RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW. There's generally little reason for Friday cat-blogging at Cold Spring Shops, but these pictures from the kitchen window at headquarters yesterday, which was a Friday, are a different twist on the theme.

"Ah, some take-out egg-drop soup from the Bluejay Cafe."

"First, I'll have a look around."

"What was that flash anyway?"

The digital camera decided the lighting called for some flash fill-in. Is the expression on the cat's face the one on the cat that ate the canary?

Every so often, one of the local cats tangles with a local polecat. First one hears this feline yelp of pain and then one smells the cause of the yelp ...