Lol, jstell, now that gives true meaning to the term 'curtain climber' !

This is Sabrina with all of her gifts... She brings me flowers, over and over and over until I give her what she wants. These are camellias from the front yard. She carries them in her mouth, crosses the front yard with them, jumps the fence and brings them to the back patio door where she drops them. If I don't let her in immediately she repeats the process. In another house Sabrina once brought me a toy styrofoam airplane. Once when I was painting she came back with a neighbor's paint gloves and sponge. I figured she realized it was the same as what I was doing by the smell.

abbybeagle - LOL! Just like the infamous "Klepto Kitty".

Fortunately the only thing she steals these days is flowers! I have seen her standing on her back legs to reach and tear off rose blossoms from our bushes. If I have flowers in the house she will take them out of vases and leave them in interesting places.

How adorable.

Our previous cats only brought us little dead things, and sometimes only parts of them...

Man, I wish my cat's would have brought me flowers over the years. All I got were dead bodies of mice with their head's missing!

You DID let her in right? :)

That's adorable. I've never heard of a cat bringing flowers.

I am not a cat person (we just got our first puppy, Lord help me)...but I just have to say these are all darling, and the FTD delivery kitty is about the sweetest thing I have ever heard! She sounds like she loves you so much!

These photos are just priceless!

And since some of you seem to have formed a Tuxedo Club, let me show you my membership card. These are 3 of the 5 feral kittens that showed up on our back patio a few years ago. DH took the photo on the afternoon that they arrived and sent it to me while I was at work, just to let me know what we were in for. We ended up rescuing and rehoming them all, with the exception of Sunny (the Himalayan mix, not shown here), and Tiki - the little tuxedo boy on the far right of this photo. The others here are Gracie (left) and Tuxsy (center), both of whom went to other homes.

Our little member of the Tuxedo Club:

jstell - that pic of Hummer is soo cute. Those back claws are working hard to grip into something, anything.

abbeybeagle - your cat is much nicer than mine as I get dead birds brought to me.

Oakley, we should have lived near each other...our furbombs could have split the mice between them.

Ours ate the mice and left the heads. Well, one of them did. The other ate everything except the spleen.

You dog people are saying, "Eeewwww!!!"

>Ours ate the mice and left the heads. Well, one of them did. The other ate everything except the spleen.

I would have preferred either of those to our kitty's way of bringing in the whole live mouse/rat/bird and letting it go as soon as we saw he'd done so, so that we could have the fun of catching one for ourselves.

"You dog people are saying, "Eeewwww!!!""

Not so much. I lost my two cats last year but still have 2 dogs. One has brought us a couple of rats and birds. I made the mistake of praising her for a rat and she brought me a baby bird next. Fortunately nothing since. She keeps the June bugs, lizards and some other bugs as treats for herself. She was dumped as a puppy. You can take the puppy off the street, but you apparently can't take the street out of the puppy.

Everyone's kitties are so precious! I couldn't pick a favorite!

We adopted Gracie in August. I saw a thread here where people showed off their tuxedo cats, and I loved their little white bibs. So we ended up with Gracie, who is a dilute tortie with a white bib and tummy.

She came to us with a little beat-up stuffed mouse. When we are ignoring her constant requests to play, she'll go upstairs and get mousie. We'll hear a little meow and there's Gracie with the mouse at her feet. Who can say no? The funny thing is we never play mousie with her--it's the twirling bird toy she wants, but she can't very well carry that around the house. Somehow she knew from her first week here that we'd understand that mousie = play. It's amazing how they find a way to communicate.

I came back to see the newer contributions to this thread. They are all adorable characters. Our first experience of being owned by a cat was a lovely little tuxedo girl (a Manx). After her, we got a couple more Manx kittens (brother and sister) and then ended up taking in a rescue kitten who had been orphaned (Maine Coon), so I see our cats in a lot of these photos---in terms of their breed and/or coloring, as well as the description of some of their behaviors.

Looking at these is a bittersweet experience right now. A little less than two months ago we lost one of our senior cats (our boy Manx) to renal failure, and yesterday we lost a second cat (our super-loving Maine Coon girl). It's heartbreaking---even more so when we've lost two so close together. We are now down to our last one, and I'm hoping for many more healthy years for her.

Here's another chairscape. This is Fred and Prinny (she's the calico) in a rare moment where they weren't fighting. They call a truce when it comes to sitting in the winter sunlight in the comfy chair:

And I think I may have posted this one in an earlier thread, but this is Fred inspecting my bed to see that it is made correctly. This day, I had neglected to put the decorative pillow on the bed, and Fred meowed at me until I did. If the bed isn't made by 7:30 am, she meows at me until it is. If she had opposable thumbs, she'd be a better housekeeper than me!

SunnyCottage, I meant to tell you how adorable those tiny kitties are.

There's a special place in Hades for people who abandon or neglect animals. And a worse one for abuse.

gorgeous pics everyone, thank you for making my day with your photos. The kitchenscapes" are hilarious!

