c556a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8438338925/)
004 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8438338925/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 02 February, 2013, 10:09:07 pm
Pippin:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8184/8438343763_72c3599c11_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8438343763/)
010 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8438343763/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: mike on 10 February, 2013, 09:10:40 am
heared some scrabbling while I was on the 'puter, looked round to see this:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8460060229_98002c5049_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8460060229/)
5D3_8343 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8460060229/) by simpleimages_mike (http://www.flickr.com/people/68792434@N03/), on Flickr

what? this is perfectly comfy, thank you very much.  I can see the pigeon outside much better from here.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8461159602_d32335c12a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8461159602/)
5D3_8349 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8461159602/) by simpleimages_mike (http://www.flickr.com/people/68792434@N03/), on Flickr
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 February, 2013, 09:16:29 am
Awww. That second photo is super cute.

We also have a cat that likes to sit on top of doors and watch the world beneath.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 February, 2013, 07:55:56 pm
heared some scrabbling while I was on the 'puter, looked round to see this:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8460060229_98002c5049_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8460060229/)
5D3_8343 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8460060229/) by simpleimages_mike (http://www.flickr.com/people/68792434@N03/), on Flickr

what? this is perfectly comfy, thank you very much.  I can see the pigeon outside much better from here.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8461159602_d32335c12a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8461159602/)
5D3_8349 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8461159602/) by simpleimages_mike (http://www.flickr.com/people/68792434@N03/), on Flickr

http://monorailcat.com/
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Post by: MattH on 15 February, 2013, 08:46:29 am
I found out recently that my dad has been carrying around this picture in his wallet of me, a lifetime ago, with one of the tiger cubs - so I got a scan.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8475841544_e3806c27ec_z.jpg)

Apparently back in those days I was always turning up at school with more scrapes and bruises than the other children, and with my fantastical excuses for how I got them the teachers suspected abuse. They got my parents in for a "chat", and were shocked when my parents backed up my story that the latest set of odd gouges and scrapes really were due to playing with an over-enthusiastic lion cub  - especially bearing in mind that I lived in Oldham, not especially known for it's big cat population  :)
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Post by: mike on 15 February, 2013, 08:48:22 am
that's a great photo!
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Post by: Jaded on 16 February, 2013, 07:11:10 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/tiger_eye.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/lioness.jpg)

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Post by: Charlotte on 21 February, 2013, 10:07:32 pm
Ba'al and Belphagor relax after a hard day's slaughter on the Central Line:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BYHBlcWMRIk/USaZws65QSI/AAAAAAAAFyo/6igqRxeUZ1c/s640/LYP_001-2.jpg)

They are truly creatures that only a pair of mad old cat women could love  :D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 February, 2013, 10:11:40 pm
But they look so angelic!
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Post by: Charlotte on 21 February, 2013, 10:17:02 pm
Whereas they are both in fact, the terrifying kitteh DEATHS of small squeaky things.
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Post by: andrewc on 21 February, 2013, 11:14:24 pm
Ba'al and Belphagor relax after a hard day's slaughter on the Central Line:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BYHBlcWMRIk/USaZws65QSI/AAAAAAAAFyo/6igqRxeUZ1c/s640/LYP_001-2.jpg)

They are truly creatures that only a pair of mad old cat women could love  :D

Gorgeous kittehs  :D

I'll allow you mad, but you are not allowed to call yourselves "old"!  You are both younger than me, and i don't even feel middle aged yet!  ;D
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Post by: Adrian on 21 February, 2013, 11:19:39 pm
Ba'al and Belphagor relax after a hard day's slaughter on the Central Line:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BYHBlcWMRIk/USaZws65QSI/AAAAAAAAFyo/6igqRxeUZ1c/s640/LYP_001-2.jpg)

They are truly creatures that only a pair of mad old cat women could love  :D

Do they do the Ant and Dec thing of always sitting the right way around?
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Post by: Charlotte on 22 February, 2013, 03:06:50 pm
Sadly, no  ;D

From left to right, that is in fact Belphagor and Ba'al.  You can tell them apart because if you try to pick one of them up, Belphagor will have your eye out.  Ba'al will probably just inflict a little flesh wound...
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Post by: redshift on 22 February, 2013, 03:33:53 pm
Whereas they are both in fact, the terrifying kitteh DEATHS of small squeaky things.

Are they related to Charlie?  I only ask, because despite tinkly bells that make him the audio equivalent of Santa's sleigh he's killed three robins, two rats, a mouse, and something grey that was bigger than a blackbird but smaller than a pigeon, since xmas. 

That's only the stuff I know about, and one of the rats was hidden - until we found it.    :sick:
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Post by: little miss mac on 22 February, 2013, 11:33:17 pm
This is how I wake up on cold mornings. Two live hot water bottles, under the duvet. Frequently one on either side of me, but this morning like this. God only knows how I don't crush them to deth when I'm asleep.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8368/8499268644_24f9cc44c7.jpg)

This morning, they didn't bother getting up.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8498164609_afe9fb6a4f.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 23 February, 2013, 12:05:20 pm
... Two live hot water bottles, under the duvet. ...

I think you're mistaking who is the hot water bottle. :)

None of my cats have ever been that keen on getting under the duvet.  Zev will often scrunch herself close up against me, on top of the duvet, in the middle of the night, but is normally gone by the morning.  I suspect she gets annoyed by too much movement coming close to squishing her, and remembers (eventually) that lying on the bed isn't always the brightest move.
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Post by: marcusjb on 23 February, 2013, 12:32:52 pm
Ha!  Awesome photos.

Chilli sleeps on the bed most nights - depending on weather conditions will depend on how annoyingly close to you she chooses to sleep.  Mr Bear only comes to sleep at the very foot of the bed if it's really cold.

Thankfully neither of them get under the duvet though!

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Post by: Feline on 23 February, 2013, 09:52:22 pm
Rico likes to get under the duvet too. He has an uncanny ability to take up 3/4 of a super- king sized bed when he lies in linear form!
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Post by: Feline on 23 February, 2013, 09:59:40 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/f7ddcebc.jpg)
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Post by: Dibdib on 05 March, 2013, 09:39:42 pm
Room for a couple of (badly shot mobile phone) gratuitous cat videos?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vgvFLFo_M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X461lTz6Yg

For those who like names and other such details, meet Jess. Five months old and utterly bonkers.
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Post by: TimO on 05 March, 2013, 09:46:41 pm
Great videos Dibdib. :thumbsup:

Zev still hasn't worked out that it's my legs moving under the duvet, and regularly attacks them.  She's almost two years old now.
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Post by: matthew on 05 March, 2013, 09:57:34 pm
Daisy will still happily chase a ball of wool.





she's 15  :o
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 March, 2013, 10:27:23 pm
Jess is a real cutie dibdib!
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Post by: Kim on 05 March, 2013, 10:38:46 pm
Zev still hasn't worked out that it's my legs moving under the duvet, and regularly attacks them.  She's almost two years old now.

Lies!  They're Bed Monsters, and only disguise themselves as legs when you pull the duvet back.  They must be stopped!
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Post by: Dibdib on 05 March, 2013, 11:10:33 pm
Jess is a real cutie dibdib!

Thanks :) she's a rescue mog, a sad story but with a happy ending.

Eagle-eyed viewers of the videos will spot that she only has one back leg. The other was quite deformed with no foot when she was born, and was giving her quite a bit of discomfort meaning she was quite badly behaved. The RSPCA took the rest of the litter for rehoming, and asked the vet to put Jess to sleep; the vet refused and amputated insted, then rehomed her herself which is where I got her. Now the leg isn't bothering her she's much happier, as you can tell, and is now a very spoilt housecat.
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Post by: TimO on 06 March, 2013, 12:15:57 am
Eagle-eyed viewers of the videos will spot that she only has one back leg. ... Now the leg isn't bothering her she's much happier, as you can tell, and is now a very spoilt housecat.

Despite having watched both videos, with some amusement, I hadn't noticed that. :-[  ... which is probably a good sign.  Well done on taking her on, not an obvious choice for many people.

I've met three legged cats, even outdoors, so I suspect they are quite capable of being able to live a life as indoors/outdoors cats.  I wouldn't necessarily deprive her of outdoor access, although you may have to think a bit about giving her ways to escape other cats, although that's potentially an issue with any cat.  I'm guessing at her age, she hasn't been spayed and/or fully vaccinated yet, so isn't going to be let outdoors yet anyway.

She does looks to be happy, and like all kittens, somewhat insane. :thumbsup: ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 06 March, 2013, 12:18:59 am
Not sure if we have had Mikey before, but here he is.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_jump.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 06 March, 2013, 12:28:25 am
That's a great shot Jaded, I wish I was so lucky catching my two mid-anything, other than sleeping. :)
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Post by: marcusjb on 06 March, 2013, 08:19:19 am
I didn't notice the three legs either (had to watch again and when you know, it is obvious.). As TimO said, it is probably a good sign not to notice.  It certainly isn't slowing her down a lot - still running around like a mad thing. She looks like a very amusing cat to have around!
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Post by: marcusjb on 06 March, 2013, 08:20:15 am
Not sure if we have had Mikey before, but here he is.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_jump.jpg)

He is a handsome chap and a great action shot!
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Post by: Dibdib on 06 March, 2013, 08:40:14 am
Not sure if we have had Mikey before, but here he is.

He is a handsome chap and a great action shot!

Agreed! My camera struggles to get enough light to get a decent quick action shot of Jess indoors. Hopefully as the weather improves I'll get some good ones.

Mikey's very handsome indeed, too. You don't often see such pure ginger cats. Apparently they are genetically all tabbies IIRC, but obviously there's variation in how distinct the tabby markings are.
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Post by: fuzzy on 06 March, 2013, 08:59:01 am
Not sure if we have had Mikey before, but here he is.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_jump.jpg)

That photo give the impression that the leap preceeds the demise of something small and furry/ feathered.

A great pic.
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Post by: Pingu on 09 March, 2013, 03:21:59 pm
New kitty on the block:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/8542233076_288c7a42dd_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8542233076/)
IMG_1266 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8542233076/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Dibdib on 10 March, 2013, 04:36:38 pm
ooh she's lovely, and very good at posing for the camera too!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2013, 05:37:59 pm
I should point out it's not ours - Pingu's been taking pics of cats sitting in other people's windows again  :-[
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 10 March, 2013, 07:57:49 pm
I should point out it's not ours - Pingu's been taking pics of cats sitting in other people's windows again  :-[

I'm pleased that it's not just me who does such things.  I have to stroke every cat that I pass and I irritate everyone by pointing out every cat we pass on a journey :-\
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2013, 08:02:38 pm
To be fair, I do that too. I just draw the line at taking pics thru other people's windows #oneofthesedayswellgetarrested
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 16 March, 2013, 10:15:48 am
She's actually sat still for a few minutes so I grabbed a (slightly) less blurry picture of Jess when I was mucking about with Instagram:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8380/8561871738_890532c433_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8561871738/)
Jess! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8561871738/) by dibdib2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/dibdib/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 16 March, 2013, 11:27:38 pm
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzsxisM9RO1qgifedo1_400.gif
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Post by: matthew on 17 March, 2013, 03:09:46 pm
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzsxisM9RO1qgifedo1_400.gif

I know I shouldn't laugh but LOL.

Leap to far point, no hind feet traction and that I'm not going to make it feeling.  :facepalm:
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Post by: little miss mac on 17 March, 2013, 04:19:50 pm
I came into the kitchen last night to discover that George can apparently open the kitchen drawers all by himself.
He'd found a (sealed) packed of catnip I'd stashed and completely forgotten about, and was going a bit nuts trying to get into it. Cleverer than I imagined.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8240/8563801665_94f4d49a39.jpg)

Action shot:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8235/8563800063_2d1c39ffca.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 21 March, 2013, 05:39:07 pm
Kiri and Rico just don't get their twin bowl feeder. Here Rico is deploying the technique of snaffling the bowl furthest from him first while body-blocking Kiri from eating from his bowl. He is bigger so this technique is effective!

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8513/8577974602_bb20bdc65a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8577974602/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8577974602/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8577965742_fedc54063c_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8577965742/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/8577965742/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 25 March, 2013, 03:38:56 pm
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/P1010617_zpsb1117941.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 28 March, 2013, 07:26:50 am
I have two alarm clocks these days:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8246/8597481504_14d6cd68a3.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8597481504/)

(and then when trying to post this to yacf:)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8370/8596384775_0aff0500a2.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8596384775/)
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Post by: marcusjb on 28 March, 2013, 08:43:57 am
She is too adorable.

7:13.  You are lucky. We have had phases of 4:30 being ideal playtime for our cats!
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Post by: Dibdib on 28 March, 2013, 08:56:26 am
She is too adorable.

7:13.  You are lucky. We have had phases of 4:30 being ideal playtime for our cats!

OOOOHHHHHH no. 7:15 was when she decided to calm down, sit next to the alarm clock, and look adorable. Before that I had about two hours of her bouncing around/under/over the bed, pouncing on my feet, and getting under the covers. I was just too tired to take a photo of that bit.
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Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2013, 09:27:46 am
Zev is too well trained in my ways, she'll mostly sleep on the bed next to me, until I start to get up. Utterly useless as a cat alarm clock!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 30 March, 2013, 01:08:42 pm
Boushti watching his patch from the shed roof.
(http://i.imgur.com/3r8U4sF.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 30 March, 2013, 03:55:22 pm
He's looking well (what you can see of him!), and is possibly one of the cats who has got the longest "duration" on this thread, having appeared on Page 2 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg8729#msg8729). :thumbsup:
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Post by: L CC on 01 April, 2013, 10:09:08 pm
(http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/67933_480593425328028_1118068053_n.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 04 April, 2013, 12:15:49 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat.jpg)
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Post by: L CC on 07 April, 2013, 04:03:20 pm
Did your mother not tell you DON'T DRINK FROM THE TAP
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20130407_151557.jpg)

(This cat now lives in my house. I may start littering this thread with pictures. Sorry.)
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Post by: Kim on 07 April, 2013, 06:11:12 pm
*squeee!*
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Post by: Pingu on 07 April, 2013, 11:13:22 pm
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8538/8628271369_6e9846c0c7_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8628271369/)
IMG_1366 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8628271369/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Dibdib on 08 April, 2013, 12:14:16 pm
*squeee!*

Seconded - boab, that cat is adorable :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 April, 2013, 08:46:56 pm
I couldn't resist this.

http://www.b3ta.com/board/10952410

Whom do we know who has a cat *and* a beard?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 18 April, 2013, 08:03:31 am
it's a stereotype, but here we go anyway- cat innabox

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549149_485695041484533_1449902967_n.jpg)
No2Daughter put this on facebook and my mum commented Tia is getting ready to move house. Dunno *what* she'd been doing with my wrist support though.
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Post by: Chris S on 18 April, 2013, 08:40:47 am
Looks like she'd been doing some cleaning though. Helpful!
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Post by: Pingu on 20 April, 2013, 06:43:00 pm
it's a stereotype, but here we go anyway- cat innabox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY&feature=youtu.be
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Post by: Pingu on 20 April, 2013, 08:47:36 pm
Lazy Mojo:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8249/8665207131_b898e49e52_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8665207131/)
IMG_1414 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8665207131/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8239/8665204195_b75c9b391c_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8665204195/)
IMG_1416 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8665204195/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: simonp on 20 April, 2013, 09:56:54 pm
Rico trying to look like a stylised cat:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8666731082_ec65acab2a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/8666731082/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/8666731082/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Feline on 21 April, 2013, 12:01:10 am
He looks to me like he is either
A) pissing up the fence
B) doing further scratchy damage to that felt roof!

Felt roofing only lasts about a year in our garden because Kiri and Rico think it makes a good scratching post. I'm looking into plastic tiles to replace it all with this year  :facepalm:
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Post by: Pingu on 21 April, 2013, 10:20:08 pm
Pippin:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8539/8668931877_c0c449f4f7_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8668931877/)
011 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8668931877/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Arch on 25 April, 2013, 06:36:50 pm
As we were getting ready to head out for the afternoon round, my colleague set out on the trike, and then came back to call us to look at this scene he'd found on the edge of the reserve.

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/SueArcher/IMAG0341.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/SueArcher/media/IMAG0341.jpg.html)

Five in all, in some sort of cat spectator sport situation.

As they are all different, I wondered if it was a sort of way of helping a person to choose a cat.

A sort of cat-alogue...
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Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2013, 06:40:49 pm
That's a game of Cat Chess.  I think the ginger one's in check...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2013, 08:15:58 pm
It's like The Birds but with cats.  :o
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Post by: Arch on 25 April, 2013, 09:53:47 pm
It's like The Birds but with cats.  :o

Or like Cats, but less musical.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 April, 2013, 10:16:19 pm
I think that white cat is actually a plastic bag.
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Post by: TimO on 25 April, 2013, 11:32:31 pm
Cats do apparently have these sort of neutral areas, which are not specifically one cats territory (at least not at this time, territory can also depend upon time of day), and where they'll congregate and "interact".  Since sitting quietly, and not moving is particularly friendly behaviour for a cat, this is presumably some sort of meeting, or other social gathering.  Odd to us, but apparently a normal enough cat practice.
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Post by: Kim on 27 April, 2013, 02:56:13 pm
I just got home to find the door being guarded...

(http://yfrog.com/scaled/landing/858/vtmfv.jpg)
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Post by: mike on 27 April, 2013, 04:11:49 pm
this is what I came down to this morning.  They were quite happy talking to each other and got themselves down when I fed them.

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/_MG_9324_zps71a8b755.jpg)

(Yes, it's bacardi. No I dont know why)
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 April, 2013, 06:13:05 pm
As we were getting ready to head out for the afternoon round, my colleague set out on the trike, and then came back to call us to look at this scene he'd found on the edge of the reserve.

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/SueArcher/IMAG0341.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/SueArcher/media/IMAG0341.jpg.html)

Five in all, in some sort of cat spectator sport situation.

As they are all different, I wondered if it was a sort of way of helping a person to choose a cat.

A sort of cat-alogue...

That is so bizarre!
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Post by: Arch on 28 April, 2013, 05:20:00 pm
this is what I came down to this morning.  They were quite happy talking to each other and got themselves down when I fed them.

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/_MG_9324_zps71a8b755.jpg)

(Yes, it's bacardi. No I dont know why)

Do they use the curtains as ladders? (Thus creating ladders in the curtains)
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Post by: fuzzy on 12 May, 2013, 04:51:42 pm
Willow asleep again-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03078.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03078.jpg.html)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 15 May, 2013, 04:37:59 pm
My friend in San Francisco and his Mohicat

(http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq236/Illegal_Combat_Ant/photo_zps1b66d375.jpg)

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Post by: Jacomus on 17 May, 2013, 09:05:51 am
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0429_zps0a53e54d.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0428_zps6218abf8.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0426_zps16802f3c.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0420_zps4fb7d5ed.jpg)

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2013, 10:19:05 am
Has she got white toes on her front paws Jac? Cool!
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Post by: Jacomus on 17 May, 2013, 11:47:46 am
Has she got white toes on her front paws Jac? Cool!

She does! :D

Princess, now that she has fully settled in with us, is the cutest cat I've ever known. She is also a very easily pleased kitteh - merely sitting next to her on the sofa is enough to start her purring.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 May, 2013, 01:54:13 pm
I have never seen a cat before with toes like that - they are well funky!
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Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2013, 03:58:37 pm
Optimism...

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0136.sized.jpg)

The crow probably weighs about as much as he does!
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Post by: matthew on 17 May, 2013, 04:06:24 pm
Optimism...

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0136.sized.jpg)

The crow probably weighs about as much as he does!
As you say Optimism.

OT whats happening at St. Wulstan's?
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Post by: TimO on 17 May, 2013, 04:10:04 pm
Nah, that's not optimistic, this is:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/OverConfidentCat.jpg)

:o ;D
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Post by: Kim on 17 May, 2013, 04:11:11 pm
OT whats happening at St. Wulstan's?

I'm not actually sure.  The inkjet chromatography used to be a notice asking people not to park in front of the driveway, so I assume someone's got the builders in, but there's nothing visible from the street (other than unrelated builders at no 6).  Seems to be business as usual at the church, so probably something round the back.
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Post by: Afasoas on 18 May, 2013, 02:09:19 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat.jpg)

That's a fab shot Jaded :)
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Post by: Afasoas on 18 May, 2013, 02:13:00 am
A weekend of cat sitting.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8398/8749616830_f3ebe0a934_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8749616830/)
&quot;Pee-wee 3&quot; (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8749616830/) by afasoas (http://www.flickr.com/people/89280112@N04/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8117/8749616828_c88676d253_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8749616828/)
&quot;Pee-wee 2&quot; (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8749616828/) by afasoas (http://www.flickr.com/people/89280112@N04/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8407/8748492255_304b57cacb_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8748492255/)
&quot;Pee-wee 1&quot; (http://www.flickr.com/photos/89280112@N04/8748492255/) by afasoas (http://www.flickr.com/people/89280112@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 18 May, 2013, 08:47:49 am
Good shots. :thumbsup:  There's lovely detail of the face.

Black cats can be absolute buggers to photograph, often you just end up with a black silhouette! That looks like it was quite dark, given how wide the pupils are, did you use an external light source, or just a lens with a very wide aperture? The relatively small depth of focus suggests a wide open lens, but the shadow and spot of light in the eyes suggests a bright light, so possibly you used both.
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Post by: Afasoas on 18 May, 2013, 10:22:03 am
Hi TimO,

You're absolutely right. Moderately high ISO, fast glass, a speedlight held up camera left on low power and a good dose of patience. Pee-wee (the cat) was very timid so it's taken a couple of days to let her get used to her surroundings before cracking the camera out.
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Post by: Pingu on 18 May, 2013, 11:39:20 am
Black cats can be absolute buggers to photograph

Tell me about it  ::-)
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Post by: Biff on 20 May, 2013, 12:17:22 pm
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88701310/vvcxvc.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 20 May, 2013, 05:29:06 pm
Jess loves yacf.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7308/8758603580_f22b2cd3f7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8758603580/)
IMG_0219 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8758603580/) by dibdib2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/dibdib/), on Flickr
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Post by: L CC on 23 May, 2013, 06:50:10 pm
No box? Bag will do...
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20130523_180131.jpg)
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 May, 2013, 10:47:12 pm
Ah, Ikea's famous KÅTT. Glad to see you got it assembled correctly.
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Post by: nikki on 26 May, 2013, 05:04:14 pm
Jess loves yacf.

She's perfectly positioned for the webcam. Does she use Chatroulette too?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: little miss mac on 27 May, 2013, 08:32:04 pm
George, the world's friendliest cat, angling for a kiss from minimac.
Not a great pic, but I loved that they were just hanging out in the sun today having a chat.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3674/8858186352_335960f3ae.jpg)
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 May, 2013, 12:30:39 pm
Daisy doing some fine tuning on Peli's front wheel.

(http://woollypigs.com/images/daisy-fettling.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 28 May, 2013, 12:43:57 pm
Jess loves yacf.

She's perfectly positioned for the webcam. Does she use Chatroulette too?

NIKKI! Jess is NOT that kind of cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 May, 2013, 08:48:44 pm
Here are some photos of Boris.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Trip%20to%20Essex%2023%20-%2028%20May%202013/DSCF3222_zps67a361f6.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Trip%20to%20Essex%2023%20-%2028%20May%202013/DSCF3224_zps8e2d0670.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Trip%20to%20Essex%2023%20-%2028%20May%202013/DSCF3228_zpse6e7b636.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 28 May, 2013, 09:47:58 pm
Boris is a handsome chap  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nikki on 28 May, 2013, 11:09:55 pm
Jess loves yacf.

She's perfectly positioned for the webcam. Does she use Chatroulette too?

NIKKI! Jess is NOT that kind of cat!

The drawn curtains; the swinging keys casually left in view...
*says nothing*

 ;)
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Post by: Jacomus on 29 May, 2013, 01:26:19 pm
Jess loves yacf.

She's perfectly positioned for the webcam. Does she use Chatroulette too?

NIKKI! Jess is NOT that kind of cat!

The drawn curtains; the swinging keys casually left in view...
*says nothing*

 ;)

 :-[ there was me thinking that nikki made a rather clever play on the French for cat and the notorious chatroulette! :-[
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nikki on 29 May, 2013, 08:31:15 pm
Jess loves yacf.

She's perfectly positioned for the webcam. Does she use Chatroulette too?

NIKKI! Jess is NOT that kind of cat!

The drawn curtains; the swinging keys casually left in view...
*says nothing*

 ;)

 :-[ there was me thinking that nikki made a rather clever play on the French for cat and the notorious chatroulette! :-[

Well, yes ...but even a thread about cute kittens is no match for the YACF tendency towards smut...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Manotea on 01 June, 2013, 01:42:24 pm
As I looked out one morning, I spied Marjorie sitting on the wall...

(http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab2/paudax/Marjorie/IMAG0005.jpg) (http://s844.photobucket.com/user/paudax/media/Marjorie/IMAG0005.jpg.html)
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Post by: simonp on 02 June, 2013, 06:50:54 pm
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5455/8926909740_1257a6cc59_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/8926909740/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/8926909740/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 06 June, 2013, 12:11:25 am
Some happy cat photos from early this morning.

When I got up I noticed a neighbour's cat, the magnificent Mikey, in the shed window.

He then came into the garden and whilst alternating between looking for prey and posing, managed to get a pumpkin seed on his back.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_morning_1.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_morning_2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_morning_3.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/mikey_morning_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 June, 2013, 01:00:13 pm
Some happy cat photos from early this morning.

When I got up I noticed a neighbour's cat, the magnificent Mikey, in the shed window.

He then came into the garden and whilst alternating between looking for prey and posing, managed to get a pumpkin seed on his back.

Bobb's cat Boris once got the sticker from a kiwi fruit stuck to his nose.
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Post by: marcusjb on 06 June, 2013, 05:40:51 pm
Mikey is a hugely handsome fellow!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 08 June, 2013, 08:22:17 pm
Charlie in his "Actually, it's 'Charles' " mode, surveying his realm:

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2831/8989708836_f864b27da5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27345381@N03/8989708836/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mike on 09 June, 2013, 06:57:00 am
pickle and persie, in a 10 minute truce between fights..
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5461/8993492914_59c808dd5f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8993492914/)
5D3_1381 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68792434@N03/8993492914/) by simpleimages_mike (http://www.flickr.com/people/68792434@N03/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 10 June, 2013, 07:38:06 pm
P & P are gorgeous.

Tia, however, is thick.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/retartia.jpg)

Stuck in a box.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 11 June, 2013, 11:21:17 pm
This season Pippin is sporting that epitome of kitty haute couture, a dandelion seed.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/9009973311_70287372d3_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9009973311/)
IMG_0238 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9009973311/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 13 June, 2013, 12:20:42 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0479_zps4b8c2758.jpg)
Princess inna box :)

That's her 'I wasn't chasing my tail in the box whilst you were out of the room. Honest.' face. As soon as the room contains no servants, you can hear frantic scrabbling as she chases her tail in the box. She will freeze and pretend not to be doing it the second you walk back into the room.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 13 June, 2013, 08:09:39 pm
Yet Another Jess Photo. Because she really is ridiculously photogenic.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3752/9036504038_0f4782f43c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/9036504038/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 13 June, 2013, 11:55:42 pm
I wasn't sure if this belongs here or in the dogs thread, but Google the Cockapoo has had a bad couple of weeks and is recently bereaved and is not acting himself. Kiri has taken every opportunity to sit with him, cuddle him and groom him. She was grooming his back when he turned over for her but she didn't oblige with his undercarriage!

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/9035754395_6610476c29.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/9035754395/)
Google and Kiri (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/9035754395/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 June, 2013, 04:32:29 pm
Aww!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 17 June, 2013, 07:03:16 pm
... Google the Cockapoo has had a bad couple of weeks and is recently bereaved and is not acting himself. Kiri has taken every opportunity to sit with him, cuddle him and groom him. She was grooming his back when he turned over for her but she didn't oblige with his undercarriage! ...

She's not the only one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FmjiyxM50
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 17 June, 2013, 07:12:04 pm
... Google the Cockapoo has had a bad couple of weeks and is recently bereaved and is not acting himself. Kiri has taken every opportunity to sit with him, cuddle him and groom him. She was grooming his back when he turned over for her but she didn't oblige with his undercarriage! ...

She's not the only one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FmjiyxM50

That's a good one! At some points the dog looked a bit worried the kitteh was getting bit voracious  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 20 June, 2013, 11:55:02 am
Eco Cat. So much wine, so few cats.

(http://savoiaonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cat-saturday-212.jpg?w=640)
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Post by: Riggers on 21 June, 2013, 01:46:03 pm
"Our 3-legged cat, our 3-legged cat. She'll never let you down" More recent pics of Noodle.

Can't jump for toffee, and sometimes gets up and goes backwards round and round, which is a bit distressing, but she's doing grand really.

Oh, and one of her sister Tiggy. And… they hate each other's guts.

Lovely.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/3leggedNoodle2_zpsb301983a.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/3leggedNoodle2_zpsb301983a.jpg.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/3leggedNoodle1_zps7b494332.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/3leggedNoodle1_zps7b494332.jpg.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/3leggedNoodle3_zpse3887def.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/3leggedNoodle3_zpse3887def.jpg.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Tiggy4Legs_zps1b27a1c3.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Tiggy4Legs_zps1b27a1c3.jpg.html)
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Post by: Jacomus on 13 July, 2013, 02:15:11 pm
Princess inna box... again!

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/M7130575_zps4871cc14.jpg)

P.s. This is the first real (as opposed to test) shot with my new to me Olympus E510, courtesy of the most excellent Ham, OTP.
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Post by: Biff on 14 July, 2013, 11:48:23 am
Sir, stand AWAY from the box!

(http://i.imgur.com/ufn4SPt.gif)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 July, 2013, 09:27:03 pm
(Deaf senile kitteh) Mojo relaxing last weekend
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5342/9281671555_11c770c747.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9281671555/)
IMG_0435 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9281671555/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 20 July, 2013, 01:39:16 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/calley.jpg)

Hiding in a gorse bush.

And not

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/calley_.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 24 July, 2013, 11:33:29 am
Shamelessly nicked from the Victoria Blue Cross animal hospital's Facebook feed (https://www.facebook.com/bluecrossvictoria).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/small.php?file=BlueCrossVictoria_Badger.jpg&size=480&hash=4ba0f2294865cd908fd4b87451a0a4ea) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/BlueCrossVictoria_Badger.jpg)
Badger the kitten, getting slightly messy!

That almost looks like porridge, presumably something they feed the young abandoned kittens to help build them up.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 July, 2013, 12:55:30 pm
*squeee*
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Post by: TimO on 24 July, 2013, 01:30:05 pm
... That almost looks like porridge, presumably something they feed the young abandoned kittens to help build them up.

Apparently it's "... a mixture of kitten food and baby cat milk blended together to encourage him to eat on his own."
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Post by: Pingu on 24 July, 2013, 02:59:53 pm
Good to hear she's feeling better  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 July, 2013, 06:54:07 pm
^+1
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Post by: marcusjb on 24 July, 2013, 07:26:34 pm
What a little cutie Socks is.  Glad she's a bit perkier now. 
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Post by: Biff on 29 July, 2013, 08:50:21 pm
(http://diavp4lbkev7p.cloudfront.net/notright/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/JUMP-9-TIMES-Sue-Z-Cue-350x350.jpg?version=99)
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Post by: Andrij on 30 July, 2013, 08:38:22 am
Nicked from FaceAche...

