Geoffrey Kitten

"Alphonze" wrote
snip hoolikitten antics
But I had my revenge. As I enjoyed a post-task coffee, I found
Geoffrey sacked out after all his exercise on a chair. So, I got my
digital camera out, poked him rudely, and fired the flash into his
face! Herewith, please enjoy a picture of a grouchy hoolikitten,
freshly awoken from his beauty sleep

Awww, and very annoyed he looks, too!

--
Marina

"Alphonze" wrote in message
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Hopitus2 wrote:
Geoffrey is so cute; aren't all his hoolikitten transgressions forgiven?

All of them!

Except the bit where he climbed up my arm and sat on the back of my head
while I was wiring up the phone socket, and - perched there - adopted
the 'cello' position and gave his junk a quick freshening-up. To the
unbounded, hysterical glee of my friend.

I'll forgive him for that later.


LOL - don't you wish your friend had the camera at that moment?


--
Jette Goldie

Apache and Dakota
http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html

Awww, adorable! Thanks.
Best wishes,
--
Polonca & Soncek

"Alphonze" wrote in message
om...
snip Herewith, please enjoy a picture of a grouchy hoolikitten,
freshly awoken from his beauty sleep

http://rjs.project-black.co.uk/galle...?album=4&pos=3

Hehehehee
Al.

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" "evgmsop -no wrote in
message ...
Adorable! ...But Geoffrey looks more calico than tabby - aure you SURE
he's a "he"? (I guess male calicos are possible, but they're pretty
rare.)


I'm sorry...but calico??? Geoffrey does not look anything like a calico to
me. Calico is white with orange and black patches. Geoffrey looks very
tabby in my eyes.
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Britta
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badwilson wrote:

I'm sorry...but calico??? Geoffrey does not look anything like a calico to
me. Calico is white with orange and black patches. Geoffrey looks very
tabby in my eyes.

Geoffrey is definitely a tabby, even if he can't quite decide whether to
have spots or stripes. The lighting in the photo is a bit strange, and I
can see how he could look a little calico (which doesn't necessarily
need white - just orange and black will do)!

He's also definitely a boy.

Cheers,
Al.

"Alphonze" wrote
badwilson wrote:

I'm sorry...but calico??? Geoffrey does not look anything like a calico
to
me. Calico is white with orange and black patches. Geoffrey looks very
tabby in my eyes.

Geoffrey is definitely a tabby, even if he can't quite decide whether to
have spots or stripes. The lighting in the photo is a bit strange, and I
can see how he could look a little calico (which doesn't necessarily
need white - just orange and black will do)!

I think his colouring resembles my sister's cat's. Ronja has sort of stripes
here and there, and splotches of colour here and there, like a big ginger
splotch on either side. We thought her markings would become clearer with
age, but they haven't. Here she is:

http://tinyurl.com/xd72

--
Marina

"Alphonze" wrote in message
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badwilson wrote:

I'm sorry...but calico??? Geoffrey does not look anything like a calico
to
me. Calico is white with orange and black patches. Geoffrey looks very
tabby in my eyes.

Geoffrey is definitely a tabby, even if he can't quite decide whether to
have spots or stripes. The lighting in the photo is a bit strange, and I
can see how he could look a little calico (which doesn't necessarily
need white - just orange and black will do)!

Oh, I thought that just orange and black is tortoiseshell (tortie)?
I guess some of Geoffrey's tabby stripes might be interrupted, causing the
spots ;-)
--
Britta
ROT13 to reply
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on Vino and "friends" album

badwilson wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" "evgmsop -no wrote in
message ...
Adorable! ...But Geoffrey looks more calico than tabby - aure you SURE
he's a "he"? (I guess male calicos are possible, but they're pretty
rare.)

I'm sorry...but calico??? Geoffrey does not look anything like a calico to
me. Calico is white with orange and black patches. Geoffrey looks very
tabby in my eyes.

Hmmm.... I've always understood "tabby" to mean tiger-striped, whereas
"calico" is multi-colored patches (with or without white bits).

(Alphonze) wrote in message . com...
This afternoon has been fraught with hoolikitten moments.

You see, I went to visit a friend, and help solve a small problem that
she has. She's got a nice study, but whenever she wants to use the
Internet, she has to take her laptop into the sitting room, because
there's no phone socket in the study. My task for the afternoon was to
string an extension socket upstairs. Easy? Would have been, except for
my little helper.

Geoffrey is not very old, tabby (except for a weird dime-sized patch
of purest ginger on the top of his head!), and very *very* lively.
Wriggling cables, power tools and humans crouching on the floor are
the stuff of life to him.

For nearly two hours he chased and pounced, and issued forth pathetic
squeaks when lifted away from the danger areas (yes, this kitten was
trying to kill a running power drill!).

But I had my revenge. As I enjoyed a post-task coffee, I found
Geoffrey sacked out after all his exercise on a chair. So, I got my
digital camera out, poked him rudely, and fired the flash into his
face! Herewith, please enjoy a picture of a grouchy hoolikitten,
freshly awoken from his beauty sleep

http://rjs.project-black.co.uk/galle...?album=4&pos=3

Hehehehee
Al.


Awww, what a cutie. He looks awfully surprised that you would dare to
disturb him. LOL!
------
Krista

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" "evgmsop -no wrote:

Hmmm.... I've always understood "tabby" to mean tiger-striped, whereas
"calico" is multi-colored patches (with or without white bits).

He's striped - look at his forehead!

But it's true that he seems to have a lot of orange patches, doesn't
he? There are some cats who are black and orange, with no white, but
instead of the colors being all mashed together as in a tortie, there
are discrete patches of black and orange striped areas, the way it would
be with a calico (except that there's no white). Those cats are called
"torbies", I think - combo of "tortie" and "tabby". However, they are
also always female, so I don't think Geoffrey is one of those either!

Maybe his "orange patches" are just an effect of the lighting?

Joyce