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My darling cat. Post photos of yours :) (Original Post) Aerows Sep 2014 OP
that is a darling cat. i don't have one. n/t orleans Sep 2014 #1
I can't help it Aerows Sep 2014 #7
somebody is comfy fizzgig Sep 2014 #2
You have sweeties, too! Aerows Sep 2014 #3
Awwww, the formerly fat one. Xyzse Sep 2014 #5
They both look like Aerows Sep 2014 #17
lol. i have a cat that looks annoyed Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #69
Awwww! shenmue Sep 2014 #4
She loves that blanket Aerows Sep 2014 #6
Here she is when she is not flopped out Aerows Sep 2014 #8
She really is guarding the garden Aerows Sep 2014 #9
My two pretty girls LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #10
Beautiful darling felines! n/t Aerows Sep 2014 #11
I adore them LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #12
Which is why Aerows Sep 2014 #13
Rugs? LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #23
If you have no rugs, where does your cat throw up? The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #24
! Kali Sep 2014 #27
Obviously LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #28
LMAO Aerows Sep 2014 #43
All very sqee but Symone's expression is snagglepuss Sep 2014 #40
She always manages LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #52
Mine just preens Aerows Sep 2014 #73
Butters and Spuddy Nevada Blue Sep 2014 #14
They are absolutely beautiful, Nevada Blue Aerows Sep 2014 #15
Beautiful kitties LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #21
My most awesome and excellent feline masters: The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #16
She's gorgeous Aerows Sep 2014 #18
All of them are hellions but Pixie is the worst. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #19
So you have an empire of mischief. Aerows Sep 2014 #20
I thought Pixie was one of the cutest things I'd ever seen LoveMyCali Sep 2014 #22
I've been trying to think of a good LOLcat caption for that photo. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #29
No! WE can't take over the world like this Aerows Sep 2014 #55
Pixie looks like capital-T trouble waiting to happen. hifiguy Sep 2014 #34
Pixie looks like she could Aerows Sep 2014 #44
that bottom feline's expression is priceless tabbycat31 Sep 2014 #63
Which one sleeps on top of the fridge? RiffRandell Sep 2014 #65
Jeoffry sleeps on the refrigerator. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #66
blurry shot of Freddy drinking out of the bird bath Kali Sep 2014 #25
Is this his best side? Sanity Claws Sep 2014 #32
I don't think she's drinking .. Aerows Sep 2014 #54
Mine cyberswede Sep 2014 #26
Beautiful, cyberswede Aerows Sep 2014 #72
Our latest rescue, Whisp. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #30
You saved her! She is gorgeous Beaverhausen Sep 2014 #31
She is hifiguy Sep 2014 #35
!!! <3 BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2014 #39
Thanks for being so very kind. snagglepuss Sep 2014 #41
Yesterday, helping me do paperwork while at home. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #49
There's a lot of love in dem der eyes. A truly beautiful image. The snagglepuss Sep 2014 #50
I think someone Aerows Sep 2014 #48
Jackie. RiffRandell Sep 2014 #33
She rather reminds me of mine Aerows Sep 2014 #47
My favorite photo of our two cats. BarbaRosa Sep 2014 #36
Ohhhhhhh! Those are some beautiful cats! Heidi Sep 2014 #38
Beautiful cats Aerows Sep 2014 #45
YES! She _IS_ darling!!! Here is The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger, Heidi Sep 2014 #37
He's Beautiful! Aerows Sep 2014 #46
Thank you, Aerows. Heidi Sep 2014 #61
love the kitteh pics, all of them ! :) nt steve2470 Sep 2014 #42
Here's my fur nieces and nephew 47of74 Sep 2014 #51
You have furbabies! Aerows Sep 2014 #53
Maggie Aerows Sep 2014 #56
Maggie is a bit shy at first 47of74 Sep 2014 #57
how do you post a picture? IGoToDU Sep 2014 #58
Hi, IGoToDU! Heidi Sep 2014 #62
Meet my baby! Felix at seven weeks Rhiannon12866 Sep 2014 #59
Thank you for rescuing a black kitty, they are usually hard to find homes for. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #60
I wish I would have taken a picture of Buddy Aerows Sep 2014 #70
Old photo of Izzy sitting on my monitor while I view DU. progressoid Sep 2014 #64
Here's Murphy!!!! IGoToDU Sep 2014 #67
Gorgeous! Aerows Sep 2014 #71
what a cutie Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #68

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
2. somebody is comfy
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 01:49 AM
Sep 2014


a few of my favorites

the dim one



the (formerly) fat one. she is also constantly annoyed.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. You have sweeties, too!
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 02:46 AM
Sep 2014

Both of them look like the would pile up in an unsuspecting lap and not move

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
6. She loves that blanket
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 06:52 PM
Sep 2014

She apparently WANTS to crash out disco style on that ugly pink blanket.