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/q71/46402_590384471012193_2091865623_n.jpg)
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Post by: fuzzy on 30 July, 2013, 08:27:37 pm
Scooby and friend-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03868.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03868.jpg.html)
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Post by: Jaded on 30 July, 2013, 10:39:25 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: spesh on 01 August, 2013, 05:06:31 pm
This is my cat Merlin - or rather, I am his human...  ;)

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/pompeybiker/Where%20The%20Wild%20Things%20Are/P9150032a.jpg) (http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/pompeybiker/media/Where%20The%20Wild%20Things%20Are/P9150032a.jpg.html)
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Post by: Basil on 01 August, 2013, 07:55:53 pm
Pearl says, "Look, I'm 17, most of me aches, and I'm pissed off.  Just give me my bloody dinner!"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg.html)

Pearl.  Born in Bournville May 1996.  Moved to West Wales 2006. 
A happy street wise cat is now boss of the county.
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Post by: Jaded on 02 August, 2013, 12:15:09 am
Definitely your cat.  :P
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Post by: Salvatore on 13 August, 2013, 03:55:00 pm
Resident cat at Hotel Priut, Solovki (http://goo.gl/maps/bvvQa).
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/9275401921_d11a58c975_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/9275401921/)
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Post by: Riggers on 13 August, 2013, 04:11:34 pm
Pearl says, "Look, I'm 17, most of me aches, and I'm pissed off.  Just give me my bloody dinner!"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg.html)

Pearl.  Born in Bournville May 1996.  Moved to West Wales 2006. 
A happy street wise cat is now boss of the county.

Is Pearl a very small cat, or do you just have a bloody big nose Bazzer?
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Post by: Basil on 13 August, 2013, 05:36:18 pm
 ::-)  ;D
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Post by: clifftaylor on 13 August, 2013, 06:31:15 pm
Er, yes, actually I've been trapped under this f**king cushion for hours, since you ask.....


(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c212/clifftaylor/newcat013.jpg) (http://s28.photobucket.com/user/clifftaylor/media/newcat013.jpg.html)
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Post by: Feline on 02 September, 2013, 10:02:36 pm
Audio-kitty in disguise
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3808/9655872979_ec96588540_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/9655872979/)
Kiri entertainment system accessory (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/9655872979/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Kim on 02 September, 2013, 10:21:40 pm
I know a goa'uld when I see one!
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Post by: Feline on 02 September, 2013, 11:17:57 pm
I know a goa'uld when I see one!

Ah, but Teal'c is a Jaffa!!
No Goa'uld in the pic, it's still a larval form!
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Post by: Kim on 02 September, 2013, 11:20:17 pm
I know a goa'uld when I see one!

Ah, but Teal'c is a Jaffa!!
No Goa'uld in the pic, it's still a larval form!

I was referring to Kiri.  Those glowing eyes are one of the classic signs of being under goa'uld control.  Other symptoms include vanity, arrogance, bad planning and a perverse desire to see lesser mortals suffer ...but this is a cat we're talking about.
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Post by: peliroja on 03 September, 2013, 12:16:40 am
Pearl says, "Look, I'm 17, most of me aches, and I'm pissed off.  Just give me my bloody dinner!"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg.html)

Pearl.  Born in Bournville May 1996.  Moved to West Wales 2006. 
A happy street wise cat is now boss of the county.

Is Pearl a very small cat, or do you just have a bloody big nose Bazzer?
Guffaw!  :D
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Post by: Feline on 03 September, 2013, 12:25:44 pm
I know a goa'uld when I see one!

Ah, but Teal'c is a Jaffa!!
No Goa'uld in the pic, it's still a larval form!

I was referring to Kiri.  Those glowing eyes are one of the classic signs of being under goa'uld control.  Other symptoms include vanity, arrogance, bad planning and a perverse desire to see lesser mortals suffer ...but this is a cat we're talking about.

Oh gods, I think you could be right  :o
Kiri definitely has a poorly thought-out plan for world domination, and many a rodent and slow worm has suffered in her cruel paws! Is there no chance she could be Tok'ra?  :-\
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Post by: simonp on 03 September, 2013, 12:41:07 pm
I know a goa'uld when I see one!

Ah, but Teal'c is a Jaffa!!
No Goa'uld in the pic, it's still a larval form!

I was referring to Kiri.  Those glowing eyes are one of the classic signs of being under goa'uld control.  Other symptoms include vanity, arrogance, bad planning and a perverse desire to see lesser mortals suffer ...but this is a cat we're talking about.

Oh gods, I think you could be right  :o
Kiri definitely has a poorly thought-out plan for world domination, and many a rodent and slow worm has suffered in her cruel paws! Is there no chance she could be Tok'ra?  :-\

She says 'Ra!' a lot. But is she for or against?

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Post by: Pingu on 05 September, 2013, 06:58:41 pm
Mrs P makes a holiday friend:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/9665254823_aaaf53606b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9665254823/)
IMG_2111 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9665254823/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Palinurus on 07 September, 2013, 11:03:41 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/iwJl3lx.jpg)
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Post by: Gattopardo on 08 September, 2013, 01:55:02 am
Shocked cat?
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Post by: spesh on 08 September, 2013, 08:10:48 pm
Shocked cat?

What has been seen, cannot be unseen (http://lolheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1985.jpg).  ;)
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Post by: fuzzy on 09 September, 2013, 08:38:55 pm
Willow having a stretch and scratch-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03922.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03922.jpg.html)

Before settling down-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03928.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03928.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03929.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03929.jpg.html)

Scooby the Bag Cat-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03916.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03916.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03914.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03914.jpg.html)

Whilst willow maintains an air of being well, settled down-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03918.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03918.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03921.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03921.jpg.html)

On top of the wall unit, keeping thje boiler cupboard company is a favourite Willow perch.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 September, 2013, 08:47:37 pm
Nice paw shot :)
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Post by: Jaded on 15 September, 2013, 10:16:29 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/caley_on_floor.jpg)
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Post by: Chris S on 16 September, 2013, 07:16:45 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/caley_on_floor.jpg)

"I have perfect camouflage. You cannot see me."
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Post by: Feline on 17 September, 2013, 01:52:19 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/caley_on_floor.jpg)

OMG that cat/kitten is gorgeous! Is this yours Jaded?  :D
More details please!
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Post by: tiermat on 17 September, 2013, 02:00:48 pm
This is Alice, the landlord and landlady's cat, who has a real liking for sitting on my car roof (and dribbling all over my head if I lean against the car whilst talking on the phone)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XH6y20eQDKQ/Uh-K-Zs3voI/AAAAAAAAEl8/996mLddTaLI/w636-h477-
no/20130829_185056.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 September, 2013, 02:35:25 pm
awwh, she's a cutie
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Post by: Jaded on 17 September, 2013, 03:06:51 pm
OMG that cat/kitten is gorgeous! Is this yours Jaded?  :D
More details please!

She is Abyssinian, 5.5 years old, a breeding dam that had a lot of problems with litters, so she has become a pet. Along with an orange Aby kitten, who she is getting used to. Her colouring is amazing - it really is a salmon pink undercoat and shirt front.

It's great to have katters and kitters again!
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Post by: Jacomus on 18 September, 2013, 12:21:27 pm
Princess, demonstrating the pitfalls of mono-directional concealment.

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0628_zps69868502.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/IMAG0629_zps1bc0888f.jpg)
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Post by: Feline on 18 September, 2013, 01:02:25 pm
OMG that cat/kitten is gorgeous! Is this yours Jaded?  :D
More details please!

She is Abyssinian, 5.5 years old, a breeding dam that had a lot of problems with litters, so she has become a pet. Along with an orange Aby kitten, who she is getting used to. Her colouring is amazing - it really is a salmon pink undercoat and shirt front.

It's great to have katters and kitters again!

That's fantastic news  :D
Congratulations!
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Post by: Regulator on 22 September, 2013, 01:39:15 pm
Pearl says, "Look, I'm 17, most of me aches, and I'm pissed off.  Just give me my bloody dinner!"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/51ad5781-a66b-4524-a9d6-741269d00beb_zps61989ddc.jpg.html)

Pearl.  Born in Bournville May 1996.  Moved to West Wales 2006. 
A happy street wise cat is now boss of the county.

Fabulous photo.  Makes me think of Horse, from Footrot Flats. (http://www.oneil.com.au/footrot/ch_horse.shtml)   ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2013, 06:50:17 pm
Pippin does a lot of this these days:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/10120002904_c67fb0f252_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/10120002904/)
IMG_2377 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/10120002904/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Biff on 08 October, 2013, 05:41:51 pm
(http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/flickr-8.jpg)
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Post by: Woofage on 09 October, 2013, 10:20:15 pm
Nicked this off Miss Woofage's FB page:

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3680/10176934593_4c4ededd8e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38357939@N02/10176934593/)
988307_187570124759676_1448569262_n.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/38357939@N02/10176934593/) by pencyclist (http://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr

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Post by: Pingu on 09 October, 2013, 10:28:06 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Riggers on 10 October, 2013, 10:18:18 am
That's a fantastic pic Woofers. Makes you wonder… how many hairs does a cat have?
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Post by: Jaded on 10 October, 2013, 07:23:20 pm
This may have been done before, and probably should be on Single Issue Blogs

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/05/18/9-pictures-of-cats-on-glass-tables-from-below/

I'm surprised Roger hasn't found this one.  ;)
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Post by: Andrij on 10 October, 2013, 08:28:40 pm
This may have been done before, and probably should be on Single Issue Blogs

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/05/18/9-pictures-of-cats-on-glass-tables-from-below/

I'm surprised Roger hasn't found this one.  ;)

Wouldn't be surprised if he's found a similar one...
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Post by: Basil on 10 October, 2013, 09:26:01 pm
Meet - oh, she hasn't got a name yet.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1381434451_zpsc0a6a047.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1381434451_zpsc0a6a047.jpg.html) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1381434852_zpsa2ab5bc5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1381434852_zpsa2ab5bc5.jpg.html)

She seemed very happy that we had provided a bed for her to sleep in

(click to show/hide)

We won't name her until we've had her long enough to see what fits with her personality.
We're putting suggestions up on the chalk board in the kitchen.  So far we seem to be going for traditional English girls' names.

#1 Son:  "We're not having any of your silly cycling names like Campag or Sprocket"

Me:  "Fair enough, how about Beryl?"  :demon:

#1 Son:  "Yeah, that's good"
 ;D

So far we've got:

Susan
Suzie
The Cat
Beryl
Porridge
Sam

Porridge?  ???  Actually, I think I might like that.
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Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2013, 09:35:08 pm
Meet - oh, she hasn't got a name yet.

Cuteness!

Quote
She seemed very happy that we had provided a bed for her to sleep in

(click to show/hide)

I believe that's technically known as "doing a Zev"   :D
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Post by: Basil on 10 October, 2013, 09:40:52 pm
Actually, she's from not very far from Kim/barakta towers.  Quite possibly a distant relative of Zev's
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Post by: Wombat on 10 October, 2013, 09:48:24 pm
That is one seriously cute kitty!

Re: Beryl, go for it, I reckon her thighs might develop adequately in time...  then tell the family who Beryl is, in about a year's time.

Actually our animals rarely get addressed by their names.  Tirion is frequently referred to as stripey ('cos she is) grumpy ('cos she is) or stumpy ('cos she walks all stumpy, like, due to a spine problem).

Baggins is either "big cat", "lumpy" ('cos he is, and it sort of goes with "stumpy") or "bloodyhellcatyourpawsareheavy" or sometimes, whilst I'm in bed "getoffmybollocksyoubastard".  This said, I do love him dearly, and must get off my arse and post pics of the great lump here.

Surya is frequently referred to as "dog" (way too obvious to explain), stinky (ditto) or "getoutofthebloodywayyoustupidanimal" due to her tendency to be very friendly, to the extent that wherever you are trying to go, there is a border collie right in front of you.  She is rightly terrified of the cats...
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Post by: Clare on 10 October, 2013, 10:08:35 pm
 ;D

That reminds me of my aunt who guide walked for the blind. Puppies have to learn seven commands, except hers learned eight, the eighth being " 'op it " which my uncle taught them.



Basil, Beryl is very cute.

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Post by: marcusjb on 11 October, 2013, 07:26:35 am
She's adorable basil. Even sleeping in her nice gritty bed.

Very lovely.
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Post by: Riggers on 11 October, 2013, 09:19:34 am
Noodle, the 3-legged cat goes bonkers!

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle061013_zps3e8fe737.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Noodle061013_zps3e8fe737.jpg.html)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2013, 07:47:49 pm
Yay for Noodle!

Beryl is v kewt Basil :)
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Post by: TimO on 11 October, 2013, 08:52:05 pm
I believe that's technically known as "doing a Zev"   :D

Which she has luckily grown out of. :)

Actually, she's from not very far from Kim/barakta towers.  Quite possibly a distant relative of Zev's

Her colouring isn't massively distinct from Zev, but Zev has relatively small patches on her bib and underside, and her paws are entirely black.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 11 October, 2013, 09:06:35 pm
The various Zev-shaped cats we see around the area have different amounts of white, but a distinctive stockiness.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 11 October, 2013, 09:17:04 pm
Our kitting's sister was much more stockier but slightly longer haired.  We didn't choose her due to long hair and asthma probs.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 12 October, 2013, 08:12:11 am
Noodle, the 3-legged cat goes bonkers!

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle061013_zps3e8fe737.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Noodle061013_zps3e8fe737.jpg.html)

I take it the lack of leg isn't stopping her getting around then?

She's looking good!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 15 October, 2013, 11:13:54 am
She's learnin' to cope well. Sometimes, round the house, you can hear the thud, thud, thud, as if she's got a wooden crutch under her arm. And we've witnessed her scampering along the pavement at high speed, though she has to adjust her direction, because she veers off to one side.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 17 October, 2013, 09:55:05 am
^ that's all good to hear!

Here's a picture of our two looking like the saddest, grumpiest cats ever!  (Well Mr Bear's full name is Mr Bear Grumpikins!).  They are not really sad (I hope!).  They seem to be settling into their new home rather well and Bear, in particular, has become a lot more sociable and friendly since the move (we suspect that any residual scent of our previous male cat in the last place may have unsettled him slightly or something). 

We've moved to a much higher density cat area - whilst ours don't go out onto the road, they seem pretty happy to run around the garden - but there are a number of cats who appear on top of fences and gates to annoy them.  We've only had 1 cat actually jump down into the garden, it didn't cause much stress really - unlike the squirrel that went to try and collect fallen fruit on the ground - that did cause a bit of fun and games.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7385/10324902766_398afbfd3c_b.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 October, 2013, 12:03:33 pm
:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 17 October, 2013, 12:51:40 pm
You need the vacuum on your carpet!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 18 October, 2013, 05:19:00 pm
They're not grumpy, they are just considering the more serious and weighty issues of life.  Its a responsible job being a cat, y'know.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 18 October, 2013, 06:36:25 pm
They're waiting for you to go away so they can continue plotting.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 October, 2013, 02:47:30 pm
Watch out when you are packing camera gear to go away...

No one is looking...
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_4827.jpg)

OK - plan complete!
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_4833.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 October, 2013, 02:49:03 pm
Fruit Cat

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_4790.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 19 October, 2013, 02:54:14 pm
Willow once again engaged in her second favourite hobby-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03987.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03987.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 30 October, 2013, 11:37:15 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/1009508_384241618374466_1486923817_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 October, 2013, 07:49:28 pm
Yes??

;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 06 November, 2013, 11:17:13 am
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0643_zpscdf53777.jpg)

DAMMIT HUMANZ, PUT TEH HEATIN ON ALREADY
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: onb on 17 November, 2013, 09:57:36 am
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/onb/037.jpg) (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/onb/media/037.jpg.html)


more synchronised sleeping
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 18 November, 2013, 08:26:18 am
It would appear (although I haven't done any extensive research) that the Shark Cat has not appeared yet anywhere in these hallowed portals. That is a mortal sin that requires rectification

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc

There are many more vids, including shark cat and shark dog, with added duck. Youtube is your friend.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 18 November, 2013, 05:57:12 pm
Excellent!! Reminds me of the video for Virtual Insanity.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Hot Flatus on 21 November, 2013, 06:11:44 am
a. spaceman (@adamrensch) tweeted at 8:49 PM on Fri, Oct 25, 2013:
why is this the funniest thing ever http://t.co/dwxBOFnlwB
(https://twitter.com/adamrensch/status/393826728218349568
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 November, 2013, 04:24:14 pm
She's growing up!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/catter.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 30 November, 2013, 01:58:19 pm
Soon she might even grow into her ears  ;D

We know its winter when Kiri never leaves her heated bed. Rico joined her for a change this week.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3812/11133019713_a13b7ab3a7_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/11133019713/)
kiri and Rico  (http://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/11133019713/) by Lara Feline (http://www.flickr.com/people/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 01 December, 2013, 01:22:14 pm
Recharging her batteries.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/7d6886dd0d9e06c4c1b7947d7236c5ff/tumblr_mqp8jdypWx1rq3b5ko1_500.png)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 01 December, 2013, 02:58:28 pm
Presumably when the eyes turn orange, she's charged...?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 14 December, 2013, 01:40:04 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevOnTheChair_500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevOnTheChair.jpg)

Zev, being her normal highly active self.  I never ceased to be amazed about the positions that a cat finds comfortable!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 December, 2013, 06:28:21 pm
Two sleepy cats.

Mojo, paw over his nose:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/11497097906_9c437acb15_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11497097906/)
IMG_2589 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11497097906/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Unknown cat:

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/11497290634_79bc2fc8bf_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11497290634/)
IMG_2559 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11497290634/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 December, 2013, 06:36:57 pm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/the-most-awkward-cats-of-2013?sub=2818960_2143204
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 23 December, 2013, 08:09:27 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6608.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 23 December, 2013, 08:30:51 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/11498769435_84eca731d5_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2013, 11:08:27 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6644.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 25 December, 2013, 11:30:45 pm
Sorry - here's some more!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6672.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6689.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6718.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 28 December, 2013, 06:41:49 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSofaChristmas2013_512.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSofaChristmas2013.jpg)

Earlier Zev was peering over my shoulder at the screen of this netbook, apparently interested in what was on the screen (possibly about to launch herself at the mouse icon!)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 28 December, 2013, 09:58:48 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3758/11498769435_84eca731d5_b.jpg)

ooOOoo - internally lit cushions. Posh.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 29 December, 2013, 06:32:10 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/Facebook/1545824_10152182060929451_1705838696_n.jpg)
Merry Christmas Tia.

No, she isn't loving the hat as much as we are.

Tomorrow we'll see how much Kitty & Murphy & Tino like it.

Mwahahahaha....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 01 January, 2014, 11:01:28 am
Sorry - here's some more!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6672.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6689.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6718.jpg)

I think you left your mog out in the rain, Jaded, it seems to have gone rusty... bloody handsome puss, though, and the wall climbing pic is brilliant!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 January, 2014, 04:25:51 pm
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2847/11688234365_37220942c1_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11688234365/)
IMG_2620 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11688234365/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 January, 2014, 02:04:07 pm
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5471/11708559773_59f5937c08_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11708559773/)
IMG_2636 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11708559773/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 05 January, 2014, 01:28:28 pm
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/sunking101/563E379A-0E7A-4BB3-984F-ADC1C6B8970A.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 05 January, 2014, 07:56:26 pm
"So I said to her... "
"Ooh you never..."
"Well she's no better than she should be"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z3U0udLH974
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 06 January, 2014, 01:49:25 pm
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/11798852024_6b583b86ff_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/11798852024/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/11798852024/) by essexian (http://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr



Jamise overworking again  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 07 January, 2014, 08:10:03 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ii7PiFE.jpg)

Found on the interwebs....

That's one scary looking cat..... :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 07 January, 2014, 08:22:59 pm
As I haven't spammed this thread with any TripodKitty photos in a while...

(http://distilleryimage11.ak.instagram.com/b843d6da545511e384c012a5c69f7cea_8.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 07 January, 2014, 09:04:47 pm
Awww - she's the perfect antidote to that flipping scary beast above!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 07 January, 2014, 10:43:41 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/M1071706_zps2b20e0b3.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/M1071692_zps6113e679.jpg)

Princess's fur, coupled with low light in our bedroom make photographing her very tough!

And yes, you can actually see me in her eye in the second photo!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 09 January, 2014, 12:21:56 am
Kiri again:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5504/11845684474_fea3e86fd1_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/11845684474/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/11845684474/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 January, 2014, 11:47:14 pm
I had a visitor tonight

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Harry_zpsa0c9de08.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 12 January, 2014, 12:53:23 pm
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7326/11905306865_58412c5951_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11905306865/)
EK001424 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/11905306865/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 14 January, 2014, 10:56:57 am
(http://zeqps2k4t563atbs730zvzq12aw.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/15..png)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 January, 2014, 11:15:50 am
That's my favourite for ages !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 January, 2014, 07:57:14 pm
The cat looks slightly ashamed. The dog looks like it's the bees knees!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 16 January, 2014, 03:09:26 pm
(http://lovemeow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/D6AC53D8-63BF-406C-A234-F899A03F7287.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: woollypigs on 16 January, 2014, 04:27:36 pm
That is not a hug, that is sucking blood, that is.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gus on 18 January, 2014, 05:08:00 pm
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/1557678_212755212261999_1089622157_n_zps706f8199.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/1557678_212755212261999_1089622157_n_zps706f8199.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: woollypigs on 18 January, 2014, 05:13:04 pm
Thank you Gus you owe me a new keyboard :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 19 January, 2014, 09:03:34 pm
 ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 20 January, 2014, 06:12:31 pm
Felines.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3681/12054990136_8fdef1bacf_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/12054990136/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27424426@N00/12054990136/) by SimonP2006 (http://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 January, 2014, 12:12:25 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_box.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 January, 2014, 12:16:35 am
Tired kitteh

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/sleep_cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 February, 2014, 04:41:35 pm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/samir/cats-who-have-found-that-perfect-place-to-relax
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 09 February, 2014, 09:33:59 pm
Some time back, I dismantled Zev Towers (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg1084921#msg1084921) because Zev was no longer living in that room exclusively, and I needed it for visitors of the non-feline variety!

I just reassembled some of it, to give Zev a perch where she can sleep and watch the outside world go by, when she doesn't want to go out.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingOnPerch_500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevSleepingOnPerch.jpg)

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevCurledUpOnPerch_500.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/ZevCurledUpOnPerch.jpg)

She's slept on it several times since I put it there, so it's obviously a hit. The washing machine and dish washer are just below her, so she does tend to pop her head up, and watch me, when I'm filling or emptying them.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spindrift on 18 February, 2014, 07:39:54 pm
Stupid cat is stupid:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99498418@N05/12596370174/in/photostream/

Curls up and goes to sleep in the litter tray with a comfy basket and pillow next to it. Stupid.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 18 February, 2014, 08:31:11 pm
Curls up and goes to sleep in the litter tray with a comfy basket and pillow next to it. Stupid.

Zev has previous for doing that...

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/kitten/IMG_2906.sized.jpg)

She didn't want to leave the security of the bath at that point, and preferred the texture of the litter to that of the bath mat I'd put in just out of shot (which she later decided to pee on).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 18 February, 2014, 08:53:14 pm
Yep.  Dafydd did that too, when he first came to us at 9 weeks old.He was called Beryl at the time.  oops.   :facepalm:
Daf will be six months old next week and he has an appointment with the vet.  Best we don't tell him what's going to happen, eh?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 February, 2014, 01:22:02 pm
Harry is not the least bit self-conscious about sleeping in someone else's house.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/snoozyHarry_zps3a2a81a5.jpg)

Plus, he's caught two mice here this week (and tidied one of the corpses away into the pencil case I use to keep my emery boards and broken nail clippers in).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 February, 2014, 09:15:56 pm
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3741/12703563853_6c768363a3_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/12703563853/)
IMG_2709 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/12703563853/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2014, 12:14:19 am
Enjoying the sun in a shop window:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7331/13611287075_863f546ae1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 April, 2014, 11:11:12 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/fighty_cats.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 05 May, 2014, 03:20:26 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm2mnbpCYAAtcu3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrew Br on 05 May, 2014, 10:27:50 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm2mnbpCYAAtcu3.jpg)

Snort  ;D



Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 07 May, 2014, 07:54:58 pm
Aaah.

(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/corvusalba1/68960042/423725/423725_original.gif)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 09 May, 2014, 07:19:15 pm
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PXF7hMfKsVo/U20aW6L7PPI/AAAAAAAABhc/J5VtrG9uWjE/w506-h800/BM2lrRT.gif)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 22 May, 2014, 11:05:25 am
Boris the Blade after being chased up a tree by his nemesis, The Cat of God

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14056894409_103b9d8647_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 22 May, 2014, 01:54:24 pm
Did he get himself down OK or have you had to request the attendance of a big red lorry with ladders?  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 22 May, 2014, 01:59:08 pm
Boris the Blade after being chased up a tree by his nemesis, The Cat of God

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2922/14056894409_103b9d8647_z.jpg)

We need a photo of his nemesis

Boris the Blade always looks like a pretty tough cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 May, 2014, 03:38:52 pm
Boris the Blade is a total wuss. But he's very handsome.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 22 May, 2014, 03:43:42 pm
Figaro and Bella share a joke
(http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1889&pictureid=17701)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 26 May, 2014, 05:54:54 pm
Remember Beryl?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1381434451_zpsc0a6a047.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1381434451_zpsc0a6a047.jpg.html) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1381434852_zpsa2ab5bc5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1381434852_zpsa2ab5bc5.jpg.html)

Well in seven months or so she grew up to be a boy named Dafydd.

You know what they say about cats with big feet?  They have very large tails.  :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/IMG_20140525_194601_zps189b8606.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/IMG_20140525_194601_zps189b8606.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/IMG_20140525_194836_zps3b3103f8.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/IMG_20140525_194836_zps3b3103f8.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 May, 2014, 08:14:44 pm
Dafydd is very handsome indeed!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 May, 2014, 08:18:03 pm
Luigi is very tired

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Luigi_zps86af9ba7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 May, 2014, 08:28:14 pm
Given that photo I think Lurgi would be a better spelling.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 May, 2014, 09:40:28 pm
He's very tired because he was slaughtering baby birds as presents for my cousin at 6.30 this morning.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 27 May, 2014, 07:14:30 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27507950
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 27 May, 2014, 09:26:27 pm
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23853117/YACF/IMG_0967.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 May, 2014, 11:12:18 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3714/14124970249_82365d42fb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nwbaxP)
EK004975 (https://flic.kr/p/nwbaxP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 June, 2014, 07:41:38 pm
Sleepy old Pippin

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3894/14335998301_1e591fd6eb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nQPJQv)
IMG_3262 (https://flic.kr/p/nQPJQv) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spindrift on 03 June, 2014, 07:48:46 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3702/14327927733_a531fbd22d_b.jpg)

"Fly to me, you feathery snacks"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 June, 2014, 06:34:41 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3925/14180621448_01856b0a9f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nB6oHf)
IMG_3268 (https://flic.kr/p/nB6oHf) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 08 June, 2014, 12:27:02 am
Cat basket

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_basket.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2014, 01:05:30 am
^ Cat fell out of a window this evening.


2nd floor window. After an emergency vet call out (only a child at home) she* seems to be sore but OK.

*cat, not vet, or child.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 19 June, 2014, 12:37:43 pm
Cats are astoundingly good at falling out of windows.  I read somewhere that they achieve terminal velocity after about 10 metres, and can usually survive that with no or minor injuries, depending on the surface they land on (and whether there's anything wrong with them that interferes with their proper landing instinct).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 19 June, 2014, 12:43:29 pm
Glad the cat is all okay. 

Daft animals.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 19 June, 2014, 02:24:54 pm
Cat and beer …

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle-and-beer_zps10078e85.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Noodle-and-beer_zps10078e85.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 19 June, 2014, 04:41:54 pm
Sorted …


(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/cat_basket_zps9d09073f.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/cat_basket_zps9d09073f.jpg.html)
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Post by: Jaded on 19 June, 2014, 04:44:32 pm
 ;D ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 19 June, 2014, 05:54:42 pm
Cat and beer …

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Noodle-and-beer_zps10078e85.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Noodle-and-beer_zps10078e85.jpg.html)

Not ready for the hard stuff?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-27902164
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2014, 08:05:47 pm
Laffs at Riggers. Glad windowlene kitteh is OK Jaded. Mojo seemed to survive his trip off our first floor OK, though he doesn't want to go out any more, which is good being as he can't see or hear....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 20 June, 2014, 12:49:25 pm
Sadly, 3-legged Noodle can't jump for toffee, and I don't think she's caught even one mouse. Her sister's caught over 50, but none this year. I don't think, given their ages, there's much chance of them reaching over 28,0000 mice somehow! That's a plague isn't it?

And good to hear Jaders's Ginger's okay.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 23 June, 2014, 12:18:46 am
Eels that must have been worrying Jaded  :o
I worry about my Kiri doing the same thing. She climbs out of our bathroom window onto the garage roof, but occasionally seems to want to do the same from the bedroom window which would give her a 20 foot drop onto the patio. I once ended up yelling at her from the garden to not jump off the ledge while Simon rushed into the room to retrieve her. We can't open those windows more than one notch safely now  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 24 June, 2014, 08:59:53 am
Not actually a cat pic .... http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-06/23/mew-cat-theremin
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 24 June, 2014, 12:33:47 pm
Eels that must have been worrying Jaded  :o
I worry about my Kiri doing the same thing. She climbs out of our bathroom window onto the garage roof, but occasionally seems to want to do the same from the bedroom window which would give her a 20 foot drop onto the patio. I once ended up yelling at her from the garden to not jump off the ledge while Simon rushed into the room to retrieve her. We can't open those windows more than one notch safely now  ::-)

I have to be careful at home, second floor (ground, first and second) window and Daisy will go out pane one along the UPVC external window sill and in pane 3, Pane 2 doesn't open.  :o

I twitch each time I see it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 24 June, 2014, 12:37:10 pm
Eels that must have been worrying Jaded  :o
I worry about my Kiri doing the same thing. She climbs out of our bathroom window onto the garage roof, but occasionally seems to want to do the same from the bedroom window which would give her a 20 foot drop onto the patio. I once ended up yelling at her from the garden to not jump off the ledge while Simon rushed into the room to retrieve her. We can't open those windows more than one notch safely now  ::-)

I have to be careful at home, second floor (ground, first and second) window and Daisy will go out pane one along the UPVC external window sill and in pane 3, Pane 2 doesn't open.  :o

I twitch each time I see it.

It's brings to mind a cat I treated at work many moons ago who lived in a block of flats and would do the window ledge thing from room to room. What the cat failed to take into account was that when she was pregnant ..... splat  :facepalm: She survived with surgery, although her womb ruptured and the kittens did not.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 24 June, 2014, 04:53:22 pm
Fortunately she didn't do it in that condition and has now been spayed, however at 16 years of age she is now getting more unsteady on her feet and has been known to attempt to jump from a lap to a table and fall short.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 June, 2014, 11:58:25 pm
Tap Cat
The indisputable leader of the gang
She's the boss, she's the pip
She's the championship
She's the most tip tap
Tap Cat

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Tap_Cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Vince on 30 June, 2014, 02:32:39 pm
We don't have a cat, but occasionally Boy Wunja borrows the cat that owns our street.

