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Coloration: Cameo Tabby
Likes: Licking anyone
Pet-Peeves: Not going outside
Favorite Toy: Da Bird toy
Favorite Nap Spot: On his back on the bed or the very top of the cat tree.
Favorite Food: Does licking people count? Otherwise Fancy Feast, but only if it's a different flavor every time.
Skills: Likes everyone!! Super fast & strong! Best groomer!
Dwells:
indoors and outdoors
Arrival Story: Pete was found as a 9 month old stray. He wasn't using a front leg and there was dried blood. His angel took him to Helping Hands Rescue in Lewiston, Idaho, who then took him to Riverview Animal Clinic in Clarkston, Washington. They discovered that Pete had been shot in the leg (lead on the bones!), shattering his elbow, and that injury had healed incorrectly. They rebroke the bones, ripped off the healed fibers, and reconstructed the whole shebang with the help of a pin. I learned of him 3 weeks later when I was desperately seeking a young orange male to give Sid a companion. I met Pete in the clinic and it was love at first sight. The poor guy was fresh from a ringworm bath but so full of energy, curiosity, and attitude that I knew he would be a perfect fourth cat. He moved home a week later.
Bio: Pete is a character! He's not much for loud noises, but he's game for almost anything else. Thanks to our friend Kjersti who noticed that Pete looked just like her NFCs at the same age, knowing that explained so much. After losing more than half of his fur this summer, Pete's first adult coat is glorious. His mane is thick and his tail enormous. Initially I'd thought he'd be rather small; Nope. You can almost see him grow. He's longer & taller than Bear, and Bear's a big cat. His weight is still low, just 12 pounds so far, but I won't be surprised if he ends up 16. He's amazingly active. Bear taught him to hunt (it's true, I watched), and then he taught Sid to hunt and climb trees. He tries to come down head first, that front leg just isn't strong enough, but he does it anyway. Sometimes I'll turn around in the shower to find him there in the tub! He doesn't think rules are for him, especially not "come inside at night" rules, but the one good thing about a bum leg is that he gets cold a little easier than he would. My favorite moments are when he sneaks up on Bear on my bed and licks his head. He would do that Sarah & Sid, too, if they would let him. He's my special boy.
Lives Remaining: 8 of 9
Forums Motto: Open the Door! Catster Local Spots I've Marked: Riverview Animal Clinic, Mobile Pet Vet The Groups I'm In: --N I P-- Nu-Iota-Rho, PETS for OBAMA, Brilliant Orange Cats Unite, Catster Marketplace, Hurricane Pets Rescue, Let's Help Teal'C and his Tennessee Crew, Norwegian Forest Beauties..., Norwegian Forest Cat and Norwegian Forest Cat Mixes!, Norwegian forest club, PAWS Angels WAGS for Kindness, Proud to be a Norsk Skogkatt(Norwegian Forest Cat), Sadie & Quinns Wedding and Pirate Playground, Sweet Face, The 3 Amigos, The Hazel Lucy Appreciation Society, The Kitties' Club
The Last Forum I Posted In: Do you think i am a Wegie?
If you've read Bear's diary you know that mom rescued a little kitten yesterday. It was living under her favorite print shop and had been abandoned by its mother.
Cecil has only been here a few hours but he's eaten some food, a lot of food, and took away mom's voice so that she had to stay home sick today. We haven't seen him a lot, but I can smell him, he's very interesting.
The latest news is that mom put on her inventorying the freezer gloves and caught him. He was very good and even let her pet him. He's also very smart and pretends like he's not thinking every second of escape. Of course he is. She set him down and he had the dignity not to run away, but hissed at her as she got close to pick him up again. But again was a good kitten in her hand. I sniffed him and mom was proud that I didn't hiss or thwack him. Neither did the kit. I did puff up my fur nicely to make myself bigger. Not that it would take much to be bigger than this bundle of brown & gray tabby fluff! Unfortunately that's when mom noticed a big chunk of missing fur on my tail. Rats! There went the phone and she called Dr. T to come look at the kitten and ME!
Now mom and I are giving the kitten a break. Mom is sick, her head hurts, her throat is starting to get sore, shes very tired. This is the Swine Flue capital of the US afterall. Mom's back in bad and I'm cleaning myself up - kitten stalking is hard work! Read Bear's page if you want to know more.
Petes
ps. Popcorn and Feather - you cuties! Thanks for the skeleton!
Hello all our dear furriends,
First we want to thank Edgar for bringing this problem to our attention. Thank goodness he assumed there was a glitch at headquarters instead of something worse!!
Mom likes the comment on diaries feature, but asked headquarters if there was a way to see comments left from the home page so that she didn't have to go back and look at our diary entries to find them. She loves catster, but this all can take a lot of time, I'm sure you know.
Headquarters wrote back telling mom to change her preferences so that our diary comments had to be approved by her. That way she would always get to read them. That sounded good, so mom did that. Suddenly we stopped getting comments! Since we haven't been getting very many pawmails either mom guessed that maybe our furiends were busy as well and weren't leaving any. But just in case, mom changed our preferences back to automatically posting a week or so ago.
Today Edgar wrote and told us that he'd tried to leave comments several times. Each time he'd gotten a message saying mom had to approve the comment, but the comment never ever appeared on our diary page. Oh no!! We never got those emails!! We want Edgar's comments and all of yours, too! We have nice furiends, we know you would never say anything that would hurt our feelings.
We sent another message to headquarters today. Of course we haven't heard back yet, but we did want to let our furiends know we love them all and we hope we didn't accidentally hurt your feelings. If you've figured out any good ways for managing those diary comments we'd like to know them!
It's that time. Sarah says it happens every year. My mom and dad packed up there stuff, kissed us goodbye, and drove away in the car. It's just us, though Sarah tells me Viktor will come and play with us and give us wet food twice a day. That's cool! I like to play with Viktor!
Mom comes home on Sunday 6/21 so we won't post much while she's gone. Sarah has to type and she's pretty slow given that she never took a typing class. And she's a cat. Purrs to all our furriends. Bear will be busy, too, he has to look out for the family while they travel. I hope everyfur is purring for Thorgal, Jolan, and Mumtatz's mom. Her daddy died last week. We're very sad for them.
Purrs and loves,
Pete the Perfect (from Sarah: I can't believe he made me type that)
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