====== The Cats of FreeBSD ======

Popular stereotypes suggest software people are cat people.  Popular stereotypes are <del>[[Community/Dogs|wrong]]</del> always correct.

===== bcran =====
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===== Graham Perrin =====

Bill a.k.a. Billy a.k.a. Billski Squeakelstiltskin upside-down in 2021, and more recently in a cot after around two weeks in hospital.

{{community/cats/2021-01-08_bill_upside-down_on_the_sofa.jpg|cat on a sofa}} {{community/cats/2022-03-17_bill_in_recovery.jpg|cat in a cot}}

To the right: Pickle.

{{community/cats/2022-05-10_bill_pickle.jpg|cats, side-by-side}}

===== jrm - Agnes and Lloyd =====
{{community/cats/agnes_lloyd_box.jpg?800|Cats Agnes and Lloyd sitting in a box}}
{{community/cats/agnes_lloyd_legs_crossed.jpg?800|Cats Agnes and Lloyd with crossed legs}}

===== pauamma's past overfeline =====

In September 2017, not long after I moved into $digs[-1], Neighborhood Cat paid his first visit to me. I didn't have a camera then, but I repaired that omission within 3 weeks.

{{community/cats/neighborhood_cat_scent-marking_table.jpg|Neighborhood Cat scent-marking a low white table}}
{{community/cats/neighborhood_cat_sleeping.jpg|Neighborhood Cat sleeping curled up on bed}}

During one of his visits, while he was lounging on the bed, I started sweeping the room, thinking nothing of it. I glanced at him at some point and noticed he was watching me very intently. Then, as soon as I started sweeping near and under the bed, he jumped off and ran to the outside door, meowing urgently. A discussion with a neighbor and longtime resident confirmed my suspicion he'd been beaten. I never swept again when he was visiting, and put the broom away at once if I heard him meow outside my door.

<callout type="warning">
**Don't ever beat animals - or people**

People doing that (or enabling or condoning others doing that) are absolutely vile and deserve vocal contempt and complete shunning. No ifs. No buts. No excuses.
</callout>

===== rpaulo =====
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===== thierry =====
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