One time I was going through my photo gallery of pictures taken with my cell phone and I noticed I had a lot of pictures of my cats. Odette and Siegfried are a big part of my life but I never noticed how often I had photographed them. Most of the pictures were pretty bad too. However both cats decided to make themselves available for photos this morning while I was trying to take pictures for my pony blog.
This is pretty much why I only update once a week. Coming up with content is difficult in one way, as I've never been a great writer. I have ideas but they don't translate to paper/type very easily. But getting interesting photos is an entirely different challenge. By the way this is Odette, I figure just because
I can tell the cats apart doesn't necessarily mean you can.
Here's one of Siegfried. Doesn't he look upset to be caught where he doesn't belong?
No I didn't think so either...
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I am not a "cat person." Do all cats have eyes that look like "vertical slits?"
ReplyDeleteUnless it is damaged all cats should have the ability to create vertical slits. It's essentially because a cat is technically a crepuscular species so their eyes are adapted for reduced light and they have more muscles to control pupil dilation. So typically their eyes look closer to the third picture, but I had several lights on in the room which probably accounts for the narrow pupils. For real fun look up a goat's pupil as they are horizontal instead of vertical (increased depth perception).
DeleteI can't say for certain, but I do believe that to be the norm for cats. Although the width of the vertical slits varies greatly, I assume is reaction to light.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there is some debate that the eyes are showing emotion as well but I think this is true for horses and rabbits so I would not be surprised if it is true for cats.
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