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Cruxxed Up posted:Jasper thus far refuses to be anything more than a black blob with my stupid cameraphone, so until I find the real camera, here is Valentine with his ridiculous bat ears. Holy poo poo, those ears!!  . This is awesome.
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Elotana posted:The only trick to photographing black cats is a shitload of light. Pretty much. I did finally get a pretty good picture of Layla because she decided to lay down in front of the window for 10 seconds.  Layla by jg zkc, on Flickr By far the best shot I've been able to get.
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Saw this cat on Cats Protection North London's Facebook page: Look at those eyes!
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Talbot making sure it's not lunchtime yet. (A cat has to know these things...)
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marshmallard posted:Saw this cat on Cats Protection North London's Facebook page: Jesus H Christ if ever I get any money I'm going to have to block Cats Protection or else I'm going to adopt everything 
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My roommate's boy, Zeus. He's friendly and fearless. He loves high places and spends most afternoons snoozing on top of the kitchen cabinets.  He's always ready to play, especially with catnip toys.  When my nieces come over, my cat runs and hides, and Zeus comes bounding out all like, "Oh hells yes! You guys wanna play pirates?"  He likes to lounge on the couch and watch TV with us. HGTV is his favorite channel, but he likes Animal Planet too.  Sometimes the cats stop chasing each other up and down the hallway long enough to pose for a photo.
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Trin Tragula posted:Jesus H Christ if ever I get any money I'm going to have to block Cats Protection or else I'm going to adopt everything I definitely have this problem. I follow my local branch on Facebook and every time they post a cat that needs a home I'm like waaaaaaaant But it's worth following them because they also post stuff like this GORGEOUS 9-year-old cat who needs an inner ear operation, so I'm helping them raise donations for her.
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This is Chaplin. He was rescued the same day we picked up our poly-cat. He reached his paw through the cage and patted my husband on the back, and upon noticing the euthanasia order stuck to his cage for the next day, we had to take him. He'd been there for 4 months; since he was 5 weeks old. He'd been chased under a car and into the engine compartment, where he burned all the hair and a lot of skin off his head, leaving him prone to seizures for the next few months. Because he'd been in a cage for so long, his feet are splayed and he sashays rather than walks, so he became Chaplin. 
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Dust Radio posted:This is Chaplin. He was rescued the same day we picked up our poly-cat. He reached his paw through the cage and patted my husband on the back, and upon noticing the euthanasia order stuck to his cage for the next day, we had to take him. He'd been there for 4 months; since he was 5 weeks old. He'd been chased under a car and into the engine compartment, where he burned all the hair and a lot of skin off his head, leaving him prone to seizures for the next few months. Because he'd been in a cage for so long, his feet are splayed and he sashays rather than walks, so he became Chaplin. Jesus loving christ, this is simultaneously the saddest and happiest thing I've ever read. gently caress I think I'm going to cry. Please post more pics of Chaplin being happy 
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marshmallard posted:Jesus loving christ, this is simultaneously the saddest and happiest thing I've ever read. He hasn't had a seizure since we brought him home in August.  Here's his happy herpderp face as he contemplates jumping up to get sockbaby. Sockbaby is any sock he can get a hold of. He carries them around the house until he finds someone - cat or person, doesn't matter - then lays down by them and growls with sockbaby in his mouth. He always makes sure he has an audience first. He LOVES sockbaby. (cross posted on 'you look like an idiot' thread)  Dust Radio fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Feb 22, 2012 |
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Feb 21, 2012 22:08
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I found an old crappy cell phone picture I took of my Cash like 2 days after I got him from the shelter He's more ok with me using the computer instead of petting him now.
