KITTY'S KORNER
by Deborah Hansen
Say Mouse! HOW TO GET THE
Purrfect
Picture OF YOUR CAT CLIENTS
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Groomer to Groomer • Vol 40 Ed 11 • November 2021
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fter investing your time and effort into a great cat groom, it is always a good idea to take a picture to send home with the family or to keep for your portfolio and social media accounts. Yet every time you click the button on your phone to get a picture, you get closed eyes, a blur as the cat speeds off, the tail as it burrows into a hiding place or the spot where the cat was a split second ago. Why do some people have tons of great cat photos and others just can’t seem to get even one? It is all about the technique! The first step in capturing that purrfect picture is to control your environment. Like with any photography, your subject has to be comfortable. High places, small places and dark places all make a cat feel comfortable. Over the years I have found the best place to take cat pictures is inside a three– or four–foot–tall wire dog exercise pen. Wire exercise pens give cats the safe feeling of being in a small, dark place. They also can be quickly adjusted to adapt to the needs of the cat you are working with since they are easy to move, set up and store. Photographing a cat inside an exercise pen gives you more control of the environment you are working in than a platform or open space. My preference is to set up my dog pen adjacent to a large window in a quiet room where random noises cannot be heard. Next, you need to decide how you will decorate the exercise pen to