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.

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

I have a little collection of pictures of Scatty who shares her home with Dughall McCormick. What are you doing Scatty? Are you camping?

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.

Lynne McBoyle has just returned from a trip to France which made me seethe with envy. Among the places she visited was Monet’s home at Giverny, where she snapped this photograph of a cat enjoying the sunshine. Thanks Lynne, I really appreciate you thinking of me and my daft little cat-blog; it’s a gorgeous picture.

Barney, the enormous, mad, vicious, girl-eating attack-cat lives with and terrorises Jessie, who used to be in my German class. She chose this picture to send me because it shows his awesome fangs, dripping with her blood. *Shiver*

A change from my usual fare. A paradox to ponder.

My friend Alex has important visitors at his school today and I imagine it has been a day of tension, with another to follow tomorrow.

Perhaps Aeryn the rescue cat has tiptoed up to him for a quiet friendly moment, and perhaps she has helped him relax and prepare for what the next 18 hours will bring. 

Or maybe she has just been snoring near a radiator and has ignored him; one would be unwise to rely on a cat.

Ella the tabby is my first Northern Irish cat. She lives with Amanda Salt and her family in Belfast. Ella was found as a 4-month-old kitten abandoned at Amanda’s school and no-one came forward to claim her, so Amanda brought her home. Look how beautifully and smartly she is posing for this pretty photograph!