Archive for the 'Cats' Category

Flickr photographer angeloangelo’ caught an amazing image of his cat tossing a mouse. What a capture. He has an excellent wild and domestic (animals) set too.

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The Supreme Cat Show

The Supreme Cat Show Gad, and I thought we were slaves to our late cat. We’re amateurs.

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Anne Made Cards

My friend Gary sent me this card when our cat died. I ordered some cards and sent this card when good friends of ours lost their dog. Anne Made Cards are just the thing for animal lovers or anyone who enjoys her playful sense of design and humor. They’re well made and reasonably priced.

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Cat Quotations

I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations about cats you don’t find here. Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. – Mary Bly [...]

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Missing Cat Poster I can relate to this in variety of ways: As one who lost a cat and made posters (they worked, we got her back) As one who’s been asked to do things and couldn’t sync with the person asking As one who’s asked for help and couldn’t sync with the person helping [...]

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Today would have been our late cat Kitty’s twentieth birthday. We had to put her to sleep December 2nd, she almost made it to twenty. Happy birthday Kitty, hope you’re enjoying cat heaven.

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Images of Kitty

Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Today was one of the roughest days of our lives. Anne and I had to put Kitty, a cat we’ve had just shy of twenty years to sleep. She’s been living with a worsening case of kidney disease for over a year and in the past month she started showing signs that it [...]

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Methimazole in syringe

Warren, Connecticut. It’s raining so time for a little kitchen table macro fun. This is the syringe of methimazole that we give our 19.5 year old cat for hyperthyroidism two times a day. We’ve been doing this for many years now and her thyroid condition is under control. These "dosings" are not her favorite time [...]

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Li Ward gives Expert Tips on Photographing Your Pets. Great tips. Her website is Fat Orange Cat.

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Warren, Connecticut. Our wonderful old black cat who is now all gray had her nineteenth birthday today. She’s quite arthritic and has a tough time getting around these days and her thyroid needs medication twice a day but she does have her moments and we do our best to keep her happy. The Kitty was [...]

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Cat Communication

Cat Communication Well, our old cat head buts me every night. I was pretty sure they were affection and now I know they’re kisses. [via Digg]

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Kitty and Richard

Our friend Gary is visiting and took this picture. The Kitty is getting very old and fragile and is shedding like mad for some reason but she’s still kicking at 18 and a half.

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Three Wise Cats

Warren, Connecticut. I got these small stuffed cats at my favorite Japanese handmade paper store in LA a while back. They’re too small to be pincushions so they’re simply dust collectors (or stuffed hello kitties). They’ve just earned their keep by posing for this shot. Happy Holidays to all of our friends both offline and [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. So, could the Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens be used as a general purpose telephoto? Yes.

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Cat Man Do

Oh, we so know this cat. Fantastic.

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The Kitty turned 18 today

Warren, Connecticut. Our wonderful old cat had her eighteenth birthday today. She’s quite arthritic and has a tough time getting around these days but she does have her moments and we do our best to keep her happy. The Kitty was born a month before I met Anne and has been with us through three [...]

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Crow and Kitten are Friends

Dang, what a soft heart, this made me tear up. [via David Darling]

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Red Rose Tea Cat

Warren, Connecticut. I have all kinds of mini-ceramic animals from years of buying Red Rose tea but this is the first cat I’ve gotten. I must say, the smug look is quite cat-like. Those Brits know their cats.

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Kitty, Gary, Anne

Warren, Connecticut. I know, this is not a great image but I like it anyway. I was trying out Gary’s Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM lens and even though the light in the room made this a tough exposure (for me), it demonstrates what’s so interesting about shooting with a fast wide angle lens (subject [...]

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