Now that I’ve moved all of the cats from Minnesota Meow over here, I am going to continue posting about people’s cats, notably those with beautiful photos. Why not, right? You guys love them.
I’ve been a fan of Laura Askelin’s photos for awhile and I feel like I know her two cats, Verbal Kint and Keyser Söze quite well now. As Laura explains,
Verbal Kint was the first of our pets, rescued from a cat shelter. He was a feral cat living in a garage. It was winter and he had lost part of his ear due to frostbite. Verbal was friendly, but not a lap cat — just what we were looking for. When we got him home, he talked all the time. That’s how he got the name “Verbal Kint,” after the character from The Usual Suspects. We had to agree not to let him outside when we adopted him from the shelter. He misses the outdoors and spends all his time staring out the windows and complaining that he isn’t outside.
He’s turned into quite the escape artist. He makes a mad dash for freedom when ever he gets the chance but he never goes more than a foot out the door before he stops to chow on grass. We’ve started letting him sit in the backyard with us when we do our yard work and he never runs away. Oh, and it turns out he is a lap cat after all! He just needed to warm up to us.
More photos of Verbal in Verbal Kint’s set on Flickr.
Keyser Söze came to us from a coworker who was getting married and couldn’t keep him. Very different from Verbal, he hides all day and never makes a sound. As we almost never see him it seems only natural for us to call him Keyser Söze. He came to us declawed but don’t tell the dogs — they haven’t figured that out yet. Keyser comes out from hiding when we turn on the DVD player. For some reason, Keyser loves it.
More photos of Keyser in Keyser Söze’s set on Flickr.
Laura adds that the cats aren’t really friends. They tolerate each other, thankfully.
Check out more of Laura’s photos on Flickr.
