I love that the classic enemies, cats and dogs, sometimes live together in harmony. Polly and Merlin live with Annalise Adam and Merlin is still very young and doesn’t yet know what’s what. This is a total action-shot of a surprise encounter. To me, it appears that Merlin is curious and Polly is mightily surprised. Soon I will bring you a picture of Polly at rest.
Great photo; thanks Annalise!
A Cat A Day 
What a lovely post, Fiona, you have read their body language exactly right. Poor Polly has learnt to keep out of Merlin’s way now – he’s too bouncy for her!