:-)) Sunday Cat! #925 July 6, 2025 ((-:

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.

Self-Collected Kitty of the Week!

This Street Cat of Istanbul mirrors the assuredness of the figure above. :)

~~Image by @Kumsal

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

Last week's purrs, #924 / DPRv #117 / Sunday Cats! #16

Thread Manager's Corner:
As is typical for summers, it was a quiet week for new images, but here in the US that doesn't mean it was quiet! The Fourth of July had many noises that sent kitties scrambling. Mr. Me seems to be a little shell shocked today from all the explosions of the fireworks. I'm hoping it's just all the noise from the 4th that makes him seem to be a little "off" today and nothing more. So far he is maintaining some vision in his remaining eye. He has an appointment this Wednesday that will probably begin a new chapter in his treatment and hopefully help him keep what vision he has. We'll know more next week. Meantime, we hope all the kitties stay healthy and avoid any extra stress in their lives.

~~~ Kim

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

Hi,

So, a new development with Cali. She is coming in the house now.

Notice it is to the food bowl.

And, we now know where she came from. The neighboring horse farm. She was an outdoor cat there, along with another male cat. Who liked to beat up on her. So, she defected. But, she still goes back there which explains why we don't see her for a day or two at a time.

Stan

Cali's story is a little like Palmer's. He lived two houses down but they didn't treat him well so he adopted the house next door. They didn't really take very good, or any care of him, but the kids liked him so he called that home for a time. Then when they bailed out of the house one night during the housing collapse, Palmer moved into my yard. I didn't realize it at the time that they had abandoned the house, but in a day or so it became clear, so he became mine. Kitties will look for the "right" people to call their own. Since he never moved again I guess he found the right place.

I've said it a hundred times, Mokey stay off the table

Mokey: why are you repeating yourself, its been a long hot day

Being sensitive beings Lexi and Arni wondered why they did not get their photo
in their favorite forum. They thought Mokey was really stealing the show. Here is
Lexi and Arni feeling much better.

The Cicada's are in full song here in Italy, and Micio spends a lot of time on the balcony waiting for one to catch. This morning he was wandering about the house with one still singing in his mouth. Every now and then he spat it out and played with it. Cats can be brutal too.

But the view from up here is so much better!

And the nice smooth surface is cool too!

You wanna see what big teeth I have? You just did. Now go away! :)

That Mokey guy is such a show off! Who does he think he is??? He can't even spell his name right, leaving the beginning S off like that. ;)

Oh my! That's a good one about him with live prey still singing along while in the cat's mouth! I've sometimes seen my cats capture mice and birds that seemingly play dead while being carried around only to run or fly away the moment the cat put the captive down to play with it. Sometimes though they don't get away, and are a cat's play toy until they are no longer alive. However, whenever I've had the chance to make an intervention, the prey often would get away, frustrating my kitties and making me glad that I was able to step in in time. (I do make an exception for rats though...)