Cats, cats, cats

BLMike - your Sheila is beautiful! And so helpful with the household dieting rules haha

FF wonderful photos of Elliot and Alannah - gorgeous kitties both. Love the stretchy kitty

Lovely cat photos, everyone. Thanks!

So true. Felix is looking at my just now. It is the look "you know I want something, so get off the computer and do it." Now she is walking in to stare at cat daddy since I am not moving fast enough.

Spookie soooo true.

Cute picture, Together!

It’s been a long time since I posted on this thread but I visit occasionally. I want to share this picture my dd took of her cat. dd’s neighbor couldn’t take care of Bella anymore and dd agreed to keep her. Bella is obese due to neglect and dd is helping her get healthy. I think this is the coolest picture.

TogethertoLearn: Nope, she must be well-hidden.

Wonderland: Poor Bella. At least her shadow is skinny! Nice that your DD took her in.

Oh wow, she's made real progress!

Here's my lap right this second, this is Stevie.

Bella was truly enormous when your DD took her in. She is probably a lot more comfortable now. Getting a really heavy cat to lose weight healthily is a real task. Good for your DD to take it on. I'll bet she was over 20lbs in the beginning.

Wonderland kuddos to your DD for taking that cool photo and definitely for taking care of Bella!

Edj - Stevie is stunning for sure

Together if there is one piece of clean laundry laid down in my house someone is on it haha

Mr. Squeakers was named for his little squeaks instead of meows. In the last couple of weeks, he has started meowing a lot. It's interspersed with vocalizations that sound like he's trying to talk. I'm trying to get a video while he's doing it but he doesn't like to be photographed. He sounds like a kitty version of a Basenji (we fostered a 1/2 Basenji dog for the shelter). I'm going to mention it to the vet to see if they think it's significant. I tried making similar sounds and he replied.

Never fails come nice weather, this little community cat loves to sleep in my pots. I’ve been feeding her for six or seven years now. Can you tell the birds come to finish what she doesn’t finish

KathinDC where did you get the kitty cat seeds? hahaha

That is too cute

I love it.

Wren this is not an answer to your concern about Squeakers and you are right to mention it to the vet to be sure that there is not a medical issue.

What you said just reminded me DH bought me this book at Christmas

While very interesting it is not a quick and easy read. The author was a speech expert so even though it's written for the layperson its still quite scientific. She is a professor from Sweden who began research, applying phonetic methods, into cat vocalisations. She has 5 cats, that's what led her to this interest. One thing her research demonstrated was that cats will modify their vocalisations and can imitate their owners voices and develop private languages with them.