Happy Friday, my friends. Malteser is pretending no-one can see him.
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My friend Lisa recently moved to Zürich with her husband and two sons. It’s an exciting challenge for them all and Lisa is recording their new life on her blog here.
I’m following with particular interest and some envy, because I love Switzerland and spent my first couple of years of school there. Today, Lisa’s had a day out to Konstanz in Germany, which is on the Bodensee (we call it Lake Constance) and she took these photographs for me of some decorative metal cats outside an art gallery. Deswegen muss ich „Vielen Dank” sagen. Du bist so nett, Lisa.
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Lynne McBoyle is a great contributor to A Cat A Day and I really appreciate the photos she shares with me. Lynne has sent me French, Scottish and Argentinian cats. This photograph arrived today and shows a very comfortable cat relaxing in Ernest Hemingway’s house at Key West in Florida. He left his house to the cats (in contrast, his Cuba home is full of dogs) and it now is home to a thriving colony of polydactyl felines. Polydactyly is the term for a genetic mutation which produces extra digits. It looks peculiar on a human being, but in cats it seems less odd. In the USA, these cats are seen as a separate breed, called the Mitten or Hemingway cat.
Picture: http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/catbreed/americanpolydactyl.htm
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I have a little collection of pictures of Scatty who shares her home with Dughall McCormick. What are you doing Scatty? Are you camping?
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Today’s cat photograph is of Pushkin, who passed away in February. As he grew older, he used to forget to put his tongue away after he had a wash. I know it wasn’t very kind of us, but we used to laugh at him;
it was impossible not to, really.
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Cats like to help people do things. In the morning, Cosmo is at his most friendly and he really enjoys helping me get ready. I have explained several times that I can do it by myself, but he insists.
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It’s always a worry, trying to integrate a new cat or cats into a household. It takes time, but I think this photograph really shows that first Malteser (rescued Easter 2010) and then Willow and Rosie (adopted December 2010) have really settled in. John and I are even thinking that a new kitten is just what they all need to keep them all young and lively.
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John and I have been bringing our belongings back home after over 2 years in storage. We lifted the mattress off our bed to put the Christmas decorations underneath and Cosmo naturally jumped up because he always likes to view the world from as high a position as possible.
This picture also presents an opportunity to admire our door-less wardrobe. There’s still a lot of DIY to do at Joyce Villas.
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Lynne McBoyle lives in Scotland and I think she likes to travel a lot. I posted a picture she sent me of a cat at Giverny in France earlier this week and we have also seen a Siberian Tiger from Las Vegas.
This pensive feline is from Argentina, where Lynne photographed it at Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.
Thanks so much Lynne, I have some more of your pictures to show between now and the end of the year.
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The birds are gathering ready to migrate. We also have a number of juvenile seagulls around our neighbourhood at the moment. For a couple of days now, Willow and Cosmo have been sitting on the landing windowsill in the early morning, watching and doing their best impressions of tweeting birds.
If you’ve never heard it, you might not believe me that cats will ‘chatter’ and make other odd noises while watching birds. I am trying to get a sound recording and if I can, I will prove it to you some time soon.
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