Catch - the strangest cat I know

                              "Catch"

                 acrylic on 6' x 6" panel 

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Here she is as promised - the final of my cat, Catch. 

As was stated in a prior post when she was a work-in-progress, she has a very sweet face, but a very "butterball" body. As my daughter wrote, and I quote, "You forgot to mention that Catch is as wide as she is long and that she has the teensiest feet so when she walks she looks like a tubby ballerina. In a cat sort of way."

The time that I let her in at 2:00 a.m. was not the only time I have had to deal with mice she "plays" with. Because we live in the country, on occasion a mouse might get in the house. One night when my husband was working late, Catch came up the stairs and into my bedroom where I was putting away laundry. She meowed at me rather strangely, and when I turned around, she had a half dead mouse on the floor, and was batting at it. I think I yelled, and I know I ran to find something to get the mouse with. 

But I didn't want to just put on gloves - what if it bit through the glove? I grabbed a broom, and ran back into the bedroom. The mouse had revived by this time and it ran into our closet with Catch and me hot on its trail. From there it ran into the hallway, and under the bifold doors into the linen closet. I was so scared to open those doors, but I did, and there it was in the corner, terrified and hiding. Catch wouldn't go in to get it, and I knew she wouldn't kill it anyway, so I ended up beating it with the broom and apologizing to it for having to hurt it (kill it). It got scooped up and carried out into the cold on a dustbin, then tossed into the woods behind our house. If only Catch was a regular normal cat, I wouldn't have to endure these kinds of adventures!

If you have had adventures with your creatures, please tell me about them. I would love to share a laugh or two with you!

Catch - a work in progress

                               Catch

           acrylic on 6" x 6" masonite panel

              

This is a work-in-progress of one of my cats, named Catch. Catch is a cat that we inherited about 9 years ago, when she was 4 years old. Her owners were leaving the country and decided that we would make a good home for her... so she came to live with us. She had been raised in a small apartment in eastern Canada, and when she arrived here, was totally freaked out by all the space in our home. She hid under boxes for about a month, and hissed at us any time we tried to pet her. Then one day, she suddenly decided we were okay, came up to us meowing, and that was that! 

She gets her name from a game she used to play before we got her (we don't play games! he he) where a small piece of paper was rolled up and thrown into the air. She would try to catch the paper in between her front paws. She would then pick it up and bring it to you to throw again.  She really is a nice cat, even when she stays out till 2:00 a.m. and then brings home a live mouse which she drops on the kitchen floor. (It was dark when I let her in, and I didn't know that she had a mouse. She catches them, but won't kill them!)

This painting is acrylic on masonite board. This is my first cat painting... and I am liking it so far. It is probably about 1/2 finished. 

I have not liked the couple of paintings I have done on masonite before, and have actually thrown them out. But for some reason (could it be that I suddenly "understand" the texture of the surface?) this one is going well. 

I will post the finished painting next week.