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I miss having a cat. I hate you guys now for having cats while I am stuck with a the stubborn little corgi that my roommate decided we needed. It's okay though, I still love, Rusty 
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Oh god I am so excited, I am going to roll onto this thread and vomit my excitement. I just recently moved literally across the country, from California to Illinois (3 day drive in a UHaul with my kitty, who behaved like a loving champion, thank goodness) to a new place with rules about pet ownership that aren't awful. My last place, I paid an extra $500 deposit on top of $20 more per month for my one cat, and then to get a second cat, they wanted to charge me another $500 (so $1500 deposit total) and another $20/month which I just couldn't swing at the time. Well I got a fantastic new job and I love my new place and they totally let you get two cats here on the same pet deposit and no pet rent! So I've been looking around for options thinking I'd just casually see what's around here, well, I'm sure you all know, don't actually go looking at your options until you're definitely ready to adopt because once you see the cat you want you will not be able to force yourself to wait another few weeks or whatever. This is Boo! http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/20791961 I have an appointment to meet him tomorrow, the wonderful lady who is fostering him is going to bring him to the local pet place so I can meet him and hopefully fill out an application. He's 4 years old and originally from a home with many other cats, and my cat has always gotten along well with other animals of all sorts, so I'm not anticipating too many introduction problems. I have a big bathroom downstairs I can use for new cat quarantine for a bit as well. I know he isn't mine yet but ahhhhh I've wanted a second cat for so long and I feel like this is the first real step into my new life even though I've already been out here for a month and kdfjlasdf wordvomit here. Here is a bonus picture of my parents' black cat that we found under a dumpster 13 years ago and summarily took home with us (and who I miss terribly), Clyde:  And though my current cat is not a black cat I am going to post her too because I want to. Her name is Celeste, and hopefully soon I will have pictures of her and Boo together 
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Every picture I try to take of Emilio ends up looking like this: edit: ...And here is he is in total abject misery: 
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Feb 22, 2012 22:15
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/\/\/\/\ Sir, it appears your cat has
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Feb 22, 2012 22:26
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Nietzsche:   Black cats are the best cats.
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Well, I thought I had just got a black kitten, but then he phased out of this plane of existence. 
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Feb 22, 2012 23:33
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Cat adoption has been successful so far    
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elzie posted:Cat adoption has been successful so far That's great to hear. On the second night of owning my two black cats, one of them got super verklempt at my absence for a few hours, so he vacated his bowels right on the pillows of my perfectly-made bed. That was the only time either of them has misbehaved. These are my two lumps, Frups (aka big kitty) and Samantha (little kitty). The rescue insisted that they come as a pair only, and I couldn't refuse. Their names were originally Radio and Stereo, which didn't make any sense to me. They may look fat, but they were fatter when I got them a few years ago in cages.     This is Frups when he wants food/nip/treats. He just writhes around forever.  In the sunlight, they look like coffee-brown glowing cats.     Black cats are superior.
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How do you tell them apart? I know three quarters of this thread is just dying to ask (once it got over the inevitable "wait wait who stole my cat and took a picture of it in a strange house?" reaction that comes along every time someone posts something new), so I'll do that for all of us.
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Trin Tragula posted:How do you tell them apart? Behavior and skull size. Since my floors are basically black, though, the question "Which cat is this?" gets asked as often as "What time is it?" Aside from that, Frups is my best friend while Samantha only wants to lick your shirt or grumble.
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Feb 23, 2012 21:33
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Trin Tragula posted:How do you tell them apart? I know three quarters of this thread is just dying to ask (once it got over the inevitable "wait wait who stole my cat and took a picture of it in a strange house?" reaction that comes along every time someone posts something new), so I'll do that for all of us.  Also usually there will be slight differences in coloring. One of mine has a smoky ruff and a white spot on his belly and looks much more brown in the sun.
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Trin Tragula posted:How do you tell them apart? I know three quarters of this thread is just dying to ask (once it got over the inevitable "wait wait who stole my cat and took a picture of it in a strange house?" reaction that comes along every time someone posts something new), so I'll do that for all of us. Here's my Samson and Emilio from the 1st page:  We're lucky since both of them are pretty different eventhough they're both 100% black. Samson is much bigger, slightly longer haired, has a big poofy male face, and has yellow constantly half open eyes. Emilio is very small and slender, fine haired, huge HUGE big round orange eyes. And it's no joke, besides when he's sleeping, those huge eyes are always wide open.
