The above picture was taken in the USA in 2008-9 approximately.
This is me today August 2017 (older etc.):-
Regarding the top photo this is me with RW, SGC Magnacats Jack Black (the link leads to a v.large format photo) a champion Maine Coon cat. The breeder and owner is Carol Campbell. Photograph ©copyright Helmi Flick.
If you would like to know a bit about the person who built this website please read on.
I am a retired Solicitor who practiced divorce and general law. I am 68-years-of-age as at August 2017. I live in Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, England. Before practicing as a locum solicitor, I worked in a number of businesses including photofinishing and, yes, there were other jobs including working as a freelance photographer illustrating articles on well-known personalities. This was mainly photojournalistic portrait photography and my first form of self-employment.
Having retired from law work in 2005, I decided to keep myself focused by building a website that could earn money to improve the lives of cats on an international level. This has been a rewarding challenge the result of which is this website, which is constantly under construction. The site is doing quite well. At early 2009, it has about 8,000 visitors per day, including the sub-domains. Update April 2010: 11,000 unques per day on PoC and about 2,000 on the blog is the usual. But things change as always. Update Oct 2010: 14,000 uniques per day, sometimes, but this fluctuates! Update June 2017: struggling more these days because older sites are harder to maintain. In total getting around 4k page views per day but sometimes 7k. Recently the site got 57k pageviews in a 24-hour period thanks to one post by Elisa who writes for the site. She shares in the advertising revenue. She specialises in cat rescue.
Update Jan 24, 2022: achieving 12,000 pageviews per day. I am pleased and I have improved my relationship with Google Adsense so I am making much on advertising. Here is more recent picture of Gabby:
I love animals. Having a great interest in wildlife and conservation, I am painfully aware of the gradual erosion of wild cat habitat and other negative impacts by increased human activity. I believe that not enough emphasis is being placed on this. I am also aware of the difficult lives of domestic cats in many parts of the world. This site discusses this on a number of levels.
I have kept cats for many years. They have always been moggies, cats that have come to me. My favorite cat is the one who comes to me and quietly asks for help. I lived with Binnie, Charlie and Michelle. Binnie was a female tuxedo cat, 18 years of age (at Oct 2010), who I found hiding under a parked car on a cold November night in London’s Notting Hill Gate, where I lived at the time. Update: Binnie has passed on to a better place. Greatly missed. She had a long and good life.
We had a frequent visitor, a tuxedo male stray cat who comes and goes as he pleases, who we named Timmy. I prefer cats to dogs because, like cats I am independently minded and decidedly not a pack animal. Charlie is a three legged cat.
 Binnie |  Charlie |
My current cat companion (June 2017) is Gabriel, a spotted tabby who I raised from kittenhood when he was a feral cat. I continue to have an interest in photography and I have always liked to play and watch sport.
I am pleased to be the creator of Pictures of cats org. I hope that you enjoy the website. There is lots more to do for the love and welfare of the domestic and wild cats of the world. And initially I couldn’t have done it without Helmi and Ken Flick but the site has developed and moved on.
Here I am with Helmi:
Photograph by Ken Flick
About the photograph of me and Jack Black heading this page: This was taken by Helmi at the Waxahachie cat show on 22nd-23rd Nov.2008. Waxahachie is in Texas about 50 kms south of Dallas.
If anyone wants to contact me personally, to discuss joining with me in being an internet voice for the cat, including the wildcat, here are some details at March 30th 2017:
Tel: 0208 546 8126 — If calling internationally the number from the USA (as an example) would be 011 44 208 546 8126. MY PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT My mobile: 07767311041 using text message.
Address: 14 Aragon Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK, KT2 5QE.
Email: mjbmeister[at]gmail.com (the @ has been changed as email addresses can be hijacked. Please convert [at] to @)
Ethos – purpose of this site
The purpose of this website, pictures of cats.org, is to present the best cat pictures and information, improve cat welfare and to make money. Some of the money is spent on improving the welfare of cats. Please note that this is a long-term project and some monies are routinely held back for future large investments to the site to make it the best.
I have chosen a variety of charities and I constantly review things. You can See the donations here. One of my favorites is Texas Maine Coon Rescue. Things change and evolve, of course.
