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King cheetahs are soooooo gorgeous.
The rest of them are just hilarious. Although the ‘Ease on down the road’ could as easily be Karate Kitty learning that crane move!
I’ve know a cat or two who would qualify for the name of Fungus, although most people call them ‘velcro kitties’. The kind that attach themselves to you when you sit down and just cling on even when you stand up again. One would just rear up and hook her ‘arms’ around your neck when she felt you stand up, and just hang on like that.
That orange is a bit too orange on that griffin for my taste – I know, he’s patterned after a zebra finch, but I guess a little goes a long way 😀 . I keep thinking I’d like to see him after breeding season when the beak and feet have dulled down a tad. On the other hand – or end- that is a gorgeous paint job on the rump; very lifelike in a cougar or lion style.
I wouldn’t object to having him, but I ‘spect he’ll be a bit more than I’m willing to ‘chase’ him for. I’ll keep hunting. (I do need another male though – poor Navarre spent 15 years as the sole griffin and now he’s the only male out of 10!)
Pam Thompson wrote:Thrippa wrote:What became of the red-spotted Savannah crouching chick? I can only locate e-bay listings for two of the three crouchers in the photo(neither of which have pictures any longer), but I’ve been looking for that one to go with the red sitter. Did I miss it somewhere?
No, it’s, uh… Broke.
😥 Oh dear. Well, I’ve saved a lot of money not bidding because I was waiting for it, I suppose. Russet will just have to pretend he’s an erythristic cheetah, then, and join that clutch; the spots aren’t TOO different!
What became of the red-spotted Savannah crouching chick? I can only locate e-bay listings for two of the three crouchers in the photo(neither of which have pictures any longer), but I’ve been looking for that one to go with the red sitter. Did I miss it somewhere?
Kalandra wrote:SK Admirers XD
And next we will teach the ‘Watch!’ command. Hold the treat where they can see it, then say “Watch me!”
Stencils are nice; they enable more people to get complicated-looking patterns, while preserving the uniqueness of the rare test paints people(may have)paid lots of money for. I had a couple of Breyers whose value crashed after the company decided to do nearly or identical open runs of limited or special editions; I never collected them for value, but I could certainly understand the annoyance of people whose ‘one of ten’ models suddenly became one of thousands.
Another big cat fancier here, I’ll buy a Poad in about any wild cat color you put out,whether it exists in the wild or not! (Hypothetical colors are fun; white leopards, red leopards, Maltese tigers . . .)
That’s not cheetah griffy chick # 2, though, it’s griff #1’s pictures again. The blurb says #2 has grey eyes and the pics not only have yellow eyes, but the footpad says ‘#1’ on it.
It might be a good idea to at least take her out in a carrier to get used to the new ‘home’ odors and sights. The problem with indoor cats is that if they end up outdoors they are very easy to lose and hard to find because they don’t know their homes from the outside. At one clinic I worked in, we had about twelve clients’ cats get lost when a ‘straight-line hurricane’ came through, dropping trees on houses all over the area. (It wasn’t actually a hurricane, but the TV station’s weather tower read 74-78mph before it blew down.) Of the eight indoor cats, only two were ever found, but the indoor-outdoor ones came home as soon as the storm was over. Also, micro-chipping is a good idea, since the cat can’t lose that like they can a collar. If you do put a collar on her, be certain that she can get out of it if she needs to.
A lot of non-show cats have ghost stripes, and a lot of kittens start out with them but lose them along the way. The tabby gene in cats is pretty powerful and it affects how the hairs reflect light as well as just arranging the pigment. Reds are the worst, because the non-striping doesn’t affect red pigment, but even in black and the variations thereof, the stripes will often manage to show through. I’ve even seen some white cats that had stripes when the light was at the right angle.
Those are beautiful – but I bet they’ll make life interesting for you! Enjoy.
(And do post a pic of Gandalf once he grows his beard in! 😀 )
I got a call from my gas card company a few years back, about a discrepancy in my account. Apparently, their computer had flagged two consecutive charges for precisely $200.00 each at a gas station in FL, and then when the credit card folk looked into it, I’d bought groceries a mere 2 hours earlier in NC! My card was still in my wallet. Their suspicion was that someone had probably entered numbers until they found one that worked, and then tried to see what they could get off of it, but I’m not certain why each totaled $200 unless they have a max amount at stations with no garage attached. At any rate, since it was the gas card, it had only been used in VA, where I got it, and in NC, to which I subsequently moved, and only at that one company’s gas stations – in fact, I don’t think I’d ever even used it INSIDE a station, only at the pumps. So they canceled the charges (and that card) and sent me a new card/number. And I took a good, hard look at the final statement of the old number before I paid it off, but other than the triggering anomalies, it was valid.
Wasn’t a great deal I could learn from that one, other than that the company did have flags set in the computers, and that their customer service was very good!