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20140504_153143_zps4bqw7p3w.jpg)

For the first six months I was convinced that it was a soft toy that someone draped over cars - it never moved, just slept. More recently it has taken to sitting in the middle of the road watching cars trying to get around it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 05 July, 2014, 02:17:23 pm
Whilst I'm watching the Tour de France passing through Yorkshire, Zev decided to have a snooze on my clean washing, which I'd foolishly left on the bed!

(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10346611_10100192722157275_4785936784268502125_n.jpg)

... and yes, that is a YACF jersey.  :)
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Post by: barakta on 05 July, 2014, 08:55:02 pm
Aww Zevkitteh!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 July, 2014, 07:47:49 pm
Heeeeeeeeere's Pete!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3327_zps2e4df4e7.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3330_zps3317b30d.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3331_zpsf65fabe2.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3337_zps5b8c77f2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 07 July, 2014, 07:50:11 pm
 :D :D :D  Squeeeeeee !   What a fine looking chap  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 07 July, 2014, 08:08:02 pm
Awww! He is a photogenic cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 07 July, 2014, 08:09:46 pm
Is he cuddly?  He looks cuddly.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 July, 2014, 08:20:02 pm
He is very disappointed every time I put the laptop on my lap, and as soon as I put it down, he takes its place.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2014, 08:30:12 pm
The last 4 cats my brothers have had all hid for a week so I think he must like you if you're getting laps already!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 July, 2014, 08:36:53 pm
I love the fact that he has his own place mat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 07 July, 2014, 08:46:32 pm
Aw he's so adorable!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 July, 2014, 08:54:40 pm
I love the fact that he has his own place mat.
That's his scratching mat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 July, 2014, 08:59:41 pm
Come on, he lives in Edinburgh, not Glasgow  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 07 July, 2014, 10:07:20 pm
pretty kitty  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2014, 09:39:09 am
I'm somewhat surprised that no-one appears yet to have 'shopped a cat onto double TdF stage winner Marcel Kittel.

Marcel Kitteh, anyone?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 12 July, 2014, 12:54:08 pm
Pete is adorable! I love the neatly placed paws in the last shot. Squee!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 July, 2014, 06:19:30 pm
Come on, he lives in Edinburgh, not Glasgow  ::-)
He does have a placemat, but he sees it as a thing to scatter biscuits across, and once they're on the mat, he can't possibly eat them.

I got him the igloo bed you see in the background, and that was as close as he ever got to it. So I took it back and changed it for a hooded one and he ignored that too.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3328_zpsac2ab59f.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3334_zps1c01b621.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3339_zps5bc0abbd.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3341_zps86370b53.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3342_zps2ecb26e5.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3346_zpsd32d54fa.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/Petebelly_zps731bb6c7.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/Peteremotes_zps80ea9f8d.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/Petestretching_zps970f2787.jpg)

At last a bed he likes!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/Petebed_zps3f4aa400.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 July, 2014, 11:09:50 pm
Cat paws.

Is there anything else in the world better to look at?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 12 July, 2014, 11:14:22 pm
Cat paws.

Is there anything else in the world better to look at?

Baby human paws.  It's all about the opposable thumb action (sorry, barakta).


On the subject of cat beds, there's a hefty location, location, location factor.  Floor level is cold and rubbish.  A good view of the room is essential.  Heat sources are always a plus.  Randomly inconveniencing humans is a bonus too.  So where you think is a good place for the cat bed and where the cat is interested in sleeping don't always line up...

I've yet to meet a cat that didn't like those radiator-mounted snuggle cat beds, though size and number of cats trying to occupy them simultaneously can be an issue.  Cat bed on the far side of the kitchen always went down well with my parents' cats: They'd have a nice warm vantage point to lazily observe what was going on, and as a result tended to get under feet less when cooking was in progress (they soon learned exactly when to leap down and start nagging, though).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 13 July, 2014, 09:02:17 am
That's a cat who knows he's arrived. :) Lucky wee chap. Love the belly!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 13 July, 2014, 09:11:58 am
What a handsome chap!

He looks a lovely cat and lots of belly exposing hopefully shows he is pretty comfortable around you.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 July, 2014, 09:51:07 am
He was showing me his belly the first day we met at the shelter. It's either his preferred sleeping position or he just really likes me.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 13 July, 2014, 01:27:24 pm

I've yet to meet a cat that didn't like those radiator-mounted snuggle cat beds,

I can show you a few, as well as avoiding those heated cat bed things too.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 July, 2014, 11:23:11 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3912/14450256340_d42c3d908c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/o1VkLG)
Tractors on Pippin&#x27;s bandage (https://flic.kr/p/o1VkLG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 July, 2014, 11:42:25 pm
Awww. Give her a stroke a hug
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 July, 2014, 03:59:43 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Rhue_Cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 July, 2014, 04:26:04 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3912/14450256340_d42c3d908c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/o1VkLG)
Tractors on Pippin&#x27;s bandage (https://flic.kr/p/o1VkLG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr

Uhoh.  Talisker used to regularly end up with a bandage wrapped around his leg, when he had a blood test.  I was always impressed with how easily it came away from his fur, it's a material actually designed for cats and dogs (and presumably other fluffy animals).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 July, 2014, 05:57:58 pm
Mmm yes it's weird stuff, sticks to itself but it's not sticky. She wasn't very impressed about us cutting it off just now, poor wee toot.
Back to the vet on Thursday for another blood glucose (being as she's had no insulin since last Tuesday). At least that's what the appointment is for at the moment, bit of a fluid situation  :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Colin. on 17 July, 2014, 08:30:07 pm
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5581/14491610249_f72e33defb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/o5zhR8)Works cat (https://flic.kr/p/o5zhR8) by colincycle (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr



Not my cat, she is the work cat. She was born there and was untouched by any human for the first 2 years of her life. She is fed and watered but she hunts for a living. She kills a lot of rats and mice. She will now let only 4 people get near her and touch her. She does now come and greet the people she likes in the mornings. Some days she will find somewhere to lay and watch us working. When she was 2 y/o she cut her leg and as she wouldn't let anyone to touch her. She was caught with the aid of a fishing landing net and taken to the vets. She had her leg stitched and was spade at the same time. It then took her a couple of years to decide some people aren't all bad.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 July, 2014, 09:57:33 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3355_zps8a4ae6a7.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3357_zps069c5ec3.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3359_zpse8a1673b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 22 July, 2014, 05:56:15 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/rhue_cat_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 24 July, 2014, 09:34:56 pm
Synchronised nomming

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3858/14733882514_8173d314ac_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/orYZX9)
IMG_3594 (https://flic.kr/p/orYZX9) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2014, 02:18:46 pm
He has the choice of the chair, the sofa, his bed and three cardboard boxes, but the place he really wants to sleep is on my manky old slippers

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3368_zps6acd1861.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 27 July, 2014, 04:00:33 pm
Zev's been a little warm over the last few days, so she's relaxing a bit!

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/small.php?size=512&file=HotZev_gimped.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/HotZev_gimped.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 29 July, 2014, 07:49:31 pm
Do I smell cheese?

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3859/14775673221_17d28a745f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ovFbSz)
IMG_3616 (https://flic.kr/p/ovFbSz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 29 July, 2014, 11:50:04 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3875/14593964419_ac5f5b1324_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oeBTbc)
IMG_3619 (https://flic.kr/p/oeBTbc) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Vince on 31 July, 2014, 09:17:54 pm
The Cat That Owns Our Street

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-07-31215716_zpsf5ee4c1c.jpg)

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-07-31215716close_zps2b82f3c0.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 01 August, 2014, 09:38:42 am
Not had a photo of Mr. Bear Grumpikins for a while - mainly because he is usually asleep.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2908/14613827517_d6961fc673_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 August, 2014, 11:00:37 am
The Cat That Owns Our Street

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-07-31215716_zpsf5ee4c1c.jpg)

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-07-31215716close_zps2b82f3c0.jpg)

I for one welcome our new feline overlords...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 August, 2014, 08:31:29 pm
They're everywhere.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3060/13009188714_a6973c612d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/kPzuz9)
EK004912 (https://flic.kr/p/kPzuz9) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 August, 2014, 10:12:43 am
I can just hear them:

Quote from: CATS

You have no chance to survive make your time

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 August, 2014, 11:01:22 am
I can just hear them:

Quote from: CATS

You have no chance to survive make your time


All your tuna are belong to us.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 August, 2014, 11:23:40 am
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3360_zpseafcbd2e.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3366_zps7a70eea2.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3367_zpsc8b213eb.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3373_zps5f885326.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 August, 2014, 09:25:04 pm
A very old lady makes a rare excursion outside.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3854/14630775198_9a9f7dff25_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ohSxJN)
IMG_1015 (https://flic.kr/p/ohSxJN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 10 August, 2014, 06:20:26 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/watching2014-08-08_.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 11 August, 2014, 01:56:16 pm
A very old lady makes a rare excursion outside.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3854/14630775198_9a9f7dff25_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ohSxJN)
IMG_1015 (https://flic.kr/p/ohSxJN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Lovely pusscat. Thinking of you.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 August, 2014, 08:03:48 pm
So long, and thanks for all the laps  :'(

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4069/4318064151_d606a5062f_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4318064151/)
IMG_3229 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/4318064151/) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ruth on 12 August, 2014, 08:15:49 pm
 :(

Sorry Mrs. P. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2014, 08:23:02 pm
Oh no  :(

(I normally avoid the pet-specific bad news thread, because it tends to be upsetting.)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 12 August, 2014, 08:29:36 pm
Hugs, to both PS.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 13 August, 2014, 05:35:41 pm
Condolences from the Alexander household [Hugs]
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 August, 2014, 01:31:09 pm
Happy 4th Birthday to..

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3880/14915504002_8a15d5aa15.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oJ2RG7)DSC_0318 (https://flic.kr/p/oJ2RG7) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


"Big" Pootle

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/14915592202_fc0f86d950.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oJ3iUN)DSC_0311 (https://flic.kr/p/oJ3iUN) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Petal (who will do anything for Dreamises)


(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3886/14729419919_d89b88f026.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/orA8nR)DSC_0306 (https://flic.kr/p/orA8nR) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr




Posie or the Model as she prefers to be known.





(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3926/14916070825_e876b0d410.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oJ5LbV)DSC_0302 (https://flic.kr/p/oJ5LbV) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


And Pixie (to the right) along with their Mum, Elma.


(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5573/14892896696_1e1955bfe8.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oG2ZjY)DSC_0315 (https://flic.kr/p/oG2ZjY) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Finally, "Jamise (who once was the kitten but is slowly becoming an old man). 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 August, 2014, 11:01:01 pm
http://lovemeow.com/2014/08/bobo-cat-loves-vacuum-cleaners/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 19 August, 2014, 07:24:20 pm
Willow and Scooby enjoy the sun-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05041.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05041.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05042.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05042.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05043.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05043.jpg.html)

And Willow wonders "Does my bum look big like this?"-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05046.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05046.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 28 August, 2014, 12:39:43 am
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HxryCDzhCQ4/U_5m-l5sTrI/AAAAAAAAr1g/0RM3_rFKXaM/s640/OI000002.jpg)

Yeah, it does
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Biff on 31 August, 2014, 08:41:54 pm
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8287922944/hFC076FD3/)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: redshift on 31 August, 2014, 09:35:17 pm
OK, so I do pencils a bit.  I can stop any time I like...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 01 September, 2014, 09:15:57 am
I love the expression on the last one:

"Wha … What, what!??"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 05 September, 2014, 06:41:27 pm
Some of the French cats from last month's holiday:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3901/15020844396_65b3f6fe7a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oTkKHN)
Big cat diary (https://flic.kr/p/oTkKHN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3902/15097522695_6f2a746c9e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p17Kvr)
IMG_3719 (https://flic.kr/p/p17Kvr) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3886/15097833202_ab24e65da0_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p19kP1)
IMG_3840 (https://flic.kr/p/p19kP1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5581/15098750702_68afd8f6b8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p1e3xY)
IMG_3916 (https://flic.kr/p/p1e3xY) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 05 September, 2014, 06:43:31 pm
We called this one Humbug because of the colours of the toes on its left front paw:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3881/14912591477_8170731f35_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oHLVUa)
IMG_3928 (https://flic.kr/p/oHLVUa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 05 September, 2014, 06:46:33 pm
This wee one visited us quite often. We called him Wonky because he walked funny & didn't seem quite right in the head:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/14846925148_81a611a781_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oBYnA5)
Meet Wonky, the runt of the latest hotel litter of kittehs. (https://flic.kr/p/oBYnA5) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3859/15099144035_27a737ccb9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p1g4tz)
IMG_3922 (https://flic.kr/p/p1g4tz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3911/14877483100_fa91c4293c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oEEZpj)
Sleepy Wonky. (https://flic.kr/p/oEEZpj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 September, 2014, 06:59:06 pm
<misses laps>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 September, 2014, 07:21:03 pm
Wonky sounds great.  :)

In a while, you'll need to go no a kitter hunt...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 September, 2014, 08:16:09 pm
Wonky sounds great.  :)

In a while, you'll need to go no a kitter hunt...

Wonky was cute in a bonkers sort of way.  :-*
I don't think it's fair to get another kitty right now what with Mojo being effectively both deaf and blind now - just making his way round The Igloo is an undertaking.
I may well be in desperate need of a lap, but I reckon Mojo's needs are greater than mine  :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 September, 2014, 11:59:42 pm
Wonky sounds great.  :)

He was quite endearing :-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 07 September, 2014, 12:16:30 am
Some of the French cats from last month's holiday:
[...]

I'm glad it's not just me that sees visiting a new place as an excuse to befriend random cats...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 September, 2014, 12:20:34 am
Some of the French cats from last month's holiday:
[...]

I'm glad it's not just me that sees visiting a new place as an excuse to befriend random cats...

New place? O:-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 September, 2014, 08:41:58 pm
Another of this year's French cats:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14982448738_0fbdd9f98b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oPWY2G)
IMG_1093 (https://flic.kr/p/oPWY2G) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 September, 2014, 08:43:11 pm
And another couple of Wonky:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14982435648_dcf3c41861_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oPWU91)
IMG_1096 (https://flic.kr/p/oPWU91) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5566/15168996695_3712d4539f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p7r5eM)
IMG_1112 (https://flic.kr/p/p7r5eM) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 September, 2014, 04:38:45 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3443_zps47f68192.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 15 September, 2014, 11:40:39 pm
This is Meisiekind, one of the cheetah we sponsor at a sanctuary in South Africa (not my photo- Maxi at the sactuary took it)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/meisiekind-1.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/meisiekind-1.jpg.html)

We got bad news this morning. She had been causing concern recently as she was sometimkes unsteady on her feet and occasionaly couldn't stand. The staff were worried about a virus or infection but the vet was unable to diagnose. On the vets last visit, Meisie died. Susbsequent post mortem revealed a brain tumour. Our beautiful lady has gone :'(

We still sponsor Gia, my thumb sucking baby-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03192.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03192.jpg.html)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC03194.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC03194.jpg.html)

We hope to return to the sanctuary next spring to help out again but, the prospect of not seeing Miesiekind again is very sad.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 September, 2014, 05:45:25 pm
For a change from Kai and Zev, here's one of the neighbouring cats. who I often walk past on my way to Sainsburys (only a hundred feet or so from my house).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/LocalChunkyCat20140921_512.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Random/LocalChunkyCat20140921.jpg)

He (or she) is much bigger than Zev and Kai, I'd reckon on him being 7 or 8kg, although I haven't picked him up to make an estimate.  Unlike Kai, who is a lot of long fur, this cat is very solid, with a short coat.

For all that he's quite possibly the local bruiser, to humans he is quite friendly, and always happy to be petted, often giving a small friendly "meow" in response.  There's a slightly smaller and less sociable black and white cat, that I think is a fellow house cat, since they're often in not very close proximity!

Today he was draped across that gateway post, a couple of houses down from where I think he lives (and where his colleague was relaxing in the driveway), his head popped up when I stopped to scratch his ears and say "hello" to him.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 21 September, 2014, 06:17:09 pm
... and just to address the lack of Zev-ness.  Zev, last night, just after she came in wet due to a passing shower, and stopped on the bed to wash and dry herself off.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/WetZev20140920_512.jpg)

With this effect!  The cats actually have a door mat on the cat flap, and the bedroom is about as far away from the cat flap as it's possible to get in the house, so how does Zev still manage to get to me with wet and muddy paws? :)

It was actually worse than this photo suggests, but it's been taken off now, and put into the laundry (which was due to happen anyway).

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/WetZevEffect20140920_512.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 21 September, 2014, 06:23:34 pm
She almost got a muddy paw-mark at Mudchute station...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 28 September, 2014, 05:33:09 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3895/15358498156_0e0c6990f2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ppbjqm)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/ppbjqm) by SimonP2006 (https://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: simonp on 28 September, 2014, 05:37:05 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3862/15194827909_b166a0855f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p9HsXx)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/p9HsXx) by SimonP2006 (https://www.flickr.com/people/27424426@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 30 September, 2014, 08:47:38 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/Mobile%20Uploads/20140930_203833.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 30 September, 2014, 08:48:55 pm
Looks like a heffalump to me...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 September, 2014, 08:53:48 pm
Is that cat drinking screwdrivers?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 30 September, 2014, 09:19:01 pm
Is that cat drinking screwdrivers?

Nah, G&T.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 October, 2014, 04:25:14 pm
There are lots of gratuitous cats on Mykonos.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/IMAG0272_zps5e2ec8c1.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/DSCF3511_zpscbb227ff.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/IMAG0988_zps5f9b5025.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/DSCF3550_zpsc3ba6253.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/IMAG0280_zps2441f51e.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Mykonos%2019%20September%20-%203%20October%202014/IMAG0991_zps561917df.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2014, 06:43:34 pm
:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2014, 10:52:13 pm
The BBC, knowing they're onto a good thing, have done a extended version of their domestic cat tracking programme from last year.  There are three episodes on iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcqvq/episodes/player) if you haven't seen the catpr0n already, and some of it is even interesting.

Anyway, I was working my way through the second programme, when they inexplicably cut to a picture of Benedict Cumberbatch:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 October, 2014, 11:02:47 pm
I'm having a wowbagger moment  ???
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2014, 11:10:44 pm
I'm having a wowbagger moment  ???

Of Sherlock fame, last seen doing what's supposed to be a rather good Alan Turing on the big screen.  I've added a reference photo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 October, 2014, 11:28:15 pm
I'm having a wowbagger moment  ???

Of Sherlock fame, last seen doing what's supposed to be a rather good Alan Turing on the big screen.  I've added a reference photo.

Ah, thank you - I generally don't watch BBC1 or go to the movies cinema.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 10 October, 2014, 11:34:05 pm
I'm having a wowbagger moment  ???

Of Sherlock fame, last seen doing what's supposed to be a rather good Alan Turing on the big screen.  I've added a reference photo.

Ah, thank you - I generally don't watch BBC1 or go to the movies cinema.

Me neither.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Basil on 10 October, 2014, 11:53:19 pm
I'm having a wowbagger moment  ???

Heh heh.  Pingu has caught "old".  :)

Welcome
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 11 October, 2014, 08:04:44 pm
Scooby was either feeling hung over or felt an earth quake earlier-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0010.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0010.jpg.html)

Sorry about the poor quality phone photo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 October, 2014, 12:11:30 am
That's great!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 13 October, 2014, 09:24:59 pm
'Denis' posing on the windowsill.


(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5614/15343111947_abc035e452_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 14 October, 2014, 08:15:43 pm
Willow making like she can do a selfie-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0008.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0008.jpg.html)

And then having an identity crisis- this morning before work SWMBO needed to get milk. Willow sat at the door like the good dog she is until Mrs F retuned-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0012.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0012.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 21 October, 2014, 07:41:11 am
Figaro (http://vid46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/PaulRide/Figgy_mpeg1video_zpsaymdqnb6.mp4) having a friendly roll.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PAC on 21 October, 2014, 09:29:22 pm
Figaro (http://vid46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/PaulRide/Figgy_mpeg1video_zpsaymdqnb6.mp4) having a friendly roll.
;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 31 October, 2014, 07:50:53 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUANIvNmYzQ
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 October, 2014, 08:40:42 am
Following the sad demise in January of our elderly cats Tigger and Simba we recently got a couple of rescue kittens.  They are brother and sister Barry and Isabella.  Barry is all black and his sister is mainly black with some white, largely symmetrical markings. 

They are about 15 weeks old now and quite a handful.  Isabella has already made inroads into her 9 lives by falling 12 feet down our stairwell onto a hard floor.  Cats of this age are not guaranteed to land on their feet  ::-)

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsa0196465.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsae530268.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsdee13705.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps80dcf9d5.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 October, 2014, 09:30:02 am
Awwwww......
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 October, 2014, 09:35:48 am
Awwwww......

"Awwww" indeed unless they are being hooligans then its "Oi you bloody cats!"  ::-)   ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: marcusjb on 31 October, 2014, 01:03:38 pm
Supercute! 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 31 October, 2014, 01:39:37 pm
Issy is off down the vets again as she's got a cold that doesn't appear to be clearing up.  These kitties are costing a fortune!  We'll be getting them insured PDQ.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 October, 2014, 05:59:47 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3944/15055134794_4631f35e8e_b.jpg)

The Mollycat, in whose service I shall be for the next ten days.  Posted from my fondleslab to annoy Mrs Pingu ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 October, 2014, 07:13:42 pm
Ar3e. Bet it's an i-thing isn't it?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 October, 2014, 08:24:16 pm
Ar3e. Bet it's an i-thing isn't it?

Yes.  Yea, it is.  On a good day it only takes three attempts to get the copy/paste thing to work as advertised.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 01 November, 2014, 11:13:37 am
Issy is off down the vets again as she's got a cold that doesn't appear to be clearing up.  These kitties are costing a fortune!  We'll be getting them insured PDQ.

Oopsie.  When I got Talisker from the Blue Cross, he came complete with a short period of Insurance (a month I think), which was obviously a marketing ploy by the insurance company involved.  Potentially useful nevertheless.

I guess your two came from a less regular source?  Since Zev and Kai were basically courtesy of YACF, I had to do all that independently too, and they immediately cost a small fortune in checks, vaccinations and being spayed and neutered.  Not too many problems since, thankfully.

I hope Issy is getting better, it sounds relatively minor.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 November, 2014, 05:23:44 pm
They are being looked after by PetPals this weekend. I hope they are behaving themselves!
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Post by: Jurek on 09 November, 2014, 04:32:35 pm
It's November.
The heating has been on.
Part-time is back.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7521/15750246002_fcf561dbf9_b.jpg)
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Post by: peliroja on 09 November, 2014, 04:59:13 pm
Lovely to see you, Part-time!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 November, 2014, 05:58:54 pm
<wonders what's in the jar behind Part Time's butt....>
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Post by: Dibdib on 09 November, 2014, 06:04:08 pm
<wonders what's in the jar behind Part Time's butt....>

Looks to me like the reverse view of the Face of Boe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_of_Boe)...
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Post by: Jurek on 09 November, 2014, 06:32:55 pm
Beluga whale sperm...
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Post by: Jurek on 09 November, 2014, 06:35:35 pm
Seriously...
It's a piece of art by my lovely friend Clare (http://www.questionersgardentime.com/) from Whitstable.
Contact her directly to buy the really weird stuff (penises in jars, and plants from another planet) she makes.
*shameless plug*
Clare casts nasturtiums....   
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 November, 2014, 07:08:44 pm
Gratuitous pictures of the Mollycat (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/sets/72157646790685483/).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 November, 2014, 08:13:04 pm
Gratuitous pictures of the Mollycat (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/sets/72157646790685483/).

She looks a bit hissy and spitty in one of those photies...
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Post by: Kim on 09 November, 2014, 08:16:06 pm
Gratuitous pictures of the Mollycat (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/sets/72157646790685483/).

She looks a bit hissy and spitty in one of those photies...

Or partway through a mega-yawn...

(Cats are brilliant at yawning, aren't they?)
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 09 November, 2014, 08:45:36 pm
Early last week Barry and Isabella, our kittens, were diagnosed with cat flu.  The vets think that their mum, a stray, had flu and passed it onto them and the underlying virus was triggered into action when they had their first jabs.  On Tuesday evening Barry was a very poorly cat and we were very worried.

But, thankfully they both seem to be bouncing back probably cos they are full of drugs!  This weekend they have been extremely naughty and full of beans which is lovely to see.  Latest photos, Barry first:

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps40104284.jpg)

Isabella, fast asleep and twitching:

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps276c824d.jpg)

They are about twice the size of when we got them.  Despite being a smaller animal Issy is now slightly heavier than Baz, possibly because the flu hit him harder.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 November, 2014, 09:17:16 pm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/best-cat-pictures
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 November, 2014, 09:31:34 pm
^thanks Kirst, it's been a shit weekend, but that helped a little.
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Post by: Pingu on 09 November, 2014, 10:58:52 pm
OD - there's a belly that needs rubbing :)
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 10 November, 2014, 08:31:21 am
OD - there's a belly that needs rubbing :)

That's kind, thanks, I thought you'd never ask. Oh, hang on, perhaps you meant the kitten!
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Post by: madcow on 17 November, 2014, 09:42:14 pm
Tiger , who died in summer has been replaced by Smudge,courtesy of Cats Protection.
Similar backgrounds , both from farm litters, similar colours but Tiger was male, Smudge is female.
     (https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7547/15812654831_2e330d72d7.jpg)   Tiger
 
     
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15629701530_ff92792004.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q6iZnR)smudge
 
 These are her brothers and sisters. For a week or two we contemplated taking on another one to keep her company as she was a bit quiet and probably missing them , but she has perked up recently and started eating.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5615/15816197672_43c64f332b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pP9iJA) (https://flic.kr/p/q6C9xj)
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 17 November, 2014, 09:49:02 pm
 :thumbsup:

Our two kittens are much, much better. They are currently hooning around like loonies.
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Post by: Pingu on 17 November, 2014, 10:29:00 pm
     
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15629701530_ff92792004.jpg)[/url]
smudge
 
 (https://flic.kr/p/pP9iJA)

Mrs P will be along to squeee at some point  :)
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Post by: peliroja on 17 November, 2014, 11:50:16 pm
What a cute smudgy little face! Good name.
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Post by: Wombat on 18 November, 2014, 08:41:34 am
How could you resist taking them all?  I'm bloody hopeless with kittens, ask me which one of the 200 kittens in the rescue centre I'd like to take home, I'd be likely to say "All of them".
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 November, 2014, 08:45:02 am
     
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15629701530_ff92792004.jpg)[/url]
smudge
 
 (https://flic.kr/p/pP9iJA)

Mrs P will be along to squeee at some point  :)

I approve...when are we invited to a play date with smudge?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 November, 2014, 09:45:56 pm
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/one-of-world-s-rarest-cats-given-to-rescue-centre-1-3609492
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Post by: red marley on 20 November, 2014, 06:33:36 am
That article does need to sort out its probabilities though.

Headline sentence: p(male tortie): 1 in 400,000
Body text:99.96 are female, therefore  p(male tortie): 1 in 2,500

I suppose all cats are "one of world's rarest" if you work your way down the list far enough.

Nice cat though.
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Post by: marcusjb on 20 November, 2014, 08:00:15 am

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15629701530_ff92792004.jpg)[/url]smudge
 (https://flic.kr/p/pP9iJA)

Super cute!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 November, 2014, 08:37:50 am
Lothian Cat Rescue is where I got Pete from. I like them.
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Post by: Pingu on 20 November, 2014, 06:45:25 pm
We went for a test drive this evening:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7480/15833463331_07a2a7781c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q89D26)
Kitten no. 1 (https://flic.kr/p/q89D26) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7470/15835325525_c75399929c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q8jbzT)
Kitten no. 2 (https://flic.kr/p/q8jbzT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Basil on 20 November, 2014, 06:51:26 pm
Is kitten #2 female?  If so, she so absolutely called Sally.  Dunno why, she just is.
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Post by: Pingu on 20 November, 2014, 10:46:19 pm
They're both female.
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Post by: cycleman on 20 November, 2014, 11:30:07 pm
one of my cats fizal who has appeared on this thread had to put down yesterday  :'(. he was 15 years old and came to  us as a stray . he had a gentle and loving character and will much missed . I will try and put some photos of our remaining cat and put on here .ramiseas is black I have trouble getting goo photos of him  :)
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Post by: Pingu on 20 November, 2014, 11:32:33 pm
Sorry to hear about Fizal, cycleman  :(

Look forward to seeing pics of ramiseas.
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Post by: cycleman on 20 November, 2014, 11:45:57 pm
you will notice the I cannot spell his name  :-[ . he is named after the Egyptian pharaoh  . photos' pending watch this space  :).
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Post by: marcusjb on 21 November, 2014, 12:46:17 am
My condolences cycleman
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 November, 2014, 09:00:08 am
Hugs, cycleman. It's a hard thing.
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Post by: Clare on 21 November, 2014, 11:11:22 am
Poor fizal  :'(



Pingus, when do you get servantship of the madams?

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 November, 2014, 11:56:56 am
Poor fizal  :'(



Pingus, when do you get servantship of the madams?



We re-enter servitude on Monday night.
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Post by: barakta on 21 November, 2014, 08:03:11 pm
Sorry to hear about your kitteh Cycleman.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 November, 2014, 06:44:48 pm
Waiting for them to come out of the box.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7537/15684382037_7d40f738df_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX)
IMG_4335 (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Basil on 24 November, 2014, 06:55:52 pm
Uh oh!  ;D
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 November, 2014, 07:22:58 pm
Waiting for them to come out of the box.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7537/15684382037_7d40f738df_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX)
IMG_4335 (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Oh they're lovely!
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Post by: tiermat on 24 November, 2014, 07:29:15 pm
They are gorgeous, Pingus.

Look full of attitude, too.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 November, 2014, 08:38:08 pm
Squee!  :D
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Post by: Clare on 24 November, 2014, 09:29:06 pm
Awww, melty heart moment.

 :D
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Post by: matthew on 24 November, 2014, 10:28:39 pm
There's many years of servitude to follow, not that i am jealous or anything having moved away from my parents cat. :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wombat on 25 November, 2014, 09:26:42 am
They've got quite similar markings, you'll have fun telling them apart at Mach2!

Great kitties,  and many commisseratinos to Cycleman for his loss.  Been there too many times, and will do again.  When Tirion went, Baggins was instructed he had to last till at least 20, preferably 25.  He's currently 13, and looks and acts asd if he's about 2.  Bloody brilliant cat (but I wish you'd stop yelling at me so loud, when you want a brush!).
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Post by: Vince on 25 November, 2014, 09:28:54 am
They definitely have the look of Masters of All They Survey.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 November, 2014, 07:45:55 pm
Waiting for them to come out of the box.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7537/15684382037_7d40f738df_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX)
IMG_4335 (https://flic.kr/p/pTYykX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

Oh oh norty torties !
Be prepared for death and offerings on a grand scale. We have one. Torties are notorious killing machines.
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Post by: Pingu on 25 November, 2014, 09:36:54 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7557/15691345670_777049ce22_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pUAfoA)
IMG_1174 (https://flic.kr/p/pUAfoA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 November, 2014, 09:53:54 pm
That cat is going to be an excellent mouser.  :D
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Post by: peliroja on 25 November, 2014, 09:54:30 pm
Gotcha! Does she have a name?
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Post by: Pingu on 25 November, 2014, 10:23:16 pm
They haven't revealed their names yet.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 November, 2014, 10:08:29 pm
White smoke! We have names!