I gave it to her since I had no use for it, and now she thinks of it as a five star kitty hotel .

LoveMyCali

(2,015 posts)
10. My two pretty girls
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:09 PM
Sep 2014

Raven, being a raven for Halloween




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Symone with crazy eyes



Pretending they don't hate each other.


 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
13. Which is why
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:57 PM
Sep 2014

you *secretly* love them

Mine can be a terror, but it is part of her beautiful personality. She takes it out on the rugs by clawing the crap out of them. Rugs aren't cheap, but I love my girl kitten.

LoveMyCali

(2,015 posts)
23. Rugs?
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 09:38 PM
Sep 2014

You have rugs? Oh and curtains are on the endangered species list at our house.

Raven is quite the little interior decorator.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
15. They are absolutely beautiful, Nevada Blue
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 09:07 PM
Sep 2014

Welcome to DU, along with your absolutely gorgeous cats

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,661 posts)
19. All of them are hellions but Pixie is the worst.
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 09:19 PM
Sep 2014

She hisses at me for no reason. Just to keep me in line until she wants to be petted.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
34. Pixie looks like capital-T trouble waiting to happen.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 04:16 PM
Sep 2014

Jeoffrey looks like he was hittin' the catnip a little hard last night.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
44. Pixie looks like she could
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 07:10 PM
Sep 2014

get into trouble two seconds after waking up. She has that look in her eyes J-cat looks like he gets stoned on catnip just to stay out of her nefarious plots to rule the world.



He's probably saying "Oh hell no, don't get me involved in this."

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
65. Which one sleeps on top of the fridge?
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 07:25 PM
Sep 2014

I think you posted a picture of that once.

Cuties! Is Pixie still a kitten?

I was going to guess you're a Pixies fan but Jeoffrey is spelled with 2 f's. Jeoffrey, with 1 F, Jeoffrey...

If you know the band, you'll get it; if not, no big.

Btw, love that bat picture in the first picture. Want it!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,661 posts)
66. Jeoffry sleeps on the refrigerator.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:08 PM
Sep 2014

Pixie is now about 5 but she still looks like a kitten. The spelling of Jeoffry is from the very long poem Jubilate Agno. Christopher Smart, an 18th-century poet, wrote the poem in a madhouse where his only companion was his cat Jeoffry: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/jubilate-agno-fragment-b-i-will-consider-my-cat-jeoffry

"For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry...
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day’s work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord’s watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger...."





 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
54. I don't think she's drinking ..
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:04 PM
Sep 2014

I think she caught something and is washing it before she eats it.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
72. Beautiful, cyberswede
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:41 PM
Sep 2014

A gorgeous pair, and they don't look precisely like troublemakers, but I don't know ... I think they are up to something .

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
30. Our latest rescue, Whisp.
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 11:37 PM
Sep 2014

When we found her lying head down and immobile on our deck, she had been abandoned by her mother at ten days old.

Her eyes and nose were glued shut from dried pus and mucus, she was breathing in rasping gasps through her mouth and was covered in fleas.

My daughter got her stethescope, and we could hear the snapping and bubbling of fluid in her lungs.

We washed her in warm soapy water three times to get all the fleas out, and tried to get her to eat or drink. We had replacement kitty formula, but she wouldn't nurse from the bottle on her own.

She was in extremis and did not have long to live.


As it was a Saturday and my regular vet wasn't in, we took her to an emergency veterinary hospital that we had dealt with before, those people are just awesome, the very best in animal care.

The vet said that the kitten had feline respiratory disease, pneumonia, was anemic due to all the fleas, and gave her a 50/50 chance of living even 24 more hours even with emergency care.

She weighted 7oz.

The vet asked me what it was I wanted to do.

I told her I'll take those chances.

She got a massive dose of antibiotics, three prescriptions, and we had to force her to eat and drink with a syringe as she wouldn't do so on her own.


Whisp when we got home her from the vet.

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I took her with me on the road a week later, as she needed her different meds administered three times a day and my daughter was busy between work and school, she couldn't be there for her.

Two weeks later, sleeping on my bunk. Still rail thin, but eating on her own now.

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Week after, much better. Fat little kitty tummy.

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The following week, being silly.

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Last week, 3lbs. 7oz. Took to trucking quite well.

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When Whisp gets home, she spends all her time terrorizing my other four kitties.





snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
50. There's a lot of love in dem der eyes. A truly beautiful image. The
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 08:20 PM
Sep 2014

textured fabrics really compliment Whisp's beautiful fur coat.

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
33. Jackie.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 03:39 PM
Sep 2014

Our rescue who lived in a shelter for over a year. She is the sweetest. Our tortie Swirls passed away last spring, but lived a long, happy life.





