Creator of Pictures of Cats
My contact details are at base of page Ethos and purpose of this site If you would like to know a bit about the person who built this website please read on. I am a retired Solicitor who practiced divorce law. I live in Barnes, West London, England. Before practicing as a locum solicitor I worked in a number of businesses including photofinishing and, yes, there were other jobs including working as a freelance photographer illustrating articles on well known personalities. This was mainly photojournalistic portrait photography and my first form of self-employment. Having retired from law work in 2005, I decided to keep myself focused by building a website that could earn money to improve the lives of cats on an international level. This has been a rewarding challenge the result of which is this website, which is constantly under construction. The site is doing quite well. At early 2009, it has about 8,000 visitors per day, including the sub-domains. Update April 2010: 11,000 unques per day on PoC and about 2,000 on the blog is the usual. But things change as always. My mother passed on her love of cats to me but my interest in animals goes wider. Having a great interest in wildlife and its preservation, I am painfully aware of the gradual erosion of wild cat habitat, for example. I believe that not enough emphasis is being placed on this. I am also aware of the difficult lives of domestic cats in many parts of the world. This site discusses this on a number of levels. But the core of the website is Helmi's wonderful cat photographs. I have kept cats for many years. They have always been moggies, cats that have come to me. My favorite cat is the one who comes to me and quietly asks for help. I live with Michelle, the love of my life and Binnie. Binnie is a female tuxedo cat, 16 years of age, who I found hiding under a parked car on a cold November night in London's Notting Hill Gate, where I lived at the time. We have a frequent visitor, a tuxedo male stray cat who comes and goes as he pleases, who we have named Timmy. I prefer cats to dogs because, like cats I am independently minded and decidedly not a pack animal. I continue to have an interest in photography and I have always liked to play and watch sport. I am pleased to be the creator of Pictures of cats org. I hope that you enjoy the website. There is lots more to do for the love and welfare of the domestic and wild cats of the world. And I couldn't do it without Helmi and Ken Flick. Here I am with Helmi:  Photograph
by Ken Flick
About the photograph of me and Jack Black heading this page: This was taken by Helmi at the Waxahachie cat show on 22nd-23rd Nov.2008. Waxahachie is in Texas about 50 kms south of Dallas. If anyone wants to contact me personally, to discuss joining with me in being an internet voice for the cat, including the wildcat, here are some details at April 2010: Tel: 0208 878 0197 -- If calling internationally the number from the USA (as an example) would be 011 44 20 878 0197. Address: 14 Queens Court, Queens Ride, Barnes, London, SW13 0HY. Email: mjbmeister[at]gmail.com (the @ has been changed as email addresses can be hijacked. Please convert [at] to @) Ethos - purpose of this site
The purpose of this website, pictures of cats.org, is to make money. The money is spent on improving the welfare of cats. Please note that this is a long term project and some monies are held back for future large investments to the site to make it the best. I have chosen a variety of charities and I constantly review things. You can See the donations here. One of my favorites is Texas Maine Coon Rescue. Things change and evolve, of course. The goal of this site is to provide the finest pictures of cats supported by carefully researched facts and fair comment. These are my views. Both
wild and
domestic cats are vulnerable to the activities of the
humans,
 who came to this world
many
millions of years after the wild
cat was here. My favourite cat is the vulnerable stray cat, who comes to me and in presenting him/herself to me silently asks for help. Enjoy Pictures of Cats and live harmoniously with our more vulnerable fellow creatures. From Creator of Pictures of cats org to Home page 
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