This is Pumpkin:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7490/15853552166_b54c02df1f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q9VAJj)
IMG_1171 (https://flic.kr/p/q9VAJj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

And this is Ninkasi:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7559/15699876249_e4e2a9cc56_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pVkYex)
IMG_4361 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/pVkYex) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: andrewc on 27 November, 2014, 10:18:27 pm
 :D Waves to new feline forumites

They're gorgeous.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 November, 2014, 10:24:06 pm
Ninkasi is the first to get the hang of laps.

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/15893725905_0b901402f8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qdtuYZ)
IMG_1224 (https://flic.kr/p/qdtuYZ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2014, 10:25:22 pm
Cuteness!
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Post by: Pingu on 28 November, 2014, 10:55:22 pm
Push-me-pull-you-when-we-wake-up-maybe

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7571/15713398078_92c07a82ce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pWxgNw)
IMG_4395 (https://flic.kr/p/pWxgNw) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 29 November, 2014, 10:15:31 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7562/15906597331_e9c014c25a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qeBtd8)
IMG_1312 (https://flic.kr/p/qeBtd8) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 30 November, 2014, 01:04:09 am
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYfhioX8cqIrrErYCgcfKJcboN6qOAXc7Su6S9W9j2NLrEs7KUOQ)

 ;D
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Post by: Biff on 01 December, 2014, 01:46:36 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CvQPzmoKuBk
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Post by: Pingu on 04 December, 2014, 10:25:39 pm
A bit of kitten video (no muirburn)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/15922358876/
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Post by: Kim on 04 December, 2014, 11:37:02 pm
Cor, they're a bit quick!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 December, 2014, 07:26:58 am
I like how they take turns.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 08 December, 2014, 08:11:43 am
Our kittens are now back to full health with the minor exception of Barry's eyes which are still a bit weepy.  He'll be going in shortly to part company with his bollocks so the plan is he'll be getting his tear ducts flushed out. 

Meanwhile, Twinkle Toes the Teenager found her Build-A-Bear clothes so dressed up the cats.  Here is Barry wearing floral pants, he wasn't impressed: 

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_1210_zps0c235bb5.jpg)

As well as being impossibly cute The Hooligans are also impossibly naughty.  They enjoy having a good dig when they have used their litter tray, those poor people in Australia must be wondering where all the cat poo is coming from.   Here is the aftermath of a particularly enthusiastic session:

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_1185_zps8c5cd63b.jpg)

I wasn't impressed  ::-)
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Post by: TimO on 08 December, 2014, 09:06:58 am
Ninkasi is the first to get the hang of laps. ...

That's fast work, Zev has only just got used to the idea of curling up and sleeping on my lap, and she's about 3½ now!
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Post by: Pingu on 12 December, 2014, 08:23:16 pm
Kneady

https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/16006562895/
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Post by: nikki on 12 December, 2014, 08:27:18 pm
Are those cables in the background syphoning off the resulting static electricity?
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Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2014, 09:33:06 pm
They're for uploading kitteh pr0n to the internets, obviously.

Static electricity is covered in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsl_auoGuy4
http://youtu.be/zsl_auoGuy4
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Post by: Pingu on 13 December, 2014, 11:47:51 am
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7461/15824867847_3fce56a088_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q7ozT6)
IMG_1524 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/q7ozT6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gus on 13 December, 2014, 12:07:29 pm
They're for uploading kitteh pr0n to the internets, obviously.

Static electricity is covered in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsl_auoGuy4
http://youtu.be/zsl_auoGuy4

The part about ciscis and the effect on earths rotation is pure genius  ;D ;D
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Post by: fuzzy on 15 December, 2014, 12:47:32 pm
Her Majesty, Queen Willow doing a bit of Her Majestying-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0045.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0045.jpg.html)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 December, 2014, 01:42:33 pm
Hmm, funny how our two and HM Queen Willow all have the same side of their face 'not black'.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2014, 01:52:22 pm
And one of the Greek cats on p89.
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Post by: Riggers on 15 December, 2014, 02:00:33 pm
"The Cone Of Shame"

My son's cat Sifu

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Sifu_zpsdf0dabd1.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Sifu_zpsdf0dabd1.jpg.html)
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Post by: Vince on 15 December, 2014, 02:30:35 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7461/15824867847_3fce56a088_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q7ozT6)
IMG_1524 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/q7ozT6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Cat does shadow impression of a fist with two thumbs
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Post by: Jaded on 15 December, 2014, 02:37:21 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/stfu.jpg)
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Post by: Riggers on 15 December, 2014, 05:26:29 pm
Excellent.  ;D

"Germany calling, Germany calling"

I asked: "Where's Sifu from?" Apparently, he's from Kung Fu Panda. Excellent film.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 December, 2014, 05:30:26 pm
And one of the Greek cats on p89.
Indeed!
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 16 December, 2014, 09:04:54 am
I've seen similar devices for mobile phones. To charge your cat you simply place it on the mat, there's no need to plug it into a charger anymore. Clever tech.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2014, 12:39:57 pm
Only works if your cat has a USB port though.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 16 December, 2014, 01:09:24 pm
And it has to be a Windows cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 16 December, 2014, 02:54:11 pm
Sifu again. Dunno what he's doing.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Sifu2_zps2b0a6a76.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Sifu2_zps2b0a6a76.jpg.html)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2014, 03:10:06 pm
Posing, obv!
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Post by: Pingu on 16 December, 2014, 03:18:52 pm
Is Sifu's second name Dandeatit?
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Post by: Riggers on 16 December, 2014, 03:40:59 pm
He seems to have that expression as his default. Actually, good name … Sifu Default.
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Post by: Ham on 16 December, 2014, 04:04:22 pm
Found on t'Internets

(http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/amusing-animals-pets-1.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 16 December, 2014, 08:31:34 pm
Only works if your cat has a USB port though.

(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7210/72ff6039.jpg) (https://fifthnet.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/from-the-vault-13-comics/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 19 December, 2014, 10:39:47 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2014-12-19_20.58.44.jpg)
Waiting for meatballs
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2014, 11:02:07 pm
what a handsome cat  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 December, 2014, 11:10:13 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2014-12-19_20.58.44.jpg)
Waiting for meatballs

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 December, 2014, 11:11:27 pm
I'm so disappointed this is not in focus:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7580/15872094648_e360f4b663_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qbyCLh)
IMG_1601 (https://flic.kr/p/qbyCLh) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 20 December, 2014, 06:49:11 pm
You've got an out of focus cat from Amazon?  Easy, send it back, their returns policy is quite good.... ;D ;D

From personal experience, that sort of mog photo is frequently out of focus, unless you are really well prepared with focus tracking engaged.  I've got loads like it, where they've lunged at the camera with a silly expression, I even get swans doing it to me now.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 December, 2014, 07:16:04 pm
I suspect less out of focus and more movement during shutter operation, which is always a risk in a dim room when avoiding flash.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: clifftaylor on 21 December, 2014, 09:13:29 am
Are you sure they haven't sold you a fox of some sort?? They might be in an adjacent bay in the warehouse.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 23 December, 2014, 10:53:12 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7486/15904560759_e597b8eb5b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qer2NP)
IMG_1681 (https://flic.kr/p/qer2NP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 24 December, 2014, 01:40:59 am
No christmas tree this year then...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 December, 2014, 06:31:27 pm
Ninkasi and Pumpkin get a bit excitable when chicken is being served (needs the sound for ghastly kitten whining).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/15501538483/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 27 December, 2014, 09:21:47 pm
Those poor kittens being tortured....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 31 December, 2014, 11:17:32 am
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-PvD374EUDu8/VKPaj15_wWI/AAAAAAAAsyw/eRaq1HGL5yg/s800/lolcate8e3da8c4113a9e90496fff19ab26e5e4171a03b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2015, 12:21:24 pm
A gratuitous cat

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/gratuitous_cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 09 January, 2015, 09:42:19 am
Various poses of Sifu.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_2149_zpsaaba3c25.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/IMG_2149_zpsaaba3c25.jpg.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_1920_zps4f68486f.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/IMG_1920_zps4f68486f.jpg.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_1987_zps4c23da1c.png) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/IMG_1987_zps4c23da1c.png.html)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_2197_zps138cb8b2.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/IMG_2197_zps138cb8b2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 09 January, 2015, 04:39:57 pm
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/IMG_1920_zps4f68486f.jpg)
Is that the Christmas outfit?

Tia refused to pose in hers but those of us who saw were charmed indeed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 09 January, 2015, 05:59:31 pm
But she also looks like she is trying to decide which slave to eviscerate first.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 January, 2015, 09:20:16 am
Thing is, she's a 'he' cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 January, 2015, 11:35:24 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7486/16094918640_3fb27858ec_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qwfEzf)
IMG_1907 (https://flic.kr/p/qwfEzf) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 15 January, 2015, 12:18:12 am
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7496/16096157779_64ba5063cd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qwn1VH)
IMG_1919 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/qwn1VH) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 15 January, 2015, 09:31:32 am
New space nebula discover by Pingu … The Cat's Face.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2015, 03:21:15 pm
That's going to be the subject of Brian Cox' next anbaric distascope series.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2015, 05:30:31 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/newplatform_zpsc3274bb2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 January, 2015, 06:43:14 pm
Have you hidden the food bowl again?  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 January, 2015, 02:06:18 pm
Pete  likes his new platform.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3080_zps9df1eafd.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3081_zps35243ce7.jpg)

But he also likes being stealthy.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3079_zps4a15874b.jpg)



And after all that hard work being stealthy, he likes a snooze.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3068_zps7b1652ac.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 28 January, 2015, 12:03:16 pm
http://thechive.com/2015/01/27/ninja-cats-22-photos/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 01 February, 2015, 03:18:05 pm
Methinks Willow was abit cold of nose last night-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0061.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0061.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 01 February, 2015, 09:57:50 pm
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/xanthus/Zev/LighthouseCat.jpg)

Lighthouse Cat is on duty.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 February, 2015, 10:33:35 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 February, 2015, 10:05:56 pm
Wot? This towel was already on the floor when I got here.

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8670/15825486643_4075a6dbce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q7rKPZ)
IMG_2028 (https://flic.kr/p/q7rKPZ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 05 February, 2015, 10:41:55 pm
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Zt1IJJc1PNM/VNPxP_NaMpI/AAAAAAAAs4g/zRJnGp-U36M/s640/P1310225.JPG)

Happy furry ferals, in a fishing port in Morocco
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 February, 2015, 08:07:06 am
Empty cat litter bags make ideal caves.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/Litterbag3_zps8ad57fc6.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 06 February, 2015, 08:30:43 am
Barry and Isabella love cat litter bags as well.  We cut air holes in the bottom as they like to sit on the open end whilst their sibling is in the bag.  We also cut the handles off after Barry (not the brightest cat) got a carrier bag handle round is neck and ran around the house in a blind panic until he was cornered and sorted out.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 February, 2015, 08:49:56 am
That wasn't a blind panic. That was his secret superhero identity!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 06 February, 2015, 09:05:27 am
That wasn't a blind panic. That was his secret superhero identity!

Actually from what I could see as he passed me several times on the stairs doing about Mach 2 the Super Dry carrier bag did look very much like a cape - orange it was.  It took me about 5 minutes to corner the silly bugger and it felt like his little heart was about to burst out of his chest. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 February, 2015, 02:34:22 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7339/15849872204_15bcf19bf2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q9AJNG)
IMG_2055 (https://flic.kr/p/q9AJNG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 February, 2015, 11:51:49 pm
Kittens' ears are thin!

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8602/16287009690_a3d3965fd7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qPebxU)
IMG_2084 (https://flic.kr/p/qPebxU) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 February, 2015, 04:56:19 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6106.jpg)
Guarding Steve's bike.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 11 February, 2015, 08:29:55 am
Guarding? huh. I've seen that look before, he's keeping an eye on the monitor to see how much it has got up to on eBay.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 15 February, 2015, 11:38:43 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7435/16536458911_57d82246c7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rcgF7x)
20150213_154705 (https://flic.kr/p/rcgF7x) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 20 February, 2015, 03:30:13 pm
Zev, rather bizarrely cuddling up to my wet and dirty cycling shoes, after I put them in front of the fan heater to dry off.

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=500&file=IMG_20150219_222655.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20150219_222655.jpg)

For the warmth I could understand it, but she could have gotten that better on the other side! Cats, go figure. ???
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: De Sisti on 20 February, 2015, 03:36:04 pm
Cats, go figure. ???

Went to put some rubbish into the bin outside the house and ended up talking to a new neighbour across the road for 15 minutes.
Unfortunately I didn't lock the door and upon re-entering my house there was a cat strolling on the sofa like it owned it. I screamed
and chased it out. I was fearful that it may have left its "calling card".

(feel free to report me to the rspca) ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 February, 2015, 09:49:14 pm
You 'screamed'  ???
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 20 February, 2015, 09:58:45 pm
Thought it was a *really big* mouse?   ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 February, 2015, 11:12:39 am
We had a new visitor in the back yard a week or two back

(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1795636_10153004177451839_6470605851183287897_n.jpg?oh=dac01f43dcf260f1409092a4a5c71ac3&oe=554DFC4C)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 February, 2015, 12:00:39 pm
The expression on that cat's face can only be duplicated by a Tory MP.  Chase it out of the yard with a (water) pistol ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Vince on 21 February, 2015, 12:04:18 pm
Definitely a 'What are you doing in my garden' look.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 February, 2015, 01:10:47 pm
Apparently they have met Fenella (named after the witch), the black cat from next door, who has assumed ownership of the CrinklyYard since the CrinklyCats moved to Hertfordshire and who occasionally decides to try and wander into the house.  It seems that the meeting was not amicable!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 February, 2015, 12:45:58 am
It's very likely that they is a she.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 February, 2015, 10:50:32 am
It's very likely that they is a she.

Has anyone seen Virginia Bottomley recently?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 24 February, 2015, 06:40:48 pm
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8674/16598007856_6a56b94611.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rhH8tf)DSC_0409 (https://flic.kr/p/rhH8tf) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


Petal and Posie looking cute.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 24 February, 2015, 09:00:35 pm
Synchronised cuteness  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 25 February, 2015, 11:49:40 am
Its Elma and Pixies time to look cute....

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8657/16455793950_61e028b30c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/r59fem)DSC_0413 (https://flic.kr/p/r59fem) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 25 February, 2015, 01:02:31 pm
Zev, rather bizarrely cuddling up to my wet and dirty cycling shoes, after I put them in front of the fan heater to dry off.
For the warmth I could understand it, but she could have gotten that better on the other side! Cats, go figure. ???

No pictures- but the resident cat's morning routine has started to look like this:
Follow fboab into bathroom
Watch fboab sit on the toilet while [cat!] drinking from the sink
Smirk at fboab on the scales
Snooze on fboab's stinky gym kit while fboab showers.


The creature isn't right in the head.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Peter on 25 February, 2015, 04:24:28 pm
Certainly not right in the heads.

Yours, etc.

Jolly Jack Tar
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 25 February, 2015, 05:20:59 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/Mobile%20Uploads/20150225_171356.jpg)
I iz checkin mah downloadz
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 25 February, 2015, 05:51:37 pm
Ah, I didn't realise that this was the Cats on Red Blankets thread:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7562/15952399781_17906a7ae1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qiEdFx)
IMG_1428 (https://flic.kr/p/qiEdFx) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2015, 06:42:52 pm
I've been under close supervision in the kitchen today

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/kitchensupervisor_zpshxckwutt.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2015, 08:53:00 pm
Off you go...

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8574/16052145054_c42d7f6cc9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qstrtC)
IMG_2141 (https://flic.kr/p/qstrtC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 March, 2015, 12:07:44 am
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8567/16661954556_957e8b01e2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/romSAy)
IMG_2167 (https://flic.kr/p/romSAy) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nikki on 02 March, 2015, 02:22:51 am
That's my concentrating face  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 03 March, 2015, 11:05:41 am
A facebook video https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=776761982391051

I suspect many will be thinking exactly what I did, right up to the last few seconds
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 March, 2015, 09:39:14 pm
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/mar/04/japans-cat-island-in-pictures
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JStone on 05 March, 2015, 10:21:01 am
Just received this email from a recruitment agency - I must be well qualified, as I often see Bella in the hedge risking attack by next door's cat

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P8tZgw6DWao/VPgtCI_8NHI/AAAAAAAAHsM/vpNqo74eYwU/s640/hedge%2520fund%2520cat%2520risk.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 11 March, 2015, 09:02:09 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xomuyZjPZPU
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 18 March, 2015, 10:47:02 am
Pootle's turn to look cute.....

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7587/16665258098_bc6bb684b2_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/roDNCb)DSC_0429 (https://flic.kr/p/roDNCb) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/people/26068282@N07/), on Flickr


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 18 March, 2015, 02:02:28 pm
Zev does her best to kill one of her favourite fluffy toy mice, even if it is green!

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=320&file=IMG_20150318_080255.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20150318_080255.jpg)  (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=320&file=IMG_20150318_080240.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20150318_080240.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2015, 02:46:23 pm
I love it when they go all crazy eyes.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 18 March, 2015, 03:08:38 pm
Seems like a good time to repost this:

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/kitten/IMG_3030.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Otto on 18 March, 2015, 03:22:35 pm
Here is one of my cats.... new people in the neighbourhood often ask have we seen the strange wild animal in the field

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg.html)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/otto2.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/otto2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SteveC on 18 March, 2015, 07:35:45 pm
Maine Coon? He looks very like our Wes who is a similar size (but, alas, now too old to be the 'strange wild animal' in the field.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 18 March, 2015, 07:55:08 pm
Here is one of my cats.... new people in the neighbourhood often ask have we seen the strange wild animal in the field

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg.html)


Mum!!! I saw a snail baboon!!!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Otto on 18 March, 2015, 07:57:48 pm
Maine Coon? He looks very like our Wes who is a similar size (but, alas, now too old to be the 'strange wild animal' in the field.

Yes he is, he is also getting on a bit now nearly 14
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 19 March, 2015, 08:13:30 am
Here is one of my cats.... new people in the neighbourhood often ask have we seen the strange wild animal in the field

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/cat_zpsbf1e3ggt.jpg.html)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/otto2.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/otto2.jpg.html)

That's no cat- that's a direcat that is :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 March, 2015, 08:03:46 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10553476_10153070218086839_8508875424166022213_n.jpg?oh=271f52924ff9de47f291fb6144d0b8c7&oe=55ACD4CD&__gda__=1434295259_35c238d9b448d5c6b09f3f6258d48837)

A new (probationary) resident at Granny Annie's was somewhat taken with her first glimpse of the ultra-widescreen kitteh TV.  Permanent residency to be contingent on how formal introductions with the resident hounds progress; first contact has been made, apparently with some very wide eyes and a some (kitten) growling involved.  She's a little battered - the vets think she may have had an argument with a car - but a very amiable wee thing.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2015, 08:06:43 pm
Aww.

(Presumably non-widescreen kitteh TV == washing machine)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 21 March, 2015, 10:18:07 pm
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8743/16698097778_523cd1b687_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rry7Hy)
IMG_2292 (https://flic.kr/p/rry7Hy) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 March, 2015, 11:41:54 am
Aww.

(Presumably non-widescreen kitteh TV == washing machine)

Judging from some of the behaviours exhibited by the Mollycat, yes, though there is a suspicion that there may be meeces behind it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 23 March, 2015, 04:35:08 pm
Barry the Adolescent Cat, being all black, is hard to photograph with my meager photographic skills and equipment (an iPhone) but last night I triumphed ...!

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsebe538eb.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps31cdea2a.jpg)

His left eye is often a bit gunky as the cat flu he had when he was a kitten has left him with a dodgy tear duct.  The vet tried flushing it out when he was debollocked but to no avail.

He and Isabella are doing very well.   We let them out a bit now and they enjoy the garden.  But they seem genuinely bemused by birds, you can see it in their faces ... "How the hell can you fly when we can't?  That can't be fair can it?"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 April, 2015, 03:07:50 pm
Barry (in the foreground) and Isabella like being outside ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_1656_zps773897c9.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 April, 2015, 08:14:16 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7649/16986476826_e812a9d189_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rT38L7)
IMG_2354 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/rT38L7) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 02 April, 2015, 08:29:20 pm
Aww :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 02 April, 2015, 08:37:46 pm
Awwww. Why the cone of shame?  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2015, 09:16:39 pm
They got spayed today.

They're supposed to be resting. So far they've done nothing of the sort, and Pumpkin managed to break my bedside lamp almost as soon as they got home. Presumably due to the sudden widening of their heads.... I blame the pain meds. My previous cats didn't get anything to my knowledge and just laid quietly for 2 days.

They don't seem to like the look of each other with the cones on. Can't believe they're supposed to wear them for a fortnight!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 02 April, 2015, 09:27:55 pm
Cone of shame stops the whiskers doing their thing.  Some cats really don't handle that well (see also: singed whiskers).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 April, 2015, 09:34:23 pm
You could try one of these https://thrivepetfoods.com/problem-solvers/comfy-collar-page
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2015, 09:46:04 pm
Drinking water didn't seem to go so well judging by the collateral damage. And I just had to shove Pumpkin's head back in cos her ears were poking out the back of the collar!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 02 April, 2015, 10:48:01 pm
Realistically speaking 1 week should be enough- cats skin heals very quickly and when I actually use skin stitches in them (which I generally avoid) they are removed in 7 days.
Cats who chew their wound and remove stitches generally do so within the first 3-4 days of the op.
But obviously you have to listen to what your vet has told you as you may otherwise get the blame if they do bad things to themselves  :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2015, 10:25:05 am
According to the letter they have dissolving stitches. Looks like they've been glued up because there's nothing to see. I doubt the collars will last longer than a week anyway judging by the state of the ties already!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 April, 2015, 11:11:09 am
My vet never supplied, or suggested anything for either Kai or Zev when they were "done".  Kai was done as an adult male cat, and Zev as a 6 month old female kitten.  As I recall, I kept Kai in for a day or two, as you would with a human that had been under a general anaesthetic (OK, not kept in, observed, but you know what I mean!).  Zev was kept in the spare room for most of that time, as she had been for the first 6 months, when she wasn't wandering around the house with Kai.

Both were fairly active, as I recall, although I'd imagine keeping them indoors would be a good thing.

I'd imagine that both eating and drinking could be a bit more difficult with the 'cone of shame' on, unless you've got something like a spaniel bowl.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 April, 2015, 05:31:07 pm
Pippin didn't have a CoS and she was fine. Our present pair haven't shown any sign of wanting to lick their wounds. They do seem to have itchy necks though, they are loving neck scratches from us at the moment!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ian on 03 April, 2015, 05:45:10 pm
Cone of shame stops the whiskers doing their thing.  Some cats really don't handle that well (see also: singed whiskers).

When Bad Cat knackered her back paw and had to be sewn back up she was dressed up in a shame cone. It didn't last the evening owing the trail of destruction she left behind, the fact that one of her attempts to remove it involved falling down the stairs backwards, and the second found her caught between chair back and table edge.

She is currently eating my swimming trunks. Nice.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/Screen%20Shot%202015-04-03%20at%2017.41.38.png)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2015, 06:44:25 pm
I spent about 10mins solid doing neck scratching, and Pumpkin looked like I was her BFF.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 April, 2015, 09:45:28 pm
https://flic.kr/p/qZu47p
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 April, 2015, 10:53:23 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/gato_1.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/gato_2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/gato_3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2015, 02:29:07 pm
They are coping OK with their collars now. Ninkasi was a lot happier once we trimmed her collar back so that it was the same depth as Pumpkin's (dunno why they put the larger collar on the smaller cat) and they seem to have stopped being frightened of each other now which is good.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2015, 11:16:15 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7622/17008660306_d4650cbe47_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rUZQ8U)
IMG_2372 (https://flic.kr/p/rUZQ8U) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 April, 2015, 05:22:10 pm
Pete likes the sun

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0427_zpsfk5rsw4q.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0428_zpslcou6tab.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0430_zpskjoiidub.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 April, 2015, 07:11:41 pm
Realistically speaking 1 week should be enough- cats skin heals very quickly and when I actually use skin stitches in them (which I generally avoid) they are removed in 7 days.
Cats who chew their wound and remove stitches generally do so within the first 3-4 days of the op.
But obviously you have to listen to what your vet has told you as you may otherwise get the blame if they do bad things to themselves  :-\

We took their collars off tonight to see how they would do. They were very happy and are now running about like a pair of little mentalists, having had dinner and a really big wash....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 April, 2015, 07:41:05 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11130235_10153116883411839_2696814777479640864_n.jpg?oh=0060bca9cce4a9c9243ff1d00dd3b649&oe=55A5CA66&__gda__=1437660783_c76e3569f68d164dae8fe408c3d94396)

Our last New Jersey playground from our American Adventure....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2015, 08:02:44 pm
Doubleplusgood
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 12 April, 2015, 07:00:22 pm
We went to visit Grandad Bill in the home to prove that we had indeed safely touched down and were back, then went on the way home to see Granny Annie back at the ancestral manor where the SmallestCub discovered the way to the newest resident's heart is through her stomach...

(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/1378777_10153120756796839_4628122571484285589_n.jpg?oh=9e78858a7ab73c1e53fb78b8d0329a03&oe=55B27CE5)

(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11146200_10153120756506839_4396959952854868021_n.jpg?oh=240de2baf0abc847876bf668433a5a10&oe=55AFC339)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 April, 2015, 06:37:38 pm
Pumpkin's first steps outdoors:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7601/17175268306_b4aab51d8d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/saHJTC)
IMG_4967 (https://flic.kr/p/saHJTC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7621/16581042693_60e99fe9de_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rgdbjr)
IMG_2406 (https://flic.kr/p/rgdbjr) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7678/17200671601_3c1a0c588f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/scXWpt)
IMG_2408 (https://flic.kr/p/scXWpt) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7604/17013527238_849480713e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rVqLUw)
IMG_2409 (https://flic.kr/p/rVqLUw) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 19 April, 2015, 09:30:11 pm
Awww bless  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 April, 2015, 09:02:50 pm
And this evening Ninkasi took the plunge:

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8740/17027667788_bf85e3f992_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rWFfp7)
IMG_4972 (https://flic.kr/p/rWFfp7) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 April, 2015, 09:36:17 pm
Pete is King of the Box

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/box_zpsv7auzlsr.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 21 April, 2015, 09:29:03 am
The Cat of Glory basking in yesterday's sun.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7656/17033683380_12fc6d1837_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rXd5Cd)
_DSC0355 (https://flic.kr/p/rXd5Cd) by pencyclist (https://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 24 April, 2015, 11:18:52 pm
Meeting the neighbours:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7598/17230782876_e61ff9e51c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sfCgro)
IMG_4990 (https://flic.kr/p/sfCgro) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 24 April, 2015, 11:40:42 pm
Meeting the neighbours:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7598/17230782876_e61ff9e51c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sfCgro)
IMG_4990 (https://flic.kr/p/sfCgro) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr

The tail of woe is me!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 25 April, 2015, 12:11:59 pm
The mighty hunter stalks its prey

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8803/17075984968_c31620b060_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/s1WTpW)
IMG_5000 (https://flic.kr/p/s1WTpW) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: PaulR on 25 April, 2015, 12:47:46 pm
Figaro is watching me
(https://lfgss.microco.sm/api/v1/files/c8d59f9f22a83eaf29f31b2ee04f8e4e925c4ab3.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 April, 2015, 12:56:37 pm
Aieee!  The Eye Of Sauron!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: woollypigs on 25 April, 2015, 01:01:16 pm
Scary but great photo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 April, 2015, 09:40:56 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_0560.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 28 April, 2015, 09:46:49 am
Waiting patiently

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8795/17112282619_cbc022dfbe_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/s59Vrv)
_DSC0370 (https://flic.kr/p/s59Vrv) by pencyclist (https://www.flickr.com/people/38357939@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 07 May, 2015, 10:27:43 pm
I think if he has to wait too long, he'll have yer leg off...  A serious cat!  Mind you, Jaded's bright orange one looks pretty serious too (it looks the colour of freshly rusted steel, to me).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 May, 2015, 09:16:55 pm
Ceiling cat

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/ceilingcat_zps1xru8fva.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 19 May, 2015, 02:30:52 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_1402.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_1416.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_1422.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 30 May, 2015, 05:26:02 pm
Bella

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/rafletcher/P5300023.jpg) (http://s86.photobucket.com/user/rafletcher/media/P5300023.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 May, 2015, 06:42:27 pm
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7666/17829777620_8e4708c52d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/taygGY)IMG_2516 (https://flic.kr/p/taygGY) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr


(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8844/17991001446_21f0007df4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tpNzW7)IMG_2523 (https://flic.kr/p/tpNzW7) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 June, 2015, 10:42:46 pm
Please do not disurb.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/286/18027900244_741ea6b496_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tt4GEh)
IMG_5079 (https://flic.kr/p/tt4GEh) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jacomus on 11 June, 2015, 12:11:13 pm
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t299/jacomus-rides-Gen/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0354_zpsed8c1aa0.jpg)

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 June, 2015, 07:10:30 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/376/18621171719_52f957ca93_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ununAP)
IMG_5119 (https://flic.kr/p/ununAP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Vince on 14 June, 2015, 09:35:02 pm
No cat, but Pete might like this. Cat access to second floor flat.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20150614_155414_zpscxj5jttm.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 20 June, 2015, 12:04:42 am
Meet my good friends Chuck (background) and Norris-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05454.ARW.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05454.ARW.jpg.html)

Both are just about 3 years old and were raised from young cubs at the cheetah sanctuary we voluteer at. They came to the sanctuary at less than a month old and were hand reared by one of the workers. We first met them when they were nearly a year old. By then they were the size of great danes but not as stocky as they are now. They hadn't develpoed manes but were getting a bit scruffy around the shoulders.

Unlike with the cheetah we can't enter their enclosure as they are too boisterous and would cause serious damage without meaning it. They do like to rub up against the bars of their gate for a good scratch behind the ears and under the chin. Chuck also like to nuzzle and lick knuckles.

