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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!!!
The Groups I'm In: ♥♥PURRS~N~WOOFS HOMESTEAD VILLAGE♥♥, ****PURRS AND WOOFS FOR THE MISSING****, .:.School Fur Graphics .:., **Tabbies With 'Tudes** , CATS ON THEIR BACKS (PART TWO), Administrators of Catster & Dogster Groups, C & D CRUISE LINE, Cat and Dog friends, Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease/Feline Urologic Syndrome, For the Love of Cats and Dogs, I HELPED JASPER AND JILLIAN GET TO THEIR FURR-EVER HOME 21-22/7/07, Kitties Who Need Friends, MAN CATS AT WORK - "No Girl Cats Allowed", Norwegian Forest Cat and Norwegian Forest Cat Mixes!, P*I*F (Paw it Forward), Pawsome Pages, Proud to be a Norsk Skogkatt(Norwegian Forest Cat), Sweet Face, Tabby and White, The Catster and Dogster Railroad, The Hazel Lucy Appreciation Society, TINY PAWS CRUISE LINE II AND FURIENDS!, Young Furts!
The Last Forum I Posted In: Mid Winter Annifursary Bash January 31
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!!
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
I know you know I love clicking at the Animal Rescue Site to give free bowls of food to animal shelters. It is just the best way in the world to help!! And so easy!
I signed up to get notices every day to remind me to click, and that has been furstastic. And each day, I notice the graph they show of how many clicks they get for the past 5 days. And the clicks are way down on the weekend! That's not good.
Hi all,
You know by now that I'm a fan of the Animal Rescue Site and I know a lot of you are too. It's where you click a button and the site sponsors pay for bowls of food for rescued animals. And you can shop for great stuff which also helps buy bowls of food (and gets you great stuff, especially in my favorite color).
Orders placed at The Animal Rescue Site Store also will generate a special extra donation earmarked for animal assistance Haiti today (January 20). No minimum purchase is required and all orders will continue to fund food and care for animals in shelters as normal.
Our friends at the International Fund for Animal Welfare have partnered with WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) to launch a coordinated animal relief response in Haiti. Their first priority will be to treat critically injured animals. They are also very concerned about the possible outbreak of rabies, leptospirosis, and other diseases that can pass from animals to humans, so they'll be vaccinating animals as quickly as possible, as well as be distributing food, water, and basic medical care.
The animal teams are in the Dominican Republican preparing for this critical mission. They're setting up a mobile veterinary clinic, and donations from The Animal Rescue Site will help stock it with medicine, syringes, bandages, food, and other supplies. You can donate directly to their efforts or learn more by clicking here.
Thank you for caring. The gifts for humanitarian aid for Partners in Health, given in partnership with our sister site The Hunger Site, have been truly amazing this week. GreaterGood.org was able to send $125,045 to PIH, which is currently operating hospitals in Haiti, last Friday and will be sending more this week. You can learn more about PIH's efforts and how to help the people of Haiti by clicking here."
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