Cat Photo Thread!
and by photo, I mean photos you have taken of a cat or cats. And by cat(s), I mean a photo of any animal. 
Neighbor's cat trying to catch a bird.
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Really nice shot.
I don't have any cats or pets at all but I have some wild critters that hang out around my house. Took this during the spring:
The one standing up moved just as I snapped the photo.
She likes tight spaces.
Sorry for lack of focus; I was running to catch him/her!
Family pets don't live with me, and I don't have pics of them yet and I'm really sorry,
because they include chickens! and dogs and cats and fishies! 
for critters (mostly squirrels and birds but also deer) in our front yard.
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This cat came into the family along with my daughter in law.
He now rests in peace.
What they give back to us is immeasurable.
fat cat
dingbat
I love my kitties.....some have departed, one is still here. I have posted the one photo that was beautifully done before, so here are some less than perfect ones.
Sasha. She has been gone a long time now. This was shortly before she left us and had to be cropped to remove the sores from her skin cancer.
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And Pudding and Ashes, mom (gray) and son (black). They are also gone.
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And now my current baby, Sammy. He was extremely upset about something, because his tail is not usually fluffed up, but then again, he is not an outdoor cat so who knows what he sensed.
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I got them from the shelter, together with their mother, Rainbow, when they were 4 weeks old. That was last June. Does anyone need a kitty?
He's almost 17. He's just like a furry plant.
Walter White
and
Jessie Ginger
Our dear departed Bretty. He was a handsome boy and a classic tuxedo.
This is our very sweet & spry old teenager, Mimi. She thinks it is all about me-me.
This is Leo. Another handsome cat if I do say and a nice boy (mostly). He replaced Bretty and got along nicely with Mimi for a few years until one day he didn't. Now we have to keep them separate, playing musical cats all day .
I have never had a cat.
My Mom told me that when I was an almost newborn they attached my carriage behind their tandem bike as they were evacuating against the deep flying air attacks on German civilians in the last months of WWII.
She said the problem was always the bird cage with the canary.
She said as they hid in ditches when the planes went over them the cage was always put on top of me.
I actually only learned this a couple of years ago.
I think maybe I somehow remembered that.
I 'annoyed' him away. He fussed at me as he was getting down from the tree. Even did the back leg shake at me.
I love cats. Used to have 2. Both lived to a ripe old age and died within a year of each other. Broke my heart.
What an interesting bit of history! Sounds terrifying though.
That wasn't my intentions. I was thinking about what you wrote and the images just flooded my brain. Those images gave rise to emotion.
No offense.
I get maudlin at times about some of the amazing things that comprise people's lives.
So I shared a tiny bit of mine.
I happen to know that you are familiar with German roads and ditches.
I priced canaries last week: 149 dollars each
No wonder I now have green singing finches.
is neither my cat nor my photo - just my contribution for the sake of a little levity.
Gypsy is our family shepherd, we adore her and I bet you can see why.
They are my neighbor's...but I get to play with them nearly every day 
my cat Garfield. I named him that because of his big eyes. lol
I'm new at posting pictures so I hope this works! What size should pictures be to post here?
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Simba and Mouse. They have both crossed the Rainbow Bridge now and hopefully are together again
as they were great buddies in life. We got them as kittens from the same little old cat lady. They were
born to different litters several days apart, but raised as brothers. Mouse lived to be 14 and crossed
in 2009; Simba left us this past spring at age 17.
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here's my MinMin. He's a Manx.
They aren't really the best of friends, but that was one of the few times they romped around the house and had a great time.
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Even though kitty is up to no good.
Here's one of mine thinking she can sneak up on hummingbirds.
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Over the past 14 months I've lost four of my most senior cats aged 19 to 21 years old. One 18 year old male remains with me today recovering from a recent double surgery. My other younger and very healthy home cats I can enjoy yet but all but three were born between April '01 and August '02 and will now entering their senior years. While the cats were young I liked to photo record their development near monthly but had stopped photographing them when we started suffering the losses. I've been recently considering updating my old cameras with something newer with the priority looking to cat and nature macro photography. Hope to start-up with the photography work this coming spring season.
Here are a few pics of my current middle aged cats.
Daddy
Kittens born 8/6-8/06
Baby Ping
Baby Pong
Baby Pang
Momma Mouse and family
Eve
Yoda
And my spooky Halloween girl! (Even though she wouldn't leave the hibiscus alone...)
Taken with a cell phone camera ... I feel like an imposter in this talented group.
"Please get off of DemocraticUnderground already and play with me" are my guesses.
that came to live with us Feb. 11 before the latest snow storm. He came in, he took over and now rules. Will let him settle before we start making the dogs his subjects along with the other cats and people.
The little leggy Siamese now known as The Feisty Pharaoh Flame with 'Tude aka Pharaoh.
It was him that decided to pose in a way that made me think of the Siamese song in the photo that went into the contest.
Cats generally will not corporate with anything I do to get them to pose for a nice photo. I'm will ignore them and concentrate on posing fruit. Here's an example of a mature Pineapple.
And these little red bananas are good to work with.
Really like the coloring in the blood orange here.
Late in the season Acorn Squash take on the most beautiful colors.
Sorry, I can't keep the Cats away from my photo sets while I work with my sampling of fruits and vegetables.
Perhaps I can learn to photoshop them out of the picture later.