Cathead Biscuit

 

Trixie

Daniel, The Shop Cat

 

Everyone Has That One Co-worker

Mavis the Bravest

 

A Fambly

Shelby

Spots

Midnight

Samantha the Horrible!

Service!

 

Badu Sings the Blues

 

Badu the Cat: Cat Singing Blues 

*Decoding Your Cat* by Serpell & Seracusa

This 19.February.2020 article is an interview with  two University of Pennsylvania professors about "science's" attempts to explain cats' behaviors. In an effort to popularize their research, Professors James Serpell & Carlo Siracusa co-wrote Decoding Your Cat (July, 2020, Harvest).

From Amazon's page:

Written by the leading experts in cat behavior from the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, with an introduction by animal expert Steve Dale, this book conveys the newest and best information on cat behavioral science in a fun, interesting, and understandable way. Together with anecdotes from real life situations and the science behind how cats relate to their world, Decoding Your Cat empowers owners to provide a home environment that is happy, safe, and functional, to identify and seek treatment for medical health problems, to understand how to deal with unwanted behaviors, and in general to help cats live longer and fuller lives.

What's Wrong With Yo Tail?

 

Toni's Workout

On Smirkets (black cats),the poochie parts from which their whiskers grow are called peats; on other cats they're called spliffoes. Regardless of type, cats "zoom" things to keep their peats or spliffoes in shape. Anything that serves the purpose is called a "zooming iron."

In this sequence, Rigatoni shows us how it's done.

Stretch between sets

Proper placement of the forepaw

A final stretch

Precip...

 ...bustling by on Cat Bidness.

Molly - Peats of Intensity

 

On black cats, Peats are the poochie areas on either side of the nose from whence the whiskers protrude.

Toni's Kata

Rigatoni, as he's formally known, performs his most advanced kata for Sensei Ollie.

Belle

 

Belle has an exceedingly charming and relentlessly Tttttttttender personality.

We had a lovely schmoozefest and she shared a generous amount of fur with me.  We looked like twins by the time I left.

Casey

Look! Look DEEP into my EYES. You are going to feed me Greenies.

Lumpy's Cuteness Seizure

 

Trembling drumsticks

Abbey

This is Abby, Persian Tort and champion eater, in spite of (presumably) not having a sense of taste or smell due to nasal cancer surgery years ago.

Abby relishes special service.  She expects a Lackey to stand by while she eats and continually rearrange her mush so it's in the center of her bowl.

She and her siblings, Hannah and Isaac, usually eat on the kitchen counter where they have a cat fountain.  Abby oh-so-casually drags her tail through the water, then turns around and splashes Isaac in the face.  Hannah eats and runs, so she usually avoids this "accident".

Is there really a face here?

Preparing the Splash

(Innocent Isaac)

InDIGNITY!!

Midnight Bear: Great Black Hunter

 

Zebby - U.K.'s Cat of the Year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/01/cat-of-the-year-uk-zebby/

Cat Song - Mark Reizen

Mark Reizen "is now considered by many to be the most beautiful bass voice of the century." (Matthew Boyden: Icons of Opera)

The cat makes its appearance at 4:47 and is on-screen at the end.

Chanson sur Nicholaï Chors - Mark Reizen

GB & FR subtitle

Max

 

With Jumpin' Jack

(see previous post)

Jumpin' Jack

 

Zorrita

Zorrita finally cottoned to the fact that I was trying to get pictures of her ttttttenderly curled tail and whirled around, exclaiming, "WTF, sister?!"