Kitty Pictures! Starting with Gray and Silver.

[ThomCat]

Here's gray in his favorite place in the whole world!



And here's another view of my darling beast. :loveya:



Here's Silver just hanging out and relaxing. He'll sit there like that for an hour or so, as long as I remember to keep petting him and scratching him on top of his head. :P



And here's both of them, cuddled up in their basket. Aren't they the cutest things you've ever seen? :7
Gray is on the left and Silver is on the right.

[Skittles]

1. Gray looks like a sour puss

:7

[ThomCat]

2. Oh yes. He can scowl at you while purring loudly

and demanding that you scritch him some more. :P

And he's a total tyrant about it. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear ThomCat!

Aw...

They are so beautiful!

And these pics are wonderful of them...

I remember what you said about not having enough pics...

Now you do, sweetie...

Thanks for sharing your gorgeous babies with us...:hug:

[ThomCat]

8. I often thank InfoManiac for all her help.

I need to thank her again. She took the pictures. She also asked the vet some intelligent questions I didn't think to ask. :)

I need to convince her to post in the lounge more often. If you see her in here, please help me convince her to stick around.
:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I will do that!

Anyone who is that good to you should be in here, talking to all of us!

:hug:

[boilerbabe]

Maybe she needs to see that she has a purpose here?

this is a good place for her if she is an "animal person", or if she is interested in politics or any other thing. DU has become such a "catch-all". A little something for everyone so to speak...

Would like to encourage your friend to visit this site....

Have been here on and off for over 4 years, one can pick and choose what they want to get involved in!

[boilerbabe]

19. Maybe she needs to see that she has a purpose here?

this is a good place for her if she is an "animal person", or if she is interested in politics or any other thing. DU has become such a "catch-all". A little something for everyone so to speak...

Would like to encourage your friend to visit this site....

Have been here on and off for over 4 years, one can pick and choose what they want to get involved in!

[BuelahWitch]

4. What sweet kitties!

Silver has the lazers ready!

[ThomCat]

10. They are amazingly sweet and loving cats.

And their eyes are beautiful. I'm so glad they reflect that beautiful aqua instead of the more typical bright red. :)

[BuelahWitch]

12. I noticed that!

Very, very pretty!

[SeattleGirl]

5. They're so cute!

:loveya:

[ThomCat]

11. You should meet them.

Then you'd really see massive amounts of cute. :P

:hi:

[Robeson]

6. It's just a hunch, and I may be wrong....

...but I have a sneaking feeling that Gray and Silver might, just might, be slightly spoiled rotten....
;-)

Of course, as are all of mine....:-)

[ThomCat]

13. Oh absolutely. Definitely. Without a doubt!

:7

It's my job in life to find more ways to adore them. :loveya:

[BlueIris]

7. Awwww. Those babies are super cute.

[ThomCat]

15. Can you believe that someone once taped them into a box

and threw them away? :cry:

I can't imagine how anyone could do that to two animals who are so full of love and affection. :(

I've loved them every day since they allowed me to adopt them. :)

[Brigid]

49. People can be so cruel to animals sometimes.

:cry:

I must get a digital camera so that I can post pictures of my girls: The royal queen Ophelia (a tortie) and the royal princess Brigid (black).

[meow2u3]

55. So you have Her Royal Meowjesty and the Crown Purr-incess

Do you have pics of them?

[ThomCat]

66. I wish digital cameras were less expensive so that a lot more people

had one. :)

I would love to see your royal girls.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Great pics Thom!

Beautiful kitties, and you look good too! :hi:

[ThomCat]

16. Thank you!

I look a bit puffy and dorky in a couple of other pictures that I conveniently won't post. :P

We all look good in these shots. :)

:hi:

[MrsMatt]

27. If there are kitties in the picture

no one will notice you - you are just background for kitty lavishness!

[KT2000]

17. They sure are cute!

I would say your cats are very calm and well adjusted.
Very beautiful too.
Something tells me that Silver is the boss.

