Pál_K
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You’re getting the Winston Churchill treatment.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/ec/ea/5...-churchill.jpg
CMur12
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Yup, he's all cat!
- Murray
- Murray
Chriscrawfordphoto
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Sneaky sleeping blissfully on his poop emoji pillow.
Retro-Grouch
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Looks like he just finished another nice steak dinner. Tough life!
Chriscrawfordphoto
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One comment I get a lot on Facebook when I post pics of Sneaky stretched out asleep or eating fresh grilled meat is "I want Sneaky's life" or "Sneaky is my life goal!"
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Last night Sneaky was sleeping on the back of my sofa. He is such a BIG kitty! Of course, he'll tell you that his growth is stunted by malnutrition due to inadequate quantities of steak in his diet. He ate almost half of a filet mignon for dinner last night. Oink!
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Sitting in his cat tree
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Yes. Sneaky has dangerous enemies! The two cats he fights with the most are a white cat with orange splotches on his back and a white cat with black splotches. Orange is close enough to red, so that cat is obviously a communist. The other cat is obviously a black-shirted fascist. Though Sneaky is an autocratic monarch, ruling by divine right, he claims to be the only alternative to the evil commies and nazis in our neighborhood!
Retro-Grouch
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Hmm... I've always been of the opinion that all cats are die-hard Anarchists.
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
I think we’re on to something…
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ashleybaccam/cats-that-look-like-communists-and-fascists
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ashleybaccam/cats-that-look-like-communists-and-fascists
Chriscrawfordphoto
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Check out the Cats That Look Like Hitler website.
When I lived in New Mexico, there was a cat in the neighborhood that everyone called Hitler due to his appearance. No one knew who owned him, though he didn't look like a stray (he was very healthy and well-groomed) and was very friendly to people. He answered to "Hitler" when called. The woman I was dating out there had a longhaired orange tomcat named Oliver who used to fight with Hitler all the time. I photographed one of their confrontations. They growled and hissed at each other for a few minutes, then Hitler bakced off.
One time, I was outside and Hitler came up to me and started rubbing my ankles and I petted him. I didn't realize that Oliver was sitting in the front window watching me fraternize with the ENEMY. When I went back in, Ann (my girlfriend at the time) told me that Oliver had just sprayed the front window curtain in the living room! He had bee in the window, with the curtain behind him. She didn't understand why he did that, until I told her that I had been petting Hitler in the driveway! Oliver must have gotten jealous and wanted to be EXTRA sure that EVERYONE knew that this was HIS house.
Pál_K
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It appears that Oliver remembers what happened to the Sudetenland and is being protective of his territory.
Chriscrawfordphoto
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Sneaky likes to sleep on the floor in front of this stack of framed photographs that I exhibited years ago. As usual, he is totally relaxed! I made the one he's sleeping in front of when I was an art student in the late 1990s.
Retro-Grouch
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Sneaky likes to sleep on the floor in front of this stack of framed photographs that I exhibited years ago. As usual, he is totally relaxed! I made the one he's sleeping in front of when I was an art student in the late 1990s.
I hope that the gallery goers had a more animated response! Sneaky is more like the typical New York jaded sophisticate "art lover".
Pál_K
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A Spanish teacher once told me that there is an idiom, “to put one’s feet against the wall”, which means a person is stubborn. Is Sneaky stubborn?
Chriscrawfordphoto
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Tuesday afternoon, I bought a new office chair for my son. Yesterday evening, Sneaky took it over and refused to move from it until after Mack went to bed last night! He's back in the chair right now at 5am.
Sneaky liked to sleep on the old chair, and often Mack had to get another chair to sit on because the cat would not move. It was important for him to quickly establish ownership over the new chair so the humans will know that he, the cat, is still in charge here.
Retro-Grouch
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I just compared these current pictures of Sneaky with those in your original postings, and I'm seeing an interesting change that parallels what has happened with our cat, Nancy, over the years. Her marking are identical to Sneaky's, so much so that I have startled people with your pictures of Sneaky. Now that she is over 12 years old, she has developed much more brown in her markings, around her eyes, on her muzzle, and on her flanks. I seem to see the same change in Sneaky, or is it just differences in lighting, or my imagination? How old do you think Sneaky is, by the way?
Pál_K
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Sneaky seems pleased you have bought him this nice chair.
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I don't know for certain how old he is. I have had him for a little more than four years now. He was smaller back then than he is now, and not just because he has fattened up (he was skin and bones starved when I first met hm). He has gotten longer and taller, so he wasn't totally full grown back then. He was sexually mature, though. I was later told that he had fathered some litters of kittens in the neighborhood before I took him in and got him neutered. He's some sort of "Forest Cat" which are large longhaired breeds that originated in northern countries. The Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat, and the Siberian are Forest Cats. Those breeds grow large, but they reach adulthood before they stop growing. It can take them 3-4 years to reach full size. I'm guessing he was maybe a year or two old when I took him in, so he would be 5 or 6 now. The changes in his color would be part of his growth.
Very pleased. Especially since he got it by robbing Mack.
