Happy New Year with Sparklies: From A Year Ago
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily photo, feline talent, holiday, mewsette, my household of felines, photographs | Tags: black cat with scarf, cats, dressing up cats, feline families, happy new year, pets, portraits of animals 17 Comments
A sparkly new year's wish for everyone!
Because we’ve been preoccupied with Cookie, we couldn’t create a new year wish for you, but Mewsette was so beautiful in her photo shoot last year she deserves another year of greeting our readers!
On behalf of my household of kitties, Mewsette wishes you and yours a happy new year!
Faraway Expression (I'd rather be birdwatching than wearing this thing around my neck).
She’s modeling my latest crochet scarf with vintage pin, and the little sparks of color and the shape of the pin brought to mind fireworks. She has the greenest eyes of the group, too, and I wanted to highlight that with the background.
Mewsette Coquette (are you actually going to give me that treat or just wave it so I'll look at it?)
I’ve never been one to dress up my cats, but I’ve been handling Mewsette and her brothers since they were three days old and somehow decorating this family of nearly solid black cats seems like the natural thing to do.
This extemporaneous photo shoot developed after I tried to photograph the scarf but certain kitties decided it was meant to be a toy—I have to admit they have a few toys that resemble this—and in the ensuing activity someone ended up wearing it.
And they tolerate it, in part because they inherited their mom’s sweet personality and are the nicest family of kitties I’ve ever known (in a lifetime of kitties), and perhaps also because I’ve been handling them all their lives. They put up with a lot of stuff from me, but of course, the benefits are many.
Dignified (I'm just letting you know that I'd done with this thing around my neck now).
They are now three years old, so it’s time to put them to work!
I think Mewsette has a true career as a model—I’ve included a few more shots from this session along with Mewsette’s comments.
Her brothers were spared the indignity of having to wear this thing, but their day will come.
It’s a little difficult to tell, but I’ve included the extra space on the right of this last photo so you might see how l-o-o-n-n-g Mewsette’s whiskers are.
I hope your 2011 begins on a bright note with colors, smiles, purrs and happiness, and continues to become more beautiful every day!
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I’m One Tough Cookie
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: backyard, cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats | Tags: cat in renal failure, cat photographs, cats, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, senior cat, tortoiseshell cats 7 Comments
Cookie the Lioness.
Someone’s feeling better!
Cookie the Lioness is on her log in the wilderness and all is right with the world.
It’s just a short step up but considering she could barely walk the other day, this is an accomplishment. Cookie is surprised anyone would expect less. I wish I could have caught the full indignation of her green eyes, but it was so dark outside all day I just couldn’t focus before she looked down.
Cookie dreams of her back yard.
But we want to thank everyone for the good wishes since she’s been ill. We visited another veterinarian (my regular vet is out of town for the holiday) and had an exam and blood tests and have some new directions to take with her treatment. She’s responding well already and we haven’t even begun some of them.
The staff remarked how good she looked for 19. “I don’t know what a 19-year-old cat is supposed to look like, but I am not just any 19-year-old cat,” Cookie says. But even I had noticed I don’t see the somewhat milky, bluish dilated pupils and extreme striations in her eyes or the gaunt face I’ve seen on other cats her age. “I am a goddess, you remember,” she responds. Immortal, you mean? Sometimes Cookie just gets full of herself.
And even when we are back inside, dry and warmed up, we sit at the door and dream about being in the back yard.
Being slightly indisposed, Cookie apparently told Mewsette, her understudy, it was time to get to work and start monitoring me, and since yesterday morning Mewsette has been with me non-stop, very comforting and affectionate and purring, and all the black cats have been attentive as well.
But someone slipped up in my supervision and I had another little gall bladder attack yesterday…I was more concerned I might not be able to take care of Cookie! But I also didn’t get the chance to update on Cookie’s progress yesterday and we hope no one was worried.
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Sweetly Sleeping: From A Year Ago
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, my household of felines, photographs, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats | Tags: cat photographs, feline photographs, pet photography, photography, tortoiseshell cat 4 Comments
Sweetly Sleeping
Another post from the archives, one of my favorites of Cookie, sleeping with her head on my arm so I can’t move.
I’ve been looking at Cookie sleep for 19 years, but I could look at a face like this, nestled in the ruffles on my sweater, all the rest of the evening. I certainly didn’t move my hand too much until she awoke! I know Cookie waited all her life to have the seniority for first dibs on me, and I don’t take a minute from her.
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