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posted by [personal profile] astarte at 02:32am on 27/11/2005 under
Charmax demanded some cat pics a while ago and I finally came around to play the new ones onto my laptop and a selection of older ones over the course of this year, because Joy is just more pretty outside than lounging around lazy in the house. The only chance to get a good pic of Storm is near the food, so bathroom it was and Rico, the cat from my parents is obviously the king of the garden. And Dean is an all-places opportunist, so here we go:

My parents cat and the oldest in the bunch, the pose alone justifies why my mom tends to call him Elvis sometimes:





Joy playing huntess of the lost mice in this, she looks all eager, doesn't she? Unlucky for her, it was just for the camera, there wasn't anything worth her attention near:











Storm is a bit of our problem cat, she has still major trust issues, it's either cuddle attack or fleeing from her. Guess even cats don't forget, when they were abused early on, on the other hand Joy freaked the first months when you reached for her with an open hand and she got over it eventually, so there's still hope:











And now our newest addition, the rebell without a cause and the one, who capped our telephone line today, bite through the cable for good, but had the decency to leave us the internet for the weekend:













Mood:: 'happy' happy
Music:: Discovery Channel - hunting leopards are fast...
There are 28 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] evil-trisha.livejournal.com at 01:36am on 27/11/2005
*runs cos of possible alargic reaction* *haatschiii* :p

so sweet.. esp. the last one :D
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 01:49am on 27/11/2005
He's a darling, isn't he... I mean apart from biting through cables, frazzle post into tiny pieces and driving the other two mad with chasing them, is he the poster cat of sweetness! *big smirk*

*gives out some tissues*
 
posted by [identity profile] evil-trisha.livejournal.com at 02:15am on 27/11/2005
ah yes, they are young and like to play.. and to destroy *sigh*

*takes tissue and sneezes* thanks! I should really come over that fuking alergi- I love cats.. and everything! but I can't stand to be in a room with them longer then 10 minutes! :/ ..
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 10:26pm on 27/11/2005
This still sucks, I can't imagine living without cats, the two years between my childhood cat's passing and me getting Joy and Shy were just boring to put it mildly. You come home and no cat there to give you the feeling that you totally neglected your owner duties or the mask of false innocent and you wonder, what they did now. Or just cuddling up to you and give you the feeling, that you were missed! *grin*
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 03:23am on 27/11/2005
How adorable are these pics. I am totally in love with your new kitten he is totally gorgeous. He has obviously been practicing that inscrutable squinting pose.

Storm is a very striking looking cat. I have a soft spot for neglected cats that come good.

Joy reminds me of a female version of one of my mother-in-law's cats. I think it is the black smudge on the nose. I am very jealous that she lets you take photos of her climbing trees and stalking etc. My cats always stop doing anything interesting as soon as I point a camera at them. My cat pics consist of "The cats asleep" and "the cats pretending to be asleep but actually having one eye open".

Oh and I hope for your sake that Rico isn't as psychotic as he looks cos that seems like one mean old cat. lol

Thanks for posting them, cat pics always brighten my day. :D
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:32pm on 27/11/2005
Dean really is a natural talent in the inscrutable pose, he can abuse your leg as tree and still look totally innocent while you snag him up, so that you forget your tirade and just cuddle him. He plays the kitty card to no extend and not only with the humans, but Storm and Joy as well, but they aren’t as easily fooled. *grin*

Storm is a beauty, but she is the one, who still unnerves me after three years, because she looks at you sometimes, like you’re about to beat her with total fear in her eyes and that is hard to watch. It’s getting less and less frequent and I think Dean does her some good, because she is really warming up to the rebel and gets overall more secure. We never got to know her story, she was found in a box with her siblings, but the woman from the private animal shelter said, that she hadn’t one so frighten and disturbed cat in a while and was pretty much at the point where she gave up hope, that she would find a home, reason why we took her.

Joy and Shy were both also found in a box next to the river with their siblings and the reason they survived was because whoever threw the box didn’t threw it far enough to land in the river. Really I can’t understand such treatment of animals, why don’t go to the animal shelter and just give them away? Dean’s former owner was a farmer and he said that he had enough cats for his property and so he made an announcement in the newspaper, simple as that and it worked, he only got one other sibling at the time my boyfriend took Dean and I’m pretty sure, she is already placed in another home.

Well, Rico is a bit psychotic, but most of the time he is just bored, so yeah, you have to read his moods to avoid scratches.

About Joy’s camera pose, she gives me the why do you even bother to take pictures here?’-look, whenever I get out the camera at home and does the same thing, as your cats, stop doing whatever adorable thing she is doing and outside she is just more interested in anything else beside the camera.*grin*
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 01:49am on 28/11/2005
I am always baffled that people can just abandon animals rather than take them to a shelter. I know what you mean about seeing fear in the eyes of an abused pet. I will never know what happened to Buff to make him so terrified of male voices - it is probably as well that I don't know given how angry I was when i caught some of the local demon children throwing stones at him!
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 03:36am on 28/11/2005
Animal abuse is one of the few things that make me go instantly ballistic and I don't care, if the evildoer is a child, adult or an elder, they get ripped a new one for this. Also doesn't matter, if the deed is ten or twenty years old and someone tells me about his/her childhood adventures of 'beat the dog', these things bound to change my perspective of a person into terms of utter negative. If you can't respect an animal, then I can't respect you, it's one of the simple truths of my life.

