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    World, meet Omar

    So, after the sad death of our previous cat Siouxsie (kidney failure and general old age) on Easter Monday, we nevertheless decided we'd enjoyed the experience of having a rescued cat around the house so much that we went and got another one today, from (Cat Protection's) National Cat Centre near Haywards Heath.

    He's 3 years old, part-Persian, mad staring eyes, and the fluffiest cat in the world. He isn't named, as my mum thought, after the twelfth-century Persian mathematician Omar Kayam (my mum really surprises me sometimes), although that is a fantastic coincidence.

    But if you can make out the narrow diagonal slash running across his otherwise mainly black face, the Wire watchers among you will understand why we did choose that name...

    "How do?"


    #2
    World, meet Omar

    Indeed.

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      #3
      World, meet Omar

      A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
      A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
      Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
      Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!


      Your mam might well have studied "The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," by Edward fitzgerald in secondary school SR, my dad definitely did. It was one of the more famous poems of the victorian era, and since in curriculum terms the victorian era ended sometime in the 1970's.....

      Though if they're of a similar age, I would have thought that his guy might have sprung to mind more quickly



      Your cat looks totally deadly btw.

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        #4
        World, meet Omar

        Maybe it can feed off the window-gulls...

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          #5
          World, meet Omar

          In picture no 2 he already looks like he completely owns the apartment. I wonder how long it took him to get that way.

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            #6
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            The Mighty Kubelgog!!! wrote:
            In picture no 2 he already looks like he completely owns the apartment.
            True dat.

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              #7
              World, meet Omar

              Picture 1: 'What the fuck is that on his head?'

              Picture 2: 'Ah, there's the other one with the food.'

              Good on you for getting a rescued cat. He looks lovely.

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                #8
                World, meet Omar

                surely,

                Picture 1. "Hmm, feathers, There's going to be some eating on that robin."

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                  #9
                  World, meet Omar

                  Cats do have a way of assuming ownership

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                    #10
                    World, meet Omar

                    Is that a baby shaped belly?

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                      #11
                      World, meet Omar

                      Ha, very good. He was a large cat, was Pinky.

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                        #12
                        World, meet Omar

                        There are large cats, and then there are large cats.

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                          #13
                          World, meet Omar

                          Wicked.

                          Cats tend to be quite nomadic don't they? I guess he lives.... in the wind, so to speak.

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                            #14
                            World, meet Omar

                            haha.

                            I don't know which is more impressive, the Enormous cat in WOM's pic, or the totally deadly formica table and chairs set.

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                              #15
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                              Crap - I missed the thread about Siouxsie SR - really sorry to hear about that.

                              Omar looks smart though. Those hopper neighbourhood mice must shit themselves when they hear a miaowed rendition of The Farmer in the Dell approaching...

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                                World, meet Omar

                                The Mighty Kubelgog!!! wrote:
                                Your mam might well have studied "The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," by Edward fitzgerald in secondary school SR, my dad definitely did. It was one of the more famous poems of the victorian era
                                The Rubaiyat is also the second-biggest selling book of all time in the United States of America, behind The Bible.

                                We got two new cats recently, photos will be up on Flickr when I've finally got all of my Mexico shots uploaded.

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