Guest cat: Meet Demerara

Demerara is a kind of unrefined light brown sugar long popular in Europe, but not often seen in the United States; it's sort of like turbinado, which US readers probably have seen and/or tasted before (it's the chunky raw stuff in the brown packets at Starbucks, y'all.)

"Demerara" is also the name of a very refined, lovely golden tabby kittycat owned by my dear London friends Bunny and Iain; Demmy introduced himself to me not long after my arrival at their house last week, and after a few polite preliminaries rather imperiously demanded a belly scratch (which, of course, I was only too glad to administer.) He is just as sweet as his name.

(He is one half of a matched pair with the brother of a black cat named "Molasses," not shown, and the brother both are the younger housemates of of "Tufter," who has made a guest appearance on this blog before.)

In this picture, Demerara takes advantage of an empty box to perch comfortably on a mountain of colorful building blocks.

Demerara is king of the mountain (of building blocks)

Mister Gato, who has never met a box he wouldn't try to sit (or sleep) in, would approve.

Visit the Friday Ark at The Modulator to check out more bloggers' pets from around the world--and be sure to visit the 99th Carnival of the Cats on Sunday, hosted by Watermark.