They are getting of an age where they are developing their 'voice'. Going off to sleep listening to the guys 'huhnering' and groaning and trying to roar is quite special. A guy who works at a reserve says he can har them of an evening and he is over 5km away :D

The sad thing is that Chuck and Norris were originaly the property of a canned hunting farm- an operation where the lions are raised by humans so become accustomed to them and don't steer clear. They are then released into small reserves (very small, probably about the size of an urban park) where rich folk pay top dollar to look for them and shoot them. not hard when the area is restricted and the 'prey' doesn't do a runner  >:(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 July, 2015, 10:46:55 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/262/19415523351_02e2c54bf9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vzFCEB)
IMG_5152 (https://flic.kr/p/vzFCEB) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 05 July, 2015, 09:50:46 am
squee!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 05 July, 2015, 07:49:44 pm
Handsome lad on our street this morning:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/353/19436720912_655049b0c4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN)
IMG_5154 (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 05 July, 2015, 09:52:27 pm
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05316.ARW.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05316.ARW.jpg.html)

Lea the Caracal
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 05 July, 2015, 10:20:38 pm
Meet my good friends Chuck (background) and Norris-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05454.ARW.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05454.ARW.jpg.html)

Belly rubs!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: blackpuddinonnabike on 06 July, 2015, 09:31:40 am
Handsome lad on our street this morning:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/353/19436720912_655049b0c4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN)
IMG_5154 (https://flic.kr/p/vBygXN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Looks remarkably like Fred who visits us from a couple of doors down (getting a rep for wandering into houses, but not 'terribly' friendly, he's all mouth when he growls at you though, part ragdoll so you pick him up and he just flops, while growling, very odd combo).

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/545/19319976946_5fc62ae9b3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vreW3N)

Our Isla (who tends to show Fred who is the boss)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7361/8723547803_918231e49a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ehSsQB)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7358/16409736031_b23941dffd.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/r15bPi)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: epa611 on 06 July, 2015, 09:55:13 am
I'm not jealous  :facepalm:

(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d68/epa611/Mobile%20Uploads/2013-12/DSC_0217_zps1l2udhnw.jpg) (http://s33.photobucket.com/user/epa611/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2013-12/DSC_0217_zps1l2udhnw.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 July, 2015, 12:48:47 pm
 :o Why is my cat in your photo?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 July, 2015, 10:48:36 pm
This has to be a still from the new Star Wars.


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7358/16409736031_b23941dffd.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/r15bPi)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2015, 12:11:39 am
More tortie (in)action

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/312/19442779335_37366318d1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vC6jVn)
IMG_2600 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/vC6jVn) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 11 July, 2015, 07:52:28 pm
Ambition:

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/280/19422278499_04c2d3a692_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vAhfJF)
EK003794 (https://flic.kr/p/vAhfJF) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 11 July, 2015, 08:55:54 pm
Scooby assists with the post BBQ washing up  ::-)

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0118.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0118.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 July, 2015, 08:41:43 pm
Ear cleaning to be done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/19470847959/in/photostream/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 July, 2015, 04:29:48 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/005_zpsr8idx6lc.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/006_zpsnirzhszr.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/007_zpsgebk8j1t.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 July, 2015, 05:17:34 pm
Mmm, he is a bit portly isn't he ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 19 July, 2015, 05:46:41 pm
Are yoooo talkin' te' me jimmy ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 19 July, 2015, 07:56:54 pm
Quote from: Pete
It's all fur, I swear!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 July, 2015, 12:41:26 am
He looks a very comfortable cat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 20 July, 2015, 04:19:06 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-77jW6uU4DdM/Va0QrDRXckI/AAAAAAAAyxM/UPrTuc_e1Hw/s640-Ic42/lolcat1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 21 July, 2015, 08:23:24 pm
Neighbour's cat and kitten:

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_1709_zpsi73emgsz.jpg)
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_1719_zpsiobfmfjn.jpg)
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_1723_zpsrumpdd2m.jpg)

They are sitting on an anti-cat fence post top put up by other neighbour to keep cats out.

30x zoom 20 minutes or so ago.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 21 July, 2015, 08:27:31 pm
They are sitting on an anti-cat fence post top put up by other neighbour to keep cats out.

It doesn't look like a cat bed  ???

Fabulous photos.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 22 July, 2015, 12:18:44 pm
Thanks, I had no idea if they'd be sharp as the light was going and its a new camera I am getting used to.  If I'd got any closer they'd have been off and away.

Much better than I expected!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 August, 2015, 09:01:52 pm
Stand off.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/387/19584287524_924b508f75_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/vQAAnJ)
IMG_2722 (https://flic.kr/p/vQAAnJ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 02 August, 2015, 09:40:10 am
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2015-07-21%2020.32.29.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 August, 2015, 11:21:14 am
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/small.php?size=480&file=BagelCloseup_20150803_1814_crop_adj.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/BagelCloseup_20150803_1814_crop_adj.jpg)

Bagel (née Mabel) the cat I'm looking after this week, along with her Guinea Pig and Degu colleagues (who are both safely ensconced in cages, away from her paws and teeth!).

That is the only in focus photograph from 48 that I took last night!  A totally black cat, and the response time of a phone camera don't help much when trying to get a decent photo. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 August, 2015, 01:44:54 pm
Black cats are really difficult to photograph well.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 04 August, 2015, 01:51:53 pm
Black cats are really difficult to photograph well.

Unfortunately, the only non-black cat I've needed to photograph, Kai, only deigns to be anywhere near the house about once a month, and rarely when I've got a camera of some sort immediately to hand!

Talisker was entirely black, Zev is about 95% black, and my occasional charge, Bagel, is apparently black except for about eight hairs, which I've yet to spot!

With the mobile phone camera, it works OK if I turn the flash on, but that also needs an entirely stationary cat, which Bagel rarely is!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 August, 2015, 11:01:10 pm
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/331/19816440964_c808f7d2b9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wc7rvf)
IMG_2738 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/wc7rvf) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 August, 2015, 03:54:39 pm
Happy 5th Birthday to:

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5619/20538869716_9e677f9fbb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xhX5po)Posie (https://flic.kr/p/xhX5po) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Posie or "The Model."

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5656/20569650545_94e62785f7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xkEQtk)Pottle (https://flic.kr/p/xkEQtk) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Pootle or "Big Lad."

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5694/20381664858_a9e2998159_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/x44mSN)Pixie (https://flic.kr/p/x44mSN) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Pixie or "Little Pix."


To Add, Petal when she stops playing out in the rain....


(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5830/19947091894_8e999cacbc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/woE4tu)Elam the queen (https://flic.kr/p/woE4tu) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Elma, the Queen.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5802/20538876836_3cc069dce8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xhX7w9)Jamise (https://flic.kr/p/xhX7w9) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Jamise, or "Old Boy" (He has been with us 10 years and started off as "The Kitten."

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5786/20561074732_ca339983d5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xjUTbu)Spare Tabby the stray (https://flic.kr/p/xjUTbu) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Spare Tabby the stray who seems to have moved in recently. Pootle and Elma hate him. If they come around later, I'll get a picture of the two other strays we feed....Eric and Derick.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 14 August, 2015, 03:56:19 pm
"You know, I can't get over the uneasy feeling that I'm being watched by a frog..."
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 17 August, 2015, 07:39:59 am
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5790/20572653385_f251a8b9d4_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xkWe7r)Petal (https://flic.kr/p/xkWe7r) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Little Petal.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5699/20563718882_a3ef2c7e6f_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xk9rch)Eric the stray tom (https://flic.kr/p/xk9rch) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

And lastly, Eric..... and not another frog in sight.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 17 August, 2015, 08:29:38 pm
A crap phone photo of scoobie demonstrating the 'Village Idiot' look-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0137.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0137.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 August, 2015, 01:57:11 pm
Guarding the activity feeder is an important responsibility.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/090_zpszmejdams.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 27 August, 2015, 02:34:47 pm
The marvellous Mikey looking..

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_9444.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: red marley on 28 August, 2015, 02:27:07 pm
"I know where the body's buried. I dun it myself"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 28 August, 2015, 05:15:06 pm
"You ain't seen nuthin', right?"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 August, 2015, 11:27:00 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11947575_10153450834651839_956551767617507856_n.jpg?oh=28cd67d493700474a2f21b85d5353c18&oe=56702AA8)
Round at Granny Annie's, Mavis is doing rather well.  Four feet on the table - that was always against the rules.  She doesn't seem to care :D  And she's getting very brave around the dogs!

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11916053_10153450834681839_7317937616940263187_n.jpg?oh=eb3dc6d348b85444119308c5e5a35003&oe=567AB706)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 01 September, 2015, 01:24:27 pm
I see NO feet on the table.

Cat logic states that if I am not allowed on the table/ sofa/ shelf, wotever, as long as I am on something that is resting on the banned facility I'm roolz compliant.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 01 September, 2015, 01:30:23 pm
Also, cats are like parked cars, in that Enforcement can't infer that they've walked across the prohibited area in order to get there, since they may have levitated or quantum tunnelled or something.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 02 September, 2015, 02:04:49 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=640&file=IMG_20150831_145651.jpg)    (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=640&file=IMG_20150831_145708.jpg)

This is one of the neighbours cats, who will often say hello to me on my way past to the supermarket.

He may look small and cuddly, but he's slightly larger than Zev and a lot more solid!  Zev will sway a bit when you pet her, but he doesn't move in the slightest. :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 September, 2015, 10:08:17 pm
Holiday kittehs -
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/605/20919644822_b1cb6b4d95.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xSADzq)IMG_5646 (https://flic.kr/p/xSADzq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5621/20741441940_5fd88ac042.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xARj4W)IMG_5622 (https://flic.kr/p/xARj4W) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5746/20885962491_b2dcc0ca6c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xPC1Zz)IMG_5489 (https://flic.kr/p/xPC1Zz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr


(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/735/20660450870_be07c70588.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xtGdfb)IMG_5454 (https://flic.kr/p/xtGdfb) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 September, 2015, 10:17:35 pm
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5793/20746358959_79f0d40410.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xBhvJ8)IMG_5419 (https://flic.kr/p/xBhvJ8) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5667/20814314092_dbf716eb74.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xHhNqm)IMG_5393 (https://flic.kr/p/xHhNqm) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/780/20635795730_4cc92ebc76.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xrvR8y)IMG_5391 (https://flic.kr/p/xrvR8y) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5726/20819392945_ac845213e3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xHJQbM)IMG_5228 (https://flic.kr/p/xHJQbM) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 September, 2015, 07:30:16 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0542_zpsdjxezjsp.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0541_zpsklhdxruf.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0540_zpsog35djwx.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0539_zpslo5flpan.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jurek on 12 September, 2015, 07:35:02 pm
Pete looks hardcore. :thumbsup:
A cat not to be messed with.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 September, 2015, 07:41:46 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/DSCF3341_zps86370b53.jpg)

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 12 September, 2015, 08:32:04 pm
And then we get the photo that proves he's really just a big softy.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 September, 2015, 10:24:36 pm
More ninja kittehs

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5729/20551736913_ea26bc3f87_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xj62nB)EK006746 (https://flic.kr/p/xj62nB) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: red marley on 13 September, 2015, 12:04:27 am
You sure it's not a Banksy?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 September, 2015, 07:27:16 pm
Pumpkin & Ninkasi send snoozy tortie best wishes
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 14 September, 2015, 08:45:22 am
The Kitten Organiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3bWYXOEziQ
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 15 September, 2015, 11:03:30 pm
Kung-fu kitten

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5625/21177032240_39549e12eb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ygkPTw)
IMG_2782 (https://flic.kr/p/ygkPTw) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 September, 2015, 02:41:00 pm
Crouching kitten, hidden dragon?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 16 September, 2015, 03:18:31 pm
Actually it is the cat version of a VERY special martial arts move known as the five point paw exploding fur punch. That kitten will walk five steps and fall asleep.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 16 September, 2015, 04:47:00 pm
... That kitten will walk five steps and fall asleep.

Isn't that the case for every cat and kitten, anyway? ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 20 September, 2015, 08:36:09 pm
It has obviously been a damn hard day-

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0142.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0142.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 September, 2015, 08:39:22 pm
Aw :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 September, 2015, 06:11:23 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_4067.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2015, 06:43:57 pm
<surreptitious belly tickles>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 October, 2015, 08:00:54 pm
http://livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/Babylon5
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 12 October, 2015, 11:28:37 am
Leave cycling stuff on bed. Cat will sit on it:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/683/21485310724_7c6b2a19d2_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: red marley on 12 October, 2015, 05:18:48 pm
"Don't even think about moving me off this stuff!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 24 October, 2015, 01:56:28 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=500&file=IMG_20151024_125246_adj.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20151024_125246_adj.jpg)

So, what are you doing . . . ?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 October, 2015, 05:39:50 pm
I'm trying to find a squirrel, what does it look like?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0588_zpsi8iyayd6.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 26 October, 2015, 08:15:28 pm
Lots of black cats in Colchester (but only one good pic)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5709/22287144550_271b90529d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zXrrAW)
DSC_0615.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/zXrrAW) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5757/21854393723_9d3825576f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zictRM)
DSC_0652.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/zictRM) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr


And my favourite:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 November, 2015, 10:45:01 am

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_7862.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_7859.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_7816.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 05 November, 2015, 10:11:17 pm
Rustycat (1) is saying "If you think this is an amusing situation you have put me in, then you are sadly mistaken, inferior human"
Smokycat (2) is saying " I am more than a little disappointed, this bag of food is not adequate for a superior cat such as myself"

Cat3 is just being silly, and exploring...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 November, 2015, 12:51:51 pm
The cat-drying ex-teatowel is the new best cat bed apparently, according to Pumpkin.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/646/22426918888_5f3f59f046_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AaMPDj)IMG_3029 (https://flic.kr/p/AaMPDj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 08 November, 2015, 11:32:42 pm
I don't have photos but I have spent much of the weekend petting my soon-to-be-sometime-Stepdad's cats this weekend. One of them is very chatty and the other uses claws to communicate "oy! scritch!" ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 18 November, 2015, 09:48:45 pm
My Cat Mr. Q (just the letter, as spec'd at the orphanage):
(http://hujev.net/image/700_4680.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 18 November, 2015, 09:51:24 pm
... and Fran the (former) Barn Cat:
(http://hujev.net/image/700_3938.jpg)
... geez, now I'm just pulling pix off my website and posting them... oughta get back to work...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 18 November, 2015, 09:53:40 pm
Well, one more, of my dearly departed Mr. Whiskers, who loved to go car-camping:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/700_4256cr.jpg)
(he also went canoeing, in the sauna, etc.)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 November, 2015, 10:39:51 pm
:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2015, 09:38:48 pm
Another pose...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_5141.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 26 November, 2015, 08:31:34 pm
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0196.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0196.jpg.html)

Crap phone picture of Scooby and Willow being quite tolerant of each other.

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0197.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0197.jpg.html)

Oh My God! She's coming to get me :o

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0198.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0198.jpg.html)

Scooby about to enjoy a Michelin starred snack (a Whitebait brought home from tom Kerridges Hand and Flowers.

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0201.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0201.jpg.html)

Willow about to do the same.
They both approve :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 December, 2015, 08:43:04 pm
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_1818%202_zpsqvb82boi.jpg)

Hairbrushing time for the hairy monster.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 December, 2015, 12:23:11 pm
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/588/23263827940_daaa96f28d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BrKcxJ)
IMG_3108 (https://flic.kr/p/BrKcxJ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2015, 08:29:10 pm
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CVi7T44WwAAneTf.mp4 (https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CVi7T44WwAAneTf.mp4)

Seen on Twitter .    ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 06 December, 2015, 09:19:01 pm
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CVi7T44WwAAneTf.mp4 (https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CVi7T44WwAAneTf.mp4)

Seen on Twitter .    ;D

It will never get its prey through the cat flap.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jakob on 16 December, 2015, 07:54:57 am
Went to the local SPCA to *just have a look* and ended up putting in an application for this girl
(http://bcspcapets.shelterbuddy.com/photos/lostfound/doc_431566.jpg)

Should find out tomorrow...
Hana was boarding most of November at the her 'parents' place and besides having 5 danes, they also have 5 cats and she did marvelous with them, which prompted this decision.

Part of my would have preferred to take one of the older cats, as they have a harder time getting adopted, but they're also harder to convince to co-exist with a dog....(And my wife fell in love with this one).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 16 December, 2015, 08:21:15 am
Went to the local SPCA to *just have a look* and ended up putting in an application for this girl
(http://bcspcapets.shelterbuddy.com/photos/lostfound/doc_431566.jpg)

Should find out tomorrow...

Aaaah, uber cute!

How old is she?  She doesn't look overly kitten like, but clearly not a fully adult cat yet.  I'm guessing 3 to 4 months old?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jakob on 17 December, 2015, 05:27:45 am

Aaaah, uber cute!

How old is she?  She doesn't look overly kitten like, but clearly not a fully adult cat yet.  I'm guessing 3 to 4 months old?
4 months old (they think). Unfortunately, she went to the other couple :/. I've found a different cat specific organization that doesn't seem as busy as the SPCA and put in an initial application there.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2015, 08:08:32 pm
Aw :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 25 December, 2015, 10:29:30 pm
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_203905_resized.jpg)

Murfalo
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 27 December, 2015, 05:52:36 pm
Aaaah, uber cute!

How old is she?  She doesn't look overly kitten like, but clearly not a fully adult cat yet.  I'm guessing 3 to 4 months old?
4 months old (they think). Unfortunately, she went to the other couple :/. I've found a different cat specific organization that doesn't seem as busy as the SPCA and put in an initial application there.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 29 December, 2015, 08:47:06 am
Gratuitous post rather than pic

http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/insanely-clever-products-every-cat-owner-will-want
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 29 December, 2015, 02:49:18 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1643/24195648055_04c08ccf08_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CS62cM)
IMG_3152_001 (https://flic.kr/p/CS62cM) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 29 December, 2015, 03:43:35 pm
So cute :-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 30 December, 2015, 02:36:45 pm
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/P1000655_zpsj5kxp7sl.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2015, 02:50:24 pm
Imperious!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 December, 2015, 03:21:26 pm
Unusually, Kai was waiting in the back garden yesterday, and briefly took a few steps in through the back door.

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?file=_C293150_crop_adj.JPG&size=384) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/_C293150_crop_adj.JPG)

Unfortunately, Zev then appeared and sat staring at him, until he became uncomfortable, and left.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 January, 2016, 06:49:02 pm
Does my bum look big in this?

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1472/23930342139_b6d2040895_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CsDfZR)
IMG_3323_001 (https://flic.kr/p/CsDfZR) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2016, 09:39:46 pm
Pete likes the radiator

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0629_zpsuac1y5rd.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0630_zpsxtspr3gm.jpg)


He likes his blanket

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0624_zps38i5quxa.jpg)


And when he grows up, he wants to be a poledancer.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0635_zpsc04cob5u.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0636_zpszerdlet9.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 January, 2016, 11:13:43 pm
Spotty belly  :D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 11 January, 2016, 07:22:56 am
Spotty pole dancing costume  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 11 January, 2016, 07:36:41 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1643/24298787105_c1938634b7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/D2cCRg)
IMG_3324_001 (https://flic.kr/p/D2cCRg) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 January, 2016, 02:54:43 pm
Pumpkin models last season's fireplace
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1697/23961865884_fbed3db862_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CvqPUG)IMG_6278_01 (https://flic.kr/p/CvqPUG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: peliroja on 25 January, 2016, 03:08:43 pm
Gosh, that is one pretty moggy. :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2016, 11:40:58 am
http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/vflt/javiermoreno/these-photos-of-cats-from-underneath-are-too-cute-for-words
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 30 January, 2016, 12:50:00 pm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/vflt/javiermoreno/these-photos-of-cats-from-underneath-are-too-cute-for-words

Excellent  ;D
They are of a much higher quality than some of the 'cats on glass tables' fodder!

Our attempt was somewhat less artistic- Simon photobombed Kiri's picture and the image composition left a little to be desired. Sadly we will never get a chance to get a better one  :'(

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/301/20513341795_58cfdfdc01_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 January, 2016, 11:29:48 am
Just chillin'.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1520/24726901485_daf7e5ba64_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DF2QkF)
IMG_3431_01 (https://flic.kr/p/DF2QkF) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 January, 2016, 11:34:35 pm
Should've photoshopped a remote control or a cocktail...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 01 February, 2016, 12:01:05 am
Should've photoshopped a remote control or a cocktail...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/pingu_kat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 01 February, 2016, 09:33:10 am
Should've photoshopped a remote control or a cocktail...

Where's Riggers when you need him?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrew Br on 01 February, 2016, 06:42:44 pm
Pub cat:-

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1634/24129861493_aec0470231_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CLgR9H)DSC_0008 (https://flic.kr/p/CLgR9H) by Chocolatebike1 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/31668252@N05/), on Flickr

The Beech, Beech Road, ChorltonCH, MCR, Lancashire

Our visit was about as good as it could get:- the TT Landlord was delicious, we had the window seat and the cat joined us.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 01 February, 2016, 08:04:13 pm
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0210.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0210.jpg.html)

Crappy phone picture of a zoned out Scooby

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0222.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0222.jpg.html)

Willow loves Shawn
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: nikki on 03 February, 2016, 03:42:39 pm
This article paints a good picture with words :-)

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-weird-thing-about-cat-legs/459369/
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 February, 2016, 09:48:59 pm
http://honesttopaws.boredomtherapy.com/puppies-and-kittens/?pas=1&as=501TSE&utm_content=inf_10_84_2&tse_id=INF_baa200baad414e0a97fbe2dc904256b6
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2016, 10:54:35 pm
Jumble o' paws

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1477/24733349672_a794f82b47_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DFATaj)
A jumble of Pumpkin paws (https://flic.kr/p/DFATaj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 16 February, 2016, 08:38:15 pm
It's dinner time

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1711/24954746602_bf42f21921_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E2aAKL)
IMG_3553_02 (https://flic.kr/p/E2aAKL) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 February, 2016, 08:37:13 pm
I do worry about Pumpkin's apparent fearlessness:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1603/24828835979_fe0c0d9749_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DQ3gUX)Cat on a cold slate roof (https://flic.kr/p/DQ3gUX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 24 February, 2016, 11:16:58 am
Spot the Petal....

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1544/25232316005_8dc5c8ab10_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ErGdt8)1456312407211-1997077845 (https://flic.kr/p/ErGdt8) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

From the other angle....

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1686/24601721654_2658f09159_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DtYfJJ)2016-02-24_11-19-13 (https://flic.kr/p/DtYfJJ) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 26 February, 2016, 11:51:48 pm
Mr Q (L) and Fran (R) on some of our favo(u)tite 1970s blankets:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/zrP1304022.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2016, 11:18:59 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 28 February, 2016, 05:01:19 pm
Whilst we are doing cats in bed

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_1601.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2016, 07:27:59 pm
Pete in the morning

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0654_zpsv7oe58tj.jpg)


Pete in the afternoon

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0656_zps90jhdg7o.jpg)



(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0660_zpsmsis6jp0.jpg)



(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0663_zpsvcxrqvh9.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 February, 2016, 07:49:41 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12801349_10153818336456839_6879495103556566345_n.jpg?oh=6199238b220a37ff20d89a416a9466f1&oe=575C976B)
Kitten and Cub :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2016, 10:40:27 pm
Belly stokes  :)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1557/25264574011_6ba2e1c61d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EuxxDD)
IMG_6385_01 (https://flic.kr/p/EuxxDD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 01 March, 2016, 03:24:19 pm
We usually use this basket for kindling....

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/rafletcher/IMG_1225.jpg) (http://s86.photobucket.com/user/rafletcher/media/IMG_1225.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 06 March, 2016, 11:51:06 am
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=500&file=IMG_20160303_084747_crop_adj.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20160303_084747_crop_adj.jpg)

A rare appearance by Kai, who almost came into the house, but was ultimately uncomfortable when Zev wandered outside, to see what was happening.

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=500&file=IMG_20160303_085021_crop_adj.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20160303_085021_crop_adj.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 March, 2016, 11:11:14 pm
New kitty on the block:

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1642/25558713035_26e06eeffb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EWx5W8)
IMG_6395_01 (https://flic.kr/p/EWx5W8) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 08 March, 2016, 10:53:33 am
"Strike a Posie...."

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1604/25517705451_6d7a7c9c2c_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ESUUNP)2016-03-08_10-46-21 (https://flic.kr/p/ESUUNP) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Moose57 on 08 March, 2016, 07:39:22 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/v/t1.0-9/1375794_10153956414743399_3332808238692480948_n.jpg?oh=5c25c68f0ecc932ec11be280281b63c0&oe=57543267)

The Boss.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 March, 2016, 03:22:21 pm
Catalogue

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_2004.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 16 March, 2016, 01:41:41 am
Can't have enough cute Cat pictures... 2 more from the weekend:

(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/rP3134096.jpg)
Mr. Q (for cute, maybe)


(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/rP3134092.jpg)
Fran-destine (his name is Fran, get it, ha ha ha?)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Dibdib on 16 March, 2016, 10:02:02 pm
Can't have enough cute Cat pictures... 2 more from the weekend:

Aw they are both adorable. And both look like little devils too!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MagnusOpus on 21 March, 2016, 01:56:04 pm
(https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6167/6182972368_af16615d90_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/aqnmgS)big cat (1 of 1) (https://flic.kr/p/aqnmgS) by Mike Clampitt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/67686073@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: MagnusOpus on 21 March, 2016, 01:58:06 pm
Murphey and Scooter......

(https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6151/6169545058_e5234aac43_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/apbwNw)Murphey in a bag (https://flic.kr/p/apbwNw) by Mike Clampitt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/67686073@N08/), on Flickr

(https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6167/6167573228_3f7f851501_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ap1qDs)Tiny Scooter (https://flic.kr/p/ap1qDs) by Mike Clampitt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/67686073@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2016, 07:00:56 pm
Squeee at Scooter!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 28 March, 2016, 12:33:00 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=640&file=IMG_20160328_120358_adj_crop_edit.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20160328_120358_adj_crop_edit.jpg)

Zev's enjoying the sun, when it appears, through the back window into the utility area.  The heated bed hasn't got a look in, today!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: bobb on 31 March, 2016, 09:23:23 pm
Boris the blade and his new chum - the more adventurous of next door's kittens:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1567/25555361943_ff62f8f742_z.jpg) (https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1567/25555361943_f02cb15d28_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2016, 09:56:32 pm
Why yes, this is my catnip squirrel.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0675_zpsvppijecn.jpg)



My life is so exhausting.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0674_zpsc8amefuv.jpg)



Death to the emery boards!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0676_zps4kkmub9p.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 March, 2016, 10:55:33 pm
Boris the blade and his new chum - the more adventurous of next door's kittens:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1567/25555361943_ff62f8f742_z.jpg) (https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1567/25555361943_f02cb15d28_h.jpg)

Tigre! Smells of strawberry and hay  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 March, 2016, 11:09:51 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2016, 06:51:42 pm
Random cat

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1494/25626065234_826053ab3c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/F3uhoW)
IMG_6459_01 (https://flic.kr/p/F3uhoW) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 04 April, 2016, 10:20:43 pm
15 months later and the dog and Cat are finally sharing a water bowl.

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/12512750_10154065086687486_501487785829495513_n.jpg?oh=356f2ad3e81511f7686cc728e131a44a&oe=57759A9C)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 April, 2016, 06:05:11 pm
Big. Pointy. Claws!

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1607/26288737455_70f65c9e70.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/G43DL4)IMG_3976_01 (https://flic.kr/p/G43DL4) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr


Ninkasi is very very tired

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1498/26226428311_0020b454f8.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FXxiqt)IMG_4018_01 (https://flic.kr/p/FXxiqt) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 18 April, 2016, 10:28:36 pm
Here are a couple of pictures of my Cat Fran as "Sky-Cat" Saturday, having climbed the ladder (thin wire-rung ladder you see at the left there - he prefers the ladder to either the plank I laid up last year from the roof-edge down to a safer elevation to try and coax him down [with the Cat-treats!: furr-get-it!, he said, until finished] or the more 'natural' downed spruce tree leaning against the roof behind it) to get on the roof of the semi-abandoned house across my little road:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/zr_8152391.jpg)
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/zcr_8152395.jpg)
(that's an overgrown rooftop garden there, plus the views of course -- so obviously a Cat place. Under the nearby sauna is his favo(u)rite hunting spot too, and lately I've been commandeering the sauna itself a few times a week)

In case those don't work, and/or to see more of the same (climbing, the full story, his fluffy butt, etc.):
http://rjl.us/cat/skycat1.htm

ps - I've fallen into a bit of a thing posting mostly Cat pictures here at yacf (some on the biscuit thread too I think)... have gotten interested in tricycles recently so doing most 'cycling' posts over there... But here are some pix of my new Sayles/Woodrup touring frame in attempt to retain my velo-credentials:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_sayles_bikes/sets/72157662464130423
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 May, 2016, 06:39:32 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_4162.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2016, 10:55:34 pm
Jock's an old geezer now.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7339/26736914830_677171bbaf_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GJDFhb)
IMG_6577_01 (https://flic.kr/p/GJDFhb) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ruthie on 14 May, 2016, 11:43:48 pm
He's still very handsome.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2016, 09:29:43 pm
Finally some sun

Ninkasi
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7660/26529856394_b83003a4cd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Gqms29)IMG_4180_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Gqms29) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pumpkin
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/27040847382_181ee463e3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/HcvpQA)IMG_4190_01 (https://flic.kr/p/HcvpQA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 May, 2016, 11:15:45 pm
And some paw action:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7709/26531542223_9d385c8d6e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Gqv6aa)
IMG_4206_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Gqv6aa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 28 May, 2016, 11:13:50 pm
Thrrbpbbppt!

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7220/26704374244_6c9979318c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GFLU6A)
IMG_6614_01 (https://flic.kr/p/GFLU6A) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Woofage on 06 June, 2016, 05:18:15 pm
On the prowl.

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7429/26895207943_383b295cf1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GYCYiM)
DSC_0021 (https://flic.kr/p/GYCYiM) by pencyclist (https://www.flickr.com/photos/38357939@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Wombat on 07 June, 2016, 01:25:52 pm
That's a proper no-nonsense mog, Woofage.  A very fine cat indeed.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JStone on 07 June, 2016, 04:06:15 pm
Bella conserving energy

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RAXeGEW5-zw/V1bg2RsBBJI/AAAAAAAAfBM/H6MgVQJ6duwGgJxfIG7n5TarygTxrjlmQCCo/s640/IMG_0919.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 10 June, 2016, 12:35:43 am

Fran the Cat arriving from his evening stroll:
(http://hujev.net/image/velo/med/zrzrP6084359.jpg)

Fran the Cat grooming his beautiful fur coat near my almost finished 1982 stumpjumper [http://rjl.us/velo/82SJpix0.htm (http://rjl.us/velo/82SJpix0.htm)]:
(http://hujev.net/image/velo/med/zrP6084367.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 June, 2016, 11:18:50 pm
Orange Kitteh

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_8897.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_8883.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 June, 2016, 07:02:31 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_0653.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 June, 2016, 07:04:27 pm
I think this is the best thing I've ever seen on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS47v1j29ec

Bouncy! Tumbles!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 15 June, 2016, 08:22:27 pm
Wow, that's a cool-looking Cat, that orange one behind the fence, and a nice photo too. Same as the one inside above? Geez, he looks like a puma! And friendly! (as big orange tomcats tend to be)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 June, 2016, 09:56:33 pm
He's quite a character. Friendly once he knows you!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 17 June, 2016, 11:48:16 pm
Now for some of Mr. Q, Fran's best friend:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/s_8162794.jpg)
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/s_8162804.jpg)
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/s_8163085.jpg)
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/scz_8162820.jpg)
(levitation practice)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 20 June, 2016, 08:01:06 am
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_2710_zpsvieiikij.jpg)

Neighbour's mother cat outside my window last week.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 20 June, 2016, 11:50:06 am
Is that a kitten, prey with the same colouration, or a long fluffy tail in front of her front paws?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 20 June, 2016, 06:01:33 pm
Two kittens in there, either having a feed or sheltering from the rain..
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 20 June, 2016, 09:55:30 pm
Cats in Istanbul http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/welcome-catstanbul-feline-capital-world-1448731006
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 23 June, 2016, 05:07:03 pm
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_2738_zpsperw5wyi.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 23 June, 2016, 07:32:31 pm
I guess it's OK to post more pictures of my Cats ...

