"Take Your Cats on Vacation" week

As I mentioned in my last post, we were on vacation last week. Whenever we go on vacation, we always miss our pets. This time, though, we decided to do something about it. My wife, Cindy, got an idea to print near-life-sized images of our cats and attach them to cardboard cutouts and pose them in our own pictures. We included a cardboard stand in the back so the "cats" could stand on their own. We couldn't do the same thing for our dog Charlie because the near-life-sized picture would have been too big.

Having the "flat" cats along didn't completely solve the problem of missing them  but it certainly was a lot of fun. We enjoyed looking around for places to pose them and had a great time setting up the shots. But the best part was the reaction of other people to what we were doing. As you can see in the top picture, even the busy workers were happy to be in the pictures. In the bottom picture, there was a group of people watching us as we prepared the shot. I heard a number of people saying they were going to do the same thing on their next trip. As with all of my pictures, just click on the picture to get a larger view. You may have to do that in the bottom picture to see the cats at all.

Another side effect of only having cat pictures with us was that unlike our real cats, they didn't cry during the night keeping us up. The motel beds did a good job of that.

For more views of our cats on vacation, go to Cindy's blog and see her post about it.

[Update: Cindy has another post with pictures of the "flat cats". Oh by the way, Emma and I are in the pictures, too.]