Cats, cats, cats

"Iz mai tuna. Git yer own, you %&%*#@!" (Ms. Girl Cat, and her erstwhile brother, Mr. Boy Cat.

After a great deal of thought, and getting to know the cats.

IDK what their Cat names are but their 'real' Human names are: Zasu Kitts and Bongo, though I'll often call him Pete (after Jsmes Dean's "Pete the Cat" picture books) Bongo considers me his human, while Zasu owns my husband.

Muffy, my little shoe fashionista!

Zasu

Bongo

Muffy

Muffy is one of our four cat babies, along with Quincy, Leo, and JJ. Breakfast in my house is hilarious as each cat gets a different wet food - kitten, adult, senior and urinary. Trying to keep each eating from the right bowl is FUN!

Eesh. Ms. Girl Cat is, in theory, on diet food, but Mr. Boy Cat has a decidedly cavalier attitude toward food. Oh, well. The whole point was to get her to lose weight, and I suspect that chasing Mr. Boy Cat when he looks at her funny will help with that.

Well dear MommaCat you manage to get Der Rosenkavalier in on one thread and a cat with a cavalier attitude in on another, is this a first?

I swear I didn't plan that conjunction. But I'll take that tiger-striped Marschallin as a putative avatar.

Good thought! Well I just had to find out so I have trawled the net and find that we are both wrong it is Don Carlos Act II ! They are by Susan Herbert (1945-2014). She did ballet cats as well.

Here is Manon Lescaut

and Carmen

I tracked down the Don Carlos image on website of Chris Beetles' art gallery in London. Chris Beetles specialities (among others) include cats and cartoons.

Many years ago when I was living in London I visited Chris Beetles. It was 1990 and I was meeting a friend there to attend an exhibition of art by the famous cat-painting artist Lesley Ann Ivory. Hadn't thought of it in years!

Hope you enjoyed the opera.

HAHAHAHAHA!

We have a drop leaf desk close to our heat vent. The bottom part is shelves for books. We had to remove them so our cat could huddle on the bottom shelf with the heat blowing right on her. If you want to find the warmest place in a house, look for the cat.

GG, that is an adorable shot of your cat. Are her paws crossed over her chest?

We had a cat that would put his tummy against the floorboards in the summer before the AC was turned on. When he warmed a spot up he would move on down the wall. That's when I knew to turn on the AC.

GG that photo is puddle-of-love inducing - I just melted!