Fran the Cat again, who would love to hang out with any and all of the other Cats pictured here:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/s_8162827.jpg)
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/s_8163028.jpg)
[Note that most of my Cat photos seem to be on the 'Cat display platform', a sort of wooden deck surrounding a little shed behind my almost as little house. Perfect Cat habitat. Cat should always be capitalized.]
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 June, 2016, 03:36:57 pm
Pumpkin & Ninkasi gave the catnip a bit of a bashing today.

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7349/27862279746_93f84761b4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Js6t4y)IMG_4404_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Js6t4y) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7483/27820668591_6c04fe382e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JoqcvR)IMG_4410_01 (https://flic.kr/p/JoqcvR) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 28 June, 2016, 11:54:47 pm
Whilst we are doing cats in nip...

This was 2 summers ago, before I'd realized what extraordinary measures I had to take to protect Fran from the catnip (when he was a barn cat he ignored the wild catnip!). First I tried balancing the catnip-pot on top of a door on a shed:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/czrP6064476.jpg)
(As Mr. Q looks interestedly on)

[/many other variants tried with little or no success throughout the summer - the summer I learned Fran's good with ladders/]

(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/_8151990%20r.jpg)
(Later that same summer, after I'd settled upon a hanging pot [and learned not to leave the ladder nearby!] and I brought it down for a supervised feeding)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 28 June, 2016, 11:57:07 pm
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/vlcsnap-2012-11-04-08h31m45s229.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 July, 2016, 04:29:23 pm
Unusually, Kai decided that he was willing to be a little friendly.  These shots were taken with my Garmin Virb video camera, which is designed to focus on cars and so forth, not cats 5cm from the lens, hence some images are a bit out of focus!

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0116_crop.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0116_crop.jpg)   (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0129_crop.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0129_crop.jpg)

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0128.JPG) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0128.JPG)   (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0118_crop.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0118_crop.jpg)

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0134_crop.jpg]) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0134_crop.jpg)   (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0130.JPG) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/VIRB0130.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ruthie on 07 July, 2016, 05:24:53 pm
He's got magnificent hairy ears!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 07 July, 2016, 05:34:44 pm
He's got magnificent hairy ears!

So have I these days  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 07 July, 2016, 06:31:30 pm
He's got magnificent hairy ears!

He's very fluffy, and even though he's only a touch heavier than Zev, he looks a lot bigger.  The wonders of a long haired vs short haired cat.

So have I these days  ::-)

You'll have to post that picture in the "Gratuitous Oscar Pics" thread. ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 July, 2016, 08:24:03 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=350&file=VIRB0128.JPG)

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 July, 2016, 05:22:36 pm
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/IMG_2771%202_zpsl1ccxhcj.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 10 July, 2016, 07:18:20 pm
Caption: Decisions, decisions ...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2016, 07:56:25 pm
Why did the kitten cross the road?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 10 July, 2016, 10:44:00 pm
We have since yesterday morning been taken over by 4 kittens. We believe that they are 2 girls and 2 boys. No pictures yet as I am stuck in Carmarthen hospital at the moment but I will post some as soon as I can  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 July, 2016, 05:46:18 pm
Stand-off between our neighbour's cat, Claude, and an unknown ginger & white interloper.

(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8658/28271159005_f0c99a0f5d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/K5e5BX)
IMG_4531_01 (https://flic.kr/p/K5e5BX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 July, 2016, 10:22:10 am
Yet another Pumpkin portrait

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8577/28141693431_d92c24292d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JSMx1T)
IMG_4516_02 (https://flic.kr/p/JSMx1T) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 July, 2016, 01:06:14 pm
Jamise stopping me from working....honest.

(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8810/27668135493_710340cb07.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/J9WqJR)2016-07-13_01-53-14 (https://flic.kr/p/J9WqJR) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 July, 2016, 10:58:25 pm
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8617/28385932146_a6bdb91241_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KfnjFd)
IMG_6930_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KfnjFd) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JStone on 20 July, 2016, 11:03:21 am

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OGLW6buzpkI/V49L9DyKCeI/AAAAAAAAfLo/pnB1P7EZB9kkc1kE-N3uxmn92Ivha7KRwCCo/s640/IMG_1495.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 July, 2016, 12:15:52 pm
https://www.buzzfeed.com/floperry/cats-that-are-failing-at-being-a-cat?utm_term=.skYnNax15#.tpKLNoWv0
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 27 July, 2016, 08:07:54 pm
A couple of pictures of the kittens. All girls. The tabby is called Tiger lily the the black one with the white tip on her tail is narla from the lion King, the black one with the long tail is Freddie the and last but not least the black one with the short tail is Jason-ette  :) (http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah22/tricyclingman108/Mobile%20Uploads/CIMG0880_zpsglr7bmkb.jpg)
 (http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/tricyclingman108/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CIMG0880_zpsglr7bmkb.jpg.html)

(http://i1376.photobucket.com/albums/ah22/tricyclingman108/Mobile%20Uploads/CIMG0880_zpsglr7bmkb.jpg) (http://s1376.photobucket.com/user/tricyclingman108/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CIMG0880_zpsglr7bmkb.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 30 July, 2016, 11:45:45 am
Feline grace and elegance

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8719/28030529604_7239e32117_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb)
IMG_4570_01 (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 July, 2016, 03:24:50 pm
Feline grace and elegance

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8719/28030529604_7239e32117_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb)
IMG_4570_01 (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

We've just noticed that she seems to be missing a chunk of her tongue :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 July, 2016, 05:19:19 pm
Feline grace and elegance

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8719/28030529604_7239e32117_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb)
IMG_4570_01 (https://flic.kr/p/JGXMTb) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

We've just noticed that she seems to be missing a chunk of her tongue :(

Whole tongue:

(https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7648/16395796534_c799cffc70_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qYQK69)
IMG_2363 (https://flic.kr/p/qYQK69) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 August, 2016, 09:04:53 pm
Zonked!

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8497/28755455831_14a4726209_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KP2ece)IMG_4599_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KP2ece) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 08 August, 2016, 12:31:55 pm
The kitten olympics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tolE9k3I5ec
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 10 August, 2016, 01:16:12 am

(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/opr3-P8084816.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 10 August, 2016, 10:24:11 am
This is my favourite thread on any forum.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 10 August, 2016, 10:44:35 am
As I may have mentioned already we are now down to one moggy as Barry the Cat was run over and killed at the beginning of May  :'(

His sister Isabella, when not causing trouble with neighbouring felines, has taken a shine to an empty plant pot in the garden ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_3092_zpsnk5gs155.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpskbswaqpk.jpg)

We are hoping to get a kitten before Christmas.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 August, 2016, 12:45:13 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0743_zpsl3v35lrt.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 10 August, 2016, 12:54:47 pm
As I may have mentioned already we are now down to one moggy as Barry the Cat was run over and killed at the beginning of May  :'(

His sister Isabella, when not causing trouble with neighbouring felines, has taken a shine to an empty plant pot in the garden ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_3092_zpsnk5gs155.jpg)
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpskbswaqpk.jpg)

We are hoping to get a kitten before Christmas.

Those photo's are the wrong way round.

Cats don't grow until AFTER Catnap seeds have been planted.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 August, 2016, 12:56:37 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/snoozytummy_zpsecpc17rl.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ruthie on 10 August, 2016, 01:54:47 pm
Is that Pete?  He's got a lovely tummy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 August, 2016, 02:08:19 pm
He has a gorgeous warm floofy tummy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2016, 07:35:50 pm

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpskbswaqpk.jpg)


Love this pic!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 10 August, 2016, 11:55:58 pm
Further on the tongue theme, here we have feeding time at the zoo:
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/opr2-P8084867.jpg)
Mr. Q and Fran (the Alaskats) of course.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 21 August, 2016, 09:32:17 pm
Cross-eyed

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8260/29032772322_d4389425da_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LewxJ3)
IMG_7239_01 (https://flic.kr/p/LewxJ3) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8535/29033474932_8037938c63_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LeA9A1)
IMG_4684_01 (https://flic.kr/p/LeA9A1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 August, 2016, 11:18:12 pm
Crosseyed cats is teh WIN
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 August, 2016, 11:28:32 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_9486.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 August, 2016, 05:51:21 pm
Somewhat surprisingly,  the ancient old blind & battered Tom out the back of the hotel is still alive...

(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8513/28520251603_c3f1fb536e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KseKaV)IMG_4696_01 (https://flic.kr/p/KseKaV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr


And some of the new semi ferals:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8653/29061397161_3c21717378_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lh4fTK)IMG_4699_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Lh4fTK) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 26 August, 2016, 12:24:40 am
The empty cat bed of doom (® Jaded) has been nagging me for too long.
Phoned a friend who breeds Ragdolls to tentatively ask if she was planning any more litters in the next 12 months.
She replied that she has 2 urgently needing homes as nearly 20 weeks from her last litter. They are absolutely gorgeous.
I am going to collect them next Tuesday  ;D

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8095/29165608356_02fd503eff_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lrgnfu)14107756_10210331654518515_2848328456150550321_o (https://flic.kr/p/Lrgnfu) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 26 August, 2016, 08:52:06 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 August, 2016, 02:13:20 pm
My friend Norma has a ragdoll called Biggles. He's absolutely gorgeous, just a big pile of fluff. She uses him as advertising for her etsy jewellery https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftsByBigglesAndMe?ref=l2-shopheader-name
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 26 August, 2016, 07:43:26 pm
I love all animals, but as one orphanage said (or more), 'adopted is my favo(u)rite breed'!
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Post by: Jaded on 26 August, 2016, 11:08:02 pm
Feline, that's brilliant and made me  :'( with an upturned mouth :)

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Post by: Jaded on 26 August, 2016, 11:08:40 pm
I only have this to offer

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_9486-b.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ruthie on 27 August, 2016, 10:27:44 am
Gratuitous cat picture film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FuwJh8DSs
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 28 August, 2016, 12:29:52 pm
I put a towel down, to go in the washing machine, a couple of weeks ago.  Zev immediately claimed it, so I haven't been able to wash it, or use that stool since!  It's her favourite location to sleep, when not at the bottom of the bed, waiting for me to get up and prepare her breakfast. :)

it's getting towards the point of becoming so heavily fur covered, that I'm going to have to wash it, and substitute one of Zev's own towels (she has a couple of old ones, that are normally used with the cat carrier for visits to the vet or cattery).

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=500&file=P8280473.JPG) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/P8280473.JPG)
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Post by: matthew on 28 August, 2016, 06:04:26 pm
Black cat, white towel. Don't expect the substitute towel to be acceptable.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 28 August, 2016, 07:52:28 pm
Black cat, white towel. Don't expect the substitute towel to be acceptable.

It's not white, I think the flash over-exposed that a bit, it's faded green, rapidly moving towards dark grey in places! ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 August, 2016, 10:44:46 pm
I had kitteh-sitting duties yesterday evening/this morning, which I simplified the logistics for by staying at said kitteh's house.  So I woke up in the wee small hours with a very loud purr next to my ear, and realised that Mitzi had climbed onto the middle shelf of the bedside table next to me :)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14102440_10154299739641839_7120519187540174650_n.jpg?oh=6749999395d087d5b03bc7d7af01cdd2&oe=585C746D)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 August, 2016, 05:14:24 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0776_zpsubm0qkrd.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2016, 05:16:07 pm
That looks suspiciously like he may have taken up golf...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 August, 2016, 10:50:59 pm
This morning I was hanging out at the now-closed Fanning Outpost in deepest Missouri, which features Cats.  At lest five.  Of them.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8098/29313219056_9a12e27809_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LEiULy)
P8300032 (https://flic.kr/p/LEiULy) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8466/28725499353_e0548055d2_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLnGbe)
P8300034 (https://flic.kr/p/KLnGbe) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8450/29346574865_17e55ddf9d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LHfShH)
P8300035 (https://flic.kr/p/LHfShH) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8253/29238574542_34ea40eafe_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LxHkyb)
P8300036 (https://flic.kr/p/LxHkyb) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8343/29059467840_02ca51e12b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LgTnnA)
P8300037 (https://flic.kr/p/LgTnnA) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 31 August, 2016, 11:39:53 am
Since I got the film scanner I have been scanning

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/kitteh_scan.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2016, 11:48:11 am
Does this count?

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8436/28725608393_b3b7ea0bae_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KLofAe)
Easy, tiger! (https://flic.kr/p/KLofAe) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 August, 2016, 12:50:45 pm
Bloody hell Mr L, that is a huge pair of balls on show there!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 31 August, 2016, 01:33:02 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=640&file=P8280485.JPG) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/P8280485.JPG)

Zev yawning, after a hard day spent sleeping.

... alternatively ...

Vampire Cat was about to attack.

 ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 03 September, 2016, 01:45:12 pm
 ;D
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2016, 02:15:52 am
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7703/29510146455_7e6eb8b580_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LXHdqx)
P9060399 (https://flic.kr/p/LXHdqx) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

You'll never leave...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 19 September, 2016, 10:28:01 pm
Campsite cats in Ghent:

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/viva_colonia/2016_09_17_11_53_11.sized.jpg)

I'd previously befriended the lower one, which is why it's ignoring me.  I didn't spot the one in the doorway until I reviewed the picture.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 September, 2016, 10:29:42 pm
:)
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Post by: Pingu on 24 September, 2016, 02:56:44 pm
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8444/29266780534_b9d1a8feba_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LAcUdo)
EK003781 (https://flic.kr/p/LAcUdo) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 24 September, 2016, 04:36:29 pm
Did the cat(s) see off the fox then?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 September, 2016, 07:35:06 pm
Who knows. Shame we can't see Ninkasi's tail in that shot, I'd bet it was as big as the foxes' brush ;D
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Post by: Feline on 24 September, 2016, 08:41:50 pm
Update on our lovely Ralph and Rory.

Ralph
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7777/29715217751_c660526b19_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MgQfYx)IMG_2202 (https://flic.kr/p/MgQfYx) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

He is absolutely massive at 6 months old- 3.9kg
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8074/29170095864_087434e4bc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LrEnej)IMG_0754 (https://flic.kr/p/LrEnej) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

Blimey- there are chickens out there!
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8652/29797805355_aae46a9ed0_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Mp8xoK)IMG_2247 (https://flic.kr/p/Mp8xoK) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

Rory is a big microwave oven fan
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8291/29172185903_c6e8024090_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LrR5wt)IMG_2199 (https://flic.kr/p/LrR5wt) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

Streeeeeeeeeetttttch
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5045/29787543812_38e471024c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ModWZA)IMG_2397 (https://flic.kr/p/ModWZA) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

Rory says "This tank of mice is like my own personal TV!"
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8521/29607193690_99f9379287_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M7hBbJ)IMG_2400 (https://flic.kr/p/M7hBbJ) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8693/29607202310_17a8364206_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M7hDKm)IMG_2403 (https://flic.kr/p/M7hDKm) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Ruthie on 24 September, 2016, 08:42:42 pm
Do they actually do the ragdoll thing, of going floppy when you pick them up?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 25 September, 2016, 09:01:19 am
They are beautiful.
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Post by: red marley on 25 September, 2016, 09:53:24 am
Is the second one down one of Apple's new iCats?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 September, 2016, 10:11:58 am
Gosh they are enormous for only 6m!
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Post by: red marley on 25 September, 2016, 10:33:53 am
6m?!!! Blimey, they really are much longer than I thought.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 25 September, 2016, 02:31:42 pm
Do they actually do the ragdoll thing, of going floppy when you pick them up?

Yes they do- although if they are stressed out they can override it.
It's useful when brushing their bellies as they will let you lie them on their backs  ;D
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Post by: Feline on 25 September, 2016, 02:32:07 pm
Is the second one down one of Apple's new iCats?

Yes, they are latest iThing  ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 26 September, 2016, 12:16:21 am
CatOS 10  :D
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Post by: Oranj on 01 October, 2016, 08:55:40 pm
In the Guardian today, some rather nice photographs: Cat snap: Jane Bown's feline photographs (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/01/cat-snaps-jane-bowns-feline-photographs-cats)
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Post by: Pingu on 09 October, 2016, 10:56:56 pm
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8414/30222521385_ffda009981_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/N3EjEV)
IMG_7586_01 (https://flic.kr/p/N3EjEV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 16 October, 2016, 04:32:13 pm
Five weeks ago we got kittens, Daisy is now about 13 weeks old and Victor is about 15 weeks old.  I say "about" as they were rescue kittens so we can't be sure.  Although they are both tabbies they aren't siblings.

What they are is little buggers  ::-)  >:(  ;D  Some of the time they are like this ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/C3BF47E3-0EAC-43C1-90C7-821D1D164D8A_zps0uzklrim.jpg)

The rest of the time they are hooning around the house, climbing into and onto everything (it's incredibly how high they can jump) and fighting each other, quite often it seems like we are in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.  We thought Isabella and Barry were hooligans when they were kittens a couple of years ago, they were nothing like Daisy and Vic are at the moment.  Issy is slowly getting used to them.

Although we seem to spend our lives shouting at the kittens they are well loved and very cute.  The next two photos were taken a few days after we got them.

Daisy who is the smaller of the two but the naughtiest ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zpsqnsolioq.jpg)

Vic ...

(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/527AC3B3-F688-4020-A2C4-2C10D86E612F_zps3yvxil2d.jpg)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 October, 2016, 05:03:37 pm
Aww
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 October, 2016, 10:11:44 pm
Oh, they are gorgeous.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 17 October, 2016, 01:45:54 am
My brother's (xgf's) cat, Oreo.

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8415/30076657860_6e01d187c1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MPLJwy)
DSC_0053.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/MPLJwy) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 October, 2016, 05:16:34 pm
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5495/30219971702_3b10190bf6_z.jpg)

2D Thomas meets the wrong end of the Mollycat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 31 October, 2016, 10:15:24 pm
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/czrPA167582.jpg)
My Cats get these crossed paws when feeling especially happy and loved. Do all?
(http://hujev.net/image/cat/screen/czrPA197633.jpg)
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Post by: TimO on 01 November, 2016, 12:33:39 pm
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=512&file=PA311261_crop_adj.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/PA311261_crop_adj.jpg)

Raaaaawwwwrl ... or Zev may have just been licking her lips. :)
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Post by: spindrift on 02 November, 2016, 08:41:58 pm
Jackson's One-Foot-on-the-Ground technique:

(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7760/27687841123_115ee9d9bd_z.jpg)

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Post by: Canardly on 02 November, 2016, 09:02:11 pm
Old lady sleeps with old lady

(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m158/canardly1/20160918_144007_zps0botel2m.jpg) (http://s103.photobucket.com/user/canardly1/media/20160918_144007_zps0botel2m.jpg.html)
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Post by: Feline on 04 November, 2016, 05:01:21 pm
My daughter's latest attempt at a cats on glass tables picture shows they have been walking in chicken shit and haven't yet groomed their feet  ;D

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5745/30475266010_12444fc1d4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NqZGQS)IMG_1306 (https://flic.kr/p/NqZGQS) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2016, 03:47:34 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_9762.jpg)
Cat in a box

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_9786.jpg)
Cat in a sleeve (stuck)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_9818.jpg)
Cat in a jug (not stuck)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_9832.jpg)
Cat on a croft
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 28 November, 2016, 05:38:46 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_9786.jpg)
Cat in a sleeve (stuck)

 ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 28 November, 2016, 05:39:34 pm
The curtains are open, but nobody's home.

(https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5686/31284147295_40185ea7ea_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PEtr4V)
IMG_5056_01 (https://flic.kr/p/PEtr4V) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 December, 2016, 02:23:19 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0619_zpskfqfxxri.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2016, 01:07:26 pm
https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/583feba8e4b056d3d56ac23a
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2016, 07:18:03 pm
I am cat-sitting (via Cat in a Flat) for the absolutely gorgeous Ralph.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Cat%20in%20a%20Flat/IMAG0850_zpsh7wkbk9k.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2016, 07:52:57 pm
Aw
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 January, 2017, 09:03:18 am
I am cat-sitting (via Cat in a Flat) for the absolutely gorgeous Ralph.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Cat%20in%20a%20Flat/IMAG0850_zpsh7wkbk9k.jpg)

And Pete agreed to this?  :o
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 January, 2017, 11:27:35 am
Pete doesn't know. Ralph lives a five minute walk away, so I go round twice a day for feeding, scooping and cuddles. He's a very purry boy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 January, 2017, 11:47:51 am
Pete doesn't know. Ralph lives a five minute walk away, so I go round twice a day for feeding, scooping and cuddles. He's a very purry boy.

A very sensible arrangement!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 01 January, 2017, 01:04:52 pm
The cat and dog are finally 'co-existing'

(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15589689_10154836533032486_7007027623178533534_n.jpg?oh=11ee13e8f2fcb2396bd1268e733b7fe5&oe=58DEA642)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 01 January, 2017, 01:39:59 pm
Great photo. :)

That's closer than I ever got Zev and Kai to sleep, and they're the same species!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 01 January, 2017, 01:51:29 pm
Alien cat is angry

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_4753.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 02 January, 2017, 04:51:16 pm
Jake is cute and fluffy

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2016_12_29_23_21_13.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2016_12_30_19_53_03.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 January, 2017, 09:14:54 pm
Pumpkin's belly  :P

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/390/31884436032_8b398dec2d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Qzw4ZJ)
IMG_5278_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Qzw4ZJ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 January, 2017, 12:39:39 am
Trying, quietly, to work out which end is which  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 February, 2017, 10:51:42 pm
Ninkasi jelly beans
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2295/32713968422_80ecff2f72_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RQPD5j)2017-02-12_10-36-33 (https://flic.kr/p/RQPD5j) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pumpkin jelly beans
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/287/31994580314_472510a326_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QKfA45)Jelly beans (https://flic.kr/p/QKfA45) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 28 February, 2017, 05:00:49 pm
Mr. Q & Fran again:

(http://hujev.net/image/cat/med/zrP2242609.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 February, 2017, 05:06:26 pm
:)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2017, 05:20:29 pm
Choccie rocking her ageing tortie Ziggy Stardust look:

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/2017_02_25_20_41_34.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/2017_02_25_23_43_52_2.sized.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2017, 06:06:06 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG0902_zpsrvfrbmun.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2017, 04:58:36 pm
Gaia the procrastinator has finally given birth.  Baby kittens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHMo3yXe8g
https://youtu.be/haHMo3yXe8g
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2017, 05:58:35 pm
She seems to be panting rather a lot, I presume she's got more to come...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2017, 06:06:02 pm
She seems to be panting rather a lot, I presume she's got more to come...

Apparently that's a normal thing that cats do after giving birth, so you can't read much into it.  5 kittens were confirmed by x-ray, but John reckoned it could be as many as 7 from watching them kick.  It appears that's she's just given birth to a 6th (stillborn) while I wasn't looking, some hours after the others.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2017, 06:32:39 pm
It looks like they're all fighting over the same teat. That white one is really stroppy!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2017, 06:40:26 pm
It looks like they're all fighting over the same teat. That white one is really stroppy!

The first white one (who is now more accurately described as 'cream' having had a chance to dry off) was wriggling and clambering from the start.  I reckon he's to blame for most of the visible in vivo kicking.

They're very energetic for newborns.

Oh, looks like another's being born!

ETA: Yep, it's a seventh, and it's alive.  Hopefully she can stop now!

ETA: Another black one, female, 106g.  She's discovered that Gaia has a SEEKRIT extra nipple (which is probably just as well).
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2017, 08:06:10 pm
Awwww
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 March, 2017, 10:03:39 pm
I am finding this feed very relaxing :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2017, 10:06:51 pm
I am finding this feed very relaxing :)

They'll sort that out in a few weeks...   :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 15 March, 2017, 10:13:58 pm
New(ish) kitty on the block who has been christened Lemmy.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2813/33422395996_bf9f544cdd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/SVqvUQ)
IMG_5555_01 (https://flic.kr/p/SVqvUQ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 15 March, 2017, 11:59:41 pm
Rory says 'Rawr'  ;D

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/598/33080954690_1de3f8215b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/SpfxiL)IMG_3920 (https://flic.kr/p/SpfxiL) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

Sapphie has decided a baby bouncer is in fact hers  ;D
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/32621023134_0a695f0e30_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RGBgFm)IMG_3934 (https://flic.kr/p/RGBgFm) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2017, 09:44:23 pm
Gaia the procrastinator has finally given birth.  Baby kittens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHMo3yXe8g
https://youtu.be/haHMo3yXe8g

Well, I am glad I am not a cat mother of 6 kittens. It looks at turns,  boring and exhausting. They are so wriggly!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hujev on 03 April, 2017, 01:57:34 am
Mr. Q and Fran the Cats again, in the b/g of my new 1993 Longstaff trike!
(http://hujev.net/image/velo/med/zcP4023101.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 03 April, 2017, 12:39:35 pm
Gaia the procrastinator has finally given birth.  Baby kittens!

The kittens are now 20 days old, are over three times their birth weight, eyes and ears open, have achieved a basic competence at walking and are starting to show an interest in their surroundings.  The white ones have developed points, and John has resorted to coloured backdrops in an attempt to persuade the camera's auto-exposure[1] to find a level where the black ones are mostly visible.

Their mother has returned to a reasonable size and is looking greatly relieved about it, but several weeks in a room at happy newborn kitten degrees Farenheit[2] has persuaded her that it's summer, and yesterday's floor-sweeping yielded a fluffball the size of her head.  She has an affinity for smooth surfaces and when she's not with the kittens, she's usually snoozing on the scales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNMK65mFBx8
https://youtu.be/VNMK65mFBx8


[1] It's a higher-end 4K (so he can losslessly crop to HD) webcam that spends half the time doing a respectable job with not a lot of light.
[2] We should be thankful that he's weighing the kittens in grams.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 April, 2017, 07:16:56 pm
Quote
[2] We should be thankful that he's weighing the kittens in grams.

The last weighing I saw he was measuring in metric and translating it to imperial.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 April, 2017, 09:57:21 pm
...and yesterday's floor-sweeping yielded a fluffball the size of her head...

About 5 seconds with the Zoom Groom removed a handful of fur just now.
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Post by: Jaded on 04 April, 2017, 08:23:50 pm
A very hungry kitteh that wasn't so hungry when we'd finished with it.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_8001.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_8011.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2017, 06:33:19 pm
The Kattarshians have a new family of little ginger kittens and mum. They are very squeee :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 23 April, 2017, 07:05:53 pm
A summary of potential jobs for cats here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4p4PUGUeK8)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 24 April, 2017, 12:54:07 am
Ralph
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/582/34072944262_4335c6d633_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TUUKff)IMG_3951 (https://flic.kr/p/TUUKff) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 April, 2017, 01:35:33 am
I worked out which way round he was  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 02 May, 2017, 04:42:48 pm
Boushti, because I haven't posted one for ages.

(http://i.imgur.com/WTDOdDo.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 May, 2017, 07:18:37 pm
Boushti is gorgeous.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: red marley on 04 May, 2017, 09:37:15 pm
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?

And judged.

(https://smcse.city.ac.uk/staff/jwo/acf/cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 09 May, 2017, 09:30:08 pm
Ninkasi

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4165/34558925035_2983a02f67_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UDRwp6)
IMG_5740_01 (https://flic.kr/p/UDRwp6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 09 May, 2017, 10:29:19 pm
Lovely.

(granite sofa?)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 May, 2017, 10:34:33 pm
That there is Mojo's famous wall, from here https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=144.msg39253#msg39253
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 10 May, 2017, 01:58:25 pm
Ralph yet again in his usual comfy position in one of the dog beds (we had to buy 3 more the same because otherwise the dog ended up without a bed  ;D)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4188/33730272004_f158464995_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ToCsHS)IMG_4153 (https://flic.kr/p/ToCsHS) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr

And not to be outdone, here is Rory, Ralph's brother taken at the same time  ;D
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4166/33730279204_98be0c8487_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ToCuS1)IMG_4154 (https://flic.kr/p/ToCuS1) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 12 May, 2017, 06:48:49 am
From my facebook feed, but good enough to share....

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18402894_1545645218800535_1038469844752176036_n.jpg?oh=56d3da88653c3cdcd413b8d9888aadd5&oe=59B0421E)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 12 May, 2017, 03:01:20 pm
(http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l160/stevenr_01/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_4059_zpsdlql71qc.jpg)

Victor (in the foreground) and Daisy are now all growed up and allowed outside.  Their integration into the local cat community has gone surprisingly smoothly (famous last words  ::-) ) and given their capacity to cause utter chaos whilst they were confined to the house this has come as a pleasant surprise!  This is probably due to them not being kittens anymore so they don't hoon around the place like furry whirlwinds - which is sad and a relief in equal measure.

Isabella, sister to the late Barry the Cat  :'( , is now very much Senior Cat and enjoys certain privileges like being able to sleep on our bed at night.  She is slowly learning how to tolerate the upstarts, long may this process continue.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 12 May, 2017, 03:49:36 pm
From my facebook feed, but good enough to share....

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18402894_1545645218800535_1038469844752176036_n.jpg?oh=56d3da88653c3cdcd413b8d9888aadd5&oe=59B0421E)

Ha ha ha !!!! Brilliant.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2017, 01:54:25 pm
Pumpkin

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4189/34517642381_929ee3e9d8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UAcWvc)
IMG_5862_01 (https://flic.kr/p/UAcWvc) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 24 June, 2017, 08:01:02 pm
And Ninkasi showing off her belly

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4258/34663921384_b656798b43_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UP8E9Y)
IMG_6213_01 (https://flic.kr/p/UP8E9Y) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 14 July, 2017, 08:52:06 pm
Bloody Photobucket!

Anyway, back in business with an alternative

(http://i.imgur.com/WQPKOQN.jpg)

This silly old geriatric started a fight earlier, the alleyway is a tricky territory to defend- all the nearby cats want to control it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 July, 2017, 09:45:23 pm
Nice socks  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 20 July, 2017, 09:46:47 pm
Dunno wtfs going on here

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4299/35193066074_e59dbc965f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VBTErh)
EK000285 (https://flic.kr/p/VBTErh) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 20 July, 2017, 09:59:30 pm
Warp drive coming on line.  They'll probably rematerialise in the back of a cupboard.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 July, 2017, 05:02:18 pm
;D
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Post by: essexian on 26 July, 2017, 03:10:24 pm
You can never have enough Ginger.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4299/35913289882_e649444b34_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WHwZT9)2017-07-22_11-16-12 (https://flic.kr/p/WHwZT9) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

That's Jamise in the background and "Whinger the Ginger" (he isn't our cat.... but try telling him that!) in the near ground.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 July, 2017, 03:36:27 pm
 :)
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Post by: Monty on 26 July, 2017, 04:46:32 pm
Mrs. Moo, taken a few years ago.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3911/14700523920_4e15305c92_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/op32AY)DSC_0007 (https://flic.kr/p/op32AY) by G-UU (https://www.flickr.com/photos/38982585@N06/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 26 July, 2017, 08:38:07 pm
This is actually Simon's picture from when he went to put the bins out late at night and saw this (these are all our cats):

Go back to bed. None of this concerns you human.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4316/36183833025_8a709ebe51_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/X8rAW6)IMG_0931 (https://flic.kr/p/X8rAW6) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 26 July, 2017, 08:46:21 pm
That's the white pawns laid out.  Black cats are setting up behind the camera...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Monty on 26 July, 2017, 10:10:53 pm

Go back to bed. None of this concerns you human.

