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

[tollermom]

She's really impossibly adorable. I love blue kitten stalking blue fish... much too cute!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking she can't get cuter, and then she does it anyway.

[tollermom]

Kittens are devious that way.

As soon as I get pictures sized and uploaded, there will be pictures of my foster puppy, who is also a cutie (but not floofy, I fear, except when molting).

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

You do realize that Maine Coons take longer to mature than other breeds, yes? i.e. She will continue to grow for probably the next two years, before she reaches her full growth.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I do. I'm very excited.

[ladyamber.livejournal.com]

Your adorable kitty post makes me want to adopt the stray that's been hanging around my house lately. She is adorable and patchwork black and I want to cuddle her and tend to her tail, which looks like it's been badly mangled near the base of it.

I have to remember that I'm technically 'lergic to kitties. This does not bode well for my sinuses.

(kitty!)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Be strong, or you will be sneezing!

[ladyamber.livejournal.com]

...I have caved, and adopted the little fuzzball named Sierra.

Surprisingly, I don't sneeze with the kitty! She is the first kitty I've encountered that I don't sneeze at within five minutes of petting her, and she's taking to living in the house quite well. :3 The tail-injury was apparently a fighting wound; the vet looked at it and wrapped it up nice and neat.

Of course, now the poor girl's in heat. :/ Whee. **makes note to get her fixed as soon as the heat passes**

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Well, good on the not-sneezing! Lucky Sierra!