Hey Cats,

Not one to complain but, there is an hellacious bit of heat 'round here just lately and I am starting to question the summertime benefits of being clad--head to toe--in fur.

Here's a nice abstract shot of Jeff I took via Olive's eye.

Otherwise the shot would have looked like this, which was taken just after Scoobie delivered a particularly well aimed head butt.

Scoobie

Here's a bit better shot of Olive.

She's just little.

Not as little as Gina mind. 

She comes with Andre, "The Giant."

Diesel looks more deranged than he really is.

Macci is as deranged as she looks...just kidding.

In honour of this being an Olympic Year, Mika and Dallas(who sadly has moved from here)practicing a little synchronized "tailing."  It's actually harder than it looks.  It's like synchronized swimming only you don't have to wear swim caps--and, of course, you are not under water.  Notice the nearly perfect black and white "O" contrasting with the parenthesis.

Here you'll note Macci is going to lose precious points for allowing a bit of curl in her tail.  The judges will be looking for as straight a tail as possible in this portion.  

Callie, this weeks judge, can't even look at it.

Shadow and Mika struggle through the performance.

Laina

Comes with Genie.  Did you ever dream of Genie?

And Hobo is never far behind.

Looks like we got us some pic-a-nic baskets here Boo Boo.

Berkely with Callie and Shadow behind with, it looks like, a white blob and a brown bit even further back.

Genie, auditioning for the Pet Hotel production of Oliver Twist.  She is just about to receive quite an unexpected response to, "Please sir, could I have some more?"

Sally

Diesel got the part of  Fagan and is getting ready to pick a pocket or two.

Stella, Freddie, and Berkely in a temporary bout of cooperation.

Every which way but loose.

Olive making a course change.

Bruno

Ra....Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra

Callie's final reaction to the "synchronized tail" competition.

Thing is, Bruno doesn't really have a tail, which kind of effected "Team Swishtails" chances.

Katie.  Katie's nine but subscribes to the "9 is the new 2" ideology.

Nester

Cedar

This is a different Diesel.  You can tell him apart from the other Diesel because he is all black and the other Diesel is a Husky.  But when you yell, "Hey Diesel, come here!" you can also tell them apart because, Diesel the Husky runs the other way.  

Caylee 

 Caylee comes with Chloe.  That's a full time job.  

Stella

Who farted?

That's it for now cats.

I remain,

Gary, the cat.

Hey Cats,

Gary here.
Happy day before Canada Day eh.  Time to clean out the backlog.

This here is Ollie making a fast start.

Ivy, Maple and Dallas joining the chase.  Of what?  Who knows, dogs are dumb.

As you can see, the theme, so far, is pictures with dog's feet in the air.  This is Dixie's take with ears thrown in for good measure.

Chloe's version has the added effect of looking as if she is in a wind tunnel.

Then again, Chloe often looks as if she is in a wind tunnel.  

Whiskey and Chloe.

Taboo here is less inclined to expend energy on getting his feet off the ground figuring that energy could be much better used on something more productive--like eating a sandwich say.   

Not so for Kula(r)and Darla(r)

Kula comes with Owen.  Owen considers it his absolute duty to try and kill Kula every few minutes.

Multiple legs-off-the-ground shot.  

After a little romp in the grass, Freddy enjoys a nice cigar.

Cody manufactures a lot of drool during the day.

Zoe looking for something else to make her dirty.

Found it.

Just a bit of camouflage really.

Nester is far and above that sort of behavior.

Or is he?

Raffi is a personal stick kind of guy.

Nester and Dixie like a stick that pulls back.

Cody likes to pass wind.

Daisy with her feet -off-the-ground entry.

Tiger's had his feet off the ground for two long, now it's time to take it easy.

Daisy and Tiger

Dick and I convinced Daisy to enter the upcoming Squamish Logger Days log turning competition.  Here she is practicing. We haven't yet told her that, in the real contest, the log is in the water.  This should be hilarious.

This here is Taboo's tongue.  He was motivated by Tiger up above.

This encouraged Scooby to offer up his.

This is getting really catchy.

See.

Bet sthou can't do thith.

Mika managing to get his head matted.

Jil is the last entry in the feet-off-the-ground category.

ZuZu dropped in.

Sadly, we had to say good-bye to Rusty-"The Rustinator"- this month.  This is him just a few weeks ago demanding dinner.  You made a lot of people happy for almost 15 years.  We'll miss your spirit and your sense of humor.  We'll even miss the way, once you figured out that the cameraman was a cat, you would wind up those little legs and tear after him down the hall. Happy trails.

I remain,

Gary the Cat