"Rendezvous With Danger" - Where is Mama Bear and cubs?

"Five Point" - Full-grown stag encountered by blog host while grazing in the comfort, serenity, and safety of our national park system (Mount Rainier National Park, July 1991).

Pop Quiz: Can you count how many raccoons are in this picture?
[Note: Photo credit by unnamed photographer, from camera club in San Diego, Ca. - ed.] Photograph taken somewhere in Florida.

Blog host stumbled upon black moose while it was grazing in a marsh at Reynold's Flat, Big Cottonwood Canyon, N. Utah. [ Vivitar Series 1, 135 mm. telephoto. ]

Sleeping porcupine in tree, discovered accidentally while blog host was hiking with his chum Laird (in Little Cottonwood Canyon, N. Utah.) [ Vivitar Series 1, 135 mm. telephoto. ]

"Not one step further, Mister!" Giant marmot blocking blog host's path on trail of Mount Rainier, Washington. These marmots are considerably larger than those found by blog host in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.

Gargoyle to cat: "Do you remember that beauty pageant? Well, I bribed the judges."
Cat to gargoyle: "I figured as much."

Cat to Einstein bust: "Psst...E = MC Cat."
Einstein bust to cat: "Is this the final answer to the Unified Field Theory?"

Cat to photographer: "Let's see who can snag the camera filter first. I double dare you; make the first move, pal."
Photographer to cat: "I might be old but I'm not slow, buddy."

Cat to photographer: "If you do that again, I'm gonna wallup you one."
Photographer to cat: "Capeesh!"

Gargoyle to Vampire Cat: "I see the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, cousin."

Vampire Cat to Gargoyle: "This is all your fault; you didn't buy me braces when I was younger."

Vampire Cat: "WHAT?!? Can't a vampire sleep? It's 2:00 in the afternoon. What the hell's all that racket?"

Lola the cat.

Cat to gargoyle: "You know I'm cuter than you."

Gargoyle to cat: "That's not what Rolling Stone magazine said."

Cat to gargoyle: "(Sigh...) Yeah, whatever."

(More cat quips to follow, stay tuned.)