:-)) Sunday Cat! #889 October 27, 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! found refuge here on 9 April 2023.

Entreating Kitty of the Week!

Lucas, whose loving look begs for some loving rubs. :)

~~Image by @palin0

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Last week's purrs, #888 / DPRv #81

Thread Manager's Corner:
It was nice to see so many visitors last week. This week we come to that special time of year for black cats, Halloween. It's both a hazardous time but also a special one for our monochrome kitties. Perhaps a few will find their way here in the next few days. :)

~~~ Kim

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

Hi,

My monochrome kitty is white. But, if I shoot her with film and then light table the negative, she'd be all black! ;)

Miss Snowflake seen lounging on her human mother's freshly washed and dried clothes. So,.no wondering where that white cat hair came from!

Stan

Miss Snowflake proving the theory that opposites attract. White cat + dark clothes. ;)

In all the hub bub of the last few weeks I lost track of a special day, that is until Mr. Me's health care insurance provider reminded me of it. October is his birthday month! Actually, I don't know when he really was born. I just take the vet's estimate of age and the date of the first office visit and work back from there. :) In the case of Mr. Me his October visit and approximate age fit well enough for me to designate his birthday as October 3, 2015. The reason for that date was that it was the day that I had to have Cali put to sleep. Cali's fur was medium long soft, so, so soft! Mr. Me's fur is the same, so I kind of take him as an extension of Cali's legacy. (Although not in any way shape or form are their personalities similar!)

Mr. Me however is not upset that I missed his birthday. In fact, he was too busy dozing to remember it himself. We'll try not to forget next time when it's the big 1 - 0! :)

Hi,

We aren't sure just how old Snowflake is, much less her birthday. She came to us from a neighboring farm that does large animal rescue (think horses, mules, goats not cats and dogs). Someone left her there and she didn't like that and took up residence under one of our small barns.

My first image of her is from October 2017 and it's a fleeting shot outside on the back deck of the farmhouse. She hadn't come inside yet and had been here six months before she even ventured onto the deck. It might have had something to do with the dish of dry cat food I left on the deck.....

Heh. Bribery works!

Anyway, the neighboring farm was just as happy she was over here and so we got a Free Kitten,.even though she had to be two years old at that time.

So, I'm going to call it Spring of 2015 and that'll be Good Enough.

Our three new ones are early to mid April of this year. The folks at the farm we got them from had only that approximation for when the stray mama cat had them under their porch.

Such is the way of things on farms.

Stan

Tara is the other cat that lives in my bedroom with Miki. Like Miki, she has not shown the slightest interest in leaving the bedroom since the day she was adopted from the municipal pound some 7 years ago. But she doesn’t like to stay on the bed unlike Miki. So recently I got her a donut tunnel cat bed and she seems to like it very much. These days she could be found either sleeping on top of it or inside it most of the time.

Hi,

Mmmm. Donuts!

Looks like she like it.

Stan

I told the cat it was time to come in.

This was her response.

Sheesh

Steve Thomas

Maybe you should have told her she had to stay out . . .

"I can't hear you!" ;)

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Scratch my tummy, please.

Steve Thomas

That's good. Then Miki has another kitty to commune with as need be. I'm glad Tara has taken to her new bed. They don't always accept our offerings like that. ;) Tara is a striking kitty. I bet when photographed in profile from each side she would appear to be two different cats!

Michio has a new game. He sits on the balcony behind the plants, hoping some bird will be foolish enough to land in striking distance.

White bib and white feet, just like our cat.

Tuxedo cats are always well dressed! :)

They know the virtue of patience. (Something I am completely lacking!) Although it may not always be a good thing. I had one kitty who would watch the bird feeder that was attached to the window all day and all night. Besides the glass barrier keeping her from her prey, the fact that they didn't come at night didn't seem to discourage her from her patient watchfulness.

That special day of the year for black kitties is here!

Happy Halloween!

What’s Halloween without a black cat?
Happy Halloween from Ebony.

Street cats...

That third one looks like somebody is looking for the fish in that pond. :)

That look by Ebony certainly is magical. And when the eyes close, the kitty disappears. :D

Hi,

I have one who is so White, you still see her with your eyes closed! :P

So, we have balance in The Force. :)

Stan

Except for the white whiskers, I suppose.

His whiskers were originally black. But he is now more than 10 years old and over the years they had all turned white, just like with us humans.