So her owners are Japanese. Cats are very popular in Japan. There are even cat cafés there, where you can pat a cat while you drink your latte! Here's a picture from a cat café, which looks more like a bar with cats to me.
They are marvellous photos - and the photographer ISN'T professional!
And Daisy, the kitten, is --- well, she just sets the Gold Standard in Adorable and in Cute...
Margarita
"In those rare moments of total quiet with a dark sky, I again feel the awe that struck me as a child. The feeling is utterly overwhelming as my mind races out across the stars. I feel peaceful and serene."
"In those rare moments of total quiet with a dark sky, I again feel the awe that struck me as a child. The feeling is utterly overwhelming as my mind races out across the stars. I feel peaceful and serene."
This thread has been languishing in limbo for a relativley long time. Long time, no see. Isn't it time to revive it? When you look at this kitten... don't you feel that some people love kittens because they are so much like little human tots?
Beyond wrote:
Adorable, i can probably stretch to, if not somewhat on the low end of adorable.
It's the 'cute' part that i just can't get to.
You place cute above adorable
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Adorable, a. [L. adorabilis, fr. adorare: cf. F. adorable.]
1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Cute, a. [An abbrev. of acute.] Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.
1. Clever or shrewd often in an underhanded manner
2. Attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way
3. Obviously straining for effect
http://legacy.lclark.edu/dept/chron/afterwords07.html wrote:
<<Loxosceles laeta is a cousin of the brown recluse spider, but larger and more venomous. Sometime in the late nineteen-sixties, apparently, their ancestors had ridden to California in costume crates owned by a troupe of Shakespearean actors from Brazil. A year or two later, they were discovered at a theatre in the L.A. suburb of Sierra Madre and promptly triggered a citywide panic. "50 DEADLY SPIDERS FOUND," a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times announced on June 7, 1969. "VENOM LIKE RATTLESNAKES." Infestations have been reported in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Florida. The serious bites form a necrotising ulcer that destroys soft tissue and may take months, and very rarely, years to heal, leaving deep scars. The damaged tissue will become gangrenous and eventually slough away.>>
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Personally I find snakes very beautiful, although I don't think they are cute. But I don't find spiders attractive one way or another. On the other hand, I do realize that they are important in regulating the overall balance in nature, by catching so many insects.
geckzilla wrote:To be fair I also think jumping spiders and a good portion of hymenoptera are cute.
Yeah! Little jumping spiders are cute. Big ones, not so cute, but very interesting when you see them jump at a fly and catch it.
Don't know what hymenoptera are as yet. I may get around to looking it up... but probably not.
Personally I find snakes very beautiful, although I don't think they are cute. But I don't find spiders attractive one way or another. On the other hand, I do realize that they are important in regulating the overall balance in nature, by catching so many insects.
Ann
I like pictures of snakes, but don't really care to be around them for real. Pictures are a lot safer!
"In those rare moments of total quiet with a dark sky, I again feel the awe that struck me as a child. The feeling is utterly overwhelming as my mind races out across the stars. I feel peaceful and serene."
geckzilla wrote:I've always wondered why a band around a cat's chest or abdomen immobilizes it. I had a few ideas but nothing to be sure about.
How very strange. I didn't know that it would - never having dreamed of trying it on any of our cats (who won't even tolerate collars.)
I presume it's something to do with kitten behaviour to go limp when picked up in its mother's mouth - but that wouldn't be a band around the middle.
What ideas do you have, Geckzilla?
Margarita
"In those rare moments of total quiet with a dark sky, I again feel the awe that struck me as a child. The feeling is utterly overwhelming as my mind races out across the stars. I feel peaceful and serene."