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Coloration: Tabby and White
Likes: Being out in the cold on the side porch. Having Mom nearby. Rolling on the kitchen floor.
Pet-Peeves: Being held. He's a real love-bug but isn't wild about being held.
Favorite Toy: Rubber bands, bouncing balls, anything on the dining table...
Favorite Nap Spot: The sofa.
Favorite Food: None. He isn't demanding.
Skills: He sings in the car. He shouts at me to come play with him upstairs.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: Junior was a stray in the summer of '05. Just a little guy, he wandered into the neighborhood where the neighbor feeds the strays. I was sitting on the front porch and he came up and started rubbing my legs. I fell madly in love and brought him inside. That was not quite that, because I was, for a couple of days, willing to find him a new home. But a friend came to visit and Junior was being adorable and my friend said, "He's a real character. I think you should keep him." OK!! (no fight there). I've said from the get-go that he was a Norwegian Forest Cat but of course didn't have proof.
Bio: He's called Junior because of two things. First, while he was first meeting me on the porch steps, he attacked my shin and bit it, at about the same place that a friend's rooster had impaled me with his dew claw. Also, when this kitty came inside, he started meowing at the top of his lungs at the first hint of sunrise (which was at about 4:30 am), very much like my friend's rooster. The rooster's name was Junior.
I would like to point out that I started saying, "shhhhh, quiet voice in the bedroom" and within three days Junior would shout outside the bedroom but would go "mrrrp" and "trrrrrrrlll" in the bedroom and learned "quiet voice" better than 99.99% of today's kids!!!
Junior is such a love bunny. He shows his affection by rubbing his nose and face against hands--a Junior kiss!! Speaking of kisses, our morning and evening ritual is for me to kiss him on his lips, which he wiggles away from (stop it, Mom!!!). But when he's sleepy, he puts his nose in the air and lets me kiss him and he loves it, and he'll come kiss me on the lips in the middle of the night. He knows when I've been reading sad stories on Catster, too, because he comes running to kiss my hand. He did that when Jack was taken to his new home and I was missing him already (happy sad for Jack). Junior's special that way.
Junior is a funny, happy cat. It could be said he has a great sense of humor and a very sunny disposition. It is hard to be grumpy when he is around.
Every time I pick up a cat book, I go to the section on Norwegian Forest Cats and I read about their physical and personal traits. And I say, yup to that, yup to that, yup there, and yup there. Intelligent, needs stimulation, likes cold, double coat, affectionate, tufted ears, strong chin... you name it, it's a YES! I just don't have proof.
Lives Remaining: 9 of 9
Forums Motto: Let's play. NOW!!! NOW!!!! I SAID NOW!!!
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The Last Forum I Posted In: Oct 24th Baci & Redd Catt Get Hitched Italian Style - YO
Junior Singing in the Car: What you are listening to is Junior singing in the car. This only happens in the car (he doesn't sound like this at home). He makes the funniest noise I've ever heard so I recorded him on his ride to the vet for his annual physical. The words are easy: "Wa la la la la." The first year he did this, I was laughing so hard I could barely open my eyes to drive. I walked into the vet's office red-faced with tears streaming down my face and my hand over my mouth, and you could have heard a pin drop -- they thought I was bringing in a dead cat and bawling my head off. Give it a few seconds for him to warm up and really get going. At the end, you'll hear Tethys in the background.
What to see this in action? Click here or on "See My Video Book" above to see Junior singing!!
Special Recognition and Stuff: Tabby of the Month at **Tabbies With 'Tudes**
First-snow: I used to let Junior out now and then. Here is Junior with his first snowfall, before he was not yet a year old and not yet as fully furry as he would soon become: Junior's first snow
The Catster home page says "Think your cat's name is unique?" But you know what? There are 145 cats named Junior1 145!!! I cannot believe it! Well, there is only ONE Junior Fluffkins, that I know. And Mom says, even if the name "Junior" isn't unique, at least *I* am unique. She says so.
Actually, AGES and AGES ago (or so it seemed -- certainly it was some time in the summer).
My very pretty BFF Lulu Hogg Bush tagged me to say which ice cream flavor I would be if I was an ice cream flavor. Obviously, it took me awhile to ponder this. Mom offered a number of suggestions, and in fact almost sort of nearly got caught in a tornado walking home from the grocery store to ponder ice cream suggestions for me to consider!! (The tornado was a mile away but the storm was pretty wicked and she was soaked when she got home.)
Anyway, I finally decided: Breyers Triple Chocolate Ice Cream:
Hi all,
We have a new houseguest this morning -- a little guy about 8 months or so who appears to be lost!! He looks a lot like my friend Norman but of course smaller and skinnier.
When Mom went out at 6:15 to feed the ferals, this little guy was sitting in the middle of the street crying! So Mom called him over. He came running and just bounced up the steps, stopping to say high to each of the ferals there -- Sunshine (who ruffled her fur), Moonshine, and Benjy. (Cookie must have been sleeping in.) He rubbed Mom's legs, then he went straight for the bowl of canned food.
Mom came in to feed us then went back out. The little stranger and Moonshine were still eating, and the little stranger purred and rubbed Mom's legs while she stroked his back. After a little while, she went out again and he was sitting under a car. So Mom called him and brought him into the outside (but enclosed) stairway/hallway, with more food and water for him. But he found one of my toy mouses (as I play here a lot) and started to play with it. MOL!
Mom carried him outside when the next-door neighbor was leaving and that lady said he had been around yesterday evening, and even came right in her back door when she brought in groceries. Mom asked the little boys who were waiting for the school bus about him and they said he had been hanging around their yard yesterday afternoon. So, we think he is lost. She sure looked and sounded like it when he was sitting in the middle of the road at 6:15am.
So Mom has him upstairs now and will post some FOUND signs and try to find his home.
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