 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
47. She rather reminds me of mine
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 07:35 PM
Sep 2014

Except I didn't adopt her, she jumped into my lap after I fed her and adopted me.

She looks quite a bit like her, but as we all know, personality is what cats do best .

Thanks for posting, Jackie is beautiful.

BarbaRosa

(2,684 posts)
36. My favorite photo of our two cats.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 04:35 PM
Sep 2014

Tiger was serene while Bill the wild child.
Sadly Tiger has since crossed the bridge, I sure miss him.

Heidi

(58,237 posts)
37. YES! She _IS_ darling!!! Here is The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger,
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 02:14 AM
Sep 2014

surveying his kingdom.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
51. Here's my fur nieces and nephew
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 08:26 PM
Sep 2014

I don't have any feline children of my own. I do have feline nieces and a nephew.

These are my sister and brother in law's fur kids - a girl and boy;

Maggie


Marvel



My brother and his girlfriend have also have a fur girl named TK;



Then there's my sister and brother in law's late fur girl Morgan. She passed back in January 2013 and we all still miss her very much;

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
56. Maggie
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:35 PM
Sep 2014

makes me want to run my fingers through that lush belly hair she is sporting, and I'm pretty sure Marvel is indeed one that is perfect at getting into trouble.

Morgan looks a lot like my late beauty that I had for 15 years. She was the Countess of the home, and regal.

TK looks solid, like he will have your back no matter what!

I'm so sorry that Morgan passed away. She looks beautiful.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
57. Maggie is a bit shy at first
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:45 PM
Sep 2014

Especially when there are strange humans or humans that she has not seen in some time around. After a while she opens up and is really friendly. Her fur is always so nice and always smells so good.

TK was discovered by my brother's girlfriend at just a few weeks old when she got seperated from her mother and sibling. TK was so young that my brother's girlfriend had to bottle feed her for a few weeks. She tried to find TK a home but wound up keeping her then TK became my niece when my brother's girlfriend moved in with him. She's not quite as cuddly as the others but is otherwise friendly.

Yes, Marvel is a trouble maker. Getting in to and on just about everything he can; tops of doors, dryers, refrigerators, shower stalls, laundry baskets, etc etc.

Morgan lived with me for several months while my sister was doing pharmacy rotations, and we became friends during that time. It was always the highlight of visiting my sister to see Morgan and what sort of trouble she was getting in to.

IGoToDU

(177 posts)
58. how do you post a picture?
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 05:22 AM
Sep 2014

Ive got my kitten pic on my desktop nut can't figure out how to attach it to my reply.

GORGEOUS KITTEHS all of yours!!!!! Loving this thread. Meow!

Heidi

(58,237 posts)
62. Hi, IGoToDU!
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:59 AM
Sep 2014

You just need an imaging hosting site (like www.photobucket.com, for example) where you can upload your kitty pictures. Then you just paste the image URL into a reply in this thread.

Can't wait to see your kitty pic!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
60. Thank you for rescuing a black kitty, they are usually hard to find homes for.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:31 AM
Sep 2014

Superstitious people still afraid of black kitties.

We always have a black kitty in the house.


No pics, but we have Thomas the Tomcat at home, the big lug. He's a love sponge, you can rub him for hours and he just can't get enough.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
70. I wish I would have taken a picture of Buddy
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:30 PM
Sep 2014

I rescued him about 18 months ago from a parking lot, too. He was this little ball of gray, dirty fur that was just squalling. My darling girl and the little kitten did not get along, so I endeavored to find him a home.

He is now about the size of an elephant and his new owner adores him. I still remember bathing him to get all of the yuck out of his fur and feeding him.

Obviously, he is being fed now. I couldn't believe it was him. He weighs nearly 20 lbs. now if he weighs an ounce. Fat as a tick and packs up under the chair of the woman who is as smitten with him as he is with her .

I will never regret uniting them both. They freaking adore each other.

IGoToDU

(177 posts)
67. Here's Murphy!!!!
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:09 PM
Sep 2014

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He's a senior...rescued from a very high-kill shelter in San Bernardino, CA. His foster, Dee, had become used to the idea of him being hers forever a few months after she had fruitlessly posted his bio on Petfinder.com. I was on that site for a few hours looking for my first kitty in 29 years(!) when Murphy's photo made my heart stand still. Dee said all she knew about him was he was brought to the shelter with no claws on any of his feet and just a few teeth, all of which were pulled except one. My daughter and I affectionately refer to him as "the hole puncher." Poppa Smurf is feisty, sweet, soulful, vocal, playful, lanky, and soft as a baby bunny. We adore him, and he gets along very well with his canine brother Max. The first photo in this post, which I took with my phone exactly one month to the day after I adopted Murphy, remains as screen saver on Dee's phone.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
71. Gorgeous!
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:35 PM
Sep 2014

Murphy is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing the pictures of your beautiful feline friend .

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