el mogertos

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Stv is a Man with a Camera, and takes dashed nice photos. Before he & jo buggered off to Thailand, he spent an afternoon pursuing our feline quartet around the house with infinite patience, resulting in a bunch of rather good pics which I here inflict on you in default of being able to think up anything better to post about. The first one is feeding time, with a colour-coded ranking of the rear elevation of all four cats, in strict hierarchical order (Fish, as the broad base of the pyramid, is very much Top Cat). The particularly beautifully-composed Todal is a timely reminder of her glory days, before we loaned her out as a blood donor, an experience from which she returned with her chest all shaved so the vampiric vet could get at her jugular. Alas, even the vibrant and hyperactive nature of Toad-blood was insufficient to save the sick cat, who turned out to have feline leukaemia as well as tick-bite fever.



This extreme Ounce close-up is something of a rarity, usually he's too neurotic for anyone to get that close. I darkly suspect Stv was disguised as a bush, tree, food bowl or Evil Landlord for several hours before this shot was possible.