I've had a complaint. The resident cats say that they are getting mightily bored with the constant references to, and photos of, the canine crew with whom they are forced to share their home. And please would I do something to rectify this? OK, I get the message.
Their real names are a combination of the aristocratic and the ecclesiastical but , given their propensity to loll around like eastern potentates, nothing could be less appropriate. (On second thoughts, the aristocratic name is highly appropriate.) But, for the purposes of this blog, where we all like to retain a little mystery, they are - the Black Stripes.
I give you:
Black Stripe One - a veritable Big Daddy of a cat
and
Black Stripe Two - otherwise known as Mr Hypersensitive
They are twin brothers, born on a Devon farm eight years ago. The farmer was planning to drown them but his wife intervened, took them along to the Blue Cross at Tiverton for rehoming and the Black Stripes came to me as nine-week-old kittens. They've lived here, off the fat of the land, ever since and it's hard to believe that they were once as tiny as Claude and Eustace, the latest arrivals at Mopsa's.
They're quite cyber-savvy and have their own favourite blogs, The Libe de Don Estorbo de la Bodega Dominicana and We Three, Ginger Cats Tales, which they think everyone should read. Not just other cats. They would also like more dogs to read these blogs, just to prove how very superior felines are.
Now that they are on the brink of cyber-fame, there will, of course, be no living with them and I will probably be met with demands that, from now on, they get A-list celebrity treatment. Or else.
Cor, they're big posh bruisers. Claude and Eustace have something to live up to.
Posted by: mopsa | 11 August 2008 at 12:23 PM
Hello Cats from Rescue Dog. Funny you should mention The Tiverton Rescue Centre as this was the place I was heading until Lindsay found me at her friend's house. I was resting overnight having been collected from the overnight ferry from Dublin.
Posted by: Lindsay Harmer | 11 August 2008 at 01:35 PM
Its the A list or Nothing!!!
Posted by: The Kalk Bay Friend | 11 August 2008 at 07:34 PM
What a handsome pair, no wonder they objected to being left out of the limelight.
Posted by: Maureen | 11 August 2008 at 08:13 PM
Mopsa - big, yes, not sure about posh - although they have pretensions to poshness (eg fussiness re food).
Lindsay - the Black Stripes said please could you tell Rescue Dog that everyone at the Blue Cross was very kind, having saved them from a horrible fate, but it's even better if you don't have to go there in the first place.
KBF and M - the Black Stripes greatly appreciate your support.
Posted by: 60 Going On 16 | 12 August 2008 at 09:16 AM
They look really intelligent. Here's a picture (if link works) that I took of our neighbour's cat -
http://pics.livejournal.com/ijournaler/pic/0006r4cf/g31
Posted by: Janet | 12 August 2008 at 10:27 AM