THE CATS OF MOBILE IMAGE Our home office has always had cats, long before we moved here in 1993, and who are we to stand against the forces of tradition? The cat population once peaked at 12, but eight have gone to the big scratchbox in the sky in the last four years, and we have a quieter but tidier place to live and work Meet some of our residents:.
Rosie the Nosie Cat	Rosie Gender: female Age: 13 History: found as an orphan kitten on the streets in Crows Nest. Hobbies: sleeping on the office desk and pressing the keys on the computer to effect unexpected changes to the software and to modify the functioning of the operating system.
Edward Scissorpaws (EddyEddyEddyMewMewMew the 2000 Olympic Cat) Age: 11 born during the 2000 Olympic Games.. History: abandoned as a kitten, fostered here via the Cat Protection Society, hand-reared, decided to remain with us after his siblings found new homes. As a newborn kitten during the Olympics (while the OB Van was away covering the Games), Eddy learned, when ever being hailed as "EddyEddyEddy" to respond with the Aussie answer of  "MewMewMew". Hobbies: climbing in the equipment racks of the OB vans and head-butting his human friends. Favourite Movie Star: Puss In Boots	Eddy
Frodo and Bilbo Age: 3 History: F&B came from CatRescue, who were looking after two tiny orphan kittens who had befriended each other and had become inseparable. Frodo was the sole survivor of an abandoned litter that died of cat flu, and Bilbo was found alone on the streets by some kind soul. We ended up adopting them so they could remain together.	Frodo and Bilbo As kittens, on their first day here, Frodo (left) fell asleep in the litter tray, and Bilbo (right) in his food bowl.
	Dyno K2n Born: late 2010 History: Rescued as a very sick kitten from an un-owned cat colony in Western Sydney, Dyno had to be treasted for severe cat flu, which had already cost him most of the sight in one eye. Moved in here in February 2011, his health is now fine, apart from slightly reduced eyesight. The other cats have adopted him, and he’s never short of playmates, although he shows no interest in viewing 3D movies. Dyno is named after our Grass Valley K2 server, recently installed in the OB truck.
In memoriam: Cats who have passed away
Gandalf  Gender: male 1990?-2007 History: born in Derbyshire, UK, raised in the mean streets of South London, scavenged the skips and alleyways and pubs of Lambeth, maintained a harem of lady cats (though desexed), migrated to Australia, to luxuriate (Ronald Biggs style) in his latter years. Purred like Barry White. Hobbies: lady cats (particularly Rosie); beating up pure-bred dogs. Gandalf died of complications arising from surgery for abdominal cancer, and is buried in the front garden.	Photo on the left  shows Gandalf at his window in South London. You can see the park (his "patch" or "manor" to use the local parlance) where his catpack of girlfriends kept him company in the "Old Country".
Sambuca	Sambuca 1998?-2009 History: Young single-mum cat, surrendered with kittens to the C.P.S.; kittens weaned and rehomed at the C.P.S.; fostered Eddy's litter at our place; now lives in the office. Hobbies: strutting her stuff, jumping into clients' delivery vans in the hope of a free ride to somewhere.
Jake and Elwood 2003-2008 And 2003-200? These twins were raised from birth by Su, as part of a litter of five, which were rescued from being euthenased in-utero at a pound. Their sisters and mother were all vaccinated, desexed and found homes. Jake and Elwood, due to their hyperactive bad manners, were not adopted by anyone, and remained here. Elwood died at age 3 from heart failure due to congenital heart deformation. Jake died a year later from the consequences of a paralyzing stroke, due to similar issues as Elwood had.	Jake and Elwood
Boris Photo shows Boris gazing mournfully at the camera, with our former OB2 parked behind in the driveway.	Boris, Goth Son Of Frank. Gender: male 1992-2010 Longest resident here; born here before Mobile Image moved in to the house. Hobbies: Eating Rat, being mournful and Gothly.
Pissing Sampson Gender: male 1993-2010 History: donated by our ex-cleaner when she wanted to move in with her boyfriend. Fights with all the other cats Hobbies: Pissing, fighting, scratching furniture	Sampson Photo shows Sampson sniffing at his Prozac supply
Chani Gender: female 1994-2011 History: bought from a pet store in Clapham, lived indoors upstairs from a London fish'n'chips shop (yummy!), migrated to Australia in 2000, lived upstairs at Mobile Image. Chani had a limited capacity memory buffer (of a few bytes only), and no capacity to save data from her current consciousness loop, into long term storage. As a result, she would forget everything after about 7 seconds, or whenever a new thought occurred to her, and then it was a Whole New World for her. She bore no grudges and every few seconds were to her, a brand new day. Hobbies: staring out the window and trying to remember what it was she had to remember.	Chani
Mr Spock 1998 - 3^rd June 2011 History: raised from kittenhood in South London, siblings probably still residing there, migrated in 2000 to further his career in the colonies. Hobbies: A highly intelligent feline, he thought a great deal, and like his namesake, was highly logical. Photo shows Spock at the window of  his former Groundbase on Planet Earth. Across the road is a South London Pub, where nobody drinks unless they are involved in the drug deals going down there. Spock, of course, chose not to participate in the Biochemical or Psychopharmacological experiments of the Earthlings. Catnip sufficed. Died peacefully at home, from consequences of probable abdominal cancer.	Spock