Cat size comparison

Posted on January 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, breeding, breeds, Cat, Comparison, large size, medium size, Photo, small size, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

One big cat, one medium. Our other cat is the smallest. It’s like having a labrador, a collie and a chihuahua (although the variation is not that great). I keep wondering if the big cat will get stuck in the cat flap. Medium cat is in proportion, but I’ve noticed the small one has slightly shorter legs, it’s not obvious but it looks less graceful somehow. Gladly all of them have proper cat shaped heads, not flattened and squashed in. I really think cats with extra short legs and pushed in faces don’t look ‘right’, it’s almost like they are being bred to look more like kittens, but it doesn’t seem normal. Breeding any animal to the extent that they are malformed is wrong. I think ordinary moggies are best. Some breeds do attract me, like Maine Coon cats, but I wouldn’t want one.

The cat found a box

Posted on January 25, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Box, Cardboard, Cat, Parcel, Sleeping, Snug, Tuxedo cat, WashingLeave a comment

We got a package today in a cardboard box. Before you could say Jack Robinson, one of the cats had co-opted it as a snug, draft free bed. I don’t know how long it will last. He’s slightly too big for it and one of the sides is a bit loose. He’s just lain down after having a good wash. Snuggling and curling, paw over nose.

What makes cats nest? You see them on videos, squeezing into tiny spaces, climbing into holes in virtually anything including empty washing machines!

Levitating cat?

Posted on January 25, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Box, Cat, Chair, Fun, Levitate, Lying down, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Sleep, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Front paws on a chair

Back legs on a box

Sagging between

Or levitating above.

Comfy you say?

But what if he sleeps.

Will he fall off?

How can he stay.

Stuck on a space

That doesn’t support

While a foot away

A comfy sofa!

Cat, a digital sketch

Posted on January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Instagram, Life, Photodirector, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

A digital drawing of a black and white cat, then which I then digitally manipulated to add textures and tilt the image. I used artrage oils free for the original drawing using a stylus on my phone screen, then photodirector to add texture and finally the editing tools including a sharpness option and tilting option on my Instagram account. I have also duplicated this image as four seperated cats, but that was done after I did this.

Covering

Posted on January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Black ink fine line pen, Book, Cat, covering, felt pen drawing, Mat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was cornering. Cat covering a book covering a mat covering our floor…. He likes to keep his paws warm. Funny how they find the warmest places despite having fur! Felt pen and black ink drawing.

A dusting of snow

Posted on January 17, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Car, Chilly, Cold, Freezing, Icy, powder snow, Showers, Snow, snow showers, Weather, White3 Comments

Hard to see, but the roof opposite has a dusting of snow. It was like that this morning, a thin, crisp crust of powder. Then it melted quickly in the low sun. Now the clouds are back, getting that orange glow off the sodium street lights. Next doors roof has a thin white layer of snowy ice. The gritting lorries are out, and we are waiting for disruptive snow showers coming from the North West through the Cheshire gap. Meanwhile the cats dip in and out of the catflap. Coming in frequently to warm their paws, then out again to do who knows what? When we go to bed they will come in and curl up to sleep. Meanwhile they pad through the thin layer of snow, silent and probably deadly!

Comfort-cat

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Animals, Belly rub, Cat, Comfortable, Fun, Life, Poem, Poetry, Purring, Silly, Sleeping, WarmLeave a comment

He couldn’t be more comfortable

Like a bug in a rug

A chick in a nest

A coiled warm snake

A dog in a vest

A bear in its den.

A goldfish in its bowl

A bee in its hive.

He’s happy to have his belly rubbed.

A comfort-cat enjoying life.

Great purrs-onality!

Cat keeps warm

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Sleep, Tuxedo cat, Life, Bed, Cat tree, Black and white cat, Rescue cats, Curled up, Abandoned, Warm, oil heaters, iglooLeave a comment

It’s hard to see, but one of our cats sleeps in front of our two oil filled radiators. He’s the biggest of our cats and has thick fur, but I think because he was abandoned and used to live outside, he’s taking advantage of the warmth he can get. It’s no problem to us as the heaters warm the whole room, and when he’s not there he’s usually outside in the cold. He really likes being out and about. One of the other two cats sleeps upstairs on a soft and fluffy bed or on the cat tree by the living room radiator, and the other one either sleeps on my chair, the sofa, or an igloo shaped bed in the living room. So basically they are all snug!

Staring cats

Posted on January 14, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Eyes, Looking, noticing, Poem, Poetry, Staring, Tuxedo cat, View, wildLeave a comment

Hours of staring

Looking, viewing

Taking time to see

What is moving

Running, twitching

What could it really be?

Cat is looking

Viewing, staring

Through the window wide

Keep the door closed

Keep him inside

Well away from the wild….

Blowing a Hooley?

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bushes, Cat flap, Cats, Hooley, Night, Noise, Soughing, Sound, Storm, Trees, WindLeave a comment

I think Hooley is a phrase meaning a gale or stormy. It’s a more picturesque word, probably quite old.

Despite our double glazing I can hear the wind soughing around the house, the vuuumming noise through the gap around the kitchen window. The cat flap opening and closing as if a fat, invisible cat was coming in and going out of the door. The overgrown bushes by the side of the house sometimes scrape along the wall. I’m used to it now but it used to be quite creepy when I first heard it. And of course it’s dark outside, dead leaves scatter and blow about on the wind, and litter scurries along the gutter on the road, picked up by the wind and dumped damply in heaps.

In amongst all these noises the cats use the cat flap, coming in and purring at me, purr-miaow? Where’s my tea? It’s not the wind this time, it’s me

Mallaband-Brown

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