Herisson Rose

#WhiskersWednesday ☕ Cappuccino Alert 🧡🔥🔥

A small Siamese cat with vivid blue and yellow eyes sitting on her humans knees. Behind is a blue blanket, and another small cat loafed on a bedspread.

Like 13 November at 10:01 | Open on mastodon.social

#caturday pointy weirdo (Amber), with a grumpy Mina (full of tuna) who is *just trying to nap* without all these feisty hyper young 'uns making a racket..

Get off my lawn! (blanket)

#catsofmastodon #tortoiseshellcat

A skinny, angular tortoiseshell cat (left), leaning forwards abd staring with round green eyes. One giant triangular ear is pointed forward, the other sideways. To her right is a larger black cat, with half closed eyes. Behind is an iron bed frame, shelves of books, a white door and yellow wall.

The same cat, head down and eyes closed, with a thoughtful expression. A brown bell hangs from her fabric collar. The black cat is now turned away, napping.

Like 14 September at 9:12 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Guess who racked up 200EUR at the vet today, to be told there's *nothing physically wrong* with her.

(Took her in bc vomiting back, not eating, weight loss)

She's over the virus, blood test mostly normal, no intestinal blockage etc.

She's just..*very upset*™️

(It started the day her sister Mina got ill.. and according to the blood sugar levels, she HAS been eating! Sneakily. At night probably)

Wintness me! THEE Drama Queen. #committothebit

#siamesecatproblems #dramaqueen #catsofmastodon

A very smug dark pointed Siamese type cat, looking a bit thin with crusty half closed blue eyes, sittimg on a pink and red fleece blanket, a piece quilt behind her.

Like 13 September at 19:50 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

#caturday kitties : Amber and Bluebell.

(Taken a few days ago, it's Massive Thunderstorm™️ all day today and gloomy as heck)

#photooftheday #cats #photography #catsofmastodon

Two small cats, sharing a blue knitted blanket and a sunbeam. The tortoiseshell (left) has her eyes half closed in the bright glare of the sun. Behind her (right) a small tabby has her green eyes wide open -she sits in shadow except for sun on her cheeks and upper body. The room behind is too dark to see.

Same 2 cats, except now the Tortie has her head down and eyes open, huge ears forward and alert. The glare gone, the red and white paint streaks of colour on her black face are now visible. Behind her, the tabby now has eyes closed as her face in now in full bright sun

Like 7 September at 12:20 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

She's home!!!

(Quarantined in the bathroom: she's still virus-y and sneezing. I put Amber and Bluebell in for company as they had it already and have recovered)

Cap greeted her sister, ate a little, then set about Official Site Inspection(TM)

Lots of Strange Objects and smells in here..
(I'm still painting it for my mother)

#cats

A small Siamese cat is delicately sniffing the legs of the stepladder. She thin and underweight, hair sticking out unkempt.

Siamese cat reaching up to sniff a metal step ladder. The floor is white tiles, with white cabinets, radiator, and grey blue wall behind.

She found a mirror, wedged behind a white chest of drawers so the cats won't knock it over. Sniffing it delicately with ears back. A white bandage visible on her black front leg.

Blurry pic of a cat running across the white tile floor. Her tail is curled up in excitement. Camera angle from human sitting on the floor, peering under a table (table legs seen on the right)

Like 3 September at 18:45 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Crazy cat person life, got all my ex-ferals in a row!

Left ➡️ right: Amber, Bluebell, Cappuccino, Darcy.

- Miralka seated behind.

Only Mina is out of shot, she hates everyone 😂

#crazycatpeople #crazycatenby #catsofmastodon #catphoto

4 Cats in a row across a blue blanket, with human feet bottom left. A tortoiseshell looking right, a small tabby curled up, a young Siamese looking straight at the camera, and a large blue male turned to the right. Behind him, on a pile of clothes, is another Siamese. A bookcase visible behind her head.

A tabby sits front and centre, her back to the camera. Behind her 3 cats lounge comfortably on blue and pink blankets at the end of a bed, nid-groom with laws and tongues sticking out. A bookcase, white door, and cabinet line the back wall of the room.

Like 24 August at 8:51 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

#WhiskersWednesday Mina is my most clingy cat, the neediest / kneadiest girl alive.

She is Miralka's sister, half Tonkinese(?), VERY chatty, and has a cartoonish heart shaped white spot on her chest. 1 brain cell though 😛

So hard to photograph, usual voidcat problems apply. Here's a rare moment she *stopped* rolling around/kneading and sat still..

#blackcat #CatsOfMastodon

A black cat with green eyes, nesting in a pile of cushions. Behind her is an iron bedfram against a pale yellow wall. Another cat sits on a windowsill upper right.

Same black cat, looking left, her eyes slightly closed in contentment. The Siamese cat in the window has turned around to face the room, and is looking right. Her blue-collar, and curled black tail are now visible.

Closer to the black cat, snuggled down further and now looking right. Her white whiskers and part of the heart shaped spot on her chest are now visible.

Like 21 August at 8:06 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

I've been busy with vet appts and stuff to take nice photos for #caturday.

This is Honey, a lovely cat I had a decade ago.

She and her brothers were born in the basement of a house my parents rented. They kept all 3 kittens, and her last brother passed this year age 19.

