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There were cat sounds outside, I didn't think much of it at first. I forgot about it and when I happened to go outiside, I saw the cutest scared tiny kitten. He hissed at me when I tried to approach, so I tried feeding him something. Everybody likes honey, right? No, it's worthy of hissing. Milk's no good either. Despite the hissing, when you get ahold of him he calms down. I've never had a cat, so I didn't know what to do. I brought him to the humane society, and they told me some basics and gave me enough food for a few days. A wild cat around here is probably his mother. I don't know how long he was outside alone. It took him only a day to get off the syringe and start lapping up the milk. And he knows instinctually how to use the litterbox--no mess around the house. But he's not always affectionate. He still hisses when I start petting him, then gets used to it. When playing around, he bites. It doesn't hurt, but I try to put him off the idea. Any advice for clueless kitty owners is appreciated. What do I need to start doing now to train him? Is there anything I can do so he grows up affectionate? I always hated mean cats, but loved nice cats. I hope he turns out nice. I named him barley Update: more pictures on all pages Mescal fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jan 5, 2007 |
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Crochet Vagina posted:He is really cute, good for you for saving him! Thanks for the info. Yeah, by 'milk' I mean the powder they gave us we add water to. I feed him about every three or four hours. The woman at the humane society guessed five weeks. I read the cat FAQ but it didn't have a whole lot of information. He likes narrow spaces. He smells like ginger. fileanchor and imagesocket are both not working now.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2006 07:00 |
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I don't know what my living situation will be in the near future, I hope I get to keep him.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2006 15:48 |
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Thanks, guys. I'll have to try hard to get a some good photos of him before he gets too big. He's grown a lot in the last four days. He's really playful now, which I think he was too scared to be at first. I would never have gone out and gotten a cat, but I'm really glad this one showed up at my doorstep. :3
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2006 07:59 |
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Girl Robot posted:Adorable! I'm compiling super cute images for a new avatar I'm making, may Barley be a part? How much cuteness can you fit in 125 pixels? Sure, go ahead.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2006 03:09 |
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Mescal fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Jun 17, 2006 |
# ¿ Jun 17, 2006 03:17 |
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Itty Bitty Kitty posted:ohmigosh so cute! Where do you live that adowable wittle kittens just appear at your doorstep? That never happens to me. He's stopped the hissing And he's pretty nice to everyone, even the dog. He's been pretty tired today, but playful when awake. I yell at him when he bites, I hope he learns not to before his jaw becomes manly. This forum is sure different from the rest of SA, huh?
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2006 05:29 |
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BeanBandit posted:If he bites or scratches at you, take your hand away and ignore him for a few minutes. Do this for awhile until he gets the picture. I can't put him down! Rebel XT (unimportant) with 50mm lens (more important.)
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2006 06:42 |
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He learned to pur yesterday. In addition to knowing how to use the litterbox from the first time he was put into it, yesterday he was walking around on the floor, decided he needed to go, walked into the bathroom and used the litterbox. He's pottytrained himself. But he won't stop biting Edit: I'm prety much guessing about how much food he needs. He's got a big tummy now, but he's always hungry. What's the protocol here? Mescal fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jun 18, 2006 |
# ¿ Jun 18, 2006 19:23 |
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He had to stay at home alone for like five hours today IN ACTION
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2006 02:23 |
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Bolkovr posted:I realize you're a professional photographer, but drat you're a good photographer! Thanks a lot! I don't consider myself a professional photographer, though. The kind of photos I make money from don't really offer much creative opportunity. If anyone wants to look at my pictures on flickr, please do. Just bein cute
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2006 03:14 |
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don't startle kitty
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2006 20:27 |
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Wizbang posted:When my paycheck comes in can I use this for an avatar? Please do I'm glad this thread got bumped, and I wish I could post some new pictures, but my camera broke
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2006 22:29 |