And I'm sure, you don't want to know, what lies in Buff's past, because I think, you would feel the need to hunt the culprit down and go old testament on him - a kick for a kick!
 
posted by [identity profile] messyjessie58.livejournal.com at 04:00am on 27/11/2005
awww your cats are so cute :D and a few of the pictures are especially awsome
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:33pm on 27/11/2005
Thank you, Jessie! *biggrin*
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 04:31am on 27/11/2005
Astarte this is OT - would you please join me in a [livejournal.com profile] art_battle? *pleading eyes* lol
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:35pm on 27/11/2005
You really want to kick my ass six ways to Sunday? Okay, challenge accepted, but you have to clue me in the fine print of art battles and chose the volley themes... *goes off to join the comm*
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 02:08am on 28/11/2005
'You really want to kick my ass six ways to Sunday?'

hahaha I don't think that's likely! :P

How about we do 12 volleys? This means we actually make 6 images. I choose 3 and you choose 3. I'm thinking we both choose something because that will make it fairer.

All we have to do is decide, and then I’ll post and ask you to do battle.

My choices (Open to change)

Volley 1+2 Any Christmas episode from a show of your choice
Volley 3+4 A Christmas movie of your choice
Volley 5+6 Any celeb male or female with wings
Volley 7+8 your choice
Volley 9+10 your choice
Volley 11+12 your choice

Volleys must be under 1024x768
You don't have to stick with the festive theme if you don't want to. ;D

Did you understand all that mumbling? lol
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 03:21am on 28/11/2005
Okay, hopefully I got it right, each of us makes 6 arts, if you challenge me and I accept, you have to post first? And you really didn’t make a choice here, so pick your female celeb and a movie…

Volley 1+2 Veronica Mars 1x10 An Echolls Family Christmas
Volley 3+4 A Christmas movie (We have to pick one before? The only one that comes to mind is ‘Die hard’ and somehow I doubt, that was your intention…)
Volley 5+6 Any celeb male or female with wings
Volley 7+8 Supernatural
Volley 9+10 (Femme) Slash manipulation
Volley 11+12 Lost het couple

Format 800x600?
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 03:30am on 28/11/2005
I love your choices! :D And what I meant for celeb and movie - it is totally your choice. You make what you want and I make what I want. As long as the celeb has wings and the movie is a festive one then it's fine. So you want 'Die Hard' and I'll have something else... fuck knows what yet...

Hmm 800x600 is good for me and if you want to go first then that's good too! :D



 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 03:35am on 28/11/2005
Oh and on each volley you must put -
charmax vs. astartexx
And the volley number
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 03:41am on 28/11/2005
Alrighty, everything is set then? You post first, doesn’t mean I can’t work on mine in the meantime and I will add the charmax vs. astartexx with each round number… So let the ass-kicking begin!
 
posted by [identity profile] charmax.livejournal.com at 03:43am on 28/11/2005
Ok doing now...
 
posted by [identity profile] bunnythenavia.livejournal.com at 06:33am on 27/11/2005
*makes squee noises* eee pretty cats :)

Z.
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:36pm on 27/11/2005
Toda, Zohar! *bounce*
 
posted by [identity profile] haltlos.livejournal.com at 02:02pm on 27/11/2005
They're so cute! *cuddles cats*
*gg*
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:38pm on 27/11/2005
As long as you don't steal them, you can cuddle them all you want... *laughs*
 
posted by [identity profile] nairie.livejournal.com at 11:47pm on 27/11/2005
OMG I like the rebell!
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 11:57pm on 27/11/2005
Heh! He's currently sleeping behind my laptop and purring - too cute!
 
posted by [identity profile] 4lyn-angel.livejournal.com at 12:14am on 28/11/2005
aww wie süß!
Der schwarz-weiße ist niedlich, und die rot-weiße erst *sighs*
Ich bin ein hoffnungsloser Katzenfan... *g

Hab grad eine Mail erhalten dass du meiner Community beitreten willst (was mich riesig freut), aber würde es dir etwas ausmachen die Community nur nochmal zu frienden?
Weil sonst komme ich total durcheinander was Mitglieder, Leser, Betreiber usw. betrifft *gg
Ich hoff ich mach keine Umstände ;)

Liebe Grüße,
Dana :)
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 12:41am on 28/11/2005
Klar kein Problem, mach ich sofort und ich werde dir dann mal entsprechend Feedback für die Icons dalassen, wenn ich in etwas schreibwütiger Stimmung bin! Nur nicht heute... *gähn*
 
posted by [identity profile] colour-me-sassy.livejournal.com at 01:30am on 06/12/2005
Oh my goodness they are adorable. Your kitten is so cute! :D
 
posted by [identity profile] astartexx.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 06/12/2005
Thanks, Sassy! He really is a thing of pure cuteness!

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