She liked to go for walks in the #forest with me, pose nicely (aka show off) for photos, and photo-bomb my jewelry shoots (usually with gratuitous butthole).

RIP and greatly missed.

#photography #autumn #catsofmastodon

A ginger and white cat walking through a forest of golden Autumn leaves. She is twisting her body round an old wooden fence post, her tail playfuully curled, and her front leg forward, pacing. Fallen leaves litter the ground, the same colour as her fur.

The same cat, dancing in a leaf strewn path. Her body is curled changing direction - head facing right, one paw stepping forward, rear body and tail facing the other way. Trees covered in yellow leaves surround her. A fence of rotting wooden posts and barb wire on the right, where the ground sloes away.

Cat front and centre, fillig the picture. She is facing right, head turned to face the camera. Her white whiskers are puffed out, expression Judging Me..

And she's off down the path. Photo of a gently sunlit golden forest - ethereally beautiful. A leaf strewn path curves gently up a slope and left. The ginger cat is slowly walking away, head turned right with interest.

Like 17 August at 20:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Monty update: 2 days left of his Calicivirus treatment.

🐰 Noticeably chipper, accepting belly rubs and back to his bitey rabbit self.

🐱 Took 3 of the girls to the vet yesterday: clean bill of health. Booked their spaying for later this month.

That's all the cats done! Nobody else has it, thank goodness.

#catsofmastodon #purrsday

A white cat, lying on his side on a pink fleece blanket. His eyes are alert and open, front paws slightly curled.

Same white cat, having his tummy tickled by a hand reaching from below right. His paws are curled around the hand, back legs tucked to his belly like a bunny rabbit. Head turned up, eyes happy but watching

Like 15 August at 9:07 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

#caturday carpet critters

(Cappuccino, Bluebell)

#CatsOfMastodon #siamesecat #tabbycat

2 small Cats on a red patterned carpet. Left: a small Siamese lying on her side. She has dark brown legs, face and ears, and a creamy white body with browner patches.
Right: a small brown tabby with bright green eyes, looking up with her mouth slightly open.

Like 10 August at 8:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Darcy curled up against me furiously making biscuits.

It's taken a full 2 years to get him to trust me this much and stop being so Frightened of Everything..

.. Alas, he has no idea if the despicable crimes against his person I plan to commit later 🥺

Breach of trust, assault and false imprisonment (locked in a cat crate against his will and taken to vet)

#cats #ImATerriblePerson

Like 8 August at 10:38 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Monty update: talkative and playful, on day 3 of his Calicivirus medication. Mouths a bit puffy though. Hoping that's his immune response from fighting the virus.

Thoughts and prayers, I have to get Darcy in a crate somehow before going to the vet..

He's still very much a feral cat, under that fragile skin of trust and affection. Boy am I about to test that later..🙄

#cats

A white cat with green eye, lying on his back across the corner of a rug and wooden floor. His paws are curled playfully, Whicker's puffed out. A lack plush cat toy is behind his head on the left.

Like 8 August at 10:24 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Bonus #onedaylate #caturday

Bluebell #pawsonalassistant supervising the evenings proceedings (customs forms)

I had to get up to print them 🥺

The proper etiquette for moving tiny boss-cat from her comfy spot, is to:

1. slowly raise blanket like a hammock
2. whisk out human legs
3. wrap cat in blanket nest
4. gently deposit in one smooth motion..

This earns my forgiveness, and a blink of approval.

Problem: how to reclaim MY comfy spot.. Guess it's hers now??

#catsofmastodon #catsupervisor

Bonus #onedaylate #caturday

Bluebell #pawsonalassistant supervising the evenings proceedings (customs forms)

I had to get up to print them 🥺

The proper etiquette for moving tiny boss-cat from her comfy spot, is to:

1. slowly raise blanket like a hammock
2. whisk out human legs
3. wrap cat in blanket nest
4. gently deposit in one smooth motion..

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A tiny tabby cat, buried in the folds of a blue knit blanket. She is keenly supervising the paperwork I am printing and cutting right now.

Boss cat raises her head a little from the blue blanket nest. Some paper snippings (bottom) have landed within parting distance..

Like 4 August at 18:34 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Cappuccino: Guardian of the feets 🐾

(All 3 girls are adopted feral cats)

#caturday #catsofmastodon #siamesecat #adoptedcats #cats

A young tortie point Siamese cat, loafed on a pile of blankets. Her paws are delicately touched under a human foot (left) wearing yellow coloured socks with bees on them.

Three cats gathered around their human's feet (centre, wearing yellow bee patterned socks). Left: a tortoiseshell cat, curled up asleep. Behind her, a tabby cat, kneading. Left: a Siamese, loafed and looking at the camera with her blue and yellow eyes.

Like 3 August at 12:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Herisson Rose

Cappuccino and Amber enjoying the sun this #WhiskersWednesday

I saw their mum in the feral cat colony yesterday - like Bluebell, she's very small. I thought that was due to lack of food/having kittens young.. but these girls are *also* small.

I researched genetic dwarfism in cats, but they show none of the characteristics for that.. they're just small?! 🐈🐞

#catsofmastodon #catpics #photooftheday #pets