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Me: *opens blinds on patio door*
Neighbour’s cat:
Me:
Cat:
Pause the paws.
Me: *a few second later* Hello!
Cat: Meow?
Maggie (curled up on the sofa): *finally notices the cat, glares accusingly at it*
Me: *starts to unlock door*
Cat: *runs off back to its house*
Maggie (belatedly): *growls*
Unimpressed neighbourhood cat is unimpressed with the dog sniffing around the front fence.
Not. Happy. Jan.
It was a grey, dreary, six degrees on our walk this morning — complete with intermittent drizzles. On the bright side we both to go wear or puffer jackets :)
Hers is fancier and more expensive than mine, of course. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Yes, it’s cold and wet. Yes, it’s drizzling. But I need to eat my greens.” Bonus fluffy butt in a stylish doggy puffer jacket.
Sunshine on a rainy day — but just on that one spot behind the building.
Crepuscular rays FTW!
Selfies at a Sunday afternoon birthday with, respectively, Dr Nadia Niaz, Dr Nuzhat Lotia, and Dr Asha Bedar.
Plus one bonus ‘golden light’ selfie at sunset with Nadia :)
Blocking the sun so we can see ourselves in the phone camera.
Now that is a well camouflaged Cat of Kingsville.
I saw it only two steps before we walked by it, so all I had time to do was make sure Maggie stayed close to me on her lead on the other side of my legs.
Maggie, in the meantime, didn’t notice it at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Blending into the dirt and and into background.
It’s a little easier to see from across the street, when it doesn’t have all that dirt and background to blend into.
But even then, given how still it was sitting, you’d miss if you weren’t actively looking out for animals as you walked your dog.
Camouflaged cat is watching you.
Gotta wait till the fresh paint on the mailbox dries before reattaching those house numbers :)
Hanging on.
Maggie waits for a treat after seeing a dog across the street.
She still doesn’t like dogs, but she’s not particularly leash reactive these days — which is great.
Expecto treatonum!
Coming back to our cats of Kingsville series, though, today we saw two cats.
This one that decided that vertical separation was better than horizontal separation as I walked Maggie down its street (Maggie sniffed the base of the tree but didn’t even register the cat’s presence).
Cat up a tree, unimpressed with the fact that I’m taking its photo.
And this one that was particularly frowny about us walking by its domain :)
Disapproving cat-on-a-post is disapproving.
We take a break from our usual cats of Kingsville coverage to show a friendly cat in Yarraville that loved getting scritched by Nadia :)
Turned up after we’d parked our car, got a few scritches, and then wandered off through the hedge into the neighbouring park.
It’s important to be warm and stylish when Nadia takes you for your morning walk on a windy, overcast 4-degree day in Melbourne :)
I’m not sure how much she appreciated the coat, but she was certainly looking forward to her walk!
Happy puppy :)
Glowing golden sunset behind patchy rain clouds in Melbourne this evening.
Now that’s quite a glow!
Today in Cats of Kingsville: this fluff ball detoured off the sidewalk where I was walking Maggie so she could keep an eye on us from a safe distance :)
Peeking out from across the low hedge.
Gorgeous peach-pink sunset in Melbourne today!
Peach-pink sunset behind the clouds, above the rooftops.
This fire was classified by VicEmergency as ‘small’. But it looked much bigger when you saw its smoke plume against that yellow-orange sky at sunset.
A trick of the light makes the smoke stand out against the sky.
Democracy sausage achieved! With Nadia at Kingsville Primary School after voting in the 2019 federal elections in Australia.
(For future reference, you can find out which polling places in Australia offer democracy sausages, cake stalls, and the like from democracysausage.org.)
White bread, sausage, fried onions, and sauce. What more could you want?
This is my favourite mailbox in all of Kingsville. There’s often an outdoor bin just below it as well :)
Please give us junk mail!
Some trees are preparing for winter: steadily, gracefully shedding their leaves. Others are overachievers and were ready to go *days* ago.
Getting ready for winter in Melbourne.
In our continuing series on the cats of Kingsville, here's one from today who really cares only for sun warmfs.
Ignoring the world.
All grey skies and silver linings.
Grey skies over Docklands in Melbourne.
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