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THANK YOU everyone for looking at and commenting on my pictures. I'm glad people have enjoyed barley. Catnip doesn't affect him. He won't stop biting. The dog we're keeping for the day wants to eat him. But my dog gets along with him just fine. She isn't territorial at all, and even lets him drink and eat from her bowl. When should I cut his balls off? He's getting fat. Need to feed him less. Fixed my camera.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2006 23:16 |
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effika posted:
SOMETHING AMAZING JUST HAPPENED. I'll get it to you as soon as I process, until then
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2006 04:23 |
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Even with every light in the house turned on there was just not enough, and I couldn't be more frustrated about it. A lot of sharpening later, this is the biggest I can post it: Katie tolerates Barley but Barley loves Katie--he crawled right up on her and under her ear. I swear I didn't set it up.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2006 05:11 |
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OH MAN
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2006 04:52 |
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JMarie posted:Please tell me what camera you use! It doesn't matter. It matters more that I'm using a 50mm f/1.8 for most and a lensbaby at for the most recent. It matters much that Barley loves the sunlight on the floor, this light is dramatic but hard to expose right. He also doesn't mind the camera. Beyond that is the little stuff. He did get his shots (vet kind) by the way.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2006 08:07 |
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Hey, forgot to post this one. A few minutes ago a wild cat walked by outside. It had stripes, maybe it's Barley's dad.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2006 00:30 |
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deviant. posted:FF, are you freehanding these pictures or do you have a tripod? I'm handholding since I need to get down to the ground. I stabilize it however I can since there's not a whole lot of light. With the fifty they're wide open but with the lensbaby it's... at f/5.6 I think since otherwise the effect is too pronounced.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2006 09:05 |
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effika posted:Squee! That's so cute, even if there wasn't quite enough light for the best shot. I think it still turned out amazing. Thanks. I think I'm going to submit it to my local paper's pet snap feature, since it's extra-cute and doesn't have any photographic merit.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2006 06:38 |
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Thanks everyone for your continued interest!solipsiae posted:Your kitten is loving awesome. To echo: Thanks for all the advice. Wait, was I not supposed to have clipped his nails aready? He's toning down the biting in the last couple days... I hope this trend continues because when he does it's always harder. Hey! Barley was featured on The Cute Project. The second time was right after them being featured on my.yahoo.com, so I guess lots of people saw him. Here you are Wizbang:
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2006 03:34 |
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dermalogic posted:is there ANY chance you could do that in a wallpaper size? 1280x1024? RepoRebo posted:Oh!! And can I add a request for a wallpaper-size of the one where he's reaching out and touching the light...I love that picture beyond all reason. dpopat posted:Do you have anything that is in higher res that I can use as a desktop picture? Preferable 1280x1024 Trying to keep hold of your photos' use is a tough thing. Mostly it would be arrogant to worry about that, but for all the attention I'm getting here I feel like it would be possible to see barley somewhere I didn't post him. I try to keep a balance between web enjoyment and minimal printability--800px or so. But I just saw a cute kitty on a greeting card (that the photographer almost certainly wasn't paid for; I see it all over the internet) and though on nice paper it looked like it was printed from 800px. screwed no matter what. (dpopat: I don't even know if I have the originals for the smokybridge ones, there're from my old digicam.) But I know pure-hearted goons like you only want a wallpaper and I love you for it. There's one I do want to make a wallpaper of... will post. (No internet time tomorrow though.)
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2006 07:35 |
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He's got this cute little knot at the end of his tail. He runs funny. For one thing, it's REALLY LOUD--then you finally see him come around the corner and it's just this tiny striped thing. If he's being aggressive, he runs sideways! Pretty much in this position: Freedom Foundry posted:Once when he was hanging out on my lap on the computer, I didn't feel a warm kitten any more and wondered where he went. I kept hearing small kitten sounds, called him and looked for him a little. The desk is hollow. He'd found a hole underneath, right above my legs, and crawled up in it. So sometimes he does that now.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2006 05:50 |
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RepoRebo posted:Oh my god, you can see your reflection in his eyes! That is an incredible shot. Wow, I guess you can! I guess I could--but you have to feel it, you can't really see it.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2006 20:01 |
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Crap, I didn't realize the food's almost gone. If I don't get to the store this weekend, would it be healthy to feed him tuna?
