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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2007We're home
We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of pictures here: http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/ I'll tell more about them later. If you want to see lots and lots of gorgeous pictures from the island, check out my niece's pictures at http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/  SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Welcome home! SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: > > http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/ Ohmygawd, Caliban has really gotten big! I remember the little stripey boy you first brought home but it's hard to imagine him that little looking at *this* picture! http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/?action=view&c urrent=IMG_0308.jpg Hugs, CatNipped > I'll tell more about them later. If you want to see lots and lots of > gorgeous pictures from the island, check out my niece's pictures at > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ > Ohmygawd, Caliban has really gotten big! I remember the little stripey boy > you first brought home but it's hard to imagine him that little looking at > *this* picture! > > http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/?action=view&c urrent=IMG_0308.jpg He's my big baby. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Beautiful pictures, it looks like you had a good time. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Beautiful pictures, it looks like you had a good time. Thanks, Adrian, we did. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. hey, welcome back. Glad to hear the furbabies and you had fun. Lily & her mama SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Welcome back! It doesn't seem like you were gone that long. Sorry, that doesn't sound very friendly. :) I just mean that I thought you were going to be on the island all summer. How long were you there? > Lots of pictures here: > http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Oh, boy - looking forward to checking these out! Joyce > Welcome back! It doesn't seem like you were gone that long. Sorry, > that doesn't sound very friendly. :) I just mean that I thought you > were going to be on the island all summer. How long were you there? We were there just over three weeks. The weather wasn't great, it's been a rainy, windy summer, and we have to go by boat to shop for food, and it gets a little tricky. And though most of us can subsist on canned goods, there's a certain little princess who will only eat fresh meat (yes, I mean you, Miranda), and it was a constant worry how I would get enough food for her. So in the end, I decided to bring them home. > Oh, boy - looking forward to checking these out! There's one picture that I took just for you, of the twilight after sunset. The picture is taken due south (in the summer, the sun sets in the northwest). SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: Welcome back Marina! Get some rest and then start writing to tell us all your wonderful adventures. SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Welcome back Marina! Get some rest and then start writing to tell us all > your wonderful adventures. Thanks, Victor. Luckily I wrote up some adventures when they were fresh in my memory, so I just had to cut and paste. :) SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Welcome back! I'll be checking out the goodies, and Claws will be checking out the size of Cal's spare tyre, tomorrow :) Purrs Gordon & the FF >> We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. > > Welcome back! > > I'll be checking out the goodies, and Claws will be checking out the > size of Cal's spare tyre, tomorrow :) Thank you Gordon. I'm afraid Caliban's diet failed miserably while we were on the island, since he would grab every opportunity to sneak into the other cottages and steal other cats' food.I told everyone to throw him out forcefully, to teach him to stay away, but I'm afraid they weren't scary enough to keep him away from FOOD. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Wow. Beautiful picture after beautiful picture! So glad you are back! > Wow. Beautiful picture after beautiful picture! So glad you are back! Thanks you, Karen. The cats seem quite content to be home, too. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. >We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of >pictures here: > >http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/ Even before I read the caption and knew what it was, the close-up of the flower and thorns on the rosebush, was I though, a particularly beautiful picture. It didn't feel as though you were gone as long as you usually are. Did Emil and Caliban have enough time to become buddies? Emil: "I vaguely remember once meeting a nice chap who looked like you, except much scrawnier." Caliban: "Ditto." >> We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of >> pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the flower and thorns on the rosebush, was I though, a particularly > beautiful picture. I was a bit heartbroken when I saw that part of that rosebush had died, but it was a very dry summer last year, and it left its marks. > It didn't feel as though you were gone as long as you usually are. > Did Emil and Caliban have enough time to become buddies? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Caliban: "Ditto." They had enough time, and they did sniff each other from time to time, but mostly they just ignored each other. They are both too easy-going to initiate play, I think. Miranda, on the other hand, is aggressive enough. She would go up to Emil and hiss, then a slap or two, and the chase was on. Sometimes, Emil was the chaser, sometimes Miranda. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Glad to see you back. Were you affected by the flooding over there > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ > Glad to see you back. Were you affected by the flooding over there No flooding here, though the level of the sea water was exceptionally high. