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April 2, 2001

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Fernando, the Cat of the Day
Name: Fernando
Age: Four years old
Gender: Male
Kind: Shaded Silver Persian
Home: Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
 
   Like a lot of pet owners I think my pet is very special and very close to being human! I've owned a lot of different cats over the years and have never come across one quite like Fernando. There are numerous special personality traits that make Fernando special to me, however, there are two that I haven't come across in a cat before! The first is that he's very comfortable with water. Extremely easy to bath, shower etc, he has an extraordinary fascination with the bathroom - sits on the edge of the bath when I'm having one, watches while I'm in the shower, and tries standing in the basin when the taps running and I'm brushing my teeth. He plays outside under the lawn sprinklers and loves it. The other trait is his very social personality with strangers (not always a good thing but we've been lucky so far). Every new neighborhood we've moved to, Mr Socialite Fernando has won the hearts of the local neighbors. Every day when I head off to work Fernando heads off on his neighborhood rounds. He goes in search of people that are around during the day when I'm not. He wears his name, address & phone number on a tag around his neck (just in case he gets lost) and because of his tag I've been kept informed about his daily escapades. It's also a frequent occurance to come home to a message on the answerphone saying that Fernando has been at someone's place just incase we were looking for him. He makes different friends and visits them everyday for a while then moves on to share his affection with someone else. He doesn't usually go too far, although some of the people live a couple of streets away (if you were walking) but a couple of fences over for Fernando! Christmas time he came home with a little Christmas card cellotaped around his name tag from a lady who has a hair salon at home where Fernando would go daily to visit her and her clients.
 

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