Time for some cat photos

Since the internet is supposed to be full of cat stuff, I thought I should do my bit. Starting with a few pictures of our current cat (Holly) from when she was young (we got her at about 1 year old from the Toronto Humane Society).

(photo by Jon, along with 'some' editing he did)

(this was a month or so later - still quite small)

Then, about a year and a half later:

(perhaps her 'larger' phase')

And finally, about a month ago or so, with one of her favourite toys that has reinvigorated her!

And although she likes to explore the friendly confines of our back yard, she's not really an outdoor cat:

Cat in your luggage?

Many years ago we visited England and Greece (and had a wonderful bus tour of the southern Peloponnese...perhaps more on that later).  While in London we had bought the following at Covent Garden:

A metal cat to place in the garden. It was pretty small (and thin) so we had put it into our checked luggage and pretty much forgotten about it. We went to Greece and on a cruise on the Mediterranean and were finally returning to Canada from Athens.

At the airport they X-Ray all your luggage. Suddenly the man doing that work looked up and asked me "Do you have a cat in your luggage?" He actually motioned me around to look at his screen...there was the 'cat' clear as day and the 'eyes' seemed to be glowing in the X-Ray. He then laughed and let us through...guess it wouldn't have made the same X-Ray picture unless it was...

...something he didn't want to distub.