Tax day cat pictures!

[seanan_mcguire]

For those of us in the continental United States, today is Tax Day: the day when it becomes more physically unsafe to be in the immediate vicinity of a post office than it is to be in the middle of the mall on Christmas Eve. Because I am a merciful human being who understands that angry mobs, like other natural disasters, sometimes just happen, I have elected to celebrate Tax Day in the most sensible way possible.

To whit: cat pictures. Today we're focusing on Alice, because you aren't as tired of looking at her yet.

It took Alice—short for Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire, because I like names that I can really commit to shouting—approximately five minutes to decide that I was her people and my bedroom was her place to be. It's good to have cats that can understand the situation so clearly, right out the gate.



As my friend Josh said, "Why is it no surprise that your bedspread is orange?" As I said, the bedspread is actually orange, green, brown, and "you need to wash the bedspread now" eggshell-cream. It does a remarkably good job of not showing cat hair.



Behold the enormous golden and green eyes of endearingness! Alice can melt you with a guilesome stare, and I don't just mean because she has access to napalm.



Like all sensible cats, Alice likes a good cat tree. Like all sensible cats belonging to me, she doesn't object to the color orange.



What's this? Why, could it possibly be...a dangling fish?!



Alice whips out the BIG DAMN GUNS of being impossibly adorable.



That is one tricky fish, friends and neighbors.



Apparently, playing peek-a-boo with the fish is just as good as killing it. Who knew?



All that playtime was very, very tiring. Also, my rug demonstrates the concept behind failing to blend into your surroundings. Here I am, supplying a nice blendable pattern, and here she is, not blending. CAMO FAIL.



Flopped kitty...is flopped.



A kitten at rest doesn't object as much when you take her picture.



Blue cat and pumpkin blanket. Oh, she is so mine.



I leave you with LASER-EYE KITTEN, adrift in a sea of glorious orange and Halloween linen. Hopefully, she can blast your Tax Day blues away.

Next time, Lilly and Alice together!

Comments

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

Wow, she's pretty big already!

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

She's Maine Coon. She will get BIGGER. In an article about Maine Coons I found values between 10 to 14 kilos for grown tomcats and a little bit less for females.

[kyrielle]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Behold! For now she wears the ADORABLE pants!

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

She's so adorable! This fluffy fur! Maine Coons just ROCK.
Sadly, Tiger got not so much of his Maine Coon Daddy's genes when it comes to fur.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that they have twice the fur and half the shedding of a Siamese.

[ceosanna.livejournal.com]

Between your pictures and the stories you've shared, I'm suddenly feeling the need for a kitten.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Kittens are awesome. It's true.

[madfilkentist]

Cats, like tax collectors, won't take no for an answer. But your cats are vastly cuter.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

If they let kittens collect taxes, we'd have way fewer audits.

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

*SQUEE* SO CUTE. SO VERY VERY CUTE. OH MY GOD THE CUTE.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It burns, it's true.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

:D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

<3

[kathleenfoucart.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Kitty! Cute kitty! *pets*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

My cats love to be petted. You will be well-received around these parts.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

*kitten-lust*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

*approves*

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I found you via metaquotes, and I hope you don't mind that I've friended you? Your Maine Coon tales (heh, see what I did there..) are great and I enjoy your writing style. :)

Anyway, that was my de-lurk, and I shall go back to lurking now since I... don't actually know you. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Not at all! :) This is an open-friending zone, and you're very welcome. Feel free to stick around and observe Alice's exponential expansion into adulthood.

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

Kitty cute has made me dead. :-)

I've wanted a Maine Coon for years now. I think I'll forward pictures of yours to my husband, in an effort to wear him down.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They're definitely awesome cats. I'm besotted.

[snowcoma.livejournal.com]

Is that one of the Halloween throws from Target? I have the one with multi-colored skeletons. It is wickedly comfy.

And now my tax day is doubly better, because I don't have to file taxes (in your face, government! I'm a BABYSITTER!), and there's a kitty to look at.

*hugs to you and pettings to Lilly and Alice*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It is! I love them soooooooooooo much, and they're so cozy.

[solarbird]

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT ORANGE CAT TREE

(I love it. I love it soooooo.)

Here, I think!

[snowcoma.livejournal.com]

http://www.armarkat.com/premium-cat-tree/premium-cat-tree-x5802/prod_37.html

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

*dies of cute*

*comes back as a cute-smitten zombie*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

BEST KITTEN EVER!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Ah, sweet kitty! So fluffy and the eyes!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

She just keeps getting cuter. It's awesome.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

I smurgle Miss Alice in all of her floof.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

She is a very smurgle-able cat, it's true.

[scholarinexile.livejournal.com]

As I was looking at your pictures of Alice, my two kittens (Eris Tasselhoff Davis and Mina Josephine Davis) saw her, and immediately began pawing at her image on the monitor. I am uncertain if this indicates a desire for friendship, Kitten Death Match, or both.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Always vote Kitten Death Match. It's more fun that way.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Gabe wants a new friend.
I'm stealin' her.
Hah! Shoe's on the other paw now, isn't it?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

My house retains a lower cat density. Ergo Gabe is getting sucked over HERE.

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

She is precious! And goes really well with the pumpkineffer orange cat tree :-D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

My blue cats go well with my orange room. :)

[nicachick007.livejournal.com]

She is so freaking gorgeous and I will steal her from you in the night.

And she didn't blast my Tax Day blues away, but only because I didn't have any. I'm getting $503 back on my taxes this year!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Betsy makes awesome cats.

[azurelunatic]

KITTY!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Correct!

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, kitten!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

She is so puffy it's practically a super-power.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!

*is slain by the floof of doom* D'awwww!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[maiandra.livejournal.com]

I knew Maine Coons were big as a breed goes, but in case there was ever any doubt, one look at the size of Alice's PAWS is enough to clinch it! She's got some seriously huge fly-swatters there, and they're just gonna keep getting bigger as she grows into them!

I've always wondered if there was a little maine coon scattered in with Maggie and Molly's genes- Molly has the tendency towards floof in her fur, and she did the whole "my paws are huge one hour, my body has grown to match them the next" routine when she was a kitten...

Serious kitten adorableness! Yay!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

She's going to be genuinely massive. I'm looking forward to that day with great eagerness, as it should solve the household power imbalance.

[thepurpleempire.livejournal.com]

Oh! She's gorgeous! Those fluffy ear tufts... *dies of cute*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Behold the adorable. It makes this day...easier.