Serious Cat Photos
Well, I did it. I finally changed this blog over to the New Blogger. It seems to have gone well, but I couldn't be certain until I'd actually posted something. And since I don't have a new recipe for you, I thought I'd show you photos of my third favorite photography subject (after family and food): CATS.
My cats always look so serious. I wish I could get them to smile, but that's just the way they are. I assure you that they are happy, healthy, friendly cats, but they're also very serious. The one in front, Bud, will come running the second my daughter raises her voice in distress and will meow repeatedly to let us know that she's in trouble. He's a very loving, loyal cat, but not given to smiling.
Despite his sentry-like stance in this photo, Domino is no watch-cat. If an adult other than D. or me enters the house, he runs to hide in our bedroom. Kids are a different story. He's never been afraid of children and will plop himself down in the midst of a crowd of them.
Leda, in the background, is a true scaredy cat. In fact, I took this photo because it's one of the few times she's emerged from the house. She hides under the sofa or bed from everybody except D. and me (including, unfortunately, E). At night she comes out of hiding and sleeps on my pillow, keeping my head warm and probably my lungs filled with cat fur. At less than 5 pounds, she's the size of a kitten, but she's 11 years old.
And that's the Serious Cat round-up for this week, brought to you by the New Blogger.
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posted by SusanV at 5:12 PM
21 Comments:
Beautiful photos of your cats! I have a question that relates to the topic of your blog: are your cats vegans? If so, what brand of pet food do you feed them? And more importantly, do they like it? I have a cat and really want to veganize her! Thanks!
-Gabrielle
They're beautiful!
"...but they're also very serious."
The question is... Do they speak French? :)))
French for Cats: All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need
by Henri de la Barbe
(Henry Beard)
ISBN 067940676X
My kitty has yet to learn. (sigh)
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes.
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Domino's stance and profile is so perfectly captured. Bravo. Nature is so beautiful and still manages to amaze me daily.
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Pumpking says "Hi!" to Domino and wants to share a couple of his chickpeas with him :)
Your cats are beautiful! One of my cats, Marble, is just like your Leda and is inexplicably scared of everything. Sometimes she jumps-for nothing! Meanwhile, her sister Bijou lounges around contentedly.
Welcome to the new blogger!
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Cat's can't be vegans or vegetarians and be healthy. They are carniovres. People are herbivores. I am a vegan and make homemade raw cat food from this recipe. www.catnutrition.org
Please, no vegan cat wars! :-)
Gabrielle, it's my belief that cats are better off not being raised vegan. I know that some people have had good results feeding their cats a vegan diet, but I have to do what I think is best for my cats. Two of them (Bud and Leda) are geting up in years, and I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize their health.
Toni, I'm laughing out loud! Though my husband wanders around the house speaking (bad) French, neither the cats nor the kid have picked it up at all. Pity!
Linda, I constantly think that cats are natures works of art. They are truly beautiful animals.
Gaia, I will remember your Pumpkin to Domino! He always appreciates a good chickpea. :-)
Bazu, I really don't understand how cats get their personalities. We raised Leda since she was tiny in a very calm, safe environment. Perhaps she remembers something that happened before we adopted her. It's funny that you have two sibling cats with such different personalities.
I'm with you!
What do you feed your cats? They look beautiful, fluffy, and healthy!
I have a question for you: are Leda and Domino Snowshoe Siamese? My cat's mom was a snowshoe, although you wouldn't know it from looking at Uma, because she's black and white and doesn't really have the typical markings.
Thanks for sharing - your kitties are gorgeous!
Kati, both Leda and Domino are Siamese mixtures, but they're not related to each other (we got them 7 years apart in two different states). Domino looks a lot like photos of snowshoes, but none of his siblings were Siamese looking, so I think his coloring is just a happy accident. Leda looks more like a mix between a tabby and a Siamese. She has tabby stripes on her face.
Anonymous, I feed my cats various brands of high-quality cat food. They get bored easily, so I switch brands often. Domino also enjoys cantaloupe and other soft fruit.
