:-)) Sunday Cat! #830 September 10, 2023 ((-:

Welcome all to the Sunday Cat!, a weekly gathering of image makers on a subject of mutual interest, our feline friends. The Sunday Cat! has appeared each Sunday, except for a brief interruption in September, 2016, since Anton AK started the thread at DPReview on 23 September 2007. Successive thread managers have been John King, Warriormouse, Robert J, Coldamus, Robert J again (with an assist by StanTsui) and since September 2016, former lurker, me. With the shuttering of DPReview, the last Sunday Cat! was hosted there on 2 April 2023. After taking a leap of faith, the Sunday Cat! landed here at its new home on 9 April 2023.

Photogenic Kitty of the Week!

This kitty appears to be Hollywood bound in @Craig's glamour-puss sequence. ;)

As said by Warriormouse, "Photos can be more than just art, they can be memories, so come share your picture and stories of your feline companions with us."

“Official” posting time is every Sunday at 0000 UTC. Because this is Saturday afternoon for me, posting time may vary to accommodate my schedule. I'll try to post a message if I know I will be very late. Anyone anxious to start the new week is free to do so. But if you do, please PM me so I don’t accidentally double post.

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Last week's purrs, #829 / DPRv #22

Thread Manager's Corner:
Thank you for all the wonderful images this past week. The series, the solo shots and the stories. The one thing that would make it even better would be good news about Fred. Unfortunately, they don't tell us what their plans are or where they're going. For Fred, only time will tell.

~~~ Kim

Though small in size, the imprint they make on our lives is huge.

Some spunk with this one. An unnamed neighbor.

Waiting

WhyNot

Hi,

This week's title kitty can come live here anytime. A good choice! I think that is a boy cat. They are more animated than the girl cats I have found.

My memory this week is Daisy. She passed several years ago, just two weeks short of her 17th birthday. We got her at six weeks old.

She was a snuggler. And I miss her the most of all the cats we have had. And she was everyone's friend.

She came to us as a rescue from a single wide mobile home full of cats. It's a common story around farm country here. Folks begin in a single wide, but then put up a house years later. But they never get rid of the old single wide. This one wound up used by a feline population until it got to stinking so bad it was noticed way over there (at the new house several hundred feet away). Cat doors being popular tends to lead to this condition. That coupled with townsfolk who drive out to the country and drop off cats....

Anyway, Daisy was also a licker. Constant grooming for 17 years. Seems she could never get the stink of where she was born off of her.

I have some other shots of Daisy archived away. I'll have to dig and find one of her when she was young. But here's one from the memory card in the old cell phone.

And we get a twofer. Frisky is also in this shot. They spent a lot of time together even though Daisy was 12 years older than Frisky. Frisky is still hanging in with us, although I am at the point where I think each day is going to be her last one. 17 1/2 now. Longest I have had a cat live.

And an update on Fred. He is still missing. I noticed what was left of a rabbit over by the horse barn. Looks like the work of a fox. This is probably what happened to Fred, except he was carted off.... :(

Stan

Craig, love those gray cats! Who needs a gray card when the subject will take care of color balance and exposure automatically.

Hi,

You could even name the cat Grey Card. Won't matter. He won't come when you call him anyway. :P

Stan

They may not come but they absolutely know their names! I often call Palmer and Mini-Me Mr. P and Mr. Me. If I slip and use the wrong name when talking to one of them, I either get a dirty look or I'm ignored. :)

It seems that some kitties who have a rough start more than make up for it by exuding love after they have found a good home. Daisy seems to be like that. I like her look and leaning forward in the image as if she's ready to give some love and get some love once the picture is taken. :) A kitty I had, Cali, was like that. She had been treated badly and was very afraid of people but very friendly to other kitties. Eventually she learned to trust people and came to see everyone as a friend. She was a sweet soul.

Cali (front) with her buddy Sheila.

Like you most of my cats seem to go at around the 17 year mark, although Sheila was about 19. Sheila was about 17 when I took her in along with Cali. Palmer though had an episode in May where I almost lost him at 16 (at least three lives down now!), but he's doing better and is not showing any signs that he's ready to go. It does seem though that Fred's life probably came to an end. At least he can live on in the images you have of him and in your heart.

Perfect framing in this one! I like how they are into their own thoughts and not paying the least bit of attention to the camera. Just bein' cats in the window. :)

Uh, oh, I've been seen!

That makes me nervous, better keep my nose wet.

I think I'd better get outta here!