Hello all,
Following on from my thread in General about my recent holiday to Turkey, I thought I'd share a few more of my pictures of the feline variety.I always have a thing for photographing stray cats abroad. The way they eke out an existence fascinates me, as well as, of course, finding them incredibly adorable.
We stayed in a villa and for part of the holiday were graced with visits from a cat we presume was a stray, even though she was friendly and appreciated human contact. She was a beautiful subject for the camera! We nicknamed her 'Tiptoes', since she had a habit of kneading her paws.
After her trust in us grew, she began to wait for us by the patio door every morning.
We didn't often have a lot to give her to eat. I'm vegetarian, and when we're away the rest of my family don't really eat meat other than at restaurants. She had to make do with milk and boiled egg to begin with (I know not quite the ideal diet, but considering we caught her eating some old cooked potatoes from a rubbish bin one evening, I think she could manage). Since she kept coming back, we thought of some more inventive ways to feed her. Here she is eating some 6-hour slow roasted Turkish lamb; we kept a little meat to one side of my parents' dish at a local restaurant and wrapped it up in napkins and snuck it home (we didn't think they'd be to happy that we were planning on feeding their best dish to the cat).
We then had another nice surprise - this time her kitten joined her! To begin with, he was very nervous of us, and stayed glued to his mother, and if we got too close he would bolt off to a safe distance. He was quite wary of the flashy box!
More to come...
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Originally Posted by catmandu
) at the cats walking by, who were not posing any bother to them, and then letting their bratty children run riot chasing them around the place. Some people - revolting!
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