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2006 23:55 |
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Mescal fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Jul 17, 2006 |
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Tessa posted:I am so in love with your kitten it's unbelievable. Digital. But it works just the same as a standard film SLR, the problem is that digital SLRs are expensive. John Dough posted:That's wonderful. How did you get the cat to cooperate? Or did you follow it around all day? I get kind of lost having fun when I'm crawling around with him, but not all day. I just wait for him to do something/interact with light and the stuff around him.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2006 02:57 |
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Holy crap, GOLDEN! Thank you, guys! I cloned this one into a desktop as requested. (The other one's harder.)
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2006 02:45 |
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Black Griffon posted:4.91 now. 4.94 now And I didn't even vote! (I would feel dirty.) I can't tell you guys enough how much I appreciate the encouragement. Posting in CC gets you helpful feedback, but not encouraging feedback. Critique is healthiest, of course, but this feels good. boudicca posted:I have the original version as my desktop at work, and a ton of people have expressed their adoration. You're not using it stretched to an arbitrary aspect ratio are you Mescal fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 21, 2006 |
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snookieofaegis posted:Barley makes my cats look even more like goofballs. No problems. He's stupid sometimes and gets under five towels in the recent heat wave. In other news he played with a balloon yesterday and it was cute. Right now he is playing with a sock and it is cute. He doesn't bite at strangers for some reason and I could have named him How to be Popular at Parties, vol I. I think I forgot to post this when it happened--once I was leaving the house and saw a big fat striped barley-looking cat waiting, looking at the door. I went to get my camera, but he was gone. He just started biting too much and I had to put him in time-out. I can't find the spray bottle. I'm going to have to put more of my photographic energy into some other stuff, but I'll try to post pictures of Barley regularly. I'm going to start using a big reflector so as to make kitty not so high-contrast. Let me say again how much I enjoy everyone's comments! EDIT here is an okay picture Mescal fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jul 23, 2006 |
# ¿ Jul 23, 2006 20:03 |
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Tessa posted:i'm glad everything's going well with him! such a cutie, and growing fast i see I forgot to write what's the point of that picture. Whenever you put your hand near him, he just falls right over onto his side or back like that. (this makes him hard to pick up.) I guess he's inviting belly scratches, but that's way too intense for him and he bites your hand. If instead you play with his front paws, he 'runs' against your hand with his hind legs. It seems like he's trying to get away, but he also comes up to me and runs against me on purpose. Waffleimages, imagesocket, and random-m are all not working for me right now. What should I use?
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2006 07:10 |
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snookieofaegis posted:my boyfriend says that when he's kicking you with the hind legs, Barley's trying to dis-embowl you. Imagine if your hand was a mouse - his little legs and claws would tear it to pieces. I know that my cats have done that to several cloth mice but that's not where my intestines go
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2006 20:45 |
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Got one of him playing with the balloon
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2006 02:25 |
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A small story not about my cat. As I mentioned before, my old dog Katie has been nothing but graceful about the whole situation. No jealousy, lets Barley sleep in her spot and even drink from her bowl. Sometimes Barley gets bitey with her, and she just walks away and never even barks back. A nice dog, right? Except once recently she found and apparently mutilated a very small rabbit. She brought it to the porch for us. What a suprise, since she's never been known to do such a thing. Then last week she found a hurt bird, then would not leave us alone about it. She wanted us to take care of it or something. Since we weren't with her when she found the rabbit, we'd assumed she hurt it. But we were there when she found the bird. Now we think she found it, already hurt, and brought it to us for healing.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2006 22:40 |
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Got him with the balloon again
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2006 01:05 |
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jflan17 posted:If you don't submit that to a greeting card company, you're insane. hmm...
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2006 04:30 |
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WHY DOES HE HUNGER FOR MY FLESH :mawg: He's started making this weird alien trilling sound before biting me. Punishment by squirt bottle only makes him angry.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2006 00:29 |
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This is what he does too much Mescal fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Aug 1, 2006 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 20:18 |
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He's calming down There's still biting, but he's nice more of the time. More licking, less teeth. He seems happy and healthy and I'll post another picture tonight.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2006 02:21 |