Catfight!

While walking to lunch today, I saw a group of dumpster-diving strays mixing it up over something I wasn't able to identify. The aggressor was the tawny cat, who was leaping up on the dumpster, hissing, and scratching. I was hoping to catch some heated rawrr-on-rawrr action pix, but the lag time* of my camera was such that it always missed the moment by a fraction of a second.

The closest I came is the second picture from the top, where the cat's paw is coming down from lashing out at one of its rivals, but its face had already returned to normal from a snarling hiss.

The bottom two photos just seemed cute. For a few more you can go here.

*This phenomenon often makes taking shots from a moving vehicle a frustrating, trial-and-error process; it almost always seems to be the case that between the time I press the button and when the camera actually records the image, some road- or track-side obstruction has blocked what I was looking at.