The Family Tree

[tencats]

Its Momma Mouse and the offender Crazy Baby(snipped6/1, babies born 8/7)
with their three surviving offspring. The male baby Pong on top, female baby Ping
in the middle with mom and female baby Pang down below with her father.
Amazingly baby Pong at 16 weeks has grown to near equal size of his mother.

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Nice nuclear family

But your name is tencats. Do you have five other cats hanging around your place?

[tencats]

13. Do I have more than five?

I've been known as tencats since I had only four cats back about five years ago.
I'll have to get an updated head or make count on the cat tails that cohabit with me.
I got three litter boxes and three cat trees!
Yes, have about ten cats on the floor here that I can see.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Wait...Pong, Ping and Pang are all the same age?

I can't believe how much bigger he is than the other two! In the other photo you posted I assumed he was a parent. Dang!

Very sweet photo! Love those kitties!!!

[demnan]

3. Marvelous photo

either you got very lucky or you are really persistent in waiting for them all to assemble together. And the lighting is perfect. Pong is a BIG cat!

[tencats]

12. This pic wasn't a difficult one to get.

This family group seems to enjoy being together and on the date that this photo was recorded all five were hanging out on this tree. The lighting was not very good though.
I shot it at 1/125s f/3.2 at 12.8mm iso100 and really should have gone with an .7 EV since I had to post process for brightness.

Another one recorded just before the one above.

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[BrklynLiberal]

19. You do great photos!!!!

[SW FL Dem]

4. Beautiful family portrait!

How did you catch them all together like that.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Holy moly!! What a fantastic family!!! What a gorgeous picture...

:wow:

[wildeyed]

6. Looks like you got your Christmas card pic for the year :-)

What are they looking at?

[tencats]

14. I have plans for a proper holiday card photo with the ten cats.

Just hope I can execute it it time for the cards to go out in the mail.

[superconnected]

7. Very wonderful photo.

Good job!

And great looking cat family!

[meow2u3]

8. Looks like Pong will grow up to be a monster cat

Let's play, "Guess Pong's Adult Weight". I say it'll be 20 pounds.

[demnan]

10. 25 pounds

[tencats]

15. Pong has been growing fast.

His father grew very fast too but just suddenly stopped at 9.5 pounds. I thought he was on his way to being something like a 16 pounder but today he is 1 year 8 months old and is a little under 11 pounds.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. He's beautiful.

Mom Cat apparently hasn't quite got her figure back yet, but she's gorgeous, too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Beuatiful cats, great photo.

You could do a whole calendar with these guys -- fantastic photography!

[davidinalameda]

11. what a wonderful picture

I love me some kitties

[japple]

16. Superb! What a beautiful family.

What is Daddy's breed. He has a very Persian-looking face, but his fur is so plush. Exotic shorthair?

[tencats]

18. Yes, he is a pure blue ESH

Proud Daddy Crazy Baby and his baby.

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[japple]

20. My oh my. Gorgeous.

Just out of curiosity, does Daddy favor his look-alike? Also, do the kittens have their Mother's siamese temperment or the Father's? Or is it too early to tell?

[Beaverhausen]

21. That is a fantastic picture!!!

Love the lighting and shadows!!!