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February 23, 2000

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Leo, the Cat of the Day
Name: Leo
Age: One and a half years old
Gender: Male
Breed: Cat
Home: Smithville, Tennessee, USA
 
   Leo is very special to us. Sometimes we call him "dumpster kitty" just for fun, because that's where he came from. A friend of mine called me and said she'd seen an orange talking kitty at the dumpsters and wondered if I'd want him. Sight unseen, I said yes. So she kindly drove back to the dumpster and lured him into her car. I guess it wasn't very difficult because she brought food along and he was very hungry.

    He "talks" a lot!!! But only to his daddy and I, because he is very shy and usually lays low when company is around. (He is a very sensitive boy.) You know how they say, "if you love something set it free?" Well, that accidentally happened when we'd only had him for a week. We'd had the windows open that day, and he must have been sitting in the window in our spare room and knocked out the screen. When we were getting ready for bed, we went through and closed all the windows, not realizing that he had gone outside. I was going around the house straightening up when I realized that I saw our other cat, Kate, but not Leo....anywhere! I had grown quite attached to him those few days and I began to panic. I got my husband out of bed and he discovered what had happened when he heard Leo slamming into the glass of the window trying to get back in! We went outside only to find that by then our dog had chased him into the woods! So once we got the dog put away, we could hear our little boy crying miserably in the woods. My husband called him, and he came back quite willingly. So I guess he's ours! Which we are very happy about, and from the picture you can tell that Kate is too!
 

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