My cats mostly ignore me morning and afternoon, but evenings I get a lot of this. Makes it had to post DB comments, because I use a wireless keyboard in my lap. Sometimes the keyboard just gets put on top of a cat.

This is Dobby. He was a starving stray when I met him, and weighed only 5 pounds 6 ounces when I took him to the vet, after feeding him an all-you-can-eat breakfast and dinners for the 3 previous nights. He’s about 13 pounds now. My other cat (Sirius) is solid black and photographs about like a lump of coal. Don’t expect a lot of pictures of him.

Picture quality is better than I expected considering these are blind selfies with the flash off to avoid startling the cat, taken by holding a 10-year-old pocket camera more-or-less over my head. In a few days I may have some comparison shots with a new mid-range smart-phone.
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    He is adorable and i am happy he gets too much love from you!

    Lets keep showing the world that adopting strays are the best thing.

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      All my cats (4 since 2002) were strays, and there used to be so many other strays I could have gotten twice as many. But now coyotes have moved into my neighborhood and the supply of stray cats has ended. #notgonnaadoptanycoyotes

      First cat (avatar & banner cat) was the Best Cat Ever. If he had been a jerk I wouldn’t have been such a sucker for the others.

      2nd cat was a bit of a jerk — I posted about him last year http://www.dramabeans.com/members/lordcobol/activity/234594/

      3rd cat is Dobby.

      4th cat (Sirius) is too timid to be a good pet, but he grew up with hawks dive-bombing the bushes to try to scare him out into the open, and I think he saw one of his litter-mates get eaten, so I can’t really blame him.

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        Thats scary! I pray you and your cats are safe from those predator canines.

        My parents adopt cats before i was born.. i personally take in strays when my family broke up and i started live on my own about 10 years ago. I lost count of how many (most of the open ground where i live are my previous cats graveyard) but at the moment i have 6 adult and 2 kittens. From time to time my dad comes to check on the cats and get them to the vet.

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        I had a cat like your avatar cat and he also was the Best Cat Ever. A bit crazy and knocked everything off every shelf, but super friendly and great with kids who tormented him. (I might have tormented him a bit as well.) I miss him a lot, I’m reminded of him every time I see your comments!

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          Cats normally let kids tormented them, right? One of mine always following around when there are kids in my house (i call him Hero 😜 because he was the smallest tiniest when he was born and his mom always left him alone so the name was kind of 🤣🤣🤣 to lift up his spirit .. his mom never really got to him until her death and Hero grew up into a fine lad because of his doting human mom! ☺ i think because of his condition he always desperate for attention, always looking for people to at least pet his head)

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            Nice! My other cats ran to hide in the furthest corners of the house whenever they heard a kid coming. Only the black one stayed and even let the kids pull his tail or ears without biting or scratching them.

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            Awww 😍😍😍 the black cats seem friendlier, right.. most of my black cats like being closer to human

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