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Solid brown(chocolate)cats! I met this little guy at our local animal shelter, while I was there looking for an indoor cat that was used to dogs, since my father had to move in with me this past January after losing his home in a fire, and he has a Pug. The kitten had just been brought in by the mother of his former owner, who is deployed to South Korea. Mom decided that her daughter's two cats, which included this one, were too much aggravation and brought them in to the shelter to be euthanized. They were sill sitting in the dirty kennel carriers they'd arrived in when I went into the office.
I immediately knew that THIS was the cat I was looking for as soon as I let him out of the crate and he went straight and head-butted a little APBT puppy that is being bottle-fed by the staff. I named him "Hersey" and was already calling him that five minutes after I saw him. We estimate that he's around 6-7 months old. He had to go through a complete "work-up", being de-flead, de-wormed, having medicine for ear mites put in his ears, and having a blood test for Feline Leukemia and other contagious cat diseases, and of course, had to be neutered the following day before I could actually pick him up, but for $40.00, he's a bargain! He doesn't mess with my spiders or snakes, he loves the dog, he stays out of the way most of the time and I have yet to hear him make a sound, other than purring. I don't know if he's a purebred something or other, since the woman who brought him and the other cat in just wanted them gone, by any means possible, but solid chocolate cats are very rare.
Speaking of very rare, the other cat isn't exactly run-of-the-mill, either, and I really wish I could have brought them both home. It was a HUGE long-haired calico, which immediately struck me as odd since virtually all calico cats are female, and I'd never seen a female cat that big or stocky. At it turned out, the cat was actually a hermaphrodite and had originally possessed a well-developed pair of "family jewels" above a normal female opening, and the vet who performed the initial neuter surgery wrote on the form(which the woman brought in with the cat)that he'd opened the cat up to see if it had a uterus and overies, but found none, so it had the gonads of a male with the urogenital equipment of a female. It's a really big, fluffy, sweet cat whose only fault is a fondness for sleeping on top of computer keyboards, so if anyone wants a big former "he/she" calico cat, that's now an "it", and you have a hide-away keyboard, I know where you can get one!
pitbulllady
I immediately knew that THIS was the cat I was looking for as soon as I let him out of the crate and he went straight and head-butted a little APBT puppy that is being bottle-fed by the staff. I named him "Hersey" and was already calling him that five minutes after I saw him. We estimate that he's around 6-7 months old. He had to go through a complete "work-up", being de-flead, de-wormed, having medicine for ear mites put in his ears, and having a blood test for Feline Leukemia and other contagious cat diseases, and of course, had to be neutered the following day before I could actually pick him up, but for $40.00, he's a bargain! He doesn't mess with my spiders or snakes, he loves the dog, he stays out of the way most of the time and I have yet to hear him make a sound, other than purring. I don't know if he's a purebred something or other, since the woman who brought him and the other cat in just wanted them gone, by any means possible, but solid chocolate cats are very rare.
Speaking of very rare, the other cat isn't exactly run-of-the-mill, either, and I really wish I could have brought them both home. It was a HUGE long-haired calico, which immediately struck me as odd since virtually all calico cats are female, and I'd never seen a female cat that big or stocky. At it turned out, the cat was actually a hermaphrodite and had originally possessed a well-developed pair of "family jewels" above a normal female opening, and the vet who performed the initial neuter surgery wrote on the form(which the woman brought in with the cat)that he'd opened the cat up to see if it had a uterus and overies, but found none, so it had the gonads of a male with the urogenital equipment of a female. It's a really big, fluffy, sweet cat whose only fault is a fondness for sleeping on top of computer keyboards, so if anyone wants a big former "he/she" calico cat, that's now an "it", and you have a hide-away keyboard, I know where you can get one!
pitbulllady
J/K nice kitty
