That is sunshine, but it was an odd shaped blob! For some some reason Taggy decide to park at the very edge of it instead of in it as he usually does. It makes it look like he summoned himself a sunspot of something.
August, Gypsy is more stout than lean and elegant, but in that picture she is squatting a bit to reach the bowl. I had to trim her front ruff today because it sometimes acts like a bib in the winter months.

And yes, the wall-to-wall carpeting came with the house. I have since acquired some small, strategically placed, *washable* rugs for those 4am what’s-that-noise-!!-eeeeek/scramble-gacks.