AWW thank you for sharing photos of your cats! They're beautiful
teddy
very cool blog! i'm so happy to have found it. i'm a vegan wannabe photographer and i LOVE cat photos. your cats are beautiful. i'll be coming back to read more.
I have two cats that are identical to Domino and Bud.
Susan,
As the very proud owner of ten cats, which include two Flame Point Siamese sisters, a Tortie/Siamese mix, an Oriental shorthair, and our very sweet boy Taji, who is a Seal point Siamese Snowshoe (with multiple toes!), I can tell you with absolute certainty that Domino is a Seal point Siamese Snowshoe. I don't believe he is mixed with any other breeds, as his markings are identical to his breed. Taji is very vocal (like most Siamese), very loveable, playful, and loves to sleep on his back, preferably under the covers, or some type of blanket. Snowshoes also come in another color - Blue point, which is much paler and softer. Snowshoes always are identified as either a "Seal or Blue point Siamese Snowshoe", that is their correct breed title.
Just a little info for you. Unfortunately I couldn't see Leda well enough to identify her, but she looked like she might be a Himilayan mix.
Your cats are really funny coloured. The funniest here in our area is a bright orange tiger. I never have seen such a bright colouring ever before.
No idea how that happend because the father is white and fluffy and the mother is another widely mixed stray brown tiger.
Everyone who sees our whitey boy thinks he is an exclusive breed like an angora, but he is also just a street mix.
He strolled into our home, jumped onto the couch and marked us as his caretaker..typical cat-behaviour i would say.
he is now...12 years more or less, we can not tell exactly.
And then there is our 19 year old granny, a real princess.
We switched her to vegan cat food with 16 years because she got sever reactions to other cat food. no matter if high quality, the brand one can buy from the vet or raw made food.
it was the last straw to save her because she could not keep her food and still gets bad reactions if she eats anything with meat.
Eggs and milk do not trigger a reaction as extreme but if she gets food over a longer time which contains eggs or milk she will loose control over her legs, stumble,fall over...it is not pretty and no one can tell use why that happens.
We feed her amicat, it is an italian brand invented by vets specially for allergic cats and use vegecat supplement if i cook for her.
And sometimes she gets a swiss brand of food made with vegecat supplement which is available in a ground and sausage like variety.
It is normally a treat but 4 weeks ago some moron kick started his car and hit her.
I heard the crash with closed windows and ...hell it was bad.
The guy drove of after he crashed in our garden..or exactly in old granny.
Her hip was broken, she got a shock and her bladder was injured.
Also she had massives blood vessel ruptures around her hip.
But stubborn as a cat is she insisted on walking/stumbling through the house after 3 days.
I am still very angry and the crash did not improve her health...i got granny as a kitten when her mother birthed her in the garden under the stairs ..she surived an infection with cat aids(no idea what it is called in english) a car accident 7 years ago and now this one.
But she lost so much weight and is even pickier with food now so she gets her *treat* instead of regular food.
She has..or more had...a stature like your domino..and no matter how old she is, she is still the most amazing cat.
The amazone she is, she attacked a retriever dog wo dared to walk into her territory..while our white boy cowered in a corner even when he is three times bigger than her.
Yeah...she is still the queen. Maybe she has more than 9 lives.
Oh and also the vegan diet is approved by the vet.
Whity boy prefers the vegan food too, he rather eat the vegan cat food-sausage than the normal ham..or anything else what is normally considered a delicacy.
Any other cat that will join our family in the future will also get vegan cat food because i only made good experience with it.
They are more healthy, the fur is beautiful, they have less problems when they go through fur change, less/no longer throwing up or other digestion problems..and they smell better..no cat breath.
I had high montly pays for the vet because of my old missy and her health problems and they have gone away nearly completly 6 months after i started the vegan food.
Me and the vet both were puzzled when we reognized that her problems with the nervous system were food related and the only thing we can think about is that she is reacting to animal protein like a person with celiac condition to weath protein
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