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I absolutely adore my black cat and I am so glad that others realize just how sweet they are in general. My orange tabby was full of psychosis and raw hate. My black kitty just wants love and food and naps.
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JollityFarm posted:Excuse me but I'd like my cat and bedding back, thanks. Actually on second thought, you can keep the cat, what a little jerk!
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 My new little buddy. Or well, he's not mine, he's my friends, I just happen to be living with him and my own cat. Black cats are ninjas. Pipboy and Batman, they've learned to eat from their respective bowls...   ...at least for a couple of minutes before they switch and start eating each others food. I can't believe I have to separate these two brocattes less then a week from now, when I go back home. They've been so adorable.
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Hello, fellow black cat havers! This is Hamlet, who I adopted a few weeks ago.   He's a bit of a chore, though, because I work nights, so when I'm awake the house is dark, and I have a dark couch, and a very large desk that is black on the bottom, so much of my time is spent asking my dog where the cat is. She usually knows.
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Last night I got up at about 3 to get some water from downstairs. When I got downstairs, Alli wasn't curled up in her usual spot on the couch, and I couldn't hear her, so I got confused  . I was about to shrug it off, when I got this weird irrational feeling of being hunted, like I was in a Predator movie.Picture me, a full grown man, creeping nervously through the house, warily on the lookout for a 7 pound cat. Not in the kitchen, not in the laundry room, not in her litter box . . . odd . . . let's just the get the water and go back upstairs  , OK turn arou-FUCKSHITASS - she had snuck up behind me from the stairs. Apparently she was upstairs and I had just walked right past her without seeing her.Kitty doesn't want to be fed, kitty wants to hunt. Last week, right after my girlfriend woke up, she went out into the loft. The cat was standing about ten feet away, but against a dark blue background. My girlfriend's vision is so bad without her glasses that she could only see the cat when she opened her mouth.
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What's that crinkling noise behind my desk? Oh, it's just you, little cat. 
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kuskus posted:What's that crinkling noise behind my desk? It appears to be The Nothing in a box.
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Elotana posted:The only trick to photographing black cats is a shitload of light.  Yup! Seems right! This is our cat Lily. She used to be a lot blacker when we first found her, she's getting on in years now. She was a stray in the city I lived in when I was in elementary school, we took her in on Easter weekend which is how she got the name. She was pregnant when we found her, gave birth to a calico girl (Swee'pea), a black-with-rust-spots kitten girl (Rusty), and a multi-colored black/white/grey/ boy (Runt). We gave away Rusty right away to a friend of my parents, Runt to a different family after we realized we couldn't handle having that many cats, and Swee'pea after it became clear that she had urinary problems we weren't prepared to take care. A friend of the vet took her in. She's 12 years old now, and despite my dad's insistence that she constantly receives food, she's kept slim due to her instincts telling her to ration her food out the best she can.
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Sam is my bear-cat. He LOVES FEET. If you are sitting he will rub all over your feet. It is weird. He's the friendliest derpy cat ever. He was at a rescue with a bunch of other kitties and he was the chillest dude there. The rescue lady said he'd been there for over a year, because he was really scared when he was tiny and cute, so he hid in the back. By the time he grew out of it, he was too old to get any attention. I love him (but I tell him no one loves him, I am so mean.)    Sam has the prettiest green eyes. Most black cats I've seen have yellow ones, it really made him stand out. The hair on the insides of his ears is white but he doesn't have a white patch.  Here he is with his fluffy partner Max. (also to show off how huge he is.) Sam is technically her cat, since I picked him up specifically to give her a friend. He is twice her size and she still beats him up, I have no idea. My favorite thing about him is probably his broken meower. His voice is really high pitched and squeaky, and he is a big talker. Guests think it's hilarious. mistaya fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Mar 4, 2012 |
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mistaya posted:Sam is my bear-cat. He LOVES FEET. If you are sitting he will rub all over your feet. It is weird. He's the friendliest derpy cat ever. My black kitty, Talbot, squeaks as well. He has given maybe four real meows that I've heard ever. So cute
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This is Jason. We got him at our local Humane Society about 4 years ago. We weren't looking for a black cat, or any "kind" of cat for that matter but at the shelter we met him and decided he's the one. Black cats are so chill and awesome. Now that I know how hard they are to place I would absolutely get another in the future. He's the most loving cat I've ever known. He's particularly attached to me (our other cat prefers my husband). He has to follow me around from room to room in our house but rarely gets in the way. Until he decides its time for cuddles. Then he's relentless in his pursuit of pets and scratches. He also loves water. His favorite time of the day is when I shower. He loves to watch me and sometimes jump in to play. So much so that they other day I came home a little early from work. And as I was making my way to the bathroom he heard me and came running. He was in the box at the time taking a dump and literally dropped what he was doing to join me. He darted past me to the master bath leaving a trail of turdlets in his wake. 
