Mary And Jacomo

Jacomo, always curious even at a young age

Once upon a time there were two green eyed, snowy white furred cats living at the SPCA in East London. It was their destiny to find a new home with us and this is their story told in pictures.

Mary,and there is one question? Are we gonna come with you.

Mary Minzu

In their play room at the East London SPCA

Brother and sister in arms

And a couple of weeks later .....

Jacomo loves red

Jacomo "sniffing the wind"

What his sister is doing looks interesting

Pretty Mary

Looks like this is gonna a be a good day for Mary Minzu

Green eyed Mary in the woods

And Model Mary

And the better climber

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The whole lot of them - cats and rabbit 

And if  Mighty Lucy thinks enough is enough there is still the roof - for now Lucy ....

Green Right Through

Lucinda In Heaven

An Empty Plate Is Never Fun

A while ago I wrote about a cat who lives in an Antiques Shop in Quigney. The shop consists of three old colonial houses and for the cat it must be truly paradise. There should be a lot of mice and rats under the old wooden floors. But obvoiusly even in paradise one can get lazy.

And an empty bowl is never funny !

A man who works in the shop said to me : He makes people come closer and stroke him. But when you touch him, he bites you. A true Quigney cat ! "

Little Luce

Butzi

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Butzi on the catwalk

is my friend's cat

16 yeasr of age

white as the snow on the peaks of the Alpes in Switzerland

and one of the most beautiful cats I have ever seen

except Lucinda Engele of course............

The Ultimate Survivor

The ultimate survivor is a creature that has just gotten stronger through the years of abuse, cruelty and maltreatment - the years that are called your life. It's a creature that has found it's way.

Like her !

Mavis

Mavis lives in a Bed and Breakfast in Port Alfred

A STRONG DESIRE

A strong desire to go up can not be suppressed.

And must be satisfied

no matter the cost

The Swallow And The Cat

A STORY OF TOO MUCH OF A DESIRED THING

The birds that live in the bush around my house have made my home their home. There are thousands of them and listening to them during day time feels like being in paradise.

Since a couple of months these two are keeping me company sitting on the open window frame of my office window while I work. Singing songs to me.

Flying in and out of the house and through the rooms seems a welcome distraction for them. The only problem at the moment are the windows whose transparency is mistaken for the African sky frequently. Transparency and hard matter is something that is not known in the swallow world.

If trapped what follows is great distress. And Fear. And submission. And there is another danger. IT SEEMS. But appearances can cheat. AND OFTEN DO.

Sometimes this can lead to a state of shock.

You do know her by now. Lucinda Engele - the perfect Sphinx like creature.
In the beginning her eyes used to turn black with desire and excitement when she saw a bird sitting outside on a branch. She revealed he cat nature and stalked for hours  as often as she could between long sleeping periods. 

But even her she became obedient to the great RULE OF LIFE : that indeed there can be too much of something in life. And if there is too much of something, even if it is a good and fine thing - that something stays not desirable. 

The wild birds had the impudence to not respect Sphinx territory and invaded her space. And this had to be punished in a definite ginger-cat manner.  

The least one can say is that she got bored... may be even made friends with them and recognized them as "our birds". Fact is she does not bother at all..

And eventually turns her back in a display of utmost ignorance to the feathered fellow in distress.

For me it was a chance to capture the perfectionism and beauty of a feathered dress in all detail.

Before experiencing the delight of having a wild swallow fly of my hand into liberty again.

And of course back to usual business.