This is my Big Man - "Daze", short for Dazy. He is both the family angel and the family devil. A feral save from a building site some years ago when I lived in Houston.
We actually have five cats like this, each with their own temperament, as a result of who there were before we got them. Each with myriad endearing qualities and cute personality quirks.
Dazy is a sucker for love, likes biscuits and hates to be stroked past his tail.
I have two pitch black girls, one of whom was an experimental cat for a lab. She is shy, skittish but adoring at quiet moments. The other is a polydacytl and very snuggly but totally nuts!
Then there is Max ( short for Maxamillion) who has 7 claws on each foot, sports a marmalade coat and is a bed hog.
Lastly but not least, there is Rozy. He was a freebie, thrown in under the deck of the house we bought in Charlotte. He was quite feral when we got him and made quite a lot more neurotic by the folk who trapped him, anaesthetised and neutered him, all while cutting his ear off!! Some two years later he is recovering and will at least talk to me now.
My Angels and My Devils...but what would life be without them?
I see angel wings at his sides!Doesn't anybody else?Wonderful rendering of the photo! A very nice kitty indeed!
Posted by: Catraven | May 14, 2006 at 07:03 PM
that is a great illutration; looks very watercolorish
Posted by: AscenderRisesAbove | May 14, 2006 at 02:47 PM
Beautiful cat...He looks like a devil, but he's an angel, I'm sure!!!!
Posted by: Cez | May 14, 2006 at 09:53 AM
You're so wonderful to make a home for these cats! I love your descriptions of each one...you sound like you have a very big heart! I've had many rescue cats over the years, but the one I loved the most was Romeo. I started to write the long story and then deleted it - suffice to say, after many years of those angel/devil moments, I was heartbroken when he died. He was such a love:> Your Dazy looks like a wonderful cat...full of self-possessed personality! It must be quite a scene moving all these cats from one place to another... I had to call in an animal trapper to get Romeo out of the bedroom closet when I moved a few years ago. I would never have believed that a cat could fly up a wall until I tried to get him into a cat carrier. Well, I hope your furry buddies are happy in their new home:>
Posted by: carla | May 14, 2006 at 09:31 AM