Daily Photo: Out the Door

I only heard rustling and never saw the critter that held five black cats’ complete physical and emotional attention. Even though you can only see four sets of ears Jelly Bean is in the shadows and no matter how many photos I took I couldn’t get the silhouettes of five sets of ears. I counted at least six full seconds that no one moved, not a tail swish, not an ear flick, not a whisker twitch, just the energy of five black cats focused on…something.

I had an interesting thought while watching them. Were they watching the thing with intellectual interest, or were they thinking of dinner? I could imagine myself looking at food that I enjoyed eating, thinking about how good it would be, and there it was right in front of me. Were they salivating at the thought of what was probably a chipmunk?

That is my guess because Mimi is in the middle of the group, and she rather likes chipmunks. Not as friends. When she lived primarily outdoors and fed her kittens outside she raided the neighborhood for chipmunks, including my garden. I guess for the effort and feeding four hungry kittens and herself a slightly larger chipmunk is a better use of energy than a mouse or vole.

And seven years ago today she was just about to deliver those four big fuzzballs into this world. Their seventh birthday is July 26, and Mimi’s Homecoming Day, and the day they all arrived here, is July 29. Mimi is spayed and has her loving forever home, and her children never spent a day outdoors. But they can dream about being the big bad hunters.

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What photos did I post on this date in previous years?

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Oh, That’s Where I Left My Pile of Cats, 2013

Of course, I left them in my studio! I should have known, everything ends up on that table.

Especially when I’m trying to work and they need some attention.

I love how they always do things together, just like in today’s vintage photo from their kittenhood. Bean is in the box, and it’s about the same size as the one all four were in in The Messy Playroom! My how they’ve grown. Aside from Bean, the big guy here stretched out in the front is Giuseppe, couterclockwise it’s Mimi, Mewsette and Mr. Sunshine.

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Carefully Keeping Watch, 2012

Look closely and you’ll see the profile of a cat.

Giuseppe quietly rests on the windowsill while I work in my studio. He’s actually behind the computer monitor and so quiet I didn’t notice him at first.

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In the Tub: 2011

Mewsette and Mr. Sunshine spent the other day in the tub to get some respite from the heat, though they still cuddled together. I guess you can’t get any two or more of these black cats together that they don’t manage to cuddle.

And apparently they made a deal.

“I’ll wash behind your ears,” said Mewsette…

“And I’ll wash behind yours!” answered Mr. Sunshine.

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