Cute Cat Copy - Photographs of a 'Flash' Meeting this Afternoon!

Just this afternoon, our neighbour Lady Eye - who has briefly featured before on this blog, and will briefly feature now – beckoned me over from where she was standing in the quiet residential street where we live, and pointed to a little cat who was hiding under a car.

She told me that the cat was Flash, from numba 5, and that he had been missing as per the note under our doors, or hadn't I seen it? Lady Eye didn't seem too sure around cats, although she and Shanti are thick with gossip and neighbourhood conspiracies (especially around the subject of treats). I had never met Flash - who turned out to be 6-months old, and I hadn't read the note either, and was therefore unable to comment on whether this might represent his return home or not.

However, there was a cat-flap in the door of numba 5, and this appeared to be open. From this it was possible to deduce that Flash had indeed returned home and that his humans were most likely aware of his presence and as such, there was no need for concern. Later conversations revealed that his humans had recently started letting him out, which was when he went missing! He had been located in someone's house and was now safely home...all good then. Flash rolled on the ground in agreement with this way of looking at things and then shot over towards the grassy island in the middle, where he sat contemplating the nature of traffic for a moment before becoming interested in the tree.

Whatever his backstory, Flash took to me in his gentle manner and I was delighted to make his acquaintance. He rubbed against me and purred in friendship. I lay on my stomach, eye-level with him on the grass.

He wanted to go back up the tree and I lay on my back looking up and taking photos, his wondrous clear eyes staring back down at me through the branches.

Photos taken with a Nikon D200 + Nikon AF-S 40mm f2.8 MG lens which I have recently acquired and therefore welcomed the opportunity to play with. All images are sized to a width of 1680 pixels, so if you'd like to zoom in, you can use the right-click (CTR-click) options to 'view image' for more detail.

Thanks Flash, you utter cutie, stay safe and well!

It wasn't until I was (re)viewing the photos that I realised that Flash reminded me of the little cat I knew in Delhi, who had made her home above the pumphouse downstairs. I became very fond of her and was upset when she was run-over and killed in Dec 2015.