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I haven't been photographing many cats recently, as my neighbors feeding of feral cats has become a real problem. I've spent more time shooing them away and trying to cat-proof the underneath of my home, where some of the thirty or so wild cats in the hood have found a way in to make it a litter box. It's all tiresome and rather disgusting. The city has a catch, neuter and release policy, which is all well and good, except it still leaves a horde of felines using anything and everything as a litter box in the neighborhood, and un-sterilized cats will show up sooner or later as long as my neighbor (whom I adore, complicating things) keeps providing food. Still, when I get beyond the local frustrations, I just plain like cats. When there were 10 or 12 around, I made friends with a couple -- though not by feeding them. Anyway, now that I've gotten that off my chest, this shot is of my friend's cat, Baby. She's always been a great hunter until roadrunners took up residence in her yard. She strayed too close to their nest a year ago, and they beat her up. They may look funny, but they are tough little things -- with a lot of attitude.

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I don't like cats as they kill many birds instinctively ......... the domestic cat is a major destroyer of wildlife, birds, small mammals and everything that moves, when my daughter had a cat years ago I stuck a big bell around it's neck to warn all wildlife of it's presence

This is one of the offspring of a domestic cat that went "wild" when one of our neighbours left when she moved into an old people home 18 months ago ...... it lives in our small wood

we have a "hate" relationship every time we see each other but it is quite fearless and will "stare" me out until I get quite close.

Fortunately the French "hunting" season has now closed, otherwise some of the "maniacs" would use it as target practice

It is a pretty little thing, but I would not like to handle it and would never, in spite of my dislike for cats, harm it.

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I don't like cats as they kill many birds instinctively ......... the domestic cat is a major destroyer of wildlife, birds, small mammals and everything that moves, when my daughter had a cat years ago I stuck a big bell around it's neck to warn all wildlife of it's presence

Cats learn to silence single bells. I used to get collars with two bells. One at the front and one at the back. They can't silence both.

This is one of the offspring of a domestic cat that went "wild" when one of our neighbours left when she moved into an old people home 18 months ago ...... it lives in our small wood

What a shame they didnt have it desexed. I don't understand people NOT desexing their cats. The cat population needs to be reduced, world wide, and irresponsible owners are the reason that birds and other wildlife are being decimated. My rules for cat ownership start with desexing, and keeping indoors as much as possible. If they cant be indoors 24/7 then they are not allowed out at night. My next will be trained to accept a harness for outdoor stuff.
 
Looks like Kiki has a really tough life. LOL. Likewise Atom in the post above, from James :) Poor cats, they have a rough time.

Nyuk nyuk. Atom spent all of his first months of his life in a cage, at the floor level of a room with no windows at the animal shelter, where there were cages from floor to
(almost) ceiling of other cats. So I don't think he had ever seen the outside, I know he had definitely never seen grass. When we adopted him, he was very nervous about being in wide open spaces, it must've been a very big unknown world.

But I took him out for walks when I went out with Jadey and Keesha, he would peek out from the inside of my jacket.

Eventually he ventured outside on his own in the backyard, and we discovered he loved the rain. He would run around in the rain and then come back a shivering mess because it was still winter, and then we would have to dry him with a towel.

Now, even though he's full grown he still runs around in the rain because he knows when he comes back inside we will dry him with his own towel. He'll actually come over and shake his head at me to tell me he's wet, and then run over nose first into the towel when I hold it up for him like a matador to a bull. He'll just stand there in pure joy while we dry him.

Spoilt, he is.

Jadey never gets wet in the rain, I don't know how she does it. We never have to dry her.
 
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