This is for everyone, but especially for you RPCA folk who enrolled
last year in the Mooch Fan Club. The club is dedicated to our little
tuxie stray who shows up on our veranda for as many as four meals a
day, and in our Canadian winters sleeps in a special chair we've rigged
with blankets and a heating pad we turn on every evening.

Recently Mooch has become less skittish when we go on the veranda with
his food and water. In my case he'll circle around my legs talking to
me - but never comes within touching distance. Except once, when he
turned his back to me. Experimentally I reached down and gently stroked
his side. Startled, be retreated a few feet but returned to the food
immediately after I went inside.

Encouraged by this, the next day when I fed him I took my digital
camera. Until then all my photos of him had been through windows. I
slowly crouched down and took several shots. He looked up, but he
didn't run. Elated, I went inside and checked the pictures. Several
were blurry from movement, but a couple were steady and clear.

I took one photo and zoomed in on his pretty face with Photoshop. I
e-mailed it to "Flippy" in Australia, who had kindly posted a couple of
photo-stories about Mooch on her great kitty website. I suggested that
she replace one of the photos with this new closeup, and she has done
so.

So now, like Norma Desmond in the movie "Sunset Boulevard",  you can
see Mooch ready for his closeup!

http://www.flippyscatpage.com/moochsecurity.html