[ashurbanipal]

In our beach house we also have two cats. And as you can see in this photo, they are so dangerous they need to be caged
The one in the photo is called Hamra which is red in arabic (our beach house is in Tunisia hence the arabic name).

Hamra looks very inquisitive!

[WPRESTO]

A cat of a different color, hopefully to elicit a few groans.

[noelcmn]

Congregants new kitty- it refused to pose for me, so I grabbed it by the scruff of its belly

[Mbaez]

Lexy being cute, and waiting for dinner.
KP + 55*

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[ramseybuckeye]

I asked Fester to pose for a couple of photos today

[paulh]

Doc is too comfortable

[Digitalis]

My mother got a New Kitten from the cat shelter, She always wanted a little Ginger Female. Getting photos of small, curious kittens is no easy task.




She is very playful.

[Mbaez]

My mother got a New Kitten from the cat shelter, She always wanted a little Ginger Female. Getting photos of small, curious kittens is no easy task.

She is very playful.

Absolutely beautiful!
Good job with the lighting.

[WPRESTO]

My mother got a New Kitten from the cat shelter, She always wanted a little Ginger Female. Getting photos of small, curious kittens is no easy task. She is very playful.

Older cats are easier if less interesting to photograph. Annabelle is about 13~15 years old.

[redmenace]

Betty Cat is not my cat, but agreed to have her photo taken anyway.

[aslyfox]

these are arguing on whether to agree to have their photo taken

[Digitalis]

The Ginger Kitten is settling in nicely, though I have never observed this behavior before with cats, but now I have been inexplicably landed with two cats that do this with their tails:



in this shot the Kitten (Sunny) is playing hide and seek with my Cat Tigger.

The Ginger Kitten is settling in nicely, though I have never observed this behavior before with cats, but now I have been inexplicably landed with two cats that do this with their tails:



in this shot the Kitten (Sunny) is playing hide and seek with my Cat Tigger.

It's an interesting phenomenon, I've seen some cats do that, too. Apparently, it serves a couple of purposes: it makes the cat's overall profile larger and therefore more threatening and better defended in appearance presented to potential attackers; and also creates a distraction/diversion to potential cat-eating predators. Better to lose a bit of your tail and stay alive than to fight tooth and claw and end up a dead kitty. Presumably cats that did that tail-fluffing thing lived to reproduce, while others got 'et.

I've observed something else: cats' personalities seem to be heavily influenced by the fur colors, skin colors, and patterns. Brown tabbies are timid and have to be in control of contact with humans; orange tabbies are laid back if not downright blobby - and instead of fluffing the tail, they fluff up their neck and shoulders - but since they tend to be larger than other cats, I guess that's threatening enough; the black-and-white "Sylvester" kitties have terrific reflexes and are superb hunters, curious, alert and playful, if not downright naughty; gray tabbies are feisty and aggressive and are natural cat-family leaders but are very responsible about managing their mignons; and calicoes tend to be one-person kitties and want nothing to do with anyone other than their own person. All just generalizations based on my own anecdotal observations.

[mattb123]

Ready for spring

[WPRESTO]

Ready for spring

That is so much a cat, looking confident and mildly annoyed.