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| Name: |
Bon
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Age: |
Thirteen and a half years old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Cat
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| Home: |
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Hello!
My name is Bon, not Bond. I'm the black cat of Louisiana. I was
born near the Moisan Airport and grew up looking up the big birds flying
over me. There was a lop-eared small dog in the house but no other cats.
I always followed her believing she was my mother. Then, long before my
first birthday, I was adopted (for ten bucks!) by a woman artist living
in New Orleans and became an urban cat, no more under the shadow of
thunderous birds - good environments for self-education. Besides, for
the first time I had a chance to taste real fish - every time her
husband goes fishing, I get fresh tender meat of reds or speckles or,
well, catfish. But here is a catch. She likes to make me pose for her
paintings. Most of times I just take natural poses like a cat in sound
sleep (or so I pretend) or a cat watching visiting squirrels with my
pupils wide open. This is no sweat. I enjoy conversations with her. We
don't speak same language, but that's no problem. We understand each
other perfectly. So I feel like an old European nobleman having an
in-house portrait artist. My portraits have been exhibited in New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and New York City. One was even shown on TV. A week
after I started sitting in the New York gallery, I saw through the
window a Blue Dog flag posted in front of another gallery a block away.
Well, I am proud I was the first coming to this world capital of art. I
know New Orleans has turned out a couple of four-legged celebrities like
Blue Dog and Red Cat. New Orleans is known to have a big heart and I
have no doubt in my mind that it can handle one more---Bon the black cat
of Louisiana. By the way, my artist told me that one of the characters
in a novel by William Faulkner, a New Orleans-related writer, has the
name of Mr. Charles Bon and that the great-grandson of Lafcadio Hearn,
another New Orleans-related famous writer, was named Bon. I guess my
name tells you I am a native New Orleans gentleman. (I'm also trying to
behave bon (good).)
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