Friday Fotos ~ Felines

 

Since I talked about our dogs on one of the recent Sunday Still’s Challenges, and I talked about our flock of chickens just last week, and Apache usually gets in the spotlight on a regular basis, I figured it was time to give our cats a chance to shine, too.

I’ve been playing with a new photo editing program called PhotoScape for the past week and really like it. Last year I would primarily use Picnic if I wanted to do any serious editing, or just use a basic Windows Photo editing program for minor contrast tweaks and to add a signature. But Picnic is an online program that only gives you a few editing options unless you pay for a subscription, while PhotoScape not only gives you lots of creative options, it is a downloadable program, so you can edit photos and play around even when you don’t want to be online….plus it’s free!

Anyway, all of the photos below, I have edited using PhotoScape. Let me know what you think and if you have any favorites. 

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We have 3 spayed female indoor cats that are named Javalina, Hopi, and Sage.

Javalina is my daughter, Jen’s cat and we adopted her when she was just a tiny kitten, in Benson, Arizona, 5 years ago when we were pet-sitting for friends.

Javalina is a very special Manx cat that is completely devoted to Jen. She rarely ever let’s my daughter out of her sight and will even sit beside the bathtub while Jen is taking a bath.

Javalina is very gentle, loving, and tolerant and sleeps and cuddles with Jen every night. She enjoys being carried around like a baby and will do just about anything for attention.

Hopi is a pretty Maine Coon mix cat who belongs to my twinling son Jax. Hopi was adopted from our local Animal Shelter 2 years ago as a kitten. She is a little more independant and likes her space, but Hopi is very loving and devoted to Jax and spends every night cuddling with him in his bed and tolerates all of his rough handling and playing.

(Sometimes Hopi will come into my bedroom and take a nap on my entertainment center shelves)

Sage is a beautiful Tabby cat who loves everyone. She was adopted as a kitten from our local Animal Shelter just a year ago and is primarily my twinling son Jem’s cat.

(Jem adores his cat and the feeling is mutual)

She spends every night cuddling and purring beside Jem, but seems to enjoy coming to my room every day to just hang out and be petted. She’d probably sleep with me, too. But my Dobbie Girl won’t allow it…..

Both Hopi and Sage will tolerate Dobbie sniffing around and playing with them, but Javalina always runs away, which gets Dobbie excited and in chase-mode.

(I used an antique filter for this photo of Sage peeking out at me from one of the shelves on my entertainment center)

All three of our cats are affectionate, gentle and treasured members of our family.

(There are quite a few antique filters to choose from, so decided to try out another one. Which is your favorite?)