High Difficulty! Cat Spotting

On my way home from shopping at the station, I spotted a brown and white cat.

It noticed me and immediately walked away. After that, it headed toward the slope on the left, but...

Where is it? (The Challenge)

As the title suggests, this is high difficulty.

The cat is actually in the photo, but even if I pointed it out and said 'It's right here,' you might still go, 'Huh? ...Oh!?'

As a hint, I suppose I could say, 'You might want to forget for a moment that it's a brown and white cat.'

The answer is after the small talk scroll

From here on, I'll make some small talk so you don't see the answer right away.

The answer is below that, so if you're in a hurry, please scroll down quickly to see it!

Slope Small Talk

Higashikurume City, Tokyo, where I took this challenge photo, has many rivers and is quite hilly, so it's a land with many slopes. However, when you take a picture, it's surprisingly hard to tell that the location is a slope.

The challenge photo this time is of a fairly steep slope, and since the foundations of the houses on both sides are clearly slanted, it's actually one of the easier ones to tell. When taking photos or drawing pictures of slopes, you need to include the structures on both sides in the composition.

Also, even if you know it's a slope, it's surprisingly easy to misunderstand 'which way is up.'

In the case of this photo of the former elementary school site, you can tell it's a downhill slope because there is a stepped white fence on the left side of the road, but if that weren't there, it wouldn't be strange for the back to look like an 'uphill slope' instead. The road in the back is just where the slope ends and becomes nearly level, though.

Let's try hiding the left half, shall we?

Well, since I've succeeded in creating plenty of room to scroll with a vertically long photo, shall we announce the answer now?

Here we go!

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The answer is... right here!

What, you can't tell? Let's zoom in.

You might feel like saying, "How is anyone supposed to know that!", but that's just how finding cats goes. Anyone who found it on their own is amazing! Well done!

Even I, who definitely took this photo knowing the brown and white cat was there, looked at it later and thought, "It's not in the picture!?" I was completely defeated.

And with that, this "cat hunt" is over.

By the way, there are at least two houses in this neighborhood that feed the cats, and since they don't seem to be spayed or neutered, it's an area where you see quite a lot of cats. In that sense, the difficulty of "cat hunting" is actually low.

(The end)