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KITTY!

Although they tend to look no different from last week's photos, this will NOT stop me from posting yet more kitteny soft pictures!

In taking these photographs, it has become increasingly, and frustratingly, apparent that this kitten has absolutely no desire to be photographed, at least in the face. Add to this a very slow-to-react digital camera, and most of the shots wind up being either of his little pink emergency exit as he runs away, or even worse, nothing at all--an empty chair, an empty flower pot, an empty spot on the ground. I'm thinking I should probably get some plastic zip ties and attach him to various places until I get a good shot of him.

UNTIL THEN, here is your weekly ration of toocuteness:

Okay, well, there is ONE way to get a shot of his mug--have the other Cat hold him still. Yes, I know how to hold a cat, and YES, Catherine has been instructed numerous times about how to hold a cat, but he was fidgeting and squirming and rolling and desperately trying to get down in order to chase an imaginary leaf, so please excuse her technique. And you have to admit, it IS better than zip-tieing him to a log.

Once down, he goes into full stalk and pounce mode. Here he is checking out an imaginary something or other--

And here he is after he found an imaginary something that scared him witless. (He spends most of his time bowing up at things, hopping around, and running away at top speed, then coming back and bowing up again.)

Sometimes, he will be still--usually when he's into something he doesn't quite understand, such as this stack of flower tray bottoms. He couldn't quite figure out why they moved around so much. But it has the effect of making him be more still than usual

Okay, now--this will have to do you for two weeks!

Oh, all right--here's an extra one to help you make it through:

All together now--"Awwwwwww!"

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 23, 2006 08:16 AM