← Misc · October 2022 – end of 2023

Dana and Nina

Our two cats, through my wife's camera.

two cats · with us October 2022 – end of 2023
a grey tabby and a white longhair · a car door pocket, a Shin Ramyun box and the top of a computer · the bed, the bath mat, the back of the sofa and a pink keyboard · one blue Stitch hoodie, worn by both · a photo of each for every month, and a few from their new home

Before our dog, Wangcai, there were two cats, Dana and Nina, who lived with us from October 2022 to the end of 2023. The photos here are my wife's.

Shuffle

Her phone holds well over a thousand photos of the two of them. Here are 306 of them, in a random order that changes every time the page loads.

Dana

Dana came first. She is a grey tabby, and on the morning of October 23, 2022 she was small enough to sit in the door pocket of a car. That afternoon she had her first drink at our place, from a bowl nearly as big as she was.

A grey tabby kitten sitting in the door pocket of a car. — Dana's first day, October 23, 2022, 10:02 am.

A grey kitten drinking from a large white bowl on a wooden table. — The same afternoon, 3:38 pm.

The next day she found the box a case of Shin Ramyun had come in and lay down in it.

A grey tabby kitten lying in a cardboard Shin Ramyun box. — October 24, 2022.

By December she had found a spot on top of the computer under the desk, between the RGB light strip and a glowing lamp.

A grey tabby cat lying on top of a computer under a desk, lit by purple and blue LED lights. — December 18, 2022.

Nina

Nina joined her in late April 2023. She is a white longhaired cat with a flat face and a lot of fur, and this is her on our bed a little after one in the morning on May 5.

A white longhaired cat lying on a green-and-white bedspread, looking at the camera. — Nina, May 5, 2023, 1:19 am.

The two of them

By the summer they were a pair. On a July night they were stretched out side by side on the bed, and on August 1 Nina had folded herself into a white ball against Dana on the bath mat.

A white longhaired cat and a grey tabby lying together on a grey quilt. — July 27, 2023, 1:01 am.

A white longhaired cat curled up against a grey tabby on a grey bath mat. — August 1, 2023.

Each had her spots. Dana's was the back of the brown leather sofa, where she lay along the top. Nina's was the keyboard: on the afternoon of October 15, 2023 she was asleep across the pink keyboard, in front of the screen.

A grey tabby lying along the top of a brown leather sofa. — Dana, October 7, 2023.

A white longhaired cat asleep across a pink keyboard in front of a computer screen. — Nina, October 15, 2023, 2:38 pm.

Dressing up

The night before Halloween 2023 both cats were put in the same blue Stitch hoodie, one after the other, on the kitchen counter. Dana looked up at the camera.

A grey tabby in a blue Stitch hoodie sitting on a white counter, looking up. — Dana as Stitch, October 30, 2023, 11:17 pm.

A white longhaired cat in a blue Stitch hoodie sitting on a white counter. — Nina, eight minutes later.

Month by month

One photo of each of them for every month they lived with us. Dana, from October 2022 to December 2023:

And Nina, from April 2023:

With our friends

At the start of 2024, Dana and Nina went to live with friends, and they are doing well there. A few photos from visits since then:

Photo locations have been removed from the published images, and where we live is never shown or named.

The photos in this post are my wife's.

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