[ThomCat]

41. Oh yes. Silver is definitely the boss of those two.

Which is very odd because he's always been the smaller of the two cats. Gray just couldn't be bothered to maintain dominance. :P

[boilerbabe]

18. Your Kitties are cute!

How do i post my kitty pics? Mine are not as easygoing as yours, though...I never figured out how to upload pics to a DU post..never even figured out how to start a new thread...duh.

I do appreciate the fact that so many DUers are kitty lovers! None of my kitties are laid back enough to get a good pic, but that cou;d be attibuted to the fact that my camera has a very slow flash (sit still for over a minute..)

Anyways, thanks for the kittie pics! It's good to see so many pet-owners or can we say pet-owned people here...

XXXOOO
jO-LEE

[Skittles]

20. post them on a web site, then use the link

I like www.photobucket.com


Here is an infamous one of my kitty Riff Raff, obsessed with Miss November:

[ThomCat]

40. You have to use a hosting site, like Photobucket.

If you have the pictures on your computer, Photobucket makes it easy to upload them to your account with them. Once you have them uploaded they give you a link you can paste into any thread to access any picture and display it. :)

My boy cats are pretty much the definition of easy going. Only Millie Dear, my girl cat, gets skittish.

[Callalily]

21. Awwwww . . . your cats are

just precious. They obviously trust you to no end! :hug: :hug: :hug:

[ThomCat]

39. They really do.

They let me pick them up and hold them in any odd position or angle. The'll stay in my arms for long periods of time without getting restless or nervous.

It took a while after I took them in, but they developed a lot of trust in me. I have been good for them, and apparently they know it. :)

[TZ]

22. Soooo cute..

Are they litter mates? They look like it....Like my twin sister kitties, Sophie and Smokie...:)

[ThomCat]

38. Almost certainly.

We don't really know anything about their kittenhood, because they were abandoned and then found. But they are so similar in appearance, and they clearly have never been separated, so they would have to be litter-mates. :)

[momto3]

23. Your kitties are soooo beautiful!

[ThomCat]

37. Thank you!

As hard as it may be to believe, they're far more cute in person. You're head could explode from concentrated cuteness. :P

[Inchworm]

24. Cuties indeed!

:loveya:

[ThomCat]

36. Thank you.

I'll tell them that you think so. They'll agree. :P

:hi:

[stuntcat]

25. omg that IS a darling beast!

They're so sweet in pictures together too :loveya: I have a cat-foot fetish, I'd be all over those eight feets!

I have a pic thread contribution, this funny thing I found-

[ThomCat]

35. That is really adorable!

and it looks like it could have been Silver as a kitten. :)

My cats would love you forever if you came over here and played with their feet. :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. ohh fat cats! i love fat cats

[ThomCat]

33. They're definitely on the chubby side.

:P

[lizziegrace]

28. Awww...

those big ol' boys. :hug:

They're wonderful, each in his own way.

I'm glad Info took them and managed to get them uploaded. (She claims to be technically illiterate but I beg to differ.)

I'm glad she's there for you. Please :hug: her when you see her again.

[ThomCat]

31. I definitely will.

:)

And I'd really love it if you'd call me tonight and tell me how you're doing. :hug:

[lizziegrace]

34. Definitely

it might be around 9 if that's okay. :hug:

[shaniqua6392]

29. They are so purr-ty!!

They look about as contented and spoiled as my two kitties. I can't believe someone actually threw them away in a box. Lord have mercy. I took in a puppy when I was about 16 years old that someone threw out in a park with her litter mates. They were all only a few hours old with umbilical cords still fresh from being cut. I fed her canned dogs milk with an eye dropper every few hours for weeks on end until I got her to eat solid food. She was the most loyal and loving baby and I had her for over 16 years before she passed away peacefully in her sleep. She followed me everywhere for all those years, never needing a leash because she would not leave my side for a minute. I could never leave her because she would not eat food for anyone else while I was gone and would hide under the bed. I took her everywhere I went because I was her mother. I really miss her.:cry:

[ThomCat]

30. You were a wonderful mom for that dog.

:hug:

I am very glad you were there to take her in. I wish more people would take in abandoned animals.

