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December 25, 2000

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Nonose, the Cat of the Day
Name: Nonose
Age: Four years old
Gender: Male
Kind: Himalayan Mix
Home: Dallas, Texas, USA
 
   This is a picture of "Nonose" my little boy who is one of the lights of my life. He is a Himalayan or a Himalayan mix as far as we know, he isn't registered or anything and hasn't been entered in any kind of a cat show and has to be the sweetest kitty on earth. He has dreams of one day being in a kitty calender like the workman's calender. He's so very smart and acts more like a fuzzy person instead of a kitty. This was Nonose posing for his little Christmas picture, what a ham!

    Nonose is so special to us because for one, he is the first kitty we have ever had. Spoiled Beyond grandmothers spoiling grandchildren! What we didn't realize until later was how much our spoiling taught Nonose. Do cats come to you when you call them? Absolutely! Nonose knows when we are telling him something - such as Nonose, it's time to go to bed-with a Boom he is in bed before I can turn off the lights. He knows vet and will willingly crawl into his carrier - which is amazing. He knows over 50 phrases that we have realized and our favorite command is Go Get Jarod, Go Get Beep, Go Get Skootie, Go Get V.J. When you tell him to do this, he will seek out the right kitty, and make them stop what trouble they are about to get into. He starts with a coaxing sound and some strange body language and if that doesn't work, he will nudge them off the counter or whatever they are getting into at the time. His little nickname is Moochie because he just has to participate in everything from opening the mail to retrieving his own Christmas presents out of the Stocking made especially for him, to anything we eat which includes strawberries, bananas, peaches, spinach, broccoli, french fries, tomatoes, asparagus, green beans, sugar cookies, slurpees juices and small treats of yogurt now and then and those are only a few of the things he loves to eat. If we didn't know better, we would have to swear he's a vegetarian. He teaches and "mothers" all of our other kitties which is really fascinating. When we rescued his little brother, Jarod, he was so tiny and frail. Nonose took him in right away and did everything a mother cat would. He bathed him, he taught him how to use the litter box, he let him suckle on his belly hairs, he taught him how to play and Nonose even carried him from place to place when the doorbell rang. Nonose's favorite game is a childhood game we all remember - Hide and Go Seek. When you say Where's Nonose?! He will run and hide until you find him and then when you do, he's off to hide again. We have learned to close doors to parts of the house so we can find him. His favorite past time is watching cartoons, sleeping under the covers, helping the human children play video games and running all over the house on his new catwalk that Daddy built from a book called Cat's House. His favorite Toys are the other kitties and he is best at warming our hearts until we melt with overflowing kitty love. This is only a small portion of our everyday life with him and it has been nothing but headbutts and purrs!
 

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