:-)) Sunday Cat! #875 July 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.

Self-Possessed Kitty of the Week!

Kitty, at last crossing the barrier of lap ownership, settles ever more deeply into her new home. :)

~~Image by @softmarmotte

As said by Warriormouse, "Photos can be more than just art, they can be memories, so come share your pictures 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.

Come one, come all! All cats, all cameras welcome. Images from any time, any place. Let the Sunday Cat! be a refuge where nice comments abound and only constructive criticism is given when it's requested.

The Sunday Cat! is now open for business. :D

Last week's purrs, #874 / DPRv #67

Thread Manager's Corner:
It was a nice week of several visits and an update! I see that one of the Muzzleloaders did end up with one of the Pep Boys' names, although in slight variation. ;) It will be fun to see them move through the stages of kittenhood together. My own images have been rather disappointing to me lately so I haven't much to share. Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's still not being 100 percent yet. Meantime though I can enjoy the visitors here. :)

~~~ Kim

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

kitty has now set her sights on dominating Tiger...

Lexi assured me this is a comfortable position to take a cat nap. He wondered
why humans don't take this posture at bedtime😁

But it looks like she is still surprised at being the subject of photographic interest. Little does she know she has an international audience. ;)

I seem to have trouble posting today and am getting duplicates or nothing posted at all.

Yet another dup. Doesn't seem that I can delete so I'll just edit it.

And another.

And one more.

Fortunately, it appears the post above only went in once. I tried to post it something on the order of five times and all failed with an unexpected errors. I hope the other attempts don't start showing up all of a sudden. If they do, you'll know why.

They did and I edited them since delete doesn't seem to be an option.

I hope this reply doesn't blow up on me like the other one did!

Looks like Flexi Lexi is quite a show-off! One of my kitties, Peaches, used to do something that was somewhat like that. She'd lie on a chair (I think), upside down, then she's stretch out her front legs and slide off the chair from that position! You can be assured that the awkward positions they like to take are comfortable. No cat in his right mind would do otherwise!