Wish I’d had my camera in reach last night– if either Mike or I had gotten up to get it, the picture would have moved.
Snark was curled up next to me on the couch in one of her typical pretzel poses. Looking down at her from my seated vantage, I suddenly realized that she was doing the classic celtic knotwork cat pose, and obviously enjoying it very much. When I would rub her tummy, she would stretch her limbs further into the pose!
Her back and head made most of a circle (250ish degrees of arc). Bottom front and back legs stretched out to make an obtuse angle, a wide V that hung partly over the edge of the couch. Top front and back legs were the opposite, going towards her middle. Back leg and foot came out partway across the inner circle arc, with foot stretched out so it was parallel to the bottom-layer front foot that splayed outward. Top-layer front arm and foot stretched way out parallel to the bottom-layer back leg, and grabbing top-layer back leg firmly above the hock. Tail, between legs, came into the middle in a rounded concave arc, which became convex, with the last couple of inches of tail recurving like a bow-tip.
Sounds *really complicated*, gotta start leaving the camera on the coffee table when I sit on the couch at night. She does this all the time, and I never quite recognized it before. Had been reading the Geographic article on Jamestown and the Penobscot farming practices earlier in the day, and looking at the paint patterns of the Penobscot man depicted in the article, which led to thinking about celtic bodywork patterns, and then the “oh!” lightbulb, looking down at the Snarkster. Cool!
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