Rolling with our feline friends

NICK BARNETT
Last updated 05:00 24/02/2012

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Don't you wish you could stretch like a cat? Or sleep the way a cat does, switchbacked and starfished? Cats are masters when it comes to decorative and spectacular reclining.

As is cover-cat Mr P, an exponent of rhythmic gymnastics without the tiresome need for movement.

Mr P

Bunk is another lie-down gymnast, with one eye on the scoreboard.

Bunk

No need for endlessly circling to find a resting position - merely tip yourself 90 degrees, as Minnie did.

Minnie

Sancho has extended the tilt to nearly 180 degrees.

Sancho

Neko is perfectly situated for all-day sun.

Neko

Charlie was adopted from the Wellington Cats Protection League with just half a tail. It hampers his balance, but only on those odd moments when he's upright and moving. Thanks for the picture, Nic.

Charlie

Furry tummies to the fore: that's Neo on the left, and Cinder and Sooty on the right (Sooty has one arm under and the other arm over Cinder, Cinder has one paw on top of Sooty's paw). Reader Amy says the two cats, the only ones in their litter, are inseparable. "When Sooty was hit by a car aged one year and he was at the vet, Cinder would howl and cry and he became the most needy cat known to man, so we could not put Sooty down as we think Cinder might have died of heartache. So he had his hip replaced and we delayed our wedding another few years."

Neo

Sooty and Cinder

Cats sitting pretty: Pancho is on the left, Yoshi on the right.

Pancho

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Yoshi

Charlie is in the TV-and-tickles posture; Wilson looks as though he's wondering where his drink is.

Charlie black

Wilson

Horace is very relaxed.

Horace

The beanbag got too hot, so there was some side-spillage of Rusty.

Rusty

Backward flop in the pike position, demonstrated by Mouse.

Mouse

Sage is a grey Manx cat who loves tickles.

Sage

If a coiled spring can be relaxed, it would look like KC.

KC

Reader Linda sent this photo of her kitten, in danger of vanishing down one of those chair holes.

Linda's kitten

Two lookers: Paris, left, and Derby.

Paris

Derby

Delilah with front leg over, Fred with back leg over.

Delilah

Vanessa's Fred

Apollo seeks to practise self-origami; reader Helen sent this photo of her cat planking. How last year!

Emma's Apollo

Helen's cat

Tiger has quite a reach on him.

Tiger

Finally, this is how Minka rolls - at least when she's on the polished boards.

Minka

Thanks to all for posting your photos. Please email me your own photos, or go to the Four Legs Good Facebook page and use the Upload Photo button. While you're there, browse through the 2000 photos that readers have posted.

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