My God! The neighbourhood must be terrorised...those...monsters!!  ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 26 July, 2017, 10:16:38 pm
At least they appear to all be reasonably hi-vis.  Talisker, who was entirely black, used to also favour sleeping on the black tarmac, on warm summer nights ...  :-\
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 31 July, 2017, 08:04:27 am
Another: "He is not our cat but try telling him that" cat.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: "Lord Spare Rayner"*

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4312/35457159963_ed26dd0dcf_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/W2edmc)2017-07-30_12-42-53 (https://flic.kr/p/W2edmc) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr



*So named as he thinks he is something special, we already have two tabbies so he is a spare one if we ever need a spare and he likes trying different foods.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 August, 2017, 09:19:23 pm
So many ferals here:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4415/36015048873_1e2315f5fb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WSwxhv)
IMG_9316_01 (https://flic.kr/p/WSwxhv) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2017, 10:39:41 pm
Some video of Ninkasi having a head massage.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4334/36675970210_f709fdf347.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XSVWaY)TRIM_20170906_215422 (https://flic.kr/p/XSVWaY) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Feline on 09 September, 2017, 04:26:43 pm
Ralph has grown up into quite a chilled out cat (now a year old). He is unbothered by grandson cuddling him  :D

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4339/37123722315_b7d2ee7003_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YyuMgR)IMG_4370 (https://flic.kr/p/YyuMgR) by Lara Day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/felinelara/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 14 September, 2017, 05:48:20 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4394/37054376942_638b7e73a1_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YsnniY)Screenshot_2017-09-09-22-07-51 (https://flic.kr/p/YsnniY) by cycling Nocturne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97649243@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 September, 2017, 06:07:23 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4380/36968333630_b15af98236_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YjLnCA)IMG_20170918_152605086 (https://flic.kr/p/YjLnCA) by cycling Nocturne (https://www.flickr.com/photos/97649243@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2017, 08:42:09 pm
D'awww
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 20 October, 2017, 12:24:00 am
Fat Cat is hiding.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_2346-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 October, 2017, 07:11:31 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PA280061.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 30 October, 2017, 09:36:18 am
It's a box, boxes must be slept in !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 October, 2017, 12:01:18 pm
It's a box, boxes must be slept in !
Pete also likes to use them as a launchpad.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 30 October, 2017, 01:05:40 pm
Not a lunchpad?!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 October, 2017, 11:37:49 pm
It's a box, boxes must be slept in !

I fits, I sits.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 01 November, 2017, 02:28:57 pm
From the New Yorker

(https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/59d67987c8b6b02501fe7030/master/w_466,c_limit/171016_a21316.jpg)
“It’s alive! It’s nearly impossible to tell the difference, but it’s alive!”
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 01 November, 2017, 06:11:08 pm
Terminator Cat is hiding behind the computer monitor.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PB010011.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 11 November, 2017, 08:21:32 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4528/38308598202_963a78aaac_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/21nczAs)
IMG_0011_01 (https://flic.kr/p/21nczAs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 11 November, 2017, 11:43:42 pm
That’s great!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 November, 2017, 08:37:47 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4578/38623167672_b9606bd8be_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/21QZQ91)
IMG_0112_01 (https://flic.kr/p/21QZQ91) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 November, 2017, 11:07:36 pm
Kneady Ninkasi video.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4534/26912118609_2d2ccae896_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/H18DfZ)
ninkasi_kneads (https://flic.kr/p/H18DfZ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 10 December, 2017, 11:51:03 pm
That Pumpkin looking a bit serious.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4553/38919443312_92062c4b10_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22ibjyG)
IMG_6724_01 (https://flic.kr/p/22ibjyG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 14 December, 2017, 06:22:22 pm
Boushti, too lazy to work the catflap.

(https://i.imgur.com/9DcYNo7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 01 January, 2018, 06:28:05 pm
It's mine, all mine.


(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4735/25563178158_69213d20b4_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 January, 2018, 09:22:38 am
That cat’s  name must be Cara !
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 09 January, 2018, 07:58:24 pm
Boushti, guarding his alleyway. This fox was a regular visitor until the onset of winter.

(https://i.imgur.com/yd3Tces.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Riggers on 11 January, 2018, 01:13:51 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4578/38623167672_b9606bd8be_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/21QZQ91)
IMG_0112_01 (https://flic.kr/p/21QZQ91) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

That's a lovely pic.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2018, 07:06:52 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P1110427.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hellymedic on 14 January, 2018, 09:24:33 pm
Such a neat face! Lovely pic!
Here's our visitor, a sort-of feline Wowbagger...
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26758376_1782198281792890_489384574677801485_o.jpg?oh=5196ef35ad0b28612ea4643f444f884a&oe=5ADEFA65)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2018, 10:31:14 pm
Are they your slippers in the foreground?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hellymedic on 14 January, 2018, 11:45:29 pm
I think that's Rufus, but he looks much like Sandy and the two are easily confused.
(https://scontent.flhr2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26840640_1782157021797016_2029581061786713091_o.jpg?oh=79367fa86e35591803bffac99515ee03&oe=5AE27E6D)

Left to right: Sandy, Blackie, Big Tom, Whitenose, Rufus and Mama Cat...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 January, 2018, 12:33:18 am
Cattastic  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 18 January, 2018, 05:43:57 pm
I'm just amazed they aren't all trying to shove their faces into one bowl !  When both Kai and Zev were in the house together, I had to feed them simultaneously, so one didn't try and steal food from the other.  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hellymedic on 18 January, 2018, 06:00:38 pm
I'm just amazed they aren't all trying to shove their faces into one bowl !  When both Kai and Zev were in the house together, I had to feed them simultaneously, so one didn't try and steal food from the other.  ;D

They frequently do have three snouts in one trough.

They seem to get adequate food eventually. Blackie often holds back until the others have gorged themselves and left, then helps himself to a long, slow feast.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2018, 11:48:42 pm
I remember when we had three cats and a two dish cat bowl. Two of them learnt the hook a paw in and drag the bowl to you trick. The third was the dumb bully who would suddenly realise there was no trough infront of her snout, look puzzled for a minute and then barge across to the bowl. Then the whole process was repeated as the bowl slowly moved across the kitchen floor.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2018, 10:31:00 pm
Sleepy Ninkasi
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4754/26058202858_0236972bf9.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FGF6RC)2018-01-27_06-25-52 (https://flic.kr/p/FGF6RC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 February, 2018, 10:53:23 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4664/26190915018_80d7f6e750_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj)
IMG_20180203_190452 (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2018, 10:55:09 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4664/26190915018_80d7f6e750_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj)
IMG_20180203_190452 (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Has someone finally attempted the buttered toast cat levitation experiment?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 February, 2018, 11:32:44 pm
Classical 'cos she's not in a box.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 February, 2018, 11:35:46 pm
She's the Mummy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 04 February, 2018, 12:54:43 am
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4664/26190915018_80d7f6e750_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj)
IMG_20180203_190452 (https://flic.kr/p/FUphyj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Has someone finally attempted the buttered toast cat levitation experiment?

That was my first though too.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 27 February, 2018, 10:53:27 am
When the task is hard, call for a second Ginger...

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4657/40514296421_b582dc2543_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24J7mQ6)2018-02-27_10-52-41 (https://flic.kr/p/24J7mQ6) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 14 March, 2018, 11:58:58 am
"Somewhere there is a cat biscuit, if only I could reach it"

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4779/38994461850_5ef5472ef2_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22pNNXL)Willow KNOWS there is a biscuit in there somewhere! (https://flic.kr/p/22pNNXL) by Matt Langridge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/59790646@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Andrij on 14 March, 2018, 12:51:03 pm
Looks like that could have ended badly / comically.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 14 March, 2018, 12:53:43 pm
It came close!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 March, 2018, 08:49:29 pm
A Terminator Kitter

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P3210010.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P3200011.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 March, 2018, 03:00:33 pm
A Terminator Kitter

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P3210010.jpg)

...

Also a worthy competitor in "If I Fits, I Sits".  :thumbsup: ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 31 March, 2018, 07:17:16 pm
Pumpkin toasting her belly.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/821/41096595732_f886078a83_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25ByN8o)
IMG_0599_01 (https://flic.kr/p/25ByN8o) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 April, 2018, 11:01:49 pm
The latest Kattarshians are quite endearing: http://www.kattarshians.tv
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 April, 2018, 09:21:55 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG1208_zpsoheml5lq.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 12 May, 2018, 10:43:40 pm
Pumpkin playing the stick game.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/954/28189113008_e670af3eac_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JWYzcN)
IMG_7756_01 (https://flic.kr/p/JWYzcN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 May, 2018, 11:44:13 pm
Stir fried cat terminator

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P5140010.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 16 May, 2018, 08:18:44 pm
That looks like one cross kitty. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 May, 2018, 09:39:44 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG1232_zpsiyqaioyn.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG1234_zps7s19hvef.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG1236_zps22yvcc75.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Pete/IMAG1237_zps5st15kh9.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 18 May, 2018, 10:20:32 am
Mrs F getting some love from a Catalan Bay kitteh

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/979/42140560422_45132cbcec_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/27cPosA)IMGP0018 (https://flic.kr/p/27cPosA) by Matt Langridge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/59790646@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 18 May, 2018, 04:29:52 pm
It has a very weird spiky tail..
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 18 May, 2018, 11:14:10 pm
It has a very weird spiky tail..

That's to fend off the Barbary Macaques.....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 24 July, 2018, 08:10:30 am
Maru (a Japanese InterMog) and  wigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4HgwaipaY
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 August, 2018, 08:55:31 pm
We are among you.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1888/44285654321_208d47b1ae_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2atny9a)
IMG_1610_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2atny9a) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 26 August, 2018, 10:56:01 pm
Move along human, nothing to see here...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 28 August, 2018, 04:16:36 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1845/44324826881_db80b8701c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2awQjM8)2018-08-28_04-12-23 (https://flic.kr/p/2awQjM8) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Feeding time....

From left to Right: Ginger the whinger, Eric the stray, Snowflake the new queen on the block (please let her have been done...!!!) and Jamise the only cat we are actually officially staff to.


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 28 August, 2018, 04:51:10 pm
Excellent game of cat-chess in progress there...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 03 September, 2018, 09:17:45 am
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1854/44442489651_624985548b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2aHenPz)Other people&#x27;s cats part ???? Mog (https://flic.kr/p/2aHenPz) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

After not being looked after for a week, Mog seems to have moved himself in. That's four black cats we are now feeding.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 04 September, 2018, 07:09:52 am
From an FB feed

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/40791775_10156553647819344_1310405057564377088_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=fb7cfcce646f9750528f137d054876d9&oe=5C2A785F)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 17 September, 2018, 08:33:34 am
Phoebe

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1898/29795960987_3fdf89d336_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoY68i)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/MoY68i) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1883/43824004635_0c1e4a94dc_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29LztLP)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/29LztLP) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1880/29795959517_ba005a6db9_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MoY5FX)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/MoY5FX) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 September, 2018, 04:51:29 pm
Nice belleh action!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 21 September, 2018, 10:49:59 am
I love this tread. It makes the world a better place.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 21 September, 2018, 11:32:30 am
An update from our cats...

Isabella

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1872/43009107200_0378838989_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28wyVa3)

Now 4 years old and sister of Barry who got run over in 2016  :'(  Issy is very much the Senior Cat, does her own thing, quite difficult to photograph as she likes being outdoors even in winter when she grows a particularly thick coat.  Likes flower pots and is only just starting to tolerate the Tabby Terrors...

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1972/44770576882_25d746ad36_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bddUHY)

Daisy

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1863/44099958234_177c48b7fc_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2abXPau)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1943/44770576892_9f926cdd17_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bddUJ9)

2 years old now but very small.  An affectionate overly inquisitive animal who spends as much time in our neighbour's house as she does in our's - fortunately they don't seem to mind. 

Victor

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1847/43009107660_61f235cfe5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28wyVhY)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1879/29882980397_d160b214c2_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MwE5XX)

Same age as Daisy but not related.  Vic is an a dim, athletic but accident prone cat - not a great combination.  He has fallen some height from a tree and we returned from holiday at the end of July to find he had a serious abrasion wound to his left flank.  Consequently he spent all of August and some of this month wearing a Cone of Shame whilst living in a cage so his heavily stitched repair job had a chance to heal.  Vic likes killing things, particularly pigeons, he dispatched another last night  ::-)


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 21 September, 2018, 12:48:01 pm
What lovely looking cats  ;D :thumbsup:

Other peoples cats continued....

Given the weather recently, we have become a rest home for cats wanting to get out of the rain....

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1944/44098492074_4acf37f253_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2abQijS)2018-09-21_08-59-17 (https://flic.kr/p/2abQijS) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr   Whinger the Ginger

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1975/43007532050_6b2827fb83_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28wqQVh)2018-09-21_08-58-56 (https://flic.kr/p/28wqQVh) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr  Quentin (was Mog)

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1851/43908334315_693ee4beda_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29U2G3P)2018-09-21_08-58-31 (https://flic.kr/p/29U2G3P) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr  His Lordship, Lord Rayner

 


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 21 September, 2018, 02:16:26 pm
What lovely looking cats  ;D :thumbsup:

Thank you.  Life with our three felines is rarely dull  :thumbsup:  but sometimes a little too exciting  ::-)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 September, 2018, 06:50:57 pm
Nice photos, OD.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 21 September, 2018, 06:59:22 pm
Nice photos, OD.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2018, 05:32:35 pm
Pumpkin fits

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1897/44864450421_ede2452352.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bmw34g)IMG_1915_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2bmw34g) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 September, 2018, 07:53:43 am
Asleep in a hat...

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1964/43068820490_104078b5dc_q.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28BQXQw)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/28BQXQw) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2018, 08:04:22 pm
Nice.

Gratuitous sleepy cat inna box action
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1918/44025044315_02b9f38763.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2a5kRSc)IMG_9358_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2a5kRSc) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 October, 2018, 11:45:53 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1934/31142400728_7ba3b878e7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PrWWKA)
EK008554 (https://flic.kr/p/PrWWKA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1978/44103700485_6e2be2b1af_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2achZB4)
EK008531 (https://flic.kr/p/2achZB4) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: matthew on 02 October, 2018, 09:40:06 pm
Playing or squabbling?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 02 October, 2018, 10:51:23 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1934/31142400728_7ba3b878e7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PrWWKA)
EK008554 (https://flic.kr/p/PrWWKA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Teh cheezburger was THIS big!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 02 October, 2018, 10:53:03 pm
TeH big!!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 October, 2018, 11:48:27 pm
Playing or squabbling?

Playing.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 08 October, 2018, 12:14:54 am
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PA080039.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PA080010.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 October, 2018, 01:15:29 pm
nice toe beans :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 November, 2018, 08:17:39 pm
Pumpkin fits, Pumpkin sits
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1935/30699017387_e7ce1ef3e6.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NLLuke)IMG_2100_01 (https://flic.kr/p/NLLuke) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2018, 02:17:31 pm
Zev, very stressed out by fireworks on the last Friday before Bonfire Night.  ;D

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=640&file=BonfireNightFriday20181102.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/BonfireNightFriday20181102.jpg)

For a cat who is scared by the postman putting letters through the letterbox, she is remarkably unfazed by fireworks exploding only a short distance away!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 03 November, 2018, 02:46:20 pm
One of the most recent photos of Kai, a few weeks ago, on the wildlife camera covering my side-return.  He looks healthy enough, and is clearly eating quite well. :thumbsup:

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMAG0249_crop_adj_scale640.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMAG0249.JPG)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 11 November, 2018, 11:29:21 am
Sometimes I think our part time cats are far too happy here....

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4804/30885262547_ab1f35282d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/P4e3wF)2018-11-11_11-00-43 (https://flic.kr/p/P4e3wF) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Whinger the Ginger on my sofa!


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 11 November, 2018, 06:27:50 pm
Narla had shredded  tweet for breakfast this morning  .  A little blue title   :'(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 November, 2018, 12:02:31 pm
Other peoples cat.... Sorry, his own cat

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1958/45825895532_f1fd7f64cc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2cPtGc7)2018-11-14_11-44-07 (https://flic.kr/p/2cPtGc7) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Eric the Stray who normally sleeps in our Summer House trying a bed out for comfort.

Currently, there are 8 cats in our house!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 14 November, 2018, 11:28:37 pm
They must have smelled the blood.





Sorry ;)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 18 November, 2018, 11:19:13 pm
Hot Pumpkin belleh action  :)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4855/45893555902_49422a8634_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2cVstgd)
IMG_2199_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2cVstgd) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 November, 2018, 12:28:42 am
No cats, but very significant...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/PB230136%201.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 07 January, 2019, 08:29:44 pm
Dr Biggles and Mrs Barakta's-mum have new cats.  Siblings, thought to be about 2 years old.  I'd have guessed more like 6 months from their size, but there may have been some neglect before they were rescued.  Names courtesy of the niephews.


Skye, who has decided she's my friend.  She's recovering from a mysterious and nasty paw injury, and likes webbing straps:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/2018_12_19_12_53_54.sized.jpg)


Domino.  The small, nervous one.  Doesn't seem overly enthusiastic about meeting new humans (or royal weedings), but she did come and have a cuddle with with me yesterday, after extensive cat-chess on the previous visit:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/2019_01_06_22_38_15.sized.jpg)


Rocky.  Friendly, talkative and not one to let his siblings get more attention:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/2019_01_07_12_30_25.sized.jpg)


ETA: Bonus cat pic!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cats/IMG_0900.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 January, 2019, 09:36:31 pm
I love the cat in the hat.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 08 January, 2019, 09:40:32 pm
Her adoption of it is an excellent demonstration of the "If I fits, I sits" principle.  By filling it with impressive amounts of cat hair she's provided an unnecessary second reason never to be a pillion passenger on Dr Biggles's motorbike.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: trekker12 on 09 January, 2019, 12:44:40 pm
There's a turf war going on for the top bunk.

Freya (of the freckled nose) won on Saturday

(https://i.imgur.com/zskTCFM.jpg)

However, she wasn't moving before Christmas when twin sister Anja (of the dark nose) decided it was her turn

(https://i.imgur.com/SbLsKFB.jpg)

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 January, 2019, 09:41:35 pm
Aw nice torties. I was just observing tonight that after all the 'get a big tree, cats like to be up high', one of ours seems to show a preference for 'below'. Lying under a footstool, under the cat tree, under the bed.... And her sister would rather have a lap than a tree.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 09 January, 2019, 11:30:27 pm
In my experience, cats really love being high up when their staff need to grab them to get them in.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hellymedic on 09 January, 2019, 11:49:11 pm
Our cats mostly sleep upstairs overnight.
They seem very sensitive to anything that suggests one of us is going to be downstairs to give them FOOD and arrive in he kitchen when I do.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 10 January, 2019, 10:29:38 am
Lovely cat photo and lovely cats :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: trekker12 on 10 January, 2019, 11:02:37 am
Aw nice torties. I was just observing tonight that after all the 'get a big tree, cats like to be up high', one of ours seems to show a preference for 'below'. Lying under a footstool, under the cat tree, under the bed.... And her sister would rather have a lap than a tree.

Our two have a little bolt hole which is below - under the bed in the spare room. It's a favourite place, it's dark, sheltered and warm as its near a radiator so they have a basket each under there and can often be found if not squabbling over the cat tower downstairs.

We've been bullied since the summer by a young male Bengal who had amorous intentions living a few gardens away. He even attacked Mrs Trekker to the point of causing an infection in her arm when she tried to shoo him away. Fortunately (although not for their new neighbours) the family moved out over Christmas and our two are feeling all brave and adventurous again so we aren't seeing them as much all of a sudden.

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 29 January, 2019, 06:01:27 pm
We are in the process of adopting Bella, a 15-year old cat from the local animal rescue centre. Ms. P. sent me a photo during one of her visits today.

She is short of a few teeth but in reasonably good health otherwise.

(https://i.imgur.com/guv6SYR.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2019, 06:03:10 pm
Aw!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 01 February, 2019, 06:47:27 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/gsCnUAF.jpg)

She's been with us about 32 hours now...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 February, 2019, 07:18:50 pm
She looks perky enough :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 February, 2019, 10:34:55 pm
The Brewdog box that came from our new neighbour is Pumpkin's favourite thing of the moment.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/32011173117_1d7617b98c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QLHCvT)IMG_9660_01 (https://flic.kr/p/QLHCvT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2019, 12:00:06 pm
Found some old prints from my photography class, liked this one of dearly departed Pippin.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7886/32163358527_b39a6686fc.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R1aBWg)IMG_20190215_184216 (https://flic.kr/p/R1aBWg) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 February, 2019, 07:12:40 pm
Pumpkin & Ninkasi aren't what you'd call bosom buddies so we had to get a shot of this.
Ninkasi, on the right was there first. She was really not impressed when Pumpkin squeezed in beside her.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7845/47070447102_ed89bdaa63.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eHsm1N)IMG_2499_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2eHsm1N) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 18 February, 2019, 03:36:00 pm
Sorry for the poor quality photos.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7850/40170778213_97b91d5d23_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24cKJQn)IMG_20190214_160014 (https://flic.kr/p/24cKJQn) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7898/47083431212_fc6b8afcce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eJATJL)IMG_20190214_161046 (https://flic.kr/p/2eJATJL) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Pearl is in the foreground of both pictures with Purrdee her kitten in the background.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 18 February, 2019, 06:24:59 pm
Dibs the white kittah
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Palinurus on 18 February, 2019, 07:19:32 pm
Bella settling in. She is quite playful for a 15-year old. I let her out by mistake the other day and she easily got over the 5-ft fence and disappeared for a short while (returning eventually from an unexpected direction).

She doesn't wake me up for breakfast before 6 a.m. and generally eats whatever I put in her bowl!

(https://i.imgur.com/TxuJcbp.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 March, 2019, 11:24:11 pm
Fish-eye effect arf.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7825/46346798365_33423d64c8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2dBvssr)
IMG_2521 (https://flic.kr/p/2dBvssr) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7895/47209295692_78fa387dc5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eVHYS1)
IMG_2523 (https://flic.kr/p/2eVHYS1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 March, 2019, 02:20:06 am
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 04 March, 2019, 03:20:42 pm
Tales of Purrdee part 2.

Mummy....can I play with your tail.....

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7909/47279458951_fdce0a3dba_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2f2VzXn)2019-03-04_03-17-39 (https://flic.kr/p/2f2VzXn) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

NO!!!!

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/47227432602_03cf0f82f8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eXjWkm)2019-03-04_03-18-10 (https://flic.kr/p/2eXjWkm) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Mummy...Tom cats smell funny (and Mr Food lawn needs reseeding)

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7809/46556217164_0c1b872608_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2dW1Mno)2019-03-04_03-18-58 (https://flic.kr/p/2dW1Mno) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Mummy, the Ginger Tom is scared of me...

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7832/32337645717_b1f34eb47f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RgyTrP)2019-03-04_03-19-21 (https://flic.kr/p/RgyTrP) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: trekker12 on 06 March, 2019, 02:08:59 pm
Freya had a storm named after her by the Met Office last week*. She took her responsibilities very seriously by not going out and making sure the (indoor) kitchen mat didn't blow away by sitting on it.

(https://i.imgur.com/D55G88t.jpg)


*Well not actually named after her but we didn't tell her that
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 06 March, 2019, 02:38:21 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/P2270030.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 31 March, 2019, 08:11:18 am
I've been to many football matches where the crowd has been "one person and their dog." Well, at Leek CSOB yesterday it was 63 persons and a ginger and white tom.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7875/47448846382_7b2a014388_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2fhTJWj)2019-03-30_08-40-20 (https://flic.kr/p/2fhTJWj) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

The cat watched all of the first half but left with 10 minutes to go to avoid the traffic no doubt. Leek won 3-1 if you are interested.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 31 March, 2019, 06:07:44 pm
And a Bin For Jane TAAW
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 31 March, 2019, 06:11:37 pm
Found some old prints from my photography class, liked this one of dearly departed Pippin.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7886/32163358527_b39a6686fc.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R1aBWg)IMG_20190215_184216 (https://flic.kr/p/R1aBWg) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pippins English look-alikey has goned too.  Their memories never leave us.

Beautiful photo.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 08 April, 2019, 03:29:13 pm
The Tales of Purrdee the kitten part 3

(https://live.staticflickr.com/7805/46840459654_6ca5991fe3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2en8AKY)2019-04-08_03-21-24 (https://flic.kr/p/2en8AKY) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

"Look Mummy, I am on top of the World!"
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 April, 2019, 12:42:04 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/32718255677_c159e6a139_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RRcBwv)
IMG_9877_01 (https://flic.kr/p/RRcBwv) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 24 April, 2019, 12:48:06 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/32718255677_c159e6a139_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RRcBwv)
IMG_9877_01 (https://flic.kr/p/RRcBwv) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Wochoo laughing at?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 19 May, 2019, 07:23:59 pm
And again.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47829863512_34891d4087_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2fSyy4b)
IMG_0349_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2fSyy4b) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 June, 2019, 03:38:58 pm
Kittens less than eight weeks old, two years ago

(https://i.imgur.com/paw8YNz.jpg)

Two of them rule me now.

Edit : The top left is luna get down, who is still as fluffy now as then.  While the little head just below her is Buzz Eclair stop that.  He was the kitten no one wanted.  The black and ginger kittens went quickly, while no one wanted buzz.  But now they are there in my life....
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 June, 2019, 06:33:31 pm
Aw, little feline overlords.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 29 June, 2019, 01:42:58 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48151295687_4cf6b55396_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gmXYDe)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2gmXYDe) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 August, 2019, 02:41:12 pm
Nice fibonacci kitteh.

It's been a few weeks so I must be due a few more now:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48390562316_fd8aef19a5.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gJ7hgW)2019-07-27_11-04-13 (https://flic.kr/p/2gJ7hgW) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48161177317_4fcc3abd5c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQC7a)2019-06-24_04-30-08 (https://flic.kr/p/2gnQC7a) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 04 August, 2019, 05:12:28 pm
 :P :P :P :P Lovely pictures and a pretty cat  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 August, 2019, 06:52:42 pm
2 cats :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Canardly on 04 August, 2019, 07:22:13 pm
Next door neighbour has recently welcomed a bengal kitten. Beautiful thing with an amazingly long tail and is also extremely inquisitive. I have never heard a cat/kitten growl before, i.e. when looking at birds whilst having tummy tickled. I can see some difficulties arising in future, keeping him away from them.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 06 August, 2019, 08:26:12 pm
OOh yes two kitties.  I have a cat that visits my garden, usually to smell my washing, that looks like the cat in the bottom picture.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 August, 2019, 09:22:42 pm
Washing sniffer, haha :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: essexian on 14 August, 2019, 12:01:54 pm
Some lovely pictures here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2019/aug/14/walter-chandoha-cats-in-pictures

 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 14 August, 2019, 05:27:16 pm
Our new neighbour, Malcolm.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48531755952_4a366da781_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gWzWdY)
IMG_3495_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2gWzWdY) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

I'll try and get a better pic at some point.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 14 August, 2019, 05:34:02 pm
Malcolm is a terrific name for a cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2019, 12:03:26 am
And he looks exactly like a Malcolm should.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 02 September, 2019, 11:21:41 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48636908047_c471243a58_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h6SSh8)
IMG_3811_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2h6SSh8) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48636760601_455e835610_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h6S7rX)
IMG_3818_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2h6S7rX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48636756841_6c6080596b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h6S6k8)
IMG_3817_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2h6S6k8) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 22 September, 2019, 07:06:13 pm
Some lovely pictures here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2019/aug/14/walter-chandoha-cats-in-pictures

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/small.php?size=400&file=TheMob.jpg)

"The Mob" makes me think that they need fingers, so that they can click them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ClSABkDp8)!  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2019, 09:18:27 pm
Reservoir Cats  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 September, 2019, 09:54:28 pm
Mr Black, Mr Tabby, Mr Ginger, Ms Tortie...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 22 September, 2019, 10:25:52 pm
"The Mob" makes me think that they need fingers, so that they can click them (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ClSABkDp8)!  :-D


Cats with opposable thumbs ?  That's a very scary thought. Once they don't need us to open tins & packets we've outlived our usefulness  :jurek:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 October, 2019, 05:04:29 pm
Friendly chap:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48962353173_fbc6eff097_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hACRLZ)
IMG_4245_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hACRLZ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 October, 2019, 05:05:31 pm
Mrs P's brother's new master, Rosco.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48968945282_a99b645714_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hBdDo3)
IMG_4268_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hBdDo3) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 December, 2019, 12:10:08 am
You can't handle the cute.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49211035427_ab7fd09491_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hYBqm4)
IMG_5173_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hYBqm4) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

More Cubanian kitties here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/albums/72157712137775178
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 13 December, 2019, 12:19:31 am
Thanks.  Cute is what we need tonight.   And lots of whisky...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 December, 2019, 12:32:16 am
Thanks.  Cute is what we need tonight.   And lots of whisky...

Yup  :(
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2019, 04:11:07 am
I could do with a cat here.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 December, 2019, 10:26:42 pm
Pumpkin's never been a big fan of the stove, until this winter
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49279285592_699fb3068c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i5DdK3)IMG_20191226_194728~2 (https://flic.kr/p/2i5DdK3) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Showing off her belleh. And it is a lovely belleh
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49279087556_1041fbc211.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i5CcSC)IMG_20191226_194748~2 (https://flic.kr/p/2i5CcSC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 December, 2019, 10:28:26 pm
Nope, we're definitely not snuggling
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49214057561_9ec155529f.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hYSUHP)IMG_5227_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hYSUHP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 December, 2019, 10:29:43 pm
Ninkasi
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49272795138_0726493eaf.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i54XmE)IMG_2196_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2i54XmE) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 28 December, 2019, 08:58:06 am
Lots of lovely cat photos.  This is my favourite thread on the forum.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 January, 2020, 08:20:07 pm
Rosco is such a chonk! Not very obvious from this photo.
And he really likes to attack your feet.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49311355513_b5c8acf428.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8tA1H)IMG_20191231_174649 (https://flic.kr/p/2i8tA1H) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Here he is looking a bit crazy
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49311854606_85f09f228a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL)IMG_20191231_180727 (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr




Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 January, 2020, 09:43:34 pm
...And he really likes to attack your feet...

