Note on WordPress glitch and black cat photos

October 25, 2015 • 10:00 am

I haven’t yet heard from WordPress about this issue, but I continue to receive a large number of comments from readers called “Anonymous,” who have no information with their comments. Apparently something’s happened so that readers can no longer count on all their devices to automatically enter their names and email addresses into their comments. So, when submitting a comment, please be sure that your name and email address (and URL, if you want one included) are entered into the boxes.

Also, I have only four photos of readers’ black cats to run next Saturday, on Halloween. If you have a black cat (no tuxedo cats, please), which I define as a cat whose white bits are limited to a small “locket on the chest,” send me one photo (and a few lines of description, including cat’s name), and I’ll run it on Halloween Caturday. I know there are black cats out there!

35 thoughts on “Note on WordPress glitch and black cat photos”

      1. Oh, no. Just about everyone expects to find a “contact me” link here, at first. Consider it a rite of passage… 😉

  2. If you are desperate for black cats, perhaps you would accept a picture of a black d*g who has many cat-like characteristics (plays with yarn, sleeps on couch, etc)?

    1. … all in a coal cellar, at midnight, searching for the evidence of a non-existent Hoomin G*dz?

          1. Yup — takes the waves and squeezes them down into cute little wavelets! You can fit an entire ocean in the back of a lens cap….

            b&

  7. Don’t suppose I can enter my daughter’s cat, can I? He comes for visits and sleep-overs frequently.

      2. Sigh. And when the anonymous comment starting with “Yippee!” shows up, of course it’s from me.

        1. Yes I’m sure everyone thought you were some anonymous, exuberant troll 😀
          (Makes sure to fill in her information in fear of instant karma)

  8. I don’t suppose seal point counts? I guess I could reduce the temperature in the house to activate the temperature-dependent tyrosinase over all her coat…

  9. As far as I see from here the only thing that has been done by the systems folks is to never put the name and email in. So, yes, you always have to fill in before sending a comment.

    Not sure why they did that but maybe they will explain to you. The idea should be to not forward any comment without those fields but not to quit filling them.

    1. Maybe I will be as simple as a setting Jerry will have to enable. Then all will be well 🙂

        1. More importantly, he’d put on an impressive enough threat display — even from behind the security door — to chase away the invader.

          b&

      2. I, for one, would love to see footage of a raging entwinement of feral fur, a $400 camera, a tripod and a can of tunafish.

        Moving picture, please.

  12. Since the limit is one picture per reader, and I have three black cats, I’m going to try to get the triplets in one shot sometime tomorrow. Failing that, I will try to find the best picture I have of one of them.

  13. This is Priscilla, or sometimes Prissy Willow or Bat Cat! She is 12 years old and a beautiful, sweetheart who will go over and dump her basket of toys on the floor when she’s bored. She also has a temper and if you make her move, say off your bag, she might start batting anything moveable off the table she’s on. I’ve seen her send some Allen wrenches to the floor and a pencil clear across the room. She’s also quite a talker and addicted to certain kitty treats, which I call her kitty crack! Obviously, at this time of year, I keep a very close eye on her. She’s good about staying in my fenced yard, but she loves to be outside – sometimes sitting under the overhang even when it’s raining. When she was young and pregnant which we didn’t know at first, her family abandoned her and she came running to me one day crying and talking. It was cold out and she moved in that night! We also have her brother, Ben, my one-eyed wonder, who was adopted after my neighbors slowly tamed him, over many months. He was completely feral and also adopted on a very cold (-14 degrees) night. In the winter, Pris will clean around his head before she snuggles up next to him for warmth (seems to be a sort of bartering). You don’t need to add his picture but I’m including him because he’s such a sweetheart, who’s been through a lot. Raggedy man and Mr. Stripy are some of his names and he’s had to have one eye removed, both canine teeth and both ears are torn (one notched from being fixed in TNR program). Another name he gets called is Buckeye Ben (we lived in OSU campus area when both were adopted). Jenny Hoffman Columbus, Ohio

    Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:00:33 +0000 To: jenatron@live.com

  14. Black cat photo launched. Sadly my phone always freaks out about images with high contrast so I can never get a good one of him.

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