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mistaya posted:I don't have any good pictures of him on it (or of how absolutely coated it is with his and Heisenberg's hair), but I do have a prime picture showcasing just how destructive he can be with the things he loves.  There was a recognizable toy on the end of that string less than a week prior. He also tore off the dangly-ball from the cat tree by the end of the third day that we had it. And, one more shot just for good measure. 
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Black cats. SO REGAL.   FYI these are all Arthur because Ford does look pretty composed most of the time.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I don't have any good pictures of him on it (or of how absolutely coated it is with his and Heisenberg's hair), but I do have a prime picture showcasing just how destructive he can be with the things he loves. Oh god, yes. That picture was from the first week or two we owned the cat tree. It isn't beige anymore.  I think the dangly ball lasted 15 minutes. Sam doesn't really swat at things on strings, he grabs the string and gnaws it in half right away. And then attempts to eat the string, because he's suicidal. So yeah, strings are a supervised time only toy. That picture of Arthur in the box is one of my favorite PI pics. It's just so derpy. Story of a chillax black cat: We moved cross country from AZ to NC with Max (the brown/white fluffball.) Rescued Sam in NC, and moved back to AZ the next year. Max needs tranquilizers or she flat out will not ride in a car without meowing nonstop. I gave them to Sam on the first night but he doesn't like treats as much so it's hard to pill him since he won't eat a sneaky pill treat. So I left off the second day and Sam just sat in his carrier and looked out the window for the next 1700 miles, chill as hell, while his poor buddy was stoned out of her mind. (If you want to see the DERPIEST cat, get a pic while they're sleepy from tranqulizers.) mistaya fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Mar 5, 2012 |
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Meet Salem! I know, a black cat names Salem is terrifically clever. He was called that by the woman who was fostering him, and her organization liked you to try and bond with the animal before adoption, so it just seemed weird to change his name after getting to know him as Salem. But since his brother's name was Lord Remington Sassafras, Salem became Sir Salem Spookiville.  He had been with me for three days when this picture was taken. He went from spry little thing to huge hyperactive lump in about four years.  I don't recall why he had his ears back when I snapped this, but he looks like someone just told him a filthy joke.  Both boys on my lap! I lost Remington last July to renal failure. You can see here that Salem's bottom lip is naked. I have no idea why, it's always been nude and suggestive!  And finally, last Christmas. He went with me to my sister's house, and while he hated the drive he adjusted to the new local with surprising ease. He was snoozing next to my arm on Christmas Eve. It hurt to lose Remington, but having Salem there actually helped a lot. He was originally a feral rescue, caught with his mother. She was neutered and released, and he was bottle raised. He's the loudest cat on the planet, talks to himself when there's no one in the room to yell at, like to chew up and spit out paper and cardboard, and sucks on his feet when he's happy. He loved tape and licking it off of his fur, and he gets ridiculously excited when I make the bed-- he helps me by attacking the sheet and the blankets. I love that little weirdo! LemonWitch fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 6, 2012 |
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