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This is the most hedonistic animal I have EVER seen. No, he's not my cat. He doesn't live with me. He's owned by my neighbours. His name is Marcel, a big long-haired Tuxedo cat . And he is unbelievably daft.

He spends most of his life snoozing in our garden. Not in his own property, in ours. If we open the front door or arrive home in the car - he's there. He'll appear from nowhere, always angling for a tickle or a stomach rub. His favourite sport is not catching birds or hunting mice - but chasing Rhododendron leaves. When these leaves dry out, they can be about 4 inches long, and a light leather colour - he chases them, catches them in his mouth and then piles them up outside our door, looking as pleased as punch. Then he sits next to the pile, mewing his head off, wanting us to recognise his enormous feat of capturing... an inanimate, dead leaf. ¬_¬ His hobbies include sitting in the middle of the road (asleep, sometimes), singing at 10:00pm, and being a lazy fat lump. Did I mention that having fur 3-4 inches long makes him incredibly soft and cuddleable? Well, there you go.

Anyway, I'm uploading this mainly because I'm surprised how it came out as a portrait of an animal. I know dA is not Flickr or ImageShack (I have a stamp saying it on my userpage), and I'm not trying to use it like that. I was messing around with my new camera, and decided to take a few pic of him as he was lounging on my driveway. He was moving a lot, but somehow I just managed to capture this by accident - with his perfect portrait pose. Aaaaww! Cutesie.

Featured in =wazabees ' Caturday journal for Sat Oct 6, 2007 and again in the Caturday favourites of 2007, Fri Jan 11, 2008 .

Description
This is the most hedonistic animal I have EVER seen. No, he's not my cat. He doesn't live with me. He's owned by my neighbours. His name is Marcel, a big long-haired Tuxedo cat . And he is unbelievably daft.

He spends most of his life snoozing in our garden. Not in his own property, in ours. If we open the front door or arrive home in the car - he's there. He'll appear from nowhere, always angling for a tickle or a stomach rub. His favourite sport is not catching birds or hunting mice - but chasing Rhododendron leaves. When these leaves dry out, they can be about 4 inches long, and a light leather colour - he chases them, catches them in his mouth and then piles them up outside our door, looking as pleased as punch. Then he sits next to the pile, mewing his head off, wanting us to recognise his enormous feat of capturing... an inanimate, dead leaf. ¬_¬ His hobbies include sitting in the middle of the road (asleep, sometimes), singing at 10:00pm, and being a lazy fat lump. Did I mention that having fur 3-4 inches long makes him incredibly soft and cuddleable? Well, there you go.

Anyway, I'm uploading this mainly because I'm surprised how it came out as a portrait of an animal. I know dA is not Flickr or ImageShack (I have a stamp saying it on my userpage), and I'm not trying to use it like that. I was messing around with my new camera, and decided to take a few pic of him as he was lounging on my driveway. He was moving a lot, but somehow I just managed to capture this by accident - with his perfect portrait pose. Aaaaww! Cutesie.

Featured in =wazabees ' Caturday journal for Sat Oct 6, 2007 and again in the Caturday favourites of 2007, Fri Jan 11, 2008 .