05 December 2009

The Cat Show - Whiskers


As Zephirine and others have said, so often we choose animals that look like ourselves. Sometimes in colour - like yesterday's Italian lady.

Or today's cat - notice the sweep of the lady's chin and how it matches the shape of the cat's face. Happily not the whiskers - and aren't they beautiful whiskers!

I used to breed and show Old English Sheepdogs but really I didn't look like one - then I realised the truth. My husband at the time - long hair, cuddly like a teddy bear - that's why I got my first Old English Sheepdog! We are still great friends.

13 comments:

  1. Ce chat pris à contrejour est magnifique
    j'aimerai avoir de telles moustaches

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  2. Jilly I just had to laugh at your last paragraph - in fact I'm still laughing. Does your ex-husband know?
    :-)))

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  3. Bergson - LOL. Stop trimming your moustache !

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  4. Nathalie, Oh yes he knew. He loved them too!

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  5. For an ex-husband to be compared to a dog, he could do a lot worse than a sheepdog.

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  6. Dave, it was meant and indeed is a compliment to him!

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  7. This is so marvellous. I just adore the 1st image - looks like a very wise cat. LOL on the Old English Sheepdogs - I like your expanded theory on pet ownership. Our golden retriever looks a lot like my husband who has a slim face with an Aquiline nose.
    My son used to play a computer memory game based on 101 Dalmatians, where the object was to match the dog owner to the person by openning windows. Lots of fun.

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  8. I have reddish hair and I love ginger cats - my present one likes to sit on my shoulder, and we get a lot of jokes about which of us is a fashion accessory for the other!

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  9. Your cat whiskers photo is really great. Ihope I look more like my Border Collie than my Boxer. But others would have to judge that.

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  10. Adorable & funny, Jilly. GG's hair is more gingery than mine, and I'm not nearly as cute...but we resemble the other in devilish spirits.

    From the snowy skies of Washington, DC, hello!

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  11. awww cute cat, well the saying goes that pets look like their owners :-)

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  12. That is a fabulous shot Jilly. One of your best I'd say. I think that you and your new camera are getting along very very well! That's hilarious that the sheepdog looked like your ex!!!
    V

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