flying feline fur + wildly wagging tongues comprise carli davidson's shake cats series

flying feline fur and wildly wagging tongues comprise carli davidson’s shake cats series
all images courtesy of carli davidson

for the third time, portland photographer carli davidson entertains animal admirers with a series of hilarious pet portraits, where flying feline fur and wildly wagging tongues become the ‘purfect’ protagonists. more than 130, highly-detailed color pictures of cats in mid-shake comprise make up the newly published book ‘shake cats‘ by harper collins. a varied selection of breeds and ages makes for a host of playful personalities, visible through a stormy spray of spit and stray hairs.

many of the featured felines came from local rescues — ‘before doing the actual shake photo we would get a nice head shot for the rescue to post on their website,’ davidson says. ‘most cats were adopted almost immediately after our shoots and to think that I might have had even the slightest part in that feels amazing.’ take a look at a selection of images from the book below, and a short video showing the shake cats in action.