:-)) Sunday Cat! #909 March 16, 2025 ((-:

Welcome all to the Sunday Cat!, a weekly gathering of image makers on a subject of mutual interest, our feline friends. The Sunday Cat! has appeared each Sunday, except for a brief interruption in September, 2016, since Anton AK started the thread at DPReview on 23 September 2007. Successive thread managers have been John King, Warriormouse, Robert J, Coldamus, Robert J again (with an assist by StanTsui) and since September 2016, former lurker, me. When DPReview was threatened with closure in March 2023, the last regular Sunday Cat! there was hosted on 2 April 2023. After taking a leap of faith, the Sunday Cat! found refuge here on 9 April 2023.

Working Kitties of the Week!

Guatemalan farm cats taking a break from their pest management duties.

~~Image by @palin0

As said by Warriormouse, "Photos can be more than just art, they can be memories, so come share your pictures and stories of your feline companions with us."

“Official” posting time is every Sunday at 0000 UTC. Because this is Saturday afternoon for me, posting time may vary to accommodate my schedule. I'll try to post a message if I know I will be very late. Anyone anxious to start the new week is free to do so. But if you do, please PM me so I don’t accidentally double post.

Come one, come all! Remember, all cats, all cameras welcome. Digital cats or silver halide cats, cats of metal, or cats of the wilderness. Big cats, small cats, kittens and their toys. Cats of pen and ink, cats of brush and canvas, from any time, any place. Let the Sunday Cat! be a refuge to enjoy and marvel at the magic of cats, where positive comments abound and constructive criticism is given if requested.

The Sunday Cat! is now open for mischief. :D

Last week's purrs, #908 / DPRv #101

Thread Manager's Corner:
After almost two years at DPRv the Sunday Cat! has taken another leap by moving into its own forum. Currently titled, "The Sunday Cats!", I'm hoping for a slight change without the "The". With the break from its ancestral Olympus forum, Sunday Cat! begins a new era. It's good to have a home of one's own. :D And I've even managed to start the new week on time, actually a little early for a change. Miracles happen!

~~~ Kim

Though small in size, the imprint they make on our lives is huge.

Hi,

Yep. Not under Olympus any longer. Your kitten has grown up!

Stan

Ah Ha! I've found the Sunday Cat again! Seems our cats have found a loving home
on the "The Photo Forum". Someone explain why there seems to be as many cats
still on the Sunday Cat on DPR as here. Post on both sites?
Mokey eye to eye.

Hi,

I don't post in both. I never knew it was there, not being an Oly user and so never reading that forum. I didn't see SC until here, and then because of the Threads list.

Stan

I cross-post back at DPR in the hope of enticing folks to come here. It has worked for a few but not many. I know some folks dislike that we only have a threaded view here and not a flat view like DPR offers, but posting a weekly thread helps to manage that. (I guess if we had more visitors that might not be so useful...) And folks may feel that it's too much bother to create a new account over here. Whichever, Sunday Cat! has found a good forever home here (I hope), and now has its own very special place. :) Thanks Alan for giving Sunday Cat! its own home and making that last change in the title for me. Much appreciated!

Stealing someone's post from a comment forum on Substack that I saw earlier this week, it is just too appropriate not to use here. :)

"A dog looks into your mind...a cat looks into your soul."

We have just brought more plants onto the balcony as it is warming up here. Micio now likes to hide, hoping for some unfortunate bird to pass by.