:-)) Sunday Cat! #862 April 21, 2024 ((-:

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. When DPReview was threatened with closure in March 2023, the last regular Sunday Cat! there was hosted on 2 April 2023. After taking a leap of faith, the Sunday Cat! landed here at its new home on 9 April 2023.

Pre-Shorn Kitty of the Week!

Stripey, prior to suffering the indignity of shearing necessitated by an injury. Palmer sends his condolences. Back at the beginning of March he suffered a similar indignity and has been struggling ever since to replace all the fur that was shaved away. 😠

~~Image by @softmarmotte

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Last week's purrs, #861 / DPRv #54

Thread Manager's Corner:
It was another quiet week, in fact, the pointer to this thread back at DPR was more active! Maybe it's Jake making all kinds of noise over there that is attracting attention. ;) I am still fixated on Palmer. Once again he cheated death last weekend and has done quite well this week. Despite the indignity of his own shearing and his ever weakening state, he clearly is not yet ready to go. So I will remain distracted as I help him live out his remaining days.

~~~ Kim

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

And now some good news. At the beginning of the year I switched to the subscription version of Lightroom and also started using a new computer. I am still working between my old Win7 PC and newer Mac Mini so I moved my photo library to an external shared drive. That hasn't worked as well as I thought and at some point I found that I couldn't access the drive from the PC but could from the Mac. In desperation I bought another external drive to copy my library to with a plan to reformat the shared drive and copy the library back in order to make it accessible from the PC again. Well, somehow the problem resolved itself and I can now access the shared drive from either machine, although I have to make sure the drive is disconnected from one before I connect it to the other. Owing to that I can now share photos again!

This one of Palmer was taken this morning. These days he's spending most of his time snoozing, but for a brief time I was able to get him to give me some of his time for a photo. :)

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Malcabresto posing…..y

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Lucas not so happy

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Alex cleaning himself

I particularly like the one of Alex. You can really see how the prickles on his tongue help to clean his fur!

These days Coffee sleeps a lot, it is difficult to capture a moment she is not sleeping.
However, she looks like a really sweet sleeping princess.

This change sounds huge. And congrats to the good news 👍

Palmer looks really great here. I especially love his eyes.

Thanks. I feel so fortunate to have gotten that one. I love his eyes too. I'm really going to miss them once they are closed forever.

Blissful at rest. :)

Nice set! Wonderful detail in the one of Alex grooming. Lucas looks a little devilish there! Malcabresto looks too sweet to be living up to the name!