A sleeping cat on a wooden table. A leg outstretched to serve as a leading line to an aura of tranquillity. A photo opportunity.

"Should I dig out the 60mm macro or stay with the 40-150 that's already on there?", I wonder. "I'll stay with what I have in case she wakes up."

So I set up. And I'm ready to shoot. And... by the time the burst of 4 frames at 1/320th of a second is done she's already awake and has used her Ninja-Kitteah skills to turn her head all the way around so that by the 4th frame she's got half of it out of the frame, just to hack me off.

This, the second of the four, catches her mid-turn believe it or not. I had to tweak the sharpness just a smidge, but even for ninja kitteahs such as El Gato 1/320th of a second is still 1/320ths of a second so she was still frozen in it.

The basic rule of cat behaviour... "I do what I want to do. If I do what you don't want me to do, that's just a bonus."