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“Hot Cat’s Cool Idea” : Colmar, France, 30th August 2011

I always pity cats in their fur coats during the hot summer months: apparently they don’t have sweat glands, so the only way to keep cool is to maximise surface area by stretching out as far as possible, resulting in silly shapes with limbs akimbo.

As I was strolling along the narrow streets of Colmar, I momentarily forgot the colourful black timbered medieval houses on all sides when I caught sight of this little kitty and her neat, although dangerous, solution to the heat problem.

I watched her antics for quite a while: three times her mistress reached out from the second storey window to remove her and bring her back inside, but to no avail: each eviction was followed a few minutes later by a return to the precarious but well-ventilated perch…

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