I Am Still A Cat: I Photograph Disabled Cats To Show They’re Still Awesome
I wish to change the way people think about disabled cats. I wish to change the mind set of dividing cats into categories of worse and better, and hope that people would treat disabled cats normal. Not special, not worse but, simply, normal.
That is why I chose to create this photography project. In hopes that at least a tiny per cent of people will stop being afraid of and change the way they look at disabled cats. It doesn’t matter whether a cat lacks an ear, eye, tail or eye, if it has leukemia or any other disease. It is still a cat. It still purrs, washes itself slowly while squinting it’s eyes, meows, knocks things off the table, pulls clothes off a hanger, sits in it’s beloved box, looks out the window most of the day, tries sitting in weird and much too narrow spaces, sleeps in awkward twisted positions, makes funny faces after smelling something, has huge pupils right before throwing itself in attack, jumps and turns amazingly in mid-air, headbonks…
My project consists of photographs of disabled cats snapped during those moments of feline behavior. I have tried my best to capture the fact, that regardless to their disabilities, their behavior is just like that of any other cat’s. Inability is a state of mind. They don’t feel worse so why would we treat them as such?
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My name is Kazik. I am 5-years-old. I do not have a leg, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Amber. I am a year and two months old. I don’t have one eye, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Ficus. I am 5-years-old. I do not have a leg, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Marcel. I am 8-years-old. I have leukemia, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Simba. I am 1.5-years-old. I do not have a leg, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Szafir. I am 2-years-old. I don’t have one eye, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Citek. I am 6,5-years-old. I don’t have one eye, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Sherlock. I am one-year-old. I don’t have one eye, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Lulek. I am two-years-old. I have short feet, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Rufus. I am one-years-old. I don’t have a tail, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Kumiko. I am 7-years-old. I don’t see at one point, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Cmyk. I am 5-years-old. I can not hear, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Kiara. I am 9-years-old. I have leukemia, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Keiko. I am 2,5-years-old. I don’t have a leg, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Shia. I am 9-months-old. I do not have a tail, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Rapidka. I am two-years-old. I don’t have one eye, but I’m still a cat.
My name is Kacper. I am 2.5-years-old. I can not hear, but I’m still a cat.
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My baby girl Luna has a little nub for a tail. When she was a baby her vet told us she would suffer from incontinence because of it. She does. She's 14 and the princess of our household, and she knows it. Thank you for this lovely article/photo shoot. :)
I'm sure Luna loves you for opening your heart and home to her. Thank you for being a very special cat-parent. <3
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my friends have a cat w/ only 1 eye, and shes still as lovey dovey and beautiful as ever
Of course she is - she's a cat. As I said above, they don't really know that they have a "disability". They may realize they are somewhat "different" from other cats - or they may not (your friend's cat doesn't "KNOW" that other cats can see with both eyes, after all). But it's her nature to be a cat, so she will be one, regardless of having one eye or even no eyes. There are totally blind cats out there who, if you weren't aware of it, you would never know they were blind. There are cats with only 2 legs that get around and even jump on the furniture as if the two legs that are missing are not even necessary. There are all kinds of disabled animals - just as there are all kinds of disabled people. But we humans feel the need to make distinctions - while the cats do not.
Load More Replies... My baby girl Luna has a little nub for a tail. When she was a baby her vet told us she would suffer from incontinence because of it. She does. She's 14 and the princess of our household, and she knows it. Thank you for this lovely article/photo shoot. :)
I'm sure Luna loves you for opening your heart and home to her. Thank you for being a very special cat-parent. <3
Load More Replies... my friends have a cat w/ only 1 eye, and shes still as lovey dovey and beautiful as ever
Of course she is - she's a cat. As I said above, they don't really know that they have a "disability". They may realize they are somewhat "different" from other cats - or they may not (your friend's cat doesn't "KNOW" that other cats can see with both eyes, after all). But it's her nature to be a cat, so she will be one, regardless of having one eye or even no eyes. There are totally blind cats out there who, if you weren't aware of it, you would never know they were blind. There are cats with only 2 legs that get around and even jump on the furniture as if the two legs that are missing are not even necessary. There are all kinds of disabled animals - just as there are all kinds of disabled people. But we humans feel the need to make distinctions - while the cats do not.
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