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Welcome back Marina. Great shots! Looking forward to hearing all about it. Susan M Otis and Chester > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: > http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Summer%2007/ First of all, **THANK YOU** for the photo of sunset, just for me! It was for me, wasn't it? It had to be, I've talked so much about the twilight way up north in early summer. :) That was really sweet to come across. Kitty photos: I love the ones of Caliban stiding purposefully onto the cliffs. He's a man with a plan. There's a particularly sweet one of Mir in a clump of wildflowers. And the "Kaspar again" photo is a lovely shot. Nice view of the water! Everyone just looked so happy to be there! Hope you enjoyed yourself, too. Did you get a ride from your brother? Joyce > > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > twilight way up north in early summer. :) That was really sweet to > come across. Yes, it was for you. And that is taken from the sky almost opposite to where the sun sets. That's the way it stays for hours, slowly deepening into gloom. > Kitty photos: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Hope you enjoyed yourself, too. Did you get a ride from your brother? Yes, I got a ride there with my brother, but I had to take the bus back. Poor kitties, they were cooped up in their carriers almost six hours, through a very choppy boat ride, a short car drive, the long bus drive, then a shortish taxi ride. But they seem very happy to be home. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > Yes, I got a ride there with my brother, but I had to take the bus back. > Poor kitties, they were cooped up in their carriers almost six hours, > through a very choppy boat ride, a short car drive, the long bus drive, > then a shortish taxi ride. But they seem very happy to be home. I'll just bet they are, after all that. And I'm glad they like being home - I was wondering, looking at them getting to run around on the island, whether they'd enjoy the enclosure after all that freedom. But it worked for them last year, so no reason to think it would be different this year. It just looked like such a great place to be a cat! Joyce > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Marina, I sent a welcome home post yesterday and now I can't find it. I love the pictures. In my lost email I suggested you and your niece should publish a "coffe table" book of Island Cats. It would be wildly successful. Barnabus is thrilled that Miranda is back home and insisted that I take some new pictures of him. I'll post them in the next day or two. While she was gone he's been lying across my laptop. I'm sure part of that is the heat coming from the fan but one day I put a picture of Miranda on the screen and he was enthralled and spent 10 minutes just pawing the screen. He was trying to get her to come out and play :) Welcome home, get some rest, we've missed you. Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus > Welcome home, get some rest, we've missed you. Thank you, Julie. Miranda wanted me to point out that she got a tan while on the island - the bluish hue of her fur disappeared and it got more brownish instead. My niece was just telling me about this phenomenon. It seems this is what happens to the fur of Russian Blues if they get too much sun (I don't know how she managed to get too much sun, since the weather was not that good). Now, Barnabus, don't get mad, but I'm afraid I had to cut a piece of Miranda's fur away, because she got a clump of resin in it and couldn't get that out herself, so I thought it was better that I cut away the mat, before it caused any damage to her skin. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. >> Welcome home, get some rest, we've missed you. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > much sun (I don't know how she managed to get too much sun, since the > weather was not that good). I would think that maybe the same reasons hoomins can get sunburnt on a cloudy day - the UV rays can penetrate cloud cover. But I didn't know that UV rays could alter the color of a cat's fur the way it alters the color of hoomin skin. From an article on the web... "Tanning takes place in the skin's outermost layer, the epidermis. About five percent of the cells in your epidermis are special cells called melanocytes. When exposed to ultraviolet B light (short wave ultraviolet), melanocytes produce melanin -- the pigment that is ultimately responsible for your tan. The pinkish melanin travels up through the epidermis and is absorbed by other skin cells. When exposed to ultraviolet A light (longer wave), the melanin oxidizes or darkens. This darkening is your skin's way of protecting itself against too much UV light." Hugs, CatNipped > Now, Barnabus, don't get mad, but I'm afraid I had to cut a piece of > Miranda's fur away, because she got a clump of resin in it and couldn't > get that out herself, so I thought it was better that I cut away the mat, > before it caused any damage to her skin. CatNipped kirjoitti: > I would think that maybe the same reasons hoomins can get sunburnt on a > cloudy day - the UV rays can penetrate cloud cover. But I didn't know that > UV rays could alter the color of a cat's fur the way it alters the color of > hoomin skin. I'd say it's not that strange for UV rays to alter the color of a cat's fur as it alters the color of hoomin "fur" too... At least my hair gets a lighter shade in the summer than in the winter. And if the rays work a bit like hair dyes, altering part of the pigmentation in the hair, it's possible that the UV rays work more on the bluish hues of a russian blue cat's fur, leaving a light brownish shade... SignatureChristine in Laitila, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Wow, you have some beautiful pics--not just of the cats (but them, too), but just in general. You have a good eye. I always look forward to seeing your pics every summer. What lucky kitties to have their own summer island (you, too). It looks glorious! Candace > We got back today, but I'm too tired now to write more now. Lots of > pictures here: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://flickr.com/photos/45867313@N00/ Wonderful pics, both yours and your niece's, Marina. I'm looking forward to the stories. Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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