Posts by Jackie Clark
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
Am I the only person in the universe who can't stand her?
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
Helloooo. That's because it's a movie for kids. Please. You people and your inability to suspend disbelief.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to kalypso,
Ah. So that's what it takes to get you lurkers to come out of hiding? Good.
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Although I am very much a dog person at heart, by god these are some fine looking cats.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Jake Pollock,
Is she an Abyssinian?
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Hebe,
That's an apt saying for our boy too, Hebe. We surely did surrender to him.
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And this, this is Genghis. Or Genghis Khan to give him his full nomenclature. He was, without doubt, the most wonderful cat. He was a scrapper, for sure, but he was also one of the most affectionate cats I had ever met. His pedigree was that of feral cat crossed with Siamese, so that says a great deal about who he was. He liked his belly being rubbed, but he was very hard on dogs. We had an English Bull Terrier we had rescued, and he was oft to be found hanging by his claws from her head. He also, when he was a small kitten, used to wait for people or dogs, he didn't care which, to walk by, and would jump on them with his little needle claws. He was very fond of the ladies, and there used to be many a joke that all of the black cats around the area had been sired by him. Because yes, for a long time, he wasn't neutered. (Not my choice, it has to be said). So he went out. A lot. Until one day when he just disappeared, and he didn't come home for about 3 months. We joked that he had gone flatting, but he came back, very sick with the cat flu and requiring a lot of care to get him back to his former glory. From that day forward, when I convinced my husband that it was in Ghengis' best interests to be neutered, he stayed fairly close to home. And then the final indignity, all those years of fighting caught up with him, and he had Feline Aids. If he had not had the cat flu, we were told, he would have survived. But I guess he lived his life on his terms. I was devastated when we had to say goodbye to him, and I can't believe that this is the only photo that we have left of him. But it is.
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I am ashamed to say that, although we have always had cats, I don't have many photos of many of them. This being a dog dominated household for the most part. Toru is our most recent cat. She's about 14, and used to be the bitchcat from hell, but is now a dignified old lady, who requires help to get up on the kitchen bench to eat her bikkies. She's rudely healthy, and extraordinarily affectionate.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
I think that may be the prettiest cat. Ever.
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The happy tram...
