Perfect cats, perfect light

Taking pictures of cats can be a hassle. But the other day the sun was shining perfect into the living room. And lowe and behold, the cats where on their best modeling behavior! Seriously, this happens like one time a year.

Normally I have to paparazzi follow them, crawl on the floor, try to lore them out with toys...But this day, this day it was just "snap, snap, snap, done". Amazing. I feel like buying a lottery ticket now.

Fluffy

Fluffy

Dexter

Frankie

Frankie

Scott

Dexter tries carpeting

I´m doing some building around the house and I´m so lucky having Dexter to help. She takes care of all the sawing. At least she said she would, I´m still waiting for the first shelf to be sawed...

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First walk of the spring

Frankie didn't appropriate the winter that much, but boy does he love spring. We took him out for a walk and he loved it. He chased insects, run around on the grass, getting us sticks...Well, he pretty much behaved like a dog.

We let him of the leash for a while and he just went wild. Running around like a crazy cat. When we got back in again he sat by the door howling for about 30 minutes.

This is me trying to make sure Frankie doesn't disappear in the bushes...

My girlfriend Noomi and Frankie

Out on the balcony

It's spring and the cats love hanging on the balcony. I plan to build some kind of protextion, so they can't fall down. But for now, they can only be out on the balcony when one of us is watching them. The get braver every day and often try to sneak over to the neighbors balcony.

Fluffy (brown) is a very curious cat, she examines everything. Sniffing the watering can, smells the floor and of course jumps up on the railing. Thankfully, she got excellent balance. Frankie (red) is 8 months old and amazed by pretty much anything. He loves watching the children play soccer on the pitch below. Of course you are supposed to lift him up so he can see properly.

 

The shy one

We got Dexter about 1.5 years ago. She and her siblings were living outside with no one to take care of them. She was really shy in the beginning but my girlfriend is somewhat of cat whisperer. She can pet her and lift her up. When Dexter sees me, she runs. I think she connects me with horrible stuff like being taken to the vet and showering.

But lately she has been more accepting of me. I can stand or sit next to her and sometimes pet her without her running away. It goes better if I don't look directly at her. Can't wait until she let me hug her.

I picture of Dexter from last summer. She is still shy, but getting more social by the day.

Scott under cover

Scott loves laying under the cover. He digs his way in and thinks he is invisible (sometimes his tail sticks out). But he only does it when non of us in the bead. I guess he doesn't like sharing it. At least not with humans. Cats are accepted.

And oh yeah, he always looks mean in pictures but he is quite shy and very cuddly. Like a big teddy bear.

Frankies discovers snow

Frankie moved to us in October in this is his first time being outside...and in snow! He thought it was pretty scary and apparently doesn't like to get his paws cold (but he likes playing with the water tap).

I'll give a full presentation of Frankie later, but until then, enjoy these photos.

- Go out? What do you mean? The appartment is the world, right?

- Hmm, this looks different...

- I'm sinking!

- Iiiiiiih, it's cold!

- Back to safety, back to safety...

The Big Escape

Fluff is by far the most adventurous of our cats. Yesterday she decided to visit our neighbors balcony. Below you can she pics when she is planing the big escape. Just when I had put down the camera, she jumped up on the rail and casually walked over the the neighbor.

The neighbor wasn't home, so I panicked a bit. How to get the cat back? The solution was ham. She came right back as soon as she heard me open the bag.

I think I will have to build something to prevent future escapes. Maybe a net? We live on the third floor, so there is a risk of her falling down as well.

Let's take a break

Fluffy thinks I´m nuts for making Xmas cards in September...So she decided it was time for me to take a break. By sitting on the card I was trying to draw. Very effective I must say.

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Let's jump!

Usually when the cats do something funny I'm not able to catch it on film. But Fluffy tried to jump in to the laundry basket about 30 times in a row. She got in a few times. I lifted her out and she just continued trying to get in. She likes to sleep on the clothes. Especially newly washed.

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Alike as two peas in a pod

Can you tell that they are mother and daughter? You have mom in the back and daughter in the front. The daughter, Fluffy, is a bit more slender.But when it comes to how they move and lay they are almost identical.

Dexter (mum) is about 1.5 years old. We don't now for sure. We rescued her from a tough life, where no one looked after her. She has probably had a home at some point but then been thrown out. Fluffy was born one month after we took Dexter in. She is a little more than one years old. There were three kittens in the litter, but only Fluffy was strong enough to survive.

We are very happy they came into our lives.

I´m gonna cosy with you

I was feeling a bit down and I think the cats sensed it. My big cat Scott curled up and just lay on me, wanted to be patted of course. And the other two lay close on the floor. It looked like they were waiting in line.

Sorry for the poor quality, took'em with my cell phone.

Loving the balcony

In the last apartment we live in we didn't have a balcony. But know we do and the cats love it! We live on third floor so we were a bit worried about a cat jumping out or something like that. But so far they are behaving really good. That is if you don't count drinking out of the watering can and using the chairs to scratch on.

Fluffy looking for birds

Thee water in the watering can is so much better than the water inside

- A chair you say? No, this is for scratching.

- I smell barbacue...

Me and Fluffy (she doesn't like selfies)

Fluffy is now the owner of all the furniture on the balcony. At least that how she sees it.

Dexter also likes the balcony but she is more of an indoor cat