Naughty XingXing! And a cute kitten with floppy paws.....

So, yesterday morning I woke up to find this scene outside my bedroom door. XingXing "attacked" this potted plant from the windowsill on the other side of the apartment and dragged it 30+ feet to present his "kill" to us! I was more amused than angry, especially since I could use the excuse that I was running late for work to get out of cleaning it up!


And here's Venus, a ridiculously cute kitten that is available for adoption at KittyKind in NYC. Don't you love how she lets her paws flop down?

XingXing, Serious and then Silly

Although most AMACA2C fans know that XingXing is a rather serious / intense cat, he does has his silly moments, or at least micro-moments that look silly as captured by the camera.  Here are two photos taken seconds apart, the first straight & serious, the second scrunched down a bit and looking silly.

Does this flash make me look fat?

Had a slave flash firing from the left - don't know if its that or what, but XingXing almost looks like a semi-long hair here........



Here is another gray & white kitty I found on flickr in a funny sleeping pose - looks like could be XX and FF's cousin!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Headless Kitty

Bonus points to whomever can answer this question - which cat is this? Leave a Meow (comment) below!

Rise up FuFu! And Walk Like Me

Another way to look at it is that XingXing is swaying his hips and playing with an invisible hula hoop!

Houston, We Have a Kitty on the Ceiling

So this morning I woke up early, made some coffee and settled down in front of the stove to catch up on my newspapers, when out of the corner of my eye I caught some movement above and looked up to see this:

XingXing had jumped up from a piece of furniture next to the hearth and scaled those narrow ledges to the top! Uh-oh. I yelled back to Jo-jo to wake up and snapped this photo. Mother-in-law went to fetch a ladder and I positioned myself below XingXing to catch him if he fell trying to climb down. But next thing I knew he jumped from those narrow ledges up to the rafter and started scurrying around up there.

The rafters are in a "Tic-Tack-Toe Board" configuration and he explored them quite thoroughly. At first we were scared when he came to the end of a rafter that he wouldn't be able to turn himself around. Despite giving out a weak and somewhat pathetic "meowrrr" he was eventually able to turn around. A debate ensued on whether he would be able to get down unassisted. Although father-in-law started in the "if he can get up, he can get down" camp he eventually yielded after several more pathetic meows and our collective opinion that he did seem nervous and somewhat frightened.

B&W crop:

On this next photo you can see some cabinetry on the lower right that surrounds the fridge. I used the ladder to get up on top of this but I wasn't sure it would hold my weight so Jojo got up there with XingXing's favorite toy and lured him over and grabbed him.

Happy to report that the furry little guy doesn't seem psychologically traumatized from his adventure and in fact is sleeping soundly on my lap as I write this!

FuFu in the Sky (with Stained Glass)

The first one pushes the limits of adjustments on Adobe Lightroom, the second one more true to life!