Can you find the real kitty cat? haha

Couldn't you just use Fred for a room inspiration? The soft grays mixed with the honey beige, deeper brown for the flooring and a shot of orange and green for accents?

AnnieDeighnaugh, funny you should say that.

Apparently I did use Fred as a guide for the living room. I didn't realize it, but a couple of friends have pointed out that all the furniture and the carpet match Fred. Lots of tans, and some brown, some ivory/beige, and some green (her eyes look green in the right light). Instead of orange, though, there's a bit of dark red, because orange is just not a color I like very much.

The flip side of that is that her fur blends in a bit too well, and I have to make sure I vacuum the furniture regularly, or it would be covered in fur. Fur that you can't see until someone sits down, and then stands up, covered in cat hair.

Oh, brother. Covered in cat hair is right.
I suppose that's the advantage of having black cats and a lot of pale furniture...you know when to haul out the sticky rollers.

sail-away, sorry about the loss of your kitties. That is such a hard thing to go through.

Our cat Charlie brought us another bird yesterday when we had company. That was very special. I won't describe the gory details of what the bird looked like but Charlie was very proud of himself.

Thanks, blfenton. Since our cats are/were indoor cats, they never brought the gift of a real mouse or bird to us, but they would bring their toys to us. The cat who just died, in particular, would go to the big bowl where we kept their toys and pull out every toy mouse she could find and pile them outside my closed office door. Then she would meow until I came out and she could proudly show me all the treasures she had brought for me. That, of course, led to a play session or lots of cuddling (or both).

When our current cat was a kitten, she would drag a stuffed fish that was larger than she all the way up our stairs and leave it next to our bed while we were sleeping---every night. It was remarkable that she could get it up there, as she was a very tiny cat and could hardly negotiate the stairs on her own.

Fred likes to arrange the dead mice right where I will step on them as I get out of bed (100 year old house plus lots of woods equals mice in the house every fall). Mostly I get whole ones. The rest--just the heads and tails.

I am grateful that Fred is a good hunter. But I really wish she'd put the mice somewhere else.

Love all the pictures!

Here are two of mine. Sunshine was a stray showed up in our yard two years ago, he has really, really become a member of family since -- he has his own bar stool at the kitchen island.

This is an older pic before we did any work in the kitchen, but this is one of our favorities. Little kitty is totally in heaven on Thanksgiving day. This captures his "sniffer" face with his eyes closed, ears back, and nostrils flaring. He makes the same face when we cook pork bbq too.

He is now 15, and we are really happy it looks like he's going to be around for another Thanksgiving.

sara and gsciencechick - great pics, lol.

I think a book with all these photos would be a best seller! Laughing out loud at all the cat antics...precious.

I love these photos!!! My contributions:

Ocho, supervising the install of my new sink

Paisley, perched on the trestle table leg she is slowly destroying (and thank heavens 'cause I hate that table!)

I can't imagine a house without kitties, despite the unceasing demands of being their domestic help.

I want to know how you are posting multiple pics in one posting?????

wanttoretire, if you click on a photo you will see they are linked to my Flickr account. From there I can copy/paste the HTML code needed to insert them into the post.
Mabel

This thread is a good way to start the day!

Who doesn't love a kitty belly?

I couldn't resist! This is my Libby which is short for Liberty because she showed up to our house on 4th of July weekend.
Window kitty

Thanks so much everyone for joining in! I just had to scroll through all the pictures again and also see the new additions.

I knew there were kitty people here, but never realized just how many of us are ruled by these furbabies. I don't think non-kitty people realize just how much companionship and love these guys/gals give us.

Mary_lu, thank you for starting this thread! I just love all the pictures, they brighten my life.

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Schoolhouse, what an angelic looking sweetheart!!!

Thanks cat mom, she's come a long way from the little demon feral she was when first she showed up at my house one year and six months ago. I named her "Pretty", but she doesn't know that because she is deaf.

What lovely photos! It's hard not to smile when I look through this thread. Thanks to all the posters and their funny-sweet-furry friends.

I couldn't resist one more of my weird cat...he decided to explore the fridge one day when I had it open with my back turned. Guess he was hungry ! :D

The last one is scary, I would be very concerned that he'd get himself locked in somewhere and suffocate! Cats in dryers, dishwashers, etc just worry me :(

Schoolhouse, your little deaf darling is a cloud of serenity.
Is she blue-eyed? I have heard that those things go together in cats?

Tinan, when we moved into this house, the front-loading washing machine made a noise when starting its cycle that sounded exactly like a cat yelling for help...it wasn't a kitty, but I never ran down a hall so fast in my life!

Awwww, I love kitties with round people eyes (Pooh, Maxi, Sabrina) and kitty belly, window kitty, basketful of kitty, sniffer face, well -- all of them! I recently had to rehome my kitty, but she keeps in touch.

Bob and Biggles (the little one) enjoying the heat vent in the kitchen. Biggles is much bigger now. Bob has a "little" tuxedo. :)

Oops, here is the picture.

bronwynsmom - yes

{{!gwi}}

javachik - the poster kitty of this modern age! lol love it.

OMG!!! I love all the kitties!!!