[shaniqua6392]

46. I wish I could take in more, but I already have 3 dogs and 2 cats!!

My daughters and I look on petfinder.com all the time and just cry. There are millions of them that need homes. All I can do is try to support the shelters and humane societies with monetary donations. Ugh. Very frustrating. BTW...You look like an awesome dad to your kitties too!!

[LynzM]

32. Ooh, I love those kittens!

Give them a snuggle and a scritch on the head from me, would you? :loveya:

[ThomCat]

42. I absolutely will. And I'll tell them that they're from you

and I'll remind them how much they liked you when you were here. :)

:hug:

[DS1]

43. most recent of my gray dude

blurry because it was quite dark

[ThomCat]

53. Awesome! That is one very comfortable looking cat.

I wish I could lounge like that. :P

He's beautiful.

[DS1]

80. He is at peace with the world

He gets to go out, and recon his territory (which I've discovered is very large after following his tracks in the snow) and come home to a relatively warm meal and a warm bed of his choice.

However, sadly, he's going to be locked up in a cage for 5 days while I attend my brother's wedding. He's never been in a cage longer than the time it took for me to get him from the house that evicted him in New York State (in winter, no less) to my place. I'm paying the extra amount for someone to play with him at least once a day, and I'm sure he'll take that opportunity to try find a way out. I'm already looking forward to picking him back up just to get him out of there, but it's for his own good. He's an outdoor cat, all my apartment rental decisions revolve around whether or not he has a stomping ground. So far he's gone from about 150 acres to the nearest 4 blocks.

Yeah, this post was more a confession/rant about caging my cat, than anything. They really touch you.

[ThomCat]

81. I hope he handles those five days reasonably well.

:(

That's going to be stressful for him.

You're doing a good thing though. You can't have him loose for 5 days in your apartment if he's going to be trying to escape whenever someone comes in to feed him. Especially if he might tear up the place in frustration being stuck inside.

And you can't just leave him outside to fend for himself for 5 day.

The cage is a necessary arrangement, but I can understand that both of you will be unhappy about it.

[DS1]

82. That's the thing

He's earned his 'Rambo' name, and he's fended for himself in the dead of winter here for two weeks, after we had 3 feet of snow. I had considered him dead, when he came flying through the window insulation (my roommaate had broken the window by slamming the door a week earlier) face first right through the plastic and jumped into my lap and wondered where the food was.

[ThatsMyBarack]

44. Aw....

They look like twinsies! :loveya:

[ThomCat]

54. They are.

You can tell when you see them together that they are litter-mates who have never been separated. They share everything and they always sleep together. :)

[youthere]

45. Your fellas are gorgeous.

I love big cats. The pics of you holding gray just crack me up...I can't imagine any cat I've had that would let me hold it like that (oh my gosh..the belly!). Just like a baby...a big fuzzy purring baby. Thanks for posting these Thom.

[ThomCat]

58. I've had 5 cats, and 3 of them would let me hold them

that way, or hug them upside down, or toss them over my shoulder. They pretty much trusted me and allowe(d) me to hold them any way I wanted. :P

One of those cats was my very first, Pixie, a gorgeous and humongus Maine Coone. And the other two are these two boys.

I had one other cat who was abused before I got him. He gradually trusted me enough to let me pet him, and trusted me enough to climb in my lap for affection. But he wouldn't let me hold him, and he wouldn't let anyone else come near him.

And I have one other cat now who is very skittish and hides most of the time. She only lets a few people see her and play with her. I'm the only one who can pick her up, and she only barely tolerates that because it's me. :)

[MissMillie]

47. Those are some very handsome kitties there

:thumbsup:

and we all know why they love you.... (because you're so gosh-darned loveable!)

