On the hood of a car in a narrow street of small apartment buildings. Photo of a ginger tabby shorthair, young, and in deep orange good health. He is sitting on his haunches, tail wrapped around his paws and is peering anxiously at the intruder. I left him alone.
Car cat, Exarcheia.
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It’s a photo of a cat, head and shoulders in frame, on an asphalt path, stretching. Paws at full length, toes spread, eyes blissfully closed, the white cat with orange tabby patches is lying in the dappled light on Lycabettus, inviting the affection of passersby, but happily settling for sunlight and flexibility instead.
-stretch-
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A cat with a white nose, belly and paws and a grey tabby mask and back peers with frowning concern out of green eyes at the photographer. The cat is on haunches and forepaws on a low wall behind the cathedral of Athens on Mitropoleos. Fear not, there was much petting.
“I am concerned that you are waving a phone at me when you might be using those hands to stroke my back.”
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Colour photo of a white and palest beige cat half-asleep in the sun by a shrub in the park. My lens was slightly greasy and the bright fur seems to glow with a pale aura in the bright light; unearthly.
Γατάγγελος: or Did it Hurt When You Fell From Heaven?
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A grey tabby and white street cat crouched on a car roof, tail stretched out behind, pretending not to be nervous and hoping fervently that I will go away. There are some neoclassical buildings in the background.
“If I can just ignore it, maybe it will go away.”
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#Caturday
#cat
A calico cat in white, orange tabby, and black is sitting on the inner windowsill of her house, on her haunches in profile behind the screen, when some asshole two legs comes along and starts pointing a camera at her so she has to turn her head to glare, but the two legs just keeps snapping away.
“WTF? I am inside my house! Stalker.”
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A sleek black cat with big ears and green eyes sits on haunches on a green wooden bench, tail wrapped around paws. One ear is cropped, indicating the cat is spayed. The expression is forbidding and superior.
“You are judged and found wanting“.
Feral cat portrait project.
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A leonine longhair brown/grey tabby sits on haunches against a yellow wall giving me a mildly exasperated look.
Feral cat portrait project: Mets
“Human, your manners are dreadful, but I am too dignified to do much about it.”
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Photo of an orange and white medium-longhair cat lying on a grassy slope, tail curled round his hindquarters, green-eyed face swivelled to gaze at the photographer and gauge my intentions.
Athens: Feral cat portrait project.
“If you come any closer I am going to have to get up. And I don’t want to get up.”
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Colour photo of a black cat stepping off a doormat and approaching with the low-backed sway and pricked ears of a cat expecting affection but a slightly worried expression in narrowed green eyes. The very tip of the curving black tail is missing, but in all other respects, this is a healthy, happy street cat - probably the pet of the apartment building.
Feral cat portrait project:
I bet you’re the kind of person who might pet a cat.
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A young orange tabby longhair, photographed on a low wall, seconds before he disappeared into the garden behind. He is assessing the threat I pose, and decided not to chance it.
Cats of Athens: Feral cat portrait series : Just before he scarpered.
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Phot of a young grey tabby with an inquisitive expression on all fours. The cropped ear indicates neutering. This is taken at the Greek Military’s Geographic Service, where someone clearly looks after the strays, they are calm, bright-eyed, and in excellent health.
Cats of Athens: Portraits Series: ΓΣΥ
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A Allen, plump, friendly female grey tabby with green eye posing on a park bench in the Pedion Tou Areos.
It’s been a really good week for street cat portraits, so have another one:
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Colour photo. The cat is in profile, sitting on haunches, ad looking to camera. Green eyes, and a very unusual colour, neither orange nor that brownish black, but cinnamon brown. There’s almost no trace of tabby stripe, also unusual in a cat that isn’t black or white, just a faint stripe or two in the tail. Yellow eyes, and tense with my approach.
Cinnamon cat. #Caturday #cats #CatsOfAthens
Colour photo. A cat on a folded blanket sitting inside the base of a pillar-like sculpture made of steel beams and stacked sheets of glass. The sculpture is rusty and dusty, the cat black-masked and white- bellied, with a black throat and a small black dot on the nose. The eyes are green and wary.