The goal of this site is to provide the finest pictures of cats supported by carefully researched facts and fair comment. These are my views.
Both wild and domestic cats are vulnerable to the activities of the humans, 
who came to this world many millions of years after the wild cat was here.
My favourite cat is the vulnerable stray cat, who comes to me and in presenting him/herself to me silently asks for help.
Enjoy Pictures of Cats and live harmoniously with our more vulnerable fellow creatures.
Michael, I found an article you wrote in 2010 about Guillaume and Kitty traveling on foot to Patagonia. The last report I was able to find on youtube was a stop they made in Colombia, staying with some folk in an unfinished house. Do you know whether they were able to reach their final destination….or what happened to them? This seems to be such a dangerous and mysterious story with Kitty along, I wish there were a follow-up. I went to the website, but it was so long ago, there was nothing about them.
Thanks for asking Yaya. I have responded to your other comment. I am as keen to know what happened as you are. I’ll try and find out.
Don’t you think you should delete articles that are untrue. Trinity Acre does not insist all cats are declawed.
Hi Vicky. Thanks for contacting me. This article was written years ago. The author is reliable. At the time, was it true that Trinity Acres declawed cats as described in the article? Have they changed their policy since the article was written. (Note: the article was written before the date heading it because that the date the website was transferred to a new host).
What I can do is amend it to say that at June 2015, their policy is not to declaw cats or something like that. What would you like me to write (provided you can confirm that it is true).
They DO NOT insist there cats are declawed. Many people have commented on this including the writer of the article. This should have been taken care of a long te ago.
Vicky, do you work for the organisation? Can you get someone who works for the shelter to certify that they don’t insist on declawing? I do need to check. Anyone can say what you are saying although don’t take that the wrong way.
Hi Vicky, I have responded to another one of your comments.
I am sorry you received more than one comment. Sometimes there is an error message on my phone so I retype a comment only to have the first go through.
No problem whatsoever. I don’t mind.
Michael,
I am working on an article on “fading color” in the Bengal cat, I found your article on your black cat turning red and wondered if the addition of tyrosine changed the coloring back to the black? I am wondering if diet might not be a piece of this issue.
Wanting some more information. Have you heard of anyone with patterned cat also finding the addition of tyrosine helping?
thank you. Libbie
High Libby. Thanks for visiting and commenting. The comments below the article you refer to are very useful I feel. A visitor wrote extensively about her cat who was very red. As I recall the problem was put down to a hormone problem. The comment thread will lead you to the relevant articles.
I have not heard about tyrosine being used to restoring color to a patterned cat like a Bengal. Here are some links:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/Is-Your-Black-Cat-Rusty-Red.html
This was a guess by me:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/rusty-red-black-cat-fur-caused-by-defective-pituitary-gland.html
Hi there,
I like your blog. However I have a question. You have the a cat escapes fire video, and I am wondering if you have an authorised permission release for it. I had to take my post down. Just wondering if you contacted the original owner of the video and how much it cost for the copyright. Thank you.
All the videos are embedded and therefore automatically authorized.
I have a cat that has the basic looks and personality of a Maine Coon but all the personality traits of a Ragdoll. He is currently 15 months old and weighs almost 16 pounds (and is solid, not a fat cat). Is there a way to tell by looking at him what breed he is? He was a rescue (abandoned at 3 weeks old) so we have no parent information.
Thanks for your time 🙂
The trouble is that in America or the UK a cat can only be a member of a cat breed if she is registered and there is a family tree registered as well. My experience tells me that there is no way to tell from appearance but exceptionally it is possible to say a cat is a purebred cat of a certain breed because the cat has outstanding appearance characteristics for that breed (to “type”).
Both the Ragdoll and Maine Coon come from random bred cats. That muddies things already! Thanks for visiting and asking.
hi i have been trying everything and doing a lot of research on trying to find a way to update you all about my cat milo but the website changed so much that i am very confused on where i am suppose to write an update on this site could you please give me an e-mail address to send my update of how milo is doing please thank you so much
Hi Darlene. Nice to hear from you. You can just write another comment and I’ll turn it into an article. I’ll email you anyway and you can them respond to the email with your story. Hope you are well.