Have you been well?

[ThomCat]

59. They are very handsome beasts, and know it.

They absolutely expect that everyone who meets them should admire them and shower them with affection. :P

Of course, they return that favor too. They love almost everyone immediately. :)

I'm doing reasonably well. Not good enough for bad enough to really comment on. Mostly exhausted physically and mentally, but that will pass. :hug:

[Orsino]

48. Beautiful. Here are my grays...

Madeleine and Rosie:




Delilah averages out to gray, I guess:




...and here's where they live, with Chester:

[ThomCat]

60. Your long-hair must be a real handful to clean up after.

:P

I love that you have devoted several rooms just for them. That is awesome! :)

[Orsino]

73. My wife was just trying to imagine Delilah hunting in the wild...

...wearing the feline equivalent of high heels and a feather boa. :rofl:

[applegrove]

50. Gorgeous. Are they siblings?

[ThomCat]

61. Yes.

We don't know their early history for sure, because they were abandoned and then found. But it's pretty obvious that they are litter-mates that have never been separated. :)

[ceile]

51. What handsome boys!

:loveya:

[ThomCat]

62. On behalf of all three of us

Thank you very much. :loveya:

[graywarrior]

52. OMG, everyone is so damn CUTE!

[ThomCat]

63. Thank you!

Being cute runs in our family. :P

[DarkTirade]

56. Cyute!

The cats are cute too. :)

[ThomCat]

64. You keep talking like that

and you'll have to come down here for a long weekend or something. :P

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

67. Who, me?

O8)

[musette_sf]

57. i've been waiting to see these guys

they are SOOOO beautiful, cute, funny, etc etc etc etc. snowshoes AND tuxedos!!!

makes me miss my grey tuxedo tabby boy all the more:



i'm SO happy that you will have some more time with Gray. Junior, my grey boy, was very ill in 2002, but we got to keep him around until last year. the extra time means so much!

[ThomCat]

65. It really does mean a lot. I'm making the most of it ever day.

:)

Junior was a very stunning and beautiful cat. He was more starkly gray and white than my boys are. They've developed some light brown tones with age.

[musette_sf]

69. Junior with his brothers

his brothers really didn't get over losing Junior until December of last year. (Junior passed in April.) Ratso, the black one, still goes out back and calls for Junior :-(



they're all littermates, though they don't look like it :-)

[ThomCat]

70. That is my big concern with Silver.

He's going to miss Gray terribly. With my poor health I really can't adopt any more kittens, so who's going to keep him company? :(

Millie has to be kept separated from the boys because she's terrified of other animals and most people. But she likes being along. Gray is a very social cat.

[musette_sf]

72. the hardest thing

was watching George and Ratso look for Junior. Ratso really wasn't all right until Christmas week, Junior was his buddy. he's better now, but it does take time for them to heal too.

when the time comes... or maybe even before... maybe a local shelter or rescue group might have an somewhat elderly gentleman kitty looking for a home? i do think boy cats need boy cat company, if they are used to it.

[lightningandsnow]

68. Cute kitties!

I wish I had pets - but my mom hates them and my dad is allergic to anything with fur.

Oh well, someday.

Gray's eyes are kind of cool and creepy at the same time... it's kind of like they're drilling into my soul. :P

[ThomCat]

71. If you ever met Gray in person, you'd know immediately

that he's just commanding you to love him and give him lots of affection. :loveya:

He's the biggest moosh-ball you've ever met. :P

[tekisui]

74. Here is my Sokie, and me in the background:

[ThomCat]

75. Your photo isn't showing

:(

"This image or video has been moved or deleted.
Photobucket"

[tekisui]

76. Weird, I see it.

Both in the preview and looking at it now?

[tekisui]

77. Try this:

Did that work?

[ThomCat]

78. Yes. I see it now.

:)

That's a nice, creative shot.

[tekisui]

79. Good, I was starting to feel stoopid.