Today, let’s bow before this feline magnificence, enthroned in a work of public art.
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Colour photo. In the Neapoli neighbourhood of Exarcheia, a pretty little one storey house painted terra cotta pink. The skip in front of it is covered in green construction cloth, and on it sits a brown-gold longhaired tabby with green eyes.
Neapoli cat.
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Colour photo. A tabby cat on the windowsill of a first storey apartment on the Sepolia side of Patissia. The building is covered in turquoise and purple graffiti lettering bordered in black and accented with white. The window was a wooden shutter with a mechanism that opens it out into an awning, and the cat is stretched out sphinx style underneath this, tail dangling, head facing the camera. Wariness increased as I got closer, so I stopped there.
Colour photograph of a cat perched on the lopped trunk of a clumsily pruned olive tree outside an apartment building. Her face looks down at the camera like Athena’s owl in a vase painting, only in calico, with one ginger ear and one black gilded forard in concern, green eyes frowning, mostly white body crouched and ready to flee. Having taken the picture, I left her to it.
Athens cat being extra Athens.
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Orange cat licking chops, he cares not for your psst psst
A pigeon, proving birds are cameras
Happy tabby napping
Tabby with bib, looking like they would pls like to go home to their cat family
The animals in Athens have been Excellent.
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Sitting on top of a concrete wall, a softly coloured calico kitty droops her head and frowns. She has an orange tabby patch on the right side of her face, ashy grey on the left, grey ears, green eyes, and a white muzzle. She looks sad and thoughtful but is probably just trying to avoid the idiot with the camera phone.
Pensive #Caturday #CatsOfAthens #cat #cats
A young mostly white cat with a tabby half mask and a little tabby spot above and one below her pink nose. She has sleep in one of her green eyes and huge white whiskers that span the photograph. She is that close because all she wanted was to rub up against me and boop her nose on me.
Why photos instead of petting?
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On a marble windowsill inside some white painted railings, a white cat with black ears and tail, a pink nose, and green eyes is sitting on haunches judging you.
What on earth do you think you’re doing?
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Two cats flanking an apartment building door. Both longish haired, tabby and white, stern, green-eyed. One was tabby ears and tail and is otherwise white, the other is mostly tabby grey with ginger but a white mask and belly
Lions guarding a doorway. #CatsOfAthens #Caturday #cats
A plump and sleek tuxedo cat, looking friendly on a pedestrian street in central Athens. White shirt front and asymmetrical white and black muzzle with a black chin and white socks.
Happy Caturday from this friendly fellow at the Ippopotamos cafe and bar.
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Lying by a curb in a dry flower bed, a white cat with a black tail and asymmetrical black mask - green eyes slitted with warning
Keep walking, two legs. There’s nothing for you here.
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On a sidewalk in the middle of a busy city, a white longhaired cat with tabby ears and a fluffy tabby tail squints with concentration while cleaning an extended rear paw, pink tongue curling between toes.
Cleanliness is next to catliness
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A beautifully kept light turquoise Vespa with chrome trim and and a tan seat, parked on a street corner. A tan tabby-and-white cat sitting up on it, head cocked, looking a bit coy and pleased with feline self for matching the seat colour so well. The eyes are green and one ear tip has been snipped.
Proud Vespa owner
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A young male tabby cat on a car roof sits on his haunches on a car roof, body in profile, face turned towards the camera, trying to look aloof but the eyes are concerned. He’ll make a run for it in a few seconds.
This Kypseli cat was startled by my approach but is doing a pretty good job of passing it off as offended dignity.
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Inside a yellow dumpster full of building waste and half-hidden by a plank, a young orange-and-white cat lying on cardboard in a patch of sunlight. He looks sleepy, as if he’s just been disturbed, and a bit puzzled.
Just snoozing in a sunny spot on top of all the rubble in this dumpster, what’s your problem? #Caturday #CatsOfAthens
A tabby-and-white cat sitting on haunches at the entrance ramp of a building, tail wrapped around feet, reproachful expression in narrowed greeen eyes as some fool two-legs leans down for a photo.
Today’s Athenian street cat had not given permission for a close-up.
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