If you're not wearing shoes  :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 February, 2020, 07:38:28 pm
(https://i.ibb.co/Jtr9Zck/IMG-20181005-140109901.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 February, 2020, 07:55:00 pm
Nice. I do love a ginger :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 02 March, 2020, 08:23:48 pm
(https://i.ibb.co/w4hDrx2/IMG-20180930-155443389-HDR.jpg)

He turned up at our French place in spring 2018, we used to get lots of feral cats but he was a kitten we think was dumped.  Used to follow us round looking pathetic.

Obviously it's not a good idea to encourage cats to stick around by feeding them.

(https://i.ibb.co/JqWjF2g/IMG-20181107-192909489.jpg)

..and in York a year later.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 04 April, 2020, 12:19:06 pm
Rosco is such a chonk! Not very obvious from this photo.
And he really likes to attack your feet.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49311355513_b5c8acf428.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8tA1H)IMG_20191231_174649 (https://flic.kr/p/2i8tA1H) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Here he is looking a bit crazy
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49311854606_85f09f228a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL)IMG_20191231_180727 (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Lovely photos.  :) :) :)

Rosco looks like my Gerrard (the name he had when I adopted him). 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2020, 05:23:20 pm
Our new neighbour, Malcolm.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48531755952_4a366da781_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gWzWdY)
IMG_3495_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2gWzWdY) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

I'll try and get a better pic at some point.

Finally got a couple of pics of the elusive Malcolm:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49735306627_f5baaa1d6c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iLWrUF)
IMG_2733_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2iLWrUF) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49735306792_4876cd0178_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iLWrXw)
IMG_2738_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2iLWrXw) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 April, 2020, 08:02:42 pm
Lunabelle wrapped herself in the duvet, at one point there was just the fluffy tail, went to take a photo and then the head popped out from its hiding place.
(https://i.imgur.com/nAwXUXf.jpg)

Buzz likes the infinite monkey cage
(https://i.imgur.com/y4bduaq.jpg)

Trying to take a picture of Lunabelle in the cat tree, Buzz decided that he wanted in on the photo.
(https://i.imgur.com/ENjXavA.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 April, 2020, 08:20:16 pm
Nice kittehs :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 April, 2020, 09:08:10 pm
Poised to pounce.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49750241012_89b975fe76_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iNfZo5)
IMG_2804_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2iNfZo5) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rafletcher on 13 April, 2020, 04:40:13 pm
A more grown-up Phoebe, on the garden path (a 1200mm focal length was a bit much!)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49769917702_d6c3ce2eaa_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iPZQzm)P4080194 (https://flic.kr/p/2iPZQzm) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 April, 2020, 05:25:52 pm
Nice :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 13 April, 2020, 05:35:51 pm
Here he is looking a bit crazy
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49311854606_85f09f228a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL)IMG_20191231_180727 (https://flic.kr/p/2i8w9nL) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

<Dune>

In this time, the most precious substance in the Universe is the catnip. The catnip extends life. The catnip expands consciousness. The catnip is vital to space travel.

</Dune>
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 April, 2020, 05:38:14 pm
Spesh, If you want to see spacey cat eyes may I suggest @CuriousZelda on Twitter?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 13 April, 2020, 05:48:22 pm
Spesh, If you want to see spacey cat eyes may I suggest @CuriousZelda on Twitter?

<tappity tappity>

Duly bookmarked. Cheers.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ElyDave on 19 April, 2020, 12:59:58 pm
a yowling from my lawn this morning revealed two cats that don't own me sitting having a staring match.  The black one then went and sat in the rose bed for a bit, then a circuit of the house back to the raspberry bed where he resurrected the stare-down.

(https://i.imgur.com/nnHY21d.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/s2lnCUD.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 21 April, 2020, 12:30:01 pm
There's plenty of room about the house to sit in comfort...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Apr%2020%202020%20P4200129.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 23 April, 2020, 09:05:58 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49810350683_36c85ecdc1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iTz4TH)
IMG_5865_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2iTz4TH) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 06 May, 2020, 10:19:54 pm
Ninkasi keeps her eye on Malcolm.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49863277373_40a0a4ab86_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iYfk9R)
IMG_3276_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2iYfk9R) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 07 May, 2020, 12:32:34 pm
There's plenty of room about the house to sit in comfort...

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Apr%2020%202020%20P4200129.jpg)

But then you would never know that you are being scowled at.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 07 May, 2020, 02:15:02 pm
My last picture of Willow, crappy phone image as she soaked up the sun on the kitchen door mat-
(https://i.imgur.com/h0nivRi.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 14 May, 2020, 05:03:15 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_6375.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 15 May, 2020, 02:28:20 pm
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200515/ae4a050e493f00d2ec8f1d8fa5571718.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 May, 2020, 06:11:36 pm
New kitter?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Chris S on 17 May, 2020, 06:20:37 pm
New kitter?

Someone else's. Fboab keeps popping the question1 and I keep saying "No."

1Can we have a kitten?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: hellymedic on 17 May, 2020, 06:43:23 pm
New kitter?

Someone else's. Fboab keeps popping the question1 and I keep saying "No."

1Can we have a kitten?

I kept doing that but then the kittens APPEARED and we felt we had to look after them.

They moved in uninvited and I didn't have the heart to turn them all out.

You have been warned...
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 18 May, 2020, 09:03:58 am
I have a cunning plan.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 May, 2020, 02:04:36 pm
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 May, 2020, 07:38:03 pm
Comfy  ???

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49923208053_107803da43_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j4xusr)
IMG_3442_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2j4xusr) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: spesh on 22 May, 2020, 11:26:36 pm
Einstein was wrong about there being two things that were infinite...

He forgot about the perversity of kittehs. :demon:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: fuzzy on 22 May, 2020, 11:31:46 pm
It doesn't matter what it is and how hard/ soft/ squidgy/ lumpy/ comfortabl/ painful it is. If it is in a bag a cat WILL lie on it. To a cat, a bag of something is like a red button with a 'Do not touch' sign to us........
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 23 May, 2020, 12:40:45 am
Quote from: Eleanor Farjeon
Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair.
Top of piano, window-ledge, in the middle, on the edge.
Open drawer, empty shoe, anybody's lap will do.
Fitted in a cardboard box, in the cupboard with your frocks.
Anywhere! They don't care! Cats sleep anywhere.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 26 May, 2020, 04:32:06 pm
New kitter?

Someone else's. Fboab keeps popping the question1 and I keep saying "No."

1Can we have a kitten?

I kept doing that but then the kittens APPEARED and we felt we had to look after them.

They moved in uninvited and I didn't have the heart to turn them all out.

You have been warned...

You were chosen.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 05 June, 2020, 02:00:16 pm
I'm not sure if we've had Wok Cat before.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/wok_cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 June, 2020, 09:41:27 pm
Jumble o' paws

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50002168293_b11d37b946_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jbwbzT)
2020-06-13_08-13-09 (https://flic.kr/p/2jbwbzT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 15 June, 2020, 06:13:43 pm
I also got some paw photos from Zev a couple of days ago. ;D

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/vsmall.php?vsize=320&file=IMG_20200612_142101_crop_adj_half.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20200612_142101_crop_adj_half.jpg)  (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/vsmall.php?vsize=320&file=IMG_20200612_142233_crop_adj_half.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/cats/IMG_20200612_142233_crop_adj_half.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 June, 2020, 06:57:58 pm
Ninkasi determined to be asleep.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50041761572_c4232d4889_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jf27hC)
IMG_4373_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2jf27hC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 June, 2020, 06:58:59 pm
Legs akimbo!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50046946513_cf4ccf42d2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jftFAa)
IMG_4679_ (https://flic.kr/p/2jftFAa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 July, 2020, 03:59:48 pm
More gratuitous Pumpkin belleh
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50144991376_4859f612a3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jp9bUQ)IMG_7472_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2jp9bUQ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 01 August, 2020, 10:43:29 pm
The marvellous Mikey paid us a visit and found himself a bed that was just right!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Cat%20P8010527.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 01 August, 2020, 11:41:43 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 August, 2020, 06:53:45 pm
Sleepy Pumpkin loves all her druggy toys
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50252171607_887bda662c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jyBvRR)IMG_6745_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2jyBvRR) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 November, 2020, 04:22:31 pm
Ninkasi says it was about time we lit the stove
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50632942683_6590a21308.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2k9g4Qp)2020-11-22_04-09-29 (https://flic.kr/p/2k9g4Qp) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 13 December, 2020, 03:28:16 pm
A few cats to click through to...

https://www.facebook.com/gamezhero/posts/10158316498073787
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2021, 08:28:03 pm
Last night Pumpkin went to sleep on Pingu's t-shirt shelf, and utilised his currently unused office chair as a pillow.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50924883358_f256b7efc8.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kA4kCj)IMG_7553_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kA4kCj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2021, 08:51:42 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cat_lightbox.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 March, 2021, 09:21:47 pm
Gosh, that's very Austen Powers!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 05 March, 2021, 12:09:42 am
Last night Pumpkin went to sleep on Pingu's t-shirt shelf, and utilised his currently unused office chair as a pillow.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50924883358_f256b7efc8.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kA4kCj)IMG_7553_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kA4kCj) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pumlins claws give a different message...
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 03 April, 2021, 03:52:42 pm
https://twitter.com/fred035schultz/status/1378347289970937856?s=20
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: toontra on 03 April, 2021, 06:56:43 pm
Cleo wanting to join in on the weights bench

(https://i.postimg.cc/5NMWGhRM/20200804-165840.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/MXtLfFws)

Likes to snuggle with her baby sister including much mutual licking

(https://i.postimg.cc/Fz05zp1q/20200728-173400.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bSYFFQxH)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 April, 2021, 07:13:16 pm
Lovely, what breed are they?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: toontra on 03 April, 2021, 07:16:03 pm
Lovely, what breed are they?

British shorthair silver.  Quite old now - 15.  Sisters but totally different characters - and size!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 April, 2021, 12:11:46 pm
 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Hot Flatus on 06 April, 2021, 09:28:35 am
https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1379347334442651652?s=20
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: ppg on 06 April, 2021, 12:08:21 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51098557479_d566525744_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kRpsTH)IMG_20180405_120937989 (https://flic.kr/p/2kRpsTH)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/192588363@N06/)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099041743_4be62ea226_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kRrWR6)P1040261 (https://flic.kr/p/2kRrWR6)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/192588363@N06/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 06 April, 2021, 12:41:29 pm
Lovely, what breed are they?

British shorthair silver.  Quite old now - 15.  Sisters but totally different characters - and size!
They are beautiful.  I had a British Shorthair blue, called Milly, she was a very aloof cat but would sit on me if I was in pain.  She died about three years ago.  I miss her.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: toontra on 06 April, 2021, 02:25:31 pm
Lovely, what breed are they?

British shorthair silver.  Quite old now - 15.  Sisters but totally different characters - and size!
They are beautiful.  I had a British Shorthair blue, called Milly, she was a very aloof cat but would sit on me if I was in pain.  She died about three years ago.  I miss her.

These two are quite friendly and very undemanding.  They make great house cats.  They belonged to my partner's mother who died last year (Covid) and very rarely went outside until they were 14 - spoiled rotten with freshly prepared chicken daily, etc. ::-) (they get what they're given these days  ;))

They were therefore greatly surprised by anything flying or crawling when introduced to the garden - pigeons would send them scurrying for cover  ;D.  Happily, they are slowly adjusting to a more normal existence.  They've even made friends with a local group of feral cats and seem to be able to stick up for themselves.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: lou boutin on 06 April, 2021, 03:59:34 pm
Lovely, what breed are they?

British shorthair silver.  Quite old now - 15.  Sisters but totally different characters - and size!
They are beautiful.  I had a British Shorthair blue, called Milly, she was a very aloof cat but would sit on me if I was in pain.  She died about three years ago.  I miss her.

These two are quite friendly and very undemanding.  They make great house cats.  They belonged to my partner's mother who died last year (Covid) and very rarely went outside until they were 14 - spoiled rotten with freshly prepared chicken daily, etc. ::-) (they get what they're given these days  ;))

They were therefore greatly surprised by anything flying or crawling when introduced to the garden - pigeons would send them scurrying for cover  ;D.  Happily, they are slowly adjusting to a more normal existence.  They've even made friends with a local group of feral cats and seem to be able to stick up for themselves.

Milly came to live with me after her owners had a baby. She had been spoiled too and was a house cat.  She would out into the garden to sit with me if I was outside but really ruled the house. 
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 08 April, 2021, 08:24:13 pm
More hot Pumpkin belly action.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51103292241_78cf0662c3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kRPJnx)
IMG_8005_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kRPJnx) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2021, 08:55:09 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzHiJybVcAU-f3H.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 April, 2021, 10:56:03 am
Pumpkin: Oh hai! Is it safe to come home nao?
Ninkasi: oh noes, you're gonna shove me in the box again, grumble grumble
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51120498545_9b3871fabf.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kTkVcX)2021-04-16_08-01-09 (https://flic.kr/p/2kTkVcX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 17 April, 2021, 01:48:14 pm
We were just saying how excellent the cats Chez Pingu are! And here more kitteh pix!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 April, 2021, 04:42:47 pm
Aw :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 22 May, 2021, 04:06:43 pm
Ninkasi:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51195357441_d37b670f36_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kZXA9z)
IMG_2509_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kZXA9z) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Pumpkin:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51195357521_f8421bd6fa_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kZXAaX)
IMG_2513_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kZXAaX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 22 May, 2021, 09:36:38 pm
https://twitter.com/siberian_times/status/1396023750093467654?s=20


Lovely Kittehs  :D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 18 June, 2021, 07:34:44 pm
Poised Pumpkin perusing possible pigeon pillage.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51256434625_19fc7e7166_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m6mCgt)
IMG_3172_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2m6mCgt) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 23 June, 2021, 04:34:05 pm
https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/1407720098480201735?s=20   Something that is TESTUDINARIOUS is tortoiseshell-patterned.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 June, 2021, 06:45:12 pm
Well, every day's a school day!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Ham on 25 June, 2021, 07:49:05 pm
This possibly belongs here?

Nina Conti ranks as one of my favourite ventriloquists, which is why Youtube offered it to me.

Enjoy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hhSQbB71M
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 03 August, 2021, 08:36:50 pm
Mrs P's brother's master, Rosco.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51355268758_8e23392557_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mf6bdf)
IMG_4307_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mf6bdf) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 10 August, 2021, 09:40:30 pm
https://twitter.com/alreadytaken74/status/1154871165548146690?s=20


Kittehs & turntables....  potentially a ruinously expensive combination   :jurek:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2021, 08:43:27 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Aug%2015%202021%20P8150024%201.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 August, 2021, 08:46:09 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Aug%2015%202021%20P8150020.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 24 August, 2021, 09:58:29 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51399547541_d14bc95fde_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mj17Kx)
IMG_4525_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mj17Kx) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 24 August, 2021, 11:18:36 pm
 :)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 25 August, 2021, 12:51:00 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51399547541_d14bc95fde_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mj17Kx)
IMG_4525_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mj17Kx) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

You have amazingly photogenic cats.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2021, 05:53:00 pm
Settling in.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51423843971_d709f96305_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mm9Dev)
IMG_8887_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mm9Dev) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 November, 2021, 05:13:08 pm
Our cats are 7 years old now and I don't remember them ever knocking stuff off surfaces before now. Ninkasi decided to start on my new desk.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51677391484_8ea4717730.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mJy95m)2021-11-13_04-55-32 (https://flic.kr/p/2mJy95m) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Nice pen, shame if something were to happen to it.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2022, 05:06:21 pm
I'm allowed up here, aren't I?
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51849696901_1b4a56bdb2.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZMftp)2022-01-29_01-49-38 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZMftp) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: barakta on 29 January, 2022, 05:40:44 pm
I'm allowed up here, aren't I?
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51849696901_1b4a56bdb2.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZMftp)2022-01-29_01-49-38 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZMftp) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

If you say no, I'm kicking this thing off this ledge.... :demon:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2022, 05:47:45 pm
I did think she was going to knock it and the Shelly H&T sensor obscured by her paws off when she turned round a couple of times but she managed not to.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2022, 06:01:41 pm
I wouldn't have argued with her!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2022, 06:02:20 pm
Some from Christmas


(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cautious%20watching.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/attack.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/radiator%20decoration.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 January, 2022, 06:35:09 pm
Dumpy aka M. Le Dumpoi aka Kaiser Dumphelm II.  He was a stray tomcat around here for 2-3 years, hence the jowls.  He used to have bollocks like golf balls, too  ;D

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51850231043_29138ac1f6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZPZfK)20200909_183456 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZPZfK) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

Normal dignified sleeping position

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51849195222_e5f18b9f90_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZJFkL)20220110_174447 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZJFkL) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

Currently rocking an oesophagostomy tube, but perfectly capable of jumping on the table and begging Miss Z, Sr. for ham

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51850228758_70a8dcbc3a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZPYzm)20220129_112011 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZPYzm) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 January, 2022, 06:43:00 pm
And the magnificent Tigs, named after the one in my profile pic, looking as wild-eyed as usual.  His lentigo, once a few spots, is turning into rather good eyeliner.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51849215282_f9b4c5d36a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mZJMiC)20190204_154756 (https://flic.kr/p/2mZJMiC) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2022, 06:45:52 pm
RZ is the feeding tube because he wouldn't eat?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 January, 2022, 06:52:02 pm
RZ is the feeding tube because he wouldn't eat?
Yes.  He was very ill, and very ill cats become anorexic, so you have to keep them nourished while they get back in the habit of eating.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2022, 07:05:02 pm
Aw. Hopefully he is back to normal service soon.
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Post by: Ham on 30 January, 2022, 10:44:21 am
(https://www.offthemark.com/image/cache/data/cartoons/2021-12-03C-380x480.gif)
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Post by: Jaded on 30 January, 2022, 03:19:24 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cali%20profile.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 14 March, 2022, 08:22:31 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938564823_8495847963_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2n8CHNX)
IMG_5285_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2n8CHNX) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 March, 2022, 12:21:51 pm
Huh. Could be Siggi's twin, right down to the split down the nose and the orange stripes.
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Post by: Pingu on 17 June, 2022, 11:49:13 am
Drug addled

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52150719141_9b3aeb6ce9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nso4U2)
IMG_1286_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2nso4U2) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jaded on 04 August, 2022, 05:34:19 pm
The marvellous Mikey paid us a visit and found himself a bed that was just right!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Cat%20P8010527.jpg)

So Mikey has died. He reached a good age, but when I saw him in June I didn’t think I’d see him again, 17 so a good age. He was a splendid boy.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 August, 2022, 10:57:56 pm
Aw.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Gattopardo on 08 August, 2022, 12:29:33 am
The marvellous Mikey paid us a visit and found himself a bed that was just right!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Cat%20P8010527.jpg)

So Mikey has died. He reached a good age, but when I saw him in June I didn’t think I’d see him again, 17 so a good age. He was a splendid boy.

Am so sorry to hear. RIP.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 12 November, 2022, 12:06:21 pm
NEW!!! FUN!!!

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/new%20kitteh.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: IanDG on 15 November, 2022, 12:06:19 am
2009
(https://live.staticflickr.com/3449/3216639716_2e658891b0_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/AMK514e12x)IMG_7198 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/AMK514e12x) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr

2022
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52501086498_ceb136503a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nZkMUw)IMG_20221114_233729_149 (https://flic.kr/p/2nZkMUw) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
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Post by: IanDG on 25 November, 2022, 10:35:16 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52522828597_225dae4387_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o2ge5i)IMG_20221125_223005_669 (https://flic.kr/p/2o2ge5i) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2022, 12:15:17 am
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2022, 12:18:40 am
For every delightful old cat that warms your heart,

there is a new kitteh that draws blood from your toes

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/new%20kitteh%202.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 November, 2022, 01:02:02 am
Haz you got new kitteh?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 26 November, 2022, 01:08:25 am
Crazy killer kitteh!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 November, 2022, 01:18:48 am
We haz ScotiScH MoNStEr KittEh!

From KelTy  ;D
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jurek on 27 November, 2022, 09:55:04 am
Part-Time (that's her name - because she only visits between October and April - when the heating is on) whom I haven't seen for at least a couple of years - I think her owners must've moved away.  :'(

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5288/5316849628_019cf62b3c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/96Qfab) (https://flic.kr/p/96Qfab)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/6233/6323172648_e429bbf29c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/aCKUW5) (https://flic.kr/p/aCKUW5)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/7521/15750246002_fcf561dbf9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pZN8py) (https://flic.kr/p/pZN8py)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 27 November, 2022, 09:52:45 pm
A very serious looking cat we saw on our walk today.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52526528252_25efc61f70_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o2AbRs)
IMG_2880_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2o2AbRs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 10 December, 2022, 01:18:48 pm
She is growing up...

Effie is her name.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/kitteh%20portrait.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/shouty%20kitteh.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 December, 2022, 01:31:12 pm
Effie Trinket
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 December, 2022, 02:13:48 pm
Part-Time (that's her name - because she only visits between October and April - when the heating is on) whom I haven't seen for at least a couple of years - I think her owners must've moved away.  :'(


We have a part-time visitor, too - though she's the opposite and visiting less now it's colder outside, and is presumably staying in her actual home (same street, different block of flats) more. She was happy to test out our fleecy throw (though she prefers it when there's a nice warm human underneath).

(https://i.ibb.co/m9YrrK0/20221030-165243.jpg)
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Post by: Jaded on 16 December, 2022, 08:16:24 pm
Effie has been modelling

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/kitteh-model-2.jpg)

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/kitteh-model-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Hot Flatus on 16 December, 2022, 08:44:04 pm
Good photoshopping out of the barf in the second one   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2022, 09:13:05 pm
Aw.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andrewc on 25 December, 2022, 01:54:51 pm
https://twitter.com/gpbinnl/status/1606904658622136322 (https://twitter.com/gpbinnl/status/1606904658622136322?s=46&t=1LEnbbm3fy1UKiNBRtSCSg)


A day in the life of an Amsterdam pet sitter. Some cute cat videos.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Auntie Helen on 31 December, 2022, 10:43:16 pm
My niece's cat Socks
(https://i0.wp.com/www.auntiehelen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_5953.jpeg?resize=768%2C991&ssl=1)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2022, 10:56:52 pm
Nice whiskers!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Flite on 01 January, 2023, 08:45:30 am
And Tail!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: andyoxon on 03 January, 2023, 12:51:48 pm
A strange cat wanting in...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52604900228_143456301b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o9vS7q)PXL_catTRAIT (https://flic.kr/p/2o9vS7q) by ao (https://www.flickr.com/photos/145942400@N06/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 03 January, 2023, 01:06:23 pm
Now that is a Star Wars cat!
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 07 January, 2023, 07:22:34 pm
A bit of fun

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/Effie%20playing.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 11 February, 2023, 08:11:33 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52682170012_c2f8745478_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ogkTJ5)
IMG_3231_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2ogkTJ5) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 April, 2023, 10:14:13 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52800936162_cfa7c3f04b_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2orQALj)
All your windowsill are belong to us, part 1: Molly (https://flic.kr/p/2orQALj) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52800936167_17773fcd3c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2orQALp)
 All your windowsill are belong to us, part 2: Louis (https://flic.kr/p/2orQALp) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52801945558_11187cb0b5_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2orVLPG)
How to stop the servants from playing prog rock (https://flic.kr/p/2orVLPG) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jurek on 08 April, 2023, 03:37:23 pm
I had no idea that cats had you in their custody.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 15 April, 2023, 06:51:49 pm
Chittering at the birds

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/effie-april-2023.jpg)
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Post by: mzjo on 19 April, 2023, 04:03:10 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/4q6jnT5.jpg)

It was Siouxsie's first afternoon out since she joined the family, in her new harness! A new experience! Diamant was with her (some of the time but most was just exploring.

(https://i.imgur.com/ZbUgbxI.jpg)
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Post by: cycleman on 19 April, 2023, 07:14:44 pm
The biggest of our four girl cats Freddie was enjoying my trailer yesterday  :P

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jnwfZeRFMDADWQsx7

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Post by: Jurek on 19 April, 2023, 08:21:08 pm
The biggest of our four girl cats Freddie was enjoying my trailer yesterday  :P

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jnwfZeRFMDADWQsx7

Ohh! That really is The Prince of Darkness  :thumbsup:
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Post by: cycleman on 20 April, 2023, 07:41:44 am
Princess  ;)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 April, 2023, 07:06:24 pm
It's Pump on a stump!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52837469449_f757da99b1_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ov4QQz)2023-04-22_07-04-31 (https://flic.kr/p/2ov4QQz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: L CC on 29 April, 2023, 01:25:53 pm
Mr. Bear showing his standard level of disdain.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230429/19910d3d1e1b24635d84dbf6f471f4f7.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 April, 2023, 02:46:09 pm
What a nice little round face.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jurek on 08 May, 2023, 12:06:13 pm
Just had a visit from the blackest, slickest girl kitty in the world.
She checked out every corner of the house, had a good scratch of my carpets, and was a demon with the laser pointer.
I'm pretty sure she has fleas, as she's wearing a second collar and scratching a fair bit.
So sweet.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52880535905_3499291aba_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oySyZF) (https://flic.kr/p/2oySyZF)  (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurekb/)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 May, 2023, 10:31:27 pm
Black* cats FTW  :thumbsup:




*Other colours are available
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 13 May, 2023, 10:31:40 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52894876481_c850131da1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oA94WZ)
IMG_3959_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2oA94WZ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 May, 2023, 10:58:33 pm
Pumpkin, Mighty Huntress had her first mouse of the season. She's spent *a lot* of time waiting at the mouse area.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52895807528_aa0596eec7_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oAdQHw)2023-05-13_10-21-10 (https://flic.kr/p/2oAdQHw) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Pingu on 07 July, 2023, 11:34:45 pm
Sleepy Pumpkin in clover

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53029511687_0c91822dce_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oN37iD)
IMG_5227_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2oN37iD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 08 July, 2023, 05:49:14 am
Moving house. He shouted the whole journey from Suffolk to Durham.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230708/0eb16902922124fddf5b00e6ec32641a.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SteveC on 16 August, 2023, 08:34:13 pm
As requested by Mrs Ping (http://"https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1241.msg2832610#msg2832610") (although I have intended to post some pics anyway) meet (yet another?) Sam:
He is a rescue, having been involved in a court case which took two years to resolve. He ended up being the longest serving feline resident in the shelter that anyone can remember. Also due to the court case, he's had to have a new name. We were told that the previous owners were keeping him in a crate in their kitchen, intending to breed from him. It is apparently very rare for the shelter to have pedigree cats. He is a Maine Coon (not that we have the paperwork to prove it). Some of you may remember we had a couple previously, but they died about seven and eight years ago. We have been cat-less for about five years.
He was a bit nervous when he arrived, but did explore his new surroundings.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121104321_b13fa1e3bb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xAZ)
Sam from the front (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xAZ) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121104451_edc241ccb0_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xDe)
Sam exploring (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xDe) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
He has looked outside, but not actually gone through the door yet (he has never been outdoors in his life, so we are taking things slowly)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121104376_0374eb66bb_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xBW)
Looking outside (https://flic.kr/p/2oW8xBW) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
He's probably never seen a TV before either, certainly not for two years.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53120500332_baf8a0ca0f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW5s4o)
Watching TV (https://flic.kr/p/2oW5s4o) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
But he is learning to relax.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121302334_669c672699_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW9yt1)
Laptop (https://flic.kr/p/2oW9yt1) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121589218_986c686639_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oWb2Kh)
Sam asleep (https://flic.kr/p/2oWb2Kh) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53120500412_4864d1076a_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oW5s5L)
Relaxed (https://flic.kr/p/2oW5s5L) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
And just to show how big he is (he's just over 5kg and there's no fat on him).
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53121508510_34a1894d41_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oWaBKL)
Too big for the chair (https://flic.kr/p/2oWaBKL) by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr


Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 August, 2023, 09:12:37 pm
Aw, he's lovely! Court case sounds a bit dodgy.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 16 August, 2023, 09:20:51 pm
Some excellent floof there  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: cycleman on 16 August, 2023, 09:56:44 pm
I believe that Maine coons are one of the few cat breeds that like water. A very fine looking feline 🐈 😍
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SteveC on 17 August, 2023, 01:00:16 pm
Maine Coons don’t actively seek out water like Turkish Vans who will even swim.
The Coons have a double coat, with a waterproof outer layer and a thick inner insulation. Sam is in his summer coat at the moment so the inner layer is match reduced.
Our old pair would happily go out in the rain. They just don’t seem to notice the wet.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 17 August, 2023, 03:35:33 pm
I would love to have a maine coon.

You are doing very well getting him so settled so quickly.

(instead I have an insane tiny tortie, who likes nothing better than sitting out in long grass in the rain)

Did once own a York Black Cat (while they aren't a breed, they do seem to be common in York) who swam voluntarily. Sometimes to hunt (ducks!) and sometimes just to get on/off the barge.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 17 August, 2023, 08:12:48 pm
My theory is that cats - much like humans - like water when it's on their own terms.  So if they're going fishing or playing with a running tap or pretending that they meant to do that after falling in the bath, it's all fine.  But if it's raining when they want to go outside or you try to wash them or something, it's the worst thing ever.

Unlike humans, long hair makes it easier for cats to ignore rain.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: TimO on 20 August, 2023, 12:37:32 pm
He does look like a big fluffy, and very relaxed, cat. :)

I think long haired cats are a bit more work than a random domestic short-hair, since they do need more brushing. Kai wasn't keen on brushing, so I didn't do it a lot, and ultimately he wasn't keen on living here at all, so that became a mote point.

(He must be quite elderly now, but the neighbours who he adopted have since moved, so I don't know how well he's doing).
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: JonBuoy on 23 October, 2023, 08:05:41 pm
These are my sister's cats.  Meercat (with the eyebrows) looks a bit drawn but he has not been well (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42883.msg2847071#msg2847071).  Fortunately he seems to be doing much better than expected  :thumbsup:  His sister Blackie (the erm black one) looks on in a concerned manner.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53280797125_92bd7f95d6_c.jpg)

The photo reminded me of something and it took a while to work out what it was.  Is it just me or are they doing an uncannily good job of replicating the positions and facial expressions in American Gothic?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53280798160_edc70e5d42_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 October, 2023, 10:13:27 pm
Gosh, it's probably a trick of perspective or something but Meercat's eyes look really widely spaced.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 24 October, 2023, 02:10:02 pm
Is it just me or are they doing an uncannily good job of replicating the positions and facial expressions in American Gothic?

It's not just you.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Kim on 24 October, 2023, 02:17:16 pm
Gosh, it's probably a trick of perspective or something but Meercat's eyes look really widely spaced.

I can't unsee Benedict Cumberbatch.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2023, 12:22:25 pm
This is the glorious Khan. He's visited us several times, learning his new, wider domain. Our Effie is his sister.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/khan.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2023, 12:45:12 pm
And he has been back...

Needs to concentrate on the rabbits though.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/khan-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: SoreTween on 11 November, 2023, 10:28:56 pm
He's fabulous.
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: Jurek on 13 November, 2023, 07:09:31 pm
And he has been back...

Needs to concentrate on the rabbits though.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/khan-2.jpg)
Excellent image.
What?
Me?
Title: Re: Gratuitous cat pics - new and improved!
Post by: L CC on 27 December, 2023, 09:14:29 pm
Princely Timothée Chatlamet(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231227/f94f5f95325b25aa5d6f1dae5fce6816.jpg)