[Leica] Warning cat picture

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

You picture here is an excellent example of cryptic coloration (dogs are 
colorblind, so "coloration" is sort of a bad term). The gray striped areas 
(the wild, natural condition of Felis sylvestris) blends nicely with the 
foliage in back, but that white fur makes him a sitting duck for predators.

Jeffery

On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Yeah, I'm working on him. When I say "on my door-mat", I really mean
> literally. This guy has decided there is no reason to budge anymore
> since the food comes to him. The longest he's been away from the mat
> is 20 minutes. We've had a storm with powerful winds and rain the last
> two days. I had to put double-sided tape on the mat to hold it down.
> 
> Jeffery, he's definitely got a wild streak in him, but not totally
> wild. That's what I can't figure. He'll let me touch him and will now
> even go in a circle around me, as long as I just pet him. The
> slightest hint that I make a grip to pick him up and BAM! out with
> that paw. He slaps hard. The first one, the warning one, without a
> claw. The second one, if he thinks I haven't taken the hint, is for
> real. But when we pet him, he just kneads and kneads and purs purs.
> 
> It was easy to de-worm him. The first few days he wolfed down the food
> in as few gulps as possible. Never suspected there was some medicine
> in there. But to get him neutered ... might be able to trick him into
> a cat cage (I doubt it), but getting him out again and handling him if
> you managed ... time isn't ripe.
> 
> Not a very good "watch-cat". Every evening, at around 7:30, the
> porcupine comes and eats any dry food he's left, right out from under
> his nose. He doesn't even make a move.
> 
> He likes for us to leave the door open. It's better now, now that he
> can hear a little, but for a while he was dependent on visuals. That
> was just fine for the porcupine. Next thing you knew you heard a
> "scratch, scratch, scratch" on the wood floor from its little claws as
> it made its way into the kitchen where our two have their food.
> 
> Waiting impatiently for his mat to be taped down:
> 
> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100501-2010v33-01-1-1.jpg.html
> 
> I can't figure out where Lightroom is getting the date information
> from. I scanned this just a couple of days ago. My scan is called
> "2010v33-01.tif". Whem I import it into Lightroom I leave the setting
> more or less the same as I do for digital raw files and let Lightroom
> insert the date as part of the file name. I can't figure out where it
> is picking up May 1. Maybe Vuescan is inserting some static
> information into the tif. I'm scanning from my working computer, a
> MacBook and all dates are just fine. Oh well ...